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Hey, you got any Jake Daniels?
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
And Sunday, September 11, 2016, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 859-er.
This is No Agenda.
I do declare the vapors that made me lose my shoe!
I'm broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, here in Austin, Tejas, Sydney, Region 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where this is the gloomiest day I think we've ever started the show with, I'm John C. DeVorey.
It's Craig Law and Buzzkill in the morning.
Really?
Gloomiest day?
Because it's almost dark out.
Oh, well, you are.
It's beautiful here today.
And...
FEMA Region 6 is nice.
It's like fogged in, and it's cold, and it's gloomy.
Hey, breaking news!
Breaking news, breaking news.
Something's breaking.
Yeah, where's my breaking news sound?
Hold on a second.
Yes, breaking news, John!
Breaking news from Ground Zero in New York City.
This being September 11th.
We, of course, have the big memorial happening at Ground Zero.
And breaking news!
Breaking news!
This came in just before we started with the show.
Before we get to that, I wanted to bring our viewers up to date on a story that is breaking right now, that I just learned about within the last 15 or 20 minutes.
As you know, there are many dignitaries gathered at the scene, including Republican nominee Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who was at Ground Zero, was there for the ceremony, and left I have a law enforcement source who was there who was 15 feet away from Hillary Clinton.
He says she was standing on a curb with her protective detail waiting for her motorcade.
They were surprised to see her because she wasn't supposed to be leaving yet, so they had to wait for the motorcade two or three minutes.
When it finally rolled up, my source says she stumbled off the curb, appeared to faint.
Lost one of her shoes that wound up underneath the van.
Her protective detail, I'm told, helped her into that van, and then the van took off, presumably in the direction of a hospital.
They grabbed her shoe and flagged down the rest of her detail.
Her shoe was given to that detail, who was following the other two vehicles, and they left.
Ground Zero early, just moments ago, because of some apparent medical episode that Hillary Clinton was suffering.
It's not terribly hot today, John.
It was warm, certainly warm and warm at the scene.
But again, Hillary Clinton, my source, was 15 feet away, says she appeared to be having some sort of medical episode, had to be helped into her van, and left Ground Zero early before this ceremony ended, apparently because of a medical problem.
Man, lost her shoe.
Well, this video's already on YouTube, of course.
Yeah.
She lost her shoe.
And she looks like they rushed this van over, opened all the doors.
It's a huge escalator of some sort, I think.
And...
And then she's going to get in, and then she drops from view, and then they carry her into the van.
They actually carry her.
Does anybody even consider the possibility that she was plastered?
Why not?
Sunday morning is a good time as any.
Yeah, Saturday night, big night.
She comes out probably in the Hamptons again.
I mean, it's not even suggested.
Well, that would also be a medical episode.
Yeah, but it makes more sense.
It shows she knows how to party.
Oh, God.
Only you, John C. Dvorak.
Only you.
Man.
I'm feeling really sorry for her.
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what she comes up with.
It'll be...
You know what I'm talking about?
They're projecting.
They're projecting.
Oh, Trump's going to quit.
Remember that?
About a month ago?
Yeah.
Oh, Trump's going to quit the campaign because he's so far behind.
He's going to quit.
And, you know, which is bull crap.
And it was a story covered by all the mainstream media.
Everybody covered it.
Oh, he's going to quit.
Yeah.
And start his own TV station.
Right.
Yes.
To start his own TV station.
Trump TV. Trump TV. Yeah, exactly.
Oh, man.
Well, you know what?
The way the Clintons operate, and I'm going to be very, very skeptical here.
I think I should be.
If you have a fracas going on, the Clintons are very good at distracting people.
So right now we have what she said on the TVs yesterday.
The day before yesterday, I think.
The deplorables.
And this was the conversation all morning.
She said this twice, actually.
I think it may be a promotion for the new movie from Disney.
Hold on, I want to hear that.
The deplorables.
Here's what Hillary Clinton said last night at a LGBT fundraiser.
Be grossly generalistic.
You could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
Right?
Right?
Right.
The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
But that other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down.
Oh, okay, and that's the other basket of people.
She actually said this is something she rehearsed on a previous interview, or on an interview for Israeli television.
I don't think many people have seen this, but this is where she kind of tested it out.
Shouldn't this race have been easier?
I never expected an easy race.
If I were to be grossly generalistic, I'd say you can take Trump supporters and put them in two big baskets.
There are what I call the deplorables.
The deplorables.
There you go, John.
You know, the haters and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he's going to restore an America that no longer exists.
So, of course, everybody jumped on that.
And there was some regret memo that went out.
Not an apology, but a regret memo.
No, just a regret.
No apologies.
That's good.
Makes sense.
She's like Trump.
She won't apologize.
Our producer, Charlie Primero, he put together a compilation of this speech that she did, where she mentioned this basket of deplorables.
Which, I mean, really, our show titles write themselves if it weren't for the fact that everyone already heard about this one.
But that speech, you want to hear some hate?
You want to hear some hate speech?
Oh, I love hate speech.
Producer Charlie made a little compilation.
We'll be talking a lot more about small business and about our economic plans in the days and weeks ahead.
But today, Donald Trump, divisive prejudice, hate groups, radical, dangerous, largely white, racism, sinister, harmful dog whistle, hateful racial discrimination, conspiracy theories, Birthers.
Racist.
Racist.
Rapists and criminals.
Bigotry.
Racist.
White supremacists.
Bigot.
White supremacists.
David Duke.
Anti-Semitic.
Ku Klux Klan.
Anti-Semitic.
Racist.
Bigotry.
Prejudice.
Persecution.
Hate groups.
Extremist.
Racist.
Anti-women.
Racist.
Alt.
Right.
Discriminating.
Vladimir Putin.
David Duke.
White supremacist.
Racist.
White supremacist.
Alt-right.
Hate.
Hate.
Bullying.
Racist.
Bigotry.
Prejudice.
Prejudice.
Thank you all so very much!
Let's go out and win the election!
There you go.
That was speech in a nutshell.
It's amazing.
Yeah, that's why they point their finger the other way.
He's a hater.
Yeah.
Yeah, it works.
Seems to work.
It actually prompted Secret Agent Paul to do a new song.
Secret Agent Paul has done so many of our jingles and songs.
And I guess he felt that maybe it was about time.
He said, if you're a man, you're no good.
If you're straight, you're no good.
If you're white, you're a racist.
And this is pretty much what everyone's saying, correct?
Oh, absolutely.
Then time for a tune.
If you're white, you're a racist.
If you're male, you're a pig.
If you're sissy, you are privileged.
Skinny, shabby if you're big.
And if you're straight, you're homophobic.
Heaven help if you're wrong.
So don't have an opinion.
And just do what you're told.
That's right, everybody.
If you're white, you're a racist.
Nothing like a new song for the show.
Yeah, it works.
Oh, boy.
So there was some funny stuff that went on.
There's a couple of things.
You wanted to stay on the deplorable thing for one second?
Yeah, now let's get the date straight.
I believe this was on Thursday.
Yes, it was.
You're correct.
That's why we didn't have it on Thursday, because it was show day, of course.
And I don't know, when was that Israeli event?
Oh, that was beginning of the week.
Oh, it was.
Yeah.
So she already tested this out.
So was it within range?
Within range, yes.
But what she did with the second round is she got full of herself and started dropping all these little...
Yeah, all the little extra bits in there.
Mean bombs.
Well, it was the LGBT thing.
Yeah.
And that's a hoot and hollering crowd.
This morning, Chet on Meet the Press, Chet Todd, had Stephanie Cutter on.
I know she's a Clinton surrogate.
I'm not quite sure what she does.
She just ratcheted it up a little bit.
I thought this was cool.
Stephanie, it's tough to defend.
The remark, is it?
Or no?
Do you think it's tough to defend the remark deplorables to stereotype a group of people?
Absolutely not.
I think that her only mistake is that she said half of his supporters were deplorable.
Does anybody around this table, have they not seen Trump's rallies?
Have they not seen Trump's own remarks?
He is attracting a certain type of voter.
She gave a whole speech on describing them.
They're called the alt-right.
And they tweet racist things.
He retweets them.
He says it from the stump.
From research in this election, we know that his own words, calling Mexicans rapists, criticizing a Gold Star family, these are the most potent things against him with independent voters.
What she said was not wrong.
Her only mistake was that she described half of his supporters that way.
Oh, they're all that way.
They're all deplorable.
Wow, that's a good one.
That's almost something.
I'll take a borderline.
I'll take a borderline.
What do you mean?
You said that's almost, and then you, what, you backed off?
Okay, okay.
You know what?
You got a thick, you got a heavy thumb.
I'm sorry.
I'll take it back.
I'll take it.
Boom.
Now, a couple of noteworthy things in here.
Besides the fact that the...
Let's start at the beginning.
You...
Me.
You have been to one of these rallies.
And I was looking at these rallies.
They're continuing to fill stadiums.
15,000, 20,000 people a pop, man.
It's crazy.
Right, and Hillary still can't fill, you know, more than maybe a couple thousand.
Did you see, there's one video, it might be in the show notes.
Yeah, about the Baptist Convention.
Yeah, and they had to close off two-thirds of the hall with walls so it didn't look too empty.
Yeah, so it didn't look too empty.
That's an old trick.
She doesn't draw a big cross.
She's boring to listen to.
She talks like this.
I am a robot.
Consider this.
The thesis has always been Bill has to die for the sympathy vote.
What if it's the ultimate double cross?
Bill kills her?
Yes!
The funny thing is, morbidly enough, I have actually thought that thought.
I think we both have.
But let's get back to the question.
Can I just ask you one question?
He can't be president again, can he?
No.
No.
Okay.
All right.
But maybe he's like, I'm going to kill that bitch.
I'm so tired of her.
I am going to be president again.
He's got his own model of the Oval Office.
I can do it.
He runs the Clinton Foundation out of it.
Back to the question.
You have been to an actual, honest to God, Trump rally.
You were invited there by one of our producers.
A dude named Ben in Arkansas.
And was it filled with a bunch of racist pigs and homophobes and David Duke supporters and hateful deplorables?
Well, of course, my bias may be such that I am actually a deplorable and don't know it.
This is possible.
But I saw a lot of families.
I saw brown people.
I saw a lot of people having fun, chatting.
And really, about 30 minutes in, people were just, okay, that was great.
It was boring.
And they just started to trickle out and leave.
There also were not enough bathrooms because there were kids.
But no, I didn't see.
This was not my experience at all.
Although I do feel that Tiny Dancer is a little offensive.
Well, they stopped playing that, I believe.
No, no, no, no.
They still play Tiny Dancer, and you can't always get what you want.
Yeah.
So no, I have not seen this.
I want to mention this.
The people who are actually in the field reporting on this, they don't really ask them about the atmosphere.
They just let them report in whatever biased way they have, depending on the station or network.
But these other people, like this woman here, she just makes these assumptions.
She has never been to a rally to check it out.
Clearly not.
Of course not.
She's a Hillary person.
She'd never do that.
No, why bother?
Don't listen to the other side.
Just make stuff up.
I find it to be negative.
Well, there were a couple other things I picked up if you want to...
I mean, I'm really just collecting funny stuff at this point because the actual topics are dumb.
Well, it's the best stuff.
Yeah, here's...
Tina the Keeper alerted me to this one.
Oh, you've got to see this guy.
What's his name?
Louis...
Oh, Louis Gohmert?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
What did he say?
Well, here it is.
Fellow Texan, by the way.
Yeah, of course.
Since most people here are Christians, and I'm serious about this.
A true believer does what Jesus did and still does, but you know, you don't make fun of people who are impaired, have special needs, and whether you like her or not, Hillary Clinton has made clear she is mentally impaired, and this is not somebody you should be making fun of.
Now, I get the impression that in law school and along the way she's been very, very smart, but...
I don't know.
Maybe it was the concussion, the fallback when she did.
Or maybe, who knows?
You know, they won't tell us what really is going on with her.
But we need to be praying for Hillary Clinton.
And that's another way to do it.
She's mentally ill.
Well, there's a video going around.
You've seen it.
I don't know if it's in the show notes or not.
It's worth watching.
This guy's not that good.
He's got a phony news show he does.
Oh, this is the doctor?
No, not yet.
The doctor was on the guy's show.
The guy himself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who does this call.
I got a lot of emails about this as well from our producers.
So go ahead.
Yeah, it's a good piece.
The piece with the doctor on it who happens to be an anesthesiologist.
It's a good piece, but it's not for clips, really.
I mean, it's just we can just summarize it.
It's just something you should have on the show notes.
And it's a long, it's a half hour, I believe, or longer.
And it's this doctor who's, you know, again, he's an anesthesiologist, he's not a neurologist, but he still goes on and on about how Hillary has Parkinson's.
And he makes all these arguments.
A lot of them are something of a stretch, it seems to me.
I think the main argument that I've read from producers, we have doctors, physicians, of course, even this doctor says, hey, look, I haven't checked her out personally, so I don't know, but...
Everything that's here points to swallowing difficulties, which is not only a symptom of advanced Alzheimer's, but also the drugs that treat Alzheimer's.
Apparently that's one of the...
It's Parkinson's.
Sorry, Parkinson's is what I'm saying.
Yeah, Parkinson's.
It enhances some of those side effects, which is the swallowing.
And that could be the coughing and the voice.
If you swallow water wrong for a second, you know what that's like.
And that is what Parkinson's does.
I didn't know this about Parkinson's.
I presume it's true.
I don't know.
It was a very interesting little thing.
I don't know if it subjects the guy to being sued.
Well, he disclaimed it.
He said, look, I really don't know, but this is what I'm seeing.
Meanwhile, this show, this guy's done a good job of buying some of those little things you can get.
If you're producing video, you can buy all these...
Like backgrounds and all these things for green screens and stuff.
So it looks like he's got a real news show going on there.
His reporting is mediocre to say the least.
He reported that the North Koreans set off a 10 megaton nuke.
Okay.
Sure they did.
And that's like, what?
10 megatons?
That's a little bit more than it was.
Yeah.
You seem to be specializing in extremely small nuclear bombs.
Well, since you've moved us here, and I do want to get back to the elections, your favorite person in North Korea...
Oh yeah, she was front and center.
Yeah, this is your newsreader.
I couldn't get a long clip of her.
I have a clip that explains about her celebrity status.
I didn't realize.
I mean, I know we like her.
Do we have that North Korea...
We had a cool little clip.
North Korea lady.
This is it, I think.
Episode...
When did we first identify her?
789, I believe this is.
Let's see.
That's the lady.
She's the best.
Yeah.
So she's a celebrity.
She's North Korea's go-to news anchor for nuclear tests, rocket launches, and warnings about the evils of the West.
Ri Chun-hee has cried, laughed, and shouted on North Korean Central Television for over 40 years.
And now she's announced that Pyongyang has successfully carried out its fifth nuclear test.
Nobody knows her exact age but Ri Chun-hee is thought to be in her 70s.
She recently told a documentary film that she wants to step down and train new female announcers.
It's thought that Kim Jong-un always personally insists that she delivers his messages to the world.
Ri lives in Pyongyang, where she's said to enjoy entertaining as well as sampling the capital's best restaurants.
Her face is shown on big TV screens while people watch, clap and sometimes cry.
She likes to wear pink, especially a trademark traditional Korean dress.
In January, she wore it to announce the test of a hydrogen bomb.
But it doesn't suit all occasions.
On the 19th of December 2011, she wore black as she announced the death of the previous leader, Kim Jong-il.
This performance was so memorable that it was even parodied by a Taiwanese news announcer who was subsequently removed by the island's Chinese TV station.
We need to get her to do an opening for us.
You know, if we could learn what the system is for the mail in North Korea, I bet you we could run one through China and get to her, and I'll bet you she'd do it.
Well, this is the task for our producers then.
We have people everywhere.
There's no reason that she wouldn't do it.
If you were her...
Oh, I'd be all over it.
Hey, yeah.
Podcast?
Hell yeah.
Western news show wants me to yell something.
Western news podcast.
Western news podcast, which is very modern.
This just in from our contacts.
Apparently there were other complications.
This comes from one of our contacts who spoke this morning to the Secret Service.
Okay.
Apparently there were other complications surrounding this episode, more to come.
Don't tell us anything.
Yeah.
What?
No, it doesn't tell us anything, but it means stay tuned.
But it's not good.
It doesn't sound good.
It means don't change the channel.
That's what it means.
Don't change it to another podcast.
Do a running thing.
This is a typical show day.
Yep.
Oh, yeah.
I'll mention that.
Yep.
Every time we do a show, something like this will happen.
Not always, but a lot more than it should.
But again, it's two days out of the week, so it could be just the odds.
Let's play a couple of clips about the North Korea situation.
You want to move away from the...
I have so many...
Political stuff.
You want to go to North Korea?
I mean, you're changing everything?
I could go back to North Korea.
It doesn't bother me.
Yeah, let's come back to North Korea.
I got a couple clips I want to play.
Let's go back to political if you're going to do that.
I want to play Hillary's little bit that they keep playing over and over and over and over and over again when she went to the Baptist Convention and made this, what I consider to be a bogus story about Hillary's dad.
I still remember my late father, a gruff former Navy man, on his knees praying by his bed every night.
That made a big impression on me as a young girl, seeing him humble himself before God.
Okay, you think he's bogus?
Yeah, I think it's just, the guy's a Navy guy.
Hello?
He's a gruff Navy guy.
I don't, you know, my dad was a gruff Navy guy.
I didn't see him ever get on his knees before, but especially when they're older, guys that are older, they can't get on their knees.
It hurts.
Yeah.
Unless he had a little thing there, a little pad, I don't think so.
This sounds like a story that was made up.
Hmm.
And it's just bullcrap.
And she needed something to talk to these Baptists with, and she needed a cock and bull story, and this was it.
I may be overly skeptical about these things.
I think the story's bullcrap.
Okay.
Speaking of bullcrap, Tim Kaine is still out there.
Just a funny guy to watch.
Talk about milquetoast.
This guy is milquetoast.
Oh yeah, he's the worst.
And he launched into this tirade at one of his appearances about the Russians.
Now, we'll get into the Russians later because with the backdrop of Lavrov and Kerry working on an agreement for Syria side by side and even bringing the journalists who were waiting for news of our agreement, pizza and vodka...
Kerry brought the pizza.
Yeah, the vodka.
The vodka.
But still, oh no, it's all Putin.
Screw it.
Bad, bad.
Russians hacking the election.
Horrible!
Do you think that the Russians are...
I'm sorry, this was Charlie Rose, I think.
...trying to hack into not only the DNC... Absolutely.
...in order to influence the elections.
They want to see Donald Trump elected because they think they'll get a better deal with him.
Well, first, Charlie, it's very clear that the Russians were behind the DNC attack.
At a minimum, it's to delegitimize the election.
At a minimum, it's that.
Who is this douchebag?
This is Hillary's...
Vice presidential nominee, Cain, Tim Cain.
Oh, it's Cain.
Yeah.
Well, you know, he sounds like the problem, I lost the Cain reference early, but he sounds a little bit like Morell.
A tad, a tad.
Morell is more staccato, but it's the same amount of bullshit coming out of his mouth, that's for sure.
It's very clear that the Russians were behind the DNC attack.
At a minimum, it's to delegitimize the election.
Hold on, stop this clip.
Does anybody, when this nonsense comes up, ever say that there's a guy that's been sentenced to 54, 52 to 54 months in jail named Guccifer, who already admitted to this?
Yeah.
Why would we do that when we have this great story?
Who gives a crap, Guccifer?
Onward.
At a minimum, it's to delegitimize the election.
At a minimum, it's that.
But remember, when a presidential candidate encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the DNC in a presidential year to gain an edge, We impeached Richard Nixon and he resigned.
When Donald Trump went on the air publicly and said to the Russians, hey, go ahead and hack away, and if you find something that helps me out, let me have it.
We impeached a president for that, what he has encouraged Russia to do.
Okay, so the idea is...
What?
Yeah, his thinking...
Twisting history.
They're trying this out.
I'm reading more of this.
So the idea is, we impeached President Nixon because he encouraged criminals to spy and steal data and documentation, which was Watergate.
From the DNC. Of the DNC. Yeah.
And so now he's saying, well, you know, Donald Trump, he encouraged foreign actors to spy and hack on the DNC. So it's just like Nixon.
He needs to be impeached.
Oh, wait, he's not president yet, but he's not good.
He's a bad guy.
And I realized something about this hate against Russia, even though, again, right now we're working with the Russians to put a deal together regarding Syria, whatever that'll mean long term.
You know, my family even, who were State Department and other civilians in the Pentagon, they're like, oh man, you've got to be careful.
Russia's no good.
Putin's no good.
This hate is very obvious.
Tina and I watched Charlie Wilson's war yesterday.
And it had been a long time since I'd seen it.
She hadn't seen it.
And when you realize that...
And I encourage everyone to watch this movie.
The hate against the Russians in the beginning of the 80s was huge in the United States because they were in Afghanistan.
and the way it's portrayed in the movie, you know, just talking about the girlfriends and then, oh, time to hunt.
Just mowing down everybody in Afghanistan with helicopter gunships.
And then this guy, this congressman, Charlie Wilson, he got all this money together and they outfitted the Mujahideen.
And of course, that is now, you know, that is ultimately became our problem.
But you see the hatred for the Russians.
You know, we got to kill some Russians.
Screw these guys.
And that was 1988, 89.
So, you know, you have people who are still in the political arena who were around then and active.
I don't think they've ever gotten over that hate, even though it's a completely, you know, different organization.
It's a different country.
And, yeah, there's all kinds of issues with Russia.
I'm not trying to say it's fabulous.
But, you know, to then just, you know, I think that's where it comes from, John.
89, I mean, to me, it was like, oh, crap, that's not that long ago.
I think it comes from Patton.
It goes back to the end of World War II. Oh, okay.
When we patent and some other generals, of course, this never happened because Eisenhower ended up kind of dominating their thinking, to invade Russia.
And then I think it also stemmed from them developing a hydrogen bomb, which they stole from Uh, the plans for, from us through their espionage.
And I think at the, once the espionage became apparent and then they, and then it was exaggerated.
The Russian problem was exaggerated by the McCarthy, uh, era and McCarthy's waving sheets of paper saying all these people, and I'm sure there was a lot of Russian agents all over the place.
I think it were so infested.
And I think that was genuinely true.
They were so infested with, uh, Russian agents, because they just got out of this war, which they lost more people than anybody in World War II. Period.
And I think that it just stems...
I think it's a long-standing problem.
We kind of broke out of it for a short time when the Soviet Union fell apart.
We could have probably gone in another direction, but I think the defense industries and others have encouraged this because it helps us spend money on armaments, which is one of the few things we actually manufacture in this country.
Interesting.
I think that's kept things going.
I think Eisenhower was correct.
Oh, the military-industrial complex, and the Russians are a good target.
It's interesting you bring that up.
Just to jump around for a second, there was a brawl Rolf Blitzer.
Who the hell was he talking to?
Oh, Rand Paul.
Which normally I wouldn't play.
And really, Rand Paul is not important in this clip.
But Rand Paul is talking about how we are assisting the Saudis, Saudi Arabia, with the bombing of I'm sorry.
We are refueling the Saudi bombers.
So we are essentially part of the bombing campaign.
We're helping them choose targets, and we are refueling the Saudi bombers that are dropping the bombs.
It is said that thousands of civilians have died in Yemen because of this.
Yes, we need to have a debate over this, and I don't know what the president will do, but he ought to come to Congress and ask for permission.
So for you, this is a moral issue because you know there's a lot of jobs at stake.
Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling warplanes, other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there's going to be a significant loss of jobs revenue here in the United States.
That's secondary from your standpoint.
What?
Yeah, Brolf is saying if we stop helping the Saudis.
Holy crap.
Who's he working for, this Brolf guy?
You can only get.
That's unbelievable.
That is a clip of the day.
Oh, yes.
Thank you.
Clip of the day.
You can't clip of the day when I'm aghast by what I've just heard.
And the sad thing is, Brolf is right.
Is he working for the military-industrial complex as a spokesperson?
I guess.
Oh, to hell with all these dead people.
We're going to lose our ass, so people are going to lose jobs because Grumman's not going to sell a jet to these guys.
Yeah, we're not going to sell anything.
I know, isn't that great?
Unbelievable.
You've got to put that clip aside because that needs to be replayed in the future.
You bet.
On the Morning Joe's show.
That is unbelievable.
That's an unbelievable type of coverage.
Anyway, before we go on with any more Saudi stuff, do you want to...
I have no Saudi stuff.
That was just one.
I have two Saudi clips.
I want to get out of the way.
All right, let's do it.
So the big thing, the big controversy going on right now...
Is the bill that was signed.
Is the bill that was signed, and it's being handled differently by different operations.
Let me just explain.
Very similar to the Iran lawsuits, Congress...
Of course, the President has already promised he will veto this bill.
Congress unanimously, I believe, or almost unanimously signed the bill.
Closely unanimous.
Senate first, then the Congress.
They both were all in on this.
That would allow American citizens and other victim groups to sue Saudi Arabia over 9-11.
And that, of course, comes on the heels of the release of the 28 pages, which spells out that Saudi Arabia can certainly be implicated in the 9-11 attack.
With no problem.
So let's play two different clips.
This is the one on PBS. Okay, here we go.
The U.S. House of Representatives has given final approval to letting families of 9-11 victims sue Saudi Arabia.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers that day were Saudis.
But Riyadh strongly objects to the bill, and the White House warns of a veto.
Still, Republican Congressman Peter King of New York and others say they are undeterred.
This is the most basic constitutional right.
This is an obligation.
It's an obligation we in the Congress have to not allow foreign lobbyists or foreign countries or anyone else to intimidate us.
Justice must be done, and we want to make sure that there are no more 9-11s.
This is one more step we can take to show foreign governments they cannot step aside, they cannot walk away if something is carried out where they're sort of looking the other way and make-believe it's not happening.
The vote came after House members from both parties marked 9-11 on the steps of the Capitol.
Now, a couple of things.
This is a very poor report.
When they mention, I'm noticing this more and more.
I'm going to start looking at it more.
The rule of journalism, in a kind of a high school sense, but it's supposed to be the way you're supposed to do it, which is to ask and answer the questions who, what, when, where, why.
And they never do the why answer.
And so when they talk about the president vetoing the bill, I would like to know why.
Very good question.
Peter King went on about these guys are just douchebags, because he's a Muslim hater, and we might as well take that into account.
But to still know why, because the Congress wants it, the Senate wants it, the Republicans want it, the Democrats want it, but Obama doesn't want it.
Why?
They don't ask the question at all.
They don't even come close to it.
RT gets a little closer with its report about the exact same news item.
Now, survivors and victims' families from 9-11 have got a step closer to suing Saudi Arabia.
Most of the hijackers were of Saudi descent.
The U.S. House of Representatives has now approved the terror sponsors bill, which the Senate passed in May, although the White House is expected to veto it.
It's difficult to imagine the President signing this legislation.
The President of the States continues to harbor serious concerns that this legislation would make the United States vulnerable.
Well, the bill is a sore point for Saudi Arabia, which has threatened to sell up to $750 billion in U.S. assets.
Now, that'll be the excuse.
19 hijackers who carried out the 9-11 attacks were of Saudi descent, although Riyadh vehemently denies any complicity in the terrorism.
In July, the US published previously classified elements of the report into the atrocity known as the 28 pages.
They stated that some of the hijackers received support from individuals who may be connected to the Saudi government.
Yeah, that'll be the excuse.
I don't think that's the excuse.
The excuse was the one that Josh Earnest said.
We don't want to be sued by everyone around the world.
I think that's because if you go with the other excuse, and at least, by the way, RT got to the why.
Yeah.
So we know we have two possible why's here.
Just to interject, it's really amazing to me.
Having grown up in Europe, there were a couple of things that were always seen as typical American.
Television with lots of advertising, McDonald's hamburgers, and suing.
That was always seen growing up in the 70s and 80s in Europe.
Oh, Americans, they always sue everybody.
Take them to court, man.
Crazy.
Crazy Americans always suing.
Well, there's a fact there.
Yeah, yeah.
So how can we complain about it?
You guys nailed it.
Yeah, we complain about it.
That's what we do.
Too many advertisements, McDonald's, and lawsuits.
Okay, that sums it up.
That's what we do.
Now, so we have at least two whys here.
One of them is the amount of money.
The Saudis have all this cash, or not cash, they have a bunch of our bonds, and they're going to dump them.
They're not going to do that, because it's going to screw things up for them more than any.
And it would also leave them, right now, We were very hands-off with Saudi Arabia because they have all these bonds, and they should know how our system works, and it's got nothing to do with our government that they're allowing these lawsuits.
So the other excuse, which Josh Earnest brought up, which is, if we sue them, then they're going to sue us, and we're going to get screwed.
Now, it's probably true that...
There's a lot...
I mean, first of all, what have we done wrong that we're worried about getting our asses sued to smithereens?
What?
How does that even work?
How does it even work when you have an international...
You have to go to these international courts...
Which we don't buy into.
We don't recognize it.
Well, there you go.
That's the kicker here.
We don't buy into any of these, although there's some very interesting systems out there that we are subscribed to because of WTO. We've subscribed to a whole bunch of things, and we've lost a lot of sovereignty one of these days.
Another one of these promised reports.
I'm going to discuss this a little more.
So we've lost a lot of sovereignty with that.
We've lost a lot of sovereignty with the NAFTA. These are sovereignty-sapping treaties, and we probably could get sued in some crazy way or other, but...
Generally speaking, we ignore this stuff.
We just say, look, we're the big boy in this group of kids, and we're the adult in this group of kids.
You can sue us all.
You're not getting anything.
So that's bull.
I think this is really just Obama caving to the Saudis.
It's like the Saudis run this country, not Obama.
I mean, how long have we put up with the entire United States, Saudis, building these mosques all over the place, preaching Wahhabism?
They're all over the United States.
They're all over the world.
We say nothing about it in the continuing awakening of Tina, the keeper.
She said, you know, I keep hearing people talking about building seven, building seven.
So we watched one of my favorite documentaries, which talks about building seven, which is really the really what you want to be interested in on a day like today, but also the Saudis.
And she said, you know, at the time, I had my girls.
She lived in Boca Raton, so they also had the anthrax, which, you know, confuse everybody right after 9-11.
She said, I was just concerned about my safety of my family.
I had no idea.
I'd never even heard of this.
Don't laugh at my girlfriend.
No.
Of course, she has the normal first reaction, which is incredible sadness.
You know, the anger will come and all that.
Oh, yeah.
It's sad.
It's sad.
And how come no one ever talks about this?
There were people involved.
I said, yes, they do, but they get shut up, stifled, or killed.
Yeah, this is true.
A lot of people talk about it.
I remember right after the whole event, there were the 9-11 truthers were showing up in San Francisco handing out...
I got a couple of them.
Mainly because this one ran into a fan, like kind of a fan of mine who was a very cute girl.
And she's talking to me about this because I wasn't...
I never thought about the WT7 thing at the beginning.
That takes a while.
You have to develop some process to get there.
But...
They were handing out these discs, these like two of these DVDs, and these DVDs were fantastic.
They're very early material.
A lot of stuff that showed up early was actually quite good.
And I have a couple of these documentaries in the show notes.
Some of them are long.
There's a British one that I liked a lot because they also take a detour into 7-7, which cannot be ignored in the full context of...
False flag events.
And they have a lot of this early footage.
It's really the firefighters and police officers.
They have, you know, decorated firefighters saying, we heard the explosions going off.
If you really want to understand a little bit about 9-11, look into...
WTC 7 won't go away!
That's just a pro tip.
Well, what I look for, because I've talked about this on the show before, is I always try to reverse engineer the coverage.
So if somebody, for example, when Dianne Feinstein wanted to release the CIA torture report, it was interesting to see who said, oh, she shouldn't do it.
She shouldn't do it.
And that's when Richard Engel showed up.
The Peabody award-winning journalist.
Yeah, he showed up.
Oh, no, she shouldn't do it.
All the people that were saying she shouldn't do it were all stooges for one of the intelligence agencies and of the CIA, obviously.
And so you would watch this parade and go, yeah, she should do it.
We need to know.
Oh, she shouldn't do it.
It's not good for the country.
It's going to hurt our morale or whatever.
There's always some crazy excuse.
And then, of course, the whole report, which my favorite story is just a little sidestep.
When the Republicans got a hold of the Senate and they pushed her out of the head job at the Intelligence Committee and put the Republican in, whose name eludes me, but he goes in and he all of a sudden says, yes, I'm aware of this report and it's under lock and key and I can go look at it and read it, but I'm not going to.
Right.
This douchebag actually says he's not going to look at this report, which would maybe help him do his job better.
But no, no, he's going to respect the wishes of the agency.
Well, of course.
Which is, well, what good is that?
You're supposed to be oversight.
Do these people know what oversight means?
No, no.
Don't ask me these questions.
You know the answer.
Anyway, so that just annoyed me.
Alright.
Back to the political situation here.
But wait, wait.
Back to, since we're talking a little bit about 9-11 and today is the anniversary, 15th anniversary of 9-11, we should at least do a little tribute to Since we mentioned it, I just want to get this one clip out of the way.
This is the GOP's NYC threat over time.
We turn now to the 9-11 anniversary this weekend, and tonight the new security alert here in New York City.
The NYPD issuing that alert today, beefing up security, and ABC's Gio Benitez is in New York's Times Square.
Gio.
David, good evening to you.
Security is already ramping up here in Times Square.
And as we approach that 15th anniversary over the weekend, we're going to be seeing bomb-sniffing dogs.
We're going to see radiation detectors and, of course, those counter-terrorism units.
Now, police did remind us today in that alert that terrorists usually like to take advantage of these important anniversaries.
That is why they are on high alert.
But make no mistake about it, right now, they say, there is no credible or specific threat.
David.
Now, hold on.
Listen to the structure of that.
Well, let's play it again then.
Make no mistake about it!
Yeah.
There's no threat.
Let me just play the last...
Make no mistake about it!
...amping up here in Times Square, and as we approach that 15th anniversary over the weekend, we're going to be seeing bomb-sniffing dogs, we're going to see radiation detectors, and of course those counter-terrorism units.
Now, police did remind us today in that alert that terrorists usually like to take advantage of these important anniversaries.
That is why they are on high alert.
But make no mistake about it, right now they say there is no credible or specific threat.
David?
So they make no credible, no is the word which means credible comes up in the brain.
Yeah.
There's no credible or specific threat.
Very good, very good.
So they make no mistake about it.
Which is an urgency comment.
Yes, of course.
Tacked onto a meaningless end, which says there's nothing going on.
This is unbelievable the way they present these stories using those tricks.
I was actually going to say, because I'd written it down as a note, that there was much less of this this year.
I just, I didn't see as much of the, oh, you know, we're off, high alert, airports, high alert.
I didn't see much of that this year.
Well, they loaded up in New York for overtime, obviously.
It's a good way to do it.
Sure.
You want to make some extra money, you do this thing, you get a lot of overtime, bunch of cops all over the place, everybody feels good.
Yeah.
But the way they present this is though it's like a horrible thing happening.
And there's not a credible threat?
There's nothing going on.
Why are we doing anything?
Why are we wasting money?
Because the president just re-signed the executive order and we're still under a state of emergency.
We're under threat.
Okay.
Anyway, back to the election.
Yes, Morning Joe.
Morning Joe, who were they talking about?
They were talking about Putin.
Now, Morning Joe has a number of actual journalists.
I'll put, struggling, I'll put Chuck Scarborough and Mika in there, but they have, what's his name, Mike Barnacle.
A number of good people.
And no one stopped and said, wait a minute, that's not true when this was said.
But I have a question I'd like to pose to everyone.
I'd like to start with Chuck with the question.
It may be unanswerable, but it is this.
What is going on with our politics, with our culture in this country, when the former head of the KGB, Vladimir Putin is regarded as a hero by the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States at the same time when someone like poor Gary Johnson gets toasted and roasted, you know, for a comment.
Oh, it was an unfair question you asked.
Let's call it that.
So he was never the head of the KGB. Never.
Never.
Or the FSB for that matter.
Yeah.
No, he was an officer.
Yeah.
I don't understand.
Who was at the table again?
Any one of them could have said, no, that's not true, he wasn't the head of the KGB. Barnacle, Donnie Douche.
The way I would handle it, you say, you interrupt, you say, well, first of all, he was never the head, but he did work for them, so I just wanted to make that clear, and then let him go continue to check, because it's just as bad if you want to make this argument that he was an officer in the KGB. Maybe a field, I don't know what he did.
Let's just be a little factual, people.
Yeah, but they don't care.
No, well...
I have a theory about some of this, and it's kind of depressing.
I don't like to necessarily bring it up.
But once things get, this got into the public consciousness, and you can never remove it.
No, and I'm telling you that the genesis, a lot of it is the Cold War.
Charlie Wilson's War of the Movie also helps.
Yeah.
I have just an example of this I want to play, which emphasizes the bullcrap nature of this stuff.
This is the clip, Bullcrap Never Dies.
I could have known.
A woman captured in an iconic photograph from the 20th century has died.
Greta Friedman, only 21 years old when she was kissed by a sailor in New York's Times Square celebrating the end of World War II. This photo captured in just seconds.
The sailor and the nurse were complete strangers at the time but reunited at the same spot 67 years later.
Greta Friedman was 92 years old.
Iconic photograph.
An iconic photograph.
Well, the bullcrap here, which annoys me, this is like the Syrians gassing their own people, which was disproven over and over again.
But it's okay.
We're going to just be stuck with that meme as though it's a fact.
So you're going to burst my bubble about this event that took place?
Well, I don't know why you don't know this.
Okay.
This was a number of years ago.
The photographer is still alive.
When?
I think he's dead now.
But there was a big stink that took place with some feminists saying this was rape!
This picture was rape, rape.
And so they made a big stink about it.
And so the photographer came out, went public.
It got all over the news.
It should have erased the bull crap, but it didn't.
Because we still believe, oh, we got a quick shot off.
This was staged.
This was a staged photo.
And if I'm not completely mistaken, I could be wrong about this part, I think it was taken the day before.
Even better.
But no, we still have this nonsense that this was a real photo, wasn't staged.
Photographers, by the way, stage a lot of shots.
They move bodies around.
That little kid on the beach, there's no doubt about that.
The kid was moved there and he moved his arm a certain way.
These are staged.
Photographers do this.
That's how they make their money.
They get a great shot because they staged the shot.
That's the easiest way to do it.
You're not catching that shot.
Are you kidding me?
I think I've taken 10 or 20,000, maybe more pictures.
I think I've caught one.
How about this?
How about this?
Just go to Instagram or the face bag.
Every photo everybody makes is staged.
So, I know how this works now.
Because I hang out with girls.
And they're like, oh, could you take a picture of us?
Yeah, I'll take a picture of you.
And I know I might as well take...
I know this rant.
Oh yeah.
I might as well take 50 pictures because the next step is all the girls look at the photo and if they're not all universally satisfied with how they look, we do it again.
And we do it again.
And we do it again.
Until they're all happy and we have the perfect shot.
Perfectly staged.
It's what happens all the time.
But no, not in news journalism, of course.
Not in photo journalism.
Oh, it never happened.
Well, of course it does.
So this is another example, and this is just endless nonsense that we just have to live with.
It gets into the lexicon, and that's it.
It's forever.
I thought about this for a minute or two, and it's all I felt thinking about it.
To be honest, you're a busy guy.
I thought, what difference, again, when you think at the end of the day, what does it really hurt that this photo was staged when you can just, where it's more interesting to say that it was a lucky shot, this guy caught it, and there the guy is raping her, and okay, fine, I'll just let it slide, and I don't care, I give up.
What difference at this point does it make?
Exactly.
Exactly.
It makes no difference.
Well, there was a lot of anger, really.
And I don't have any clips because it was just, you know, it was discussions and it came up here and there.
But, man, Matt Lauer sucked!
Oh, you did a horrible job!
Now, this is great.
I'm glad you got this because I didn't.
I know Matt Lauer.
Before he was on the Today Show, he actually did some stuff at VH1, which no one saw because no one watched VH1. So we were in the same studio, and we met once or twice.
It wasn't that long, but he did some VH1 stuff.
I'm sure it's out there.
And we...
Let me see.
When we...
It might have been Desert Storm.
We bumped into each other at an airport bar and everyone was watching what was going on.
And he's a nice guy, but he's just a tool.
He's a VH1 VJ. Come on!
You know, that's worse than the ex-MTV VJ. I mean, VH1, that's bad.
And for some reason, everybody expects, because this was NBC, this commander-in-chief forum, and Matt Lauer, you know, the sacrificial lamb.
No one's, everyone journalists are like, I'm not going to do that.
Screw that.
I'm not going to be a part of that.
Because you cannot sit there and fact-check.
That's what they want.
How could he let Donald Trump lie?
He lied!
He lied!
He didn't say it!
Matt Lauer jumped in and said, you lie!
You lie!
That's not...
No, the way the...
That's what they sounded like, too.
That's the interesting thing.
You nailed it.
And the format of this forum, if anyone was going to call him on something, it would...
It should have come...
It was poor production.
It should have come from the audience members who were asking the questions in the first place, not Matt Lauer.
He already had his job.
His job was to set traps, bring the tweet stuff on it, and also...
He got...
All of the questions were about Hillary's emails.
She didn't ask anything else.
No, the questions didn't come from Matt Lauer.
The questions came from the audience.
So they're very upset.
But what they want, and I've been following this woman, I've been watching her, and now, and I think I have a perfect example of what The people who watch NBC to see pro-Hillary coverage, but more importantly, anti-Trump coverage, make sure that he...
Point out his lies, his nuts, his crazy...
Joy Reid from MSNBC, who was brought in as the big hero.
Here's a minute 30 example of what people want from their news organizations when anyone from Trump is around.
And this is economic advisor David Malpass.
I don't know much about him.
Seems a little wishy-washy, actually.
And he totally let himself get run over.
As he just starts to talk...
And he just brings up a couple things, and you are going to hear how Hillary supporters want the news to be in America, and whenever we have these, and of course when we have debates, they'll be asking for the same thing.
Again, it's not the task of the moderator in these formats.
If you're doing a one-on-one interview, yes, you can do that.
But this is just not the format.
But here's what the world wants.
Joy Reid with the Trump Advisor.
If somebody gives, let's say, like Donald Trump gave $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation that then goes to buy AIDS drugs in Africa, that is a benefit to the recipients of the AIDS drugs in Africa.
What the person who gave that money, even in the AP's over-reading of these 84 meetings, was that maybe Huma Abedin would call them back.
That is not pay for play, right?
Well, it was much more than that.
We're talking about $10 million contributions.
Where is the evidence of that?
Gigantic contributions.
Where is it?
Hold on.
And then subsequently meetings with the Secretary of State.
That is not true.
Now that is just not true.
That is not what the AP found.
What's not true about that?
The press went through and did this investigation.
And they found 84 meetings out of 1,700 that they said the Clinton Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had with people who were donors.
They could find zero of those meetings that came after a solicitation for a donation, that came as a result.
Go ahead and read the IP story.
The AP story that has been pilloried because they attempted to find pay for play and found nothing.
They reported she met with Nobel Prize laureates she would have met with anyway.
That Doug Band asked for a passport he didn't get.
Huma Abedin emailing you back is not you getting something.
It's Huma Abedin emailing you back.
That's the problem.
We're going to end this segment, but I'm going to do one more comment from each of you.
I should have a response.
The Clinton campaign could have handled this very differently by having the emails come out much earlier.
What's to do with the Clinton Foundation?
The emails are bringing out the information.
No, they're not.
That's not where the Clinton Foundation information came from, sir.
Think about what's happening.
People are trying to get her scheduled.
You're conflating, sir.
They're also trying to get her to have a news conference.
Now you're conflating press conferences, emails, and the foundation.
They're not all the same thing.
Wouldn't it be easy for her to stand in front of the public and...
Oh my god, now that wasn't really a press conference.
My head hurts.
My head hurts, sir.
That was a press conference.
That is what a press conference is.
I don't even know what else to say to you.
Thank you, David.
Thank you.
Kurt, I'm sorry, we are out of time.
And the other guy who's just laughing, laughing the whole time.
This is what they want.
They don't want people interviewing, asking questions.
They want people to say where it's at, speaking truth to power.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Yes!
Outrageous.
That woman, by the way, is the worst I've ever seen, ever.
She is.
She had some other woman on that was trying to say something, and the report had just come out.
The woman was quoting the report, and Joy Reed just kept calling her a liar.
That's not what happened.
That's a lie.
That's a lie.
Get out of here.
And then they cut her off.
I mean, she is worse.
She is worse than Ed Schultz was when he was at MSNBC. And curiously, and I have a clip, Schultz, I never realized that he's just a pro, works for anybody.
Now he's at RT working for Putin.
And...
This is the kind of thing, because there was this kerfuffle over Donald Trump going on Ora TV and then finding himself on RT. On RT, yeah.
Which is just, anybody would know what happened there, but no one wanted to talk about it.
They just thought he was selling out to Putin.
But this is the Schultz now.
Russian!
RTZ Schultz, who appeared on the same program where Larry King's interview with Trump was broadcast, says he has no doubt where the message is coming from.
I have an open invitation to anyone in the Clinton campaign to go face-to-face with me, but of course they won't do that, because this is manufactured news by the Clinton campaign to vilify Donald Trump and connect him to Vladimir Putin, and that's their strategy to win the election.
It's hurting Hillary Clinton, which...
I think is even more than sad.
Yeah, my, how quickly they change.
Wow!
I mean, I was watching, first of all, Schultz has his news show, where all he does, he's like an anchor, he's like Shepard Smith.
Yeah, he's a script reader.
So he's just reading, he's a meat puppet.
So he's reading away.
But every once in a while something comes in where he gets to throw his two cents worth in.
He was a rampant, rabid, anti-Republican crazy man on MSNBC. There are clips you can get a lot of them on YouTube.
Some of them are hilarious.
Yeah.
Now he hates Hillary because he's working for...
This guy's just a mercenary.
Who knew?
I had no idea.
Also, never underestimate the long-term memory of the American population.
We don't remember that much.
Whatever, it's all good.
So there he is.
So this Donald Trump-Larry King interview, to me, that was an incredible stretch.
Oh, again, again with Russia!
He's on Russia today!
Of course, it was all by mistake.
It was an accident.
It's a hard one to explain for the Trump campaign.
All this praise for Putin and participation in the Russian TV station's interview has got an awful lot of Republicans.
Notice the Russian TV station's interview instead of saying Larry King.
I mean, how despicable is it that everyone is basically calling one of our premier interviewers in American media a Russian stooge?
Pretty much.
Larry King drinks vodka and wears a hat, like a furry hat.
Before you play any more of that clip, let's explain a couple of things about what Larry King is doing.
Okay.
Larry King, some time ago, has moved.
Well, he retired.
First he retired, and Pierce Morgan came in.
And he retired, and he retired again.
And he retired, but Carlos Slim...
Has this network.
Does he still own the New York Times, Carlos Slim?
I don't think so.
Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world, started, I think it's called Aura TV or something like that.
It's a network of podcasts.
It's a podcasting network.
Destined to fail.
And as a...
It's online, and he hired Larry King to be like the, I would say...
To be like Larry King!
To be Larry King.
Because it's Larry King.
And I think it's the same way Sirius FM, Sirius XM hired...
Howard Stern.
Howard Stern.
So they'd have an anchor guy, a guy there that everyone knew.
So in the process, because there's really...
Larry King's probably getting paid a lot of money from Carlos, but I'm sure the thing is the operation's not doing very well.
So they did a deal with RT to run the Larry King show because they needed content anyway.
They had nothing like Larry King on RT. So they put Larry King on RT and made him kind of a contractor.
And he does promotions for them.
You see him on the ads and he's there.
But this is really something that was not done.
It was never designed for RT. It was done as a deal of some sort.
It's a content deal.
This happens with all these people.
All the time.
And by the way, American shows air in Russia.
Yes, that's true.
And a lot of them are licensed to Russia.
They have their versions of our shows and game shows and things like that.
Russia's got talent.
Russia's got talent.
Which is a show, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, a very short show.
And so everybody took this completely out of context because the way it was presented to Trump, I'm sure, was Larry King's doing interviews.
Hey, Larry King wants to talk to you.
Yeah, if Larry King wants to talk to you, talk to him.
I'll call in.
I'm not going to go sit in the studio, but I'll call in.
He didn't go to the studio, which I thought he could have done that.
But still, the idea that we are now calling Larry King a traitor, and we're not doing that directly, but How come no one says, wait a minute?
You're implying it.
You're implying it.
That, to me, is egregious.
It's a hard one to explain for the Trump campaign.
All this praise for Putin and participation in the Russian TV station's interview has gotten an awful lot of Republicans upset and the Democrats sort of in a lather with the ability to go after a Republican presidential candidate when the history of U.S. foreign policy has been that it has been the GOP that has been toughest on Russia.
And now we have a situation where Hillary Clinton thinks that she might be able to get the high ground.
And there really was a miscue on the interview.
The Trump campaign makes the suggestion.
The campaign spokesman says that what Donald Trump was effectively doing was in touch with an old buddy who wanted an interview, and that's Larry King.
And Larry King does have a podcast, but since 2013, he's been working for RT. And the Trump campaign thought that this interview was going to go on the podcast, not on TV across America and around...
And by the way, stop...
You're denigrating podcasts, you douchebags.
Not sure.
Not Russian.
I believe to be running as the Kremlin.
So, for Trump to be criticizing the U.S. media, the free and most open press in the world, on that channel, for him to be bad-mouthing two presidents, for President George W. Bush for having gone into Iraq and Barack Obama for the way in which he withdrew on that particular broadcast network, is the kind of thing that has Republicans and Democrats Podcasts
are important, people.
We have our own award show.
We have an award show.
It's real.
We have an award-winning show.
We have an award-winning show.
That's right.
I don't know if you saw the interview or heard it, but I think that something happened.
I heard pieces of it.
Well, it ended rather abruptly.
I think someone said, boy, this is not good.
We've got to stop that.
Something's happening.
I know you a long time on this immigration issue.
What are your feelings about Mexican immigrants?
What are your gut about it?
Don, what do you feel about this?
Don, are you there?
Thank you.
I don't know what happened there.
We did not lose the connection.
Wait for it.
So something happened.
Such is life in the big leagues.
Again, slamming the podcast format.
That's exactly what he's thinking.
Oh, God, I got a podcast and people just hang up on me.
That's life in the big leagues, everybody.
That's me.
Now, the final thing I got here, I think, for politics.
Gary Johnson does his big flap.
He makes his Aleppo mistake.
And for a guy who's been trying to get attention from the media, oh, he got it.
I think I got a great clip or a series of clips that came out.
I think I saved this one.
Okay, what do you got?
Is there a Gary Johnson thing on this list?
Mm-hmm.
PBS, dipshits in Congress.
I'm reading the names.
Clinton, Chelsea.
Oh, no.
Jones.
No, no.
Sorry.
I don't think I see it.
Let me just, I can double check.
No, you don't seem to have it.
Okay, no problem.
Poor guy.
Although, really, he should be happy because this attention, you know, using the Trump methodology is good.
He showed up everywhere.
I have two clips.
The first one is Jake Tapper, who didn't have Gary Johnson on the show, but he did a really interesting little bit here, which starts with a recap of the what is Aleppo clip.
What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?
About Aleppo.
And what is Aleppo?
You're kidding.
No.
Aleppo is in Syria.
It's the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
Okay, got it.
Got it.
That was Governor Gary Johnson doing his best impression of a deer in headlights with his reaction to a perfectly reasonable question about the crisis in Aleppo.
So, given that there are children in Aleppo who have known nothing but war in their entire lives, maybe a presidential nominee should know something about the epicenter of the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now.
So here's a little catch-up.
Aleppo is Syria's largest city.
It's under constant bombardment for most of this decade by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's forces, now joined by some warplanes brought to you by Vladimir Putin.
Here's a resident of Aleppo, Governor Johnson.
His name is Omran Dakhneesh.
He's a little boy who survived a bombing and became a symbol of the suffering there.
His brother was killed.
This show brought you their story three weeks ago.
If you went online, you really couldn't miss his image.
Oh, won't somebody please think of the children?
That was pretty low.
That was bad.
Hey, man.
Russia Today had a nice piece on this.
But they did one of those things, which I bitch about constantly.
Oh, they did words on the screen?
They put a bunch of words on the screen.
They showed that the New York Times also screwed up the Aleppo question by saying it was where the center of activity for ISIS was.
And then they came back with a correction in another edition of the paper saying, no, Raqqa is the center of ISIS and Aleppo is the capital.
And then they had to come back with a third correction saying Damascus is the capital of Syria and Aleppo is just a big city.
So this is, I don't know, just dumb.
Yeah, well, not quite as dumb as Gary Johnson showing up on my beat.
For 15 minutes.
They put him on for 15 minutes.
Pretty boring interview.
They just rattled him.
Didn't they just go after him and Joy Behar being the worst?
Yeah, here it is.
This is Gary Johnson on The View.
Just a little piece because there was a lot going on on this, but nothing really spectacular.
I liked what Joy did.
It was funny for our show.
Hi!
You know, you heard what I said maybe in the beginning of the show.
I know what Aleppo was.
I know what it is.
And I should not be any smarter than you because you're running for president.
Having said that, I'm sure Trump doesn't know what Aleppo is either.
So, you know, I think it's a disqualifying statement, frankly.
And fair enough.
And fair enough.
Yeah.
Let me ask you something.
So will you get out of the brace now?
No.
No, never.
One of the things that you just said is, so what's your plan to get us out?
Because, you know, Obama came in.
He didn't put us in the wars.
We had two or three wars going when he got here.
Oh, really?
He didn't put us into Syria?
Okay.
So, what's your plan to get us out of there?
Well, talking about Syria and Libya, we went in, we supported regime change, and that wasn't Obama.
That was Obama and Hillary.
And this was not intentional.
Not intentional.
Yeah, no.
But how do you get us out?
Because we've got other wars that we're...
To get out of Syria, that has to be joining hands with Russia diplomatically to make this happen.
And that isn't to say that Obama isn't pursuing that currently, but that is the key, in my opinion, to resolving Syria.
And, of course, we have the situation right now where Syria and the United States may come to actual military conflict in this area.
So very complex.
Kurds, here it is.
We're backing the Kurds, but the Kurds are, you know, against Turkey, and Turkey's our ally.
This is all very, very complex, but it's supporting regime change that is ultimately the cause for all of these conflicts, starting with Iraq.
Yeah.
Okay.
He actually, he did brush up on Syria, and he does know a lot of the issues, particularly Turkey, which we will maybe talk about later on in the show.
But he goes out, and he's got all this attention, and he doesn't have a thing.
You know, you need like a zinger or something that's going to, bam, that's going to make people remember, oh yeah, Gary Johnson.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Poor advisors.
He's a dud.
Let's face it, come on.
I know you were a supporter of his last time around.
So were you.
I voted for him.
Yeah, I voted for him last time around.
But, you know, he's a dud.
He's got no worries now.
He's just kind of like...
Stoned.
It's obvious he's just...
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Oh, there was video of him right after that still at the MSNBC studios.
And the guy's high.
I mean, come on.
I have standing in this area.
He was totally high.
I do.
You would be the expert.
Totally high.
Yeah.
Hey, man, no, I don't smoke anymore.
I don't smoke anymore.
There's chocolates.
Brownies.
There's chocolates.
They pass the brownies.
They don't stink.
And with that, I'd like to say in the morning to you, thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage.
And in the morning to you, John C., where the C stands for.
Chocolate brownie.
Dvorak!
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the dames and knights out there.
Indeed, in the morning to Nick the Rat.
He was back with some album art for episode 858, titled That Was Bite Work, and the album art that Nick brought for us.
Oh, it was the Hillary Strengths or Throat Lozenges.
Yeah, Hillary Strengths.
Yeah, that was good.
I like that a lot.
Thank you very much, Nick, and thank you to all of the artists who always submit at noagendaartgenerator.com.
We picked something right after the show, so it's great if you put something in there.
It's just always fun to go and take a look at it.
There's so much beautiful stuff there.
I'm also thinking...
I'm going to start when I tweet, when we're about to start recording the show live.
I think I'm going to also use artwork we haven't used on that tweet.
Oh, great idea.
Yeah, it'll be looking nice.
And another way to use the artwork.
Yeah.
Well, I use it in the newsletter, the Thursday newsletter, and it's also, I was posting a few of them during that one point where we had a whole bunch, way too much Brexit art that was good, so I tweeted a bunch of pieces that weren't used because there was just too many of them that I had to get some credit.
But I think this is a great idea.
I shall do it.
Meeting adjourned.
Good meeting, everybody.
Will you send me the notes?
I'll send you the notes.
Do you want them in PDF? Yeah, please.
It'd be great.
Sure.
Well, we only have one person to thank, and thank God he showed up, because we would have had, this would have been the show, every year it happens, with no executive producers, no associate executive producers, until the last minute, when Archduke Nussbaum, on Virginia Beach, Virginia, came in, because he's on his way to, well, actually, he's just the Duke, he's not Archduke yet, but he's working on it.
And he came in as the sole executive producer for show 859, With $911, 9-11.
9-11, yes.
The real 9-11 contribution.
And so we thank him.
That's fantastic.
I'm very happy because that's it.
Yeah, it would have been a horrible day if it wasn't for that because our voting thing wasn't that successful.
Yeah, explain that.
We'll talk about it later.
Yeah, I will tell you when we go to the next part.
But that's all we got to mention here.
Duke Nussbaum writes.
Duke Nussbaum here, no karma, just Fletcher Nussbaum.
Yeah.
Nussbaum!
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Whoopi, stay out of my vagina.
He doesn't want any karma?
He just wants that?
He says, Archduke, here I come.
We're going to give him karma whether he wants it or not.
Yeah, I agree.
Oh, wait.
He says no karma specifically.
Maybe he doesn't.
Okay, no karma.
No karma.
News bomb.
Work, boy.
Get out of my vagina.
There you go.
Fine.
Fine.
Well, thank you very much.
Yes, Archduke, you will be that soon.
Keep that up.
Well, thank you, sir.
I'm glad you were here to help us.
This is a value-for-value proposition.
You can see what kind of value our Duke places on it, but yeah, a little disappointing for everybody else.
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Shut up!
Man, I just saw another video of Hillary's collapse in New York.
She's falling backwards, John.
No, I didn't see that.
She's fainting backwards.
Like her knees are buckling and she's fainting backwards.
That's probably how she cracked her head, if that's true.
I still think it's a plane wreck, but...
Yeah.
Oh, bad, man.
That seems to be a dwindling theory.
She needs to take a rest.
She's already resting too much.
Jeez.
I got a couple of things here.
Since we did discuss that earlier, that supposedly kind of a debate, whatever it was.
Oh, the chief executive forum?
I had to go to...
Commander-in-chief?
Yeah.
Yeah, whatever it was called.
With Matt Lauer.
It was called bad journalism is what it was called.
Because Matt Lauer was just stupid.
I told you the guy was coked up.
I told you that.
You didn't look for me, did you?
The coked up thing came out in the front page of the National Enquirer.
Well, I think, but that was an old story, wasn't it?
I don't know.
I thought it was new.
Oh, well, maybe because they had some story that someone said, oh, I sold coke to Matt Lowen.
I thought it was a couple months ago.
Oh, okay.
Well, I don't remember it until I saw it just on Twitter.
Oh.
You know, so what?
Let's see what my friend, David Brooks, who seems to be completely befuddled by everything, has to say about that little debate.
I have two clips of him just baffled by everything.
I don't know why they pay him.
And he looks so dumb when he looks baffled.
He's like, huh?
Yeah, and here's Brooks on Debate, PBS....together at the same place this week, but not at the same time, at this televised forum that NBC sponsored.
What did you make of it, of their performance, and what they had to say?
I thought they both lost.
I thought America lost.
Humanity lost.
A little piece of my soul died.
I thought they both did poorly.
I thought she was evasive and cross and looked like she was imperious and was angry to be challenged.
She had plenty of information, but not a lot of relatability and not a lot of humanity and not a lot of vision for a foreign policy.
He, if anything, was a little worse.
He is, and as he is wont to do, said about six ridiculous things.
The admiration for Putin is of long standing.
But to me, the thing that really made me think was his claim that in Iraq we should have left a core of people to take the oil.
Now that is, first of all, it's impractical, but it's also moral idiocy.
I mean, maybe, you know, you're selfish and you think, oh, I got some oil, I got some guns, I should take it.
But, you know, if you go through any realm of education, which is what we try to do with people, you learn that that's called imperialism, that's called plunder.
It's morally wrong, it ruins your credibility.
The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country and take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us, it's just a ridiculous notion.
And so he says things that are just plainly ridiculous.
So that's why I was so depressed.
Wow.
Wow, that's crazy to think that would happen.
Yeah, no one would ever do that.
Why would you go in and take their oil?
In fact, the entire left used to have stickers knowing this was going on.
And this is around Berkeley.
They were in windows everywhere that said, no blood for oil.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get out of Iraq.
No blood for oil.
The other sticker was, justice not vengeance.
Justice not vengeance.
No blood for oil.
So now he is stunned?
Flabbergasted, I believe.
Disappointed.
Sad.
He's sad and he's a little lost in his soul.
So now they ask him a simple question.
They're paying him to answer the question that's going to come up.
He's getting paid serious money to come on the show day after day, day after day, which the New York Times is not supposed to do, according to friends of mine who work there.
Let a guy do this as much as he does, but he does it.
And this is, they're asking him a question, Brooks, on why are the polls tightening up?
Why are they tightening up?
Oh, so you mean the race is getting closer.
The bands are narrowing.
Trump is gaining.
You're going to tell me what's going on.
What is going on?
What about, I mean, in this race, the polls have tightened.
What do you attribute that to?
I don't know.
After the stock market drops 300 points, then the stock market analysts invent some story to go along with it.
Oh, there was a correction.
And so what we tend to do when the polls tighten is we invent a story to go back for it.
Okay.
John, why don't you explain why the polls tighten?
Why did they tighten?
You're going to explain it.
We know why.
My explanation for everything regarding the polls is that it's bullshit.
The whole thing is designed to get people to advertise more, so you tighten the polls up, and you make it look like there's a real race.
We have no idea what's going on, and those polls aren't helping.
No.
Do you think he's going to come up and say, well, the main reason for the polls tightening is because it appears that CBS is not getting enough advertising from the Hillary camp, and so they're going to make it look like she's losing.
I would expect that it certainly will show Donald being ahead, because you're going to have to keep it that way to get the money out of Hillary, because she's not going to spend any money if she doesn't have to.
We want to get money, so we need to tighten up the poll results.
That's how it works.
And maybe we can squeeze some out of the Republicans and Trump as well.
Yeah, that would be my response.
But to answer how you set it up, Brooks is paid not to disclose that, obviously.
So he is being paid not to disclose the truth about these things.
He may not know, but...
He doesn't.
It's ridiculous that he's on that show with his attitude.
I picked up a term which...
Maybe I just missed it.
I'd never heard of these guys, but now it's coming into play as we're watching very closely what is happening in Syria.
So the Syrian deal, or the deal between Lavrov and Kerry, consists mainly of two elements.
I went through whatever is published.
There's not a lot published.
One is, they're not calling it a no-fly zone, but it's a no-fly zone.
That's the first thing.
And the second one is supported by all these United Nations Security Council resolutions, which is free and fair elections.
So that is, it's the same thing, except now we're adding a no-fly zone, and we'll see where that ends.
But I heard McCain, he was grilling some of the chiefs, the Joint Chiefs, and also Ash Carter, the Secretary of Defense.
And he came up with a name.
He was talking about all these groups who were being supported.
And he came up with a name, not really mentioning all the different pieces of it.
I don't know if I'd heard this before, maybe, but it just struck me as a name we've got to keep our eye on from now moving forward.
Now, there is success on the part of an outfit called the Army of Conquest, which is funded and trained and equipped generally mostly by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and perhaps others.
Perhaps others is Turkey, which I guess he can't say since they're a NATO ally who can't do that.
Mostly by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and perhaps others.
They are succeeding.
And if there's battlefield gains, they are achieving them.
Does the United States have any relationship with that outfit?
Because they are fighting against Bashar Assad as well as ISIS. I have to get back to you on the answer to that question because who has that contact is something that we'd have to discuss separately.
That's great.
Because that must be the CIA who has that contact.
Don't you think?
He's basically saying, I don't know who's running that.
His group would be the DIA. A DIA. Yeah, it would be DIA. It's not.
That means he could ask around and see if it's DIA, but if it's CIA, they're just not going to get anything.
I mean, it sounds more like a CIA thing to me.
I think that's why he said, well, I don't know who has that contact.
Yeah, please.
Right, with the other agency.
Please.
So this Army of Conquest...
It is an aggregate name for a bunch of bad dudes, including Al-Nusra.
Those guys are managing to rebrand.
It's unbelievable.
Al-Nusra is Al-Qaeda.
Yes, exactly.
And we always get in bed with these guys.
It's ridiculous.
We're so stupid.
Well, now, of course, we know that it's us, but it's also Qatar, it's the Saudis, and it's Turkey, even though John McCain wouldn't say that.
And I believe this was a Russia Today report because they're having none of this.
They do not like this whole al-Nusra front, which I think you're right.
It may become the Army of Conquest as a permanent rebranding.
And these are the same guys who changed uniforms to look like FSA so they wouldn't get killed or wouldn't be recognized when Turkey came in.
Well, not FSA. No, no, no.
They changed to FSA. FSA? Yeah, they changed an FSA uniform.
Oh, the Free Syrian Army.
Free Syrian Army, yeah, Free Syrian Army.
Right, right.
Anyway, so here, RT report.
Terror group Al Nusra operating in Syria is getting daily supplies from Turkey.
That's according to the Russian general staff.
The flow of trucks carrying weapons and ammunition from Turkey continues, with border crossings reported on a daily basis.
How is Turkey supplying the terrorists?
Well, as you heard there just earlier from the general staff, there's a constant flow of manpower, weapons and ammunition allegedly across the Turkish-Syrian border.
And how this helps the, or rather hinders the situation there, we heard reports from the Russian military just a few weeks ago about how many terrorists it had eliminated, about how many weapons and command bunkers it had destroyed.
As long as there's that constant flow of weapons, any sort of airstrikes are effectively a futile exercise.
There you go.
So, that is the real problem.
Now, the Army of Conquest.
The new guys to look at.
I like the name.
I think it's a good name.
It's a better name, and it's in English.
Yes.
Better than Al Nusra, for sure.
Yeah, Al Nusra.
It sounds like a comedy act.
And now, Al Nusra and the Deplorables!
Woo!
Yeah, something like that.
Alright, well, Chelsea, you talked about The View, which is your beat.
I'm surprised you blew this one.
Chelsea was on.
And I believe, listening to Chelsea in her speech, she's picked up Hillary's cadence.
And she seems to me, Chelsea Clinton seems to me to be like a Stepford wife.
I think something's wrong with her.
This is mind-controlled.
I think she's my control, but they keep her drugged up or something because when she talks, she talks like this, like with no soul and kind of curious.
And so here she is talking about why, you know, she doesn't understand why people criticize her mom and it doesn't make sense to her.
And, well, let's play this.
Chelsea on The View.
Today on The View, Chelsea Clinton asked why many voters see her mother as untrustworthy.
As a daughter, how do you feel when you hear that?
Well, it doesn't make sense to me.
God forbid anything were to happen to Mark and me, my mother would take care of my children.
I mean, there's no greater kind of vote of trust and faith and love than that.
I think she's on E. And love.
Love, man.
The way it ends, and I have an I so you can play it, but the way it ends is love, and then she says that with this kind of breathless slow motion manner.
It's just like creepy.
It's totally creepy.
Well, it doesn't make sense to me.
God forbid anything were to happen to Mark and me, my mother would take care of my children.
I mean, there's no greater kind of vote of trust and faith and love than that.
You stepped on it.
Oh, I did not.
You did.
I wanted people to hear that.
Well, it doesn't make sense to me.
God forbid anything were to happen to Mark and me, my mother would take care of my children.
I mean, there's no greater kind of vote of trust and faith and love than that.
It's E, man.
It's E. It sounds like E, not you mentioned it.
I've seen people that talk like that because they're wasted.
Now, the question was, what do you think of your mom getting badgered by all these bad actors and mean people?
And she says, well, my mom's going to take care of the kids if, heaven forbid, anything happens to me and my husband or whatever his name was.
Mark.
Because she'll take care of the kids.
There's no better evidence of trust and love than that.
The audience was stepping on her.
And I'm thinking, it's not answering the question.
No.
It's like, what do you think?
How do you feel about your mom being badgered by these people?
Yeah.
Not what you hope that if something happens to you, your mom's going to take care of the kids and not beat them up or whatever because you trust her.
It's just like completely the wrong answer to the question that wasn't asked.
It's unbelievable to get away with this.
It's kind of the same type of answer she gave.
Well, it was also the piece, the CNN puff piece, which was Unfinished Business, The Essential, Hillary Clinton.
They did one about Trump as well.
And she was in it the whole time talking about her mom and her...
And even listening to her, I'm like, Hillary actually sounds like a nice mom.
She cares.
I'm sure she's a nice mom.
But that's all she can think about.
I don't think Chelsea was prepared to think about anything else.
That's her mission.
I don't see a lot of family pics.
You haven't seen the picture of Chelsea and Webster-Hubbell?
That's a family pick.
Very funny.
Now, there was a family pick.
I have one little just quickie.
Okay, go.
Bill Clinton, who is off the rails.
It's one thing to say half of Donald Trump's supporters are...
This is what I was going to do.
This is exactly the same bit I was going to do, but I want to hear how you handle it.
Why don't you do it?
No, no, no.
Well, it wasn't a bit.
I almost didn't want to play the clip, but now you brought in Chelsea.
I'm like, let's listen to Bill.
He's saying dumb stuff, too.
We all know how her opponent's done real well down in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.
Did he sniff?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Interesting you bring that up.
He doesn't look like he has a cold, and I'm pretty sure Bill doesn't do the powder anymore because he would die.
But, yeah, it was kind of...
Done real well down in...
Maybe he does.
Our opponent's done real well down in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky because the coal people don't like any of us anymore.
They all voted for me.
I won twice and they did well.
And they blame the president when the sun doesn't come up in the morning now.
He refers to West Virginians as the coal people.
Like they're mole people.
Okay, you get borderline clip of the day again.
Well, it's the first official one.
What I was going to talk to, and I noticed I don't have a clip of what I was going to discuss, but the Clinton Foundation released a photo...
Just, I guess, to humiliate Trump, of Trump palling around on the golf course somewhere with Bill.
And they both, Bill and Trump, have girls on their arms.
Trump has got some Playboy bunny.
She's got a Playboy bunny.
At least she's got the logo on her chest.
And she's a pretty girl.
But Bill has got some knockout brunette.
And he's got his arm around her.
Mm-hmm.
Now I'm thinking, and this is played up, I think maybe this is in the ABC report.
Let's play this report.
This is ABC. This is the odd Trump piece that's got all kinds of mixed messages.
I think, again, ABC, I believe to be pro-Trump.
They sound anti-Trump, but I believe there's a lot of pro-Trump kind of subconscious messaging going on.
He said he was unsure.
Do you accept that President Obama was born in the United States?
No, I don't know.
I really don't know.
Now he refuses to discuss the issue at all.
I told you, I don't talk about it anymore.
And amidst the vitriolic attacks between Trump and Clinton, the Clinton Library has released new photos from a much chummier time.
Trump palling around with the man he now calls a predator.
All right, John Carl with us live again tonight.
And John, you'll remember earlier this week, I sat down with Donald Trump.
We talked about his health and Hillary Clinton's health, and we asked him if he'd release more.
Here's what he said.
You're 70, she's 68.
Do you think the American people deserve to know more about both of you?
Sure, I do.
But I would love to give specifics as far as I'm concerned.
And if she wants to do it, I'll do it 100%.
Why not go first?
I might do that.
I might do that.
In fact, now that you ask, I think I will do that.
You will?
Yeah.
All right, John, did the political team check back in with the Trump campaign tonight?
We asked directly if they were going to release or when they were going to release those full health records.
No word yet.
Trump is doing an interview on the Dr.
Oz health show and promising to reveal his personal health regimen.
Obviously, David, not the same thing.
All right.
John Carr with us again tonight.
John, thanks.
Wow, wow, wow, wow.
This is a trap.
Well, a little plug, got a plug in there for Dr.
Oz.
Yeah, I'm sure it airs on ABC affiliates.
Could be.
Makes sense.
So they're going to plug that.
They showed the photo that I described, which is with the two guys, the two douchebags and the two chicks.
Yeah.
With Clinton with a smile on his face and his arm around his babe.
And I just thought it was a negative...
I thought it was...
It showed nothing about Trump.
It was a younger picture of him.
You don't know what the deal was.
But it reinforced the notion that Bill is a douchebag.
And a womanizer.
Yeah.
For some reason, as opposed to Trump.
It didn't give you that impression.
Why would they bring that out?
Why would the foundation release that?
That's the question I wonder.
Because the picture is not a flattering picture for either of the two guys, but especially Bill, who has an image problem.
So I have no idea why they brought it out, why ABC showed it.
That's very odd.
Yeah, there's something going on.
Very odd.
Oh, the other shoe dropped over in Eurolands.
You mean the other shoe?
So Hillary has no shoes?
No shoes for her.
This is regarding the tax situation with Apple.
There's a backdrop to this, which has now just been released in the past week.
The final European ATA directive, which stands for Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive.
And...
As you recall, we were talking about the differences in specific types of taxation, which Apple takes advantage of, not so much Ireland, but the Netherlands.
The Netherlands, and I was mistaken.
I thought it was zero tax on royalties, on creative royalties, and R&D royalties.
It turns out it's 5%, so I was wrong about that.
And so Apple, I'm sorry, it's a pittance.
And so what Apple does is, you know, they say, OK, the intellectual property that we have, we have royalties over that, which come from the sales of our products.
So that portion, which you can almost make up yourself, they spend a lot on R&D, that is going to be under this five percent tax ruling.
It's a pittance.
Now in the new directive, the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive, this is discussed specifically and specifically in regards to the Netherlands.
There's a specific clause in here that says all countries now must adhere to a new across-the-board tax for royalties, interest.
So if you pay interest or if you receive interest, there will also be taxation on that.
Across the board, including the Netherlands, will now be 10%, which is still a pittance, but it completely ruins the Netherlands' advantage.
They had this tremendous advantage for all these royalties, and now that is just overnight going away.
And then they don't quite know it yet, but they're screwed now.
Because now it doesn't matter.
You can be in the Netherlands.
You can be anywhere you want.
Yeah.
All right.
So this was all set up.
I mean, this is, you know, it's obvious what was going on here.
We'll get Apple.
We'll make some noise about it.
And then, oh, there it is.
Here's the new anti-tax avoidance directive.
Nice setup.
It has anything to do with the relationship to Russia?
Well, I think it has to do with the...
No.
No, I don't think so.
Okay.
No, I think it's just in general.
Look, the people who are running this, and as far as I know, it's been women who run the anti-competition office.
There was one guy, I'm sorry.
There was a guy there briefly.
I think they're just...
They're insane.
They're just power-hungry.
They just...
They do whatever they can do.
You don't really have a lot of power in the European Parliament or in the whole system unless you're at one of these particular posts.
Right.
You have too much power at that point.
I think there was a message to Vladimir Putin specifically...
As, um, his, uh, his favorite limo driver who drives his, uh, his armored vehicle was killed in an accident.
Yeah.
Crazy accident.
Sounds a lot like Mike Morrell.
He says, oh, no, we like to, we should be killing Russians.
Don't brag about it.
We'll just, you know, we should be killing Russians.
Maybe it's a message to Vladimir.
I don't know.
Well, it was strange.
If you saw the tape...
It's very odd.
I saw it, yeah.
It's very odd.
These guys were barreling along in one of the SUVs that I guess they drive Putin around in secure situations.
And just as he...
Just some car, I guess a Mercedes...
Yeah.
Jumped the barrier, jumped the lane into the oncoming traffic right at the moment that car was coming by, almost as though it was remote controlled.
Yeah.
Well...
It wasn't like, you know, the guy was across the lanes and was staggering all over the place.
No, it was like instant.
If anyone remembers the first episode, I think it was the first episode, maybe in the second, but I think it was the first episode of Rubicon.
Hmm.
Where the guy goes into the train and the train crosses over and smashes head on into the other train.
It was just like that.
It was very fishy.
Yes.
And then Mike Morrell, of course, is helping things by making these sorts of comments.
I was going to play the clip, but he only says we should kill Russians and he's talking about what he wants to do to Bashar al-Assad so it doesn't really count towards doing this to Vladimir Putin.
But I think you could add it in there.
I think you could add that.
Yeah, well, maybe with a little editing.
Yeah.
Okay, I got one here.
Now, did you at all discuss the oil markets, what's happening now with Horowitz?
Because, of course, we have oil prices fluctuating.
Not to any new extent.
Okay.
So oil prices have been going up and down.
And Saudi Arabia says, oh, we're not going to cut production.
Iran is saying, oh, we're full blown.
We're pumping it out.
Full steam ahead.
And I believe one of the Texas shale oil companies was just acquired by French, by Total Oil, because it's out of business.
The shale oil cannot compete with...
Of course, not at that price.
Right.
So this is, in a way, of course, an indirect attack on the United States oil and gas industry.
But I caught this on CNBC Europe.
And if you want to know why these things happen...
Well, actually, this is a trader.
This is an oil trader from Citi, Citigroup.
And he made it very clear.
I'm going to join the rest of the market in remaining extremely skeptical that we're going to see anything actually, in terms of change to fundamental S&D, where they're going to see any barrels actually taken off the market as a result of the Algiers meeting.
This agreement, it's totally devoid of details.
It's not a coincidence that both countries are producing basically at record levels right now, so a freeze wouldn't be that big a stretch.
But I think that, given how well The oil price responds to every single murmur or rumor about a looming agreement.
Why not go ahead and have another meeting?
It works very well.
Have another meeting, which is another volatility.
Up and down.
Up and down.
We can make some money.
That's right.
Hey, have another meeting.
It's great.
I think we have discussed that possibility.
Just trading.
He's like, let's get some futures.
Have a meeting.
Say we're going to cut production.
Let the price go up.
It's that easy.
Then sell.
Yeah.
Sell short.
If it's not going up, we're going to pump more.
And then go up and down.
You can make all your money to hell with the oil.
You just make your money on the market with things going up and down and up and down with you controlling it.
Just scalping the ups and the downs.
It's easy.
Here is the Trump-Putin-Pence scary clip from Democracy Now!
They're beside themselves figuring out what the hell is going on.
Donald Trump's campaign has doubled down on the Republican presidential candidate's support for Vladimir Putin.
On Thursday, Trump's running mate, Governor Mike Pence, echoed Trump's comment that the Russian president is doing a better job than his counterpart, President Barack Obama.
Pence was speaking with CNN's Dana Bash.
I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.
And that's going to change the day that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America.
Pence's comments follow similar remarks made by Trump at a national security forum on Wednesday night.
Speaking from North Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called those remarks scary.
Oh, scary.
Scary.
Scary, scary.
Do you have anything on the American Indians and the pipelines?
Yes, I do.
And I want to mention that I did make the claim that they were putting the pipeline into the water.
You said they weren't?
And I said, I'm not sure.
Maybe I was wrong.
You were.
Yes, I know I'm wrong now.
This is actually, I have to say, the network news has finally picked it up.
They all have short stories.
PBS did a long piece on it.
And it's getting to be...
Now it's national news.
Even though it began in April.
It's now national news.
And they answered this question I thought was pretty interesting.
This is the pipeline on PBS with the guy there.
They actually sent somebody there.
One of the reporters for the NewsHour.
And he answered a question from Desjardins, the little reporter.
And by the way, I haven't...
Looked into this too much, but there is a donor, a regular donor, on the show, on the list of, oh, the big list at the beginning of the show, of the Desjardins slash something investment firm.
Oh, her parents are donors.
I'm wondering.
Because it's an unusual name, and she's an unusual reporter.
She's not normal.
She's not the normal type of person you'd see on TV. That's a very kind way of saying it.
Yeah, well, you know, she seems sweet, but I don't think she's that good.
But she's asking questions of this guy who's out there.
She has a great personality.
William, specifically, what is the tribe's complaint for?
The principal argument that the Standing Rock Tribe has is that the construction of this pipeline is going to do, one, it's going to destroy a lot of very, very important cultural sites to them.
Burial grounds, historic meeting places for their people, And number two, that the pipeline, which although it is not going to go through tribal lands, it is just a short distance away, the pipeline will go underneath the river.
And many people are concerned that if a pipeline that's carrying hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil goes underneath the river, That there could be some sort of a rupture, and if that happens, that might spill oil into their primary source of drinking water.
And so that's been the main concern, that the construction of the pipeline is going to destroy lands that are very, very important to them, and that the potential for contamination is enormous.
This would be a very significant pipeline carrying about half of current Bakken oil production.
How's the industry responding?
The company that's building the pipeline has argued all along that they followed all the rules.
They filled out the right permits, they got all the right permissions, they did the proper surveys, and that they have broken no laws whatsoever.
In fact, that's not really been the allegation thus far.
The tribe's main concern has been with the Army Corps of Engineers, who granted one of the main permits for the pipeline to go in.
And the Corps says, too, that they did all the proper consultations.
But the oil company argues also that they think this is an important economic engine for the area.
They say there will be jobs in construction of the pipeline, jobs in maintaining the pipeline, and that they say, look, we still live in an oil-based society.
And if oil needs to get from the Bakken oil fields to market, this pipeline is the delivery device for that.
Hmm.
So the Army Corps of Engineers, which has been derided ever since the hurricane Katrina, It has something to do with this, and that's a government operation.
I don't understand.
This is a big hassle for everybody.
I don't understand why they can't reroute the thing.
Well, I have a number of emails from producers who live in the area, and some have actually worked on some things, so I'm keeping them anonymous.
In my work, I surveyed land within miles of the protests north of the Cannonball River in addition to thousands of acres of land throughout the western portion of North Dakota.
From experience, I can say that identifying burial cairns, cairns, cairns, burial cairns, and stone effigies, two types of sites that Standing Rock Sioux say have been destroyed, can be a subjective process.
Tribal consultation is a crucial part of the Section 106 process, we just heard about that, because they ultimately have the final say over what is sacred and what is not.
If a tribe member says that a stone alignment is a buffalo effigy, as a white man from Pennsylvania, I have no standing to dispute them.
There were days where myself and my co-workers would spend hours in a field mapping arrangements of stones to see if anything aligned to make a stone circle, a cairn, or other recognizable shapes.
Some were easy to identify, others much less so.
Again, I have no standing to dispute the claims being made by the Standing Rock Sioux, but I think it is highly unlikely that the destroyed sites were purposely ignored.
The lack of proper tribal consultation is a much more probable cause.
Now the question is, why?
And are they being riled up?
And what is...
There's a lot of just the anti-oil thing.
Although I wouldn't really want to be anywhere near a pipeline with Bakken crude in it.
That's the stuff that blows up the tank cars.
It's got a lot of volatiles in it.
It's very light and explosive.
And we've had several derailments up in Scandinavia.
If this is one of these things cut loose and burst into flame, it would be a real nightmare.
Now, has the president...
I believe the President said, please, he requested a voluntary pause while things are being worked out.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think if it wasn't the President, it was the government.
And now they've declared National Guard has to come in, according to the governor of North Dakota, called the National Guard to come in and make sure that the laws are being enforced.
And I don't know whose side he's on.
He doesn't seem like he's on, to be honest about it, doesn't seem like he's on the Indian side.
He doesn't look like the type.
Mm-hmm.
It's like one of these guys like, hey, Jack Daniels.
You gotta fire water.
I'm gonna send you this link, man.
I just want you to take a look at this.
You see the link in Skype?
I just want you to take a look at that Hillary video.
It's 20 seconds.
You gotta see it.
You haven't lived until you've seen that.
I haven't lived until I've seen Hillary fall over.
Well, seriously.
You're gonna see a lot of that.
Okay, Hillary being dragged to Van.
I think this is the one I saw.
Oh, maybe it is.
I didn't see that she fell over.
Well, look at how she's falling.
Her knees are buckling and she's falling backwards.
I just put it in the chat room as well.
I'm going to take a look.
Yeah, this is the one I saw.
Okay.
Look, she's buckling backwards.
Wow.
Yeah.
There she is.
Yeah, I'd say.
Oh.
Oh.
Not good.
Oh, down she goes.
Well, L-Dopa.
I don't know if...
I can't recall.
I certainly couldn't find a clip of this, and I don't know if we discussed it or what happened, but it cropped up again.
Just because I played that jingle, it reminded me...
What difference at this point does it make?
...in the ISO about Benghazi.
Did we talk ever about Admiral James Lyons, retired Admiral James Lyons?
No.
So he was a four-star admiral and he has some standing.
And if you recall what our thesis always was, which you heard partially from Tony the Terrorist when he was driving me to the airport in San Francisco.
You remember Tony the Terrorist.
He was a great resource.
And he was the one that clued us into, hey, this was supposed to be a kidnapping and it went wrong.
And we ran with that and there was no way to dispute that thesis that this was meant possibly as an October surprise to help President Obama in his re-election.
The timing was perfect for it.
And we have to remember that people would say, well, what's the point?
He kicked ass.
The polls showed him neck and neck.
Exactly.
If the polls were accurate and showed the truth, probably the event in Benghazi would have never happened based on our thesis.
And when you look at all the interference and the delays and not even a...
Stand down.
Stand down.
Not even an F-16 flying over with afterburners, which, you know, apparently does get people to pay attention.
Oh, yeah.
Full afterburner.
Yeah.
And I guess Lyons talked about this early on and it cropped up again in an interview.
And I just want to play this little short bit of what his assessment was of the situation.
I think it was an operation that went terribly wrong.
If I had to speculate, I would say that Ambassador Stevens was to be kidnapped and held hostage In exchange for the release of the blind shake.
But the operation got screwed up.
I have a confidential FBI informant who has confirmed for me my speculation, who has told me that was the plot.
There you go.
Well, that's close to our thing.
Now, why the blind shake?
What do you think the thinking is behind that?
Do we really care about this guy?
Is he an important guy?
Or would it just be an easy exchange?
He's a symbolic guy.
But it makes no sense.
I think his story's half wrong.
I think that's all the whole thing is the cover story.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Because it makes no sense as an October surprise.
If we're going to exchange prisoners, no.
Unless that was going to be quietly, you know.
No, I don't know.
I just thought it was interesting that that guy popped up.
Because of all the stand-downs and all the rest of it, when they looked during the hearings, it seems to me that that was a cover story that was passed along to this guy, and he repeated it.
Other than that, I still think, I mean, we still, I think, agree on this, that the thing was screwed up because the CIA was doing a simultaneous operation.
Mm-hmm.
had some guns to exchange or pick up or remove or do something.
And the whole thing got fouled up.
And I think, which is why I think the CIA partially responsible for the death of the guy.
And I, yeah, why they support Hillary.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I mean, there's got to be some reason.
I have yet to figure out why the...
There was a funny story that came out this week that got no coverage.
It got a little coverage in the right-wing press, and then it disappeared from the mainstream, which was that Trump, because Hillary's bragging about she's got this general and that general rooting for her, they're on her side.
Trump came out and found 88 generals and admirals to support him.
And so there's some photo ops, and the generals are happy to...
Who were they?
I'd missed all of this.
Oh yeah, well you can look it up.
There's just 88, but the left-wing guys came out and said, 88?
Romney had 1,500!
And it was like, oh, only 88.
I mean, not comparing it to what Clinton's got her 25 guys or whatever it is, but it's compared to Romney's supposed 1500 flag officers or whatever they call them.
And this story came out with the 88 guys and just, I've never seen anything disappear so quick.
It's just poof.
Hmm.
Just poof.
Interesting.
I didn't catch it at all.
Yeah, you just, because you blinked.
Yeah.
Hmm.
So we have blinking going on.
Here is the up-to-date Afghan report, Afghan up-to-date.
...himself in the crowd of helpers.
At first, a remote-controlled bomb went off.
Then, as help arrived for the wounded, a suicide bomber dressed in an Afghan army uniform detonated himself in the crowd of helpers.
At least 35 people were killed, including an army general and three senior police officers.
More than 90 were wounded.
And the Taliban aren't the only threat in Afghanistan.
Of the 60 designated terrorist organizations that the U.S. has identified, 10 of them reside in this region.
So our presence here enables us to keep pressure on those organizations and prevent another 9-11.
Wait a minute.
Let me hear that again.
Hold on a second.
That was funny.
It's one of our experts.
...terrorist organizations that the U.S. has identified.
Ten of them reside in this region.
So our presence here enables us to keep pressure on those organizations and prevent another 9-11.
Both al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are in Afghanistan.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
It is super bullcrap.
Where does it all come from?
It's just out of ideas, man.
And it'll be fun to watch.
I think all three networks are doing 9-11 as it happened.
So that started at the actual time.
So they're playing back things in real time.
Which is always fun to relive a shitty day like that.
Let's see around 5.20 p.m.
Let's see if we have the BBC and everyone saying, oh, Building 7 just collapsed while it's in the shot behind them.
Clearly not collapsed.
I don't think that's going to be shown.
I'd like to know if it's 9-11 as it happened.
That would be interesting to see.
Yeah, it would be.
And that's exactly what happened.
I think I remember watching that.
Meanwhile, I think it has a lot to do with the world leadership.
And...
We have A. Jones clip of the day on the world scene.
I think it's just a little clip.
I don't want to over-promote the seed guy, but...
Always good.
It's come out in Europe where the top politicians and leaders have like...
Basements with coddlers they torture for months and rape and kill.
I mean, you're like, what in the world?
That's who runs things.
They're crazy, I tell you.
My God, for 25 years, they've been growing babies and cows.
Yeah!
In Europe.
In Europe.
Bastards.
He's so good.
So I got a couple of these clips from him.
I only have that one for this show.
That's good.
He's gone off the deep end because now Maddow, Mad Cow Maddow, has started excoriating him on her show.
Oh, that's what he loves.
He's getting mainstream promotion.
And so he's going after her because she clips, supposedly, clips stuff out of context when there's really not much of a context.
Well, that's her whole show, is that.
And so, from what I can tell, this is going to be funnier than his feud with Glenn Beck.
No, that'll be good.
Which I think has ended.
Yeah.
Although, you know, there's a new secret weapon in the Glenn Beck camp.
Which, we've talked about it, that Tommy girl, spelled T-O-M-I, the blonde.
She's an idiot.
I don't like her at all.
No, me neither, but she's getting a lot of traction.
And all the millennials are watching her.
Where did you get that idea?
Where did I get that idea?
Oh, from your millennials?
Yeah.
No.
Really?
That's where I first heard about her.
Most of them don't like her, but they have to watch for some reason.
She's 24 and she's got the whole look and she's animated.
They are watching her.
She has videos that are going viral.
We have to start watching her more then because she says some of the stupidest stuff I've ever heard.
I don't like the way she says, freaking this and freaking that.
I don't like that at all.
I like cursing, but curse.
Freaking this, freaking that.
I don't like that.
It's like an old NBC cop show.
Hill Street Blues.
Wow.
They used to use freaking all the time.
You remember Hill Street Blues was groundbreaking television because you saw the guy's ass.
It was Sipowitz.
She had this little piece of gum.
What's his name?
Was it Sipowitz?
Simple, which is the tough cop with the round head, chewing a little piece of gum.
And then you'd see his ass.
They had a shot of his ass.
Oh, my goodness.
We saw his ass on television.
Oh, that was big.
That was big news.
That ass.
That was so big.
Hill Street Blues.
Got anything else before we take a break?
Before we take a break, I think maybe one thing.
Let's see.
I'll do the North Korea stuff next.
Was it Hill Street Blues?
It was NYPD Blue, I think.
It was not Hill Street Blues.
I think it was NYPD Blue.
No, I think Sipowitz.
Is that what somebody said?
Yeah.
I think Sipowitz was on Hill Street Blues.
Maybe I could be wrong.
I don't know.
Well, we'll look at it because it's so important.
We'll straighten this out eventually.
We're being fact-checked on the fly!
Blah, blah, blah.
I think we can...
Well, no, we can do one more thing here.
That's just for me to condemn the...
Go back to the PBS with Brooks Shields and Brooks.
The famous right-wing...
I guess she was a...
She was a grand seer.
She wrote a lot of books and she was very famous in the community of right-wingers.
Phyllis Schlafly died.
And Schlafly was a huge influence.
So they decided to do a little tribute to her trying to do their own thing, which proves to me that David Brooks is nothing.
He is no conservative in any way.
He's going to be your pet peeve of the day pretty soon if you keep this up.
Yeah.
So let's play the little tribute to her, and then I'll tell you what the most important thing she ever did, and then I'll tell you that I'm baffled that they left it out.
This week of someone who was an icon in the conservative movement, Phyllis Schlafly, 92 years old, she left an important mark, didn't she?
Yeah, she came of age and personified the era when the cultural war and the sexual revolution issues rose up and dominated American politics, whether it was issues of gay rights or gay marriage or abortion.
And she sort of exemplified that and created a new right that really fueled the Republican Party.
I happen to think she passes at a time when those culture war, sexual revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them, and not necessarily in a Phyllis Schlafly direction.
Mark Shields, in 10 seconds, a word about Phyllis Schlafly?
Yes.
Well, she, I mean, Phyllis Schlafly was that and she was more.
She almost became a political kingmaker.
I mean, her endorsement, her support was sought eagerly and coveted by leading Republican presidential candidates.
And she had an enormous influence.
Mark Shields, thank you very much.
David Brooks, have a great weekend.
You need to explain.
You've got some explaining to do.
If you had actually asked Phyllis Schlafly what her claim to fame was, and if you knew anything about her, and if you knew anything about politics like these two guys are supposed to, Phyllis Schlafly...
She single-handedly stopped in its tracks, which people don't want to admit this is even, what I'm going to say is even, what?
The Equal Rights Amendment.
That's her claim to fame.
And she was a Democrat.
No, the Equal Rights Amendment was kind of a Democrat.
No, she was a Democrat.
No, no, no.
She was a Republican.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
I mean, I think they did know that much.
They both said that she was a conservative Republican, but her major thing that she did, and people don't want to talk, my wife always likes to bring this up.
She says, oh, yeah, ask him why the Equal Rights Amendment hasn't been passed, because it was an amendment to the Constitution that she...
She single-handedly stopped with her debates from state to state to state about what this means for women because it turns out the way she saw it and I think it could be argued that the Equal Rights Amendment was not going to benefit women at all.
In fact, just the opposite was true.
And she made that argument so beautifully that the thing dropped dead and people kind of think there's an Equal Rights Amendment in play, but it's not.
There's no Equal Rights Amendment at all.
It's not there.
It doesn't exist.
This was never ratified, the Equal Rights Amendment.
Yeah.
The ERA, as it was called.
Earned run average.
I'm curious now, and maybe I just have to research, why would the Equal Rights Amendment be bad for women?
You have to go listen to her.
We should talk.
Ask Mimi.
Mimi can probably tell us.
They had a lot of stuff about women.
She didn't believe women should be serving in the military.
She didn't believe that women should be judged on an equal basis with men.
She actually felt that giving women...
Equal rights.
She believed that women had Uber rights.
She said that when you judge a woman in terms of what she can lift to become a cop, it should be different than what it is for a man.
You should be able to take...
And this is the way I see it.
I could be off on this, but my thinking is the following.
Women have a disadvantage in certain situations because they're not framed the same as men.
And so that should be taken into account.
The Equal Rights Amendment does not take that into account.
It eliminates the differences.
And she believed that this would hurt the cause of women.
And she was convincing and it never went through.
Yeah, I'm just looking around.
It seems the military draft is mentioned.
If the draft of return, the amendment would mean that women had to be subjected to it.
Supporters of the right to abortion.
The Supreme Court recently...
Pretended to find in the Constitution we use the Equal Rights Amendment to strengthen their case.
Okay, that makes sense.
Hmm.
So she was, in a way, a hero for women.
Well...
Yeah.
What am I thinking?
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't know where that came from.
It wasn't a piece.
It's right above the one I meant to press.
I'm going to show my story by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Alright, we have a few people to thank.
Mostly, not as much as I'd like, but we do have a lot of 52 donors.
This is good.
Because we had this thing in the newsletter.
I said, okay, you think that there's 9-11 coming up on the show.
It's the 15th anniversary.
You think it was bullcrap?
You think the 9-11 official story was correct or incorrect?
And so we have, I don't know, you can probably count them.
We start in line 13.
Here we go.
We go down to line, I don't know, 38.
So you have about 20, 25 said it's bullcrap.
It's a little small number.
And two said it was accurate.
And...
I'll start with the two, the two $51 contributors.
There's only two or less than 10%.
Evelyn Rood in Lake Forest, California says she loves the show and didn't think it was fishy.
The 9-11 thing, so she's all in.
And Michael Doherty in Chicago.
And he says, he said the fire that keeps me moving compliments the show, but he didn't think anything was wrong with any of the 9-11 stuff.
But let's start with the top donors, which is Michael Reed in Hancock, Maryland.
And he's on the birthday list.
Joshua Thibodeau in Dayton, Texas, 101-01.
And he says it's been too long since his last donation.
We're going to put some karma at the end for him.
Anonymous in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Nice.
$100.
He said he liked to be known as Sir Alex the Farmer.
He is now a knight.
Anonymous knight from Uruguay.
Perfect.
I don't know why you have to be anonymous if you're there, but okay.
Ed Van...
They have great meat.
Ed Van Dyke in Herpen, Nord Brabant.
Well, yeah, it was pretty good.
It's Herpen, Herpen, Nord Brabant.
Okay.
North Brabant.
Brabant.
It's a birthday gift to his knighthood for his brother Rob Van Dyke.
Tony Cabrera, 7516, Parts Unknown.
That's another here.
That's from the No Agenda Shop.
Profits again, he says.
Keep up the great work.
Oh, good.
Noagendashop.com.
Sir Brian Green of Ham, 7373s, KC9YJM. Ah, Kilo 5 out for Charlie, Charlie 7 threes.
Sirgot Nate from Sebastopol is in with 69.69.
Thomas Staniszewski in Newmarket, New Hampshire, 69.69.
Will Shira, 69.31.
He's not on the birthday list.
He's not in yellow.
Hold on a second.
I'll make sure we have it.
Okay.
I got it.
It's all good.
Will Shira, 69.31.
Scott Checkeye in Howick, Pennsylvania.
55, 55.
Sean Coffey and Ann and Dan.
Now we got the 52 donors.
This is the 52 donations.
Sean Coffey starts off, happy birthday, Adam.
So I think this is the 52 from last week, last show.
So that won't count.
Drops the count down a little bit.
But here's the people who said yes to the 9-11 being fishy.
Well, we already know we had no no's because there's no 59's, which was the other one.
No, no, no.
You didn't read the whole thing.
The no's are 51.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Gotcha.
Victoria McKenzie, Davis, California.
Samuel Liechtenstein in the USA somewhere.
Justin Rawlins, parts unknown.
Kevin McLaughlin, parts unknown.
James Zuckel in Beverly Hills, California.
Ellen Bowes in Langley, British Columbia.
Regan Marshall in Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
Richard Futter in London, England.
Keith Gibson in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
Sir Patrick Coble in Fairview, Tennessee.
What is he says?
I was in boot camp this day and it changed my life forever after two long tours to Ramadi, Iraq.
I thank you all for it.
We thank you for your courage, sir.
That's what we do.
Daphne Mitchell in Oceanside, California.
Eric Hallbritter in South Ogden, Utah.
Sir John Martinez in Gilroy, California.
Joey Redmond.
In Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Cosgrove in Langsburg, Michigan.
Melissa Hodges, Oklahoma City.
John Knowles, Murphysboro, Tennessee.
It's up there with Coble.
The two guys should get together.
Patrick, Patricia, Sir Dame Patricia Worthington.
He'll get it.
In Miami.
Jennifer Chokolachik in Calgary.
She says, 9-11 happened when I was 17 and the official story never sat right with me.
Colton Robinson in Fresno, California.
Daniel Sands in Spring, Texas.
He says, I'm a douchebag for not donating sooner.
That's okay.
Matthew Lauer, Lower, Lower, Lower, I think, in Milwaukee.
Josh Mandel in Greenville, South Carolina.
Jonathan Cherko in Saskatoon.
Joseph Kasteen in McDonough, Georgia.
And he wants a karma for everyone who died in 9-11, which we'll put at the end.
And then we have Evelyn Rood and Michael Doherty, the only two $51 donors that thought the thing was fine.
And that's the end of our poll.
Pretty lame, I'd say.
Yeah.
What are you going to do?
Everyone seems to think it's fishy.
Well, most people do.
Most people, yeah.
So let's name and location people.
These are $50 donors to wrap this up.
Albury, Texas.
We've got David Peet.
Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, California, right down the street from me.
Patrick Gossick in Parts Unknown.
Brian Matthews in Balberg in Dublin, Ireland.
Aaron Holland in Anchorage, Alaska.
Jesse Nolett in Arlington, Texas.
Jason Brockman in Hamilton, Ohio.
Richard Gardner, parts unknown.
Michael Vickland in Sweden.
Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
And last but not least, Sir Mark Tanner.
And that concludes our group of well-wishers and producers for show 758-59.
Yes, two mentions here for us.
First of all...
Kilo Bravo 3 Zulu Yankee uniform, one of our smaller donors.
I donated $4.20 via PayPal.
Since you turned a...
I don't know what this is, but something about the newsletter, we all need to be reminded of...
Okay, so he would just...
Why did I put that in there?
I don't know.
Sorry.
B12 moment.
The other thing I do need to mention, PR mention...
Our friend in Syria, Sub70, who gives us a lot of information, he is also a form of a dude named Ben.
He's created an RSS feed of the show in the Opus format.
Are you familiar with Opus?
No, Opus?
No, Magnum Opus?
It's a compression...
Opus 1?
I got Opus 1?
It's a wine?
It's apparently a compression format.
And he's taking our normal show file.
We talked about it, and people just do this.
I love it.
We take our normal show file, which is anywhere from 120 to 150 megabytes, and we're at what I consider to be the smallest bitrate possible to still sound decent.
And with today's, you know, in general, today's bandwidth is not a problem.
But there are lots of people who still have issues and caps, etc.
So he's taking these files and with this opus, compresses them down to 20 megabytes.
And it doesn't sound bad!
It's really?
Yeah.
I have to look into this.
Yeah, it's itm.im slash opus, and that'll take you to the feed page, and you can subscribe from there.
The voices are a little...
It messes the mix-up somehow.
The voices are a little above the music and effects, but still, it's really phenomenal how good that sounds.
I'm blown away.
Oh, good.
That'd be good for people.
Yeah, well, probably great for African listeners.
Well, people like it.
They like to have a lower bandwidth.
I understand.
It's also good for us if you use it.
And then, of course, Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, I will be live on Night Attack.
That is the Brian Bushwood...
Tuesday?
That's funny.
Yeah, it's this Tuesday.
I'll be listening.
Now, I'm just going to play a little bit of this, but what's his name?
Justin...
Justin.
Justin posted something to promote this.
It is my voice that he put in this mix.
I have no idea when he...
When I did this, I just don't even remember saying these words, but he put it into this nice little mix as a promo that I'm coming on the show, and I thought I'd just play a bit of it.
Maybe I can play all of it at the end of the show.
Drop me some beats.
And then we need some lyrics.
The injury of crackers are as old as fire eating themselves.
If you were to say, hey, here's a cracker, an old feeder operator.
Wait for it.
I've never heard myself say any of this.
Well, I think it's time to get some sort of therapy or something.
It gets pretty nutty, so I'll play that at the end of the show.
I have one request here.
It came from Mike Reed.
He's a late donor, so it didn't show up in today's spreadsheet, but it'll probably show up next time.
But he did say, he said it was cut off from PayPal.
He wanted some much-needed health karma for his hot wife, Julie.
Okay.
So we'll put that at the end.
And was there also an F-cancer karma, I believe?
I want to make sure we catch these.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was one.
Well, send it to me again, and I'll take care of it.
We always want to do those.
Okay, so we have health karma, and also, I guess, a 9-11 karma, and we'll do that this way.
WGC7 won't go away.
You've got karma.
There you go, everybody.
Thank you very much.
Hey, here we go for today.
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Ed Van Dyke says happy birthday to his son Rob Van Dyke.
He celebrated two days ago on the 9th.
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He celebrated two days ago as well.
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Whoa, I got the big blade.
Where's your blade today?
Right here.
Nice one.
All right, only one nighting today, but we're always happy to bring people in.
This is an anonymous dude who does have a name for his...
His peerage status, and he has been donating for quite a while and tallied up, and he is over $1,000 for donations and support of the best podcast in the universe.
So, I would like to have Anonymous up here on stage.
Next to the length, turn, yep, good.
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Okay.
All right, good.
I have a little thing here that's in your wheelhouse, but I wanted to bring it up again because you are the one that identified it, and I think we can actually do something very positive in this case with what is happening, and this is regarding our, well, initially it was the flag, and as you correctly identified, the national anthem is bound to be changed.
It has to go because we've moved away from putting your hand over your heart and looking at the flag and honoring the flag to screw the national anthem.
It's gone, of course, through the NFL and now into high schools.
Tonight, a Lincoln High School athlete protested during the national anthem.
Southeast football player Sterling Smith and a teammate kneeled during the national anthem as a silent protest at Seacrest Field.
Athletes who have done this in the past have called this a nod to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sat during the national anthem during the preseason.
In August, Kaepernick told the press he was protesting what he deemed as wrongdoings against minorities in the U.S. So this is very interesting that now we're kneeling, which to me seems more submissive than anything.
That was Kaepernick.
Yeah, but these kids are doing it now too.
They're going to do whatever he does, but he's the one who changed from sitting, this is the last week, this is the last week.
He changed from sitting to kneeling on one knee.
So it's like a one-knee deal.
You put one knee down and the other leg's kind of in a position where you can lean on it or something.
It's awkward.
But he's done that, and then I watch the Twitters, and everybody goes nuts because, oh, now it's 9-11, it's the holidays, 9-11, and if he does it today, this is going to be the end of it, and this is going to be no good, and he went on and on that.
I've seen a bunch of people bitching about him, not standing for the national anthem and the flag, which is the flag is what it's about, even though that's been lost.
All over the place, not realizing that Kaepernick plays tomorrow night in the Monday night game.
So let's just ignore the fact that it's got nothing to do with the 9-11 thing.
It's pretty funny.
Well, so I did a little bit of research.
You got me very interested in this.
And I found a pretty interesting story from, written by Isaac Asimov, who loved the National Anthem.
And he, actually, this letter that he, or I don't know if it was a letter, or something that he wrote about all four stanzas of the National Anthem, how much he loved it.
He thinks it's fantastic, even though the tune is crappy.
And I actually, first I looked at this racist...
Peace.
Yeah, it's in the third.
It is...
Yeah, you might as well read it.
It is actually in the...
Yeah, I'm going to.
Yeah, it's in the third.
Here it is.
So the entire third verse or stanza.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, a home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
And the star-spangled banner in the triumph doth wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
So it's not really about killing slaves.
It's just, you know, they could have said...
Yes, it is!
No, it's not.
No refuge could save the hireling or the slave.
Yeah, the miser day.
We're going to kill them.
Okay.
They got no refuge.
Once they turn code on us, those horrible slaves, we kill them.
There's no refuge for them.
Racist a-hole.
Now, so this was written in...
When was it?
I want to say 1812?
Yes.
1812.
Was it 1812?
I thought it was 1814.
It was written...
12 or 14.
It kind of depends.
It was after the War of 1812, so I don't think it was written during the War.
Well, I think he was writing it down during 1812.
And he said it to the music of the...
Somebody in the chat room will have the date.
Probably 1840, for all we know.
Well, he wrote it down and then they put it to the English drinking song, which you're correct about, and that became the National Anthem.
It was not officially ratified or, you know, Congress didn't make it official as the National Anthem until 1931.
So there's a lot of time between this and then it being the official National Anthem.
A hundred years, more than a hundred years.
So what was the National Anthem before this?
You know, there were a couple, there wasn't a national anthem, I don't think, but there were different things, like America the Beautiful, I think?
No, that's not it.
Well, God Bless America is a pretty old song, I believe.
God Bless America.
Yeah.
And that's what they sang at the, where the Congress, they talked about in one of their earlier clips, they went and commemorated 9-11 by singing God Bless America, which I think is in contention with America the Beautiful to take over the anthems.
Well, this is what I wanted to talk about.
Being a progressive American, a progressive country, and, you know, we're going to put Harriet Tubman on the 20, and, you know, we're doing all kinds of things.
Why do we have to resort to songs that are now 200 years old?
Why can't we take something a little bit more modern, and I'm not, you know, I make a joke about Jay-Z. Well, I wanted to give you a couple of options and see if we can come up with something.
There's tons of good music that I think is patriotic enough that portrays our hunger for war, We Are the Best, Screw Everybody, Red, White, and Blue, America.
You want to try a couple out?
Yeah, a foot in your ass, that song is good.
Put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.
That was Hannity used to use.
Yeah, that is actually...
I have that one.
I took that one.
I think he stopped using it.
This is Toby Keith, a possible contender for the new national anthem.
Helicopters.
Helicopters.
So the title of that song is Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.
That's the boot in your ass song.
That would be a good one.
Okay, let's try another one here.
Totally rude.
I have another one.
Immature, I believe.
How about this one?
That's one we could use?
I like it.
I like it.
I like that one.
Well, if we like that one, then we could...
This is one I think could be a contender, kind of an outside chance.
We have to choose something people already know.
We don't want people to learn a new song.
And we have an actual opportunity for people to know the lyrics to the entire national anthem.
Here's what I think is very, very appropriate.
Yeah.
I like to be in America.
I play by me in America.
Everything's free in America.
What do you think?
West Side Story?
That's a gem.
Could work, right?
Could work.
Yeah, it's got the nice kind of Hispanic ring to it.
If we want something that works for every kind of sporting event...
Which is all militarized at this point.
Although it doesn't really help women in the United States.
I think we could use this one.
A little war there, perhaps.
It's kind of just about the Navy, though.
Yeah, but they have the Indian guy.
They got the...
Yeah, there's a good versatile group of people singing.
Diverse.
Diverse, yeah.
We could also take a newer pop hit from an all-American girl, Miley Cyrus.
It's party in the USA!
Party in the USA.
The problem is you've got to take one of these songs.
You have to imagine somebody from a high school singer going in front of a big audience at a football game.
Because we have to have this military exercise at the beginning of modern sporting events.
So you have to imagine you're coming out and singing one of these songs.
And some of those songs are difficult to sing, and I would put the Miley Cyrus song in that group.
Okay, so Miley Cyrus is off the list.
Nothing says America like the king.
Nothing says America like Elvis Presley.
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California.
You got a car.
Woo-hoo!
Straddled at Greyhound and Rhodey and the Raleigh and on.
This is the promised land, baby.
All right, what do you think?
Well, wait a minute.
Now, I think you're stumbled onto something here because this is a distinct possibility as a winner because there are so many Elvis impersonators.
In this country, there's thousands of them.
Wouldn't it be great?
When you have the sporting event and you have the military exercise at the beginning, an Elvis impersonator, which there's one in every town, would come out and do that song.
It'd be fantastic.
And it's a military song at the same time?
Yeah.
I think that's good.
Sounds very military.
So that's a possibility?
That would be on the A-list of potentials.
Nothing says...
America?
Like the true, one and only American badass?
Kid Rock!
What do you think?
I've never liked that guy.
I like it.
I like me some Kid Rock.
I would vote no on that.
I'd veto it.
Well, I have two songs left.
And both of them, I like these versions, which is why I chose them.
This next song is something the entire world knows.
It comes from around the same period.
It is a patriotic song in its essence.
and this is performed by one of my favorite bands, Coffin Fuck.
What do you think?
Yankee Doodle.
Yankee Doodle, yeah.
Well, the problem with Yankee Doodle is it's a really old song and it has a bunch of...
Yeah, they're all old.
A lot of references that are, like, meaningless to the public.
It's got macaroni in there.
Yeah, but macaroni is a reference to a faddish moment.
Yeah, but we can change the lyrics, you know.
And called it Mac and Cheese.
I mean, it could do all kinds of cool stuff.
It could do the Mac and Cheese thing, yes.
The final one is from a band that I know personally, and I think they've nailed it with this.
This is the one that possibly could be our new national anthem.
Striper is the name of the band.
Of course, you know them as the heavy metal Christian rock outfit.
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming high What do you think?
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
No, that's called the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Yes, that's right.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Actually, I'm surprised you left out Bye Bye American Pie.
Yeah, I considered it.
The funny thing is, now that you mention it, I think Battle Hymn of the Republic should be in contention with the other two songs.
I agree.
Because I think it's a more militaristic sound.
God Bless America is too religious for today's public.
And the other one, which is also America the Beautiful, I think is a good song, but it's kind of wimpy.
Mm-hmm.
I have one last kind of last test in which I don't have a super version of it.
Let me see.
This is also a contender, I feel.
From the halls of Montezuma!
That's a Marine.
That's a Marine zone now.
But listen to the lyrics.
The lyrics are irrelevant.
For one thing, everyone that's ever been in the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Coast Guard would reject this song.
And they would just vote people out of office if it was picked.
The only thing I like about it is the first two lines.
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
Yeah.
Yeah, it still applies.
It's as current as ever.
And then, of course, it could be New Seekers.
And they could change the beginning to the Revenge of Montezuma.
Oh, yes.
To the shores of Triple E. And then the...
I'm not even going to play this one, but it could be the New Seekers.
You know, I'd like to teach the world to sing.
Yeah, the Pepsi people would lobby against that.
That is a known Coca-Cola promotion.
So we are stuck with...
Living in America.
Promised Land from Elvis.
You're not on board with Yankee Doodle?
You don't think Yankee Doodle will work?
No, no.
Definitely not.
Well, I think we should take recommendations.
There's no reason why we cannot be the ground zero of this conversation.
No one else seems to be doing it.
I'm really liking Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Yeah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
There's also other stuff.
You can listen to some Sousa marches.
I'm sure there's something in there.
And then there's also college songs, like On Wisconsin, I think is one.
Is it On Wisconsin?
It's On something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
USC has a nice thing, but Cal Berkeley's got a good song.
Maybe if we use James Brown, Living in America, which of course was written by my friend Dan Hartman.
Yeah?
Related to Som?
No.
Related to Relight My Fire.
We could always use our version of Living in America.
I think that would work well.
ISIS.
We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS.
I feel good.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, if you have any ideas, send them to me.
Anyone else have any ideas, send them to me.
Why wouldn't we...
He's the go-to guy now.
Yeah, and let's work on Battle Hymn of the Republic in different versions.
Maybe we need a specific version that'll really work for us.
There's probably plenty of them to check out.
All right.
And, of course, everyone in the chat room is saying, yeah, you gotta play America, fuck yeah!
No, Team America.
John doesn't like that song, so we're not playing that.
It's automatic disqualification.
That's out.
Disqualified, yeah.
Well, that was my wad.
Yeah, that was pretty much your wad.
That took more time to produce than anything I did today, strangely enough.
Well, you had to look up all the songs, get clips.
Painful.
I tried.
Or we could say how long that took was to never be recovered.
Yeah.
Let's go back to North Korea.
And why not?
I wanted to play a couple of things because I was a little annoyed by it.
Let's start with Clinton talking about North Korea.
North Korea dropped his little bomb or set one off underground.
We can't tell.
No one will tell us.
But let's play, here's Clinton on North Korea, and ask yourself as you hear what she has to say, why doesn't she do this when she was head of the State Department, and why doesn't Obama just go do this?
Well, today Hillary Clinton called for tougher sanctions against the North Koreans, though she admitted that hasn't worked so far.
She also told our Nancy Cordes that if elected president, she will insist on getting the Chinese to use their leverage to bring the North Koreans in line.
Oh, fascinating.
Boy, she's got the policies there.
They're just lined up.
So here's PBS on, it says Noria, with Paul Ryan, and this is This and the next clip really irked me.
This destabilizing activity is also a consequence of the administration's failed policy of strategic patience and its hollow pivot to Asia.
Today's test marks the latest setback in a campaign to contain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, going back decades and several presidents.
North Korea did agree to halt us nuclear weapons program back in 1994.
But the years since then have seen an endless cycle of on-off negotiations, threats, sanctions, and ever more advanced tests by the North.
A State Department spokeswoman was asked what happens next.
We won't stop our efforts in working with our international partners.
To increase pressure on this very opaque regime in reaction to provocative acts like this.
In New York, the United Nations Security Council met yet again in emergency session to condemn the North and weigh its options.
But China, which has veto power on the Council, stopped short of saying it would back new sanctions.
That prompted Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to say that Beijing has an important responsibility and needs to do more.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Margaret Warner.
This has been going on since 94, 22 years, and nobody will go meet with these guys.
We know from my uncle, Uncle Don, ex-CIA ambassador to South Korea, who is very pro-North Korea, which does not make him popular, that all they want is to be a full-fledged member of the international community.
They don't want armistice.
They just want to be a country and recognize as such.
Boom, that's all that needs to happen.
But that doesn't work for the military.
We won't do it because we...
They need to sell more weapons to South Korea.
South Korea.
Now, this is the one that really got me.
This is the North Korea.
I'll explain after you hear this clip.
This is North Korea.
This is on the CBS report of the same story.
North Korea has tested its fifth nuclear weapon.
It was the strongest one yet, but as these things go, it was a small bomb, less power than the one that destroyed Hiroshima in World War II. Still, the North Korean nuclear program is accelerating and getting closer to fitting a compact warhead on a missile.
Adriana Diaz in Beijing is following this.
On North Korean state television, the test was celebrated as a success.
It was the country's most powerful explosion yet, and another sign of progress for its nuclear program.
President Obama, just back from a week-long trip to Asia, called the test provocative and destabilizing.
China, North Korea's most reliable partner, urged all relevant countries to act carefully.
In New York, an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council was called.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power.
North Korea is seeking to perfect its nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles so they can hold the region and the world hostage under threat of nuclear strike.
This is North Korea's second nuclear test this year and the latest in a string of recent provocations.
Leader Kim Jong-un has also ramped up the country's ballistic missile capacity and launched three earlier this week during the G20 summit in China.
The fear is that with each test comes better capabilities.
Jamie Metzl is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
If North Korea continues on the path that it's on, it is likely that within a decade they will have a deliverable nuclear weapon able to hit the continental United States.
We're all going to die.
Sales whores.
What are they going to accomplish?
They're selling missiles.
Now, here's what really got me.
It's got nothing to do with North Korea.
They're showing the thing of Samantha Powers and the Security Council giving a little speech at the podium.
It's not like a studio.
It's like in the hallway or something.
They pan the camera.
It's where they have a word for it.
It's where they talk to the press.
So they pan the camera down the hallway over to her and then they roll it in and they come in for the close-up.
As they pan the camera across...
There is Guernica, the Picasso painting, in the hallway.
It's huge, by the way.
I've seen it.
It used to be at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
It's one of the most famous paintings in the world.
I have a copy of it, actually, in my house.
Can you explain for people who don't know what it looks like, Guernica?
It's a big, giant picture.
It depicts the bombing during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis killing them.
There's a horse head, and there's a bunch of women screaming.
It's real abstract.
Well, it's Picasso.
And so it's got a bunch of corpses.
For some reason, it's extremely compelling and very attractive, and it's monstrous.
It's one of its biggest pieces.
Huge.
This painting, when it was at the Museum of Modern Art, was a big, it was all of a sudden a contention about, oh, the Spanish want their painting back.
The Spanish want their painting back, and they're supposed to have gotten, so then all of a sudden, if you go to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, you can't see the painting anymore, because it was shipped back to Spain.
What am I looking at then?
It was never shipped back to Spain.
The UN stole the painting!
Huh.
Yeah, that's what I said when I saw it.
I said, wait a minute.
You're telling me that all the New Yorkers that were told, well, we can't have the painting anymore because the Spanish won it back.
It's sitting in the Security Council hallway, which is probably a blocked off area you can't normally go to for the benefit of the UN douchebags?
Wow.
I mean, a point for that.
Yeah.
Wow.
I'm looking at this now.
Apparently in 2003...
When was it supposed to go back to Spain?
Do you remember how long ago this was?
It was about a decade ago, maybe longer.
Headline, United Nations conceals Picasso's Guernica for Powell's presentation.
This is 2003.
When he did his, I guess that's the yellow cake.
They covered it up.
So no one would see it was there.
Wow, that's pretty crazy.
A-holes.
So how does the United Nations get it?
Is it on loan?
Some scam.
Damn.
Yeah, it's probably on loan from Spain.
They never shipped it.
Obviously, they never shipped it over there.
And the Spanish either loaned it to the United Nations.
It never was going to go to Spain.
The whole thing was just stealing art.
Well, that's still in play.
I'm going to call them out.
Let's not only steal art.
Let's steal one of the most valuable paintings probably in the history of modern art.
Douchebag!
There you go.
Good work.
Hell yeah.
Unbelievable.
They probably should have covered it up, and I wouldn't have seen it.
I don't think people know this is there, to be honest about it.
Hmm.
It was a fluke that I saw it.
Interesting.
Yeah.
All right.
How about your Zika thing?
Is that worth the last clip, or is that...
These are two guys in Congress arguing about...
Hold on.
Zika, zika, zika, zika, zika.
Yeah, where's the money?
1.9 billion dollars.
Zika, zika, zika, zika, zika.
Yeah, where's the money?
Yeah, small heads are coming.
You're going to do it.
You watch.
All right, small heads are coming.
I would probably not play that clip.
What, the Zika?
Yeah, you can play it.
There's the two guys arguing.
It turns out that the whole thing is hung up in Congress because of the Planned Parenthood thing.
The Democrats want funding for Planned Parenthood through this bill, and the Republicans don't.
Play it.
You have the two guys.
These are the two heads of the Democrat side and the head of the Republican side arguing in Congress.
And it goes on a little bit.
You can hear the deal, though.
Play it.
Play it with you.
And NIH and CDC would have the resources, Mr.
Speaker, that it needs to protect the American people.
And that, Mr.
Speaker, is what we ought to do.
And I now yield to my friend, the majority leader.
Well, I thank the gentleman.
I think the best thing for the American people is to actually read the bill.
So let me just read the section that you referred to.
You stated that no Democrat in the probes would sign on to.
Who Democrats on the other side wanted to vote for.
Referred to a block grant.
Let me quote it.
This is in the bill dealing with Zika.
For the funding for health services provided by public health departments, hospitals are reimbursed through public health plans.
Seriously?
You're opposed to that?
That's what you're fighting over?
Why people every day and the mosquitoes begin to grow and go beyond state by state?
This is what we're fighting over?
That 1.1 billion dollars added with the other 600 million took place in June.
Yeah, we couldn't get to the floor to debate it because you wouldn't give us one microphone.
But I'm sorry.
I know there's a lot of political that goes around here, but this is not.
This is the moment, this is the time that we rise above it.
The American people do not deserve that.
And I say, let's put this paragraph out.
Let the public read what the bill says.
And I will promise you, the majority wants you to vote for it and stop playing games.
Do we need to hear more?
Yeah.
I understand the majority wants to vote for what they want us to vote for.
Nice.
They don't want to reach a bipartisan...
You voted against that.
I did vote against that.
If the gentleman would please, explain to me what...
Members to direct their remarks to the chair.
It's so hard, Mr.
Speaker.
Gentlemen, yield?
I'd be glad to yield to my friend.
I have a comment, but I'll yield to him first.
Mr.
Speaker, the gentleman across the aisle is true.
We work closely together on the big issues and we try to find common ground.
In that spirit, will you tell me what in that paragraph you disagree with?
Reclaiming my time, Mr.
Speaker, is the gentleman aware that the major deliverer of health services to women in Puerto Rico is through Planned Parenthood?
Is the gentleman aware of that?
Yielding?
I yield.
Did the president request, when he requested money, that it get delivered that way?
Or in here, may I remind the gentleman what I'm requesting?
The funding goes for health services provided by public health departments, hospitals, or reimbursed through public health plans.
Okay, I get it now.
According to the numbers we have, the NIH would receive around 700...
A million dollars.
And so that's what they're now haggling over.
It's all a part of it, but then what they should be haggling over is where's the money for everybody else?
Yeah, the whole thing's a scam, but I just found it was funny.
These guys can't even...
There's this little impasse And they're stuck on it.
This thing's never going to get passed if this goes on.
It sounds like they're both stuck.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like it's meant to pass, really.
Good.
Last-minute info when we discussed the national anthem.
God bless America as a contender.
That is not going to happen.
I'll tell you why.
According to producer Randy from Bakersfield, the song was written by Irving Berlin, and his estate vigorously enforces that copyright.
No way NFL, Major League Baseball, Olympia, no one would be able to pay the fees for that.
We need it to be in the public domain.
America the Beautiful is public domain.
That would work.
Well, that's the one I would pick over God Bless America anyway.
I have the last couple of clips.
Oh, okay.
I didn't realize.
This is a scandal, as far as I'm concerned, is beyond...
I do not understand why they're not talking this up more as racketeering.
Oh, yeah.
And arrest the CEO and the officers of Wells Fargo.
Mm-hmm.
This is an outrageous story.
I have two clips.
I got the Democracy Now short clip, but let's play the longer version from CBS. Well, we told you last night about massive fraud at Wells Fargo Bank.
Today, we wondered whether customers lost money when bank employees opened bogus accounts in the customers' names.
They did.
John Blackstone says now the bank may be seeing withdrawals of public trust.
At Wells Fargo in Marina Del Rey, California, Ken Wallman met a banker to open a business checking account.
He had me sign a lot of papers, one after another, after another, after another, sign here, sign here, sign here, and then that was it.
I thought I had my one account.
But then, monthly statements began arriving.
And they just started stacking up, and one day when I decided to take the time to open them all, I realized there were 16 accounts.
The accounts came with a variety of names and fees.
A couple of the accounts were some kind of market savings account that were $40 a month.
I think I had four of those.
Wallman was not alone.
Federal regulators say around 1.5 million bank accounts and some 565,000 credit card accounts were secretly opened by Wells Fargo employees in the names of unsuspecting customers.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Fewer launched an investigation into the bank.
There was enormous pressure on its employees to continue to churn more and more accounts as a way of getting additional compensation.
Roughly 5,300 employees, including managers who did that, have been fired.
In a statement, Wells Fargo says it takes responsibility for any instances where customers have received a product that they did not request.
The bank says it has refunded $2.6 million to affected customers.
We've had people complain to us, Wells customers, that they have gone, had accounts that go into debt collection.
Because they weren't aware that there were fees due on an account they didn't know they had.
After closing his 16 unwanted accounts, Ken Wallman got some fees refunded, but not all.
I don't know the exact amount.
We never really got to the bottom of it.
Wells Fargo could end up refunding as much as $5 million to consumers.
The bank says the average refund is $25.
And Scott, Wells Fargo customers are being advised to check all their accounts carefully.
Wow.
Hey, where's Pocahontas?
Yeah, where's Pocahontas?
Isn't that her job to oversee all these a-holes?
Yes, this is her gig.
Huh.
Her beat.
Okay.
I just found this to be the worst story.
They've been fined by the government $186 million or something.
They should arrest.
This is criminal racketeering.
I agree with you.
It makes no sense that there are no actual arrests taking place.
You're right.
And it's across state lines.
Everything's in there.
Yes, it's wide open for anyone who wants to have some fun.
Where are these prosecutors?
This is the bankers who have taken over the country, and Hillary's their leader.
Yeah.
Should we play the Democracy Now!
report?
On the same story?
No, it's just the same thing, only it's a lousy version.
They don't bash him enough.
Well, it's 29 seconds.
I'm calling it.
I'm saying we're playing it.
Go.
All right.
Alert the affiliate for 29 seconds long.
Wells Fargo will pay $185 million in fines after it was caught illegally manipulating customers' bank accounts in order to rack up fees and other charges.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found Wells Fargo employees secretly open phony bank accounts And issued credit cards to customers who didn't want them.
These practices led to overdraft charges, late fees, and other penalties.
The bank has fired at least 5,300 employees involved in the illegal activity.
I know guys who are in jail for doing less.
Yeah.
I mean, really.
It's a country club jail, but really.
They should have rounded these guys, all of them.
They should have arrested the executives, arrested these 5,300 people.
I mean, come on!
Yeah.
Yeah, if you work at a bank, we should just call this the No Agenda Bank.
And then we can never get in trouble.
Yeah, exactly.
Registered as a bank.
No, I'm sorry.
Leave us alone.
We're bankers here.
We're not podcasters.
We're bankers.
You can't arrest me.
Unbelievable.
All right.
Well, there you go, everybody.
Another show for you, concluding our broadcast day here.
Sports this weekend?
Something I've got to watch?
Well, you might want to watch the Monday Night Football with Colin Kaepernick.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Yeah, we'll watch that.
There'll be a lot about that.
Okay.
All right, good.
All righty.
Well, everybody, thank you so much for tuning in, for helping us out.
We really do need you to remember us for the Thursday show, Dvorak.org slash NA. This was...
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Subpar.
Subpar to say the least.
Yes, indeed.
All right.
I still take votes.
Yes.
And votes for your national anthem.
So coming to you from the skyscraper here in the Crackpot Condo, we're in downtown Austin, Texas, FEMA Region 6, if you're really looking for me on the map.
Until Thursday in the morning, everybody.
My name's Adam Curry.
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Traditionally voted Republicans.
It was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, who freed the slaves.
Look at Chicago right now.
455 murders to date.
That's more than the deaths of coalition forces in Afghanistan since the start of Obama's second term in 2013, where 270 coalition forces have been killed.
Obama was in Martha's Vineyard, for heaven's sakes.
That's where he vacations.
He spends his time on luxurious resort golf courses.
He vacations in Hawaii.
That's far removed from the American ghetto.
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If you're white, you're a racist.
If you're male, you're a pig.
If you're cis, you are privileged.
Skinny, shaming if you're big.
And if you're straight, you're homophobic.
Heaven help if you're wrong.
So don't have an opinion.
And just do what you're told.
And it's come out in Europe where the top politicians and leaders have been like...
Basements with coddlers, they torture for months and rape and kill.
I mean, you're like, what in the world?
Drop me some...
That's who runs things.
And then we need some lyrics.
The injury of crackers are an old spider eating itself.
If you were to say, hey, here's a cracker, an old theater operator with a...
You can't crack me out of here.
Say it to me.
Say it to me.
And it'll be great.
We just got to rock the rhythm to the rhyme, y'all.
Say it.
What's your agenda?
What's your agenda?
WTC7 won't go away.
I'm going to the dot.
Hey, come on, guys.
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