Special Reports & Tweets - 20130807_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2013-08-07
Duration: 02:39


=== Songs Praising Enemies (02:12) ===

[00:00:00]  Oh, what brings you out here today?
[00:00:12]  I'm trying out for America.
[00:00:14]  I was trying something new.
[00:00:16]  My daughter has a natural ability.
[00:00:19]  This guy got up and when I saw him perform, I literally laughed.
[00:00:23]  And I thought... Is that a little rude in your opinion?
[00:00:26]  Probably.
[00:00:27]  How do you feel about Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who told us about all the NSA stuff?
[00:00:35]  Since we're on the topic of singing, we know the Syrian rebels, which were funded by the Obama administration, They sing songs praising Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
[00:00:43]  They've pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda.
[00:00:44]  They sing songs about Osama Bin Laden, positive songs.
[00:00:47]  How do you feel about that?
[00:00:49]  Is this true?
[00:00:50]  So it's like we're funding our own enemy.
[00:01:07]  I most definitely have a problem with that.
[00:01:10]  Wouldn't anybody?
[00:01:11]  I do.
[00:01:13]  Favorite pop artist, who would it be?
[00:01:15]  I'll say somewhere between Queen, Alicia Keys.
[00:01:19]  Now what song did you sing?
[00:01:20]  I sung a song by Stevie Wonder called Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
[00:01:24]  Let me ask you about Stevie Wonder.
[00:01:25]  He recently said he would never perform in Florida again until they get rid of the Stand Your Ground law.
[00:01:33]  The Stand Your Ground law is abolished in Florida.
[00:01:38]  I will never perform there again.
[00:01:39]  I believe, I agree with whatever he agrees with for himself.
[00:01:43]  Me personally, you know, now times have changed, so I would probably, I would still perform there.
[00:01:50]  The Department of Justice, who, you know, gave guns to Mexican cartels during Fast and Furious, they want to control iTunes, which means they could potentially control your music.

=== Artists and Control (00:41) ===

[00:01:58]  How do you feel about that?
[00:02:00]  There's already so many people controlling music, right?
[00:02:03]  Oh wow, that doesn't sound too good.
[00:02:05]  So I vote against that.
[00:02:07]  I always want to get things legally, obviously, but I just feel like there shouldn't be any control over it.
[00:02:12]  How do you feel about Bradley Manning, the whistleblower who was in the Army, and he's facing some serious jail time.
[00:02:17]  What do you feel about that?
[00:02:18]  I don't really follow that, so I don't know.
[00:02:21]  Let me just ask you one final question about performances.
[00:02:23]  We've seen the Super Bowl performances, the Beyonces, the Madonnas.
[00:02:27]  You know, a lot of people saying there's some hidden agenda in these.
[00:02:30]  Do you see any of that?
[00:02:31]  Artists do take from what's going on and brings it to the stage or brings it to their life or their music.
[00:02:37]  So, to be current.