February 28, 2013 Hour 1

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Cenk hosting today.  The House has finally passed the Senate’s version of the Violence Against Women Act.  Cenk attributes this to the age old declaration that if you beat them with a stick a couple of times, they will do. TPM.com  Sherrod Brown is teaming up with David Vitter to pass a bill to reign in the banks’ influence on the country. Huffington Post story.  The Obama Admin is going to back the side of gay marriage in the Court fight against Prop 8.  Cenk notices how vigorously Dems are defending and advocating for gay rights since they realized that the gay lobby is where the next influential voting block was coming from. Bradley Manning has agreed to plead guilty on some of the lesser charges, which could land him in prison for 20 years, but the more serious charges are still up for debate.  He also tried to give the story to the Washington Post & NY Times at first, but they turned it down.  His statements show that he was a true whistleblower, which the government despises.

Bob Woodward vs. The White House on the sequester.  Cenk points out that Woodward is a Republican and trying to pressure Obama to do the Grand Bargain and obtain more cuts to programs that help the Middle Class.  In carrying out this tactic, he’s said that the WH has threatened him through emails. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/02/woodward_misses_the_mark.php  Now that the infamous emails have been released, they show that it was a very friendly exchange.  Video of him relaying his account of the threats on CNN.  http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/exclusive-the-woodward-sperling-emails-revealed-88226.html The fun fight that occurred between Sean Hannity and Rep Ellison continues to make news.  Hannity invited Black former Congressman JC Watts to bash Ellison.  Permafrost melting to double carbon into the air.  Videos of Bill O’Reilly’s role reversal, suddenly advocating the American people’s right to know everything that’s going on in the government’s drone program.

Comments

  1. I also thought of Samuel L Jackson’s character in Django Uchained when watching JC Watts and Sean Hannity.

  2. Bob Woodward looks like so many old men who need to retire. His presentation on Fox was petulant and pathetic. Your reporting on it was wonderful. Thanks.

  4. Interesting point that Cenk & Jayar didn’t point out:
    The only time Sean Hannity ever talks to a black person is when it’s a racial issue. Bringing on JC Watts makes it crystal clear that Hannity being chewed out by Keith Ellison is a singularly racial issue in his mind.

    Ellison is not a “lawmaker” or a “liberal” or a United States Congressman to Hannity. He’s simply a “black man”.

    Glaringly obvious why Hannity made a special point to ask him several times, “Why are you so angry?”………. Most class-less person in America. God what a scum-bag.

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  6. As always, Cenk just can’t bring himself to give Obama any credit for anything. Even when the President is doing the right thing – in this case, actively working against Prop 8 before the Supreme Court -Cenk spends 90 % of his time sneering at Obama, making cynical, snide insuations as to motive instead of just praising him for doing what is right. Once again, he manages to turn a positive into a negative when it comes to Obama.

    I love Cenk on every other topic but this knee-jerk reaction against Obama even when he’s doing what we want him to do is bordering on the pathological.

    1. That’s because Obama never stood up for gay rights until it was politically advantageous for him. Then he had a “change of heart” when donation season for 2012 came about. He’s a fairweather friend, not a champion of civil rights.

    2. Even when we like a particular action, we are free to challenge the motivation. Should we be content with a president who regularly sells out his base unless they pony up campaign dollars? I for one am tired of the shake-down.

    3. I’m just as cynical as Cenk nowadays, simply because Progressives feel they must barter, threaten (with support) and bribe Obama to do these “liberal” things, as if he was opposed to them to begin with and must be convinced. We shouldn’t be happy because Obama simply doesn’t stand in the way of progress, the way a Republican would. But you can’t champion him as a progressive rights leader.

      One of TYT’s main objectives is to analyze the motivations behind decisions. You can be happy with them at surface value, but be critical of how they reached their support. I’m pretty sure it’s because A) Gay-rights groups give him a lot of campaign donations, and B) Corporate powers don’t really care about gay rights profit-wise. It makes it one of the “safest” issues to go after.

      I should digress and say while gay rights are all just great and self-evident (I believe), I think they pale in comparison to other Neo-con-esque civil rights setbacks under Obama, the complete lack of stability in our banking (and therefore economic) system, and doing nothing about campaign laws (other than mention corruption once in a campaign ad).

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