Videos of Rep Gohmert blaming the Obama Admin for trying to get the Boston bomber off the hook. He also speculated that they have so many Muslim Brotherhood members in power that they’re trying to advance more terrorism. Republicans that are normally so concerned about the deficit are now open to holding the government hostage in order to get tax cuts pushed through, which will add to the deficit. After they played their game with an agreeable Obama, he’s the only one stuck calling for cuts to Social Security.
Chris Matthews interviewed Chris Christie’s opponent on his show, but asked if he could say she’s attractive before they started the interview. She said no. Once she was on, he interrupted her over and over. Bill Maher was disgusted by the military tone Boston police took when searching for the Tsarnaev brothers. Ron Paul wrote similar sentiments, claiming that the search was more frightening than the bombing in the first place.
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Cenk,
Great job as always but i wanted to give you some further support for the premise that journalism in the US has lost its way. I manage a pension fund and go to various conferences to get investment intelligence hosted by some large global investment firms. I was recently at a conference where goldman sachs had invited Fareed Zakharia from CNN to give an address on foreign policy. The person introduced Fareed as “one of the top entertainers in the US.” In canada i am not accustomed to journalists being referred to as an entertainer. Anyway i found it uncomfortable and this was further made uncomfortable by having Arthur Levitt there by invitation from Goldmans. I questioned how either of these people could be acting in the best interest of the public. Just an anecdotal story but something that is symbolic of the problem.
I agree with Maher. I lived in Boston until recently (for 40 years). Obviously, I still have friends there, and all of them were shocked by the way this was done and the way it affected them as citizens. In fact, I found out from them what police were doing before I saw news reports. They used words like “I felt trapped” and even in other towns, they were told not to leave their houses the day they found the kid in Watertown. Police in that area are no prize. In all the years I lived there, I never met anyone who had a good experience with them. Of course, I worked with women and with poor people, in general, and they weren’t too keen on how much worse it became with this incident.
WRT the Press Club Dinner: Gentlemen, gentlemen, Be of good cheers, for they are
out there and we are in here.
[Hefner]
On the police state… You forgot to mention the fact that when the lifted the lockdown is when they were notified about where the bomber was in the boat so that kinda proves a point that it was way to much. Just saying
CIA
Corporate Imperialism Agency
Brilliant final rant by Cenk on the difference between an extended police state done to expand political power and one done for the purposes of apprehending a very dangerous suspect at a specific moment in time. Nice smack down.
But it was the public that told the cops he was in the boat
Today’s show is incredible. Analyzing the ritzy-ass party for the press and politicians is interesting, but the CIA piece was amazing. If you haven’t heard about the fruit wars with United Fruit, I suggest you read up on that.
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