December 17, 2013 Hour 1

In Membership, The Young Turks Hour 1 - On Demand by omegacat13 Comments

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Infighting within the GOP/Tea Party. Senate Republicans have primary fights, Democrats don’t. Politics has been pushed to the right because of the GOPs shenanigans including the government shutdown. War on Christmas, with Bill O’Reilly talking about Megyn Kelly’s white Santa remarks. A lady ringing the bell for the salvation army got punched because she said “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. A high school in Florida that was named after the creator of the KKK finally changed it’s name after 54 years. The school was 60% African American, but surprisingly the majority of faculty and alumni opposed the name change. However, 64% of the students wanted to change the name of the school. MediaMatters may have won the war on Fox News. Why? Glenn Beck was driven off the network and Ailes has stated that they need to move in a new direction. In addition, there is near universal recognition now that Fox is a biased news source. An anti-immigrant, jingoistic propaganda cartoon from Bioshock Infinite was was adopted as the poster for a conservative right-wing tea party organization. Iraq still faces record levels of destruction as the war between Sunnis and Shi’ites rages on. Just in 2013, 7900-8700 have been killed. Putin gets more aggressive in consolidating power in Russia. He absolved a state run news agency, and created a newly merged media group (called Russia Today) that is being run by an ultra-conservative news anchor. The Pope had a birthday breakfast with the homeless, and talked to his personal staff one by one. He is also quietly reshaping the structure of the Vatican. Specifically, he is removing conservative cardinals. Jeffrey Toobin has to deal with judges ruling that NSA data collection as leaked by Snowden was unconstitutional. Glenn Greenwald tears him up on Anderson Cooper.

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  1. Something else the pope recently did was block an independent investigation into child sex abuses by members of the church and replace it with a useless internal one. He’s an excellent politician and very skilled at pubic relations but when it comes to real action when I see the Vatican’s billions being spent on really helping the poor then I’ll give him credit, but I won’t hold my breath.

  2. I say Merry Christmas all the time. It’s sort of something I say whenever I hand anything to anyone. It’s a little more fun than just saying Here ya go. I’m like an Atheist spy, going by the alias bibleboy, and desensitizing the world to the phrase Merry Christmas. Muahaha.

  3. I feel sad that there is no debate about the existence of a Latino Santa Claus or an Asian Santa Claus. I feel left out like being the last to be picked on a team in junior high gym class.

  4. I’m sooo sick of hearing about the dam race war, and even more about the lingo war that goes with it in the USA. Feel sorry for you, whole life revolves around it.

    1. Btw, ” the immigrants who built the country” , you’re most welcome to correct my ass if i’m totally wrong on this, but right or wrong, weren’t they told to build it? What to build , how to build ? I mean, for example, the black people who largely built the railroad, cause they were commanded to, it’s not like they came up with the idea and put the blueprints in action did they ? Again i’m not saying that it was the right way or the only way to build a country, i’m just saying more than working hands were and are needed for something like that and to pretend otherwise is not correct.

      1. You are right, goddamnit. The forced party could have been anyone. But only we were big enough assholes to be the forcers! We get no credit here!

        2. please enough with the race stuff, your not helping and are you a troll sounds like the trash YouTube comments I see on tyt page.

  5. Fox Noise is a propaganda channel that uses public airwaves that are owned by the American people. The government only rents the public airwaves to these corporations. We must demand that the FCC enforce their charter by making sure any rented channels programing act “IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST”. The FCC has been corrupted by corporate money just like the rest of our government. Fox noise has never satisfied this FCC requirement “ACT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST”. Why doesn’t this get any attention by the fourth estate of our Democracy.:(

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    1. Cenk,

      My brother I love you to death and on most of the issues you talk about I’m with you, but in the case of Snowden I have to disagree with you. The federal judge saying that the NSA spying program is unconstitutional and the fact that Snowden illegally leaked classified information, breaking his oath to the US government, are not mutually exclusive. The two things are clearly separate issues and should be handled as such. In other words, the spy program may indeed be unconstitutional, but this does not preclude the fact the Snowden broke the law.

      Also what gets me is Snowden’s motivations for doing what he’s doing. Now he’s talking about giving classified information to the Brazilian goverment so he can be granted asylum there. Why Brazil? (Stephen Cobert had a good joke about it, saying he wants to head down to Rio where it’s warm rather than finish off his year asylum in Russia).To me his actions, although from a bird’s eye view appear admirable, seem more self-motivated than anything else. I do not believe that the federal judge’s rulling vindicates his actions in any way.

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