TYT Feb 18, 2014 Hour 1

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Republican Gregg Abbott is running for governor in Texas, who has a history of fighting for child sexual assault victims, is inviting known pedophile Ted Nugent to campaign alongside him. A VH1 documentary outlined how he had an addiction to young girls. Video of Nugent going off on a CBS This Morning correspondent, telling him he’ll suck his dick or fuck a female producer. Latest on the conflict in Kiev, Ukraine. Michael Dunn, who murdered a 17 year old Black kid, had his jail cell phone call to his fiance recorded where he claimed that he is the “fucking victim.” More on Gregg Jarrett’s anger over Don Lemon’s outrage in response to the hung jury. Jarrett called him immature and biased. The potential Time Warner, Comcast merger is getting more and more threatening. Sen Chuck Schumer and his brother Robert Schumer are in deep with getting their pockets lined by Time Warner and Comcast. Chuck has gotten more campaign money than anyone else from them, and Robert was named the “Dealmaker of the Week” for putting the deal together. Cenk runs through details of how negatively this could affect consumers’ cable and internet.

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  1. the almost the entire 2nd segment is just one long advertisement for wolfpac.

    i believe in wolfpac, i’ve even joined, but please keep in mind you’re doing a show, not an ad.

  2. Pedophilia is attraction to pre-pubescent children, not attraction to physically mature but mentally/emotionally immature people like 17 year olds (and 17 is the age of consent in Texas, so not even illegal)

      1. no, “heywood,” s/he is right. words have meanings. to deliberately misuse them to be misleading is fundamentally dishonest.

        1. It’s not dishonest to maintain that someone who engages in sexual behavior with someone who is mentally a child is a pedophile. It all depends on your perspective. If you had a daughter who had just hit puberty, who had just recently been playing with dolls, and some old guy like nugent seduced her, you’d probably think of him as a predator, or a pedophile.

            1. Is it wrong? There is no clear cut answer as to when preying on the young and immature crosses the line into preying on children. It depends on what your definition of a child is.

              1. Actually, it is clear cut. There is a definition of the disorder in the DSM-V, and laws that give a legal parameter. No matter what you happen to believe constitute a “child” medical and legal professionals have a solid definition. Seventeen years old is not pedophilia.

                1. If it was legal for him to have sex with a 17 year old, then he wouldn’t have had to become her legal guardian. States have different laws on the age of consent, but any old man preying on young girls will be a pedophile in my book. If there is a medical condition or some professional definition that is better, I don’t care, pedophile is close enough of a word for me.

  3. It should be clarified that Ted Nugent isn’t a coward for crapping his pants to get out of war. He’s a coward for crapping his pants to get out war, then talking about how badass he is, become a pro-war advocate, and call anyone who doesn’t a liberal pussy.

  4. Something I worry about, does WolfPac deal in any way with the revolving-door problems? That is where the real money is, campaign funds seem insignificant in comparison. The ratio of profits bought to campaign donations is insanely high, often in the millions. When you consider the ease with which the funds can be obscured, like the bonuses paid before someone goes into government, jobs when they leave, benefits to family members, to opaque intertwining business relationships, to laughable blind-trusts, etc etc et fucking cetera.

  5. Cenk really isn’t considering the nature of his job. He is the co-founder and owner of a news company. He has to do these things. Obviously, he could just hire people who could do these things for him, but work is his passion, his fun—and that can be different than hedonistic leisure. Ana isn’t worse than you by comparison because she doesn’t have the same responsibilities and obligations. The same can be said for the entire spectrum of careers in the hierarchy of a business.

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