Cenk hosting. Former Bill O’Reilly producer Jesse “Dirty” Waters makes an appearance on Fox News’ Outnumbered and has a theory on fans of Beyonce who voted for Obama. A Cenk “Told Ya” segment discusses Megyn Kelly’s questioning of Dick Cheney and the Iraq War in relation to Fox’s shift in attracting a younger demographic. Goldman Sachs is in the doghouse due to its treatment of women in the workplace with a discrimination lawsuit undermining pay and deterring advancement filed against them. The Wall Street Journal reports on the Clinton’s financial worth. Cenk breaks down the finances of speaking fees, fundraising ,industry sources and political operations. Republicans are threatening to shut down the government again because of the Export-Import Bank, which provides cheap loans to large companies like Boeing and Caterpillar. Republicans claim that the bank is corporate welfare and Democrats think the bank is good for them for the next political fight with the Republicans. Cenk and Alan Grayson agrees with the Republicans with Grayson saying that “it is corporate welfare at its worst”. A new poll shows Americans think Obama is the worst president. Cenk gives the lowdown on which presidents merit that title. In Nigeria, Mubarak Bala is locked up in a psych ward for being an atheist . Khaled Diab of the New York Times writes a story about the history of abbasid society in Baghdad with claims that “Muslims, Jews, Christians and even pagans had equal political and cultural rights”. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post reports on the amount of time that the Senate is in session with the passing of 121 laws since Jan 2013 with record breaking filibusters. More mess in Israel with the killings of Israelis and Palestinian teenagers and Israel claiming that Hamas is responsible for killing Israeli teenagers. Hamas had denied involvement.

Notes by Bart Kyle