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Show notes by Ben Tannen
The Young Turks September 26, 2014 Post Game
On this special Friday post game, Cenk is live (sort of) from Dublin, Ireland! Cenk shows off his lovely Irish accent. You’re welcome. Attorney General Eric Holder announces his resignation. If he makes it to December, while waiting for his replacement, he will have served the third longest term in US history. With his resignation, the usual right-wing conspiracy theorists come out of the woodwork. Cenk reiterates the fair and unfair criticisms of the outgoing Attorney General throughout his tenure. Cenk gives his final assessment on the effectiveness of the Attorney General’s actions while in office. A man was caught on a flight from Boston to LA, on Virgin airlines, furiously masturbating. The man was presumably outside of the bathroom since there were witnesses. The man also attempted to pry the hatches of the plane open mid-flight. A 25 year old Floridian was caught masturbating on another flight, was asked to stop, and later began masturbating once more. Apparently these are the emergencies we have on planes now. Fox News covers the story of the first female pilot in the UAE. After covering the story in a positive manner, Greg Gutfeld of The Five couldn’t help himself from making a tasteless sexist joke. Eric Bolling joined in. Fox News tears in to Obama for saluting soldiers while holding a coffee cup, calling it the “latte salute”. Cenk speculates about the motivations behind why Fox News makes such superficial criticisms. Amazing Fact of the Day: There are now 471 billionaires in the US and they have already contributed $113.7 million toward the midterm elections. Any ideas as to how to go about solving this problem? Cenk will give you three guesses, but you will only need one. Wolf-PAC.com! Some members may remember the story of John Crawford III who was shot inside of a Walmart in Ohio while holding a bb gun. Video of the altercation has been released and the police officers who shot him were never indicted. The video indisputably shows the the police reacted way too quickly. ESPN has suspended Bill Simmons from his podcast for saying that Commissioner Roger Goodell was lying when he said he was not aware what happened in the first Ray Rice tape. ESPN claimed that Simmons didn’t meet their “journalistic standards”. Cenk breaks the situation down. Cenk revisits an old article from CNN regarding Saddam Hussein’s lighting of the Kuwaiti oil fields upon his army’s retreat during Desert Storm. Cenk compares this article with one that was just written about the US bombing of ISIS within Syria. Cenk explains how both are examples of propaganda.
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Thank you for the full TYTshows as a post game that was ineteresting
so painful for Ireland having Heineken and Carlsberg on tap instead of an Irish brew
Cenk live (at the time he taped it) from the bunker #youtubelofiweek :)
i usually agree with Cenk on most things, but Eric Holder a “failure”? no way. i agree that his lack of financial action, in the end, is more important than DOMA for example. His role on civil rights shouldn’t be brushed over like Cenk did. It has a substantial impact of the lives of people on the ground, just like the financial disaster did and Holder’s lack of action there. Some sentencing fixes also aren’t inconsequential. His pot action was so fucking frustration. He deliberately sent officers in to destroy small businesses built up by upstanding people, and the whole tenure, we never understood where he was on it, based on his actions. Other things, like taping FBI interrogations and added oversight of local cops is OK, but in comparison to the massive behemoth that is the fact that no bankers went to jail on his watch, is inexcusable. Even so, failure isn’t the word that comes to mind. For me, the phrase “wasted potential” does.
Still Cenk did a great job with showing how much Holder derailed constitution — to much worse degree than any of Bush’s prosecutors. Substitute hosts on the main show did not mention that.