Indiana Governor Mike Pence has decided to start a state-run news agency with pre-written stories ready for other publications to print. Cenk and Ben talk about how this is meant to seep into normalcy and news agencies will take their biased stories as real. After the forecast of a record blizzard didn’t happen in NYC area, Rush Limbaugh has taken it to mean the Left cooked up the story to scare and control society. Videos of Mayor De Blasio warning the public about the upcoming storm. Limbaugh claimed that since Katrina devastation, the Left claimed there would be more, but there hasn’t been any in 3000 days, forgetting about Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Limbaugh also forgot that Republican Chris Christie declared a state of emergency in NJ.
Ben talks about Don Lemon reporting ridiculously from the Blizzard Mobile. Kansas governor Sam Brownback is distancing himself from his tax cut plan for the rich, leading the state to serious deficits. In order to fix the problem, he’s proposing to cut education funding in the state by $127 million, and $300 million from transportation. His tax increases will go to alcohol and tobacco, again affecting lower to middle class citizens disproportionately. Even Grover Norquist spoke out against this tactic, illustrating how much more the lower class citizens would pay.
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Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html?_r=0
The Kochs put a price on 2016: $889 million
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/koch-2016-spending-goal-114604.html
CNN, Don Lemon mocked for Blizzardmobile snowstorm coverage
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/27/cnn-don-lemon-mocked-for-blizzardmobile-snowstorm-coverage/21135487/
Rush Limbaugh goes weather truther: ‘The left has corrupted everything’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/rush-limbaugh-goes-weather-truther-the-left-has-corrupted-everything/
Gov. Mike Pence’s state-run news outlet will compete with media
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/01/26/pence-starts-state-run-news-outlet-to-compete-with-media/22370005/
Comments
I watched this and I wasn’t planing on it. Also the comment I thought I left didn’t post apparently. I love Old School so much.
@Kansas HAHA
@sambrownback Thanks for failin so spectacularly
What’s wrong with Kansas? Kansas.
I live in MA. Stupid people call us taxachusetts cuz we fund our schools and had healthcare for as long as I can remember. I was a disabled child so I’ve had Masshealth for about 20 years now. When it snows we send plows around to clear the streets and people make a ton of money in the golden season of winter. Ever since I was a kid I could make shit tons just shoveling snow salting steps, sidewalks, walkways etc. Conservatives would have us believe if the government plowed the streets it would kill jobs. But the taxes we pay actually create a ton of jobs. Most people I know say recession? What recession? I wonder why the south is having such a hard time. Austerity never works for the masses. It is great for billionaires, but no one else.
The Koch’s (which I pronounce cocks) hate income inequality. They aren’t like republicans.
So republicans don’t care about income inequality? At least he can manage to be honest accidentally.
Even scare-borough knows the country is way to the left of the tea party that’s the whole point of putting this on the “liberal” network. Soon they will be trying to buy TYT too.
Man, they missed an opportunity: This is LITRALLY Old School.
I have to say — I REALLY like Old School. Do this more often.
‘Coloured’ All hail the mighty ‘u’, also seen in ‘neighbour’.
My mom just was talking to me yesterday about how she hated how Prince Charles said literally in a program she was watching. WHAT IS THIS?!
God-damn, I’m only a few minutes in but Ben is a PRO fucking fessional, he intro’d the shit out of that first story, he even had the anchor voice going on, bravo.