The Young Turks February 06, 2015 Hour 1

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Cenk, Iadarola, Jimmy, and Desi Doyen hosting the Power Panel. An anti Net Neutrality group released an ad spoofing porn, illustrating that Net Neutrality will have the government control your internet activities. Talk about the Net Neutrality ruling that came down in favor of neutrality. Cenk talks about how he predicted that this would happen because the money men were in favor of it being equal. After NBC News’ Brian Williams apologized for misrepresenting the story of being shot down in a helicopter over Iraq in 2003, the pilot that backed up his story has also rescinded his reinforcements for Williams. More accounts are now claiming that Williams wasn’t even in the 2nd helicopter that took some small arms fire from the ground. Jimmy and John disagree on how deplorable he is for this storytelling. Jimmy talks about how this is a pattern for Williams to boost himself as a reputable journalist. Cenk talks about the admitted pitfalls of his story and his defense of Williams, admitting a bias for him since he’s a good guy.

Jordan has begun to make good on their promise to respond to ISIS’ execution of the Jordanian pilot. Once false reports of Jordan King Abdullah participated in air strikes, Fox and Friends jumped on it and compared his bravery to weakness of President Obama. Rep Schock is under ethics investigation over his Downton Abby themed office. When a reporter snapped pictures of the nice digs, Schock’s assistant stopped the photography. It turns out that he accepted free services for the office design, and paid for the furniture with campaign funds. Cenk talks about how it was unnecessarily fancy, and speculates that Schock is gay.

Show notes by Jayar Jackson

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