Hour 2
Segment 1
Lauren Windsor’s U Can’t Cut This video featuring several members of the TYT cast. A woman in Indonesia drowned her 9 year old son because he had a small penis and felt he’d have a lot of negativity to deal with in life. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/mother-kills-son-small-penis-indonesia_n_2779668.html Video of South African police dragging a man to death; tied to the back of a police van. The man was a cab driver that got into a conflict with the police where he got the upper hand by taking away an officer’s gun. Even though he didn’t shoot anyone, they resorted to this tactic to punish him. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/mido-macia-dragged-by-south-african-police_n_2780804.html Bloomberg Businessweek magazine is catching heat for an offensive cover depicting Black people and Latinos as money grabbing homeowners with big lips. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/02/28/racist_businessweek_cover_bloomberg_businessweek_misfires_badly.html
Segment 2
Cenk got more worked up during the break about the Bloomberg Businessweek cover. A Sunni student criticized the “Cop a Feel” efforts to convince women to get breast cancer screenings. This complaint highlights the many ways the breast cancer efforts have devolved into simply sexualizing boobs. http://www.salon.com/2013/02/28/can_naked_breasts_make_political_points_partner/ A couple of different bills put forward in Arkansas are designed to eliminate abortion after 12 weeks. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/arkansas-abortion-law_n_2781456.html Students in Andover, MA are being sent home with a “Fat Letter” to tell parents that their kid is overweight. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/fat-letters-massachusetts_n_2775004.html A 19 year old man was shot 15 times by former gang members and survived. http://wap.myfoxatlanta.com/w/main/story/85920849/ Aspartame has been put in many of our dairy products lately and those companies are lobbying the FDA to continue to be able to do this. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/aspartame-milk_n_2764729.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular Some kids in S. Korea were kicked out of a McDonalds after they spent $250 on fries and had a potato party that filled several tables. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/mcdonalds-potato-party-gets-korean-kids-thrown-out-of-restaurant_n_2777149.html