Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Hour 1
Segment 1
Cenk hosting today. He has some random & fascinating facts on Hugo Chavez. Ahmadinejad attended Chavez’ funeral and unknowingly created tons of controversy when he hugged & consoled Chavez’ grieving mother. Some back in Iran accused him of Haram, or a sin for touching a woman that is not of his family. One said that he had lost control! CostCo came out in favor of raising the minimum wage to $10.10. The avg CostCo worker made $45K in 2011 compared to the $17K the avg Sam’s Club worker made. Chuck Hagel isn’t buying the honorable medal for controlling a drone that kills enemies. George P. Bush, the son of Jeb is running for Texas Land Commissioner. The drone industry group did a study that concludes the drone program creates 70K jobs. The Daily Courant reported that Krugman went on an extravagant shopping spree and planned to pay for the credit card bill by hoping he’d get a piece of NY Times. Crazily enough, Boston.com and Breitbart picked up on the story, proving that they truly are fools.
Segment 2
Testimony of Bradley Manning’s side of the story has been kept absolutely secret, but one group has released his hour-long testimony. Audio of his reasons to leak the information he did.
Segment 3
Ashley Judd is being targeted at a high rate by Republicans that are afraid of her potential candidacy against Sen McConnell. Their negative points against her illustrate her normalcy. When asked if she could handle Mitch McConnell, she responded by saying, “I have been raped twice, so I think I can handle Mitch McConnell.” Paul Ryan’s budget has been released with more bad ideas and flip flops once again on Medicare. A story on how much it costs to win a Senate seat in 2012. The cost is roughly $10 million. For a House seat, the cost is roughly $1.6 million. An unidentified, high ranking Democrat said that the reason they don’t destroy Republicans with stronger stances and elections, is because they’d get less money from the same donors they are beholden to. Joe Lieberman is now working for AEI. Scott Brown has also taken a job with Goldman Sachs.