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anybody who disagrees with policy is a threat to this country. please check that out. >> tonight, a very special view, dick cavett is here as is jim norton, baseman the same guy. we'll talk politician, comedy, you name it. you know you're the most powerful man in the world when you can turn down meeting with put tin on your way to meeting with jay men know. the tea party is so used to eating their own, they could legally change their name to the doer party. marvin the martian and charlize
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theron born in south america, makes her the whitest south african ever. and it is this point, it's so painful, it's like watching rod stewart on stage. anthony, stop, stop, stop. this is viewpoint. >> good evening, i'm john if you fugelsang. i'll honored to have with us a man who was the host of his own show called the dick cavett show, which aired for 12 years. from icons to politicians, this show gave a platform for personalities to speak freely on a scale you never see today. take a look. >> suppose someone said to you you got to loosen up, i know you
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got to work, but let's go out and get drunk and sniff cocaine. that's what everybody's doing. >> i don't believe everybody's doing that. i won't do it. i've got plenty of energy without it. cold sober, i find myself absolutely fascinating. [ laughter ] >> yoko sat in that very chair. >> why don't you look at your question sheet and ask a question? can i talk to the audience. >> why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine? >> his most recent book is called "talk show, confrontations, pointed commentary and off screen secrets." it's a collection of articles he wrote for the new york times, funny story telling with a blush from woody allen, it's a thrill whenever he can join us. welcome back. i want to hear i did from you, crew, our friend, dick cavett.
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[ cheers and applause ] >> you certainly treat your guests lovely. >> is the cold coffee to your liking? >> the coffee is cold, the mug cold and the lady who brought it wasn't so hot. >> that's how the governor likes it. we have the most beautiful staff of soon to be unemployed people in the history of cable. dick, you just saw the montage, all those clips of your show would definitely be called edgy by today's standards. >> yeah. >> do you think that you could ever get away with -- could anyone get away with doing a talk show like that today? >> i don't know. people oft say to me there isn't a show like this you say and i haven't had the with it to stop them and say exactly why that is or i'm not entirely certain that what i did is lacking. i did what interested me. i didn't set out to do, i
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certainly didn't want to be called an intellectual, because partly, i felt sorry for anyone who thought i was one, so obviously had never seen a real one like jonathan miller or somebody, but i don't know. i just did what i thought would interest me and others, and. >> was it more like an organic product of the tiles, going through vietnam, nixon, people are engaged, protests all over the country. was it just a natural response? >> it might have been in the sense you sort of mentioned there because of the fact that it just happened to happen during the assassination season, one after the other, we had vietnam, we had nixon, and we had watergate, and other incidents that most young people today don't know what the hell you're talking about. i was in as the chinese proverb says interesting times, a thing you want to avoid.
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>> that indicate help burn interview. we do an edge i didn't show, but i don't know if i could get away with asking dame judy determining if she's done coke. all in the family couldn't get on the air today, nor could the did he ever sons. >> i thought you were going to say dame judith anderson, best known in the hitchcock who have vias mrs. danvers and taking just park it anywhere, judy. >> last night on the tonight show, president obama stopped by to put the country at ease over everything. this is how presidents speak to the people now. let's take a look. >> hmm. >> terrorists depend on the idea that we're going to be tries, and we're going to live our lives, but there are things we can do to make sure we're keeping the pressure on these networks that would try to injury americans and the first thing i think about when i wake up and the last thing i think about when i go to bed is making sure i'm doing everything i can to keep americans safe.
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>> i wasn't born when nixon went on laugh-in, but what do you think of a president going on to a late night comedy talk show? >> i certainly don't see anything wrong with it, if you know that that's where the people are, and that's a good thing to do. he should go on all of them. i don't quite understand the idea that this is a deadly serious situation, but don't be afraid to go there and travel, just be sensible and use common sense, and are you supposed to go to the middle east and avoid anyone with a beard? >> they are saying avoid the middle east altogether right now. >> go down to dark alley, don't do that, and here i am, and i'm unarmed and i'm an american and sing god save the country. i don't understand. >> i gave leno points for asking the president is all this sub at her final to distract us from the n.s.a. scandals. david gregory would not ask that tough a question on meed the press.
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>> good to jay for that, good on jay in the old slang. a president risks that sort of thing. when nixon went on, everything had to be cleared beforehand, and they threw out his charming people, i called them, that would go over questions and throw out press questions that he was not to be asked. not that nixon, i'm sorry, the great un indicted co-conspirator had anything to hide, god knows. >> well, and you were on his enemies list. >> well, i hate to disappoint you. i saw a copy of the alleged enemies list and although i didn't make it, i did one day have the shock of being met by a mysterious limousine in los angeles, the beginning of a mystery novel. a guy sits down beside me, i don't know who he is, they're taking me to a t.v. show
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supposedly, but then flips open a laptop, there's richard mill house nixon, h.r.haldeman in the-value office. this is from the nixon audiotapes. what is cavett, anyway, oh, he's the worst. it's on you tube, you can find it easily. better than an oscar, better than an emmy was hearing the leader of the free world say a little chillingly to me at the moment, cavett, there must be something we can do to screw him. >> yep. >> he found out. do you know what it is? i don't think i ever told you. >> no. >> he liked screwing people and punishing people with the i.r.s. i found out that several years after the event somebody on my
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staff said to somebody else on my staff, former staff, i got audited. so did i. and then they checked with a third party. the son of a -- the president audited my entire staff, hurting some of the people on lower levels. >> can you imagine that happening now? >> it it all the time, of course. >> this president, can you imagine a president getting away with that now? you've been in this business so long as a writer, performer, producer, has t.v. gotten dumber, or was it always this dumb? >> there were times when you thought it can't get any dumber and i can resist calling it dumb in the sense that like any formal, any literary form, any art formal, any sport, there is eight to 10% at the top that is just wonderful, and the rest is
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crap. most music is great, some is good. the thing that is different now is you can't hide anything. >> what do you mean? >> i mean it's on the net, it's findsal. those conversations of ours that we know they're not actually getting at, ha ha and who's the in it witthenitwit out there. >> philmer in san diego. >> why couldn't he be arrested? has he done anything illegal? >> well, 70 years old and wants to the state to pay for his sexual harassment training, because he never knew it was wrong to chase a woman around a desk. cenk: who was it who said -- i'm sure it was steven colbert, said
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his excuse is that he didn't get sexual harassment training. wouldn't it be better to give him non-sexual harassment training. >> has politics gotten more course, has it gone downhill since the days of nixon. >> having crappy people in politics has been as long since it began. the fact that some of them are getting -- well, maybe the message in one quirky way today is to young people, if you want weird sex, go into politic. how many people can we name today. >> i'm not going to touch that with a 10-foot coffee mug. >> do you happen to know if wiener has done anything illegal? >> no, he is the first sexual scandal to have no sex. >> we all photograph our sexual organs, but we don't send them out. >> if a girl on line asks to see
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pictures of your junk, they probably have their own junk. >> i have my own junk dealer. >> you will be back later in the show. >> will i? >> yes, you will indeed. up next, jim norton is back. >> he's so good. >> he's brilliant as are you. you'll be back later in the show. we'll put you altogether. don't go anywhere. they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely! >> (singing)
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>> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv.
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(vo) first, news and analysis with a washington perspective from an emmy winning insider. >> i know this stuff, and i love it. (vo) followed by humor and politics with a west coast edge. bill press and stephanie miller. >> what a way to start the day. >> welcome back to "viewpoint." charlie rangel said: >> dike that. he's been on the show. he sounds like the guy from cradle of filth. >> nothing will happen to charlie. i see it all the time. if you're republican, you make a statement like that, it's over. i mean, you are finished. if you're a conservative, the
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further right you are, the worth it gets, so it's a very rough double -- it's a double standard. >> ok, so we are now saying that saying the n. word to an oppressed minority is the same as saying cracker to a historically oppressive majority. what are the ramifications of speech or the cost that entertainers face when they speak freely? this next guy's been doing that for nears. jim tore to kno norton is a com. >> the new pope i like. i was hoping for a black pope. i think it's time and he would already own his own red shoes, purple robes and bulletproof car. [ applause ] >> i hope i didn't offend the one black person in attendance.
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>> jim, welcome back to "viewpoint." >> thank you. i just caught myself on camera, what a donees i look like, staring at the ceiling lights. >> you look terrific, you lost like 30 pounds. >> yeah. >> how did you do it no. >> i just hit the game, going to the game, eating better, that's it. i had a moment of clarity, just walked by the mirror nude and i literally was like ugh, i can't do this anymore, so i started going to the game and got trainers. >> you look great. >> thank you. >> what do you think of what donald trump said? is that a fair equivalency that saying cracker is as bad as saying anything? >> it's not as bad but he's right. the bias comes from, charlie rangel didn't oppress me. charlie dean said something 30 years ago and her dumb face is on the front of every newspaper.
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1espn anchor yelled that and it's on page 19 of the post. >> that was a black espn anchor saying it to a black espn anchor. there were seven things nobody could say across the board. it was a speech issue and that was it. now we're going to break down sub categories, you're black and you can say this, you're not african-american, so you can't say that. it's nonsense. you can't ever honor people's boundaries with that stuff, because most people of frauds in their outrage. >> i agree, the false umbrage industry is alive in america. i much more enjoy the consequences of free speech. when it comes to a word like the n. thing, would you agree that it's all about audience context and purpose. >> it's like any other word, sure it is. it bugs me when i see white comics using it just because they want to be the white guy who got away with it.
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i'm himmer now, the black guys let me. if you're going to say it, if there's a purpose for it and the purpose is legitimate, and the audience will sense if you're legitimate or being a fraud, then you should say it. i hate "n" word, because everybody says it altogether the time. >> it's enough already. i try to be sensitive given the context. there's times when it's ok to talk about it in an academic context. we are going to have john lennon saying it on dick cavett's show. we know where comedy's stand on free speech. should politicians be held to a higher standard no. >> i don't think so. year a country of liars. we deserve who we get. we tell that you if you tell the truth and it's unpleasant, we're going to allow you to be lynched. you know, anthony wiener, like all right, maybe he made some dumb moves, but literally, every guy pretending they don't understand why a guy would do
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that? >> exactly. >> even if you don't cheat, don't look at anthony wiener and say how could you do it. he has a phone with a camera, that's how. >> when your job depends on getting nice middle aged people to vote four, it's not illegal, but it's creepy, probably for toxic to people than crime. >> the public needs to be honest. the public deserve the liars, because the public lies. we sit there and allow you to be lynched when we've done the staple stuff. nobody sticks up for anybody anymore. nobody comes out and says what paula deen said that's piggish and terrible, but i've said stupid things, too. nobody comes out when a guy does this. we don't own up to our own crap. >> paula deen has been prejudiced of all americans's arteries. >> she's killing people slowly. >> i wanted to talk about the concept of free speech more. one of my favorite things in radio was your famous exchange
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with governor jesse ventura. >> that got ugly. >> he was talking about his beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job. >> i was talking about, jesse, we interviewed jesse three times. the third time, i'm not a conspiracy guy. i'm one of the three people left who does believe oswald shot j.f.k. we got into this nasty exchanges and he called me a name and i called him a name and he called me a name and i called him a nail. jesse ventura doesn't like follow up questions. he's not dumb, but when he said oswald never could have made that shot, i said technically, he was a shortstop shooter, ok, you would know. where do i go with that? how do you follow that? we got into a very nasty argument. when he walks out, he goes thanks for your service, he patted me. he wasn't threatening me, but he was alpha maling me. >> he was putting it out there. he's a good guy at heart, i
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think, but yeah, he has his insecurities and tries to overcompensate. >> i felt he was being an alpha. i wasn't going to touch jesse the body ventura, so i insulted him and he got livid. he was standing staring at me in the door. i thought he was going to throw his water bottle at my face, it made for great radio, but it's one of the few frightening moments i had. he could pick me up by the ankles and sling me through the wall. >> we were talking about the president going on leno last night. how did you feel about him saying that at no point has the government spied on americans? >> i didn't hear him say that, because i didn't watch it. maybe they haven't. maybe technically they just ever access to the emails, but i don't care. good for the n.s.a., have everyone's email. i love what the n.s.a. did. i love it, because we're a nosey country. we stick our faces in everybody's back yard. i don't mean public figures on the beach. i mean alec baldwin's private phone calls to his daughter, mel
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gibson's private phone calls, tiger woods private messages and nobody screams about privacy. >> exactly right. >> nobody. hey, what about my email. we can't get enough of your dirt, but if it's our dirt, we're innocenced. until the public stands up and stops being such pigs with mel's phone calls and alec baldwin's phone calls, i have no mercy for their privacy. i understand the difference between the government do it and voyeurism with a celebrity. it's good for people to feel under attack like that when they've been doing it for years. >> you want to stick around and talk to dick cavett. >> that's all i want to talk about is dick cavett. >> jim will be back in a few minutes. his special, jim norton, american degenerate is essential viewing for all of you filthy liberals. friday august 23. coming up, it's video you deeply
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want to miss, but watch it anyway, trust me. this show is about analyzing, criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the
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minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right?
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please keep these entities separated from how to on, and here's why. ♪ ♪ >> that believe it or not is a military recruitment video. the best way are a rally your asian roof for freezing siberian military service is get a bureaucrat to sit in front of a green screen and rhyme about how russian military service is awesome. snowden applied in writing for asylum. what he needed to do was drop some fast piece, word or whatever word is in russian. ♪ ♪ and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here
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in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that anything. what the hell were they thinking?
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(vo) later tonight, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like.
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(vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> back now with our guest, jim norton and dick cavett and also joining us, old friend of the show, comedian jim david, author of the recent book, you'll be swell. jim, thank you so much for joining. >> i get to be on the show with dick cavett and jim norton and you. i'm just thrilled. >> what's so hat about me? >> please. i'm excited because finally a bunch of white guys get to express their opinion honest t.v. >> with two of us wearing jackets. >> i know. i'm wearing a tie just to show
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i'm in line with the man. >> i was fascinated by what you were saying, because i find the infantilism of saying the n. word, that it endows it with the great majesty. also if you give a code of something in a similar sense to the letters s.l.o. are read more slowly than s.l.o.w. is, that little step you have to take from n. word to [bleep] puts it more strongly with you. >> i'm glad you said that, because it's walking a line of wanting to keep it real, but be respectful so you don't hurt feelings. i want to start, we talked about political correctness and we talked about rangel and the cracker comments. i want to flashback 40 years ago when this man had john lennon
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and yoko on his show and john had his own run-in with the n. word and came on dick's show to talk about it. >> you have a record here that there's some explanation, because there's a bit of heckling about whether it can be said or not. >> every other record. this is a song about the women's problem. it was written by yoko and i, called womens [bleep] of the world. there were a few people that reacted strangely to it, but usually they were white and male. >> it's a great song. if you don't know it, download it now. whenever i talk to african-american academics, they always, i hear the same refrain, audience in tent and purpose. why you are saying it? it really as george carlin used to say, it's the intent of the racist d bag saying it. >> it's white folks again, deciding that wore people should say. i'm an adopted crow indian and a
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sioux. they hate each other's guts. which charged always said my greatest pride is that i have never shaken hands with a crow, but they all say can you do anything about this native american phrase. we are indian people. we've always been indian people, but no one thinks they came from karachi or bombay. native means born in. you and i and crazy horse are all equally native americans. >> i have no problem calling them indigenous people. if aliens came down and put us on native reservations and called us native martians, jim, you are not a safe comedian, but are there topics that you would ever be afraid to touch?
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>> you can't be. after 9/11, we didn't go on stage and start blasting from the lips. there are times you have to rethink what you want to say and get the point across. pedestrian feel i can't, rape, murder, drunk driving, johnny core san said behind every joke, if you go deep enough, there's something unpleasant. >> it's about the quality of the actual joke. i saw leno last night. he said a really great thing that i want to repeat about how like the politics behind it, the in tent, if the joke is good, if the joke works, then it works, and it doesn't matter how controversial the subject matter is at all. >> tradition is in this country a great political commentary from jay bruce. >> motor sal. >> bill hicks and of course with you be mr. cavett, who nick son deeply hated, it continues
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today. what are the risks of doing political material besides your jokes having a shelf life of two weeks. >> at some point i do political jokes, because you're going to alienate one half of your audience or another. he did them all the time. they were pretty mild. >> if it's a good joke. >> he was a god of mine, every time he came up and said hey, my man, how are you. i thought he knows my name. the thing is that a great quote from mark twain against the assault of humor, nothing can stand. >> i love it. >> i love it. i think that's why people -- that's why by the end of the play, the only person the king trusts is the fool. thanks why people are trusting comedians like stewart and colbert. >> carlin said you don't talk down to the audience. there's nothing worse than a guy
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who thinks he's a genius preaching to them. >> you can only preach to the choir. you can't preach to someone who doesn't share your point of view. >> when the whole crowd agrees, that's fun. >> i'll do a political joke and go huh? am i right, folks, and that usually gets them going. [ laughter ] >> you're a bully. >> the point you make about the applause is the worst, because like you say, i think so and so blah blah blah and then the audience is like well, i agree with that. you haven't told a joke. >> i'm against killing puppies. you haven't told a joke, just made a statement. there's nothing more boring than a comedian making a statement. >> there's no artistry. >> when geniuses like nickels and may and woody allen came along, every village comic to sound like he was in their school would mention koskis. >> what's it going to make woody
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stand up again? who are you enjoying? >> i know a lot of comics and i like some of them. it would be a bit foolish of me to pick three. >> how about if i force you to throw one out. >> stand up comics? >> or t.v. hosts. >> dole about her makes me laugh so much and the only problem with knowing him is that he isn't funny all the time in person, proving that he's human. his work is ordered, i think. i don't know anybody, even fred allen, possibly oscar wild, who has come up with some of the most brilliant ad libs. who do you like? >> best stand up is collin quinn. i hate saying that, he is my friend. he's creepy. >> collin quinn is it? >> yes. >> i hope he's watching.
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>> he really is. >> he knows what i think of him. >> who do you like politically? >> lewis black. >> oh, he's great. >> will witness has always been my favorite. >> we have him here with us next week. next, we discuss how the geopolitical landoscopy of the middle east is affecting politics here and we're going to make dick jokes about anthony wiener. stick around. converstion started weekdays at 9am eastern. >> i'm a slutty bob hope. >> you are. >> the troops love me. (vo) tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. >> you're welcome current tv audience for the visual candy. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all, but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv.
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this show is about analyzing, criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it
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political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? >> welcome back to viewpoint.
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former congressman and mayoral candidate anthony weeper slipped up in public. it was a comment that was below the belt and no the his camera. at an aarp event, that's crucial, wiener was caught on camera sparring with a republican rival for new york mayor, george mcdonald's. >> ok. >> really? >> yeah, appreciate the comment. ok, grandpa. >> he called a 69-year-old grandpa at an aarp event. to call anthony wieber a bottom feeder is an insult to carp. jim norton, you all know him from the openy and anthony show on satellite radio. dick cavett, cultural icon, yadayada and dick, i've been dying to talk about anthony wiener to you. is he just trying to test his
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own limits of douche bagry. >> he is a loon with mental problems. i would love to know what sort of people are saying he's fine, let him go. you want him making serious political decisions when his crotch starts tingling again and he has to go in the other room and humiliate his wife and family again? >> you make it tough to follow, there. i don't care either way. he's a kind of microcosm of what they all are. they all -- are we shocked by any of these people. they have crappy friends, i'm not concerned with their friends. as long as they're not pedophiles or rapists or hurting people, i don't care, they are all liars and creeps. if we accept that, we'll stop judging them on this crap and just get to.
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>> policies. >> if you think of the iceberg, wiener is the tip of. >> more like a popsicle, dick. >> what were you going to say? >> if anthony wiener had gone to a normal hooker like a normal congressman, he'd still be in the house. is it just comedians that want him to stay in the race. >> what i was going to say before, it's the lying that bothers me. when he was caught with the texting, it's the flat-out lie that go bothered me. what were you going to say, do comedians want him to stick around? i don't care, i'm not going to do a joke about him. it's shooting fish in a barrel. >> new yorkers will forgive, what they will not forgive is a serial b.s. artist. >> also this thing that he said to this guy at the aarp, calling him grandpa shows that he has no
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class. he has no class. the one thing i like about the president is his even-temperedness. you never see him fly off the handle. >> true. that's what they want him to do, but he's too smart for. >> you see all those other people show you what jerks they are. what happened to -- it's like that song in chicago, now everybody you watch has got his brains in his crotch. you know, what became of class? >> thanks for the reference. >> exactly. i'm a homosexual. [ laughter ] >> you're for diverse city, jim. >> you're not one of those. >> i am one of those. >> what nixon would think of that, right? >> right. >> during the age of nixon, what would happen if a politician had done something like this. >> 40 years ago puts us where? >> 1972, 1973. >> i think it would have been more surprising than now, when it's in a circle of people doing similar things before and aft.
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who's the old fart who jumped in the fountain with the girlfriend? >> mills and fox. >> thank you, memory. could you get an expert on to tell us all where in the psychological spectrum wiener lies and the goof with what's his name, what he's got his 14th woman today? >> that's what i want to bring up next. >> isn't there a touch of sociopathy, no sense of how you're hurting other people, wounding the wife, who has to read his emails, i want to spread your legs and. >> dot dot dot. >> you're in luck, because i have a good answer. there's no difference between this, it's just in this generation, the technology exists now where people who are younger are very used to it, but people in my age group, we grew up without it and now we have it
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and we're not handling it well. j.f.k. and r.f.k. were sleeping with the biggest star in hollywood and people kept it secret. it's just that the information is passed differently now. wiener is no different than any other creep or pig who held office. it's easier to get caught now. you could say the same thing with r.f.k. arched j.f.k. >> they protected him, too, the press protected him. >> in the case of wiener, he alienated his professional allies so much. no one's endorsing him for mayor. dick, you brought up bob fifner, now a 14th woman has come out against him, he's trying to make the state paying for his sexual harassment training, saying he didn't know he shouldn't chase women around a desk. >> it's a great name, fillner. >> that's why you're dick cavett and i'm not. >> you will be. >> isn't it nice that the sex
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scandals are back to democrats now. >> pass it around. >> it is nice, getting caught in a men's room, i love nothing more. >> the larry craig thing. >> that's the irony if that it's larry craig, he actually was looking for sex in a men's room, got to keep his job. anthony weeper had no sex, is probably never going to again and lost his job. >> maybe it's because that when like david bitter still has a job, the senator, who patronized the processes and maybe the republicans pitch a bigger fit when a democratic does it than the democrats pitch a fit that the republicans -- republicans go for the jugular, they really -- >> democrats make it easy. >> yeah. >> how much of a good send for my friend, the man who's name appears on these mugs eliot spitzer in his race for comptroller that anthony wiener keeps digging a hole deeper. >> it's very rare when you
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prostitute as a governor that you can run against somebody worse. it's got to be a tremendous thing to have somebody in the ring. >> kristin davis is running for comptroller. that's the coolest thing. >> he should run as her lt. governor. when she was running for governor, she asked me to run for her as lt. governor. i thought about it, but my mind went a little bit too oriented, don't do it. >> don't you think you're grateful to wiener, because he made spitzer's sins look like huckleberry finn's. >> it's obvious that spitzer is overqualified and wiener underqualified. who do you like for president as comedians and wits in 2016. >> i'd pick ted new jersey generality for the republicans and kristin davis for the democrats. >> i'm going to ask you
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seriously. >> seriously? oh, god. it's probably going to be hillary clinton, i would assume and for the republicans, i think it might be rand paul. i don't know. i don't know who they've got. they may have an obama like figure come out from nowhere. i don't know. >> jim, who do you like. >> probably not a democratic or republican, even though that's who's going to win again. i would somebody libertarian or somebody a little different, because it's repulsive on both sides. >> who? you have the two time new mexican governor running and they wouldn't let him on the debates. >> i would like to see him run again. i like ron paul. he seemed to know what he was talking about and felt different. >> dick, you get the last word. >> a country that began with jefferson, franklin, lincoln, hamilton and look at what we have today, what can we learn from this? darwin was wrong. >> i want to thank my truly
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historic panel and our third party president got into the white house with 30% of the vote, it was republican and lincoln. it could happen again. >> i was going to say that. >> my dad was a history teacher. i'm trying to earn his love. thank you guys so much. >> thank you for having us on. >> probably was the most fun episode of the show i've done. coming up, the tea party is not going anywhere and the lefts couldn't be happy about it. the f. bomb is next. 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they can't buy our politics
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>> did anyone tell the pilgrims they should self-deport? >> no, they said "make us a turkey and make it fast". >> (laughter). >> she gets the comedians laughing. >> that's the best! >> that's hilarious. >> ... and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there is wiggle room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. >> ya, i consider you jew-talian. >> okay, whatever you want. >> who plays kafka? >> who saw kafka? >> who ever saw kafka? >> (laughter). >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely! >> (singing)
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>> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv. >> a lot of people would like the tea party to shut up and go away. it's made up of fox viewers who fight for the rich to pay less in taxes. maybe they don't like the members of the tea party of whiter than gossip girls. i never understood the name. the boston tea party was american columnists protesting the british government and big corporation. this modern tea party is american citizens dressed at chronnists protesting the american government for big
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corporation, but taking heat from establishment democrats and republicans. charlie rangel said you are the same white that we fought against in the civil rights amendment. karl rove said they are not sophisticated. then you got those calling you tea baggers. the real tea baggers don't choke. the tea party is fighting back. take a look at this clip where robert pittinger, who authored more than a dozen bills to repeal obamacare saying he'd fight harder, even if it means shutting down the government and sick americans can finally have their claims denied again. >> if every republican votes against it, it did not get funded. that's a fact. >> it has to pass and be signed by the united states.
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>> do you think harry reid is going to pass it? >> it doesn't matter. >> we need to show the american people we stand for conservatism. >> this tea party is why you continue to be heroes for a desperate media and the entire comedy community. you complain and demand zero compromise so the gop obstructs obama so the economy doesn't improve and complain and get to blame obama for the slow recovery, which is sort of like john wilks booth for blaming lincoln for missing the end of a play. the gop will keep paying you lip service, but they work for wall street and wall street doesn't mind gay marriage, they see nothing wrong with abortion and don't mind exploiting undocumented mexican labor for profit.
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a new self help book is called really, seriously, he's just not that into you. the tea party began when the rand paul guys were disgusted that president bush was spending money like courtney love in amsterdam. by replacing republicans with talibans, you guarantee for wins for democrats who are now the moderate republicans. keen worshiping ronald reagan, who raised taxes 11 times, never balanced a budget, raised the debt ceiling 18 times and if running today would be a primary for being a rhino by you. don't think of cutting taxes for the wealthy while gutting labor and everything else. just remember, tea party is an acronym for total economic amnesia permits republican trickle down,all. don't stop throwing hitler mush
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