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>> this machine supposedly used chemical sprays to make people feel younger. >> or you could use this device. >> will step. of ugly facial fat. john: it's my job. i should warn you about scams. nothing wrong with consumer reporting. the media always goes overboard. and in 2020 we did. >> coffee makers may have started dozens of fires. john stossel with the facts you @%ould know, breng disaster. john: did you happen to catch this so-call this story? >> investigative reporter went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works. >> eight peoples sharing a meal in a strger's home. blended best andinner parties like these have become more common. insiders tell us they are complete unregulated. john: oh, my goodness. unregulated dinner parties. gavin mcinnes is a media critic ann columnist. he hates this kind of hide and

writes about it. what gets in their heads? >> out of touch with the average american and think that they need to get in there and regulated all. i feel like the have never built the business, a liberal arts degree, a journalism degree, don't run the numbers. john: that is a good point. anybody u.s. tried to build something, a building or a business, they wake up to regulation. reporters, most ha never built anything. >> i notice they toothe comments section down from the web page at that news station. you called the reporter up and gave her some heat, i he. she said she seemed dubious. with my questio she returned more questions. john: you would not answer the question. >> she wanted to know what m kle was a wireas asking questions. one thing i find a lot of these reporters are scared of is being exposed. they're like politicians. when you stick their face a per call at the name they're less likely to go on these witch

hunts john: well, undercover cameras. one of the more famous ones, julia roberts won an oscar portraying the hero, aaron brockovich. very harmful. >> it kills people. >> oh, yeah. >> a dream about being a wil to watch their kidsomen a pool without worrying it will have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. john: this was about a chemical leaked from a california power plant that was supposedly causing cancer bu it turned out it probably wasn't caung cancer. the californiaancer registry studied cancer rates in that area and found no canr in excess. it i mean -- >> people fell for this because it is intuitive that tnk that being near a power plan is probably bad. being stressed must lead to cancer. when you talk to experts in the field they go, really, smoking is the only ing you can do to change your genetic makeup. if you're ng to have cancer

yo you're going to have cancer otherwise, live for everyone and it as dressed as you want. john: lawyers made a hundred million dollars despite no evidence. i give their real erin brockovich some credit after she and her lawyer boswewere criticized calling me a corporateshell. i inviteder on the program and she came. john: californians have to pay more for electricity to pay off all of these lawyers. it looks like this camp >> is definitely not a scam. i have to tell you, in this instance with the southern gas and electric and being part of it from the process from t beginnin to the end, it was a willful egregiousntentional contract -- contact. they knew that thahemical was a poison. john: the chemical is a poison, but for the record a steady at 50,000 people who worked at the power plant and were exposed more and were healthier than average.

so the media cells that,awyers get rich, everyone pays more for electricity. >> chlorine is a poison and we swam in it a the time. it's great. i love boys and. john: you wrote recentlabout the myth america pageant. what is that about? >> wha is happening in media these days is they have become storytellers. they find a villain and said that this priess in t castle story and then work backwards and get the evidence from there. the evidence is really there, so th started relyi on twitter to prove the theorie with the ms. america pageant it found a bunch of teams to set things like she looks lik a terrorist. twitter is the same place where people say this house is not zombie-proof, but we are listening to opinions. john: there was actl backlash. they have some fact. >> some kids, 14-yearld spirit take there followers. there was no backlash. it fits their narrative. a crowbar itnd. john: a sample, the media fre

out. >> the new winner is facing a fierce bacash. some people calling her a foreigner, an arab, even a terrorist. >> coming face-to-face with racism. >> racist comments bacchan -- began floodi the internet. $1 began tweeting, ms. america is a terrorist. john: fierce backlash. >> i look at woman at that she has zero followers, little kid. if you lk up i hateebabies you ll find dozens of kids saying that. john: twitter is full of rhetoric. what is the media do this? >> there are a million theories, but culpability is not sexy on tv. john: irresponsible. >> even though it is what made our culture great, it is to we are is a nascent -- nation. it makes people feel better to say it is not their fault, victim of circumstance. john: one last emple about media people wringing there hands about victims is that media concern about kids being vote -- bullies. >> this kind of bullying is on

the rice, by on ount as many onen three kids bn viimized. >> cyber bullying, a growing epidemic. john: on the rise, a growing epidemic. i assume there was more bullying when i was a kid because nobody thought about it. i was bullied. i assumed it was just part of schools. now at least there is awareness. i bet ere is less. aormer teacher jet a dire -- jedediah bila says this is an examplef the media doing something right.3 >> i like thii. i saw cases of bullying. john: elementary school. >> elementary, school, college. it is a real roblem. you have kids to not only have their grades suffer but contemplate the idea of hurting thselves. stories and in his work is ultimately commit suicide. when it comes t legitimate cases a bullying the media and media personalities that have a platform can highlight cases and say, for example, there was a rl in queens. in maynd rd a story about a

girl who did commit suicide as a result of bullying. it turned outhat the administration was not doing proper follow-up and thearents to try to reach the administration to look into the problem. that is the kind of journalistic coverage that can help the issue in may because parents who ornaly are not to sound into this issue to say, hold on. let me ask mike to some key questions. let me get to the school and make sure everying okay. john: what about the media always saying its on the increase. they don't know. >> in some cases the media can create victims and label things as bullying and really serious that are not necessarily. but there are cases where it is serious, particularly now with the internet age where we have facebook and twitter and cyber bullying, schools have a responsibility. john: anoverweight tv anchor wasraised by the media, got on the today show because after she got a letter from a viewer who said, you are a bad example for kids and should take care of herself,he complained about

his bullying. >> there are children who don't know betetter, who did e-mails. as critical as the one i received more in many cases even worse, each and every day. the internet has become a weapon . john: come on. she is a hero. the guy just said youhould take care of yourself. >> this is an example of in my opinion hersensitivity which is where the fine line comes in. >> this keeps happennng with all of these cases. now, yes, it is a tragic thing that someone killed telves, let's can pare that to a bees stin how serious is this problem? millions ofids. let's quantify. john: hundreds of americans are killed. >> let's quantify the people who were not. when you bubble a child like that and put a protective layer and coddled tm they're not prepared for theeal world. john: now we have the internet, and anemone which lets people believe more.

>> inevitably when you are arguing with someone like this guy who called arafat and she is fat, by the way. john: did not even call arafa the wake. >> he should feel bad. you're overweight. soy. >> there has to be a balance in terms o how we looked at this. john: we are way beyond balance. thank-you. if you wouldike to keep this conversation going, go to facebook and titter and use that has tagged. victimhood. let people know what you think. coming up. >> cupcakes for sale. jo: i held the bake sal a racist bake sale. >> that is not right. >> ou got to be on your -- john:lso today, what does it mean to be poor in america? >> at tv. >> television. john: air-conditioning? >> yes,. john: cable-tv? >> yes,. john: how many channels?

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could you live on that? have you? what amount of pay is reasonable at what point is is so low that if you work for that you are a victim? >>eople got bills. you know, child payment, car insurance, utilities. you kw, that doesn't -- the minimum wage is not cats -- john: there have been lots of protests around th country, mostly restaurant workers complaining about low pay. the protests have had an effect. california just passed a bill to raise the s'sinimum wage to $10 per hour. most peoe around me -- i do live in manhattan -- c $10 is not enough, a the government must g in to guarantee those victims of greedy employers more money, a living wage. this, but he is president of the ayn rand institute, and we notice of this person ayn rand

was. hugest advocate selfishness? >> i'm advocatg that everyone should be self interested. there are many peopleut there who are interested in working for these rates. what happens when w set the nimum wage so high, $10 per hour or whenever it happens to be, $7.25, what happenso those people who don't produce at $10 an hourr $205? what we create is a class of people who will never find a job. you why those people? young, inexperienced, teenage, inner-city youth who are now excluded completely from the work force and will never learn skills and get the experience necessary for making a hundred dollars an hour. john: how are th excluded? >> because if they can only produce $5 an hour, no one will emoy thee at $10 per hour. no onn will lose on the employees at they hire. john: andhe restaurant lobbyists ran this ad.

minimum wage. why robots cou soon replace fast food workers demanding a @%gher minimum wage. >> we are aually seeing is. if y drive up the cost, what restaurants will do, they still need to make their profit, keep the price of their products cheap. they will replace people with technology. john: mcdonald's response i thought was interesting. they came out with as simple budget, and a free cprehensive money management tool to providing an outline of whatn individual budget may look like. they show that a person can work for minimum wage and sti save $100 per month. however, it included working two jobs. it took a lot of heator that. >> it is a little big brotherly for mcdonald's to tell its employees, here's what you can do. look, people are living all over this count making this kind of ney people came to this3 country with -- 100 years ago people lived o muchess than this. theyent there kids and got an

education and rose up. john: people do around the world >> most people around the world live on much, muchess. the government has no role in, you know, dictating -- john: our government has decided it does. >> it sure hasand as a coequence u have seen youth unemployment in this country close to 20%. %-teimum wages, what steps and youee is massive unemployment among those who can least afford it. john: i think progress, every facet of this budget basically is unachievable. >> many people achieve it. we all started somewhere. i make a lot of money today, but i started making less than minimum wage, foreign student, you kw, working at graduate school ming probably less an this. we managed. it is wrong to try to force people to pay a particular wage, to pay a particular form of income. this should be left for the marketplace.

let -- left to negotiations. john: affair was the protesters, there is a spring in their step. [chanting] john: they don't act like victims. >> i don't see any one of those people look like they were starving. we make it more expensive. we are doing is not just, you know, violating their rights and reducing profits in everything that has to do witeconomically , but also denying jobs to people who cannot afford to be denied jobs and create unemployment. john: listen to this more serious protester who presents the victim message, and this persuades people. >> some peopl work 80 hours a week and cannot make ends meet or have no time for anything el. all they do is work all week. john: all they do is wor all week. nobody -- >> nobody knows anything. john: don't we or it -- of the

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♪ john:if any people have the right to label theelves victims, it is american blacks. first we had slavery, then state-required segregation, then continuing racial discrimination but the author of "backlash" offers that this focus on the past is terrible for blacks. ca says they should stand up against destructive progressive tyrants to promote victimhood. distractive progressive tyrants. >> progressive policies ar haing the black commuty, failing public schools, unemployment is over 13%, or 40 pernt among young bla

individuals. john: they are victims. >> stands up to these present policies that are not working. and do not see them as victims. they are not victims. that is a narrative that the left uses all the time to promote their big government agenda. they don't want to promote liberty, personal responsibility . vapor vote --, aigger government john: you went to the naacp annual summit and heard a lot about victimhood. >> throughout the entire meeting john: every speech? >> what i heard when i w there was an as verses them mentality. adde not hear any solutions. i heard a lot of victization, race cards. voter i.d. is racist, as verses them. if you are black you don't stand a chance. john: at that same naacp conference where you are not allowed to speak should point out, al sharptonarked -- mocks people who say t election of president obama means that america is past racism. >> those that were saying that

never was profiled in a department store. those that were saying at work never pulled over on the highway. john: here is a point, of e black man is more likely to be pued over on the highway iled. >> racism is not prevalent across our cntry. ther are 80 it's out there may be racist, but clely look at individuals and politics, business, sports, entertainment. myself, and i implorell freedom of americans to stand u@ d push back on this narrative. don't be afraid to be called a racist or a selut, of the different names. if you believe in liberty and want to advancece our country forward, i implore all americans to speak out. john: the stock to let the killing of trade on martin. the president said this could have been my s. it could have been his son. >> he injected himself into this and made about a racial issue when, in fact, it had nhing to do with race.

john: we don't know that it had noing to do about race. the fbi investigation concluded that. zimmerman was not convicted. so clearly it was notbout race. unfortunately early on we had people who promoted it as our pop race. that is what domineered the headlines. john: ana producer at nbc -- surprise, surprise -- clearly had bck victimhood in line -- in mind when he edited the nine moh one call. here's the actual call. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good or something. it is raining. he is just walking around looking about. >> okay. this guy, is the white, black, or hispanic? >> he looks black. john: the editor took up the dispatcher asking, is the white, black, hispanic, was left just this. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good. heooks bck. john look, and television, we always -- maybe he was just --

>> no, that was just very inappropriate and the wrong thing to do. anything about race is emotional and it drives the headline. eerly on with this case, this investigation, it was always about race when, i fact, it wasn't. john: seventh blacks been victims in america? >> years ago, john. black individuals did not have access to education, houng, jobs. times have changed, and we don't live in that e anymore. john: let's talk about affirmative action, given america's history of discrimination, it seems reasonable to me that whites should try to make amends, tried to give a break to minorities grace that had. what is wrong with that? before you answer, let's bring in a white person who opposes affirmative actn. jennifer gratz was denied admission to t university of michigan, you say bause y are white.

aviano was because of your race? >> well, they're proud of the fact that they use race and admission to help some people into heard others. the university of machinelike i applied -- johnn not prrudly hur others. they say they help some. >> when i applied to the university of michigan a a point system in pla. you needed 100 points to be accepted. a perfect act score and an applicant to los pnts, and a standing as sake was point. you're black, as bennett, are native american, you're automatically awarded 20 points, more than a perfect act your sats court. very obvious how much a factor reace. john: you sued over ts intricate knowledge of the suureme court and won. >> i did. john: affirmative action still lives. >> the supreme court said that race preferences cannot be use in a mechanical way.3 theld not be a point system,

but raceould be used as a faor for about another 25 years. john: if i get a job applicant and they are equal, i probabl would take the black person figuring this person had may be to overcome something in the past. what is wrong wit that? >> i think that our decision making should be colorblind. i think that first of all, the chances -- john: what about the history of discrimination and special privileges for whites? >> don't know of any special privileges that i have. there are thr unintended viitims ofhese policies. the people who get a preferee to get into college andon't need or t get a job and don need it and the credentials of unquestioned. john: us talk about that. he sent us this video of a conversation with a 16-year-old girl. she has top grades, perfect s.a.t. scores, and she is ainst afrmativaction. >> thi college, racial tension and racial division because the

white people going to say, oh, but we don't get preferences. we don't get advantages. they're gointo resent the minorities. i'm going to get extra points because of pilot light, and i resent that. i don'tant people looking at me and saying, maybe she got in because of what she looks like and not because she is qualified john: i have heard that before. how c you ever trust that this doctor deserves to be a doctor. >> these policies did not est among we would love the people in positions thatllow lives and their hands are there because of their merit. john: other victims, you say, are peoe who t the preferences and do well in school. correct. people whore qualified to get in a second-tier schools are bound to because of preferential treatment and get into a top tier school and then don do well and end up with a considerable amount of debt and student lns and oftentimes dropou so now they have a debt, no degree, and they feel horrible.

they don't feel successful. would be better off having kids go where ty're prepare to, whether qualifications say they're ready go and graduate and get a degree in feel like a success. john: the third category is this message of victimhood. >> yes. the race hustler of the world, and jesse jkson, al sharpton. john: if you're told you're a victim, you start to actike it >> exactly. you act like a victim. you become a victim. and it becomes an us versus them type of mentality which i know you talked about earlier. hn: to raise people's consciousnes abo affirmave acon, i once ran a racist bake sale. john: cupcakes for sale. my pceless said agents had to pay $1.50, white's $1.00, latinos and blacks just $.50. >> that is not right. >> you have to be out of your mind.

>> that is stereotyping john: it is. >> that is n right. john: it is the same principle. >> you got their attention. let me give you quick -- john:e had a conversion peop were saying, i had not thought of it that way. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, escape slavery, self educated, involved in politics, an adviser to presidents, he disdained affirmative acti and special treatment. so if he was someone that could do i and be succeful, anyone can with our work. >> t bake sal highlighthe hypocrisy. you cannot be for rate -- race preferences and college admissions college jobs come up contacting, and in, whatou did outres. john: than you. more on so-called vicmhood coming up. ♪ customer erin swenson ordered shoes from us online

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♪ john: welfare is supposed to helpeople in need, give destitute people a chance to get back on their feet. that is not what usually hpens , former welfare recipients team -star parker. what you mean? >> what has hpened is the poor have been conditions to adopt a slave mentality. i don't on mysel and and not free. it is s in a free countryhat we are even calling ourselves pork. i got caught up in it, and a lot more people are today because they goodies are getting much broader and more expensive to the taxpayer. john: people who get government aid often say t solution to their problem is more government aid. here is what i was told outside a food kitchen in harlem. >> poverty stinks'. >> give us more jobs and opportunities.

john: government should just created job. >> create jobs. >> create more jobs. john: more food stamps. >> mar foo cents. >> more welfare. >> more welfare. john: oo and on. the impressions that goods come >> right.rnment. well, that is the disconnection. i never thought about it when i ved on welfare. we havelso taken the shame out. you can live tax dependent commit taxpayer dependence and no one will even know it. housing for the poor has improved when it is come t what lay it -- what they look like. you cannot tell it is a government pay for. john: you see lived pretty well. >> it is a mentality. this is the problem. people are not connecting to their own lives and well-bein. it is, give me sething. then you make use similar to slavery where you make do if you are on by someone else. it put up barriers so they cannot liveree. you move from benefit t the next. john: check outhe fear of a california surfer dude who john

robertinterviewed here uses his food stamp card to buy lobster and sushi >> hundred dollars a month. >> tnk you for shopping with us. >> just like that. >> pleasremove our bags. >> a paid for by our wonderful tax dollars. john: he had no interest in gettg a job. >> not something that appeals to you3 >> not whatsoever. john: you work the system when you collected. >> why not just hang out at venice beach all afternoon. i did it for a long time. it was not until the christian conversion changed my life and i engage in my own well-being. work is hard which is why we don't want to reward of behavior. hnthe government's welfare bureaucrats ussally claim that they are saving peoe. one outside welfare office i was this -- surprised the find that admitted what she does leads ople to death not bother to look for work . you end human-resources encourage people to be independent? %-john: what should be done?

>> i don't really know. i guess stop giving away the money and it will get a job. john: and you work for the government. >> that's right. john: that is a pretty unusual reaction. [laughter] >> don't work, don't save, don't t married. that is the rule of welfare. john: don admit that usually, do they? people with serious. >> no, they were not serious, but they did not admitted in public. mike case worker is the one that told me if anyone ever asked to make sure that nightid not live beyond what they were paying me. pretend that added thessue one to go to lunch wh her girlfriend. she i part of the problem. john one aspiring actress and lis in a poor neighborhood in los angel made this video mocking the welfa system. >> go to california. need some money. >> free food. >> mamaays she can't take me to school. >> we get free food. >> free day care, fe clothes.

this is where it then it check pay and money goes. all you have to do is -- and nine months later you get the@ big box. john: obviously her point, having babies wednesday benefits >> absolutely true. if you get pregnant you get a check. welfare reform, you get pregnant 14, 15, 16, you get a check and aousing voucher to move out of your pents setting. it is sad. john: you think a 14 year-old girl says i will get pregnant because i'm going to get this monthly check? i think that what we have ne is incentivize this type of behavior. remember, these folks havbeen conditioned to believe they are victim when you're 14 years old and lived in housing project because your mother was 14 when she got pregnant with you and you looked out at you options, broken school, broken environment, yes, you can then say why not just live for today. the next thing you know you are

pregnant and in that same cycle john: said if a politician dares suggest change, cutting benefits , the media and the left , i they the samehing? eight hacked out rates. >> there are other things that could be o the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation's poor children. >> al insensitive andold can you get? john: and hal insensitive and co you must be to suggest the cuts. [laughr] >> it is the beet medicine ever. it is a cancer in o society, and the people that are promoting to keep the status quo at the very part of the system that is nonow working. we declare war on poverty, and trillions of dollars later we have a collapse of marriage, communities that aren total ruin and you havehe likes of those forces we just heard that keep insisting we continue this madness. john: thank you. we do seem to continue the

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♪ john: are you isabled? so disabled you can't find work? i am a stutterer. today's disability laws existed and i began work, i wonder if i had overcome my problem oraybe just given up, collected a government check. i am glad today's disability laws did not exist then because without them i struggled and i am here. but the laws do exist now, and coincidentally, more americans say they are disabled. ted dehaven tudies this. >> a couplof years ago at walmart i over here a

conversation between two women and hear one say to the other, i could take a pay cut or i could just go for disabity. it really struck me as an analyst to dell's intoarious government programs. she spoke of tt as if it was an either or. i went home and looked at it. e numbers have exploded. when you start looking at the program, we are not more disabled. we are not a blue-collar economy any more and have -- john: more people are working at home, les manual labor. >> exactly. so how could this band all this more money for disability and have the people applying. john:hen youay all these peopll applying, you have the catonstitute chart that shows the money spent over the last 50 years people say, well, when the econy gets bter and then it goes down. it barely went down in the 80's and the economy improved. basically it is going steadily up. >> we have had a liberalization

ineligibility going back to the 1980's it is showing up now. for parents trying to get there kids on psychotropic medications and the hopes that they will increase their odds of qualifying for a check. it goes to dad and mom. john: your neighbor gets sick and you start to feel like a sucker. >> the message being sent to my and disabled. as they become adult the first thing they're being taught is don't work. disadvantaged or they are or are not. john: disabled used to mean paralyzed. aevere injy. now it mea what? depression, back pain. >> is like any other government program. you start off with good intentions and it becomes something it was neverupposed to be. the original disability surance program was supposed toenefit those ages 50 to 64 as basically a transition into regular retirement. since the 1980's u.n a

300 percent crease in awards for back pain, mental issues, what they call non exertion of restrictions. i am going to my chiropractor tomorrow with a pinched nerve, compressed disk and quite honestly trying to take o the governments dring me nuts. is a good chance i could qualify if i pressed are enough. john: it used to be that they were paralyzed. toy most of the claims are things like anxiety, stress, back pain,ebulous diagnoses. >> and it is very subjective. john: one other reason more people collect, lawyers make big bucks promoting them. >> if you are disabled or can't work you needocial securi disabilityenefits, but don't try getting the money aroun >> we help people get disability benefits. >> it is important that youct now. call 1-800-win/win one. >> my law firm has collected over $30 billion for injured people. john: the thi of a billion

dollars. >> yes. sometimes when i am at the gym i know this program after program containing commercials for these folks. they don't make a ton of money, especially specity law firms. john: $88 million accorng to the "wall street journal" in just one year. >> about a decade ago the deck -- the government made it easier for non lawyers to represent people in appealing a claim they hire a bun of cheap non lawyers and such and rushed people through the system figure out theystem, collect littleits of money. it adds that if you get enough people. john: and you pay. thank you. comi up, a doctor composing ramusic to try to fight ramusic to try to fight victimhood. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp hadwo big goals: help the gulf recover and learn fr what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything weo.

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