tv [untitled] October 1, 2010 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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november's election he was in d.c. this week for a big fund raising event and now his campaign is having to apologize for a series of tweets the first tweet read quote my sincere appreciation for the warm welcome including from future colleagues in d.c. that was followed by guess i should pick out some office furniture as well while i'm here in d.c. but you know it he couldn't even stop himself there he then went on and said then there's the matter then there's the matter of a name plaque for the door and then came the best one think i'll do some house hunting while i'm in d.c. is it possible that joe is even more arrogant than his mentor sarah palin i mean it should be pointed out that joe is in a very tight race right now with current senator lisa murkowski who he defeated in the primary but she continues to run as a write in candidate and so is democrat scott mcadams now both decided to make political hay out of joe's tweets here's lisa murkowski response in a radio ad. joe miller seems to think he's already won the election while in
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washington collecting money from those insiders all week joel tweeted that he was going to do some post something by office furniture and get a name plaque for his senate office door wait a minute joe you might want to wait until you hear from the eighty percent of us back here in alaska who did for you the name on that door story now democrats got mcadams also decided to have a little fun on twitter his tweet read joe miller while you're in d.c. picking out office furniture i'm in anchorage introducing my plan to get alaskans back to work some pretty good stuff now joe miller's campaign quickly declared those tweets that lead them excuse me and declared that a volunteer was responsible for them and will no longer have access to the account they made those same claims when joe's twitter account compared lisa murkowski to a prostitute when she was considering switching parties a few weeks ago so i'm not buying it you tweeted those things joe miller be a man and just admit it but even if volunteer did tweet those messages as
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a potential u.s. senator shouldn't she have a competent staff and volunteers and not just give them the keys to your twitter account that's why joe miller is tonight's tool time winner. well one c.n.n. host is in big trouble today after he had a little meltdown this morning rick sanchez made an appearance on the sirius radio show stand up with pete dominick and it's just being reported and confirmed by c.n.n. that rick sanchez has been fired the let me tell you all about the little incident the brought him down you see sanchez started off an epic rant by talking smack on keith olbermann rachel maddow and bill o'reilly for failing to quote do any journalism in their programs which i say when's the last time you did any journalism rick rick rachel maddow is ten times the journalist that you'll ever be but anyway he then went on to say that the daily show host jon stewart is a big hit yeah pretty strong words right now and radio host pete dominick asked him
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why here's how he answered. i think john's show is essentially prejudicial i think that. against against anybody who doesn't agree with his point of view which is very much a white liberal establishment point of view. clearly sanchez felt a little slighted or put down by the white liberal establishment by the northeastern media lead his you describe them well sanchez then rallied on stewart's middle class upbringing claiming that he can't relate to real people's problems right because jon stewart was raised in a middle class neighborhood he has no right to comment on anything ok rick now i can't help but feel like i'm listening to a kid who's been bullied go crazy after a few too many drinks now after sanchez ranted about the daily show and colbert as program pete dominick reminded the c.n.n. host that stewart was at one point his boss and he demanded an explanation so a few minutes of garbled arguments went by and the real reason for sanchez's
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accusation finally came out it begs the question of that's what happens when you watch yourself on his show every day and all they ever do is call you stupid. you know just what i figured. you're upset because you've always been the butt of stewart's jokes on news flash jon stewart makes fun of everybody and you yourself are no stranger to talking trash and other media figures so guess what nobody wants to hear self-righteous rick sanchez repeatedly talk about his cuban american upbringing and why that makes him superior to middle class new york jews who feel he feels slighted by it much rather join stewart and colbert when it comes to playfully poking at politics now i understand sanchez's frustration with the media establishment but going on some immature tirade on why he's better than jon stewart because he grew up poor just pathetic looks like rick is out of a job and clearly going on the radio calling out jewish media leaks that run your network is something that's not tolerated by c.n.n. . now facebook the movie hits theaters today of course the movie isn't even
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called facebook it simply entitled the social network. and. it's just. you know when you get your facebook. you anything that you need to make your actions are going to be distributed more you know we want you to. so i think we all know what this is about and who it's really about but i think the real question is why should we care i'll tell you why that's because it is undeniable the facebook has changed the way that we communicate and interact with each other it's not only made keeping in touch easier but it's transformed that definition of a friend now at the same time it's become a forum for social activism a quick stop to keep everyone you know online updated on what you're doing every second of the day if you wish to do so it's become both a blessing and
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a burden as the lines between what's public and what's private have become increasingly blurred. so with five hundred million active users is facebook our friend or will it one day become our enemy or earlier i caught up with former m.t.v. host and former rolling stone at their kurt loder who's now contributor reason that he recently reviewed the social network but i first asked him if he himself is a facebook user. and not on facebook i don't think that the audience for that i always hear of people or my friends they want to reach me but you email me that's really enough for me so how is it that someone like yourself isn't even know you know doesn't even have facebook you're allowed to review it made a movie about it. and a lot of people who do have facebook most of the people i know facebook and you know i just feel no compunction i don't feel compelled to post pictures of me in my cat or stuff like that i just i don't really understand the need for it in my life anyway but it works and it's a fascinating phenomenon or it definitely is
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a phenomenon you can say that five hundred million active users worldwide you know five hundred million people do want to post pictures of themselves or their cat or of their newborn babies or you know out partying with friends i don't think that you can deny the fact that it really has in some way changed the world i guess you know but to you is this is this something that you would have seen as a natural phenomenon or do you think it's you know very bizarre if there hadn't been a mark zuckerberg there never would've been a facebook. before facebook there was my space there was friendster but he really took it to another level i think anybody who could have foreseen this would have probably done he's the one who foresaw it and you know the genius is a brilliant guy now in the movie the fact that there already is a movie about this i think you know it tells tells enough but is this some movie about a social commentary on how facebook has really changed the way people interact with
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each other or is it about this kind of bratty geeky little kid that doesn't know how to make friends. no it's well it's about facebook of course but it's really it's a very human picture and it's told the sort of a rush i'm on point of view you see. mark zuckerberg who invented created facebook getting involved in the business starting very small then the business goes on to become what is today worth twenty five billion dollars and people he was close to fall by the wayside but the stories told from the point of view of everybody from his point of view from his partners from people who were sort of cast aside you don't really get the truth about him but it's so it's an engrossing story so it's really a human story why i think mark zuckerberg is probably happy that we're not getting the truth about him from here he seems to be giving you know big donations throwing huge parties a circus that allayed dancers up in new york to try to take some of the attention off of this movie but you know ok so you're not a user of facebook you said
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a lot of people that you know do use it do you think that in a way it's bringing people closer together in the sense that now you can have thousands of friends online or is it taking us farther apart because you can have friends that you never even interact with face to face you never even meet. does anyone have thousands of friends and i wonder about that also with me is what happens to all the information you put on facebook there are certain about privacy and what's done with this information how it's sort of farmed out to other interests i would be concerned about that but i think there's we live in a new age where i don't think privacy means what it once did i don't think it's really such a root value. you're right in the sense that you know even eric schmidt of google has said that perhaps the youth these days are going to have to change their names in the future so they can rid themselves of their online past you know the things that are already there on facebook so it's become both a blessing and
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a burden i think but i want to touch on a different topic with you also because you've been you know you were an editor rawlings. when you've written for a number of publications and you once said that you know you can journalism is something that you can simply learn and for weeks and these days you know with the internet with the blogosphere journalism the face of journalism definitely is changing and a lot of people are angry about that they think they just because every average you know who sits in his living room or in his basement can write a story that doesn't make him a journalist would you agree or disagree with that. oh my so you can learn the basics of journalism about four weeks so you learn more practicing and. it's it's democratising to have so many people writing it's good to have a new source of information and that way it's good i think there's sort of a waning of expertise which i'm not sure is good i mean a lot of the you know millions of people writing online and doing commentary you
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know ten percent of them are going to be really really good ninety percent not so good so i don't know we're going through it's a transitional phase where well i mean it's always a transitional phase two right i mean you've worked for and busy for a number of years and even m.t.v. one point was you know revolutionary because the music video became a way for people to express themselves reality t.v. essentially started with the real world and now you have you know the average average person expressing themselves on facebook on you tube every single day if you could i guess make a guess an educated guess what's the next frontier what's the next big thing. i don't know is sort of the celebrity culture we live in is sort of we're i mean everyone feels they have a right and a duty to be on television to be celebrated somewhere that's kind of all getting to me i don't know where this is heading could be sitting someplace really dire or who knows maybe there's
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a rainbow at the end of this long street. i guess what does have to wait and see that our current thank you so my writing us and we're going to gently i think will have to go ahead and watch the social network. so to come this friday evening we have our friday fireside chat and the slutsky twins are back so we're going to discuss a whole wide range of topics from a possible challenge by hillary to iraq and osama bin ladin going green to stick around for some fun. showbiz that it's entertainment value of infiltrate it's a nice presentation high production success it's graphic so you see
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all of this is a way to settle for these people's attention by using techniques that are sensitive the same now during this war we had nearly a military entertainment. lead. nineteen thirty eight playing lin and friends tried to reason with hitler germany demands of the land and gets its way they also have been traded a safety net for themselves nothing thirty nine the whole of europe is an exultant war efforts to establish a system of collective security nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on the clegg the lessons to be learned from the munich agreement on our t.v. . imagine your life a big city. this. crystal
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news today. the full these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the day. her. to tonight's phone you side with your host. is friday i'd like to return to what is by now become a household name the infamous blackwater you know that private security firm with such a nasty reputation that they tried changing their name to the same firm whose founder
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has since run off to hide and davi to avoid all of the lawsuits that are pending instant anyway you might ask why am i bringing them up again. that's just because according to wired's danger room they've managed to get more money from our government that's right thanks to a joint venture there which they've been able to completely conceal in all documentation that they are in fact involved in which they've hidden behind a name called international development solutions so they didn't even have to submit an independent bid thanks to all that they have no one in a nice little piece of a ten billion dollar deal little else out there find that disturbing let me remind you that this was the firm that was involved in a shootout in baghdad in two thousand and seven where seventeen civilians were killed and after which the iraqi government banned them from doing business in the country oh yeah they also took hundreds of on authorized guns from the us military weapons depot in afghanistan and all by using the name of eric cartman as in the
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south part character there was of course that story of how blackwater contractors used government money to pay for their prostitutes and in the most recent turn of events a texas business that has admitted that blackwater used to have him buy steroids by the case so the contractors get nice and juiced up and you have some now after not only the negative press surrounding these stories but the fact that the security firm has deep brought to the u.s. government time and time again they still keep getting awarded a contract when. ever happened to that pledge that hillary clinton made when she was still campaigning when she said that they would be banned from federal contracts yeah i guess she forgot all about that one she lost but seriously is there nothing they can do no matter how bad that's going to make the government just you know contractors do not compete not to the american government or the american taxpayer or the american image abroad so i just hope that our lawmakers
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serve wore those contracts. are well it's friday so as always we decided to have a little fun with the week's funniest and stupidest stories political and not so we've got everything from osama bin laden popping back up in a new video but with quite a different agenda than we're used to also onto a good show what you're conversely use as priorities before they go on recess and a nice slideshow of inventions that remind us just how creative americans can be when it comes to finding new ways to be lazy so joining me to discuss it are matt and peter slutsky co-founders of double speak media to have
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a nice to have you back on its value why i thank you now so we just got breaking news over doing the show that rick sanchez has officially been my brother that's what happened my thing is like ok you go you do a stupid rant but i do think c.n.n. might have been looking for an excuse to fire him and he just kind of sucks but i took his car his pardon spot away. i think he was chained he was put in the basement new office and was deaf and looking as if you think i mean if they really put him in the basement ok that's not true but i agree with you there look i'm very gullible you're looking for a way to go. is a loser. he's been a loser for a long time the whole i'm sorry goes there right now i start thinking while he's down this is a form and if he's watching i'm sorry but i have never liked him he just sits there and rants and everything is called rick's rants. enough i don't want to sit there and rants i'm a writer you know i don't have i don't i rant as well you know the day i want to say this wolf blitzer he's next there will come again and we're getting rid of all
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that is very very much like opera i want to bring out osama bin ladin who's back in the news and he released a new videotape today that you know i don't speak the language but from the translations are being told is that he was talking about the flood in pakistan and he was talking about the threat of global warming i mean is this osama bin ladin the environmentalist and what is this ever since he was in the prius commercial i feel it's sort of he's actually hawking the nissan leaf which is you know who would have a lecture card i think i think osama bin laden i mean terrible guy but he wants to be relevant and i think their p.r. strategies are actually pretty impressive and they always try to get in the news me relevant so i think he sees that that's the way people are going that's sort of the way people been talking about the natural disasters that we've seen all over the globe so he wants to try and he loves to tweak american politicians on any issue that is there so you know when they're having a stalemate on a certain issue in congress. are sworn enemy cares about global warming more than our congressmen to the great if we are al gore is like a standoff you know that's
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a big thing of that we have quiet the i don't know shocking and gory video to show you know this is you know comes from a group that's also talking about conservation of energy and. i guess i have to i have to set it up for you so this is a teacher that's telling your students about the project and says you know it's so simple you can start writing your bike instead of driving the car to school you know who who wants to participate how many of you and your families will agree to be in the project everyone raises their hand except for two of the students and the bell rings she says very quickly before you go and let's show. you just need to play. this little clip and. thank. you everybody please remember to read chapters five and six on volcanoes in place. yeah and he writes tough love blowing up little kid for those kids are going to cut their carbon emissions and i want. to
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hear their way into it i mean even the fear mongering has worked for so many other things right i mean this is an important issue clearly the whole shock media revolution is everywhere we see it on t.v. we see it on the internet so they're trying to capitalize but don't you wish you could do that to some like coworkers sometimes at a meeting that i was just going to say. well thought about me i don't know rick's list. ok i want to talk about congress the fact that they've gone on their recess before they left they passed a really really important legislation things like you know now changing the law so that the commercials can't be five million times louder than the you know you're actually whining just as you know you know you'll be having a conversation all of the low blows up in your face so i think a little round of applause for that one for a call and i thank you congress for saving my i love i think the issue there because senators are so old they have their t.v.'s turned up to go out and they don't even know the name of the voters wrote and it's very rare. that
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a loser on every day they gets me is that so so the things that they left over for some reason they didn't find pressing we have the bush tax cuts you know the extension of them we have the defense authorization bill would include the dream act the repeal of don't ask don't tell we have the extension of unemployment benefits the ratification of the start treaty and these people only have six weeks to do it when they get back what are they thinking some pollster d.c. somewhere is telling them that t.v. is more important maybe environment i mean congress still for the easiest that exactly they go for the easy they want to they want to they want to drag it out but the point is that as we go into the selection of the next couple weeks their priorities are off and i think most americans feel that it's stories like this that get out that just add to that frustration and add to that sense that they're not really doing the things they need but we have senator jim de. man who we made fun of on the show yesterday because he said that it's better when the government does nothing if they do that the government should do stuff is just so crazy now ok
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we're running out of time so just very quickly we have a slide show of inventions which i just personally love because only in america could things right now this is apparently called the the knife fork you know you can't because who won when it's not life and then use the fork at the same time yeah i feel like someone's going to lose an artery that way with a sharp blade i mean we're going to tear face i don't i mean those things wouldn't be allowed on the airplane in my brush is no way my brother could use. i don't get hurt. ok the next one is the motorized ice cream cone oh oh finally begin hearing those who need a raise just so it's so isn't there some sort of obesity problem in america i don't know maybe this is part of it we can make it even easier to get fatter now there's just extend our twenty and let me show you the best one this is called the by man a bunker. what is. your banana from getting bruised of
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course because a bruised banana is i get it of course rick sanchez is probably going to be hawking one of these products and i mean that's just the most. sexual i can think of are young i mean i could think of a couple that's right where my ad where actually if you can buy the ice cream butter and that's yeah well what do you what do you think what are americans going to come up with next like you know it's just that the inventions these days are all for satisfying or lazy or that we're getting we're getting wider we're getting slower and our ice cream cones are turning by themselves and that's what my brother has in my world yeah very quickly last thing i want to ask is that they did a poll comparing hillary and obama who would have a better chance for two thousand and twelve and obama actually beat her out fifty two percent versus thirty seven. changing the check change the first name from hillary to bill and we'll see what happens you see the poll this week bills the most popular bill is political so it's going back to you guys not all of you very much thanks for being here that's
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. have total impunity they can do everything that they want and nothing will happen to them human rights groups are furious that an alleged torture put in charge of arab affairs in jerusalem. and i'm fetterman craze sweeps through russia and there's the party drugs surges in price home grown chemists risk life and limb to cook it up and the fourth being locked up. and latvians vote in a parliamentary election made the baltic states worst economic crisis to date. i. know you're watching r.t.
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world news around the clock or welcome to the program the appointment of an infamous israeli interrogator to a high ranking police post has sent shock waves among human rights groups and among inmates says captain george he's accused of numerous cases of torture and abuse of arabs now that he's in charge of arab affairs many palestinians fear for their lives paula slim reports. i was kidnapped by an israeli commando in the twenty first of may nineteen ninety four they came to my country to my life and to my house before the eyes of my children. mostafa to ronnie spent the next eighteen years in a secret prison later dubbed israel's up to grade and his interrogator a name that still sends chills down the spines of prisoners. they have to remember captain george he personally participated in the torture and abuse of prisoners.
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