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audience is going to you tube video response or the twitter profile of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show your responses later your boy you are. right it's time for a nightly tool time award conservative pundits and author and cold turkey raised a few eyebrows this week when talking about the nuclear drama unfolding in japan now on her blog earlier this week and had a post that was titled a glowing report on radiation and decided to make the claim that some radiation heading to the united states from japan could actually be good for us so that headline right there now who would have thought and last night well in coulter was and appearing on the o'reilly factor she doubled down on her claim and offered up the following observation take a listen there's

a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government's says is or the minimal amount of l.a. should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of chaos or. wow so anything that's from radiation is actually good for you but that should ease the minds of anyone living in japan or on the west coast of the united states for that matter and we should point out that and based her reporting on some old newspaper articles and then when one of the television selling millions of viewers of the government is not telling the truth about the a sceptical radiation levels and while some radiation levels may be ok does anyone really think that it's time to put those theories to test well just a few minutes later in the same interview she actually admitted that she's not really sure about the fact that she was staying late take a listen for you or carol we should all be heading for the nuclear we're going to let you keep one i'll try to sunbathing out here. sort of. well interestingly.

it's cold for me so how did piers to be pretty well so i've only read about it the . doctor and coulter spreading misinformation wherever she goes now if you're not really an expert on nuclear radiation you probably should not go on t.v. right after one of the biggest catastrophes in the nuclear industry and spout off about how radiation can actually be good for you and of course that's never stopped and called her before and i doubt that it will in the future so van thinks that radiation is so great maybe she should head over to the fukushima power plant and offer up her expert knowledge anyone want to chip in on a plane ticket to tokyo anyone. and you know that's how that's coulter our friday night time. now just two days ago the cia contractor accused of killing two pakistanis. back to pakistanis. pakistanis one home free after official stuck with the families of the victims according to news reports two point three million dollars of quote blood money were paid to the

families in according to islamic law now kind of ironic that the rogue contractor was bailed out by sharia law don't you think as secretary of state hillary clinton was quick to dismiss reports of the pay out telling journalists earlier this week that the blood money was never exchanged now when asked about this payment clinton says that the united states is not paid any compensation at all and when reporters asked about who actually did foot the bill she told the press to ask the families sure the money must have just magically appeared somehow but hey when u.s. special forces killed innocent pregnant women in afghanistan those families were given to sheep so i guess there is a silver lining in the payout overeem vegas but here's where the real flight frustration comes into play just one day later a u.s. drone fired at a meeting taking place in the northwestern province of pakistan that killed some forty people and amongst the victims were just members of the taliban but also elders an innocent locals not affiliate with the militants now while pakistani and u.s. intelligence officials dispute how many of those killed were actually members of

the taliban the drone strike has unleashed more fury among the pakistanis those who are fed up with the surging drone war on their border pakistan has demanded an explanation from the united states and declared the latest killings as the most lethal attack in a country since two thousand and eight and what's more pakistan announced today that it is not going to attend the next round of talks with the united states and afghanistan in protest over the attack so was this really the best move for the united states i mean the pakistanis were already upset about the release of david raymond davis and now this heavy drone strike is just adding more fuel to the fire yesterday we saw senator john kerry expressing his some serious. attitude towards pakistan for releasing davis saying that our relations with their country need to stay strong and ready to continue our unofficial war there we are so thankful to those people in pakistan that we decided to use our fancy drones to kill more civilians and interesting way of expressing gratitude if you ask me and it seems

like this is just another way of showing the people of pakistan that the r. word means about just as much as the lives of the people we kill in other words almost nothing. now this weekend activists are planning events all across the globe to protest the united states government's treatment of army private bradley manning now it seems that the country remains divided on the question of whether manning is a patriot or a traitor for allegedly turning over all those secret bottles to wiki leaks but the harsh conditions of his detainment have earned this administration criticism from the highest levels costing even the state department spokesman no fan of working leaks or manning mind you his entire job so what does the case of bradley manning say about freedom in america freedom to speak out freedom to stand up for what you believe is right but we decided to turn to somebody who knows a thing or two about blowing the west so daniel ellsberg famously leaked the pentagon papers back in one nine hundred seventy one helping to bring over our around the end of the cold vietnam war thank you so much for being here it's really

an honor to have you on the show before we get to bradley manning i have to ask a question about libya knowing what you know in your experience about wars about how the u.s. government sells worse to the people how comfortable are you with this potential intervention in libya what are your thoughts on that so this is a dream you would be very hard problem. the dilemma i am good that if there is any involvement of the u.s. and it will be this time under u.n. auspices of this and i think they're right to demand to get the ear of the arab league and the others to believe that i would certainly be very very skeptical over you with the with. all of this after all it would be of such contrast to the fact that we have supported dictators what could of the recent years and for many years people of bahrain saudi arabia and of course egypt so all of a sudden it seems as though you have the ability for all these things instead of

the people of egypt to be taken in their own hands and for that we go to the very skeptical of that to to watch this kind. out of. they have been going on from the year in other words in libya i wouldn't expect it but no fly zone by itself would do the job so i'm not a great admirer of gates i have to say but i i was sympathetic to his view that have no fly zone itself would be would be no help and just involve us in another war as it is with a very heavily involved i don't personally expect by the way that we're going to be out of afghanistan or iraq for a very long time so the prospect of having another war involved in their strikes me is a very dubious proposition i certainly don't think you're alone in that respect especially when it comes to afghanistan and iraq but sort of catch twenty two here i mean when you have situations like vietnam like iraq thanks to your help in terms of vietnam finding out that so so so many of the causes and the way that the war was carried

out was actually not as it was built for us people if they're difficult to justify the so-called just humanitarian interventions when you're feeling like you know if you go to church going to venture especially going to unilaterally you were listening u.n. security council meeting for example is basically i think the u.n. was rated describe it as a crime against peace because aggressive war the only conditions were and you had security council authorization which they do have in this particular case they have to say but recent times no humanitarian intervention and extremely dubious about it's been a cover basically for basically colonialists to tell you the operations in the past you know military is not only years even gates are saying the solution of every kid he said can make the problem worse we really have to ask ourselves in libya as in these other cases are we going to make things worse for everybody by this intervention i think you have to say if i'd known you'd asked me but it's

absolutely plausible to be yes i would have had his it's a shit about the program because as i said in the beginning this is a hard one. to fix and i would want to say there's an easy answer on this one. i thought then about pakistan for some time which we're talking about earlier. but if i can move to that from what i was i was impressed by the tone you took on that the fact is that in pakistan the wiki leaks explosion which may or may not have been due to gradually bending i'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt from my point of view i give them credit for the the government has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt but in court but whoever gave that information reveal that we're not only doing drone attacks for extremely unpopular questionable aggressiveness in pakistan we're also doing offensive operations the pentagon has been denying and lying about it and patterson it was shown in one of the state department cables that were released said that no in fact we've been doing ground offensive

operations that really caught my attention because it meant that the war had extended there into another country without benefit of congress on this case or the un it was to say and it meant that we could be destabilizing a country there in the direction of a military takeover of people who really might be allied to that and put nuclear weapons in their hands it seems that for the president to be covertly valving us in a war in pakistan right now on the ground or even in the drones as we just saw it right on is the most reckless irresponsible act i can imagine in terms of it's dangerous for us in the world in the world of actually getting nuclear weapons and they're accusing bradley manning of where the source was of endangering americans i'd say that the president's policy it's looking good for president's policy is what americans will let me ask you this i mean you know at this point in your and

in your life you're really seen as a hero i think it's safe to say by the majority of folks here in the united states and no fear example of that and the fact that the state department itself. moved. the most wanted man in america meanwhile i was very interested to see if they would now that they're showing that film abroad if they'd be willing to show it in the state department there's nothing i would prefer in the world and to have that movie shown and i have me on present for a q. and a in the think department itself to see if americans in the film that are allowed to see that movie about the merits of whistleblowing but why do you think there is this contradiction in the way that you are being hailed right now bradley manning by as so many folks in the establishment here is seen as a traitor as someone who broke the law is someone that should be punished well i was called a traitor by the president nixon and then by his vice president. left office because of bribes to the time i expected to be called names like that that's

a very very hard when. i was a day make it in yourself i did i would as a civilian i was out on bond the conditions are very different i spoke for myself no reporter has talked to bradley manning in the nine or ten months he's been in prison first in kuwait a known quantity not one single reporter sold we're hearing about him is the truckloads thanks please speculation about him i'm very impressed if those chat logs are valid which is it remains to be seen as far as the court cases if there accept it or not but i'm willing to call on them the ones that was being charged in the first place and i'm very impressed by the person who comes through there he said i'm prepared to go to prison for life or even. i thought that west point when i read it was a little stream that he was worrying about but of course no they're arresting so they are asking for charges that could invoke the death penalty but he was somebody who was willing to stand up to the certainty that if he were found out he would

face prison and life as i did six hundred fifteen years and also be called the most terrible names now when i was called people are saying now by the way all wills for it was good. pentagon papers are good bradley manning is bad design is bad we can at least suspect i'm used as a foil against them that's ridiculous in terms of the actual history of it i was denigrated the same way he was at that point you have to expect that nowadays not to be called a traitor by coulter it's like not being on nixon's enemies list and sort of embarrassed to do think that badly manning is on obama's only list to think about leaning on obama's. well he certainly treating him as if he deserves to be tortured right now does no credit to the president and said he was going to end torture you know according to the chat logs the thing that first. language great manning and led to his consideration if he was the source of putting out this truth was that he

was actively participating and he suspects over in iraq to be tortured and when he told his boss the head of intelligence analysts he was told pay no attention to that that's not your job just hand over more subjects suspects and he said i was actively participating in something i was totally against well no as a result he's experiencing that treatment himself not perhaps as bad as the iraqi suspects got a pet enough as a lot of people it's that he think that solitary confinement is just part of part of life in prison actually it is a form of torture and it has the effect of driving people mad getting them to confess things true or false that you want to confess in this case i think he's being essentially tortured by this man in confinement in order to get him somehow to implicate him in ways are we keeping in ways that make it easier to cross into the sun but that's illegal as the state department spokesman put it he said it's

ridiculous counterproductive and stupid willoughby's all those but it's also abusive and to legal and the president it's up to him to pick up the phone and stop . and not to accept absurd sure instance from the perpetrators of this apartment of defense it's all appropriate and it's so funny incidentally at the time of course the white house so-called plumbers were taking various actions against me which included at one point attempting to incapacitate me totally and to eavesdrop on my phone calls and to burglarize the my doctor's office give me a fright i have to ask about the media environment back when you release the pentagon papers there weren't that many blogs there weren't any blogs there wasn't the internet you have your networks you watch your news at six thirty or whatever time when you had your papers do you think it's that the nature of your leaks was more shocking for some reason at the time or do you think it's that the media

environment fragments right now that people aren't motivated by for example the pakistan revelations they didn't mention earlier why is it that the rest of the world is not more reactive the. the the what if the time something that gave a lot of prominence to the issue was that the president enjoying the papers for the first time ever that had never been there was a concern first amendment so that got a lot of attention for of course i couldn't put out the half maybe and pages of documents with a few possible know if it's a new digital era i have to use the cutting edge technology of my time for xerox the i couldn't have done that earlier and i put out seven thousand pages of top secret material so i couldn't put out yes i think the fact of putting out this much material did get a lot of attention as did the apache helicopter thing the basically the press has been close to a large extent by making the real chargers that these things go by nine eleven and

the fear again being called names by in culture but not only by and culture they say that's almost a couple of at this point but by officials and by prosecutors. obama right now is prosecuted or has brought charges against five people for the school for unauthorized use for sleep. all previous presidents together brought such prosecutions on with the first there were two afterwards obama in two years has brought forth so he is going against whistleblowers and all that and of course that would well hopefully this weekend's rallies some folks may carry a message we have much more ahead on the show it's time for our friday happy hour segment margin producer churton jenny churchill and mike briggs writer for the daily caller dot com are going to join me to discuss some of the stories you've been talking about this week so it's. a charmer in here broadcasting live from washington d.c.

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to from japan to libya through nuclear disaster i mean it's been a really intense week and i think that we can all use a happy hour drink during the now for happy hour this evening as our team producer jenny churchill and mike riggs the writer for the daily caller dot com thank you guys so much for being here i think we all cheers after my friday finally be here at raglan i don't you know i generally respect the u.s. congress but the folks over on the hill in the house decided to work on a really important important resolution they're not talking about anything to do with libya or japan or anything even more important than that apparently is the most important priority for those lawmakers on the hill is to defund and p.r. what you guys make of that. i think it's just in your right i mean we're talking about public broadcasting what we're really your former employer i heard you were at the news hour. great i love the show i grew up listening and now you point seven which is in really you know i love car talking great home companion all those places and i think they would be in their best interest and great for them if they

could do what they love to do without having to worry about government meddling ok but n.p.r. costs you or something like seventy million dollars a year afghanistan there has possibly like one hundred billion dollars so i mean to me i don't even understand why there's a degree of it all because we saw from that video and i'm not saying that we saw from that video that n.p.r. is biased but i will say is that we saw that you know people in the company don't think that they need the money to make it so why are we giving them taxpayer money if they don't need it it's completely crazy i do you have to say i completely agree with you this is not the time to be talking about things like this in this was not an emergency bill that needed to be talked about right away i mean it's definitely something that needs to be looked at and i have to say no i can't point to this story or that story and say that's where a liberal bias was however from just. snotty a lead us voices that i hear all day long i have to say it sounds liberal an

elitist to me and if you got some fire and brimstone people in there you know yelling and really causing a fuss like someone to murder me. just. here actually i can i used to drive a volvo believe it or not which is like has no one in your listeners drive all those where i am sure were saying this seems like a weird time to bring this up again especially since these you know there's nothing actually new going on with n.p.r.'s funding is just they said something that a lot of conservatives don't like about how they respond i also think it's a great distraction for house republicans who in the fall promised to cut a hundred billion dollars from the budget revise that to sixty and now they can barely passed it now they're doing these extensions of the continuing resolution so this riles up the base well if you're speaking of. distractions there's a new t.v. show out there which basically looks at one hundred one different ways to get kicked off the show and every time somebody gets voted off the show you get to choose how they leave they can get like strapped to a boat fall off a plane all kinds of crazy stuff what does this say about our country jenny i think it says some things and i'm so excited. i don't know if you know i don't know if

you know enough either of you know i consider myself a reality t.v. connoisseur our. reality t.v. happens to be one of my favorite things in the world and this show is brought to us from the scene people who brought us wipeout and i think that it's going to be amazing really well in england the bastion of all things reality t.v. everything that we've got comes from them so i'm excited and we have enough bad reality t.v. disasters from i don't know japan oh gosh i mean like you talk about reality t.v. is a distraction from like the news of the things we should care about i mean this i this probably falls in the ever expanding category of things that sort of distract us from how horrible life is you can put in football that category which i think is in terms of the physical damage players it's much worse in these reality television shows but it's also not too far from what you see on a lot of people who shows in terms of like truth listening payment and oh yes and

culture talking about how radiation should be our next sunbathing location would probably say that that category now i want to move on to new york there's been there's this piece that came out that basically pointed to the fact that new yorkers don't seem to really care about sex anymore because these reporters who went to a bunch of these fancy little parties where people are more interested in learning cocaine talking about social networking and just interacting with each other and not going home with each other not getting laid i mean it's horrible it is how you what we become slaves to the capitalist system where we work so much that we no longer take care of our physical needs it was a real physical need i don't buy it i don't buy it and that's a new york observer article the reporter talked to some of the some kids. you know some of the just turned twenty one thousand stars of skins i believe were there and this reporter introduced them to the idea have you heard that people have stopped having sex and these kids are like we don't know what you're talking about a kid don't kids two kids we keep hearing all these reports about how fewer and fewer kids are you know doing proper things these days but the older folks people

of our generation right i mean we got to pay the bill these guys are on probably unemployed or living at home with mom and dad they have time to to get freaky look i think that this is actually evidence of a larger problem and it's that we're all becoming so absorbed in technical on line social interactions that we've kind of and at least a little that you guys have to at least a little bit we've forgotten how to interact as human beings with other people and it's become less important i i have forgot the it's important lessons in the new york observer article i'm sorry i don't mean to go there right now we don't know why no it's all going to use twitter and facebook and all these things i think the article was in a total i mean i don't know that it's i mean it also blames cocaine in addition to twitter right that these people would rather stay up doing drugs all night which is like sort of like addict behavior so maybe if you polled some people use twitter and facebook and google but didn't use cocaine you might find that they're still i don't know i don't use cocaine i use a lot of social networking sites and i work way too much and don't really go out so

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