obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then he glimpse something else and if you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is are you going to charge bloggers a big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think the need to be funny well. whatever government says there keep them safe get ready because of the your freedom

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say something i listen i want to start off with a comment from our you tube user a.p. is the good he that and how can you grow in response to my fireside friday about the pentagon's shameless stonewalling of freedom of information act requests for pictures of osama bin laden's body from several news organizations from a.p. to politico and he said i love you but you are wrong on this one we don't need to drag the body through the streets as through so eighteen eleven we were passed that nine hundred eleven now this is where i would like to politely disagree with atheist meet in here that i never said that we should be dragging osama bin laden's body through the streets in fact i couldn't be further from what i want i simply want just like a.p. reuters fox news politico and countless other journalistic organizations for the u.s. government to be open and honest about a mission that was carried out in the name of the american people the last thing i'm calling for is some kind of public celebration i'm calling for transparency from a government that professes to believe in it so once again i call on the u.s. government to stop making

a mockery of freedom of information act requests and release the pictures of osama bin laden's body and the next i want to respond to something from hellraiser on facebook you guys got to work on these names are so difficult to pronounce he asks a loan at which three states is it illegal to film and they keep telling us the public surveillance is fine if you don't have anything to hide then you don't have anything to worry about now as we covered many times on this show there is a war being waged on those in the public who choose to wield the power of the camera against law enforcement and for some off reason law enforcement doesn't seem as open or willing to public surveillance as they encourage us to be one were the ones being watched so to answer your question the three states were filming the police is actually illegal are maryland illinois and massachusetts and the rest of the country police of time and time again threatened use intimidation tactics against citizens for using camera to record them with absolutely zero legal grounds so i know your rights keep your police in check and next i just want to respond to my man who sat on. facebook your show comes on at five am in my country south

africa but it's worth waking up or every time keep up the fantastic work well thank you mike you keep watching and i'll keep doing my best to keep you entertained and informed about godly hour really i appreciate you watching and have more responses for all of you later in the week. now is ninety years ago when coal miners rose up in west virginia and what's called the largest armed insurrection since the civil war and i named their movement the battle of blair mountain and some quite a bit of launching the labor movement and creating the middle class but that battle still rages on some coal miner descendants along with activists and environmentalist marched over the weekend and what they're calling the second battle of blair mountain parties telling ford has won. in the mountains of west virginia a battle is raging. for the fate of a mountain it's called its job. and the soul of resistance in appalachians

the same. let's see. more than three hundred miners activists environmentalists marched up blair mountain to demand an end to mountaintop removal. technique that blasts right to get a call seems within which environmentalist say said debris raining down causing flooding in contaminating rivers water going through water they retrace the steps of more than ten thousand coal miners who in one thousand twenty one took up arms for the right to unionize and survive to fifteen thousand coal miners forming an army and marching up the mountain that's right behind me you know and fighting you know against an army paid for by a coal operators chuck ynys great grandfather led the charge is the president of the west virginia miners union but it's a history he didn't learn from textbooks this is a history that has been concealed from west virginians the only time you see the word union in the book is when they used union carbide the chemical company my

great grandfather my grandfather my father bob schultz worked in the mines for thirty seven years and we all know that's what we did this house in the city. i got it from the very same core that gave him black lung making breathing and working difficult there were a doctor that means. i agree and i can work in iraq. mr schultz is not able to work. but coal companies like yours say it's not because black on his wife debbie says he's paid with his health. but that he can't do what he wants. can't go where he wants to go like a prisoner and his own home perhaps family fight alongside checks in the minors war but bob won't be marching they want to save blair mountain which i agree with. but they want to stop me and my friends and my family from mining and that's how we

make really. cool is virtually the only living to be made in logan county ninety years later. thank you to some of the worst prescription drug abuse in america that's all there is how if you're not in a call to the drugs it's one or the other. nearly a century later at the coal companies still wield incredible influence and political power. marchers found public roads blocked boulders and campsites shut down the coal companies call them up and said if you let these marchers stay at your campsite in everybody in your family is going to lose their job which side are you. are you. are you. more than one hundred forty protesters trespass and coal company land like the miners that fought the coal companies before them ninety years ago these

activists say they intentionally wrist arrest by trespassing on the mines property to draw attention to the second battle of blair mountain if they resisted isn't ending anytime soon and that apple ratio will rise again i'm more so angry that. the people you know the people of appalachia the hillbillies have been beaten down for so long and been you know. been held under the boot heel of the coal industry for so long where mounting for both sides it's everything it's resources it's coal it's history and it's part of appalachian it's a battle that neither side is willing to surrender in ford artsy blair west virginia. move over tea party here comes the tequila party that's right there is yet another new political movement named after a drink. in this country and this one if you haven't figured it out is reaching out to the hits and community and it's not about supporting one party or the other it's about getting the growing hispanic population to actually go out and vote and let me give you a few numbers so you understand just how many people we're talking about

a latino population grew from thirty five point three million in two thousand to fifty eight point five million in two thousand and ten the number of latinos eligible to vote went from thirteen million in two thousand to twenty one million in two thousand and ten and yet in last november's midterm elections only thirty one percent of latinos actually cast a ballot so it seems like the only way to get politicians to move on immigration reform is for the hispanic population to move to the polls forced but do they actually want to do it joining me to discuss this is g.-d. garcia glaze founder of the take you live party thanks so much for joining us tonight right now so like i said this is the fastest growing population within the united states and we constantly hear so much rhetoric that politicians are going to have to start paying attention but you know we know what you're all about your organization is that you want to get the hispanic population to actually go out and vote but how do you plan to do that. well what we need to do is we need to motivate and right now is the number one issue especially. if you're pretty sure

we know a relative or friend that is going to protein when. we form a chance as a labor day we have received a we've already scored one hundred thousand so if you have a very very personal for us it's not only just the immigration issue that affects. issues like economy and jobs and well we know what we're like that for every one farm. that one farm working jobs agreement or income jobs so. that's what we're going to do you think we're all come rain me about you know preaching the issue and when president obama when asked where. he issued a call to action. do you think grassroots. and bipartisan support and

if. so why do you think it is that there doesn't seem to be the motivation to go out and vote is it because really it's all about motivation and people maybe are doctors that i can don't want to is there some type of some fear involved there too what's behind it all i think number one where pretty. you're pretty sure. we're sharing with. much of our. american born students in. america or the brands we're starting to address and work with. five hundred thousand of latin americans are turning five eight every coming of age there were a young group. now d.d. is there you know does your group have an enemy is there somebody that you're specifically pointing the finger at if you look at the tea party for example right there pointing the finger at government. specifically which is they why they want

to be a come been south they wanted a new breed of politicians in there you say that you're a bipartisan organization so i'm assuming you're not pointing fingers at just one party or the other but is it then coming down to picking one of you know one of whatever the worst evil is out of two. i agree that any. crowd and a lot of the party here are. right. so what we want to do is we want to do motivators so power ourselves get out and so you know we're doing more than just general election we want to grind through bait a little it's been a baby and we want to come. over and that's what partiers are good at but we need some kind of neutralize interfering crowd which they are. all

efficient. and being. specially want to like. we're going to being rational do to. and we want to give in the sort of political coverage in the only way that we're going to do that it. will weaken the government why i think you know part of the largest you mentioned he partiers are the largest group that is the anti immigrant crowd is the republican party for the democratic party although they haven't actually done anything with immigration reform it's the republican party that is against immigration reform it's the republican party if you we see you know talking about building the dam friends said you know spewing i guess anti immigrant rhetoric when we're there on the campaign trail or when they're putting into their videos so i mean you're you're a republican how are you republican if they constantly you know if their rhetoric is against you if the legislation that they support be it from state to state like arizona's law or alabama's immigration law really works against your interests well

i turned party preference as i said yesterday i truly want to bring. on and i want to own an immigration issue. president bush would immigration or. prime. or waiting for president obama. and yes you're absolutely right he has been extremely or fair to. go as far as quote unquote back here is really really. that. exam a credit party and their inaction i mean how do you explain the nine hundred thousand. i think i repeat unique opportunity here i really do believe they. are all. the party is more powerful and i see a unique opportunity with president obama in. the next day

a day where the immigrant rights and i really hold. we're going to argue i want to thank you very much for joining us and you know maybe the tequila party is actually going to force politicians to start moving on the issue will or really as like i said you know the best of two evils thanks so much for joining us . also to come on tonight's show an internist fired for retreating support of gays apparation media and goes on a homophobic rant that's coming up in our tool time award and then riding a bike in new york in a short skirt like it's rick take it and if a company should really have arnold schwarzenegger pushing father's day gets sick around for some fun and happy hour. you know some gives you a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then he. hears you some of the part of it and realize everything you saw you don't. charge is

a big. deal . and you know. fuck fuck fuck. fuck.

let's not forget that we live in apartheid. i think rocky. one hundred twelve. whenever the governor says they're going to keep him safe get ready because their freedom. time for tides tool time award and it goes to a florida republican congressman allen west since arriving in congress in january

the congressman has a history of outrageous behavior and comments and it's the ninety's of back in the headlines for his actions involving an intern now this is kind of a long story is a let me explain it to you last week the entertainment world was in an uproar after comedian tracy morgan made several comments that shocked nearly everyone during a comedy show in nashville and here's part of that rant as retold by c.n.n. who was about to interview a man who attended the show morgan said there is no way a woman could love and have sexual desire for another woman that's just a woman pretending because she hates an effing man he went on to save his son was gay he better come home and talk to him like a man and not here he may make the gay in a high pitched voice or he would pull out a knife and stab that little n. word to death. pretty appalling and over the top now tracy morgan has apologized but he's still taking a lot of heat from the public and all over the internet and the openly gay band

scissor sisters sent out a tweet late last week that red coats dear tracy morgan son if you are gay you can totally come live with me over to james baldwin to watch paris is burning x x and now this is where congressman west comes back into the story scene in turn and his office read tweeted this is her sister's tweet simple read tweet i would call that an endorsement of something outrageous that is unless you're a right wing tea party nut job like congress and west of town allow his followers to think that he might be ok with gay people so the retreat was quickly deleted and later in the day tweet from west account read very sorry about the unauthorized r.t.c. we were not hacked and in turn it made an error apologies to all so why do you need to apologize tracy morgan made. i don't think anyone is disputing that but the story isn't over there's now word that the in turn was fired from his or her actions and the interns name is not being released now the van later tweeted that west was in fort lauderdale florida with his staff and the interns were running the office that's funny interns are in charge of a u.s.

congressman office who knew but west has a long history of being a homophobe so he can't be seen as somebody who's showing sympathy to the gay community that we're just crushes whole i'm a bad ass crazy intolerant veteran image and he's you know i'm not sure that would sit all that well with the tea party crowd either so that's why florida republican congressman allen west if tonight's tool time winner maybe the congressman should promote the intern to his chief of staff because he or she obviously has some moral sense something that he's clearly lacking. ok it's monday and it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is nicole neily executive director at the independent women's forum and arcee correspondent christine for ladies thank you for joining me now i don't know if you guys watch the show than you probably know we do

a lot of hackers stories you're always talking about anonymous we're talking about little security and we've been trying to get a little sick on the show and they just keep playing jokes with me and telling me to put shoes on my head and stuff but now we found out that they actually used my voice. in this new song that they created oh take a listen today. i am i r r r r r r r. i mean i don't know kind of fine i guess i didn't i had no idea that i might have a career as a recording artist i owe you guys these are making a big thing you should not matter and i think this is their way of trying to say you know what we can't for security reasons or whatever be on your show. hey we still like you and we're going to use your voice and one of our own i know you're reaching out to new audiences i'll take it that also because all thank think you. know it was reserved let's move on to another story this is something that the

media went absolutely crazy over because we heard. a blogger in syria who goes under the name of a girl damascus was abducted and so because of course the media doesn't usually like to cover would necessarily what's going on in syria or bahrain or libya or yemen all that much less there might be a pretty gay girl that's got did they went crazy over it and then they had to walk it back let's take a look at a few clips. let me write you can see i mean i'd rather kill for social commentary jokes like a date in the states was abducted by. who calls herself a girl in damascus and on monday night she was said to be in the uk due in syria by men believed to be working for the government so why is the woman who were you sitting here tonight you are confident that this woman whose face appears on the blog of the gay girl in damascus as you is to says of some of them are pictures being taken last year paris the story of a lesbian voters and seriously it was

a hard pill to old americans how much more so than study in the university you claim this is so real so that hard you know if you know. we thought it was a gay girl in damascus that of course is just american guy that sitting around on his computer i don't want to hear you have to make fun of the media for falling for it because stories right i mean what do you think i think it's really fair i mean he had thought that he did it for vanity which is really disturbing but also i think it undermines the people who are out there in these really terrible situation is everything going to be questioned and not really taken seriously going for it though i'm worried about it i think a story is disturbing on so many levels i mean you touched on it a little bit with the media following this story as if this is the news and this is of course something that we you know the thing is have to be careful that we take blogs as gospel that we see a picture when we say oh this must be who is behind it so i think the media aspect is a little disturbing i think the fact that this guy was very well educated and wanted

to just show how good of a writer he was took someone's picture took someone's image and that has been associated with a girl who no joke i mean i've been following this story some people say you know gay in damascus is one of the reasons that this uprising this revolution in syria is happening people don't want the treatment like she's experiencing some be responsible or partially behind it revolution at least in the minds of the sun and the. it is a hoax well that's the crazy thing about these internet revolutions raise you have actually you don't really have any idea of who is writing about this who is writing about their experiences getting the people fired out you know we've done a lot of stories on this show too about how the pentagon actually has programs where they themselves get to go on to the internet to try to start conversations so who knows what the guy actually did issue an apology or to look at that really quick. read. you know a lot of. well i regret.

you know why that number of people are seeing him are. distracting from real. real stories. real. seems pretty van to me i don't like to go there just to see a year of college but i think it also as you mentioned it gives cover to the syrian government this is a plan. by american people who want to foment instability in our country and that that doesn't help anyone's cause either and maybe even makes them you know have a reason to say things are fine and anybody who can complains about it is actually lying it's just american guys sitting in scotland blogging about it but let's move on to something a little more if i write this i think this story is hilarious there's a dutch tourist young lady who's attractive who was riding a bicycle in new york and she actually got pulled over by a cop because she was wearing a short skirt and he said it's

a very disturbing and it's distracting the cars and it's dangerous i think what theory is that this is totally no one even knows if she would be breaking the law or not because there are so many crazy ridiculous laws that cities and states and that so is this would it be under you know just the really conduct or would it be something no one knows we have this is our code of laws here's the thing i don't believe the story i think is she works for a bike shop once every one to see her on her bike i mean if she's wearing that skirt i've lived in new york for several years people wear far more appalling things than that i mean from san diego where there are people who actually go roller blading every day and like a leather g. string and they don't get stopped but the fact that this girl was told that she was a distraction to drivers i mean there are women walking around riding around prancing around in the streets of new york city and far more disturbing things that i think i don't know what i don't like i mean the outfit there's nothing scandalous about it and she can't. police officer i mean. told her that she has

no name to give. anyone any good least. ok you know the funny idea i don't believe you can leave it out there though i wouldn't want to have to lastly just really quick. obviously a lot of scandal surrounding him and it turns out that he's in a father's day at the luggage maker koehler as has his dad love surprises you know who doesn't love surprises your wife when she finds out you have a love child that also the woman isn't working in her house for twenty years stupid move on a country. certainly i mean but i can't imagine that he actually posed for this and i mean i think the great oppose for like a while long time ago yes or i was going to go before and he can donate the proceeds from his speech to his family and their family though that's what. i said when you got short isn't it your life of the politician the right role thank you for joining me tonight thanks for having now to put a night show thanks for tuning in to make sure that come back tomorrow they've kept me from politically back on the show to discuss the republican primary debate

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