hello i'm tom are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture with seven days until america's financial foundation breaks president obama faces a hard work in the road illegal left to senator harry reid's plan or will he go right he needed john boehner is a billionaire friendly place and in light of the massacre and norway one has to question his right wing rhetoric in america fueling christian terrorism worldwide.

did agent know this after democrats said a short term debt limit deal that kicks the can down the road to be picked up again six months from now in the middle of an election season is a nonstarter yes what speaker of the house john boehner did yesterday he released a short term debt limit deal it kicks the can down the road to be picked up again six months from now in the middle of an election season. surprise that's right here days after boehner took his toys and went home breaking off negotiations with the white house and accusing the president of playing politics they are offered up a debt when a plan soaked in politics that includes no revenue raisers and doesn't solve our debt problem at all this prompted the president to speak to the american people last night to pitch his more balanced approach to a debt limit increase and rail against speaker boehner. and republican leaders say

that they agree we must avoid default but the new approach that speaker boehner unveiled today which would temporarily extend the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts would force us to once again face the threat of default just six months from now in other words it doesn't solve the problem in fact the credit rating agency standard and poor's warned that if they are spineless passed to avoid an immediate fault next week the agency will still downgrade our debt because the better plan is nothing more than a gimmick so would baiters plan a nonstarter and obama's big deal plans seemingly dead willing love to senator harry reid's plan which the president indorse last night in. the senate has introduced a plan to avoid default which makes a down payment on deficit reduction and ensures that we don't have to go through this again in six months. i think that's a much better approach but harry reid's plan isn't balanced either to point seven

trillion dollar deficit reduction package that depends on our wars ending massive spending cuts on working families with no money coming in from corporations millionaires or billionaires so why is it that with one week to go the only options left on the table as far as the debt limit agrees are the ones republicans like what happen to rich people joining in and shared sacrifice why is the president on this essential issue basically avion a fair offer his take on the issue is joshua editor and senior writer at net and the author of the book the fifteen biggest lies about the economy and everything else the right doesn't want you to know about taxes jobs in corporate america joshua welcome back. are you there. your audio seems to have roped let's. just double check with this.

instead the the institute for policy studies debt reduction plan it pays off our debt our fourteen trillion dollar debt in ten years let me just waste some of the stuff out for you or waiting for joshua show he's due for policy studies they put together a debt reduction plan pays off the fourteen trillion dollar debt in ten years fourteen trillion dollars in ten years seems unimaginable it's a massive amount of money how is that possible well they tax corporations millionaires and billionaires at the same rate that they were paying taxes in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. now interestingly there's a real contrast here heated by the president's plan doesn't tax millionaires billionaires or corporations at all the reid plan doesn't at all the better plan doesn't it all nobody wants to go near the millionaires billionaires but here these guys just ran the numbers back in one nine hundred sixty one they were fifteen

thousand seven hundred fifty three millionaires and they paid an average income tax this is actually pay and by the way these are all inflation adjusted numbers these are real numbers they paid an average income tax rate. tax of forty three point one percent today there are three hundred sixty one thousand millionaires and they're paying an average income tax of twenty three percent corporations in corporate profits and sixty one they were taxed at the rate of forty seven percent right now they're taxed at the rate of eleven percent so if we simply roll back our tax code to nine hundred sixty one when america was repairing i mean we were the engine of growth of the world the decade of the fifty's the decade of the sixty's in the negative the seventies were the three fastest decades of growth arguably in the nation's history certainly well actually arguably the entire nation's history returned and we would collect seven hundred billion dollars each year this is enough to nearly pay down the debt in a decade now but what's ironic about this is that the greater plan the republican

plan slashes spending back to one thousand nine hundred six levels when the one hundred million fewer people in the united states so it's really really right our ability to spend but it doesn't take our taxes back to the sixty's so as i point out the institute for policy studies says all you have to do is roll back taxes to sixty one now sixty one this is like ok roll back the bush tax cuts roll back the reagan tax cuts roll back the l.b.j. tax cuts the sixty four take us back to sixty one when we were doing just fine thank you very much and we will have no debt problem at all person who needs a dollar. so joshua holland are you with us again i am time you hear me i can i can hear you despite yeah it seems to be working now ok so so joshua the debt ceiling to drama goes on is this any way to run

a government. well it's not a way to run a government it's a good way to run a government into the ground you know there's a report out today that there would be approximately one hundred billion dollars in interest costs even if we don't define just by pushing this through to the final hour so what. while that's considerable. you write in your article for option out today about this i heard early. this driving president obama's posture on the debt ceiling and overall budget negotiations what is that now and we're going to get well i think that there's a very common myth in the beltway media that there exists this large body of so-called swing voters independent voters and they're supposed to be these surely centrist nonpartisan voters who are concerned about government spending gridlock in washington too much partisanship keeping things from getting done and it seems

that the obama administration has just some extent really embraced this idea this narrative and it is moving to the right as you mentioned of the proposal that he has put on the table is to the right of even republican voters what they want to see turn to raise the debt limit you know order to capture this elusive center in the two thousand and twelve election the problem is that political scientists have told us for many many years that the reality is that a lot of people call themselves independents the vast vast majority of them are not truly independent they favor one or the other party to a very great degree and the key point is that they their political preferences are basically identical to the party's base to those who call themselves democrats and republicans so while we see a different composition in any given election as democratic leaning independents

try now to. greater numbers or republican leaning independents turn out better numbers is this elusive mythical centrist voter doesn't really exist now you know part of the mythology behind that joshua was i think emerged during the reagan election you know one nine hundred eighty when reagan came to power and it was this idea that democrats were going for reagan the so-called reagan democrats and yet when reagan after he got his nomination at the r. and c. his first speech was in philadelphia mississippi old town of seven thousand people and he gave a speech about states' rights which is dog whistle code for for basically you know a racist agenda and what philadelphia mississippi is famous for is for three civil rights workers were murdered so basically reagan was reaching out to the races democratic base that that had been feeling left behind by when and johnson signing

the voting rights act of things like that. if that and we either of those are very good democrats or republicans these days i mean they have once again you know back in yeah yeah and so i mean you know if even that myth is a myth and then there's the myth you know of well then the reagan democrats became clinton democrats well maybe maybe not i mean how did the sea merge in for example you write today in your piece about tom friedman tom friedman was wrong about the lexus in his famous book olive tree lexus it was that the lexus was actually created with huge government subsidies in japan and protectionist policies how is tom friedman wrong now in this whole narrative. well tom friedman has written many many columns kind of giving all managed to this mythical centrist voter i think it's a valuable narrative when you're trying to push unpopular policies if you look right now we see this kind of mainstream media narrative again and again that this

standoff is a result of both parties intransigence both parties bases not accepting compromise the reality is that when you look at the polling on issues that are you know at play right now protecting medicare protecting social security. not extending the bush tax cuts for the chop one percent earners of the earners there these are these are how the decisions that have rod broad support among the american electorate when you look at how those things poll among republican voters they polled well so this is really an entrenched you know minority saying we need to slash these popular programs or else we're not going to raise the debt limit and i think that there's a tendency among you know mainstream media reporters to try to balance these are articles that they're writing so they say that you know it's both sides are pandering to their base because it's an easy narrative and it's easy to blame

washington partisanship says as opposed to what's actually happening i mean is it possible joshua that what's really going on here is that particularly after what happened to congressman peter de fazio in the last election where they you know they they took the craziest looniest right winger in oregon and turned him into a decent candidate with a lot of money is it possible that what's really going on the reason why they're really not we're talking about raising taxes on millionaires billionaires or corporations is because citizens united has given these guys such a large club that republicans and democrats are just terrified. well i mean that's certainly the case and where we're going in every election cycle we're going to see more and more corporate money entering the arena and influencing leeson these outcomes i do believe that it's only part of we're talking about the administration's willingness to go on and put social security medicare on the table i think only part of that about campaign fund raising and

a lot of it is this belief that they have to occupy the center will last for a dance that two point seven trillion in the in the social security fund really bad yes they do and they have for many many years. it's it's a big chunk and it's a big chunk of change and you know they would like to see it invested in private accounts where they can kind of siphon off their feet. this is it's an amazing amazing situation joshua you're writing is brilliant thanks so much for sharing it with us today thanks tom appreciate it there's a very easy solution to this debt limit debate that our lawmakers are ignoring and that's that's the whole thing that i just laid out take us back roll back the reagan tax cuts and if you are the bush tax cuts that's easy roll back the reagan tax cuts if you really want to get serious about it and you want to completely eliminate the debt ceiling rollback l.b.j.'s tax cuts and sixty four to take us back to where we were in sixty one or.

crazy alert not your typical hot dog anyone who's keeping track of the guinness world record for the most expensive dog there is big news today the previous record was a sixty nine hot dollars dog and that was smashed and the brockton rox a baseball team out of massachusetts managed to sell two that's right to eighty dollars hot dogs to fans at the ballpark but makes a hot dog worth eighty dollars you ask it's deep fried in truffle oil dusted with percy mushrooms topped with cram for today and you are the dog has been served but we believe he rolls made at one of the most expensive bakeries in the area unclear if the two customers insulted the chef by also slathering the dog with mustard gas but i think we've just discovered yet another needless and absurd expenditure of millionaires and billionaires and spend their bush tax cuts on rajouri dogs. coming

up what exactly drove anders breivik to go on a killing spree after the break i'll explain how the fingerprints of american rightwing islamophobia are all over last week's tragedy for a. website with twenty four seven live streaming news tells what to do about the ongoing financial hard unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find on. the. political. scene most aren't just. for. fun.

more details are emerging now about why anders breivik set off a car bomb next to a government building in downtown oslo last friday and then drove to a political youth retreat on a remote island and gunned down nearly seventy teenagers to cap off the worst day of violence the nation norway has seen since world war two turns out breivik was taking his orders from the very same right wingers who are spewing hate here in the united states. fifteen hundred page manifesto included several references to well known american cranks like pamela geller frank gaffney and david horowitz the

manifesto also cited right wing american organizations like the foundation for the defense of democracies the middle east media research institute and pajamas media basically the manifesto reads like a who's who of radical right wing bloggers condon's and phony experts who set up shop not in norway but right here in america to spread fear and hatred of muslims breivik also used his manifesto to attack climate change citing how the two thousand and nine so called climate gate scandal proved that manmade climate change is a hoax it's unclear if private concrete arrived to that conclusion by watching fox news's endless stream of coverage devoted to so-called climate gate but what is clear is a lot of the arguments and ideas breivik claims motivated him can be heard every single day and fox news and the rest of the right we need. so what we have here is a frightened and angry man who lashed out at his progressive our region government

with unspeakable violence and who got many of his ideas from the very same people who are fomenting hate against muslims and progressives here in america and it could be just a matter of time before the senseless violence of the last week in norway crosses the atlantic and hits our shores the organization people for the american way just released a report of what they're calling the right wing playbook an anti muslim extremists included in this report is a section titled eight key strategies employed by the right to inflame antimissile and sentiment and turn a hatred and bigotry into political weapons and as we saw in norway that strategy can yield violent unintended consequences transforming political weapons into actual weapons so let's take a look at strategy one frame of muslim americans as dangerous to america this one is fairly obvious

a better way to highlight the danger of muslim americans than to have a sitting republican congressman use his power as chairman of the house homeland security committee to launch hearings into the radicalization of american muslim communities. this is exactly what peter king is doing with the support of his entire party. i believe it's important to have this investigation on radicalization of the most in community we've seen what happened in england we know that al qaida is trying to recruit people over here such as they did with the subway bombing in new york whereas here the attempted subway bombing times square bombing these are all people living legally in the united states not to mention the countless times the fox news has spread the fear of american muslims. not all muslims are terrorists good all terrorists are muslim if you are an eighteen to twenty year old muslim a and you should be strip searched and if we don't do that through a very high probability we're going to lose an airline so once the fear is

a stablished once we're all afraid that the muslims are going to take down our airplanes then you have to back it up with research which brings us to the second part of the right wing plan strategy to twist statistics and use fake research to prove the muslim threat now with the end of last year when glenn beck gave this very unscientific analysis of muslims and terrorism what is the number of of islamic terrorists one percent i think it's closer to ten percent but the rest of the p.c. world will tell you oh no it's minuscule that even close it actually is minuscule about the way our nation focuses on islamic terror you think one was right but the truth is muslims are the least of our nation's worries when it comes to terrorism as this chart based on f.b.i. data shows only six percent of terrorist attacks six percent between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five were carried out by islamic terrorists

just six percent. it's just this month right winger david year is shot shaunie released a scientific study alleging that eighty one percent of u.s. mosques fit speech or tax the promote support violence. you can find similar language of the bible by the way it was picked up by numerous online right wing blogs including many of the same blogs the graphic was written course this study had no scientific evidence whatsoever to support it and the guy who wrote it david your shawnee had a history of anti muslim writings and is behind a lot of the anti shari'a law legislation that is sweeping the country which brings us to strategy three invent the danger of creepiness shari'a as i said a number of republican controlled state legislatures around the country have passed laws in the last year or so banning the practice of shari'a law to america but there's a big movement to make it happen right also

a number of prominent conservative commentators and politicians have warned us of the dangers sure you know what the stealth jihad agenda is all about is exactly that making bringing in piece by piece and bit by bit elements of this moment and reinforcing the principle in all of these small incidents that whenever it's not make law and american lower custom collide it is american law that has to give way and this law make a law that has to be accommodated by american authorities and institutions those dangerous scenario is that radical muslims seize power and put sharia law into place so give me the scenario that makes this necessary in oklahoma here's mission statement they're not here just to be one of many religions but here to be the dominant religion. it's picture there are strategies for five and six of this right wing plan for us all to fear muslims which are defend liberty by taking freedoms away from muslims claim that is law is not

a religion and maintain that muslims have no first amendment rights under the constitution as in stop muslims from building mosques and worshiping openly in the united states remember what herman cain said recently about the mosque controversy in murfreesboro tennessee. islam is both a religion and set of laws shari'a law that's the difference between in one of the other traditional religions where it's just about religious purposes that people in the community know best and i happen to sabah that people didn't get it so you're saying any community if they want to ban a mosque yes they have the right to do that it's apparently guy never heard of the ten commandments any how far it's news and conservative talk radio whipped up opposition to what they call the ground zero victory mosque a phrase by the way that's only ever been used by right wingers. the idea that our committed when they were serving overseas you toying with them and you could have

put a monument to the terrorists at that site in nine eleven something. more expedient to build a. tells me to blow up america. i got a real problem that there was that your view that the us is being funded by terrorists we have to investigate that the background of the people who are coming forward is stephanie questionable this is an actual danger this is a danger because we now have evidence that there's something else going on here and we cannot reject our god they want to build a victory monument. and we can't see no to that because somehow we've got to freeserve our values it's all part of the plan it clear that islam is not a religion then take away freedom from muslims because they don't have a legitimate claim to the first amendment essentially making muslim second class citizens in the united states once the second class citizens what's the big deal if you attack or even kill then there is strategy seven link anti muslim prejudice

to anti obama rhetoric see if. obama into the most. well now we know where the whole muslim obama is a muslim idea came from or the whole obama has anti-american beliefs idea came from . it is totally absurd it's beyond belief that a christian into the united states would say that and it shows that obama might be might be the first anti-american president we've ever had i think i think the people that barack obama has been a throw thier thing with are anti-american by and large the people who are radical left that i'm focusing our morocco obama and the people that he's going to tell when you get out of people you fire when they're anti-american nature while he's the united states for the record obama is a christian muslim which brings us to the final strategy and it's weird that i even have to say that but you know about half of the republican party thinks he's muslim

and which brings us to the final story and that's the one that's most pertinent to what we saw in norway strategy eight claim and unholy alliance that exists and includes muslims and other groups targeted by the right wing after all if you could prove an unholy alliance that makes the progressives just as guilty as the islamic terrorists those justifying violence against progressives as we saw in norway on friday. what we're seeing with this hate campaign carried out by the radical islamic phobic right is terrorism it's a unique form of terrorism known as stochastic terrorism stick casta terrorism is defined as using mass communications like t.v. the internet and radio to encourage lone wolfs whether or not they're mentally ill lone wolves to commit random acts of violence along your political lines it's what

bin laden has to do when he releases videotapes hoping the some troubled person would get the message and carry out a suicide attack it's also a bill o'reilly is guilty of when he voted several short shows to call an abortion doctor george tiller tiller the baby killer someone eventually got the message and shot george tiller to death is one glenn beck is guilty of but he mentioned the tides foundation twenty nine times on his t.v. show calling the organization part of a liberal conspiracy that prompted byron williams to stock his car full of ammunition and drive to san francisco on a mission to murder every one of the tides foundation luckily he was stopped on the way and was arrested after he fired more than two hundred rounds into police cars and wounded to police officers this is what the police are excuse me but the people behind the anti muslim hate machine want they want their message to be heard by lone wolf crazies willing to act on the warnings tragically for norway those

words fell on the ears of anders breivik. and if we don't start calling these insiders of violence what they are the next mass murder may happen here in the u.s. . it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's the question does america the world need to wake up and take a stand not against muslims but against hatred your choices are yes this white christian fundamentalist is a terrorist no different than any other terrorist or no bring on the king hearings about muslims log on to target dot com let us know what you think the poll be open until tomorrow morning. there is racism still exist in america after the great cull tell you what exceptional honor was denied to an arkansas high school student which unfortunately leads us to the answer of yes it still exists.

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