so i don't need a military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government's true if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. getting some pleasure see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you've lived something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. says. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and.

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hard time for show and tell on tonight's program now last time we interviewed an average american who expressed his anger towards congress via you to tell since that video has become a hit we want to know if more americans should be telling the same thing but a producer for truth in a sense you to find out what you thought the best way for the typical american to have their voice heard by washington and the media was. there's a lesson to be learned from this guy jim garvin who we had only so and he's an african-american who told the president over you tube that is hell and i'm not going to take it anymore candidate his politics and motivations you can't ignore a guy who pulls in over a million hits on you tube so garvin decided to go viral or go home we asked her viewers if they had any other ideas scott please

a massive peaceful protest would do the trick april said vote and robert bennett you agree throw the bums out he said and vote only for a third party masons guy said create your own movement and blogs you can trust mainstream media or corporate politicians to look out for regular americans regardless of your approach to me dr paul he summed it up this way the way to get heard in washington and by the media is by getting off your butts and standing up for what we believe in no matter what that may be so if there's one average citizen can voice is frustration with the government and get millions of hits what do you think will happen if dallas and other ordinary people do the same thing and receive millions of hits in response do you think that will get the attention of washington in the media only a clue just be the start of something really big. all right here's our next question for you tonight earlier we spoke about the riots happening in london and then as losses like buildings homes cars shops have been looted and burned stories

are looking for culprits one media outlet posted on their website prove people to help the author already find out who those who they are now that makes us want to know what you think about that should the media cooperate and work with off and track down the writers who can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows a response just by making our name. now the war against privacy it's no secret that the government found a friend an internet service providers we discussed how countries all over the world including of the u.s. have been playing with the idea of obtaining personal data from common i. that latron a communications privacy act of one nine hundred eighty six allows federal law enforcement to obtain that information without a warrant if they deem it necessary in emergency situations over what's considered an emergency is left to the discretion of federal law enforcement alone which makes me think about leaves a lot of room for abuse a rare safeguard placed within the patriot act back in two thousand and five made

it necessary for i use these to record what information was shared as representative dan longer and put it i felt that some accountability is necessary to ensure that this up already is not being abused i don't believe on its face it is an abuse of section but i do believe that it could be subject to abuse in the future and therefore this allows us as members of congress to have an ability to track this on a regular basis well thanks to longer course i we've learned that law enforcement very well may have overstepped their bounds christopher seagal fell over the center for applied security research and a frequent guest on this show down some disturbing numbers and it came to the d.-o. g.'s warrantless surveillance tactics of the information obtained via the freedom of information act which we should know took him almost a year to get going found that there were seventeen emergency warrantless wire wiretaps by the d.o.j. in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven there were nine cases two thousand and eight there were seventeen cases but there were ninety one emergency

in two thousand and nine meaning that there was a four hundred percent increase in warrantless surveillance by the d.o.j. all the course of one year now that a new employee over at the d.o.j. learned about this emergency claim why else could there be such a dramatic increase well let's give him a if there was a change of command that you're in the oval office obama came to town and you have to wonder why the obama administration had so many more emergency use than their predecessors did it and that's the going points out this data can be misleading because the problem is most likely much worse than it looks he doesn't even include the warrantless wiretapping requests from state and local levels of law enforcement . only the request from the department of justice so there could be massive use of this emergency clause that we could have no clue about it's almost like somebody of the obama administration has decided that a lot of situations suddenly constitute an emergency it does not reflect very well on obama's already less than stellar record on civil liberties and it's just another example of the u.s. government using every trick in the book to spy on you without

a warrant and do their very best to make sure that you never find out about it. now they're calling it the russian jersey shore twelve episode series on lifetime it's going to premiere this august eleventh called russian balls and it takes place in brighton beach new york the largest russian american community to take a look. splash people were in america. we struck great service great food i'm not to the point was what are you going to be kidding me if they can't use you. you will get this milkshake it's going to go. looks a lot like the other reality t.v. shows out there big hair big characters and a lot of big jewels reportedly it's already causing some controversy with protest mail being sent to lifetime executives by politicians activists and community groups so why did such a big deal and who are these people anyway joining me from our studio in new york

is marina levitt is owner of rescue and star of the new reality show russian dolls premiering on the lifetime network this thursday a marine i want to thank you so much for joining us and like i said they're describing this as the russian version of the jersey shore new york's answer to the jersey shore that how you describe it. now that i don't live in what jersey shore i feel like ours so is so much more than jersey shore we're going to have a little bit of everything for everybody if you like but for family drama we have that if you want to what jersey shore for young people going out and having a good time we have that as well if you watch the housewives for drama between women we have a lot of that so i think our show is unique because in one show you have three or four differentials combined into one. and i'm just curious why why you yourself personally decide to be on the show because let me read some of the descriptions of

a row in the casting call the questions were are you the russian snooki or the situation and are you a super outgoing and fun loving russian american that sometimes sneaks called what could be meaning and vodka from the fridge that i was like you. know and that it feel like this was the casting for younger characters like is that where mateo generational show we have kids in there it's one years we have me who is in my early thirty's we have my mother in law who is in her fifty's we have two of the cast members in their late forty's with grown families and their kids are married off and have their kids so it's multi-generational it's a little bit of everything for everybody of a year and a half ago the two creators of the show came to rest heard a lot about the vin service and they know that we have a beautiful environment wonderful food wonderful and third team and we have amazing

group of people that cons to us every single weekend to party and they wanted us to be a part of the just to show this side of russian american community. now i'm just curious do you do you personally think that you represent a big portion of the russian american community here in the u.s. would you want to teach americans about russian culture or is this you know to get on t.v. and be able to promote your restaurant. to be honest with you i think that me personally i am russian american i was great here when i was fourteen years old so i grew up half in virus share and have in america so i am a perfect representation of what a russian american is i have both my russian culture and my american culture and this makes me a russian american now is that everybody else like me no absolutely not i'm a unique character and one of eight mean characters on the show everything go by on

the bus is different every single one of us and something else to bring to the t.v. we have families that we have young people looking for a lot of we have grown women raise families in the living for themselves so it's a little bit of everything and average age every category. that everybody will find something in our show that they can relate to it's just given to them from our perspective from russian american perspective so why do you think that some people are so angry about the fact that this program is going to exist like i mentioned you know there were letters from activists and communities within brighton beach and even politicians writing to lifetime trying to get this to never ever air. i think that people are ignorant they haven't seen it yet they're afraid of what could it be is that the nags are these stories that worse than jersey shore they're comparing us to things that are out there but we're very unique there is no show

out there that has all of the things that we have we are three or four shows combined into one so that makes this very unique and again interesting for everybody. as soon as the show ears a lot of these politicians and a lot of these so-called community members they've done this the that there is nothing world ball that we shouldn't be defending ourselves we have a right to exist we have a right to be on air there is nothing in our show this is going to make us look worse than would any other group of people in america looks like i feel like we have a right to be here will prove them all wrong i think we're going to do a me thing and their ratings will be the proof the word to every thursday on lifetime at ten thirty straight after project runway. armory and i want to thank you very much for joining us and you know as a russian american myself i'm very interested in checking this out when it does

finally air good luck with that thanks. now still to come tonight presidential candidates views on race and slavery are called into question yet again find out why and who it is inside full time war and unhappy our facebook pages per person in grade class and more fallout over the scary michele bachmann photo on the cover of newsweek i was back in just a moment. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you do something else here's some other part of it and realized everything is wrong you don't. charge because of the. world. and yet.

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safe get ready for freedom. i did time for tonight's truth i'm awarding tonight because to michele bachmann now we bashed the right wing cannot congresswoman and presidential candidate several times on this show but tonight she has just given us our firepower to say michelle has to have a different view of most of the world than most people do understand on slavery issues well it's troubling to say the least i don't believe wait let me present some facts here when michelle made a few crazy comments of the founding fathers here in the us or its tyrus plea to

enslave slavery. we know their wrists lavery that was still tolerated when the nation began we know that was an evil and it was a school and a block and a stain upon our history but we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents and worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united states. yeah that's not really the true feat founding fathers george washington and thomas jefferson owned slaves and when the constitution was ratified in seven hundred eighty eight it stated that the slaves were three fifths of a person and a slavery issue wasn't settled until the civil war seventy seven years later but the facts don't matter michelle's view of slavery see just a few months ago michelle made another gaffe involving flavor a family leader a conservative group in iowa wanted all presidential candidates to sign a pledge to protect marriage and families but

a line in that document about slavery caused quite the uproar it read slavery had a disastrous impact on african-american families yet sadly a child born into slavery eight hundred sixty was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two parent household than was an african-american baby born after the election of the u.s.a.'s first african-american president. that's just simply not true countless families were broken apart under slavery and that obviously didn't go over well and michelle quickly had to backtrack and she claimed that it was simply a mistake by fast forward to today when the new yorker's ryan lizza uncovered a book and michelle put on her must read list back in two thousand and two you have the time she was a minnesota state senator and she recommended the book call of duty the sterling nobility of robert e. lee and there's a passage in that book that read slavery as it operated in the pervasively christian society which was the old south was not an adversarial relationship founded on racial animosity and in fact it grabbed on the whole not contempt but

over time mutual respect and this produced a mutual esteem of the sort that ollie's results when men give themselves to a common cause and the credit for the startling reality must go to the christian faith right yeah i'm pretty sure the slaves were abused and sold off and forced to work for free and poor living conditions didn't have a lot of respect for their owners and the fact michele bachmann actually put that book on a must read list that wasn't of the state to this woman has a worldview to justify slavery period and it's not just a one off pledge that she didn't read well and offer a one off comment to a writer the truly sad part about her views as if there are other people out there and share them too so there's this rich christian history of justifying the existence of slavery and michele bachmann has joined that history and that's why we're giving her tonight's tools on war.

ok time for happy hour this evening and joining me is our to preserve jenny churchill and alex lights wall reporter and blogger for think progress dot org and the progress report thanks for joining me guys speaking of michele bachmann you know there is a lot of a lot of crazy things that she says. that are just dead on right on the spot you can see them easily but then of course some people take pictures of her to try to make her look even though yesterday we were talking about the newsweek cover causing a lot of uproar because people think that they tried to make her look crazy on purpose and it's easy to say that she just is crazy but the other picture where she has her hands together there and is praying is one of the ones that was actually left out and some people said that that was a sign of sexism in the mainstream media. i don't know about sexism i do think it's kind of sad that that picture is the picture that we're saying is better and that they should have you think it's actually really awful. kind of i don't know i got

to be against music on this one like as a member of the real leftist media you know the mainstream media subjected to criticism of being liberal all the time and usually that's totally b.s. but here like you're just inviting criticism you're putting a picture that you know is on fire and it's just like more ammunition for the sarah palin's michele bachmann to the world and just the real. story groupie right because look at this whole segment tool time that we just did of all these crazy statements michele bachmann has made supporting slavery what she says what she represents is crazy you know you don't know what a bad picture out there is right they were just trying to accurately represent michele bachmann let's so wrong with that i don't understand i don't think i mean i think that it was probably malicious. i mean i think if she looks crazy and her cover looks crazy i don't really see what's so wrong with that i was similarly they were better photos out yet this is they decided to choose a bad photo should be directed you know realistically what are you trying to decide

if you have photos that look like what michele bachmann actually starting look i know there are hundreds of better photos of michele bachmann out there and they went out of their way to find an unflattering sexism i don't know if it's sexism noticed or true. but it definitely was a bad choice now let's move on to some michele bachmann obviously is running for president michael moore has his own idea of someone you think should run for president take a look. michael have you actually had conversations with matt damon about. you know what i think. he's been. courageous and caring about him coming out and saying things that need to be said the republicans are certainly shown the way that when you run someone who is popular. you win. so basically he thinks that matt damon should be president instead. i don't agree with that you know i've heard some people thought i grew up maybe george clooney would make a good politician and he's just so much more of

a likable character that day when i was just going to say there's no way i can spark matt damon other than the fact that i disagree with his stances but i'm george clooney all the way and for going with a running go find out if you're good looking just because good looking. i mean you better i don't know i was with you until i started looking into matt damon's political forum which was in the very least how you're expanding hand i think he's pretty smart i think he knows what he's talking about he was just at this rally in d.c. this week and he was approached by a bunch of conservatives who were upset with him and he's right back there with them he knew what he was talking about and you know i mean they were really angry words to confuse the teacher argument i think a fair you know i think that there is an argument on his part of that debate i just don't think he made it in the best way possible to the most complicated way possible for people to think he was smart not necessarily right about the rhetoric again which is like what i think your president to i think is reason to be the one who approached him was not really early as he was here on the show but it was i

think she was clearly expecting him to not know what he was talking about so he was using big words to show that he knew what he was like i think she was it was like he was using take words to be like smart am i think it will hunting and get. their wives back story hope is now in the middle of a controversy because there was an internal memo that was sent out an internal e-mail it's probably best that we don't specifically call out or promote ramadan we shouldn't highlight ramadan and signage in our stores that could be considered celebrating or promoting ramadan in this because there are you know selling whole offer all this and i actually went on twitter and whole foods has now launched this massive p.r. campaign to try to correct that. he said it was just we had twelve regions and it was just this one group that sends out that e-mail and it was kind of a mistake this one group where you know ramadan soon actually evil and or i you know taliban's trying to infiltrate through

a whole foods across the road that one area saying that you can still sell the products that we don't want to be specifically promoting them only for ramadan just for anybody who might want those products but it's kind of funny because most people think the whole foods has kind of a liberal image i don't think i that's the mystery of but this is my favorite thing because take a look at this you. know you should. you still. feel it's not the ramadan promoting whole foods you know i mean i would expect better from whole foods like there's this massive islamophobia campaign going on and i would expect them to hold out for this we went back and forth with the spokesperson from whole foods this afternoon actually and they said ok we're still promoting the whole food but not ramadan because we don't support in the holidays you google whole foods christmas the first thing that probably is a blog post says merry christmas i think it's like yeah gotten completely out of control with this holiday thing now when i'm walking into a store and i say merry christmas i feel uncomfortable because you're not supposed

to say that and i think that there are you know you have to have a menorah if you don't have a christmas tree you know whatever i think america is a country of many religions and everyone should be allowed to celebrate whichever religion they choose at any time and i think it's ridiculous i mean if we're going to go here with the whole also we might as well you know make sure they don't sell kosher hotdogs at all parts it's you know it's just ridiculous i don't know but it's very true his whole group goes totally out of their way what if thanksgiving time right or during october around how we'd or definitely most definitely for christmas so why not the ramadan no let's move on to the story there are a lot of books that often get banned in this country unfortunately by stupid people in stupid states and the most recent one they cannot hold the c.e.o. of bitter about is sorry. actually the most reason why is i in missouri schools and they said they banned it for creating false conceptions of american history and government or because the book teaches principles contrary to biblical morality and

truth which i'm sorry this is a science fiction book so if you honestly think that it creates false conceptions of american history who the hell are these teachers that are trying to give it to their kids and you know it's all this is a religious true historical account this is a science fiction book supposed to make you think of what the world could end up like right yeah i mean it's really frightening and i think the single most scary thing in this country is when people try to censor books from kids we should be happy that kids learn to read books and first of all if you banned a book when i was in high school that was the first book i wanted to read that's for sure obviously that's how kids function yeah i mean you can see a false conception of gravity and of time and whatever also it's really sort of this is kind of the same thing as well with this one guy complained and then the school district bent over backwards and the guy also said about the different book of the also bad if they change the ending you know maybe i'd be ok with it which shows that he is the result think about the actual content there was a problem he just disagreed with it you know there wasn't actually anything offensive in it it's just so frightening that one person can affect policy and the

school where they were going to discuss this book and talk about kind of the underlying meanings i know now they don't get to talk about it all in these kids are just going to go read it on their own but this is what happens all the time i actually want to get library has about one hundred fifty copies that they're volunteering to send out to people which i think is a good thing we've seen you know the diary of anne frank be banned in certain places because what they used the birds or china or something and so somebody didn't like it but you know when you talk about just a couple people having power of this like what we saw in texas with the board of education there were a few people were deciding to rewrite all the history books craziness you know just open books just don't ban books their books let there be a. time for other topics now it will have to carry carry through with them tomorrow thanks for joining us. that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure that you come back tomorrow and experience in the young turks to be back on the show in the meantime don't forget become a fan of the lower show on facebook out of followers on twitter and if you missed any of that i'm sure any other night you know he's catching all the you tube dot

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