if you look. nobody seems to know. what it would cost me to face the argument that you're being overly dramatic. and it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments on facebook twitter and you tube because when you've gotten to say i listen now first on respond to a viewer who although in the minority has taken issue with our coverage of occupy wall street movement keith h. said on facebook why are you giving this i watched a group of no hopers and ne'er do wells so much coverage they are less likely to achieve anything with their so-called protests and they are to find work or

a bar of soap and a shower. now heath let me respectfully disagree with you in pretty much every way possible i cover the occupy wall street protests because i think this is an important movement that is not properly properly or accurately covered by the mainstream media and i actually went down to occupy wall street myself last week and i assure you that people are not just a group of i'm showered freeloaders as you like to believe this is a group of americans who are sick and tired of the policies and the system to pay fell have left them out in the cold and as i said on friday show these are people who still see hope for change in that system and that's something we're covering so he could write them off with the rest of the media is a bunch of hippies who have no chance of creating change but i'm going to tell you i saw myself on the ground a group of concerned citizens who are the eyes of not only washington and wall street but now the world and that's certainly worth covering the next time to respond if you are who watched our interview last week on hank skinner the man said to be executed in texas on november ninth just quite serious questions about his

you know who have been a six six said on you tube i'm conservative but opposed to state sanctioned murder and i think after the execution of troy davis or hearing the sentiment expressed more often and more vocally by conservatives all across the country those who actually believe in the idea of small government small government and all of its forms including in the way the government carries out justice and the numbers reflect that you see last week we reported to you that approval for the death penalty has reached a thirty nine year low with only sixty one percent of all americans supporting the death penalty so as more cases like those of troy davis and hank skinner become known to the public one can only hope that americans will start to see that our justice system is far from perfect the death penalty especially now finally i want to respond to a viewer who watched our coverage of on street on friday ambrose said on facebook i want to thank for the great coverage of occupy wall street i always learn from you keep up the great work as we just get bigger and hopefully change the way politicians represent us now i responded to a viewer who wasn't so happy with our coverage earlier but let me say that on the

whole we received an overwhelmingly positive response to our show from friday so thank you so much for watching and we hope to get out of the studio report from the ground more often in the future that's it for my rantings tonight i'll be back with more later this week. now on saturday the associated press reported that the u.s. troops still stationed in iraq were going to come home. the obama administration is dropping its plans to keep u.s. troops in iraq past a year and withdrawal deadline this despite ongoing concerns about iraq's security forces and overall stability and will effectively end more than eight years of u.s. involvement in the iraq war. that's right a.p. or part of the plan to keep thousands of u.s. military members in iraq have been scratched and it said only one hundred sixty troops would remain at the u.s. embassy in baghdad who were very down in negotiations between the two countries rather shocking revelation considering that it's been reported that the obama administration was heavily leaning towards keeping thousands of troops in the

country after the original withdrawal deadline of december thirty first that by the way is the date that was decided back in two thousand and eight so in the past we've heard gates stayed with the u.s. would keep troops in iraq if requested by the iraqi government most recently we are panetta had signed off on keeping training forces in iraq past the deadline as well on top of statements made less than a week ago by prime minister prime minister maliki saying that u.s. military trainers might stay in his country past the deadline for all of that by the the a.p. report although much more of a surprise but just after a report of the troops are leaving iraq officials in the pentagon move very quickly to deny those claims pentagon press secretary george little said suggestions that a final decision had been reached about our training relationship with the iraqi government are wrong those discussions are ongoing so the hot topic right now is whether or not u.s. troops assigned a training iraqi security forces would be granted legal protection something the pentagon says is necessary in order to keep the forces there meanwhile iraq's

political party leaders have already said that they're not ready to give us troops those kinds of safeguards so i hate to say a but looks like it's too early to be celebrating the end to an unnecessary war because it looks like the u.s. still doesn't know what the hell they're going to do after how many years of dedicating american efforts to rebuilding that country helping to stabilize their government it looks like the u.s. still can't negotiate a deal with the government the day support so i say let's just get the forty one thousand troops back home at the end of the year just like the original plan. now this weekend we saw a lot of herman cain as the media cannot stop obsessing over his place in the polls which is currently at number one but perhaps the reason that he should be everywhere is to show you just for today's republican party has become an extreme version of what it once was take a look at herman cain's latest statement on immigration and then how he tried to walk it back. oh.

wow. this is good. he says that. he says it is what it. says. and now he later claims that it was a joke but joke or no joke what's happened to treating this like a human issue how much further the rhetoric possibly go joining me is and sanchez contributor at daily dot com i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and so herman cain i mean you could say he's just the flavor of the week why even bother paying attention to this man proportionally at the moment he is number one in the polls and so to have somebody who is a presidential contender who at the moment is number one saying stuff like that joking joking or not joking about electrocuting immigrants or trying to cross the

fence doesn't make you phil. well i think what's really going on here is he may say that he was joking just as he was joking when he suggested that we should build a moat around the border and the alligators and it what's really going on is that there's no way for a rational immigration policy to the rabidly right wing as i have regrets the party and still expect to have their support so for me what's the most troubling about the tape that you just played is despite the fact that he may be joking i don't hear people laughing and i hear people clapping. if we want to give you an example of the people out there that might be clapping or saying that you know about herman cain has a good idea let's take a look at something that sheriff joe arpaio who by now become a household name from arizona where he had to say about. i'm sure he was joking but he probably. has to do something at the border it's illegal

immigration. so god said to joe arpaio he thinks this means that herman cain is really taking the immigration issue seriously in this country whooping has happened why has it moved so far to the right why is there this rather type of language if you think about it we hear all the time right from our politicians about how big of a threat terrorism is how big of a threat al qaeda is but you never even hear the rhetoric there talk to escalate to the point of you say just a lecture to the damn people all right well i think part of the problem is that republicans think it's ok because immigrants can't vote and therefore it's ok to say it's ok for someone to say what herman cain or joe arpaio said it's ok for a republican to say that we should click on undocumented immigrants as one said earlier this year or that we should shoot them like feral hogs as another one said but the fact of the matter is it's not ok and it's not ok because that has consequences and one of those consequences has been a string of hate crimes against the latino community that has been linked to this

kind of anti immigrant vicious rhetoric so it's not funny it's not a laughing matter it's. you know aside from i think some of the violent language the vitriol that we're hearing out there you also have this idea of comprehensive immigration reform which even george w. bush tried to pass completely gone out the window and now you know if you want to talk about overhearing at our presidential republican debates i'll give you an example. i would build a fence on america's southern border i'm every my own on every yard and every thought on every inch of the southern border the idea the answer is yes you're going to build a wall you feel it's for twelve hundred miles and then go eight hundred miles more to tijuana does not make sense. so thank god you have rick perry there who you know unfortunately of the situation comes out to be the more normal one but

still when you have a presidential debate it's all talking about whether we need a fence or not what happened to comprehensive immigration reform we think. well i actually think it's surprising that rick perry is going to comes off supposedly soft on immigration his immigration policy is actually quite center right and it's quite ironic that mitt romney of all people is going to tackling him when he supported comprehensive immigration reform up until two thousand and seven and his own family benefited from the generous immigration policy of mexico back when they were fleeing u.s. anti-polygamy lives so what happens well i think for the past few years republicans have obstructed immigration reform because they know that if that happens it's a win for obama and they're not about ready to hand that and i think instead they focus on animating their right wing anti immigrant base and you know that may work in local elections or state elections it may work in the primaries but i'm doubtful

that it will work on a general election where they're going to have to win the votes of latino well i wonder what you think about that too you know come two thousand and twelve we've heard a lot from the community that they're really unhappy with president obama because he hasn't delivered what they've wanted terms of comprehensive immigration reform in terms of even getting the dream back to pass so will they still vote for him just because the republicans are worse. well i think what obama has to do is remind whites you know sort of what he stands for and how the g.o.p. has obstructed it he stands for comprehensive immigration reform and a path to legalization he stands for the dream act and republicans have done nothing but pull every stunt to try and extract him from doing that i also think well ultimately man's of happening is what happened in two thousand and ten and that's really didn't necessarily vote for democrats but they still came out in record numbers to vote against republicans and i think it's very likely that we'll see that happen again in two thousand and twelve. and i thank you so much for

joining us tonight thanks for having me. abraham lincoln. born. into it only. a little. north by government. would kill. her. exceptional.

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nobody seems to know. if it will help us make the face but hold the argument that they're being overly dramatic. i five if i told my war and tonight it goes to rick santorum for the g.o.p. presidential candidate has the euro a chance of winning the nomination but refuse to experience even for the republican party and that's saying a lot see it almost every debate and campaign about he launches into an attack on marriage equality rick has actually made gay rights a central issue of his campaign i support a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage i think that it marriage should

be a consistent thing across the country marriage is the union of one man and one woman it's essential for the family is essential for the stability of our of our culture to to make sure that children are given the best hope which is a mom and a dad and now all rick has a right it's a voice voice his hateful opinion his positions on gay marriage or on obsession over the course of the campaign he's made several strange analogies on the issue on something convince the american people of the institution of marriage is just not compatible with gay people. marriage is what marriage is a marriage existed before there was a government so i think you know painting up this in the same this glass of water is a class a beer while you can carve out a glass of beer this is not a glass of beer it's a glass a lot and water is what water is marriage is what marriage is. luckily for us his analogies are so nonsensical if there is no chance they convinced anybody of his position whatever that might be but over the weekend rick santorum had another interesting comparison to make about gay marriage after g.o.p.

front runner herman cain appeared on meet the press this weekend santorum took issue with cain's stance on gay marriage she can't think of the issue should be decided the state level not the federal level and that sent rick off on a tirade he said in the statement i have been a long time advocate for states' rights however i believe as abraham lincoln did that states a don't have the right to legalize moral wrongs so rick santorum is actually comparing himself to abraham lincoln sixteenth president president the united states the man who freed the slaves i mean come on i don't flatter yourself and let's not forget of course they were handling it was fighting against the moral wrong of slavery is actually laughable that rick santorum is trying to compare his fight to keep gay people from getting marry to freeing the slaves go lincoln part of our freedom rick santorum is advocating just the opposite he's trying to keep a group of people here in the u.s. from having equal rights and protections just like everybody else and rick santorum went on to say in this statement mr cain congresswoman michele bachmann and

governor rick perry all believe fifty different definitions of marriage is fine i strongly disagree will continue fighting for a traditional marriage between one man and one woman now we're used to santorum waging an assault on gay rights but prevents a fighting against equal rights for all puts them on the same moral standing as lincoln for his fight against slavery i think it's fair to say that's just insane rick santorum is a hate monger plain and simple he's a small man who has dedicated his life to fighting against the equal rights for a minority group here in the united states he could not be farther from abraham lincoln folks no wonder he's been the target of gay activists for years. it's only a few says he should carry case it is simply to be out here. and they want to know oh i'm not against rick santorum says. here's about rick stop attacking gabe over political gain maybe they'll start their jihad against you now for his latest comments on gay marriage and comparing himself to

lincoln we are giving tonight's tool time award to rick santorum. hi guys time for happy hour tonight and joining me this evening artsy producer jenny turtle and j. crew or strategist at mission strategy session strategy would have a real it's a deal is i have a head like i really said i say serino i know i did i would just totally unprepared for that right there we're perfect. ok so we spoke a little about herman cain what he thinks about immigrants just electric you don't know all verily but we also know that herman cain a little bit of a voice like we played the old boss the album that he had before here on this show and now it's somebody dug up this gem from nineteen ninety one where herman cain

took the song imagine and made it about pizza take a look. goodness gracious you know i got to say after seeing that i like i'm a little more that's a big that i think yes ok let's get you know like i like it's very small about. i'm going to bring a sense of humor and i think people like that and then they just totally forget about the fact that he says that i don't like muslims that i can work in my administration and i think he was around to be like that is only going or he's one of those terrifying crazy people who passes a semi-normal and like

a like charismatic and then he'll say something. like you know and also i have to say this isn't even my favorite herman cain story from the past week my favorite is that his nine nine nine plan came from some city because apparently in one of the some city version that was the tax plan you know. actually i learned a lot of i love it and it was a great and shops and we were in the thirty's in the sim city i mean it's all adding up because love makes a lot more sense so get this right yeah well i mean if you get by this on twitter saves you a. herman cain piece of songs we put something occurred just not coming to me right now but the there is some good ones wherever out there that was witty good for you i got a lot of good cross the no that was well played ok so speaking of people that are singing serenading that was herman cain but lady gaga there needed for president

bill clinton kind of marilyn monroe style for his birthday take a look. you know the bill was. in and she sings on a bill romance i wonder if part of it is like seriously like he got marilyn monroe i got to go with that yeah i mean she kind of like like the most busted man i've ever and i'm sorry that wade has some issues there's some t.v. she's got not her face not her i don't think she said but oh my god that marilyn was your see a performer somewhere in there kind of bombing right and makes you feel really uncomfortable no lady gaga didn't bob but every time i see hillary in one of those scenarios they always like i just feel show bad for her i know and then you know

the one saving grace is that charles is going to get into a little. bit of the save the moment there i did yeah right so how did that we're going to place her and saying i'm going to sound how do you know i'm probably want to have her after the show. because before he just used to write me this is the she's going to have to get at it every single time i feel really bad. what if it was your dog that was your mom and. yeah this is taking her ok i'm. ok let's move on to something way more fun so i grabbed ford. that's the restraints apparently had their website hacked and so somebody put a bunch of horn on it and i think it only took like twenty two minutes until they figured out into a good thing down because i found hilarious about this is we've done stories about sesame street on happy hour before and you know when parents freaked out over katy

perry being on sesame street and being sort of sexting now if you are a member take a look again. all right so apparently that was. one story and he says straight up book court on the website i love it i don't know why i just cried i mean how many kids do you think actually watch sesame street online is that as well you know i think eric maybe. the reason yeah i'm mostly scared about you know a little kid is going to try and see big bird and he gets like us now full forgettable whole other story i think that burton urges. but i mean give you two props in twenty two minutes that's faster than an ambulance will get to your house but i don't want i want you i think that's i know that's the reason they can turn

it off immediately what happened was it took someone twenty two minutes to notice it was there every single time you ever took out your community was there and they took it down as a possible thing yeah yeah i actually was bombed because when i saw that sesame street got hacked i thought it must again thank god we had on the show ben shapiro who thinks that sesame street's like a left. hander was born and i was like oh no no that wouldn't be able to put like bed would go there yes or. a lot of sentences should end with and then i heard it was born. that reason there's a bad after everything. makes every sentence better ok so. california berkeley i don't know this i'm from california and i just found this out today eight months eight months left until while gras is banned take a look. go to see.

the luxuries of life. and. it is least appetizing to behold even as he became a staple of fine dining in america speak orders of adults you know. what bothers me for screening process he ducks or liver gras. oh oh really upset because i really. like i i like i like good delicious. delicacies and good food for the watching i just make you miserable and i don't know but then they do you know their problem with our farming practices the way they treat the chickens and what they do with the towels and they're just the thing that kills them and i think that that's the question that a lot of people have is so you start with foreground words that it was a slippery slope go always i mean look it's a thousands and thousands of years for us to get to a point a society where to worry about ducks and now we're going to worry about their livers i'm not so sure though that it makes sense in the middle of the biggest budget crisis that you know for us because not only that because rats are serving

what we should be going to take your head you know i'm sure you know during blogger i mean that's the least of your work but that's like yeah sure is and we shouldn't be worrying about for a draw is my point i don't know why i'm here i'm sure i certainly would with you there that i think bigger issues. however banning me and it's not going to shout out and say i've never seen him for that was disgusting i was actually paying our restaurant this is a we're going to do this you know we are going to stand here and be like peta sucks you know we have to i don't i don't want to know we're going to get it i mean i think. that's a big difference already tonight as if and i still think it's going to get making the come back on wednesday we're not going to show tomorrow due to some space flight scheduled maintenance i mean time to forget and a lot of time on facebook and follow us on twitter if any of tonight's or any other night. last year on the show and coming up next it's me.

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