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well there's a real headlight not. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . is the state run the english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

i let's talk about the revolving door favorite topic of ours here on the show because while every politician and especially presidential candidates i'll let you wax poetic about how they're going to stop it just always seem to keep on spending and a roll call article published earlier today shed light on just how it turns out that several obama administration officials have been coached by k. street lobbying firms in just the past few weeks if a boy former congressman harman executive left the public sector to lobby for yahoo and kraven griffis kevin gryphus former senior advisor to the chief of staff he's now a principal for the protest a group which is a very influential lobbying firm here in d.c. and if you were just following in the footsteps of other executive branch employees who recently quit the credible government to join the influence industry in the past few months former administration officials enjoyed p.r. consultants as knickerbocker and gerson mart seller and to lobby on behalf of

facebook google entergy planned parenthood and group health cooperative now as we discussed a few weeks go on the show because the other way to see for shetty a former bigwig k. street lobbyists he joined joe biden staff as an adviser i normally i kind of thing right now he's such a big deal right hated citizens are used to seeing lobbyists corporate executive staffers and politicians all world through the revolving door but it becomes an issue when it threatens the obama administration's basic credibility especially during an election season as you know the president repeatedly boasted during the last campaign that his administration would limit its lines of k. street just take a look at candidate obama's campaign rhetoric in two thousand and eight. they. can look they will not but my point is they will. they will not be the american people.

indeed when president obama first. as he issued an executive order that sought to biz to buttress limits on to lobbyist influence and order the pledge but double the time that former executive officials are allowed to lobby their old colleagues for one year to two and a forbids former obama administration officials from lobbying their former agencies for the entirety of his administration but his role call pointed out the rules don't really do much to stop former administration officials from lobbying congress well the pledge is impressive public interest advocates it's been derided and completely knocked the insiders one lobbyist when asked by roll call about the pledge said when you need to get around it get around it it's a joke and everyone knows it's a joke now one thing that obama administration officials who aspire to be lobbyists could to say you simply don't register as a lobbyist just a few weeks ago trade group wrote a letter to the president accusing his white house of publicly criticizing lobbyists on the one hand and on the other hand accepting

a lobbyist masquerading as advisors and consultants there's also that little thing about the twenty percent rule in capitol hill that if you only lobby twenty percent of the time he didn't have to register turns out that that little rule is self in forest and so since itself in force it's really just become a free for all up there and the white house also wrote a loophole into the pledge saying that it could waive the two year wait sickly whenever it suited them but that should be surprised anyone either because from the start of his presidency barack obama has embraced officials aren't exactly k. street versions. newly installed treasury secretary timothy geithner appointed mark paterson this is a former top lobbyist for goldman sachs this is chief of staff and then last week there was a lot of buzz over william lynn he was appointed the number two position at the defense department william lynn also a former top lobbyist for raytheon which is a one of the five largest defense contractors so how is that a change in what washington works and how washington works well it's not

a change. now to be fair voters didn't expect president obama to fully keep lobbyists day after all the reality is that many are extremely qualified to work in the public sector and the point is not the every lobbyist out there is some evil villain it's just the hypocrisy of the extent to which president obama has embraced business as usual that's pretty scouting given his campaign rhetoric according to the website open secrets dot org the revolving door my end of spinning more during the obama administration than it did during the george w. bush presidency five hundred thirty eight officials went from the executive branch to the private sector or vice versa during bush's eight years in the white house and in a little more than three years three hundred and forty two obama officials have taken trips to that revolving door so might not just one up bush when it comes to the war on terror and civil liberties but looks like maybe the revolving door as well. now this weekend the reason rally took over the national mall here in

washington d.c. billed as the largest gathering of a secular movement in world history national our national mall part service estimated over thirty thousand people were in attendance and despite the rain the participants waited for hours to see speakers like richard dawkins and savage so we have to ask of the largest gathering in history of atheists humanists secularists freethinkers skeptics whatever it is that you like to call them what is it really need i was being more open minded society or judging by the rhetoric that comes from g.o.p. candidates legislations being brought up in states across the country as the tension between the religious and the not only growing so we need to discuss this is the lawrence krauss foundation professor of the school of earth and space exploration and director of the origins project at arizona state university is also author of a universe from nothing why there is something rather than nothing lawrence want to thank you for joining us tonight and you know you spoke at this rally over the weekend tell me what you think the reason for it was why did we see

the largest gathering in history oh i do think people are i've been of reason of interest cern by the level at which religious rhetoric has begun to play a role in this campaign but more importantly that i think they want to make it clear and maybe these kind of things will begin to make it clear that there actually are other voting blocs in the country the sides the right wing conservative christian voting bloc but there actually are significant number of people at least forty to fifty percent of the public they claim to have no religious affiliation that's a lot of people and and those people tend not to go to as a bloc certain issues like abortion or things like that but they do they are interested in fact in public policy be based on reason instead of myth or superstition and that level of rhetoric in a campaign i think is one of the reasons why it seems so we will come out. of this event aside from. it was fun. and it was there was there were comedians and

musicians and and i had a lot of internet talk about the atmosphere is wonderful but it was we before i talked on stage i walked around it was and was meeting with people and it was there was a lot of enthusiasm about the notion and it's why would you need it it's kind of amazing that you need to rally to suggest that public policy should be based on reason and if you're a call evidence you shouldn't leave that in in the best of all possible worlds but what we make clear is we don't live in the best of all possible worlds right now i am and you have a lot of people there they constantly want to go back to you know the certain morals that. the founding i believe is grounded in and so i don't think it's even worse than that they make claims that are just so obviously in it in opposite to the evidence of reality i mean ridiculous claims like the fact that prenatal care or birth control some of courage abortion or the claim that public policy should be based on the on the presumption that the united states is battling satan i mean that's kind of really worrisome when you think that that

might be governing the policy of a potential candidate for president when i go with you there that i think it's pretty worrisome when it comes to the policies that certain candidates place but so what do you think that the breakdown is there should we grill you know as i was looking at an interview with richard dawkins the other day to you and he thought that we should really grill our presidential candidates about their certain personal beliefs and about certain things that you might see you know in the bible and see if you believe in them or should stay private and then you have different beliefs they're supposed to come out into the public realm well richard nice talk about that and you may have been watching a program conversation he and i have had when we talked about public as well as private and i think the point is if the religious beliefs were clearly private and didn't impact on behavior and in fact campaigns then maybe that would be the case but. it's not the case we live in a world where in fact the candidates have to have to trumpet their religious

beliefs no matter how silly and in that case it seems to me it's open territory and absolutely you have to ask yourself a question about that character and well and rationalism in a book and skepticism of someone who is willing to believe that you know if rick santorum is our scale so i don't think we have to discuss him he's clearly a nut but. you can take mitt romney who is he is or result but he's already you know he that the mormon church is based on this ridiculous notion that this known con man discovered gold and golden tablets under a tree and somehow translated it into seventeenth century english in the nineteenth century and and that and in fact as romney is there that you know jesus will come back and reign half the time in jerusalem and half the time in missouri i mean these are the. i do think since the candidates trumpet their religion that that becomes fair game i mean if they trumpeted their sex lives i suppose that would be

fair game to they don't and maybe that's what a good reason to leave it alone but i don't it's not an absence do you think atheists have to push for more because you mentioned that there is this voting bloc they don't necessarily has the unison but democratic politicians also all have to go out and prove that they are religious people we've seen the exact same thing happen with president obama i think there's only one member of congress that is openly atheist and so you know are is the atheist voting bloc going to have to become more vocal are they supposed to become like the conservative right and start scaring other politicians i hope not scaring but the point is that their way it's obvious as richard has said the statistically it's clearly impossible that only one member of congress is you know doesn't have a religious belief but in the current climate you can't talk about that and people are in fact afraid and there's a good reason a recent psychological study of by psychologists in canada the united states looked at voters' perceptions that for students and adults and in fact the group that is

most distrusted. was atheists they were on par with rapists and that's kind of amazing because all the atheists are doing or are questioning religion i mean we should be we should be revering questioning in our society and our reviling it and so i think there are tons of people who are afraid to talk about this and if there are open rallies like this where people can see lots of people come out and there and not only just one member of congress performer members of congress and some hollywood stars and and then maybe people will become less afraid about saying you know it's our question silly beliefs and in fact more importantly it's all raw data demand that silly beliefs don't impact on public policy art and so how do you keep it from going from questioning believes the you think are silly to you really. showing contempt because that is one of the things that richard also said he. well i think to some extent you know really kewl is war on

a base to make something bring in a porton question out in public i mean comedians do it all the time satirist do it all the time and i think the amazing thing about ridiculing religion is it seems so shocking how dare we ridicule religion but in fact why does religion have a special place why is it no more subject to ridicule then science or politics and and i think what richard is suggesting and maybe it is necessary for some people to do this is to consciousness raise is to suggest that you know nothing is above ridicule at some level and ridicule is a very effective form of satire at some level and it just points out that police are beliefs but they're nothing if you'll forgive the pun nothing is sacred when it comes to so ideas i was things like either thirty thousand other people who can even if you are now and it's me can learn thanks so much for joining us thanks again you take care. high time for a laugh break the evening turns out the pathing discriminatory and our legal

immigration laws to free. spends it so we're going to art school time to one city out there whose laws cause it over five million dollars and counting and on happy hour santorum cusses out a new york times reporter and drones delivering tacos could be coming to an airspace near you all the time but. let's not forget that we had in the fourth quarter growth in the us. i think. readable and one well. we never got the show's neighborhood conclusively get ready because of the freedom . to learn theory.

but in the alone i still feel that the real headline is that none of them are see the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else hears you some other part of it and realize that everything you say you don't know i'm sorry is a big issue. for

. little. legs. all right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving into the farmers branch texas city council the last week the fifth u.s. circuit court of appeals ruled the farmers branch law regarding immigration housing regulations was unconstitutional and according to the associated press city officials and farmers branch say they will likely press on defending the law and you see farmers branch texas started on the path to immigration infamy in two

thousand and six when they first tried to impose a law against renting to undocumented immigrants i love was repealed in two thousand and seven after the law was challenged in federal court by the a.c.l.u. and so in two thousand and eight the current version of the law was drafted and passed a newer version attempts to require all renters to have a city license and legal status of any advocate to be checked now that new less illegal law has been snared in legal battles of its own since it passed so far day the legal battles cause farmers branch taxpayers four point five million dollars while the cost is staggering especially since it's the burden felt by the taxpayers of a single city farmers branch is far from the only community taking the economic hit for passing laws that many say are discriminatory and plain old unconstitutional and we all remember arizona's controversial as eight hundred seventy well that one cost over a million dollars to the state legal fees four hundred ninety million dollars and tourism revenue and that's after more than three billion dollars were raised

privately by a fund that governor jan brewer set up in south carolina their immigration law caused at least one point three million so i guess that farmers branch texas can feel better knowing that they aren't alone in the throwing money down the toilet and time and time again we hear this argument as justification for why these laws are needed. they took a. farmers branch the price tag the legislation is transferred to the citizens and last three years the city has had to cut salaries and benefits due to financial strain but just remember this legislation is for the citizens to save their jobs so what are you lot of benefit from flash salaries in the end right now this is what it's really all about is making sure that american jobs aren't really still and by and documents immigrants with i'll tell you i mean it's not like it's been proven that americans won't do the jobs that are left behind and wake up right it has by the millions of dollars worth of crops that rotted in georgia after they passed their

controversial immigration law so today the bills game the city absolutely nothing that's cost taxpayers millions of dollars and been declared unconstitutional so you think the farmers branch city council would cut their losses right away with their tails between their legs right not so fast a member of the farmers branch legal team for this case have a falling to say about the ruling he said this opinion begs for further review really further review now what shocked me but that quote is from kris kobach and when he's not advising the farmers branch city council on the lawsuit he's working on legislation a similar effect in arizona nebraska texas missouri pennsylvania and idaho the one that's still not it he also advises romney on immigration actually he's the master hind mastermind behind this reasoning over time people will find it less attractive to be here if they can't find work here some refer to the self deportation. now it

is not to sound like an immigration policy that every american get behind let's all make americas so miserable for anybody who looks like they should be here and they want to be here in man that really sounds like the country that i want to raise my kids in but back to farmers branch it's obvious that they've fallen into go back self deportation trap keep the document of population from having a place to live and they'll leave i wonder if they knew that cell to porting the community there was going to cost them almost five million dollars so are being a pawn in callbacks nationwide war on undocumented immigrants and ways thing that millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund legislation that is discriminatory unconstitutional the farmers branch city council is tonight's trial time winner. i got time for a happy hour and joining me this evening r t producer jenny churchill and jim

hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger of black buy dot net i guys. are let's talk a little bit more than dorm shall we he may claim to be a religious. man but he gets really angry and so just look at his face me gets into it with the new york times reporter. you can use the words republican truman against little rock obama on the issue of health care because he fashioned the blueprint i've been saying in every speech we're distorting my words. i see. it's. wrong man what you do with. so he. they really like i believe is going to help you out anything but can we play the next clip as to how we double down on this do you think alike. if you haven't cursed out a new york times reporter during the course of a campaign you're not really a republican is the way i look at it. i mean you know this it was just sort of

these suffer received elements you know after after having to answer the question a few times and you know sort of comes back with the same old question the same old spin i just said ok i've had enough of this. done you haven't cut out you know the real republican family values party you haven't done and get out of hiring i've almost got carpal tunnel syndrome from the number of b.s. flags i've had to throw in the new york times that makes him a red blooded american i didn't like santorum too much until this little. higher do i know i could get behind him but i think the fact that he i think that he was absolutely correct in calling out the reporter i mean he was misquoting him and it was actually ridiculous i don't want to defend santorum i usually but i i think here he was justified now whether or not that goes along to match his like trying to find myself and if you're not a real republican if you haven't actually must find out i think all good and

thriving whether they've done it in public to be quoted they all have done it in private that. i think it is display of emotions also might show that it seems wrong might be too emotional to be on the refining compared to mitt romney have any rate. and i think. ok. let's move on to somebody who didn't make it he left the campaign trail through most of herman cain is still around out of emotional maybe too so easy crazy. so basically he has a new being talking about the stimulus tax policy and just like it was weird about . this is small business and in the current tax code. any kind. apparently the video was actually good pulled from their you tube page it

was oh there to back up but i have some questions actually a little girl. little girl any questions yes thank you i actually have many questions from that video i want to know was this a money high fun inspired video a little confused we've got the evil rabbit flying through the air catapults i'm a little lost i don't know whether or not it's a good thing that the rabbit was killed because of money i find it attacked and i have answers body parts i was a cow coming over the castle wall yeah the rabbit was on the ground and i think this was his through the world part one remember where the king was having the presence of the king the pole and. he was taken. and all kinds of reference was i'm assuming no one's going to say that small business is. crazy small business like a little child actually i hate small business. corporations nice. it was so that the meaning was lost somewhere in the craziness yeah yeah that's so surprising

but what you're saying the important points were lost in a crazy that's something greater than me tell you how many pain i don't know really shocking. more than cigarettes i spent. political ads. are this oh we don't have a clip for it but this is this is pretty interesting i mean we talk about drone use we talk about domestic drone use all the time because it's coming soon they just the president signed this new f.a.a. bill and so i think that by two thousand and thirteen they have to have all of the new regulations in place. so it looks like taco drones are going to be coming your way once but app and taco copter is a startup company which has a business model where you order your talk on your smartphone and also beam in your g.p.s. location information and basically you will get your talk was delivered to you flying little mini robot they can't do it yet they're saying the government's in their way because there aren't you know the rules for commercial use of drones yes

but i can't help but feel like this is like a joint effort by all government entities to show the softer side of drones like oh you're against drones is that going to change your mind and we're going to be through that is legal immigrants while they're doing a double down there's got to be a way to tie the knot of these judicial cures so they should only the immigrants they steal the immigrants they bring you the towers and racially profiled immigrants as being a talker i don't jennie's a racist you are racist and it was really you know you are so you know your thought is you know a little bit of all right well i do not condone taco drones or any other country i think it kicks i don't i just don't really see it working i don't think it's really going to function but i guess i need kind of delivery of you know it's easier to crunch down are you guys are going to run things are joining you tonight that's a pretty nice show thank you for tuning in admiration of michael morrow certainly weisman from the atlantic is going to be joining us to talk about why young people

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