think i must think. it was like gold if you. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioning the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shipwrecked albus. will. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on and we go beyond identifying the truth rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement then welcome to the big three. auto market in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture. arkansas republicans have

fought a new way to sabotage obamacare defunding medicaid expansion why do they have such a problem giving people their own tax dollars back a lot about that and more in today's big picture pam also a new study suggests that regulation are the best way to fight america's obesity problem does this mean that york city mayor michael bloomberg was right all along and kevin was wrong and something revolutionary is happening to the internet in chattanooga and today's deal you take i'll tell you why the rest of the country needs to catch on to what that tennessee city is doing. you need to know this during the super bowl on sunday so giant coca-cola aired its newest commercial the ad which featured groups of people singing the song america

the beautiful in a number of different languages people of different races looked at first to be yet another forgettable add in what actually turn. to be a perfect pretty forgettable super bowl for ads and for the game here's a clip if you need a refresher. i'm actually. pretty innocuous right well not for many conservatives they are our age their army rage the cargo and their tarnish a patriotic american anthem with foreign languages former florida g.o.p. congressman allen west has blogged he found the phrasing after

a few rambling sentences about the dangers of multiculturalism he wrote if we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing america the beautiful in english in a commercial during the super bowl doggone we are on the road to per duration this was a truly disturbing commercial for me what say you conservative columnist michael patrick leahy no relation to the senator meanwhile went even further imposed on breitbart dot com arguing that the ad showed that as far as the executives of coca-cola are concerned however the united states of america is no longer evasion ruled by the constitution and american traditions in which english is the language your government is not a nation governed in the anglo american tradition of liberty that's right a group of children singing america the beautiful in arabic or spanish of coke commercial is a sign that congress internal government dad. as usual the worst conservative

reactions came on twitter were people at fox news contributor todd starnes wrote things like crawlers the official of illegals crossing the border america is beautiful and people like this guy whose name on twitter is gareth wrote genius things like boycott coke thanks for desecrating our national anthem. i don't know but i think you might want to check your facts out before you tweet here all jokes aside though the fiasco that was the conservative reaction to coke super bowl ad is symbolic of a bigger issue the republican party has become the last refuge of bigots and. jimmy was salvi founder of the gay conservative agric advocacy group go proud who quit the republican party in january talked about this phenomenon on a recent show a recent episode of the show. i thought that the. the anti-gay forces and the frankly the forces of intolerance in the party would diminish and

honestly i've come to the conclusion that the republican party is the only place in america where there are left and jimmy's right i mean there are obviously intolerance intolerant jerks who call themselves democrats but the democratic party doesn't depend on or celebrate bigotry quite like the republican party does i mean just last week at the state of the union address republican lawmakers like paul ryan and lindsey graham went out of their way to oppose duck dynasty star willie robertson like he was some sort of conquering hero sure you could argue the paul ryan was just excited to see a t.v. star but let's be honest this is really about making a dog whistle to all those people on the far right who thought duck dynasty star phil robertson was the victim of a liberal media conspiracy after he made a homophobic and racist remarks in an interview with g.q. shouldn't be all that surprising it's almost a foregone conclusion that once a week or a public and congressman like louie gohmert or steve stockman will say something ridiculously intolerant about women or minorities sensible conservatives try to say

that people like gomer stockman are just a few bad apples but those conservatives are ignoring their party's own history the real agenda the republican party is to serve billionaires and transnational corporations but because their group represents such a small number of voters they need to expand the tent a dumbness by aggressively courting bigots and racists along with the religious fringe. massaging the sick man and people who fetishizing guns it started when richard nixon manipulated white people angry at the civil rights movement in his one nine hundred sixty eight presidential campaign he called it the southern strategy it was perfected when ronald reagan gave the first speech of his one nine hundred eighty campaign for president of the united states in philadelphia mississippi the place where three civil rights activists were murdered in the one nine hundred sixty s. them in the movie mississippi burning about it and at that speech he told people at a county fair that he believed in states' rights. as marge r. and c. chairman reince priebus promised that his party would try to make itself more

appealing to women and minorities era scandals and politically incorrect freakouts the most recent over coca-cola ad of all things shows that the republicans are still embrace in the southern strategy. it's won them elections for decades and unless racism suddenly disappears or massage or sexism fill in the blanks it's going it will continue to win elections for years to come the g.o.p. remains the last refuge it's and however much people like reince priebus try to whitewash that pun intended it's not going to change anytime soon. with me for tonight's big picture politics panel are here in news a member of the national advisory council for the project twenty one black leadership network needs sweet progressive commentator marc harrold libertarian commentator and attorney and and and author thank you all for joining us tonight. you all heard my rant. what is so offensive about this. about the ad but let's

be clear that again i'm going to take the normal conservative stance that these are just a few bad apples i don't think that it is ironic that we're having this discussion today just earlier rist previous in the republican party just had their trailblazers luncheon for minorities for african-american outreach talking about all the gains of the be made in terms of reaching out into the different cities and the difficulties of minorities particularly african-americans and making sure that they are building relationships these incidences clearly don't help that progress if you will if you discount their progress but at the same time the official party itself understands that you know the big they have to turn their back on the bigotry and some of the some of the generalizations that other people might want to put on to the party but the official party yet and yet the legacy that is. nixon and reagan is that you. basically the southern strategy is alive and well the white

races in the south run the republican party so i think the party does have to make it clear that the bigots in the some of the some of the biggest amount believe that that's a very small number within the party can't found refuge within the party i think that they're working towards that it may progress that that's not going to be clear if you look at the autopsy that was done at the twelve elections in may the republican party said very clearly that we have to reach out to hispanics african-americans so the minorities and do a better job of it so i think that the party is making strides in recognizing these problems and i don't think it's indicative of the party and you know i have two out gay republican candidates for congress. so. yeah but i think right i think ultimately but the problem for the republicans isn't so much how they talk about these issues but what they do about these issues right i mean this is a party that still is pushing for voter suppression laws across the country and this is a party that is still pretty much universally opposed to any sort of path this is citizenship for undocumented workers in this country so i think the problem for the

republicans i'm sure there's going to be some strategists out there that comes up with a way they can talk about these things can discipline the party but ultimately the question then for them comes down to whether or not they're going to change their actual policies to welcome new people into the party's old mark as an independent or you don't call yourself a republican not a republican and this is a to me this is for a lot of the people came forward especially people who are in leadership roles whether it's in the party or elected officials that came out i think this was a swing to pitch in the dirt i mean i think this was a mistake you know if the republican party can't reach out to swing voters and independents if they go with a lot of the comments that were made or if that becomes as he said more of their position through their actions and they alienate people they were not going to win elections i think it's at least two parties i think if they come across they're preaching very much the choir getting votes they already have with these reactionary. things that they. hey the other thing is you have to look at is you know when you're looking for votes it's sort of an advertising thing coca-cola is

not a bunch of idiots they did certainly this is a super bowl ad they certainly see the changing demographics of this country they're trying to sell a product they went with this not to make a social statement as much as to sell product they figured out that it would be at least to the majority of people seen in a positive light and if the republicans can't follow suit with the changing times they're going to very much work their way into being obsolete well it's not even that much of a change because this ad is just reinvention. i believe and i use i used to work in the advertising industry this is just a reinvention of the old i want to teach the world to sing you know which was which was from what the eighty's that they i mean they did they first roll that thing out during the reagan administration koch has been singing this song you know pun intended for twenty thirty years would have what i think is so interesting for the republicans you know there's obviously we have this discussion over and over again about how they're going to manage the different factions in the party but i think for me at least i think ultimately this is what's going to lead to someone like ted

cruz being nominated for the for the republican nomination twenty sixteen but not because he's some far right lunatic that he's going to demagogue his way to the nomination but because he can play both sides sides of the coin he's already educated lawyer who can talk to the republican donor base office panic yet and he can dog whistle and we have about a half a minute i'm curious this was a moment an opportunity for the republican party to decry this and yet i have not heard any prominent republicans coming out and saying these people don't represent my party here let's give it some time it's only been a couple days since they since the ad aired you know just a couple of people on the outside in my opinion that have made these statements a lot of these are elected officials so this gives them time with see if if the of the party more do you think anybody is going to is going to say allen west you're wrong. i think so i'm optimistic. mr duffy i hope you're right more of tonight's big picture politics panel after the break.

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i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. as they were it's a story. let's give this guy look but smear about guns instead of working for the people both missions on the beach working for each other bridegrooms vision. of the. wall go back with me for tonight's big picture politics panel or he knew some great sweep and marc harrold let's get back to it according to a new study published in the journal of the proceedings of the national academy of sciences and reported by ross story canadian tar sands oil from the athabaskan tar sands in alberta releases more hydrocarbon pollutants into the air than scientists

had previously estimated study comes just days after the state department said in its final environmental impact statement the building the keystone x.l. pipeline which would transfer tar sands oil from alberta across the united states would have little impact on the environment and climate change so if he hears the let me just throw this out to all of you guys if anybody wants to grab hold of this . we're basically taking this really really dirty. it's not even oil it's cold it gets ground up really fine bit of most oil or coal gets brought up really find its base of water millions of millions of gallons of water and pump down this pipeline is a slurry basically and when we refine it we end up with these huge piles of pad coke there's this mountain of chicago right now for example and it is blowing over a minority community on its way to the lake to lake michigan is just it's just at the apparently the koch brothers or i mean maybe they're going to change that or it's perfect but. it's like so we get the poison we're going to ship the stuff down

to louisiana we get the poison from refining it and then they export the big the gasoline and diesel fuel to china to mexico to to brazil to england and because all those places the cost of gasoline is more expensive than it is here and actually raises the cost of gas here cordie of trans canada it's going to raise the cost of gasoline here. why why doesn't anybody ask the question if the canadians it's so enthusiastic about selling the stuff trans canada is pipelines of canadian companies doing this but if they just refine their own damn oil in their own damn country and keep their own damn poison and we'd be glad to buy their gasoline and diesel fuel. this is the one thing you know when you do these and impact studies you have to look at different scenarios we know that it's that this stuff is going to stay in the ground and for the most part no i'm sorry if the market is there for this it's either in china or it's in the us there's no way to get it out of there alberta you know vancouver will not allow them to run

a pipeline you know across the rockies over the pacific so you run it do it by real truck yes you can and there's no way to get enough rail cars to move anywhere close to his magic isn't high six times eight hundred thousand gallons a day that so you can you think about the profit that's sitting in those tar sands and you think that this go and just stay there that's what it's all about i don't see it i don't see that happening out and i think that you have to make the assumption that somehow someway you see they're going to go to the west coast of canada or it's going to go. well then of the others then what led canada keep to keep the cancers i mean if it was the west coast of canada gets refined then the cancer alley is going to be vancouver to alberta rather than texas to louisiana going to that is the one thing that you have to also think about when you think about climate change and releasing carbon emissions into the air we if it comes through the united states we can regulate it we can't regulate have no energy has more regulations than we do on refineries that's one of the reasons that alberto said they can't rather they can't build refineries because they regulate they're not willing to poison their piece of that so they really are willing to poison our

people so that's what i want to vote for her and i know it because they know our government is going to become a third world country with regard to their elation but what i think is sort of where you point out tom is framing debate in terms of why doesn't canada want to refine the tar sand so bear what i think is interesting is that you know the president if he does end up approving this pipeline which there's a good possibility now because the environmental impact statement he's really lost an opportunity to make climate change a populist issue because the republicans in the oil industry have framed the entire keystone x.l. pipeline debate as a populist issue the president isn't letting us have jobs american energy exactly exactly and you know if the president doesn't and he ends up approving this pipeline he's lost an opportunity to a take a stand on climate change and position the united states at the forefront of saying no to the fossil fuel industry and b. he's also up lost an opportunity to frame that climate change debate which has been shaped by republicans as one but only elitists care about as

a populist debate i think that's unfortunate. well you know with technology and science center it are woven with issues that the masses are trying to figure out i mean i know i would look at this i look at all the stuff i'm not a scientist and i'm trying to figure it out and we have more and more of the science and technology with the electorate making decisions based on the perception and it's very difficult to understand what i think about this is you know aside from the specific issue is as we come out of the drug war the government has to find a way to tap. this to make us afraid of something and they have the military industrial complex i still believe in why i fear this is not the specific steps that may be taken i think that the e.p.a. is the next step i think with with the affordable care act it's the i.r.s. i think the e.p.a. in the next twenty years is going to elevate itself to being a major law enforcement agency in this country if it's going to strong arm regulations instead of just having them in place and i think if you want to go down there conspiracy theory right i'll give you and i mean i know yours about the crashing of the economy oh no no no this is this really isn't much more simple even

you know it's going to if they do if they build the pipeline. if they build a pipeline we now have a thousand mile long bull's eye for any terrorist which means that we now have to hire thousands and thousands of police of some kind probably federal marshals and station them every mile or so along the pipeline to make sure that nobody ever blows the thing up because now i mean you know right now to do major damage to this country you got to like fly an airplane into a building but a couple of sticks of dynamite on this pipeline over the old a lot of aqua aqua for and you could shut down five states you know for the next hundred years by polluting their water so you know if you want a you know big government conspiracy theory that's going to cost millions of dollars i mean just like we're spending millions of dollars every day literally every day protecting the oil coming over here from saudi arabia and exxon mobil is not paying us back that the taxpayers are paying this this is another opportunity internalize the profits externalized the club salute i think it's interesting that

the whole issue you just brought up about it being a target for terrorist attacks as chris has it is has the stadia of sacrifice owns and global capitalism you know i think what the keystone x.l. pipeline does is turn the entire center part of the united states into a sacrifice so menu in its environment particularly the reactors that elizabeth warren has joined a chorus of lawmakers calling on the government to allow the u.s. post office to perform the role of financial services for poor americans this is published over and often in post and. and she said if the post office offered basic banking services nothing fancy just basic bill paying cash a check cashing in small dollar loans then it could provide affordable financial services for under-served families at the same time shore up its own financial footing so basically what she's saying is let's let the post office do for a very low cost what payday lending companies are doing right now for four hundred percent interest huge fees is an eight billion dollars a year industry of my recollection the numbers are right the post office can do it for a half a billion dollars it would add to their coffers it would save seven and

a half billion dollars for poor people who don't have a checking account. the only problem with this is that that law in two thousand and six that required the post office to set aside seventy five years worth of retirement funds over a ten year period which is bankrupting the post office also forbids the post office from doing anything it doesn't have to do with the post office with post we've delivered mail so it's now time to roll back the two thousand and six postal accountability and hansen act with you know we're just a republican poison pill marc let me start with well i know i mean i think the post office most of the services are being privatized we're seeing you know you go out there and see a rotted old post post box and you see a brand new fed ex and u.p.s. you know box right next to it the post office will be obsolete at some point most likely it is in the constitution it's something that is constitutionally authorized i'm absolutely against the post office getting into the banking business the post office getting into the other absolutely going to do a lot of polling on another country but this idea that this goes back to the idea

that government should solve any problem that it can't and that's not the truth the post office is supposed to do what it does i think it'll become in the marketplace obsolete but this idea that you would just change the something to something else just because about predatory lenders are their problem yeah but this is clearly banking loans these things because are not being lured into all of this i don't think it'll solve the problem though i mean you've been to the post office i don't know that you want to get banking there seems to me like a policy that republicans really. should all be about you know the line we've heard from them for the from the past ten years that they're about x. the president opposes expanding financial opportunity for poor americans this is this is a time where the government can actually you know serve that role but i think politically it's actually pretty brilliant by elizabeth warren and democrats to start supporting this issue because who is ever going to come out and say i support payday loan payday loan companies and the pawn shops i think you know it's going to be pretty deep their allies i mean you've got a bunch of republicans who fought tooth and nail in the. supposed to try to

regulate the payday loan industry i think it is i'm sorry i think it is good policy and i think income inequality is the democrats' best issues going in the next couple years i think it's a good point you know. there's there's one there's one assumption this seems to be here this idea of there's no more hazard when you're dealing with a government entity and mark made a good point about how things eventually get outsourced so what problem we solve with the same that the more has that exists with payday lending industry is not going to be present with the post office there so that's a huge assumption to make expansion if you're talking about the fact that certain services will probably get outsourced i mean the government already provides financial lending to big banks and some of the wealthiest americans what's wrong with it provided that sort of incentive to lowering i mean they have infrastructures designed to do that but the post office is marcus saying the post office is to deliver mail to the little box it was originally set up to loan twenty six trillion dollars to two big banks and billionaires on wall street but that's what they did in two thousand and eight i mean you know. they can do that why can't

we do this if it was going to listen to the problem at both ends of the spectrum and they should get out of this altogether i agree with you there they shouldn't be involved at either end of the spectrum they should get completely out of it. will that the last word on that with the minimum wage seventy three percent of americans think that the minimum wage is too low it's you know if it was where it was nine hundred sixty five would be ten dollars and ten cents an hour if it was where it was in one hundred sixty five based on the increase in protein. today it would be eighteen dollars thirty cents which is by the way in the neighborhood of water it is from canada to australia to most of western europe and so you know. david jolly of florida republican congressional candidate recently a republican recently came out and said that he was he doesn't want politicians raising the minimum wage he thinks it should be at least indexed to inflation if you have been indexed to inflation since sixty eight this is where it would be

shouldn't shouldn't we do this something about this and was david jolly confused as you going to be walking this back or are the republicans starting to sing this we've got one i don't i don't see this being the republican party we'll see if he survives i think he's win out in the primaries yes we'll see if he actually survives we don't know he's right. yet i just think he didn't didn't check his facts before he made this statement but it does show the difficulty rebecome republicans are going to have in framing their attitude towards the minimum wage going and in austin most of all i think this is it mean obviously it's very popular it's gets good politics i think it's bad policy i don't think he gets through the primary unless he walks his back he might be republican he's not conservative but there should be no minimum wage. all right. thank you all very much is your place you. need mark thanks so much for having us coming up the death of actor philip seymour hoffman has opened the public's eyes to america's growing no one epidemic what's causing the surge in heroin addiction and how can it be stopped the answer to both of those questions for the birth.

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bombing hearing. for. the suspect. they would like to do is show that you know the press is the only industry specifically mentioning the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck. well i'm. going to go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on will we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement then welcome in the big picture. book about the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour the tragic passing of philip seymour hoffman over the weekend has shined

a spotlight on heroin use in america how big a problem is heroin in america and what can we do to prevent thousands of overdose deaths every year also when x. new york city mayor michael bloomberg announced his proposed sugary drink ban for the big apple it was met with a lot of outrage especially in our control room but could regulations on fast food consumption actually be the key to fighting america's obesity epidemic and one city in tennessee has found the winning formula for for for providing high speed internet access to the masses at affordable prices process of these secrets. and how can we make high speed internet access available to all americans. in the bowels of the us the news hollywood and movie fans alike are continuing to mourn the death.