and it's a short fall from comedy to political incorrectness funny man daniel tosh is in hot water this week for a joke he made about raping women but where exactly does the line fall between what's inappropriate and what constitutes free speech last comedian dog stand. good evening it's wednesday july eleventh seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching r.t. let's begin this hour by taking a closer look at our internet freedoms in the u.s. and around the world we all remember a few months ago when some members of congress tried to pass the stop online piracy act and the protect ip act web sites like wikipedia and seven thousand others staged protests and blackouts and soon enough people were paying so much attention that those two pieces of legislation were voted down well it turns out so it was evil twin brother is back his name is the intellectual property. if you take a look up here we've compiled both of the bills and it's hard to tell which is which both talk about advancing intellectual property rights and preventing infringement but the new one calls for the creati

and the shortfall from comedy to political incorrectness funny man daniel tosh is in hot water this week for a joke he made about raping women but where exactly did this line fall between inappropriate and free speech last comedian doug stanhope. it is wednesday july eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for south you're watching r t well yesterday morning organizers from the occupy wall street movement in seattle staying an apartment had a rude awakening they were raided by a swat team according to the warrant issued the police said they were looking for quote anarchist material and continuing an ongoing investigation of the made a riot but the police left the apartment in seattle with out arresting anyone and just a few pieces of seized property and that is after they busted down the door used a flash bang grenade and tore through the entire apartment to find out more about what happened i was joined by political organizer philip neal take a look. basically i woke up to the sound of the blasting going on. actually open we had just enough time to jump out of a little bit of

tosh point no but he's in a lot of trouble right now and it all started with you know will basically rape jokes right people to rape jokes never funny here's a clip of him saying one. i play practical jokes that are constantly though i gotter so good a few weeks ago i replaced her pepper spray with silly string. anyway that she got raped. and she called me the next day going to use. so i've been here there's a girl who went to see daniel tosh and then she wrote about it on her tumblr and said tosh then starts making some very generalizing declarative statements about rape jokes always being funny how can a rape joke not be funny rape is hilarious bubba blah i don't know why he was so repetitive about it but she says i thought provoke because i for one don't find them funny never have so then she had called him and said actually rape jokes are never funny and then after she said that tosh finally paused and then said would it be funny if that girl got raped by like five guys right now like right now what if a bunch of guys raped her and started off with a whole firestorm he's apologiz

so i've been here there's a girl who went to see daniel tosh and then she wrote about it on her tumblr and said tosh then starts making some very generalizing declarative statements about rape jokes always being funny how can a rape joke not be funny rape is hilarious i don't know why he was so repetitive about it but she says i thought provoking because i for one don't find them funny never have so then she had called him and said actually rape jokes are never funny and then after she said that tosh fairly paused and then said would it be funny if that girl got raped by like five guys right now like right now what if a bunch of guys raped her and started off with a whole firestorm he's apologized on twitter but apparently maybe not apologized all the way i guess there's been a lot of back and forth with the latest on that well if anything he should apologize for just writing crappy jokes first right i mean you i mean i'm going to minds on this obviously there's not really anything terribly funny about rape right but that doesn't necessarily mean that you would then go into the standup

tosh fans are not funny. couldn't agree with you more. thanks, foodies, good night. [ applause ] captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) >> jon: lad eyes and gentlemen, welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. we have a very nice show, tonight's guest ej dionne, his new book our divided political heart, the followup to his previous best-seller, our swollen political prostate. (laughter) i'm sitting on it right now. if you saw the show yesterday you know we talked about a scandal that had something to do with libor, the word doesn't really shed any light on that, does it. but it's the all-important interbank lending rate which, funny story, turned out major financial institutions have been colluding to rig. it's really quite-- it was a fascinating object lesson in financial-- (laughter) oh, if only there were a new preferably simpler banking scandal towards which to turn our ire. >> a money laundering scandal involving one of the world's largest banks, hsbc. >> jon: wow! money laundering!, now there's a bank

the response to tosh joke has brought up the subject of who bears the brunt of being the brunt of ourokes. one of the most compelling responses was from jessica. hi, jessica. >> how are you doing? >> i'm fascinated by this conversation that is occurring because on the one hand there's the feminist part of me that wants to laugh at this obscene humor. tell me about the argument that you made in your piece. >> i think that we can joke about tragedy but it depends on how you do it. i think a good joke about rape is one that is subversive, not terrifying. you look at wanda sykes and they have funny jokes about rape but what made them good is they point out what a aqful and absurd. they don't belittle it which is what daniel tosh did. >> it feels like sometimes -- and i'm sure you hear this sometimes from young women -- i hear a lot on campus. feminists think nothing is funny. it's buzz kill. we go around the country politically correcting everyone. in your article you weren't saying that. the wanda sykes joke, how free she would feel if she could leave her lady parts at home and therefore

let's not get the latest from the financial world the tosh that joins us from the business desk in russia wants to significantly improve its business climate over the next few years. absolutely indeed set a pretty ambitious goal to improve its business climate the world bank currently places russia in one hundred twentieth spot in terms of business conditions in the so-called doing business braiding president putin said russia should do whatever it takes to move to the top twenty squad with six here meanwhile investment consultants from going a science capital came up with a step by step plan for achieving this goal most of the proposed steps to deal with the bread tape and tie back according to the company's analysts and can significantly ease doing business in the country. and to discuss the issue i'm now joined a lawyer by the author of the proposal charles robertson he's the global chief economist with a sense capital thank you so much for joining us and you basically say that democracy is not a prerequisite for improving the business climate yet you really stress that red tape is a b

i think the industry and content producers and distribute toshs have a great deal to be proud of.when i was at the fcc our goals. i heard it mentioned earlier in the opening statement is the diversity of content. we don't want all the same stuff. and we are experiencing a period in which we hit on a model that allows true diversity of niche programming to smaller audiences by definitions by ones that are passionate about the things they believe in. put simply if you fish, love music, crave sports, gorge on politics, want your native language or reflect your community on television or if you oddly have a fetish for jersey shore it's all out there and available to you. we should be proud of what we've achieved in diversity. we also have more competitive sources for content than ever before. i would fully admit that 20 years ago in 1992 when the cable act was passed, the cable industry was a monopoly. it had 90% of multichannel distribution in this country. today it enjoys 57%. and since the mid to late 90s, its share has remained flat or declined in the face of competitive threat. t

. >>> several people who survived an apartment fire in district heights last night have a lot tosh thankful for. they escaped a fast-moving fire. the flames were so intense they melted the railings. jaxxie ben you -- >> doreen, the hero police officers, and that's what we're calling them. they knew it was up to them. they are credited with saving the lives of seven people. >> it shows the deadly intensity that ripped through the rochelle apartments. it was just -- and again scott finn saw and smelled trouble. i could see at that point on the back side, the first two floors, they had a lot of flames coming off. >> the officers describe it as chaos. they say that efforts to save the lives of people meant they could not get to a resident's trapped dogs at the time. >> at that point we were assisting alerting people. there was no bells, no sirens. it was a full-size dog and puppy that were out there. the flames at that point were reaching the area they were at. they kept moving further and further away from the flames until they had nowhere else to go. >> sadly one of the dogs did perish. >> gl

bombing and all that happened in syria are acts of murder, seven tosh, bombings, and assassinations. their political, ethical, and the response of all these fall directly on the hands of the arab and western governments, but there intelligence agencies and their spies. and these people are responsible for what happened today. all the countries to send even one bullet to syria are all responsible. not just a bunch of bullets, but even just one bullet. even those countries whose in $1 are responsible. all of these people are responsible, and it will all be punished. they will be punished. >> for more directly to damascus, syria, joined by a syrian activist to agree to speak on the program on the condition we do not disclose her name. she is joining us by "democracy now!" of history and listen carefully it may not be that easy to understand. can you explain what is happening right now on the streets of damascus and your response to the bombing yesterday that killed three of al-assad's top inner circle? >> thank you for having me. the city of damascus is very anti today, very quiet when

sunday looks to be the ten tweener day -- tosh the tweener day -- looks to be the tweener day. er tofully. >>> all right, sal. b.a.r.t. changing its policy bus of what a local school was forcing young children to do at a b.a.r.t. station. do you see it ? there it is ! there it is ! where ? where ? it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. wow, there it is. >>> google is up $1.5 billion. the ceo of google was not announced in ayou -- was not involved in announcing the good news. larry paige continues to run the company but he's lost his voice. sources who asked not to be identified say it's not considered a serious problem. >>> it cost quite a bit of mine to lure marissa meyer to the top -- to the top job at yahoo. she could earn a salary of $1 million a year and will be given a bonus and stock options. the paperwork shows if she's still the ceo in five years, she will get an award of $30 million. >>> we know that president obama is talking right now about the shooting ri

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the agenda toshes discuss the agenda for the next few months. and the president's proposal for small business. this meeting comes as house republicans plan to take another attempt at repealing the affordable care act, some democrats will vote with the republicans. and this vote comes in reaction to the decision by the supreme court on upholding the affordable care act. not all the cases have been heard by the court. we're interested in hearing from you on your view of the supreme court as a whole. in case you whey be reacting to the case on health care, you may be reacting to immigration, maybe the case on citizens united, we are interested in your opinions and here's how you can join us this morning -- host: as you can imagine, several polls were taken on the affordable care act and these polls take a look at the court as a whole, which is why we're asking you to weigh in conducted by c.n.e. -- cn zphrks o.r.c. here's one question. do you approve or disapprove of the way the supreme court is handling its job? at the time this poll was taken, ov