political incorrectness will be shunned in the society earlier i spoke to political comedian dean obeidallah and got his take on whether american society is an offensive unapologetic nation take a listen. i think there are too many insincere apologies i think there are too many people asking for apologies and i think that at this point we're stifling comedy i'm a comedian you know i wrote an article for c.n.n. dot com earlier this week or stop the war on comedy and that's what this is we love to do is joke let's be honest who would be offended by that of the new rich who is sailing in the republican party killing his own party to support him and trying to get some media coverage but that's all it is in the hyper partisan world that we're in and the media cycle twenty four hours needing new news new gingrich says if he gets the media for about five minutes that's it but it's not just for it's not just the g.o.p. candidate you know there was also the incident a few weeks ago with rush limbaugh who by the way is a known offender and the call was heated to pull advertising money from his show af

talk about this and you really write and we really appreciate your insight political comedian dean obeidallah in our new york studios thanks for. let's take a look now at the power you have when you pay to play this is washington after all it's not hard to notice the power of lobbyists in this town but with the economy still trying to keep its head above water i have to do is look around to see that we are living in a time where things have to be cut and when money isn't there the projects funded by that money often go away as well but there are some exceptions to this rule so we want to take a look at some specific programs and talk about why some are moving forward and some are dead on arrival all right let's talk about lockheed martin and more specifically the f. thirty five program being developed by the pentagon. the cost of this program. nearly one trillion dollars to develop purchase and support through the year two thousand and fifty unfortunately there are already more than a billion dollars over budget and guess who's going to pay for some of that the government they've agreed to co

that price being your privacy so to talk more about this i'm joined now by political comedian dean obeidallah welcome to the show dee in so doing you're a comedian have your tweets ever gotten years trouble. not yet i'm actually hoping they do but not for the reasons of the governments looking for us i mean it's really you know it's funny you bring that up in a way about the comedy there once were seven words you can say on television and george carlin the great comedian told about that lampoon did now there are over five hundred words you cannot say on twitter or facebook or the government will fly him on your tweets in your facebook post and to me that's concerning because most americans have no clue about this program that the only reason we know about it is because a group called epic which monitors privacy on the internet far the lawsuit to enforce or free of information act requests to find out about this program the government looking at everything we tweet everything we post making files on it the question is words information going and is this program still ongoing and do most people