we'll discuss that with filmmaker robert greenwald. and the republicans continue to blame president obama for rising gas prices. and they claim he has no energy policy. tonight we'll put that rumor to rest. this is the "war room." come on inside. ♪ >>> so just when i thought i could not possibly find rush limbaugh anymore loathsome, i actually do. today he doubled down on georgetown law student saundra flake. take a listen. >> so miss fluke, and the rest of you feminine nazis if we are going to pay for you to have contraception and thus pay for you to have sex we want something in return. we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. >> rush limbaugh is a repulsive massageistic blow hard. his radio program is owned by a cindy indicator premier. which is owned think clear channel. should we not expect more of these companies, and the sponsors of the rush limbaugh show? do you really want to be associated, you sponsors with this horrible man. and republicans in congress. will you not speak up in what if this was your daughte

want to get too carried away here what i really suggest you all do is go to salon dot com glenn greenwald's piece including his rebuttal to n.b.c.'s rebuttal to his piece to the earth but in practice back up to remind everybody of we're really goes on a cable networks but to me is really the ongoing problem with all of this is the continued lack of transparency or accountability on their parts to disclose the connections of their so called objective analysts to other moneyed interests that offends industry and he sees offense or response to glenn was a general mccaffrey is one of many voices that they hear from and whose opinions they value and that's fine but just because you claim to hear from many different people and your editorial meetings doesn't mean that your audience actually gets you on air when you give one individual so much time and they don't disclose their conflicts of interest anyway this is just a good reminder of what the mainstream media does to keep you in the dark so they can continue to choose to miss. i've got a number of foreign policy issues to discuss tonight take

now it's i are going to speak with robert greenwald about a new opinion polls that show that the public is fed up with the war in afghanistan a whopping sixty nine percent think that we should be there and young people just aren't as interested in cars these days it's bad news for the auto industry but really what's at the root of this problem is a temporary economic conditions or a permanent shift away from car culture and the f.c.c. is calling for regulations on data brokers to protect the online when it comes do not track their talking to industry to regulate itself so you can break down some of the good and the bad ideas in this report we'll have all of that and more free tonight couldn't get us happier but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to. so just like i said yesterday there's a lot of stuff going on in the news this week and there are two stories the health care case in the supreme court and the case of trayvon martin are really taking center stage. is the big day for the most controversial part of president obama's health care law goes before the supreme c

we will take down that horrible greenwald, which is necessary, by the way, for it tennis players to play in the background. it will provide new housing in the number of other benefits that you of offered. >> i think it fits perfectly in character of the neighborhood. i realize it is concerning to many of you, but this project site would be distinguished from any future development down the waterfront because of some of the proximity. the slippery slope argument is not a strong argument. in addition, the fact that these are market raise -- market rate houses, that will be more tax revenue. in the final analysis, the status quo only serves a small elite trying to preserve their million-dollar view. given our deteriorating infrastructure, i believe this is an opportunity we should not pass up. just as an aside, as a newly- married person planning on having a family, the reason i would leave is because of lack of planning for our school and lack of housing. new housing at any level is important. it reduces the demand and it will bring prices down across the board. we urge you to support the

thinking about a saigon like withdrawal just get the hell out joining me now from los angeles robert greenwald filmmaker activist and founder of brave new films and eli clifton national security reporter with the center for american progress as think progress in a new york studios welcome to you both. thank you thanks for joining us robert military suicides are up the accused gunman has a brain injury and u.s. soldiers are doing increasingly disturbing things like forming kill squads desecrating bodies burning korans now this is this is the result of war fatigue. there's no question that it's the result of the tea. i mean in some ways time in we all know that human beings a dot meant to go through this process we try to train them we try to teach them but year after year this gentleman i think you've been in iraq for two or three tours now he was in afghanistan to commit this extraordinary atrocity he clearly cracked the military no services set up to be able to train people to be murderers and then also train them when to turn it off and you know it's just your heart breaks when you see what'

interview in two thousand and seven when he was so senator you're running for president he told glenn greenwald that's a line you know who would ever want to become a lobbyist or have a trade association isn't a good thing and then you know lo and behold after he left office he joined the e.p.a. i think you get like a millionaire have to our salary is its first year and he is pushing all sorts of laws for the for the movie industry that really honestly does not champion the public interest and that we see things like super pacs a barrier you have more special interest money going into politics they were to what extent do you think super pacs also contribute to this problem where you know the more money you happen or you can in fact be political politics the way things are running the country and i think you would pack so absolutely terrible and in the sense that they allow an unlimited amount of spending by corporations and also unions to sort of impact elections at this point they've been utilized to their fullest extent i mean we've seen them to some extent in twenty's and into some extent an

the place up that makes a fair amount of sense to me they got drunk and this is you know as robert greenwald said it earlier tonight you teach people how to kill how to murder and then you tell them not to kill doesn't always work out so this is what happens in war and this is why we shouldn't be declaring years unless absolutely necessary and offensive and our final comment of the night comes from our facebook page also comes from a face page delroy posted this about him my discussion about iran and he said tom i often disagree with your apologist notions concerning the democratic party and blah blah blah ministration there but i love your smack down on those i and rand does on these you know what's amazing to me this happened today on the radio show we had a expert on about iran randon and actually it was george monbiot the british journalist who wrote this incredible piece about iran and how she's corrupt american politics and it got all these calls from these iran zombies young p. i think somebody posted tweeted out and people going what i read atlas shrugged and it's just wonderful yes

congress excuse me this included certain blogs they think progress they also were going after glenn greenwald for supporting wiki leaks and so there is really shady stuff there. i will say the first and only time that i've ever broken news on a national level was in interview of ron paul in two thousand and seven in which i asked him right after his kind of campaign exploded all of the facebook and twitter activity was going on as a big deal and he was seventy two years old at the time and i said have you actually used these things that are basically propelling your campaign into the into the. national politics and he said you know i've got really great staffers to handle all of this stuff that's coming into my campaign that way and i think probably that's a little bit what's happening on the super pac side of ron paul here i don't want to take what i hear you. i tell you all the you know these are the people that are the raids are outraged because they say you know ron paul doesn't they don't believe ron paul secretly agrees with the funders of the super pac but you know say he's propelled t

when we got robert greenwald on the show tonight we're going to talk about this new his poll from the new york times and c.b.s. that shows that a whopping sixty nine percent of americans no longer think that we should be in afghanistan and if you think about it that is actually higher than we've ever seen the statistics or the polls in terms of discontent that's higher than it was with the war in iraq and so that's a change in the last four months you really have to wonder if this is some final turning point you know it's really a big deal out of the same time we can have another conversation about how young people just aren't interested in cars anymore they're not getting driver's licenses they're not buying cars the same rates maybe it's because they're moving to urban centers but is car culture entirely gone or is is just you know an effect of the economy and something that's temporary g.m. is trying to hire and to actually help them out so they can start marketing to young people again but we'll see if that works and that is a very interesting question to look at i can say that ou

analyst and he was one of the worst offenders in this two thousand and nine year times piece and going greenwald wrote about it today detailing how mccaffrey presented a seminar to roughly twenty n.b.c. executives and producers on january tell twelfth where he spoke about the creep towards war with iran making it sound like it was only ninety days away he war that were most likely be iran will be the aggressor in the situation and not the u.s. and he said that iran will not under any circumstances be deterred from going nuclear so here you have somebody who obviously has certain financial interests briefing n.b.c. executives so they can figure out how to cover the iran situation and you wonder why the coverage coming from a mess of d.c. and i've received teams with such fear marjorie and ignores i reports ignores warnings from the administration people like the secretary of defense the director of national intelligence who say there is no proof that iran has decided to pursue nuclear weapons anyway i want to get too carried away here what i really suggest you all do is go to salon dot com. piece

in this case by having these ads play nonstop on their networks to the left of people like glenn greenwald the salon dot com with the center for american progress just to name two other examples to remind everybody that a something just doesn't seem to fit so it's also not surprising that we haven't seen the mainstream media that plays these ads all the time not mention that ed rendell former governor of pennsylvania and in fact an m.s.n. b.c. contributor is being dell is being investigated by the treasury department's counterterrorism division for the speaking fees that he's received from the and. this is an interesting development to say the least well they go after others too and we feel example of made out of some of these people so now i doubt that howard dean or rudy giuliani are going to be given fifteen year sentences but a sign that elite immunity won't be upheld by this administration in all cases perhaps we will see that although of course there are plenty of other examples out there where they've allowed it to slide wall street being just the most obvious example but i do wonde

official me with him it's really inexcusable especially if you consider that when greenwald pointed out today that even the bush administration had allowed investigators with the international committee of the red cross to have interviews with. high value detainees at guantanamo bay that was of course after they had been transferred cia black sites but they were allowed to meet with them no less so what possible excuse could there be for denying one that has access to bradley manning this is the way that our government is chosen to function this by all the talk of transparency and of holding the rule of law and now this is what's being discussed at the un human rights council but of course there has been a peep in the mainstream media about this peyton manning is a football hero but bradley manning an army private who was subjected to cruel inhumane and degrading treatment by his own government is someone that they choose to miss. well looks like some kind of u.s. action is taking shape on syria violence continues and an estimated seventy five hundred people have been killed senior obam

interview in two thousand said when he was still senator he's running for president he told going greenwald of salon you know who would ever want to become a lobbyist or head of a trade association is there's only the extent and then you know lo and behold after he left office he joined the a.p.a. i think you get like a million and a half dollar salary is his.

interview in two thousand and seven when he was still senator he's running for president he told glenn greenwald of salon you know who would ever want to.

dispassionate on our analysts still serve their pentagon interest our defense contractor interests glenn greenwald that's the lawn had a great piece about a general who has been briefing n.b.c. executives the actually about the imminent threat of iran how does this kind of thing affects the focus i mean if well let's fight for policy these generals come in and a lot of these guys would be very blunt here susan because they're great at the door and they become part of the says. from which they came up through the door we're talking about i believe reflects the whole of mccain over and i thought that's very mccaffery mccain a lot of these guys will say whatever they're being told to say and have and have no ability to think for themselves and that's part of the problem process going to run their generals out there personal friends of mine who do you think will say what's on your mind which you have others who are actually engaged in this information operations if you will trying to convince people thing of things which are necessarily true or are in our country's best interest isn't and it doesn't s

greenwald as you're clearly not on the brothers' christmas card list. of them accusing you of being maliciously false and deliberately misleading? >> i'd like to see one fact of any kind that is not accurate. what they're doing is character assassination. they're attacking me. i'm from new york, i can take the attacks. but i offer them to come on your show, any show, debate and discuss and deal with the facts, the facts of resegregating schools, of buying justices, of the fact that their plans of causing cancer to people in small towns. it goes on and on, but they won't do it. they hide behind cold facts. they won't come before committees. >> indeed. to what extent do you feel they're going to be influential, and negatively influential, come the election? >> well, if you have 200, 300, how many millions of dollars, you would think they have some level of influence. it's a disgusting way of doing it. it's buying up democracy illegally. hopefully they'll burn up the tv because of the ads that are on. but they're going to do everything they can do to influ

. >>> filmmaker robert greenwald will join me on that. don't forget to tweet us using the #edshow.tuned. we're right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." racism in the republican party and also racism in our judicial system. the story, the chief u.s. district judge, richard cebull out of montana, sending a racist e-mail about the the president of the united states. let's turn to msnbc political analyst, michael eric dyson, also a professor at georgetown university, and the author of the book "can you hear me now?" professor, your reaction to the judge's e-mail? and i guess i have to get right to it, can this judge in any way, shape, or form be objective and be trusted in cases of people of color standing in front of his bench? >> i don't think he can at all, ed. here's a guy who obviously is colored by his own beliefs, tinged with bias, his anti-obama sentiments are one thing, but to connect them to racialized sentiments like he's done here is ridiculous. how do you think you could have an objective person who would consider your case, adjudicate, which is what judges are suppo

when greenwald went after it, it wasc quite amazing using drugs drastically for police surveillancebut the issue is i wouldn't quite believe the pentagon on anything because their budget is going to take a severe cut in the state to pull out of iraq, did you have troops in kuwait, troops in qatar. they put a lot of privateboco contract is that i work in iraq. we basically had the consortium are often u.s. there's a lot of u.s. oil interests that are still there. so we have our finger on the button name. we want to control that area. well, this thing could get messy. and if china doesn't play ball with us, then we are putting pressure on china as it is than all of this out china sea because the naval lanes we put our military fleet they are. we could have a two engagement were with iran and china. >> is very serious d.c. this is a question they have to think about very carefully in washington. >> you want to pay my taxes to the liberal establishment. this is where we feed them. we give them money to centralize government to make war, which is what some of them said earlier. the centr

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