May 2013
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Jesse Lava on mass incarceration: "Fear drives an... →
Jesse Lava, campaign director of Beyond Bars, and Preston Shipp, a former prosecutor and a professor at Lipscomb University, join Current TV’s John Fugelsang to discuss the need for mass incarceration reform in the United States.
“The United States spends more than $200 billion a year locking people up, once you count cops and courts. If we took a fraction of that money and invested it in...
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4,127 people have been killed by guns since...
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And that number is growing rapidly. Just yesterday afternoon, the number was 4,099.
Number of tyrannical governments overthrown by gun-wielding Americans in that time period: zero.
Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News... →
robot-heart-politics:
Scandalous.
“The people who killed ACORN and tried to kill Planned Parenthood and PBS now say...”
– John Fugelsang (via samuraifuckingfrog)
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CONFIRMED: GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To... →
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“I don’t think it’s going to change the debate in Washington, because people are...”
– Pat Garofalo, assistant opinions editor for U.S. News & World Report: “Obama’s tax increases are actually bringing the deficit down”
The Congressional Budget Office is predicting a smaller deficit in 2013. Garofalo joined Viewpoint’s John Fugelsang to discuss why this positive...
“Your ability to heavily arm yourself and publicly call Obama a gun-grabbing...”
– John Fugelsang (via jordanleeemerson)
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How does a company's political ideology affect... →
This week, a Los Angeles developer announced a new smartphone app that lets shoppers scan items in their carts to see if the products are made by Koch Industries or other corporate conglomerations. Buycott (free, available on iPhone and Android) will scan the barcodes on your grocery store haul and see what major corporation it traces back to. Users can also join or create crowdsourced campaigns...
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“Some of it was startling, close to Pulitzer Prize fiction in its inventiveness.”
– Thomas Pickering, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on the Benghazi reports he saw while serving as co-chair on the Accountability & Review Board. Pickering joined John Fugelsang on Viewpoint to talk about the review process and Sen. Darrell Issa’s criticism of the final...
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What do you think about the IRS targeting... →
On Friday, officials from the Internal Revenue Service publicly acknowledged and apologized for singling out conservative political groups for additional scrutiny regarding their tax-exempt status. Roughly 300 groups were targeted, though none had their tax-exempt status revoked. The IRS said its system automatically flagged groups that registered with words like “tea party,”...
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The UN's new solution to ending world hunger: We... →
Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News’ chief health and medical editor, talks with “Say Anything!” host Joy Behar about a United Nations study that promotes eating bugs as a way to improve food security.
“Americans should welcome the 400 parts-per-million threshold. This means that...”
– That’s oil industry shill and climate denialist Marc Morano, quoted in a Bloomberg article about historic levels of carbon dioxide. This is another example of the problem of “false balance” in coverage of climate change. Shauna Theel writes,
Marc Morano is not a scientist and has no scientific...
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“The NRA is toasting that they have continued to convince Congress to allow...”
– Gun safety advocate John Rosenthal: “The NRA supports criminals and terrorists, not law-abiding citizens”
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“He’s got a lot of policies that have been proven to be unpopular with...”
– Joe Williams: Ted Cruz is hurting the Republican party more than he’s helping himself
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Elizabeth Cline on the Bangladesh garment factory... →
Current TV’s John Fugelsang talks with journalist Elizabeth Cline, author of “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,” who shares her thoughts on the clothing manufacturing industry in the wake of two separate tragedies at garment factories in Bangladesh.
Cline traveled to Bangladesh as an undercover garment buyer in 2011, and says that factory owners there will “do anything and...
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“I think we’re a less moral nation when we don’t let gay people marry.”
– Michael Shure on The Young Turks. (via mattbirnbaum)
GOP strategist Jack Burkman came on TYT this week and suggested same-sex marriage was making the nation “immoral.” Guest host Michael Shure wasn’t having it.
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“The levels of irony, mixed with a toxic cocktail of hypocrisy and ignorance —...”
– John Fugelsang: Oliver North claiming Benghazi is a cover-up has caused irony to commit suicide
One Day in Gun-merica: May 9, 2013
politicalprof:
From Joe Nocera, NY Times
A 3-year-old boy died Wednesday night after a self-inflicted shooting in Corsicana, Tex. Kinzler Allen Davis found a handgun inside a bedroom in his home and then discharged it, striking himself in the head. The boy’s father was in another room at the time. There were no immediate plans to charge the parents.
—CBS DFW
Authorities are searching for a...
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Wendell Potter: Hospital fee discrepancy is 'a... →
Wendell Potter, senior analyst for the Center for Public Integrity and former head of public relations for CIGNA, joined Current TV’s John Fugelsang to weigh in on recently released Medicare data that reveals drastic disparities in what different hospitals charge for the same procedure.
“Medicare probably pays what is a reasonable amount of money for some of these procedures,” Potter says....
Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What's the...
robertreich:
After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults — and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so — a Defense Department study released Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the last fiscal year, up from about 19,000 the year before.
Moreover, it turns out the Air...
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“Hello, are you a small business owner looking to reach a wider audience of...”
– John Fugelsang: Rush Limbaugh has chased away more sponsors than Lindsay Lohan did at Betty Ford
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Moms and Babies Everywhere Deserve a Chance at...
univisionnews:
By EMILY DERUY
Mother’s Day is this Sunday but too many moms around the world continue to give birth to babies that never make it past their first month of life.
A new report from Save the Children, the State of the World’s Mothers, outlines some of the reasons.
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