Bonus Episode, August 29, 2012

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The Young Turks, August 29, 2012

The Young Turks: August 29, 2012

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Hour 2 Ana Kasparian and John Iadorola hosting RNC - Ana opens with RNC and discussing Ann Romney - Hates how she opened with “I’m gonna talk about LOVE” - Says she can’t handle insincerity, says spare the B.S. - John hates how she always said “I met him at a dance” - John says by far Chris Christie was more interesting, albeit everything he said was alie Protest by Code Pink - Ana says makes democrats extremely uncomfortable. Protests not meant to be convenient. Nothing captures attention of press like a big vagina - John says coming election matters for women’s rights. Romney/Ryan do NOT have women’s interest - 69 laws passed throughout contry restrict abortiona access; Repubs want defund planned parenthood. Ana worried at way of being covered - Steve: more accurately war on poor women than anything else. Laws hurt the poor; in turn hurt families, husband, children. Calls it a “human dignity” issue. It’s a way of dividing women - Ana: Societal impact. Punishes women for having pre-marital sex. Ppl pushing pro-life agenda - Ana calls if you are a women, and vote republican, “you are a MORON” - Steve disagrees w/ Ana. Advantage & privilege comes from status. Women cheering Romney probably don’t need abortion rights, access to poor clinics. - Ana: what about women in lower middle class? Political Apathy - Spray painted “Obama Fuk Off” on his truck - Ana: “Fuck Obama for what?” - “Fundamentally Useless Kenyan” - John: Gives details of Dennis Paul Hamm - Ana: FBI should check in to him Michelle Obama - On cover depicting her as slave - Fuera de Serie, Spanish magazine - John: enough racism on Barack & Michele - Ana: Should art ever be censored? WORST Invasion of Privacy - Airport staff found dildo in gay couples’ bag, put back through security for everyone to see - Dildo smelled horrible - Ana: Don’t travel with your dildo (sarcasm) - Jill Filipovich: found when got thru security, note said “get your freak on girl” - Ana: obviously you can travel with sex toys David Glasheen - 15 yrs living as Australia’s Robinson Crusoe - Believes in solitude - Land was given to him that he would build amusement park, never did it - Wife left after 6 months, had new baby, there was no hot water - Posted profile on dating site Best Father - Did whatever it took to make son feel comfortable - Father dressed in skirt and dresses with son - Father embraced it [pic] - Steve: would NOT do this for his son School Shootings - Zero Tolerance Policy - Ana: Americans look for easy way out - Child is deaf, signing own name; looks like he’s shooting guns Store Name in India - Named his store “HITLER” with the dot above the ‘i’ as a swastika - Men’s clothing store - Cafe called this “Hitler’s Cross” - Says willing to change it, but wants compensation for it

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Hour 1 Segment 1--31:00 Cenk hosting from Current NYC studios. Recapping the highlights and lowlights of the RNC speeches last night. Video of Ann Romney’s speech where she blatantly claimed, “I love you Women!” Video of Erin Burnett admitting that the speech and Mitt coming out brought a tear to her eye. Videos of Ann promising that Mitt will be the best. Cenk talks about the lack of authenticity & relatability in Ann Romney’s speech. Videos of Chris Christie’s keynote speech last night. Cenk thinks it was a great speech for the audience, but doesn’t believe the words behind it. Video of Santorum claiming that marriage is under attack in America, and its destroying us and his obsession with touching hands. Video of Ted Cruz taking Obama’s “yes we can” line and twisting it for Republican consumption. Segment 2--15:30 A delegate at the RNC threw peanuts at a Black camerawoman saying, “This is how we feed the animals.” Its guys like this that the Party targets with false ads and talking points about welfare. Latest poll numbers. Other news and notes from the speakers at the convention. John Kasich. Segment 3--22:30 ABC News reports that Mitt Romney is hosting his top 50 donors on his yacht that flies the Cayman Islands flag. The esteemed company gave at least $1 million to Romney’s campaign. Ben Quayle lost his primary battle in Arizona. Hurricane Isaac’s effect on the Gulf Coast and the government response to it. Gov Jindal is demanding federal money to help the relief effort despite the countless times he said the federal government is wasting money on states. An American woman was killed when run over by an Israeli vehicle as they were destroying Palestinian homes. The Israelis pushed the issue aside. Murray Energy has a list of which employees gave to the Romney campaign and which didn’t. They also made their miners go to a Romney event, but docked their pay of work for missing it. Details of Navy Seal Team 6 and their raid to kill Osama bin Laden. One member has written a book with the real account, that didn’t sound like a bad action movie.

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