The Young Turks, February 4, 2014

The Young Turks: February 04, 2014

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Cenk hosting.  WolfPAC news.  After a setback, our California organizer/volunteer regrouped and had the bill reintroduced, where it passed the State House vote.  Our deficit has reached its lowest since Obama entered office at $680 billion, down from the $1.2 trillion that Bush left for him.  The 2014 deficit is projected to drop to $514 billion.  Despite these real numbers, Republicans and commentators continue to say our deficit is the largest its ever been due to Obama’s policies.  President Obama’s interview with Bill O’Reilly over Benghazi and the fake IRS scandal has pissed off the Fox News personalities since he told Bill that their network keeps ginning up these fake controversies. Glenn Beck weighed in on the “controversial” Coke ad that aired during the Super Bowl, claiming that it was made to divide us politically, by forcing racists to come out in opposition.  Although the Breitbart editor focused on the gay couple featured in the ad, it turns out that the woman that wrote the song was a lesbian.  Another Breitbart article wrote about how the CEO of Coke put the ad together in order open Americans’ minds to Muslim culture so that he could sneak funds to terrorist Muslim groups, that pose as Muslim charities.  Cenk explains how this accusation cools charitable giving to Muslim charities that help Muslims get ahead or even a fair shake to experience the American dream.  Republicans are also on the warpath against the USPS, criticizing their reception of government money.  The one problem is that the USPS doesn’t even receive money from the government, but they do have to operate under very strict regulation that the government places on them.  Elizabeth Warren stepped in and proposed that the postal service go into the business of providing payday checks for people without bank accounts, sans the banking fees.  Transcanada continues its serious push to get the Keystone Pipeline approved by downplaying and lying about the dangerous factors involved.  It has been discovered that after years and years, a huge explosion and oil spill happened in a remote part of Alberta was never reported or acknowledged.  They claimed that the reporting of the explosion was ignored to a clerical error.  CBC also reported that the rupture rate of these pipelines is significantly higher than others because of the nature of the liquids that flow through them.  Another report has just been discovered to have been covering up the toxins released by ignoring a very significant source of them. Look for TYT Announcements from Ambassador Jeni here: http://bit.ly/TYTForum

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Ana joins Cenk for SCS.  Update to the Dylan Farrow story of her accusing Woody Allen of sexually abusing her.  Ana corrects the facts that TYT got wrong while discussing the story yesterday.  Videos of Barbara Walters and Mika Brzezinski discussing the case from each end of support and opposition. BYU PSAs focusing on “The War on Porn” to keep guys from masturbating.  Videos of the PSA that didn’t seem to make the point effectively.  A group of female students from Columbia University created a video to explore the rituals of our schools’ Greek system and showed how repulsive woman on woman sexual contact can be.  They tried to make it gross, but that didn’t come across.  A reporter from Gawker asked Jerry Seinfeld why he doesn’t have more people of color on his web series.  He responded angrily and put the reporter in his place.  In the past, Seinfeld praised past comedians like Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby.  He also has Aziz Ansari on his show somewhat regularly. Human Rights Watch has released videos showing some of the extreme abuse gay people in Russia have been experiencing from the group “Occupy Pedophilia.”  A 5th grade transgender girl has won her case against her school that wouldn’t allow her to use the girls bathroom after a male classmate made a big deal over it.   Look for TYT Announcements from Ambassador Jeni here: http://bit.ly/TYTForum

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