Bonus Episode, December 8, 2014

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Ben, Wes, and Steve. Ana had to leave to host Take Part Live, but Steve revealed that the show has been cancelled and will only run for the next two weeks. Talk about how hard it is to keep a product in the independent media market. The panel talks about the show Homeland and its references to real life and our kill lists and lack of security despite the multiple wars the country is involved in. Discussion about a Texas Judge that was arrested for DWI, but got out of it over lack of evidence. Later, police dashcam video of her failing the sobriety tests came out...evidence.  

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The Young Turks, December 8, 2014

The Young Turks: December 08, 2014

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Ana replaces John for SCS. A Seattle police officer has been cleared of all charges after he punched a female suspect in the eye while arresting her. Videos of the confrontation and immediate aftermath. More NFL and NBA players are joining protests in solidarity with Black people murdered by police. Reggie Bush and Derrick Rose joined the protests with #ICantBreathe t-shirts during the pregame. Uncharacteristically, the NFL hasn’t taken any negative action on the players.  A piece in Salon outlined potential solutions to curbing police violence upon citizens. One idea is a Little Brother project that has nearly every citizen watching and taping the cops while uploading the footage immediately to the corresponding app. Wes mentions how this info could tell criminals where law enforcement is, letting them know when and how to strike. An Uber driver in India went on a string rapes, and the company had no background information on him for authorities to track him down or know who he is. Continuing story of Rolling Stone’s shaky article about an alleged rape victim at the Univ of Virginia. Since so many people are mad at the woman that possibly falsified the story, a Conservative blogger named Charles Johnson posted her name and whereabouts online so that her enemies can find her. Johnson has a history of putting up false stories about Michael Brown and others in the name of retribution. Mexican authorities have discovered a body of one of the missing students that were probably abducted by the drug cartels.

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Ben, Iadarola, and Wes Clark Jr hosting. Democrat Mary Landrieu lost her runoff election over the weekend to Cassidy. Talk about why she lost. Video from CBS Evening News analyst that claimed she lost because the national Democratic party is too liberal for the South. He also suggested that the Democrats run candidates more “moderate” in the South. Ben talks about how he would’ve appealed heavily to the minority vote, since losing with 47% is just as bad as losing with only 37%, as this might have given her a chance to motivate Democratic turnout. CNN’s coverage of Stephen Colbert’s joke directed at President Obama after Democratic candidates refused to be seen with the President on the campaign trail. Videos of the joke and John King & Chris Cuomo missing the point that Democratic candidates were too scared to use Obama, leading them to big losses. The hacking group that infiltrated Sony has released documents that show the incredible profits the movie division has brought in. The damning part is that this disproves their claim that they’re short on money and needed to cut 230 employees that create all of their films. Ben disputes the claim that N. Korea hacked Sony over the new movie, The Interview, that mocks the country. After the latest grand jury decisions to not indict killer police officers, some charts show that while many White Americans were ok with the Brown decision, many fewer support the Garner decision. Video of Bratton admitting that the video of Garner’s death was hard to watch, but their mantra is “Awful but lawful.”

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