The Young Turks, August 21, 2013

The Young Turks: August 21, 2013

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Bradley Manning sentence.  Jeffrey Toobin, Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda. With the revelations and stubbornness of the NSA spying, the President is losing support of the youth in America.  60% of 18-29 y/o say that the information was helpful to the people, while only 36% of people over 65 y/o agreed.  Up to 1300 citizens are reportedly dead from chemical weaponry in Syria. A foiled elementary school shooter was arrested today after the school’s bookkeeper talked him down.  This ending happened despite Wayne LaPierre’s assertion that the only thing to stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.   While the NRA endlessly fear mongers its members and supporters against the government compiling a gun registry list, it turns out that the NRA has been compiling a gun registry list for decades that contains 10s of millions of people. PPP polled GOPers in Louisiana and found that more believe President Obama is responsible for the lack of Hurricane Katrina response than President Bush is.  The large majority just aren’t sure.  Article.

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Segment 1 Ana joins Cenk for SCS.  Controversy around Rolling Stone’s cover that makes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev look like a rockstar.  List of 8 other controversial magazine covers.  Britain has legalized gay marriage.  A gay activist was tortured and murdered in Cameroon over the weekend.   Segment 2 Julia Roberts’ niece was arrested for beating her boyfriend in a domestic violence dispute.  Discussion of whether or not men are less of a man if they call authorities if they are beaten by their woman.  The Vatican offered 7 years less time in purgatory if people follow the Pope on Twitter.  A man that is addicted to porn is blaming Apple company, so he wants them to implement a multi-layered admission process to access it.   Segment 3 A Texas restaurant known as “Redneck Heaven” is under fire for their waitresses’ scantily clad outfits.  An artist created a video that shows what the West Coast of the country would look like in 300 years of rising waters due to climate change.  

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Bonus Episode, August 21, 2013

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Al Sharpton’s new girlfriend is very young & hot.  Talk about how this relationship possibly got ignited.

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