The Young Turks, February 6, 2015

The Young Turks: February 06, 2015

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Brett Erlich replaces John for SCS. Comcast has been busted again for changing a customer’s name to a derogatory one. This time, they called a female customer “Super Bitch.” An Armenian couple is going through a divorce after they had a son with Down Syndrome. The mother threatened to leave her husband if he didn’t agree to put the kid up for adoption. Now that he’s alone with the kid, the husband has raised $60K through Go Fund Me. Talk about the culture of Western countries vs the Old World way of thinking. A family staged a 4 hour kidnapping and faux torture of their 6 year old kid to teach him a lesson about being too friendly with strangers. After being arrested, the adults claimed that they were only trying to teach him a lesson. A picture of a man on a boat in the middle of the ocean while a huge whale breached has surfaced and gone viral. It has gained so much attention because he missed it while on his phone. Talk about how humans don’t interact with each other anymore. Harvard has officially banned professors from having romantic relationships with undergrad students. Discussion about the dynamics and ethics of these relationships. Show notes by Jayar Jackson

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Cenk, Iadarola, Jimmy, and Desi Doyen hosting the Power Panel. An anti Net Neutrality group released an ad spoofing porn, illustrating that Net Neutrality will have the government control your internet activities. Talk about the Net Neutrality ruling that came down in favor of neutrality. Cenk talks about how he predicted that this would happen because the money men were in favor of it being equal. After NBC News’ Brian Williams apologized for misrepresenting the story of being shot down in a helicopter over Iraq in 2003, the pilot that backed up his story has also rescinded his reinforcements for Williams. More accounts are now claiming that Williams wasn’t even in the 2nd helicopter that took some small arms fire from the ground. Jimmy and John disagree on how deplorable he is for this storytelling. Jimmy talks about how this is a pattern for Williams to boost himself as a reputable journalist. Cenk talks about the admitted pitfalls of his story and his defense of Williams, admitting a bias for him since he’s a good guy. Jordan has begun to make good on their promise to respond to ISIS’ execution of the Jordanian pilot. Once false reports of Jordan King Abdullah participated in air strikes, Fox and Friends jumped on it and compared his bravery to weakness of President Obama. Rep Schock is under ethics investigation over his Downton Abby themed office. When a reporter snapped pictures of the nice digs, Schock’s assistant stopped the photography. It turns out that he accepted free services for the office design, and paid for the furniture with campaign funds. Cenk talks about how it was unnecessarily fancy, and speculates that Schock is gay. Show notes by Jayar Jackson

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Bonus Episode, February 6, 2015

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Dave Koller talks about the vaccination crisis and how Mississippi, a state usually at the bottom of health statistics, seems to be avoiding the decline in vaccination rates plaguing the rest of the country. There are now activists advocating against vaccinations in the state. Dave also further discusses the documentary Mad As Hell as well as the critical reaction to the film which is in general release in Los Angeles and New York City.

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