The Young Turks, July 17, 2015

The Young Turks: July 17, 2015

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Power Panel; Cenk, Ben, Ana, and guest Maz Jobrani hosting. Donald Trump has gone after Republican critics like John McCain and Rick Perry on Twitter. Called McCain dummy and said Perry should have to take an IQ test before being allowed in a debate. Even John Dingell, the longest serving Congressman in American history told Trump he should delete his Twitter account. Lawrence O’Donnell has become the next MSNBC host to apologize for no reason. Video of O’Donnell outlining why he loves Trump and that he didn’t want to become part of the story of Trump’s campaign. He later apologized for questioning Trump’s salary from NBC for The Apprentice. Donald Trump is polling at 18% and leading 2nd place by 4% points. Talk about how incompetent someone would have to be to lose their job to an immigrant that doesn’t know the language. Bill O’Reilly spoke about the TN shooting, reporting on the possibility that an ISIS Twitter account called out the attack before it happened. He asserted that if they had something to do with it, all hell will break loose and Obama will finally get serious about fighting ISIS. Charles Krauthammer spoke about how upset he is that Obama won’t call this TN shooter a link to radical Islam.

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Same panel. Chandler, Arizona police entered a woman’s home and arrested her while in her bath towel. Video of the arrest of the naked woman for no reason. The investigation found that the arresting officer acted illegally, but he retired before the investigation was complete. An executive from Planned Parenthood has apologized for the tone and statements made by the staff member secretly filmed and doctored to sound like PP sells aborted fetus body parts. A couple of Republican Congressmen knew about the secretly filmed PP video weeks before it was released to the public for smear purposes. Rep Tim Murphy flipped back and forth in his admission that he knew of the tape. Congress is now launching an investigation in relation to the video. Lil Wayne was the target of an attempted murder plot carried out by Birdman and Young Thug. This was the culmination of the money dispute between Wayne and the label Young Money, who sued the label for over $50 million. With a new male CEO, Reddit continues to ban things like spam, copyrighted material, publication of someone’s private info, inciting harm or violence, and sexualy suggestive content that includes minors.

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Bonus Episode, July 17, 2015

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No Dave Koller for today, but Steve Oh and Malcolm Fleschner come by to drop some knowledge on the U.S. Iran Nuclear deal.

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