EPISODE NUMBER: 10085 (April 3, 2014)
GUESTS: Mark Mazzetti | Emily Bazelon
SEGMENTS: Holy Grail Discovery | Supreme Court Ruling on Aggregate Campaign Funding | Supreme Court Ruling on Aggregate Campaign Funding – Emily Bazelon | Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality | Mark Mazzetti | Sign Off – Coffee Break
SUIT REPORT: Dark Pin Stripped Suit | Light Blue Shirt | Light Blue/Black Stripped Tie
VIDEOS: Thursday, April 3, 2014
Tonight, Mark Mazzetti, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for ‘The New York Times’ swings by The Report to talk about his news book “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth”.
Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality
Bill O’Reilly: “Why is our nation in decline? Tonight I can give you this: equality is what is hurting President Obama. The left has seized that word ‘equality’ to push its progressive agenda. We now have income equality, marriage equality, gender equality, and on and on and on. Each human being is born with abilities, but they are not equal abilities. I will never have physical equality with my fellow Irishman Shaquille O’Neal. He is bigger and stronger than I am in nature. I will never be as smart as Einstein, as talented as Mozart, or as kind as Mother Teresa.”
- You’ll also never be as fast as Usain Bolt, you’ll never be as emotionally mature as a toddler, or understand how tides work as well as a middle-schooler. O’Reilly’s logic is air tight. Some people are better at some things than other people are at that thing. So trying to achieve equality is unnatural.
- Take income inequality. Shaquille O’Neal is taller than Bill O’Reilly. Therefore, the richest 1% of Americans should control 40% of the nation’s wealth. The point is, if Bill O’Reilly is no Einstein – and I think we can all agree he’s not – then equality is forever out of our reach.
Bill O’Reilly: “The truth is there will never be equality in this world. It’s impossible. An opium-laced dream.”
- Yes, I believe that’s what Dr King was talking about in his ‘I Have An Opium – Laced Dream’ speech.
Sorry for the delay in getting the episode guide posted, I’ve been sick the past couple of days. But do please share your thoughts on the episode while I working on piecing it together!!
April 3, 2014 – Mark Mazzetti
EPISODE NUMBER: 10085 (April 3, 2014)
GUESTS: Mark Mazzetti | Emily Bazelon
SEGMENTS: Holy Grail Discovery | Supreme Court Ruling on Aggregate Campaign Funding | Supreme Court Ruling on Aggregate Campaign Funding – Emily Bazelon | Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality | Mark Mazzetti | Sign Off – Coffee Break
SUIT REPORT: Dark Pin Stripped Suit | Light Blue Shirt | Light Blue/Black Stripped Tie
VIDEOS: Thursday, April 3, 2014
Tonight, Mark Mazzetti, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for ‘The New York Times’ swings by The Report to talk about his news book “The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth”.
Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality
Sorry for the delay in getting the episode guide posted, I’ve been sick the past couple of days. But do please share your thoughts on the episode while I working on piecing it together!!