Bonus Episode, July 26, 2012

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Cenk and Hermela discuss her Ethiopian roots.

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The Young Turks, July 26, 2012

The Young Turks: July 26, 2012

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Thursday, July 26, 2012 Hour 1 Segment 1 Cenk hosting today. Video of Michael Moore asking President Obama what he’d say if it really were his children that were killed at the theatre shooting. Video of Obama speaking to the Urban League, voicing his support for tough gun laws in the wake of the Colorado shooting. This comes after poll numbers overwhelmingly support reasonable gun control. Mitt Romney spoke with Brian Williams and declared that we don’t need stricter gun laws despite the fact that he’s said he doesn’t line up with the NRA’s points of view. Video of Pres Obama telling the crowd that since they’re competing with people in China that aren’t playing around, that they shouldn’t be playing video games and watching Real Housewives. Ice-T made a case for Americans to have guns, but Rush Limbaugh disagreed with him on his point about protecting yourself from the police. Limbaugh condescendingly said that he was impressed that Ice-T knew the word tyranny. Mitt Romney ad portraying his visit to the NAACP as a warm, welcoming, and supportive experience. Video of what Conservatives were saying about the NAACP that day. Segment 2 Video of Mitt Romney criticizing how London is running the Olympics. The Prime Minister responded by calling out the fact that Romney ran the ‘02 Games in the middle of nowhere. More on the “you didn’t build that” line that Republicans continue to run with. Video of Romney’s attack ad taking the quote out of context, featuring a small business owner mad at Obama for it. The star of the ad actually got tons of monetary help from the government to get his business going. He went on Fox News and admitted that he actually agrees with Obama; that no one does things on their own. A pro-Obama Super PAC released an ad connecting Romney to his outsourcing background and offshore accounts with an Olympic theme. Segment 3 A Tea Party official railed on Muslims. The defense of Michelle Bachmann is down to Louie Gohmert and Rush Limbaugh.

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Hour 2 Segment 1 Hermela Aregawi joins Cenk for SCS. The Hill released their 50 Most Beautiful People issue for Capital Hill. Discussion of whether or not Bachmann should be at #10. It has been known that people on this list get dates afterwards. A Greek Olympian has been kicked off of the team for a tweet about how the W. Nile mosquitoes will be eating home cooked food in the form of the Africans competing. People looked deeper into her twitter account after this eye-opening tweet and found that she supports several bad politicians. Segment 2 A seriously hardcore Twilight fan is distraught over Kristen Stewart cheating on her leading man/boyfriend. Cenk wonders if the couple can survive the scandal. This is an indication of how obsessed our society is with celebrities. A Chinese man woke up without his penis, after burglars broke in and took it. They were with women that allegedly had affairs with him. Segment 3 A man had a bet with his friends that he could survive pouring a shot of Bacardi 151 on his head before setting his head on fire. A woman stole $57 worth of clothes from Wal-Mart and when the security team tried to stop her, she took off and left her 1 year old son in the cart. When the police eventually caught her, she was at a nightclub.

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