The Young Turks, April 24, 2013

The Young Turks: April 24, 2013

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Rhode Island has passed gay marriage.  Kelly Ayotte’s approval numbers in NH are falling after her ‘No’ vote on background checks. Gabby Giffords’ group is running radio ads bashing Ayotte and Mitch McConnell for their no votes on background checks.  Video of FNC’s  Judge Napolitano explaining how Rand Paul hasn’t flipped on his position on drones. A former intern for Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich campaign staffer has been arrested for 15 counts of cyber stalking and internet extortion.  He broke into women’s accounts, obtained their naked pictures, and threatened them with spreading them if they didn’t give him more.  When he worked for Gingrich, he dressed as “Ellis the Elephant,” a character from Newt’s and Calista’s children’s book.  Maureen Dowd took the President to task for his weakness on getting even Democratic Senators on his side.  Video of Joan Walsh calling Dowd’s piece stupid.  Joe Scarborough gave Obama some direct advice on how to twist some arms and get votes on his side. Alex Jones’ latest conspiracy about how the government pulled the Boston bombing off in order to blame it on the Tea Party.   The man that was originally suspected to be the ricin criminal, and later released, is doing some hilarious press on the situation.

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The women that were shot at by LAPD during the Chris Dorner manhunt have won their case, being awarded $4.7 million.  Allegations that psychiatric hospitals in Las Vegas have been shipping patients to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket so that they don’t have to deal with them anymore.  A Baltimore inmate is being accused of impregnating 4 female prison guards.  The smuggling of drugs and cell phones inside is another aspect.  Another high school is ignoring an alleged rape case of a female student because the alleged culprit is a star on the basketball team.  A 22 year old female math teacher in Utah has been accused of raping a 17 year old female student.  A 55 year old teacher in S Korea has been arrested for indecent exposure after he beat up a student for wearing headphones in class, then running into the hallway to masturbate in front of a bunch of other students. A middle school student in W.V. was arrested for refusing to take off an NRA t-shirt at school.  The WV House passed legislation to assure poor kids get free lunch in school, but opponents to the law proposes that the poor kids should work as janitors for their lunch.  An Egyptian woman has been forced to pay more than $7000 to her ex-husband for tricking him into thinking she was a virgin before they got married.  

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Bonus Episode, April 24, 2013

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Ana talks about her vacation to the Dominican Republic.  Ana’s trip made Cenk think about how great life is as a single guy. Ana felt guilty for the way the resort staff waited on them hand and foot.  Cenk talks about how much life would suck for people that grew up super rich, without motivation to do anything with their life.  Ana talks about how bad Wolf Blitzer is at his job.

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