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Speaker 1: Tonight's program hand crafted lovingly using only the finest tops
Speaker 1: in purest spring water. My guest tonight political pondit Megan McCain,
Speaker 1: daughter of the Senator of the same name, Megan McCain.
Speaker 1: Very few people know that about the senator. If the
Speaker 1: pattern holds true with the family, she will return to
Speaker 1: this program twelve more times and then never speak to
Speaker 1: me again. But speaking of that kind, speaking of politics,
Speaker 1: by the way, hit.
Speaker 3: Me, are you ready for the mean.
Speaker 1: Wow, worst Tank Williams Junior impression ever? Midterms are upon
Speaker 1: us once more. But before we discuss the midtim elections,
Speaker 1: I wanted to remind you guys of this person I
Speaker 1: once knew is idealistic, young politician with big dreams of
Speaker 1: how the world work.
Speaker 5: There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
Speaker 5: There is the United States of America. We are going
Speaker 5: to do everything that we can to work with all
Speaker 5: of you, Democrat and Republican the step back for a moment,
Speaker 5: remind ourselves that we have things in common. Family, friends, laughter.
Speaker 1: H.
Speaker 3: Peristalsis.
Speaker 1: We're all astounded by water, fire, air, and dirt magnets.
Speaker 1: How do they work?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: Insane compasse fans? All right? Anyway, that nice young man
Speaker 1: went on to become President of the United States of
Speaker 1: America and finally had an opportunity to bridge the deep
Speaker 1: partisan divide that had paralyzed our nation's government. How'd that
Speaker 1: go for him?
Speaker 5: The easiest thing for the other side to do is
Speaker 5: to ride this fear and anger all the way to
Speaker 5: election day. Most of the Republicans in Congress have said
Speaker 5: no to just about every policy I propose as taking office.
Speaker 5: No to infrastructure. There were no new policies from mister Bainer.
Speaker 5: There were no new ideas. Politics pure and simple. I
Speaker 5: fail they win.
Speaker 1: That may be as close as any president in the
Speaker 1: United States has ever come to saying stall y'all.
Speaker 3: But hey, hey, but wait.
Speaker 1: At least at least we all still have laughter, as in,
Speaker 1: oh my god, remember that guy that believed that we
Speaker 1: would work with him? So the President out on the
Speaker 1: campaign trail making his case that you should vote for
Speaker 1: Democrats because A that'll keep that sweet sweet stimulus coming,
Speaker 1: and B it turns out the Republicans are kind of
Speaker 1: had to deal with. Clearly, this man is in mid season,
Speaker 1: midterm election form. Of course, he's just one man in
Speaker 1: a gymnasium in Ohio. It's not a matter of what
Speaker 1: he says as much as what we're told that he says.
Speaker 1: With the cable networks be able to shake off their
Speaker 1: summer of the killer mosque cobwebs and dive in Fox today,
Speaker 1: like the policies he's advocating looked like desperation.
Speaker 6: Bottom line, this was the president in campaign mode.
Speaker 1: He blamed Bush, he blamed the GOP, He blamed Bayner
Speaker 1: the president.
Speaker 3: It was a class warrior today, class wolf. It was back.
Speaker 5: It wasn't what I think Ohio wanted.
Speaker 7: Is the president's message too little too late?
Speaker 3: I think it was too much too early.
Speaker 1: You know, Bravo, bravo, you had me at He sucks. Clearly,
Speaker 1: MSNBC is gonna have their work cut out for them.
Speaker 4: Let's start with the President's speech and a hi today,
Speaker 4: what I humdinger at Wise.
Speaker 3: He wooked to use his phrase fired up.
Speaker 1: His rhetoric can be incredibly compelling.
Speaker 3: He understands how to draw the narrative.
Speaker 1: I think he got his voice back, speaking with passion
Speaker 1: and empathy.
Speaker 7: This was definitely the best speech of gotten from him
Speaker 7: since he's been in the White House.
Speaker 3: Ballock, I mean that was he was absolutely fun. I
Speaker 3: can only wait to see.
Speaker 1: What Jamie looked heard us, and the lead singer of
Speaker 1: Right said Fred blog about it on my website. I
Speaker 1: don't believe I'm even here. We're there. No, I don't
Speaker 1: know what accent. That was. Of course, praise to be
Speaker 1: expected from the liberal counterweight.
Speaker 3: But but but.
Speaker 7: But, as you know, one speech does not change the narrative.
Speaker 8: But that that that there is a gap between what
Speaker 8: the president says and does.
Speaker 3: That's a huge risk for him. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Do you know nothing of your obligation to shape the
Speaker 1: news towards your desired electoral goal. There is no butt
Speaker 1: in journalism. Have you learned nothing from Fox? You pick
Speaker 1: your narrative and you stick with it. And if the
Speaker 1: news doesn't fit your narrative.
Speaker 3: Change your news.
Speaker 1: For God's sakes, people, you don't change your narrative.
Speaker 3: Watch how the masters do it now.
Speaker 1: The President did have a rare moment of honesty during
Speaker 1: his speech, and I hope voters around the country are
Speaker 1: watching this.
Speaker 5: Taxes are scheduled to go up substantially next year for everybody.
Speaker 4: All Right, that's right.
Speaker 1: I know the anointed One will make sure that that happens.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I can't believe the President of the United States would
Speaker 1: just blurt out everybody's taxes are going to go up substantially,
Speaker 1: probably because he wouldn't do that. Here's the slightly less
Speaker 1: abridged version.
Speaker 5: Under the tax plan passed by the last administration, taxes
Speaker 5: are scheduled to go up substantially next year for everybody.
Speaker 5: By the way, this was by design.
Speaker 1: Ce MSNBC amateurs starting clips later and cutting them off
Speaker 1: before the speaker can finish the thoughts. Full construction can
Speaker 1: be a useful tool in helping your audience understand what
Speaker 1: you want them to think. It's a fun and easy
Speaker 1: way to make people you disagree with say things that
Speaker 1: make them unelectable. Not that the Republicans need any help
Speaker 1: making themselves unelectable. This is MINARTI leader John Bayner announcing
Speaker 1: the Republican's new jobs plan in a moment of candor.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ship millions of American jobs overseas.
Speaker 3: What why would you? Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: You must really hate the working man. I bet if
Speaker 1: we play that clip out end with Bayner throwing monkey
Speaker 1: the American flag. By the way, that's speculation.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a shame we don't have time
Speaker 1: to actually look at the full clip. So Fox, MSNBC,
Speaker 1: it's so difficult to watch coverage on these hyper parties
Speaker 1: and networks. Let's see what CNN's response to the speech was.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Rick Sanchez.
Speaker 2: Guess what moments ago, the Republican minority leader John Bayner
Speaker 2: sent me a tweet personally.
Speaker 1: Huh, dude, you're newsman, not a thirteen year old girl
Speaker 1: who just want to meet? Who just want to meet?
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber radio contest.
Speaker 3: See at Rick Sanchez.
Speaker 1: He sent it to us. Ooh to get that excited
Speaker 1: about tweets that go directly to you.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I could have.
Speaker 1: My audience send some Rick Sanchez tweets. Care of send
Speaker 1: a tweet a tweet. Oh that's not fair, Rick, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're not just in total meathead.
Speaker 2: By the way, I said, the president was in Columbus.
Speaker 2: He was actually closer to Cleveland.
Speaker 7: Today.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking Columbus because I'm all fired up about that
Speaker 2: University of Miami Ohio state game that's coming up this
Speaker 2: Weeken Sanchez.
Speaker 3: Like football.
Speaker 1: Football always on Sanchez of mine sech As. Yesterday I
Speaker 1: referred to Hillary Clinton as Frank Tarkington hypogize. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We hear a lot of stories about discrimination in this country,
Speaker 1: but none more painful than the one Wyatts andac found
Speaker 1: right here in our own backyard.
Speaker 6: With Atlanta Kagan's recent confirmation, the highest court in the
Speaker 6: land is now lacking just one thing.
Speaker 1: Only the borough of Staten Island has failed to produce
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 6: Yes, every other borough in New York City has provided
Speaker 6: a Supreme Court justice. Yet president after president continue to
Speaker 6: overlook Staten Island State Assemblyman Matthew tatone.
Speaker 8: We do get a little bit of mift that we
Speaker 8: are discounted. We happen to have a lot of great
Speaker 8: things going on here.
Speaker 6: Talk to me about some of those great things.
Speaker 8: Staten Island is immensely diverse. Staten Island often is thought
Speaker 8: of being an exclusively Italian American.
Speaker 1: Having the guidos.
Speaker 8: But we also have the largest Liberian population outside of Liberia.
Speaker 6: No offense, but it's Liberia.
Speaker 8: Well, clearly, people coming from a civil war torn country
Speaker 8: prefer to be on Staten Island than Liberia, kind of.
Speaker 6: Like saying, oh, do you want to get punched in
Speaker 6: the face with punching the balls? And there's no reason
Speaker 6: I couldn't find the next Supreme Court justice here. I
Speaker 6: just needed to follow a simple blueprint.
Speaker 5: An independent mind, a record of excellence and integrity, a
Speaker 5: fierce dedication to the rule of law.
Speaker 6: So I scoured the borough to find the most qualified candidates.
Speaker 1: As far as the laws are concerned. Here on Staten Island,
Speaker 1: we need them to be as hot assed as they
Speaker 1: possibly can.
Speaker 6: So it sounds like you're a constructionist when it comes
Speaker 6: to the Constitution.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't use maybe that word a.
Speaker 6: Hard ass when it comes to the Constitution, all right,
Speaker 6: an effective justice should have the wisdom of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Speaker 6: the compassion of Harry Blackman, or the intangibles of part
Speaker 6: time DJ Charlie B.
Speaker 3: I think I would be a slamming judge because you
Speaker 3: know what I've been through so much. You know, you
Speaker 3: really need to have credibility.
Speaker 1: Before you could give a judgement.
Speaker 6: And of course the justice also needs the proper training
Speaker 6: to rule effectively. It seems like judging people is a
Speaker 6: part of your job.
Speaker 7: I mean, when you're working in the bar, you gotta
Speaker 7: keep an eye on everybody. You gotta see who's a
Speaker 7: few two men, who's rubbing up on the chicks? You know,
Speaker 7: stuff like that.
Speaker 6: You don't want to worry, right, No, I believe Justice
Speaker 6: Alito said the same thing in the case of Citizens
Speaker 6: United versus the FECI. The candidates had a lot of promise,
Speaker 6: but how would they do in real working conditions? We
Speaker 6: put them to the test in moot court, I mean
Speaker 6: moot court.
Speaker 1: Moot court and now arguments on the constitutionality of California's
Speaker 1: proposition aid outlawing gay marriage. The case is already in progress.
Speaker 6: We already learned that racial restrictions in marriage were outlawed
Speaker 6: with Loving verus Virginia in nineteen sixty seven. The same
Speaker 6: laws and rules apply today, your honors, Then they heard
Speaker 6: from the defense.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Chief Justice, may please the court. Marriage
Speaker 4: is fundamental to the existence and survival.
Speaker 6: Where did you get the accent from.
Speaker 4: This is the accurate way the words should sound.
Speaker 6: You're telling me how something should sound.
Speaker 4: Please try and find my accent less amusing and more authoritative. Now, basically,
Speaker 4: what I'm saying to the court is that Prop eight
Speaker 4: must stand and that same sex marriage must not be legalized.
Speaker 4: I thank the court.
Speaker 6: Our cameras were given an unprecedented glimpse into the normally
Speaker 6: closed judge's chamber.
Speaker 7: Makes your question, if your brother was gay and he
Speaker 7: kes you to be his best man, what would you say?
Speaker 1: No, I believe, I believe it, and I kick him
Speaker 1: in the year, still upset.
Speaker 6: There were hours of thoughtful discussion.
Speaker 7: This pizza has no pepperoni on it? Where's the protein content?
Speaker 6: And the thorough examination of legal precedents?
Speaker 1: Why don't we keep it like the Armed Services? What
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 3: Notel no ce no see, no talent tel There you go?
Speaker 6: Yes, Ago, if you were black and you wanted to
Speaker 6: marry a white you couldn't.
Speaker 1: That's a whole other issue. I don't think of white
Speaker 1: is the politically correct time? Listen, when the full Fathers
Speaker 1: made the Constitution. You think they know about the Internet,
Speaker 1: You think they think we'd be in space?
Speaker 3: We got to keep it moving man.
Speaker 6: These justices may be more reasonable than the Roberts led
Speaker 6: Supreme Court. Finally, it was time to hear their ruling.
Speaker 7: Beard Wig, let's go up. Of course, reached a decision.
Speaker 7: Dude wants to marry a dude. That's cool to chicks
Speaker 7: want to get it on.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 7: We ruled five to four that proposition eight is substantially unconstitutional.
Speaker 4: Oh come on, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Oh oh shut up?
Speaker 4: Whoa where did that come from?
Speaker 1: Came from his mouth? Jakov?
Speaker 6: Perhaps the next justice is here.
Speaker 4: You are liberal activists governing.
Speaker 7: From the bank right here, Liman, what's a journey?
Speaker 6: Rest assured aging justices? If you decide to retire, Staten
Speaker 6: Island's got your back, Why.
Speaker 1: At snach o'ver right back?
Speaker 3: Hold back my guest tonight.
Speaker 1: The daughter of Senator John McCain, has written a weekly
Speaker 1: column for The Daily Beast, and her new book is
Speaker 1: called Dirty Sexy Politics. Please welcome to the programs, Megan McCain.
Speaker 3: Nice to see you, Thank you, How are you? How
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 1: I'm very welcome you see in Times Squared enough?
Speaker 3: How's your has your dad is good? He's good?
Speaker 1: Did you ever did you ever mention me.
Speaker 8: He was very surprised you book me for the show?
Speaker 1: Can you can you give him this note? Would you?
Speaker 1: Would you give that to me? Joanna? I want to
Speaker 1: read it.
Speaker 9: I miss you so much, baby, Please, I promise things
Speaker 9: will be different John. I'll give it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You want to smell it.
Speaker 3: It's ex body spray.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you smissing smissing so much.
Speaker 3: When was the last time he was on the show.
Speaker 1: It was like two thousand and seven, and then suddenly
Speaker 1: he got nominated for president and then he thought, I
Speaker 1: don't like John Stewart anymore. I don't know somewhere around there,
Speaker 1: but he chances are he wants to. It just hasn't
Speaker 1: been had to.
Speaker 3: Fit it in.
Speaker 9: I'll put in a good word.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: This is the book Dirty Sexy Politics. And that's you
Speaker 1: on an elephant.
Speaker 9: Yes, I actually did that too, elephant. It's not photoshopped.
Speaker 9: I spent a whole day riding an elephant, so it
Speaker 9: sounds a little weird.
Speaker 3: I don't think they would let you do that. Isn't
Speaker 3: that a somewhat dangerous?
Speaker 1: Elephants are notoriously unpredictable. That's chimps.
Speaker 8: That was great Pete's a little pissed.
Speaker 1: But whatever, Pete is angry about this. Yeah, apparently do
Speaker 1: they think the elephant should get to eat you? Like?
Speaker 3: Why is what?
Speaker 1: What are you doing to this elephant that is in
Speaker 1: any way would run a foul of a I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they really were.
Speaker 5: They're mad at a lot of times.
Speaker 1: And then afterwards it appears that you and the elephant
Speaker 1: have reconciled. The elephant the elephant. This is you know
Speaker 1: what's nice about this book because I did not know
Speaker 1: what to expect. You know, I've read your comms and such,
Speaker 1: and I know you're you're staking out kind of this
Speaker 1: idea of a more inclusive Republican party. But what I
Speaker 1: liked about this was it's a view of the campaign trail.
Speaker 1: That's that's very personal. There's almost I felt like I
Speaker 1: was reading someone's diary.
Speaker 9: I know, I basically wrote a very real book and
Speaker 9: it's very sad, and I talk about everything. It's called
Speaker 9: dirty Sexy politics, talk about sex and politics and everything
Speaker 9: in between, and what I think about Sarah Palin, which
Speaker 9: has gotten quite a bit of coverage.
Speaker 1: Not as much with the title I thought there would
Speaker 1: be more. Quite frankly, sex it.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of dirty not as much SEXI
Speaker 3: as I thought.
Speaker 9: There was a bit the whole time because I was
Speaker 9: like John McCain's daughter, and everyone was too scared to
Speaker 9: even talk to me a little on date meies.
Speaker 1: This is the interesting thing is you talk about becoming
Speaker 1: kind of a prop and how they made you go
Speaker 1: to a consultant, and you really forget that that individuals
Speaker 1: running for office are human beings with families, and you
Speaker 1: get these asks just ridiculing these people.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I was said to an image because.
Speaker 1: Just every day just relentless showing video clips of them
Speaker 1: and then saying really just arrogant, angry things. It's well,
Speaker 1: if I were you people, I'd never want to come
Speaker 1: on their show ever. Again. They're a little obsessed, No,
Speaker 1: but it does you know you're also your hard on yourself.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 9: I was not on my best behavior the whole time.
Speaker 9: I wasn't always acting like I should. When you're sent
Speaker 9: to an image consultant and said that you look like
Speaker 9: a stripper and you talk bad and you're hurting the
Speaker 9: campaign when you know there's a pregnant team there, it
Speaker 9: does a little bit to your self esteem and I
Speaker 9: you know, I understand.
Speaker 1: It is interesting even Palin dominates the narrative, even telling
Speaker 1: your story and your father's story. She that, you know,
Speaker 1: the first couple of chapters are really even still about
Speaker 1: that you were not aware that she was the choice
Speaker 1: you had been hoping it was. It was Lieberman, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 9: And I still love Joe Lieberman. And I found out
Speaker 9: an hour beforehand, and I literally was a crying and
Speaker 9: like on stage.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of crying in this book. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 1: Crying, not so much crying anymore though you're you're not,
Speaker 1: oh no.
Speaker 9: And I went through a really you know period where
Speaker 9: I found myself and I found really what I believe
Speaker 9: the Republican Party can be.
Speaker 3: And yeah, good luck, I'm a believer.
Speaker 9: I just think that there's a lot of negativity dominating
Speaker 9: the media, and there's a lot of angry people, and
Speaker 9: you know, you know, the squeakiest wheel gets the most coverage,
Speaker 9: I guess. And I'm just trying to give people that
Speaker 9: feel like they have somehow been neglected by more extremists
Speaker 9: that you know, you have a home with me, and
Speaker 9: I'm fighting the good fight, and we.
Speaker 3: Have ten homes with you I think, Kelly, you see
Speaker 3: what you see?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: Right there? I know, God, that's what.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm the kind of person that should
Speaker 1: not be allowed to be around you.
Speaker 3: I'm very glad that you wrote this.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a really interesting way of
Speaker 1: approaching something that has been written about and overcovering all
Speaker 1: those things, and I hope it does very well for you.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: And do you think Lieberman sounds like droopy dog when
Speaker 1: he talks about.
Speaker 3: No dirty sexy politics?
Speaker 1: It's on the books, that's not really You don't ever
Speaker 1: think he's.
Speaker 3: Megan McKay.
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