Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Earlier this year, the Supreme Court effectively struck down the
Speaker 2: Voting Rights Act, saying that it had been immensely successful
Speaker 2: at redressing racial discrimination. So basically saying, enough's enough, Okay,
Speaker 2: why ruin a good thing by continuing it?
Speaker 1: ASG.
Speaker 2: Manvey reports on how states have responded, the.
Speaker 3: Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five protected voters from
Speaker 3: racial discrimination until June, when the Supreme Court struck down
Speaker 3: a key provision saying it was no longer necessary, which
Speaker 3: red states celebrated by introducing brand new, now constitutional restrictive
Speaker 3: voting laws.
Speaker 4: These laws are just as races as they can be.
Speaker 3: Congressman John Lewis apparently doesn't like progress.
Speaker 4: In another time and another period, these divices was used
Speaker 4: to make it harder difficult for the average person of
Speaker 4: color to participate in the process.
Speaker 5: But I don't think any part of the laws racist.
Speaker 3: North Carolina Precinct chairman and GOP Executive Committee member Don
Speaker 3: Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.
Speaker 5: What's going to happen to resettle of this law? The
Speaker 5: process is going to have more integrity Right here in
Speaker 5: Bulcome County. There's always one or two that voted twice
Speaker 5: a year.
Speaker 1: They don't know nine or two million people.
Speaker 5: No, one or two people.
Speaker 1: And that's one or two out of how many.
Speaker 5: That's just one or two out of sixty thousand.
Speaker 3: So statistically, there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
Speaker 6: Hmmmm.
Speaker 5: That's not the point.
Speaker 3: The point is the voter fraud does just barely exist.
Speaker 3: While racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing
Speaker 3: of the past.
Speaker 4: The scars and stains of racism will steer deeply embedded
Speaker 4: in every corner of the American society.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're just talking about racism, racism, racism as
Speaker 3: if it's like the nineteen sixties, and it's not the
Speaker 3: nineteen sixties these anymore. I think the men in this
Speaker 3: picture would be a shame that you're just throwing around
Speaker 3: the wood racism.
Speaker 4: So Cavaliley, I'm in that picture.
Speaker 1: I'm there. See.
Speaker 3: This is why this is why you people meet ideas
Speaker 3: because we can't tell you a part.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, civil rights leaders, we all look alike,
Speaker 1: but you know what you all have. You all have
Speaker 1: the same aura of hope.
Speaker 4: We never gave up. We never gave in, We never
Speaker 4: became bitter.
Speaker 1: Is the Denzel Washington, No, that's Roy Wilkin.
Speaker 4: He was ahead of the NACP.
Speaker 5: The bottom line is the law is not racist.
Speaker 1: Of course, the law's not racist, and you are not racist.
Speaker 5: Well, I've been called a bigot before. Let me tell
Speaker 5: you something. You don't look like me, but I think
Speaker 5: I've treated you the same as that would anybody else.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, one of my best friends
Speaker 5: is black.
Speaker 1: Some one of your best friends best friends, it's black. Yes.
Speaker 1: And there's more.
Speaker 5: When I was a young man, you didn't call a
Speaker 5: black or black, you called them a negro. I had
Speaker 5: a picture one time of Obama sitting on a stump
Speaker 5: as a witch doctor, and I posted that on Facebook.
Speaker 5: I was making fun of my white half of Obama,
Speaker 5: not the black half. And now you have a black
Speaker 5: person using the term this and that, and it's okay
Speaker 5: for them to do it.
Speaker 3: You know that we can hear you, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: you know that you know that we can hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right. Then I found out the real
Speaker 1: reason for the law.
Speaker 5: The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: An executive GOP committee member just admitted that this law
Speaker 3: isn't designed to hurt black people. It's designed to hurt Democrats.
Speaker 5: If it hurts a bunch of college kids, it's too
Speaker 5: lazy to get up off their bow hunkers and go
Speaker 5: get a photo ID, So be it, right, right, If
Speaker 5: it hurts the whites, so be it. If it hurts
Speaker 5: a bunch of lazy blacks that was there the government
Speaker 5: give me everything, so be it.
Speaker 3: And it just so happens that a lot of those
Speaker 3: people vote Democrat.
Speaker 1: Gee, that's right.
Speaker 3: To supposedly prevent one or two cases of fraud, this
Speaker 3: law could suppress hundreds of thousands of actual voters.
Speaker 5: I can't believe we've got that many stupid people in
Speaker 5: North Carolina and people that don't know how to follow
Speaker 5: directions that go down there and get a photo ID
Speaker 5: for free at the DMV. Do you want those people
Speaker 5: picking your president?
Speaker 3: No, we certainly don't want stupid people picking our president
Speaker 3: or Democrats. Apparently racism is over, Yes, it's not there yet.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
Speaker 4: Everyone should have the same opportunity to vote.
Speaker 1: So the playing field should be level.
Speaker 4: Must be leveled, The playing field must be leveled.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 3: Six Republicans are trying to suppress Democratic votes.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the only fair way.
Speaker 3: To level the playing field is to try to suppress
Speaker 3: Republican votes.
Speaker 1: Do a lot of Republicans come in here? No, all right?
Speaker 1: Will it in?
Speaker 3: Move voting booths to black hair salons, and here add
Speaker 3: mandatory friend requirements. Tell Republicans to do what Jesus would do.
Speaker 3: And remember, most importantly.
Speaker 2: Vote, vote, vote because I voted, and now I'm gay.
Speaker 8: That's right, Republicans, voting makes you gay.
Speaker 2: It seems like there's been a lot of bad news recently,
Speaker 2: because there has been a lot of bad news recently,
Speaker 2: and just seem that way. But that's why it's all
Speaker 2: the more important to celebrate the good news.
Speaker 8: Your news, Miss America is.
Speaker 1: Miss new York.
Speaker 9: In New York, the missing New York. Make you feel big, lights,
Speaker 9: inspire you new ya put your hands on your head
Speaker 9: like you just don't get.
Speaker 3: That's how we do.
Speaker 2: I'm an increasingly old man.
Speaker 1: I'm just really proud.
Speaker 10: Last night, twenty four year old Nina dabul Louri was
Speaker 10: named Miss America for twenty fourteen. She is the first
Speaker 10: American of Indian descent ever to win the crown, and
Speaker 10: said she is happy the pageant organization has embraced diversity.
Speaker 11: Yes, the Miss America pageant has embraced diversity. It is
Speaker 11: a beautiful mosaic of women sized zero to nearly two.
Speaker 11: It is a cano penopoli, a myriad.
Speaker 2: But still great news for Miss Nina Doabuluria and the country.
Speaker 2: It was very fun for me report, just a simple
Speaker 2: story that was just just pleasant. It's a pleasant story.
Speaker 2: It's not steeped in any controversy. We'll be right back
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 4: It's a what.
Speaker 2: Know that?
Speaker 1: But no, that's the bad shock sound? How could that
Speaker 1: be bad?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 12: Wow?
Speaker 13: Unfortunately, there was.
Speaker 9: Some ugly backlash on Twitter, some people calling her a foreigner,
Speaker 9: an Arab, even a terrorist, another reading Miss America you
Speaker 9: mean Miss seven eleven and Miss New York is Indian
Speaker 9: with all due respect, this is America.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is America.
Speaker 1: And you know how we know that this is America.
Speaker 1: The way you know that is the word do is
Speaker 1: is misspelled. That's how you know this is America.
Speaker 3: Well, when Indian news.
Speaker 2: Stories fall to the fall through the cracks.
Speaker 11: Our own assive Mondy catches them for a segment, we.
Speaker 2: Call back in brown. Yeah, that's not First of all,
Speaker 2: that's not that's not actually a song osipt So I
Speaker 2: just want to mention that off the top of that. Listen,
Speaker 2: this miss America when it's got it's quite a milestone
Speaker 2: for the Indian community.
Speaker 3: Not a milestone, John, more like a beachhead.
Speaker 2: Beach head sounds like a military invasion.
Speaker 1: Damn right, it is.
Speaker 3: Wake up and smell the curry, John, Indians are taken
Speaker 3: over America.
Speaker 13: What you You.
Speaker 1: Won one competition.
Speaker 3: Clearly you have not been paying attention. This is only
Speaker 3: the most recent ass.
Speaker 6: Kicking Canadal German derived Yiddish.
Speaker 1: Kay n e i d e l Canado boom.
Speaker 3: That's right, he won with one of your words. My
Speaker 3: sure friend, tell me how my Turkish tastes.
Speaker 2: So you're you're dominating our spelling and swim work competition.
Speaker 1: We're not just smarter than you were.
Speaker 3: Also America's most scrumptious eye candy with the tiara to
Speaker 3: prove it.
Speaker 1: If you like it, then you should have erased marriage
Speaker 1: where there.
Speaker 3: If you like it, then you should have erased marriage.
Speaker 2: Stop and yet you dance like a white man Ausif
Speaker 2: you don't, you're not angry at all about the backlash
Speaker 2: on Twitter. The racial slurs about the seven elevels.
Speaker 1: Look, John, it is Twitter. It's like that movie Crash.
Speaker 3: You got one hundred and forty characters, and like one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty of them are racist for no apparent reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, sure, some of us work.
Speaker 3: In convenience stores selling you the crap that gives you diabetes.
Speaker 3: But guess what the rest of us, including the new
Speaker 3: Miss America, are in medical school cashing in on that illness.
Speaker 1: Dougle chit chain, you.
Speaker 3: Got what we like to say, you got gup, dud.
Speaker 3: You spent all this time worrying about Mexicans coming over
Speaker 3: the fence when the real enemy was approaching from underneath
Speaker 3: to cup your balls and ask you to cost.
Speaker 1: So it's so, I guess it's so.
Speaker 4: It's over you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's over. You had a good run.
Speaker 3: He took this country away from the Indians, and now
Speaker 3: a different group of Indians is taking it back.
Speaker 11: I said, momdy, everybody, thank you very much for me
Speaker 11: right back.
Speaker 3: Idaho to some of America's most beautiful rivers. But according
Speaker 3: to conservationist Marv Hoit, there is a dark secret lurking
Speaker 3: in these waters.
Speaker 13: The fish are suffering massive deformities deformities you just don't
Speaker 13: see in nature, like what two heads?
Speaker 1: Two heads? Yes, oh that's a fish. Yeah those are heads? Yes,
Speaker 1: oh okay, put that away. Put that away. What is
Speaker 1: causing that?
Speaker 13: Well, that was the selenium in the water.
Speaker 1: And what is selenium?
Speaker 3: It turns out selenium is a toxic byproduct of phosphate mining,
Speaker 3: and in southeast Idaho, one company loves mining phosphate.
Speaker 13: That's the Simplot company that operates the Smoky Canyon mine.
Speaker 3: Have you shown some Plot these mutant fish pictures?
Speaker 13: So those pictures came from Simplot's own report that they
Speaker 13: commission in order to get around the current selenium standard.
Speaker 3: You see, with six of Simplot's six Idaho phosphate minds
Speaker 3: cited for grossly exceeding federal selenium limits, Simplot took action
Speaker 3: an issue to report, saying the federal limits needed to
Speaker 3: be higher. I went to Simplot to talk it over
Speaker 3: with a company spokesman. Can you tell me about this
Speaker 3: exciting two headed fish that you guys are developing.
Speaker 6: We'd really appreciate it if you leave the premises, Thank
Speaker 6: you very much.
Speaker 1: Who you call him?
Speaker 6: Hi, This is David at the Simplot headquarters. We have
Speaker 6: some pesky reporters here who won't leave, and I'd appreciate
Speaker 6: it if you'd send an officer who escort them out.
Speaker 3: Sure, Simplot can bully me, but wait until the EPA
Speaker 3: gets their hands on the report.
Speaker 13: All of the federal and state regulatory agencies reviewed the report.
Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait, wait, you're saying the EPA
Speaker 3: saw this report.
Speaker 1: I bet they were pissed, right.
Speaker 13: No, they were not pissed. They failed to call out
Speaker 13: the fact that there were two headed fish deformities that
Speaker 13: we're in that report.
Speaker 1: That can't be right.
Speaker 3: But in fact, the EPA called the report outstanding and
Speaker 3: they may even use it to address national selenium standards.
Speaker 3: When interview requests to the EPA were ignored, I headed
Speaker 3: to their offices to see how they could overlook a
Speaker 3: two headed fish. Hi, I'd like to talk to somebody
Speaker 3: about the smoking Canyon mine. Where you guys from, I'm
Speaker 3: from a river up in No No what company we fund?
Speaker 1: I'm not with a company. I'm a two headed fish.
Speaker 13: I've called the police because I don't really appreciate the
Speaker 13: way you guys are coming in and getting in our face.
Speaker 1: I can't really make an appointment and I'm a two
Speaker 1: headed fish. I live in a river. You're You're not
Speaker 1: a fish, You're a person. Why would the EPA call
Speaker 1: Homeland Security?
Speaker 3: I needed answers, but everywhere I went, no one would talk.
Speaker 1: What is this? The simple run this whole state?
Speaker 3: Literally every single place I went in Idaho there was Simplo.
Speaker 3: So I looked him up and they're one of the
Speaker 3: largest privately held agribusiness companies in the world. The governor
Speaker 3: of Idaho worked at Simplo for thirty years and married JR.
Speaker 3: Simplott's daughter. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson shares the subcommittee that
Speaker 3: sets the EPA's budget.
Speaker 13: What the.
Speaker 1: Is this an actual conspiracy?
Speaker 13: There's certainly a conspiracy of silence.
Speaker 1: This is really dangerous.
Speaker 13: Yeah what do you mean? Yeah, well, I've received threatening
Speaker 13: phone calls from people who have suggested that I don't
Speaker 13: work on this issue or come back to Cariboo County,
Speaker 13: Idaho again.
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Next time a fake reporter comes to ask you to
Speaker 3: do an interview about Simplot, you should.
Speaker 1: Lead with the stuff about the threats.
Speaker 3: If they were threatening this nobody, what the hell were
Speaker 3: they going to do to television's ossif MANVI. There was
Speaker 3: only one person who could help, Aaron Brockovich. I have
Speaker 3: uncovered a real corporate conspiracy.
Speaker 1: What do I do? You gotta expose it?
Speaker 13: Man, You've found out out information.
Speaker 3: It's going to be up to you to expose that information.
Speaker 1: Blow the whistle. I don't want to blow the whistle.
Speaker 1: I want to bury the whistle. Stop being a pussy.
Speaker 1: It's your responsibility to go out there and make it right.
Speaker 3: Aaron Brockovich had given me good advice. I had to
Speaker 3: make things right. Simplot a true American success story and
Speaker 3: a company that is definitely not polluting Idaho.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Simplot?
Speaker 8: Not very much?
Speaker 1: Okay? You love him? You love him? Love him? Love him?
Speaker 1: Can you just look at a camera and say thank you, Simplot? No,
Speaker 1: I won't come on, just say that.
Speaker 3: No, just still look at the camera.
Speaker 7: Those guys, well you heard it here, folks, fish and
Speaker 7: ready and Idaho love Simplots. There's nothing wrong with Zimplot,
Speaker 7: And there's nothing wrong with this water. Here we go,
Speaker 7: we're all good nows, Simplot.
Speaker 3: And there is no way water this clean could cause
Speaker 3: a two headed fish.
Speaker 9: I just want to go.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just said dream just to dreamy.
Speaker 1: Put better on TV fe sap blood.
Speaker 2: If you spend a lot of time looking at a
Speaker 2: food packaging, and I do, because you know, when you're high,
Speaker 2: you want to know what you're eating, you might think
Speaker 2: the three most terrifying letters in the English language are GMO,
Speaker 2: but y h, y asef monvi investigates potatoes.
Speaker 3: These starchy delights have been a staple of our food
Speaker 3: since the dawn of man, but now science is trying
Speaker 3: to change all that.
Speaker 8: The US Department of Agriculture has given the green light
Speaker 8: to a genetically modified potato.
Speaker 3: No potato Why and this deadly GMO tuber developed by
Speaker 3: evil agri corporations has men like Jeffrey Smith terrified.
Speaker 12: We believe that genetically engineered crops may be one of
Speaker 12: the most dangerous introductions of an additive in our food
Speaker 12: supply in our history.
Speaker 3: Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology and one
Speaker 3: of the leading antigmo voices in the world, explains exactly
Speaker 3: how GMO potatoes will kill us.
Speaker 12: The process itself is dangerous. They create a little piece
Speaker 12: of RNA and put it into the potato so that
Speaker 12: it silences some genes. If we eat the potato, it
Speaker 12: might regulate our own gene expression, causing serious problems, possibly death. Jesus,
Speaker 12: the technology itself is generically unsafe.
Speaker 1: Working Monsanto right, well, not in the.
Speaker 12: Case of this potato. This is Simplot Jr. Simplott, the
Speaker 12: big potato producer.
Speaker 1: Did you say Simplot?
Speaker 3: I did, no, ska way, Simplot.
Speaker 1: You may not remember them, but I do.
Speaker 3: A few years ago I went to Idaho and uncovered
Speaker 3: a conspiracy that involved Simplot pollution and EPA cover up
Speaker 3: a two headed fish, and I was almost arrested twice.
Speaker 3: It could have ruined my career.
Speaker 1: Not doing it. I'm not doing I'm not doing Simplot. Okay,
Speaker 1: done it? Done that? Been there? Almost no you could.
Speaker 14: You're gonna do it, Brennan, Fine, fine, Simplot.
Speaker 3: But strangely, according to Cornell's Potato molecular geneticist doctor Walter Unge,
Speaker 3: simplots devil Tator is actually an angel.
Speaker 8: Talk The potato produces lesser chroylamide when fried. Chroylamide is
Speaker 8: a neurotoxin, a possible carcinogen.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, wait, so you're telling me the Simplot
Speaker 3: potato cuts down on possible carcinogens. Yes, but what about
Speaker 3: like when the RNA gets into my body and then
Speaker 3: changes my DNA, so.
Speaker 1: It's moving it around.
Speaker 8: Genetically modified crops don't alter.
Speaker 1: Human DNA, But what if they did.
Speaker 8: They don't. Our bodies have been slicing and dicing DNA
Speaker 8: for as long as we've been in.
Speaker 1: Existence, so there's no change to the DNA.
Speaker 8: There's no change to our DNA.
Speaker 1: It sounds like somebody who's working for simplot.
Speaker 8: I don't work for simplot.
Speaker 1: They pay for your research.
Speaker 8: They don't fund my research in any way, and then
Speaker 8: you go.
Speaker 1: To the parties and you hang out with them.
Speaker 8: No, I do not.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, Just because he's not on the
Speaker 3: potato payroll doesn't mean other frank and veggies won't kill us.
Speaker 12: There's also corn that produces its own toxic insecticide that
Speaker 12: breaks open little holes in human cells as well.
Speaker 8: The BT protein that you're referring to does not create
Speaker 8: holes in our cells like.
Speaker 1: No, it like burns through the cell and creates a
Speaker 1: hole in your cell.
Speaker 8: What would make a hole in your cell?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, I heard that somewhere.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, so you're telling me that these potatoes are
Speaker 3: not dangerous.
Speaker 8: That potato is just as safe as conventionally developed potatoes.
Speaker 1: Potato potato. Really, that's not dangerous. That's not dangerous. That's
Speaker 1: not dangerous.
Speaker 8: Please stop doing it dangerous.
Speaker 1: It's not dangerous. Pretty dangerous to me.
Speaker 3: Turns out Walter's not alone. A recent pupil shows that
Speaker 3: eighty eight percent of scientists believe GMOs are safe, while
Speaker 3: only thirty seven percent of Americans believe them.
Speaker 1: But lucky for.
Speaker 12: Us, I'm not a scientist. I'm not a scientist.
Speaker 1: I work.
Speaker 12: I interview scientists and translate science into English so that
Speaker 12: everyone can understand.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've interviewed a lot of scientists too.
Speaker 12: Sometimes I purposely played dumb so that they explain it
Speaker 12: in a way that makes it really clear.
Speaker 1: I do that same thing.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 12: David Suzuki, a geneticist and TV personality, said, if any
Speaker 12: scientist tells you that GMOs are safe, they're either very
Speaker 12: stupid or lying.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 3: So scientists are all stupid liars, which I suppose is
Speaker 3: why none of the actual simplot potato scientists would talk
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 8: No, they're worried that their labs and fields will be
Speaker 8: targeted talking about gmfos.
Speaker 3: So the antigmo people are the assholes, and Simplot are
Speaker 3: the good guys.
Speaker 8: Uncharacteristic.
Speaker 3: But yes, okay, okay, but these agro businesses have a
Speaker 3: monopoly on our entire food supply and that is a
Speaker 3: horrifying fact that even scientists cannot argue.
Speaker 8: Right, Actually, the greatest damage done by the anti gmo
Speaker 8: lobby is the increased regulatory costs that anyone now developing
Speaker 8: a genetically engineered crop has to go through. Means that
Speaker 8: only the big companies with the deepest pockets can play,
Speaker 8: and it's leading to a handful of companies controlling seeds
Speaker 8: of all of our major crops.
Speaker 3: So you're saying that the antigmo lobby is actually resulting
Speaker 3: in a monopoly by companies like Simplot and Monsanto.
Speaker 8: It's an unintended consequence. Yes, that's.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: There you have it. In this story.
Speaker 3: It's not scientists or agro business messing with our food supply.
Speaker 3: It's people who have convinced the world that the Simplot
Speaker 3: potato will turn this into this.
Speaker 1: I love you, mister GM.
Speaker 5: I'm going to bomb.
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