Wednesday, October 25, 2017

The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda


Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.........we will look at the telephone call controversy in Washington.....can things get any lower than that? President Trump is moving ahead with his tax agenda......a new poll indicates that 46% of Americans believe that the media makes up stuff about Trump.....Virginia's governor race could be a 2017 indicator............North Korea making noise but could China be working in the background?...............and other stories.............

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Wednesday's video: Who’s worried about Russia now?


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Rachel’s big ratings have little political impact

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We just saw that Rachel Maddow is # 1 in cable news this week. She is reaching about 3 million people every night, according to the latest numbers:     
The MSNBC host just hit a milestone for MSNBC, with her 9 P.M. hour, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” finishing the third quarter of 2017 as the No. 1 cable news show on television.
It’s the first time any MSNBC show has finished first in the Nielsen ratings for an entire quarter.
Maddow hit her highest ratings among total viewers (2.7 million) and in the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults 25-54 (606,000). 
That represents an increase of 75% compared to the third quarter of 2016 (total viewers), and 65% (adults 25-54). 
Well, that’s good news for Rachel Maddow’s bank account and some advertisers who don’t mind being associated with "The Anti-Trump Hour" of cable TV.
Beyond that, it has zero impact on our politics.
Maddow reaches about 3 million people every night who tune in to feed their anti-Trump fantasies and to hear every crazy conspiracy theory going around the websites.  Her viewers do not include anyone who is seriously interested in learning anything or engaging in political discourse.
I’ve encountered some of her viewers.    
They call Trump a racist but cannot explain why no one called Trump a racist when he was donating money to Democrats, Jesse Jackson, or the Clinton Foundation.
They call Trump a dictator but cannot explain why the Trump police has not knocked on their door and taken them away to a political prison.
Maddow’s place is where the silly people meet. It is the political equivalent of X-rated films and not much more.
Unlike “The O’Reilly Factor,” a show that started under Clinton and ended under Trump, the Maddow show has no serious debate. O’Reilly invited top guests from both sides. They went back and forth on the matters of the day and got you to think about both sides.
Maddow does not do anything like that. She puts “red meat” on the table and then watches the left eat it like hungry wolves.    
How long will Maddow’s magic last? I don’t know, but don’t be surprised if she suddenly fizzles. It’s hard to stay on top by just being outrageous and irresponsible.
Here is the bottom line: Maddow has not added a single vote to the Democrats. Everyone watching her is already committed to the anti-Trump effort. As Wesley Pruden said, Trump Derangment Syndrome can only take so far!
P.S. You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.

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46% in California don’t speak English at home


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Uranium...Russia....dossier....Weinstein...Foundation....it’s all about to explode


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2007: Remember when Kissinger warned us about withdrawal from Iraq?




Let's go back to 2007 and all of the talk of getting out of Iraq.  

 Let's recall  Withdrawal is not an option by Henry A. Kissinger:

"The disenchantment of the American public with the burdens it has borne alone for nearly four years has generated growing demands for some form of unilateral withdrawal. But under present conditions, withdrawal is not an option.American forces are indispensable. They are in Iraq not as a favor to its government or as a reward for its conduct.

They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.An abrupt American departure will greatly complicate efforts to help stem the terrorist tide far beyond Iraq; fragile governments from Lebanon to the Gulf will be tempted into pre-emptive concessions.

It might drive the sectarian conflict within Iraq to genocidal dimensions."
Nevertheless, President Obama went ahead and withdrew from Iraq.   And Mr. Kissinger turned out to be right!  
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Looking for a husband? Try China!




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China has over a billion people and the world's second largest economy. 

 Yet, that's not the biggest issue in China. 

 Unfortunately, there are too many men because of gender selection. 

See China and the Angry Bachelors:

"Many Chinese couple, particularly those living in urban areas, were restricted to one child. Culturally, the Chinese prefer males (as a form of birth control, since men cannot give birth, and can produce more food on a farm).

Gender detection technology became available for pregnant women over the last few decades, and that led to many female fetuses being aborted.

As a result, 118 boys are now being born for every girl. In some areas, it's 130 boys for every hundred girls.

Some children of the "gender selection" era have come of age, and the boys are noticing that there are not enough potential wives to go around."

The bottom line: Too many Chinese men and not enough Chinese women.


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Listen to your grandparents when it's hot in LA and pleasant in Dallas



The weather is a bit crazy.   it seems like it's very hot in LA and pleasant in Dallas.   It will be very warm for game 1 of the World Series in Los Angeles.

What do you do when everything is confusing?

Listen to your grandparents!
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