Sup you beautiful bastards! Hope you're havin' a Fantastic Thursday!
Welcome back to the philip defranco show and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing I want to talk about today is um and the story involving the air force and racial slurs.
In late september racist slurs were found on the message boards of five black cadet candidates at the
Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs the vandalism was written in black marker
And it's a go home and word and after learning of the incident academy superintendent Lt. General Jay Silveria
gathered thousands of cadets and staff to hear a very important message if you're outraged by those words
Then you're in the right place
That kind of behavior has no place at the prep school head has no place at U Safa
And it has no place in the United States Air Force. I would be naive and we would all be naive to think that
everything is perfect here
We would be naive to think that we shouldn't discuss this topic we would also be tone-deaf
Not to think about the backdrop of what's going on in our country. Things like
Charlottesville and Ferguson the protests in the NFL. That's why we have a better idea
This is our institution
and no one can take away our values
No one can write on a board and question our values.
No one can take that away from us if you can't treat someone with dignity and respect
Then you need to get out if you can't teach someone from another gender whether that's a man or a woman with dignity and respect
Then you need to get out if you demean someone in any way
Then you need to get out, and if you can't
treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity and respect
Then you need to get out. Grab your phones I want you to videotape this
so that you have it so that you can use it so that we all have the moral courage
Together all of us on the staff tower lining the glass all of us in this room this is our institution.
And if you need it, and you need my words, then you keep these words
And you use them and you remember them, and you share them
And you talk about them if you can't treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out.
An amazing and strong message and video of that speech went viral.
Millions of views on Facebook YouTube tens of thousands of retweets on Twitter
Many were pleased with the Academy's strong response the incident including Vice President Joe Biden
and Senator John McCain and so with that the Air Force Academy launched an internal investigation
To find the person behind this. And the big news this week is Academy officials said they found the person
Responsible for the slurs. In a written statement the Air Force Academy said
Ohhh no! This is one of the worst ways this could have gone down
lieutenant colonel Allen Heritage the director of public affairs with the academy later explained the cadet
responsible quote received administrative punishment
And is no longer at the preparatory school. Their statement also saying
And that seem to be in reference to a report by The Gazette a report saying the candidate committed the act in a bizarre bid
To get out of trouble he faced at the school for other misconduct
Essentially the allegation there was that person was in trouble they did something wrong
A cadet came up with a bright idea of well
No one can be angry at me if someone calls me the n-word and then seemingly to divert suspicion
Did it to five people instead of just being the sole victim. I mean honestly no matter the reason this is horrible
this is disgusting.
The long game victims of falsely reporting hate crimes that have actual victims of hate crime.
Stuff like this makes it so much harder for people making legitimate reports to be taken seriously
I mean this is the second time just this week that it was exposed that a hate crime didn't actually occur
There was that story out of Kansas
where there was all that racist graffiti on that black man's car. This week
he admitted to putting the graffiti on his own car as part of a quote "Halloween Prank"
okay black Joey sallets
That's not a prank. That was a lie you race-baiting asshole.
But back to the main story
If there is a silver lining to this seeing this sort of reaction
Even if it was in response to a hoax in response to the false reporting of a hate crime
It's still after the fact the Air Force Academy said in a statement
And THAT's what we're gonna end that one because I feel like we have to focus on the silver lining of that otherwise just
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Let's talk about Mila Kunis and Jim Beam
You don't know Mila Kunis of course an actress
But she is also the spokesperson for the whiskey brand Jim Bean and recently in an interview with Conan O'Brien
She revealed that she's been sending anonymous donations to Planned Parenthood in the vice president's name. "I put him on a list of reoccurring,
um uh, donations that are made in his name to Planned Parenthood.
And, so..."
This because she disagrees with some of Mike Pence's stances and after the donation has received Planned Parenthood sends a letter to Mike Pence thanking
Him for his generosity and so this happens every month
And it should also be noted that Mila Kunis is not the only one doing this after this segment aired
There was a lot of outrage, but Mila Kunis already kind of knew that this was gonna happen during the interview
She says this is when the hate mail comes my way
I apologize if I'm offending anybody
But of course still you can't control how people receive what you do
And so we saw Pence supporters and pro-life
Activists taking to Twitter to launch the Boycott Bean campaign calling on Jim Beam to end its association with Mila Kunis some of the tweets
Justin Emery writes
Finlay Jameson said
Now because all of this is connected to Planned Parenthood
Of course. This is a very polarizing issue and on topics like this is a public figure like Mila Kunis there
There's really a no-win situation
This isn't like when you had snowflakes angry at Starbucks because there was a war against Christmas
"War Against Christmas". You have two groups that see Planned Parenthood with two different eyes one group sees it as an important
Irreplaceable source of preventative care and the other sees it as a baby murdering factory and like Louis C.K
mentioned in one of his last comedy specials although
He's probably not the best person to mention today, if the way he viewed
What was happening with an abortion wasn't that cells are being removed from a body then it was just straight-up baby murder
How could you not be passionate so agree or disagree?
I can't bash them for moving forward this protest
We live in a free society a market society
So people can't like Mila Kunis can can go out and say and do whatever in society or in this case the market can respond
That doesn't essentially serve as a threat to keep celebrities from voicing their true opinions
Yeah, kind of depending on the situation especially with mainstream brands. With that said well the boycott be successful?
l mean that remains to be seen. The company hasn't released a comment or Mila Kunis yet
But I will say I'm genuinely interested to see what happens here. Just because it feels like a test case nowadays
It feels like news is thrown in your face
At all times every single day people are angry and outraged about this thing, that thing, do people actually have the follow-through to stay with
It or are they constantly darting to the next thing?
We'll see. Also I feel I should talk about it because I made a quick mention to Louis C.K.
Earlier there were initial reports that a New York Times article about Louis C.K. was going to come out it has since come out that
headline reading "Louis C.K. Crossed a Line Into Sexual Misconduct, 5 Women Say"
And what's really interesting to me is that this story will be taken very seriously?
Because it is in the New York Times
But but part of this story was new as years ago. Years ago Gawker posted articles about some of the
accusations mentioned in this Times article you might remember some how that story ended up just
Disappearing and the allegations and the times are very similar to one another comedian writer actress Rebecca Corrie
It was then reported that the show's executive
Producers Courtney Cox and David Arquette were informed and they confirmed with The Times that this happened Courtney Cox writing in an email
In 2003 Abby Shatner says
Then in 2002 there was a story around Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov
Though they say louis c.k invites them to a hotel room. You know to have a nightcap bars were closed
They wanted to celebrate then they say Louie CK asked if he could take his penis out
Masturbate they thought he was joking he said he was not joking you actually did it at times rights
And there was a fifth woman's story who asked not to be named with a story from the 90's
In addition to the allegations some of the women also shared
apologies that were from Louis CK's time saying they reviewed them now before this story even broke louis c.k was
Reacting to it the premiere of his new film
"I love You Daddy" was canceled
So he'll no longer be going to that he was also scheduled to be on The Late Show with
Colbert that has now been cancelled with William H Macy set to replace him
So that's where we are as of right now. It will be very interesting to see how louis c.k
responds also
What will the fallout from this be in the past Louie CK has refused to comment on the allegations saying
So will we see something different from him? And also
What's the public reaction are going to be to this because if you've looked at all the accusations that have come out recently
It does very much feel that in the public how much you are liked is how much of the benefit of the doubt you get.
Like I said, I'm recording this just after the story broke. It will be very interesting to see what happened
I will say some things that are interesting to me
It is very interesting that Louie's show on FX already gave us the perfect graphic
Also the clip from that becomes far creepier post allegations in later
"And later I'm going masturbate and think about you. And there's nothing you can do about it"
And finally three if we can if we can turn this into a teachable moment
We really shouldn't have to be a teachable moment
I'll just whip your dick out and start masturbating in front of a woman or anyone additionally
It's important to be aware of power differences. If you're a famous person you're a producer a director
And you're doing this to someone that is below you beneath you either in, in Fame or position at a company
Very likely in creepy not okay, territory where that person is just very pressured to go along with you
That said we are wary alright now. We're going to wait for a response, but while we wait
I would love to know your thoughts from this story you think there's too much smoke for there to be no fire here
Do you think that there's a difference between this Louis C.K. situation and many of the other stories we're seeing right now
I'd love to know what you're thinking where you're coming from.
And then let's talk about the story around Trump the Department of Justice CNN
AT&T and Time Warner. So what's happening? Well this whole story starts October of 2016
AT&T announces that they want to buy Time Warner for 84.5 billion dollars
And of course as you'd expect there are many criticisms of this deal.
The main one being that since AT&T purchased DirecTV
They were the largest pay TV operator in the United States
They're also the second largest wireless data provider and the third largest
Broadband provides so if they buy a large content provider there would be more incentive for them to prioritize their own
Content over others give their users
Faster speed to their products make it more accessible so the Department of Justice has been looking into this
It's part of the antitrust laws with mergers of this size.
Essentially any deal like this over 80.8 million dollars has to be
Investigated by the FTC and DOJ then we fast-forward to yesterday where we see the Financial Times
Reporting that the Department of Justice is going to require the sale of
CNN in order to approve this acquisition.
And the Financial Times built this argument that the department has been motivated by Trump's hatred of CNN
That this is his way of punishing the network
Also reportedly sources close to the merger of said to the Department of Justice gave
AT&T a couple of options in order to approve the deal one of those is sell Turner Broadcasting
Which is the parent company to CNN this along with Cartoon Network
TNT, Hulu, others. Or one of the other options would be for AT&T to sell DirecTV
But also there was another source claiming that AT&T
Representatives offered to sell but the Department of Justice rejected that as not being enough. But that account was secondhand
It's also been disputed by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson saying
But the thing I need to point out with his statement is
He said the Department of Justice's statement
But they didn't make one he's actually responding to his leaked information an unnamed source was saying this
But this is of course a side story to the main story many people are concerned and many people believe that Trump has the Department
Of Justice blocking this merger because he does not like CNN as far as if that is actually the case
It's not completely clear
What we do know is in 2016 while on the campaign trail Trump commented on the merger
"As an example of the power structure. I'm fighting
AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN a deal we will not approve in my administration
Because it's too much
concentration of power in the hands of too few"
But there was also a report in The New York Times back in July that said quote
But a response to those allegations White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said
It's also important to note there have been some very big
anti-trump people in the news that are also against this merger Richard Blumenthal
Democrats senator of Connecticut right have long opposed am AT&T Time Warner merger because of its impact on competitors and consumers CEO Jay must continue
Its thorough and exacting review even Bernie Sanders has spoken out about this right an administration should kill the Time Warner
AT&T merger this deal would mean higher prices and fewer choices for the American people
And ultimately where I land on this is could Trump's disdain for CNN be a big part of this sure
But at that point I feel like we're arguing over
Intent thought crimes and for him it could just be the happy
situation that there is genuine problems with this merger and also if the reporting is accurate the Department of Justice is offering multiple options and
One of them just happens to be the CNN thing then it feels less targeted.
But of course that's just my personal, takeaway
And I'd love to know your thoughts on this story
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