In this amazing episode we go over the tone of the Clinton’s, and how they described Jesse Jackson and played with the truth in 2008. We play a mashup of Clinton’s campaign in 2008 and today and wonder why she was so open to debating in 2008 but not in 2015. Then we talk to Bob Scheer, who interviewed Bill Clinton for the LA Times when bubba was governor of Arkansas and interviewed Jimmy Carter for Playboy! Bob tells us about why he thinks Hillary Clinton has no shame, the difference between Trump and Sanders and Goldwater and McGovern.
Episode 11 of The Katie Halper Show is up! Heather Gold talks gay divorce & why Kim Davis should love lesbians. Versha Sharma of NowThis News talks about interviewing Bernie Sanders and making a video about Bobby Jindal. State Senator Gustavo Rivera talks about his dreams for voice-overs & his work around syringe access and charities being able to pay people’s bail so that innocent people don’t please guilty to crimes they haven’t committed just because they can’t afford to pay their bail. Plus Bernie sings This Land is Your Land.
“When police arrest you they don’t ask, are you empowered or are you a victim? They just take you away.” – Melissa Gira Grant
“Often when I argue that sex work should be decriminalized, people respond by saying, ‘well would you want your boyfriend to go to a prostitute?’ And I wouldn’t. But I also wouldn’t want my boyfriend to go to a Young Republicans meeting. But that doesn’t mean those meetings should be illegal.” – Katie
“You have to have a way to make powerful democrats feel pain. That’s how we win. Not by asking nicely. Politicians don’t do anything that we don’t make them do. It’s like that Frederick Douglass quote, ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand.’ And our role as progressives is not to suck up to powerful people but it’s to pressure them and make them do the right thing because we know that the right wing is investing millions and millions of dollars to try and kill this deal. We don’t have this money but we have people.” -Becky Bond
“The thing that’s so frustrating about the empowerment conversation is it’s a double standard. We don’t apply this to anybody else in any other job. We don’t say to the fight for 15 folks, ‘do you really love McDonalds? I dunno! I’m not so sure.’ Why is this somehow the exception where labor organizing is somehow impossible? Are we trying to protect people from the very dire situations that all workers face when their rights are not respected? Or are we trying to express some kind of opinion?”- Melissa Gira Grant
“Low carbon footprint sex-work. Farm to table. Crop to cup.” – Gabe Pacheco on the environmental advantage of decriminalizing sex work.
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Forget el Chapo…Donald Trump may be asking the FBI for protection against Joaquin Guzman Loera, the notorious Mexican drug lord known as el Chapo, who recently escaped from prison, again. But The Donald has already been attacked by a more formidable adversary who also hails from The Mexico. And his weapon of choice? Not bullets, not machetes, not gruesome torture…… Butt plugs!Meet Fernando Sosa, the 32-year old 3D artist based in Orlando, Florida, who was born and raised in Puebla Mexico. Sosa, who came to the United States when he was 11, was enraged when he heard Donald Trump spew his racist vitriol about Mexican rapists. So he decided he would turn his anger into a product… a butt plug, made of “fully colored material with a coarse finish and a delicate feel,” more specifically, as his website explains. In case you don’t know, a butt plug is a sex toy that does exactly what it sounds like it does. READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE.
Guests Syreeta McFadden, Gabe Pacheco and Rebecca Carroll right before the debut episode of The Katie Halper Show! Then Gabe and guest Ava Farkas, ED of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, pose in front of some funny, political, anti-gentrification art we walked past right after the show. It was quite fitting, given our discussion of gentrification and housing right before.
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