Midweek Politics with David Pakman - Lightening kids faces on a school mural, emails, more

arizona racism story going on in prescott arizona a mural has been altered to lighten children skin tone this is painted on the side of an elementary school he was recently completed as pictures of faces of the children who attend the school but not everybody is pleased with the outcome prescott city councilman steve blair who has a radio show on fox news owned station k_ y_ c_ a_ once the mural taking down all together he says it depicts an agenda and indoctrination of public school children somehow i don't think it has much to do with indoctrination as it is about they're being dark-skinned people on the mural now instead of removing at the school principal asked the artist to lighten the faces of the children in the picture this followed harassment of the artist by drive-by right wingers who are flinging racial epithets at the mall they were painting welcome to arizona i guess and uh... you know we need to lighten the skin tone of the faces of the children in the picture because we can't have brown children representing arizona first prescott specifically here's a quote from steve blair i'm not a racist by any stretch of the imagination but when people start talking about that adversity it's a word i can't stand he can send a ver si we can't stand the word diver sity there is a difference right uh there could be you're not sure what it is that nahi also says to depict the biggest picture on the building is a black person i would have to ask the question i guess that's part of those family values in the republican party right well a little bit later on the bonus show today my mugging story from argentina an apology has been requested of me but by who all tell you and also an incredible story of a lutheran pastor who blamed the tornado on homosexuals turns out he is gay he is gay and also which to st got republican parties want to make homosexual acts flat-out illegal we'll tell you on the bonus show so make sure you are a mid-week politics member go to mid week politics dot com uh... ubuntu things to get to a few new stations airing the showcase v_r_ in melbourne in washington is airing mid-week politics as well as radio funk in mexico city mexico it's the first mexican station to hear the show and we're absolutely thrilled to be on the ban also w e_t_ l in south bend indiana are all of poll in light of the oil spill new proposed offshore drilling should be postponed altogether sixty one percent go ahead as planned twenty percent go ahead but be delayed nineteen percent honestly i don't know why the numbers are that high thirty nine percent of people think we should continue to do more offshore drilling i don't know and the new poll is about sip renquist on the oleanna kagan it's on the republican dot com right now he mails to get to you can send years to radio at mid-week politics dot com on the gentle gilbert interview of course the host of the young turks most people loving it good stuff surreal to see pacman ingenta gather jenkins david in the same place love it and i would love to see david injectable weekly segment together of course there was one negative email which is just all capital letters losers with an exclamation point could not everybody liking that in reference to jan schick hausky congressman from illinois who said that people liberals need to get off their asks a lot of people angry about it here's one email the audacity of this congresswoman patel progress is to get off the rash is beyond belief democrats along with obama were elected with huge majorities in both houses of congress and they've acted as if they were a minority that is not leadership by any stretch of the imagination i would say to her her colleagues and obama you get off your essence so a lot of angry emails about chan chak ascii also jan is a joke she takes raytheon and lockheed martin money she's a complete pitch and is married to an ex-con who stole two point three million dollars from banks a hundred kehta hun thousand of which was used to pay her a piece of his own salary you know i research that it does seem that that's true that that actually does seem to be the case and also another email and get her out that's all the time we have this week join us right now on the bonus show go to mid week politics dot com slash membership to get access and we'll be back next week with plenty more you've been listening to the politics with dave hennen hello this is an impossible in part by csr wire corporate social responsibility newswire it's csr wired dot com by d_n_a_ f design specializing in custom business website said d_n_a_ after sign dot com and bishan tristen dot com provider of all-natural super food an adapter genic herbal blend action tristen dot com to find out more about underwriting mid-week politics music mid-week politics dot com