Midweek Politics with David Pakman - Ex - Con for congress, comcast/nbc deal, patrick kennedy

speaking of strange barack obama stories and ex-con who claims that he took drugs and had homosexual sex with barack obama is running for office this is what some are trying to call in by some i mean freerepublic conservative online discussion forum and blog are calling the biggest untold story of the two thousand eight u_s_ presidential election this is larry sinclair is claimed that popped up during the campaign it was never taken seriously that he took drugs and had homosexual sex with brac obama will now he's running for congress in florida's twenty fourth district this slogan is i've served my time now it's time i serve my country sinclair wrote the book barack obama and larry sinclair *** sex lies and *** and he is a convicted felon he was reportedly offered ten grand to verify his claims of the elicit sex and drug use the a polygraph test which he failed he took a polygraph and he failed but deceit is nothing new for sinclair i guess update they've done a little bit of digging around his record includes forgery charges and multiple states one of which he served sixteen years in jail for but he also has an outstanding warrant for his arrest right now don't even know if we should be calling him larry sinclair according to some records his thirteen aliases including mohammed gaana larry sinclair mohammed at hand he's been convicted of larceny theft check for jim credit card fraud ninety seven times you've been deferred discipline for infractions one of the great candidates we have to look forward to your first point and we'll try to get in on the show only in florida will cry and you went to school in florida for a while at the stories you have i mean six hours waiting in a parking lot for a fender bender just for police to show up i don't think it was closer to eight eight hours literally here it's it's incredible some of the things that go on florida is an amazing sight would you go back to live after being in school there never you're you're not going to have a reporter but your grandmother lives there so you will go back to visit i work well be visit my grandmother but no no more you will not be a florida resident pension owner well the comcast n_b_c_ deal it was announced at comcast would take a fifty one percent stake an nbc universal which is by the way part of general electric general electric is huge they make everything from weapons to aircraft parts and also own n_b_c_ there's a lot of concerns here there's still this still a lot to be worked out in this deal it's by no means there's a lot of concerns and and there's some obvious ones number one if comcast is a cable company which they are there also a data company in the new internet and they what what's the word control n_b_c_ what can they do what they can limit access to content via web portals think about who who lose a popular site lewis that with commercials you can see d i think he said isn't it curb your enthusiasm you watch it on hulu right i don't know i do arch family ghana okay comcast because they control both n_b_c_ and they control people's access to the internet and on some parts of the country people have internet there other companies here we have comcast for high-speed internet they can say well you know we're not going to have n_b_c_ content on hulu or we are but all of the other content is going to be poor quality or your computer your internet connection will be slower when accessing the websites of a_b_c_ instead of n_b_c_ priority like high transfer speeds better image quality for n_b_c_ websites kid easily be set up or for n_b_c_ channels on t_v_ all of a sudden when you put on n_b_c_ you can hear it a lot better see a lot better than for a_b_c_ this is this relates to net neutrality you know in a way in many ways so there's a ton of issues here slower access speeds for poor quality for competitors to n_b_c_ either via internet burt ely with this merger and comcast will control about twenty percent of all t_v_ content but it's actually more than that at first i thought well this isn't going to affect right we do a show ida community radio station it's all community in the public radio stations that air the show it's filmed by a public access t_v_ station in all its all public access t_v_ stations well those expectations exist with what money money from comcast for example in northampton where we film the show the public t_v_ station that there's our show is funded ninety nine percent by comcast ninety eight percent by comcast so in a way comcast does control are our tv show in a certain way perhaps is good thing perhaps will be on n_b_c_ characters merger right and you know i first for whatever reason i think it's more likely that we will have first will be on the other adler so there's a lot of concerns here that we're going to have to keep an eye on and it's but like i said it's by no means a a done deal but it's it's something that is probably probably going to happen congressman patrick kennedy of kennedy fame has been banned from receiving communion communion but this should thomas still been no i don't believe that leaves communion lewis i don't know hired knowing it yeah we need some maybe we could ask waali kya baat a little bit later being jewish i have no idea i thought idon't want to get angry you know that is communion when you get the cracker by donna yes sure i'm completely ignorant environments he can't repres congressman patrick kennedy can't can receive it according to bishop thomas tobin this has been and ongoing month or six weeks of harsh words between the two this is a roman catholic bishop thomas tobin he said sunday that kennedy would not receive holy communion because of the democratic lawmaker support for abortion rights the bishops attempt to publicly shane kennedy comes just a few months after the death of his father ted kennedy i don't like this don't like this at all i think that we are so should they do a survey during during church services and say who here supports abortion rights and everybody who put their hand up they can't receive communion either doesn't make sense right so the argument is well patrick kennedy can actually do something about this he's actually affecting legislation but it's it i think we're mixing politics and religion in a way that has been done for a long time that i don't like and i think that this is this is a big it is a big downhill i don't like this at all i don't know what the fallout will be now here's the thing the story about kennedy came to light and after that some church victims have actually stepped up to make their voices heard clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters said that roman catholic bishop thomas tobin is not doing enough to protect children from *** priests even as he's taken on patrick kennedy for stance on abortion rights a small group of protesters gathered outside his office two days after the news broke he asked him not to take car rather heat they asked him to take more precautions about protecting children it's getting credible it's almost like moshe arens somebody online said love the fetus hate the child was a george carlin maybe it wasn't our promises recent and are linked to return is a bit similar to that think i've seen that it's incredible right so this guy on one hand is telling patrick kennedy open champion four health care reform the champion from pub abortion rights safe legal abortions that he can't receive communion what the same time he is standing aside he being thomas tobin and not doing what he should be doing to prevent what we know is an ongoing problem the catholic church and *** priests and molesting children that the problem that the real problem that they're not dealing with i'm sure predict deep enough or find hypocrisy everywhere certainly sometimes partnership will take a break mid-week politics dot com is the website we have plenty more to talk about including a proper eight remember prop in california will some people are taking to the next level and saying we should actually ban divorce altogether that's all that strange but we will uh... will hear more about that after this and plenty more you're listening to me the politics