Shorter KCRW's Left Right & Center

Inauguration, CIA Leaks, and a New Cop at the SEC
Matt Miller, Robert Scheer & James Antle

Matt: Hi, I'm Matt. I'm going to pretent to be in the middle, you know Bob and today on the right, we have extreme wing nut James Antle.  The inauguration is so yesterday.

Bob: Very impressive. Struggle for freedom. Seneca falls, Selma and Stonewall.

Jim: Liberal bullshit. Lovely propaganda. Reagan. "O" will cave to House Tea Baggers.

Matt: Good point! I have a mini iPad! The Very Serious People I party with in Washington don't share "O"s enthusiasm. Equality is over-rated. Re-jigger! Poor kids. Entitlements are too high. Bob?

Bob: Asshole. Of course I disagree. 

Matt: We have to cut entitlements.

Bob: I'm confused. 

Matt: Jim?

Jim: Trope. False choices. Math is hard.  Liberal ascendancy. Scarcity.  Pensions. Entitlements. Defense. Discretionary spending? (What the fuck is he talking about? Palinesqe word salad) Automatic spending.

Bob: Banksters stole the future of all Americans.  Banksters ruined the economy not entitlement spending.  Stop fucking interrupting me Matt. You're such a dickhead. I'm going to speak.  DoD spending.

Matt: Health Care, Medicare is the reason education sucks in America. NEVER speak of DoD budgets and unfunded Wars!!  Speaking of DoD weenies, the Pentagon Brass bought off on womenzs and grrls in combat? WTF? Jim?

Jim: Rumblings. Questions for draft. It's hard. Equality, gender equity arguments are hard to argue against, but as a penis owner & chickenhawk, it sickens me personally. What kind of society do I live in? 

Matt: That CIA guy.  I won't mention his name, he sickens me.

Matt: We're back! 

Bob: It was driven by necessity. Too many wars. It was either women or the draft. Chickenhawk wing nuts like Antle here would then have to fight.  Tsk, tsk. 

Matt: I'm shocked the Pentagon bought off on this. Lush Rimbaugh is a chickenhawk. 

Jim: Marshall culture. (?) This is not social progress. Limbless women are icky. 

Matt: CIA guy goes to jail. Jon something.  Judge says this is not whistleblowing. Jim?

Jim: Contradiction. 10 years of wars. "O" uses the same ChimpCo tactics. Torture may be illegal and immoral but "O" got away with it and that really pisses me off.

Bob: The judge was shameless. "O" was worse then ChimpCo. Leaks come from the governments. Water is wet. Tea Baggers are insane.  

Matt: Didn't the CIA guy do anything wrong? 

Bob: No! He told the truth about war crimes and went to jail. That blows. 

Matt: Zero Dark Thirty. Torture is awful. CIA was happy to kill OBL. Mary Jo White. SEC. Jim?

Jim: "O" can't regulate Wall Street.  Wall Street is doing fine.  Talks trash about Wall St, but cant get things done.

Bob: "O" has been a Wall Street disaster. No accountability. 7 trillion dollars of ordinary peoples money got wiped out, yet we bailed out the Bankster. Not one of those cocksuckers went to jail.

Matt: Statute of limitations is going to expire. Around the horn rant.

Bob: Don't give Academy Awards for torture. Torture is immoral and it doesn't work. 

Jim: False choices. Collective actions. Civil society doesn't need government. 

Matt: While I was partying with the Very Serious People in Washington as an insider political hack, I got to drink with Leon Panetta!