Jon thats our show. Here it is, your moment of zen. Im confident that he will be justified. Im confident that all those things you predict are going to come true and a lot of people that have been laying out the case against this are going to be veryored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] stephen right there . Is that the one . Welcome to the report, everybody. [audience chanting stephen] [cheering and applause] welcome to the report, everybody. Folks, thank you so much. You know. [cheering and applause] welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Nation, i dont know what it is, but tonight i feel ten years younger. It might be the summer sun or the smell of barbecue or the chaos in iraq. [laughter] jim . Militants on the move in iraq conquering city after city. Theyve now taken mosul, iraqs second largest city, tikrit, saddam husseins hometown, baiji, an iraqi oil refinery town, and today they are taking direct aim at baghdad. The countrys government and military is literally disintegrating before our eyes. The situation is growing more urgent as American Contractors are forced to evacuate and militants continue their march towards baghdad. Happening now, iraq 2. 0. Stephen yes, its iraq 2. 0, and like any upgrade, its faster, once in a while everything crashes, and you get the error message 404 government not found. [applause] because, folks, the news is iraq is being rapidly overrun by a terrorist group out of syria isis, the Islamic State in iraq and syria. These are some bad hombres. Isis has been described as better arms than the National Armies of syria and iraq, partly because iraqi soldiers are handing over their weapons and uniforms peacefully. Its no surprise iraqi soldiers are shiiting the bed here. Jim . Weve already seen just how ruthless they are. The militants claim they have killed 1,700 iraqis in just the last day. Theyre brutal. Very radical, very militant, very draconian. Steep how draconian . Theyve been announced by such International Terrorist groups as al qaeda, who has now officially changed their motto to death to the infidels, but, you know, tasteful. Who so who has got the balls and his enemys balls to make al qaeda seem kind of chill . Its none other than abu bakr albaghdadi, a shadowy figure known as the invisible sheikh seen here being visible. [laughter] albaghdadi has a growing army, recruiting fighters from other militant groups by offering to triple their salaries up to 400 a month. 400 a month baghdadi better be ready for a flood of resumes from recent comp lit grads and soon. [cheering and applause] and soon it might be bonus season. The militants are flush with cash. They robbed mosuls central bank, taking over 400 million, according to the citys governor. They are considered now the richest terrorist organization in the world, valued at 2 billion. Stephen the richest terrorist organization in the world, which means they can now afford monogrammed suicide vests. [laughter] and we have not seen everything in albaghdadis albag of tricks, as his fighters claim that baghdadi has plenty of hidden surprises for his enemies. So a warning to all iraqi, no matter how hungry you russia no matter how delicious it looks, do not open that can of peanut brittle. Worse, albaghdadi is plan dog something america could never do in iraq, nationbuild. Isiss main aim is to extend a callie fant from iraq to syria. Steep iraq and syria . We could be looking at the dine all over again. Do you know what that means . If you, do please drop me a note because i do not know what that means. But i can tell you, it can not be good. Yeah. It cannot be good, folks. Umayyad dynasty, who puts two ys in a row . Clearly the mark of mad man. The point is were facing the alarming collapse of the iraqi government, so it took us eight years of blood and treasure to install, and its all obamas fault. [laughter] jim . I blame president obama for handsoff policy when it comes to iraq. The president s inability to negotiate a forces agreement in iraq, which has put us in this situation were in today. President obama made political decision, a Campaign Promise decision, not Strategic Vision decision. He simply didnt live up to his promises of more arms and a diplomatic surge. Thank you, president obama. Great job, dude. Stephen yeah. Great job, dude. Operation party. Next keg is on you, president broseph. I dont know what obama was thinking when george w. Bush signed the troop Withdrawal Agreement in 2008. [cheering and applause] and, yeah, hmm, hmm, hmm. Thankfully fox news knows how to fix this situation. We have to do something. Weve got do something about it. When is the president going to do something. Hes got do something. I mean, he came out today and said he might do something in iraq. Hes got do something. Stephen yes. Thats exactly it. Yes. [cheering and applause] yes. That is exactly the thing we have to do. Some. I say we just fight the bad guys by helping the good guys. And the good guys are easy to find thanks to this handy chart of the involved parties. Okay. Lets just jump right into this freaky 13 way. All right. I say we fight isis by sending arms to their mortal enemies, hezbollah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hezbollah is no good. So lets help whoever is fighting them, al qaeda. No. Okay. That definitely rings a bell. Lets help al qaedas nemesis instead, bob bashara. Oh. Oh, oh, a little too gassyhisownpeopley. Lets help the Syrian Rebels fighting him. How about those guys in alnusra. Im being told thats al qaeda again. Maybe we should give weapons to alnusras enemy, iran. Okay. Thats not good. We need find a wellarmed, welltrained militia out there willing to fight iran. I know, isis. Those guys look like winners. They are kickings ass and taking names. [cheering and applause] here to tell me how we can best help isis defeat themselves is the managing editor of the Iraq Oil Report ben van heuvelen. Thank you so much, ben. All right, ben. [cheering and applause] how bad is this situation over there . Should we be concerned that lebanon is now the stable middle eastern country . [laughter] its very bad. [laughter] stephen all right. Thats good enough. Okay. So what do we do . Can we just ignore it . Do we have to Pay Attention to it . Because the American People didnt really Pay Attention to iraq when we still had troops there. Why should we Pay Attention now . I think one of the best reasons to Pay Attention is that these areas in Northern Iraq now that isis is controlling, i think its not unreasonable to draw an nail joy between what isis wants do there and what the taliban did in afghanistan prior to 2001. So in as much as its a big threat to countries around the world to have a group like isis controlling large territory and marshaling a lot of resources, its a threat to everybody. What about the oil . [laughter] is the oil okay . [laughter] are they being cruel to the oil up there . I can assure you that the oil is actually safe right now. Most of iraqs proil duction is in the south, which is shia majority. And isis is a radical sunni group, and theyre more in the north. So the Oil Production is not affected so far. Stephen cant we sit back, like you dump a bunch of red ants and a bunch of black ants in a pile, and you pour a little honey in the middle, and you just make them fight. Cant we just do that . Why do we have to stick our big toe back in there . [laughter] well, i think if we dont stick our big toe back in there at least in terms of intervening diplomatically at the very least to affect some political change in iraq, then thats exactly whats going to happen. Its going to be a terrible humanitarian catastrophe with militias and. Stephen humanitarian, but its humanithemian. Dont they have it coming . Do you know the names weve had to memorize with those people, all the ales bins, abduls. I dont have room. I deleted those names and filled it with people from the craifnl i cant Pay Attention it to anymore. Havent we paid our price . [applause] how bad, this guy, this albaghdadi guy, hes willing go further than anybody else is my understanding. Thats why he may not have enjoyed the support on the street with sunnis. How bad is this cat . Hes a really, truly, horrible, evil person. Just yesterday there were reports still unconfirmed but credible that he ordered the execution of thousands of captured iraqi troops. So hes a terrible person. Stephen is he the kaiser of the middle east. That might be fair to say. [laughter] stephen well, thanks for all the cheerful news. Thank you so much. Ben van heuvelen. [cheering and applause] the Iraq Oil Report. Well be right back. How do they make starburst taste so juicy . They import intense juiciness from the land of intensity. Get this intense juiciness to starburst you know i will have a pleasant day thank you get back to work [ female announcer ] starburst. Unexplainably juicy. My f. I like dancing. G. Thank you get back to work so when we packed up our rav4, i brought this. Turns out my family likes dancing too. The rav4 toyota. Lets go places. Stephen welcome back, everybody. Nation, folks, you know, our first black president s first black economy continues to let down my friends in the African American community. [laughter] the income gap between blacks and whites continues to grow, and black College Graduates are twice as likely as their peers to be unemployed. Even worse, their United College fund still calls them negroes. Come on now, when barack obama was elected president , we were promised that racism was over, but for some reason it still exists. I blame the mexicans. [laughter] just to show you how bad racism still is, this month atlantic magazine is one of the fastestselling issues in its history thanks to a cover story by my guest tonight, tanehesia coates, entitled the case for reparations. Reparations . What happened to forgive and forget . White people have done the second part. Now, luckily, i think we have found the cure to racism thanks to a new study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of sciences. In the study, scientists created a spectrum of faces ranging from white to black also known as Thomas Jeffersons family try. [applause] before viewing any faces in this spectrum, subjects were primed to think about scarcity by the splitsecond projection of such words as scarce, sparse or limited. Those primed to think about scarce resource were much more likely to see someone with few african facial features as black. When the white subjects were shown two images and told to divvy up 15, they consistently shorted the black image with 7 or less. To recap when money is scarce, why people think everyone looks black and then wont give them any money, thus confirming results First Published in paul ryans budget. [cheering and applause] nation, this study proves white people dont discriminate because were racist. We do it because were worried about economic scarcity, which means there is a simple way to eradicate racism in america give white people more money. Thats the reason conservatives want to cut taxes for the wealthy. Were trying to heal a wound nation and maybe finally reach Martin Luther kings mountaintop, which in this case is a pile of money. When we come back, i will ask my touch down. Every morning. Ten times not just. Now and then. Once more on the rise. Nuts to the flabby guys go, you chicken fat, go away go, you chicken fat, go run, two, run running like a tortoise okay too far, and too slow. now double up, ready run two three four. running run two three four. like a hare run two three four. Ow you are run two three four. Etting there n two three four. O you are run two three four. N two three four. chicken fat, n twerybody sing . O away re , you chicken fat, go go go go dismissed break the ice, with breath freshening cooling crystals. Ice breakers. Oh no theyve put up a sign. Capital letters mean business. Or maybe thats natures way of weeding out the timid. Your fortune awaits. Stephen my guest tonight is a journalist who believes its time to pay reparations to black people. Reparations . I got to fix their air conditioning now . Please welcome tanehesia coates. [cheering and applause] hey, good see you, tanehesia. Thanks for having me. Stephen thanks for coming back. Mr. Coates, good to see you again. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Stephen im mad at you, man. All right. Stephen you are the National Correspondent for the atlantic. And author of this months cover story the case for reparations. You have it right there. I do have it right here. Stephen its a brace 15g,000word argument talking about slavery, jim crow, discriminations that come up to this very day. Right. Stephen do you think the best way to heal nation is to bum people out . [laughter] because this is well argued. I can understand it, and i dont want to understand it. Right, right, right. Stephen make your case to the good people out there and understand, some of these people are not white. So dont be mad at them. I wrote that with that in mind. Stephen its not just for white people. Didnt know. Because its kind of an attack. Okay. Well, i think its our history. And i too think its necessary to bum people out sometimes to heal people. You go to the doctor and maybe you have a knee injury and youre not sure what it is. You know, its better to know that you tore something than for the doctor to tell you, oh, its going to be all right. Stephen thats what anaesthesia is for. But we have to know whats wrong in order for there to be any healing in the first place. Steep but what good does reparations do . Are we talking about distributing money . Probably so. Stephen okay. All right. So how much money is it going to take. [laughter] to. I have some right here. Ill just pick one black guy, ill give him a check, and ill be a model for everybody else. How much are we talking about here, tanehesia . Well, we dont actually know. But i will take a check on behalf of myself. Stephen all right. All right. This is to make the discussion go away. No, no, no. Steep this is hush money. Just for tonight. Stephen i gave you a fruit plate backstage. Thats all you get tonight. People know that slavery happened and im against it. Jim crow, bad. You also talk about recent practices like redlining neighborhoods, not allowing black people to move into those neighborhoods. Black people being basically cheated in their mortgages and having their houses taken away from them. Well, we have two problems. Any time you say the word reparation, people think youre talking about people who are long dead. In fact, there are people who are alive who have been disadvantaged and injured. The damage doesnt go away when we dont talk about it. New things happen that are compiled on top of that damage, so segregation in a city in chicago, a northern Peoples State Bank dont think about northern cities as being segregated, but segregation in a Community Like chicago creates a community of people who are ripe to be plundered when people are peddling bad loans. You say from colonial days up until now, a great deal of wealth in the United States has been built on the backs of disadvantaged and black people. And not even our wealth as a country, but like our policies, our social safety net, the way we think about housing in this country, social security, the g. I. Bill. These things would not have been possible unless we made certain compromises with white supremacists. Stephen are there other injured groups . Shouldnt you get in line behind the indians . Possibly. Stephen its a short line. There arent many. What if we gave you guys casinos . That wasnt my joke. I dont want any part of it. Thats all you. Stephen you have a very wellargued, just exhaustively researched article here, but you dont have solvency at the end of the article. You dont say this is how we deal the reparations. Whats the mechanism . Well, the mechanism, as i say in the article, the bill that john conyers introduces every year, says we should study the issue. Its like saying we should study it is not very gratifying. You want a specific number, write the check. Stephen or just study and go no further. Right, right, right. The idea of studying before you do it is not actually new. Stephen i go from the gut. Too i want to give you any of my money . No. Thats my gut. En that is my gut on that. There it is. There it is. [applause] thats good policy, but in the case of japaneseamericans, we did the same thing. We had a study before we cut a check. Stephen well, its a much Smaller Group of people. It is. Its Smaller Group of people, so the damage is less and the specific moment of hurting them is so contained in the. It starts with slavery and. What if we just took it from 1860. Stephen we get a mulligan on slavery. Right. Stephen thats tempting. Thats not bad idea. Dutt your losses on slavery. We could do jim crow. Steep we just do 20th century crimes. Well just do lynching, housing segregation, employment segregation, social security, g. I. Bill. Stephen stealing jazz, rock n roll. Vanilla ice. Stephen exactly. Well, good luck. Tanehesia coates. The atlantic. Well be right back. 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