Except way more expensive. laughter with three weeks to go, it is estimated 5. 5 to of. 6. 5 billion dollars will be spent on the campaign. Or to put that in laymans terms, enough money to hazmat, suit up, every man, woman and child in america and silkwood shower those [bleep] till election day. Lets do it. Lets do it. applause one group in particular, very up set about the influence that money has on our politics. We must reduce the role of money in politics. Stem the core rosive influence of money in politics. The corrupting influence of money. The unending chase for money threatens to steal our democracy itself. Jon my advice to democracy, is that we could end this chase for money, by having democracy marry a condiments heirress. It, wod for me, but move along, ketchup is taken. laughter perhaps i could set democracy up with bette poupon. laughter whos the heir to the i just like doing his voice. The democrats are outraged. And their outrage is brought to you by, money. laughter the pillow smothering our democracy in its hospital bed. laughter theres only one problem. In the ten senate races where the most outside money has been spent, liberal groups have outspent conservatives 97 million to 79 million. The democrats are outspending five or ten to one. Democrats have realized these are the rules of the game. As much as they process profess not to like them. Here a tip. It may undercut your your message when are you condemning a thing that you have clearly mastered. Its one of those thou shallt not kill, but if you are going to, single shot, back of the head, carbon steel hack saw, put the parts in several trash bags, spread them out over please, please dont applaud that one. Thats not thats really, explaining how to kill someone, and the crowd is like yeah. laughter me likey. laughter recently the democrats reticent for fund reticence for fundraising was truly on display. President obama headed to his 53rd fundraiser of the year at Gwyneth Paltrows house. Tonight the president will attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee at the home of real estate mogul richmond hillman. Jon what . laughter it may not be the best way to send a message about your contempt for money in politics with backtoback fundraisers from the homes of lady goops, and literally a man named ritchie rich. laughter and then there are no, chances are, the real ritchie rich, my guess is hes slightly taller. And then of course, there are the emails. Oh dear god, the emails from the democrats. With the frequency and desperation matched only by a nigerian prince selling a groupon deal for boner pills, the democrats and the emails will not stop trying to make you give them money. These are some real fundraising emails. Hotel and broadway show, all on us. You and potus in l. A. Wow, those sound likes like exciting you ever as, but what would happen if you rent impressed by palm tree emoji and your pretend casual friendship with the president. These are real. We keep emailing. Joe biden has emailed you. Michelle emailed you, and now ive emailed you. laughter and then later that day the party towards the same email back to you, hey, just wanted to make sure you saw this email from president obama. laughter because what kind of a [bleep] would ignore a personal email from president obama . Hes been waiting all day for your response. laughter apparently isis is smuggling ebola across our southern border votea Vladimir Putins rectum but the president cant do anything about it because he just sits there all day refreshing his email box, why isnt he getting back to me. Cant get any weirder, right . Yeah, youre wrong. Weve got nothing left. laughter were done, go home, give up. All hope is lost. These are real emails. All hope is lost . Not an email from your friend sylvia plath, not from mine erred trapped for three weeks in a mine shaft who somehow have access to wifi, but from a National Political party trying to win your vote. My god. Does the body of the email say what it will take to restore hope . To get the democrats off the ledge . Does it take a million dollars, a kidney . No, five [bleep] 5. This is the end, goodbye, cruel world unless of course you have enough money to buy me 12 inches of sandwich. Hmmmm . Hmmmm . Hmmmm . applause none of these emails, none of these emailed freaked us out more than this one which happened to mention, by the by, that quote, according to their records, i hadnt pitched in yet. Their records. I guess now we know what the nsa data center is for. laughter we cross referenced your email account, visa bills and medical records and you havent given us jackment you didnt mention plans to donate to your accountant who you called at 10 02 a. M. This morning. The democrats, these emails are just embarrassing at this point. Oh jon . What was that . Behind you, big guy. What the . Oh, god. More fundraising emails. Hey, buddiman, long time no donate. Jon its the middle of my show, i cant you ignored all our other emails so we figured we without take it public. Shame you into, you know. Jon you want me to projectile vomit money . Im if the going to do it. Oh, okay. Give me your money, or i will see you in hell. Jon is 5 okay, i will get you the oh, yeah, all right giddyap. Get that green. Loving that money. Loving that money, whooo jon okay so, were good then, i guess were good. Oh, were good, buddy. For now. Jon well be right back. applause hmm. Trade in your old iphone and get a new iphone free at verizon. Did you say something, paul . Huh . No. Can i route our trip . I love our trips. Oh, me too. But no im good i know where im headed. How about music . Nah i dont really feel like just the two of us we can make it if we what a fun drive. 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Ea its the flavour we all savour, does any food a favour. Gotta be more tea teariffic liption. Be more tea. Muppets most wanted, on bluray and digital august 12th. Stephen welcome back. I got a little breaking news, breaking news, a little vatican news flash,the church today issued sur vice surprisingly conciliatory marriage towards samesex partnerships. A huge step in Pope Franciss efforts to, and i quote, get with it, bitches. Thats his words. applause jon that was written in latin. I think i pronounced it correctly. Well, tonights Jessica Williams has this daily show exclusive on perhaps an even more exciting step forward. Recently the church has been turning to some very modern methods to reach out to younger generations. Including papal facebook, twitter and instagram accounts. And reverend bob larson of scottsdale, arizona thinks this technology should be embraced by all men of the cloth. The church needs to wake up and get out of the dark ages. Its a social media generation. You want to communicate with them, you want to reach them, you have to tweet. You have to use facebook. You got to keep up with the times. You have to use technology. Skype is a Great Technology to stare down the devil, to go after him, and kick him back to hell. Im sorry, what . Im doing exorcisms on skype. I cast out demons by skype, and it works. Okay, skype aside, one little question, people are still doing exorcisms . I thought that only happens in the movies . What does the real church have to say about these internet exorcisms . Father gary thomas. Personally i believe in it. The most highly effective exorcism really requires us to be present for them. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. Im an exorcist. Oh, god, hes an exorcist too. And it turns out father gary is the guy the movie the rite was based on. He knows the only effective way to fight the devil. A skype dynamic creates some serious limitations because youre limited by they could be doing anything, they could not be wearing pants. Thats true. They could be eating a burrito. What if theres with a power failure. What if you want to send them holy water attachment, you dont know if they will get it. Thats correct. You have to make icon tack in this ministry. You do make a lot of icon tack. I do. Its pretty weird. You have to. But its not like reverend larson is taking things to absurd places. I couldnt do an exorcism by tweeting. Tweeting and exorcism would be liddick sus ridiculous. You are right that would be riddick ridiculous. Whetheras skype makes sense but try telling that to old father myspace. What are you going to say, we cant do baptisms over skype. No, we cant. What about like snap chat. I done even know what snap chat is. I see what is happening here. You are just afraid of this new technology. No, im not afraid of technology at all. Oh, look at me. I am an dont know technology. Technology cannot replace human touch. But hes not against all technology. There was a youtube that i saw about a year ago okay, you saw a youtube. Yes, i did, a youtube about beyonce out after last years super bowl, the dance performance that she did, the movement of her fingers, the movement of her hands indicated that there was a lot of demonic symbolism attached. Are you trying to tell me beyonce is possessed by the devil. She herself said her talent really comes from a spirit that she made a pact with. Nobody request remember to make that deal, latoya, they really dropped the ball on that demon deal. Im just telling you the youtube i saw. While there are obvious workplace dangers that be can avoided over skype, its important to realize technology can be used for both good and evil. I think there are demons whose specialty is technology. Like the geek squad. Why wouldnt hell have a geek squad. How do you know are you not being catfished. That happens in a real exorcism as well as a skype exorcism because the demons try to lie. Exactly but you think you are talking to the demon incubus but it is like some fat old demon pretending to be incubus. Look, incubus is a very serious, very real demon that i run into quite often. Okay. It was finally time for me to test the technology. Now im going to confront you with a cross. Okay. And im going to take my bible, gods word of authority. Can you hold it up for me, there it is, okay. Its time for you to go to hell. Hold on. Okay. Im getting visual but no audio. I cant hear you. Now i got the beach ball. Okay, what do i do . Do i close out, do i go to file. Dont do any of that. You just go to hell. Blooep, [bleep], [bleep]. See t worked flawilessly. And best of all, hes doing it for the love of helping people. We ask for a donation to the ministry of 295. Just like jesus, you cast out demons and hand them an invoice. Pay me. 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Sand is that something you found the gary hart affair has its own sort of legend and that much of it is not true . Opinions yes, are you not alone. Basically everything people remember about this, if they remember it at all, is not true. Everybody thinks there was a picture of the woman donna rice on his lap and that throws him out of the race. Jon the tshirt that says monkey business. Yeah. It didnt drive him out of the race it was three weeks after the race and it wasnt taken on a boat t was taken on a dock with hundreds of people milling around. The biggest thing i think people misremember, everybody thinks he said follow me around. And. Jon right, he challenged reporters, you think ive got a problem. Follow me around, i will prove i dont. Right, the reality is he did say that to a single reporter, but it was not public or known to anyone at the time when the miami herald sent a bunch of reporters to put him under surveillance. Very significant, as you know, because what it means is that the boundaries werent actually rewritten between private and public lives because gary hart said lets rewrite them it actually was a media decision, a decision my industry made. Here you have the presumed nominee of the democratic party, the Hillry Clinton of his day. Way ahead in the polls. Pinned up against a brick wall on the side of his townhouse. Jon they chased him out of his house. Yeah, wearing a white hoodie. And peppering him with questions about who is the woman in your house, have ou had sex with that woman, this has never happened before. In that alley, i think the rules of politics an political journalism changed forever. Jon the idea too that, you know, in this day and age people catch things on cell phones and things. This was set up surveillance. Yes. Jon to catch a guy based on an anonymous tip. Thats right. Jon that had come in, that he was having a dahliance. And part of the issue is, when did that become fodder for the campaign. Because certainly kennedy, certainly johnson, certainly many of the politicians that have run this country and we idollized, had issues like this. Right. Well, character was always a part of politics. And sometimes sex became a part of politics. The media did not go looking for it. Jon right. And no one was sort of completely defined and disgraced in the way quite that he was before. There was a lot going on, as you mentioned the satellite dish, this generation coming into journalism after watergate thats had woodward and bernstein in their minds and what they see as the moral failures of nixon and that has to be addressed. So you have a lot that is changing. Jon right. And in that called ron, hart sort of walks into it. It was going to happen. I think it was inevitable. I dont think the miami herald did this, i dont think gary hart did this. Jon if it wasnt gary hart, it would be someone else. Absolutely. But was him and i think that moment tells us a lot of how we got to the place where we are where our poll particulars feel so sterile and our politicians so remote and our journalism, often, so not illuminating for the things that matter. Jon at this point, the general ramification of this is are politicians become incredibly cautious. They dont it becomes now about really scripting a campaign in a way that did not exist prior to that . Nixon did not do that, kennedy they must have all had spin teams but were they more, were they less guarded with the press than they are now . Much more so. Much more so. You know, you see it, in that moment, just after that stakeout, they go to New Hampshire and there is a famous News Conference where the reporter from the Washington Post says in front of a crowded room of press, senator, have you ever committed a did adultery. No candidate was ever asked that blanket question. Jon do you think it is because it is easier, more salacious, it sells more papers than trying to find out the moral fabric of an individual with real virtues that matter in governance . Well, i think certainly after Richard Nixon there was a legitimate and genuine feeling that personal morality mattered more. That character had actually done him in and done the country in more than policies. And so there was a reasonable impulse there. But i think mostly we have veered and began to veer in that moment into the realm of entertainment. Into the idea that campaigns and politics had to unfold like story arcs, had to have characters, had to have plot twists. We had suddenly these satellite dishes and you could go live from anywhere at any point. And you had to have something to go live with. That same year the jim baker and tames fay baker stand dahl, would you have had a great time with, the mass car ar streaked face. Some of makeup. And fawn hall and olver north. They went on a jag. They went on a crazy. Jon youre right. You can see that. Jon i didnt remember hart went back into the race. Yes. Jon he went back in. Yeah, yeah, that is a decision i think he really regretted. He sort of walked away and said this is nobodys business. This is no way to run a campaign and i will not put people through this he came back in t went very poorly. He registered 0 percent in iowa which is not ideal. laughter joo that. Jon that is true. Do you believe that we have, because of the way that politics is covered now, do you believe we have lost out on truly great and possibly great leaders because of the way that we cover them . Are there, and there is obviously a hypothetical, but do you think there are people of substance who could have done this country great things, who we will just never know about because of the core rosive nature of our politics . I do. I have been covering National Politics for 15 years, covered four president ial campaigns. I do think we lose people who dont want to put themselves through this unendureable pro accepts. I think we drum good people out of politics who are defined by the single worst thing they have ever done as opposed to the context of their public lives and make it easier for people who have no Business Holding office to enter the process. Because when youre not talking about ideas and worldviews and agenda. When are you talking about character and personality, it makes it very easy for someone to float through the process without ever having to explain themselves or demonstrate what they know. applause jon that was awesome. I should write that down. I think i did. Jon all the truth is out. Its on the gook shelves now, matt bai. Thank you. Go ahead and put your bag right here. Have a nice flight traveling can feel like one big mystery. Youre never quite sure what is coming your way. 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