ethics vote. i m joined by noah. the executive director for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. thanks very much for joining us. are you ready to give the president-elect of the united states a lot of the credit for reversing this decision? i think the credit really goes to public outrage that people looked at what house republicans have done, that apparently they read the mood of the american people and thought what people wanted was loosening of ethics in washington and they just got it totally wrong and there was instant outrage. i think that the president-elect saw that. he responded to it. he seemed to suggest that maybe what they were doing was right, but it shouldn t have been the first thing out of the gate. that was enough of a signal to house republicans that they were going to lose with the public that they changed their minds. are you ready to say to the
she had a fever, and passed away, according to one of her relatives, her granddaughter told us that. she just got the title, world s oldest living person two weeks ago. but unfortunately, she s no longer with us, at 116 years old. now a japanese man has become the world s oldest person. he s 115 years old. he is now the world s oldest. 14 grand, 25 great grand children, 13 great, great grandchildren, and he is now the world s oldest man. and he looks happy. every day is a gift at that age. i don t know if i want to live that long. depends on how your head is and your body. your body can t be so well at 115. he s trucking. finally, outrage. there s a magazine called candy and it s using a transgender model to pose as michelle obama. take a look at the picture.
toyota in the last two years. analysts point out, though, this fine is a small fraction of the automaker s earnings. and talk about instant outrage. instagram, which allows you to dramatically enhance digital photos, ignited a social media rebellion when it seemed to suggest plans to start selling your pictures next month. thousands of angry users deleted their accounts. in response, instagram announced it will not sell your photos after all. so everyone, continue posting those pictures of your food. and all the daily minutia of your life that only you care about. it s interesting, because they say, well, people misunderstood the policy. by i ve got to tell you, most times those policies are reviewed by hordes of attorneys and it s usually not misunderstood or misinterpreted. i wonder if it was that social
recommendations to keep america from going underwater in debt faster than a lindsay lohan rehab stay. what we have is the mindset in america of everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. americans are rightfully angry and equally frightened that we ve accumulated the national debt higher than joan river s plastic surgery bills. now, most people who have an iq above a stalk of celery recognize that spending s got to be reduced, yet, naming specific programs for the chopping block, once always met with instant outrage. if we do that we re going to kill children and old people and all the good dogs in america. welsh the notion that americans would also have to pay more for things that they wanted, like highways that were drivable and a military that s been by bullets usually shot down because it would increase more of our costs. look, i don t want to see taxes increase and i don t think it s necessary, but i
tonight at a time when so many americans are angry and against each other, we leave with you a story of two men that came together against the odds. 1968, arnie harwell was the broad disaster for the tigers. it was october of that year, the height of vietnam amid massive social unrest and harwell made a daring choice for game five of the world series. he selected a young, blind puerto rican musician named jose feliciano. his unusual performance provoked instant outrage. he was attacked as an communist, unamerican. he never did regret that decision. ernie harwell died last week. his last request that feliciano perform at his service.