about 16 months ago, me and a small group of reporters were talking to lindsey graham as he was near tears describing his agony that donald trump was going to be the republican nominee. later that night he spoke at a dinner with c-span cameras rolling doing a stand-up routine that ended him with, again, near tears describing his agony that trump was taking over. now they ve played golf twice, talking on the phone all the time. at the same time, graham s best friend in the senate, mccain, is being just as tough, if not tougher, than ever on trump, especially as it relates to russia. i just don t it s a bizarre thing. some people feel like graham is trying to play toward south carolina conservatives in his 2020 primary. i don t think it s that. i think he s just trying to influence and guide him in a way because he doesn t think the president knows fully what he wants to do and graham wants to try to guide him there.
basic income. i don t think we are going to have a choice. it s been tested on a small scale in canada, finland, the netherlands. some studies showed work ethic and wellness among recipients improved. it was proposed here back in 1970 when liberal advisor daniel patrick moynihan persuaded richard richard nixon to unveil a plant that died in the senate. the challenge for public policy is to make sure workers are equipped to work in the new kinds of jobs the economy is creating, to make sure workers are supported in their aspirations to work. all of this is a long time coming. woody allen s stand-up routine in the 60s included a joke about his father losing a job after 12 years at the same company to a gadget is big. they could do everything his mother could do only better. the depressing thing woody said
comments about that in terms of wanting to end it through humiliation. but, yeah, i think it would be fair to say it weighs on him but in a way that is just something that he wasn t expecting when he ran for office. as i mentioned, tomorrow night is the annual white house correspondents association dinner. president trump, of course, will not be attending. traditionally the president shows up, does a stand-up routine and some comedy in front of the press. here is what he told reuters about why he would not attend this year s dinner. i would come next year, absolutely. look, i m treated very unfairly and very dishonestly by the press and i thought it was inappropriate to go this year. if i were treated even slightly fairly by the press, i would have gone. but, i mean, i m look, they re writing stories about how unfairly i get treated by the press so i thought it was inappropriate. i thought it would be very disingenuous if i went i thought it would be, actually, in a certain way d
he doesn t create any information. he used all the public information. he put it on his stand-up routine. it went viral online. and it framed bill cosby in the way he hadn t been framed before. and we need the stand-up to do that. there s an unique power to that approach to this kind of see, when i do it, people just think, oh, that s another cable news guy on another network. right. who is on a competitive environment with that network and all that and that s true. i can t deny that that competitive environment exists. so, i will never have the power that hannibal burris had with bill cosby, even though the audience he was speaking to was much smaller than i speak to. so we need that hannibal burris character to step forward on o reilly. my theory he will once again get normalize. business bill o
as his speaks person. let s listen. it was irresponsible of pepsi cola. companies make trillions of dollars in the united states who hire a man who pitch their product who is in my opinion subverting the values of the united states. just not ludacris, all of corporate america in my opinion needs to rethink their responsible responsibility to this country. how is it this guy who has this many cases of sexual harassment who appears to be serial. is the chief moralizer at fox news? is there a structure to this? i ve been saying for a week now, bill o reilly needs his handle the difference between bill cosby and bill o reilly is hannibal burris. everything that hannibal burris said in his stand-up routine is roane.