we've been covering pretty much from the initial kidnappings we've been covering
this this story about local route
and now it's also wanted the rare situations I would say when
a lot of people in the US have become interested in
an issue going on entirely within another country and what are the ways
that
awareness of these kidnappings the spread is their Twitter there's this
hash tag campaign ashtec bring back our girls
we've had Michelle Obama tweeted a photo of her holding up that hash tag
but not everybody is a fan of awareness being spread in this way
is recently discussed on Fox News Sunday let's watch
I'm just curious because I must say I was not that familiar with this
phenomenon
it's even got a name hash tag activism
and I'm curious what you make of that do you think that this is
significant and helpful I and can make progress or do you think it's really
about helping the people who
tweet the hashtag feel better about themselves exactly that it's an exercise
in self esteem I do not know how adults
stand there facing the camera and say bring back our girls by these barbarians
and move and the wilder Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter account on sale
00 Michelle Obama's Red Cross with oak you better change their behavior
it's trending in spending on Twitter power has the ability to achieve
intended affects in this is not intended to have any affect on the real world
he's a
a million percent wrong okay first time ever crappy Patrick
or not the boers I will be the last time gonna fight this battle
so first why does intend to have an effect it's the pressure the Nigerian
government to spend more resources
on this issue it suspended its the pressure Western governments to support
the Nigerian government in their pursuit a book a ROM
and I believe that it has worked on all those levels i kno cuz we've been
tracking program on the show for a long time I call them the world's worst
terrorist group
months ago before this cannot be even took place
because we knew the stuff that they were doing but that didn't have that much of
an effect
until everybody started doing a Twitter campaign and it became a social
phenomenon
all the sudden with all that pressure now they
rispondi put out a video say all key way way we will release a girl's
if you're early summer bar prisoners have et cetera
and and by the way who knew about Coney before they do the spot a social media
you know activism on that happen so i think is a bunch of police in around
your goals to either do or don't do anything below hard to tell you though
but with the coney bang there was also the people that didn't actually research
it and we're just tweeting about it and didn't actually know
like that documentary didn't cover certain parts about it
so yet it's good to spread self-awareness
at the same time when you are gonna tweet out
that particular hashtag should probably know all the facts going into something
like that yeah
now locally this is a clear issue so like
in Coney I was slightly complicated here it appears to be the least complicated
issue on the planning to head back and i were really wants
yeah really bad guys go and burn down school buildings what kids are still in
them
yeah kidnap 220 girls take them but the
possibly sell them off to for sex in marriage
convert them forcefully to their religion I mean
is as clear cut as it gets and by the way when the first lady's
tweeting out something that has an intended effect
she's pretty close to power yet she might have hoped that up over dinner at
some point
right and also have yeah I i mean the actual what we should do about it is
certain there there's a degree there there's nuance there there there's a
there's a big difference between us sending some sort of surveillance
aircraft verses are sending in your 10,000 Marines or something like that
but take to get the the US government to put pressure on nigeria and to get the
US government to care enough to do something about it
that I think we should all be able to agree on now the one thing I do disagree
with you on
though is that there is just too old guys you don't understand where they're
actually both on Twitter and so I spent a little time looking at their Twitter
accounts
now I I can't guarantee that chris wallace is the actual person who is it
was
you know talking through his but they have included in their past tweets
hash tag bring back our girls they also have to go then got the
about once every three minutes is that just the self esteem thing to make you
feel better about investing in the bank I think
why tweet about so much and I intend George Will by the way I apologize in
advance I don't follow baseball probably going to get the field wrong
but he has been tweeting constantly about this renovated stadium
and how happy he is that he's gonna throw out the first pitch their
how is that not about your self esteem George Will you're having a brother
fucking baseball
but you don't care that we try to get these girls have been kidnapped brought
back to their families
had that point was so devastating there's only one way to end this
you