wife's
are but yeah I
yeah I'm so happy you could join us this week because I two weeks ago I saw
1 I've the funniest bit i've seen on I am
well that's just funny but he also
really I am the the issue I love
voter disenfranchisement has been I am
you know each we talk about this program are Berman is one of the best in the
country covering this
a but it really hasn't been as mainstream have an issue as it should be
and you went down to North Carolina just tell us
the set that set this up his win a play a little clipper it's a
but we went down to North Carolina we and we spoke to this GOP executive
committee member down there and
asheville north carolina I named
John yeltsin on and he
was very outspoken about how you know we
you know our researcher graduate sound and and
a spoke to having and and
got his guys skinny on the whole thing
and the EU is very outspoken about why this is not
discriminatory why this was not the
you know races but he was also very open about you know
what what what what it was and what it
then someone would not speak to him no any
far what happened with don was he unison as happened in the interview is where
we just stay out of the way you now right steel cookware once taught me many
years ago that you know you just
if you just a silent the other person
in the interview will continue speaking and eventually they're gonna
say that the oldest Errol Morris the
ago as I get the the Errol Morris the reason they give just
stay quiet until it's uncomfortable and they will rush to fill the void
I exactly so you know we
it was one other thing I didn't really have to stay quiet that long before
for on height let's play it off because your response to this
words literally we are watching this the
when it came out I guess couple weeks ago or so and we were on the floor we
just keep playing it over and over in such a perfect response
I am I the let's play that would you pick it up made them
I mid conversation so that we don't have any a
copyright issues are what now but lets the let local pick it up
where I he is you have said am I get the laws not races right
any says know the laws not racist and they will pick it up from here
yeah here it is of course the loss not racist and you're not racist
the well
have been called the big before I'm a case that
you don't look like me but I I think I've treated you the same here with
anybody else
matter-of-fact one of my best friends is
black time your
best what about this is black yes
and there's more when I was a young man
you didn't call a black to black you call the money
I had a picture 1 tablet bombs that no other stuff is a witch doctor
and a post that on Facebook page now you makin fun
up my why hey the Obama not the black a
in there you have a black person uses the term nigger this nigger there
and it's okay for them to do it you know that we can hear you right
yeah okay know that luv know that leap
okay are doggone I every time I i hear that I clipped by I can help there but
a you know that we can hear you any well yeah
I chips and many go tonight and you know
gone to flee its funny cuz that that clip has gotten a lot of Planet got it
got picked up by the national media because
down yeltsin a you know subsequently
at was asked to step down right a
position down they're not gonna I'll
many got on the radio the next answer to call the GOP a buncha spineless proceeds
basically in
and acceptance said
they were too scared to death but the thing is that I think what he really did
later in the interview
you know I mean the shocking part is used to be and what initiatives
racist you know diatribe but the thing is
what he does actually later which is much more I
so that gives up the game in a much more obvious way is a
he comes up says it like this law is really to disenfranchise democrats began
rightful that it actually herding are so that minorities immigrants and single
mothers and
you know a people like that and so like
you know he's again and those people both democrat and he's kinda like yeah
and that's just too bad I guess
you know like it was in her democrats and that's what it's the sort of gave up
you know we come to give up the getting a little bit i think thats
probably why the GOP shutting down as fast as they did it because I think in
some ways
I'll you know he he is showing the magic trick you know the shit yeah
yeah I mean with the hiring but I think people are God the irony is is that
that excuse that this is just to shut down democrats
I am he is almost close to accepted
by the establishment media in this country because that's just politics
you know is actually right the the the fact that they're black and we know I
mean it basically the calculation is like
we know that what percentage a black people vote for Democrats
so we like disenfranchised black people but not because they're black
about because they're democrats we can just get away with it
I because you're black and the in if it's you know it's a twofer for us
but was already part with any parts that you had cut out
oh yeah i mean he he he went on: for what I said when I was interviews later
he said
I i'm in this is the crazy part is a he actually said well I'm surprised they
didn't
I said a lot more stuff than that they didn't even keep in the interview
you know and then so he so did remember like no other
like what I don't have the I don't be actually said anything worse I think
what he
you we we played this game with a one-point
where I we had built a little like smiley face
with that would have had to face on the back to answer them you know after you
done this always really liked
what he does is this race is that race is racism not raised to complete this
whole game
which never end up in the piece in huge had disorders you either turn a smiley
face it was not racist
on hitler's face was racist as one point he got completely confused and I have
this
and I have a supply was like you actually don't know which side is that
is racist the
you don't know it looks like it's racist you know that right
and news is kinda weird sort of thing was very funny but never ended up in the
peace never be he also did
we talked about lighthouse students should not
%uh get to register early because
they are influenced by their a teachers
you and their influence mostly to registered as Democrats
patents up income is we think alike you know teaches students should not be
influenced by their teachers can bang
so knew there was a lot that we you know the interview sometimes
I'll you know we have to edit them down time obviously
right now but up there was a lot of stuff he said that he didn't actually
a leave and because it's only a five-minute piece
in amps right and and how do I care
how do you decide that you're gonna do a PM me do you the
do you get pitched the from the writers there like let's do a piece on
I am on on voter disenfranchisement 0 remember how do you usually is
usually it's you know there's a biz said pitch
email them to go Asia has an usually what it produces a lot of the
lies somebody has pitched an idea I'll
and this was this is an idea that was a pitched by one of the producers
and then I was assigned to it we're
unidentified man who was the producer on its
and you know we would then use we saw to do around us
you know what the questions are going to be we do we talked to the
writers on the show how about like why we can make this funny and stuff like
that
and then we go down there with questions and ideas for games like them though
to close my facing which is a game that we saw the plan to do it and
and then and then a lot a bit and then a lot of good
goal stuff happens again the moment you know when because he never does it all
very beleaguered dealing with which is this other person that you know they're
gonna say
and then when you have a mic dog wages goes off
and and that was never plant that he was gonna go off like that and just kind as
start you know spouting all this racist stuff and so
that's like you know that seeing Daily Show terms that's kinda
just you know he struck gold any minute
yes gold announced well be do you guys sit around a girl like
I can't believe the any these people still come on the show
what that was that was a concern I think when when he caught fire
respecting their the main concern that there was a little late I'll wait a
minute
I people are gonna of two as if they get fired reasonable likes but much sp
we're happy that you know like something else have been done at the same time we
were kinda like
not really wanting to take she was grateful that you know writes like
we will reach we really I'm you know and again I
usually people dog aside there's one other thing I think also
it's really just bad timing for him because the the
GOP donde carla is actively reaching out african-american votes
and that he's on television saying the N word you know so
yeah I think it was just uses the timing was just that's why I just couldn't
ignore
there's been I mean through the their words
throughout like a the spring in the summer there was massive protest the
at the North Carolina State House on these moral Monday's that's kept growing
and growing
are specifically because it is the I mean
there were other things but it was just a voter disenfranchisement
night nigga the doji think is the I believe he is
if they're not suing them already the are looking too soon
some minutes a its
it's pretty if I was pretty stunning
Nationals yeah the the third the the most liberal part and the
that state is an international earlier I don't asheville is paid yeah it's pretty
liberal you know I mean we talked to a lot of democrats down there as well
you know i mean we you is who we if they didn't get the benefit to pee in the
piece where we just we have to speak to a lot of democrats on the street in
southern baptist
and how was you know angry they were about this issue
me is clearly a a huge topic not only nationally but specifically not count
yeah
and and I though arm we happened just tap into that the right time and I think
that's why I became such a big story and then once he got fired at you just you
know that
that a delayed almost felt like the Daily Show and actually
up you know is one of our stories and
actually made a difference switches kinda disgusting
yeah I mean I think it's a an incredibly important story just be just have been
bball regardless whether or not the guy gets fired at that point is did should
get it into the
the mainstream and ice night why don't you know i i spoke to a buncha lawyers
and and they were explaining to me that like
you know voter disenfranchisement is a very difficult thing to serve explain
to the average person it's kinda you know it's really go I
is one legal even at its kinda you know it's hard to explain why
you know we spoke to John Lewis the the congressman
to Georgia and he was just saying it's racist as well but you know that why is
it actually
racist and I think sometimes in a piece like that I'll
it's a boils it down you know I we ate at whether that is very simple
so the terms that people can understand because it is a very complicated thing
to kinda
connect the dots to know why does
a inability to be said to somebody like this never should have an ID when they
vote but
slickly yeah I was personally I well make sense to me
you know are and then with the one you break it down you realize like okay
this is why you are disenfranchising certain
sectors a society by doing that you know or making this
which seems like a sort of common sense thing but it actually
I does disenfranchise a lot of people right in your piece
actually just short of showed that there is a they
the the people who are aaaa instigating
this type of legislation are fully aware
what the results the impact will be whether it's by disenfranchising black
people are disenfranchising democrats they know that they are disenfranchising
people
and yeah absolutely i think i think thats what I think yeah it was really
scary about the piece is a EVA came out just said that and you know that's the
thing is only when you when you talk about like so
you know early registration and you know I
okay seventy percent of Americans so early you know the statistics and then
you ship
you see if you still you take the early registration days down seven days
four days or whatever that you know you're you disinfection so many people
or
you know things like that so you realize like okay this
this has an effect that is beyond just so the
what it seems to be on paper announced yeah
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