Tag Archives: Late Night Video

Late Night Video — We’re Building a Domestic Army

The man in this video clip says he is a retired Marine Corps Colonel and he is speaking at Concord, NH city council meeting where he Council is considering a request from the Concord PD for armored vehicles. He draws some parallels with the time he spent in Iraq (without equipment like this) and starts to show how Homeland Security standardization of gear makes it easier for PDs to look indistinguishable from an occupying army. This is almost 4 minutes long:

One of the things that could be pared back or completely eliminated in the rush to austerity are all of the grants targeted to police like the Homeland Security Grants and the Byrne Grants.

Late Night Video — Black Church vs. White Church

This was hilarious — You guys have a Step Team???!! The First Baptist Steppers??!!! About 4 minutes long:

Late Night Video — The Pitch to Add Sponsors to the Rush Limbaugh Show

This is from the Current Network and one John Fugelsgang (who I don’t know), and is a pointed and funny pitch to help Rush get more advertisers:

Late Night Video — Disinformation by American Media

Approx 5 mins long (short for a TED Talk) and probably what you know already. This was done in 2008, so swap out Brittany coverage for Beyonce’s hair cut:

Late Night Video — How Ed Asner Pissed Off Conservatives

Ed Asner does the voiceover for this very interesting animated short called Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale, created by the California Federation of Teachers to show how teachers (and other public employees) are targeted to deflect away from how rich people are milking the system. This is good stuff — a little simple, but good narrative. Good enough to get some attention from Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson who are condemning Asner and this video. Good enough for me! This is about 8 minutes long:

Late Night Video — The Repealicans

Good snark from Nancy Pelosi’s crew on the completely ineffectual House GOP (2:16 mins):

Late Night Video — The IRS Snipe Hunt of Darrell Issa

This is from the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, who have helpfully condensed the snipe hunt masquerading as a Congressional Hearing to it’s salient points (approx 1.5 minutes). As in there *is* no scandal at the White House for this. The scandal is that Issa wasted alot of Government time and money in order to get this bit of arson done in full view of a TV audience:

Late Night Video — Joe Scarborough on Ted Cruz’s Train Wreck

Scarborough here seems like he is about ready to break out the Code Duello and call for seconds. This also features Tina Brown, getting in a plug for The Daily Beast *and* a killer diss of Cruz:

Brown:

“Jon Favreau’s written a great piece in the Daily Beast about this whole trend now about not the small government conservative, but the no government conservative – that is what Cruz is a member of. This is the Taliban.”

Here is Favreau’s article.

Late Night Video — What the GOP’s War on Women Might Look Like

Featuring an imagined doctor’s visit to get some basic birth control. Funny and scary. Scary because the GOP probably thinks that this is just what they want. About 4 minutes long.

Gynotician

Late Night Video — Get The Dough Out of Politics

Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s and the folks at Get the Dough Out — a lesson is why corporations should not be treated as people (approx. 1 minute):

h/t Upworthy

Late Night Video — The Anniversary of the Aurora Shooting

One year ago on 20 July 2012, 12 people were killed and 70 injured by shooter James Eagan Holmes at the Cinemark Cinema in Aurora, Colorado. The Mayors Against Illegal Guns group put together this ad that’s been airing Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. since Saturday. This is a pretty powerful way to ask why we haven’t made background checks more comprehensive. This is approx. 1 minute long.