David: THIS WEEK ON
"THE BRODY FILE," WE HAVE
THE MAN OF THE HOUR IN THE
HOUSE, THE ANTI-ZEALOUS, AND
THE GUY WHO HAS ALL OF
WASHINGTON TALKING, GROVER
NO NORQUIST.
NOBODY HAS VOTED FOR TAX
INCREASES.
David: ALSO, A CLOSER
LOOK AT THE WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN.
A REPORTER FROM ABC NEWS IS
HERE TO DISCUSS HIS NEW
INVESTIGATIVE BOOK.
AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR AND
WE DON'T FOCUS ON IT THAT
MUCH.
David: AND
CONSERVATIVE, EVANGELICAL
LEADERS PUSH FOR IMMIGRATION
REFORM IN AMERICA.
WE NEED TO DO FAIR AND
JUST IMMIGRATION REFORM
BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT AND
JUST THING TO DO.
David: AND OUR "THE
BRODY FILE" FILE CHRISTMAS
SALES.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GUY
AT THE DEPARTMENT WHO CAME
UP WITH OBAMA TOILET PAPER?
OY-GEVALT.
"THE BRODY FILE" IS NEXT.
David: AND WELCOME,
EVERYBODY, TO "THE BRODY
FILE."
ALL RIGHT, HOLD ON, BUCKLE
UP, IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS'
VERSION OF A WILD THEME PARK
RIDE.
THAT'S RIGHT.
IT'S CALLED THE FISCAL
CLIFF.
JUST A FEW WEEKS NOW UNTIL
HUGE SPENDING CUTS TAKE
PLACE, AND TAX RATES GO UP
FOR EVERYBODY, HENCE FALLING
OVER THE FISCAL CLIFF, AND
POSSIBLY INTO ANOTHER
RECESSION.
SO HERE ARE THE PLANS THAT
HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD BY
BOTH SIDES, AND NEITHER
PARTY LIKES WHAT THEY SEE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA STARTING
OFFER IS THIS: INCREASE TAX
REVENUE, $1.6 TRILLION OVER
10 YEARS BY JACKING UP RATES
ON PEOPLE MAKING OVER
$250,000 A YEAR.
THEN EVENTUALLY CUT SPENDING
BY $600 BILLION.
BUT HE ALSO WANTS
$200 BILLION IN NEW
SPENDING -- THAT'S RIGHT,
NEW SPENDING.
AND THE POWER TO RAISE THE
NATION'S DEBT LIMIT AS
NEEDED.
WELL, YOU KNOW, AFTER
REPUBLICANS FINISH LAUGHING
AT THAT PROPOSAL, THEY CAME
BACK WITH THIS: $800 BILLION
IN TAX INCREASES, HALF OF
WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS.
AND, BY THE WAY, IT WOULDN'T
BE IN THE FORM OF HIGHER
RATES.
INSTEAD, IT WOULD BE IN
CLOSING SOME LOOPHOLES AND
TAX DEDUCTIONS.
AND THEY WANT $1.4 TRILLION
IN SPENDING CUTS, A LOT MORE
THAN THE PRESIDENT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, BOTH SIDES
ARE VERY FAR APART.
THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON
PRIVATELY, THAT IS NOT GOING
ON PUBLICLY.
President Obama: WE ARE
NOT GOING TO SIMPLY CUT OUR
WAY TO PROSPERITY, OR CUT
OUR WAY OUT OF THIS DEFICIT
PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE.
David: WITH ALL OF
THIS TALK ABOUT INCREASING
TAXES, ONE MAN WHO IS
CENTRAL IN ALL OF THIS IS
GROVER NORQUIST.
HE IS THE HEAD OF "AMERICANS
FOR TAX REFORM."
HE IS VERY INFLUENTIAL.
WHILE NEARLY ALL
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS
HAVE SIGNED HIS NO NEW TAXES
PLEDGE, SOME ARE NOW HAVING
SECOND THOUGHTS, AND THEY
ARE ACTUALLY THINKING OF --
CUE THE ENEMY -- CROSSING
GROVER.
EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE MAN
HIMSELF, GROVER NORQUIST,
PAID A VISIT TO "THE BRODY
FILE" STUDIOS TO DISCUSS
THIS WHOLE BIG CU THING.
THEY SEEM, AT LEAST
PUBLICLY, BACKING OFF A
LITTLE BIT FROM THIS PLEDGE
THAT THEY SIGNED.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE, THAT THIS
IS MORE BLUSTER THAN
ANYTHING ELSE?
THE GOOD NEWS IS NOBODY
HAS ACTUALLY VOTED FOR TAX
INCREASE.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE HAD IMPURE
THOUGHTS ABOUT THINKING
ABOUT VOTING FOR A TAX
INCREASE UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES.
IF YOU LISTEN TO SAX B.CHAM
BLISS, ORLAND OR LINDSAY
GRAHAM, AND THEY SAY I MIGHT
VOTE FOR TAX INCREASE IF
THIS OR IF THIS, AND THINGS
OBAMA HAS NEVER ANNOUNCED HE
IS DOING.
I DON'T THINK IF CHAMBLISS
KEEPS TO HIS RECENT THINGS,
AND LINDSAY GRAHAM, THEY'LL
NEVER VOTE FOR ANYTHING THAT
OBAMA WANTS.
WE'RE NOT IN DANGER OF ANY
REPUBLICANS VOTING FOR TAX
INCREASES.
David: WHAT'S THE
DIFFERENCE IN YOUR VIEW,
A.T.R.'s VIEW, RAISING TAX
RATES, MAKING SURE TAXES ARE
NOT RAISED, AND CLOSING
LOOPHOLES.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE TWO, OR IS IT
ALL TAX INCREASES AT THE END
OF THE DAY.
ELIMINATING DEDUCTIONS
AND CREDITS, AND LETTING
OBAMA SPEND THEM DESTROYS
THE EFFORT TO GET TAX REFORM
DOWN THE ROAD.
WE CAN'T DO FUNDAMENTAL TAX
REFORM AS LONG AS OBAMA IS
THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE IS
NOT FOR IT AND THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE THE SENATE.
BUT TWO AND FOUR YEARS FROM
NOW, WHEN WE COULD DO THAT,
IF YOU'VE GOTTEN RID OF
DEDUCTIONS AND CREDITS AND
LET THEM SPEND IT, YOU CAN'T
DO 1986 RONALD REAGAN TAX
REFORM WHERE YOU TAKE THE
RATES DOWN AND BROADEN THE
BASE AND IT IS REVENUE
NEUTRAL, BECAUSE THEY'VE
ALREADY TAKEN THE DEDUCTIONS
AND CREDITS AND SPENT THEM
ON SPENDING.
I THINK EVEN THOUGH SOME
PEOPLE GO IT WOULD BE OKAY
TO GET RID OF DEDUCTION AND
CREDITS, IT IS DEVASTATING
TO OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH.
David: ARE THEY
MISREADING THE ELECTION
PROMISE?
YES.
WE SAW THIS FOUR YEARS AGO.
HE WENT OUT AND SPENT ALMOST
A TRILLION DOLLARS ON
STIMULUS SPENDING, WENT FROM
POPULAR SUPPORT DOWN TO
BELOW 50.
NOBODY SIGNED ON FOR THE
MASSIVE SPENDING SPREE THAT
HE CLAIMED AS A MANDATE.
David: THAT IS GROVER
NORQUIST HERE ON "THE BRODY
FILE."
GROVER HAS BEEN A TARGET OF
LIBERALS FOR YEAR, BUT ALSO
BY SOME IN THE MEDIA.
CHECK OUT COKIE ROBERTS OF
ABC NEWS DISSING GROVER THIS
LAST WEEK.
IT IS POLITICALLY SMART
TO CUT THE KNEES OUT FROM
UNDER GROVER NORQUIST.
THIS GUY -- WHO IS HE?
HE IS AN UNELECTEDELECTED --
HE REPRESENTS SOMETHING
THAT IS REAL.
David: HOW NICE TO
INCITE VIOLENCE AGAINST
ANOTHER HUMAN ON NATIONAL
TELEVISION.
GET READY FOR NEW OBAMACARE
TAXES THAT BEGIN IN JUST A
FEW WEEKS.
THAT'S RIGHT.
I SAID IT.
THE I.R.S. JUST RELEASED NEW
RULES THAT WILL APPLY
STARTING JANUARY 1st.
FIRST OF ALL, A 3.8% SURTAX
ON INVESTMENT INCOME, THAT
HELPS PAY FOR OBAMA CARE.
THAT WILL GO INTO EFFECT IN
2013, IT APPLIES TO FOLKS
MAKING MORE THAN $200,000 A
YEAR.
AND 0.9% HEALTH CARE TAX ON
WAGES FOR HIGH INCOME
INDIVIDUALS.
WELCOME TO THE AGE OF
OBAMACARE.
LET'S MOVE ON TO THE RACE
FOR 2016, NOT 2012.
WE'RE SPEAKING OF THE FUTURE
HERE AT "THE BRODY FILE."
AND APPARENTLY, SO IS MARCO
RUBIO.
HE HAS ALREADY TRAVELLED TO
IOWA, AND THIS WEEK HE MADE
A BIG SPEECH AT THE JACK
KEMP FOUNDATION DINNER,
TALKING ABOUT HOW TO MAKE
THE MIDDLE CLASS WEALTHIER.
I HEARD IT SUGGESTED THAT
THE PROBLEM IS THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED.
THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE WANT
THINGS FROM GOVERNMENT.
BUT I'M STILL CONVINCED THAT
THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF
OUR PEOPLE, THEY JUST WANT
WHAT MY PARENTS HAD, A
CHANCE.
David: ANOTHER GUY
THINKING ABOUT RUNNING IS
FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB
BUSH.
THIS WEEK ON CNN, HIS SON,
JEB BUSH, JR., WAS ASKED
ABOUT HIS FATHER'S
PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS.
IS YOUR DAD GOING TO RUN
FOR PRESIDENT?
I DON'T KNOW.
NO COMMENT.
I CERTAINLY HOPE SO.
WHICH IS IT, I DON'T KNOW
OR NO COMMENT.
YOU SAID, I DON'T KNOW,
NO COMMENT, AND I HOPE SO,
WHICH ARE ALL KIND OF
CONTRADICTORY.
GIVING YOU THE FULL LOAF
OF BREAD.
David: THE BREAD
COMPARISON.
BOB McDONNELL MADE A STOP
IN LAS VEGAS TO TALK TO
SHELDON EGGELSON, AND THIS
GUY IS LOADED, AND FUNDED A
BIG PART OF NEWT GINGRICH'S
CAMPAIGN IN 2012.
AND LOUISIANA GOVERNOR,
BOBBY JINDAL, SPOKE WITH HIM
IN LAS VEGAS THIS WEEK,
PRIVATELY.
MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT THEIR
FUTURE PLANS MAY BE.
AND SENATOR RAND PAUL, WHO
HAS ALREADY ADMITTED HE IS
THINKING ABOUT RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT IN 2016, HAS NOW
ANNOUNCED HE IS GOING TO
ISRAEL NEXT MONTH.
"THE BRODY FILE" BROKE THIS
STORY HIS WEEK.
THIS WILL BE THE SENATOR'S
FIRST TRIP EVER TO THE HOLY
LAND.
THE TRIP IS BEING ARRANGED
BY DAVID LANE, WHO HELPED
OUT NEWT GINGRICH IN 2012.
THE MIX OF SENATOR PAUL,
ISRAEL, AND EVANGELICALS,
LEADS US TO THIS WEEK'S "THE
BRODY FILE" CONFLICT.
GOING ALONG WITH HIM ON THIS
TRIP ARE GOING TO BE MANY
TOP EVANGELICAL LEADERS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA AND IOWA.
DING, DING, DING.
THEY ARE, OF COURSE, TWO OF
THE STATES THAT VOTE EARLY
IN THE 2016 G.O.P.
PRIMARIES.
THIS VISIT HAS THE WORDS
"COURTING EVANGELICALS" ALL
OVER IT.
RAND PAUL NEEDS TO SHORE UP
AND START COURTING SUPPORT
AMONG EVANGELICALS NOW
BECAUSE SOME OF THE
EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY ARE A
BIT WEARY THAT HE.
AND THEN
WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL I LOVE
OBAMA DOLL.
IT IS MAIN BY A COMPANY
CALLED MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
IT IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE
LEFT AND RIGHT COAST,
CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK.
ALL RIGHT, WHEN WE COME
BACK, HE IS A MOVER AND A
SHAKER.
OUR CONVERSATION WITH
INFLUENTIAL EVANGELICAL
LEADER RICHARD LAND ABOUT
SAFE IMMIGRATION.
WE'RE BACK IN A MOMENT.
David: WELCOME BACK TO
"THE BRODY FILE."
TIME TO GET INTO A
EVANGELICAL MOOD.
TIME TO CLAP THE HANDS AND
GET A LITTLE CHARISMATIC
BECAUSE IT IS TIME FOR OUR
EVANGELICAL APP SEGMENT.
* WELL, I WAS DOWN ON MY
KNEES *
David: WHATEVER YOU
DO, DON'T EVER SAY THE POPE
IS NOT HIP.
HE IS, AND WE NOW HAVE
PROOF.
HE NOW HAS HIS OWN TWITTER
HANDLE.
THE POPE IS NOW TWEETING.
HIS HANDLE IS PONTIFIX, AND
YOU CAN START FOLLOWING HIM
DECEMBER 12th.
IT MEANS POPE IN LATIN, AND
THE HANDLE ALSO SUGGESTS
UNITY, ACCORDING TO THE
VATICAN.
THE POPE DOESN'T PLAN TO
FOLLOW ANYONE, AT LEAST AT
THISPOINT.
BUT IF JESUS HAD A TWITTER
ACCOUNT, WE'RE SURE HE WOULD
FOLLOW.
FAITH LEADERS FROM ACROSS
THE SPECTRUM ARE JOINING
WITH BUSINESS AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT LEADERS URGING
SOME SORT OF SOLUTION WHEN
IT COMES TO IMMIGRATION
REFORM.
THERE IS A LOT OF MOVEMENT
AND A LOT OF MOMENTUM NOW TO
ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO
STAY IN AMERICA.
HOWEVER, THE DEVIL IS IN THE
DETAILS.
WHAT WILL THE LEGISLATION
LOOK LIKE?
MEANWHILE, FAITH LEADERS ARE
IMPLORING THAT ACTION MUST
BE DONE NOW.
THEY LIVE IN FEAR AND
DANGER IN THE SHADOWS, EVEN
THOUGH THEY ARE POTENTIALLY
THE STABLE WORKFORCE THAT WE
NEED.
OUR UTTERLY BROKEN
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM ENFORCES
UNFAIRNESS AND INJUSTICE.
IT IS LITERALLY SEPARATING
FAMILIES FROM ONE ANOTHER.
David: ANOTHER KEY
PLAYER AT THAT PRESS
CONFERENCE WAS DR. RICHARD
LAND.
HE IS PRESIDENT OF THE
ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
COMMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CONVINCE.
CON -- CONVENTION.
HE JOINED US THIS WEEK IN
"THE BRODY FILE" STUDIOS.
I THINK IT IS WHAT
APOSTLE PAUL CALLS A KIROS
MOMENT, AS OPPOSED TO A
CHRONOLOGICAL MOMENT.
FIRST AND FOREMOST, LET ME
REITERATE WE NEE NEED TO DO
IMMIGRATION REFORM BECAUSE
IT IS THE RIGHT AND MORAL
THING TO DO.
GOD HAS A DEFINITE OPINION
ABOUT HOW WE TREAT STRANGERS
IN OUR MIDST.
EENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST
IS THE WAY A LOT OF THINGS
GET DONE IN THIS TOWN.
IT IS CLEAR IT IS IN THE
ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO PASS
IMMIGRATION REFORM.
David: THERE ARE MANY
EVANGELICALS THAT ARE
REPUBLICANS, AND THEY'RE
GOING TO TALK ABOUT BEING
PART OF THAT REPUBLICAN
PARTY THAT HAS BEEN
INHERENTLY AGAINST
COMPRESSIV COMPREHENSIVE
IMMIGRATION REFORM.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO
ARE SIDING WITH THE DOGMATIC
APPROACH?
I SAY THE SAME THING I
SAY
TO SOUTHERN BAPTISTS FOR
OVER A DECADE.
WE SAY YOU'RE CITIZENS OF
TWO KINGDOMS.
YOU'RE CITIZENS OF AMERICA,
AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO
EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO
ENFORCE THE LAW.
BUT WE ALSO EXPECT THE
GOVERNMENT TO HAVE LAWS THAT
ARE
ENFORCEABLE.
SECONDLY, WE'RE CITIZENS OF
THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
AS CITIZENS OF THE
KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN, THE BIBLE HAS
TOLD US GOD HAS A DEFINITE
OPINION
HOW PEOPLE TREAT
STRANGERS, WE FEED THE
HUNGRY AND WE HOUSE THE
HOMELESS, AND
WE DO UNTO
OTHERS
WE WOULD HAVE THEM DO
UNTO US.
AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF US
WOULD LIKE THE GOVERNMENT
NOT ENFORCING A LAW FOR 20
YEARS AND THEN TO ALL OF A
SUDDEN ENFORCE IT AND
PENALIZE US.
David: WHEN WE COME
BACK, JAKE TAPPER JOINS US,
TALKING ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK
ABOUT THE WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN, AND HOW THE
MEDIA IS COVERING IT.
BACK IN A MOMENT.
David: AND WELCOME
BACK TO "THE BRODY FILE,"
EVERYBODY.
WE HOPE YOU'RE ENJOYING THE
SHOW.
IF YOUR NOT, IT'S SAFE.
TIME FOR SOME PENETRATING,
MESMERIZING INTERVIEWS WITH
MAIMAINSTREAM MEDIA
JOURNALISTS.
WE CALL THIS SEGMENT OUR
MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCH.
THIS WEEK JAKE TAPPER DROPS
BY "THE BRODY FILE," HE IS
SENIOR WHITE HOUSE
CORRESPONDENT FOR ABC NEWS.
HE HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK,
CALLED "THE OUTPOST."
IT IS FASCINATING, REALLY.
IT IS AN INVESTIGATIVE LOOK
AT ONE OF THE DEADLIEST
BATTLES THAT TOOK PLACE
DURING THE WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, AND
MEDIA BIAS AS WELL.
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF YOUR
OBSERVATIONS AS TO HOW THE
MEDIA HAS COVERED THIS WAR
FOR SUCH A LONG TIME?
I'M INCLUDE MYSELF IN
THIS.
WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS
I WANTED TO WRITE THIS
BOOK.
I'LL TALK ABOUT MY
COVERAGE.
MY COVERAGE HAS BEEN TOO
SUPERFICIAL, AND TOO FOCUSED
ON THE BATTLES INSIDE
WASHINGTON, D.C. BETWEEN
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE
PENTAGON OR PRESIDENT BUSH
AND THE PENTAGON.
AND TOO FOCUSED ON TROOP
LEVELS, 10,000, 40,000, COLD
AND MEANINGLESS NUMBERS.
THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I
WANTED TO WRITE THIS BOOK.
I WANTED TO BE BETTER AT
TELLING THE STORY OF THIS
WAR.
AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR, AND
YET WE DON'T REALLY FOCUS ON
IT THAT MUCH, LARGELY
BECAUSE, TO BE FRANK, THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE
WEARY OF HEARING ABOUT IT.
David: KIND OF THAT
FAST FOOD MENTALITY, THE
DRIVE-THROUGH MENTALITY.
LET ME ASK YOU A LITTLE
ABOUT BEN KEATING, AND I'M
CURIOUS ABOUT THE FAITH
STORY THAT GOES ALONG WITH
THAT.
HE HAS A VERY INTERESTING
STORY TO TELL.
HE DOES.
BEN KEATING IS THE
LIEUTENANT WHO DIED IN
NOVEMBER 2006, WHO THE
OUTPOST IS NAMED AFTER.
BEN KEATING IS SOMEBODY FOR
WHOM FAITH WAS INCREDIBLY
IMPORTANT IN HIS LIFE.
HE SAID THAT HIS CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP, JUST AS A YOUTH
COUNSELLOR, WAS BETTER FOR
HIM IN TERMS OF TRAINING
THAN ANYTHING HE WENT
THROUGH WITH R.O.T.C.
HE, AS A CHILD -- HE IS THE
SON OF TWO MINISTERS IN
CHAPLEY, MAINE.
HE, AS A CHILD, FIRST OF ALL
WAS A PRECOCIOUS CHILD WHO
KNEW MORE PROBABLY ABOUT THE
OLD TESTAMENT THAN HIS
PARENTS DID.
AND HE HAD ONE OF THE
PICTURE BIBLES, THAT I'M
SURE YOU HAD AS A KID, AND I
HAD AS A KID.
AND HE WAS FASCINATED WITH A
FEW STORIES.
ONE OF THEM VERY POIGNANTLY
WAS THE STORY OF JESUS
OFFERING TO WASH THE FEET OF
HIS DISCIPLES.
HE ALWAYS THOUGHT, BEN
KEATING, THAT THAT WAS HIS
LEADERSHIP LESSON.
HE WANTED TO BE THE GUY WHO
WOULD BE WILLING TO DO
ANYTHING FOR HIS MEN.
ULTIMATELY, THAT'S HOW HE
DIED.
YOU SEE THIS TIME AND TIME
AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE BOOK,
THIS HEARTBREAKING STORIES
OF THESE TROOPS, WHAT
THEY'RE WILLING TO DO, AND
THE DANGER THEY'RE WILLING
TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO ON
BEHALF OF THEIR FELLOW MAN
AND WOMAN, IN SOME CASES, IS
REMARKABLE, AND SO
DISCONNECTED FROM WHAT WE,
THE 99% OF THE COUNTRY THAT
IS NOT FIGHTING THIS WAR OR
PART OF THIS WAR -- WHAT WE
KNOW ABOUT THEM.
NOT THAT WE ARE ANY
DIFFERENT.
I'M SURE MANY OF YOUR
VIEWERS WOULD BE JUST AS
SELFLESS, BUT WE'RE SO
DISCONNECTED TO THEM, AND
THESE STORIES ARE SO
IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW,
BECAUSE THEY'RE TRAGIC IN
SOME WAYS, BUT IN OTHER WAYS
THEY'RE INSPIRING.
WE HAVE SUCH GREAT PEOPLE IN
OUR MILITARY FIGHTING FOR
US.
David: JAKE TAPPER
HERE ON "THE BRODY FILE."
TAPPER IS ONE OF THE MORE
FAIR AND BALANCED MAINSTREAM
REPORTERS OUT THERE.
HOWEVER, MEDIA BIAS IS
RAMPANT ALL OVER THE PLACE.
LOOK AT THAT IS NEW SURVEY
BY THE MEDIA RESEARCH
CENTER.
ALL OF THIS TALK OVER THE
FISCAL CLIFF HAS THE FOLKS
AT M.R.C. PLAYING
TIMEKEEPER.
THEY HAVE FOUND THAT THE
MAIN THREE NETWORKS, ABC,
NBC, CBS, FOCUS THEIR TIME
MUCH MORE, AS A MATTER OF
FACT TWICE AS MUCH, ON TAX
INCREASES OVER SPENDING
CUTS.
29.5 MINUTES ON TAX
INCREASES, AND 12:54 ON
SPENDING CUTS.
MOST BIG-TIME CELEBRITIES
LOVE PRESIDENT OBAMA, BUT
THEN THERE IS KID ROCK.
REMEMBER HIM FROM THE ROMNEY
CAMPAIGN?
*
David: KID ROCK
CAMPAIGNED ALL THE TIME FOR
ROMNEY.
HIS SONG "BORN FREE," WAS
THE OFFICIAL SONG OF THE
CAMPAIGN.
THIS PAST WEEK MR. ROCK RAN
INTO PRESIDENT OBAMA AT A
MUSIC CELEBRATION AT THE
KENNEDY CENTER.
CAN YOU SAY AWKWARD?
HERE IS THE KID.
WELL, IT ALWAYS STINKS TO
LOSE AT ANYTHING IN LIFE.
BUT I THINK THE BEAUTIFUL
THING ABOUT IT IS I LOVE
THIS COUNTRY, JUST LIKE I
THINK BOTH MEN DO.
YOU CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND
TRY TO MOVE FORWARD AND YOU
RESPECT THE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
David: THAT PALES IN
COMPARISON TO WHAT A FLORIDA
FIREFIGHTER DID.
THE FIREFIGHTER PUT
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FACE ON
THE TOILET PAPER IN THE
BATHROOM.
CLINT PIERCE ADMITS HE DID
IT.
IT IS THE THIRD TIME THAT
PIERCE DID SOME SORT OF
POLITICAL STUNT AT THE
FIREHOUSE.
HE HAS BEEN FIRED, BY THE
WAY.
IT QUALIFIES AS THE OY-VEY
MOMENT OF THE WEEK, BUT IT
DOES NOT WIN THE PRIZE.
THE WINNER WHEN WE COME
BACK.
David: WELCOME TO "THE
BRODY FILE."
NORMALLY OUR OY-VEY MOMENT
OF THE WEEK ARE A LITTLE
GOOFY, SILLY.
NOT THIS WEEK.
SO LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT,
BUT WITH NO FUN MUSIC AT
ALL.
HERE IS THIS WEEK'S OY-VEY
MOMENT OF THE WEEK.
YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD THE
NEWS THAT KANSAS CITY
CHIEF'S FOOTBALL PLAYER
JOVAN BELCHER SHOT AND
KILLED HIMSELF AND HIS
GIRLFRIEND.
IT IS A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
BUT BOB COSTAS DECIDED TO
PIPE UP AND HAVE THIS SAY
ABOUT GUNS IN AMERICA.
HE WAS QUOTING A KANSAS
NEWSPAPER OPINION PIECE IN
WHICH HE AGREED WITH.
HANDGUNS DO NOT ENHANCE
OUR SAFETY.
THEY EXACERBATE OUR FLAWS,
TEMPT US TO ESCALATE
ARGUMENTS AND BAIT US INTO
EMBRACING CONFRONTATION
RATHER THAN AVOIDING IT.
HERE WROTE JASON WITLOCK IS
WHAT I BELIEVE, IF JOVON
BELCHER DID NOT POSSESS A
GUN, HE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND
WOULD BE ALIVE.
David: HEY, IT IS A
FREE COUNTRY.
BUT NEXT TIME, HOW ABOUT YOU
JUST SHARE THOSE COMMENTS
WITH YOUR FAMILY OR AT A
PRIVATE COCKTAIL PARTY IN
NEW YORK.
NOT IN FRONT OF TENS OF
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AT A
FOOTBALL GAME.
I LIKE YOU, BOB, BUT KEEP
YOUR POLITICAL REPERTOIRE
OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT.
THAT DOES IT FOR US.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK, GOD BLESS
AN
