Tonight, The
Independents is back live on Fox Business Network (9 p.m.
ET, 6 p.m. PT, with repeats three hours later) with a show that
features
liberaltarian jackalope Rep. Beto
O’Rourke (D-El Paso), that rare Democrat who has used a Tea
Party-style
primarying strategy to
knock off an incumbent over an issue that the party’s base has
been serially disrespected by the establishment: in this case,
marijuana prohibition. (Read Mike Riggs’s interview with
O’Rourke from
January 2013.) O’Rourke will be on talking up a
new bipartisan bill he’s co-sponsoring to create more oversight
and accountability for the Border Patrol and Customs and Border
Protection, particularly involving use-of-force incidents and
invasive drug searches.
The Party Panel tonight consists of Winston Group pollster
and Daily Beast contributor Kristin Soltis Anderson,
with Washington Free
Beacon staff writer Lachlan Markay. They are slated
to discuss the latest developments and conspiracy theories about
the
downed Malaysian passenger jet and Russia’s aggressions on its western
flank, plus Hawaiian cops and their
hooker habit.
Last week the New York Observer had an
article about a goofy new
proposal in Albany to create a tax credit for TV shows that
staff their writing rooms with non-whites and non-males. Over the
weekend I called the idea “idiotic,”
and as a result Lowell Peterson, executive director of the Writers
Guild of America, East, has volunteered to set me straight.
Speaking of dumb laws, Kennedy’s back with her latest segment
demonstrating on the mean streets of midtown Manhattan behavior
that is illegal in places like Meriden, Connecticut.
The episode will end with a discussion of Jimmy Carter’s
misguided faith that his
snail-mail communications will be any less surveilled than his
phone calls and sexts. Then comes the aftershow, which will be
live-streamed on the program’s website.
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