Tonight on The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT),
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) will make his
third appearance on the program, this time to talk about the
important issue of…milk freedom! Specifically, the “Milk Freedom
Act of 2014” and the “Interstate Milk Freedom Act of
2014,” bills
co-sponsored by Massie and a bipartisan group of 18 other lawmakers
that would
provide relief to local farmers, small producers, and others who
have been harassed, fined, and in some cases even prosecuted for
the “crime” of distributing unpasteurized milk…[and] would
prohibit the federal government from interfering with the
interstate traffic of raw milk products. […][and] prevent the federal government from interfering with trade
of unpasteurized, natural milk or milk products between states
where distribution or sale of such products is already legal.
You read about these bills first here at
Reason.com, of course.
The eclectic Party Panel tonight is composed of Russell
Simmons’s Political Director Michael Skolnik and former
Michigan congressman Thaddeus McCotter, who will
talk about: A) the
return of Monica Lewinsky. B) the hold threat by
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) on the nomination of proposed 1st
Circuit Court judge David Barron, due to Barron’s reported
authorship of a memo providing legal support to the
administration’s extra-judicial assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki.
C) President Barack Obama’s
big new report linking climate change to weather patterns. And
D) Rick Santorum’s
comments yesterday that Republicans ain’t no libertarians.
The co-hosts will discuss the awful
mass kidnapping of girls in Nigeria, and also the far more
humorous case of MSNBC host Krystal Ball
doubling down on her recent insistence that George Orwell’s
Animal Farm is a parable
where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell
the animals they need the food because they’re the makers and then
scare up a prospect of a phony boogie man every time their greed is
challenged
Ball’s response to critics?
In fact, if you read Animal Farm today, it
seems to warn not of some now non-existent communist threat but of
the power concentrated in the hands of the wealthy elites and
corporations. The pigs cast themselves as Mitt Romney-style makers;
they built it and deserve the rewards. The farm animals outside the
elite pig circle are left to suffer and toil, working all day with
little to show for it and with retirement always just out of reach.
There is, at least at first, a theoretical political process, but
the pigs rig it so that they always get their way. Napoleon and
Snowball even have a brilliant propagandist named Squealer, a Frank
Luntz of Karl Rove type who convinces the animals that things are
so much better under their benevolent rule that giving the pigs
more tax cuts — I mean more food — is in everyone’s best
interest.
This has triggered a pretty funny #KrstyalBallBookClub
outburst on Twitter, from which we’ll be reading.
Kmele Foster will be Keepin’ it Kmele over the issue of Net
Neutrality, then the after-show will start at 10 p.m. on http://ift.tt/QYHXdy.
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