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segment how it should be and today again you know we're talking a parcel reaction
of uh...
fall out of that uh... massacre in connecticut tell us a little bit about
uh... american exceptional as amended on violence we're talking about here
wilted are real assaults
or assault that ***
or hundred-thousand people in this country is nearly twice that of other
always cd countries which is the organization economic cooperation
development generally considered sort of the clothes of
economically and politically sophisticated nation so
even if we didn't have the gardens we kill more people than they do
um... but the gun certainly make it worse and that's why leading off twenty
of the worst
mass shootings the past fifty years of taking place in eight states
behind united states has been when
so this is an area where were exceptional
this is really what we talk about american socialism
we should be talking about the bad kind of america exceptional zm
nine times out of ten
american exceptional is for the worse
we'll provide health care all our citizens
we have lower it we've hired for mortality rates
and notably right here and and and those two things don't tell a situation like
this
because my most people have access to mental health care and and the people
that don't exist a mental out there have very easy access two extremely deadly
firearms
i'm not talking about a specific policy solution here
but i'm talking about
is or is is a psychological recognition
and i think we as a nation needs undergo
and that is this
we consider it this way
if you ever heard
uh... uh... a
emer
uh... saying or or or someone say
someone who is a terrible using disorder or someone who
uh... cannot control themselves in terms of eating too much food
if they kept saying it
uh...
you know
i really am really
an exceptional in that i had and unique in part what makes me my own person
is that i have a really healthy appetite and they have a serious health problem
and you'd say what you do is real
urine self-denial
you denying you're you're you're you're telling yourself one thing when you know
the opposite that to be true
and i think that's what america does every time these debates come up
and we can say tell ourselves were exceptional country
can't worry about those gone that's because at the end of the day were
better than everyone else because of our freedoms
has no basis in fact helps amid us tell us all of the story that is more
comforting and sometimes that story prevents us from recognizing that we
have a real problem
and i would say
that in terms of
this how it should be segment is sort of a series leading up to the president's
inauguration
this is something the president barack obama can take on are expecting to for
number of reasons
in the past the president has voiced similar views on american exceptional
ism
similar rosie optimistic views ameritech socialism uh... to sort of what we hear
firm for right
the winners and that is that
america is is sort of exceptional in in all these these various a good way is
that we
we come together as a country
let's hear what he said in his victory speech or of just recently
for the election
what makes america exceptional bob altogether the most departs nation on
earth
for
that may be true it sounds there's no question in that
we have a capacity to to do things
i don't know if it's exceptional i think a lot of other countries
d worked together as a country feel like they they have a national sense of
community i think that there are some things were maybe america's a little bit
unique i think we've been
more welcoming perhaps immigrants than any other developed countries
i think we've been more awal going to people different collisions in other
countries
i think that at the bottom line is sometimes it's important for the
american people to hear
the things that have that are really consistently miss exceptional
the the
inordinate amount of debt spy go into the access to a solo pins that that does
not exist in any other developed country in world
the frequency of mass shootings the the inadequate access to health care and
then another issue them at still have brought up which is that the waste
senses of status about money and and and social status
influence the way all the state you know
i never
i would never see and i've i've spent on other countries and spent time in france
i never saw them say all you know i'd ever heard people saying after let's say
i was there during
there were meyer anti semitic attacks
i never heard anyone say
france is exceptional
now they say that this is this this is a stain on us
and and and and so we need to sort of i think that we really need a shaker souls
as mentality
hangout should be i mean i i think it's humbling i'm not saying that we can
highlight are good things as well
the status of session this fixation with america's great
this country were so exceptional for all the good reasons
well if we're gonna talk about exceptional let's talk about the book
the the bad things too
amen and that's a certainly how it should be we should be talking about
uh... everything to do it on talk about things are great absolutes talk about
the things that
were the worst that
as particularly when it comes to uh... gun violence daniel great segment of
natural asking before we wrap of the show and ask you about your
sports show sunday night tell us a little bit about tell where things are
going with the washington sports another time is a program on
uh... the d_c_ sports beats will be live dot tomorrow night senator seven and i
know this week
and then every weekend we act radio uh...
revenue targets the redskins you've got a big uh... of big game in next week and
we we have brought down lol the last few years last week but
uh... but between now and the time we'll talk with you tomorrow night on the
redskins will play the clearest brown's possibly without their franchise
quarterback robert griffin the third
so we'll see you will find out you know if you will be out there and we'll see
if uh...
if our backup quarterback at the rest the team moniker if out of court record
cousins can redress the team to victory without our g_-three or party freakin
portal either way it is that we must win for the redskins
who really are still a game behind the wheel controller to they're investing in
the playoffs on really pretty much needed without all the rest their games
to they really have a chance of pay for them but also a lot of they'll be
signings the nationals haven't made the biggest flashes yet but there's a lot of
a other moves that have gone around the world that with the nats do our capital
is also a moose some movement although not less than a positive direction in
the n_h_l_ lockout where it appears that uh... it they might be moving to
litigation instead of mediation
uh... and wizards are still
so struggling they are they beat the leading out the third win but they are
said to the lakers last night and restored a little democratic really
uh... i've great show next week we are going to be doing a little uh... jews in
sports special really talking without marked race the author of a jewish
shocks of the new book that came out as well as david yours a producer director
of of the first basket a documentary about jewish bass ballplayers a room
with ready add another gesture to build the uh... the you'd be a big show next
week as well for sure
absolutely did she know that joke about
the group the books about jews in sports
well there's the via the issue of books left undone the airplane joke where the
woman looks for simpson writes in light reading
and an interest in the reasons why this template of davis jewish happily
it but the briseno not death by a lot more than you can you expect so
without a warrant out that ministry
pleasure doing that as well as tomorrow night sunday's from seven nine here
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