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https://rss.art19.com/episodes/c140185 3-fcbd-4a2a-803a-0af093a822ba.mp3?_=1 Today's program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show: Trickle Up -- [Explicit Content] The Oklahoma House legalized driving a vehicle into protesters; Biden's prime time address on COVID; More details about the American Rescue Plan; Republican Sen. Wicker taking credit for the ARP; The old photos of Bobby ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:38:09 pm
YouTube Bobby Jindal announces on Fox News that he's "suspending" his campaign. (Which means he's quitting. But candidates use "suspending" so they can continue to get money from the FEC to offset their campaign costs.) His announcement on Fox News contains the usual trademark bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant message. This is the season ...

Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43:12 am
European Union officials have now announced that all of the Paris attackers identified so far were actually EU nationals -- not Syrian refugees. But as you can see from the map above, there are now at least 28 states in which governors have indicated they'll refuse to admit Syrian refugees. This ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:06:29 am
Some interesting news from the investigation into the terrorist attacks in Paris: the Syrian passport found near one of the terrorists' bodies may have been planted in an attempt to stir up anti-immigrant hatred in Europe. “The single most intriguing fact is that the passport was there at all,” one ...

Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:59:47 pm
Image via Shutterstock The Fox News (actually Fox Business) circus is about to begin! As usual, the festivities will open with a humiliating "also-ran" debate featuring the candidates with poll numbers so dismal they don't rate a spot in the prime time debate: Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee and Rick ...

Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 8:26:35 pm
YouTube So, this weekend Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal all spoke at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Colorado, hosted by a radical right wing pastor who thinks gays should be executed -- after they have a chance to repent, that is. Pastor Kevin Swanson followed the ...

Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:50:05 pm
Far right pastor Kevin Swanson SoundCloud Extreme anti-gay right wing pastor Kevin Swanson, who's hosting the "National Religious Liberties Conference" in Des Moines, Iowa, this weekend (featuring presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal) announced recently on his radio show (all these whack jobs have radio shows) that same-sex marriage ...

Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:08:44 am
Far right pastor Kevin Swanson Lovely. Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal have all confirmed they'll be speaking at the "National Religious Liberties Conference" next month, organized by a crazed extremist pastor who advocates executing gay people. Ben Carson may also be there, although he's not listed ...

Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:04:34 pm
Image via Shutterstock You can watch this deba(te|cle) over the web here, but you'll need to have a cable TV account. Here's our first thread to live-blog the mess, as a pack of Republicans tries to pretend they have the best plan for America's economy, even though some of them (I'm ...

Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:49:56 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com As I noted yesterday, Republican politicians never, ever back down from a batshit crazy (and/or hateful) statement, and Bobby Jindal illustrates this axiom perfectly as he defends his vicious attack on the Oregon school shooter's father. Why is Jindal being such a horrible person? Because this grieving father ...

Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:45:28 pm
Anne Power / Shutterstock.com Republican presidential candidates are competing to see who can say the most heartless, reprehensible things today about the gun massacre at Oregon's Umpqua Community College. First, Ben Carson blamed the victims for not defending themselves. And now, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (a creationist like Ben Carson), has issued a ...

Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:50:45 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com Remember when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called on the GOP to stop being the "stupid party?" It was laughably obtuse even then, but since that pronouncement Jindal has charged fearlessly into territories of mind-numbing idiocy heretofore uncharted by Republicans. Jindal is currently pandering to whoever he thinks might ...

Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:52:37 am
Image via Shutterstock "Religious freedom" means the freedom to practice your religion. This freedom does not grant a license to impose your religious beliefs on other people, but that's exactly what's going on in Kentucky (and elsewhere) on an increasing basis, as religious right operatives continue using this excuse to rationalize ...

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:18:29 pm
Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com The grossly offensive and dehumanizing term "anchor baby" used to be avoided by Republican politicians, back in the days when they were still hoping to court the immigrant vote. The only people you'd hear using it in public were fringe nativist weirdos like Tom Tancredo or Michelle ...

Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:05:43 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com Watch now, as Donald Trump leads the Republican candidates around by their noses: Graham Supports Ending Birthright Citizenship: 'It's a Bad Practice' Bobby Jindal Calls for End to Birthright Citizenship. "I know! Come out against birthright citizenship, the constitutional amendment that made me a citizen myself! Perfect!" — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) ...

Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:51:24 am
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/080415 /BCS_080415.mp3 Jeb Bush and the rest of the candidates are trying their best to be equally idiotic, but it's clear that Donald Trump is leading the GOP around by the nose. As Bob and Chez say in their latest podcast, he's destined to rule the upcoming GOP debates. The right wing ...

Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:01:26 pm
The Senate voted today on a Republican bill to harm millions of women, otherwise known as "defunding Planned Parenthood," and the bill failed to advance. It needed 60 votes to go further, and the final tally was 53-46 in a vote that broke almost entirely along party lines. And many of ...

Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:43:24 am
As we pointed out a few days ago, Donald Trump dodged military service during the Vietnam War with a series of student and medical deferments, like the privileged sons of many wealthy people did. But that hasn't stopped him from saying horrible things like this, about Sen. John McCain: "He's not ...

Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:30:11 pm
As the New Horizons spacecraft races past Pluto into the outer reaches of the Solar System, a towering triumph for science and technology, we've got a slate of Republican candidates here on Earth that's about as anti-science as it's possible to be. Almost all of the GOP candidates for president in ...

Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:36:56 pm
Image via Shutterstock http://www.bobcesca.com/ podcast/063015/BCS_063015.mp3 Some audio entertainment for a rather slow Wednesday news day: The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 6/30/15. Blow Blow Blow: The Most Vile Fox News Channel Segment Ever; Chris Christie is Running; Donald Trump Fired by NBC; Lindsey Graham Talks About His Girlfriends; Ben Carson is Bored ...

Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:06:18 pm
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/062515 /BCS_062515.mp3 The latest edition of the Bob & Chez Show features yours truly as co-host, because Chez is having a lost weekend in Vegas and there was Chuck C. Johnson news to relate. Also in this podcast: the story of how I, a guitar-playing kid from Hawaii, ended up in the A&M ...

Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:49:15 pm
In 2008, I wrote about the awful stealth creationist bill signed into law by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, and predicted it would lead to a giant step backward for science education. It gives me no joy to report, via Zack Kopplin (who's doing an awesome job of bringing this awfulness to ...

Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:24:59 pm
Good grief. There's so much idiocy about climate change coming from conservatives today it boggles the mind (and we all know how painful that can be). Let's start with this absurdly stupid comment from GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz: "On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence ...

Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:04:12 pm
You may have heard that one of the moderators for the Republican presidential debates will be right wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, which makes total sense from the GOP's point of view -- because he's guaranteed not to ask any questions that might be embarrassing. For example, whether ...

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:01:58 pm
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