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Scientology scion: ‘Cult’ uses the most ‘devious, systematic brainwashing’ ever
The great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard spoke to Current TV host Cenk Uygur on Thursday night and shared a stark warning about what he called one of the most “devious, systematic brainwashing systems that’s ever been invented.” Claiming that Scientology is designed to play on the “narcissism” of…
Ann Coulter ‘horrified’ she ever dated liberals
On Tuesday’s edition of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything,” guest Ann Coulter said that she is “horrified” that she ever dated liberal men, but that it was “a long time ago.” Coulter was appearing on Behar’s show to promote her new book about U.S. race relations, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery…
Granholm: GOP only pro-life on one side of the cervical wall
Current TV host Jennifer Granholm on Monday said that while the Republican Party considered itself “pro-life,” they were more concerned with the unborn than the recently born. “Republicans are definitely pro-birth,” she said. “They will do everything they can to make sure the baby comes out, regardless of how it…
Bloomberg columnist: Libor scandal couldn’t be worse from Wall Street’s perspective
Bloomberg View columnist William Cohan said Thursday that the Libor rate-fixing scandal could lead to stricter regulations on Wall Street. “The timing couldn’t be worse from Wall Street’s perspective because, as you know, the Dodd-Frank law and the Volcker Rule are still being hashed out in Washington,” he told Current…
MIT professor warns of ‘enormous disruption’ from rapid technological growth
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erik Brynjolfsson on Monday warned that technological advancements were displacing workers at an ever growing rate. “Technology’s always been creating jobs, it’s always been destroying jobs,” he told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer. “Ninety percent of Americans used to work on farms in 1800.…
Rebel nun: Jesus ‘spent more time with poor people than anybody else’
Tuesday night on Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” host Cenk welcomed Sister Diane Donoghue of #NunsOnTheBus, a group of progressive Catholic nuns who are traveling coast-to-coast by bus. The women are bucking the Catholic church’s male hierarchy and spreading what they hope is a message of social and economic justice…
Grayson: Fast and Furious ‘circus’ will backfire on Republicans
Former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson (D) on Wednesday blasted Republicans in Congress for continuing to grill U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder over the “fast and furious” gun-running scandal. “Why won’t they launch an investigation of why 50 million Americans don’t have health care?” he asked on Current TV. “When are…
Former Sen. Specter: If you fund the tea party, all hell breaks loose
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), a Republican who turned Democrat in 2009, on Monday night decried the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission. “The big money has come in,” he told Current TV host Jennifer Granholm. “The Supreme Court of the United States has…
Rep. Tammy Baldwin: Wisconsin regretted the 2010 election
Senate candidate Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) on Wednesday night told Current TV’s Jennifer Granholm that the people of Wisconsin were frustrated. “Right now there is huge frustration, but also huge participation in the state of Wisconsin,” she said. “We’re famous right now for all these elections we have queued up,…
Current TV: Olbermann has specialized in pounding the table
Current TV slammed political commentator Keith Olbermann on Thursday, after the infamously volatile pundit filed a lawsuit against the network. “Current terminated Keith Olbermann last Thursday for serial, material breaches of his contract, including the failure to show up at work, sabotaging the network and attacking Current and its executives,”…
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