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>> only on current tv. >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: nancy pelosi tells republicans you better pass immigration reform or else you're never going to win the white house back. good, let's hope they don't pass it. hey, what do you say? hello, everybody. happy monday. happy 1st of july, can you believe it? here we go. we're definitely in the middle of the summer season now. great to see you today. it is "full court press." this is your local progressive talk radio station. morning line-up on sirius x.m. this first hour. only. and on current tv all across this great land, all three hours where we bring you the news of the day. it is a two-way street here. we'll tell you what's going on. give you our take on what's going on. and then open up the phones, open up the social media and get your comments on what's happening so we can all talk about it. which we will this monday morning. you know you can reach us by phone at 1-866-55-press. reach us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. hope you had a great weekend. able to kick back, relax recharge your batteries and ready to go for this kind of a short week this week with july 4th coming on thursday. but we still got lots and lots to talk about here which is why we've got the entire team back and in place. the team put together for the first time i think in three weeks. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> hey hey. >> good morning. >> bill: alichia cruz is back from her vacation from the beach. nice to have you back. cyprian and i have been here all the way through. you know? >> no time off for you guys. >> bill: we're the rock. >> the workhorses. >> bill: cyprian bowlding, of course, on the video cam. everything good? >> yes indeed. >> bill: nothing exciting? >> i've been reunited with my children after not having them -- i drove down to south carolina. my parents have been watching my kids for two weeks. and it's nice, when you see your kids, big hug they're so excited and then maybe ten minutes later what am i doing picking them up? >> bill: they're thinking the same thing. can we go back to granddad's? i was talking earlier, this was not the exact -- the beach escape weekend you're look for. when i went up to the beach in rhode island over the weekend sat there on the front porch of a house on the ocean and never saw the ocean it was so foggy. it was so foggy. every day. >> oh, man. >> bill: we understand the ocean was there. you could hear it. >> you could hear it, not see it. >> bill: president obama meanwhile with the first family continuing their visit to africa to the continent. they've been in south africa the last few days. there was some hope that the president might be able to pay a final visit to nelson mandela on his deathbed. the president was unable to. he did visit with president mandela's family and then at one event, gave a toast to a man that he -- talks a lot about. has been a big inspiration to him in his life. >> obama: to a man who's always been a master of his fate. who taught us that we could be the master of ours. >> bill: interesting. i read one article where the president was talking to his daughters, pointing out the significance of the civil rights movement that really was born in south africa and the tradition of nonviolence that ghandi actually was an attorney working in south africa, where he learned the principles of nonviolence, took them back to india and applied them in india and he was the inspiration for martin luther king jr. in this country. so a real connection between south africa and india and the united states of america which i was unaware of. >> i didn't know that. >> bill: talking about that over the weekend. we got a great line-up of reporters for you over the weekend to join us in going through the news of the day. reporters from the "national journal," "the hill," "huffington post" and the atlantic and alec baldwin stepping in it but it looks like he unlike paula deen, might get away with it. should he? but first... >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making newses on this monday. drama on the lpga tour on the women's golf tournament. jessica korda was not happy with the advice of her caddie during the third round. she fired him halfway through the round at the golf club in new york. she then gave her bag to her boyfriend to carry for the rest of the round. now some people are calling for her to be fined or sanctioned by the tour. she ended up tying for seventh place. remarkable to note in park of south korea won her third championship. >> why would she be fined? >> it is seen as poor etiquette to do in the middle of a round. she could have just stopped listening to the caddie and just told the caddie to be silent and carry the bag and not cause a scene. >> i don't know. you can get rid of -- >> bill: i think that would have been awkward, too. you know the guy is not going to shut up. >> another big name has departed "saturday night live." it has been rumored for months but fred arm is tan has made it official. he's not coming back after 11 years on the nbc weekend program. some of his notable impressions are president obama and also hugo chavez, mahmoud ahmadinejad, barney frank and saddam hussein. >> bill: he's one of their better people. >> he's been there for awhile. >> in what cities have the biggest noses stuck high in the air? travel and learnure magazine out with a -- "travel and leisure" magazine out with the snobbiest cities in america based on high-end art galleries and stores and reputation of people who live there. number one snobbiest city in the u.s. san francisco. >> bill: get out. >> followed by new york city. boston, minneapolis and number five santa fe, new mexico of the snobbiest cities in the u.s. >> bill: what are they again? >> san francisco new york, boston minneapolis and santa fe. >> i don't see -- >> bill: i find minneapolis-st. paul very welcoming and friendly. the thing about san francisco people can afford to be snobby there because it is the best city on the planet. >> okay. point proven. >> bill: don't mess with us. hey, we're talking about alec baldwin. what's going on and whether or not he ought to get -- you know, let him get away with what he said. we've talked a lot in the last week or so about paula deen. paula deen does not have a friend left in the world. you would think. after a transcript of a deposition came out where she had said yes, indeed i did back when i was growing up and -- even in her early years in the restaurant, she used the "n" word and she allowed jokes about of african americans, might have told a few herself and tried to arrange what seemed like a very racist slavery scene for her brother's wedding. she admitted she did all of that. she was sorry. but anyhow, didn't matter. i'm telling you, the hammer fell on paula deen. we know it. she lost her tv show. i think qvc ended up -- >> they put her on a hiatus. they're going that way. >> bill: walmart and home depot and down the list who used to carry her products said they would no longer carry paula deen products. i thought the cruelest was that her publisher she had a new book coming out. guess what. because of this controversy her fans rallied behind her and her book was number one on amazon in preorders. coming out in the fall. number one on amazon and the publisher said we don't care. we're not going to public that book -- publish that book. she had a four book deal. we're not going to public this one nor number two nor number three, nor number four. she doesn't have a friend in the world because of what she said. i do think unfairly, i don't approve of what she said. but i grew up in a southern town. peter did too. and you know, when your parents use that phrase and your grandparents use that phrase and everybody around you uses that and you're a kid you don't know any better, you use it and we're all ashamed of it. we regret it. but it was a different era. now, but look what happened. here's the point. look what happened to paula deen. now, let's talk about alec baldwin. here's the story on alec baldwin. he and his wife goes to james gandolfini's funeral. apparently she hillaria, i think her name is -- >> what a name, by the way. >> bill: she is tweeting during the funeral. now, you know, this happens. i have to tell you when i went to tony snow's funeral at the immaculate conception shrine, i was really shocked. i was sitting -- not covering it but as a friend of tony's and a lot of us were there journalists, friends of tony's and i remember looking down the row, my fellow journalist and everyone wa but me was on their blackberry. they were talking to people on their blackberry. i found that pretty offensive. so anyhow, she was apparently tweeting some -- the british newspaper, "the guardian," a reporter or a blogger there by the name of george stark -- >> the daily mail, sorry. >> bill: he busted her. what do you know? here's alec baldwin's wife at james gandolfini's funeral and she's on twitter. isn't that a disgrace. alec baldwin went bonkers and he comes out against this blogger who apparently is gay and openly gay and first of all he says, this is alec baldwin's tweet. he says "i'm going to find you george stark you toxic little queen, and i'm going to f you up." then a little bit later he follows up with i'd put my foot -- he says if -- i'd put my foot up your f'ing ass, george stark, but i'm sure you'd dig it too much. you talk about ugly, homophobic slurs. alec baldwin. there it is. afterwards baldwin apologizes, said he's not going to do twitter anymore. of course, we've heard that before from alec baldwin. liberals are giving alec baldwin a pass because he's a liberal. he's a big liberal. here's hillary rosen you see her on cnn all the time. great person. hillary says what he said was disgusting but he has a deeper reservoir of goodwill among folks because he's been a progressive ally and a fighter for progressive causes for years. alec baldwin gets a pass. paula deen gets the shaft. is that fair? i don't think so it is. 1-866-55-press. i think paula deen was mistreated. but certainly if she loses her sponsors because of her anti-black slurs, i think that alec baldwin will lose his sponsors because of his anti-gay slurs. what's fair is fair. i think for progressives and liberals, we've got to be equally willing to criticize our own as we are people that we may not agree with philosophically. anderson cooper who, of course, is an openly gay man on cnn has come out and says why why why should alec baldwin be treated differently? why the double standard for alec baldwin? good question. >> i agree. he should have to answer for that. >> bill: yeah, i would an happy man if i never had to watch another alec baldwin capital one commercial. they're the dumbest things on television. he's making millions on it. you know, paula deen admits -- years and years and years ago she used the "n" word, she loses everything. alec baldwin, not years ago this last weekend uses -- calls this guy this toxic little queen and he gets a free ride. is that fair? 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1-866-55-press on the social media, peter? >> we're on twitter at bpshow. perry reunion says alec baldwin should not get a pass. wrong is wrong. no matter your political leanings. >> bill: that's my point. >> soul flair agrees saying he should be treated she was or she should be treated like he is. the movement says you bill, are what's wrong with media and america. everyone has to be so politically correct these days. >> bill: am i what's wrong with america? >> according to this person. >> bill: glad, which is -- it is a great organization by the way, that has always been fighting stereotypes of gays in the media. i've been to glad functions in los angeles. i might even have gotten an award from glad at one time but glad, sort of the watch dog for the media they came out and said we're sorry he said what he said but he's still a friend, he's still okay. glad gave him a pass. he apologizes and they accept his apology. they wouldn't have done that with paula deen. mike is calling from fort worth, texas. mike? >> caller: yeah, this deal with paula deen and everything is ridiculous. for them to treat her the way that she did over something she said 30 years ago, i would like to go back into our president's past and see what he said 30 years ago about the white people. it's ridiculous. this thing with alec baldwin you know, and the press is the one -- their one minute of glory by putting these people in the spotlight. >> bill: mike, good to hear from you. i don't know why we have to drag president obama into the middle of this. some people can't resist it. i also don't think you can blame it on the media. alec baldwin put out the tweet. alec baldwin is a guy who should be held responsible. dave in madison connecticut. >> caller: good morning, bill. i totally agree. this is ridiculous. and you know, to be honest with you, i'm not just saying this, i'm a moderate, i don't believe in either party. they've let me down. but the left wing comes off hypocritical with this. if you're for the cause so to speak, you can do whatever you want. that's ridiculous. that's what makes it look so bad. that's what makes the left wing look so bad. i'm not saying the right wing is any better. >> bill: i agree. either side, they lose a lot of credibility. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." young turks! i think the number 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. they know that i'm not bsing them for some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know i'm going to be the first one to call them out. cenk on air>> what's unacceptable is how washington continues to screw the middle class over. cenk off air i don't want the middle class taking the brunt of the spending cuts and all the different programs that wind up hurting the middle class. cenk on air you got to go to the local level, the state level and we have to fight hard to make sure they can't buy our politics anymore. cenk off air and they can question if i'm right about that. but i think the audience gets that, i actually mean it. cenk on air 3 trillion dollars in spending cuts! narrator uniquely progressive and always topical the worlds largest online news show is on current tv. cenk off air and i think the audience gets, "this guys to best of his abilities is trying to look out for us." only on current tv! >> bill: here we go. 33 minutes after the hour already on a monday, july 1 with the "full court press." good to see you this morning. thank you for joining us. reid wilson from the "national journal" hotline along a little bit later in this hour. helping us cover the news of the day. wanted to get back into the president's trip to africa but first, we're talking about alec baldwin and some homophobic slurs that he tweeted out over the weekend. after his wife was outed for tweeting during james gandolfini's memorial service in new york. she says she didn't do it. she retweeted older tweets or something. i don't know. whether she did it or not is not really the iss