Cenk Uygur breaks down the Andrew Breitbart piece that called Chuck Hagel a “friend of Hamas,” civil rights litigator Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of the Advancement Project, talks about the Voting Rights Act, and Bill Nye is back to explain more about the Russian meteor. Plus, ESPN Magazine’s Sam Alipour reports on the Oscar Pistorius trial and Michael Hastings weighs in on “golf-gate.”
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Can Bill Nye control meteors?
Cenk Uygur theorizes that Bill Nye’s previous appearance on “The Young Turks” may have caused a meteor to strike Russia. watch video
Cenk welcomes a friend of the ‘Friends of Hamas’
Cenk Uygur and Gawker.com writer Max Read agree that the Friends of Hamas story is indicative of a larger epidemic: a serious lack of any kind of true reporting or fact-checking by the media. watch video
ESPN writer Sam Alipour: Pistorius trial is ‘shaping up to be the next OJ Simpson trial’
Sam Alipour of ESPN Magazine joins Cenk Uygur to talk about the holes in the Oscar Pistorius story and how it bears a striking similarity to the OJ Simpson case. watch video
From the show: Is voting law reform long overdue?
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