Le Show; 2019-02-24

From deep inside your audio device of choice, choice with an interesting concept. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not so deeply immersed in carnival here in New Orleans yet that we can or that we will ignore the week's news. And the underlying theme, there seems to be an underlying theme to this week's news. And I say underlying because it didn't really gain all that much traction in the major media. The underlying theme was adults regard or lack thereof for the young in the vulnerable. We'll get to that. But the media were concerned, of course, with the Jesse Smolett case. If you're not following that, he's actor singer on the hit Fox TV series. You can't say those, that phrase a lot, hit Fox TV series, Empire. And a few weeks ago, as you, if you live in this bubble, probably, you know,

he filed a report saying that he'd been attacked by two other two men who yelled racial and anti-gay epithets at him. Sprayed him with a substance that some reports said it was bleach and put a new surround his neck, which was a disturbing allegation, of course. And many people responded to it accordingly. This week, the Chicago police announced that he was under charges. He was arrested, I believe. Yes, he was for fabricating a police report. Now, when he first made his statement, he received Folsom statements of support from the executive producers of his show, the Fox TV hit Empire and the folks at Fox. And I just want to say whatever happens, I am inspired. And certainly

hope that I will get similarly Folsom support from the good folks at Fox, if and when any thing bad ever happens to me, or if it doesn't, the other story dominating the major media this week, of course, they can't help themselves. The expectation dashed near the end of the week that the Mueller report was going to come out next week. It's going to come out. It's going to come this just in. It's not going to come out. Okay, it's going to come out soon. I think that's an easy one to predict. That's almost as sure a thing as sunrise in the morning. But now you have commentators, legal pundits. Sorry about that. Appearing on the cable news bubble, who are starting to say, at least they did this week, well, you know, if he was going to indict, if

Mueller were going to indict people for conspiracy, which is the legal word for collusion, gee, he sure would have done it before he wraps up his case. And if his case is wrapping up in the next, which leaves us, they say, with the question, why did all these people lie? In other words, they're suggesting that if they weren't, if there wasn't a conspiracy, they had no reason to lie. And I just would take this moment to proper and alternative suggestion. Usually people in an organization kind of follow the lead of the guy at the top. And when the guy at the top has been lying ever since, best sex I ever had says Marla Maples. That's what to do. Hello, welcome to the show. Once I was a singer, I've been in a rock and roll band. I never had no problems.

Everything around me got to stop feeling so low. And I decided quickly, yes, yes, I did. The disco down, check out the show. There were dancing and singing, and moving to the grove, and just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted, play that funky music, white girl. Play that funky music right. Play that funky music, white girl. Play funky music, and you play that funky music.

To die, to die, to die. So still I kept on fighting. You should be, you should be. Oh, losing every step of the way. I said, I must go back there. I got to go back and check it. Things were the same. And they were dancing and singing, and moving to the grove, and just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted, play that funky music, white girl. Play that funky music right. Play that funky music, white girl. Play funky music, and you play that funky music.

To die, to die, to die, to die. Play that funky music right. Play that funky music right. Play that funky music right. Play that funky music, and you play that funky music, to die. From New Orleans, Louisiana, where it's Barkas Sunday.

Don't worry about it. I'm Harry Sherer. Welcome you to this edition of La Show. And now ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you about the beast. Yeah. You know we're worried about the bees, right? Or we're supposed to be anyway. They're not doing too well. They make a nice living, but you know what I'm saying. So now comes this. The US government is allowing use of an insecticide linked to declines in bees. The use occurring on two crops that attract bees. It's a system. The insecticide made by our good friends at Dow Agro Sciences, more agro than science, is not approved for general use on crops that attract bees because of concerns about its effect on vulnerable bee populations.

Don't you know? Well that makes sense, but the US Environmental Protection Agency has granted exceptions to that rule. Well that makes this month the EPA issued an emergency exemption for the insecticide cell flux cell flux of floor. Say it with me now. Sol flux of floor for the fourth year in a row. That's got to be good. This time it permits farmers to pray to spray and to pray. Sol flux of floor. Say it with me now. On millions of acres of cotton and sorghum crops that attract bees across 18 US states. The purpose is to control aphids, your spotted aphids, and tarnished plant bugs. We don't like bugs here. The filing also includes exemptions for a number of other insecticides. Exceptions are often used when a pest has been found to have gained a resistance to another common option. Sold under the brand names Closer and Transform.

They need to talk to the guys who think of the names for the pharmaceuticals. They're ahead of the game. Dow. Note to Dow. Sol flux of floor. No, don't say it with me anymore. Was banned four years ago following a lawsuit brought by beekeepers, environmental groups, and honey industry advocates. I bet they have good lunches. A federal court voided an earlier government approval citing quote the precariousness of bee populations. Evidence even to a judge and flawed and limited data provided by Dow about self-foxifloor's effects. The nation of France also suspended the approval of self-foxifloor after a 2017 court decision citing possible harm to bees. Naha, the French. Dow first marketed self-foxifloor as a more bee-friendly alternative to nicotine oids. You've heard about those. Those are the insecticides that chemically resemble nicotine. And have been implicated in colony collapses. Tom, colony collapses.

However, research found self-foxifloor functions very similarly to new nicotine oids. In that, a kick in the head, a paper published in nature in August of last year found that exposure to self-foxifloor significantly lowered bees ability to reproduce. Well, now it's just much less fun to be a bee. Exposed colonies had fewer than half the number of offspring as unexposed colonies. It could lead to similar environmental impacts as neonics if used on crops that attract bees in the absence of evidence-based legislation, according to the authors of the paper in nature, or the nature in paper. EPA had previously classified self-foxifloor as very highly toxic to bees. The agency now describes it as having quote, low residual toxicity to bees. Some, some thinking they put the thinking caps on. Is that what those hats are? After the 2015 court ruling, the EPA approved

re-approved the insecticide. The next year, this time, including it, including a ban on applying it to bees, applying it to crops that attract bees until after their bloom period. But the EPA administrator has the power to grant exceptions in emergencies. There's that word again. We're just living in an emergency. Come on. Get with it. Get your emergency powers now. This permits the application of the insecticide on crops that do attract bees in specific states. Well, all the bees have to do, ladies and gentlemen. It's so simple. Let's stay out of those states. Can we just practice of granting emergency exemptions for pesticides which criticized last year by the EPA's Inspector General, which said deficiencies have existed for nearly a decade in the EPA's collection of data on health and environmental effects? We don't have time for data, sir. It's an emergency. The Center for Biological Diversity and Environmental and Advocacy Group

described the use of self-foxifloor, quote, in a time of global insect decline as quote, beyond the pale, unquote. I didn't see any bees in the pale. They still, oh, all right. That's, we just heard about the bees, ladies and gentlemen. They just pollinate our food, you know, as all. Don't worry about it. Now, a bit of news of and I think just to help the people who can't tell the difference between weather and climate, I'm going to have a rethink about the name of this segment. Well, I don't, don't think that I don't enjoy hearing that vocalization on, listen to the warm every time we do news of the warm, but I think it may, may, may end up being news of climate change before this is all over. And it, no, climate change is shifting the energy in the atmosphere that fuels summertime weather. This is indeed about climate

affecting weather. This may lead to stronger thunderstorms, yeah, and more stagnant conditions for mid-latitude regions of the Northern hemisphere, like your North America, your Europe, and your Asia. No, your Asia, not your Asia. Don't get excited. This is according to a new study from MIT. Scientists report that rising global temperatures, particularly in the Arctic, where they're rising faster than anywhere else. Well, on the other hand, they started out colder. Those rising temperatures are redistributing the energy in the atmosphere. More energy is available to fuel thunderstorms and other local convective processes. While less energy is going toward summertime extra-tropical cyclones, those are milder, larger weather systems that circulate across thousands of miles. These systems are normally associated with winds and fronts to generate rain. Keep hearing about those fronts. Now, you know, extra-tropical cyclones ventilate air and air pollution. So with weaker extra-tropical

cyclones in the summer, you're looking at the potential for more poor air quality days in urban areas, says the author of the study, who's a grad student at MIT. So it all be going to Beijing in the summer. Moving beyond air quality in cities, he says, you have the potential for more destructive thunderstorms and more stagnant days with perhaps longer-lasting heat waves. Dog days, the studies being published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. So it's good to know they're proceeding. In contrast to more violent tropical cyclones, such as hurricanes, these extra-tropical cyclones are large weather systems that occur pole-word. There's a word you don't hear often on the radio, or on your audio device of choice, pole-word. Let's go pole-word, everybody. Pole-word of the Earth's tropical zone. That's why they're called extra-tropical. These storm systems generate rapid changes in temperature and humidity along the fronts that sweep across large swathes of the United States. In the winter, these cyclones can whip up into Norristers.

In the summer, they bring everything from general cloudiness and light showers to heavy gusts and thunderstorms. They feed off the atmosphere's horizontal temperature gradient, which is the difference in average temperatures between the northern, your northern, and your southern latitudes. This gradient and the moisture in the atmosphere produces energy in the atmosphere that can fuel weather events. The greater the gradient between the Arctic and the equator, the stronger and extra-tropical cyclone is likely to be. Well, of course, the Arctic is warming up faster than anywhere else on Earth. It's number one. That in effect shrinks the atmosphere's horizontal temperature gradient. See? Easy. News of the warm. News of the change, I think. I'm considering it. I'm having a think. Whatever it is, whatever it's called, it's a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. As is. Sounds wacky, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Nike has a new self-lacing

tennis shoe, sneaker, trainer. Because, you know, lacing. You know what I'm saying? Lacing, really? The adept BB is the name of the shoe. And according to the BBC, it's fallen at its first hurdle because the Android app that controls the shoe malfunctioned. Yes, you need an app to lace your shoe. I'm not kidding. Build is the future of footwear. $350 a pair. The adept BB launched a week ago. But an update to the Google Android app that allows wearers to loosen or tighten the shoe failed to work. Wouldn't you know? Customers complained that the app only sinks with one shoe. Not at a time, ever. The problem, of course, is that shoes are usually worn by humans in a pair.

Not a pair of humans, you see. The shoe can be trolled manually, that is to say, once a year, using two buttons on the side. Hey, a two-button shoe. But people are frustrated that the Android app fails to work. They'd rather use the app than the buttons. One reviewer wrote, the software update had an error, and now my right shoe won't charge or turn on to spend $350 on a pair of shoes and not have it to work, is embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as spending $350 on the shoe to begin with, sir. I would suggest. App won't pair with left shoe, said another, paired with sneakers right after unboxing them completely crashed after last update. The adept BB, see, here's how it works. It contains a small motor which pulls the laces inside. You don't want to use your hands. You don't want to use your muscles. You know, don't be a moon cow. Use a motor and have it controlled by an app. Get smart. Nike claims it has reinvented the shoelace,

which dates back to 3,500 BC before Stonehenge of the pyramids with this shoe. If only Stonehenge had been moved with an app, the rocks would still be in Wales, ladies and gentlemen, and wait, there's more. Do you know what Telled Dildonix is? Well, you could, um, you could parse it if you know your, your, I guess that would be Greek and maybe a little bit of Latin. Who knows? Anyway, it's internet-connected sexual pleasure products. Sorry to be the bearer of those tidings. Vibrating. Oh, I'm not even going to read these. Smart sex toys, though, reports wired. You're not going to believe this. You're going to find this incredible. They're incredibly vulnerable over exuberant manufacturers who slurp up data. Security flaws that hackers could exploit.

Telled Dildonix says wired can be a privacy nightmare. So this month, Mozilla, the nonprofit group that runs the Firefox browser among other things, issued a special Valentine's Day section. A privacy not included guide this year, featuring romantic gadgets like smart beds, and Telled Dildonix. According to Mozilla, you want to look out for things like whether the product uses encryption, automatic security updates, strong password requirements, and accessible privacy policy in a way for the company to manage security vulnerabilities and its products. Those are minimum security standards for connected devices. Mozilla tested 18 of them. Small fraction of what's out there. Half didn't pass mustered. Not mustard, not mustard, didn't pass the test. Those that did only six were Telled Dildonix. Experts have been, they're experts about this too, I guess.

They've been raising the alarm about Telled Dildonix security risks for years, and we've ignored them. I feel guilty. I really, I feel bad. Poor Telled Dildonix security could enable not just an invasion of your most intimate information, but even hypothetically remote controlled assault, where an attacker takes over the remote app of a sex toy without its user's consent. Only Jeffrey Epstein had, right now the only confirmed hacks have been done by security researchers, studying the stuff experts wired spoke to believe that the possibility of such attacks is real in it, and it could be hard to even know if one had occurred. It could just be fun. In the internet of things, specs, space, sorry, Telled Dildonix is one of the biggest threats that exists, says the U.S. policy manager at the advocacy group access now. Researchers have demonstrated how easy it is to hack into popular

products time and again. These are being produced by companies that have never connected products to the internet before, says the policy researchers, researcher access now. Most have never had to worry about the pitfalls of big data collection or internet security. The products that failed failed hard in Mozilla's test, take the vibratissimo pantibuster. Please, Mozilla writes that this product seems to be made only for those who enjoy the thrill of potentially having their smart sex toy hacked. It doesn't even have a privacy policy. And then a report commissioned by Mozilla concluded that the vibratissimo vendor seems to have no regard for security. It allows for remote access without consent. There's no encryption and it connects via insecure bluetooth. That's a recurring pain point for internet of things, things. The technology's been plagued by poor security from the beginning. What do these guys do for a living? These guys who invent internet protocols.

What security protocols have been put in place to make bluetooth safer are inadequate or sometimes poorly rolled out? Researchers note that old versions of bluetooth abandoned because of security risks are often still used. Even the newest versions lack robust encryption and have flaws that let savvy bad actors like William Schadner within range spy on connected devices. Tell a dildonix. Don't say you don't learn anything by listening to this program. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to even hear that. And now it's news of the godly. Well, you know, the Pope had convened a four day conference on sexual abuse by priests and ignoring of same by bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church. It ended today

with a very strong statement by the Pope and no concrete action being taken. Francis the talking Pope, activists in Poland top of the statue of a prominent solidarity area, era priest this week amid allegations that he sexually abused minors. No, a priest. That's a protest against what the protesters called a failure by the church and society to resolve the problem of clergy sex abuse. Video footage showed three men attaching a rope, three men in a rope around the statue of the late Montsenier and Rick Jean Kowski in Gdansk. Remember that? Where solidarity started. They pulled it down to the ground in the dark. The activists then placed children's underwear in one of the statue's hands and small white church vestment, a lace vestment worn by altaboys on the statue's body to symbolize the suffering of the young people he allegedly molested is pretty striking. Poland in in Poland 90% of the population still identifies as Roman Catholic. The church still enjoys

significant authority in public life, according to Chicago Tribune. That position appears to be changing, however, as secularization grows along with the developing economy. Why that would mean that would suggest the church has a vested interest in people being church leaders have also alienated some polls with their close ties to the conservative ruling party, which has been accused of eroding Poland's democratic culture and institutions accused. They've done it just like in Hungary. Welcome to the 21st century. Police detained the three men, the protesters, and opened into an investigation into whether they committed the crime of quote, insulting a monument. Poland, ladies and gentlemen, you don't investigate the the priest, you investigate the guys for insulting a monument. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But wait, there's more news of the godly. Don't think we're through with that.

We now shift the focus to Argentina. Why that's where the Pope comes from. When investigators swept in and raided the Antonio Provalo Institute for the Deaf, they uncovered one of the worst cases yet among the global abuse scandals, plaguing the church. A place, this is according to the Washington Post, a place of silent torment where prosecutors say pedophiles preyed on the most isolated and submissive children. Charges of penning against 13 suspect to 14th pleaded guilty sexual abuse, including rape, sentenced to 10 years in prison. The case of the alleged ringleader, an octogenarian Italian priest named Nicola Corraddi, goes before a judge next month. Church officials up to and including Francis were warned repeatedly and directly about a group of alleged predators that included Corraddi. They took no apparent action against him. Few details here, ladies and gentlemen. Just in case you're not eating.

The deaf students tended to come from poor families that fervently believed in the sanctity of the church. Prosecutors say the children were fondled, raped, sometimes tied up, and in one instance forced to wear a diaper tied the bleeding. All the while, their limited ability to communicate, complicated their ability to tell others what was happening, students at the school were attacked if they used sign language. One of the few hand gestures used by the priests, victims, say, was the index finger to the lips. The demand for silence. Says the chief prosecutor in the case. They were the perfect victims. And yet they may not have been the first Corraddi, now 83 and under house arrest. It's also an under investigation for sexual crimes at a sister's school in Argentina, where he worked from 1970 to 1994. I guess that's where he learned his craft. An alumni of a related school in Italy where he served earlier, identified him as being among a number of priests who carried out systematic abuse over five decades. The schools were all fondled and staffed by priests from the company of Mary for the education of the deaf.

It's a small congregation that answers to the Vatican. But there are no questions. The victims efforts to sound the alarm to church authorities began in 2008 and included mailing a list of accused priests to Francis five years ago and physically handing in the list a year later. But it was only Argentine law enforcement that caught off Corraddi's access to children when it shut down the school. They say the church has not fully cooperated with their investigation. It's not just Corraddi, ladies and gentlemen. Some years ago, a priest who had died in Milwaukee was revealed post. Death to have molested at least 200 deaf boys and same period of time, priests in Italy and England also revealed to have molested deaf boys. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

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boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, now if I had a deaf boy, boom, boom, for each day of the year, boom, boom, 365, boom, boom, boom, that would be dear, boom, boom, how many deaf boys, boom, boom, have there actually been, boom, boom, boom, why not ask how many, boom, boom, dance on the head of a pin, boom, boom, boom, boom, the world is full of deaf boys, boom, boom, boom, and I'm only one man, boom, boom, all that God expect is, boom, boom, do all that you can, boom, boom, boom, deaf boys can't hear me comin', deaf boys, got me hearmin' and humming, a shepherd with a closet full of toys, let's hear it for those here, deaf boys, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

from New Orleans, this is Lesho, and a moment to talk about microplastics, just one word, microplastics, an investigation by Fauna and Flora International. Who knew? As found seal pups lying next to potentially toxic microplastics on the beaches of Norfolk, in Great Britain, just north of Suffolk. Britain experienced a record winner for seal pup births, that's the good news, but some of their most important breeding grounds are polluted by so-called, here's the word you maybe first heard last week on this broadcast, Nurtles, Nurtles, the findings came on the eve of the great global Nurtle Hunt, which is encouraging members of the public to scour beaches across the world for these polluting pellets. More than 3,000 seal pups were born at

Blakely National Nature Reserve in Norfolk this winter, a record 2,000 births were recorded at nearby, Horsey. Not Horse births, it's not called seely, it's too confusing, but a recent field trip, by staff of Florence Fauner International, revealed hundreds of Nurtles littering beaches near some of the pup's favorite spots. Those are special areas of conservation under the European Habitat's directive, this statute, and this protected status has clearly failed to keep them safe from plastic pollution. Nurtles, in case you don't know, tiny plastic pellets produced but melted together by the plastics industry to create new plastic products, split and discarded by companies in industrial quantities and estimated 53 billion Nurtles end up in UK seas every year, and that's just around the UK. Seals are known to ingest microplastics, most probably as a result of eating prey that is itself consumed. Them, scientific studies also suggest that microplastics, such as Nurtles, may transport chemical contaminants into the bodies of the marine animals

that eat them, this from Fizz.org. The finding shortly preceded the Nurtle Hunt. Last year, a search of 279 sites in the UK found Nurtles on 73% of them. One of the most polluted locations at Cove and Cornwall were more than 400,000 plastic pellets were found. Maybe they were born there. We don't know, you can't prove that didn't. So now let us jump it back to the theme of this week's news, adults regard for the young and the vulnerable. Probably the most undercovered story, and it's easy to figure out why. Stories that get a lot of traction, especially on cable news, are those that fit in with a narrative of one or the other two major political parties. This one doesn't federal prosecutors under former Miami-US attorney, Alex Acosta,

broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement for more than 30 underage female victims who had been sexually abused by a New York hedge fund manager, Jeffrey Epstein. That was what a federal judge ruled late this week. The judge, Kenneth Mara, stopped short of overturning the plea deal. He gave federal prosecutors 50 days to confer with Epstein's victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement. The victims didn't seek money damages as part of the suit. They're now in their late 20s or 30s, but they were a lot younger when they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein. They demanded, oh, it's not clear whether they can demand that the government prosecute him. Others are calling on the Justice Department to take a new look at the case. The case was fairly well known among those who cared. Epstein had a private island in, I believe, the U.S. Virgin Islands. And I think at one time what he bragged

was the largest privately owned residence in Manhattan. And he didn't do this in Manhattan, I don't think, but he certainly did it on the private island. He invited his, he had celebrity friends, including a member of the British royal family, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump. And he flew them down to his private island on a plane which was nicknamed by those who frequented it. The Lolita Express. The government aligned themselves with Epstein working against his victims for 11 years, said an attorney from one of the victims, some of the victims. Acosta is a newsworthy because he's now the Secretary of Labor and the Trump administration. The plea deal was first revealed by the Miami Herald in a three-part series called Perversion of Justice.

Epstein lured scores of teenage girls from troubled homes. Some as young as 13 is part of a cult-like scheme to sexually abuse them by offering them money to give him massages and promising some of them he would send them to college or help them find careers. Those world leaders, scientists and academics were friends with Epstein. Acosta allowed Epstein to quietly plead guilty in state court to prostitution charges. He served just 13 months in county jail. And most of that time, he was on six day out of seven days a week, work, release, no comment for anybody yet. Except me. Used to head a hedge fund, used to getting my way. My way, when I needed anything, it was child's blade of pay. Politicians flocked to money like pathetic moth to a flame.

So sharing lots of goodies that became part of my game. Did I get favors in return? I invite you to guess, pay back for trips aboard the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express. Lolita Express, guess you could say I had a wandering eye other parts of me wander too, hey, I'm not gonna lie. Jeffrey helped my foundation that only earned him some smiles, bring in relief, right down to some carabbean eyes.

So I hung out on his own island, the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express. My show was the biggest hit ever on NBC. A Jeff and I were just pals, nothing more, at the top of the tree. Hey, he lied to me. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna lie. At the top of the tree, hey, he lied to his women and he liked them young. I always dug action with no shortage of hunger.

So his island became my occasional address. You know, we'd even swing right on the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express, right? Oh yes, one of Epstein's attorneys was Kenneth Star. I screwed up at Baylor, now I'm a lawyer for hire. Just keeping the fat from going into the fire. Once tried to bring Bill down, now I'm saving his ass and helping Don retain his touch of class. Got Jeff on some so-called work release, almost no jail for this mess.

And I never once flew aboard the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express. Life is a bitch, but it's not so bad. Still got the island and the upper east side pad. Still hang with the royals and celebrities galore. Though they don't want to be photographed around me anymore. I've still got my looks, hey, I'm dressed to impress. No way I'm selling my Lolita Express, the Lolita Express.

The Lolita Express, the Lolita Express, we all have our grudges. Most of us are not judges, when it comes to attention more is less. I never heard that, really. I'm so pissed on the word. Forget you'll ever hate about the Lolita Express, the Lolita Express. Now it isn't gentlemen the apologies of the week. Not including any of those people. I think we apologize for, really.

A federal judge banned Roger Stone from speaking publicly about his case this week after hauling him back to court for answering, but an Instagram post he posted attacking her. Publicity cannot subside if it's the defendant that's fanning the flames that judge Amy Berman Jackson. May you clear that another violation of the gag order would mean jail for Roger Stone before issuing her ruling? Said Stone couldn't keep a story straight on the stand. Said his apology, rang hollow. I am hurtfully sorry for my own stupidity, I am kicking myself not as much as my wife is kicking me. Stone told the court, he called the Instagram post which had a picture of the judge next to crosshairs. Quote a momentary lapse of judgment, unquote, before saying the photo was selected by someone who works for him, which he estimated was about five or six people. Doesn't know who works. Oh, he also said that he didn't think there were crosshairs. Aside from that, judge, USA Today's editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll apologized after a sweeping investigation by papers co-owned with USA Today by Gannett revealed that it was a survey of U-books surfacing all these blackface photos.

Well, that survey revealed she herself had published a photo depicting people in blackface while editor of the yearbook at Arizona State University way back in 1989. Offending photo for which Nicole Carroll, the editor-in-chief of USA Today, was responsible was unearthed by the Arizona Republic. It didn't publish the image. Carroll said she was shocked by the discovery. She had no memory of that photo. Today's 50 one year old me, of course, understands and is crushed by this mistake. I want to apologize publicly as journalists. We must hold ourselves accountable as we do others. And it is important to call myself out, she said, for this poor judgment. Didn't remember who? Oh, Jesse Smollett apologized to the cast and crew of Empire for any embarrassment the recent. Fraca may have caused, but he maintained he was innocent. The person in the meeting said they were shocked and dismayed that Smollett stuck to his story of innocence. He paraphrased what was in his attorney statement blaming the legal system in the media for his woes.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina leaders are apologizing for issues such as mold, lead paint, and leaks found in housing on the sprawling army post. This follows a story last week, which I didn't share with you, that nationwide housing for, oh, did I? Now I can't even remember my own show. That's embarrassing. I apologize for that. Military housing and all four services across the country is in poor shape. And the military complained they don't have the funds to fix it. Well, this is Fort Bragg. The Fayetteville Observer reports that the private company contracted to manage Fort Bragg's housing. What a good idea. That is, also apologized during a two-hour town hall meeting. Major general James Minji's apologized for not advocating for safe and clean housing or safe and clean housing.

He's commander of the 82nd Airborne. Army officials in Congress are looking into housing issues on post-nation wide. But don't worry, it's not an emergency. A Republican lawmaker for Kansas has apologized and removed his name from a piece of highly contentious anti-LGBTQ legislation. After his daughter wrote an open letter publicly shaming him for sponsoring it. Crystal Highland, the daughter of state representative Ron Highland, Republican, wrote the open letter to her father and Facebook this week. Asking him why he would quote openly attempted policy that elevates hate and hurts my family or friends. The bill I should not have signed on to co-sponsor contains some hateful language which I do not condone and it is against our Lord's command to love our neighbors. I have asked for my name to be removed from the bill, the process for doing so is in motion. And he later apologized.

Iowa basketball play by play announcer. Gary Dolphin has been suspended through the end of the season after referring to a player on a opposing team as King Kong during a recent radio broadcast. It was probably also heard on your audio advice of choice. Gary Dolphin was called Iowa Football and Men's Basketball Games since 1996. He remarked that Fernando Bruno Fernando from the University of Maryland Terrapins was King Kong at the end of the game. The number 24 Terrapins beat the number 21 Hawkeyes, 66 to 65 in Iowa City. During the broadcast, I used a comparison when trying to describe a talented Maryland basketball player Dolphin said in a statement, released by the university's multimedia rights manager. There's a layer of protection. Guys, you guys handle this. We'll be over here studying planning some ivy during the broadcast. Oh, yeah.

In no way did I intend to offend or disparage the player. I take full responsibility for my inappropriate word choice and offer his sincere apology to him and anyone else who was offended. I wish the Iowa Hawkeye players, coaches and fans all the very best as they headed at a final stretch of the season. I would use this as an opportunity to grow as a person and learn more about unconscious bias. Stay tuned for the halftime show. College even Gary Dolvin. There is a place in Maryland called the Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art. They're having an art exhibit right now. And there's a shocking image there, according to the Baltimore Sun, a racist caricature of a black employee of the Institute from the early 1900s, which ran in the school's own yearbook. This is part of a student exhibit at the Maryland Institute. And it brought an apology from the school's president, Samuel Hoy. Hoy, Hoy.

M-C-A-M-I-C-A is an institution represented by its president, vice presidents and board of trustees. It apologizes for its historical denial of access to talented students for no other reason than the color of their skin. And for the hardships to those who were admitted but not supported for their success, said Hoy. He was moved to apologize for the policy after his visit to the exhibit by a senior photography student. There was an event, along with that, remembering a would-be pupil named Robert Clark, who applied to the school in 1896, but was barred from attending because he was black. A policy the school maintained until the 1950s. It's still black history month. An elementary school in northern Virginia is apologizing for trivializing slavery after students played a game in a physical education class that required them to simulate moving through the Underground Railroad. It's part of black history month students at the elementary school Madison's Trust. We're given a lecture about the Underground Railroad.

They were then divided into groups of six and responsible for overcoming a physical obstacle such as moving through plastic hoops without knocking them over. It said a spokesman for the school district. It trivializes something that's important. He said there was an error made here. Slavery is not a game. The game was supposed to teach teamwork, communication, and cooperation according to the school system. I extend my sincerest apology to our students and school community. Said the principal, David Stewart. This is contradictory to our overall goals of empathy, affirmation, and creating a culturally responsive learning environment for all. The school system decided privacy laws and declining to say whether anyone involved faced discipline. This happened at a time when the school district is working to improve the experience of students of color in the classroom. Step backward. Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded this week to a now viral video of an unhaired interview in which he swore to a desk calling him a guest, calling him a moron and a tiny brain. He apologized for his use of foul language at the same time. He defended his spirited reaction as quote, entirely accurate.

I did what I try hard never to do on this show and I was rude. He said there is some profanity and I apologize for that. On the other hand, it was genuinely heartfelt. I met it with total sincerity. This was a Dutch historian who came on the show. To announce the global elite at Davos for failing to pay taxes and then veered into a discussion of billionaires running Fox News Channel. I don't know who that would be. Verizon began an email apologizing to customers with, oops, that wasn't supposed to happen. After the Pennsylvania Attorney General sued the communications giant for allegedly failing to deliver unmarketing promises. Laws who filed against the company claiming customers weren't able to obtain promised Amazon Prime Memberships and Echo devices. Count your blessings if you didn't get an Echo.

If you don't believe me, ask Amazon for the data. And conservative commentator Eric Erickson tweeted newsrooms across New York DC. Glad we can focus on the Coast Guard nut and stop talking about Somalette. This is the Coast Guardsman who massed weapons and had a list of people at CNN and in the Democratic Party. He was planning to kill. Then he said he deleted this tweet. Wasn't my intention to downplay or dismiss this story. I have friends who were targeted by the guy. I apologize to those offended. So all you have to do to get an apology out of Eric Erickson is be a friend who was targeted by a nut as opposed to some of them. To somebody he doesn't know, the apologies of the week are copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Now it's time for the weekend to start.

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