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Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Smith

5am – A/B/C Obama uses N-word, says we are ‘not cured’ of racism. Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama used the n-word during an interview released Monday to make a point that there’s still plenty of room for America to combat racism. “Racism, we are not cured of it. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public,” Obama said in an interview for the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron.” “That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.” The jarring comment comes as the nation is engaged in a debate over the role of race after a white supremacist killed nine African-Americans last week in a historically black church in Charleston. They also reflect a growing willingness for Obama to discuss race during the final years of his presidency.

5am – D         Nikki Haley, South Carolina Governor, Calls for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag.

5am – E         Critter News:

• Fairfax animal shelter out of space for cats. Cat kennels at the Fairfax County Animal Shelter in recent days have been completely full, and the shelter is asking for the community’s help to find homes for all of their adoptable cats and kittens. “Summer is generally the shelter’s busiest season, but this year has seen a higher-than-usual number of intakes, particularly of older and harder-to-adopt cats as well as very young kittens,” county officials said. “In addition, many of the holding cages are being used to house cats that are part of an ongoing Animal Control investigation.” The animal shelter has been reaching out to partners throughout the region for assistance.
• Cute cure: Online cats make you happy, study finds. (NEW YORK) — Good news for those who love watching cat videos such as Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub and Colonel Meow on the Internet. A new study shows that watching cat videos on the Internet does more than make you laugh — it provides important health benefits, reports Live Science. The study showed enhanced positive feelings, decreased negative emotions and increased energy, all thanks to the cats. In the study, published in Computers in Human Behaviors, participants significantly reported feeling better after watching their favorite cat videos. Some even reported that they watch videos at work and while studying, and the positive feelings outweigh the guilt of procrastination.
• Third raccoon killed in string of rabies-related attacks. A raccoon suspected of being rabid was found and put to death Sunday in the third incident of its kind this month in the Washington region. The Sunday incident occurred in Howard County, Md., where police said residents of the Allview neighborhood and nearby areas complained Saturday and Sunday about a possibly rabid raccoon at three places, including the Patuxent Branch Trail. Police warned about encounters with any raccoon that staggers, appears oblivious to noise or shows other erratic behavior. Leave the area immediately and call 911, police urged. Police said the raccoon that apparently prompted the complaints was located Sunday afternoon and put to death. It was not immediately clear whether it was carrying the rabies virus.
• State, federal officials euthanize relocated Alaska bears. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four of five black bears spared euthanasia after tearing up garbage in Anchorage have come to an unhappy end at their relocated home. State and federal gave officials on Sunday and Monday shot and killed a sow and three of her four yearling cubs after they continued their destructive ways across the Turnagain Arm waterway in the tiny community of Hope, Anchorage television station KTUU reported. The last straw came Sunday night when one yearling climbed into a van at a campground in Hope while the driver was still in it, said Ken Marsh, spokesman for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

6am – A/B/C HOGAN’S CANCER ANNOUNCEMENT

• Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland Says He Has ‘Very Advanced’ Cancer. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a little-known former real estate executive whose upset victory in November thrust this overwhelmingly Democratic state into Republican hands for the first time in nearly a decade, announced Monday that he has a “very advanced” form of cancer but will continue to serve while undergoing treatment. Mr. Hogan, 59, said he has B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and would undergo “very aggressive chemotherapy treatment” that will take roughly 18 weeks. He said doctors have assured him that he can be cured, but that “it’s not going to be an easy thing.”

6am – D         Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke is ‘appalled’ Alexander Hamilton is coming off the $10 bill. Don’t despair Alexander Hamilton fans, you have a friend in Ben Bernanke. The former Federal Reserve chairman is “appalled” that the Obama administration, and more specifically Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, plan to strip the nation’s first Treasury Secretary from the $10 bill, replacing his mug with a famous American woman. Now, Bernanke is just fine with giving women their due on our currency, but not at the expense of Hamilton. He is in the more popular dump-Andrew Jackson camp. (Which started this whole movement in the first place.) Jackson’s “a man of many unattractive qualities and a poor president,” he wrote in his blog for the Brookings Institution on Monday

6am – E         Space News:

• ‘Pyramid’ spotted on Ceres: Mysterious lone mountain discovered towering over the surface of the dwarf planet. The latest images of Ceres taken by the Dawn spacecraft have captured a fascinating pyramid-shaped mountain on the surface. As the spacecraft gets closer, more and more features are beginning to reveal themselves. This includes the mysterious bright spots, which appear now as an array of dots scattered across the floor of a crater – but their source remains unknown. These images were taken by the Dawn spacecraft in its second mapping orbit, from a height of 2,700 miles (4,400km). Just six months ago, Ceres appeared as nothing more than a few pixels of light to Dawn. Now it is nearing its closest orbit to the increasingly interesting dwarf planet.
• Big solar storm smacks Earth, may allow more to see auroras. WASHINGTON (AP) — A severe solar storm slammed Earth on Monday afternoon, increasing the chances of fluctuations in the power grid and GPS. It also pushes shimmering polar auroras to places where more people can possibly see them. Federal forecasters said the Northern Lights may be able to be seen Tuesday night as far south as Iowa or Pennsylvania.

7am – A         INTERVIEW – TUCKER CARLSON – Editor, The Daily Caller and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend

• Nikki Haley, South Carolina Governor, Calls for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag
• Obama uses N-word about state of racism today
• Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke is ‘appalled’ Alexander Hamilton is coming off the $10 bill
• If Tucker could propose to woman, how would he do it? Are there great stories he knows of? (asking for a friend)

7am – B/C    Stop Judging Low-Key Marriage Proposal Stories, OK? It shouldn’t have to happen in a helicopter while your dog films the whole thing on a GoPro to count as romantic. (Cosmopolitan magazine) — Kendal’s boyfriend proposed when she was getting out of the shower. It was perfect, she says, just what she wanted, a low-key surprise in an — ahem — intimate moment. But as much as she loved her proposal, she felt weird about excitedly recounting the story. “We knew the image of me standing naked and dripping from the shower wouldn’t be the ideal engagement story for everyone to hear,” she says. They decided to keep the story to themselves. It feels like every day, there’s a new “oh my god, you have to see this wedding proposal” video that goes viral, and that’s great! They are beautiful and joyful, and I’m sure it was just what each of those couples wanted. But it’s led to an epidemic of proposal-shaming — judging someone’s relationship based on the grandiosity of their proposal. I get it. I want my marriage proposal to be directed by John Hughes and Michel Gondry, and soundtracked like a mixtape of every song that ever meant anything to the two of us. But I hate the idea that if my future partner proposed in a more low-key way that actually made sense to both of us and meant a lot to me even though it was different from what I’d always hoped would happen, I would tell my friends about it and they’d be like, “…That’s it?” We need to stop putting so much pressure on fiancé(e)s to wow us with their proposal stories.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – STACY WASHINGTON – Stacy on the Right — Stacy writes for Freedom Works, and Townhall Magazine and has contributed to On the Culture, Conservative Daily News, Big Journalism, Family Events, The Beacon and many other publications online and print.

Twitter @StacyOnTheRight

• Nikki Haley, South Carolina Governor, Calls for Removal of Confederate Battle Flag
• Obama uses N-word about state of racism today

7am – E         MIT Economist Jonathan Gruber Had Bigger Role in Health Law, Emails Show. (WSJ) – Adviser whose comments on Affordable Care Act touched off a furor worked more closely than previously known with White House. Jonathan Gruber, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist whose comments about the health-care law touched off a political furor, worked more closely than previously known with the White House and top federal officials to shape the law, previously unreleased emails show. The emails, provided by the House Oversight Committee to The Wall Street Journal, cover messages Mr. Gruber sent from January 2009 through March 2010. Committee staffers said they worked with MIT to obtain the 20,000 pages of emails.

Obamacare: Mark Halperin Apologizes to Republicans For Believing White House on Gruber. Are you so gullible as to place your faith in the credibility of the current White House? If so, you might have to find yourself end up eating crow and apologizing to the skeptics for your gullibility as happened to Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin on Morning Joe today. Halperin’s apology came on the heels of a report yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that despite previous White House denials, it actually had quite extensive contacts with Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.

8am – A         INTERVIEW – DIANA WATERMAN – CHAIRWOMAN, MARYLAND GOP

• MDGOP’s Statement on Governor Hogan’s Cancer Diagnosis

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump to headline MDGOP’s Red, White and Blue Dinner TONIGHT

8am – B         ‘Sweet Baby Jesus!’ Beer Pulled from Grocery Store Shelves. A Cleveland-based grocery store chain has yanked a popular beer from its shelves because of its controversial name. Sweet Baby Jesus!, a chocolate and peanut butter porter made by Baltimore-based DuClaw Brewing Co., has been on the market since 2013. After hearing complaints from customers who said they were offended by the beer’s name, Heinen’s Grocery Store, which has 22 locations in Ohio and Illinois, has stopped selling it. Sweet Baby Jesus! is DuClaw’s most popular beer, accounting for approximately 35 to 40 percent of the brewery’s total sales, according to DuClaw founder Dave Benfield.

8am – C         Sports News:

• Bryce Harper to pose nearly nude in ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. (Washington Post) — Bryce Harper’s storybook season just keeps getting better. The 22-year-old Nationals outfielder, who hit his 24th home run Sunday, is one of 24 athletes who will be featured in ESPN The Magazine’s upcoming Body Issue. “I’ve always wanted to do the Body Issue,” Harper told ESPN. “I want to put baseball out there.” Other athletes who will appear in the issue, which is available online on July 6 and on newsstands July 10, include Kevin Love, DeAndre Jordan, Odell Beckham Jr. and U.S. women’s soccer star Ali Krieger. Wizards point guard John Wall appeared in the Body Issue two years ago, including one photo in a bathtub with some strategically placed bubbles. Six D.C. United players were featured in the 2009 issue.
• Women’s World Cup: U.S., Helped by Red Card, Ejects Colombia. (NY Times) — EDMONTON, Alberta — It began as a fascinating match of the establishment against the insurgent, an evolutionary tug of war in women’s soccer, with the United States trying to maintain its hold as a traditional power and Colombia trying to break through to a new era of parity. And for a half on Monday, aspiring Colombia held the Americans scoreless in their round-of-16 game at the Women’s World Cup with a fearless young goalkeeper named Catalina Perez, a redshirt sophomore at the University of Miami who is but 20. Then recklessness and inexperience trumped assurance for Perez, who was given a red card in the 47th minute for sweeping out the legs of Alex Morgan at the edge of the penalty area. Playing a woman down, Colombia became vulnerable, and the United States prevailed, 2-0, before a sparse crowd announced at 19,412 with goals by Morgan and Carli Lloyd and, more reliably, with a defense that has not let the ball into the net for 333 minutes. The United States will face China in the quarterfinals on Friday in Ottawa in a rematch of the memorable final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup, won by the Americans on penalty kicks.

8am – D         INTERVIEW: LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm

• Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke is ‘appalled’ Alexander Hamilton is coming off the $10 bill
• Kudlow to Candidate Trump: ‘What Are Your Policy Proposals?’