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Mornings on the Mall

Monday, October 12, 2015

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Smith

5am – A/B     New Research Says Overthinking Worriers Are Probably Creative Geniuses. I think we all know someone who you’d call a worrier or an overthinker. It seems like they take forever to figure out what they need to do. They might frustrate us, but according to a recent study, people with these traits often have them because they’re incredibly developed, creative people. Researchers at King’s College in London made the connection between anxiety and a stronger imagination as well. According to Dr. Adam Perkins, an expert in Neurobiology of Personality: “It occurred to me that if you happen to have a preponderance of negatively hued self-generated thoughts, due to high levels of spontaneous activity in the parts of the medial prefrontal cortex that govern conscious perception of threat and you also have a tendency to switch to panic sooner than average people, due to possessing especially high reactivity in the basolateral nuclei of the amygdale, then that means you can experience intense negative emotions even when there’s no threat present. This could mean that for specific neural reasons, high scorers on neuroticism have a highly active imagination, which acts as a built-in threat generator.”

5am – C         Dodgers’ Chase Utley’s slide injures Mets’ Ruben Tejada

5am – D         President Obama on 0 Minutes:

• Obama Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Hillary Clinton Made Email ‘Mistake’
• Obama Clashes With Steve Kroft On Putin, Syria In ’60 Minutes’

5am – E         More cities are recognizing Native Americans on Columbus Day. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More cities are recognizing Native Americans on Columbus Day this year as they revive a movement to change the name of the holiday to celebrate the history and contributions of indigenous cultures around the country. As the U.S. observes Columbus Day on Monday, it will also be Indigenous Peoples Day in at least nine cities for the first time this year, including Albuquerque; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Olympia, Washington. Encouraged by city council votes in Minneapolis and Seattle last year, Native American activists made a push in dozens of cities in recent months to get local leaders to officially recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Their success was mixed.

6am – A/B/C Paul Ryan for Speaker?

• More Republicans Join Speakership Race as Paul Ryan’s Nascent Campaign Falls Apart on the Runway. Several Republicans who aren’t as closely associated with outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) are considering running for Speaker as Ryan’s nascent campaign is crumbling before it even begins. The two who have, at this time, the most likely ability to unite the GOP conference and achieve well more than the necessary 218 votes on the House floor are House Energy and Commerce Committee vice chairwoman Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and former House Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL). Other Republicans like Reps. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) , Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), and even current non-House member former Speaker Newt Gingrich are considering bids. More names than those have been tossed out, too.

6am – D         Is the annual pay raise dead? (USA Today) – Already have plans to spend that big end-of-year bonus on something special? You might want to stop dreaming. While you’re at it, you might want to stop planning, too. A recent study proclaimed troubling news for workers: For the fifth year in a row, employee bonus pools will come in below target, according to benefits consulting firm Towers Watson. And 2015 bonuses will be funded even less than last year. That means companies have fallen short of their financial goals, so expect whatever end-of-year gift you were hoping for (planning for?) to be a disappointment. A different compensation research firm, Aon Hewitt, disagrees with Towers’ finding, and said bonus pools are basically right on target this year (102% of target, actually). Whew! Don’t plan to buy that new car just yet, however. Both companies agree on one thing: There will be no raises this year, or next, or . . . maybe not for a long time. “Base salary increases are flat. We don’t see the prospect of that changing much at all in the next several years,” said Ken Abosch, who studies compensation issues for Aon Hewitt. In other words, the annual raise is dead. It was already on life support last decade, but the Great Recession has finished off the raise. It’s been replaced by “variable compensation” — the bonus.

6am – E         Sports News:

• REDSKINS LOSE: Kirk Cousins interception ends Redskins’ 25-19 overtime loss to Falcons
• RAVENS LOSE TOO: Losing to the Browns eliminates just about all hope for the Ravens
• Dodgers’ Chase Utley’s slide injures Mets’ Ruben Tejada
• Neil deGrasse Tyson says Bengals’ win over Seahawks was aided by Earth’s rotation
• Maryland fires Randy Edsall

7am – A         INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

• Obama Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Hillary Clinton Made Email ‘Mistake’
• Attorney: Army officer recommends Sgt. Bergdahl face lower-level court martial, no jail time.
• DINESH D’SOUZA tweets a slam against Bengdahl (note: Dinesh went to jail violating federal campaign finance law): Dinesh D’Souza ‏@DineshDSouza 18 hours ago: “Bergdahl is really lucky he merely deserted! Now if he had exceeded the campaign finance limit… “

7am – B        Social Media News:

• Facebook changes: Facebook is working on six new reaction buttons, like emojis, to help users show emotion to posts. After years of users calling for a ‘dislike’ button, Facebook is beginning to roll out more diverse ways for people to react to posts. A ‘dislike’ button is still in high demand, but Facebook’s leaders have resisted, worrying that such a feature would be too negative and could lead to bullying. The new emoji-based reactions are being tested in Ireland and Spain, and could be making their way to your newsfeed soon – making the dream of humankind communicating entirely through emojis come one step closer. New reaction buttons will be Love, Haha, yay, Wow, Sad and Angry.
• Study: Tweets Reveal Income And Social Status Of Users. WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – If you’re active on Twitter, you may think you’re only sending out 140 characters when you share your thoughts and feelings online. But a new study finds you’re unknowingly letting people know your socio-economic status. Researchers at Penn State collaborated with Johns Hopkins University and University College London to analyze over 5,000 Twitter users and more than 10 million tweets. “No one has studied this at [such a] large scale, and especially with Twitter,” said study author Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro. “We’re the first to actually have access to this data.” They found that people with higher incomes tend to have more followers and more often discuss politics and corporations, while tweets from lower income users include more links to other pages and more profanity.

7am – C        Doctors Without Borders Ignored Geneva Rules Before U.S. Air Attack. (Daily Caller) – Doctors Without Borders flew no internationally-recognized medical insignia on the rooftop of its Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital that was mistakenly attacked October 3 by U.S. military aircraft, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The relief group – also known as Medecins Sans Frontiers – failed to display a Red Cross, Red Crescent or Red Lion and Sun, the universally recognized medical emblems since 1949 that identify buildings that must be protected to attacking aircraft during wartime under Article 38 of the Geneva Accords. “Doctors Without Borders marked the roof of the building in the week prior to the Oct. 3 airstrikes,” said Tim Shenk, a DWB press officer. “The markings are hospital flags with the MSF logo.” The DWB hospital flag with the organization’s logo is not among the internationally recognized emblems that warn attacking pilots to avoid the marked structure. The DWB refused to produce any aerial photos of the building or describe the size of the purported flags. An earlier aerial photo taken months before the attack shows a barren rooftop without any medical emblem or insignia. The lack of proper roof marking may weaken the doctors’ charge that the October 3 attack by U.S. Air Force AC-130 gun ships was deliberate and a possible “war crime.” Twenty-two staff and patients died during the attack. The Pentagon said families of victims of the attack will be compensated.

7am – D         INTERVIEW – TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper and WMAL’s Redskins analyst

• RECAP: Washington Redskins vs Atlanta Falcons
• Kirk Cousins interception ends Redskins’ 25-19 overtime loss to Falcons. ATLANTA — For most of the afternoon, the Washington Redskins’ defense grounded the Falcons’ high-flying offense, holding Atlanta to three first-half points and reducing the NFL’s leading receiver, Julio Jones, to a bit player. But as Sunday’s game at a raucous Georgia Dome ground on, the Redskins’ defense ran out of heroics, and their patchy offense failed to capitalize on a number of golden opportunities. The result was a 25-19 overtime defeat that stung all the worse because of the manner in which it ended — an interception by quarterback Kirk Cousins, whose composure in a 24-second drive had forced overtime in the first place — and the glorious missed chance it represented.

7am – E         War on Guns:

• ABC’s Raddatz Grills Jindal: How Can You Blame Oregon Shooter’s Father? ABC’s Martha Raddatz grilled Republican presidential candidate and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Sunday morning over his remarks condemning the Oregon shooter’s father, asking Jindal if he really knows enough about the situation to be blaming the father. Jindal said last week that the father is a “complete failure” and “should be embarrassed to even show his face in public,” adding, “he’s the problem here.” The long-shot White House hopeful also blasted him for “lecturing us on the need for gun control.” Raddatz asked Jindal if he knows enough about the family to suggest that the father bears some responsibility.
• Ms. Magazine Asks If Mass Shootings Are About ‘Toxic Masculinity’ (Daily Caller) — Ms. Magazine suggested on its Facebook page that “toxic masculinity” played a role in the Oregon school shooting. The Facebook post linked to a Ms. Magazine article published online entitled “Mass Killings in the U.S.: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity.” The piece delved into the Oregon school shooting and whether “male entitlement” played a role with these “beta male” gunmen. Ms. Magazine writer Soraya Chemaly questioned whether the mass killings are beyond mental illness and guns but about a deeper crisis of women being targeted in school and the workplace. “Educated women aggregate and compete with men as equals” in schools and are “twice as likely to die in school shootings as men,” Chemaly wrote.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — BILL KRISTOL – Editor of The Weekly Standard

• HOUSE SPEAKER RACE:
  • Thoughts on Paul Ryan As Top Pick for House Speaker.
• 2016 NEWS:
• DEMOCRATIC DEBATE TOMORROW: CNN releases Democratic debate podium order. Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton will be center stage on Tuesday night for the Democratic presidential candidates’ first debate, according to the podium order released by CNN, which is hosting the event. The position of the five candidates on the stage at the CNN Facebook Democratic Debate in Las Vegas is based on polls since Aug. 1 and was announced on CNN’s “State of the Union.” On either side of Clinton, the highest-polling candidate, are Bernie Sanders (to Clinton’s right) and Martin O’Malley (to her left). Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee, the fourth- and fifth-placing candidates, bookend the stage.
• Bernie Sanders: Unlike Hillary Clinton, I’ve Stayed Consistent In My Views
• Reuters poll shows Hillary dropping 10 points among Dems in a week
• Obama Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Hillary Clinton Made Email ‘Mistake’

8am – B         Entertainment News:

• Aerosmith frontman asks Trump campaign to stop using song. LOS ANGELES — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s campaign committee on Saturday. The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On'” or any of Tyler’s other songs and that it “gives the false impression that he is connected with or endorses Mr. Trump’s presidential bid.” Tyler, who is a registered Republican, attended the GOP contenders’ first debate in August.

• ‘There’s no way’ Frank Sinatra is Ronan Farrow’s dad, bio claims. (Page Six) — A new definitive Frank Sinatra biography says there’s no way Ronan Farrow could be the legendary crooner’s son — as Mia Farrow has hinted — because Sinatra was impotent and incapacitated by serious stomach surgery around the time Ronan was conceived. “Sinatra: The Chairman,” the second volume of James Kaplan’s biography of Sinatra, details how, at the time Ronan would have been conceived, the singer had undergone gastrointestinal surgery. And he had complained of suffering from impotence and was reportedly fitted with a “penile implant.” The book, out from Doubleday on Oct. 27, says that in October 1986, Sinatra collapsed while performing in Atlantic City, suffering from acute diverticulitis, and doctors removed a portion of his intestine. Sinatra spent the first three months of 1987 in Hawaii and Palm Springs, Calif. Kaplan writes: “Sometime in March, Mia Farrow, then living in New York and in the midst of her 13-year relationship with Woody Allen, conceived [Ronan],” who she later claimed might “possibly” have been sired by Sinatra. The book adds that the singer “was in Hawaii and Palm Springs all the while wearing a colostomy bag and close by his ever-watchful wife,” Barbara.
• US box office: The Martian soars into blockbuster territory as Pan plummets. Ridley Scott’s space adventure zooms past $100m in North America, as $150m Joe Wright fantasy prequel scores just $15.5m in its first weekend. The Martian, Ridley Scott’s space thriller about an astronaut left behind on Mars when a mission to the red planet goes horribly wrong, has officially entered blockbuster territory after posting $37m in its second week at the US box office. There was less positive news for Pan, studio Warner Bros’ attempt to mount a live action prequel to JM Barrie’s much-loved tale of the boy who never grew up. Joe Wright’s $150m fantasy, which stars Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and newcomer Levi Miller as Peter Pan, landed in third with just $15.5m on its first week of release, with another $20.5m from other markets. Unless the film can triumph in China, where it hits multiplexes on 22 October, Warner could be facing a huge write down.

8am – C         Southwest warns Monday travelers of delays after technical issues. (Tribune) — Southwest Airlines said hundreds of flights have been delayed by technical issues and warned passengers flying Monday to arrive two hours early and print boarding passes before coming to the airport. The Dallas-based company said it was using back-up systems around the country to check-in travelers lacking printed or mobile boarding passes but technology problems that began Sunday morning were continuing. Southwest said about 450 of the 3,600 flights scheduled for the day had been delayed. Representatives for Southwest did not say what caused the problem or how long it would take to resolve. Spokesman Brad Hawkins said there was “absolutely no indication now” that the problems were the result of hacking.

8am – D/E     More cities are recognizing Native Americans on Columbus Day. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More cities are recognizing Native Americans on Columbus Day this year as they revive a movement to change the name of the holiday to celebrate the history and contributions of indigenous cultures around the country. As the U.S. observes Columbus Day on Monday, it will also be Indigenous Peoples Day in at least nine cities for the first time this year, including Albuquerque; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Olympia, Washington. Encouraged by city council votes in Minneapolis and Seattle last year, Native American activists made a push in dozens of cities in recent months to get local leaders to officially recognize the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Their success was mixed.

TOMORROW: Eleanor Clift, Rep. David Brat and Larry Kudlow