Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, Well.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, the last show
Speaker 2: of the year. In contrary to what it might seem,
Speaker 2: I have never felt more full of it. Huh. Before
Speaker 2: we go, I want to talk one last time about
Speaker 2: something called the Zadroga Bill. Was an NYPD detective who
Speaker 2: died in two thousand and six from respiratory illness thought
Speaker 2: to be caused by the dusty, and healed while working
Speaker 2: at Ground zero in two thousand and one. This bill
Speaker 2: would provide seven million dollars in medical and financial benefits
Speaker 2: for Ground zero workers who get sick, and they're going
Speaker 2: to pay for it by closing a corporate tax loophole.
Speaker 2: It's a win win, win win.
Speaker 1: Just do it. The House passed it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, the House Representatives passed it, and it would pass
Speaker 2: in the Senate. That came to anupor down vote. They
Speaker 2: have more than the fifty votes they need, but the
Speaker 2: center Republicans have filibustered it won't allow the bill to
Speaker 2: come up for a vote. Luckily, yesterday there was some
Speaker 2: good news from the Senate. Logjam broke today.
Speaker 3: The Senate passed that bill to extend tax cuts to
Speaker 3: all Americans, including the wealthiest, by an overwhelming eighty one
Speaker 3: to nineteen vote yes.
Speaker 2: That is astoundingly good news for firefighters that make over
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars a year. Of course, all non
Speaker 2: millionaire firefighters are still out of luck. Apparently the party
Speaker 2: that turned nine to eleven into a catchphrase are now
Speaker 2: moving suspiciously into a convenient pre nine eleven mentality when
Speaker 2: it comes to this.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: What's more, none of the three broadcast networks have mentioned
Speaker 2: any of this on their evening newscasts for two and
Speaker 2: a half months. Although it'll be fair, it's not every
Speaker 2: day that Beatles songs come to iTunes music for sale
Speaker 2: on the internet.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be.
Speaker 2: This is an outrageous abdication of our responsibility to those
Speaker 2: who are most heroic on nine to eleven. You know
Speaker 2: what I hate to say this. There's a job for
Speaker 2: Fox News, the nation's leading source of nine to eleven
Speaker 2: based outrage. They always fight to make sure that nine
Speaker 2: to eleven is appropriately observed.
Speaker 4: Build the president take any political criticism for not coming
Speaker 4: to ground zero on this nine to eleven.
Speaker 5: Fox News channel has looked at an advanced copy of
Speaker 5: her speech and has noticed that not once will she
Speaker 5: use the words tears or nine to eleven.
Speaker 6: Those dots, that's where remains were found, and when the
Speaker 6: zierro go right to where the mosque would came.
Speaker 7: When I watched the second plane fly into the building,
Speaker 7: I was there.
Speaker 2: I had a safety deposit box in a Chase bank.
Speaker 2: Underneath you can still see the outline of dollars.
Speaker 8: Do you want to know why I have passion for
Speaker 8: this thing?
Speaker 2: This is why. Yeah, we lost a lot of good
Speaker 2: cash that day. So you can imagine, you can imagine
Speaker 2: how outraged Fox must be to find out that the
Speaker 2: healthcare for those who risk their lives to recover that
Speaker 2: charred money is being held up by a Republican filibuster.
Speaker 2: And I know they have access to nine eleven.
Speaker 4: First responders joining me now.
Speaker 2: A leading opponent of the mosque and a former New
Speaker 2: York City firefighter and nine eleven responder, Tim Brown here
Speaker 2: is one of the nine to eleven first responders reacting
Speaker 2: to the decision by the Landmark Commission.
Speaker 6: A nine to eleven responders taking matters into his own
Speaker 6: hands by suing the developers for three hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: million million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yet somehow they've been unable to find even one nine
Speaker 2: to eleven first responder to speak about there's a drogo bill.
Speaker 2: In fact, only Fox as Peter Johnson Junior, seemed perturbed
Speaker 2: by it at all, and although he railed against the filibuster,
Speaker 2: he never mentioned that it was the Republicans holding up
Speaker 2: the bill. Oh what party was it? Maybe it was
Speaker 2: the Bull Moost party or the Greens or the Wigs
Speaker 2: or Boo. Yet there was one network that gave the
Speaker 2: nine to eleven responder story the full twenty two minutes
Speaker 2: of intense coverage that it deserved. But that network, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: was Al Jazeera. Our networks were scooped with a sympathetic
Speaker 2: Zadrogabill's story by the same network that Osama bin Laden
Speaker 2: sends his mixtapes to. This is insane. I would like
Speaker 2: to see one of these senators have the balls to
Speaker 2: explain why somehow getting a tax cut extension for wealthy
Speaker 2: Americans is more important than suffering grounds zero workers.
Speaker 4: We need to get the issue addressed for the firefighters,
Speaker 4: the nine to one to one victims, and we will
Speaker 4: the difference, I think with a tax bill is there
Speaker 4: is a deadline January first. We have to get this done.
Speaker 4: Taxes go up on January first.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are only two short things in life, death
Speaker 2: and taxes. Apparently the only one this cat cares about
Speaker 2: is taxes. When we come back, we speak with some
Speaker 2: nine to eleven first responders and they'll respond to what
Speaker 2: we've just seen. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I'll love the show.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a little bit about talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about some of the emotions going on now in the Senate.
Speaker 2: We're joined by four men who can perhaps best sympathize
Speaker 2: with what the Senate is going through. Please welcome Kenny
Speaker 2: Speck from the FDNY, Chris Bauman, n YPD, Ken George
Speaker 2: dot and John Devlin, operating engineer. Have you equipment all
Speaker 2: nine to eleven first responders?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, you're all nine to eleven first responders.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: You were down there from the moment of the attacks
Speaker 2: for the most part. Now you see the the senators
Speaker 2: filibustering the bill. What's what's going through your mind as
Speaker 2: you're watching this process go down.
Speaker 10: We're we're disgusted, we're disappointed, and uh and unfortunately we're hurt.
Speaker 2: We uh.
Speaker 10: We uh. We are proud protectors of the Constitution for
Speaker 10: the people, by the people, and uh and we want
Speaker 10: to know where it was lost.
Speaker 9: We're we're patriots to this country. It's like everybody here,
Speaker 9: we went down there for the love of this country
Speaker 9: and for the love of our city. We didn't turn
Speaker 9: our back on anybody. For us to be here now
Speaker 9: nine years later, still fighting just for for our health,
Speaker 9: for our compensation.
Speaker 2: You are suffering from stage four broken.
Speaker 9: Stage four inopperable foe cancer on both and on both
Speaker 9: limp nodes.
Speaker 2: And you're suffering from I got hot disease and lung
Speaker 2: disease from being down being down.
Speaker 5: There, hot long.
Speaker 2: Brain issues, cancer and these are all from being down.
Speaker 2: You know, none of the Republican senators went on the
Speaker 2: floor of the Senate to talk about why they were
Speaker 2: going to filibuster the bill. But Senator Mitch McConnell a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago did actually get on the floor
Speaker 2: of the Senate and made I thought, a really emotional
Speaker 2: speech and I wanted you guys to to listen to
Speaker 2: it and maybe get your reactions to the.
Speaker 3: Judd grew up in Nashua in southern New Hampshire, was
Speaker 3: it he found time to address up as the school's
Speaker 3: mascot for a time. In nineteen ninety two, Judd decided
Speaker 3: to run for the US Senate on She's been instrumental.
Speaker 3: When he walks out of his chamber for the last time,
Speaker 3: he'll leave an enormous voyd.
Speaker 2: The Senator bench. McConnell on the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 2: He's talking about Senator Judd Gregg, who's retiring from the Senator.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's shedding a tear on his lunch buddy that
Speaker 9: he hangs out with every day. Where is his where
Speaker 9: is his human feeling for not only the four of us.
Speaker 9: We represent the brothers and sisters with that we're down there.
Speaker 9: This isn't a me me to any one of us.
Speaker 9: This is about the brothers and sisters that can't come
Speaker 9: out and speak like we can. It's sad to see
Speaker 9: someone like him, to.
Speaker 2: Be fair, they have worked together for like six years.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, he's trying to cause another guy pays the
Speaker 11: ten That's what.
Speaker 2: Really, that's the thing that the lunch that the guy
Speaker 2: guy pays lunch.
Speaker 10: Bill Now watching that, there's only one thing I can say.
Speaker 10: I found time to dress the new York City fireman
Speaker 10: on September eleventh.
Speaker 11: Is not incredible.
Speaker 2: It is incredible. You were able to do that, You
Speaker 2: were able to pull that off.
Speaker 10: I tell you, I, Nic, I feel bad for Mitch
Speaker 10: McConnell I. You know, he said something very important that
Speaker 10: his friend. He's gonna watch his friend walk out of
Speaker 10: the uh, the Senate chambers. And unfortunately that's more than
Speaker 10: a New York City firefighter can say. About about three
Speaker 10: hundred and forty three of his brothers, who can't walk anymore.
Speaker 5: Has been to eleven funeral yeast is this is it's
Speaker 5: a straining thing.
Speaker 11: Now, let's digress.
Speaker 2: I do think there's misperceptions out there that that you guys, somehow,
Speaker 2: because you're part of unions, you're already covered for all
Speaker 2: this stuff. But explain the way I've I've heard of this.
Speaker 2: So you guys go down to nine to eleven. You're
Speaker 2: there basically from the day they attack, straight through digging
Speaker 2: people out. I mean, going through horrific things that many
Speaker 2: of us cannot ever.
Speaker 9: Ten months, seven days, seven days is a day we
Speaker 9: were down there breathing in all that time, what like
Speaker 9: a thousand toxic cities.
Speaker 2: So you're going through all this. When you get sick,
Speaker 2: they consider it workmen's comp. You can't work anymore, so
Speaker 2: your health insurance suddenly is cut and the workmen's comp
Speaker 2: people fight you it's related because they say, well, how
Speaker 2: can we decide that your cancers are work related.
Speaker 9: I can only speak for myself. When I was I
Speaker 9: died twice last year fighting this cancer. Well, I'm fighting
Speaker 9: for the cancer. I was fighting for the compensation that
Speaker 9: would cover my bills. Right, It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Howcome NYPD doesn't you know, does NYPD cover all of
Speaker 2: your stuff now or how does that work or not?
Speaker 5: They put me out on three quarters. I got a
Speaker 5: phone call one day and it comes to term that
Speaker 5: they told my wife they will put me out because
Speaker 5: I was questing the NYPD too much. I was quote
Speaker 5: nquote still on to draw.
Speaker 2: It's also about it's become an enormous not just a helper,
Speaker 2: but a financial bird, is exactly.
Speaker 1: They don't care.
Speaker 5: We have coverage, but Kope's run me a couple of
Speaker 5: hundred dollars a month. If I get really sick.
Speaker 2: I've had one of the guys that's fighting me. The
Speaker 2: guys died just this week or last week.
Speaker 10: Face cancer. I mean, you know, it's uh, he had
Speaker 10: a prosthetic nose, his nose, his nose fell off his face.
Speaker 2: Now died of just this cancer.
Speaker 10: Then you can't tell a reasonable person that when your
Speaker 10: nose falls off your face that you have not died
Speaker 10: from something absolutely horrific. That that that people are just
Speaker 10: not familiar with.
Speaker 5: The Part of the problem is they say, Okay, you
Speaker 5: got cancer. Why is it due to nine to eleven
Speaker 5: other people get cancer? But the mast majority of us
Speaker 5: are having heart problems, having cancer, and forgetting sick.
Speaker 2: A lot of the things are saying is hey, man,
Speaker 2: it's Christmas and we can I want you to listen
Speaker 2: to this. They're saying that they don't have time to
Speaker 2: get to this. This is John Kyle talking about Harry
Speaker 2: Reid wants them to stay and work that week between
Speaker 2: christ in New Year's.
Speaker 8: It is impossible to do all of the things that
Speaker 8: the Majority leader laid out without doing frankly, without disrespecting
Speaker 8: the institution, and without disrespecting one of the two holiest
Speaker 8: of holidays for Christians and the families of all of
Speaker 8: the Senate, not just the senators themselves, but all of
Speaker 8: the staff.
Speaker 2: It's basically what he's saying is I can't stay here
Speaker 2: and work between Christmas and New Year's That would be
Speaker 2: disrespecting Christians and his family. Do you have any thoughts
Speaker 2: on that?
Speaker 10: It just goes to show the disconnect between those we
Speaker 10: elect to represent us and those that get out there
Speaker 10: and do the work. Because I'm here to say that
Speaker 10: you won't find a single New York City firefighter who
Speaker 10: considers it assign of disrespect to work in the New
Speaker 10: York City fire House on Christmas Evil Christmas Day?
Speaker 2: How did the city were?
Speaker 5: The Fight Apartment and the Police Apartment didn't show up
Speaker 5: for that time.
Speaker 9: I represent the union tradesmen in this city, and it
Speaker 9: was an honor to work through Christmas on that nine
Speaker 9: to eleven to give that closure to those people that
Speaker 9: were on the other side of that gate every morning
Speaker 9: showing us the pictures of their loved ones. I don't
Speaker 9: think there's anything better than to go out there and
Speaker 9: help other people.
Speaker 11: What would the.
Speaker 10: Families think of us if we didn't do our job
Speaker 10: for them.
Speaker 2: On nine to eleven when you heard that the towers
Speaker 2: got hit and you were with your colleagues and the
Speaker 2: NYPD and the Fire Department, when you guys voted. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you needed a super majority to vote to go down there, right,
Speaker 2: I mean vote, Yeah, you need a supermajority. So we
Speaker 2: barely made it one vote. Were you able to get?
Speaker 2: Were there people on one vote we got?
Speaker 1: Did you have to.
Speaker 2: Promise things to the other firefighters or the other policemen,
Speaker 2: like just vote with us on this to go down
Speaker 2: to the towers to save people, and will do. We'll
Speaker 2: have chili on Friday night. Don't help.
Speaker 5: We're the unfortunate nob retired that day. Otherwise we would
Speaker 5: have been crying about their retiring and leaving.
Speaker 2: But it would have been it would have been a
Speaker 2: very difficult day for you, guys. Gentlemen, I cannot thank
Speaker 2: you enough. All I can do is I feel like
Speaker 2: apologizing to all of you. And I'm not even sure why.
Speaker 2: It's an absolute travesty. I appreciate your service. Uh and uh.
Speaker 2: And I'm really hoping that this is a good Christmas
Speaker 2: for you guys, because you certainly deserve it more than anybody.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Quarterback I got tonight.
Speaker 2: Former governor of Arkansas and former Republican presidential candidate has
Speaker 2: show on the Fox News channels called Huckabee, and his
Speaker 2: new children's book is called I Can't Wait Till Christmas,
Speaker 2: which I think is probably a sentiment felt by many people.
Speaker 2: Please welcome back to the program, Mike Huckabee.
Speaker 8: John.
Speaker 1: Malady of the met here. I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 2: You know it's it's called I Can't Wait Till Christmas.
Speaker 2: You're you're a man of faith, a religious man, a
Speaker 2: Christian man. You are very familiar with the Christmas holiday
Speaker 2: and the ramifications of it. Are you not allowed to
Speaker 2: work between Christmas and New Year's?
Speaker 8: Is that no?
Speaker 7: I think In fact, it's sort of like the heavy
Speaker 7: duty season for most Christians. They work a little harder.
Speaker 7: So it really does not, I think, bother me. If
Speaker 7: the Senate and the House were to work a little extra,
Speaker 7: it make up for all the times they're not working,
Speaker 7: which is the rest of the year.
Speaker 8: I said Ramson.
Speaker 2: So it may not be disrespectful necessarily to pass this.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this? You know? I feel
Speaker 2: like I hate when I get like this, so angry
Speaker 2: inside that I feel like I cannot articulate, uh what
Speaker 2: I would like to express about it. This bill that
Speaker 2: that is leaving these these guys are dying, yeah, and
Speaker 2: yet we are abandoning them for a principle of a tax. Guy.
Speaker 2: I'm not I don't even know what to.
Speaker 7: Do to me, John. I have a dear friend in
Speaker 7: Texas named Michael. I'll I'll not give his last name.
Speaker 7: He's dying. He came here three days after nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: He's a first responder as a paramedic and worked with
Speaker 7: the field of first responders in Texas when nine to
Speaker 7: eleven happened. He basically said, my country's on fire, I'm
Speaker 7: going and he came here and spent almost a year
Speaker 7: as a volunteer. He's dying and he can't get any assistance.
Speaker 7: I think the tragedy is that this bill has not
Speaker 7: been separated out. And I know that you blame the Republicans,
Speaker 7: and there's plenty of fault, but Republicans like Peter King
Speaker 7: in the House have fought for the bill.
Speaker 2: The House has pasted it.
Speaker 7: I understand.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's past the House and it is just being held.
Speaker 7: With this bill audi to segrated out.
Speaker 2: It is separated out. There's a joker. Bill is not
Speaker 2: attached to anything, not attached to any other bill. It
Speaker 2: is a separate bill. It should be two senators.
Speaker 7: And they should do them. Every Republican should vote for
Speaker 7: this bill.
Speaker 2: You you you work.
Speaker 1: At Fox, Yes so and Fox?
Speaker 7: You know has you know you played the tape from
Speaker 7: Peter Johnson, who has taken a strong stand he has.
Speaker 7: I don't know that you see that from an editorial
Speaker 7: position of the other You haven't.
Speaker 1: At least there's been some others.
Speaker 2: The thing that is difficult to watch is I see
Speaker 2: the nine to eleven outrage machine that Fox is able
Speaker 2: to generate when they want to. That mosque story boy
Speaker 2: that carried you know, people were hearing that for months
Speaker 2: and months. They haven't. They haven't gendered up for this,
Speaker 2: and they should. This is a situation that is real
Speaker 2: that the real people that helped us out in that
Speaker 2: situation are truly hurting. Why haven't they sent out that memo?
Speaker 2: And could you go over there and give them a
Speaker 2: little poke because once you get that done, well.
Speaker 7: I will just defend. At least Fox has taken a
Speaker 7: position on it. Maybe we covered the mosque even more,
Speaker 7: but it does not mean I'm just saying to you
Speaker 7: you go tell that message to CBS and NBC and
Speaker 7: ABC and MSNBC and CNNMSNBC do some stuff take in
Speaker 7: some position.
Speaker 2: Cable news has been better than The difficulty for me
Speaker 2: is comparing it to other nine to eleven related outrages
Speaker 2: that I've seen played out on the airwaves of Fox.
Speaker 2: This one feels like, man, it's in your wheelhouse. The
Speaker 2: silence has been astonishing in juxtaposition to other things that
Speaker 2: they've done.
Speaker 7: Well another thing, John, It makes it a little more
Speaker 7: personal for me. And I was telling the gentleman backstage
Speaker 7: as we passed in the hallway. My father was a
Speaker 7: career fireman in Arkansas, so you know, I remember as
Speaker 7: a little kid him coming home and this was before
Speaker 7: the days of good equipment, him coughing up black stuff
Speaker 7: into the sink at our house. I mean, it sounds gross,
Speaker 7: but people do some pretty heroic things when they serve
Speaker 7: as first responders. Those who went into the ashes of
Speaker 7: nine to eleven went into some of the most hideous
Speaker 7: stuff that perhaps has ever been inhaled by human beings.
Speaker 7: And yes, we owe it to them. I don't argue
Speaker 7: that at all. And I wish the Republicans would say
Speaker 7: we'll fight the battle. But I also wish the Democrats
Speaker 7: would be willing to not make this a part of
Speaker 7: a political battle and would just.
Speaker 2: Say, honestly to their discredit, they haven't. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: never seen anybody presented with a giant political win like
Speaker 2: that on a silver platter and look at it and go,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to have cake. I'll just sit over
Speaker 2: in the corner and eat Celery like.
Speaker 8: The craziest thing.
Speaker 2: I've only with you on that.
Speaker 7: And I wish that Republicans would just say, we're going
Speaker 7: to do it, because if it needs to, there ought
Speaker 7: to be twenty five thirty five, forty five Republicans.
Speaker 2: We're going to take a commercial break, We'll come can
Speaker 2: you stick around for a few more minutes, and we'll.
Speaker 7: Get Yeah, because I can't.
Speaker 2: Wait till Christmas is on the bookshelves now. Mike Cockabee.
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