Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to who's paying attention episode 40.

So what's going on?

Well, since we last spoke, there's been a few things.

I guess the big one is we got a new Pope, Pope Francis, and I'm going to get into that in a minute.

And good luck. God bless him,

which I think is kind of redundant. Do you say God bless the Pope, or has God already done that?

But before we get to that, you know, there's, I don't know, a lot going on, but it's comforting

to know that the old crazy is still around.

Yes.

Last week was CPAC, and for those who don't know, CPAC is the conservative,

conservative political action conference.

Now, this is where the craziest members of the Republican Party get together and they're the real

Americans.

You know the ones I'm talking about Sarah Palin, still the star and Santorum and Alan

West and Rand Paul.

They love him.

The extreme right of the party and they get together and they sort of talk about how they're

all picked on and treated unfairly by the lame stream media.

And it's interesting this time around because Sarah, one of their leaders, was fired by Fox News.

And if Fox News is becoming part of the lame stream media. You know how crazy this group is.

This is where Rand Paul was talking to the immigrants saying that his grandparents

spoke German around the house so it's okay for them to speak their language at home,

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