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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Death Penalty, Swiss Banks, Grover Norquist

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week Ralph talks about how Donald Sterling’s racism paid off, the ghoulishness of executions, American tax evaders in Switzerland, and his reported “bromance” with conservative activist, Grover Norquist, which makes David go “Ewwww…”



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:06.0

Stand up, stand up.

0:08.1

You've been sitting great to jump.

0:11.4

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with David

0:17.8

Feldman coming to you from Los Angeles and of course Ralph Nader coming

0:21.8

to you from Washington, D.C.

0:24.2

We have some things to get to in the news right off the bat.

0:27.8

Mr. Nader, it looks like Microsoft CEO Steve bomber is going to be purchasing the Los Angeles clippers from

0:34.1

disgraced owner Donald Sterling.

0:36.9

Bomber's a good guy, right? The clippers are in good hands, right?

0:41.0

Well this is an example of the rancid decay of the plutocracy.

0:46.4

Here's Steve Balmer.

0:47.7

He succeeds Bill Gates, Jr.

0:50.4

as CEO of Microsoft, has a distinctly undistinguished career at Microsoft by accounts of many people

0:59.9

in Microsoft, comes out with $20 billion and then adheres to the old saying, the way you can

1:09.4

tell the men from the boys is the size of their toys. So he sees his former Microsoft

1:15.7

colleague who is worth 23 billion dollars, Paul Allen. He owns the

1:20.4

Portland Trailbrazers and so Steve bomber says I want my NBA team and so he

1:27.2

looks south to Los Angeles and he sees the clippers which at the time of the David Sterling episode was deemed to be worth about $800 million and maybe a billion dollars and then Steve bomber gets into a bidding war and he's

1:48.0

determined to deliver this NBA team to his high school son basketball player and he pays double.

1:57.0

Hey you guys want to pay $1 billion I'll show you I'm not going to bid 1.3. Here's another billion dollars. Now with that

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