Penna Dexter is your host today. She begins the show with discussion on International Day of the Girl Child: End Gendercide in China with Reggie Littlejohn who is the founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an international coalition to expose and oppose forced abortion, gendercide and sexual slavery in China.
Rachel Alexander, The Stream’s senior editor joins us to tell us more about Hilary Clinton’s Paid Troll Army. We also hear from Congressman Marsha regarding the lawsuit filed by Orange County, California, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas against DaVinci Biosciences and its sister company DV Biologics.
Our final guest Matthew Whitaker, former U.S. Attorney and Executive Director of the non-partisan ethics watchdog, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) discusses the latest Wikileaks email dump which show Clinton campaign officials plotting to work around laws governing campaign and SuperPAC relations.
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers seeks to form a left-right, human rights and humanitarian coalition to end forced abortion and gendercide. Both pro-life and pro-choice venues have embraced this message. Reggie received the National Pro-Life Recognition Award at the 40th March for Life in Washington, DC on January 25, 2013. She was also the keynote speaker for the 2013 March for Life Canada in Ottawa, and for the 2013 National Right to Life Convention in Dallas.
However, today is also the day when people are asked to recognize the ongoing struggle of women and girls around the world for equality, education and basic human rights.
This is a UN-led movement with different national branches around the world. The UN site takes on the major issues facing women internationally and this year's theme is the scourge of child marriage in cultures across the globe.
She writes for Townhall, Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research, The Christian Post, weekend news items for Right Wing News and occasionally pieces for the UK Guardian and other publications. She is a recovering attorney and former gun magazine editor. From 2011-2014, she was listed as one of the 50 Best Conservative Columnists by Right Wing News and has won other awards for her writing.
She has appeared on several TV shows and many radio shows as a political commentator, and enjoys interviewing influential voices on the right, from Phyllis Schlafly to Ted Nugent. She lives in Phoenix with her husband and his four children.
A significant portion of online support for Hillary Clinton is manufactured by paid “astroturf” trolls: a large team of supporters who spend long hours responding to negative news on the internet about her. The Clinton SuperPAC Correct the Record, which is affiliated with her campaign, acknowledged in an April press release that it was spending $1 million on project “Breaking Barriers” to pay people to respond to negative information about Clinton on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. That amount has since increased to over $6 million. The trolls create a false impression that Clinton has more support than she really does, because one supporter will frequently create multiple anonymous accounts.
Libby Watson of The Sunlight Foundation observed that the astroturf effort goes far beyond merely defending Clinton, to targeting and intimidating those who criticize her. She told The Daily Beast, “This seems to be going after essentially random individuals online.”
Congressman Blackburn began her elected service career in 1998 as a Tennessee State Senator. Blackburn’s Senate career was marked by her commitment to fiscal common sense and government accountability. She became known to her constituents for holding “budget school” in her district and across the state; identifying waste and offering solutions for a state in a budget crunch.
While serving in the Tennessee Senate, Blackburn led a statewide grassroots campaign to defeat a proposed state income tax. She earned the reputation as a champion of anti-tax and government reform issues, frequently appearing on local talk radio and even earning the attention of national publications like the Wall Street Journal and conservative groups such as Americans for Tax Reform.
Blackburn’s reputation for focusing on individual freedom and free enterprise boosted her from the Tennessee Senate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Blackburn was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002, quickly becoming a leader in Congress and a leading voice advocating for a small, efficient federal government that is accountable to its citizens. She is regularly praised by good government groups like the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Farm Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council and the American Conservative Union. She has been named a Taxpayer Hero by Americans for Tax Reform each year she has served in Congress. In 2007 Blackburn received the Conservative Leadership Award from the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.
Matthew G. Whitaker is a lawyer and the managing partner at Whitaker Hagenow & Gustoff LLP in Des Moines, Iowa. Previously, Whitaker served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa from 2004-2009. Whitaker received his undergraduate degree in film production and broadcasting from Iowa in 1991 and his law degree and MBA from Iowa in 1995. He played football for Iowa (lettered three years at tight end) and was named Academic all-Big Ten in 1990, 91 & 92, was Academic All American in 1992 and won the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 1993.
Clinton in a February 2016 primary debate with Senator Bernie Sanders denied any assertion that her official campaign and the super PAC, Priorities USA, “coordinate” on any matter and suggested an organic decision process on the part of the soft money group to support her apparently occurred.