Sunday Night Video – Rachel Maddow Interviews Steve Bullock About Containing Corporate Campaign Spending

The unrestrained corporate campaign spending brought to us by the activist judges on the Supreme Court may be the worst of the worst in our corrupt political system. That’s why I’m eager to hear crumbs of hope, rays of light, and the like, such as former Justice John Paul Stevens stating that he thinks Citizens United will be revisited. Here, Rachel Maddow interviews Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock on the case he’s fighting, seeking to allow Montana to continue to limit campaign spending as it has done for 100 years. Who knows what will happen with the Supreme Court. On the one hand, occasionally conservatives care about states rights. But will they care when the states right is to restrain corporations from buying themselves more politicians?

BULLOCK: In 1906, a newspaper in Montana said the greatest living issue that confronts us today is whether the corporations shall control the people or the people shall control the corporations.

TV in Review: Louie, “Dr. Ben / Nick”

Louie’s opening monologue in this episode focuses on the body. Now comedy gets a bad rap at times for its focus on such matters, but there’s long been an association of comedy with the body. (Think of the fake phalli swinging in the breeze during Ancient Greek comedy. Please. Think about it.) I’m not wild about toilet humor, but whether it’s that or stories about sex, I appreciate when the comedian is thoughtful even as they revel in our animal nature.

LOUIE: I’m going to tell you how to have exactly the body you want. You just have to want a shitty body. That’s all it is. You have to want your own shitty, ugly, disgusting body.

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