Department of Justice, $16 Muffin Media Distraction
A Department of Justice audit revealing $16 muffins and $10 cookies at government conferences serves as a primary media distraction from larger fiscal issues. Representative Poe mocked the spending on the House floor by referencing "The Muffin Man" nursery rhyme. While the public focuses on overpriced pastries, larger expenditures like the hourly flight costs of B-2 bombers and drone construction in North Africa receive less scrutiny.
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00:00 I don't want refurbished. Say refurbished on the website! Safely atop the hilltop watchtower, Crackpot commands it and the people's public of Southern California. Yeah in the morning I'm The Muffin Man! I'm Adam Curry everybody And from Northern Silicon Valley the fog is rolling in and so is The Fog Of Knowledge. I am John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot on Buzzkill! In the morning... The Fog Of Knowledge That's our show right there We are The Fog Of Knowledge
00:49 Hey John, let me start it right off with some media assassination. Take it! Okay so people this is how it works This is what our show was all about as beautiful It came in just this morning as I was watching C-spans because that's what we do So you don't have to Eh... Ahem. You probably already saw the news, you've probably already heard about it this is without a doubt uh.. The uh where is it here? So whenever they don't want you to pay attention to what's really going on they come out with something really awesome that just coincidentally released
01:35 coincidentally released the news that muffins at the Department of Justice cost $16 and then yes it's being propagated now on the floor of our House of Representatives here we propagate everywhere I do have a clip you might want to play it. It summarizes... Well let me play my clip which i just got from C-SPAN You want me to play the your summary clip? I think my clip will probably be better because it's produced. Oh Washington watch our Washington Watchdog is on the case tonight in good production Tough economic times for America a new audit of the Justice Department turned up $16 paid for by taxpayers and the muffins are just beginning here's John Carl
02:23 Yes, it's true. The Justice Department has found a way to spend 16 bucks for a single muffin 10 bucks on a cookie and $8.24 on a cup of coffee all part of the 121 million dollars this one government department spent on conferences in just 24 months $16 muffins? Really? Right. I mean, does Washington get it? That's insane and again that is why people across this country are so frustrated Nobody can tell us how an ordinary muffin like this could cost 16 dollars but this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ways Washington wastes your money Just look at Herman the Hermit Crab or Rex The Mountain Lion
03:08 The Department of Homeland Security has developed several mascots to teach kids how to prepare for disasters. Cut back just one mascot, and by one estimate you save $2.6 million on production and program costs. Yeah hold on let's not go the mascots let's stick with the muffins there is more muffins! More about the muffins pay attention to the muffins! Muffins, muffins! 16 bucks for a muffin? Come on. That's just one way that the Justice Department is wasting your tax dollars it better be a good breakfast By the way these chicks that do this on I don't know if its Fox or whatever...I love her voice It's like- I'm looking at her and I'm like ah she sexy Telling you that What the heck was in that muffin? I almost feel like saying In other news there's a $16 muffin I mean what?! There's a $16 muffin
03:55 That's just one example of some of the outrageous spending that turned up in the audits. But now on the floor of our very own government buildings, Madam Speaker do you know The Muffin Man? The muffin man, the muffin man! Yes I know The Muffin Man but he doesn't live on Drury Lane This is Representative Poe This guy, I mean he's like- He got the calls like hey man. I got an idea for you. Can you do your muffin man bit? Hey man the muffin man bits really cool dude! It's really really awesome You gotta listen to this guy because he actually wraps it up with the rest of and this is the hands down This is tonight show material. He lives at the Department of Justice Yeah, yeah And his growing rich on selling $16 muffins Yay To the Department of Justice Hell yeah On justice lane Justice Lane The department of justices inspector general states
04:46 that at only 10 conferences, the Department of Justice spent almost $500,000 on refreshments. That's $50,000 per conference for Just refreshments forget about the hookers The muffins are expensive and that includes $4,200 for a handful of muffins 250 this is great. Madam Speaker watch him wrap it up critters call sixteen dollars apiece These are some high dollar muffin isn't damn good muffin Justice Department is buying or its conferences and refreshments fresh where do you even find a muffin that cost a
05:27 $16. Well, tell us I've never seen one madam speaker Maybe they're shipped in from a special bakery in France with some secret ingredient My favorite bakery and Texas slam at France by the way little side sideways slamming friends rails and Beaumont tells me oh my these things should be about two dollars apiece which is overpriced to So why is the Justice Department with all those fancy lawyers letting the muffin man get away with this price cut? Because the government doesn't care. It lives high on the hog and taxpayers money!
06:07 Do you know the muffin man, the muffin man? I know the muffin man. And the government should quit spending somebody else's money to keep the muffin man rolling in the dough. Whoa! Excellent-ay. All right, I'll give you a clip of The Weekend. No no because i got more but this is very important listeners to this program the best podcast in the world Your news outlets are about to overflow with this news. Please don't look at the $135,000 an hour it cost to fly the B-2 stealth bomber because that ain't no regular muffin These are the muffins I should be outraged about these muffins please please Don't look at the fifty thousand dollar an hour per flight of the J22 Raptor
06:57 Please don't look at all of that. Please don't look at the drones that your president is having built in North Africa, please! Don't look at any of that it's millionaires and their $16 muffins That's what you should be worried about? That is the word of the nation for today Yeah well and maybe you don't want to worry about Story that started breaking three days ago farmers flee as world's deadliest volcano rumbles wait a minute It's not second half of the show yet. No this is not a bullcrap story This is Mount Tambora Where is that my mount tamboura in the end Indonesian area? There it's one of the whoppers if this sucker goes off we got like two years of no food well That's not true because I've got my crisis garden and
07:49 Yeah, well I've been yeah. What was that garden which grows nothing but pepper? They're great peppers though Do you like peppers hey guys what's for dinner peppers I got to meet some peppers in the muffins. So how come we won't have any food? No food at all? Well, this thing is one of the big ones. They grow muffins over there? For it to throw a bunch of crap in the air and then basically cut off sunlight for awhile... ...is quite high on that list How far would it cut off the sunlight? Would it cut if off over here? Well yeah Really?! That's a big cloud
08:28 When the 19... last time I went off was 1815. A widely forgotten outside the region killed 90,000 people when it blew up. Nah it's just Indonesians And blackened skies on the other side of the globe Wow And so this thing's a rumbling, huh? Didn't it poop out something like couple days ago as well didn't that happen? It's interesting because there has been a number of volcanoes that have been active. The Icelandic volcano looks like its you know that one big one looks like its shaking something and there is a volcano according to CBS News on Alaska's remote Aleutians I think is the one your thinking about because it's coughing out some lava
09:07 Hey, we need to make a whole... GX2 should be making a new track. I think we can revitalize Tennessee Ernie Ford. Loaded 16 bucks What do you got? Another big muffin that's over the top That muffin was stale! Even worse! Damn $16 muffin was stale This will be your media distraction of the week ladies and gentlemen so we're glad that you've tuned in for those who are listening live In The Morning To You John Good morning to you Adam and in the morning all ships at sea boots on the ground feet in the air Yeah, you gotta use a couple other one bakers in the kitchens today. We'll say in the morning Baker's making the muffins and of course all of our human resources who are in the chat room and no agenda stream calm know Jen the chat net Listening live to the dulcet tones of Adam Curry and John C Dvorak look listen
