This is the episode where Kennedy farts live on national television.


TONIGHT ON THE INDEPENDENTS (written by Matt Welch, taken from Reason)
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Tonight's episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT, repeats three hours later), she is good. Here's some red meat for ya:

* Libertarian TV icon John Stossel talks Jonathan Gruber.

* Party Panelists John Tierney (beloved New York Times science writer) and Mike Baker (ex-CIA rager) react to President Barack Obama's announcement that he'll be unveiling some executive action on immigration tomorrow night. The two will also discuss Al Sharpton's unpaid taxes and San Diego's landmark sewage-treatment policies for combating the California drought.

* Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), many libertarians' favorite Democrat in Congress, tries to defend the leadership re-election of Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), talks about the NSA-reform challenges post-USA Freedom Act, and uncorks an interesting answer about who he'd vote for in a Rand vs. Hillary election.

* Fox Human Resources scold Bernie Maxsmith is back with Two Minutes Hate, featuring some of the choicest insults from you, the beloved Hit & Run commenters.

Other topics being discussed include America's stubbornly persistent numerical decline, the sheer awfulness of new key GOP congressional leaders, lumbersexuals vs. metrosexuals, and more.

INFO
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Ripped with the Diamond VC500. Using the software that came packaged with the dongle. (It's called EZ Ripper.) In that software there's a "DVD Standard" which rips the video to .mpg at 720x480 with some terrible black bars. I load that file into AVIDemux. Cut the file into multiple parts to remove the commercials. Rejoin, crop, and resize those files using the same tool. For conversion I used MPEG4 AVC (x264), 2 pass on video and AAC (faac) on audio.

Not part of the scene. Just admire their naming standards.

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