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DONKEY: Las Vegas Politician Sentenced To Life After Killing Journalist Who Dragged His Name · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Day Club, Yes don't here Today for Thursday, August twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninth goes to forty seven year old Robert tells Our Talise.
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  Speaker 1: Robert Talise is a former Novouda politician, a Clark County
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  Speaker 1: public administrator who was convicted of murder. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something, man. There is a very memorable line from
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  Speaker 1: a classic record called Renegade by Jay Z and Eminem,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when jay Z says, just read a magazine
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  Speaker 1: that effed up my day. That line is about criticism
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  Speaker 1: and how criticism can oftentimes be unfair because the person
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  Speaker 1: criticizing you knows nothing about you or the circumstances you
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  Speaker 1: come from, so they probably can't relate to what it
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  Speaker 1: is you're talking about. Now. The reason I'm bringing that
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  Speaker 1: line up is because jay Z responded to journalism. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't like VI a song, which is a very logical
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  Speaker 1: and rational thing to do when you don't like what
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  Speaker 1: someone has written about you. Why Robert Talise couldn't react
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  Speaker 1: in a logical and rational way. When Jeff Jerman, a
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  Speaker 1: long time Las Vegas Review Journal reporter, wrote a boy him,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Well, let's go to CBS news
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  Speaker 1: theory Paul Please, a former elected official from Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: was found guilty of murder today and the deadly stabbing
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  Speaker 1: of an investigative reporter who wrote negative stories about him.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Tellis hung his head as he heard the verdict.
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  Speaker 1: Guilty a first orgree murder with you said the deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors laid out a mountain of evidence against him, including
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  Speaker 2: a motive for the murder of investigative reporter Jeff German.
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  Speaker 2: German was found stabbed to death outside his home. He'd
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  Speaker 2: written multiple articles alleging Tellus fostered a hostile work environment.
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  Speaker 2: Taking the stand in his own defense, tell Us was
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  Speaker 2: unable to explain pieces of a disguise found on his
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  Speaker 2: property or his DNA on the victim.
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  Speaker 1: How the world does your DNA get underneath mister German's fingernails.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, because I did not kill mister gery.
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  Speaker 2: He insisted the evidence was planted. Robert Tellis wept openly
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  Speaker 2: in court as he faces a maximum sentence of life
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  Speaker 2: in prison.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can play BNA on in nobody's fingernails.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a difficult one. Do you know there are
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  Speaker 1: there have been fourteen journalists killed in the US since
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. This story is making me scared. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people killing journalists because of negative stories written about them.
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  Speaker 1: All you YouTube was Towny Days. Damn it. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's not that's not right. Jeff German was sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: and he wrote about the criminal element in Vegas. He
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  Speaker 1: covered mobsters, crooked officials, and corrupt government agencies. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: journalists like that. They are the bravest dropping the clues
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  Speaker 1: bombs for journalists that do things like that. You're reporting
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  Speaker 1: on entertaining as athletes, that's nothing. When you're out here
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  Speaker 1: reporting on folks with actual real world power, government officials,
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  Speaker 1: mobsters that can really touch you. You putting a different
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  Speaker 1: type of target on your back. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happened when Jeff Jermy decided to write that Robert Tulise
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  Speaker 1: created a hostile work environment. This is why it's good
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  Speaker 1: to be an artist. So ok, you see jay Z
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  Speaker 1: he put his frustration in his music. Robert Talise gets
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  Speaker 1: accused of creating a hostile work environment and he kills someone.
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  Speaker 1: Ellen Degenerous gets accused of creating a hostile work environment
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  Speaker 1: because she creates a he that flick special. Clearly, one
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  Speaker 1: of these individuals knows how to handle criticism and accusations
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  Speaker 1: and the others does not. Also, Robert, you not beating
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  Speaker 1: any of the accusations made against you when you react
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  Speaker 1: with hostility to an article about you creating a hostile
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  Speaker 1: working vinbent. When prosecutors are alleging, okay, that you killed
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  Speaker 1: someone because you are angry about an article they wrote
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  Speaker 1: about you, you are never beating that allegation. Okay. Then
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  Speaker 1: they said he dressed up like one of the ninja
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  Speaker 1: turtles when they be in disguise. They said, he put
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  Speaker 1: on a big some sunglasses and a big straw hat
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  Speaker 1: and went to the person's house, went to the German's
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  Speaker 1: house to kill him. After you do something like that,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they said you did, you did it. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing I want all journalists to understand. Robert murdered
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  Speaker 1: Jeff German because Jeff germans writing destroyed his career. I
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  Speaker 1: put destroyed in quotation marks. Okay. He said it destroyed
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  Speaker 1: his reputation, It threatened probably his marriage because he was
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  Speaker 1: alleged to be having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
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  Speaker 1: He said it exposed things that and he admitted he
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  Speaker 1: did not want the public to know. But I have
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  Speaker 1: a question, and the question I have if you so
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  Speaker 1: mad at a person for reporting this, then why do
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  Speaker 1: the why do the behavior to begin with? Okay, See
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  Speaker 1: what we don't understand about situations like this was Robert
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really mad at Jeff. He was mad at himself
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  Speaker 1: because all Jeff did was write about what you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're going to be mad and want to
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  Speaker 1: kill someone, you should have actually probably started and ended
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  Speaker 1: with you. Jeff German didn't ruin your career. Okay, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: tell us you ruined your career. You are clearly a
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  Speaker 1: person who makes poor choices. Okay, what does yokesh'all always
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  Speaker 1: tell you? Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's
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  Speaker 1: a matter of choice. You made the choice to create
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  Speaker 1: a hostile work environment, you made the choice to have
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  Speaker 1: an inappropriate relationship with a staff, and you made the
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  Speaker 1: choice to kill somebody because they decided to write about
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  Speaker 1: what you was doing. Robert, look in the mirror and
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  Speaker 1: say it's me, Hi, I'm the problem. It's me. You
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  Speaker 1: are the issue. Okay, cause and effect. Take away the
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  Speaker 1: cause and the effect ceases. You are the cause. Please
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  Speaker 1: give Robert to Lease. The biggest sea hull donkey of
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  Speaker 1: Michael Slammingsoft. Don't be a donkey. Dot pound two fifty
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  Speaker 1: on your cell and say the bull. If you've been
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  Speaker 1: hurt in a construction accident, that's pound two five Ozho
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  Speaker 1: from your cell and say the bull. Wake that ass
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