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Directly across from me, Ben Zelavansky.
Hi, Ben.
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I'm well, Jimmy.
Thank you.
Next to him, the one and only Jim Earl.
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Hi, how are you doing?
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I'm doing it.
Good to hear it.
Jim knows a lot about the Dutch.
I love the Dutch.
The Dutch.
The best country in the world.
Sorry, America.
You had your chance.
You blew it.
Really, off the top of the bat.
You can off the top of the show.
You got to say America's not the best country.
And to my right, Robert Yasamura from TeamYasamura.com.
Hi, Robert.
How are you, buddy?
I'm great.
How are you, Jimmy?
Okay, well, right now, before we get going, I want to let you, we can do the billboard segment, which lets people know what's coming up on the show.
And why do we do that?
Because people love to know what's coming up.
Music by Ben Thede.
Coming up on today's show, we take a look at the sometimes schizophrenic, often hypocritical views of the Tea Party.
Here's Tea Partier enthusiast Tony Blankly giving us the Tea Partier's view on Wall Street.
When I've gone to several Tea Party events, I've moderated a number of them.
They deeply resent Wall Street being bailed out.
They deeply resent Wall Street having special advantages.
Well, then I bet they want the government to get in there and bust up those banks so they're not too big to fail and we never have to bail them out again, right?
Now, they don't want, I think, heavy regulation.
Plus, Brian Williams and the NBC News crew took a look at the Tea Party candidate for Senate up in New York State, Carl Palladino.
And it turns out Carl's got a couple of skeletons in his closet.
He fathered a child with another woman.
He sent around racist, sexist, and pornographic emails.
Yeah, that sounds bad, but I'm sure Carl's got a great excuse for sending out racist, sexist, pornographic emails.
I didn't mean to offend anybody.
I sent it to a select group of friends.
Those friends, okay, treated them privately, except for obviously one.
Yeah, he didn't mean to offend anybody.
I mean, so he sent out an email with a bunch of monkeys doing the river dance with the caption that read, proof the Irish came from Africa.
How could that be offensive to anybody?
And besides, he did it in private.
The only problem was that somebody's got a big fing mouth, which is another thing he's going to fix when he's governor.
And then we're going to talk about the Democrats' problem to rally their base.
There's some on the Democratic base that are angry because we didn't get every single thing they want.
Yeah, Joe Biden called them whiners.
Like this lady who spoke up to the president at a town hall last week.
Remember her?
I'm also a mother.
I'm a wife.
I'm an American veteran.
And I'm one of your middle-class Americans.
And quite frankly, I'm exhausted.
I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now.
I've been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class.
I'm one of those people, and I'm waiting, sir.
I'm waiting.
Pretty tough stuff.
But Joe Biden knows just what to say to get that woman back on board and vote in Democratic this November.
It's time to just buck up here.
Buck up?
That's what you have to say.
Did you hear what that woman has to say?
What do you say to those people who say that, Joe?
They should stop that.
Joe, that woman's your base.
She's a Democrat.
Your most ardent supporter thinks that the president and the Democratic Congress aren't doing a good job.
What do you say to her to get her to vote, Joe?
What the president's been able to do has been truly remarkable with the help of a Democratic Congress.
Yes, and if you can believe it, there's even more to say about that.
And we're going to say it later on in the show.
Plus, the Republicans announce their pledge to America.
Sounds like the Republicans are really going to shake things up in Congress.
We are not going to be any different than what we've been.
Or not.
We'll talk about that coming up.
Plus, we have a phone call for Moron, Jim Hightower, and a lot, lot more coming up on today's Jimmy Dore Show.
Music.
you Oh, how do you guys like the new music?
That betting music's fantastic, isn't it?
It really gets very ominous.
It really makes it sound like there's some new stuff going to happen.
Let's talk about the Pledge to America that John Boehner and Mike Pence have been introducing to the people.
You know, what's funny to me is, of course, I knew that the liberals are going to see through it and see how ridiculous it was and how empty it was, but it's also the conservatives were beating up on it.
The guy from RedState.com, he said right-wing Eric Erickson, he's calling it Drek.
He called it Drek.
He describes a 21-page document as a series of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes.
Wow.
Wow, look at that.
Isn't that a milk toast rhetorical flourish?
That phrase itself.
Wow, Ben, you really jumped in the gun.
I think his big complaint is that they didn't say enough idiotic, direct things.
They just glossed over all the idiotic things in the way they usually do.
Yeah, now, Robert, you're familiar with the pledge, aren't you?
A little bit.
I mean, the thing is, is that there's nothing to hold on to.
Like, I could have read it three times and I still wouldn't be able to tell you, like, because it's such a vague document.
Like, basically, it's like, you know, it's like Christians try and explain sex to their kids without explaining sex to their kids.
There's like, we're kind of going to do this thing that we're maybe not going to do.
Yeah.
But that's classic Republican, though.
Like, you know, every time there's a Democratic proposal, there's immediately Republicans screaming about how it's too long.
There's too many pages.
The health care, like, it's 2,000 pages.
We have a whole, we're going to overhaul everything in the country, 21 pages.
We can do it in the back of it.
You could run this government on the back of a matchbook.
Who are we kidding?
Come on.
They want people just to leave it on the toilet tank, and then that's the pledge.
We gave the bankers the trillion dollars on a three-page plan.
I mean, really, you're just wasting paper.
What more needs to be said?
You know what I think I like the most, or I find the funniest about this pledge to America.
Boy, it really takes work to make Newt Gingrich look competent.
And boy, did they?
It took John Boehner.
Anyway, so the thing is that they want to repeal, they say two contradictory things.
They say, you know, the Democrats, we're not going to get out of this recession until business people know exactly what's going to happen, and the Democrats are creating too much uncertainty.
So the first thing we're going to do is repeal that health care bill and take away everybody's health insurance.
And you're like, well, what could be creating more uncertainty than that?
But the thing is, they want to repeal the Obamacare, but they want to keep a lot of it.
Their pledges that, oh, no, people go, oh, you want to repeal the, they can't drop you because it pre-exists.
Oh, no, no, no, we're going to keep that.
Oh, so you're proposing that.
Yeah, yeah, we're proposing keeping that.
So you're proposing stuff that's already law.
Okay.
Your proposal to fix stuff is to do stuff that we're already doing.
We're going to get rid of this and then put back 90% of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's it.
We're going to take care of get rid of the health care plan, reinstitute it, and then I think we could go to the moon.
We want to propose making it illegal to park in a red zone.
That is our pledge on America.
I just imagine in the back of this pamphlet, there's sort of a, if you have any ideas how we're going to do this, write it down.
And there's like some extra page.
It's a tear sheet.
It's a worksheet.
There's a workbook in it.
You know, the ironic thing was they did this, they're listening to her, right, which never got off the ground.
But then they had, I'm talking about the House Republicans, and then they had their website where they wanted people to go to their website and to type in what they wanted to have done, what they wanted to see government do.
And then two top things that the Republicans got on their own website is not in the pledge.
You know what the two top things were?
Please.
The number one thing was to stop corporations from shipping jobs overseas.
Stop tax breaks for corporations who ship jobs overseas.
That's not in the pledge.
That was the number one thing their own constituents wanted.
And the number two thing.
I know that, actually.
No more Kenyan presidents?
The number two thing was legalize marijuana.
What?
Really?
Yes, that's true.
Yes.
But those people are, you know, they say pot takes away your motivation, but I've never seen a guy more motivated than a guy who wants to get a little weed.
I'll tell you that.
Pot is a big tent issue.
I agree.
Yes, yes.
These big tent people like to go into a big tent, close the windows, and smoke pots.
Isn't pot more than hail.
It's like a big Dutch oven.
A good one.
Oh, there you go.
Back to the Dutch again.
Dutch oven.
I feel like pot is more of a behind-the-tent issue.
Yeah.
You got to sneak around behind the tent.
You know what?
I like Jim's way too, though.
I like that thing.
You know, if that initiative passes, it's going to be a Big Tent issue.
We'll be able to tell.
I smoke very, you know, truth be told, I don't, you know, California, I get very cocky because we have its legal medical marijuana.
And in L.A., it's functionally legal.
So that makes it functionally legal.
Like, I'm not afraid to get pulled over and have the cops smell pot in my car.
No, but like, even before medical marijuana was legal, like, it was functionally legal.
Like, for you to get a pot charge in L.A., you have to have shot a guy, and that's the only charge they can make stick, is the pot charge.
I'm sorry to the few affiliates in the rest of the country, but we got it pretty good here.
I almost got a ticket once.
It's a long story.
I should tell it.
What a nightmare.
That'll be a bonus that I'll give to the members of the Jimmy Dork whatever membership thing when I start that.
But I haven't started it yet.
And I'm going to write it down.
It's a good note.
Tell about the pot story when I almost got arrested.
But they just gave me a ticket, and then I got out of the ticket.
It's great.
It's a great story.
You got out of a ticket by killing a cop.
But that's another story.
Do they give you a ticket for that?
Hey, man.
You know what?
I got out of that ticket, too.
Wow.
Yeah, I'm a good ticket getter out of her.
I like the way you talk.
Thank you very much.
So I find that – don't you think that – when do you think the Republican – like if the Republican base comes out and the number one thing they want – first of all, the Republican base thinks there's too much money in politics.
So 73% of the teabaggers think there's too much money in politics.
They do?
Yes.
So if there's 73% of the teabaggers think so, all the liberals think so, why can't we get rid of it?
Oh, because we've lost touch and control of our government.
It has something to do with the people that are getting the too much money in politics.
So the government is actually now – the money people actually do have a barrier.
It doesn't seem that it's going to change.
Do those 73% of the teabaggers know that the teabag movement is completely funded by the Koch brothers?
Do they get that?
I think that's what – That it's funded by corporate interests?
Yes.
I don't think they care about the money if it comes to them and helps them.
The only thing they care about is all that money being used for other people's interests.
I mean, the teabaggers are inherently selfish, and that's the – You think?
You think?
They don't care about the money as long as it comes to them.
Well, you know what?
This kind of dovetails right now.
Let's go right into the – talk about the tea partiers, because I was watching Dylan Rattigan, and he made a – you know, he made a good point.
You know, the – well, here, let me just go ahead and play it for you.
You know, he talks about how their big thing is that they're upset about all the spending, all the spending, and the bailout.
The bailout is their number one issue, right?
And – but the funny thing is, when there was a vote that came up on a bill, the Brown-Kaufman bill came up for a vote that was going to break up the banks so they wouldn't be too big to fail anymore, and we would never have to risk bailing out the banks again.
A perfect solution to the tea bagger's central question.
Well, here's – let me just play what Dylan Rattigan had to say.
Bank legislation comes up, and Kaufman Brown is on the floor that wants to break up the banks.
The tea partiers are absolutely nowhere to be found whatsoever.
So while they're happy to roll out and go bananas on health care, when the actual event that they cite as the genesis of their existence comes up for a legislative debate, they're nowhere – it's crazy people like me saying, you've got to break up these banks, you've got to deal with this, and I'm expecting the tea party to be right there with me, because who doesn't want smaller government and competition, and lo and behold, they're nowhere to be found.
I guess what I'm – isn't there a lot of – there's a lot of apparent hypocrisy, not just with all of our other politicians, but with the tea party now.
So, I mean, is there a lot of hypocrisy, Robert, with the tea party?
No, because the tea party – the tea party doesn't stand for anything.
The only thing they stand for is we're pissed off.
Like, they don't stand for any policy.
Yeah, it's mostly idiocy.
Like, everybody says, like, oh, the tea party is for this tea party.
No, they're not.
They don't know what they stand for.
They're a bunch of pissed off people.
That's all that unites those people.
Are you guys suggesting that the tea party people don't have an understanding understanding of complex economic policy and that they they might just be memorizing things that'll fit on a bumper sticker.
But don't you know some Tea Party people who are college graduates?
I do.
Yeah, but you know.
You do.
There's a lot of colleges in this country.
What college?
College of.
I know a lot of full-blown morons who are college graduates.
One does not equate to the other.
Oh, yeah, I guess you're right.
Yeah, yeah, good point.
But let me, but so, so the reason why, my theory is the reason why the Tea Party's were nowhere to be found during Kaufman Brown legislation was because the Koch brothers didn't tell them to be upset about it.
The Koch brothers didn't want the banks to be broken up.
They wanted them to be, so they didn't make that an issue.
And it's so funny how easily led around by the nose the media is.
Well, because who owns the media?
Like, it's the same people, you know, like there's the same handful of people that fund everything, that have all the money.
Those people are not interested in anti-monopolistic legislation at all.
I mean, the pyramid has just been going up.
It hasn't been going down at all.
So I'm seeing a real pattern.
I'm not even kidding, like, of government being, you know, not responsive to the people, a government that, I mean, at all.
I mean, if you go back to the health care debate, even the Democrats didn't push to get the public option, which over 70% of the country wanted.
Now, 70% of the country wants money out of politics.
It ain't going.
The country wants real reform on banking.
It ain't happening.
It's like the big things that people want.
I mean, what happens, Jim, when government does get out of it.
I mean, what do you think happens?
Because the only way to change it is to get money out of politics, right?
And do you see that ever happening?
No, because money is permanently in politics now, especially with that Supreme Court decision.
And it's going to snowball.
And this election is going to be a symptom of that.
I think teabaggers are going to win.
I think the Republicans are going to win.
It's going to get worse and worse and worse.
We'll become a feudal society.
Unions will all die out.
And I'll move to Holland.
Well, it's getting worse and worse.
I mean, people vote against their own self-interest, especially at teabaggers.
That's why I said it was idiocy.
They vote against their self-interest.
They vote against banking reform.
They don't understand it or like it.
But you know, you're allowed to vote against your own interests, but you have to understand what you're voting for.
Like a lot of people like the hut to understand like Bill Gay.
If Bill Gay votes for higher taxes, I'm really there.
That's okay.
If you look at it, and there are people, like, remember that book, What's the Matter with Kansas?
Yes.
There's a big thing about how they would sort of drum up, you know, like if abortion is the big issue.
And people are like, look, I can't vote for a guy that is pro-choice.
And like, if it's really that important to you, then you're completely free to vote against your own economic interests in that way.
But that's the thing, if you make that decision, you say, this thing, even though it's going to cost me money, I feel that strongly about abortion, I'm going to vote for this guy.
I don't have any problem with that.
Like, you're totally allowed to do that.
But the problem is that these people are not being given actual information to make these decisions.
Education.
My grandmother grew up in central Kansas, and we had a farm there for over 100 years.
And she was a Presbyterian, a Methodist, I mean, conservative, but she was also very liberal, too.
I mean, there's nothing like the Tea Party movement.
She understood civil rights.
She voted Democratically a few times for a Democratic president.
But they were highly educated, even 100 years ago.
Like now, these people are voting because they think Obama's raising their taxes.
So, yes.
Yes.
I doubt there are that many of them that are making over a quarter million a year.
Well, it is scary.
You watch the tapes that Max Blumenthal, those people make when they go to the Tea Party rallies.
The most recent one where the guy went up at the Glenn Beck rally and said, hey, what do you think about Glenn Beck's calling the president a racist?
And he went, he didn't call.
He didn't call.
Why are you just making stuff up to get us mad?
Like, how could you be a Glenn Beck fan and not even know that?
All right, so you know what?
I got a phone message.
Hey, Jimmy, this is Republican Representative Mike Pence.
You know, since I went on Meet the Press this week and got my fanny handed to me by that silver-maned bulldog, David Gregory, a lot of people have been asking me if the Republicans' new pledge to America is just a bunch of rehashed old ideas.
And I just had to call you directly and say, no, it is not.
First of all, look at the name.
The last time we did this, it was the contract with America.
This time, it's the pledge to America.
Two out of three words in the title are all new.
That's a 66% difference.
If you're a baseball player batting 660, it's next stop Cooperstown.
So in other words, this pledge belongs in the hall of fame of things that are different from previous things.
There's tons more examples.
I'm going to give the old pledge a quick once-over, and if any of them jump out at me, I'll give you a jingle back.
I love that Mike Pence.
I don't know if you saw him on Meet the Press last Sunday.
It's funny, the Republicans still haven't come up with a talking point to the question of what would you cut to lower the deficit.
They don't have any.
They still haven't come up with something to even say.
They don't even say anything.
Welfare mothers.
When David Gregory can hand you your ass, you're really not getting it.
That's like when Katie Kerr, it's like, it takes a special kind of dummy to be able to let these people look like journalists.
It's like, yeah, sure.
I could look smart in front of Sarah Palin.
Let's move.
A thing that's bugging me, I'm listening to this report on NBC about the teabagger, that guy up in New York State who's running for Senate, and Palladino.
And it's this phony thing about...
Well, first they say that Brian Williams says it's a different year because this guy might win because...
And wow, so he was saying there's a crazy dynamic, crazy dynamic this year.
And Palladino might, and I was like, well, what is that crazy dynamic exactly?
I think Palladino is a lot like some of the Tea Party candidates that we're seeing around the country, but he has a particular edge here, and that is he's got a lot of money.
Oh, so he's got a lot of money.
That's crazy.
Oh, that is.
That is really, what a crazy dynamic.
Palladino told me that he won't hesitate to spend as much of his fortune as it takes, and that is what worries Democrats Brian, a last-minute barrage of cash.
Yeah.
Oh, so she says this to Brian Williams.
So Brian Williams starts off the report by saying, there's a crazy dynamic out there.
Anything could happen.
This guy, Palladino, people say he's got a chance because there's such a crazy dynamic.
And then you find out, oh, the thing that makes him different and what gives him a chance is that he's got a lot of money and he's not afraid to spend it.
So Brian Williams, this is his response to that.
Ready?
This year, throw out everything you know about politics, kids.
This year, throw out everything you know about politics.
No, it's the same old story.
The richest guy who, with the guy with the most money, wins.
The moneyed interest is going to win.
He's going to be able to buy the election.
That's an old story.
I think Brian Williams threw out everything he knew about politics a long time ago.
Yeah, and we know, I think Brian Williams is right.
We're really through the looking glass in the paper.
This is really black is white up as dark.
Oh, yeah.
This is crazy.
Richest guy winning the money.
The richest guy wins the election.
How does that happen?
The guy with the most money, huh?
The guy who's going to serve corporate America somehow just might have a chance in this election.
So that's the.
How do guys like Brian.
You know, the reason why we'll never get good government again is because it relies on the electorate becoming informed, and we need guys like Brian Williams to inform us, and he's never going to inform us, right?
Millionaires informing us about working people's lives.
It doesn't work anymore.
That's exactly right.
Yeah, it worked a little bit like maybe with Walter Cronkite, but then it ended right after him.
Right after him.
And as soon as Tom Brokaw got his hands on a microphone, things started going downhill quickly.
They're all entertainment stars and millionaires.
Yeah, like I think, you know, Brian Williams spends, I swear, spends as much time on Saturday Night Live as he does behind the news desk.
I think he just wants to be on TV.
I have serious doubts whether he actually knows anything.
Well, you know, the number one thing I think would help if you got money out of campaigns, right?
And the thing we're going to need to do is raise awareness for people to be on board for that.
We're going to need guys, but the problem is we're going to need guys like Brian Williams to raise that awareness, and that's never going to happen because who makes more money off of political campaigns than the networks, right?
I mean, TV stations, that's how they're funded pretty much now, is non-stop campaigning.
So you get rid of that stuff, and you know what they're going to have to do?
They're going to have to go back to reporting on substantive issues to attract people who want information.
And that's never going to happen, Ben.
You know that.
Come on.
It could happen.
I swear on Chuck Todd's beard, it will not happen in my lifetime.
Oh, Chuck Todd.
Oh, Chuck Todd was upset that Stephen Colbert.
I was on board a lot.
I'm talking about that.
I was going to bring the clip in.
He was really upset that Stephen Colbert went on.
What kind of a joke?
You know, what kind of a joke?
I'm like, really, Chuck?
That's the clown that has you pissed off?
Yeah.
The one who's actually funny instead of just evil?
The one who's, he's not there because he wants to cut unemployment benefits to people put out of a job.
He's not there because he.
I just didn't like the way Stephen Colbert overshadowed all the reporting that Chuck Todd has done about migrant workers.
Ouch.
Ben, you had that in your back pocket the whole time.
You've been sitting on it.
It's very uncomfortable.
You know, I had another phone call yesterday.
Hey, Jimmy, Mike Pence again.
I found some other new ideas in the contract in the Pledge to America.
Now, tell me what you think of this one.
It's a doozy.
We're proposing a system of high-speed roads that would run all over the country.
Now, think about it.
Trucking and shipping would be way more efficient, not to mention all the jobs we'd create building the thing.
Now, we just got to come up with a name for this interstate highway system.
I suggested Rocket Roads, but I don't think anyone liked it.
Anyway, that's just one of the great and all-new ideas in the pledge.
There's tons more, but I got to run out now.
I'm getting the oil and the PT Cruiser changed.
I'll holler at you later this afternoon.
Mike Pence, I got to tell you.
These guys, you're in a lot of Rolodexes in Washington.
I think people really just flip through there and they think I'm going to call Jimmy.
Well, you know what?
I have the iChat, and you get to know a lot of guys through that.
And Facebook really is a useful tool.
Social networking.
Facebooking.
And Tony Robbins taught me a lot about networking.
He really did.
You know, it's a friend.
It's also, you can have friends helping friends, is what it really is.
Wow.
And the world is one big Ponzi scheme.
By the way, by the way, you know that the Contract of America or whatever the hell they're calling it.
That's just like one big love letter to the Tea Party.
It's basically saying, like, we get it.
That's why it says nothing.
Yes.
Because the Tea Party doesn't stand for anything.
It's not.
Right.
They don't know what they mean, so it's basically saying we're going to appease you.
And that's all that contract was.
It has nothing to do with anything.
They're just angry.
Some of them are just angry that there's a black guy president.
Yeah.
Well, it's a lot of the greatest generation, Jimmy.
Yes.
Tom Brokerau's greatest generation.
Yeah.
How old is your father, by the way?
My father's 81.
81?
Does he have a lot of his greatest generation friends spamming him racist crap every day like my dad's friends do?
My dad doesn't use a computer.
My dad was in the Air Force.
He bombed Japan during the war.
And he's liberal as can be, but every one of his compadres spam him.
Stuff like this every day.
This fantasy picture.
Can everybody out there see this?
Oh, yeah, that's a fantasy picture of all the Republican presidents of the last hundred years.
Nixon, the Bushes, with Eisenhower and Reagan.
And, oh, look, there's Abraham Lincoln sitting there, and they're all sharing a beer, playing cards.
This is the greatest generation.
That's like a Tea Party fantasy.
It's like a wet dream for those guys.
Is this a regular segment where we describe pictures?
We shouldn't describe pictures on television.
Actually, if you look at the next picture in that series, it's Lincoln with a thought balloon over his head.
He's like, it said Republican on the door, right?
What are these people?
Are we in the wrong room?
It's like they all think they have something in common with Abraham.
Abraham Lincoln.
The only thing that, hey, you know, the only thing that Bush had in common with Lincoln was they're both declared brain dead at the end of their first term.
Thank you.
I'm going now.
Fantastic, Steve.
And we'll be right back.
This is Jimmy Dora, Pacifica.
This is Jimmy Dora, Pacifica.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Jimmy Doer show on the Pacifica Network.
And we're in the studio with Ben Zelovansky, Jim Earl, and Robert Yasamura.
We've got a lot of morons going to call in later on today in the show.
Later on today, in just a couple of minutes, we're going to talk about Joe Biden's buck up comments.
We're going to go through that.
That was hilarious.
Mike Pence calls me a few more times.
We're going to play those.
I had a couple of those messages.
And I want to let you know, a lot of you want to come see me at Do the Standing Up Comedy.
Well, guess what?
We're starting a new thing.
There's a comedy club in Burbank, a new club called Flappers.
And it's a great club.
I was there last weekend.
And so now every Thursday, starting October 14th, October 14th, every Thursday, it's going to be Jimmy Doran Friends at the Flappers Comedy Club at Burbank.
It's every Thursday.
Every Thursday.
Wow.
Sure.
And if you're a KPFK Film Club member, you flash your thing, you get a half price in.
Oh, it's a great, it's a big, it's a great thing.
So Flappers, you go to flapperscomedy.com.
F-L-A-P-P-E-R-S Comedy.com, FlappersComedy.com.
Every Thursday.
That's going to be the new Jimmy Door night over at Flappers.
Jimmy Doran Friends at Flappers and Burbank.
Also, if you're up in San Francisco, which I know we have a lot of podcast listeners up there, Punchline, I'm going to be at the punchline October 6th through 9th.
See you up there.
And all our friends in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I'll be there October 21 through 23.
Look at that.
And you know what?
There's a comedy show benefit fundraiser for the Peace and Freedom Party.
So there's going to be a comedy show.
And look who's on this comedy show benefit.
First of all, it's Sunday, October 3rd at the Powerhouse Theater.
But that's a lot of.
That's nice.
You call your theater called the Powerhouse.
Isn't that nice?
Well, to be fair, the Powerhouse Theater was, in fact, a powerhouse.
It was a junction station.
There's a reason.
And Flappers was, in fact, a flapper.
Yeah, there was.
It was a.
I don't know.
I'll be a whole building.
I'll be a stiffies in Stockton.
And I have another set to do with Stinkies and Lodi.
So please come see me.
We need your support.
Lodi.
The comedy show benefit fundraiser for the Peace and Freedom Party Sunday, October 3rd at the Powerhouse Theater is featuring Rick Overton, Jan Carum, Gary Gordon, Jimmy Dore, and Randolph, Paul Lyons, and more.
Look at the KPFK event calendar.
And we're going to, well, we're going to put those flapper states up there, too, aren't we, on those?
Because I think KPFK is going to be a proud sponsor of the Jimmy Dorn Friends Thursday night shows at Flappers in Burbank.
Or at least a sponsor.
Or at least, what did I say?
A prouder?
A proud sponsor.
Or proud sponsor.
Or at least a sponsor.
Yeah, I don't care if they're proud or not.
I really don't.
So I got this forwarded to me.
I wanted to read before we throw to Jim Hightower.
And this was forwarded to me last May.
And it says, Yes, I'm a bad American.
I am a liberal progressive's worst nightmare.
I am an American.
I'm a master mason and believe in God.
I write Harley-Davidson motorcycles and believe in American products.
I'd like to believe in an American product.
What do you mean, like you mean the tonight show?
What do you mean?
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some liberal governmental functionary, be it Democratic or Republican.
I'm in touch with my feelings, and I like it that way.
What?
Somebody's finally giving it to the liberal Republicans.
It's about time.
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer.
It makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized and does not entitle you to anything.
Get over it.
That's my favorite thing.
400 years of institutionalized segregation and discrimination.
Walk it off.
Come on.
Suck it up.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
Not unless they're a mind.
I don't think they still think.
I don't think he still thinks that.
I think he turned it.
You know what?
I think that until there's a religion that's unpopular.
And then I don't feel that way.
He thinks every white person has the.
My heroes are John Wayne, a guy who sold out the working man.
Babe Ruth.
A drunk.
Roy Rogers, Willie G. Davidson that makes the and Willie G. Davidson.
You know who he is?
He makes that awesome Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
I think they sold it to a Japanese company.
Anyway, no.
And didn't he tour?
He toured with Lester, right?
Willie Davidson?
Lester Davidson?
Oh, Silent.
I was going to say, because that's one of my heroes.
I know wrestling is fake, and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
Well, good for you.
You do sell.
Give that man a gun.
He's smart.
But fake wrestling is an American-made thing.
Yes, exactly.
It's a huge industry.
That sounds like someone hates America.
I never.
Well, now we're arguing about it.
I never owned a slave or was a slave.
I haven't burned any witches or been prosecuted by the Turks, and neither have you.
So shut up already.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country.
What if I'm from this country?
Go back to it.
This is America.
We like it the way it is.
No.
Always working to change it.
If you were born here and don't like it, you are free to move to any socialist country that will have you.
I want to know which church it is exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he's always part of the problem and not the solution.
That doesn't have a tinge of racism at all.
He's just curious.
He's not angry.
He just wants to know.
But he doesn't, but he knows where that guy from Focus on the Family gets his money.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, those guys, no problem.
And tell Evangelist, he's okay.
They trick people into giving them their money.
He's okay with that.
He knows where it comes from.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making donations to their cause.
Get a job.
Getting a little off track here.
Now we're getting into pet peeves, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, so you keep going.
If you are a bad American, too, please forward this to everyone you know.
We want our country back.
Wow.
I didn't know.
You know, first of all, first you're saying you like it just the way it is, and then you want it to change back to something.
And then anyway.
Thank you for you.
So right now, it's time for a commentary from our good friend Jim Hightower, and he's going to tell us about where the real power in Washington is.
The teabag forces are out front in today's politics, noisily trying to oust Democrats and install a new Congress that they think will end business as usual in Washington.
But behind the scenes, another force is moving quietly and assuredly to make certain that a Republican Congress will deliver business more than usual.
Meet Paul Singer, the ultra-rich operator of a $17 billion hedge fund.
A far-out laissez-faire ideologue, he's one of the Wall Street barons who's mad as hell at Obama and the Democrats for having the temerity even to try reining in the bankster greed that has brought our economy to its knees.
Like a big chicken little, he's been running around decrying Obama's Wall Street reforms, insisting that they'll ruin America's position as a world leader in finance.
Apparently, he slipped through 2007 when Wall Street itself ruined that reputation.
Nonetheless, Singer is richer than Daddy Warbucks, which makes him a big chicken little in Republican politics.
So far this year, he has poured $4 million of his own fortune into GOP congressional candidates and corporate front groups, and he's raised millions more.
Plus, backing Wall Street-friendly Republicans with cash from his hedge fund.
Meanwhile, another powerful force is moving quickly to capture any gains that Republicans make in November: K-Street.
This corporate lobbying corridor is undergoing a major makeover, shifting from Democratic to Republican influence peddlers.
In particular, GOP staffers on Capitol Hill are in high demand with such outfits as Walmart, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Raytheon, now paying top dollar to hire well-connected Republicans.
They're the new it girl, gushed one insider.
This is Jim Hightower saying, yeah, and that's it, exactly.
Money is the real power in Washington.
Until that changes, there'll be no change.
Hey, thanks again to our good friend Jim Hightower for bumping us out in a very faultsy voice.
Thank you very much.
Well, you know what, to dovetails, it ties right in with our theme today of the ridiculous idea that, oh, it's a different kind of election year.
Oh, and anything can happen.
Like, you mean like the guy with the most money could win?
Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
And that's Jim Heights.
Look at that.
We're like some patio, Jim Hightower and me.
I don't know what that is.
Hey, by the way, I don't know if you guys don't believe in global warming, but I did turn on my TV yesterday.
Unbelievable.
Downtown LA sets a new record, the hottest it's ever been.
And in case you forgot, it's fall.
Okay, so there you go.
The hottest day ever in Los Angeles happened in the fall.
There you go.
I don't know.
Is there global warming?
There might be a little global warming.
Let's talk about the Democrats, or it seems like this administration, the Barack Obama administration, seems like the best way to get their base riled up is to scold them.
Jim, do you remember this ever happening before?
No.
And that's because Obama and most of the Democrats are Republicans.
Obama's not a Democrat.
They're Republicans.
They side more often with Republicans than they do their real base and the progressives who elected him.
Well, I saw, you know what, I actually saw Bill Maher say this just the other day.
He said that the Republican, the Democrats have moved to the center and to the right, and the Republicans have just gone bat crazy.
Yeah, they have.
They've just gone crazy.
So it's like this country.
So how does that happen?
Is that because of chasing money?
The money is coming from money interests.
It's money that is infected.
And we used to have a guy named John McCain who was actually a Maverick at one time and tried to get money out of politics.
And then money kicked him into balls.
You realize you can't run for president without money.
Well, and the Supreme Court kicked him in the balls.
And then the Supreme Court, right.
Well, the Supreme Court was a, you know, that decision was an effective money, right?
Because money got those guys elected, and then they appointed Supreme Court justice.
And, you know, as Danny Crane says, the law is whatever we say it is.
Money and fear.
But the thing is that according to the polls, 70%, that's not far from what you would need for a constitutional amendment to basically get money out of politics.
It's not far off, and it may be the only thing that would change this.
Because constitutionally speaking, they're kind of right.
Like, you can't tell people what to spend their money on and what messages.
The difference is that now corporations are people.
Look, I agree.
Yeah, I know we're on the discussion.
That was where, you know, now the idea that, like, well, my free speech is the same as KBR's free speech.
Yeah, it's not.
But the thing is, corporations have been people since the foundation of the Republic.
I mean, that's always been black letter law.
It's true.
I mean, I tried to break up with ATT, and man.
It just kept stalking me, calling me up.
Head trips, heavy head trips.
It was disgusting.
Yeah, and when you're dating ATT, you can't change your number.
They're going to know.
Oh, they're going to.
But they sent me some pretty sexy texts.
I'm not going to lie.
They have bad pictures of me, too.
Well, I like to play the field.
That's why I have my number portability.
I like to go around.
I go to the Verizon because sometimes I like them hairy.
By the way, I do remember the Democratic Party browbeating us into submission.
I remember Ray No Carter saying, you guys need to put on a sweater.
Yes.
And I love it up fast.
That never works.
Yes, that's right.
That is right, Robert.
I do remember, and that's what killed Jimmy Carter.
The FDR did that, too.
That worked for him, though.
Yeah, but he was also doing, he was affecting real change in people's life at the same time.
You know, like if your house was underwater and they were just about to foreclose on you, and all of a sudden the president passed a law that said they couldn't, you would go, wow, that is pretty cool.
I have my house.
That actually, the government actually made a change in my life.
Barack Obama hasn't done that.
Yeah, but FBDR told me I shouldn't fear stuff.
And I don't like that.
I don't like him telling me what to fear and what not to do.
And he did it in that weird accent.
That weird little bit of weird fake New England accent.
You know, I just wanted to dovetail back, or just to double back to, you know, people were talking about where we were talking about where were the Tea Partyers when the banking legislation was up for a vote.
And, you know, the problem was the Tea Partyers are ignorant and dumb.
And when they saw a sign that said Goldman Sachs exposed, they thought it was going to be a Jewish guy showing his balls.
Is that one too many ball references?
You can bleep out the first one.
Keep that one because that's the funny one.
Three ball strikes are out.
You have to make those references in Paris.
Man, I got another phone message.
Jimmy, it's me, your old buddy Mike, number two pence.
I hate that nickname.
Anyway, I got another shiny new idea for you, straight from the pages of the Pledge to America.
Republicans are proposing the creation of a global system of interconnected computer networks linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies that anyone can access right from their home computer.
And we get this thing up and running.
You can use it for shopping, reading the news, or maybe looking at, let's just say, stuff.
You know what I'm saying?
The kind of stuff that might help keep some of our guys out of the airport men's room if you catch my drift.
Anyway, I'll call you back in a bit.
I've got to bounce over to the coffee room.
We're having a cake party for Sandy's last day.
Pence out!
All right, let's play Joe.
This is Joe Biden's idea to get the Democratic base out to the polls this November.
What I think, what I mean by there's some on the Democratic base, not the core of it, that are angry because we didn't get every single thing they want.
We've got a health care bill that is becoming, every day it becomes more apparent how much it does for people and businesses in terms of cost and availability.
But because there was no public option, some of them are so angry they say, we're not going to participate.
They should stop that.
These guys.
Stop.
You guys stop it.
Stop it now.
Get out there, folks.
Come on, please.
When the other team, they're going to repeal health care.
And I want them to tell me why what we did wasn't an incredibly significant move that's progressive and helping people.
Okay, Ben, I'm going to put that question to you.
Yeah, I want people to tell me why.
What's so bad about getting a D-plus in something?
Why should we try?
You know, it was really good.
We passed just because we could have gotten an A if we tried.
Someone needs to explain to me the difference between doing something great and doing something that's just okay.
Is there really a difference?
No, no, no.
Okay, now I'm going to ask that question to each other.
The significant move that's progressive.
Hang on, I want to play that question for everybody.
I've got to find out.
I've got to queue it up.
I've got to queue it up.
Here we go.
Health care, and I want them to tell me why what we did wasn't an incredibly significant move that's progressive and helping people.
Jim?
Because Richard Nixon suggested something far better years and years ago, and he was a fascist.
That's why when somebody like that suggests something much, much better, Medicare for all, you know, and you would give away single payer before you even start bargaining, then you're an idiot and a Republican.
It's not good to get out-progressived by Nixon.
Okay, here we go.
Why what we did wasn't an incredibly significant move that's progressive and helping people.
I have a question back for Joe Biden.
How does he take basically good politics and always make me hate him?
Like, how does he say things that I, in substance, agree with in such a way that I disagree with him in entirety?
He's saying, like, this was a political win.
It wasn't everything we wanted.
We should be running on this.
Everybody should be using it as a political.
But he's saying it in such a way where he's like, But I'm going to say it in a way that alienates everyone.
Yes, you are gifted, Joe Biden.
You know, the difference is, if we had gotten this health care plan after they had fought their life, you know, like fought like hell to get that single payer, I would be fine with it.
But they started with something that sucked.
And then they got something that sucked, and everyone's supposed to be happy with it.
Yeah.
Like, if you try, and this was the best you could do, okay.
But you set out aiming for the middle.
They tried in reverse.
What they did was let a guy like Joe Lieberman, who was blocking the public option, even though three-quarters of his own constituency was for it.
So instead of Barack Obama flying to Connecticut, is that where Connecticut, where Joe Lieberman is from, and campaigning and giving a speech and getting his constituency to make him get out of the way of the public option, what he did was he flew to Dennis Kucinich's district and did campaigns to make Dennis Kucinich get on board with the corporate version of the health care bill.
He did the opposite of what a progressive would do.
He put pressure on Dennis Kucinich to accept the worst bill.
You know when Barack Obama did fly to Connecticut and campaign?
It was when Joe Lieberman lost that primary and decided to run as an independent.
He was there to support Lieberman.
He went and supported Lieberman against the Democrat.
You don't see much of that on the Republican.
They're behind that.
No, Murkowski's running as an independent in Alaska, and the establishment is behind the other guy.
Sure.
What's that guy's name?
Joe Wilson?
Miller?
Miller.
Yeah, he's got a really regular name.
How much time do you have, Ali?
Holly's in the thing.
But I think you guys are missing the point.
I mean, the context of what he's saying is in this election cycle, like, look, we did get a political win.
It wasn't good, but it was a political win.
And what little we got, you elect the Republicans, they're going to tear it apart.
Like, they're going to roll us back even further.
And what he's saying is completely reasonable.
And he's also saying, like, we need Democratic boots on the ground.
We need the base stimulated because they should understand, like, the Republicans and the teabaggers are coming for us.
What he's saying is completely reasonable, but he's saying it in this, like, ridiculous, browsing, pedantic, awful way.
He's like, we really need the base to get fired.
You can't stimulate the base by going down to the farmer's market and bargaining by giving away your daughter for a turnip.
That's basically what he did.
How did this guy get elected to so many terms in Delaware?
Look what else he's doing in Delaware.
Maybe it's a little nutty down there, maybe.
All you would have to do to win against Biden, I think, is just be quiet.
Just let him talk.
Because I think if you let Biden talk long enough, he'll accidentally say something like deny the Holocaust or something.
He's one of those guys he doesn't understand after you've made the sale, stop talking.
He just keeps talking until he says something wrong.
This many.
Hang on, you guys.
I got to take this.
Hang on.
Hey, it's Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, how you doing?
It's Moron.
Hey, Moron, how's it going, buddy?
Hi, Jimmy.
You know me.
I'm a good American.
I'm easily manipulated to vote against my own economic interest.
And I have lots of legitimate anger at the government, but it's often misplaced at the people who are actually trying to help me.
Although I do find comfort, Jim, in the fact that my Lord Jesus the Christ hates exactly the same people that I do.
So what's on your mind this week, Moron?
Oh, Jim.
That Governor Christie.
I love that guy.
I figured.
I love that guy.
Why?
Why?
Yeah, why?
Because that guy knows how to get something done, Jim.
Like he knows how to fix up the education system in New Jersey.
No, he's not really reforming education.
You know what he's doing is the oldest trick in the book.
He's scapegoating and demonizing the teachers for all the problems of the school district.
No, he's not scapegoating or demonizing.
He's blaming the teachers for all the problems.
It's the same thing, Tony.
That's good, right?
You got to blame someone and just make sense.
I think it's actually the teachers' unions, huh?
These teacher unions are horrible.
What do you mean?
They protect teachers and give them a stable environment.
What do you mean you can't?
Yeah, you got crappy teachers and you can't fire them.
That's really your solution?
fire more teachers no I think teachers should be able to be fired at the drop of a hat and then everybody walks around on eggshells always worrying about being fired and then that's when real learning takes place That doesn't really sound conducive to learning, buddy.
But it's really the union start, the horrible.
It's the unions screwing up education, don't you think?
I think that whenever they're making policy about teaching, that the teachers should have a voice in that.
And I think the unions give the teachers a voice in policy about teaching.
No, you look at the schools that are failing, and they got the teachers' unions there protecting crappy teachers.
Yeah, but you know what?
If you look at the top schools, the top public schools in the nation, they also have teacher unions.
Yeah, the top schools in the nation, they all have teacher unions too.
So if the problem is teacher unions and bad teachers, how come the best schools in the country also have teacher unions?
I don't know, Jim.
All I know is our teachers are failing.
Moron, our teachers aren't failing.
We're failing.
They're not even in school.
Our teachers are working hard.
And instead of rewarding them for dedicating their lives to teaching our children, our solution when things get bad is to fire them.
Right.
I want to see how Governor Christie's schools look in four years.
Me too.
Yeah, you know, after he fires all these teachers, scapegoats them, blames poor performing students and poor performing communities on their teachers.
I wonder who's going to want to join Governor Christie's teaching profession.
People who will work hard to teach our little children.
Our schools are just a reflection of our communities, moron.
And if a school's not working, it's a reflection of a bigger, deeper problem.
Too many words, Jim.
What's your point?
My point is, you can't blame teachers when an entire community is struggling.
Oh, yes, you can.
And Governor Christie is doing it.
And I say go.
You know, instead of trying to punish someone for a problem, why don't we start investing in education to try to solve the problem?
Doesn't that make more sense, Moron?
Oh, but we are.
President Obama says he's going to hire 10,000 new math and science teachers.
And what if in two years those 10,000 teachers, their students' standardized test scores aren't high enough?
Then we fire them.
And then what?
Then we hire better teachers.
From where?
From where the better teachers are.
Well, that's the problem.
There isn't just some pool of great teachers sitting around.
Anyway, you know what I want to talk about?
I thought we're just talking about teachers.
Is that new Republican plan that promised to America?
Oh, yeah.
What do you like about it, buddy?
Oh, I like that they got some good ideas in there, like that the health insurance company can't drop you if you get sick if they want to do that.
That's good.
Yeah, that's already the law, buddy.
That's already the law.
Come on.
Yeah, that is.
It's already the law.
If that was already being done, why would they say let's do it?
Because they're idiots, I guess.
That don't make no sense, Jim.
Yeah, I know it doesn't make any sense, buddy, but that's what they're doing.
Well, plus, it says that they'll cut debt to cut taxes.
Yeah, Obama already cut taxes for you.
No, Obama wants to raise the taxes.
I said, I know that.
They said that for you, Bob.
Yeah, but what?
But why?
Why does Obama want to raise them now?
I know that they.
No, he just wants to raise them on people making more than $250,000 a year.
No, no, uh-uh.
I know that if he raises it on them, then it also raises it on me.
No, why do you think that?
Because that's what Sean Handedy's told me.
Well, that's not true.
Wait a minute.
You're telling me that the Democrats could cut my taxes and raise the millionaires' taxes at the same time?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's what they want to do.
When?
I think they're going to do it after the election, before the new year.
See, that just proves that they can't do that.
Do what?
You can't lower taxes for middle class and then raise taxes for the wealthy people at the same time.
Why do you say that?
Or else, why wouldn't they do it before the election, Jim?
You do something like that before the election, so then people vote for you.
Even me, a moron, knows that.
Someone's knocking at your door, Jim.
Hold on, Moron.
Someone's at my door.
Okay, I'm waiting.
Hello?
Huh?
Okay, thank you.
Moron, did you send me a package?
I sure did, Jim.
What is it, buddy?
Jim, I sent you the egg genie.
What is it?
It's the egg genie.
It cooks eggs perfect every time, Jim.
I got one and I love it.
I don't.
You mean to just to cook regular eggs?
Yeah, it's got a clear top and allows you to view the eggs while they cook.
I love that feature.
And then you can, it comes to you.
There's a tray with it, so you can transport the eggs easily and serve them.
And it comes with a measuring cup which indicates the water levels for your hard, medium, or soft eggs.
Yeah, that's nice.
I mean, the base is a stainless steel water tray, and that effectively heats water to evenly cook the eggs.
It's an egg genie, Jim.
Well, thank you very much for that, Moron.
It's very nice of you.
It also comes with an egg poacher, Jim.
An egg poacher.
Oh, I love a poached egg, Moron.
I thought so, Jim.
Hey, Moron, where's Terese, by the way?
Oh, she's taking a nap.
I took her out on a date earlier.
Oh, really?
Where'd you guys go?
We went to Costco.
Costco?
Yes, Costco.
Terese loves it.
I love it too.
We gotta get there early before they run out of samplers, though.
I love those chimichangas.
The samplers?
Teresa ate too many, though.
She's got a sour stomach.
How many did she eat?
She ate 45.
Holy cow.
What?
She ate 45 chimichanga samplers?
Yeah, she was trying to break my record, silly girl.
Hey, listen, I gotta go and make sure her bucket's still clean next to the bed.
I'll talk to you later, Jim.
Bye, buddy.
Bye, Moron.
Okay, that was Moron.
Thank you, Moron.
We gotta wrap it up.
I want to thank everybody who helped out today.
My producer, Ali Lexa, Steph Zamarano, my guest, Jim Earl, Ben Zelovansky, Robert Yasamura, Stan Stankos, Jared Moskowitz.
Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com.
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And until next week, be the best you can be, and I'll keep being new.
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Thank you.
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