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It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for gut-minded, lily-livered lefties.
The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say in charge of talking to your TV algae.
So sit back or sit up or keep driving.
Because it's the Jimmy Door show.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the show.
Everybody is here.
Ben Zelovanski, Paul Gilmartin, Robert Yasimura.
What's coming up on today's show?
Well, not much is happening in the news.
There was a shooting in Arizona.
And yes, there was a lot of violent rhetoric.
People are mad on both sides, but you know who Barbara Walters has figured out who we should feel badly for.
I'm feeling bad for Sarah Palin.
Yes, and we all are feeling badly for Sarah Palin.
Yes, we're going to talk about the views' reaction to the shooting.
Plus, you know what?
People say Sarah Palin is responsible because she put crosshairs in it, but we were listening to one of her age yesterday and they weren't even crosshairs.
We never, ever, ever intended it to be gunfights.
It was simply crosshairs like you see on the map.
Well, it's a surveyor.
It's a surveyor symbol.
Hi, Rebecca.
Surveyor symbol.
Yeah, yeah, and I took a survey and everyone thinks that's bullshit.
So what kind of rhetoric were everybody upset about?
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.
It's not a time to retreat.
It's a time to reload.
And some people think that that led to that shooting, but Rush Limbaugh lets us know why that couldn't possibly have led to the shooting.
People on the right and Sarah Palin so forth are responsible for all of this.
And this victory-all in rhetoric is so pitched.
How come this isn't happening every day?
Why is it the vast exception to the rule?
Yeah, that's right.
It's the vast exception.
So until this starts happening every day, there's no way this could possibly be connected.
Then we're going to talk about the bad.
You know, have you noticed?
A couple of thousand birds died in BB, Arkansas.
Then 100,000 fish died a few miles away.
And then 100 tons of fish died in Brazil.
60,000 crabs died off of England.
And you know what, though?
I watched the news and they say there's nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.
Wildlife die-offs, as they're cold, do happen.
On average, 163 of them are reported in the U.S. every year.
Yes, but we've never heard about them.
Why isn't the news told us?
Because they've been busy.
Word from London that Westminster Abbey is emerging as the favorite venue for the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate.
We're going to talk about the news.
We're going to talk about why we haven't heard about all the birds and the crabs and the fish dying ever before because they've been doing important stuff like that.
And Chris Matthews has an idea about assassinations in America.
Good evening.
I'm Chris Matthews in Washington with a special edition of Hardball.
This country has a history of political violence.
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, shot and killed in office.
Okay, that's not so bad.
That's not bad, though.
Teddy Roosevelt.
All right.
Shot in the chest in 1912 while campaigning for the presidency.
Franklin Roosevelt shot at a month before his inauguration.
The bullet killed the mayor of Chicago.
Okay, we get it.
In 1950, assassins carried out a plot to kill Harry Truman, killing one of the president's bodyguards.
All right.
Jack Kennedy, killed by an assassin.
Gerald Ford, shot at twice in separate assassination attempts.
Ronald Reagan, nearly killed by an assassin, saved only by the quick thinking of a Secret Service agent who gets him to the hospital.
Okay, Chris, we get it.
I got it.
It's violent, but it's not as violent as you make it out.
Is it?
Is it really?
Three minutes.
Huey Long, George Lincoln Rockwell.
All right.
Martin Luther King.
Robert Kennedy.
Okay.
Howard Lowenstein.
Malcolm X. All right.
Okay.
All right.
We get it, Chris.
We're going to talk about the history of violence and assassinations in America coming up.
That and the moron calls in, Jim Hyde Tower, and a lot, lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Jimmy Dore And now, a message from Sarah Palin.
Hello, my fellow Americans.
I wanted to take this opportunity to address the tragic events that unfolded this past weekend.
No, not the Learning Channel's failure to pick up my reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, for a second season.
While that was certainly tragic, not to mention unpatriotic, fans of my reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, will at least be able to console themselves with the DVD and Blu-ray release of my reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, which will be in stores soon.
No, I'm talking about a different tragedy.
As many of you know, if you watch Fox News, an evil communist, Nazi Democrat pothead opened fire on a crowd of people at a supermarket in Tucson.
And I wanted to take this opportunity to say that my heart breaks for the victims.
Of course, I'm talking about myself and to a lesser extent, Glenn Beck.
Like many of you, I've spent the day since the tragedy reflecting and praying for guidance.
And wouldn't you know it, as usual, the guidance I received from Jesus lined up perfectly with my opinion.
I've listened with sadness at the attempts of those in the media to assign blame for this horrific event.
There's been all kinds of irresponsible talk about who said what to who and who implicitly urged their supporters to do what and who put little pictures of what next to the names of who on another thing.
Well, I'm here to tell you that we as Americans should not tolerate that kind of blood libel from our media.
I'm also here to tell you that I only had time to briefly skim the definition of blood libel.
It's time that our media learned that the blame game is dangerous.
When they rush to judgment, they incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.
So to sum up, putting crosshairs on a map, talking about Second Amendment remedies, asking followers to get armed and dangerous.
These types of things have no impact on the mentally unstable.
But when the media starts reporting those things, they put us all at risk.
And before you ask, no, I am not intellectually capable of seeing the inconsistency there.
You know, there's a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy.
Rest assured, I will continue to do everything in my power to help us see that shine as often as possible.
God bless America and certain Americans.
This has been a message from Sarah Palin.
Okay, thanks, Sarah, for that.
She left it on my recorder.
I don't know if she got the music in there.
I don't know how she did it, but it was great.
It's polished.
Sound a little bit, yeah, she sounded a little husky.
Under the weather, maybe I noticed.
Yeah, maybe.
She got a little head cold.
I think she's torn up about this whole thing.
She really is bothered by how she's being persecuted.
But we're going to talk about that later.
We have to talk about the birds, what's happening.
Now, so apparently, so I got it.
I don't know about you, but I got nervous when I heard about that.
Hey, there's a bunch of these birds dying.
And of course, it's probably because of fireworks.
And you know what?
Yeah, yeah.
The end times.
The end times.
It's the end times.
So you've heard about all the, we've talked about all the birds dying and then the fish dying.
From those underwater fireworks.
Underwater fireworks.
Very dangerous.
And then the hundred tons of fish off of Brazil and then the 60,000 crabs off of England.
And now there's more birds in Italy.
And those turtle doves were originally from Italy.
So I'm just going to watch two news reports about it.
And boy, I tell you, if anything wants to make you feel bad about the news in America, watch it.
So I'm going to play two.
Here's one from NBC.
They did a little story on it.
And then Nightline also did a story on it.
Okay, can you pause for a second, Ali?
Okay.
They're calling this the aflocalypse.
Turtle doves falling from the sky in Faenza, Italy, littering roads hanging lifeless in trees.
It looked like a scene from the Hitchcock thriller, The Birds.
You know, really similar to the mass bird kill in Louisiana this week, which looked like BB, Arkansas.
3,000 dead birds there, leaving locals confused.
This America can help you.
Yes, ma'am.
I was wondering why all the birds are just black guys.
We are trying to find that out.
Mass deaths recorded this week from all across the world, from Arkansas to New Zealand.
Each incident shocking on its own.
100 tons of dead fish in Brazil, 40,000 crabs in Britain.
And just yesterday, this in Fawley Beach, South Carolina.
Smelled like bad seafood.
So what is going on?
These kinds of incidences of animal die-offs take place every single day.
In fact, 163 incidences are reported to the federal government every year.
So if these animal deaths are not unusual, what causes them?
Okay, I just want to stop that clip there, and I want to say, I don't.
It didn't.
The scientists saying this kind of stuff happens every day.
162 of these things are reported every year in America.
Who are they reporting them to?
The comic books that I don't read?
Who are they reporting?
I've never heard this ever.
I've never read about it in a book.
I've never heard about massive die-offs in a movie.
I've never heard it anecdotally.
I've never seen it written about in passing in an article in a magazine, in a newspaper.
I've never heard about someone's crazy uncle who talks about the dead birds one day he saw, or the 100,000 fish.
I've never heard anything ever like this.
And they keep making it like this.
Oh, no, it just, and then he just accepts it.
So the guy from NBC News just accepted.
Oh, okay.
The scientist guy told me this happens 162 times a year.
Huh.
Well, there you go.
All right, I'm going to finish playing this report.
It's 30 seconds.
Conspiracy theorists would say UFOs, solar flares, or secret Air Force tests.
Medical professionals offer more mundane answers.
It was New Year's Eve.
It could have been fireworks that frightened the bird.
First of all, I don't know.
Did you hear that guy?
That was the scientist that the news report decided to ask his opinion on what happened with the birds.
Let's listen to him.
It was New Year's Eve.
It could have been fireworks that frightened the bird.
Okay, you know, I think rule number one: once you get your doctorate, you drop the dumb accent.
Well, wait, I think his doctorate might be in chaosbitten.
I mean, you know what I mean?
I know plenty of people who have gotten their PhDs who are from Brooklyn, and they don't go, yeah, God, my friggin PhD, what's up?
How are you doing?
You see what happened to those birdses?
Okay.
By the way, doctorate of education doesn't count.
A doctorate of education.
And you got an EDD.
You still remain a moron.
Oh, wow.
Look at that, Robert.
That's a personal battle.
That's a gauntlet you just threw down right there.
Did you hear me, Principal McCrell?
Did you hear me?
Okay, let's get to more of this news.
But there may be an invisible hand in all of this.
Our hand.
We're more connected, wired, viral than at any time in history.
Things that were below radar are now above the radar.
Everyone's amazed by something that happens every day.
Okay.
All right.
I just, I'm going to go right to the nightline.
How about that?
We're going to go right to the nightline clip.
That was NBC.
And I'm going to go right to.
I just, I feel like, and that report's over, by the way.
It ends right there.
Now, did you, let me, let's go around the whole thing.
Is Brian Williams going to let us know whether or not the carriage for the royal wedding will be safe from these birds falling?
It might be.
Let's go around the hunt.
Ben, did you learn anything that did you have any concerns about the massive die-offs of birds and fish before this report?
And did this do anything to calm you down?
No, I learned that it happens every day.
And then that's the end of it.
I mean, I know if I heard about thousands of people dropping dead every day, I would just say, oh, well, it seems to be happening a lot.
You wouldn't need it.
Let's leave it there.
Let's leave it there, right?
Which is pretty much what this guy did.
Did you learn anything about this, Paul?
It actually decreased my curiosity, Jimmy.
And let me know that everything is okay.
And I'm ready to go home and take a nap.
Okay, Robert.
I may actually be dumber as a result of having heard that.
The only thing that illuminated it is how bad the reporting is at NBC.
And let me just give you one example.
How about what we just played about then?
NBC owned by General Electric?
Oh, my God.
But let me know from the report, let me give you one example.
I wrote down like Ford that irritated the hell out of me.
But he starts out with, they're calling it the bird apocalypse or something.
Aflocalypse.
No, they're not.
No, they're not.
Yeah.
Also, if there had not been a clever name for this, would they have even bothered with the report?
I think they heard the word afloakalypse, and they're like, well, let's put something together on this.
And my favorite part of that is – so he's – He's a journalist, and he says, conspiracy theories might say.
So, first of all, don't go to conspiracy theorists as a journalist.
Second of all, you're speculating on what they would speculate on.
Right.
You're a journalist.
Oh, that's a good point, Robert.
Facts.
The NBC newsman is speculating on what crazies would speculate on.
Right.
He doesn't even know what they haven't even said anything yet.
That's some.
And I love how he immediately balanced story.
Yeah.
And yes, instead of going.
We need the other side.
Well, let me imagine what that would be.
It seems, and I love how it's either a conspiracy theorist, not crazy thing, or nothing.
Or it's nothing.
It could possibly be something that we could talk about.
And wait, wait, one little thing.
He leads himself into a moment where he says, so if this happens all the time, how come we haven't heard about it?
And what I, the next logical question is, why are we, the media, so bad at reporting important things?
Right?
It's people, they say.
Why am I so terrible at my job that I should leave it?
I should go cobble shoes.
Wow, people have never been made aware of this.
This is kind of a big deal that happens 162 times a year, yet we, the meat news media, have never even heard of it ourselves.
They've never heard of it either.
They're in the news media.
And then when the guy from the government tells them that it happens all the time, they just go, oh, I guess it does then, if you say so.
And what's the reason why it happened?
Whatever he said, it got.
Well, here's the Nightline guy talks about more of the causes for it.
By the way, the Nightline guy, when he did his report, he was goofing the whole time, the whole time.
So I'm just going to play the back end of his report.
He was goofy.
He was like he was trying to, it was his audition tape for the daily show.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks that the coming apocalypse is getting really heavy-handed?
I see what you're saying, Paul.
Yes, I do.
So let's go to the Nightline guy.
Or perhaps wherein lies a rational explanation.
New Year's, fireworks, they got spooked.
Most of these birds don't see any better at night than you or I do.
They aren't adapted to see at night like owls.
So if they went off from their perches at night, they're blind in the darkness, just like you would be.
They could have flown into houses, power lines, each other.
It's like running into somebody on your bicycle, a fair amount of speed, no protection.
And the fish in Arkansas.
Okay, so that's his explanation for the thousands of birds.
Yeah, I can see a dozen, but thousands of them?
And then it happened the next day in a couple of states south, right?
Or one state south.
It happens 163 times a year.
You're right.
So those fireworks we have every three days are causing a lot of...
Never heard of fireworks causing birds.
And is that how birds evolve?
That if something startles them in the night, they all fly around till they die.
That's how they've evolved, really.
Anything that startles them in the middle of the night, they just keep flying until they hit stuff.
I don't even necessarily doubt the explanations that they're reporting.
What bothers me is the tone of like patronizing.
It's so like, you guys are panicking over nothing.
Yeah.
Birds fell from the sky.
So directly out of the Old Testament happened.
How about I do panic a little bit?
Okay, so here he goes about the fish.
Here's he's going to give us his explanation about the fish.
Okay.
And the fish in Arkansas?
Probably disease.
The Chesapeake fish and the English crabs.
By the way, that's it.
He's moving on.
That's it.
Probably 100,000 other fish, probably, probably disease.
I just moved on, didn't stop and go, wait a minute.
I look forward to seeing how they spin a lake of fire in Israel.
It's going to be interesting to see how that one is.
There's a lot of oil exporting countries around Israel.
Well, we have reports of the moon turning black about 163 times a year.
You guys don't know.
Yeah, you never saw that?
No, it happens all the time.
You just never looked up probably when it was black.
It was cloudy.
It was cloudy probably when it was black.
The job of a journalist like this is to widen people's worlds.
And I got to, like, you know, I lived in Massachusetts for a long time.
You get whale beachings there.
You get some weird stuff that happens.
And it's like, all right, I can even buy that weird stuff happens, but he just sort of dismisses everything out of hand.
Like, it's a crazy phenomena, and we're not going to give you any real information about it.
There's no real information down there.
We're going to report you to the bottom of the bottom.
The alerts were tested.
There was no...
Parasite was found.
I mean, what?
Hundreds of thousands of poisoned fish.
I mean, there's no way that could ever affect humans, right?
And that's how fish usually die all at once when they have a disease, right?
They all die immediately together, all at once.
And whale beaching, is that like a reverse car girl?
What is that anyway?
The whale beaching?
Let's get back to this report.
Cold weather, the Chesapeake fish and the English crabs.
Cold weather, they say.
Hypothermia.
I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but I don't see a connection between these many different cases.
It's all bad luck.
Okay, did you hear what the explanation was for the crabs off of England?
Hypothermia.
Hypothermia.
The crabs got too cold.
So what happened was I guess the crabs forgot to put their hoodies on when they went into the ocean where they live at the bottom of it.
Yeah, they got a little, I get called the, they call the sniffle.
And they're just not good with the sniffles.
And I told them to put on their booties, and they didn't.
They lost their clip on mittens when this, and the guy doesn't question it.
Yeah.
All of a sudden, the water is so cold that crabs are freezing to death.
I guess that's the end of it.
I guess that's it.
I guess water, like, there couldn't be nothing causing that of interest.
If this guy stated the facts of what is known, like a journalist is supposed to, this report would have been 10 seconds long.
He would have come out, said a bunch of die-offs.
He would have given the stats, and that would have been it.
It would have said, we don't know what's happening.
And we care to find out.
And nobody gave us enough information to really give it to you.
Everybody just told us to go home and quit talking about it.
You know, I don't have this part of the clip, but when they did come back, maybe I do have it.
Let me check my other program.
Is that Cynthia McFadden, who hosts the Nightline, she says to him, oh, let's hope that's the end of that.
That's what she said to him.
Like, oh, all that information hurts my head.
She's the news person.
What information, by the way?
He gave us no information.
He gave us all speculation.
You know what?
I actually, let's finish that.
Let's finish that report of the Birds Nightline.
We'll be looking for evidence of trauma, internal bleeding, and hopefully finding some rational answers.
Mass wildlife die-offs, as they're called, do happen.
On average, 163 of them are reported in the U.S. every year.
They do happen, and they happen every year.
And I think a lot of the frenzy that we're getting around the world is because the media and the internet have allowed more of these stories to be exposed and connected than normally happens.
Oh, so it's the internet is what happened.
And I don't know if you guys know, but I had the internet last year, and I had the internet the year before.
I had the internet a year before that.
I've had the internet since the 90s and never heard about this.
Never brought up, but I've been all over that internet.
I even saw the commercial where the guy reached the end of it, and he never heard about this.
So I just love they just he will just accept any BS answer.
Not investigating it.
Perhaps.
No forecast, no omen, no sign, no apocalypse, just a bunch of dead things.
I'm not going to get all philosophical and stuff.
Stuff just happens in nature and we read dumb stuff into it.
I'm Nick Guard for Nightline.
That's the newsman.
Hey, stuff just happens.
Things die all over and just keep going.
Also, do you have to do the end of that voiceover live?
Because he was like, well, the things are some things that happen.
And we just read some stupid things.
Okay, for Nightline.
Is that it?
All the time?
Five more seconds.
Okay.
Okay.
And you know what?
I actually called the producer of that segment and I talked to him.
And here's my interview with that guy.
Okay, I'm here with Navy Nightline news reporter George Leslie George.
I just got done watching your report about the massive die-offs of birds and fish, and I just had a few questions.
Right.
What's your question, Jamie?
Do you know what happened to the fish?
Yes, they were probably killed by disease.
Do you know what disease?
What disease what?
What disease killed the fish?
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're doing.
I asked you about the fish and what happened to them.
And I answered you, disease.
That's what the scientist guy and the government guy said.
Yeah, I know that's what they said.
I'm asking you a follow-up question.
A what?
A follow-up.
You know, when the initial answer is unsatisfactory and doesn't fully answer your question, you ask a follow-up.
Okay, I can tell you're not a professional reporter.
Let me rephrase that.
A successful reporter.
What?
Well, first off, you don't go around asking people follow-up questions.
It bugs people.
And if you bug people, then people stop talking to you.
And what is a reporter if no one will talk to him because he keeps bugging people with his follow-ups?
Yeah, yeah, but I just think you could have asked a couple of more questions because I don't think you really answered what I needed.
The questions to be.
You know what I'm saying?
People don't like questions.
They don't tune in for questions.
They tune in for answers.
And you know why?
I give them answers, Jimmy?
Because I don't want to end up doing weather in Pittsburgh.
Or worse, working for a newspaper.
I just think you could have asked a few more questions for Cliff.
Do you even know the professional television reporter's creed?
No.
A-G-S-G.
What does that mean?
A, ask a question.
G, get an answer.
S, say it to the camera.
G, go home.
A-G-S-G?
That's correct.
A-G-S-G.
Not A-G-S.
Follow-up, G. Got it?
I'm going home.
See?
Now you're getting it.
Good work.
Okay, George Leslie, thanks for talking with us.
Thanks for having me.
I'm going to go shoot something.
Okay, that was George Leslie.
And it's just, it's pretty explanatory right there.
I mean, that's what's happening with our news.
Yeah, I guess we just didn't, we're just not reporters.
I'm not kidding.
I don't know if I'm conveying it strongly enough.
I talked about this last week on my comedy podcast that I do, and I just feel like I was really blown away by the lack of inquisitiveness.
That was the top story on Nightline, by the way.
That wasn't their goofy little story at the end of the show.
That was their top story.
And this guy's goofing all the way through it.
He's got not one answer for anything.
And his answer is, hey, stuff happens, I guess.
And you're up.
Literally is what he said.
I guess stuff just dies.
And that's what we're going to have to accept.
And we are crazy.
What I find infuriating about this is like CNN's on a 24-new hour news cycle.
They have to fill time with dumb speculation and chitty chatting.
Nightline's an hour-long show.
They have editorial control.
They could have chosen any story of which they actually had facts to fill time.
Right.
They chose this.
I got an issue with that.
You know, your reporting is thin when a more substantial answer would have been because God is upset with us.
Yeah, they didn't even think to interview him.
God?
They interviewed God?
Lazy.
They are lazy.
All right.
You know what, before we get to the, we're up against a break.
We're at the bottom of the hour.
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome back to the show.
I'm going to let you know what's coming up.
Jim Hightower is going to talk about the new Republican reformers.
And then we're going to talk about what happened in Arizona.
All right, I put it off for the first half of the show because I thought we all needed a break.
But there's some important stuff we need to talk about.
Like, hey, was the guy just crazy or could he really be influenced?
What did Barbara Walters really think?
Stuff like that we're going to talk about.
And Moron calls in because he's got a few things and he bought Three Something.
I don't want to say what it is.
He did buy Three Something.
That's coming up right now.
It's Jim Hightower.
In response to Tea Party agitation, the new Republican leaders in the House have been strutting around as reformers, coming across as suit and tie versions of that guy on the TV show, Dirty Jobs.
We're going to clean up the place, they exclaim, starting with that big legislative sting called earmarks.
No more secret diversions of taxpayers' money into lawmakers' pet pork barrel projects, decreed the new House Speaker, John Boehner, posing as a reborn Mr. Clean.
Boehner fairly sparkled at a press conference to announce that he was banning earmarks.
So that's that.
Mission accomplished, right?
No.
What the GOP has done is simply sweep earmarks under the rug.
Take Senator Mark Stephen Kirk, for example.
The Illinois Republican was a scathing critic of earmarks last year, even as he used his position on the Appropriations Committee to force the Education Department to funnel more than a million bucks of stimulus money into an Illinois school district.
Sounds like an earmark, doesn't it?
But technically, it wasn't.
Rather than directing the money to Illinois by way of the appropriations bill, he did it by way of a letter to the department.
This is known to insiders like Kirk as letter marking.
There's also phone marking, where the dirty deed is done by a phone call from a legislator to an agency head.
Another slick move called account marking happens when a member pads the budget of a particular agency, then demands that the extra funds be spent on the member's special project.
All of these slick tricks add up to billions of tax dollars every year.
This is Jim Hightower saying, Mr. Clean wants our applause for a change that is nothing but a deceit.
In an act of raw hypocrisy, Boehner has changed the name of the earmark game, but the scam remains the same.
Now, think about it.
That really is a dirty job, isn't it?
Thank you, Jim, by the way, for bumming us out in the folksy voice.
Now, the big narrative is that the guy's crazy.
Sean Hannity had on a psychiatrist to confirm that.
I mean, how much more evidence that we need that this kid was mentally disturbed, even as some try to politicize what motivated him.
So we all know that's the narrative.
This guy was just crazy, and that's why you can't connect it to anything that any right-winger has ever said because the guy's crazy.
And I guess that means we have to wait until sane people start pulling out automatic weapons and killing people at Safeways.
Until sane people start doing that, there'll never be a connection.
It's always the crazy person that does it.
That's what we're worried about.
We're not worried about the sane people who hear Michelle Bachman and Nancy, I mean, and Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck and hear those people.
And it's not the sane people we're worried about.
It's the wing nuts that we're working for.
How come they never kill an independent?
I don't know.
Just mix it up a little bit.
No, we don't want any more of that.
But just so you know, I mean, I could sit here all day.
I could fill up the whole hour easily, and it didn't have to do anything else.
I could have just played clips of fear mong, just nonstop.
Well, I'll give you, here's a good example.
Here's Glenn Beck from Monday, from Monday.
Just talk about, just keeping the fear going.
Just be afraid, just be afraid.
All of those in the media and in Washington, all those with fame, all those with fortune, bankers, anybody with power, you're going to be in danger.
If God forbid the worst begins, all bets are off.
Our world changes.
I'm in danger.
You're in danger.
Everyone is.
Everyone is in danger.
That's from Monday.
I'm in danger.
You're in that whole, everybody's in, you know, after.
On the scale of crazy, he's right below the guy that just killed everybody.
He's right there.
He sounds like they go, oh, that guy had crazy ramblings.
Have you watched Glenn Beck's show?
And this, you know, this crazy false equivalency, this crazy thing that you can't hold anybody accountable for the stuff they said because the guy who did it was crazy is ridiculous.
That's exactly why people were warning people to stop doing that stuff.
They're treating it like if the shooter is crazy, then the bullets don't count.
Yeah.
People are still dead because of this, whether the guy was crazy or not.
Crazy doesn't just exist in a vacuum.
People are influenced to do things by the environment and by the culture and by the society.
Just because this guy might not have looked at the Sarah Palin map specifically and said, I'm going to go out and shoot up a supermarket.
But he was anti-government.
But he might have, by the way.
And first of all, Arizona is a lot, the rhetoric like that sheriff has said has gotten really crazy out there.
And I just want to read you this.
When you say maybe there isn't a direct connection, I have a lot of examples like this.
I'm going to read you one.
Six months ago, police in California pulled over a truck that turned out to contain a rifle.
Now, we didn't hear about this story because it didn't get covered much.
But this is a real story, and it really happened and appeared in the New York Times.
Six months ago, police in California pulled over a truck that turned out to contain a rifle, a handgun, a shotgun, and body armor.
Police learned from the driver, from the driver, sometime after he opened fire on them, that he was heading to San Francisco where he planned to kill people at a thing called the Tides Foundation.
You probably never heard of the Tides Foundation unless you watched Glenn Beck, who had mentioned the Tides Foundation more than two dozen times, 24 times in the preceding six months, depicting it as a part of a communist plot to infiltrate our society and seize control of big business.
And that guy said he was going there to kill the Tides people.
And you do a Nexus search.
Tides is not mentioned anywhere in any other media outlet anywhere except Glenn Beck.
And that guy's going to kill someone from Tides, and he's armed to the teeth.
And he admits that that's why he's doing it.
That didn't get reported.
And I'm not going to sit here for the rest of the show and read.
I could read that forever.
So why don't you have loyal listeners like that, Jimmy?
Good.
And I want to let people know about talk where they go, well, it's just as bad on the left as it is on the right.
People say that, right?
It would be if the left was calling for violent people to do violence, which they almost never are, except when I do it.
And that's always done joking, as we know.
Or Eddie Pepetone, I think he means it.
Anyway.
But let's talk about talk radio.
How influential is talk radio?
Well, 53 million people in the United States listen to talk radio.
That's about 40% of the adult population over 18 years old.
So almost half of the people who are voting age listen to talk radio.
90.
And what percent of talk radio would you say is conservative?
I already tipped it.
91% of talk radio is conservative.
And here's the difference.
Every day in America, you can hear 2,500 hours of conservative talk rates, talk radio, which is broadcast every day, 2,500 hours of it.
Do you know how much progressive talk radio every day?
250 hours.
2,500.
So that's why immediately it's already skewed, immediately, like amazingly skewed.
90-10.
92% of talk radio stations do not broadcast a single minute of progressive talk radio programming.
Radio has the greatest penetration of any media, print, broadcast, or digital, reaching 90% of Americans each week.
And despite the availability of numerous new media alternatives, radio's weekly reach has declined only modestly in the past several years, from 94% in the spring of 2001 when the iPod was first introduced, to 91% in the fall of 08.
So that's only a 3% drop in people listening to the radio.
And think about this.
While Glenn Beck gets only 2 million viewers on Fox, he gets 9 million viewers on the radio.
And while Sean Hannity gets 2 million viewers on Fox, he gets 14 million listeners on the radio.
So I just, so that I think helps put everything in context.
But even the, like, that's just the, that's the foundation of it.
But you look at the difference in the content of what they're saying, not just the amount.
But you don't, the reason why people, you know, minutes after this shooting came up with that Sarah Palin graphic is because it's not hard to find examples of this on the right wing.
It took people a couple of days after the shooting to figure to dig up that speech where Obama quoted the untouchables about bringing a gun judgment fight.
So like that's the thing.
And there's a reason for that.
It's because people on the right need this is they need this language to activate their base.
Yes.
If people on the left use this language, it would depress their base.
People like that.
But they can't, you know, the same way Republicans, whether or not they're actually racist, they need racists to win elections.
They have to sort of use all this coded language, the Southern Strategy and all that.
The Southern Strategy really exists.
And the fact that they can deny that.
It's the same thing with extreme violent rhetoric.
They need to have these code words out there because if the crazy people on the right don't come out and vote, they're not going to win any elections.
One reason why it doesn't exist on the left is because it's not going to help anyone on the left to get the vote out.
Like it doesn't, it doesn't activate people on the left the way it does on the right.
Let's remember that whenever you hear somebody saying, ah, you know, politics, it just gives me a headache, that someone wins when someone feels like that.
Who wants you to feel like that?
When you get turned off to politics, meaning health care, war policy, we're firing teachers now, that's all politics, okay?
When you get turned off to that, somebody benefits from that.
Just keep that in mind.
Whenever you hear somebody going, oh, I'm sick of it, I can't listen, both sides, someone benefits when they think that everybody is the same.
Now, Paul, let me ask you, what...
And Barack Obama has not, I would say, I would put it on Barack Obama for not laying out what liberalism means to Americans.
Yes.
You're not saying socialism is the most Christian thing you could have.
Right.
Right.
Yes.
Exactly.
If you're going to be a Christian nation, then why not be for socialism?
That's what I don't understand.
Try to act more Christ-like.
Because they've said, you know, Jesus is about freedom and liberty, and free markets are about liberty, right?
So the more.
Jesus was about leverage.
So the outcome of what they consider to be free markets, even though free markets do not exist.
Markets are invented to serve societies, not the other way around.
So whatever the outcome they think of the free market, whatever is less regulated, that is moral.
They equate free markets with liberty and liberty with the outcome of liberty has to be moral.
And I'm not making that up.
That's what Tony Blankly said on Left, Right, and Center just last week.
Tony Blankley can go to that.
But he speaks for a lot of people.
I agree with you.
But the thing is, is that that's not an empirical argument.
I can just, I can go to, I can do a nexislexic search and completely deny that by empirical evidence.
Yes, you're right.
I mean, that free markets, the way they're designed currently, create oppression.
I mean, it couldn't be more clear that it creates oppression.
It doesn't help if you don't have a regulated economy.
It doesn't help anybody.
Let me ask everybody here: do you think that it's accepted now?
I've been watching, I've been watching the news non-stop since this thing happened.
So it's pretty much accepted now that nobody's responsible for this.
This guy's a lone nut.
He's a crazy.
Everybody's accepting that.
And that it's equally bad on both sides.
That's what I'm catching, that it's equally.
Yeah, no, it's not equally bad on both sides.
But that's what the.
I'm not saying it is.
I'm saying that's what I mean.
I didn't get that.
I got the fact that we're not going to wade into this, even though everything bad we could say societally falls on the side of the right.
We're not going to say it because it would be impolite.
That's what it seems to be coming to.
You wouldn't be balanced if you just pointed out that 99% of this happens on the right.
Right.
Because the civil war is breaking out.
Don't bring up slavery.
It's upsetting to the South.
Yeah.
By the way, I'm sort of like, I'm sort of like, well, the guy is crazy.
There are a lot of crazy people out there.
That's not the issue.
The issue for me was always he was directed in a certain direction by the zeitgeist.
And more importantly, he didn't commit a crime until he started shooting.
He was carrying, you know, that, I mean, the thing that people don't remember is that Arizona, when they passed their crazy immigration laws, also passed two other, the craziest laws I've ever heard.
One, which was you can carry a concealed firearm anywhere in Arizona.
Without a permit.
Without a permit, without any classes, without anything.
And then the other one was this even crazier jingoistic law where basically you can't teach a class in Hispanic studies that might mention that America did some bad things.
And can we stop finally with the thing, hey, if everybody had a gun, then everybody would have got that guy's shot on it.
He's one of the most armed.
Let me play devil's advocate for a second.
Sure.
I don't believe that the bullseyes, which I think are horrendous.
I mean, the crosshairs.
The crosshairs that Sarah Palin had, which is incredibly irresponsible.
I don't think that that is going to motivate someone to kill.
What I think it does is it influences the style and how and where they decide to kill.
That guy would have killed somebody.
Right.
It wasn't, but it's no one's upset just about the crosshairs.
It's this, again, like I played that thing about Glenn Beck, and it's every day, it's non-stop.
It's this delegitimization of your opponent.
It's like Barack Obama is just not a bad president.
He's a socialist, and he's not even an American.
He's trying to ruin America.
And he's taking away your freedom.
And he's going to be, and we have to fight back.
And if we don't stand up, we're going to lose our country and defeat from this outsider.
I mean, and that is what's being said every day.
A Democrat's just not your political opponent.
A Democrat, well, you know what?
I think we all forgot what John McCain had to do in August of last year.
I mean, so Sarah Palin runs around for three months calling Barack Obama a terrorist, and then John McCain has to do this at one of his own rallies.
And we want to fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful.
I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments.
I will respect him.
And I want, no, no, I want everyone.
So when he says I'm going to be respectful to the guy who's going to be your next president, everybody starts to boo him.
Okay, so then he had to do this.
Get in America.
So let's make sure.
We're scared.
We're scared of an Obama presidency.
I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared as president of the United States.
Now, I just, now, look, if I didn't think I wouldn't be one of.
They're just saying that the senator from Illinois is a decent person.
No!
And it'd be one thing if they said, don't vote for him.
But what they say is reload.
Yes, that's exactly.
There's a big difference.
Okay, there's more to that.
A heck of a lot better president.
I wouldn't be running, okay?
And that's the point.
That's the point.
Here's our favorite.
I can't trust Obama.
I have read about him, and he's not, he's not, he's a, he's an Arab.
He's not.
No, man.
No, man.
He's a decent family man citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about.
He's not.
Thank you.
I like that John McCain doesn't even address the fact that an Arab can be a person.
He's an indecent person.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, he had to go, no, no, no, he's not an Arab.
He's a good guy.
That's what he just said.
But he did stop short of saying, all right, now, which vice presidential candidate told you that?
Where is this crazy information coming from?
So that's the thing.
When you run around and you try to delegitimize people like that.
That's their whole strategy is this.
You're not only my opponent, you're un-American.
You're an enemy of our state.
You're evil.
And I want to bring it to.
If we're going to blame the shooting on Sarah Palin, though, then we have to blame Sarah Palin on Dr. Quinn Medicine.
I'm all right with that.
Which means then we have to blame Jane Seymour.
Oh.
I don't want to blame her for her jewelry line.
I want to play the show.
Congressman Trent Franks from Arizona, who came on all the talk shows on Sunday in this very humble voice, very soft, velvety voice, to talk about, you know, how we all need to love and respect each other.
And this is what he had to say.
Can all of you do a better job in choosing your words?
Yes, ma'am.
And I think the best way for us to do that is to recognize that each person, regardless of their political persuasion, is a child of God.
And when we recognize that about each other, sometimes I think it not only makes us be kinder, but it makes us really refocus the whole debate.
Okay, so remember that they're a child of God.
That's what he said last Sunday.
We need to remember that our opponents are a child of God.
And here's him just from a couple of months ago at a conference called Reclaiming America.
And here's what he had to say about it.
Obama's first act as president of any consequence in the middle of a financial meltdown was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries.
Now, I gotta tell you, a president will do that.
There's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that.
We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things.
A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government, and we need to realize that he is an enemy.
Humanity.
So he's an enemy of humanity.
So this is a few months ago when the guy was saying we all need to look at each other.
How did you get an audio clip of Jesus?
What do you mean?
That's unbelievable.
That was Jesus talking, right?
No, that was Trent Franks, a representative trend from Arizona.
He just sounded like such a Christian that I just assumed.
No, no, he's not.
So that's the kind of thing that they do every day, all day.
He's an enemy of humanity.
He's not like his first act was to go kill babies in other countries.
That's his first act.
Let's kill American babies first.
So that's the kind of thing that happens non-stop.
And that's the kind of thing Brian Williams and Ted Coppel won't tell you is have Ted Koppel's not around.
But that's the kind of thing that Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw, who I saw on Morning Joe this morning, won't tell you.
That it's non-stop.
It's continuous.
91% of talk radio is conservative.
That means if it was on a television station, if it was your TV, nine out of every ten stations would be conservative talk.
And then tenth would be some.
We know how percentages work.
Let me break it down to you.
Five and five equals what?
Okay.
By the way, it's Russian Limbaugh's birthday this week.
Oh, it is Russell.
You're friend of the show.
Friend of the show.
Happy birthday.
Friend of the show.
Oh, my God.
Hold on.
I got to take this.
Hey, it's Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, how you doing?
It's moron.
Hey, moron.
How's it going, buddy?
Ah, Jimmy, you know me.
I'm a good American.
Can I find comfort in the knowledge that my Lord Jesus hates exactly the same people that I do?
What's going on today, buddy?
Jim, do you hear about those birds falling out of the sky?
Yeah, I heard about it.
It's pretty scary.
Trace's cousin called up in a panic.
Why did he call up?
Because the birds were falling on his house.
He thought it was Armadedan.
You mean Armageddon?
He lives in the BB, Arkansas.
Where?
BB.
But what, baby?
No, Jim.
BB.
And what state?
Arkansas.
Ark in what?
Arkansas.
How do you say Arkan what?
Saws, Jim.
Oh.
Saws.
Okay, Saws.
I got it.
Arkin saws, Jim.
What do you got?
Shit in your ears?
No, I just like to hear you say Arkansas.
Well, I told him, calm down, and then I turns on the news, and they go, oh, no, it happens all the time.
You mean the dying?
Yeah, this happens all the time.
And so then I told him.
And didn't help.
No, no.
What happened?
He's still freaked out.
Why?
He's like, well, if it happens all the time, how come we don't hear about it?
I'm like, I don't know.
Internet.
What does that mean?
Internet?
I don't know.
That's what the guy on Nightline said.
Because these birds are because of the internets.
What?
We couldn't find these dead animals before without the internet, I guess.
Does that make sense to you, Moron?
No.
It doesn't bother you that that doesn't make sense to you?
I figure if it's good enough for the news guy, it's good enough for me.
And it doesn't bother you, like that you don't have any clear answers to why any of this stuff is happening and it might be horrible?
Yeah, sure, it bothers me.
And what do you do with that?
I just stuff it down or ignore it.
Yeah, but that doesn't solve the problem.
Nothing's going to solve the problem.
See, that's the problem with you liberals.
What?
You run around worrying about stuff all the time and you get sick over it.
Right.
Thinking.
Irritable bowel and you get an upset stomach and a headache and psoriasis and backaches.
Okay, Moron.
We don't get none of that stuff.
What do you mean?
What we get worse thing is like my dad and both my uncles have inflamed livers.
Well, what do you get that from?
Anger and drinking.
So Moron, what do you think about the fallout over Sarah Palin putting the crosshairs on the thing and then that congresswoman getting shot?
As if there's a connection, Jim.
Why not have another drink from that cup of stupid?
You can't blame Sarah for this.
Nobody's blaming her for it.
I mean, how could they blame Sarah Palin for this, right?
All she did was put that woman in the crosshairs on the map and then tell people to not retreat but to reload.
And then she told everybody that Barack Obama hated America and that he was a terrorist hangs around with terrorists and stuff and that he was ruining our country.
He was a socialist and that we should take back our government and that maybe they would use second amendment remedies.
I mean, how could that stuff be misconstrued?
Because some guy who's crazy went and killed someone.
You know, Moron, when you're right, you're right.
Thank you, Jim.
Did you tell him what you got in it?
Teres.
Go ahead, tell her.
Come on, tell me, Moron.
What?
Yeah.
You know, it goes right inside the purse because everything's hard to find it.
It's all a mess.
And then you kangaroo keeper, it goes right inside your bag or purse and it helps you organize things in a snap.
It fits all sizes of bags and purses.
Helps you change your bag easily, too, you know?
Wow, well, that's important.
There's a place for everything, and everything has its place.
Moron, is this thing really necessary?
Oh, my God.
How can you live without it?
I mean, does it really work?
Really?
It organizes your purse and organizes your life.
What's that, Terese?
That's my fault.
I'll get it.
Okay.
She's getting it.
Well, it should be easy for her to get it.
Trace, get it.
I can't find it.
What do you mean you can't find it?
I can't.
I gave me the kangaroo thing.
I can't find it anyway.
Teresa!
Get the phone!
It's in the kangaroo thing!
Therese!
Kim!
Hold on!
I gotta go!
Terese!
It's in my jacket!
Teresa!
Jake, hold on!
That's why you got the kangaroo thing!
Come on!
Already!
I gotta go!
That's why I need it to be organized!
There it is!
It was in my coat!
I need a kangaroo for my coat!
Get your kangaroo for your coat!
All right, that was Tuesdays with Moron.
That's this week's moron.
And anybody, last, you know, there's, again, we could do a four-hour show about the ridiculous false equivalency of the left and right and the non-stop propaganda of un-Americanness.
Well, I think it's interesting to look at also, you know, people on the rent that are getting all fired up like this.
Look at what they're getting fired up about.
The reason that Sarah Palin made that map in the first place was because healthcare voted for healthcare.
Healthcare.
It's not even like this is a thing where the Democrats are getting together to repeal the Second Amendment or something where, like, oh, well, now we're going to make all your kids work in a fast.
They want to heal people.
Let's injure them.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And, you know, frankly, if there was better health care in Arizona and in the rest of America, then maybe people would take mental health a little more seriously.
Well, let's talk about that next week because I did.
It was brought up even on Sean Hannity's show that the real problem is our society isn't addressing our mental health issues.
And of course, that just skated right over.
How hard was that guy, the crazy guy, to shop for for Christmas?
Not hard.
He had a lot of interests.
I signed him up for the book club of the month.
What is this?
A journal?
Yeah, I don't know.
I thought you could write your manifesto in it.
What are you spying on me?
I would have got him a kangaroo keeper.
But when he took his mugshot photo, he was smiling.
Have you all seen that photo?
He may be the craziest of the crazy.
By the way, you want to know why he was smiling, though?
You want to know why?
That smiling mugshot.
This guy clearly understands.
He's getting all the attention, and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder.
No wonder you're smiling in your mugshot.
The entire political party of the Democrat Party working to blame somebody other than you.
That is the craziest.
I mean, make you, Jared Lofner, the victim.
And trying to find a way for that party to use this as a way to advance their own political agenda.
Oh, my God.
Can you believe that someone's using this to advance their own political?
Let me advance my political agenda for just a second.
There have been a lot of assassination attempts and successful ones in this country in the last hundred years.
How many were by axe?
How many were by knife?
Well, that's what somebody said that on Facebook the other day.
They go, yeah, take away the gun.
They'll just get you with a knife.
How many of those knife attacks make it on the news?
They saw that knife now with the 30-knife clip to put it on the bottom?
Sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
All right.
Well, we're up against the clock.
And I want to remind everybody tonight at Flappers in Burbank.
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