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Hey, Jimmy, this is Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
Not sure if you are aware behind kicking ass and taking names on the campaign trail.
Some people have criticized my performance at the most recent televised debate, but frankly, they don't get it.
Sure, I flubbed some lines.
I sputtered out some dribble that didn't make sense, like I had a colony of logic worms eating my cerebral cortex from the inside out while I was talking.
But that's the point, see?
That makes regular folks relate to me.
It's all optics, political optics.
I learned that political trick from a certain ex-president who also happened to be governor of the great, almost seceded state of Texas.
That's right.
In Texas, we love America so painfully much that we want to leave it.
It's like some foreign romance film directed by a pervert.
Don't get me wrong, though.
I don't want regular folks to relate to me too much.
A few years ago, my home, the governor's mansion in Austin, burned down by fire.
It was rebuilt using tax dollars.
Now, my constituents in Texas whose homes were recently consumed with wildfires won't get the same treatment.
They should have made sure their homes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places like mine was.
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And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
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Okay, welcome to this week's show.
It's also today's show.
I'm joined in studio from the hilarious comedian and former writer for the Daily Show.
It's Steve Rosenfield, ladies and gentlemen.
Hi, Steve.
Hey, Jimmy, how are you today?
Oh, I'm doing fantastic.
And next to him, also former writer for The Daily Show and hilarious stand-up comedian, it's Jim Earl.
Hey, Jim.
Hi, Jimmy.
How are you today?
I'm good.
I wrote that.
If you could speak in a more staccato rhythm, I'd appreciate it.
And next to me to my right, from Team Yasamura, it's Robert Yasamura.
Hey, Robert.
How are you?
Okay, so what's going on?
Well, the GOP, they finally agreed to fund the government and FEMA, right?
And on the condition that people agree to voluntarily die from lack of disaster relief.
Okay.
And did you see the network coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protest?
It's been going on since September 17th.
Did you see that?
Me neither.
Yeah, they haven't really been covering it well.
But they did actually send a camera crew down there to give a thumbnail sketch the other day.
We're going to go over that.
And Barack Obama gave a speech in front of the Congressional Black Caucus, and he had this.
A lot of people are upset about it.
He had this to say.
Take off your bedroom slippers.
Put on your marching shoes.
Shake it off.
Take off your slippers, put on your shoes, shake it off.
What is this, a Busby Berkeley musical?
Hey, everybody, we're fighting in four wars and never get out of debt.
Do a spirit kick.
Okay, we'll talk about that.
And Barack Obama also has some advice to the unemployed.
He was asked at a town hall meeting sponsored by LinkedIn what his advice is to the people who are unemployed right now.
The encouraging thing for you is that when the economy gets back on track in the ways that it should, you are going to be prepared to be successful.
The challenge is to ensure that you hang in between now and then.
Yeah, sure.
And he's prepared to be successful.
But right now, he's preparing to move back into his parents' basement.
Okay.
And I think Barack Obama does have a plan to make daytime television more engaging.
So that's his plan for the unemployed.
And also, we're going to have more phone calls from Rick Perry.
Governor Chris Christie calls in as a favorite.
And then Governor Perry calls back in.
And then we have David Pachman, the famous David Pachman, sat down with us.
He was in Los Angeles a couple days ago.
We sat down to talk with him.
And there's a lot more.
Plus, Jim Hightower and even more stuff coming up.
That's today on the Jimmy Dory.
Time for another installment of Oh My God.
Okay, now today's Oh My God segment needs a little backup.
Herman Kane was recently being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
You know Wolf Blitzer.
He's a newsman with a beard.
Looks like a Jewish werewolf.
And so Herman Kane said this about black people in the GOP.
Many African Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.
Okay, now I don't know why when he says brainwashed, I mean they've been brainwashed by facts and accurate information.
History.
History.
Experience.
A reading of history.
Everything.
Everything they know in their lives.
Yes, everybody they considered a conservative point of view when they left slavery.
When they ran away from the South, that was their consideration.
Yeah, I think they did.
Yeah, they had an open mind about it.
And they're open-minded about voting for their oppressors.
I think they certainly do.
In fact, here's what, so they've been brainwashed.
And I just wanted to play, here's the leading voice of the conservatives for the last 15, 20 years.
Here's the leading voice.
And I don't know.
I'm going to play this and you just tell me white black people, how they've been brainwashed.
We have to bend over grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president.
How do you get promoted in the Barack Obama administration by Haven white people?
Obama's America.
The white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering.
Yeah, right on, right now, right now, right on.
The triple double Oreo.
It's actually a biracial cookie.
You wait, it ain't gonna be long before it's gonna be called the Orbameo or something like this.
Barack the Magic Negro.
How many votes did Obama get because he was black?
Shocking number, folks.
If Obama weren't black, he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu.
Okay, so I don't know why he is, Herman Cain is right.
They have been brainwashed into by the right.
Yeah, they've been brainwashed by the Southern Strategy, for Christ's sake.
Herman Kane with a straight face.
I don't know what Wolf Blitzer said back, but here's the latest from Mars Limbaugh, The voice of the right.
Here's what he had to say.
But maybe this is why Herman Kane says that.
We could be on the brink of an historic election.
Herman Kane goes on to win the Republican presidential nomination and then goes on to be elected president.
Herman Kane could be our first authentically black president.
Stop and think about that.
Okay.
You know what?
That's horrible thought.
Authentically black president has got to have a white man's brand on his ass.
Oh, very good, Jim.
Thank you.
I'm leaving the room.
Apparently, Barack Obama was authentically black enough for Rush to say all that other stuff about him.
He's a Negro calling him a Negro.
He's black enough to be called a Negro, black enough for all that stuff.
Okay.
You know, Rush is on the border of saying like, Herman Cain is my boy.
He's on.
He's just about to say it.
Well, the thing that to me, it's like, so what Rush is saying here, because he likes Herman Cain because he's black, it seems like.
So Rush isn't, he isn't a racist racist.
He's a situational racist.
He's like, yeah, I don't really hate black people, but I'll hate them if it helps me.
Listen, I think even worse.
The only thing he likes about Kane is that he's a conservative.
The black thing, I think he still doesn't like that much.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he's just pretending.
Yeah, but it doesn't.
He likes his politics.
He doesn't like his skin color.
Yeah.
But do you think that point is kind of accurate, that it's like he's actually a situational racist?
Like, yeah, I'm racist when it's convenient, when it helps my side.
He's a situational person.
I mean, his thinking is, you know, relative, I think.
Yes.
And I don't think he has any black relatives, so that's what helps.
I doubt he has any black friends.
I think he likes Herman Kane because Herman Cain is like Rush Limbaugh.
He is, literally.
He came from the private sector, and he was a radio personality.
That was Herman Kane's bigger claim to fame that nobody talks about, is that within his area, he was a conservative loudmouth.
And a sex tourist.
Oh, yeah.
Buzzy?
Not Herman Kane, but Rush is.
Yeah.
Rushed to the Dominican Republic sex.
So that's why he got caught on his Viagra.
Oh, really?
Yeah, you don't know anything about this tourist.
I didn't hear about the sex tourists.
I'm telling you, if Herman Kane had a serious OxyContin problem, that would be it.
He would be yes.
All right.
Music This has been, oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Okay, so I wanted to cover this story.
So I teased it at the top of the show about the Wall Street protest, Occupy Wall Street.
And I don't know if you guys have seen they were macing people.
Yeah.
The cops were macing people and basically just beating the crap out of them, right?
Because they don't like them.
Because they're cops who vote against their own interests and they're anti-union, probably vote for Republicans who want to break the union.
So they're those kind of people, right?
So here are these people lining up protesting Wall Street, the people who want to crush the unions, want to crush public sector jobs, privatize everything.
And the people who they're trying to crush are actually beating up the protesters.
So it's kind of a...
We should give the Wall Street people some credit because when they were looking down from the balconies on that macing happening, they dug deep into their souls and they said, hey, you know what?
I got to buy some more stock in mace.
That stuff starts selling like hotcakes and it's very effective.
So there's been almost zero coverage of it until there was 80 arrests.
I understand there was 80 arrests on Saturday because the cops just decided to go beat pricks and start arresting people indiscriminately, which happened a lot.
And none of them will be.
Lawrence O'Donnell has done a big thing about it.
But in the mainstream media, it wasn't covered.
They did cover.
Here's how it was covered.
So I couldn't wait.
I couldn't wait to see how Brian Williams was going to handle it.
And here's a 30-second report for Brian.
...over this kind of thing, along with the growing income disparity, is spilling into the streets here in New York.
The arrest of 80 people in one day over this past weekend got the attention of a lot of people.
It was part of a protest that's been going on for a while, aimed at shutting down Wall Street and getting attention for the protesters'message.
NBC's Ron Allen is in Lower Manhattan for us tonight.
Ron, good evening.
Good evening to you, Brian.
Yes, we're just a couple of blocks from Wall Street in that direction, a couple blocks from the financial centers over there as well.
And they're calling this an occupation of the financial district.
There are several hundred people here.
The police have the area surrounded.
The problem is that the protesters want to move beyond here and walk out into the streets.
That's what happened this weekend when so many people were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace.
The police said that they did not have a permit to lawfully march beyond this park.
And that's the problem now.
That's why there's a standoff.
The protesters charge that the police use excessive force.
The police say that anyone who resists arrests can expect to encounter some level of force, but nothing excessive.
Here again tonight, there are a couple of hundred protesters who have moved beyond this park and who are out near the New York Stock Exchange and near Wall Street.
So far, we understand everything is peaceful, and the police are escorting the protesters along.
All this back and forth could go on for some time because the protesters insist they are not going to leave this area until they're forced to go.
Brian?
Ron Allen in Lower Manhattan, Ron.
Thanks.
Okay, so that's the whole report.
And so what did I learn about the protest?
I learned almost zero what's happening down there.
They did almost a full minute on the news about it.
I know nothing about it.
You know, I know the cops had to arrest 80 hippies.
I know that, those humans.
Low-life agitators, right?
They had to be arrested.
I know that.
But that's all I know.
I don't know stuff like little details like what the point of their protest was, what they want, if their concerns are legitimate.
Details like what does it mean?
Could have been about Vietnam for all we know, right?
I would love to see how NBC would cover, you know, like a report from NBC in 1930, 32.
It's like, yeah, you know, people seem to be moving into shanty towns in the park, calling them Hooverville's.
Well, no bigger story there.
Let's back to you, Brian.
We needed young General Eisenhower to come in with his tanks, like he did the bonus marchers in Washington.
Remember that?
No.
You weren't around.
But it was in the 20s.
The bonus marches, yeah.
World War I veterans.
World War I vets.
Yeah, they were protesting.
They wanted their bonuses early because he was actually in the middle of the Depression, I think.
Oh, that was the middle of the Depression.
Yeah, and Eisenhower brought in his tanks.
Eisenhower?
Really?
They brought in the tanks to go against the veterans.
Yeah, they just ran right through the shantytown full of vets.
Really?
Yeah.
The war was over, so it didn't matter.
We didn't need them.
They were practicing for World War II.
That was.
I cannot believe a proud moment in American history like that is not common knowledge.
First of all, I love that he says that the arrest of 80 people got the attention of a lot of people.
Yeah, you know, like us, the news organization that seemingly don't know the largest, most sustained act of American civil disobedience in decades is happening just a few blocks from my office.
But we never know it by watching my news reports.
But once there was some good B-roll of hippies getting brutalized, they were all over it.
They were down there.
That's all it took.
And, you know, when you hear journalists say stuff like a lot of people, or people are saying, or the word on the street is, those sort of vagaries are what let you know that they're doing a totally awesome job at reporting.
They made it seem about, should they be in the park?
Should they be in the street?
Like these people who had, oh, it's a nice day.
Why don't we go march in the street?
Like, why?
Nobody knows.
Yeah, you know, a teabagger steps off a curb and twists his ankle.
I got six camera crews on down there.
Hey, I think an SCIU thug pushed a guy off the curb.
A detailed position paper of everything that they care about.
It's the Tea Party.
Yeah, that's the mistake these guys made was not putting on a press release.
That's all they would have to do.
And NBC would pick it up.
And the weird thing is, well, you know, I don't know about that, but the weird thing is, the news people will pretty much point a mic at anybody with an opinion or a pulse or without a pulse.
They interviewed Dick Cheney all the time.
But weird in that report, not one soundbite from a protester, not one soundbite from a police officer or a witness or even interviewing an investment banker.
Nobody, not one.
And I guess nobody wanted to talk, especially the protesters, huh?
They were in jail.
Did you read the New York Times hit piece on the protest?
No, go ahead.
Well, no, I didn't.
Basically, it just described the protest as a big group of disparate nutcases.
A mob.
A mob.
People, all kinds of people coming in just to be heard about their own little crappy causes.
And it was, you know, nobody even knew what they were doing there, basically, according to the New York Times.
Well, who wrote the article?
Andrew Breitbart?
It was anarchy.
I don't know.
It was anarchy, and there's no point to it.
I don't think that's entirely inaccurate, but that's not the point.
The point is, is that there is an ethos where people without a central leadership all showed up in one place because they're all feeling roughly the same thing.
That should be telling everybody.
I agree 100% with you.
Let me just sum up.
Hundreds of people with more on the way from all over the country with no central leadership.
And despite what NBC says, they seem to have no single message or goal except to lay their fury at the feet of the financial community that caused the financial meltdown.
The same financial community that is doing nothing to fix the suffering they created and a financial community that remains without any regulations that might prevent this from happening again, which means it will happen again.
So that took me about 30 seconds.
And that's all Brian Williams had to say, but he'll never say any of that stuff ever.
That's it, you know, because they had to get to the other stories of the day.
You know what the other stories they had to get to?
Andy Rooney retired.
Michael Jackson's doctor's going on trial.
And they're getting a Washington Monument's getting a facelift.
So that's what they had.
Those are the other stories they had to hurry and get to.
You know, what's really frustrating and infuriating about it to me is that there's millions.
We live in an age of media.
There's hundreds of cable stations.
There's all, you know, there's multiple sports stations.
I think there's a cupcake station for Christ.
There ought to be if there isn't.
You know, you think that they could delegate all that kind of fluff stuff off to those other channels, and then Brian Williams would have some time to give you the news.
But no, it's just more and fluff stuff.
Doesn't matter how they cannot get enough of the fluff stuff.
Boy, if it could go ahead.
Tea Party loves the cupcake station, by the way.
They also love the LARD station.
They are the lard station.
The lard station.
The gas station.
You know, all those stations.
I'll say this to the, you know, if the media wasn't following how do we sell a million widgets business model, maybe they would have sent a reporter out to see why the banks were happily giving interest-only mortgages to borderline homeless people.
And hey, what are these things called credit default swaps that are supposedly worth more than twice the entire U.S. GDP?
I don't know.
Maybe we sent a reporter out to find out what the, you know what I would say.
Here's my suggestion to the New York Times.
We're actually going to call into Dave Reinitz, who's down at the Wall Street protest right now.
So we're going to call him in a sec.
But maybe they send a few of those protesters up a couple of blocks uptown to the home of the fourth estate, you know, the press, which is constitutionally protected, specifically so they can inform the public about threats to life and liberty, unless those threats come from a plutocracy of corporations that have direct control over the major media outlets.
Okay, I just want to remind everybody that today's show, if you missed any part of it, you can also, it's always available as a podcast for free at iTunes.
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I don't know if you guys have seen any of it.
He takes the phone calls that we do and some of the bits and he puts video to them and it's amazing.
It truly is amazing how he gets the clips and what he does.
It's really fun.
I post them on the website and my Facebook.
All right, now let's get to, let's talk about, we have a few minutes before the bottom of the hour.
Barack Obama went and gave a speech in front of the Congressional Black Caucus and he had some kind of particular things to say.
I don't have time to complain.
I'm going to press on.
Yeah, he doesn't have time to complain because he's already ruined three, wasted three years of his administration.
Where did the time go?
I really would have appreciated a little bit of complaining if he'd just come out and said, Congress is screwing you, America, and they're really ticking me off.
I really would have appreciated just a little complaining.
Complaining would have been good.
Well, he's got more.
He's got more to say about this, Barack Obama.
I expect all of you running with me and press home.
Oh, you mean like in Wisconsin when he didn't show up?
You mean that march, Brock?
Put on his shoes.
He had to put on his comfortable comfortable shoes.
Yeah, I expect all of you to start marching.
Oh, you guys are?
Well, good, because I expected it.
Okay, he's got more to say at the Congressional Black Caucus.
Take off your bedroom slippers.
Put on your marching shoes.
Shake it off.
You know, to be fair, this was at the very end of a long speech about how to properly care for expensive footwear.
Shake off the blaze I created.
I don't want to take it out of context.
All right.
Let's be fair to him.
Okay.
But he had some words for the people.
He's giving the speech under the, let me just give the backdrop for this speech, right?
According to the Department of Labor, since the end of the recession, the overall unemployment rate has fallen from 9.4% to 9.1%, which is okay, so it's going down.
But the black unemployment rate has actually risen from 14.7% to over 16%.
Okay.
And the Economic Policy Institute says that in 2009, the median net worth for a white household was $97,000.
In 2004, the median income for a black household was $13,000.
But now in 2009, it's dropped from 13,000.
Median income for a Black household has dropped since 2004 from $13,000 to $2,000.
Wow.
That's unbelievable.
Yes.
Yes.
That's an amazing statistic.
That's very little money, by the way.
I can't believe it's that high.
That sounds like your household, Jim.
And by the way, that's not income.
That's net worth.
Let me correct myself.
That's net worth.
Their net worth is $2,000.
That's better.
Jesus.
You're so depressing.
I'm sorry.
Let me go on to the Michael Jackson's doctor.
These people can't afford shoes.
That's what I'm saying.
So, yeah, those aren't.
No wonder they're running around in slippers.
Those are shoes.
They're just worn down from carrying all his bull on their back.
Okay, so here is Barack Obama.
Here's his message to the black unemployed with $2,000 net worth in their house.
Ready?
He has this to say.
Stop complaining.
But Barack, they don't have any jobs.
They're not complaining.
They're just letting you know over there.
What do you got to say to him?
Stop grumbling.
But they're not grumbling.
What they're doing is just telling you what's happening in their lives.
Stop crying.
Hey, Santini, what's going on?
What are you going to do?
Start bouncing a basketball off Maxine Waters' head next?
Okay.
We are going to press on.
We've got work to do.
CBC.
Yeah, we've got work to do.
Unfortunately, they don't have any jobs.
That's the problem.
You know, I liked when he starts to, when he starts to speak in front of a black audience, he starts to use those contractions, you know, because it makes him sound.
It makes him sound more authentically charlatan.
I think.
All right.
He's getting straight.
He is getting, he is getting straight.
Hillary did that, too.
And so does Sarah Palin.
You know, they went before certain audiences, southern audiences, they started bringing out the Southern Girls.
Hillary did that?
You are right.
I'm just a plain Arkansas lawyer.
When he goes, he goes, press on.
Press on.
There's nothing left to press, Brock.
It's all done.
Everything's got, you know what?
We're depressed.
Yeah.
How about you step up and grow a pair?
How about that?
So we can get out of this depression.
You know, I'm beginning to think that this guy wasn't really born in America, because if he were, he'd know better than to tell a bunch of unemployed Americans that they're complaining too much, which is what he's telling them.
Could you imagine him saying that kind of stuff to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?
Hey, Chamber of Commerce, quit.
Or how about the NRA?
Or how about the Republican House of Representatives?
Or how about his Wall Street campaign contributors?
You think he would ever tell them that?
No, you know why?
Because they're white.
It sounds like something a white Republican would say is, you know, these people are complaining all the time.
It sounds like the white side of him started to give that speech, right?
Remember Terry Thomas in the Mad Mad, Madman, Mad Wet Mad World?
Yes.
Him telling his big line with Prithon.
Prithon.
Keep going.
Prithon.
Okay, you know what?
Governor Perry actually gave me another phone call.
I got to.
Hey, Jimmy, this is Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
Well, let's face it.
I'm still the frontrunner.
Now, this Chris Christie fella looks like he might run even after months of sputtering his gas flapper about how he ain't running.
I say, bring it on.
In order to bolster his possible run, he gave a foreign policy speech at the Reagan Library.
Really?
A foreign policy speech from the governor of New Jersey.
I can only assume that the next event in that series will be a speech from the manager of a Quiznos about string theory.
What is his foreign policy anyway?
Let's invade Belgium and take all their wall for me.
Come on, man.
My state borders a whole other country, Mexico.
What is New Jersey border?
New Hampshire, some shit.
Humpty Dumpty should just stay up on his wall up there before he gets shattered by the Texas sidewinder that is my campaign.
Walk you down.
Okay.
Okay, that's Governor Rick Perry.
He's very confident.
He is very confident of what's happening.
I want him to stay in for as long as possible.
Oh, absolutely.
I want him to get the nomination.
Don't forget, you can get all those phone calls, all that stuff is available as a podcast for free at jimmydoorcomedy.com.
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Now let's get back to the fun and the funny with the second half of today's show.
We got a lot of fun stuff coming up.
Governor Chris Christie, Rick Perry calls back in, and even more.
Hi, welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm joined in studio by Steve Rosenfield.
Happy New Year for that.
And by Jim Earl and Tosh Matana.
And Robert Yasamura.
Tasamatakamatana.
Nana.
By the way, Sarah tweeted, tweeted to your people.
Oh, really?
What did she tweet?
It's not good enough.
She tweeted in Hebrew, Happy New Year.
Oh, really?
And boy, did a lot of people come out again.
Really?
Really, Sarah?
Well, what's coming up on the rest of today's show?
We're going to talk about Barack Obama's answer to an unemployed man, what he should do during these hard times.
It's kind of fun.
And then David Pachman from the David Pachman Show sits down with us for a few minutes to talk about things in general and tell us about his great show.
And we're going to have a couple more phone calls from Governor Rick Perry and Chris Christie is going to call in.
But right now, it's time for our favorite guy, Jim Hightower.
At last, Republicans in Washington have recognized that class war is ravaging poor and middle-class families all across our land.
Oh, wait.
My mistake.
GOP Congress creditors are not expressing outrage at the plight of these folks, but at the plight of corporate chieftains and Wall Street barons.
Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and other top repubs have gotten up on their hind legs to screech class war at Barack Obama.
That dastardly Democrat offended the fragile sensibilities of privileged plutocrats at the uppermost tip of our economy by suggesting that they should pay a bit more in taxes.
So Republican leaders grabbed pitchforks and torches to save the billionaires from Obama's reckless tax talk.
Does being a top Republican official require you to be both stupid and ridiculous?
In the same week that McConnell, Boehner, and company rallied round the rich elite, sobering reality about America's true class war was published by the Census Bureau.
The 2007 economic crash, caused by Wall Street greed and exacerbated ever since by corporate-induced joblessness, has knocked down the typical household's income, tossed 9 million more of our people into poverty, and rapidly made the poor much poorer.
More than 46 million Americans now live in poverty, 20 million of them in deep poverty, with some of the sharpest increases coming in suburbs.
Young families with children have been especially hard hit.
37% of them dwell in poverty, the highest rate on record.
This is Jim Hightower saying, meanwhile, to protect the super wealthy from any tax hike at all or any cut in the subsidies they get for things like vacation homes and yachts, Republican leaders are demanding cuts in food stamps, Head Start, job training, and other essential tools for getting out of poverty.
This is not merely stupid and ridiculous.
It's shameful.
Okay, Jim, thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
You can hear Jim Hightower here almost every week on the Jimmy Door show.
Okay, now let's get back to, I'm here with Steve Rosenfield, Jim Earl, and Robert Yasimura.
Barack Obama was asked at a LinkedIn town hall meeting where he likes to get with the people, and an unemployed young man stood up and said, Barack Obama, president, what is your advice to me?
What does somebody like me do?
I'm unemployed.
I have a college degree.
What do you say?
And here's what he had to say.
The encouraging thing for you is that when the economy gets back on track in the ways that it should, you are going to be prepared to be successful.
The challenge is making sure that you hang in between now and then.
Yeah, his message to the unemployed, hang in there.
His message to Wall Street, how much do you need?
Hang in there.
What does that mean?
The trouble is getting you to hang.
Yeah, that's what we're talking about, Brock.
We're talking about what you do when you don't have a job.
You're talking about what I do when I get one.
We're talking about what I do when we're going on.
And yeah, hang in there.
You want you to hang in there until we get this feudalistic society thing all set up for you.
I know it seems a little messed up now, but that's the nature of the crumbling democracy.
Just give it time.
You'll be living in mud huts and in debt to the company store before you know it.
Oh, and by the way, why is he more prepared?
Like, he says you'll be prepared for what happened.
No, I won't.
Education's gotten more and more expensive.
Not even at the rate of inflation, like exponentially more.
Exponentially.
How am I more prepared?
Well, he's, you know, Barack has, you know, we're prepared for success because they've been prepared for failure for so long, I guess.
Buy a suit?
What is he even talking about?
Hey, hang in there.
Sign your shoes.
Hang in there.
Put on your marching shoes, man.
Oprah isn't even on daytime talk shows.
I can't even watch that to get prepared for the new economy.
Hang in there.
And by the way, you know what else?
Hang in there.
Hang in there to the Guantanamo detainees.
Hang in there.
We're going to close that place down as soon as I can secretly send you off to your deaths in Egypt again.
Hang in there.
Hang in there, lung cancer victims, whiny old people, infants.
Clean air creates too much uncertainty for job creators like BP and Mass Energy.
So just hang in there.
That's his hang in there.
Hey, and hang in there, unemployed people, still fortunate enough to be getting unemployment checks.
You still have to pay back all the taxes on your massive windfall.
And hang in there, all you soldiers with irreversible brain trauma, because you'll never remember this anyway.
Oh, man.
I can't believe Michelle still screws me with a straight face.
Okay.
Hang in there.
That's his message.
Hang in there.
What's he doing talking to the LinkedIn people anyway?
I joined LinkedIn, and all they do is want to talk to me about Mod Squad.
Thank you.
I'm at Flappers tonight, and I'll be eating it.
10 minutes.
10 minutes of.
It's a link joke.
It's a link joke.
From Mod Squad Squad.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Wow.
Oh, I didn't even get that title.
I know, Roger, because you weren't born 100 years ago.
I remember Link.
Hang in there.
What a message for the unemployed.
That's like telling a bunch of terminal patients.
You know, the encouraging thing is for you, when we finally come up with a cure for cancer, your bodies will be the first ones we dissect.
So hang in there.
Don't say hang to someone who doesn't have a job, you know?
Hang in there.
That's Barack Obama.
Hang in there.
Okay.
I just want to remind people, if you miss any part of today's show, you can always get it as a podcast for free at iTunes.
It's the Jimmy Doer show.
That's right.
The one with the picture.
There's two things up at iTunes.
One's still the old KPFK feeds up there.
We got to get rid of that.
But the one with my picture, that's the right one.
You give it away for free.
What do you want?
Commie?
That's right.
I'm a communist socialist, and we give it all away for free.
And you can swing by JimmyDoorComedy.com and check it out there, too.
But right now, I'm going to play Governor Chris Christie actually heard Governor Perry saying that stuff about him, and he had this to say.
Hey, Jimmy, this is Chris Christie.
Oh, yeah.
I'm very glad to hear Rick Berry has taken a break from butt fucking Hopper Launch Cassidy.
Long enough to rebuild my record on foreign policy.
Britton, listen to me.
I know a lot about public policy.
My mother is from Sicily.
And I've been to Delaware.
I know that's not a former country.
But you should be the passport for God if you're not a friggin' fazool.
I hope Chris Derry gets locked all this stupid reddock face.
And we could all throw turkey bones at his head during debate.
I hope his whole family gets wicked to defeat my rammy coyotes being bidden by the inbred drunken hillbilly to bonaphon.
Okay.
Okay.
Wow.
Governor Chris Christie taking the gloves off.
Draft him.
That wasn't even taking the gloves off for him.
That was a great shooter.
That's how he talks.
That was really something.
All right.
So let's get to David Pacman.
I sat down on.
If you don't know who he is, he's got a great show.
You can find everything at PacmanDavidPachman.com.
That's P-A-K-M-A-N.
He gives it out there in the interview.
We sat down for a few minutes.
We were lucky.
He's a very smart, insightful guy, and he's got some good wit, too, which I enjoyed.
Here it is, my interview with David Pacman.
Okay, I'm here with our guest, David Pacman, who's in Los Angeles for a few days, doing some big, high-powered show business work.
And we were lucky enough to get him in studio.
Hey, David, how are you?
I'm doing great.
Thanks for having me.
Now, David, you host the David Pacman show.
I'm Jimmy Doerr.
I host the Jimmy Doer show.
So we're a lot alike.
Very similar, yeah.
And so, David, how long have you been doing your show?
And first of all, people can hear it.
It's on 150 affiliates.
That's what I understand.
That's right.
I understand the same thing, but we both could be wrong.
Okay, I thought it was a hot shot.
I was on eight affiliates.
You're totally got it going.
I became aware of you online.
You know, I'm always on the YouTube, and I saw a clip of you interviewing some crazy gay hater, and you handled him very well.
Thank you.
And tell me about your show and how it started and what made you want to do it.
Yeah, I just started the show at one Pacifica affiliate in Northampton, Massachusetts, when I was an undergrad at the University of Massachusetts.
It was terrible.
I was just reading news, not even doing it well.
And I don't know, just a little bit at a time, it got better, you know, just a little bit here and there, got on a few other radio affiliates, then got on a few more radio affiliates, hired a producer, got some sponsors, launched a membership program, started doing a TV version, which is now bigger than the radio version.
So it's been like five and a half years, you know, one step at a time.
I had no idea that you saw you're on the television also.
Right.
We actually, of 150 affiliates, more than half are TV who are also on DirecTV and Dish Network.
God, you're like, you're the real deal, David Pachman.
Oh, boy, I thought you were a lowly radio host like myself.
And you are, you're a multimedia.
You're the king of multimedia.
I don't know about that.
I don't know.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Well, you got you, so you probably have your stuff together.
Whereas me being a comedian, I do not have my stuff together.
Well, it's hard to say.
I mean, you should see what my producer doesn't even wear shoes.
Oh, okay.
So that's, I don't know.
I don't know how together we really have it.
Okay, well, we always have shoes and socks.
There you go.
I definitely, this is not Miami Vice.
I just age myself.
And so, so, what would you say is a philosophy behind your show?
Or is there one?
Well, I mean, it's definitely a progressive show.
It's not about Democrats and Republicans so much.
I mean, I'm not a Democrat.
I'm not a Republican.
I guess in Massachusetts, it's not independent.
You're unaffiliated.
Are you a centrist like Joe Scarborough?
No, no, no, no.
I'm definitely very, very progressive, but I'm just not a Democrat.
And so, I mean, we definitely point out how basically anything in politics in government can be bought and sold, whether it's Democrats or Republicans, and more so than political bias.
It's pro-corporate bias that exists in the media and really everywhere.
So I think that's the angle.
A lot of skepticism.
But we have a good time.
You know, there's a lot of laughs.
My producer's in a heavy metal band, and just that in and of itself is funny.
And so there's a lot of sidebar on the show about him and about my brother's the TV director.
So you can imagine all the internal dramatic.
Wow, yes, I bet there is.
A lot of dramedy.
Exactly.
Okay.
Exactly.
So now, what do you feel like the, what do you say to people when, like, you just made a good point about how most of the media is biased in corporate fashion.
What do you say to people who think that the media is liberal?
And they'll say it and they really hang on to that.
Well, I usually ask, well, why do you think that?
And they'll say, well, it's because they're just all of the anchors are liberal.
And I say, how do you know that?
And they say, well, because they make liberal points.
And I say, like what?
And just usually a few basic questions make it clear people don't know what they're talking about.
I mean, the reality is that, yeah, Fox News is very conservative.
And MSNBC has decided to put out a more liberal product.
But the reality is they're both owned by big corporations and they're putting out a product that's designed to make money, which is when we look at, for example, when there was TARP money and the stimulus money going around, at the time, MSNBC was still owned by GE.
None of those anchors, even though they were, quote, liberal and they put out a liberal show, were mentioning that GE receives TARP money.
So I think that more than anything, it's a corporate bias.
However, if people want to go point by point about is it liberal or conservative, the media, corporate media, is so afraid of being called liberal that they will default to a very right-wing kind of medium.
So if we look at where the middle is, the middle keeps moving to the right.
I mean, Wolf Blitzer, when he was talking about waterboarding and torture just the other day, he calls it these new enhanced interrogation techniques.
He doesn't say so-called, he certainly doesn't say torture because just merely using that word, people would say, oh, he's liberal.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
If you're accurate in your news coverage, often you will be, you know, Stephen Colbert said reality has the liberal bias.
Exactly.
Right.
And so like, so you, Brian Williams says he plays it down the middle, though, David.
He plays it down the middle.
That's what he says.
Well, that's good.
It's great that he thinks that.
And, you know, the question I would ask is: does he really think that?
Or does he just know he has to say that?
And I don't know the answer.
I mean, if you watch Brian Williams, yeah, I guess he is more or less down the middle.
But when you look at sometimes the context, it's not so much what's said.
A perfect example is Fox News makes a big distinction between their opinion coverage and their what they call hard news coverage.
And they say, yeah, our opinion coverage is what it is.
Most of the guys are conservative.
Fine.
But then they say the hard news coverage is down the middle because they're not going out there and giving an opinion.
Fine, they're not.
But for example, on healthcare, internal memos were circulated where they were directed.
If you're talking about the public option, you have to call it the government run plan or you have to call it the so-called public option to cast doubt upon it.
Both are terms that were focus group tested by Republican experts.
And it's known that those terms push people to support Republicans on healthcare.
So yeah, they're not giving an opinion, but the context is one that's very, very biased.
Yes.
Wow, that's very well said.
I would say to Brian Williams that there aren't two sides to the truth.
And it's not your job to be a stenographer for either party or either side and report back what they're saying.
But you're supposed to be the filter and assess the facts.
And, you know, it's not what Brian Williams says, it's what he doesn't say.
What doesn't he say?
He doesn't say what's really going on.
He doesn't say that, oh, by the way, the reason why they're trying to screw over the teachers is because it's a corporate takeover of our government and it's a move to kill the unions, which is what really makes the middle class.
So look out.
They're taking the wealth has been funneled upwards for the last four days.
He doesn't say any of that stuff.
You know, when there's a protest in Madison, it's like, they say that the rich teacher pensions and benefits are bankrupting the state.
Well, they say they should have the rights.
Well, what, what?
That's what he calls reporting.
And I say that's not reporting.
So that's being a stenographer, right?
Okay.
So tell me more about your show.
Like, I think in my show, we very quickly early on took a turn against Obama.
And now a lot of people are back on board with him lately, right?
Because he's campaigning again.
Yeah, back in campaign money.
How do you feel about the campaign, Barack Obama?
Well, I take a lot of heat on my show for supposedly not supporting the Democrats enough or supporting Obama enough.
And to that, I say my show is not there to support one party.
In fact, I think that the system is probably one that is not even really the best.
In fact, I know it's not the best system.
So I say I call it like it is.
There are things I think Barack Obama has done well.
There are things I think he hasn't done well.
When people say, well, you're hurting the cause overall by criticizing Obama because you might convince people not to vote for him.
And then the other person who could win, we'd be even worse off.
And I say, it just, it really doesn't depend on me.
I'm just out there doing a show and giving my opinion.
I'm not there to position the Obama administration to lose the least number of votes in the next election.
If you want to criticize, at the same time, it's a progressive show, and most conservatives who criticize my show, which is a lot, I get a ton of email from conservatives, are blind to the fact that I am critical of Obama.
So on one hand, it's like you can't win.
On the other hand, if everybody isn't criticizing you, you're probably not doing a very compelling show.
*music*
That was a great interview with David Pachman.
Our thanks to him again.
Right now, we're going to go down to Wall Street and talk to our friend Dave Reinitz.
Okay, standing online right now, we have former commentator and contributor to KPFK and the current owner of one of the prettiest rooms in Los Angeles to do comedy, and it's the Flappers Comedy Club.
It's Dave Reinitz is here.
Hi, Dave.
How are you?
I'm doing well, Jimmy.
How are you?
I'm doing great out, and you're down at the Wall Street protest.
And just tell me what you've seen and what's happening down there.
Well, it's interesting because there's probably, I would say, four or five hundred people, and it's a park about three blocks from the stock exchange from the actual Wall Street.
And they're camped out, and they look like they're going to be here for as long as it takes.
Okay.
And now, and what's the crowd actually look like?
Is it a bunch of dirty hippies?
Is it seemed like there's regular people?
What is the not that hippies aren't regular people?
There's certainly a contingent of hippies, and there is a contingent of quote-unquote regular people.
It's a diverse crowd.
They're all ages.
The Granny's Peace Brigade was here.
There's quite a police presence around them.
They're in a park.
It's called Zapata Park.
And it's actually a privately private park, but they've allowed them to stay here and set up their encampment.
So that's interesting.
Oh, okay.
So it's not actually on Wall Street, but it's a couple of blocks away in a park.
So it's kind of like...
It is similar to it.
I think that's a great analogy, the old free speech zones, because there is a big police presence all the way around the park, and they've got the towers with the cameras kind of keeping an eye on all the action.
And there's just a constant stream of different media outlets, a lot of foreign media here.
The former governor of New York, Patterson, was walking through not long ago.
Oh, really?
Did he know he was walking through?
Yeah, which was it was great to have a blind guy out there.
The symbolism of a blind governor is perfect for this protest.
Oh, you know what?
Not to be insensitive to our sight-impaired listeners, but yes, I guess that is kind of an apropos symbol for this whole fiasco, right?
There should be a blind governor, a blind senator, a blind president, blind Wall Street CEO, our blind regulators, and then again, of course, our blind consumer citizens.
Right, exactly.
So there is a lot of symbolism there.
And what's interesting is when you walk down, because we walk down to Wall Street just to kind of see whether there was any presence there and what was going on, you walk down to Wall Street now, and it's just all barricaded and a huge police presence.
I mean, you can't get anywhere close to the stock exchange without the magic pass and all this kind of thing.
Really?
You have to have a...
You can't.
They have like a gated community is Wall Street now?
It is a gated community.
You have to have some kind of capitalist get into jail free card or something.
It's quite shocking because it's like Wall Street is protected from us, but we're certainly not protected from Wall Street.
Wow.
Oh, definitely.
Well, they have the money, so they can erect all the fences and hire the cops.
And so what is the mood?
Can you sense the mood of the cops?
Is there a friction between them and the protesters today?
Or did they get rid of those crazy guys who are macing everybody for no reason?
Well, that's certainly, you know, the protesters were very aware of that.
And they actually spoke of that as kind of a seminary or pivotal event in that, you know, it raised a lot of awareness and it got them some press coverage when that happened.
But it seems to be relatively calm in that regard.
We did overhear a couple of cops down by Wall Street sort of talking.
It was amazing.
It was almost the, you know, why don't they just go get jobs?
They're going to be walking around actually.
Yeah, well, until they lose their job in retirement and pension and they raise their age for Social Security and take away their Medicare.
Maybe those cops will wake up then.
Maybe they'll get a job, you know, maybe they'll get a clue.
And it was kind of an older cop sort of trying to explain it to a younger cop.
And it was just fascinating.
I mean, we just kind of stood there next to them pretending to sightsee while we eavesdropped them a conversation, which I hope isn't a felony, but probably.
It probably is.
I think it is.
You can't, you know, that's amazing.
Yeah, these people, they're lazy.
They don't have jobs.
That's why they would rather go camp in a park than stay at home, right?
That's what they're doing.
Okay, so that makes a lot of sense.
We asked the organizers kind of what things they needed.
What were they looking for just in terms of keeping the camp going?
It was the basic things.
It was, yeah, we really need socks and paper plates.
And it's absolutely pouring here now.
So they're just getting drenched out there.
Oh, you're kidding.
Oh, it's raining on them.
Yeah.
For a couple of days.
Oh, I didn't know that.
See?
Well, I haven't seen a lot of media coverage of it.
But you say CNN is there now.
And, you know, the thing was, you know, Brian Williams sent a guy down there, too.
But again, they don't cover anything that's important.
They cover it's, it's, it's anything that doesn't matter they'll talk about.
And, well, okay.
Go ahead.
And it's interesting because now, you know, there are similar encampments now in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, smaller cities just throughout the country.
They're actually starting one in Los Angeles Saturday morning at 10 a.m. down at Piercing Square.
Oh, really?
Okay.
So Saturday morning, Pershing Square down here in Los Angeles, 10 a.m.
They're starting their own version.
Now, are people just going to get together for the day or are going to people start camping?
Do you know anything?
Do you know?
Well, I think the intent is to set up the encampment, is to force the issue and create a long-term presence that won't go away.
And, you know, I would definitely go down there if they have bottled water.
And they do have bottled water here in New York, so I don't know if there'll be bottled water in L.A. Okay.
Well, Dave, I appreciate you taking time out.
Thanks for going down there and getting that report.
Anything else you'd like to leave us with?
Just a reminder that the Jimmy Dorse subversive comedy show is October 13th at Flappers Comedy Club, where we're doing a big fundraiser for No Walmart in Burbank.
Oh, that's right.
So they're trying to build a Walmart in Burbank, and there's a lot of people protesting it.
And our show on the 13th at Flappers in Burbank is going to be, there's going to be a lot of those people there who it's kind of, it's kind of like our anti-Walmart show.
And so that's going to be a fun show.
I forgot all about that.
That's right.
They're trying to build a Walmart in Burbank.
And of course we're against that, right?
Of course we are.
Okay.
All right.
I'll see you there October 13th at Flappers.
Thanks, Dave.
Thank you, Jimmy.
Be well.
Bye-bye.
So we all see what's happening in New York, and let's take a stroll down American history lane.
*Music*
Once upon a time, our nation's founders declared their independence on July 4th, 1776, to break free of the tyranny of a nation that denied them the civil liberties that they believed all people were granted as a birthright.
They reaffirmed that faith in independence from governmental tyranny with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
The First Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
See, freedom can't survive when those in power make exceptions to the First Amendment for speech they dislike or criticism they would rather not hear.
Even today, the most basic rights as Americans, the right to assemble, protest, and petition, continue to come under fire today.
According to the ACLU, anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protest should be regarded as low-level terrorism.
I guess on the bright side, it's not regarded as high-level terrorism.
I mean, high-level terrorism would be more like an entity that can attack you just because they want to.
Picture a busy street in New York.
You can hear protesters chanting, pay your fair share, while the elite toast them from their penthouses above the fray.
And law enforcement blindly do their bidding.
The chips are stacked against them.
They always have been.
And the past 10, 20, 30 years really set the stage to destroy the very fabric of the American dream.
The banks repackaged garbage CDOs with the American dream.
And if we can't protest Wall Street, we can kiss our dreams goodbye.
So this week we are introducing a new segment, my favorite American.
And this week's favorite American is you, the protester.
You give me hope.
You give me courage.
And yes, you even inspire me.
Sure, while you pound the pavement and Dodge Mace, I'll be thinking of you from my safe Pasadena studios.
I'll watch on YouTube to stay informed.
Maybe I'll blog about it.
But today is your day, protester.
Bravo.
And if you can do me a favor, if you have a minute while you avoid further oppression and brutality by a heavy-handed miscreant which shamefully protects Wall Street, could you go to my Facebook page and say hi?
This is Jimmy Doerr and I got to get out of these slippers and go meet with the president.
Now, Governor Perry called in again to give it to Chris Christie.
Well, Jimmy, Mr. Repair again, I heard old Chris Christie called into your show.
Good to know that he uses his smartphone for things other than ordering ham off the internet.
For him, 4G means four tons of Gorgonzola cheese.
He's a big fat WAP, get it?
Yeah.
Yeah, like some big fat Italian who's going to be president of the United States.
What's his campaign song going to be?
Goomba, y'all.
It's going to be that wheel of cheese in the sky, teeth on turning.
Yeah, I get it.
Fat jokes, boom.
All kidding aside, no one, no one likes a big fat Italian other than big fat Italian.
What jobs is he gonna create?
A bunch of olive garden hostesses.
Is that what he's coming off on?
I might be a holy roller, but he's a cannoli roller.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm drunk.
And I'm still gonna be that dago.
Wow.
And that is the hilarious Mike McRae on The Impressions.
And if you're a stand-up comedy fan, Mike McRae is coming to your town.
He's gonna be in Cedar Rapids this tonight and tomorrow, September 30th and October 1st at the Penguins in Cedar Rapids and next weekend in Springfield, Illinois at the Funnybone.
Okay, that's next weekend, October 7th and 8th.
Springfield Funnybone Mike McRae, check him out.
And I'll see you all October 13th at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank for the subversive comedy show dedicated to the Stop Walmart in Burbank.
Okay, that's our show.
I want to thank everybody who made today's show possible.
I want to thank Steve Rosenfield, Jim Earl.
Yeah, thanks.
Frank Conniff, Robert Yasimura, Mike McRae, Dave Reinitz, Steph Samurano, and our producer, Ali Lexa.
This is his last show.
Let's give a good, big old goodbye to Ali Lexa, huh?
They're cutting back here at KPFK.
It's tough all over.
We can't afford him anymore.
So he's going to be replaced by nobody, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, I don't know if the show is going to happen anymore, but the big thanks, Ali, and everything for helping us out for these last two years.
How about a round of applause?
Really?
That's Oli.
Thank you, Ali Lexa, for making this show happen in the first place.
He was the guy who brought me to KPFK and made this show happen.
And him and punished for it.
And now he's being punished for it.
Thanks for that, Ali.
That's our show.
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