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Jimmy, Jade of the D. Hi, this is Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts.
Did you, yeah, yeah, did you hear the good news?
I was endorsed by none other than corpulent New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
I tell you, I'm so happy I could do a little jig.
And well, hey, Jimmy, I might just put on some hippity-hop music that the kids love and bump fuzzies.
And then I'll take my family out for banana splits.
Yes!
Now, I strongly feel that Mr. Crispy's, I'm sorry, Christie's endorsement of our campaign is a comment on my unparalleled record of talking and standing up.
And quite frankly, it's also a tonic against some of the vitriolic language that's been coming out of some of the branches of the Republican Party lately.
Some have called my Mormon faith into question and dragged its validity as a Christian belief into the public arena.
And I don't think that's right.
My religion is a very personal matter for me and will have no bearing on how I run the executive branch of the government.
My faith is there to give me strength and comfort, especially the simple, humble teaching that my wife and I will become God and goddess of our own planet after we die.
And I vow to run that planet like a business, by the way.
Say what you want about Mormonism, Jimmy, but at least we believe in evolution.
And that just because you let Christ into your life doesn't mean you have to shut out Stravinsky, Picasso, or Einstein.
Now, that's more than I can say for Southern Baptists like Pastor Jeffers, which is not so much a religion as it is a grouping of angry, obese, retarded manatees lying on rocks and grunting at the setting sun over the ocean because they're confused by the beauty of the sky.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Did I offend someone's religion?
Well, I guess you'll just have to suck it later, Jims.
I'll call back later to retract all that.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say.
It's hard to talk to TV.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody, and welcome to today's show.
I am joined in studio from the Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's Frank Connoff and CinematicTitanic.com.
I understand that, Frank.
That's right.
And Frank, you're looking good.
You got the blue shirt on today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you got a big show this Saturday, right?
In Elgin, Illinois.
Cinematic Titanic will be performing there.
All right.
Look for Cinematic Titanic.
Elgin, Illinois.
Hello.
Yeah, suburb of Chicago, I believe.
That's correct.
That's where I'm from.
It's right on the Elge of Chicago.
Yes.
Next to him from the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast.
I almost blanked on that for a second.
All right, Jimmy.
I wonder what that means in my mental illness catalog.
It's Paul Gilmartin, ladies and gentlemen.
Hi, Paul.
How are you, Jim?
And people that haven't listened to the podcast yet, both Frank and Jimmy were guests on the show, and it were great episodes.
We delve deep into their psyches, their pain, and their insecurities.
A lot of insecurities and pain.
And next to him and my right.
Big of pain and insecurity.
Former writer for The Daily Show, hilarious stand-up comedian Steve Rosenfield, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, Steve.
Hey, Jimmy, how are you today?
I'm doing good.
It's good to hear your voice.
Well, what's coming up today?
Now, I want to tease this.
We have an interview coming up on the second part of today's show.
Do y'all remember the video of the guy who was being interviewed by Fox News at the Occupy Wall Street?
And he was very articulate, and then they never ran his interview, right?
Well, Jesse Legreca is his name.
And well, we're going to have him on the show.
He has some things to tell us.
I thought to myself, you know, I'm not really the anti-Jordan volume.
I'm an anti-Welshanboff.
I care about people.
I'm not racist.
And I don't have to pay for Saxon.
Okay, that's Jesse Legreca coming up in the second half of today's show.
And we're also going to talk about, we're going to talk about everyone's reaction to Occupy Wall Street.
We're going to look at some regular people's reaction, some right-wing Republicans' reaction, some corporatists, Herman Kane's reaction.
Herman Kane, who has called them anti-American, the protesters Occupy Wall Street.
And he went asked about it, he said this.
My parents, they never played the victim card.
My parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something.
No, my dad's idea was I want to work hard enough so I can buy a Cadillac, not take somebody else's.
Yeah, see, he's not playing the victim card.
He's playing the cynical ass millionaire card.
It's a totally different card.
It's a very different card.
So that's coming up.
We're going to get into it.
Our Oh My God segment will also be about the Occupy Wall Street.
We're going to have some phone calls from Rick Perry.
Governor Christie's going to call in.
Herman Kane calls in.
Second half of the show has Jim Hightower, Jesse Legreca, and a lot lot more that's coming up on today's Jimmy Dore show.
Time for another installment of Oh My God.
Okay, on today's Oh My God segment, I really wrestled with what clip to play.
I didn't know which one to pick because today's all we're focusing on the Occupy Wall Street and Herman Cain.
So, well, let's just go.
Let's just talk about what we're going to place.
You know, it used to be the conservatives were people who were just freaked out by change, middle-aged men and women who were scared of hippies and black people.
And party leaders would make up lies about civil rights and peace movement to really scare the straits.
And it was all in good fun.
Well, guess what?
Everything old is new again, fellas.
Because here's Republican Representative Aaron Cantor on his reaction to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country.
And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.
Bang, old school people.
Eric Cantor, he's taken it back to when the majority whip actually used to whip people.
That's what I like.
Listen to the old world craftsmanship in there, Paul.
Subtle, cold, like growing mobs and strawman arguments with plausible deniability, the pitting of Americans against Americans.
You know, I say we give Eric Hantor another week, and you're going to be hearing the word agitator.
You know what I'm saying?
As if Wall Street didn't start the fight first by destroying everyone's 401k by taking advantage of deregulation.
Yes.
As if they didn't launch the first shot across the bow.
You know, when you have close to 50 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, I'm going to say that the people who are in charge of the economy might hold a little bit of that responsibility.
He finds it hard to consider a movement or a protest American if there are no Hitler mustaches involved.
And if I remember correctly, his constituents are wealthy people that live in New York, correct?
Who Eric Hanter?
No, no, I think he's from South Carolina.
Oh, is he?
Yeah, he's from Virginia, Paul.
I'm thinking of Peter King.
Yeah, he is.
No, this is Eric Cantor from Virginia.
He's a Confederate Jew, which you don't see very often.
You don't see that very often.
Stars and bars.
Starve David and bars.
They tried to circumcise our country back in the 1800s.
You know, what you were saying before about pitting Americans against Americans?
It's called an election.
Fucking eat.
Or a football game or any kind of people are actually.
Or there's something that's not.
Well, where in the Constitution, Steve, does it give people the right to peacefully protest?
Which amendment said that?
Yeah.
It's the first one, I think.
Oh, really?
It must have been important.
I should read it.
Or it used to be.
Peaceably.
It used to be.
So now let's move on.
So we're getting everyone's reaction to the tea partiers today.
And so that was Eric Cantor's reaction, but pitting America, growing mobs.
It's funny when it's people who are actually victims of this economy.
When the chickens come home to roost from the way we've been running our economy, outsourcing jobs, funneling money to the banks, which produce nothing.
Having friends police each other, friends that went to Yale together, bailing each other out.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, there's more to, well, we're going to get to all that.
The 53%ers.
Have you heard about who they are?
No.
Oh, I've heard about them.
Yeah.
Okay.
We're going to get to them in a little bit, but there is a website now started.
I think it was by that guy who started RedState.com, Eric Erickson.
And it's called the 53%ers.
And there are people who, it's their response in the 99%er.
So what they're saying is they hold up pieces of paper and it says things like, I work three jobs.
My house is worth 60% less than when I bought it.
And I don't blame Wall Street.
I'm like, well, you should be blaming Wall Street.
That's exactly who's responsible for the crash of the housing.
There's other people responsible too, Democrats and Republicans that allowed deregulation to take place.
Oh, no doubt.
So what happened was Wall Street bought the government.
So, yeah, but you definitely could buy it.
Your representatives are as guilty.
Bill Clinton is as guilty as anybody else.
Yes, very much so.
But, okay, so let's move on to here's a so Eric Cantor would be like the regular a-holes version of what the Occupy Wall Street guys.
Now, here's a super a-hole response to the Wall Street.
This is Republican strategist Ron Christie, who goes on with.
Oh, Ron Christie.
Do you know who I'm talking about, right?
I know you.
Mr. Lazy Eye.
Yes, African American.
When I get tired, I also have a lazy eye, so I have a soft spot for him.
But here is Ron Christie's.
Here's his take on the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Well, it's pretty moving to see a large number of folks protesting in the streets, Chris.
I guess my first emotional response is, I feel your pain.
I understand where you're coming from, but go get a job.
Oh, world.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are.
Ah!
Ah!
Like these people are trying to get jobs.
That's the whole point of this, right?
Ladies and gentlemen.
When I say lazy eye, I meant lazy mind.
Yes.
God damn it.
Lazy everything.
We are truly in a post-racial world, Paul.
Oh.
Because Archie Bunker is now a black man.
There it is.
Sounds like a surfer dude.
Get a job.
Wow.
Never mind the ivory tower.
I really don't get what the hell is going on nature of that statement.
And try to appreciate the homage Christie is trying to pay to every middle-aged white guy who ever told a Vietnam-era protester to get a job.
That's what he's doing.
You know, and the irony to me is you know 90% of these right-wing assholes are people that call themselves Christians who, and at the heart of the problem is they are not able to picture themselves in someone else's shoes or don't take the time to picture themselves in someone else's shoes.
They just think they need to extrapolate their life onto somebody else's and say, well, why can't they get a great job in middle management like I do?
I don't think it's even that, Paul.
I think that Ron Christie is, it's not like he doesn't get it.
I think he gets it, but he doesn't care.
He's just going to carry water.
Do you think he really puts himself in someone else's shoes and really pictures what they're the effort that they might have to go through?
Well, the Republicans, you know, Boehner and all of them were saying before to Obama, where are the jobs?
Where are the jobs?
They're criticizing Obama because there's not a lot of jobs.
But now that there's this protest, they're saying, hey, get a job.
There's plenty of jobs.
Yeah, yeah, now there's audio jobs now, you know?
Yes, that's very interesting.
Very interesting take, Paul.
Buck, it's really hurting your.
It really does.
It's like, I just can't, you know, and I suppose it's also hurting me because I happen to be unemployed right now.
And it's the first time I've been unemployed since I was 14 years old.
And it's scary, you know?
I'm trying to find work.
Really?
Yeah.
Go get a job.
Did you hit the, there's a McDonald's right there.
Did you try on the way?
I'm not ruling it out.
You know, I'm going to try to find something I'm qualified for, which is making people laugh and entertaining, but who knows?
Maybe that's where I'll wind up to.
You know, all of us at this table, we all would have our own sitcoms, except we're too lazy to go out and get them.
Yes, well, we have this show.
God bless you.
God bless the supporters of the show.
You know what?
It's time.
Let me just remind people that if you missed any part of the show and you'd like to hear that Ron Christie clip again and get just as angry as Paul did, you can always get it.
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You can comment on the other past episodes.
The other thing that I just want to say is these jobs that they're saying are available don't pay a living wage.
Right.
People cannot even pay rent with what McDonald's pays them for a week.
So the biggest employee, well, the biggest employer in the country is Walmart, right?
So I mean, that's what we're kind of having a Walmart.
They're the kind of driving force between the rich and poor society, right?
So they're going to come in.
We're going to have everything made by slaves.
And, oh, it's cheap for you, but guess what?
Your job's going to be gone too.
And so that's kind of people are like, well, what's wrong with Walmart?
Why can't what?
Walmart's a great place to buy.
It's a horrible place for your community.
Right.
It's for everyone's community.
It's horrible for everyone's community.
Everything outside of when you buy something about Walmart is horrible.
The only thing that, right, the only positive, it's like you can maybe save a few dollars, but how are you saving a few dollars?
It's costing you those dollars in a way that you don't see.
Yeah, it's like, right.
It's like if you want to be around like an 1860, hey, you know what?
Say what you want.
Cotton's cheap.
Right.
Look at this shirt.
Come on.
Yeah.
I mean, you want $3.
You can start splitting hairs over the fact that people don't get paid to get it, but it breeds.
People don't talk about how during the time of slavery there were great savings.
Well, you know, we have savings.
We have those kind of slavery savings now with the, you know, you get your iPhone, you get your stuff.
You know, Steve Jobs was not, he was smart about having slaves make his stuff.
No, they were eye slaves.
That's right.
Okay, so we got the subtle fear-mongering and classic dismissiveness, right, from Ron Christie and Eric Hantor.
But what about that one old lady out there, you know, who's sitting out there, but for who those arguments are too nuanced?
Do you know what I mean?
You know, you know, the old lady who sits by the radio and is too terrified of her own impending death and how she's going to afford medication to really appreciate the idea of a secret cabal of people who don't want to work.
Well, enter our friend, Glenn Beck.
I knew you were going to say him.
Capitalists.
If you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong.
They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.
They will do it.
They're not messing around.
Those in the media.
And I say this, I am included in this.
They will drag us out into the streets and kill us.
If you're wealthy, they will kill you for what you have.
Well, so if you miss the subtlety of Ron Christie.
Wait a minute.
So they're too lazy to get jobs, but they'll go into people's houses and pull them out into the street and kill them.
Absolutely.
You're starting out a lot of work.
You're starting a lot of work to do.
Seems like it's easier to get away from it.
It's harder to do than it looks to kill someone and rob them.
Well, you know what is employed today?
What?
Paranoid delusions of grandeur.
Oh, really?
Apparently, that is.
You're talking about Glenn Beck.
Is that what you're talking about?
Okay.
You know what Chris Christie's dismissive reaction to all this was?
Let me eat cake.
He's a large man.
A lot of cake.
It's like, you know, it's Glenn Beck.
He's a fear monger for the postmodern conservative.
Well, I like how he says, and people in the media, and I include myself in that.
He has to keep reminding himself because he's not really as much a part of the media as he was like six months ago.
He is a fear mongerish fear monger.
Yeah, he really is.
He's nuts and bolts, right?
He's like a district.
He's a total deconstructionist.
He's like the Marcel DuCamp of Douchebaggery.
If I've heard that once, I've heard that Elaine.
I don't even know what that means.
I don't know who Marcel DuCamp is.
Okay, he was a Daddyist, and it's a very, the idea of the.
Breaking everything down into its elemental forms.
See, whereas Ron Christie will say something elegant and pithy like get a job, Glenn Beck just reduces it down to the raw core.
They want to kill you and take your money.
There it is.
That's the beauty of Glenn Beck.
There's something to be admired about a guy who was too crazy for Fox.
There is.
There is.
There is something about a guy who's.
Should something tragic ever happen to Glenn Beck, something you will never hear somebody say is, we didn't see it coming.
We do want to kill him.
We're not going to, but we want to.
Not because he's rich or anything.
Well, you know, I got to go buy some gold and practice with my militia.
So I don't have time to sit around and listen to talk show hosts.
Should we talk about how Mitt Romney approached the Wall Street, how he feels about them?
Okay, so at noon two days ago, is it just me?
It is.
Has anyone else ever met a guy named Mitt?
I've never met another living soul named Mitt.
Is that short for a better name?
Is it Mittani?
Mittany?
Mittani Romney?
Well, that's why he would say Mitt.
Is that even a real name, Mitt?
Mitt is German for with.
Oh, really?
Oh, it's nice that you know that.
When did you learn that?
Kermit?
In college, I studied German.
And what would make you during those formative years want to study German?
I had this a-hole counselor who said, yeah, if you study, because you had to take a language in the College of Arts and Sciences, if you took Spanish, you wouldn't get into a med school because that wasn't hard enough.
You need to take German.
And so I was like, oh, all right.
Really?
Yeah.
That was who was he wanting you to be the next Dr. Mengela?
I don't know.
Really?
You don't want to speak Spanish.
You're going to move to Los Angeles.
You'll have no use for that.
No, no, no.
You know, the language of the world, you wouldn't want to use Spanish.
Okay, so.
So Mitt, yeah.
I assume that Mitt is short for some Mormon prophet like Mitt Eden Kennezzar or something like that.
Mitt Giesel.
Well, we better get used to it because Mitt Romney will likely be the Republican candidate for president.
And just by virtue of being the only one who doesn't say crazy or stupid stuff all the time or really anything at all, because as with all the Republicans, it's really when they say what they actually think that's when the problems start.
Okay.
So here's Mitt Romney breaking it down for us about how he feels about the Wall Street protesters.
This is at noon.
One of the things, in my view, that has made America's economy the most powerful in the world is that we have a very capable financial services sector that makes loans and allows businesses to start and thrive.
Now, are there bad actors on Wall Street?
Absolutely.
Are there bad actors on Main Street?
Absolutely.
And they have to be found and picked out and plucked out.
But to say that somehow that we should point and attack other Americans or other regions of America or industries in America, I think it'd be a mistake.
I think the idea of dividing our nation at a time of crisis is the wrong way to go.
All the streets are connected.
Wall Street's connected to Main Street.
And so finding a scapegoat, finding someone to blame, in my opinion, isn't the right way to go.
You know, why are all the evangelical Christians freaked out about this guy being a Mormon when they should be worried about the fact that he has no soul?
That's the bigger problem.
I mean, clearly, Mitt Romney represents the greatest leaps forward in robotics technology that Raytheon has ever produced.
He is lifelike, though.
He's very lifelike.
He supports science because he's a product of science.
He's a robot.
He's a robot.
He's made room for it.
But the thing that confused me is he mentioned bad actors a couple of times, and I thought conservatives like Chuck Norris.
And Ronald Reagan.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean, here's the difference.
Here's how you can tell, because no actual human being would point out that business loans are crucial to the success of this country without also mentioning that Wall Street is refusing to give short-term credit to small businesses and farmers who desperately need it, right?
On the other hand.
After being bailed out.
Yes, after being bailed out.
Right.
They're not doing the thing they're supposed to do, which is lend, which is to help the economy.
The credit pipeline is the key.
It's not the amount of money that those people have.
It's the amount flowing.
Yes, that's exactly right.
Yes.
And businesses don't want to, why do they want to go and loan you, give you a business loan at 4% or 5%, right?
When they can charge you 28% on your credit card.
Why would they do that?
Why would they bother to go through that?
When they can do credit default swaps in complete darkness.
And why would you need to give your citizens health care when you can have them go into the army and fight war for your corporations?
Right.
Right.
They offer the perfect example, the perfect solution to the problem they create.
So the healthcare, so they're the military is the perfect solution to the economic problems that corporate America.
You don't have a job?
We'll get you one.
You can't afford college.
Here you go.
And then that army's in place to go fight to make sure that the oil contracts in Iraq are.
And it's just poor kids.
It's mostly no, I mean, again, this might just be my gut feeling, but I'm going to guess that the majority of people joining are poor people in small towns where they can't find jobs.
Right.
I know that's the conventional wisdom, but I think it's actually true.
And if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will let me know.
And I don't think it's a conscious decision on the part of a lot of people.
It just happens to be the safety valve that just makes things worse.
If we had no army, it would be fantastic because then all these people that weren't employed by the military would have to find jobs and the problem would be addressed.
Right.
But the fact that we have a volunteer army and a huge unemployed force, it keeps this problem from being solved, in my opinion.
Well, just to take it back to Mitt Romney talking about the Wall Streeters, I mean, I love that he does drop his talking points as naturally as any human being I've ever met.
Even though he's, I mean, really, he says that he says we're under attack.
Wall Street and Main Street are connected, and you'd swear he was a real person, except for the fact that he never blinks.
I don't know if you've and then just six hours later, six hours later, here's what Mitt Romney had to say about the Wall Street protest.
I don't worry about the top 1%.
I don't stand up nights worrying about, gee, we need to help them.
I don't think about that.
I'm not worried about that.
They're doing just fine by themselves.
I worry about the 99% in America.
I want America once again to be the best place in the world to be middle class.
I want to have a strong and vibrant and prosperous middle class.
And so I look at what's happening on Wall Street.
And my own view is, boy, I understand how those people feel.
Oh, really?
He wants to protect metal clutches because the middle class is now so rare.
He sounded like a Democrat there.
That was the same.
In just six hours, the Romney bot was able to check the polling on the previous talking point, see they weren't working, Donald own a new set of talking points and integrate them into his matrix so they would seem natural and empathetic.
I mean, if he also has a built-in iPod, everyone's going to want to get one of these things.
That's all I'm saying.
He must have zero memory because he wouldn't realize that nothing he says makes sense with anything that he just said.
He just said, right.
He goes from don't attack Wall Street like Alzheimer's.
Political Alzheimer's.
Political Alzheimer's.
I can't remember what he said yesterday.
He hopes that you have political Alzheimer's.
That's what he's hoping, right?
He goes from Wall Street and Main Street.
But if you do have Alzheimer's, you won't get any health care for it.
That's true.
He's hoping you can't connect dots.
Wall Street and Main Street are the same, right?
Isn't that something?
He went from Wall Street into Main Street are the same to I really feel the pain of work, the working class.
He's inconsistent, Jimmy.
That guy could go from a Mac to a PC without even hearing Segal afternoon.
And I never used a Mac.
I never used it.
Hang on one sec.
All right, let's see you know what?
Chris Christie called me.
I got to take it.
Jimmy, let's cover the Chris Christie of the day.
Listen, I assume you heard about my endorsement of Mitt Romney for president.
He's a very lucky man.
I am confident that anyone I put my weight behind will make it all the way to the White House.
I'm the biggest.
Anyone I put my weight behind, we'll make it all the way to Alfred Centauri.
That's the Walf.
I strongly feel that Mitt Romney is the strongest and most electable candidate.
And thus I forgot that he endorsed me for governor of New Jersey back in 2009.
So where I come from, that's called paying back a favor.
Paying back favors is very important.
Also, owing Mitt Romney a favor, and therefore endorsing him are my associates, Antoni Bonini, Antonio Gonzalez Gondolino, Adamo Radalfo Manetti, Augusto Alzazo Azolino Ronaldo, Masilo Ennio Enzanini.
You know him, right?
Maya Scaliger.
And my good friend Gondo LaMata Gambolino Alfonso Albertini Jefferson.
Plus, and this is important.
I back Mitt Romney because he's the only one who can beat that cowgirl, Rick Perry, from Texas.
The only state that's shaped like something that the rednecks that live there would beat their wives with.
And Perry and that baptist pastor called Governor Romney's religion occult.
That's not acceptable.
That's not a line.
You don't mix religion and politics.
Like my Salawan and Vitello.
I'm a Roman Kathleen.
If anyone calls my faith a cult, forget about it.
I believe that when a man who is not allowed to have sexual intercourse sets a magic spell over a certain kind of cracker, said snack literally becomes a body part of a first century Hebrew folk leader, and you're supposed to eat him.
That is not a cult, my friend.
That is a religion, and you should respect it.
We're all on board the Romney train, understood.
And by we, I, of course, mean you.
Don't to support us.
Or I'll slap a torfini down your glove on so fast it'll pop your cassana.
Okay, Governor Chris Christie, letting us know.
And right now we're up against a break.
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Give it all.
It's Herbert Hoover.
How are you?
I want to congratulate Congress on cutting spending during the Depression.
That's how you fix the economy, see?
Okay.
That's what I would have done, because I should know I was president.
Well, you never would have gone to war when I was president.
I'm a Quaker.
We don't believe in war.
Give money to the wealthiest.
And then that solves the economic problems.
They ain't know a lot to do.
They know how to solve the economy.
Just like I did, C. And I was popular, too.
People are so happy with how I tell with the depression that names all sorts of little towns have to be.
So we can look forward, I assume, to all the whole crop of little towns called Obamavilles.
I should know I was president when I was president, right?
Then I was president.
Anyway, the point is, Congress is doing exactly what they need to be doing.
That's what I would have done.
And I should know I was president.
Those low-class workers and jobbers, they contribute nothing to society except stealing buildings.
You need to ring out the recovery on their backs.
I'm telling you, I was president.
They always talk about Glassdiesel, Glass Die.
What about you, Don?
That would have never happened on my watch when I was president.
Oh, damn it.
Oh, you only tell a banker what to do with money.
There's a banker.
They're experts in money.
Don't tell him where to put that money, Glass-Steagall.
I was president.
Hi, welcome back to the Jimmy Dorse show.
I'm sitting in studio from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic.com.
It's Frank Conniff.
And next to him, former writer for The Daily Show, hilarious stand-up comedian.
It's Steve Rosenfield.
And to my left, from the Dinner and a Movie on TBS and the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast, it's Paul Gilmartin.
All right, what's coming up on this half of the show?
Jesse Legreca, our interview with the guy from Occupy Wall Street, right?
You know him, Jesse Legreca.
He was the articulate man talking to Fox News.
Well, we got to talk to him.
Plus, Dave Reinitz also calls in from Occupy Wall Street down here in Los Angeles.
Herman Kane talks to us, and Governor Perry calls in too.
And right now, I wanted to play just very quickly how did Fox News, now, how did they, I was watching Fox and Friends, how did they see the Occupy Wall Street protesters like this?
I just wanted to give you a flavor of some of the people who are down at this particular location, at least here on Wall Street.
This guy right here, he's apparently a fugitive.
He's wrested for burglary for his arrest, but he says at this protest would be a great place to not be found.
So this is the life, I guess, for people who are wanted on burglary charges.
Just hide out at Occupy Wall Street.
That's right.
The petty criminals are disguising themselves as protesters, while the major felonies, felons, are disguising themselves of investment bankers, right?
And if you really wanted to hide out, when you go to the Fox Business Channel.
Oh, bang.
And you know, you can't trust poor people.
They have no respect for the law.
The rich people respect the law.
They just feel it doesn't apply to them.
It's different.
Very different.
Here's one more.
Here's how else they saw it.
Apparently, there's plenty of drugs down there.
A New York Post reporter was offered pot for 15 bucks and heroin for 10 bucks.
Are you telling me that someone's offering to sell you drugs on the street of New York City?
Well, they must be out of towners.
I mean, that kind of thing just doesn't happen in New York.
That's really out of the ordinary.
They're selling pot and heroin.
All that proves is that the demonstrators appreciate both folk and jazz music.
You know, it takes a real journalist to character assassinate passerby.
That's right.
Let's get to the heart of the story.
When people are just mingling around, you're going to get into what they're about.
Yeah, they're trying to sell me pot, you know, because real Americans are alcoholics.
When they came up and offered the journalist the pot, he was mad because it interrupted his three-card Monty game.
All right, so we so that's the week.
We're going to leave that.
We're going to come back to Occupy Wall Street in a second with Jesse Legreca.
But right now, I want to talk about Herman Kane's problem with race, right?
So a lot of people are saying that he's not addressing it correctly.
Here's what Michael Dyson had to say.
There are structural impediments and inequalities that persist.
We talk about healthcare disparity.
We talk about economic inequality.
We speak about the fact that the wages of black people fell post-recession and the median income by 9.2%.
The unemployment rate is 16.7%.
One out of two black men in New York cannot get a job right now.
And the disproportionate concentration of African-American people in the prison system.
So we can go on and on and talk about the persistence of both structural inequities as well as the persistence of certain forms of cultural bigotry that prevent the flourishing of African-American people and that keep them down.
So he's laying out a case for why there's much higher unemployment for blacks, why their household wealth is much lower.
Here's what Herman Kane has to say about it.
I have achieved all of my American dreams and then some he calls up the great nation in the United States of America.
What's there to be angry about?
What's there to be angry about?
Is what Herman Kane has to say to the black people.
If you've ever eaten Godfather's Pizza, you know there's a lot.
There's lots.
There are lots to be angry about.
It takes about an hour.
You know what?
Herman Kane actually called in.
He had something to say.
Jimmy Door, it's Herman Kane.
Now that I'm the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, that's right, frontrunner, son.
I'd like to address the folks who say that I am insensitive to racism in our society.
That is ridiculous.
I'm just insensitive, period.
Race doesn't have anything to do with it.
But I'm very cognizant of the existence of racism.
For instance, when I said that the name of Rick Paris, Hunting Lodge, was racist, that was a very racist thing for me to say.
In this day and age, black folks have to be very careful not to fall into the traces trap of pointing out when white people are being racist.
When we call someone out for being racist, we are drawing attention to race.
And drawing attention to race can lead to racism.
Therefore, pointing out a person's racism is racist in and of itself.
And therefore, when a white man discriminates against a black man on the basis of the Carlo Robins scam, we should not let it degenerate into a question of race.
Unless it's Muslims we're talking about.
Then all that's wrong.
I hate those sneaky motherfuckers.
Okay, that's it.
Hey, Jimmy, this is the longest I've ever gone without saying 999.
But let me reiterate: 999, 999, 999.
Okay, he called back in to get the 999.
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Okay, now back to the show.
Jesse Lagreca, right now, you're familiar with, we talked about it.
He was a guy interviewed by Greta Fan Sustern on the streets of New York City.
They said, hey, we're going to let you.
So he must have been the guy selling the drugs or he was the fugitive.
Which one was he, Jimmy?
So he was both.
So he was very articulate.
Of course, so then they didn't interview his, they didn't air his interview.
But then I contacted Jesse and we sat down for about 12 minutes.
And here's my talk with Jesse.
I first heard about the movement in various places, and I wasn't even in the city on that Saturday.
Another writer who is a user on the same website that I'm a user on, a Daily Coast, had wrote about his first experience on day one.
And I sent him a message saying, I want in.
So I came down on the third day and found it was just an electric environment of edification and knowledge and sharing and people really coming together.
And I was inspired and I got addicted.
You know, you almost feel like you're missing out on something when you're not here.
And since that time, it has grown so fantastically that the torch is being carried on not just here, but all across this country.
And I'm absolutely thrilled that the young people and the old people and just everybody involved who's really fighting for something they care about, their future.
And now, how do you feel?
What do you see as Wall Street's malfeasance?
Oh, I mean, it's epic is one way of saying it.
And it's been documented to the point where it's certain to ignore.
I mean, even if you were just to look at the home foreclosure fraud scandal that's being negotiated between the state attorney generals and the federal attorney general Eric Colder, it's literally they forged documents to steal people's homes, and the attorney generals are trying to figure out how to get them off with a slap on the wrist.
Luckily enough, the New York Attorney General Eric Snyderman was the guy who decided not to go along with the scam and a couple other solid attorney generals like Bo Biden and the Attorney General and the father decided they're going to take a stand.
And the way that really works is, you know, they want to bribe the cops.
We'll use that term.
They want to bribe the cops who are going to hold them accountable.
But they have to bribe all of them because if one guy prosecutes them, then it falls apart.
So when Snyder and Boe Biden and a couple guys said, we're not going along with this deal, it's not the best.
I mean, that's just one example of just how they're manipulating our system by the vast wealth that they've misappropriated from us.
And now they're using it to steal our democracy.
Malfeasance and fraud on such a colossal scale that the fact that they've been able to hide it from the eye of the public just goes to show how much control they have.
And in my opinion, they cannot have that out of control.
If they're able to use their vast resources of wealth to contaminate our system, then the fraud just comes straight from the top down.
And you see that in so many different walks of life.
You know, it's almost like the inequality doesn't work without the discrimination.
And what they would like to do is create a discriminatory society where you are measured by your bank account.
And if we believe in the idea of equality, we can't allow that.
You know, what do you say to people who say that you want to redistribute wealth?
You know what's kind of funny about that?
Because when it's redistributing wealth from working class people to rich people, then that's sound fiscal policy.
But when it's the other way around, when they've stolen our homes from us and we demand justice kind of stop, then for some reason, it becomes some sort of socialist conspiracy.
And I told people that, you know, that word, socialism, is often used in substitute of an intelligent argument.
They can't beat you on the facts, so they have to name call you instead.
But when it really comes down to the concept of redistributing the wealth, we live in a society where the vast amount of wealth are congregated in the hands of the fewest people possible.
Meanwhile, 150 million Americans are suffering.
Another 100 million are this close To falling into that gaping maw of a gap where the middle class is just disappearing.
So, the question we really have to ask is: if we're going to allow the rich to redistribute the wealth away from us towards them, the only way to balance the system and create that equality on an income scale that allows us to be a thriving nation is to stop them from taking more.
If they want to call that wealth redistribution, let them.
They're wrong on the packs, and we should stand our ground on them.
When it's taking from the poor to give to the rich, then that's just true free market, you know, wellness.
When it's taking from the rich to give it to the poor, then it's the most un-American thing you could possibly imagine, you godless commie master.
And like I said before, the reason that they use those trigger words is because they know that they've already connected it in a negative way.
So that that word doesn't have relevant meaning, it's just evil.
And they do this because they know they can't win on the facts.
They know that they're lying, so they are able to obfuscate the truth by simply making you out to be some evil monster that wants to destroy America.
And I told people, you know, I take offense to that because I love my country as well, and I love my countrymen.
And I really don't like having my patriotism question, least of all by the people who would sell us out to multinational corporations.
So I encourage people: you know, if you're working class and you're worried about the future and you know that they're coming, you know that they're destroying you, find out, get involved.
It's full contact sport, democracy, you know.
So don't feel like somebody else is going to do it for you, because at the end of the day, you have to do it for yourself.
Okay, that was my interview with Jesse Legreca.
I hope you all enjoyed that.
You can hear the extended version of that interview.
There's even more to that on the podcast version of the show.
If we are concerned, if the FBI and the CIA are concerned about America's enemies, why don't we start eavesdropping on Brunches and the Hamptons?
Because they've wrecked more, they've harmed the economy more than Al-Qaeda could ever dream.
I'm with you, Paul.
That's a great point.
Now let's go to Dave Reinitz, who's down at the Occupy Wall Street in Los Angeles.
We're talking with Dave Reinitz.
Dave Reinitz is a former commentator and reporter for KPFK and the owner of the newest and prettiest room in Burbank.
It's the Flappers Comedy Club.
Hey, Dave, how are you doing?
I'm doing great, Jimmy.
Down here at the Occupy LA encampment, checking it out.
Now, tell me what.
Now, you were down in New York for us last week, and now you're down in L.A. at the Occupy Wall Street.
And what's it look like down there?
Well, you know, it certainly has a different feel than New York.
And part of that, I think, is just the physical layout.
New York to those huge high buildings and those kind of feelings of being in a canyon.
And then the other big differences that I'm noting is in New York, there were just cops everywhere.
I mean, it really felt like a police, you know, monitored, very militant environment.
And here, there's cop cars here and there, but there certainly is no real police presence.
And in speaking with the organizers, they've really had no issues or problems with the police at all.
So how many people are down there?
The organizers say that on any given night, there's probably about 400 people that are camped out, and then the numbers swell during the days and then get much bigger on the weekend.
Now, have they had any of the union support that we saw in New York?
I didn't really get a lowdown on that.
They did certainly got some.
They mentioned that some of the porta potties were donated by, I believe it was the teachers union.
So they certainly had people reaching out to them.
They do seem to be, you know, well organized.
And, you know, when you hit the welcome tent, they're certainly give you information that's helpful and really give you the lay of the land in terms of what's what's going on here.
Oh, there's a welcome tent.
Yeah, kind of a, hey, this is what's happening.
Here's some info.
Go over there and get some water.
And one of the weird things about approaching it today, and one of the differences is that it literally surrounds the city hall building.
So it's on, you know, three of the four sides.
There's just tents, you know, all the way between the building all the way up to the sidewalk.
So it feels, you know, a little bit more like they've taken over, you know, whereas, like I said, with the cops in Wall Street and it being further away from actual Wall Street, it felt more like Wall Street was being protected.
So it's kind of a different feeling in terms of that.
Now, how did they decide, you know, what does, I don't know if you could answer this question, but I was, I'm always curious, like, why don't they go by the bank?
Why don't they go and protest in front of a bank somewhere where it could, and why do they go to City Hall?
I mean, I guess I understand City Hall.
It's where our government, you know, I get the, what do you think?
Well, I think that they've reached out more.
I think you probably caught in the news that in New York, they've been marching on the billionaires' homes.
And it seems like it's kind of a base camp.
And so just about 15 minutes ago, a large group of protesters went on a trek over to Bank of America.
So that was kind of the target for today.
So they marched off to Protest Bank of America.
Oh, that's good.
And they come back and use this as a base.
Well, I guess, you know, why don't you go over there and get a report, see how that's going?
I'd like to see that.
That's a good question.
One of the interesting things about walking over here is I got off the subway and I walked over in the direction that I was coming in.
As I approached the encampment, I'm looking at it and all these fruit stands and these grills.
And it turns out I'm thinking, wow, this place has a food court.
This is really very L.A. that there's a food court at the Occupy LA.
But it turns out today is Farmer's Market Day.
Oh, they integrated the farmer's market in with the protest.
So right behind the farmer's market, there are the people in the tents, and it's all kind of become one, which is interesting.
Well, you know, now I think a lot of, you know, if they had a farmer's market there every day, I bet a lot more people would show up.
Well, it's kind of funny because all the suits coming from, you know, the office buildings working in downtown L.A. wander over to have, you know, pick up some lunch and some produce.
And so they're really being forced to be confronted with what's taking place here.
And so I did see quite a bit of interaction.
And, you know, chatted with one of the farmers market guys, and, you know, he was saying that he gives the apples out to the protesters when he's done.
And next week, if they do it every Thursday, he was saying he'd probably come on Wednesday, pitch a tent.
Oh, really?
He's ready to go Thursday morning.
So he's going to have a huge boner.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I was thinking about something else.
So, all right.
Just got that.
Steve C. Roosevelt just got that check.
See here.
Well, listen, you know what?
I feel comfortable enough to make jokes now because it seems like these Occupy Wall Streeters are really catching on and people aren't buying the corporate bunk that they're just a bunch of dirty, smelly malcontents who don't want to work.
Everybody knows now that these are real people with real grievances.
And, you know, of course, when 25% of every mortgage is underwater in America, I think it's going to be a hard sell that these people are just a bunch of hippies who don't know what's happening.
No, listen, they're articulating their arguments well.
They have teach-ins.
They have an organizational structure that allows things to take place that meets the needs of the people that are here.
So they're fed.
It's, you know, it's sanitary.
There's garbage pickup.
Like I said, there are port-a-potties all over the place.
Beautiful port-a-potties.
I mean, it's just top-line stuff.
So it seems like they're really making progress, and they seem to be here to stay.
And interesting thing is yesterday the Los Angeles City Council voted a resolution in support.
So I think that that emotionally helps them.
But if you pick up the LA Times this morning and you read a cover of the covers, I did on my way in, not a single mention of that.
Really?
Is that not stunning?
You know what?
I did see something about that online, how the LA City Council voted to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
And you're saying not a word of it in the newspaper today.
That's fantastic.
Same thing for me, Jimmy.
I saw it online.
It says I was coming in.
I picked up the Ada Times and just thought I'd, you know, I'd get myself informed as I'm walking in as to what the latest developments are.
And not a peep.
Not a single peep in the LA Times about the fact that there are, you know, 500 to 1,000 people camped out here for now going on two please.
Not a minute.
Okay.
Well, Dave, thank you for the report, buddy.
I really appreciate it.
That's a lot of information.
I didn't have our listeners didn't have it.
Is there anything else you want to add before we let you go?
Just I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank.
It's our new Walmart show.
So we're expecting a big turnout.
I hope folks can come on out to donation only.
Like I said, we're raising money to keep Walmart out of Burbank.
So thanks for everything, Jimmy.
Okay, Dave, we'll see you tonight.
That's right.
The Walmart's trying to open up in Burbank.
We got the special say no to Walmart show tonight and at the Flappers in Burbank.
And you can get a link to that show at my website, jimmydoorcomedy.com, or just go to flapperscomedy.com.
We'll see you tonight, APM.
And it's donation only.
Is that what it is?
So whatever you want to donate to the show, you donate.
Perfect.
Sounds good.
Okay, see you tonight, Dave.
Take care, Jimmy.
Bye.
Okay, that was Dave Reinitz.
Dave calling in from Occupy Wall Street.
We appreciate the report.
And you know what?
Governor Perry called me.
He's got something to say.
Hey, Jimmy Door, this is Governor Rick Perry.
Wow, you sure have a lot of U.S. governors calling into your show today.
You must be an important man.
I, however, am a very important man being governor of a big-ass state and frontrunner in the election.
So big old fat Chris Christie went ahead.
Chris Christie Christofferson went ahead and endorsed Mitt Romney for president.
That's just fine with me.
They can go off and have their little losers lunch together because Romney ain't going to win.
And Chris Chrissy didn't even enter the race because he wanted to spend more time feeding his family.
And now everyone's jumping down my neck because a pastor who endorsed me called Mormonism a cult.
Big deal.
So what he said that.
I mean, Mormonism is just weird, man.
Have you ever been in a Mormon temple, Jimmy?
The pictures they have on the wall.
I mean, you know, Jesus is in them, and he looks like Jesus is supposed to, like in a normal church.
But he's playing Space Invaders or something.
It's weird.
People want me to repudiate this pastor's words.
Okay, fine.
I will.
Mormonism isn't a cult, it's a heresy.
And that's worse.
I'm a Christian, which means I believe the New Testament, which says beware of false prophets.
To us, Joseph Smith was a false prophet.
Liberals and moderate Republicans say, oh, it's great that you're a Christian, and then get horrified when someone actually believes in Christianity.
If there were only 100 Mormons in the world and they all live in a compound in Waco, you could say whatever you wanted to about Mormonism.
Everyone would call them a cult.
But to us, just because there are millions of them doesn't change our theological perspective on Mormonism.
I hate to break it to you, Jimmy, but I'm the only one who is intellectually honest in this particular situation.
Let that be a comfort to you when I win this.
Wow.
You know, that wasn't really a funny of a second part of the message.
It wasn't that funny.
That second part.
Last half of it was supposed to be sort of serious, you know, like the last half of that Belmar thing he does at the end.
Like it's all funny, like that epilogue thing he does.
That's what they was trying to be is trying to be serious.
Oh, okay, that makes sense then.
Anyway, thanks for letting me call into your show and clear all this stuff up, buddy.
Anyway, come on down here at Texas.
You and I will go hunting down in your head.
All right, brother.
what you see Okay.
And that is Governor Chris Chris.
No, that was actually Governor Rick Perry calling in.
Oh, the voices, all the celebrity voice, or most of most of the celebrity voices are done by the hilarious Mike McRae, Mike McRae, hilarious comedian.
That's our show.
I want to thank everybody who helped write today's show.
Frank Conniff, Steve Rosenfield, Jim Earl, Robert Yasa Mura, and Mike McRae, Steph Zamorano.
Huh?
Look at all those writers.
And if you'd like to hear some more hilarious jokes, it's a KPFK fundraiser with LA's top comedians, the Left, Right, and Ridiculous Comedy Show this Saturday, October 15th at 8 p.m. at Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Boulevard.
I'll be there.
Three-time Emmy Award winner David Feldman will be there from HBO's Flight of the Concords.
Eddie Pepitone will be there.
Just added Maria Bamford.
Hilarious Maria Bamford will be on that show.
And I want to take time out right now to thank Frank Pulaski, who does an amazing job putting video.
He takes the phone calls, all our comedy sketches on the show, and he puts video to them.
And you can see those up on my Facebook page over at my website, jimmydoorcomedy.com.
We put some of them up by kpfk.org or at my YouTube page.
There's a lot of different places to see those videos.
If you've seen them, you know they're hilarious.
So big thanks to Frank Pulaski for getting that done at Dreamy Time Films.
And a big thanks to Sean James, S-H-A-U-N, James, Sean James, who is our Mac genius helper at the Jimmy Doer show.
Couldn't have this.
He's a great technical resource.
And I want everybody to know if you need any help, he'll help you.
Sean James, I'm going to put a link up at the website where you can get a hold of him.
Okay, so I'll either see you tonight at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank for the Say No to Walmart show or this Saturday night at the Meltdown Comic.
And I want to thank the people who sat in the, my guests today who sat in studio with me.
I want to thank Paul Gilmartin from the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast and Frank Conniff from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and former writer for the Daily Show, Steve Rosenfield, sat in.
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