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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Have you ever stopped and thought what it must be like living next door to the United States?
The land of opportunidad.
We've got a super cool country, Los Estados Unidos.
And you're not invited.
Lo siento, we're closed, amigos.
Sure, you can try to come here, even if that life means working for slave labor wages, live in deplorable conditions because the people in power really need to turn a profit and have your families torn apart.
That's just good economics, America.
Last week, Scott Walker was asked by a 13-year-old girl why he voted against a third action for parents of Americans DAPA program.
His response was simple.
Dappa was not really following the law.
And Scott Walker is a god-loving, law-following hypocrite.
Walker continued saying, in America, nobody's above the law.
So instead of addressing the topic of deportation and being left fatherless, Walker stated that he hoped kids like Leslie and her seven-year-old little brother would learn in school that the president and the Congress have to work together.
Well, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has no answers or good ideas, which is easily highlighted by his $2.2 billion deficit, ranked 40th in job creation and last in new business startups.
He's no friend of hardworking Americans.
He's still proposing $300 million in additional cuts from the state's prized public university system and millions more from K through 12 education, outdoor recreation, and conservation.
Scott Walker's best ideas have screwed the everyday citizen in Wisconsin, but that's not good enough.
He also can't wait to destroy Latino families while pretending he has a better idea for immigration, but he doesn't.
Scott Walker is what my mother warned me about.
He won't stop until he uses you like his little pinata, America.
So be careful and wear protection.
I want a heart attack.
It's the Jimmy Dore show.
The show for...
Up-minded, low-alive, blackies.
The kind of people that are...
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you too.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Everybody, welcome to this week's show.
I'm joining on the phone from New York City.
You know him, you love him from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV's Frank, Frank Connoff.
Hi, Frank.
Hello there.
Yay, it's good to hear your voice.
Also in the studio with me from Team Yasamura, our hilarious comedian, our resident Japanese man, Robert Yasamura.
Hey, Robert.
Ohio.
Ohio to you.
Also next to him, hilarious comedian, the author of the miserable liberal blog and the host of Comedy Everything Else.
It's our resident Latina Steph Zamorano.
Hi, Steph.
Ola, Jimmy.
Hi, and also with us hilarious comedian running the board, Michael Schertzer.
Hey, Michael.
Hey, what's up, Jimmy?
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes.
Hey, you know what?
I just wanted to, I've been reading the New York Times for years, and I just want to give them kudos.
Kudos to the New York Times for leading the way on shitty, sloppy, poorly sourced, inept reporting of Hillary's email stories.
Fantastic.
I tell you, but really doing making Judith Miller proud.
So the legacy that she left, the legacy she left there is secure.
Secure.
Hey, by the way, Dennis Rodman supports Trump for president.
And that could mean a cabinet appointment.
Wish I was joking.
Not joking.
He also, he said he would put Sarah Palin in there.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
So, you know, and Sarah Palin, you know, she said that the Confederate flag is like planned parenthood.
Yeah, yeah.
And Bristol Palin said, what's Planned Parenthood?
She has a lot of unplanned pregnancies.
She sure does.
She sure does.
She's fertile.
You know, I don't know if you heard Hulk Hulgan got in a bit of a pickle.
It was revealed in his sex tape that Gawker made public that he used the N-word quite a bit.
Right.
In a sex tape?
In a sex tape, he was using the N-word.
And no, it was the part where they weren't sexing.
And they were just kind of talking about racist stuff.
And, you know, you know how you'll do.
As you want to do in those situations.
And he said, of course, Hulk said it was a youthful indress discretion that happened when he was in his early 50s.
He's changed a lot now, but it's weird.
They immediately, the World Wrestling Federation cut him off.
They fired him.
He's not anything to do with it.
They've severed ties with him.
And, you know, it's a bit odd that World Wrestling Entertainment is tougher on hate speech than the Republican National Committee.
Even wrestling, tougher on hate speech than the Republican National Committee.
Hey, you know, did you hear about the Bill Cosby, that cover of the New Yorker magazine?
Oh, yeah, New Yorker.
New York magazine.
They put photo of 35 of the women he raped on the cover.
And you know, you're evil when a group photo of 35 women is at best a partial, incomplete gathering of the women you've raped.
Jesus Christ.
Here's a conundrum for you.
If we go see the new Fantastic Four movie, there'll be a sequel.
But if we don't see it, there'll be a reboot.
Good point.
Donald Trump in a lot of trouble this week.
the rape allegations from Ivana from the 80s.
And, you know, Trump was so...
It's a true story.
True story.
That's a little dark, Joe.
Yeah.
It's a little dark.
And I've got the insomnia.
I don't know how about you guys, if you've ever had the insomnia, but I like being up in the middle of the night because it's the only time GOP presidential candidates aren't saying stupid shit.
It is peaceful.
Me and Liam Neeson.
We like, he's going to call in later, by the way.
Oh, good.
You know what's funny?
You know, it's kind of ironic.
Here's the difference between a lot of pundits kept making comparisons between Trump and Bernie Sanders as if they're comparable.
Yes, almost on every newscast.
And you know what's interesting, though?
I don't see similarities between them except for this one.
The dumber Trump gets, the better he does with Republicans.
And the smarter Sanders gets, the better he does with Democrats.
Oh, yeah.
So it's a little different.
It's like an inverse proportional.
Yes.
Hey, did you see that there's these never-seen before photos of the Bush administration on 9-11?
That's true.
They were taken by a staffer on Dick Cheney's staff, and they released them this week.
Never before seen photos of Bush and Cheney on 9-11.
They're very candid shots of them deciding which lies they should start telling.
And there's actually a photo there of Cheney yawning.
The photo of him yawning is actually a shot of him being shown the bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S. memo.
These are all truths.
These are all true things.
Hey, did you hear the Boy Scouts lifted the ban on gay leaders?
Yes.
The world we live in is gays are now allowed to go camping and straight are allowed to go camping.
What's coming up on today's show?
We're going to take a look at some police brutality and the way our favorite newsman at CNN covers it.
No, not Chris Cuomo.
Woof Witzer.
We're going to take a look at that.
Plus, Hillary Clinton takes a question on the XL pipeline and the answer just might surprise you.
Or will it?
Sanity breaks out for a second on Fox News and it is quickly stamped out.
We're going to take a look at it.
That has to do with a In God We Trust sticker on the back of cop cars.
Plus, should the majority always win?
We're going to find out.
Steve Karnaki makes the comparison between crazy people like Donald Trump and even crazier people like Alan Grayson.
Yes, he actually compared those two.
We're going to take a look at that.
We got phone calls today from Peter King calls in, plus Liam Neeson.
And we go back to the vault for one of our favorite phone calls.
Who is it?
The answer just might surprise you.
All that's coming up, plus a lot, lot more today on The Jimmy Dore Show.
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So a lot of people are enjoying Bernie Sanders' straightforward approach to the campaign.
And he just speaks from his heart.
He's not poll-tested.
He doesn't have his message put through focus groups.
He doesn't have advisor.
So people are real.
And now you say, well, what's so great about that?
Well, here's Hillary Clinton, and she's being asked a direct question at a town hall meeting.
And let's see how she handles it.
As president, would you sign a bill, yes or no, please, in favor of allowing the Keystone XL pipeline?
That's a pretty straightforward question.
Would you sign a bill in favor of the XL pipeline?
Yes or no.
Yes or no?
And I think if you're a Democrat, it's a no.
It's an obvious no.
Go ahead.
Well, you know, Jimmy, it's getting pretty late, so I'm glad this is going to be a short segment because obviously she's going to give just a one-word answer.
There we go.
Here's her yes or no answer.
Do you support the XL pipeline?
Well, as you know, it was the Secretary of State who started that process.
She's got a cup.
She's way over one word already.
Yeah.
Here we go.
I was the one who put into place the investigation.
I have now passed it off as obvious because I'm no longer there to Secretary Kerry.
This is President Obama's decision.
And I am not going to second guess him because I was in a position to set this in motion.
And I do not think that would be the right thing to do.
So I want to wait and see what he and Secretary Kerry decide.
If it's undecided when I become president, I will answer your question.
So vote for me, and I'll tell you what I'm going to do after I'm in the office.
That sounds, I can't, I don't understand why people are drawn to Bernie Sanders.
I have no idea why people are drawn to.
She won't even answer a direct question about one of the major issues in the campaign, one of the biggest environmental issues facing America right now.
She won't take a stand on it.
And she thinks this is going to win it for her.
And you know what, Frank?
I just want to say, I'm just going to say this.
I think everybody who is backing Hillary Clinton, all the Democrats who are backing Hillary Clinton because they fear a Republican win, are making a mistake.
That she is our Mitt Romney, and she's going to lose to a Scott Walker.
She's going to lose to a Chris Christie.
She's going to lose to Jeb Bush.
She's going to lose to a Donald Trump.
She will lose.
I'm telling you right now, she's going to lose.
She is not a winner.
She couldn't win last time against a black guy with a Muslim name.
She couldn't win then.
She got it handed to her.
And now she's even less interested.
She won't even answer obvious questions.
And here it is.
So what do you, so I think you're all making a mistake by going with the quote-unquote safe choice.
And I'll tell you right now, Bernie Sanders, you know, people always say, well, we want a choice.
Bernie Sanders is offering you a choice.
Now it's up to you to make a choice in the primary.
It's not up to people to make political calculations for the candidates.
You are being offered a choice in your democracy.
Now it's up to you to make that choice.
And if you don't, if you're already compromising yourself as a voter to vote for her, how can you ever complain that the Democratic Party is compromised?
Well, you make a good point.
And I think there's good reasons for people to waste their vote on Bernie.
Go right ahead.
You know, they said Barack Obama couldn't win.
He's a black guy with a Muslim name, a one-term senator.
He was elected twice.
Overwhelmingly.
You're right.
And they said that at this point early on.
So, you know, it's really, we're not going to know until the primaries happen, you know.
And Bernie, and right now, national numbers, 47 to 30.
He's raising.
He's going up, but she's still way ahead of it.
Last poll I saw was 47.34.
Yeah, he's trailing by just like single digits.
So he's getting very close.
So I'm getting, and by the way, it's still July.
Right.
So, and people aren't really paying attention.
Although he's, you know, I mean, we're, so anyway, that's, I wanted to make that statement.
I thought that, I don't know, what do you guys think about her not answering that question?
How could that possibly be a winning strategy?
It's so crazy that she said, like, you'll find out if I'm president.
If this is still an issue when I'm president, I'll tell you that.
That's like the.
How could you possibly give that answer?
She had done that whole torture thing and then said, and if when I'm elected president, it's still there, then I'll knock it down.
I won't, I'll oppose it.
But she went through that whole thing only to say that she wouldn't tell you what she said.
She's pretending to give deference to the president in this situation, which I don't think she's doing.
So I think what she's really doing, because President Obama has come out against the XL pipeline, everything he said has been against it.
So he's not afraid to go against it.
He tells people that there's an he outlines that, and it's been amazing to see because Barack Obama is such a corporatist for him to actually speak frankly about the XL pipeline has been refreshing.
He tells people, this isn't even our oil.
This is oil from another country.
This isn't our oil.
This is oil from another country going to ships to take it to the rest of the world.
It's not going to help us.
This isn't our domestic production anyway.
Oh, but isn't it a job provider?
And it doesn't create jobs.
He says that.
And yet she's still on the fence.
She can't give you.
So this is exactly what's wrong with the Democrats.
And I don't think you're going to win.
All I can say is I've been known lately to be a Hillary defender, and I cannot defend what she just said.
Oh, okay.
Oh.
All right.
So this is what, but this is what I'm like, who is who advises her?
Hey, if someone asks you about the Exo pipeline, tell them you'll let them know when you're president.
Yeah.
Cool.
Create some mystery around your campaign.
Come on.
Jimmy, what you're saying, there's a lot to it, and I think everyone should keep this in mind when they vote for her in November of 2016.
Yes.
Well, you remember in 2008, the pundits said it would be Hillary Clinton then, until it wasn't.
It's true.
It's true.
And they would never elect her.
I still don't think that Bernie Sanders, to me, in a general election, I think it'd be a very dangerous thing in terms of whether he could win or not.
I think it's dangerous with Hillary.
No, because Hillary, I disagree politically with what you say about that a Scott Walker could beat her or Jeb Bush could beat her.
Or I really don't think that's the case.
I think she definitely is a flawed politician and she has drawbacks, but she also is a very experienced and very smart in a lot of ways.
I'm just talking politically.
Yes.
And she has a big organization and she's going to unite a lot of every women, every woman in the country who's not crazy is going to vote for her.
Every Latino, every black person, everyone who doesn't go along with the crazy shit that the Republicans are saying, I think she's going to win if she wins if she wins the primaries.
I think she's, to me, and I could be wrong, and I agree that to even predict at this point who's the stronger candidate is very an iffy thing.
I mean, Donald Trump could end up winning the Republican nomination for all we know.
Why wouldn't he?
That's what I don't understand.
Exactly.
Why wouldn't he win?
So my point is, we can't know by now, but my gut about it is that in a general election, she'd be a stronger candidate than Bernie Sanders.
Well, my problem.
As a Mexican woman, my problem is recently listening to her talk about the minimum wage, and that she says what works for California and New York doesn't necessarily work for the rest of the United States.
And I say, I think that's wrong.
I think everybody should have access to a livable wage.
And I think it should be, you know, $12, $15.
My God, it should be $20 an hour so people could actually live and pay and have access.
But she's not for it.
She just came out and she said, she came out and she said, so Bernie Sanders says, I'm for it across the board.
And she's like, I'm not sure.
And you know what?
Minimum wage workers, women make that up.
The majority of women are minimum wage workers, majority of women of color.
And so if she's not for the minimum wage, how are women of color going to support her?
Well, they have traditional.
She's really going to have to step up when she debates Bernie Sanders.
There are going to be debates, and she better have her shit together with this because if she in these debates just comes off as stiff and equivocating, which is pretty much an accurate description of her politically, and he just talks very straightforwardly, it could end up being a very powerful effect on behalf of Sanders in the primaries.
Well, he is going to win Iowa, and I think he's going to win New Hampshire.
So then they go to South Carolina, and then she wins.
Right.
You know, and I think that's what she's counting on.
Yes.
I think everything she does has a calculation to it, which could end up backfiring on her.
But, you know, when everybody's talking now about, you know, Bernie Sanders is drawing all these crowds and has all this heat and momentum on him.
I remember people saying that about Ralph Nader in 2000.
He was drawing huge crowds to all of his events, at colleges.
There was all this narrative about all the excitement that Ralph Dader was generating in the election.
And then when the election came, he didn't even get the 5% that was his goal to get so that the Green Party could get on the ballot in 2004.
He didn't even get that.
Right.
Right.
That's because he was running away.
So, you know, I'm just saying that the fact that Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds and everything, you know, once again, it's way too early to know if that's going to really make a difference.
It's kind of ridiculous for any of us to predict what's going to happen until the primaries start happening.
*Sounds of a sound*
Hello, Congressman King.
Who wants to know?
It's Jimmy Doerr.
Hi, Jimmy.
Are you okay, Congressman?
Yeah, I just, you know, my prostate's acted up.
It's swollen like a grapefruit down there or a standard mastiff or something general size.
Oh, my God, Congressman, you should see a doctor.
It's no big deal.
I've had an achieve prostate marbles since I was 16.
I got to say, that sounds awful.
I'm surprised you still have a prostate.
I might not.
I used to drink a lot of crops every in the 90s.
Seems to recall some guy at Sag Harbor coming to my junk with a buoy knife.
It might have been something else.
Like I said, he should drink a lot of mouthwood.
Airplane glue.
Listen, Congressman King, I wanted to ask you your take on this Iran deal.
Jesus Christ, that deal is like the Detroit of nuclear deals.
So you don't like it?
Don't like it.
I got car bubbles I like more than that deal.
What exactly don't you like about the deal?
Well, first of all, why would we trust a secret Kenyan guy to get us a good deal?
You know how you can, you know, that you can actually read the deal if you want.
What?
Yeah, you don't have to trust the president.
The deal is about 165 pages and it's readily available.
Yes, listen, Jimmy.
The great people of Long Island did not send me to Congress to read shit.
They sent me there to do the bidding of our Israeli masters.
That's debts.
I'm sorry.
What?
How does Israel have this kind of power over our foreign policy?
Evidently, I had to explain to you how Israel supplies Long Island with fresh jewels.
which are not the renewable resource everybody needs to dictate.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
*sad music*
I know I'm going to regret asking, but why does Long Island need more Jewish people?
Otherwise, we'd be overrun by Italians.
A water table can't handle that.
LAUGHTER *crying* There is no way anything you just said makes any sense.
It's a fact.
Italians fuck like bunnies.
And if you want to keep a check on them, you must introduce their natural predator, the Jew.
Congressman King, I'm going to stop you on this line of thinking.
Long Island is a terminal moraine.
What?
What's a terminal moraine?
It's a geology thing.
Can we get back to the Iran deal?
I got carbuncles better than that deal.
So you've said, listen, what else don't you like about the deal?
Well, for another thing, in 10 years, it gives Iran to A-bomb.
Old Bessie, Captain Mushroom Cloud.
Congressman, it's not like in 10 years they get to just have the bomb.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
In 10 years, we give them a bomb and they give us like some taboo.
Congressman, even Prime Minister Netanyahu said.
Excuse me, Jimmy.
I'm pretty sure that's U.S. President Netanyahu.
So show some respect there, pal.
Three years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran was months away from a bomb.
So isn't 10 years away from a bomb a better deal than nothing?
We could have gotten a better deal.
What better deal?
The better deal where we bombed the fuck out of Iran.
They thank you for it, and then we usher in a new golden age for all mankind.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that wasn't on the table.
Well, then we should have just left things the way they were, which was pretty freaking perfect in my estimation.
That wasn't really an option, Congressman.
The Russians and the Chinese were about to end their sanctions on Iran.
So trying to get a new deal now was just smart.
Hey, Jimmy Door, how about you go fuck yourself?
Congressman.
The government debates with you, which has no political agenda whatsoever, has told me to vote against this deal.
And I, for one, I'm going to trust them over you with your numbers and facts and shit.
Well, okay, Congressman.
Hey, it's been great to talk to you, Jimmy.
It's always brightens my day.
But now I got to go lance this thing on my teeth.
Please just go see a doctor, Congressman.
No, I'm pretty sure I can handle it myself.
I got a lighter on a large gauge needle right now, so I'll let you know how it goes.
Okay, Congressman.
See ya.
Ah!
Sounds like he's lancing that thing.
I think he might have been.
He might have been lancing that.
Let me hear one more time.
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By the way, they gutted their schedule recently, which doesn't bother me so much.
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All those people over there doing horrible work.
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome back to the Jimmy Dore show.
We got a lot coming up in the second half.
We're going to be talking about the horrible job MSNBC is doing to decap actual liberal Democrats, right?
So if you're a neoliberal, MSNBC loves you, but if you're an actual liberal, they're going to make you sound like you're crazy.
We're going to give a great example of that.
Also coming up, Liam Neeson is going to call in to talk about our new time change.
Also, we're going to get back to the studio.
Right now, I'm joined on the phone from New York City.
It's from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV's Frank Frank Conniff.
Also in the studio with me, hilarious comedian Robert Yasamura.
Steph Zamarano was here from the blog The Miserable Liberal and the host of Comedy and Everything Else.
And running the board is comedian Michael Schertzer.
And we're going to go back to the studio right now and we're talking about, we're going to be talking about Wolf Blitzer and his fabulous police coverage.
I was watching the Wolf Blitzer situation room and he was doing a bit about there's this cop in Massachusetts.
There was a young man who's going through one of those rotaries in a car.
So those are those circular things that they have on the East Coast.
They're confusing.
Anyway, this guy, for me anyway, because I didn't grow up driving around him.
So this guy was going through a rotary.
He made a wrong turn and didn't do it right.
All of a sudden, some guy jumps out of a car with a gun.
He's wearing a wife beater.
Right, the t-shirt, a t-shirt, and shorts, and he's got a gun, and he pulls it on the guy.
And the guy freaks out and starts backing up as fast as he can to get away from a guy who just pulled a gun on him.
We all would do that.
Turns out that guy was a cop who was off duty and he's a maniac.
And he started swearing.
Here, I'm going to play a little bit of the Wolf Blitzer.
This is the report they played on CNN.
So let's.
No standard road rage incident.
And the guy in the white tank top's not just any hothead.
Oh, I didn't know you were a cop.
So the guy, so he goes, I didn't know you were a cop.
He pulls a gun out of him.
He goes, I didn't know you're a cop.
And he goes, I'll put a bullet right through your effing head.
This is what the cop says to a citizen who made a wrong turn.
Just a regular guy who made a wrong turn.
This guy jumps out of his car in a tank top, in a wife beater and shorts with his gun out and says, I'm going to put a bullet through your head.
This is a cop.
This is a hired person from the state.
This is a safety officer.
At night.
Okay, okay, okay.
The man in white threatening the motorist is Stephen LaBert, an off-duty detective in the Medford, Massachusetts Police Department.
This incident captured this past Sunday night from a camera on the motorist dashboard.
At first, the motorist backs up, fearful.
I'll put a hole right through your head.
Hold it, okay, okay.
So now this reporter is showing this to a police trainer.
So this guy's, listen to this guy.
So they show him, I'm going to pull a bullet right through your head.
And he asks the police trainer this.
What kind of, I mean, that kind of a threat.
Acceptable under any circumstances then?
Acceptable under any circumstances?
I'm going to say no, unless you're in a kidnapping situation and you're trying to scare the guy.
But not certainly during a routine traffic stop for a guy making a wrong turn.
Yeah.
So listen what this guy says.
Well, let me say that under these particular circumstances, I think it is a problem if the person in question who was being stopped was unaware that the officer was a police officer and then was backing up, possibly concerned for his safety.
Possibly concerned for his safety.
The guy pulls a gun on him and he puts his car in reverse as fast as he can because there's a maniac waving a gun at him.
Man, that is the most nuanced police trainer I've ever heard.
No kidding.
So when you handcuffed them, you want to really just, you know, just put the handcuffs on.
Just answer the question.
Is it appropriate or not?
No.
Of course it's not appropriate.
Well, there could be a problem if that guy didn't know.
He didn't know he was a cop.
You mean the maniac who jumped out of his SUV wearing a tank top and shorts, waving a gun?
You mean the guy in the car didn't know he was a guy?
Yeah, like that's why he's such a shitty cop.
Yeah.
Well, I think also what is so surprising is that the driver himself has a camera on his own.
Yes, I don't know why.
Why did that guy have a camera going?
I don't know, but he did.
Thank God he did, right?
And like, what difference would it make if he didn't know that the guy was a cop when he said, I'm going to pull it both through your fucking head?
It doesn't make a difference.
Oh, okay.
So you're a police officer.
You have state-sanctioned authority to do what you're saying.
That's much better for this situation.
Yes.
That makes it worse, right, Michael?
That's terrible.
That's like, I would be more scared for the police officer.
I would be more scared because a cop can do that with impunity.
Yeah.
So go ahead, Frank.
And plus, you know, wearing a wife beer and shorts, he sure as hell has been the fashion police.
All right, there's more to this report.
LaBert does appear to pull his badge at one point, but it's not clearly seen.
Moments later, despite the motorist's politeness and pleas for understanding, the detective keeps on threatening.
Sorry, I didn't see that sign.
Come on, you're lucky I'm a fuck because I'm just beating the piss out of you right now.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand that either.
Basically, saying, like, the badge is the only thing keeping my road rage in check.
Pretty sure the badge is the only thing that gave you a gun.
Yes, that allowed you to get it.
Yeah.
He goes, if I wasn't, because I would lose my job if I beat the crap out of you right now.
And if I wouldn't lose my job, I would.
Yeah.
That's the guy who has a gun.
The steak.
Here's a gun.
Give that guy a gun.
And is the reason that this hasn't turned fatal, is it because the driver of the vehicle, is it because he's white?
I think so.
And by the way, I would have ran that guy over.
If he, if someone jumps out of their car and waves a gun at me, this guy put it in reverse.
I would put it in drive and floor it.
And then that guy would be dead.
And I would go, I got it on tape.
He waved a gun at me.
And he's not in uniform.
I don't know who the hell this guy is.
And I'm supposed to be able to understand that he also has a badge in his other hand.
He has a badge in his other hand.
He's wearing a tank top.
Wow.
And it's nighttime.
Jimmy, if he's, well, if he's a cop and you had run him over, you would be the one in jail.
Yes, I would go to jail because it's my fault.
Yeah, don't know.
Because the laws are screwed up in America.
All right, here we go.
There's more to this report.
And the reason why I'm playing this report will be obvious in a second.
But I just want you to show, I want to show all the stuff that CNN says about this cop.
In the video, LaBert insists the motorist was driving dangerously.
You almost hit that car and hit on when you went through the road.
The motorist, who would only call himself Michael to the media, admits he took a wrong turn into an intersection, but was clearly shaken by the detective's anger.
It was definitely nerve-wracking when someone is like, hey, I'm going to shoot you.
So you can't see this guy, but it's weird that he had to say that as a sentence, right?
Yes, yes.
Well, that's a little bit nerve-wracking.
That's the kind of insightful reporting you're going to get from CNN.
Yes.
By the way, the motorist could not be more non-threatening, right?
He's wearing glasses.
He has a beard, a knit-collar shirt.
If this cop shot this guy, everybody would have to have a hashtag wimpy bearded hipster lives matter.
Okay.
Maybe that particular city is overrun with low-key apologetic people.
Yeah.
They're a hazard.
Yeah, they are.
They are.
I like, I'll put a hole right through your head, just like the hole in my head that got me considered ideal police detective material.
Infer his gun telling me he's going to shoot me.
I'm like, it's a bit extreme, don't you think?
Yes.
Medford Police Chief Leo Sacco says Detective LaBert's been placed on administrative leave with pay.
So that's called a vacation.
Exactly.
That's called when you...
I've always...
Sounds awesome.
Yes, that's like, so guess what?
You don't have to go to work, but here's some money.
Here's some money.
Stay home.
You really screwed up.
Here's some money.
Stay home.
I heard that his superior officer actually commended him on his restraint.
Almost.
Almost.
You ready?
Here, Kaheri.
During an internal investigation.
This was a bad situation.
It was troubling to watch one of my offices involved in that.
Involved in that.
It was troubling to watch one of my officers.
He wasn't involved in it.
He was perpetrating it.
He was it.
He was it.
He was this situation.
He wasn't involved in anything.
God damn it.
And troubling?
It's trouble.
That's the only trouble.
Troubling.
You came up with it.
It's problematic.
It hurts my feelings to see my offices having a bad day like that.
I really don't like to see my offices suppressing the rights of civilians.
I really wonder what my office is going through.
He seems to be having a tough time.
And he was a top graduate of Bad Lieutenant University.
Yes.
Right here.
There's more to this report.
This isn't the first time Chief Sacco has been troubled by LaBert's behavior.
So they're showing a video of this cop walking up to somebody videotaping a police action.
And he walks right up to him and he's got one of those grins on his face, like, I'm a bully, and I'm going to do whatever I want to you.
And he's doing that.
And he goes up to the camera and he spits on his finger and he tries to smear the camera.
The cop, this is a cop.
This isn't an eight-year-old kid or a high school bully.
This is a guy with a bad.
He's got a uniform on in public, broad daylight, walks up to a citizen and tries to F with him and says this.
That's your brother.
July 2012, LaBert confronts a man filming a routine police street engagement, licks his finger and tries to smudge the man's lens.
LaBert keeps smiling eerily into the camera, tells him what he should do with his brother.
Which he should do is just take him up on the railroad tracks and come away down.
That's what he tells the guy.
Yeah, so they're stopping his brother.
He walks over to his brother who's take him up on railway tracks, tell him to lay down, ha ha, after he effed with him.
And so what happened to this cop for doing that, for being a jerk to a citizen for no reason, and physically accosting him here.
Detective LaBert could not be reached for comment on either incident.
Chief Sacco tells CNN when the video of that 2012 incident was brought to their attention, then Officer LaBert got a verbal reprimand and some counseling.
A verbal reprimand, which means nothing happened to him.
Nobody did anything.
There's no paper trail of him being reprimanded.
There's nothing in his file about that incident.
But there is that videotape.
The counseling obviously worked really well.
Worked really well.
Worked really well.
Yeah, it worked really well.
So here we go.
Chief Sacco says he can't justify what happened in either incident, but he does say that LaBert is a good detective who does solid work.
So I guess we know who's really a bad detective.
It's the police chief.
We've got this guy being a jerk on camera, the biggest bully idiot, waving a gun around for a guy at a traffic violation.
But he's a great, this is what good detectives are made out of.
Well, you know, to be fair, he gets results by beating the hell out of perps.
Yes.
And often not perps, but he always gets the information.
So there's a little bit more to this guy.
Hang on.
Wolf, Brian, there was also another incident back in the 1990s where the same officer's judgment was in question, right?
That's right.
LaBert was more loosely involved in this particular incident, Wolf, in the early 1990s.
A man sued LaBert, and he sued LaBert's uncle.
He claimed that LaBert and his uncle, who was also a police officer, came to his house in uniform and the uncle beat him.
Stephen LeBert was accused of not doing anything to stop that.
This apparently came after LaBert's wife told him that that man had spat on her.
The LaBerts lost that civil lawsuit, but settled on appeal.
Stephen LeBert did not have to pay anything in that case.
So him and his uncle went over and beat the crap out of a guy because he didn't like what they said to his wife.
They beat the crap out of him.
No criminal charges, of course, because they're cops.
So the guy sues in civil court and he wins.
Yeah.
And he wins.
Yeah.
But he's a good detective.
But he's a really good detective.
He's a really, really good detective.
The thing is, is that I had to look it up.
I'd forgotten where Medford is.
It's basically Boston.
It's right near Somerville.
These guys are Boston PD.
They're scumbags.
These guys are worse than most of the Metropolitan Police Department.
I think you're being too hard on them, Robert.
Like, these are the most, like, these are the last of the great Irish inbred police departments.
They're awful.
Yeah, well, you know what?
I don't know if they were Irish and inbred in Ferguson, but they seem pretty awful.
McKinney, Texas, they seem pretty awful.
New York City had to pay out $750 million one year in police brutality.
That's more than they spent on their parking recreation.
That's according to Bloomberg News.
So I understand what you're saying.
Yeah, they're probably horrible, but this isn't an isolated problem.
No, no, I'm just saying, like, these guys are going to be the last ones to get.
You know, like, like Cincinnati, the police chief there just threw his officer under the bus, and it was great.
These guys are going to be the last ones.
They're going to circle the wagons forever.
So forever.
The reason, why would I bring this up, right?
Because I could show a clip like this every day.
There's a million clips like this.
And for some reason, we have been.
Like that for the last couple of years, it's like the news media finally caught up.
I think it was Ferguson.
I think it was Eric Garner.
I think it was all these instances of black people being killed unarmed on film and nothing happening to the police that people started to reach.
And so then Serpico wrote an article.
And now cops are a cop from Baltimore just came out.
He was interviewed.
He's going to be on this show.
Talks about how it's a culture.
We've been saying that on this show.
It's a culture of policing from coast to coast.
This isn't a few bad apples.
This is a culture, right?
And we all know this.
And every time the Justice Department investigates a police department, they find out a culture like this.
Ferguson was a revenue generating machine generating revenues off the least powerful people and the poorest people in the state.
There's been so many of these videos they've gone into syndication.
Yeah.
It's just nice to see that large-scale financial criminals are being ignored while the police are doing a great job of keeping us safe from minor traffic violations.
Yes, that is, well, you know what?
I had lunch with somebody the other day and they said, well, you know, I said that the black community is over-policed.
And he said, well, you have to, you have limited resources, so you have to send your resources where the crime is.
So that's why we sent them into the poor neighborhoods because that's where the crime is.
I said, well, I hate to correct you, but the crime is on Wall Street.
That's where the crime is happening.
We had war criminals.
We invaded another country illegal, killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Nobody went to jail.
There wasn't even an investigation.
There wasn't even a hearing.
Jimmy, one parallel, though, I could give you is that when the Wall Street bankers sank our economy and almost ruined our society, they were put on paid administrative fees.
Yes, they were put on paid.
So This is so why so why would I show this?
Why would I show this CNN coverage of this cop who's been a problem since the 90s and repeatedly, and there's been no discipline given to him, and cops have covered for him left and right.
Here's how Wolf Blitzer ends, and this is why I'm playing this.
Here's how he ends that segment.
Standby, we want to take a quick break.
I don't want to leave our viewers of the impression that all police are obviously bad.
99.9% of police are good.
They help, they protect us, but obviously there are some bad apples out there as there are in every professional.
Yeah, like as if as there are in the news profession, right?
Because I think we got a whole bunch of those bad apples over at CNN.
So what basically what Wolf Blitzer just did, Robert, was he said, you know, that five-minute news segment we just did on court on police brutality?
Ignore it.
It means nothing.
It doesn't mean anything.
There's nothing to see here.
I just showed that to you for entertainment purposes.
Yeah, where do you get those?
It does for him.
It doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't have anything to do with our culture.
You don't have to get upset about it and you don't have to do anything about it.
I just showed it to you to entertain you and push your buttons because there isn't a problem with police brutality.
There's no problem whatsoever.
Now back to a commercial.
That's what he's saying.
I like how the newsman concludes the episode with a non-fact.
Yes, he goes, hey.
99.999%.
I think he popped a hemorrhoid pulling that out of his ass because he just made that stat up 99.9.
In fact, the opposite is true, Wolf.
I like the way that CNN, that was a perfect example of how CNN goes.
We're going to give you information, but we don't want it to challenge the status quo ever, ever.
So if so, if it does, we'll backtrack.
Yes.
That's a mistake.
They always say that we're just, you know, we just report it right down the middle.
We don't editorialize.
Will Blitzer is editorializing at that moment.
There's no, he's not citing a specific statistic.
He's not citing, he's not citing any research.
He's not citing any study.
That was hard data.
And even if he said, you know, most cops don't do this, that wouldn't even be as bad.
But him saying 99.999%.
First of all, who is he?
Herman Kane?
Right.
Secondly, it's like he's just presenting.
He felt the need to present an extreme statistic about it.
Yes.
That was just completely made up.
Even better, he felt the need to apologize for reporting.
He did.
He was apologizing for that report to the police.
Hey, by the way, I know that guy's just that one guy.
And you guys hate when you have bad apples, which is why you cover for them.
He should really apologize after every show.
Yeah.
I'm sure after every Iraq War report, he would go, but you know, President Bush has a good heart.
Well, that's actually the, you know, that's actually pretty accurate.
You know, the Bush administration is never portrayed by these people as being bad people.
You don't even have to portray them as bad people.
You just show the facts.
Just showed the video.
But I saw a segment, and it wasn't even on CNN or Fox.
I think it was on MSNBC where they, or maybe it was on CNN.
They, I just saw the last part of it.
They did a segment about those photographs from 9-11 of Bush and everyone.
And they were all talking about how solemn and serious they all look.
And what an incredible moment in history that was being captured as they all weigh the incredible gravity of what has fallen upon them.
And my tweet, which was a joke, but it's true.
What they were doing was they were figuring out what lies they were going to tell.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
And you know, Bush did blow up a country, but he would be fun to have a beer with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's their.
And you know what?
This whole thing of what Wilflitzer said, it's just kind of part of their overall always defending the military, whether it's the army or if it's the police.
It's always defending the status quo.
Not just the status quo, the authoritarian status quo.
Yes, yes.
No doubt about it.
If anything they did to shook up the power structure, they would crap their pants and apologize all day long.
I mean, that was pretty mind-blowing that he did that.
They do a five-minute news segment about what an out-of-control, unhinged cop this is.
And he's never been disciplined, never been charged with a crime.
Nothing.
Nothing's ever happened.
In fact, his police chief still said he's a model detective.
Right.
I think what Will Blitzer said was so egregious, he should be put on paid administrative leave.
Ha!
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Seamus.
This is the sentient entity known as Liam Neeson.
Oh, hey, Liam.
Star of not one, but three taken films.
All right.
Yeah, we got it.
Irishman, lesbian, dark man.
Yeah.
We all know Liam.
We got it.
How are things doing today?
Battling the malaise as I watch America's greatest metropolis continually becoming homogenized, sterilized, sanitized, thrown into the giant Bethamer furnace of the burning bourgeois need for safety and comfort.
Wow.
It's that bad, huh?
Times Square used to be where I could go get my ravenous cake on with nine prostitutes, dressed up like an entire high school girls' basketball team.
Matching uniforms and everything.
You could get that, Jimmy.
Now it's nothing but fat Midwestern tourists going to teach you on fucking Fridays.
No more Harlem cocksuckers, that's for sure.
I guess that's too bad.
You know that's too bad.
And you know the worst of it?
No, what's the worst of it?
The Jimmy Door show is now on at 6 p.m. here in the Big Apple instead of 3 a.m.
Yeah, I don't think that that's that means New York.
Yeah, I know.
We actually like that.
City, not state.
You know, New York City.
Listen, we're glad it's on at 6 p.m. instead of 3 a.m.
Are you kidding me?
What?
How could that be?
It's lost all of its mysterious middle of the night cluster.
We don't want to be mysterious and lustery, Liam.
We want people to actually listen to it.
Oh, pish-posh.
That was its beauty.
When the Jimmy Dohr show was on at 3 a.m., it was screaming into the void, speaking truth to power that was sleeping at the moment.
The poetry of the very image.
Only the vigilantes of the night, such as myself, would hear your sage words of wisdom as we patrol the streets, hunting the jackals of the night and swiftly calling the authorities if we saw anything suspicious.
But we think our message in our comedy is pretty great and we'd like it to be heard.
I have not personally detected any humor in your program.
You know what, Liam?
I'm going to take that as a compliment.
And I'm going to say, hey, I appreciate you standing.
You can get this show as a podcast.
You can still hear the show.
A podcast.
Yeah.
You know what a podcast is?
Is that like Tinder?
It's a little like Tinder, but you can listen to the show right on your phone if you want.
You know how you listen to music sometimes on your phone.
You can listen to this show, Jimmy Door's show, as a podcast.
You know what?
I'll email you the instructions on how to get it.
By the bones of St. Brendan, what the devil are you talking about?
It's a new way.
So now you can hear the show whenever you want to hear the Jimmy Door show.
You don't have to wait for it to be broadcast on the radio.
You get a podcast.
Listen, Liam, I'm going to email you the instructions on how to do it.
I would prefer you send a typed letter.
So you're saying I can listen to your show anytime if I want to.
Yes, so I'll just send you a typed letter then.
Wonders never cease, Mike.
Yes, these are wonders times.
They certainly are, my friend.
Okay.
All right.
Trust me, I see what goes on.
I see.
And I appreciate you being out there keeping New York safe.
Thank you.
There are only so many unarmed black men in New York.
The cops can't kill all of them.
They need the help of the average citizen.
I hear you, Liam.
All right, buddy.
Thanks for calling in.
All right.
I'm going to go to sleep now.
Yes.
Okay.
You have yourself a dandy fine day, young man.
Okay, you two.
Bye-bye, Liam.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
you you you you you So I was watching MSNBC, and I know I could do this every day now.
It's getting crazy, and I wish MSNBC would just go away because MSNBC is hurting the country maybe more than Fox News.
Really?
I think because they're pretending to be what they're not.
They're not liberal.
They're not lefty.
They're a corporation letting you pretend to be liberal and progressive.
And as soon as you say anything that might, again, upset the status quo or the powers that be or anything that might upset Wall Street or the mill, they stop you.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so here, what is the example of this?
Well, so Alan Grayson, I don't know if you know who Alan Grayson is, but he's a solid dude.
Okay.
So he's taken on the crazies in the right wing.
He's the only one who will say that they're crazy.
He's the only one who will call a spade a spade.
And for that, he's treated like Louis Gomer.
Alan Grayson is the number one legislator in Congress.
What do you mean?
That means he has more bills that he proposes get passed than anybody else in Congress.
Bar none.
Wow.
Alan Grayson.
Alan Grayson gets stuff done.
Alan Grayson stands up to corporate Democrats.
Alan Grayson is for working people.
He's for unions.
He's unapologetically for universal health care.
And so, and he's against the military industrial complex.
He is the real deal, Alan Grayson.
Plus, he made a lot of money.
And I like it when a guy who makes a lot of money comes back to government to fight for the working man.
And that's what Alan Grayson does.
He fights for the working man.
So obviously the news has to make him out to be crazy, like they did to Howard Dean.
Yes.
So he's got to be crazy.
Yes, right.
Well, Jimmy, most of the news would do that, but luckily there's a liberal channel called LSNBC.
Luckily.
Luckily, luckily, they'll treat him with the respect he deserves, I'm sure.
Okay, well, I'd love to play that for you.
The horrible job Steve Karnaki did to Alan Grayson, but we don't have time on today's show.
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