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The Jimmy Dore Show!
This is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, how are you, buddy?
It's George Clooney.
Hey, George, how's it going?
Good to hear from you.
Ah, just fine.
Hanging in there.
You know, ghosts.
I have to admit, I'm still a little tickled.
I'm still a little tickled that you and I are pals.
The feeling is mutual, my friend.
Believe that.
My rapper friend says that a lot.
Which one of the rappers is your friend?
I forget his name.
So what's on your mind?
I got to be honest with you.
I'm a little worried about a friend of mine.
Yeah, what's up?
Well, me and some of the guys.
We're just a little worried about Bill Murray.
Great man, great guy.
But a little tune of the sauce these days.
A little too much vodka for Vankman, if you know what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
Yeah, I know.
That's just how I end a sentence when I think I've made a joke.
Oh, you say if you know what I mean.
Okay, I get it.
Listen.
So what are you going to do?
Well, I'm not quite sure, really.
And that's why I was calling.
I figured I'd maybe ask you for some advice.
Me for advice?
Why me?
Well, you're a comic.
You probably know a lot of drunks.
A lot of guys who've gone a few rounds with old John Barley Corn over the years.
Oh, sure, sure.
A lot of good friends, no doubt.
So how did you deal with it?
Oh, you know, just sort of silently judged them in a passive-aggressive way.
That is enticing, no doubt.
But I really feel we should do something constructive, a little more proactive.
Well, I suppose the obvious thing would be to stage an intervention then.
That is precisely what I was thinking about.
I'm glad you said that.
That's an intervention.
That's your best move, I think, George.
Yeah, that's what we'll do.
But it's going to be fun.
What?
You know, fun.
Bunch of laughs, gags and boners.
If Clooney's throwing an intervention, it ain't going to be a drag, baby.
No, George, that's not how these things.
I'm thinking Vegas.
No, George.
No.
Yes.
Round up all the usual cats.
Pitt, Damon, Cheadle, Buff Daddy.
C. O'Reilly.
Maybe that Michael B. Jordan kid.
He seems pretty smooth.
Who knows?
I don't know what's going on.
That this is a bad idea, George.
After a week of our shenanigans, Murray will be as dry as a chalkboard in Death Valley.
Stop.
That's sort of a poetic image.
George, an intervention is not supposed to be a party.
Yeah, play a bunch of pranks on him.
Practical jokes.
Pranks?
You know, send a bottle of Jack Daniels to his room, but it's filled with iced tea.
That's a terrible idea.
Just get hammered for a week in Vegas.
This would be great.
*laughter*
George, you're not supposed to drink during an intervention.
Why?
I'm not quitting.
Me and Lady Liquor are faithful to each other to the very end.
You know what I mean?
You don't care about helping your friend fight his addiction, do you?
Nah, not really.
Vegas, baby.
Okay, George.
Good to talk to you.
All right, we accomplished nothing.
All right, George.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
the show for up-minded, lowly-livered lefties.
The kind of people It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
George talking to T. And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's show.
I am joined in the studio by hilarious comedian Robert Yasamura and our resident Japanese man.
Hi, Robert.
Ohio.
Ohio is how we say hello.
Next to him, you know her from the blog The Miserable Liberal and the host of Common Everything Else, it's our resident Latina, Steph Zamarano.
Hi, Steph.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Ola is how we say hello.
Ola.
And running the board across the glass, hilarious comedian Michael Schertzer's with us.
Hello, Michael.
Hey, what's going on, Jimmy?
Also joining us later on in the show.
You know him, you love him from Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV's Frank will be here later on in the show.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the joke.
You know what?
Did you know that Ashley Madison, you know, that's that website where people go to cheat on their spouses?
Sure.
They got hacked and they revealed all the people who had signed up for it.
Oh, really?
It turns out that guy, Josh Duger.
Yes.
And come on, Gods of Comedy.
Isn't Josh Duger being the first Ashley Madison celebrity a little on the nose?
Hashtag hacky?
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Social Security Act.
Did you know that?
Oh, wow.
Which is why the flags at the RNC headquarters are flying at half mass.
Hey, did you hear about Ben Carson?
Got caught.
He actually, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ben Carson, fierce critic of fetal tissue research, used fetal tissue research 23 years ago.
Turns out he's a late-term hypocrite.
Zingo.
You know, all the nobles, you got, they're talking about Joe Biden getting into the race.
Al Gore's getting, you know, all this talk about Joe Biden and Al Gore jumping into the race.
I think it's going to break the 1988 presidential field wide open.
Mondale 2016.
I'm always happy to hear when more white men are joining the presidential race.
You know, I saw that Dr. Strange is trending, but was surprised to see that it had nothing to do with Ben Carson or Rand Paul.
Dr. Strange.
Did you hear Paul Wolfowitz is advising Jeb Bush on foreign policy?
Oh my God.
So in other words, as awful as Trump is, he's not the most dangerous candidate.
That's it.
I'll bet you Wolfowitz keeps telling him, oh, man, the party's going to greet you as a liberator.
His advice, this candidacy will pay for itself.
Your campaign will pay for itself.
You're going to be greeted as a liberator.
Hey, kudos to Trump and the GOP field for adding the phrase birthright citizenship to its lexicon of bigotry and hate, huh?
Holy Moses.
Am I right?
That's impressive.
Yeah.
The GOP opposes abortion because if a baby is never born, it will never get the chance to have its birthright citizenship revoked.
Hey, give Trump credit.
He's finally offering specific, concrete proposals for bringing tragedy to the lives of immigrant children.
And the dog, you know who's really suffering under Donald Trump?
The dog whistle industry is suffering because thanks to him, GOP racists no longer feel the need to use dog whistles.
Hey, did you know Trump wanted an appropriate name?
He released his position paper on immigration and he wanted to name it appropriately, but unfortunately, Mein Kampf was already taken.
You know, all the horrible stuff that Trump says is really hateful.
So I wish Scott Walker would stop saying it.
Nah.
That's good.
You know, they say, and this is true, Trump is drowning out reasonable Republicans like Huckabee, who says a raped 10-year-old girl should be forced to give birth.
Yes.
I'm writing a film right now.
I'm writing a screenplay.
It's a film where every GOP primary candidate meets up with Sean Hannity in a remote cabin, and it's called The Hateful 18.
Hey, it's okay to deport citizens, bomb Iran, and force rape and incest victims to give birth, but using private email, that's it.
Am I right?
Yes.
That's so true.
You know, Hillary would get better press if she was a clownish blowhard guy, but she's made the mistake of being an accomplished woman.
Oh.
Maureen Dowd has written three glowing columns about Donald Trump in a row.
Yes, because he hates powerful women almost as much as she does.
It isn't a refreshing change of pace from actual news when journalists and pundits talk about the Hillary email story.
Am I right?
Oh, it's great.
It's just like, it's like not even being there.
Jared Fogel.
Jared Fogel.
Formerly of Subway.
He went from Subway Sandwich spokesperson to child porn felon.
Few public figures have fallen as slightly as Jared Fogel.
You know, the thing about Jared Fogel is he's going to feel right at home with the food in jail.
Am I right?
Jay did Jared Fogel's wife immediately filed for divorce, which just goes to show you that you can't rape underage females and have your wife stay by your side unless you're Bill Cosby.
Hey, here's the most racism ever packed into one sentence.
George Zimmerman is selling Confederate flags at a Muslim-free zone gun shop.
America.
America.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Chuck Todd interviewed Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on the same show.
Guess what?
Worse than you thought.
Plus, Jeb Bush is sick and tired of getting asked questions about Iraq.
Cut it out, you guys.
Plus, straight out of Compton.
It's breaking all kinds of box office records.
Do we need more security at the theaters?
The answer just may surprise you, or will it?
Plus, we got phone calls today.
I'll tell you, we got phone calls today from Mike in St. Louis calls in to talk about the one-year anniversary from Ferguson.
Luke Russard calls in to talk about the Chuck Todd interview.
Jeb Exclamation calls in, plus George Clooney, and a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Thank you.
you you you So I got some time to watch America's premier political journalist interview Donald Trump on Meet the Press this past Sunday.
Side note: hey, has Donald Trump ballooned up faster than Mike Huckabee at an Applebee's?
But anyway, of course, Trump felt at home on Meet the Press because it's constantly declaring journalistic bankruptcy.
I mean, this was worse than expected, okay?
And honestly, Chuck Todd is such a horrible journalist.
He makes Chris Wallace look like Mike Wallace.
That's how bad it is, right?
So here we are.
So first question.
Here's the first question Chuck Todd has for Donald Trump.
Some of the criticism on you from conservatives is you're not a real conservative.
When you hear that, you know, someone will argue on social policies that you're not a real conservative.
Is it just different brands of conservatism that's out there and you just have a different brand?
Or do you think they have a point?
Chuck, why don't you just answer the question for him?
So like, for instance, they say, but is it just brand?
God damn it.
As Chuck explains to the people, there are different kinds of Republicans.
Chuck's explaining, he's doing it for them.
They can be liberal on social issues, but still be Republican economically.
And that's really what counts.
Chuck Todd did such a bad job that he would ask Trump a question.
Trump would then completely lie or completely present false facts, right?
And Chuck Todd would go out of his way to find a way to agree with Donald Trump.
I'm not kidding about this.
Here's my first example, Planned Parenthood.
So Planned Parenthood comes up, and we all know that that video has been doctored and edited together to make it look like something they were selling baby parts for profit.
We all know they weren't.
We all know that this is common practice to use aborted fetal tissue for research that helps them.
Ben Carson even published papers using the same tissue to advance science and medical research.
So we all know that that's all bogus.
Those are bogus.
Of course, it shocks people when they hear about that they actually sell aborted fit.
That shocks them because it also would shock people to know that they sell cadavers.
Right.
Right.
And they have to sell.
So it's medical issues.
What?
Most stuff freaks people out, right?
Most people can't be surgeons either.
So anyway, so Chuck Todd sits down with Donald Trump and he asks him about the Planned Parenthood.
And watch how Chuck goes out of his way.
It's subtle.
You can almost not hear it.
But he goes out of his way to not only does he not correct Donald Trump, but he goes out of his way to try to agree with him.
And here, I'll show you what he means.
Here we go.
Planned Parenthood has to stop with the abortions.
It's a lot of people considered an abortion clinic.
I think those tapes that I saw over the last, the five tapes or the six tapes, I think they were outrageous.
I think they were terrible, disgusting by any standpoint.
No, you know, you know, journalists would say, well, you know, those have been debunked.
We actually debunked them on our show, that those were doctored and edited to look like something they weren't.
So you can't base anything you're saying off of those videos, are you?
That's what a journalist would say.
Right.
That's what we call at the Jimmy Dorse show, WWJD.
What would a journalist do?
And also saying only 10% of what goes on in Planned Parenthood is abortions.
The other 90% is on the bottom of the state.
I actually think it's lower.
I think it's like 73%.
And it's even less.
None of that is paid for with federal money.
Right.
And it's probably one of the most important on-the-ground frontline medical institutions we have in this country.
And so we, And we all know this, except Chuck Todd doesn't feel a need to bring it up when the number one Republican poll leader for the presidential nomination for the GOP is on his show spewing false facts.
He doesn't feel a need to bring any of that up, Robert.
That stuff that you know off the top of your head, the stuff that I know off the top of my head, the number one political journalist doesn't feel here.
I'm going to play it.
Here's how he pushes back.
Ready?
Tapes for the six tapes.
I think they were outrageous.
I think they were terrible, disgusting by any standpoint.
And they have to stop.
The shape were edited.
He says, does it bother you that they were edited?
He doesn't say falsely edited, deceptively edited.
Do you know that we debunked it, that they were edited deceptive?
He just says, does it bother you that they were edited?
Just edited.
Doesn't put any qualifier on edited.
Right.
Okay.
So here's Donald Trump's response.
Well, I don't know about them being edited.
I mean, all I did, I saw whatever I saw was terrible.
I mean, it was terrible.
He said, all I know is what I touch.
Chuck Todd says, what you saw?
And he goes, it was terrible.
He goes, yeah, it was terrible.
Chuck Todd just said that.
I'm going to play that again.
That's kind of stunning.
Right.
So Donald Trump is 100,000% wrong again on this same issue that's been debunked in the press, but somehow at NBC and MSNBC, it hasn't made it over to their journalists.
Like Joe Scarborough doesn't know this.
Either does Chuck Todd.
He knows it's been edited, but he doesn't know it's been deceptively edited.
Here we go.
And by the way, the other thing he's not holding his feet to the fire on, since we're right there, is you're speaking on an issue you don't have a firm grasp on.
You said, you just said, well, I don't know about it being edited.
Then why are you talking about it?
You clearly have not researched this subject at all.
You looked on YouTube.
And Chuck Todd doesn't say, mean you haven't researched this, Mr. Trump, and you have an opinion on what women should do when they're raped?
And you haven't researched this?
He doesn't say any of that.
What does he say?
Here's what he says, Robert.
The shapes were edited.
Well, I don't know about them being edited.
I mean, all I did, I saw whatever I saw was terrible.
I mean, it was terrible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What you saw.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
What you saw.
Yeah.
And in particular, I didn't like the attitude of the people.
They talked about it almost like.
And Chuck goes, you can barely hear these things, but Chuck is doing the affirmative.
Did Tommy just admit that he doesn't know the difference between raw footage and edited video?
Oh, let's see.
And they have to stop.
The shapes were edited.
Well, I don't know about them being edited.
I mean, all I did, I saw whatever I saw was terrible.
I mean, it was terrible.
And in particular, I didn't like the attitude of the people.
They talked about it almost like we're making widgets or gadgets.
And you hear to Chuck Todd?
Right.
He's going right.
He's not going, he's not saying, I understand what you're saying and it's false.
But he says, right, as if, yeah, I get, yeah, I'm with you on this.
He's a journalist.
He says, does it bother you that it was edited?
He doesn't, anyway, I've said it already.
It's okay.
It's weird that he says what I saw was terrible.
It wasn't as if he saw a little baby or a fetus.
He just saw, he just is so bombastic with what he talks about anytime about Planned Parenthood.
But he's still going to give, he's going to take care of women.
He's going to take, so here is Donald Trump.
Now they're on his, his, his, Chuck Todd is on his helicopter.
It's his jet or his helicopter.
Doesn't matter.
He's probably got both.
I'm pretty sure it's his helicopter.
Either way, Chuck Todd was getting a free ride in a luxury situation that he shouldn't have been getting.
Right.
So here is Chuck Todd, and Mark Halperin also tweeted out a picture of him.
Martha Radditz took selfies with Donald Trump on his helicopter, tweeted it out.
That's the state of America journalism, ladies and gentlemen, as Glenn Greenwald tweeted.
We tweeted that picture.
Also, here is Chuck Todd on the helicopter or jet.
It's a luxury something.
They're both standing straight up.
It probably is a jet.
And he's on there with Trump.
And here they are talking about immigration, right?
And Chuck not only doesn't push back and correct Trump, but here again, he finds a way to agree with Trump.
We all know that immigrants commit crime at a lower rate than for this.
Yeah.
Right?
Because this has come up because if Trump has said this stuff, so we all went and researched it to see if what Trump said had any, it's the exact opposite.
They actually commit crime at a lower rate.
So they're not.
So that's you're just now you're yeah, all Mexicans are rapists, but he didn't like the attitude in those videos.
Right.
He didn't like the attitude in those videos.
So here, here goes Chuck Todd.
Ready?
Do you think there's tremendous cost for the illegals that are in here right now?
Of course there's cost.
Okay, tremendous.
Of course there's cost to it.
He doesn't say, well, there's not really they add more to our economy than they take.
They pay in those things that they don't get back.
You mean he doesn't provide facts.
He just, again, he's finding ways to agree with.
And by the way, this is Donald Trump pulling policy out of his ass.
And it's considered substantive, just like anything Luke Russ says is insightful, right?
Here we go.
Do you think there's tremendous cost for the illegals that are in here right now?
Of course there's cost.
Okay, tremendous.
So he doesn't answer one way or the other because he knows it's not true.
Right.
He said, of course there's cost, and Trump tried to get him to say tremendous cost.
And Chuck Todd doesn't say, no, it's not tremendous.
Or yes, it is tremendous.
He says nothing.
Yeah.
What?
Profile and courage, huh?
Here we go.
So here goes Trump.
I think there's tremendous crime being committed by illegals.
There's definitely evidence that it's happened.
And Chuck Todd finding a way to agree with Donald Trump when he completely states misleading, 100% false facts to demonize immigrants.
Yes.
That's all this is.
No, the only ones he could say about right now are Mexican immigrants, the ones lowest on the totem pole.
That's why he gets away with the richest guy standing there wearing white golf shoes on his own jet saying this stuff about the poorest, most defenseless people.
Here he goes.
Here he goes.
Ready?
Do you think there's tremendous crime being committed by illegals?
There's definitely evidence that it's happened.
Tremendous.
Far greater than what heinous wants.
And then Chuck Todd goes, heinous crimes, heinous, heinous crimes.
Did you hear this, Robert?
It's just not blowing your mind.
I cannot believe I'm.
So then on Twitter, someone called Chuck Todd out for this, for not pushing back.
In fact, it was worse than not pushing back, Frank.
What he did.
He was giving him a blowjob instead of pushing back.
He was agreeing.
He was like, oh, yeah, all that horrible stuff that you've been saying, you're right.
He didn't take this as an opportunity to confront him with the accurate facts about the crazy, racist, race-baiting, xenophobic stuff that he's been saying.
It was a very successful interview for Chuck Todd.
Trump liked him, and he'll come back on the show.
And now Chuck Todd Has access, and that's all that matters.
You are correct, Frank.
He clearly wants Trump to like him.
Yes, clearly.
And that's true in the Martha Radditz on the helicopter, and Mark Halpern and Maureen Dowd.
They all really want, are really impressed with Trump, and they all really want to.
They're taking this guy who hounded Barack Obama as a racist for two years.
Remember that?
Yes.
Sent his own private investigating team.
Yes.
Among many other things.
So this guy, Gabe Bortiz, on Twitter, called out Chuck Todd for this.
And he tweeted, Trump says tremendous crime being committed by immigrants, which and he puts which is false.
And Chuck Todd just stands there and doesn't challenge it.
And then he tweeted, Chuck Todd, here's some reading for you.
Quote, immigrants are less likely to be criminals than native-born Americans.
And he gives him a link to the information.
Right.
Chuck Todd tweets back to him.
Robert, get ready for this.
I ran those stats on Meet the Press about three weeks ago.
Fuck!
Come on.
Yes, see.
See, when you think that facts are pertinent to someone who is lying in your face, Chuck Todd understands that facts have an expiration date, Frank.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Chuck Todd was thinking, damn it, I can't bring that up now because I brought it up three weeks ago on my show.
Oh, if only I didn't bring it up three weeks ago, I could have confronted him with actual facts like a journalist.
So Chuck Todd, he didn't ask him one difficult question.
He asked him a bunch of phony, difficult questions.
So Chuck Todd could have asked Donald Trump, the thin-skinned, thin-haired, thick-tongued GOP frontrunner, if his detectives are still in Hawaii investigating Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Because if you remember what he said, yeah, this is what he said.
Take a look.
And you tell me, really, you analyzed the birth certificate.
There are many people that don't agree with that birth certificate.
They don't think it's authentic, Wolf.
I don't know when you say many people who don't agree.
Like, give me a name of somebody in a position of authority in Hawaii who says, but give me a name.
There are many people.
I don't give names.
Wow, many people cannot believe that birth certificate is authentic.
Is doing better journalism?
Well, it's still not very good journalism at all.
And it's obviously he's talking to a crank who is obviously lying.
Yes.
They should have just ended the interview and told him to leave.
Well, so he told me.
So here is Trump telling Martha Radditz that he has investigators in Hawaii and they can't believe what they're finding about Barack's birth certificate.
I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.
You have people now down there searching.
I mean, in Hawaii?
Absolutely.
And they cannot believe what they're finding.
So Trump has his people in Hawaii looking for Barack Obama's birth certificate and you can't believe they can't believe what they're finding.
And then Wolf Blitzer asks this.
Tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.
We don't have to go into old news.
That's old news.
Well, what are they doing?
Plenty found.
You can call many people.
You can read many, many articles on the authenticity of the certificate.
So Wolf Blitzer, at least holding his feet to the fire.
Tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.
What they're finding is, wow, some really reasonably written rates during the offseason.
That's what they were finding.
And then so, Tahik.
Tell us what your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.
We don't have to go into old news.
Chuck Todd couldn't even do that.
One of the most incendiary and provocative things Trump has been saying is how he buys politicians to do his bidding, and the system is rigged for guys like him.
Strangely, that didn't interest Chuck Todd at all during this interview.
He never inquired about that.
Not once.
Because he's buying journalists now.
He's giving them free helicopter rides, and it's enough to make them not focus on any of Trump's horrible things and instead spend all their time when they're being negative.
It's about Hillary's email server.
Yeah, yes.
He's buying good PR.
So here is what Lawrence O'Donnell had to say about he's a tough critic, and that's what I like about him is that he's really fair and he gives he's a straight shooter.
That's why I like Lawrence O'Donnell.
And here's what he said about Donald, Donald Trump's interview with Chuck Todd.
Have you heard seen this, Frank?
Oh, I'm not sure.
I have seen some Lawrence O'Donnell lately.
Okay, here we go.
Not all of Chuck Todd's interview with Donald Trump was able to fit into the confines of Meet the Press.
We have more tonight.
That best interview yet of candidate Trump.
What?
Oh, my God.
Jesus Christ.
Just because it's the longest.
Just because it's the longest.
He said that best interview yet.
What is that about?
That best interview yet.
And here's the only feet to the fire follow-up question from Chuck Todd.
It's why Donald Trump keeps talking about going to Wharton school.
Here it comes.
Ready?
Hey, I went to the Wharton School of Finance.
I was a really good student.
It's probably the hardest thing.
I've never heard you say anything about Wharton before.
Huh?
I've never heard you say that before.
I'm proud of the school.
You know why it's a great school?
Some of the greatest business minds in the world have said Wharton.
So why do you feel it's important to tell us that all the time?
I'll tell you what, because everybody knows what a great school it is.
Everybody knows that to get into Wharton is probably the hardest school to get into.
It's, you know, right there, you know, within a couple of days.
I believe that you have to be very smart.
If you're a conservative Republican, you are, you go in.
Look, if I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm at the super genius of all time.
The super genius of all time.
If you're a conservative Republican, you got to fight for your life.
It's really an amazing thing.
And let me tell you, they're plenty smart and they're really smart.
What?
Plenty.
And they're really.
The only reason Trump keeps talking about Wharton school is because Fordham University pays him a million dollars a year, not to mention he went there.
Yeah, and once again, Chuck Todd is going, yeah, it's an Ivy Leave school.
It's very impressive.
Yes, he kept, again, he kept helping him.
So here he is.
He's like, yes, he's almost like he's, but that's the one thing he pushes back on Trump about.
I'm going to bust his balls about him keep bragging about that he went to a great college.
So by the way, Claude Debusset wrote music to media's coverage of Trump called Afternoon of a Fawn.
I don't understand that joke.
They would be calling me the super genius of all time.
And yet Donald Trump wondered why he's never been called that by anyone.
Hey, we got a lot more coming up in the second half.
Who calls in?
Jeb Bush is going to call in.
Luke Russert calls in to talk about Chuck Todd's interview.
And we got a lot more coming up in the second half.
But right now, we're up against a break.
We'll be right back in one minute.
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Lots coming up in the second half.
Let's get to it.
Let's get to it.
Hey, welcome back to the second half of the Jimmy Dore show.
We got a lot coming up.
Mike's from St. Louis calls in the second half.
Jeb Bush calls in.
More on the Chuck Todd interview with Bernie Sanders.
But right now, Luke Russert calls in.
This is Jimmy.
Hey Jimmy, did you see Chuck Todd got to do journalism on Donald Trump's kick-ass helicopter?
Yes.
Yes, I did, Luke.
Unfortunately, it has Trump right on the side.
It says it.
How fucking cool is that, dude?
It's so badass.
That's like way better than having business cards turned up that say Playboy Photographer on them, like me and James Carville did when I was in college.
I mean, it almost makes that seem lame.
Yes, Luke.
It almost makes that seem lame.
Wow, doing journalism on helicopters.
It's like the ultimate, it's absolute beast, dude.
But remember, helicopter journalism can be very dangerous, too.
Brian Williams taught me that.
Luke, I noticed that Chuck Todd has a penchant for letting his evil guests off the hook and then using an inconsequential issue to pretend to be grilling him on.
Jimmy, I don't know what you're talking about.
We don't grill anyone on meet the press.
That would be rude, pretending or otherwise.
You know, like how Chuck Todd Tolly went on a white shoe-wearing billionaire's helicopter and let him say horribly demonizing things about the dark-skinned among us with no money and zero power without pushing back at all.
Yeah, but then busted his balls hard on how Trump always brags that he went to a prestigious school.
Boom.
That was how he busted him?
Yes.
To be honest, I thought it was a little unprofession.
How so?
Well, Chuck himself taught me that the most important thing in corporate journalism is if a famous insider will not only come on your show, but feels treated well enough to come back on your show.
Oh, really?
That's the mark of a master journalist, rebookings.
And how many times you have John McCain and Lindsey Graham on?
Yeah.
Hey, one question, Luke.
I see, I noticed MSNBC is shifting to hard news.
What does that mean?
It means that there will be less opinion shows where people give their opinions on news and more just reading facts off a teleprompter, which is what we call hard news because it's way harder to read all day than it is just to, you know, talk.
Is that really what it means?
Just like in school, more reading means more harder.
Remember, the teacher's like, you've got reading to do.
And then you don't do it, but you're like, boof.
Thanks.
I can't wait until I just inherit my journalism job so I just don't have to read anymore.
Now, Phil Griffin screwing my plan up.
Fucking bitch.
I'm like, Peter Coyote.
I'll be seeing more of you reading.
All right, Luke.
Well, I guess I'll be seeing more of you reading on television soon.
Really harsh in my mouth.
Half the time when the camera's not on me, I'm on Tinder anyway.
All right, Luke.
Well, thank you for calling in, buddy.
I'll talk to you soon.
You better believe it, dude.
Okay, that's Luke Ruster.
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So, Jeb Bush, what I like about Jeb Bush is when someone asks him a question about the Iraq war, he acts completely flustered and surprised that the Iraq war ever comes up.
And then he acts super annoyed by the fact that you mentioned it, right?
So here, here's a guy asking a question.
Here you go.
Isn't it also the case that had we not invaded Iraq in the first place, we wouldn't be dealing with this rock ISIS problem?
Now, you can't see it, but he already likes, he's already going, he's like rolling his eyes.
He rolled his eyes.
He did.
He rolled his eyes back.
His head.
Here he goes.
His brow is furrowed.
Look.
Look, he starts out with look.
That's me.
Oh, wow.
ISIS problem.
Look.
Who knows?
I mean, that's just such a complicated hypothetical.
Who knows?
I can't answer that.
Who knows?
He keeps saying, who knows?
Who knows?
I can't answer that.
Who knows?
Let's hear it one more time.
I love this.
Rock.
ISIS problem.
Look.
Who knows?
I mean, that's just such a complicated hypothetical.
Who knows?
I can't answer that.
I'll tell you, though, that taking out Saddam Hussein turned out to be a pretty good deal.
For who?
That was actually a really shitty deal, to tell you the truth.
Yeah, we really didn't get a lot back from that, and it made things worse.
And also, when he says, oh, I don't know if things.
It's a hypothetical.
Yeah, because, you know, when we went into the war, we were all told, don't worry, the result of this action will be very vague.
Yes.
Nothing specific is going to happen.
So, you know, so no, if anyone asks you about it later, you're not one to answer because we didn't set out any goals in this thing.
So I tried to call Jeb Bush, and I wanted to ask him about that and why he gets so annoyed.
And here's what happened.
I'll turn it down.
Here we go.
Jeb, exclamation point.
Governor, you got him.
Who's this now?
It's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, hi there, Jimmy.
How are things out there in Holly weird?
I'm a weird.
You answer your own phone?
You better believe it.
I'm a hands-on kind of guy.
Well, I wouldn't say that.
Well, it's because you can't handle it.
It's okay.
I get that a lot.
Some people aren't ready to look directly into the face of the future, but there it is.
You do know you look like both your father and your brother, right?
So looking at you is like looking directly at the most recent past.
Well, I would say, I mean, look at it as more of a reboot, really.
I mean, would you say looking at the new Fantastic Four is like looking at the old Fantastic Four?
Probably.
I mean, they're the same thing, aren't they?
No, I'm afraid.
No, no, no, Jimmy.
The new one has a black guy.
The human torch is now a black guy.
It's a totally different thing.
Governor, I have a clip here of you.
Oh, I'm on.
Am I on YouTube?
Yes.
And you're asking, they're asking you about the Iraq war.
Oh, man.
Why are people always asking me about that?
It's not, you know, it's not like I started that war.
But your brother did, and you've stood by him on that decision.
Well, what the hell else am I going to do?
You expect me to stand there and say, oh, yeah, my brother is a friggin evil moron.
I'm totally different, so vote for me.
Yes, that might be good.
Well, for you, maybe, but you don't have to have dinner with the guy.
I mean, he's super touchy about how stupid he is.
Last time I brought it up, he was like, fine, I'm going to my room to paint an angry picture of you and your stupid face.
It was a steam.
What gets me, Governor, is that every time a reporter brings up the Iraq war, you seem so surprised about the question.
Well, what kind of question is that?
I mean, that war ended like four years ago.
Am I also supposed to be ready for questions about season two of Down Navy?
Give me a break here.
That is exactly...
It was an eight-year war that completely reshaped our presence in the Middle East.
And I'll tell you, I'll tell you one thing, getting rid of Saddam Hussein, that was a pretty good deal there.
In what way?
What?
In the larger scheme of things, how is getting rid of Saddam Hussein a good deal?
Well, we got all.
You know, that's the definition of a good deal, really.
We kill one guy and we get like, you know, a zillion barrels of sweet, sweet oil.
That's like the best Black Friday I've ever heard of.
You know, that war has cost about $3 trillion and thousands of Iraqis and Americans died and the destabilization of that region.
Well, the cost of that is incalculable.
It's what now?
Well, the cost...
No, the cost of that is incalculable.
Yeah, but the bad man is gone.
I mean, it's just as simple as that.
No, Governor, there are terrible, terrible dictators all over the world.
Are we going to go to war and take them all out?
Yeah, I don't know.
I just want to be president.
Why are you making this so darn hard?
Don't you think being president will be a hard job?
Well, I'll tell you something, Jimmy.
If Georgie could do that job, it can't be all that hard.
That guy's lazy as fuck.
I'll tell you what.
And he was a terrible president.
Well, I promised to do better.
How?
How do you plan to be a better president than your brother?
I'm glad you asked that, Jimmy.
First of all, I plan to work a full seven-hour day.
Second, I will only take 30 days of vacation per year.
And finally, I plan to not invade Iraq unless there's a pretty good reason to.
Governor, that's not a plan for a presidency.
People want to know how well you understand the problems, both here and overseas.
They want to hear what you would do to fix problems.
Like, what do you think the biggest problems are right now in the Middle East?
I'm going to go ahead and say Iran getting the bomb in 10 years.
And yeah, just that.
Iran getting the bomb.
How to do.
So what would you do about Iran's nuclear program?
Well, I'll tell you, I'd get a better deal than Barack Hussein Obama.
That's what I'd do.
And what would be in this better deal?
How would you get it?
Why are you trying to confuse me?
Can't you just accept me for what I am?
Well, that's what we're trying to figure out, Governor, who you are and what kind of president you would be.
Well, that's easy.
Who am I?
An awesome dude.
What kind of president would I be?
Well, by extension, the awesome kind.
Okay, Governor.
I'm going to let you go.
Oh, thank God.
Talking all talking this much about stuff is what kills a presidential campaign.
Okay, Governor.
Good to talk to you.
Like, what if I had mentioned how skeptical I'm about the Holocaust?
That would have been...
God damn it.
All right.
That was Jeff Bush.
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So Chuck Todd also interviewed.
He interviewed Bernie Sanders.
So here's the first question.
I'm just going to remind you, here's the first question.
He asked Donald Trump.
I'm going to play it again.
From conservatives, you're not a real conservative.
When you hear that, you know, someone will argue on social policies that you're not a real conservative.
Is it just different brands of conservatism that's out there and you just have a different brand?
Or do you think they have a point?
So again, so that's his first like, hey, you know, you're just a different kind.
He's explaining to people what kind of conservatives there are and Donald's okay.
Here's his first question to Bernie Sanders.
Ready?
This is a guy who's been a senator for how many years?
He's been in politics, a serious person.
He's been a trailblazer and independent.
Ready?
I have to say, I was both in Clear Lake, watched you there, watched you in the soapbox yesterday where you had so many people.
The fair stopped.
Forget Trump, forget Hillary Clinton.
I think you might have had the biggest crowd yesterday.
So he says that, and I played that five times, and then the fifth time I've noticed that he giggled through that.
Like, hey, he's like, you might have had this.
Isn't that great?
That's stupid.
This guy, you had a bigger crowd than Donald Trump.
Isn't that nuts?
Very patronizing.
Isn't that, I think you might have had the biggest crowd.
Is that something?
Why would a guy who's been a senator and outspoken on issues talking about substance that beat and really striking a chord with people getting crowds nobody has seen anything close to since Barack Obama before or since?
Why would that, ha, that's so stupid.
So here's this, that's literally how he introduced.
So I'm not, and I'm not reading into this, by the way.
I'm like, I've thought about it.
I'm like, come on.
Am I?
No, that's what else do you think is the emotion behind what he just said?
I think you might have had the biggest crowd.
Forget about Donald Trump.
Yes, we should have forgot about Donald Trump a long time ago, Chuck, but guys like you don't confront him with stats and facts, and you guys keep covering him.
You almost thought he was going to, Chuck Todd was going to go, I mean, and good for you.
Yeah, good for you, little Bernie.
You did really great.
You did great.
I'm going to give you a gold star.
Yes, yes.
It was very patronizing.
Has decided long ago Hillary is the nominee.
Yes.
Which they shouldn't have.
Right.
I mean, and they are looking at Bernie Sanders like he's some sideshow.
Yes.
When he's actually saying things of substance.
And when people compare Trump to Bernie Sanders, it's infuriating because Bernie Sanders is getting ahead because he's saying things of substance that make logical sense.
He's resonating with people.
He's appealing to people with logic and facts.
And Donald Trump is appealing to people into their darkest sides.
He's appealing to their fear, their misogyny, their racism, their xenophobia, their militarism, their hatred of the other.
That is what he's tapping into.
He's tapping into the dark side of people.
Bernie Sanders is tapping into their light, to their aspirations, to their hope.
So here, here it is again.
I'm going to unplay the whole question.
Here's the first question Chuck Todd has for Bernie Sanders.
I have to say, I was both in Clear Lake, watched you there, watched you in the soapbox yesterday where you had so many people.
The fair stopped.
Forget Trump, forget Hillary Clinton.
I think you might have had the biggest crowd yesterday.
Why do you think you're resonating at this point?
And how do you take this from being a movement that seems big in August?
And how do you keep it from fading five months from now?
Hey, how do you not become a failure?
That's my first question to you.
Hey, you know, you're kicking ass.
You're connecting with people.
You're getting bigger crowds than Hillary Clinton can ever hope for.
How do you not fail going forward?
Hey, by the way, how do you make it so you don't molest kids, too, on the campaign trail?
And do you have a plan in place to make sure you don't beat your wife?
These are the questions I'm asking.
That's my first question out of the box.
Hey, how do you make sure you're not a failure?
After he just said he got the biggest crowd at the Iowa State Fair, he's been getting the biggest crowds everywhere, dwarfing everyone else.
Well, you know, and they say about Trump, you know, they're all like, oh, he's a straight shooter.
He says what he thinks.
But you know what?
That's true of Bernie Sanders to a much greater degree.
And it's when they're like just assuming that Hillary is going to be the nominee, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy because they don't treat what is happening with Bernie Sanders.
They don't treat it as a big news story.
They don't, you know, the fact that Bernie Sanders brings in huge crowds and then says these things which are having an effect on people, which people are responding to, they don't lead the news with that story.
No, they leave the news.
And that's all just an editorial decision.
What could easily be the lead story on a newscast, and they treat Bernie as just a sideshow, and Trump is the main event.
Well, you're getting out a little bit out in front of this segment because I'm going to show you examples of what you just said.
Right?
So here's Bernie's response to that stupid question.
How are you going to not fade?
Well, Chuck, I think we are resonating all over this country and here in Iowa because we're talking about issues that are life and death issues to the American people.
And that is the collapse of the American middle class, the massive and grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in this country.
The fact that we are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people, the fact that millions of working class families are now finding it very, very difficult to send their kids to college, and the basic fact that people are working longer hours for lower wages.
And meanwhile, almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1%.
And then you add to that a campaign finance system as a result of Citizens United that allows billionaire families like the Koch brothers and others to literally buy politicians and corrupt the American political process.
You know, Senator add all of that together, and the American people are saying enough is enough.
So he took that bogus question and he turned it into something and he jammed as many facts and substance argument and policy ideas into that answer as he could.
And Chuck Todd still couldn't wait to cut him off.
Here he is.
He's a gift that journalists always say they want.
Why can't we have a guy who comes on and doesn't spin, who talks straight and he wants to talk about substance and he wants to talk about ideas and he's got bold ideas and he connects with people.
Where are those people?
Well, here's a guy sitting in front of him and all Chuck Todd wants to do is ask him about the horse race.
That's all he wants to do is ask him about the horse race and Bernie Sanders turns it into substance and he then he tries to interrupt him when he's talking about substance and here what did he want to interrupt him for?
Here's what he want to interrupt him for.
Listen to this.
To literally Chuck wants to interrupt him here and corrupt the American political process.
You know, Senator, add all of that together and the American people are saying enough is enough.
You know, the last time I had you on and I asked you about what do you think of the comparisons between the phenomenon of what's going on happening with you and whether there were similarities with Trump.
You were dismissive of it.
But can I tell you, I can't tell you how many people came up to me and said both positive things about you and Trump at the same time using things like the campaign money example and the outsider.
What do you think you have in common with the Trump voter?
Forget Trump, but the Trump voter.
So the first question is how come.
It's another big advertisement for Trump.
So he says, the first question is, how come you're how are you going to stop being a failure?
And the second question is the only question he could think to ask was about Donald Trump.
Chuck Todd asked the Democratic Socialist from Vermont, how is he similar to a billionaire television celebrity?
You know what?
They do have one thing in common, though, and this is seriously, they both speak bluntly.
You know, so like Trump says things that are inarticulate and racist, but Bernie Sanders says things that are very articulate and eloquent and thought out.
Yeah.
Yes, and so did Andy Rooney and Mike Tyson.
They both spoke very plainly.
Regular Joe's.
By the way, it's not Bernie Sanders' job to know any of what Chuck Todd asked.
It's Chuck Todd's job to know that.
What?
What's the appeal?
Right, that's right.
That's right.
Exactly.
It's not his job.
I mean, Mike Sanders is a senator and he's a candidate.
He's like, those are his jobs.
It's not his job to know why he's what chord he's striking.
That's the same with Trump.
So the second, so that was the second question.
The third question.
Here's the third question he asks him.
Again, Bernie keeps trying to talk about substance issues, the things that people want to talk about to change their lives, actually.
And all he wants to talk about is Donald Trump and the horse race and why are you a failure?
Here's his third question.
He asked me about Black Lives Matter.
BuzzFeed has an article out this morning.
Headline is this, Sanders campaign reaches out to Black Lives Matter activists.
Quote, I apologize.
It took our campaign so long.
Tell me more about it.
Well, that was sent out by a staffer, not by me.
But on this issue of Black Lives Matter, let me be very clear.
So again, he takes this question from Chuck Todd.
Hey, do you send out an apology to Black Lives Matter?
Not like, hey, what's the issues that surround the black?
What's that?
Just about, hey, did you?
And so here Bernie Sanders again starts to talk about.
Never, never publicly apologized for that.
Never.
No.
So he said it, in fact, he said it's good when we make people uncomfortable.
Yeah.
Except for our guests who are supposed to make uncomfortable.
The point is, Chuck Todd is asking about the messaging and not the substance.
That's the point I'm making.
He's talking all about the horse race and nothing about substance.
The issue that they are raising is a very, very important issue.
And there is no candidate for president who will be stronger in fighting against institutional racism and, by the way, reforming a broken criminal justice system.
So even with that great.
So even with that question, he's not done, by the way.
Look at all that substance he put in there.
There's more coming.
Chuck, we have more people in jail in the United States of America than any other country on earth.
And we need real changes.
We need to do away with the militarization of local police departments.
We need to do away with minimum sentencing.
We need education and jobs for our young people rather than jails and incarceration.
Believe me, that gets way worse.
Chuck Todd gets unintentionally ironic.
At the end of it, it might be even worse than Donald Trump stuff.
In fact, it is because there's substance to what Bernie's saying.
And Chuck Todd cannot keep dismissing the substance Bernie is talking about over and over.
Anyway, you know how to get that.
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So we called our good buddy Mike from St. Louis, St. Louis Mike.
You know, it's just all Ferguson.
Why can't people just talk about the weather like civilized human beings do, you know?
Well, I think, see, Mike, I think that's where your white perspective goes.
It is hot as hell here.
Apparently, I could teach you how to be a gentleman.
That's what you talk about the weather first when you get someone on the horn.
Oh, it's hot here, too.
I hear that, brother.
I mean, it's just, it's terrible.
Yeah, we got, you know, I got this neighbor, neighbor lady.
She's old.
And when she gets hot, she wears these old lady summer dresses, you know, without proper undergarments.
Yeah.
So now it's hot and steamy, and then I got to see that.
Takes your walker and walks around a sprinkler like a crazy person.
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And now I got to see this, you know, melting old lady.
You know what?
John, not a fan.
You could just not look.
Yeah, well, yeah, but then she wins in a way, right?
She wins.
Uh, Plus, also coming up, the movie Straight Out of Compton debuted, and the people over at CNN questioning why, do we need more security at the movie theaters that are showing this?
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We're also doing, there's a new convention.
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