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The Jimmy Dore Show.
You know, I get why people say you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.
I really do.
But that's for when regular people die.
That's not supposed to apply to rich and powerful asshole members of the ruling elite who had enormous power and used it for evil.
Not speaking ill of the dead applies to your uncle who chain smoked and was an angry drunk.
It's not for a judge who sanctioned torture and advocated imprisoning homosexuals.
So let's have at it, shall we?
I mean, I feel bad for Scalia's family, but I feel good for everybody else.
Scalia's death has inspired Republicans to pause and reflect and find an entirely new way to be full of shit about the Constitution.
In lieu of flowers, the Scalia family requests that guns be sent to any crazed psycho who happens to want one.
No questions asked.
You know, he's been referred to as a dogmatic extremist and an ultra-conservative zealot.
Hey, let's remember that Scalia was a person just like the corporations who are mourning his death.
His passing raises many important questions for Americans like, with Scalia gone, who will put the next Republican into the White House?
With Scalia gone, who will represent dead old white guys from over 200 years ago?
With Scalia gone, will Clarence Thomas have even less to say?
Scalia is considered by conservatives as the greatest Supreme Court justice of our era.
Yep, no Supreme Court justice fought harder against equal protection.
He ruled that homosexuals should be imprisoned, was against gay marriage, and said it will have adverse social effects.
He was for overturning Roe versus Wade.
He was for the death penalty and was pro-torture.
He said African Americans should go to schools that have a slower learning track than whites.
Scalia voted against acknowledging DNA evidence that finds people on death row innocent, saying, quote, executing the innocent doesn't violate the Constitution, end quote.
His judicial record shows a man who was small-minded, backward, and bigoted.
Or as Republicans would say, a really great guy.
Scalia is like if you put a Donald Trump supporter on the Supreme Court.
To review, according to Scalia, innocent people on death row aren't people.
Black students desiring higher education aren't people.
And gay people loving each other aren't people.
But corporations, they're people.
And let's remember, Scalia died at a Texas ranch owned by a billionaire who had a lawsuit against him turned down by the Supreme Court.
Because, you know, justice is blind if you have enough money.
Scalia's death has inspired many conspiracy theories from right-wingers, some who believe it was a hit job by the president.
Even Donald Trump said Scalia's death was very suspicious.
Yes, the death of a 79-year-old Jane-smoking overweight diabetic is extremely suspicious.
Republicans are calling for the president not to nominate a Supreme Court justice because they are strict constitutionalists who never, ever have read the Constitution.
Republicans are relying on an important historical precedent.
For the last 80 years, they've been full of shit.
Conservatives consider Scalia irreplaceable.
Yes, it'll be hard to find another justice with Scalia's impressive commitment against justice.
Scalia loved the judicial robe.
He thought black was very slimming.
Antonin Scalia said the Constitution is, quote, not a living document and is dead, dead, dead.
Well, now that Scalia is also dead, he's become the ultimate constitutionalist.
Scalia worked so hard preventing a better future that the future moved on without him.
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Everybody, welcome to this week's show.
I'm joined on the Skype all the way from New York City.
You love him.
You know him from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV's Frank Frank Connife.
Frank.
Hello there.
Hello there to you.
Also in the studio with me, you know him from the miserable liberal.
It's Steph Zemarano.
Hey, Steph, how are you?
Holiday, Jimmy.
I'm great.
Also with us, hilarious comedian running the board.
It's Hank Thompson.
Hey, Hank, how are you?
Good, I'm wet and ready.
All right.
All right, let's do some jokes before we get to the jokes.
You know, everybody's saying that lame duck presidents don't get to prick the Supreme Court nominees.
And that's been a cornerstone of our Constitution going all the way back to yesterday.
It has been.
Do you know Apple?
How did you hear about this, Hank?
Apple is worried about the morality of breaking into the data of iPhones that their slave labor in China works so hard to assemble.
That's the thing.
It's a moral dilemma, Frank.
Yes, it is.
It is indeed.
Hey, did you hear morning, Joe Ball?
Did a town hall meeting with Trump on MSNBC.
So morning, Joe Ball, and morning, Micah.
They hosted the Trump Town Hall on MSNBC.
And, you know, for more details, watch for updates and white supremacist retweets on Twitter.
You know, Jimmy, I was out tonight.
I missed that town hall.
I just caught the last part where Joe was watching Trump's mouth.
I totally missed that part.
Oh, this is going to see how much you've been following the news lately.
You know, Rubio's got a campaign commercial.
His morning in America Morning Again in America commercial ad starts with a shot of Vancouver.
And Ted Cruz points out that the porn actresses in his ads are 100% American.
So, if you're following, if you're following current events, there's jokes all over that thing.
What I just did.
Lots going on.
Lots going on in the news.
Lots going on.
You know, what's weird, Frank, is that people are all excited about Star Wars Episode 8, as if that's somehow a bigger deal than the new Jack Reacher movie.
Am I right?
I don't get it.
It's Jack Reacher, too, right?
Jack Reacher around?
Yeah.
In other words, yes, it's, you know, it's not a movie you would really be that excited about.
If I can do a variation on what was just said, Chris Christie was going to star in a Jack Reacher movie.
was going to be called Jack Reacher round.
That's a Chris Christie joke.
Yes, which are an endangered species now since he's washed up.
Hey, did you hear Justice Galia died?
Justice Scalia died.
Yeah, he was found dead with a pillow over his head.
And it's arousing conspiracy theories from people with tinfoil over their heads.
It is.
It sure is.
So the South Carolina primary is this weekend.
And, you know, the GOP candidates are hoping to live up to the high standards of the GOP South Carolina voters who elected Newt Gingrich last time around.
Yep.
That'd be ironic that they would have high standards.
You know, it's up to the Republican voters to decide which GOP candidate is racist enough to win their vote.
And, you know, that is, I don't know if you watch the GOP debate, but my favorite part of every GOP debate is when two Cubans have a contest to see who hates Mexicans more.
Okay, what's coming up on today's show?
We got a lot coming up on today's show.
We're going to talk about, oh, we're going to talk about Donald Trump pierces the bubble of unreality at a GOP debate and all hell breaks loose.
We're going to talk about that.
Ben Carson wrote a book on the Constitution, then reveals he doesn't know what's in that book immediately.
Plus, we're going to take a look at some of the stuff the Democrats were saying about Hillary Clinton the last time she ran for president.
And we got phone calls today from Sheldon Adelson calls in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, and a lot more.
today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
You know, Republicans get really angry when confronted with the truth.
They're either unforgivably ignorant or in a state of collective denial.
For instance, everything that surrounds the Iraq war, right?
They're in denial about that George Bush was responsible.
They're for 9-11.
They're in denial about the fact that that was our policies that could have led to the formation of Elka.
They're in denial about the fact that the Iraq war was based on lies that was pre-planned.
They're in denial about the whole thing.
So along comes businessman Donald Trump to GOP debate, and this happens.
I get along with everybody, which is my obligation to my company, to myself, etc.
First of all, I just love that he starts off.
I get along with everybody.
That's my obligation.
The guy who's hated by everyone on that stage right now.
Okay.
Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake.
All right.
Now, you can take it any way you want.
And it took Jeb Bush.
If you remember at the beginning of his announcement when he announced the president, it took him five days.
He went.
You could just read.
You could just read Jeb Bush.
You could just read Jeb Bush's thoughts.
He's like, oh, bringing up that war my brother started.
That's just rude.
Fact, it was a mistake.
It wasn't a mistake.
Took him five days before his people told him what to say.
And he ultimately said it was a mistake.
The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives.
We don't even have it.
Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world.
Obviously, it was a mistake.
So George Bush made a mistake.
We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty.
We should have never been in Iraq.
We have destabilized the Middle East.
Wow.
Wow.
We destabilized them.
Think of, just keep, you're saying, so, Jimmy, we know this.
We know that the Iraq.
But think about where this is happening and who's saying it.
It's happening in the middle of a GOP debate.
It's being said.
This is something that even Democrats don't say in the deep south.
In the deep south, this is something even Democrats are afraid to say.
It goes on, and not only is it being said, but it's being said by the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president.
It's not being said by some wing nut, some guy with 1%, some guy Ron Paul, never get past 10%.
It's said by the guy who's been kicking ass and taking names.
Here we go.
So you still think he should be in payment?
I think it's my turn.
You do whatever you want.
First of all, I just think it's funny that Jeb goes, I think it's my turn, isn't it, to be president?
Am I right?
Is it my turn?
I think it's my turn to be president.
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
So, I mean, so you still think he should be in payment?
I think it's my turn.
You do whatever you want.
You call it whatever you want.
I want to tell you, they lied.
They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
There were none.
And they knew there were none.
There were no weapons of mass.
Okay.
All right.
So again, first of all, that audience might be in South Carolina, but they are booing because they're in their own private Idaho.
Okay.
So because this is amazing, right?
That this is a truth that not even Democrats are allowed to say, right?
Or don't say.
But this is not only being said, it's being said by the leading candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in the middle of South Carolina in the middle of a GOP debate on national television.
And it's being screamed at his brother.
And it's that thing that everyone always wanted to have happen.
We wanted someone to scream at George Bush and say something about that and scream at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
We wanted that cathartic effect.
And god damn it, if Donald Trump didn't just give it to us and it's happening in a GOP debate, the leading guy who's going to win South Carolina, the guy who just crushed them in New Hampshire, that guy just said all that stuff.
That's stuff you're not allowed to say.
That's pretty, Let's watch Jeb's.
So now everybody's like, how is Jeb going to come back from this?
Oh, my God.
Now, this is going to be the true test.
It finally happened.
Here's Jeb's big test.
How's he going to handle it?
When a member on the stage's brother gets attacked by the people who are going to be able to do that.
Did I get to do it five or six times or just once?
So first of all, he starts off with some lame stupid joke.
Like, he's trying to be clever.
Like, he's supposed to be upset about this.
Or he's supposed to go, what are you doing wasting time folding a napkin?
What are you doing?
What thing?
Do I get to respond to five or six times?
What, what?
Okay, here.
And here he goes.
Now he's going to give it to Trump right in the kisser, right?
Because Trump just said his brother lied.
So here's the deal.
I'm sick and tired of Barack Obama blaming my brother for all of the problems that he's had.
What?
That's right.
I'm going to give it that, Donald Trump.
That Barack Obama.
Are you the whole place?
The whole country, anyone who's watching is waiting for Jeb.
Here he comes.
He's going to give it to him.
He goes to a talking point.
He goes to, I'm sick and tired of Barack Obama.
After a lame joke, oh, give me a break.
Give me a break, Jeb.
Give me a break.
Okay, there's more to this.
Here we go.
And frankly.
You know, and frankly, Barbara Bush did bring her boys up better than Donald Trump, right?
Barbara Bush brought her boys up that it's rude to bring up other people's families' war crimes.
Yeah, it makes dinner really uncomfortable when you bring up trillions of dollars of lost treasure and hundreds of thousands of people who don't need to be dead.
It ruins dessert.
It does.
Yeah.
I could care less about the insults that Donald Trump gives to me.
It's blood sport for him.
He enjoys it, and I'm glad he's happy about it.
But I have plenty of camera and I am sick and tired of him going after my family.
My dad is the greatest man alive in my mind.
So first of all, he's and I'm so now, this is what he should have started with.
I'm sick and tired.
He could pay my, but he starts with some stupid joke about, can I go six times?
Can I go?
Okay.
Well, Barack, what is he doing?
So now he gets into it.
And now he says something that it's, I guess it's okay.
Here we go.
While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe.
And I'm proud of what he did.
You know, I will have to say that Donald Trump building a reality TV show did keep us safer than anything George W. Bush did.
I love that he built an apparatus.
What is this apparatus that he's talking about?
And I love how.
Well, the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security.
I mean, the overreaction to 9-11 that they then listen into Iraq.
The NSA spying, that kind of extra constitutional ignoring the FISA court.
Things like that.
The apparatus.
The apparatus.
Let me finish.
Let me finish.
That kind of apparatus.
And Jeb is right.
You know, he's sick and tired of...
I think we're all sick and tired of George W. Bush being blamed for things he did.
That's what he's saying.
It's so the calling it a mistake.
I hate to say it offends me because of the offense, but it's like a mistake.
It's a crime.
We jail people for small amounts of drugs and pot or small crimes or whatever or financial, you know, and their lives are destroyed.
And this guy caused, well, mistakes were made.
You know, it was just a mistake.
A mistake is when you forget to carry the one.
Yeah.
When you have a pre-plan to invade the Middle East to set up your version of what you think it should look like, and then you use a tragedy to do it, and you lie to the people that you're representing to get them to go along with it.
Those are called war crimes.
Yes.
You know, and I just, I'm sorry, I'm just mesmerized by this train wreck.
I really am.
And I just want to say that as you watch it, you know, there is that inclination to think like, oh, poor Jeb Bush, this guy who's come from privilege.
But there is a certain degree, like people look at him like, oh, he's such a whim.
How does he not possibly stand up to this blowhard?
And you keep thinking, don't you think to yourself, they never wrote one quip back to Trump?
No, that they know this guy is going to be on stage saying horrible things.
And he seems so weak.
That's what they came up with.
That just is what they came.
What he just said is the best they can do.
Yeah, see, I don't mind.
You can make fun of me all you want, but it's blood sport for him.
But I don't like it when you make fun of my, my brother kept, he built a reality show about my brother built an apparatus.
That's what they came up with.
There it is, Steph.
That is it.
And mention the one Bush that people are sort of are okay with.
Yeah.
HW.
HW, the one that people don't hate totally.
Yeah, the greatest man alive.
The greatest man alive.
I mean, I thought about that.
I thought that about my dad until I was about six.
And again, he says that thing, my brother kept us safe.
That's just patently not true.
Right.
So there's more to go list.
He's had the gall to go after.
The World Trade Center came down to all rather than go after my mother.
Hold on.
Let me finish.
He's had the gall to go after my mother.
That's not killing me.
I won the lottery when I was born 63.
So there he said it.
Your brother was president when those trade.
He just can't.
And Trump just says it.
Your brother was president with the, again, it's your fault, your brother's fault.
He was president when it happened.
Even reporters won't say that.
It's amazing.
It's like you're not allowed to talk about it.
You're not allowed to say it.
And it's amazing because we're allowed to question everything.
Think about that.
We're allowed to question World War II and Korea and everything we're allowed to question.
The Civil War, Vietnam, the first Gulf War.
We're allowed to question it and why it happened.
You're not allowed to have questions about 9-11.
You're not even allowed to really bring it up in any way that's critical or anything.
And this is happening again.
Remember the gravity of this, where this is happening and who it's happening to and who is doing it.
So it's the leading, the guy who's going to win that primary and who's going to win that debate is saying it to the guy's brother who led us into that war, who lied to us left and right, who people still can't believe he's not in jail.
He gets to say it to his face.
That's where this is happening, and it's blowing that bubble up.
It's blowing that pretend untethered to reality false narrative that the Republicans have fed to the media that have fed to us that it was just a mistake that we went into.
You say, hey, with Colin Powell, Colin Paul, we lied to him.
And then he went and lied to the UN.
Colin Powell.
Colin Powell said it was a blotch on his record.
Colin Powell should also.
That was horrible that he did that.
He should have known better.
Anyway, and of course, that's why they used Colin Powell.
He was used and he was being used.
He was a tool of a war criminal, Colin Powell.
That's what he was.
And he's still a Republican, even though he says, hey, it's a party full of racists.
And, you know, they did, they lied to me.
I lied to the UN.
And they thought, is it illegal?
Wow, whatever.
I still love it.
Yeah, they needed Colin Powell to like sweet talk his way through the front door.
Yes.
So there's even more to this clip.
Years ago, looked up and I saw my mom.
My mom is the strongest woman I know.
She should be running.
It's not about my family or his family.
This is about the South Carolina families that need someone to be a commander-in-chief that can lead.
I'm that person.
So that's the South Carolina voter that's booing facts and cheering lies.
You know, the same thing they did for the Iraq war.
Still doing it now.
So that was such a big deal that Donald Trump said those things, those things that we've all known, that they lied us into a war and he was president during 9-11.
And he's got to take the responsibility for that, for both those things.
That's such a big deal that everybody on the right is freaking out that he said that.
Because the line is George Bush kept us safe.
And thank God Al Gore wasn't in the White House when this happened.
And George Bush was because Al Gore would have maybe not invaded the wrong country.
I don't know.
Why do they say that?
They still say that.
Marco Rubio said it at that debate.
I'm glad it was George Bush and not Al Gore.
Otherwise, hmm, maybe we would have done something good about global warming and not gotten into foreign wars.
Anyway, maybe we could have got a bottle of water in the middle of New Orleans during Katrina.
Who knows?
But thank God.
So that's the so this is such a big freak out.
Here's Charles Kramer on Fox.
And here's what he said about.
But I think he might have made a major stumble in terms of substance when he accused George W. And he said that.
He said that he was a big fan of the war.
And he said that he was a big fan of the war.
That is a charge that you have to go to the more radical Democrats to hear.
You don't hear it among Republicans.
You don't even hear it among mainstream Democrats.
You don't hear that.
When he says you got to go to the mixture.
I can't even think of one who says it.
I can't even think of one.
Here we go.
You don't hear it from reasonable Democrats.
And then I thought that was sort of going to a place where he may regret, particularly since Georgia W. is really popular in South Carolina.
So there he goes up.
Now this is the thing that's going to ruin Trump.
He could say anything.
He could call John McCain their nominee from 2008.
He can crap all over his war record.
Say he's not a war hero because he got captured.
He could do that.
So he can diss the troops.
A war hero troop who was captured.
A prisoner.
A POW.
He could diss him.
Doesn't care.
He could say whatever he wants about women.
He could say whatever he wants about Fox News.
He could say whatever he wants about Muslims.
He could say whatever he wants about everybody and everything.
Except he can't say this about 9-11.
He can't say this about the Iraq war.
We'll see.
I think it's not going to touch him at all.
Charles Kreinheimer thinks this is the thing that's going to kill him.
He goes on and says this.
There was one exchange where Trump was blaming 9-11 on George W. And Jeb answered it was a good answer but not strong enough.
And I think it was Rubio who then stepped in and said no.
That was the fault of President Clinton who had a chance to kill Osama bin Laden and didn't.
See, see, that's the Republican narrative.
It's not George Bush's fault that 9-11 happened.
It was the guy who was president before him.
And anything that happened after 9-11 is Barack Obama's fault.
Nothing is George Bush's.
Nothing is the president's fault when it happens.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy.
President Barack chosen by the people twice to be President Obama.
Hey, Mr. President.
Good to hear from you.
Why did you just point out that you were elected president twice?
Does this have something to do with the Supreme Court?
Yeah, they don't want me to get to pick the next Supreme Court nominee because that wouldn't be right to deny the people their voice in the matter.
They want me to not nominate someone so the people can weigh in on the decision.
Really?
So the people can weigh in?
I guess it's hard for them to hear what the people are saying over the ruckus of them electing me twice to the presidency.
Hard to take the pulse of a nation when it's got love of a black guy running through his veins.
I think what they're saying is...
Two national elections is not enough of a weigh-in for them?
I see what you're saying.
Somehow it wouldn't be fair to the people to have the guy who they elected president twice pick?
No, we should have to wait until we have a guy who the people have only chosen once as president.
Makes sense if you're...
If you're a right-winger who only follows the Constitution when it's convenient.
Or if you're just an asshole.
But the people did elect them too, right?
Yeah, they elected the Republicans to the House and Senate in off-year elections when way fewer people vote.
Right.
So they get elected on years when less people actually turn out to vote.
And they say that the guy who got elected twice, when way more people showed up to vote, somehow doesn't represent the will of the people.
Uh-huh.
Even Louie Gohmert knows that's bullshit.
Yeah.
You know, it seems like the only thing they know how to do is obstruct.
It's been non-stop obstructionism since you got in the White House.
You see why Bernie Sanders could never get anything done?
You get what we are saying.
These guys who won't deal with me, you think they're going to deal with a socialist Jew?
I hear what you're saying, but I also hear you have a plan to get your nomination through the Senate.
Well, Jimmy, we are going to use the bully pulpit to change the conversation in our favor.
The news media just repeats whatever politicians say.
Uh-huh.
So we just need to keep saying they aren't following the Constitution and are only obstructing for partisan reasons.
And pretty soon the press will start saying the same thing.
We just need to stay on message and not be weak.
You really think that'll work?
It's already working.
By targeting vulnerable GOP senators up for election this year in purple states like Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, and we move the conversation to are the Republicans too far right for America?
You really think that could work?
That public pressure from the United Front of Progressives could change a vote in the United States Senate?
Really?
It's already working, baby.
We got Republican senators already jumping ship.
And say we should nominate and have a hearing and a vote.
Uh, they are.
Look at what a little United Progressive pressure can do, Jimmy.
You mean like what Bernie Sanders says his presidency will be like, right?
Huh?
Well, yes, this is the exact same thing that Bernie and his supporters have been saying that they want to do when Bernie gets in the White House on a whole array of issues that the people of the country are behind him on.
Hold up, what?
just outlined and are implementing with success the same strategy that bernie sanders says he will use to get his agenda passed but you all say that it won't work when bernie says it and here you are doing the exact same thing with remarkable results already listen jimmy i gotta go we got a big fundraiser and we really need the dough if we're gonna win in 16.
remember money is the only thing that beats money but you just proved that progressives working together in a united effort to forward policies that the country believes in is a what son of a hey you can always get a podcast of the jimmy door show for free at iTunes or stitcher or jimmy doorcomedy.com We're up against a break.
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We got phone calls from Sheldon Adelson and Chris Christie coming up later on in this half hour.
But let's get back to the studio where I'm joined by Frank Connett from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and from the Miserable Liberal blog at Step Samurano and comedian Hank Thompson.
We're talking about free speech and ESPN.
So crazy stuff happening on ESPN.
You know, ESPN has a rule, no politics, even though they do they?
Yeah, sure.
Sure.
So they got fired.
They got mad at Kurt Schilling for saying Muslims were like Nazis.
He got in trouble.
Recently, they had, I guess they had some celebrity basketball game up in Toronto, eh?
And so there was the frontman for a band called Arcade Fire.
His name is Wynn Butler.
That's a nice name.
Your name is Wynn.
I've heard of the Arcade Fires.
Look, oh, look at you.
Wynn Butler.
That's a nice.
Your first name is Wynn.
Hey, my name is Success Door.
How are you?
Right?
And this is my son, Fantastic.
I'd like to introduce myself.
I'm Luzer Conniff.
So anyway, after the game, Wynn Butler, the frontman of Arcade Fire, he was awarded the MVP of the game.
And then he was interviewed right afterwards by ASPN Sage Steele.
And let's just watch what happens.
Wait a minute.
His name is Wynn, and then the guy interviewing him's name is Sage.
No, it's a young lady named Sage Steele.
Oh, Sage Steel.
Sage.
That's quite a name.
Sage Steele.
I agree.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Here it is, Frank.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I just want to say, as an election year in the U.S., the U.S. has a lot they can learn from Canada.
Healthcare, taking care of people.
So we're talking about celebrity stuff, not politics.
Congratulations on your MVP and Team Canada.
Wow.
Wow.
Nice move.
You know, you can't tell from this TV interview, but Americans value free speech.
We're talking celebrity stuff, not politics, which is why Americans don't have proper health care.
Right there.
Thank you, Sage.
Sage Steele.
She's wise metal.
That's what she is, huh?
Sage Steele.
Wise metal.
So that's the ESPN stick-to-sports attitude.
ESPN, they also have, they also have another rule.
We don't like our viewers to learn nothing.
So right there.
You know, if he had said, hey, I just want to say everyone support the troops.
I don't think they would have cut him off.
Yeah, I don't think they would.
I think there's certain kind of political speech that's okay.
Like if he would have said, hey, I'm going to go drink a bunch of Budweiser later on, they wouldn't cut him off.
Or if he said, hey, I'm going to, if he said, hey, I'm going to Disney World, they wouldn't cut him off, right?
If he said, hey, support the troops, they wouldn't cut him off then.
But if he says, hey, you know, you guys in America, maybe you need to get some health care like you.
Oh, no, whoa, whoa.
Dude, that is going to, that's injurious.
If he had ever like, say, hit any women in an elevator or something like that, that wouldn't mean he would be banned from their airways.
No, no, no, that would not mean that.
He could hit anybody he wants in the elevator.
They'll put him back on their airwaves.
So there's been a lot of talk about how Bernie Sanders is unelectable, how Bernie Sanders is, he doesn't know how to work with people and get stuff done.
And he's going to lose to the Republicans.
He's a socialist.
He's scary.
All the people are afraid of socialists.
They're never going to vote for a guy like that.
But Bernie's unelectable.
Sure, we all like his ideas.
Sure, he's saying things that Democrats have been for since the New Deal.
Sure, he's talking about stuff that Democrats are supposed to be rallying around.
And it's supposed to be at the core of our party, sure.
But let's ignore all that because we could get someone else elected who's a little bit like more like a Republican.
So I went back and guess what?
In 2007, they were saying a lot of, let's listen to what they were saying about Hillary Clinton back then.
Before Barack Obama's presidency, the Bush and Clinton families ruled the Oval Office for the preceding 25 years.
So think about that.
That's what people were saying.
From 1980 into 2006 or 2008, there was a Bush or a Clinton in the White House.
From 1980 to 2008, there was a Bush or a Clinton in the White House.
And so people were saying, enough of this.
This is crazy.
Were you crazy?
We can't have Hillary.
Now Hillary Clinton's going to run again.
Are you kidding?
So that's what people forget.
That's what they were saying back then, that people wanted to move.
That's what Barack Obama was all about moving forward.
He was going to change things.
Here, there's more to this.
At what point do the American people say this is insane?
It's time to turn the page on the Clintons and the Bushes.
Same challenge Jeb Bush has, right?
Trying to introduce you to Jeb, not Bush.
They're trying to introduce you to, in this case, Hillary Rodham, not Hillary Clinton.
I do think that in any calculation and discussion of this, you have to keep remembering what Obama's campaign themes were.
That we're going to turn the page on the Bushes and the Clintons.
We're going to change the way Washington does business.
So that's what they were saying back then.
That how can she people wanted to change?
People want change.
Guess what?
People still want that change.
People still want that change, which is why everybody and their sister voted for Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.
Reagan Democrats, young people, women, young women, middle-aged women.
The only people who didn't vote for him were the wealthy and senior citizens, Bernie Sanders.
I'm talking about.
So people still want change.
This is still something, and people forget what they were saying about Hillary Clinton.
She was the weak candidate.
We got more.
But her top Democratic rivals then raised the issue of electability.
A lot of Democrats are concerned about that as to whether you can win a general election.
I think what people who are concerned about electability should be looking at is.
The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, or 50% of the American public, they say they're not going to vote for him.
I'm not saying anything that people don't know already.
That's Christopher Dodd on stage at a Democratic debate saying 50% of the American public aren't going to vote for you.
That's something I'm not saying.
We all know this.
How, where did all that go?
There's more.
There's more.
News CNN ORC poll shows more people view her unfavorably than at any point since 2001.
Senator Chief, they may actually want to run against you.
And that's the reason they keep bringing you up.
Part of the reason that Republicans, I think, are obsessed with you, Hillary, is because that's a fight they're very comfortable having.
Oh, isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
Barack Obama was saying that.
Christopher Dodd was saying that.
That guy who cheated on his wife was saying that.
Isn't that interesting?
The stuff that they're saying, how come no one's bringing that up?
Hey, you're the one.
You're the flawed candidate, Hillary.
You were flawed in 2007.
You're flawed in 2015-16.
Why are you not flawed?
Why don't you have those same flaws you had back then?
This was all of them saying that's about her.
This was the news media saying this.
This is the candidates.
This is John Edwards.
This is Christopher Dodd.
This is Barack Obama, all saying to Hillary Clinton that you're unelectable.
Half the country has had enough of you, and you'll never get more than 50.
There it is, right there.
Here we go.
There's more to this.
First, she said this.
Five seconds later, this.
Unless I missed something, Senator Clinton said two different things in the course of about two minutes.
You can't tell whether she was for it or against it.
So that was a big rub against her back then, too.
Not only like, hey, you're old, your history.
We need to turn the page.
We need to move forward.
Not only all that, half the country knows enough about you.
They hate you.
They'll never vote.
Not only that, but now here's the other criticism.
She was trying to be on every side of every issue.
She tries to be, well, here's, and they called her out for it.
You don't think that's going to happen again?
Here, guess, guess who's doing it now?
You can't be for something or take credit for an administration and 35 years of experience.
And then, when you run for president, suggest somehow that you didn't really mean what you said back then.
So that's Barack Obama calling her out for that in 2007 for being on all sides of the issue, flip-flopping.
And Jimmy Doerr shows.
I guess people are getting a taste of that again because here's the kind of stuff she's doing now.
Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com.
And while you're there, you can listen to past episodes and you can comment on them too.
Remember, James Pelton's last name, Gene Obama.
I'm a progressive.
JimmyDoorComedy.com.
I think she's a flip-flopper.
So that's what they were saying about her back then.
That's what they're saying about her now.
Watch.
And on trade, Clinton was a champion for the Pacific Rim Agreement.
You can hold it the gold standard.
Hillary Clinton advocated for President Obama's trade deal.
We are making progress toward finalizing a far-reaching new trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The so-called TPP will lower barriers, raise standards, and drive long-term growth across the region.
Now, suddenly, last week, you're against it.
Wow.
It's doing it again for the TPP.
So her Democratic rivals were on her tactic of being on every side of every issue back in 2007.
And now, when we pointed out, we're dreamers.
We're not realists.
What were they back then?
What were those people back then?
Were they not realists?
Because they were supporting a black guy with a Muslim name to be our president.
They weren't dreamers.
The whole country was ready.
They're ready now again.
In fact, they criticized Hillary Clinton was such a flawed candidate back then.
It was so obvious that she tried to be at every side of the, like she's doing now.
She's trying to pretend that she's a progressive.
My point of doing all this is that she's the way more flawed candidate.
And so this stuff that people are saying about Bernie Sanders, people who are supporting Hillary out of fear, I just want to give you what they were saying back in 2007 about her.
And now they're starting to, and the same thing's happening again.
And let's remember what Barack Obama said about her in 2007.
Hillary Clinton and change nothing.
It's time to turn the page.
That's Barack Obama's ad from 2007.
She'll say anything to get elected and change nothing.
Bernie Sanders could burn that same ad.
Bernie Sanders could run that same ad today, and I bet he will.
So I wanted to, I don't want to make this a bashing Hillary Clinton show, but I just want to point out to people you're 100% wrong.
And if what you're doing is voting for Hillary because you were afraid of a Ted Cruz or a Donald Trump presidency, you're making a huge mistake.
Let's remember the last time we elected a Democratic socialist, they had to invent term limits.
That's how popular he was.
People love Bernie Sanders' ideas.
And the more they learn about him, the more they like him.
His numbers are going up, not down.
Hillary Clinton's are going down.
We'll see you next time.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Jimmy.
This is Sheldon Adelson.
Oh, hey there, Mr. Adelson.
How are you doing?
I'm fine, Jimmy.
I'm talking to you on a gold-bladed telephone that was originally owned by Howard Shoes.
I'm enjoying my daily nip of pork, and I'm taking some time out of my busy daily schedule to read some Maimonides by the pool and make vaguely Threatening phone calls.
I don't think I've seen you out at the clubs before, so I assume you know me from the Jimmy Door show.
What do you think of our show?
You're not helping.
You're not helping.
What do you mean?
Helping the Republican cause this election cycle?
Of course not.
We're a progressive show.
I know you're going to be on the side of the Democrats.
You want us who have never faced adversity, never made anything of yourselves, always do.
It's supporting Bernie Sanders specifically.
That's what I have a problem.
Why wouldn't you want me to support Bernie Sanders?
Isn't that who you want on the Democratic side?
Doesn't conventional wisdom say he's unelectable?
That's what I always hear.
Yeah, the less savvy on the Republican side think he's unelectable.
They don't understand what's going on.
Bernie, that Shonda, he's a wild card.
He'll run on issues and galvanize young people.
You can't control that sort of thing.
Give me a Hillary, so we have two establishment candidates.
Now, that, my friend, that is an election that can be controlled with money.
Ah, people like you are really riding high in this post-Citizens United world.
How does it feel subverting democracy with the idea that money equals speech?
You're so cynical, Jimmy.
Money is speech.
That idea is beautiful.
It speaks for me when I cannot.
How so?
I myself technically don't have freedom of speech because I've been legally dead since 2005.
I keep going through a bewildering cocktail of biomechanics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence.
A little secret of the super rich for you.
We actually reached a singularity about 15 years ago.
And it costs about a million dollars an hour to run the sub-nuclear technologies that keep me hanging in there.
So my money can legally talk for me, and my money keeps me alive.
So have a little respect, you worm.
Man, I really don't like you.
No one does.
That's why I lurk in the shadows, pull the strings, secretly purchase newspapers, funnel dark money into campaigns.
I'm one of the richest people in the world, so I should have what I want without having to be front and center.
Oh, okay.
And the Republicans know it too.
They all dance for my pleasure.
They need my money to win, and they know it.
So, like a sultan, I lie back on my rugs and pillows and see who pleases me the most.
And what pleases you?
What pleases me, my little rat friend, is a commitment to the protection of my people so that we shall ever be safe.
And the rising tide of hatred against us that we see yet once again all over the world shall be stemmed.
That there shall always be a place that we belong, and we will be welcome, free from tyranny and persecution.
You mean the Jews?
What?
No, billionaires, dummy.
Billionaires.
The way people talk about us, have you heard it?
We try to ignore it, say it's just politics, but deep down we're scared.
Oh, I thought you meant Israel.
Well, yes, of course.
Israel, too, is a nice place.
My wife is Israeli.
That's mainly her thing.
But yes, I make sure I get a rapidly pro-Israel stance on whatever puppet I choose.
Like when I chose Newt Ingrich in 2011.
Hey, good call on that one.
Oh, okay.
Fuck.
The day after I funded his campaign, he publicly came out and said that the Palestinians were an invented people.
Bust out a few shekels and you get a history professor to negate the existence of a living branch of humanity.
That's power only money can buy.
Don't you think that rhetoric is kind of dangerous?
Doesn't that kind of talk strain the security of the U.S. and Israel?
Of course, that's the point.
What?
Why?
I want the candidate that is most likely to acquiesce to an invasion of Iran.
That's what we want.
No, we don't.
That would be an absolute calamity, Sheldon, and it would make Israel less safe.
Oh, Israel's just a pretext.
Iran simply programmed second Holocaust, all that jazz.
That's not the real reason.
Well, then, what is it then?
To expand my gambling empire, you dirty flat-footed mech.
Look what I've achieved in Vegas and Macau.
Now, imagine that in the Middle East.
I'm going to turn the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf into the world's next great luxury Riviera.
Look at all the leisure money that flows into Queen Dubai.
What would happen to all that money if right across the lake there was gambling, bulls, prostitution, hunting humans for sport?
You name it.
It would be the playground of an entire portion of the plant.
And this can only happen if we have a friendly government in Tehran.
And that can only happen if we invade and rebuild.
We've done it before.
We can do it again.
Mr. Adelson, this is a psychopathic.
Think of all the lives you will destroy trying to greedily accrue more billions of dollars.
Ah, but think of all the jobs I will create for what remains of the Iranian male population and the crime syndicates that will run protection for my resorts and casinos.
This plan is not without its altruistic components, you see.
Does the Republican establishment really know what you're about here?
What is your end game here?
Some do, some don't.
Quite frankly, all the candidates are such megalomaniacs consumed with a sense of personal destiny that they don't care whether what they're saying is real or not.
But the point is they have to master this Israel narrative in order for this plan to work.
I see.
And having some Goryam like Rubio or Cruz debating Israel stuff with Sanders, who has actually lived in Israel, is not going to help me one bit.
Okay, okay.
So knock it off.
You're not helping.
I don't care.
Oh, so you're an anti-Semite then.
Mr. Adelson, you just revealed your actual plan to me.
That smear's not going to work.
All right.
Well, like I said, I've been drinking port.
No matter The point being, I think you should listen to the wisdom of your friend Mr. Carniff and support Hillary Clinton.
Otherwise, it would be a shame if something bad should befall you.
Bad things happen to my enemies, Mr. Dor.
Through my business interests in Macau, I have become close associates with high-ranking members of Chinese organized crime.
Their heartlessness terrifies even me, I must admit.
Yeah, are you threatening me, Sheldon?
What did I say in the beginning of this phone call, you black Irish son of a clam fisherman?
Or if it makes you feel any better, it's not me that is threatening you, but my money.
My money is speaking the threats.
I'm so glad you have such influence on our political system.
Me too.
Now, if you excuse me, I have to go.
I have a site meeting with B.B. Netanyahu and my architect.
We're hammering out final details for the PB Suite in our Persian Gulf Shore's Isle Creek Casino.
It's going to have a managed habits fountain and everything.
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Thank you.
So the GOP debate in South Carolina happened.
They asked Ben Carson because the Scalia died, Justice Galia died.
Pretend upset.
And hey, sorry, not sorry.
So the moderator at the GOP Debate South Carolina asked Ben Carson.
Ben Carson, you just wrote a book on the Constitution.
What the heck is supposed to happen now when a Supreme Court justice dies in the last year, in the last year of a president's term?
What happens?
This is the question for Ben Carson.
You've written a book on the Constitution recently.
What does the Constitution say about whose duty it is here to act in this kind of a situation?
Well, the Constitution actually doesn't address that particular situation.
But the fact of the matter is.
The fact of the matter is, I don't know a goddamn thing about the Constitution because if I just that book was ghostwritten.
That's the fact of the matter.
What?
I'm going to let's play it again.
You've written a book on the Constitution recently.
Okay, you've written a book.
What does the Constitution say about whose duty it is here to act in this kind of a situation?
Well, the Constitution actually doesn't address that particular situation.
Oh, yes, it does.
Yeah, you know, normally, every time a Supreme Court justice dies, we just go willy-nilly.
Once sometimes we let a guy, just like anybody who delivers the food to the core, he just goes, hey, I'll nominate somebody.
Sometimes we have someone's cousin nominate a guy.
Sometimes we just tell everybody put names in a hat and then we pull names.
That's how.
So every time this happens, it's willy-nilly.
I wish it was in the Constitution.
So we all know it's in the Constitution.
So then a little bit of the debate goes on, and they ask Ben Carson another question.
Somebody must have said something in his ear or something at the break.
And watch how he handles this.
First of all, let me go back to your first question for me.
It wasn't phrased as who gets to nominate Supreme Court appointees.
Of course, that's the president.
So I know that there's some left-wing media who would try to make hay on that.
You know how the left-wing media is always making hay about stuff we say that's stupid.
You know, when I write a book on the Constitution and then I say something completely contradictory, go ahead.
Well, when a top candidate for the highest office in the land who wrote a book about the Constitution doesn't know something that we expect sixth graders to know to know, the left-wing media is going to try to make hay on the left-wing media.
Hey, guess what?
There's a lot more to that Ben Carson's clip because he goes on to then, you know, you that saying, when you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you.
Well, he then goes on to do the most amazing job of that.
But we don't have time to get to it in today's podcast.
But, oh, guess what else?
As the Chris Christie phone call, we don't have time to get to in today's podcast.
I'll give you a little taste of it.
Here it is.
Well, Governor, we miss you not running for president anymore.
Why?
Because you can't make jokes about me anymore?
Not at all.
Because you won't be able to say things like, Chris Christie wears a hole of hoop for a belt.
We never made that joke.
Or Chris Christie looks like a parade standing still.
No, that's not my kind of humor.
Or when Chris Christie gets into an elevator, it only goes down.
Governor, please.
Okay, so you get to hear that full phone call, plus all the stuff we have about Ben Carson.
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