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The Jimmy Dore Show!
Hey, someone else's house.
What, Dr. Paul?
It depends on who's asking.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, it's Jimmy Dore, my gay friend.
Oh.
Why does everyone keep saying that?
Well, you're always talking about going to the bathhouse and marrying a dude and whatever.
I've never said any of those things.
Maybe you don't remember.
He drunk down me a lot and asked me what I'm wearing.
Why were you so cagey answering the phone just then?
No, I was afraid he might be the AARP.
The AARP has been calling you?
Well, they want me to join.
Dr. Paul, you're not a member of the AARP?
Oh, heavens, no.
They're just awful evil people.
They're an advocacy organization for the elderly.
Well, that's what I want you to think.
No, the AARP is actually a conspiracy to create an old person's new world order.
Really?
And what would this new world order look like?
Well, everyone will have to have dinner at 4 p.m. and movies could be too loud.
That's pretty much it.
Yeah.
Ha!
That's all?
The problem is the enforcement arm would involve death camps, horse dance marathons, maybe fisting.
If anybody ever bothered to read Modern Maturity Magazine, you know all of this.
I mean, for heaven's sake, last month's cover story was about how Mary Tyler Moore plans to genocide everyone who doesn't call their nana one the week.
Dr. Paul, Donald Trump made some pretty weird statements about the national debt, and I was wondering what your take on it was.
Oh, I thought what he said was, you know, marvelous.
Really?
Because pretty much every single economist has said a lot of his assertions were crazy, if not dangerous.
If by crazy, you mean crazy good, maybe.
Well, let's unpack this a little bit.
First, he said maybe we don't pay off bonds completely, which everyone says would be catastrophic.
I think it would be a total show of strength to say to the world, oh, you want to get paid back?
You'll get nothing like it.
One, I don't think that's true.
And two, I guess he walked back those statements and then suggested buying back debt in favor of a lower interest rate, which economists are saying really wouldn't do anything and might cause hyperinflation.
Now, I know this is something you are against.
Well, of course, you have to play out the tape.
What he's talking about would basically destroy the value of all legal tender so we can go back to using, you know, gold or barter or maybe wampum.
And of course, I like that.
I've been hoarding wampum for years getting ready for this.
So go ahead, print the shit out of the greenback.
Pretty soon I'll be able to use just three wampum to buy a mule.
And then we can really get some shit done.
I'm sorry, what exactly is wampum?
It's part of a clamshell, kind of the purple part.
I'm telling you, it's even better than gold.
I mean, you pay me in dollars.
I'm like, oh, I've got these pieces of paper that have pretend value.
Big deal.
But if you've got wampum, I mean, you've got these awesome pieces of clamshell.
I don't really understand how that's better.
It's economics.
It's very complicated.
Trust me, I'm a gynecologist.
I understand these things.
It just doesn't seem like these are good policies.
Policies?
Oh, heavens, no.
These aren't policies.
Policy is when you create consistent rules of conduct.
Donald is saying whatever pops into his mind at the moment to make people think he's smart and powerful.
Trust me, next week, Donald Trump's economic plan will be to capture leprechauns and steal their pots of gold.
And you're okay with that?
Well, sure, it's all as foretold in the secret scrolls of Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand's secret scrolls.
Well, they're not so much scrolls as they are things she wrote on the back of Denny's place maps and then left for the faithful.
And what did these scrolls say?
That a great orange man will come from the east and it will seem completely insane and stupid, but that will be John Galt.
And she mainly goes on to complain about the service at Denny's and how Alan Greenspan couldn't eat pussy worth of shit.
Dr. Paul, I'm not sure that's a good reason to endorse Donald Trump.
Oh, I'm not endorsing him.
I'm just saying this is destiny.
And that Alan Greenspan has not got a conilingus.
Jesus Christ.
Whoa.
Okay.
Let's talk about this.
Jimmy, I got to go.
I got to take my dog to the vet.
Oh, is everything all right?
Well, yeah, I mean, he's healthy and everything.
I just think he might actually be a cat that looks like a dog.
That's something that happens.
No, that isn't.
See you later, Jimmy.
Come on, Mr. Whiskers.
Daddy's got tuna.
I want to find a man.
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
I am joined in the studio, the author of Morning Remembrance.
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Former writer for the Daily Show.
It's Jim Earle.
Hey, Jim, how are you?
Hey, Jim, how you doing?
Hey, you know, probably the worst thing Squeaky Fromm had to put up with was all that Manson's plaining.
Okay, that's a long way to go for a really stupid joke.
No, see, I see what Jim's doing.
So now we've been bashing Hillary Clinton a lot on this show.
And what he's doing is he's good.
It's a little olive branch to that demographic, right?
To the people voting for that's a joke.
Squeaky from and Manson, these are 50-year-old jokes, right?
So that's what this is.
Are you saying Squeaky From is pro-Hillary?
I wouldn't be surprised.
I don't think that's an endorsement cheat.
I don't even know who Squeaky From.
I think I do know.
Who is Squeaky From?
One of the Manson family girls.
Oh, is that who it was?
She actually is the one who didn't go on the initial trial and then tried to kill President Ford.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
She was my favorite.
Also, here from the miserable liberal, it's our resident Latina Steph Zamarano.
Hey, Steph, how are you?
I am terrific, Jimmy.
And recent star of the stage.
And recent star of the stage.
Also with us is our resident Japanese man.
It's Robert Yasamura.
Robert.
Ohio.
Ohio is how we say hello in Japan land.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Donald Trump has a demeaning attitude towards women.
I don't know if you know this.
This is how this joke starts.
It's a solid premise.
Donald Trump has a demeaning attitude towards women and treats them like second-class citizens.
So maybe, maybe he really is a Christian after all.
Huh?
Nice.
Or, you know, a Muslim.
Or a Jew.
I guess.
Or pretty much anybody on this planet historically.
Who's super religious?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's move on.
You know, Trump is not as he's mentioning some Supreme Court picks.
Of Trump's Supreme Court picks, white person and white person seem interesting, but white person is super qualified, as are white person and white person.
Those are his picks.
You know, Melania, that's Trump's wife's name, is Belanya.
Am I saying?
Belanya.
Am I pronouncing that correctly?
I have no idea.
Melania says Trump, he isn't Hitler.
But I say, where's the long form documents to prove it?
Am I right?
Investigators in Hawaii are discovering incredible things.
That's all I say.
They are.
Huh?
Come on.
I noticed if they don't post the longer version of that quote, he is not Hitler.
I know this because Hitler died.
You know, there are two sides of, because they did that big story on Donald Trump in the New York or whatever paper.
New York Times.
And they talked to like some like 50 women and or some high number like that.
They interviewed them and then they come out.
It turns out Trump is shitty to women.
And I'm doing an article parallel with the New York Times.
I interviewed 50 barbers and they're convinced that Trump has bad hair.
These are the kind of stories we're blowing the lid off.
Trump shitty with women, bad hair.
What else could we do?
Just to be fair to Donald Trump, I got to say, if they had interviewed 50 men, I guarantee they all would have said, no, he was shitty to me too.
It just didn't have a sexual connotation.
Right.
That's right.
I get all my Trump news from the all-Trump channel, MSNBC.
Yes, all Trump all the time.
The Chris Hayes channel.
The Chris Hayes, Trump Trump.
But listen, there's two sides of Trump's personality.
The two sides of Trump's personality were dramatized in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde.
Now, you got to know a little bit about literature to get that joke.
And I think my listeners and watchers and my fans, hey, you know, Hillary got 19% of the evangelical vote.
Did you know that?
19% of the evangelical vote.
Plus, she is a Methodist.
I think she can do better.
I mean, she needs to work harder to bring that number down considerably.
Yeah, there you go.
Hey, did you hear Trump that came out?
Trump used to pretend to be his own publicist, and he would call newspapers to jerry about this.
89.
I wonder what the make-believe publicist Trump pretended to be thinks about Hillary's lack of authenticity.
You know, the Trump spokesman who Trump pretended to be was fake, but the Trump who calls women pigs and wants to bang his daughter, 100% real.
100% real.
Yeah, he's the genuine article.
He is.
You know, if Trump is ever caught on a hot mic saying something kind and compassionate, that could sink him.
That could sink him.
Am I right?
What's coming up on today's show?
We're going to take a look at what happened in Nevada and the fallout afterwards.
We're going to take a look at the Dean of Political Reporting in Las Vegas.
Turns out Dean doesn't mean what I thought it meant.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Ron Paul.
Ron Paul calls in.
Barack Obama calls in.
All right, that puts a lot lot more.
coming up on today's Jimmy Dore Show.
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So we all know what happened in Nevada.
If you listen to politics, of course you do.
You follow it.
That's why we're digging this show.
So we all know what happened in Nevada, right?
So what happened in Nevada was the people who controlled the convention were the establishment Democrats.
They're in the tank for Hillary, and they rigged the rules to favor them, right?
that's all that happened.
I'll show you exactly.
So one of the things that they wanted to do was change the rules, right?
So the Sanders people had petitioned the convention saying, hey, these temporary rules we have favor Hillary, and so we'd like to, you know, maybe have some debate about it.
And maybe, and one of the things they wanted to get rid of was voice votes, right?
So to have a voice vote, they wanted to get rid of that.
So in order to see if they should get rid of that, they decided to have a voice vote.
So here is, here is that voice vote.
And what's this woman's name, Steph?
Roberta Lang.
This is Roberta Lang.
She was the chairwoman of the, or the chairperson, however you want to say it, of the Nevada caucus debacle.
And here they are.
They're going to have a vote on what and whether they should make the temporary rules permanent.
The Sanders people don't want to make the temporary rules permanent, so they would be a nay.
The pro-Clinton people do want to make them permanent, so that would be a yay.
So let's watch how she does it.
It has been moved and seconded that the temporary convention rules be passed by the body.
All those who favor say aye.
All those who favor say aye.
Thank you.
Hold on to your hats.
Pretty obvious that who won that?
The nays won.
Looks like the Sanders people won.
So I'm sure she's going to.
*Cheering* The ruling by the chair is not debatable.
It cannot be challenged.
And I move that the rules and that's why the body is.
So she just said the chair's ruling is not debatable.
And she said the rules are permanent.
Bam.
Not debatable.
So she says that she says the yays won.
So we all saw the yays didn't win.
It's like your mom asking where are you going to go for dinner?
And then she's like, no, we're not doing that.
That was really something.
All right.
You can't argue with me.
I've already laid the rules and this is over.
Well, in her defense, you know, the word no is decibly louder than the word yes.
So that happened, right?
So that's what people, so that's how it started.
So that's how everything started.
And then Barbara Boxer went up and she gave a speech.
Now, what's supposed to happen is when you get leaders are supposed to try to bring people together, the party is supposed to come together.
So you're supposed to advocate for your candidate, but you're supposed to do it in a way that doesn't alienate the other people because you're both supposed to be on the same side of things.
You're supposed to be against conservatism and you're supposed to be for liberalism.
Except we know what happened.
The Democratic Party isn't for liberalism anymore, just the Bernie Sanders people are.
All right.
So what happened was Barbara Boxer went up and gave a speech.
Now, what Barbara Boxer is doing in Nevada, I have no idea.
She's a senator from California.
Why is she in Nevada?
They have, who's the senator from Nevada that we know, but Harry Reid.
Harry Reid.
So they have Barbara Boxer come in instead of Harry Reid, Harry Reid, who is a boxer.
And also the guy who keeps the gun is father shot.
And he keeps the gun as a momentum.
And he's punch drunk.
And he is punch drunk.
And why?
So Barbara Boxer, so what she's supposed to do is go on stage and give a speech that brings the people together and maybe calms them down.
And according to, I don't know if you know who this is.
This is Nina Turner.
She's a state, former state senator from Ohio, and she's a Bernie supporter.
According to her, what I heard her tell the story on the radio, according to her, what Barbara Boxer did was the exact opposite.
Barbara Boxer did want to go up there and pour gas on the flames from those Sanders.
So Sanders people are already feeling badly.
They're already upset by, then they're feeling screwed over.
The whole system's rigged, which, by the way, is the larger point of why people are supporting Bernie Sanders, because the whole system is rigged.
The economy is rigged.
The country is rigged.
The criminal justice system is rigged.
Everything is rigged, right?
Wall Street is based on fraud.
You've heard Bernie say it.
This is one big rigged country.
And so now we go to Nevada, we have a rigged caucus.
Isn't that amazing?
Now, we were there for the vote part, right?
So they have, I'm not going to get into the weeds how they choose their delegates.
They have a caucus, then they have a county caucus, then they have a state caucus, and then the state caucus sends them to the national caucus.
It's crazy.
Just vote, but they don't do it that way.
So we were there when they had the original vote.
The Jimmy Dorso was there, and we covered how crazy it was.
And by the way, I always make that point that chaos at caucuses favors the establishment because then they can say whatever they want, just like they did.
Oh, boom, it's done.
We did it that way.
Chaos, chaos favors us.
We just say what we want.
So I saw that happen when we were there.
And it was so crazy and chaotic that other newspapers actually picked up our story.
The Rolling Stone picked up our, because we had videotape of it too, by the way, which there weren't any other reporters around, right?
So that's why we're here.
Independent media, don't freak out.
Support.
So it's, so we all know how caucuses are bad and they favor the powerful.
Nina Turner said that Barbara Boxer went up, poured gasoline on the fire, got everybody worked up because everybody's passing that video around of them.
Boo.
They booed Barbara Boxer.
Oh my God, you booed someone?
Yeah, they're a politician.
It's okay.
You can boo someone.
They're a politician.
It's okay.
You can go, you can put wind out of your mouth.
Ooh, that's okay.
That's okay.
You can do that.
So according to Nina Turner, that's what happened.
And now when Nina went up to give her speech right after Barbara Boxer, the chairperson who we just saw gaveled at the rules, she grabbed Nina and said, please do something to calm them down.
Nina did.
She went on stage and she gave a speech and she said to the people, I wrote it down.
She told them, be calm, but be committed.
And that got them.
And she kept saying things like that.
And she said that by the end of her speech, it was such a positive speech that it made the Bernie people feel better about everything.
And they were no longer pissed off.
And she said even some Hillary Clinton people came up to her and they were cheering.
They were like, yeah, it made them feel good because they're all Democrats.
And she was doing it in a way that appealed to that, to bring people together.
She said that's what a leader is supposed to do.
And that's not what the establishment Democrats are doing.
We just saw the chairperson not bring people together.
And then Barbara Boxer poured gas on the fire when she gave her speech.
Okay.
Why isn't she running for president?
You tell me.
She was never a Goldwater girl.
Never.
So here is how.
So you want to hear how this is how the chairperson closed, closed it, right?
So they didn't want to end it, right?
So they wanted, they had more things to do.
They wanted to petition.
Doesn't matter.
Here's how she gaveled the thing closed.
This is almost better.
Ready?
we go.
Wow.
Daddy, I mean, you can even see that.
That is unbelievable.
This is a grown-up knowing that she's being filmed and recorded and she commands a room like this with wow.
You want to see that again?
That was awesome, right?
All right.
I want to look in front of a bad class or something, a teacher.
Not even a teacher or a substitute teacher who just didn't on their first day.
Yes.
Everybody, the county chair, all those who say hi, all those who say hi, all those who say hi.
The police tell the convention, this convention is recorded.
We have finished all of it.
They know where we are.
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
Good thing she had that gavel.
I bet this is going to go to anything.
And then do you hear the guy?
He goes, what the fuck was that?
So that's the kind of shit they were throwing at the Bernie Sanders people.
And then they leave.
And then they leave.
And they turn the lights up.
They turn the music on.
They turn the music on.
This is their own people.
This is what they did to their own Democrats, people who come together.
They want them to vote for their candidate.
That's what they're doing to those people.
Turn the lights up, put the music on, and called the cops in and called the cops.
And you think I'm kidding?
Where is here it is?
Here is the, here it is.
Here's the cops.
That's at a Democratic, that's what they did.
They're literally wearing brown shirts.
They're literally wearing.
So they're enforcing democracy.
That's right.
I like the way they are.
They're wearing black gloves just to just to put a fine point on it.
We're really.
In Vegas, they all got black gloves on.
Man, that's not the village people.
And they're all having a and they're not the village people.
And they're having a short hair contest, which is what I like when cops get together because you can tell they're all having a show.
Who could have their hair shorter?
And how many of them are missing sideburns?
Yeah.
No sideburns.
Sideburns seem to be cops are allergic to sideburns and hair longer than an inch.
What henchman school did these guys go to?
Look at them.
Look at a casino in Vegas at a political event with a bunch of liberals.
We're going to kick some ass.
By the way, they were called in by the Democrats.
So they left and they were telling.
And they're all so well-built.
I fully expect at any moment for them just to tear away their pants and start dancing.
I assume that they're Chippendales because I have never seen that many good-looking, fit police officers.
There's always a fat one.
There's always a fat one.
So here is the...
So all the news reports.
By the way, so then the Hillary.
So by the way, none of the mainstream news media even covered this.
They didn't cover it until the Hillary campaign under the guys of David Brock.
I don't know that for sure.
I'm going to say David Brock.
I don't know if you know who David Brock is, but David Brock is running one of Hillary's super PACs.
They're in bed with the Clints.
David Brock was the one who smeared Anita Hill when she was saying that Clarence Thomas was a sexual harasser.
David Brock led that charge to smear her.
He's since been hired by the Clintons.
He works with the Clintons now.
That's David Brock.
Just so you know who he is.
So it's funny to hear Hillary Clinton.
They say the Hill.
Anyway, it's just funny.
So here is the, and here is the, so they are, so then the Hillary Clinton campaign started saying, and Demi Washerman Schultz and horrible establishment reporters who we're going to see in a second started saying that there's a lot of violence.
There's no violence.
I don't know if there's no violence.
They kept saying they were throwing chairs and violent.
There's not one videotape of any violence.
By the way, you saw the cops that were there, right?
Let me see.
You see the cops, right?
So you see that there were cops there, right?
That's a lot of cops.
There's a lot of cops there, and they're looking to, they're looking, right?
They can't wait.
Look at them.
They got their black gloves on.
Not one arrest.
Nobody got arrested.
All that violence, nobody got arrested.
Oh my God, it must have been a melee.
Here's what here is what Joe.
There were no teenagers around walking with Skittles in the room.
No, to be fair.
Here's what John Ralston from the Ralston Report said.
He's a big reporter in Vegas.
He said, sometimes the establishment is, you know, the good guys.
Especially when, you know, they win a lot of seats.
She's talking about Hillary Clinton.
That's what parties are supposed to do.
Not be outlets for malcontents who have empty social lives or rabble rousers without a cause.
So that's supposed to be the big shot reporter from Las Vegas referring to the Bernie Sanders people as rabble rousers without a cause.
The whole point is they have a cause.
That's the whole thing about the Bernie Sanders people.
I don't know if you know.
They have a cause.
It's not like the Hillary Clinton people who don't have a cause.
Their only cause is I'm with her, which sounds like a cult.
Bernie Sanders supporters, it's all about we have to have a revolution.
We have to overturn the establishment politics because it's so corrupt.
That's called a cause.
Hey, you know, I may have an empty social life, but I don't even know what a rabble is.
And I certainly have never roused one.
So I'm going to show you, here's the videotape that MSNBC kept running non-stop on a loop that they tried to say was a proof of the violence that was taking place at the caucus in Nevada.
So here, I'm going to show you here it is.
They just kept showing this on a loop over and over.
Now, you tell me if you see anything.
There's nothing.
This is what they keep showing.
So they're booing.
This is what they're booing.
And Rachel talks over this.
What you're seeing right here.
This is the shape the Democrats are in in that state right now.
This is the shape the Democrats are in in that state.
I don't know.
That guy's shaking his fist a lot.
Again, I didn't see any violence.
I didn't see a chair thrown.
I didn't see anything.
I saw nothing.
Did you guys see anything on there?
I didn't see anything on there.
And by the way, this is what conventions used to be like.
This is what it's supposed to be raucous.
This is what they are.
People will fight it out, whatever.
You're going to have a caucus.
You're going to get this.
This is the way it works.
But you're not supposed to have this because they're cheating and they're cheating in broad daylight in public.
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All right, now let's get back to the second half of the show.
So here is the tweet that our favorite reporter from Las Vegas sent out, John Ralston.
Here's his tweet.
He said, convention ended with security shutting it down.
Bernie folks rushed stage yelling obscenities, throwing chairs.
No chair was thrown.
Not a picture, not a video.
No chair was ever thrown.
And they rushed the stage and then did nothing.
What?
You mean after they were completely screwing people over in public, obviously, not even trying to hide it?
You mean that?
And then the people got upset.
The people who were there for 15 hours, they got kind of upset that their democracy was being stolen from them.
They got upset.
They should just shut up and take it.
What's with these rabble rousers?
Yeah, that's so here is John Ralston.
So Rachel, he was on the Rachel Maddow show, and they brought him on to talk about this stuff.
So here's what John Ralston had to say about the now, so now you know the real story about what happened in Nevada, right?
I showed you what happened.
I showed you how they were screwing them over.
I showed you what the concerns were.
I showed you there was zero violence.
Zero, none.
The worst they could do was say that people were yelling obscenities.
That's the worst that he.
By the way, there are people on the Vegas Strip yelling obscenities.
It's Vegas.
They're upset about swear words in fucking Vegas.
There's naked pictures of women all over the ground when you walk.
There's immigrants throwing you pictures of naked women at you, snapping them in there.
Hey, you're here.
Naked women.
There's billboards of naked women going by everywhere.
The whole thing is built on gambling, vice, and drinking.
And you're going to tell me they were using obscenities in Vegas.
Excuse me.
Obscenity.
But then he had to lie.
That's a lie.
There was no chairs thrown.
They rushed the stage and then did nothing, those liberals.
So here he is on Rachel Maddow.
So now we know the real story.
Here's what he says the story was.
Here's what he says.
And listen to how he says it too.
Listen to this.
This is a little bit unbelievable.
Of Ralston Live.
Oh, yeah.
I want to hear how she introduces him because it's kind of important.
The dean of Nevada political correspondence.
The dean of Nevada Political Correspondence.
We already saw some of his handiwork already.
I showed you.
The Dean.
This is the Dean.
Boy, I got to tell you, that is not an Ivy League school.
Is he Dean Wormer?
Is he Dean Wormer?
I think he's more like Dean Wormer.
To be fair, in my experience, the guy that they make the Dean is always the shittiest teacher.
Probably.
So in this case, it might be he was the shittiest reporter they made.
Megan the Dean.
Actually, it looks more like Dean Jones.
So here.
That's an old reference.
Yeah, you know what?
Don't be surprised.
There's not a lot of quality journalism coming out of Vegas.
Don't be surprised.
Okay.
And then, and then this guy's the best.
He's the best.
He's the best we got.
We call him the Dean.
He wears a suit.
That's why we like him.
And here we go.
Here's what he says.
John, from what you can see close up about what happened at this convention, I know you were able to go to some of it this weekend.
Does the national press, do we have an accurate view of what went down there and how big a deal it was?
Well, it was a pretty big deal, Rachel.
And, you know, beyond the allegations of people being cheated and chairs being thrown and violence, et cetera.
So I don't know if you noticed what he just did.
He didn't say, hey, this happened.
He said, beyond the allegations of, which if you're listening casually, it sounds like this happened because that's what everybody keeps saying happened.
That's what you tweeted out that happened.
But he didn't say it here.
He's parsing.
I don't know if you noticed.
He's parsing his words.
I'm going to say on purpose because he's a super, he's the dean of reporting.
The dean and the parson.
He said, beyond the allegations of violence and chair throwing, beyond, here's what he says.
Beyond.
The Sanders folks, or at least some of them, came to that convention with the intention, the explicit intention of disrupting that convention.
Now, he bases that on nothing.
He doesn't ever provide any evidence for that.
He doesn't say, by the way, I know this because of this.
I know this because of that.
We already showed you that he's completely out of his mind and reporting this.
He's got it upside down and backwards.
White is black, in is out, up is down.
The Bernie Sanders people were being screwed over, and they were vocal about it.
They were vocal about it at a caucus.
They didn't hit anybody.
They didn't do it.
Nobody was arrested.
There's no videotape, nothing.
But this guy, you hear what he's doing.
Okay, here we go.
And by the way, that's horrifically bad journalism.
To assign intent to people to say, I'm inside their head.
Yes.
You have no evidence of what they're thinking.
You don't report that.
He did.
I'm sure there are citations and footnotes at the end of the show.
Yeah, right?
We can go through.
So, again, there's the dean doing horror.
Even if he was right, he shouldn't do that, right?
That's what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I'm a comedian, by the way.
I'm a Jagoff comedian, and I see through this shit.
That's all I'm saying.
I didn't go to journalism school.
Nobody calls me the dean of anything.
And if you hear, I can see it.
If you hear a journalist reporting on like a serial murderer, they will not assign intent.
They will not say like, oh, he went into the house with the expressed intent of killing people.
They'll say, he went into the house and he killed people.
Yes, let's just say what he did.
They won't say yes.
So it would, okay, so here we go.
He's got more to say.
They had already sued the state party over some arcane deadline changes that was quickly thrown out.
Harry Reid talked to Bernie Sanders the night before, got Sanders to put out a unity statement, but that wasn't going to do any good.
Again, he's doing it again, but that wasn't going to do any good with these sons of bitches.
Did you see these people after they got screwed over?
They were vocal.
Did you hear what he, I mean, this couldn't be, this is the opposite of journalism, right?
You call yourself a journalist, which is what he does.
This is unbelievable.
If there was a, if you had to get a license to be a journalist, which you don't, he would be disbarred.
That would be, that would be, but nobody would be disbarred because that's how bad freaking journalism is, right?
That's why people get their news from freaking YouTube because Jagoff's like this.
This is unbelievable what he's doing.
He's got more.
Anyone who's been to any conventions knows they always argue about the rules.
They call the chairperson of the convention a dictator because they don't get their way.
So he's saying, hey, this is part for the course.
This always happens.
This is always, this is always.
So what's different then, John?
What's different, Mr. Ralston?
Their behavior, Rachel, and this is a fairly small subset, I think, of the Sanders supporters was really outrageous.
Even at any convention I had been, when Barbara Boxer announced that she was there to speak for Hillary Clinton, all the Sanders supporters immediately stood up.
A lot of them started booing.
They started screaming obscenities at her.
They put their Bernie Sanders signs in front of cameras so Barbara Boxer would not be on the big screens in the hallway.
There were thousands of people.
Oh my God.
They went up.
First of all, in the other video, I pointed out Barbara Boxer got up there and after they had already been screwed over by let's not forget that the Sanders people have been screwed over by the rules by that gaveling on the voice vote.
They already been screwed over.
They saw it happen.
And so then Barbara Boxer gets up on stage and she pours gas on the fire and starts condescending to the Sanders people.
And they're like, get the hell.
So they start booing her.
They booed a politician.
Oh, heavens.
Oh my God, they booed her.
Oh, my God.
They booed her at a cock.
So again, all the stuff he says is normal, but all of a sudden, but the booing of Barbara Boxer, a senator from another goddamn state who's in line with the people who are screwing them over in public.
And they were vocal about it.
Oh, I've never seen anything like that.
Beyond the pale.
Okay, he's got.
By the way, they're talking about Sanders supporters like they are somehow this minority of insane people.
They're 30 to 50% of the party at any given moment.
Right.
So, and instead of reporting that like they were booing or whatever the bullshit is this guy's spewing, how come nobody is stopping and going, wait a second, you know, there's some people at the party that are really dissatisfied, like a surprising number of people.
So that's why he said it's a subset.
Because he can't say it was all the Rude Sanders people because that is half the party.
So they can't say that.
So you have to say oh, it's a subset.
So let's move on because this is taking a long time.
There, she essentially tried to joust with them, then cut her speech short.
They were not cheated, Rachel.
They just didn't do their job to get their delegates to that convention.
And I'm sure it was very frustrating for them.
But people seem to forget that Hillary Clinton won Nevada.
She won it on February 20th decisively.
So first of all, he goes, the Sanders people, they just lost.
Well, we just showed you how crazy it was run.
Secondly, every committee is run by a Hillary Clinton supporter.
And thirdly, he said the Sanders people just didn't get their delegates to the, they just didn't get really the people who are overly enthused about their candidate, they didn't show up.
You know, that's not true.
What happened was they didn't allow that.
They said, oh, you don't have the right credentials.
We're getting rid of you.
58 of them.
That's what happened.
They got cheated.
Right?
So that's what happened.
And then you saw how the chairman handled it, gaveling the thing closed, not voice votes.
That's what happened.
This guy, again, he's the reporter.
He's the reporter.
He has it backwards, upside down, and he has no proof or evidence for anything he's saying, which is bad journalism.
He has no evidence or proof.
He's not saying this is my opinion.
I don't have anything to back this up on.
I'm normally not supposed to do this because I'm just a straight facts reporter.
I'm not supposed to.
He didn't say any of that.
He didn't put any caveats in front of it.
You saw the horrible tweets.
Anyway, he reports hearsay.
He reports.
Right.
So here.
More than five points.
And what has happened since then is Sanders' people have tried to reverse that.
They had some success at the county conventions, but they did not manage to fill hundreds of delegate slots at the state convention on the Las Vegas strip.
They lost.
They didn't like losing, Rachel.
Okay, so that's what he says.
So then Rachel Maddow, to her credit, she brings on a Sanders supporter who was an organizer who had put out a statement about this.
And watch how this starts off.
This is very curious.
You tell me.
Thank you.
I appreciate the fact that y'all reached out to the people who actually were on the other side of this.
I'm like.
So kudos to Rachel.
She brings on.
So nobody else has been doing this, by the way.
Nobody else brought on Sanders supporters to talk about this.
They did bring on people from the Sanders campaign, but here's someone who was actually there on the ground at the convention.
And they bring her on after they just gave all that time to Ralston, right?
And here's what she says.
She says, thanks for having me on.
Our influencer, John Ralston, who isn't a local, who has contact with us and had the opportunity to reach out to us and get the fair side of the story.
And I appreciate the fact that you actually did that.
Thank you.
So are you beefing with John Ralston that you haven't spoken to him before right now?
I mean, I like John Ralston.
I think that he's an interesting guy.
And I think that he had a unique opportunity knowing the exact people who were involved.
And as to what happened on Saturday, I sent him a press release as to what we put out.
And he neglected to contact us and see what our side of the story was.
So I don't know if you noticed what just happened.
So she just accused the dean of reporting of doing horrible reporting.
Like, hey, you didn't reach out to the people who were there who have the other side of the story.
That's bad reporting.
You're supposed to report the other side of the story and you can put it in whatever frame you want with what that's accurate.
But he didn't even reach out to them.
Yeah, but didn't you just see a smirk?
So then, so then as she accuses him of doing that, you notice he didn't contradict her.
You notice he didn't say, yes, I did reach out.
Oh, I talked to plenty of people.
Oh, I did my blah, blah, blah.
Oh, I did get the other side.
He just sat there and he smirked.
He didn't push back.
So I bet you Rachel's going to go, wait a minute, wait a minute.
The dean of Las Vegas Journalism just got called out by this activist for doing horrible journalism.
Is that true, John?
Did you not talk to them?
Did you not reach out before you started spewing all your accusations based on nothing?
I bet you that's what Rachel says to him.
Let's see if that's what Rachel says to him.
I still welcome him to have a conversation with us about it and try and see if he can clean up some of these politics and actually have the Democratic Party end up being a party of unity and inclusion.
But until then, you know, the offers out there.
Okay, here she goes.
Rachel's going to go right at him.
I will offer to pay the beer bill for both of you when all of this is over.
no, no, no, no, Rachel, no, no, these aren't two people on a baseball team who aren't getting along.
This is a reporter who just got called out for doing horrible journalism and for spewing falsehoods on your show that you gave him a platform to do.
She just called him out.
He didn't disagree with her.
You saw it happen.
And by the way, Rachel's a Rhodes scholar.
Nothing gets past Rachel.
So if something happens that I notice, you know she noticed.
Because I'm a dumb guy, C student, went to mediocre schools.
She's a Rhodes scholar.
She's super on top of it.
That didn't slip by her.
She decided not to.
She decided not to ask John Ralston that.
I disagree.
I disagree.
I think that what she did was she just went, oh, yeah, because he's basically a Clinton representative.
He's not a journalist.
At some point, you guys are going to have to sit down and talk about it.
No, he's not a Clinton representative.
He's a journalist.
I know.
The point is, is that I think that Rachel Maddow already just knows, oh, he's basically a Clinton shill.
Yeah.
And so at some point, you guys are going to have to have party unity because he's a shill for Clinton.
I thought you were saying something else.
Like, she's already knows the skinny.
Yeah, and Ralston's very good at mansplaining.
Anyway, I think he did a very good job here.
I mean, that's kind of, I don't want to make too much out of that.
And I applaud Rachel for bringing her on.
More than motherfuckers.
She's Angie Morelli.
And by the way, much more than John Ralston did, who she refers to as a dean of reporting.
But that just happened right in front of you.
He just got called out for not telling the other side of the story.
By the way, you just heard the other side of the story.
Is that going to shake it up for you?
I don't know.
Let's see if she says what else she's let's see.
Here we go.
Ready?
Obviously, you've heard the.
Okay.
I don't know why it wasn't working, but it should.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Do you think that things got out of hand this weekend and that the behavior at that convention was inappropriate?
I think that if we were to look at Saturday, Hillary Clinton did not win.
Trump did.
Because what happened was that you took half of the this is what happened: we had 4,000 of the most passionate people in this valley who got in a room together and you put them in this confined space for 15 plus hours and you fed you who had little access to food and had three bars outside of the convention center that were put there specifically for us.
And I don't know in what other situation where that wouldn't have created high emotions.
I think that if you look at the videos, I have not seen a video of anybody throwing chairs at one person or another.
I have seen a video of somebody picking up a chair and somebody on Team Bernie asking them to set it down and getting a hug from the person who had picked up the chair.
So I think that a lot of the rhetoric behind the violent Bernie Sanders protesters here in Nevada is grossly overexaggerated, especially considering the only assault I know of is the assault that took place on a Hillary supporter shoving me for trying to de-escalate her screaming at our volunteers for picking up ballots.
So wait a minute.
So now I'm sure what's going to happen here, because you just saw what happened, is that you had an actual live person who seems credible came on, first called out the journalist for not doing good journalism, didn't disagree with her.
So she's gotten that right.
Rachel ignores it.
And now she just said, by the way, the story that he's telling is completely wrong.
100%.
In fact, I'll give you a real, I'll give you a real account of real violence.
Me, somebody assaulted me.
And I'm sure Rachel's going to go, whoa, wait a minute, John, you've been reporting this all wrong and you were assaulted.
Nobody, no one, what?
This is a big story.
We're making news here.
The Clinton campaigns people were assaulting you.
You mean it wasn't the other way around?
Let's see.
Let's get ahead.
Let's get a head start and make sure.
Let's see what she says.
To de-escalate her screaming at our volunteers for picking up ballots.
In terms of what happened here, I want to race to the end of the story.
So she just ignores everything that woman just said.
Rachel just ignored everything she said.
She didn't go, so you're saying, she didn't say, wait, let me clear this up.
You're saying everything everybody's reporting is wrong?
Yeah.
And then you were assaulted, but you didn't.
And by the way, John, do you have any videotape of chairs being thrown or violent?
No, you don't have.
So I guess maybe I have to go with you because we don't have any evidence.
We'd have nothing.
In fact, this B-roll thing we keep playing on my own show doesn't show any violence.
It doesn't show anything.
And then you were assaulted.
Rachel just ignores all of it.
All of it.
She ignores all of it.
Hey, I'm not saying, I don't, but believe me, it's not an accident.
Nothing slips by Rachel Maddow.
She's a road scholar.
Here we go.
Go to the last chapter in this book and find out whether the Democratic Party is actually in much worse shape.
So she just goes, hey, I just want to, again, she just, let's talk about something else.
Let's not talk about the real story here, which is the whole establishment Democratic Party is cheating and they're okay with it.
And for some reason, the establishment press is now going along with them.
Isn't that weird?
The establishment press is also pushing a false narrative.
That's the story.
That's the story.
She goes, I want to go past all that stuff.
And let's just talk about something.
Now, am I wrong about this, Jim?
Do you think Rachel missed that?
Or do you think that she, you tell me?
Well, I really can't comment on that because she did do the forward of my hit book.
Oh, okay.
Anyway, I think it really says a lot when Morning Joe on this network is the voice of reason concerning this subject.
You're right, because I'm not going to play that tape in this segment, but we will in another.
Morning Joe actually got this story way more right than the nighttime MSNBC hosts did.
Am I correct?
And they've gotten the Bernie Sanders story correct.
They've gotten Bernie Sanders right.
They understand the enthusiasm more often than not.
They understand the, in fact, I've seen Morning Joe where they talk about the enthusiasm for Bernie.
Yes, that's just so you know, Jimmy, today John Ralston tweeted, I'll be on MSNBC at 10 a.m. providing thoroughly biased commentary.
Tune in.
Oh, that's hilarious, John.
That's like he's not even embarrassed.
You know why?
Because he's doing, he's committing acts of non-journalism in defense of the establishment.
So guess what?
No price to be paid for that.
There'll be no price for John Ralston to be.
And Ben, I can't wait till I bump this up.
No price to be paid.
You kidding me?
It's going to be profitable.
No, it's profitable.
And I will, there will come a day when I will bump into John Rawston and things will happen.
Do you want to see a chair fly?
We'll be reporting.
That's more mandatory from the Hillary Corders.
So here, let's see what Rachel wants.
What's the big question?
What's on her mind?
Come November in Nevada because of the acrimony between Sanders folks and Clinton folks, or whether this is, as you're sort of Describing essentially growing pains or the product of acrimony that was situational and that you're all eventually going to be pulling in the same direction in the end.
Are these ties that are permanently broken now, or do you think Democrats end up stronger in the end for this?
Well, I think that having a conversation about whether this being Bernie Sanders folks or Hillary Clinton folks, you know, versus each other is the wrong conversation.
It's the wrong conversation.
It's not Bernie's folks for Clinton folks.
What is the right conversation?
Here it comes.
You know, seeing proof that this is the people versus the establishment.
After we got up on the stage and we motioned to them very respectfully to accept our petitions that we've spent a great amount of time collecting and had done in accordance with the rules of the convention, we had many Hillary Clinton folks come up to us and be like, what's in those petitions?
They told us not to sign them.
The Hillary Clinton campaign told them not to sign them.
What's in them?
And we explained to them what was in these petitions.
It had nothing to do with the actual quote or with the actual results of what would have happened on Saturday.
It had everything to do with just simply the procedures and allowing people to have their voices heard on the floor of that convention on Saturday.
And once they realized it was actually in these petitions, they were on board with us.
There were multiple Hillary Clinton people that went up to the front of the stage that were like, why are you not accepting these people's petitions?
And they were not getting any answers.
So I'm sure, so she just said even Hillary Clinton people were upset with how bad the thing was being run.
It wasn't just Bernie people.
So I'm sure Rachel is going to go, wait a minute, what?
Again, this is the opposite of what I've been hearing.
This is the opposite of what the dean of Las Vegas Journalism just told us.
What are you talking about?
This is what this is the huh?
I bet you Rachel's going to really make it.
So I think that that's more of a concern that the Democratic Party here locally and nationally should be looking at is why are our voices not being heard.
We went and we talked to the vice chair, Chris Wicker.
And after the convention, I walked up to him and I was like, sir, can you explain to me what you would have found in this situation if you felt like your rights were being stolen and you were representing a grand amount of people and you felt like this is not a Democratic process.
He looked me square in the eyes in front of my lawyer and said this was not supposed to be a democratic process.
Bam.
That's the vice chair.
This is not a democratic process.
Can you believe that the time has come and gone so quickly already?
There's lots of stuff.
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Donald Trump called in.
I don't have time to get to it.
Bernie Sanders calls in because he wants to talk about when I was back, I was behind the scenes with him this week.
Guess who else calls in?
Barack Obama has some stuff to say.
Listen.
Oh, hello.
Who is this?
Mr. President.
Wow, what an honor.
Thank you for calling.
Shit, did I button on you again?
Yeah, Stephanie there.
Excuse me, what?
Stephanie, put your wife on now.
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