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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show!
*phone rings* Good job.
Hello.
Jimmy, I need you to listen very closely.
You don't have much time.
Liam Neeson, is that you?
I'm not at liberty to reveal my identity at this point in time.
It's on a need-to-know basis.
All right.
Then what should I call you?
Liam Neeson.
Just not the Liam Neeson you're thinking about right now, okay?
Okay, that makes sense, I guess.
What's up?
Jimmy, you're in danger.
You need to lock your doors.
Stecure and cover your windows.
Don't make a sound.
Why?
What's happening?
New Jersey being terrorized by a bear that invades the suburbs and walks around on its hind legs.
Like some kind of human covered in rug-like fur material.
But I'm in California, Liam.
Pedals.
What?
That's his name.
Pedals the Bear.
But Liam, he's not going to walk all the way over here.
And besides, nobody walks in Los Angeles.
Your stupid, nonsensical witticisms can't help you now.
There was a time when I was directionless and without focus.
I became entrenched by your animal magnetism and electric personality.
You don't have to say that, Liam.
Then it hit me.
Here is a man foolish enough to let a bear who walks on his hind legs into his house.
Liam, I already told you.
I don't live in New Jersey.
You don't think Peddles sauntered back into the hills after strolling around Cherry Hill and has a big laugh with all his friends at our expense?
You don't think that kind of shit gets around?
You don't think the local bears, be they black, be they brown in the hills above your stately mansion, are at this very moment organizing walking tours of your local mole Liam.
Can I ask you about your Brexit vote?
Sure, no problem.
What happened?
Well, Jimmy, it's a very complicated subject, and Britain invented Benny Hill and Mr. Bean.
Well, what's that got to do with this?
Once you reach a creative peak like that, you're bound to take a big nosedive.
By the way, I'd like to say, my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of whatever natural terror or economic disaster occurred this week.
Okay, sure.
Listen, so what do you think?
Well, are you going to let me say it?
Oh, sure.
I thought you already did.
No, I didn't.
Okay, then go ahead.
My thoughts and prayers.
That's it?
Jimmy, did you know that when they first asked me to do K-19 the Widowmaker, I thought it was about 19 dogs that killed husbands?
I don't really get that.
But instead, it was about a nuclear submarine that malfunctions on its maiden voyage, and the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
It solidified me as one of Hollywood's top leading men.
Yes, that and your taken movies.
I mean, those were top-notch action movies.
Thank you, Jimmy.
They had to use a lot of quick action cuts on those.
I'm a very tall man.
And if filmed at natural speed, I appear like a lumbering claymation figure.
Not very flattering.
But you're probably wondering why I'm bringing up my film career.
Well, I'll tell you, you'll be happy to know I am currently filming Taken Four.
In it, I once again play ex-CIA agent Brian Mills.
Who did they take from you this time?
Well, do you recall how in Taken 1, they took my daughter.
In Taken 2, they took myself and my wife.
And in Taken 3, they took my innocence.
Yeah?
Well, in Taken 4, they take my pension.
Your pension?
Yes, I'm old.
And I'm retired.
And I fall for a pyramid scheme.
It's pretty brutal.
Yeah, sounds intense.
Anything else coming up?
Yes.
I'm going to appear in the new season of Vinyl as the lumbering ex-CIA agent who does a lot of coke.
I think you lost that part, Liam.
Vinyl just canceled.
Fuck.
Taken five.
Jimmy, I must go now.
But here listen.
I will come for you.
And I will find you.
And when I do, you'll know it because I have asthma.
Goodbye!
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for blackbeast.
The kind of people that are safe.
It's hard to talk to you guys.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to this week's show.
I am joined in the studio by comedian Ron Placone from Nashville, now living in L.A. How are you, Ron?
Good, Jimmy.
Thanks for having me.
Originally from Pennsylvania, correct?
Yeah, I grew up in Pittsburgh.
Sure, Ed Rendell.
Yep.
Used to be the governor of Pennsylvania, but now I spent a night in Pittsburgh, one of the best nights I ever had in my life when I was in college.
Anyway, long story, a lot of sex.
Okay.
So let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
You know, Trump is going to give America what it needs most.
More golf courses in Scotland.
Am I right?
Come on.
Laugh it up, motherfuckers.
Steph is not here.
All right.
I don't know.
When I was a kid, there used to be this show called the Night Stalker.
And the star of it was this guy named Koshak.
They used to call him Kolshak.
And it was a show called The Night.
It was always scary, Nightstalker.
My favorite Nightstalker episode was when the vampires tried to kill him at his newspaper office.
And then CNN gave him a job as a commentator.
There you go.
Huh?
There you go.
That's right.
We're going to talk about that coming up later on in the show.
You know, authorities are.
Did you hear authorities are worried about mass stabbings at neo-Nazi rallies?
This is true.
Authorities are worried that mass stabbings are going to be happening at neo-Nazi rallies, so security will be extra tight at the GOP convention this year.
Come on, you can write these jokes.
Come on.
Hey, did you hear Texas Republicans?
You know, because they had that Supreme Court ruling over abortion, that now Texas Republicans will now have to accept the ruling of the Supreme Court and look for other ways to treat women like shit.
You think Texas is really taking notes on what's going on with Brexit right now?
I don't think Texas takes notes.
They're always like, hey, did you get the notes?
I was sick.
I think that's what Texas, I missed class.
Can I get the notes on Brexit?
Yeah, they're going to ask a few.
Do you think Texas wants to, how about a Texas?
How about that?
How about we do a Texas Texas out of the union?
Yeah, they could have their own money.
Yeah, everyone from Austin is going to just travel around.
Some of them are going to come here.
Some of them are going to go to like just other towns, New York, Nashville, maybe.
But yeah, they're just going to spread and then it will just be just Texas.
They got what they wanted.
I would love to see that.
Hey, did you hear Laura Ingram?
This is true.
She said she wears diapers to avoid going to transgendered bathrooms.
So now I know why she has shit on her hands when she pulls facts out of her ass.
Come on, Laura Ingram.
Come on.
Hey, you know, did you hear that they're doing valuations of Trump's holdings?
And I could tell them right now that no Trump property is as worthless as his son, Eric.
There you go.
Hey, you heard there's a lot of, it came out how much money they've been spending on this Benghazi investigation.
And, you know, the GOP Benghazi committee members managed to piss away taxpayer dollars and exploit the deaths of Americans.
So they feel it was all worth it.
See how I blinked on that joke?
And by the way, I don't know if you heard this.
Had you heard that Trump literally objects to female ghostbusters.
And by ghostbusters, I think he means the entire fucking world.
Okay.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We're going to talk about what's really happening with Brexit.
We're going to talk a little bit more about that and the Euro.
We're also going to talk about a 60-year-old kid who jumped a turnstile in the subway in New York City.
And the police reaction, was it overkill?
The answer just may surprise you.
Or will it?
Plus, we're going to talk about, is that it?
No, we got to have more stuff to talk about.
Oh, Corey Lewandowski, you know, the strongman for Donald Trump, the fascist racist pig.
They just hired that guy over at CNN.
We're going to talk about that and the dilemma it's causing.
Plus a lot lot more.
We got phone calls today from, I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure Liam Neeson calls in.
And then Bernie Sanders.
We're going to talk food with Bernie Sanders.
Plus a lot, lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
We'll be right back.
Now, you're hearing a lot of stuff about Brexit.
Hey, everybody in the UK are all racists and they want to get out of the UK because they're racists.
You know, that's kind of the same thing that they are saying about Trump in the United States.
Hey, all these working class people are following Trump because they're racists.
And it's just, we just have to somehow defeat racism and Trump won't exist anymore.
And I've said this before.
And what Trump relies on, what makes him powerful is bad economic situations that favor the elite, right?
So the elite since Reagan, since Trickle Down Economics started, have been screwing the workers.
The workers haven't gotten a raise since about 1973, 74.
Productivity way outstripping wages.
So what happens is people see their jobs leaving, there's no jobs left.
They're afraid to get sick.
We don't have universal health care like the rest of the Western industrial world.
And if their kids do going to go to college, everybody's in debt.
It's real hard.
50% of all wage earners in America earn less than $30,000.
We have the biggest income disparity since the Gilded Age, even though we're living in very prosperous times, record-breaking numbers on Wall Street, corporate profits at record, but the people don't feel it.
And everybody says, oh, why are you following Trump?
Because you're a racist.
No, that makes people vulnerable to demagogues.
That's why Trump works on these people because nobody is giving them an answer.
Nobody is talking about their problems.
We have the Democrats saying we're going to do TPP, which screws over workers even more.
So that's kind of what happened with Brexit.
So I was reading Glenn Greenwald, and he made the same observation.
He says Brexit is only the latest proof of the insularity and failure of Western establishment institutions.
Glenn Greedwald made the observation that the media, the establishment media, reacted one of two ways to the Brexit thing.
He said the first reaction was an earnest, candid attempts to understand what motivated voters to make this choice, even if that means indicating one's own just indicting one's own establishment circles.
So that's like taking a sober look at what the problem is, even if the problem might be us.
So that's one reaction.
Here's the other one.
Petulant, self-serving, simple-minded attacks on disobedient pro-leaf voters for being primitive, xenophobic bigots, and stupid to boot, all to evade any reckoning with their own responsibility.
That's from the mainstream.
That's from the establishment media.
That's from the establishment in general.
And so he goes on and says, virtually every action that falls into the former category emphasizes the profound failures of Western establishment factions, meaning the people who took a sober look at why this happened, willing to point the finger at the elites and the people running the country, countries.
Virtually every action that falls into that category emphasizes the profound failures of Western establishment factions.
These institutions have spawned pervasive misery and inequality only to spew condescending scorn at their victims when they object.
So this is a rejection.
So this is people getting a chance to vote against this neoliberal trickle-down supply side, give all the money to the rich, screw over the workers.
Crony capitalism that's been taking place in Western democracies, not just ours.
So when they get a chance to vote against it, they do.
And people, same thing in America.
People are like, what's up with Trump?
They're all racists.
Yeah, there's a lot of people are made vulnerable to racism when they're economically insecure, and they've been lied to by their leaders for decades.
They start looking for people to blame.
He goes on in that article, Glenn Greenwald, and it says in an interview with the In the New Statesman, the political philosopher Michael Sandell also said that the dynamics driving the pro-Brexit sentiment were now dominant throughout the West generally.
I agree.
So get this.
So the Bernie people in the West.
So in America, the Bernie people and a lot of the Trump people feel the same agitation, except the Bernie people diagnose the problem correctly and the solutions, and the Trump people don't.
They diagnose the problem incorrectly, meaning they think it's Mexicans or they think it's Muslims or they think it's whatever.
And then they also misdiagnose the solution.
The solution isn't to give Donald Trump the reins, lower taxes on the wealthy.
And anyway, so that's how in the West, we're upset too, just like the people in the UK who voted to leave.
Goes on in the article, a large constituency of working class voters feel that not only has the economy left them behind, but so has the culture, that the sources of their dignity, the dignity of labor, have been eroded and mocked by developments with globalization,
the rise of finance, the attention that is lavished by parties across the political spectrum on economic and financial elites, the technocratic emphasis of the established political parties.
So that's also happening in England.
That's also happening here.
That working class voters feel that the economy has left them behind and so is their culture.
And that we're all sitting here praising globalization.
And all that means is their wages are going down and their jobs are being shipped to somebody even more poor and more desperate in a poorer country.
And that's why people also want to kneecap the Euro because all the Euro really means to people in the West is that they're going to eventually be being paid the same wages as workers in the East.
You see what I'm saying?
So you have this one big neoliberal governing body called the European Union giving, and every time the elites and the banks crash the economy, they do austerity on people and they keep doing austerity and they keep screwing over workers and they're making them insecure.
And now it's a race to the bottom globally.
And as many people finally get a chance to vote against it, they're doing it.
So yes, is there racism involved?
Yes.
Is there racism of Aldo Trump?
Yes.
But the driving force is economic insecurity that makes people vulnerable to racist demagogues.
By the way, most of the Muslim population voted to stay in the UK voted to stay in Europe, in the European Union.
Most of the people in the city, in London, in the cities, in the urban centers voted to stay in the European Union.
You know, didn't people in rural places?
The people least affected by immigration voted to leave.
The people who have been left out of the economy.
So here we go.
He goes on.
After the market venerating radicalism of Reagan and Thatcher, the center left, Blair and Clinton and various European parties managed to regain political office, but failed to reimagine the mission and purpose of social democracy, which became empty and obsolete.
So you're hearing a lot of people saying that this is all about racism.
Trump's all about racism.
Brexit's about racism.
That is a very simple, overly simplistic view of what's happening.
This is the people standing up.
It's happening in America.
They're just not all going behind Trump because Bernie Sanders showed up.
Bernie Sanders showed up and all the other Democrats wouldn't because they were afraid of the Clinton machine, all of them.
In fact, they're all backing it now.
All the other quote-unquote progressives, Senator Sherrod, how about Elizabeth Warren?
So Bernie did this because nobody else would because people feel this way.
They're disconnected from their government and they want to do something to fight back.
And they're just put, and the Democrats, by the way, keep doing it.
They keep going farther to the right, pushing people into Trump.
They offer no solutions.
They offer no alternative.
Hillary Clinton offering nothing to people.
She has no ideas on how to bridge the gap of income disparity.
She has nothing.
Income inequality.
She has no ideas.
She's for the TP.
She's going to, oh, now she's against it.
She's going to flip.
Believe me.
So that's my first take on Brexit.
That's my first take.
Not all about racism.
It's about the elites in Western democracies screwing over workers repeatedly, repeatedly, extracting wealth from workers and handing it to the upper 5, 10% of people in their countries, suppressing wages, screwing over workers.
And then when their economies go bankrupt, what do they do?
They give austerity.
Look what they're doing to Greece.
Anyway, we could talk about this all day long.
I want to make the point quickly, and we're going to do more videos on this coming up, believe me.
That's not what this is about.
This isn't all about racism.
This is about a revolt against the ruling elite of Western democracies.
They let banks take over our economies.
And whenever that happens, we have income disparity.
We have the Gilded Age.
We have 50% of wage earners in America making less than $30,000, the richest country in the face of the earth.
Don't believe the hype about Brexit.
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So a lot of people have said that Bernie Sanders has pulled Hillary Clinton to the left.
Because if you remember, she was for the TPP.
She called it the gold standard of trade deals.
And we all know that the gold standard of trade deals Should be negotiated in secret.
So she switched.
In October, last October, it was clear to her that not only were Democrats, but lots of Independents and Republicans against the TPP.
Usually that doesn't matter to neoliberals.
They don't care about the will of the people.
They do whatever.
We've showed you the video that it doesn't matter what the people want, that whatever the upper 10% wants, that's what they get.
That's the legislation we get.
We already have had our democracy stolen from us and it's been bought.
So remember last October, Hillary Clinton switched over.
She was like, oh, no, I'm against the TPP.
And Slate magazine ran that headline.
Hillary Clinton comes out against TPP, at least until the Democratic Convention.
Well, guess what?
Not even before the Democratic Convention.
We didn't even have to wait that long.
Didn't have to wait that long.
Because here, guess what?
Oh, from Common Dreams, Clinton's first major betrayal, DNC surrogates, defeat anti-TP measure for the platform.
The Clintons can't, this is from the headline, the Clinton campaign's reversal on the TPP is not just bad policy.
It's terrible politics, says Bernie Sanders' advisor.
What are you talking about, Jimmy?
What happened?
Well, they're having the platform so that you know what the platform is, right?
So the Democrats have a platform, meaning this is what we believe in as Democrats.
And so Bernie Sanders and his surrogates are working like hell to develop a progressive platform for the Democratic Party.
So at least we can point to voters and say this is what we believe.
And then when Hillary Clinton takes a position opposite to that, we can hold her feet to the fire by saying this is what the platform says, and you're going against it.
So at least we have something, some leverage, some place to jump off from and saying this is what we're supposed to believe, because that's a big problem right now about what we're supposed to believe as liberal.
The center Democrats forgot they're supposed to be liberals.
Supposed to be a liberal.
You don't have to be an uber liberal, but you have to supposed to be liberal.
Supposed to be progressive.
It's supposed to be on the side of workers.
So what happened?
So they started, so this platform committee, it's taken a while.
Here's what happened.
So they're starting, they're starting to adopt the platform.
They have meetings.
There's the platform committee, right?
So Bernie Sanders got to put five people on the platform committee.
Hillary Clinton's got to pick six people on the committee.
That makes 11.
And then Debbie Wasserman Schultz got to pick four.
So Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz got to pick the majority of people on the platform committee.
Bernie Sanders got five.
So the neoliberals got 10.
Guess what?
So there was a bill, so they wanted to draft the platform committee in St. Louis.
This is where they're starting in St. Louis.
They wanted to draft an anti-P TPP measure.
Turns out, oh, in St. Louis Friday night, the Clinton allied majority of the committee outvoted the Sanders delegates 10 to 5 to defeat that proposal, citing President Barack Obama's support for the deal.
So they wanted to draft for the platform language that said we're against that TPP.
They voted it down.
And the people who voted it down, meaning every Hillary Ronald Clinton person on that committee and every Debbie Wassherman Schultz person, they voted down.
You know why they said they said, no, Barack Obama's for it.
We don't want to go against the leader of our party.
What's the point in being a freaking Democrat if you're just going to be a Republican anyway?
So that happened.
So that was quick, huh?
That was quick.
10 to 5 on the platform committee.
She didn't even wait till the convention.
They're already flipping on TPP.
And so now when Hillary Clinton flips after the election, she can say, well, our platform isn't against it.
In fact, at 10 to 5, she could say, overwhelming our platform voter.
I'm going with the will of my party.
So she can say that now.
The panel, which is developing the party's platform ahead of next month's Philadelphia, instead, they backed a measure.
This is what they did instead.
They backed a measure for the platform that said there are a diversity of views in the party on the TPP.
So that's what's in the platform.
Not get freaking rid of the TPP.
But no, hey, we acknowledge there are diversity of views in the party on the TPP.
Meaning we have Republican views and we have Democratic views.
And the controlling body of the Democratic Party is in the Republican camp on this.
That's what that means.
But they said, but they also put in their debt, but we must, we affirm that Democrats contend any trade deal, quote, must protect workers and the environment, but they won't do it.
They'll say we must do it, but then when it comes to concrete things to do it, they go, no.
How about we protect them by getting rid of the TPP?
No, can't protect them that way.
So this is interesting, goes on, you know, to take the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, quote, Democrats must offer a clear, coherent alternative that recognizes the failures of the past, meaning NAFTA, that commits to avoiding new failures, the TPP, and that frames out a vision for the future that repudiates both crude nationalism and crude corporatism.
So that's what Hillary Clinton is offering everyone, crude corporatism, and Donald Trump offers crude nationalism.
And John Nichols from the nation is making the point that we can't, those can't be our solutions.
So that's why people are going to Trump.
That's why Brexit happened, because of this kind of corporate bullshit, even inside of what are supposed to be liberal parties.
The people have nowhere to turn.
And they're vulnerable to demagogues.
And Hillary Clinton already, they've already, for all intents and purposes, already flipped on the TPP.
It's already happening.
Didn't even have to wait for the convention.
So all you fucking Hillary supporters, I hope you're happy.
I hope you're happy.
You're getting the shit shoveled down your throat already and it's fucking June.
It's not even July yet.
You're getting a shovel full of shit right down your fucking gullible, stupid, fearful fucking throats.
And I ain't voting for her.
I'm voting for this shit.
You vote for it.
You fucking live with it.
And you fucking take the responsibility for our country going in the shithole and for the Congress flipping to Republican solid for a generation.
You take responsibility for that.
I ain't, because she ain't going to fucking take responsibility for it.
They don't give a shit about working people.
They just left it.
All the working people just voted to upturn their economy in the UK and they still don't give a shit.
Half the country wants to vote for Trump and they still don't give a shit.
Half of her own party can't stand her because of this shit and they still don't give a shit.
Jimmy, that was a lot of swearing.
Apologize for the profanity.
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Now, let's get back to the second half.
Jim Earl is going to start us off.
He's going to kick us off here with a morning remembrance, a fake obituary of a real dead person.
Take it away, Jim.
���� Herbert Ted Doan, last of the Dows.
Herbert Doan, the last family member to lead Dow Chemical, the world's largest producer of plastics, chemicals, and synthetic rubber, is now breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces.
But ultimately, he will never disappear.
Doan apparently died of smothering himself after the Dow Silly putty he was pleasuring himself with became hopelessly stuck in the tracks of the Ziploc bag he was erotically tightening around his head.
Get it?
He was a freak.
Soon after becoming head of Dow Chemical, Doan vowed to increase growth by 10% per year.
Unfortunately, he was talking about tumors.
Founded by his grandfather in 1897 on the principle that there weren't enough three-eyed fish in the world, Dow today leaks even more dioxin than those old batteries in Mary Cheney's vibrator.
Nice.
Over the years, the world's largest producer of fake breasts gave millions of dollars to the Saginaw Valley State University, culminating with the erection of the Doan Science Building, made completely out of defective double D's.
That's a fact.
Google it.
Doan requested his body be used to coat Rosie O'Donnell's new waffle iron.
And that's the end of that.
you you So guess what?
You know, you all know who Corey Lewandowski is, right?
He was the campaign manager for Donald Trump.
He's really just a strong arm, kind of a knucklehead.
Guess what?
He got hired at CNN.
He got fired from the Trump campaign.
CNN hired him like a couple days later.
Couldn't wait.
I don't know if you know Corey Lewandowski has banned anybody who writes a negative story about Donald Trump, they ban them.
They take their press credentials away.
They did it to political.
They did it to the Washington Post.
They take their press credentials away.
You wrote a bad story we don't like.
Yeah, they did it to the Des Moines Register, too.
Although I was thinking that he might have been confused and thought that that outlet was in Illinois and he was still mad at Chicago.
I can't prove that, but I think that might have been what that was about.
I bet you're right.
And he just let he didn't let the Guardian in Scotland recently.
He didn't want to win the golf course.
Yeah, the Guardian.
He didn't want them.
And this guy, so that he does that.
And when you cover his campaign rallies, they put the press in a pen and they don't let him leave.
Like, you know, go do reporting, go talk to people, find stories.
They don't stay there.
And if you don't, they take your credentials away.
I've witnessed it.
I've experienced it.
I was there.
And also, he also assaulted a female reporter for Breitbart.
Remember that?
And he got charged.
But the district attorney didn't press charge, didn't take it to court, but he did get charged.
Well, she was scared too because she started getting death threatening.
Yes, of course.
And that's when Breitbart stood by him, the Trump campaign, and through their, and a bunch of people from Breitbart resigned over this.
And so here's a guy who's physically threatening reporters, barring them from covering.
Guy couldn't be more of a fascist when it comes to the free press of America.
And CNN decided, hey, you know what?
He'd be great on our news shows.
We should have that.
We should pay him money to come talk.
We need his message.
We need to get CNN.
I think it stands for ratings over responsibility.
CNN.
Let me just say this.
At least Trump eventually fired Lewandowski, showing that a racist demagogue has more decency than CNN.
Well, let's not forget, too, this guy has a non-disclosure agreement with Trump.
And it includes like some anti-disparagement.
This is the equivalent, like CNN hiring this guy.
This is like an NFL team hiring a cornerback, but then being like, oh, by the way, you're not allowed to cover anybody on the other team.
But they hire him because he might sell some jerseys.
Oh, and he's a problem in the locker.
That's what this is.
That's exactly what this is.
And Jeff Sooker doesn't care.
So this is how Fair, the Fair blog, they cover media.
That's how they covered it.
They said Lewandowski hire makes journalists choose between defending their profession and embracing its demise.
So here's how the USA Today has a media critic.
And this is what the USA Today media critic had to say about this hiring.
They said that it encapsulates the utter bankruptcy of a practice that is awful, but nevertheless has become a widely accepted part of the scene.
Why CNN thinks it's a good idea to have such designated defenders for any candidate of any political stripe is completely lost on me.
That's from the USA Today media critic saying, why do you bring out a guy who's nothing more than a mouthpiece for a political organization?
He's not going to give you insight.
He's not going to give you honesty.
What he's going to do is give you propaganda and spin.
But that's the new, but CNN thinks it might get a rating.
Yeah.
Rating recognition.
rating over responsibility.
So we all know what they're not really doing news over there.
So the USA Today goes on and says, at least some of the talking heads have deep political resumes and have witnessed many aspects of the campaign process.
But that's hardly the case with Lewandowski.
His background is largely as a Trump guy and not so much as a strategist.
Trump is his own strategist or deep thinker, but as a right-hand man, a bodyman, and an enforcer.
That's who Lewandowski was.
So there is little reason to suspect Lewandowski will add much insight and perspective to the political dialogue, said Rem Ryder USA Today.
So what you're saying also is that he signed a non-disclosure.
So what you're saying is Trump has people signed papers that say, if you ever say anything disparaging about me or the campaign or anything you saw, you will be sued.
And if you sign this paper, you'll agree to that.
We don't even know everything that's in the non-disclosure, right?
We don't know everything.
We know that that's definitely a part of it.
There's an anti-disparagement part of it.
That's definitely committed to that.
Lewandowski signed a non-disclosure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, so here, so now so babe, but great hire, CNN.
Fantastic.
That's great.
Nice work.
Completely.
So here we go.
That's how the USA Today media critic saw it.
I wonder how the CNN media critic saw it.
Do you think the CNN media critic saw it the same way as Rem Ryder of the USA Today?
I wonder if this, let's see.
Here he is.
Brian Setzer from the reliable sources.
Now, let's remember, CNN does a show called Reliable Sources, right?
And the last guy, which is really, they talk about the media.
And so what the last host of that was Howard Kurtz.
Now, Howard Kurtz hosted reliable sources, but he was asked to leave the program after he filed too many stories that were unreliable.
The powers that be are holding the powers that be, that hold the powers that be accountable.
It's like a matrix almost.
It is like a matrix.
So here's Brian.
And here's how he breaks down the hiring of Corey Lewandowski.
Let's watch how he pretends to really think hard about this.
His hiring was instantly controversial.
In fact, I would say he's the most controversial addition to CNN in several years.
Yeah, ever since that, not since they hired Pol Pot back in the mid-80s, I would say this is the look who they're hiring.
It's controversial.
Controversial or an abdication of journalistic responsibility.
Controversial?
You just hired a guy who got arrested, who got arrested for battering a female reporter.
The guy who was a strongman for a fascist who spews racism 24 hours a day.
It's controversial.
That's what he means when he says controversial, Ron.
So here he's got more to say.
For one thing, he's been openly hostile to reporters all throughout the campaign, including some of CNN's own reporters.
And in March, he was accused of battery by then Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields.
She said she was grabbed when she tried to ask Trump a question.
Lewandowski was charged with a misdemeanor, but the state attorney then declined not to prosecute.
There are also that's it.
And by the way, that's it.
He just mentions that.
He doesn't go, so in looking at that, that would be disqualifying.
He doesn't say that.
He was just a little hostile.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Didn't have his coffee.
It's controversial.
I like how he just brought it up.
I mentioned it.
And then he moves.
He doesn't go.
And my conclusion on that is that's disqualifying.
No, he just moves.
He's moving on.
Here we go.
Questions about whether Lewandowski is able to say what he really thinks about Trump.
After all, he's been professing fierce loyalty to Trump even after being fired.
Is this because he signed one of Trump's notoriously restrictive non-disclosure agreements?
Aaron Burnett asked him in his first appearance as a CNN commentator.
So watch what he said.
When I came on board the Trump campaign, like everybody else, I said what I would do is keep confidential information confidential.
And I signed a document to that degree.
And I don't plan on ever breaking that.
Did you sign something like that that said no disparaging?
Let me tell you who I am.
And for those who don't know me, I'm a guy who calls balls and strikes.
I'm going to tell it like it is.
So he's giving you, by the way, he's being paid for that.
This is his first paid appearance on CNN.
He comes on, they ask him a straight question, and he doesn't give him an answer.
He acts like a politician.
He doesn't give them any useful information.
She has to grill him like you would grill a politician.
That's what she's trying to do here.
So the point.
Why is she trying to do that, Jim?
Well, she's trying as best she can.
She's out front.
Let's not forget.
Let's look in the corner there.
Where is he at?
New Hampshire.
What was he doing in New Hampshire today?
He was at a Trump rally.
Oh, okay.
So the point being that he did sign the non-disclosure agreement, right?
And he can't say anything critical because of that agreement.
They just asked him about it.
He just gave a non-answer.
So the thing you're hiring this guy to do, to be the commenter, give you insight into the Trump campaign to tell us what's really going on.
He can't do it because he signed a goddamn illegal document that said he can't.
They want to bring him on anyway, even though he won't even offer them that.
He's not going to tell us who he is.
We're going to hear that.
He's going to tell you who he is.
This is who I am.
This is who I am.
So he just gave a non-answer, which is hysterical.
You just hired him to tell you stuff.
He won't even tell you stuff about himself.
So here is what our media reporter at CNN says about that.
So he didn't directly answer the question about non-disparagement clauses.
Those basically mean that you can't go out and trash talk your old boss.
Now, whether Trump's lawyers would try to enforce it is another question altogether.
But you can see why there's concern about this hiring.
One gossip comm is we can.
So that's it.
So that he didn't go, well, obviously he's not going to tell us the truth.
Obviously, he just didn't give us a non-answer in his first interview with his first question.
And Trump may or may not enforce it.
He's not too happy.
And so he goes, "Well, whether they would enforce it, "we don't know." No, no, no, no, no, no!
And he just moves on.
He just moves on.
Oh, he didn't answer that question.
He provides us zero news value.
What he provides you is click value.
People might tune in to see this maniac, strongman, assault, reporter assaulter.
So in fact, USA Today, our critic, our media critic from USA Today, said, even if Lewandowski wanted to say something critical of his old boss, meaning Donald Trump, and there is zero indication that he would, he would be legally prohibited from doing so.
And this guy, Brian, the media guy, just glossed over that by saying, well, we don't know if Trump's lawyers are going to enforce it.
No, no, it's not if they will enforce it.
It's if that guy's ever going to say anything and he's never going to say anything.
He just proved to you he's not going to say anything.
And he switches it.
Brian switches it into, well, will Trump's lawyers enforce it?
As if he's going to be saying stuff.
He's presupposing that Corey Lewandowski is going to say stuff that the Trump campaign doesn't want him to say.
And that is not going to happen.
So this guy is just full of shit left and right through this.
And he's their media getting right.
CNN, he's their media critic.
They're a reliable source.
You see how he's doing mental gymnastics, right?
To try to justify Donald Trump working for his bosses.
Okay.
We just hired a guy that it's a conflict of interest 101.
But unfortunately, it's my job to tell you about it.
So I just told you.
Moving on.
This hiring raises ethical questions, but with CNN, you know, there's no ethical answers.
Here we go.
And said there's a quote, revolt brewing here.
So he just said that there's been reports that there's been a revolt brewing at CNN in the newsroom over this hiring.
This room at CNN.
So I approached this story the same way I would if I worked at my former employer, the New York Times.
I decided how much of the truth they were going to let me say before I got fired.
That's what he's, that's how we, that's how people in establishment news report.
Not just him.
They all do that.
Hey, how much of this story of the truth of this story can I tell before I start risking being fired?
You know, he really does have that look in his eye like he's wondering about his cable bill.
Like he does have that look where he's like, I hope this works out okay for me.
I haven't crossed the line yet, I don't think.
But that is how it works in the establishment media.
Like even at MSNBC, they fired Ed Schultz for talking a little too loudly against the TPP.
You're not going to hear Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes do extended segments about how bad the TPP is because their boss doesn't want him to.
Okay.
I don't know why I started to say that, but here we go.
I called and emailed more than a dozen sources all around CNN, and I found no signs of a revolt.
Oh my God, you're kidding.
You got you and the hired hack from CNN investigated CNN and they didn't find any problems.
You didn't find any sign of revolt inside your company over this hiring.
First of all, shame on the people who work at your company then, because there should be.
They're goddamn news journalists.
This guy is an anathema to news journalism.
This guy's the antithesis of that.
All this guy is a propaganda and a lie spewer and a race baiter and an assaulter of journalists.
Okay.
He walked into the break room and he's like, you guys doing okay?
And they're like, yeah.
And he's like, all right, I'm done.
Yeah, that's that's it.
He didn't see any sign of revolt.
Organized protest about Lewandowski's hiring.
But I did find some discomfort.
There are some people that are uncomfortable with the hiring.
He found some discomfort.
He found some discomfort by Satan's cock shoved up the hole while CNN's journalistic integrity used to be, as that was a discomfort.
That's nice writing, though.
Here we go.
There might be some awkward moments in the makeup room.
But everyone I asked also.
There might be some awkward moments in the makeup room.
Did you hear what he said?
No, think about that.
That's how he, that's, this is how he's characterizing them hiring him.
Hey, why don't you just hire Himmler?
They're hiring this guy who was the front man for a fascist who's ripping the country apart by appealing to the darkest and, by the way, get arrested for assaulting reporters.
They've already been.
For him to be referring to stuff, it's unbelievable.
But everyone I asked also said they understood the hiring, understood the logic of it.
The reality is that Lewandowski was not hired to disjourn about Trump, and he was not hired to be a reporter.
He was hired to defend and explain and channel Trump's views.
CNN has a roster of anti-Trump conservative commentators and anti-Trump pro-Clinton liberals.
And as someone who looks for balance while watching TV and while hosting this show, I think it makes sense to add another pro-Trump voice.
Hey, we have a lot of anti-Trump voices.
First of all, that's not what you're supposed to be doing the news.
It's not supposed to be, here's a cheerleader and here's another cheerleader.
That's not what the news is.
Hey, we're going to offer balance.
We're going to bring on some people who are anti-Hitler, and then we're going to bring on some people who are pro-Hitler.
Because at reliable sources, we pretend this is how things work in the news, even though you know it doesn't.
We're pretending that neutrality equals objectivity, which it doesn't.
They're pretending that you have to be neutral.
I can't be, I can't make a, you can objectively say this guy shouldn't be anywhere near your newsroom.
That this is the kind of guy you should be exposing, not giving up a platform.
What you're doing.
So according to this is, I love how it's put by the USA Today media critic.
He said, since he would legally, since Lewandowski is legally prohibited from saying anything negative about the Trump campaign, what CNN has essentially done is place a Trump propaganda minister at a hefty salary on its payroll.
That's all they're doing.
They're hiring a Trump propaganda minister and they're giving him money and here's free airtime.
Go have at it, Haas.
Let's not forget it really says something about where the established media is at when someone can use the phrase pro-Clinton liberal and not just start laughing.
That's a great point.
Pro-Clinton liberal, Paul Clinton centrist conservative.
There aren't any pro-liberal Clinton.
They're not liberals.
But so there's the guy.
By the way, the USA Today, let's remember the USA Today referred to this hiring as it encapsulates the utter bankruptcy of a practice that is awful, but nevertheless has become widely accepted part of the scene.
Why CNN thinks it's a good idea to have such designated defenders for any candidate of any political stripe is completely lost on me.
And not only that, the guy doesn't know anything about politics.
So, and then did you say, you see how the guy from Reliable Sources just defends it.
He just finds all the, I think it's good to have another pro, but because what he's here to do is, what is he there to do?
He's there to give spew propaganda in a pro-Trump way.
That's not news.
So that's why half the country thinks science is a conspiracy because this is how you report things.
You pretend like all opinions are equal and there's no right and there's no wrong and there's nobody who's objectively full of shit, which there are.
That's why when you bring out, so this is how they report climate change, right?
They'll bring on a climate scientist and they'll bring on a senator from Tennessee and they go, well, the senator says that there isn't climate change.
The scientist says there is.
Who's right?
I guess we'll never know.
And the word peer review will never be used in this segment.
That's right.
We will never use that term.
And that's what they're doing here.
They're going, well, we're going to have some guys who say what Trump is saying is good.
And we're going to have some people out who say what Trump is saying is bad.
And we let you decide.
That's called spineless, integrity-less journalism.
That's not even journalism.
That's a circus show.
That's not real anything.
It's political theater and it's easy to produce, which is what they want.
I mean, Jeff Zucker made it clear, like in his statement, I think it was like in 2013, he made it clear that's what he wants.
He said, our priority is the shareholders.
So we're going to try to cut corners.
Not that they're necessary.
I mean, they Are paying him a pretty penny, but still, that's easier than real investigative journalism.
Of course.
Of course, that is.
Of course, this is all a dog and pony show.
And who's and who's the chump, the American people?
Because they're not getting news.
They're getting propaganda thrown at them.
That's all this is.
CNN, the home for political operatives who manhandle female reporters who try to ask public figures questions.
A reliable source.
And by the way, Trump doesn't need surrogates when the media covers every goddamn thing he says anyway.
Yeah, they hire this guy.
He can call them whenever he wants.
And he still refers to it as the Clinton News Network.
Yeah.
I like how he says, I found, I found no sign of revolt at CNN.
You know what?
I have found CNN revolting for quite a few years.
I don't know why you.
I don't know about you.
I'm with you.
So let me just say, there's actually a wrap-up from my USA Today guy, which I love.
His hiring was...
Ends it with this.
Oh, from Fair.
This is from Fair, from Fairblog, which I love Fairblog.
This is where I got the idea to do this.
From Fair.
It says, media outlets could stand up to the Trump campaign's attempt to delegitimize and scapegoat journalists.
They could do that.
Or they could do the smart move.
That's what other people are saying CNN did.
CNN's doing the smart move.
It's a smart move.
That's what people are saying.
Or they could do the smart move of rewarding people who thus abuse them with a lucrative spotlight.
It's hard to do both.
Yeah, you can't stand up to the Trump's campaign's attempts to delegitimize and scapegoat journalists and provide them with a lucrative spotlight at the same time.
It's kind of hard to do both.
So I don't know.
I just don't know how people at CNN.
Can you imagine you're going to, when he said there might be some awkward moments in the makeup room?
You know what he's talking about?
Like there might be a woman in the makeup room when Corey Lewandowski's in there, the guy who assaults women.
The campaign who's been filled with misogyny.
He already doesn't answer their question.
We've already seen that on day one.
Maybe there'll be a Mexican in the makeup room.
That'll be awkward.
You know, maybe there'll be a Muslim in the makeup room.
You know, awkward.
You know how it would be awkward, let's say, if we had Hitler on and a Jew was in the makeup room?
That kind of awkwardness.
Yeah, maybe the makeup person is a female and she's just the only person in earshot so he can say the sexually suggestive things he likes to say.
Great job, CNN.
I wonder why nobody fucking watches you and people get their news from YouTube.
Hey, how great was it at Politicon?
That was fun.
That was a great time.
Plus, it's in my hometown of Pasadena.
Thanks to everybody who made it out.
We had a packed house for the show.
Wasn't that fun?
Paul Gilmartin was there, our friend Paul Gilmartin, who does his crazy Republican character.
Whew, that was funny.
Damn.
People were going crazy.
Eddie Pepitone came up.
If you've never seen Eddie Pepitone, you're missing out on one of the great comedic talents in the world.
He was so great.
Jack Cohen was also there.
Our friend, he was the head writer for the Tonight Show for many years, and he's a great comic.
He was there.
Also, Steph Zamorado graced us on the panel.
She was also hilarious.
It was a great panel.
It was a great time.
I was so thrilled to see so many people showed up.
A lot of Bernie supporters showed up, of course.
So thanks to everybody who made it to the Politicon, the Jimmy Dore show at Politicon.
Politicon's a lot of fun.
I enjoy it.
And I'm going to say that the people who go to Politicon, I'm going to say it's about 80-20 liberals or lefties.
It's 80-20 lefty overrides.
I got to say, no doubt.
Even though they brought in Glenn Beck and they brought in Sarah Palin, they brought in Danes D'Souza.
They bring in all these right-wingers.
It's still the lefties that show up.
Anyway, so thanks to everybody who made it to Politicon.
Hope to see you at the next Politicon.
I'll be there.
Okay.
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