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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
I know that ring.
It's the former leader of America, the free world, and current executive producer at Netflix.
Hello, President Obama.
Oh, man, am I ever on a husk?
Well, this isn't like you, Barack.
You're the great moderate compromiser.
Can you be more specific?
I am so hop under the collar, I'm actually thinking of loosening it.
And then rolling up my cuffs to that point precisely halfway between my wrist and my elbow.
I might even make a pointing gesture with my thumb pressed against my index finger.
Wow, you are steamed.
I am positively dismayed, Jimmy.
What about?
Well, get me started.
Men, take a break.
Ladies, we got to talk.
Got to get more involved.
We need more women in politics.
Not progressive women, because they're not pure and sanctified by the DMC, but the bread and butter of the Democratic Party resistance, old white women with money.
Wow.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I'm not letting the guys off easy here either.
Ladies, take a break.
Men, you've been really getting on my nerves lately.
Guys, we got to get our stuff together.
You're violent.
Channel that pent-up violence and bullying into foreign policy.
Now, I'm not letting the women off too easily either.
Men, take a break.
Ladies?
Why do you always go to restroom and groups?
And guys, don't play target practice with those Euro cakes.
Anybody see this?
What's that about?
Tip your waitress.
That's good of you to say that, Barack.
I mean, you know, we're just not handling our business.
But what exactly does that mean, particularly after you dropped 26,000 bombs on civilians in one year?
It means we men got to take care of our business.
And ladies, I'm not leaving you out on this.
Men, take a break.
Ladies, you got to get more involved in politics.
You mean like Cynthia Nixon?
Oh.
Alexandria Casio-Cortez?
Oh, heck no.
And what kind of name is that anyway?
Is that a terrorist name?
Is she even from America?
Sounds Russian to me.
Lindsey Fagan.
Fagan, what is this?
Oliver Twist?
Zephyr Teach Out?
Who comes up with these names?
Sounds like an express trained to boredom.
Who likes teachers?
Sarah Smith.
Too young.
No experience.
Take name.
Corey Bush.
Now you're talking, Jimmy.
We need more moderate centrists from the Bush family running for office.
Experience is everything.
She's not related to George Bush.
Then shit canner.
Look, all I'm saying is it's time for new blood, fresh faces, and brand new ideas.
Do Feinstein, Pelosi, and Sue Collins mean anything to you?
Well, you're going to be hearing a lot more from these shiny new faces in the upcoming weeks, I promise you.
Ladies, take a break.
Guys, these women going through toilet paper.
What are they doing, eating it?
Okay, I just got the light.
Time for a big closer.
I can't believe how much money I have.
There's always so much you could eat.
There's always so big a house you can have.
I actually said that the other day.
I'm here all week.
All year and the rest of your life.
Give your waitresses the very minimum they need to survive.
It's the least you can do.
I bet Obama.
Yeah.
I want to go for a free day.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
The show for.
The kind of people that are.
Commands maybe on Tearing Down Our Nation.
It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to you, KW.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Dore show.
We got a live show coming up July 27th at Burbick.
I think it's already sold out.
Sorry, it's already sold out.
We have another show in October.
Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for all the live shows.
And thanks to everybody in Chicago at our sold-out Thalya Hall show.
What a fantastic.
There's nothing like a theater with 600 progressives, real progressives, in a room together.
Oh my God, that was so much fun.
Thanks to everybody who came out to that show.
Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
You know, I got to tell you, if I ever wanted to be around a bunch of godless fucks, I wouldn't go to an atheist convention.
You know where I would go?
I'd go to the national prayer breakfast.
You know, Donald Trump and I have something in common.
We don't have a lot in common, but the one thing we have in common is that we're both surprised how many people care about what he thinks.
Hey, did you hear about Elon Musk?
In case you missed it, so societal parasite Elon Musk called one of the Ty Cave rescuers a pedophile.
You know, those kids got in the cave.
Yeah, so one of the rescuers, Elon Musk, called a pedophile, all because he dared criticize Musk's hair-brained idea to send a submarine into a cave with more hairpin turns than Chris Christie's colon.
But rich people will save us.
Keep that in mind.
By the way, if you didn't know, Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Elon Musk's.
Hey, Eric Holder came out and said calls to abolish ICE are a gift to Republicans.
That's funny.
I always thought not prosecuting Wall Street was a gift to Republicans.
I wrote that show.
Breaking new study links, getting hit as a child to dislike of getting hit as an adult.
Hey, a Joe Biden thinking he's running for president.
That is bound to energize the Democratic base, which at this moment consists of both my dead grandmothers and a prison guard.
And did you hear Eric Holder, former Attorney General Eric Holder, says he's considering running for president?
Apparently, there are some new Wall Street crimes he hasn't ignored yet.
Come on.
I just came back from Washington, D.C., where I was interviewing.
I was filling in for Ed Schultz on this series of debates for RT.
And I was interviewing this guy, George Galloway, who's a former MP in the UK, and he's really great.
I like that guy a lot.
Anyway, he says the word aluminum.
You know how they say it?
Aluminium?
Yes.
Aluminium.
And any country that adds a fifth syllable to aluminum doesn't deserve a legitimate heir to the throne.
So you know Jim Jordan wants to be speaker, Republican.
Of course, his big scandal is he turned a blind eye to sexual abuse while he was at Ohio State.
Here's why Jim Jordan should be speaker.
Because if the pussy grabber can't serve and the deranged homophobe can't fulfill his duties, then the pedophile protector can step in and make America great again.
I mean, Jim Jordan really wants to be speaker, and who better to be speaker than a guy who didn't speak up?
Hey, in honor of Ariana Huffington's birthday, don't forget to not pay your writers.
What's coming up on this week's show?
Why the Russian indictments will never ever be proven.
Plus, Julian Assange's eminent prosecution threatens everyone's freedom of speech, says Glenn Greenwald.
Plus, Regiment Netanyahu grabs about controlling Trump, and the media is silent.
Plus, we got phone calls from Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and Rick Perry.
Plus, a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore show.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Jimmy Dore's show.
I'm here with Steph Semarado and Ron Placone.
I'm miserable.
Hello.
So, you know how MSNBC propped up Trump and then wagged their finger at Susan Sarandon?
You know how Chris Hayes showed Trump's empty podium for entire shows for an hour at a clip, didn't cover Bernie Sanders because he was told not to and he obeyed.
You know how they did that?
Well, that's because they're not progressives, and people like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow are willing to sell their soul for $30,000 a day to a corporation that's working against progressives.
Why do I say this?
Well, this is from Lee Fang.
MSNBC ignored Ocasio-Cortez's campaign, but MSNBC's parent company made a late donation to her opponent.
No kidding.
I bet this will be the lead story on I almost said Russia.
I mean, Rachel, Rachel, tonight.
I should just call her Russia tonight.
Yeah, right.
MSNBC missed the biggest left-wing congressional primary upset in a generation.
The network failed to provide any news coverage of the populist progressive campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez against the Trench moderate incumbent, Representative Joe Crowley.
Not everyone at Rockefeller Center, however, failed to see the writing on the wall.
Just as Crowley scrambled a mid-late campaign internal poll showing Ocasio-Cortez gaining ground, MSNBC's parent company donated to the incumbent's bid to save his seat.
MSNBC donated to Joe Crowley to try to screw over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
That's who MSNBC is.
You lean forward so far, you smack your head on a beam and then you screw over progressives and then you gaslight them about it.
And they gave them money late in the game, hinting that maybe they were worried about an upset happening.
So maybe Jimmy Hayes.
Maybe they knew who she was.
I wonder if Joy Reed knows about this.
I wonder if she found out about it.
NBC Universal donated three grand to Crowley through his political action committee just 13 days before the June 26th primary.
The PAC donation was listed on Crowley's second quarter campaign disclosure, which was filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday evening.
Look at that.
Yeah, that's enough time for a crash course.
Look at that.
NBC Universal also retained Crowley's brother, John Sean Crowley, as a lobbyist.
It's a big fucking game, baby, and you ain't part of it.
Big club.
Big club.
You and I ain't in it.
And I don't want to be in that goddamn club.
I don't want to be part of that club.
I don't want to be the type of person that Rachel Maddow wants to have a conversation with.
Well, she chooses her friends carefully, you know, like Roger A. Roger Ailes.
He didn't make her puke.
No, right.
He gave her advice how to run her career, and she took it and calls him a friend.
And still to this day, calls him a friend.
Roger Ailes.
That's who Rachel Maddow is.
She's not your friend.
She's working against you, just like MSNBC is working against you.
And if anybody tells you the truth about the war, they'll fire their ass in a second.
If Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes ever fucking gets any integrity and says the truth about what's going on overseas or in a war or about progressive politicians, their ass will be fired and out the door.
And how do you know Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are corrupt to the bone?
That they haven't been fired.
Anybody with integrity at MSNBC gets the fucking door.
Phil Donahue.
Ashley Banfield, Jesse Ventura, Ed Schultz, Jank Uger.
They all got their ass handed to them.
Jenk left because he had the number one show in his time slot.
They wanted to move him to the weekend.
You know, this also makes me think about how NBC Universal gave us Donald Trump.
That's correct.
They gave us the approach.
They gave him the game.
They gave us the apprentice.
They gave us the game show host.
Holy shit.
But it's, I would say Susan Sarandon and Jill Stein's fault.
Or someone else with someone else with even less money and less power.
Probably their probably their faults.
How big guts do you have when you got to wag your finger at the powerless for the problems of our country?
You have zero guts.
You have zero integrity.
And that's why our show's popular, because I'm not fucking bought by these assholes like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, which is why I can tell you the truth about the war, which is why they never will.
Which is why they'll never tell you why Phil Donahue was fired.
Well, they'll never tell you why Chris, why Ed Schultz was fired.
They'll never tell you.
They'll never bring it up because they don't have any fucking integrity because they'll take 30 grand a day.
I would also like to take 30 grand a day, but I'm not being offered that.
So I get to tell you the truth.
Well, here's a fun fact, too.
You know who was going door to door for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
Susan Saranda.
Susan Saranda.
You know who NBC was giving money to?
Crowley.
Gee, wonder why they picked that scapegoat.
I wonder if Chris Hayes is going to have on the head of MSNBC and wag his finger at them for donating to Crowley and undermining the progressive.
Make him look him in the eyes.
Hey, Chris, maybe, why don't you make someone look you in the eye about not covering Bernie Sanders?
Why don't Chris Hayes do that?
Because Chris Hayes is a fucking piece of it who's got no integrity, even though he's a nerd.
Even though he's a nerd, he makes $30,000 a day to fuck you over.
Just because you're a nerd doesn't mean you're a good person or you have integrity.
And Chris Hayes has neither of those things.
And he lacks balls.
Because it takes balls to have integrity.
It takes balls to tell the truth.
It takes balls to fucking stand up to corporate America.
And he ain't doing it fucking ever.
You know who is me.
I have balls.
And if I ever see fucking Chris Hayes again, I'm going to tackle him and steal his $5,000 suit.
What fresh hell is this?
Senator Sanders, it's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, hello, Jim.
How are you?
What's shaking in Pasadena?
Not a whole lot, Senator.
You know, I've been traveling a lot with the Jimmy Dore show, actually.
Oh, yeah.
I hear that's going great.
Congratulations, honestly.
Thanks.
Hey, thanks, Senator.
You should join us for one of our live shows.
I'd love to.
When's the next time you guys are going to be in Washington, D.C.?
I was just there.
I just got home today from Washington, D.C. Ah, fuck me.
I'm sorry, I forgot to call.
Oh, well, next time.
Say, I'm actually going to be in Pasadena in a few weeks for a thing.
Let me ask you a question.
Shoot.
Where is your favorite place to get eggs?
Honestly, my favorite place is my house.
No one makes eggs as good as I do, especially omelets or scrambled.
There isn't a place to get it.
So, as far as a diner or something, is there a good place to go?
I'm not going to come over to your house and have you make me eggs.
That's not going to happen.
I can't, you know, I really can't even.
Corn, beef, and eggs.
Where would you go for that in the Pasadena area?
DuPars.
Who?
It's called DuPars.
It's on Lake.
DuPars.
All right.
All right.
Fair enough.
I'll go there.
Anywho, I assume you didn't call just to shoot the shit about eggs.
No, no, I actually wanted to ask you about your rallies with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Kansas this week.
Ah, yes, of course.
Well, we drummed up a lot of support for Brent Welder, who was running for the third district over there.
A lot of people showed up.
We shared our progressive message, and it was well received.
All in all, a very good deal over there.
What do you think of her?
Oh, Alexandria?
Ah, she's fantastic.
She's the Rosario Dawson of economic justice.
What's not the like?
Okay.
She's young.
She's vital.
She's energized.
Her brand of progressive politics is really connecting with people.
And perhaps most importantly, she's freaking out the Republicans and the Centrist Democrats.
That's when you know you have a good egg, so to speak.
Agree, but once she joins Congress, do you worry that she, a complete newcomer, will eclipse you as the face of the Democratic socialist agenda?
Look, James, I'd be lying to you if I were to say that I am a man without ego altogether.
I don't think such a beast exists.
However, I can say that I do care more about improving the lives of Americans than my own position in that particular movement.
I see.
And let's be honest, I carry a lot of baggage now.
Centrist Democrats are wary of me.
Hillary supporters fucking hate me.
Hate me with the passion of a thousand sons.
These monsters try to smear socialism itself as a white braw thing.
Right.
Anyway, my point is, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing for the face of the movement to now be a young woman of color.
I see your point, Bernie.
Now, don't get me wrong.
They'll still go after her.
And there will be fake pieces that say young man are drawn to the movement because she's pretty.
Mark my words.
But by the time they're reduced to arguments like that, everyone will have seen them for the embitted, squawking parmigans that they are.
And hopefully they will leave the political sphere forever and do what they're meant to do.
Ask to speak to the manager at Starbucks.
Let's hope.
And the rest of us can connect with the American voter on issues that pertain to them without these sacks getting in the way.
And with Alexandria's the face of it, maybe I can get away with being a little more off-the-cuff, honest, say what I really mean.
Like what?
Well, I don't know, for example, they criminally cheated me out of the primaries in 2016.
And then when they lose, they go and blame a whole other foreign country.
And in order for me to run as a Democrat, I got to pretend that I believe that horse shit.
So I want to, we were away for the weekend and we haven't covered this story that everyone else has already covered.
But here we go.
Mueller indicts 12 Russians, which is funny to indict 12 Russians.
How about you indict 12 more people who will never see the inside of a courtroom?
Mueller indicts 12 Russians for DNC hacking as Trump Putin Summit looms.
This is what it says.
This is from Politico.
It says, Rosenstein said the Russians stole and released Democratic documents after planting malicious computer codes in the network of the Democratic National Committee, as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Now, here's the problem with that.
The last I heard, and I haven't heard anything counter to this, the DNC never allowed the FBI nor the Department of Homeland Security to inspect their servers.
Have you heard anything contrary to that, Steph?
How about you, Ron?
Have you heard anything contrary to that?
I've been looking.
If they have finally looked at their server, please send me a link to that story because I can't find anything that says they have.
So I don't know how you could have any confidence in anything that these people are saying when the last, the information we have is they've never inspected their servers.
And the company that they had a private company, the DNC hired a private company called Krowdstake, which is a very shady company to do this.
So this is not how you do an investigation.
So it's all shady right off the top, off the bat.
And this is not defending Trump.
This is, again, we should be talking about how to get people livable wages, how to get 30 million Americans who don't have health care, how to get clean water and flint, how to break up the banks, how to end the wars.
Instead, we're talking about this because the system in the establishment doesn't want you to talk about the system and the establishment that gave us Donald Trump.
Remember, the reason why we have Donald Trump is because Hillary Clinton gets other minions in the press to prop up Donald Trump.
That's called the Pied Piper strategy.
Those are the people who are responsible.
Russia had much less to do.
We have audiotape of Les Moonves, the head of CBS, saying Trump's bad for America, but he's great for CBS profits.
And they're all laughing about it.
So again, this is all to me.
This is all distraction from the real things we're supposed to be talking about that the establishment and the system don't want you talking about.
And you have to be skeptical of the intelligence community.
If you're not skeptical of the intelligence community, then you're a dupe and a pawn because they're liars.
And what they did with Iraq, they do all the time.
They're torturers, war criminals.
That's who the CIA is.
Okay.
So this is from CNBC.
CNBC says the indictment lodged by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., accuses the Russian spies of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and of releasing emails attained from that cyber snooping with a goal of influencing the election.
Now, let's say that that's true.
Let's just say that's true.
That's what intelligence agencies do.
That's what we do.
That's why we had a tap on Angela Merkel's phone.
Well, maybe let me go ahead, Ron.
Well, I was just going to add, and maybe if they weren't trying to actively cheat a candidate, the content in them wouldn't have been so outrageous.
Right.
So again, we have to remember what they're accused of doing is revealing the truth about what was really going on.
And as Ron just pointed out, that they were cheating the progressive in that campaign.
That was the big, that was one of the big things.
So by the way, Rosenstein added that the indictment does not allege that any U.S. citizen committed a crime, nor that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.
That's immediately.
Buried a few paragraphs down.
Again.
Hey, is Russia trying to hack things in America?
Yeah, I'm sure of it.
Oh, do you think the U.S. is trying to hack any other country?
I'm sure of it.
I'm sure of it.
Of course, that's...
So, Roses, so there you go.
The Russians, well, this is new.
This is new in the indictment.
The Russians also illegally downloaded data related to some 500,000 voters from a state database.
He charged.
Now, I haven't seen any evidence that that happened.
Have you, Ron?
No.
Have you said?
No.
So that's in an indictment.
I mean, again, I don't know what the evidence is for that.
If that happened, that they downloaded data related to 500,000,000 voters from a state database.
And then what did they do with that data?
They looked at it and maybe made paper airplanes and maybe it influenced a meme or two.
While many of the indictments' details confirmed previous news reports and other assessments, it dramatically shifts the context from Trump's up shifts the context for Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin, whom U.S. intelligence services have concluded was behind the 2016 election interference.
While many of the indictments' details, this is before Trump had his Putin meeting in Helsinki, this report from Politico came out.
It dramatically shifts the context for Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin.
So when I read that, and when I heard about this indictment on the eve of Trump's meeting in Helsinki with Putin, I immediately thought of this.
When Chuck Schumer went on Rachel Maddow last year and said this.
On the intelligence community, this was his tweet just a little while ago tonight.
You see the scare quotes there?
The intelligence briefing on so-called Russian hacking was delayed until Friday.
Perhaps more time needed to build a case.
Very strange.
We're actually told, intelligence sources tell NBC News since this tweet has been posted that actually this intelligence briefing for the president-elect was always planned for Friday.
It hasn't been delayed.
He's taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community.
take on the intelligence community they have six ways from sunday get back so even for practical suppose
He should be afraid of them, the NSA, because they have six ways to Sunday to get back at you.
And that's when I was like, well, why would he drop this?
By the way, this indictment is of people in the Russian mill, people who are never going to see the inside of a courtroom, so will never be able to prove these charges or not or disprove these charges.
Kind of interesting, huh?
That they would do it on the eve of Trump's Helsinki meeting.
And I thought about what he said.
They have six ways to Sunday to mess with you.
Sounds like this is sabotaging Trump's meeting with Putin.
And it did.
Does anyone else remember him saying that?
Does anybody else remember that that should be a super huge deal?
And it's not.
And this is not defending Trump, goddamn it.
This is the establishment distracting you once again.
And by the way, and this indictment, it's just, I'm so fucking sick of this.
Hillary Clinton lost the campaign because she didn't go to Wisconsin.
She didn't go to Michigan because Hillary Clinton is repulsive to people.
And when she campaigns, her numbers go down.
Hillary Clinton has never in the history of Hillary Clinton been able to take poll numbers and make them go up.
When she campaigns, they go down.
That's why she lost.
I thought it was Bernie Sanders.
I thought it was sexism.
I thought it was Bernie Brose.
I thought it was Susan Sarandon.
I thought it was me.
I thought it was the Pope.
But no, it's Russia.
Russia overcame a $2 billion campaign.
Let's remember how kind of ridiculous this all is.
It had some impact.
But it does beg the question, how is it that these Russian operatives knew to focus on purple states like Michigan and Wisconsin, and your campaign didn't?
And there's nothing in these indictments that have anything to do with collusion with members.
That was the big thing.
It was collusion with Trump.
It was Trump and Russia and WikiLeaks all working together.
There's nothing in this indictment that says anything about that.
And in fact, I'll show it to you again.
Here's what Rosenstein says.
This indictment does not allege that any U.S. citizen committed a crime, nor that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result.
Well, let's spend every waking second of the day then pretending like this is Pearl.
Oh, by the way, they're saying this is an act of war.
It's Pearl Harbor.
This is normal shit.
And I'm going to have Bill Binney on later, and I'm going to ask him that.
Jimmy, remember a simpler time when it was only the right that used these excessive nationalistic arguments of Europe?
You're treasonous.
You're a traitor to the country.
Remember when only the right did that?
Yes, I do remember that.
Remember, do you remember?
This is to Russia.
This is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe.
After all, you don't call Russia our number one enemy unless you're still stuck in a Cold War mind war.
Governor Romney is mired in a Cold War mindset.
He acts like he thinks the Cold War is still on.
He's even blurted out the preposterous notion that Russia is our number one political, geopolitical foe.
It's somewhat dated to be looking backwards.
The statements that Governor Romney makes show little understanding of what is actually going on in the 21st century.
It's a really curious statement, given that the Cold War has been over for some time.
A throwback to the Cold War.
I mean, we work with Russia all the time.
He's not a dumb man, but he said something that was clearly dumb.
It's an antiquated worldview.
Is he trying to play Ronald Reagan here or what?
What's he up to?
The 1980s are now calling mass for their foreign policy back.
If you don't remember thinking much about Russia prior to 2016 and now you think about it a lot more, that's your first clue that you've been propagandized.
It's the same country it was in 2015.
The threat it poses hasn't changed, only the narrative has.
Oh, and our military budget.
The same goddamn country it was.
And if you really want something, I'm going to do a video about this because this is a very interesting story.
If you want to know who really influences our country's elections and our country's policies, leaked Netanyahu tape, we made Trump nix the Iran deal.
That's not going to, no one's talking about that.
No one will talk about that.
No one will talk about the nine businesses that Trump opened up in Saudi Arabia during the campaign.
No one will talk about that.
No one will talk about this.
No one will talk about the fact that General Flynn, who got indicted for lying to the lying about talking with Russians, he was talking with Russians at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu.
He was doing the bidding of the freaking Israel.
Nope, that's not.
This is overwhelming to me.
I can't even watch the news or it's hard for me to watch the news or read the news Or even talk to people.
This is what it must have felt like when Edward Armuro would end every show saying good night and good luck during the McCarthyism Red Scare.
And this is the establishment, and this is working so well because the elite in the Republican Party also hate Donald Trump.
So you have guys like warmongers like Bill Crystal and Max Boot and Kissinger and all those Cretans going along with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Rachel Maddow.
So that's why this is working perfectly.
And now there's pushback from the GOP.
They're starting to do their own McCarthyism.
Here it comes.
This is the real McCarthyism, though, because they're calling people communists.
What the Democrats and the left and the establishment's doing right now, they're just saying they're bad because they're Russia because of Putin.
They're not saying communists, because guess what?
They're not communists.
Anyway, this is from the Hill GOP lawmaker accuses ex-CIA chief of being a communist after he calls Trump pooting Putin meeting treasonous.
And this is, I love this tweet.
In a show of bipartisanship, the GOP is now using the Neo-McCarthyite attack that liberals have been utilizing for almost two years.
So now it's going to.
I can't believe they've been waiting this long to do this.
This is what the right wing used to do to Democrats all the time and lefties.
Accuse them of being communists, accusing them of undermining our way of life, accusing them not being capitalists, accusing them of wanting to infiltrate all that stuff.
And here's one more thing.
Michael Tracy tweeted out: it's not surprising that Putin would express a preference.
So Putin expressed in 2012 that he was in favor of Obama becoming president.
He expressed a preference for Obama over Romney, but nobody noticed because there wasn't a national mania at the time.
Here it is.
This is from foreign policy.
This is from foreignpolicy.com.
Vladimir Putin was the only foreign leader mentioned by name in Romney's convention speech.
So it makes sense that he takes the U.S. race a bit personally, meaning Putin.
The Russian president suggested an interview with the satellite network RT that Obama would probably be easier to work with than the candidate who was, who has described his country as America's number one geopolitical foe.
Is it possible to find a solution to the problem if current President Obama is re-elected for a second term?
Theoretically, yes, Putin said.
He continued, My feeling is that he is a very honest man and that he sincerely wants to make many good changes.
But can he do it?
Will they let him do it?
That's Putin saying he'd rather have Obama be president.
Where's all the gay memes between Obama having sex with Putin?
Whatever.
How come they didn't do that?
Because there wasn't, because Hillary Clinton hadn't yet lost to a game show host.
That's why.
And we were still working with the Russians.
By the way, are there still McDonald's in Russia?
Are there still KFC in Russia?
Are they still doing business in Russia?
Are there still hotels?
Are there still Hyatts and stuff?
And idiots.
So here we are.
I'll throw it over to our panel.
Any comments on that?
I mean, how come I've never seen this anywhere except Michael Tracy's feed?
Nobody contracted those memes from us.
No, it's, I'm.
I was off the grid when all this went on like Monday, Tuesday.
And I, what little I saw on social media, I kind of thought to myself, I could not have picked a better day this year to have been off the grid and just keep it away for a day.
This is depressing.
And it's getting worse.
It's not getting better.
And they'll just never have to own up to that we have Trump because our system failed us.
And 30 million Americans still don't have health care.
Half the country's poor or low income.
63% of Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency.
Those are the problems America has.
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Wow, looks like we got Chris Christie on the phone.
Hello.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Do the research.
Did you even read what I posted?
Google it.
It's all there.
Hi, former governor.
What's this all about now?
People tried to take away my official governor of Jersey Twitter account.
That's what it's all about, Alfie.
And they hate.
It's been six months since you left office.
Why are you still posting as the governor of New Jersey?
Jersey, you snowflake.
Jersey.
Nobody says new to my face.
You understand?
I don't put up with that crap from whiny snowflakes like you, Capricio.
Ah, geez, now you gotta be all flustered.
Where's my Xeradix?
I got the vapors.
Panic attack, panic attack.
Cyrus, get my inhaler.
But you're not the governor of New Jersey anymore.
Will you stop saying that?
I don't want the kids to hear.
They keep acting.
Hey, you miserable sack of shit.
Where are we going to go back to a private public beach again and baste in the sun like bodies washed up from the Hudson River?
They ask.
Your kids keep asking you about the beach.
Yeah, and I don't got the heart to tell them to shut the ugly yaps, little crap buckets.
Your family still thinks you're governor?
Of course they do.
They don't know shit from Shinola.
All they do is watch video games all day and throw hamsters against the wall of the playroom.
Sooner or later, they're going to find out, though.
And ooh, boy, it's going to be bad.
That's why I need that official new.
I mean, Jersey governor's Twitter handle.
It's all I got right now.
But aren't you a regular contributor at ABC News?
Like I said, it's all I got right now.
You don't listen to social, do you?
I might as well be on the Dumont network.
Nobody watches ABC except Blue Hairs and the Mentally Ill.
But you can't keep that Twitter handle indefinitely.
That's what you think.
I'm going to clutch onto that dick title than my last nacho supreme.
But don't you think that's confusing to the people of New Jersey?
You ever been to Jersey?
Many times.
Gates closed.
Besides, that scumbag Phil Murphy isn't fit to fill my corrective shoes.
What do you got against Governor Murphy?
He wants to legalize Pot.
Everybody knows Pot's a gateway drug to feeling better.
Then how do you suggest Americans deal with their chronic pain, Chris?
There are many possible choices, such as eating, consuming food, eating lots of food, ingested food, more reading, and last but not least, showing down like it's like a fucking hyena.
Personally, I'm partial to monkey brains.
And no, it is not illegal as long as you have your own food zoo.
What's a f-What's a f-What?
What's a food zoo?
It's a lot like a regular zoo.
Only you get to eat the womb.
I like mine breaded.
Matter of fact, I like my bread breaded.
Got a problem with that tough guy?
I bet you ain't have eaten a wombag, you pussy.
Excuse me.
I got a zebra in my throat.
Cyrus, where's my bald eagle juice?
So Julian Assange is in danger.
Now, before we get into it, Steve, how do you feel about Julian Assange?
I mean, do you have positive feelings towards him?
Generally positive, but I don't know enough to talk about him in any kind of detail.
I know he had all those leaks before, and he's in.
Is he still in Ecuador?
Yeah, Ecuadorian embassy.
Embassy.
Yeah, but they're getting rid of him right now because the president of Ecuador just flew to Britain to have a meeting over human rights or something.
And of course, it's to make sure that they can take him.
And then he went to Spain.
And the reason why they took Julian Assange's internet away from him was because he was telling the truth about what was happening in Catalonia.
Remember when they wanted their independence and they had a vote for it and the cops went and beat the shit out of people because they were voting.
Right.
You saw that, right?
I saw that.
I just want to quote again, Chris Hedges, gosh, he's such an education.
He's going to be on the show, by the way.
Every time I read him, and so the one line that just responds to what you're saying is he says, the persecution of Assange is part of a broad assault against anti-capitalists and anti-imperialist news organizations.
That is.
So here, Glenn Greenwald Hedges, you know, Chris.
Glenn Greenwald wrote this today.
Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum from Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK.
What comes next?
So inside this article, he says he makes the point that this is really going to set a dangerous precedent that you start prosecuting journalism and news organizations, which is what WikiLeaks is.
And WikiLeaks, by the way, has never been accused of printing anything that's false ever.
Well, the Obama administration was eager to prosecute Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents.
But ultimately, they concluded that there was no way to do so without either also prosecuting newspapers such as the New York Times and The Guardian, which also published the same documents, or create precedents that would enable the criminal prosecution of media outlets in the future.
So they wanted to prosecute Assange, but they knew if they did that, it would can of worms.
They'd have to start prosecuting other newspapers and it would be, it would get ugly and it would wreck our First Amendment.
Indeed, it is technically a crime under U.S. law for anyone, including a media outlet, to publish certain types of classified information.
Under U.S. law, for instance, it was a felony for the Washington Post's David Ignatius to report on the contents of telephone calls intercepted by the NSA.
That's how we found out about Flynn.
Well, here, the intercepted by the NSA between then National Security Advisor nominee Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislak.
Even though such reporting was clearly in the public interest, since it proved Flynn lied when he denied such contact.
So that was still illegal, technically illegal, when David Ignatius did that for the Washington Post.
That was illegal.
They didn't prosecute him.
But the U.S. Justice Department has never wanted to indict and prosecute anyone for the crime of publishing such material, contenting themselves instead to prosecuting the government sources who leaked it.
So they prosecute leakers, but they don't prosecute publishers.
Right?
So if you saw the movie The Post, the big thing was the publisher was afraid they were going to be prosecuted, but they weren't because then all the other papers went along with them and you can't prosecute every paper in the United States.
That's according to that movie, The Post.
The real hero, by the way, of that movie was Daniel Ellsberg, which of course the fucking Hollywood people overlooked.
Their reluctance has been due.
So the reluctance of the Justice Department to prosecute publishers is for two reasons.
First, media outlets would argue that any attempts to criminalize the mere publication of classified or stolen documents is barred by the press freedom guarantee of the First Amendment, a proposition the Department of Justice has never wanted to test.
The second thing is no Department of Justice has wanted as part of its legacy the creation of a precedent that allows the United States government to criminally prosecute journalists and media outlets for reporting classified documents.
So those are the two reasons.
The Department of Justice doesn't want to blow up the First Amendment because they know they would be going against that.
And they don't want to be seen in history as the people doing that, making prosecuting journalists a normal thing in the United States.
So that's why, according to Glenn, this is why this hasn't happened.
But during the Obama years, it was a mainstream view among media outlets that prosecuting Assange would be a serious danger to press freedoms.
So everybody, during when Obama was president, everybody accepted that prosecuting him would be a dangerous precedent.
Even the Washington Post editorial page, which vehemently condemned WikiLeaks, warned in 2010 that any such prosecution would criminalize the exchange of information and put at risk all media outlets.
When Pompeo and Sessions last year issued their threats to prosecute Assange, former Obama Department of Justice spokesperson Matthew Miller insisted that no such prosecution could ever even succeed.
And here he is on Twitter, and he says it, so Jim Scudo said breaking CIA director Pompeo, it's time to call out WikiLeaks for what it is, a non-state hostile intelligence service embedded by the Russians.
And Glenn says Pompeo also creepily vowed to end the use of free speech values by Assange and his colleagues.
How?
Matthew Miller.
So here's that guy he said from Obama's Department of Justice.
He chimes in and says, it is hollow.
Department of Justice knows it can't win a case against someone just for publishing secrets, which is all Julian Assange ever did, was publish government secrets that were given to him.
He didn't do the hacking.
He didn't do the leaking.
He didn't do anything.
He's the receiver of information, just like the Washington Post was and the New York Times was when they got the Pentagon papers and they published those.
They received documents.
They didn't procure them.
They didn't encourage anybody to break the law.
They didn't do anything.
So that's what they're trying to get Julian Assange on with Chelsea Manning.
They were trying to get Chelsea Manning.
Why they tortured Chelsea Manning was to get Chelsea to say that Julian Assange manipulated Chelsea into giving and was involved before the materials were leaked.
That's what they were trying to get Chelsea to do because then they can prosecute him for that because then he's involved in a conspiracy to commit a crime against the United States.
But if he's not involved with that and all he does is receive it and publish it, that's what happens.
That's what happens.
So there's a little bit more to this, and then we'll talk about it.
Assange, his lawyers and his supporters always said that he would immediately board a plane to Stockholm if he were guaranteed that doing so would not be used to extradite him to the United States.
And for years, offered to be questioned by Swedish investigators inside the embassy in London.
Something Swedish prosecutors only did years later, citing those facts, the United Nations panel ruled in 2016 that the actions of the UK government constituted arbitrary detention and a violation of Assange's fundamental human rights.
That's a United Nations panel ruled that about Julian Assange.
And here's the bigger point.
Here's the bigger point.
And Glenn makes it, he did it on Twitter, so I'll read it to you.
He says, one of the key bottom lines as Ecuador prepares to withdraw asylum from Assange and hand him over to the UK, after which the Trump Department of Justice is highly likely, as Sessions and Pompeo vowed, to demand his extradition to stand trial in the U.S. for publishing documents.
And he links to a story that he wrote in the intercept.
And here it is.
And here's the important part.
I'll read this to you.
We will be faced with the bizarre spectacle of the U.S. journalists who have spent the last two years melodramatically expressing grave concern over press freedom due to insulting tweets from Donald Trump about Wolf Blitzer and Chuck Todd or his mean treatment of Jim Acosta, possibly cheering.
So we're going to see those journalists possibly cheering for a precedent that would be the gravest press freedom threat in decades.
That precedent would be the one that could easily be used to put them in prison cell alongside Assange for the new crime of publishing any documents that the U.S. government has decreed should not be published.
One more.
It should not be this difficult for journalists to set aside their personal emotions about Assange to recognize the profound dangers, not just to press freedoms, but to themselves.
If the United States government succeeds in keeping Assange in prison for years to come, all due to its attempts to prosecute him for publishing classified or stolen documents.
So that's the big threat.
And that's why it just drives me nuts that nobody in the United States press, no one, zero people.
Well, Glenn Greenwald, but I'm talking about establishment mainstream press.
No one says anything like this.
No one ever says, hey, we should back off.
Hey, you know, blah, blah, blah.
Julian Assange is just doing what we all are supposed to be doing.
Nobody says that because Russia.
And now you know how propaganda works.
Now you know how the first McCarthyism worked.
It works just like this.
They're willing to cut their own throats to go along with the establishment.
Chris Hayes is willing to go along with the establishment and cut his own journalistic throat for $30,000 a day.
And that's why they're doing that.
I'll throw it over to my panel.
Steve, you're our guest.
What do you have to say about that?
So when I said I didn't know about Assange, this is what I didn't know.
I didn't know people hated him.
Yes.
Why do mainstream media?
Because they say he colluded with the Russians to give us Trump.
That's what they say.
Oh, so now this is not from the original WikiLeaks, which got him in trouble and had to flee to the Ecuadorian embassy.
This is the next stuff that he leaked about the DNC and Trump, all that kind of stuff.
Yes, that's why they hate him.
Okay.
But before that, he was fined.
Yes, he was leaking shit about Trump.
I mean, about Bush and the war crimes that we committed under Bush.
Then he was a great guy.
As if all the evidence about the war crimes committed weren't already evident in our country.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
I know what you're saying, Steph.
You have something else that you're going to be doing.
I have to be.
Yes.
Well, let me show you this.
So this Renya Kalek tweeted this out.
She says, she's a friend of the show.
The extradition of Assange, the maniacal goal of the United States government, would set a legal precedent that would criminalize any journalistic oversight or investigation of the corporate state.
It would turn leaks and whistleblowing into treason.
And she links to that truthdig.org article.
And this guy makes a great point, Charles McGinnis.
He says, there's a weird recursion at work here.
The press chided Trump supporters for not voting in their own interests.
But an applauding press would not be acting in their own self-interest.
To paraphrase, they came for the Washington Post and there was no one left to op-ed for them.
So that's the turn on that old phrase when they came for the Jews.
I didn't say anything because I wasn't a Jew.
Well, when they came for the press, they didn't say anything because there's no one left.
They already got you.
And if you're telling Trump supporters you're voting against their own interests, aren't the press doing the exact same thing when they chair on the prosecution of Julian Assange?
Aren't they doing that against their own interests?
Yes, they are.
Yes, they are.
I'm so confused by why the press is hostile towards Assange because they blame Assange for getting Trump elected.
Yes.
Oh my God.
That's a different level of stupidity, which is the reason why I couldn't quite understand what they're thinking.
Yes, it's Julian, which is why Randy Credico became, who's a friend of this show, became such a major figure because Roger Stone said that Credit Co.
was his back channel to Assange.
So if they can prove that, then they can prove that the Trump campaign through Stone was working with Assange.
So do you see why that's important?
But Randy Credico, while he did have contact with Assange and had him on his show plenty of times, it did go over to the embassy and meet with him, vehemently denies any communication from Assange to Stone.
There was no connection.
It was Stone wanting a connection and it was never, it was never given.
Access to Julian Assange was never given by Randy Credico.
But it's in Stone's interest to make people think so.
So because that keeps his name going and he's important.
And so guys like Ari Melber keep having guys like Randy Credit go on to talk about this story because if they can con if they can connect and they're trying to get Randy to slip up and maybe he'll say something and we'll make news and then we can connect WikiLeaks with the Trump campaign.
That's what that's about.
And so that's why people are hating on him.
I mean, you haven't seen guys like David Korn tweeted a tweet, retweeted Rand Paul's tweet about Russia and called him a traitor.
Just said traitor.
Called who a traitor?
Rand Paul.
David Korn.
David Kaul called Rand Paul a traitor.
A traitor.
Just traitor.
That was it.
That's a journalist who's supposed to be a lefty calling a sitting senator a traitor because he has a different view on how we should handle the Russia thing.
I mean, that's how far we are through.
I know, Steve, you don't, you know, you're a busy guy.
You're out doing business.
I'm the one watching Twitter and I'm the one.
I'm just amazing.
It's amazed what's happening.
Well, I just want to go back to the whole thing, how horrifying this really is.
This is horrifying.
It is.
To the press.
This is horrifying.
And especially, You know, we've existed and we've all read the articles of what they did to Chelsea Manning in prison in America.
Under Barack Obama.
That's right.
Under somebody who was supposed to have a level head.
And I'm already, you know, we already know how destructive our prison system is.
We already know.
So if they want to put Assange in prison and lock him away, it's kind of just, it's him.
I just want to lock him up.
Yes.
That's all this is.
Yes, Steph.
This is, again, this is all propaganda.
And you see, you know, I mean, the WikiLeaks revealed the Pied Piper strategy for F's sake.
And all the media went along with the Clintons.
Ed Schultz asserted before he died.
Ed Schultz asserted that Andy Lack was joined at the hip with the Clinton campaign.
Andy Lack, the head of NBC News, which is why Ed got fired when he wanted to cover Bernie Sanders.
I mean, this isn't, this is real shit.
And then now they're hiring CIA guys right out of the open.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Things are more fucked up, I think, than you realize, Steve, because, you know, you're busy.
Well, I just don't watch mainstream media, so I wasn't aware of all these things that are happening.
I just can't believe journalists can be so short-sighted to allow this lynching of Assange for doing what journalists do.
What you're supposed to do.
It's just amazing.
It is amazing.
You know, and I just wanted to point out, too, because I'm just kind of grappling with this whole thing.
It's awful.
It's nefarious.
It's scary.
It's scary if you're not sure how scary this is.
This is terrifying.
But I was also thinking about Petraeus and how Petraeus really did give all classified information.
He says right here.
You know, with its mix of sex and government secrets, a trial promised to be uncomfortably tauddry for the government.
And they preferred to avoid it.
And you know what he ended up doing in the end?
He pleaded guilty last a couple of years ago to misdemeanor charge of mishandling, mishandling classified material.
Of course, because he's a general.
But if you're a petty officer on a nuclear submarine and you take a picture of a selfie of yourself, they will put you in jail for that, which they did.
But Petraeus, who literally gave classified documents to somebody he was having sex with, who is a journalist, by the way, a writer he gave classified documents to, is not in jail.
In fact, he, again, the establishment pops him up.
He has a job teaching at the New York University.
A part of his agreement, Petraeus admitted that he improperly removed and retained highly sensitive information in eight personal notebooks that he gave to his sex partner, Broadwell.
His sex partner.
And that's your Mr. Integrity.
And I have, he's retired with his full.
I'm sure he gets his pension and hosts full everything.
And I'm sure he does speaking gigs everywhere.
And nobody ever introduces him as the guy who gave away state secrets to the blady he was banging.
It's General Petraeus.
So does David Korn say he's a traitor?
No, David Korn does not say that Petraeus is a traitor.
As far as I know, he doesn't.
And David, you know, this Hillary, this 2016 election really revealed a lot of people for who they are.
And David Korn reveals himself to be that kind of a simple-minded guy with very little integrity and certainly no dignity.
Everybody at MSNBC revealed themselves to be tools, willing tools for 30 grand a day.
And the ones who weren't got fired.
It revealed everybody at the New York Times, Washington Post.
They didn't have to reveal that shit.
We already know that they're already on board with the military industrial complex and their 16 negative Bernie stories in 16 hours.
You remember that's the Washington Post.
So this really revealed, and that's why we're in such a shitstorm.
That's why the country, now have the biggest income inequality since the times of the Pharaohs, is because our fourth estate is really no longer the fourth estate.
They got bought by the people they're supposed to be fucking investigating and putting in jail.
They now work for the criminal organizations that have fucked over this country, which is why half the country's poor or low income.
63% of Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency.
30 million Americans still don't have goddamn health care in the richest country in the fucking world.
That's why, because our press sucks so hard and they gave you Donald Trump.
NBC gave Donald Trump a national television show for four years while he was running around race baiting the president asking for his birth certificate.
It wasn't Susan Sarandon didn't do that.
Jill Stein didn't fucking do that.
NBC did that.
And then Chris Hayes didn't cover Bernie Sanders because he was told not to while he did cover Trump's empty podium.
Chris Hayes did that.
Why?
Because he doesn't have any integrity.
That's why.
Do you know who greenlit that show at NBC?
Who?
Jeff Zucker.
Jeff Zucker, who's now at CNN.
Who runs CNN?
Oh, that's hilarious.
Okay, so I want to go back.
Trump reveals a lot of people to be the pieces of shit that they are.
I mean, he was a media creation.
I mean, look, whatever the Russians did was like a drop in the bucket compared to what our media did to $20 million in free media.
Yeah.
And as you referenced, the Pied Piper strategy, like everyone was in on it together.
The DNC and the media wanted to prop up Trump.
And how about we had to find that out from Julian Assange?
It wasn't a reporter at Mother Jones or somebody at the New York Times or the Washington Post or MSNBC who revealed that the Clinton campaign wanted the people of the media to prop up Donald Trump.
They didn't reveal that, even though they fucking knew it.
You know who revealed it?
Julian Assange.
How did he know about it?
Because of the emails.
Let me read this one segment.
That's how we know about the Pied Piper strategy.
Let me clarify.
This is going back to the Chris Hedges article.
And it says, WikiLeaks exposed much of this corruption when it published tens of thousands of messages hacked from the Clinton campaign, Chairman Podesta's email account.
The messages brought to light the efforts by the Democratic Party leadership to thwart the nomination of Sanders.
And they disclosed Clinton's close ties with Wall Street, including her lucrative Wall Street speeches.
They also raised serious questions about conflicts of interest with the Clinton Foundation and whether Clinton received advance information on primary debate questions.
The Democratic National Committee, for this reason, is leading the Russia hysteria and the persecution of Assange.
It filed a lawsuit that names WikiLinks and Assange as co-conspirators with Russia and the Trump campaign in an alleged effort to steal the presidential election.
So I think that really clarifies it in a nutshell why they're after him.
And Chris Hedges, again, you're so that's why they're after him.
Okay.
Okay.
So if you saw the movie The Post and it made you feel good about the post journalism in America, you would be concerned that what's happening with Julian Assange.
But of course, because the media is silent on this, and if they ever talk about it, it's always the wrong way.
You probably don't know that you're supposed to connect this with the post.
This, what?
He's telling the truth.
He's a huh?
They're printing government secrets that are harmful to Americans.
Yes.
That the government's working against you?
Yeah, what Julian Assange did was expose truths.
And the truth was that our government was working against us and lying to us.
And for that, they're going to send him to prison.
He's already been in prison, basically, for the last 10 years.
Chuck Schumer's on the phone.
Why, it most certainly is, you young whippersnapper.
Master of the Senate.
You mean like LBJ?
Yes.
Well, no.
I mean, yes.
I don't want to be any trouble to anyone.
But on the other hand, we need people in Congress who can make the tough decisions in times of crisis.
Passing laws are easy, but having the strength and conviction not to exercise that power is what takes real courage.
That's how you tackle the big issues.
And that's why I'm Master of the Senate.
I'm Master of the Senate.
Say it with me, Jimmy.
I'm Master of the Senate.
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That's right, it was written by Frank Connoff, Jim Earl, Ron Placone, Step Semarano, and Mark Van Landowick.
And big thanks to our special guest, Steve O, for sitting in on our Julian Assange segment.
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