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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Jimmy, it's Representative Peter King of the great state of New York, home of the Big Apple, the Empire State.
Yeah, why is it the Empire State?
Because that's the best Star Wars movie, dummy.
How are you, Congressman King?
Absolutely friggin' furious.
Why is that?
This freshman Congresswoman, Representative Omar D. Minnesota, Muslim, tweeted out some virulently anti-Semitic rhetoric the other day.
And like I said on the tube there, that is absolutely shameful.
And there is no place for bigotry like that in Congress.
Okay, I see.
All right.
To be perfectly frank, I think the voters of Minnesota really got jipped out of having a representative who could accomplish something positive when they elected her.
Absolutely shameful.
What did she say?
She was blatantly trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes, Jimmy.
Trafficking.
Trafficking tropes.
Trumps, Jimmy.
Trumps.
Like, like what?
She mentioned Jewish people and money in the same thought.
It's a stereotype.
Yeah, of course it can be, depending on what is said, but she...
Yeah, but you know...
That's never acceptable under any circumstances.
Let me clear this up for you, Congressman.
You seem to be having a little bit of trouble here.
So her comments boil down to her saying that APEC, which is a lobby, lobbies politicians in favor of certain policies towards Israel.
And like all lobbies, they pay candidates money.
That isn't a trope.
That's what's called a fact.
That is simply how our government openly works.
Jimmy, I am shocked.
Why?
I never thought I would hear such vile hatred coming out of your mouth.
I didn't say anything hateful, Congressman.
After all the Jewish people have given us.
You people on the left, turn around and throw them under the bus.
And then probably blow up the bus because you're in league with those Palestinian terrorists.
We can't criticize lobbyists now?
Not that one.
Did you realize?
You do realize that many of us want to get money out of politics, right?
Yeah.
Is that racist?
Wanting to get money out of politics?
No.
Well, APEC money is part of the money in politics that we're talking about.
Oh, okay.
Now racist.
Now it's racist.
What?
I don't care how you frame it with your little word tricks.
You're mentioning money and Jewish people at the same time.
Anti-Semite over there in Pasadena.
Virulent anti-Semite trafficking in tropes up and down the Pasadena freeway.
Come on, give me a break.
You and I both know that you're just spewing false outrage for purely political points here.
If you were truly concerned about bigotry in Congress, you wouldn't say all the things about Muslims that you do.
Look, meathead, let me break this down for you.
I'm a Republican congressman from Long Island.
A Democrat Congresswoman wearing a hijab criticized APAC.
What the fuck do you think I'm going to do?
Once, maybe twice, in a political career is a course of action so crystal clear.
You don't think I'm really offended?
Well, let me tell you, I'm extremely offended that we were lobbed such a softball.
It's almost insulting.
Oh, brother.
A woman Muslim in Congress criticized Israel?
Wow, who ordered room service?
Well, wheel it in and let's chow down.
Oh, my goodness, it's Big Wellington.
Jesus.
Wise Jewish for your information and born in Israel.
And I have personally walked in his footsteps over there.
And let me tell you something, Jimmy.
When I did, I made sure dozens of pictures were taken of me and put up on my website.
Wow.
Yeah, so you just let me handle my business.
You can keep your lip to yourself.
Your opinions are about as helpful as a Polish clock repairman.
All right.
I'm part Polish.
I mean, it doesn't bother me, but whatever joke that was supposed to be might be offensive to other people.
I don't give a shit.
The Polak neighborhood ain't in my district.
Shalom, asshole.
I'm going to read that.
It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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It's hard to talk to you guys.
And now, there's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hey, everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Dore Show.
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Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Damn.
I can't believe I missed the National Per Breakfast again.
Here's a little tip for you guys.
Do not order the Joan of Arc fries.
Alexa, take a picture of my penis and send it to my admirer.
No, not the Inquirer.
Admirer.
Admirer.
Hey, did you know that Kamala Harris?
I don't know why people are giving Kamala Harris such a hard time.
You know, when I was in college, I used to get high and listen to Post Malone all the time.
Eric Holder's thinking of entering the presidential race.
I can see it now.
Harrison Holder 2020.
Proudly imprisoning the poor and letting Wall Street off the hook since 1993.
Hey, NBC reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee says it's uncovered no direct proof of a conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
Also, breaking, NBC needs a new business model.
Also, breaking, Rachel Maddow is reporting that the Senate committee is on Putin's payroll.
Ha!
Wasn't it worth spending every minute of the last two years reporting on this instead of focusing on our impending extinction?
Hmm.
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Come on.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
A fake anti-Semitic controversy.
And we've got the proof on how you can tell it's phony.
Plus, NBC is reporting that the Senate Intelligence Committee say it's uncovered zero proof of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia.
MSNBC still terrified of anti-war voices.
Phil Donahue weighs in.
Hey, the media is still erasing Tulsi Gabbard from the presidential campaigns.
Plus, we got phone calls today from Bill O'Reilly, Harrison Ford.
Peter King weighs in on the Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic controversy.
Plus, Chuck Schumer, and a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
you you So, guess what?
This is unbelievable.
You know what we've been saying at this show for the last two and a half years is that with the Russiagate investigation, that we want evidence, and that's all we're asking for because what it looks like from the outside is a big propaganda machine is trying to distract people from the actual problems of the Democratic Party, our electoral system, and our country.
And that's what it seems like: blaming another country for the problems we created ourselves.
And we just kept asking for evidence.
We just wanted, is there evidence?
And there was never evidence.
They've indicted a lot of people, but it's for stuff that has nothing to do with the core accusation, which is that the Trump campaign illegally conspired with the Russian government to affect our election.
That's the core.
They can't say treason because you have to be at war with that country for it to be treated.
So it's not even treason, even if he did everything they said they did.
But anyway, look at this.
NBC tweeted this out.
New exclusive Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation in the 2016 election, having uncovered no evidence.
I'm not making that.
It says right there.
Having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia, according to the Democrats and Republicans on the committee.
So I retweeted that, and I'm breaking NBC looking for a new business model.
Hey, Rachel Maddow tonight, Senate Intelligence Committee are in collusion with Putin.
So I tweeted that out as a joke, and then Rachel actually tweets this out.
Senate Intelligence Committee, Democrats dispute claims that Russia probe found no collusion.
She's hanging on, baby.
So you were close.
I was close.
She's hanging on.
She's going to contradict her own reporting, her own company's reporting.
She's contradict.
She's linking to Mother Jones.
And of course, she just puts it out as a quote because she doesn't want to get in trouble actually contradicting her own company's reporting.
So that's what she tweets out.
Isn't that something?
And so then Ken Delinean, the NBC reporter, goes under her tweet and says NBC News stands by its story, which has not been credibly challenged.
King appears to be disputing something we didn't assert, that they have reached a final conclusion.
Warner did not contradict our reporting.
So now everybody, even Dave and Cordon, so they're tweeting out this article that says, oh, the Democrats didn't agree with this.
What are you talking about?
And we dispute it.
And what Ken Delinean is telling them, they don't dispute what we're saying.
They're disputing something we're not saying.
They're disputing that we said that the investigation is over.
We didn't say that.
That's what he's saying.
That they have reached a final conclusion.
We didn't say they reached a final conclusion.
Let's not go crazy here.
We were just looking for some quick clicks on a headline.
All right.
That's what we do here.
Rachel's doing the same thing.
We're actually right next to each other, tweeting this fake dispute.
What they have asserted is that this investigate, this committee has uncovered no evidence.
That's what they're asserting.
Not that they've concluded their investigation, but that they've none.
But they've after two years that they've uncovered nothing.
That's what they're asserting.
And then this story is pretending that they're asserting something else.
And he claimed that's not what we're asserting.
Isn't this funny to watch them?
So Rachel Maddow is doing her hardest to gaslight people who turn to her for information, even if it contradicts her own reporting at her own company.
No matter what.
So this is Rachel Maddow starting at a conclusion and working backwards, which is what all conspiracy theorists do.
That's what she is.
She's a crazy nut, over-the-top conspiracy theorist that any information, she can put it into a chart and tie it back to Russia, just like Glenn Beck did with Muslims and the Caliphate.
She's been doing that for two and a half years, and she just can't accept reality.
And so she continues to gaslight her own viewers.
It's not going to hurt her ratings.
Her viewers like to be scared.
They like to be frightened.
They turn to her to be scared every day.
They like this conspiracy theory she's spewing.
That's not going to hurt her, but it's obvious.
And I don't know how anybody could ever take Rachel Maddow seriously for the rest of their life.
But there it is.
That's how it's set.
So there we go.
And you want to see.
So they bring on, when the story broke, they brought on this guy, Ken Delinean.
Now, the thing that's interesting about Ken Delinean is that we've talked about him on this show before.
The LA Times outed this guy is working with the CIA.
And Glenn Greenwald likes to point to that all the time.
And so do I. And so that's why this even holds more water because it goes against the narrative this guy normally tells.
So he comes on MSNBC breaking news.
And watch how he kind of blows her mind.
This is a three-minute video clip.
I want to play the whole thing.
So here we go.
On the Senate Intelligence Committee, their investigation into Russian election interference and what they have and have not uncovered.
NBC's Kendallanian has just jumped in front of a camera to join me with his new reporting.
So Ken, what are you hearing?
What are you learning?
Hallie, after two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses, the Senate Intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
That's according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle, Hallie.
And careful viewers and readers will note that Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the intelligence committee who leads this probe, essentially said that in an interview with another network last week.
But what I've been doing since then is checking with my sources on the Democratic side to understand the full context of his remarks because that was essentially a partisan comment from one side.
But this is a bipartisan investigation.
And what I found is that the Democrats don't dispute that characterization.
The disagreement comes, though, over that pattern of context that we've all seen and heard about over the last few years.
More than 100 contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russians.
The Democrats say that those are those remain highly suspicious and that there's a pattern here that still raises questions.
This is first of all, I'll stop at once, but this is kind of amazing.
They had over 100 communications with Russia over the how many communications they have with Israel, how many communications they have with Turkey, how many communications they have with Saudi Arabia.
They don't put any of this in the context.
And this is the kind of reporting that Rachel Maddow does and that everybody's been doing on this.
They don't put any of this into context.
They don't even tell you what the indictments.
They're not about the core case.
They have really nothing to do with it.
Stuff like that.
So this kind of thing.
They have 100 contacts.
Is that a lot?
Is that normal?
Is that more than people should have?
Who are they contacting?
Was it business people they were contacting?
Was it other people he owed money to?
Was it the Kremlin?
So they don't tell you any of this stuff.
So this is the kind of shoddy reporting they've been doing.
But here he is, a guy who's, you know, the NBC News has been pushing a false narrative for two and a half years, and he's debunking it.
So here we go.
Here's the rest of it.
The Republicans say that we just don't know in the end what those were.
And Richard Burr said publicly, look, the motives for those are unclear.
We may end up with a report that says you decide, American public, whether there was collusion.
Another important fact here, Hallie, is that they are nearing the end of this investigation, we are told, but that once they interview their final witness, it will take another six to seven months to prepare a report.
So the American public may not see the fruits of this for some time, Hallie.
So we probably won't see the fruits of this report.
So they have to interview, according to him just now, said one more witness, and then it's going to be six months or seven until we see the final report.
So it might not, it might not be till 2020 before we see this report.
I mean, come on.
Maybe, but you know what?
I know deep down, the collusion is in all of us.
It's all of us.
I think that's what they're trying to tell us.
Search deep down.
So now watch how she doesn't like this news and watch what happens.
Just got to.
I have a couple questions for you, Canada.
You just answered one of them, which was a timeline on when we all, the American public, might actually get a sense to see this.
And it sounds like it might not be until much closer to the end of the year.
That's right.
Because they are nearing the end of their fact-gathering process.
Richard Burr said that publicly.
My sources are confirming there aren't that many witnesses left to interview for Senate investigators.
But after they conclude that, then they're going to sit down and write their report.
And by the way, the Democrats say this report will not be good for Donald Trump.
It will question the judgment of many people in the Trump warbler for having these meetings for essentially allowing themselves to be preyed upon by a Russian intelligence operation that sought to interfere in the election and to help Donald Trump.
But again, no direct proof of a conspiracy.
As one Democratic aide said to me, we never thought.
I like how he goes, again, they're going to say a lot of bullshit, but they're without any evidence of anything.
But they're going to keep saying all this stuff.
Anyway, that's much what he just said, right?
We'll have more nothing at 11.
Yeah, we're going to have more nothing.
There is no evidence, but they're going to keep saying this of how bad Donald Trump is, all that stupid stuff he did.
That's what he pretty much, I'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty much what he's saying.
Conspiracy.
As one Democratic aide said to me, we never thought we were going to find a contract between Trump and Vlad saying, hey, let's collude.
But the question is, how do we interpret all?
Ah, we never thought we'd find it.
Really?
You never thought you'd find evidence?
So now they're like, hey, we never thought we'd actually, you know, find evidence.
That's what they're saying.
We never thought we'd actually find evidence or convict him.
But why?
Let's watch the rest of this.
I know I stopped it way too many times already.
These various contacts between Trump campaign and Russia.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I want to make sure I'm understanding this because you are sharing this with me and with all of us at the same time here.
And then I'll get Nancy and Shauna to react to this.
But if and when the president, as he may inevitably do, point to this reporting, point to these conclusions and say, look, the Senate Intelligence Committee found that I am not guilty of conspiracy.
He would be correct in saying that?
Well, except that the use of the term not guilty is not really appropriate because they're not a court of law.
And Robert Mueller still has yet to weigh in, right?
And that's a big question because Robert Mueller knows things that the Senate investigators do not have access to.
That said, Trump will claim vindication through this, and he will be partially right because Senate investigators have access to highly classified intelligence.
So, for example, if there was an intercept between some Russian intelligence officers suggesting that they were conspiring with the Trump campaign, they would see that.
That has not emerged.
So, that evidence does not exist.
And Trump will here's another example of evidence that would be great, but it doesn't exist.
If they have like an intercept where they caught him, that would be fantastic.
Do you have that?
No, we don't have that.
You know what else would be great if we had like an email that showed that, do you have that?
No.
We don't have any of that.
But boy, if we did, huh?
And you can't not say not when there's something that may or not be not or not.
So, watch, it gets even better.
I know it sounds funny, but it's going to get better.
Here we go.
Vindication.
But Trump has set the bar so high.
Essentially, if he's not convicted in the court of law of conspiring, in his mind, he's innocent.
No, that's how it works in World Two.
If you don't get convicted of a crime in the court of law, you're innocent.
That's pretty much how it works.
In his mind, he'll think he's innovative.
But we all know he's guilty.
In his mind, just because we don't have any evidence, we can convict him in a court of law.
He thinks he's not guilty.
What a monomaniac that Donald Trump is.
I can't even write a joke for that already.
That's already a joke.
Like, that's a, in his mind, he thinks he's innocent.
Why?
Because he wasn't convicted and there's no evidence.
What a jackass.
Doesn't he know how things work?
You're guilty if Rachel Maddow says you are and enough people don't like you.
You're canceled.
But Trump has set the bar so high.
Essentially, if he's not convicted in the court of law of conspiring, in his mind, he's innocent.
That's not how many senators of both parties see it, Howie.
Senators don't understand how a criminal justice system works.
We're going to have a counseling session led by Goldman Sachs to teach them how it works.
At the end of this, the same senators that liked him before still like him, and the ones that didn't still don't.
So there's that.
So there's that.
Okay.
Thanks for that report.
So there you go.
I guess they're going to drag this out until Christmas.
Sounds like they're going to drag it out until 2020.
That's a conservative estimate.
Yeah.
I wish I shared your optimism on that one.
God damn it.
And Mueller's getting paid this whole time.
And just so you know, Mueller's a liar.
Mueller's all these are, there's no good guys in this scenario, right?
Trump's a horrible.
Mueller's horrible.
The CIA people are horrible.
NBC News is horrible.
Rachel Maddow is out of her mind, needs a straitjacket.
Turns out Trump thinks he's president.
Turns out Trump thinks he's not guilty because he's being acquitted in a court of law.
So there you go.
This would be vindication for people who, but there's nothing to be vindicated for.
I didn't take a side in this.
What I'm saying is that there's no evidence.
And people would say, Jimmy, what are you going to do when Mueller comes out with evidence up to?
And you know what I always say, right?
I'm going to report it then.
When evidence emerges that there was criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, I'll report that.
But until there is, I'm not going to do what Rachel Maddow does and just sit there with a chalkboard like crazy Glenn Beck and draw conspiracy theories all day and night.
For two and a half years, she's been an out-of-her mind conspiracy theorist.
She said Russia is going to freeze you when it gets cold.
But she's the number one show.
And now do you understand when they smear me why I don't give a fuck?
I don't want to be in their club when CNN writes a hit piece on me or Washington Post includes me in a piece of shit article.
That's how fragile the establishment news is.
They're afraid of a YouTuber, that they have to smear us.
And these people are the biggest conspiracy liars in the world, propagandists for every war, won't even cover progressive politicians or they'll be fired.
Can't even tell the truth about our world.
They'll be fired.
That's who these people are.
Let them smear me.
That's the greatest badge of honor I could ever have.
Anyway, there you go.
This will not put an end to this.
Rachel Maddow will still keep doing shows like this all the way up until 2020's election.
I guarantee you she'll keep doing, she's not going to stop.
What do you guys think?
She's not going to stop, Jim.
Of course not.
Okay.
The gravy trains are rolling.
She's number one, baby.
No matter which headline they have, if they have a headline one way or another, the gravy train still rolls.
So Comcast is happy with all of those players at the end of the day.
And who loses out?
All of us.
That's right.
Okay.
That's a great country.
And now you know why people get their news from YouTube.
Oh, it's the master of the Senate, Chuck Schumer's on the line.
Hello.
Did you see Nancy's clap?
Well, did you?
You mean at the State of the Union address?
It was devastating.
Did you see the way she just leaned in there with that sideways clap-tinkle?
It was the clap heard round the world.
Probably the most significant moment of her life.
Our lives, the world, the universe.
You know, she also clapped against socialism, meaning Medicare for all.
She clapped for increased oil production, too.
Oh, whatever.
She also clapped for the Wolfowitz doctrine in Venezuela.
Hezbollahs in Venezuela.
Jimmy, for God's sake, open your eyes.
They even sound alike.
Hezbollah and Valezuela.
Hezbollah.
The writing's on the wall for Maduro.
The ceiling's falling.
The cracks are showing.
The ship is sinking.
It's the beginning of the end.
Pull my finger.
But she essentially joined Trump in bashing Medicare for All, didn't she?
No one's been in favor of Medicare for all more than Nancy and I. We've been saying it for decades now.
And I can say that with full confidence in the knowledge that there's absolutely no way of proving it.
But how are we going to pay for it, young man?
We've got more than enough money to fund Medicare for all.
If you guys put that in your platform, you're a guaranteed winner.
The Democratic platform is simple and dynamic.
We must fight to keep America's health care.
Which means...
What does fight to keep America's health care mean?
Now is not the time to get bogged down with details, Jimmy.
But basically, it means you can keep what you got if you can afford it.
It's all about choice.
And what about taking drastic action to mitigate climate change?
Oh, I've always been in favor of saving the world, but how are we going to pay for it, young man?
We have to be practical.
We have more than enough resources and money to do all the things that we need to do, Chuck.
Know what I'm doing right now?
The Pelosi clap.
And you know what that means?
Consider yourself done, fella.
I just shaded you.
But why fixate on the deficit during what really is a national emergency?
Jimmy Dorf, we cannot afford to go extinct with a deficit.
Mercy's sakes, in this day and age, such talk.
And where do the Democrats stand on Venezuela, Chuck?
My position on Venezuela is well documented, as you know, and by gum, I stand by it.
Yeah, but you never talk about it.
Exactly.
And by gum, I stand by it.
Yeah, I can't find anything about it in your Twitter feed, for example.
Did you try the search option?
Yes.
Yes, I did.
Did you try rebooting your computer?
How about unplugging your modem?
I'll tell you what.
Try unplugging your modem for 10 minutes and call me back if there's a problem.
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So everybody, you've heard the story about the anti-Semitic tropes from Minnesota's Ilan Omar, Ilhan Omar.
And let me walk you through it because everyone knows that our government is completely bought and paid for and completely corrupted by not only money from the pro-Israeli lobby, but from all different lobbies, from Wall Street, military industrial complex.
It's completely captured, which is why we live in an oligarchy.
And that's really what's wrong with our government and why 80% of workers live paycheck to paycheck is because the people running our country are pretty much criminals who are in bed with the people they're supposed to be regulating.
So they're all corrupted and criminals.
And that's why we live in this world, right?
Income disparity is the greatest since the Gilded Age.
So when Ocasio-Cortez points out how bad it is, how bad it's rigged, and how corrupt the money in politics is, everybody loves it, right?
Remember what she did.
She just did this last week.
They tweeted this Out.
There was 37 million views on this, of her talking about this in Congress and dressing down this person.
But you're not allowed to say that about the APEC lobby, right?
And let me just give you a little background about how influential pro-Israeli money is in our politics.
This is from Electronic Intifada.
It says, Any observer of Washington politics knows that this is no exaggeration when it comes to the power of pro-Israeli money.
It's scarcely a secret that Donald Trump's insistence on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the U.S. embassy there was in fulfillment of a promise to Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire pro-Israel mogul who was the biggest donor to the president and the Republican Party.
By the way, that's a super controversial move.
It was wildly, roundly condemned for him doing that.
And why would you do that?
There you go.
Cash.
The influence of Adelson's cash on the United States foreign policy has been enormous, even if the media refused to talk about it.
And just last week, 77 out of 100 United States senators voted for the APEC-backed Combating BDS Act, which targets the Palestinian solidarity movement and violates First Amendment free speech rights of United States citizens.
So you know what that is.
BDS is boycott divestment sanctions.
Boycott divestment and sanctions.
And it's a nonviolent way to pressure the Israeli government to stop oppressing the Palestinians and come to a two-state solution or a solution and stop having Gaza be an open-air prison and stop shooting medics at their border and stop oppressing the people, right?
So that's what the BDS is.
And we did it at South Africa.
It worked.
So now people are doing it to Israel.
Israel says that's anti-Semitic to single out their horrible behavior when a lot of people are also horrible.
That's not a really good defense, but that's what they say.
And that's what BDS is.
It's boycott divencement and sanctions against Israel.
And so 77 out of 100 United States senators voted to make it illegal for you to participate in this.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a pundit.
So that's just so you know how powerful the Israeli, a pro-Israeli lobby is in the United States.
They're very powerful.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the pundit and former Israeli prison guard, recounted in a 2005 article for the New Yorker about a dinner he once had with Steve Rosen.
And who's Steve Rosen?
He's the director of foreign policy issues at APEC.
And here's what Steve Rosen told Jeffrey Goldberg at that dinner.
Are you ready for this?
I hope you're sitting down.
He said, you see this napkin?
Rosen told Goldberg.
In 24 hours, we could get the signatures of 70 senators on this napkin.
I would say 77.
They're bragging about the power they have.
You're just not allowed to mention it if you're not one of them.
If you're not in APEC, you're just not allowed to mention it.
And so what the this quick story was: McCarthy was upset at Ilan Omar that she was saying mean things about, and he was saying it was anti-Semitic.
And he compared what she was saying to Steve King, who famously was just rebuked for saying what's wrong with being a white nationalist.
Anyway, it was never clear what exactly he was upset about.
It was never clear exactly what he was comparing what they said.
So Glenn Greenwald tweets this out.
I'm just going to give you this a brief recap of what happened because you probably already know.
So I'm just a brief recap.
So Glenn Greenwald tweeted out: GOP leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for Ilhan in Minnesota and Rashid Talib over their criticisms of Israel.
It's stunning how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation, even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans.
So he tweeted that.
That's Glenn Greenwald.
So then Ilhan Omar retweeted that and says, Glenn, it's all about the Benjamins, baby, quoting that rap song.
It's all about the Benjamins, baby.
And then someone named Batya Unger Sargon tweeted out, hey, would love to know who Ilhan thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.
And she retweets it and says, APEC.
And that's when all the wheels came off.
That's when all the phony pearl clutchers came out of the woodwork.
And, well, here's Chelsea Clinton co-signed as an American.
We should expect all elected officials, regardless of power, party, and public figures, to not traffic in anti-Semitism.
That's traffic in it.
Chelsea Clinton.
Chelsea Clinton, go away.
You nothing person.
You reminder of what's wrong with our country.
Go away.
Still thinks people should be in jail for marijuana.
Yep.
Just so you know who Chelsea Clinton is.
So this woman says, please learn how to talk about Jews in a non-anti-Semitic way.
Sincerely, she's saying that to Ilhan Omar.
And then Chelsea Clinton says this stupid thing.
And then Dan Cohen retweets that woman, Sargon, and says, Israel does not represent all Jews.
It's pathetic that an opinion editor for a major Jewish newspaper either A, doesn't understand that and that's an anti-Semitic trope saying that Israel speaks for all Jews.
That's actually an anti-Semitic trope.
Isn't that wild?
That's the anti-Semitic trope.
Of course, what's up is down and black is white, right?
A doesn't understand that that's an anti-Semitic trope.
And B, is advancing the trope to smear a critic of Israel's oversized influence in U.S. politics.
So that's what's really happening.
And you know how I know, and here's how you'll know now, that all this fervor over Ilhan Omar's tweet, it's all about the Benjamins and APEC, how it's all phony outrage.
How do I know it's phony outrage?
And how are you going to know?
Because here is Thomas Friedman, celebrated New York Times writer, writing in the New York Times.
This was back in 2011.
And he wrote about, remember when Benjamin Netanyahu came and spoke to a joint session of Congress, and he did that in defiance of Barack Obama.
Imagine if Putin did that.
Imagine if Putin came here and addressed our George and Obama didn't want him.
Anyway, that's what Netanyahu did, talk about power.
And here, and he got a standing ovation.
And here's Thomas Friedman writing in the New York Times.
Here's what he wrote about that.
He said, I sure hope that Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his policies.
That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby.
And they all stood up right after they were done signing that napkin.
So there wasn't a lot of time.
So that's how you know this is all phony because no one cared when he wrote that because everyone knew it was true.
Ilhan Omar says basically the same thing, except she's wearing a Muslim headscarf, a hijab, right?
That's what they call them.
And you are definitely not going to be allowed to say the same thing that Thomas Friedman's allowed to say in the New York Times.
Who do you think you are, Muslim?
You get to say things about APEC and the Israel lobby the same as you are not equal to Thomas Friedman.
Only he gets to say this stuff in the New York Times.
Not on Twitter, in the New York Times.
So that's how you know all this is bullshit.
How many throw it to my panel?
I'm here with Steph Samorano on the Miserable Liberal and Ron Placone, who's going to be on tour soon.
Where are you going to be on tour?
On March, I'm going to be in the Gulf.
I'm going to be in New Orleans, Pensacola, Lafayette, Knoxville, Mississippi.
Ronplacon.com for all tickets.
All right.
So what do you make of this?
Well, you know, Jimmy, I was immediately thinking when Benjamin Netanyahu came and spoke to Congress, I thought, was there another world leader that's been given that privilege to do so?
I don't know.
Not that I can remember.
Can you remember of that, Ron?
I mean, no.
And so controversial at that.
It was very controversial.
Yes.
Yes.
So for me, like, I really appreciate Glenn Greenwald's support of Ilhan Omar.
Yes.
It's specific.
It's direct.
And we get its freedom of speech.
And for them to immediately smear her and say that she's anti-Semitic, I'm sitting here reading the tweets and I'm like, that's what they came up with?
That's what they came up with.
And it's just like, and I try to warn people, but, you know, who am I to warn anybody?
But I remember when they started in 2015 with Bernie's a sexist.
And I warned them, there's a story you're taught as a kid called the boy who cried wolf.
So when you cry wolf, no one's going to listen to you when there's actually a wolf.
So when you say Bernie Sanders is sexist and there's some people who support him, the most progressive people in the country are sexists and horrible people, Neanderthals.
Well, when you actually do bump into a sexist, now that term has been diminished.
It doesn't have the sting it used to because you're calling somebody who's a great person like Bernie Sanders, who was made an honorary woman by Gloria Steinem in the 90s, somebody who couldn't be farther away from being a sexist.
When you call someone like that a sexist, now when Donald Trump shows up, that term sexist doesn't have the sting it should.
So when you call people criticizing the lobbying group of Israel and they're not allowed to and they're called anti-Semitic for criticizing the lobbying group, now you're diminishing the power of the term anti-Semitism or anti-Semite, and now it doesn't really mean as much as it used to.
So now when a real anti-Semite shows up, it's not going to stick.
You've just done the boy who cried wolf.
Congratulations.
Yeah, I mean, it was when I saw like all that outrage, I was just like, you've got to be kidding me.
And I saw like the best tweet I saw on it was somebody just tweeted.
They were just like, look, anti-Semitism means you hate somebody who's Jewish because they're Jewish.
What anti-Semitism doesn't mean is criticizing money in politics.
That's not anti-Semitism.
That's not anti-Semitism.
Not even close.
Not even close.
Thank you very much, Ron.
So she did one of these maya couples where she gave an apology, but I like that her apology, she kind of still stuck it to them.
So I'll read it real quick to you.
She says, anti-Semitism is real, and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.
My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole.
We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticisms, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity.
This is why I unequivocally apologize.
At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be APEC, the NRA, or the fossil fuel industry.
It's gone on too long, and we must be willing to address it.
That's the kind of apology I like because she reaffirms what she really means anyway.
Hey, sorry I offended you.
You guys are fucking ruining shit.
Sorry I offended you, but you guys are the problem.
That was great.
So here's another way to look at it.
Look at it this way.
This fur is a result of a bad faith reading of Omar's tweet about APEC.
Meanwhile, the Israel lobby and its political allies regularly say things like Palestinians sacrifice their children to make Israel look bad without even 1% of the pushback that this got.
Pretty good point, huh?
Hey, here's from the Jewish worker.
That's from the Jewish worker.
They say, look what they're saying.
They say a lot.
F APEC, we're Jews and F, the pro-Israel lobby, we're Jews, and F, congresspeople who take money hand over fist from pro-Israel lobbyists and PACs, we're Jews, and F, the lies Zionists tell to silence opposition.
We're Jews, and this isn't anti-Semitism.
That's from the Jewish worker at the Jewish Worker.
Kamala is a cop says, it's outstanding that 99.9% of our elected officials believe a lobbying group is a protected class and speaking against it is hate speech.
This, of course, completely normal.
So there you go.
So that's how.
So how do you know this is all phony outrage?
Thomas Friedman.
That's how you know it's all phony outrage.
You're welcome.
Hello.
Marco.
Hello.
Marco.
Is this Harrison Ford?
Who is this?
And get out of my pool.
Marco.
Either somebody say polo or I'm taking this damn blindfold off.
Harrison, are you in your pool?
That's a good question.
Let me take this blindfold off.
Wait a minute.
That's no blindfold.
It's a pizza.
There's half a pizza wrapped around my face.
That's not unusual.
So you're not in your pool?
Of course I'm in my pool.
Why?
It doesn't matter.
I'm just surprised you called.
We haven't heard from you in a long time.
What the heck are you talking about?
I was on your show yesterday.
Wait, what year is this?
This is 2019.
2019.
What?
That's the year, 2019.
Can it really go up that high?
So what have you been up to lately, Harrison?
I think I might have done a Super Bowl commercial, but I'm not sure.
You don't remember?
I remember there being a couple of cameras and some words coming out of my food hole.
You didn't see it?
I didn't watch the Super Bowl.
Well, I did a commercial for that Rich Ball guy who sent a photo of his penis to his girlfriend.
Anyway, my dog keeps ordering steaks over my virtual assistant smart device, and it frustrates me.
Sounds like a funny commercial.
I wasn't talking about a commercial.
That's happening right now in real life.
Stop ordering all those steaks.
I didn't know you had a dog.
I didn't either.
Oh, okay.
I don't know if you've ever noticed this before, but I smoke a lot of pot.
You know, I heard you're traveling to Dubai for the World Government Summit.
What's that about?
Talk about climate change.
Climate change is the greatest moral crisis facing the world today.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree with that.
Yeah, I might take the helicopter.
It runs on pure tar.
Did you know that?
Stop ordering those goddamn steaks, all right?
Boy, that must be an antique helicopter if it runs on tar.
I'm the highest-grossing actor of all time.
I can put whatever the fuck I want into my helicopter.
But doesn't tar pollute?
Not clean tar.
I can smoke whatever I want.
I'm the highest grossing actor of all time.
Stop calling me.
Boop.
So Tulsi Gabbard is standing up, and boy, she's taking it.
She's taking it hard.
She's taking it hard.
In fact, I'm going to show you.
Now, Phil Donahue, now, a lot of people don't know this, so I want to tell you, in the run-up to the first Iraq or the second Gulf War, which was the Iraq War in 2003, Phil Donahue had a show on MSNBC.
Now, Phil Donahue had the most highly rated show on MSNBC.
And what they would make him do was if you're they would make him, if he was going to have someone on to talk about the war and they considered them to be anti-war, he would have to have two people on to counter that one person, two people who were pro-war.
That was the rule at MSNBC.
And Phil Donahue said that they counted me as two liberals.
They counted himself as two liberals.
That's the fairies doctrine when you're owned by general electrons.
Yes.
So for every Phil Donahue, they had to have two conservatives.
So if he was just doing a show, he had to bring out.
So that's just amazing.
So here, so then what, and then what happened was he got fired because he was vocal in questioning the run-up to the Iraq war because he lived through Vietnam and he lived through the first Gulf War and he knows that these wars are BS.
And so he questioned the narrative.
And they, of course, they, everything, oh, you're a Saddam.
Everything they're doing to Tulsi Gabbard, they did to him, right?
Except worse, they fired him.
They literally fired Phil Donahue and they said they fired him because he had low ratings.
Except he had the highest rated show on the network at the time.
So is that a conspiracy theory?
Do you think they fired him for because he was against the war?
And they said he had the lowest.
So this is how you know when they're liars, because they're actually conspiring to screw progressives.
Anti-war voices.
The corporate news actually conspires, the fucking true anti-war voices.
And so Phil Donahue got fired.
They said it was for low ratings.
He had the highest rated show.
And then a little while later, guess what was revealed?
There was a memo came out from the top brass at NBC that said Phil Donahue being against the war is a bad look for us, especially when we're selling war and we make a lot of money off of war because they were owned by General Electric at the time.
And General Electric makes, you know, their biggest customer was the Defense Department.
Donald Rumsfeld was General Electric's biggest customer when Phil Donahue was talking against the war.
So they had to shut him up.
And they fired him.
And then it got revealed through that memo.
Nobody ever talks about that.
And that's how you know guys like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, fake tough guy Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Matthews are all compromised and their integrity has been compromised.
How do you know that?
Because they never bring that up.
They never talk about, and they have no problem working for an organization that fires people for telling the truth about war.
And we're in the middle of eight wars right now.
And Chris Hayes has to light off a fire rocket to let everybody know I talked about Yemen for two minutes.
Here's Phil Donahue from 2013.
He was on Democracy Now and he was talking about this.
And the reason I'm showing you this is because it's happening again right now.
It's happening right now.
Tulsi Gabbard is speaking out forcefully against the Venezuelan coup and our involvement in it and Syria and all of our wars in the Middle East.
And she's getting smeared like they smeared people who were against the Iraq war.
And here's Phil Donahue to tell you about it.
It happened to me.
The biggest lesson, I think, is how corporate media shapes our opinions and our coverage.
This was a decision.
My decision, the decision to release me came from far above.
This was not an assistant program director who decided to separate me from MSNBC.
They were terrified of the anti-war voice, and that is not an overstatement.
Terrified of the anti-war voice, and that is not an overstatement.
Terrified.
Terrified, like worried.
Oh, my God.
How do we handle this guy?
Phil Donahue is telling the truth about war.
How do we handle Jesse Ventura?
They're going to tell the truth about war.
What do we do?
Well, first of all, you fire him, and then you make sure you never hire anyone like him again.
And they did.
Rachel Maddow's been completely co-opted by the military industrial complex.
She now chairs on war.
So does Chris Hayes.
So does Chris Matthews.
He always did.
So does fake tough guy Lawrence O'Donnell.
So here, back to this.
They're terror.
So when you see them coming at, so whoever the establishment is attacking the most, you know that's who they're afraid of the most.
So it used to be Bernie.
Now it's Tulsi Gabbard.
Anti-war voices were not popular.
And if you're general electrons, they're not popular now.
Look what they do to anybody who's against the Syrian war or even Venezuela.
You're a Putin puppet.
You're a Putin puppet.
You're a Russian.
I've been everybody who deviates from the narrative is a Putin puppet.
Everybody.
You certainly don't want an anti-war voice on a cable channel that you own.
Donald Rumsfeld is your biggest customer.
So by the way, I had to have two conservatives on for every liberal.
I could have Richard Pearl on alone, but I couldn't have Dennis Kucinich on alone.
I was considered two liberals.
It really couldn't have on Dennis Kucinich for an interview on MSNBC alone because that would break the rule.
Now you're being too biased.
Phil Downey just said I was considered two liberals.
So they had a math equation for how they would stack his show.
And so if he was on by himself and he wanted to have on a guest, he would have to have on a conservative and then another conservative before he could have on another progressive or anti-war voice.
So you'd have to have on.
Do you see what I'm saying?
This is nuts.
This is MSNBC.
This is what Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow go along with without question, and they never say anything publicly about it.
This is what happens over there.
I'm not making it up.
And you know it.
You know that's why rooms full of people chant CNN sucks on the left and the right.
And they do it about MSNBC, too.
I'm going to try to start some MSNBC sucks this election cycle.
I'm going to go to some of those rallies for Tulsi and Bernie.
I'm going to try to get an MSNBC sucks going.
We'll see what happens.
Here, let's go.
It doesn't flow as easily.
CNN sucks.
That's just like, or even Fox News.
That's like right off the tongue.
Like, those are easy to do.
MSNBC sucks.
How about Comcast sucks?
There we go.
How about that?
It's funny almost when you look back on how the management was just frozen by the anti-war voice.
We were scolds.
We weren't patriotic.
American people disagreed with us.
It's exactly what they're doing to Tulsi Gabbard right now.
That's exactly what they're doing to anybody who stands up against this.
This is what the exact same thing they did.
That's what I'm saying.
It's the exact same playbook.
The only difference is now they'll kick you off Twitter if you go against the Syrian war.
They'll kick you off Twitter and Facebook now if you speak up.
We weren't good for business.
You know, I had this unusual experience.
Okay, so watch this.
One time, Amy Goodman, and this is why you got to tip the hat to Amy Goodman from now until in perpetuity because she got on.
This is what I would do if I got on MSNBC, which is why they'll never have me on MSNBC.
Whoever you see on MSNBC, you know what they know about that person?
They know that person isn't ever going to say anything that upsets their corporate masters.
So if you see someone who calls himself a progressive on MSNBC, he's been corporate approved and he knows what not to say.
He'll never say this.
Watch this.
I want to congratulate you, Chris, on 10 years of MSNBC, but I wish standing with you is Phil Donahue.
He shouldn't have been fired for an expressing an anti-war point of view on the eve of the election.
His point of view and the people he brought on for the money.
I don't know what the reasons were, but I doubt it was.
I don't know what the reasons were, but I doubt it was that, he said, an accompany man till the day he dies.
Chris Matthews is a company man till the day he dies.
In the words of Bill Hicks about just a point of reference, Chris Matthews is surprised when he hears that priests have raped children.
Yeah, Chris Matthews, that was the guy who missed that story.
I was shocked to hear it.
There was a guy standing across the street from his office as he went to work every day saying, Catholic priests raped me, and he ignored him.
Then never interviewed him, never had him on his show, never.
And then when it all broke, when other reporters actually had courage and told the truth about the Catholic Church, then he was like, oh, nobody knew.
I had no idea.
But you and Comics were doing jokes about it since the 80s.
Yeah.
So here is Chris Matthews getting his ass handed to him by Amy Goodman over at Phil Donahue's firing.
And you're watching.
I'm going to thank you Chris on 10 years of MSNBC, but I wish standing with you is Phil Donahue.
He shouldn't have been fired for an expressing an anti-war point of view on the eve of the election.
His point of view and the people he brought on for the money.
I don't know what the reasons were, but I doubt it was that.
And so when Chris Battle's like, well, you're never ever ever coming on this show again.
And she did.
And that was that.
Watch this.
Watch how someone else cuts her off, too.
Have the NFC, the NBC memo.
That was a secret memo that came out that said they didn't want him to be the face of this network, an anti-war face at a time when the other one was.
I think you might not love to answer.
Remember me when you answered.
I said there, Phil, you were a great patriot.
We did have the.
So that's someone with balls.
Chris Matthews is a gutless wonder.
A company man till the day he dies.
And that's what's wrong with corporate news.
You can't, you know, they'll never tell the truth.
They didn't even tell the truth about why they fired Phil Donahue.
So Chris Masters is willing to lie to you on his own show about stuff.
And we all know he's lying, and you still listen to him?
You still don't.
Why would you get your news from a fucking news network that you know fires people who tells the truth about war?
Why would you get your news from a news network that fires people who cover progressive politicians?
Why would you get your news from someone who goes on those shows and is welcomed on those shows?
Here's a little bit more.
Phil the irony that MSNBC now is supposedly this liberal liberal network now.
You wonder, though, if another move to war came, how liberal it would remain.
Well, you know.
This is 2013, and he's giggling.
If there was another move for war, you wonder how liberal they would be.
Well, guess how liberal?
Here's NBC News.
The Russian propaganda machine that tried to influence the 2016 election is now promoting the presidential aspirations of 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard because they are scared to death of the anti-war voice.
And she brings the anti-war voice together.
And that scares the crap out of them.
And they can't fire her.
So NBC News does a McCarthy smear at the top of their lungs.
And you know what this article is based on?
NBC News is basing this from a group called New Knowledge.
They're a company that got kicked off Facebook for doing the exact thing they're accusing Russians doing for they created fake Russian bots.
They got caught doing it.
And what they'll do is they create fake Russian bucks and then they sell you the solution.
They have a solution to fix it for you.
They got caught doing that in Alabama's race.
They still run this article on those people who are discredited.
They got kicked off of Facebook for it.
So these are grifters.
They're basing this thing on a grifter's report, which was completely fabricated.
That's what NBC News does.
That's not a real news story.
That's straight up 100% propaganda.
That's what NBC News does.
And if you know people who get a chance to go on NBC News and they don't bring this up, well, then that's all you need to know about them.
How about people who have their own news shows who don't even cover this?
That's all you need to know about them.
While I was busy piling up Kansas Foons in my panic room, Bill O'Reilly left me a bunch of messages on my machine.
Do you want to hear him?
And that's when I dropped my pants.
Oh, hi there.
This is the big old Bill O'Reilly.
Miss me yet?
Now I bet you're curious as to my expert analysis of the government shutdown and the wall and all that.
Or I'm bored with it.
They're all pinheads.
And I'm not saying that just because I was fired.
Because I wasn't fired.
I just left Fox to spend more time with my family.
Not the family that left me, but the new one I'm paying to act like my family.
Hey, you know there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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