TYT: Media’s Coverage of Jason Miller Causes Public to Distrust Them

Trump minion Jason Miller lost his defamation lawsuit against Gizmodo, and will be forced to pay $42,000 in legal fees.

“A U.S. District Court judge in Florida has ordered Jason Miller, a spokesperson for former President Trump, to pay G/O Media $42,000 in legal expenses. The ruling comes after a federal appeals court rejected his second $100 million defamation suit against G/O, the parent company of Gizmodo, Jezebel, and other websites…”

What Bernie’s former press secretary thinks of media bias | Andrew Yang | Yang Speaks

 

New York Times and corporate bias is invisible.  Briana joy gray shares her experience getting the Times to say just what had happened at a NAACP conference in Detroit when Bernie was the only candidate to get a standing ovation and was the number two candidate and the narrative was that Bernie had a black problem.

Starts: 22:57

 

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i’m a huge fan of the intercepts
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journalism everything i’ve seen out of
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there
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just seemed so real and on point
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uh is different than other outlets that
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way
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and i think there’s like a major problem
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with what some people call
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corporate media am one of those people
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oh no i mean hey like i i like that as
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moniker
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it makes you think you’re like yeah
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corporate media and then you’re like
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what’s the opposite of corporate media
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so i i think the massive crisis in
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journalism um you know
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the first thing it’s like a layer cake
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and it’s all terrible
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um but the first layer is that over to
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the local papers
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have gone out of business and so if
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you’re in a community it’s like no local
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news like how that can you vote on
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anything that’s going on in your
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community and then you have the national
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media was completely polarized at
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various directions
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because your economic incentives drive
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you that way
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and then you have the social media layer
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on top of it that describes you even
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more to extremity even into like
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different versions of reality where at
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this point
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it’s like you know up is down left is
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right you know
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like vote totals or whatever we say they
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are yeah well i have mixed feelings
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about the
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the um social media piece but to your
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point about the the independent media
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versus corporate media piece
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you know there’s a legitimate criticism
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that can be made about the intercept’s
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funding model as well but there is a big
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difference
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when you have uh to the incentive
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structure when you’re working at a place
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like the intercept where
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you don’t have requirements to get a
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certain number of clicks or publish a
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certain number of articles a day
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um you can spend time doing research and
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reporting without the kind of financial
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pressures of
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the typical ad revenue model because
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it’s funded by
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you know a billionaire there’s like a
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large amount of money that’s guaranteed
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to the intercept to do its work
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regardless of how much money
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it makes um whereas other outlets tend
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to have to make sure that this is one of
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the good
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this is one of the billionaires right
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like well you know that’s what i
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when i say that there’s a legitimate
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criticism legitimate critique to be made
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of the internet study model there are
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pros and cons of that obviously but
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there are firewalls up between the
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intercept and um
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the the ebay billionaire who’s the one
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that funds the intercept
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um and there are a lot of on the record
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i am a fan
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of uh omidyar i think pierre omidyar has
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done so much good work
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not just the intercept but i ran a
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non-profit for years and the omidyar
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social fellows and the social innovation
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investments
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he’s made i think the fact that he
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already saw the problems with journalism
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and was trying to do something about it
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early on uh that there are
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um legitimate criticisms of our winner
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take all economic system but
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in like in my mind omidyar is among the
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most benevolent
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uh wealthy people out there yeah i think
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look the the point is not ever
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in the critiques that come from the left
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about the massive accumulation of wealth
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etc
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is not to say that any one individual is
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you know
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evil or that you know there aren’t
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people who can do good things with their
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wealth the idea you know do you say
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winner take all obviously um
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uh a non-giorados wrote this great book
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about this this idea
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the idea is we shouldn’t have to rely on
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private charity
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um to fix the problems of the world and
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that the enormous accumulation of wealth
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in the hands of very few people
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can have really um um styming effects
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for
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journalism the fourth estate our
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democracy you know the ability of
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someone like
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you know michael bloomberg who was what
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the ninth richest person
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on the planet to enter the race what
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that means is that you know
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he has the money to fund his famed
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mayor’s school right
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where so many people were arguably
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willing to endorse him and particularly
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a lot of black mirrors it did seem like
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a lot of mayors
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were like bloomberg and you’re like oh
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maybe there’s something going on there
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yeah and it’s not it’s not again that
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the mayors are bad people or like
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you know wanting to do a bad thing but
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if you go through as mayor’s i had
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nothing
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for the record if i were mayor of a city
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and mike bloomberg had
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uh funded something in my city and then
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decided to do something
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you know like i i’m not mad at anyone
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who said look the best thing for my
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community
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is for me to get on on board with this
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campaign well here’s the thing
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you can there’s it’s one thing to to
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critique the
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system the system is that a lot of
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mayors particularly these black mayors
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from
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poorer districts right who are from
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predominantly minority districts who
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have
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a harder time raising money same goes
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for black disproportionately black
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congress people right who are similarly
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coming from districts where it’s harder
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to earn money because they have a lower
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income population
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um for all the historical reasons that
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we understand you know tend to be more
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susceptible to these kinds of
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buyouts and that’s not because they’re
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worse people it’s because of these
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structural issues in terms of their
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inability to raise funds and the fact
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that when especially when you’re a
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congress person your number one job is
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to raise funds for the party and there’s
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enormous pressures on you
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to get that money so the critique is not
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to say
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you know keisha lance bottoms is a
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problem is to say what can we do to make
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it so
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keisha lance bottoms is more free to
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vote her conscience to reflect the
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interest
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of the people that she presides over um
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her constituents instead of feeling the
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need to take this money and then to give
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an endorsement
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i don’t remember i thought keisha lance
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bottoms was for joe but there was a
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there were a number of other young
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mayors there were sorry
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yeah i’m sorry i didn’t mean to like
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throw her in particular under the bus
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but she was the first
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the first uh southern black black mayor
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that came to mind she is very cool
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um you know spent a lot of time in in
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atlanta of late
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so one of the things that people i don’t
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think um
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make enough of bree is that at this
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point
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vast wealth often technology wealth and
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the media have now
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converged where you have these legacy
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media properties that can’t make money
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or can’t make enough money to keep
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people happy
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and so then some tech mogul titan
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who does not like sports as much decides
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to buy the publication
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so mark benioff buys time magazine
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jeff bezos buys the washington post
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laureen powell jobs buys the atlantic
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now some of these people i like uh you
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know like
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like some of them i like less
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but but there’s definitely a thing where
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um where tech money and you
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i guess you could use the intercept as
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an example though we didn’t buy it it’s
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not like a legacy media property that um
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that omdr decided to buy um but there
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has been this convergence
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and i don’t know if people this is
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something that i
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actually am very very frustrated by is
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that there’s this veneer of media
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objectivity
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um where it’s like nothing to see here
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don’t worry about it where objective
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we’re objective
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and then the ownership structure has
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completely changed
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there was a point when you had these
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firms that were very profitable firms
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you know newspapers even great business
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for generations
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uh and then that business has gotten
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decimated so now
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you have two thousand local papers out
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of existence
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over half of the papers that still exist
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are owned by private equity so just like
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ringing them for cash
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and they don’t really care about the
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local coverage so much and then you have
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the legacy publications that have often
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gotten consolidated or brought up by
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their individuals
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or private equity or other firms and
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then you have the more successful
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national media organizations that have
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become polarized because
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of audience share
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generally like if you decide to become a
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little more partisan then you can
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actually get a more consistent audience
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yeah i think that’s an accurate
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diagnosis
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and to your one of your first points
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what’s partly so frustrating is in
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addition to the bias that it exists but
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that there’s a certain
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invisibility to the bias among
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mainstream
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corporate outlets right so i will often
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hear people say if i tweet out an
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intercept article
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oh gosh that’s your that’s your source
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for saying x y and z i’m not gonna
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believe it
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which is kind of the opposite of what
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you should be thinking
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um you should trust a relatively more
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independent outlet over
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you know frankly the the new york times
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i mean i
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i know that it sounds people might be
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tired of hearing about bernie bros and
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media bias
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um and i understand that but i’ll tell
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you
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working um on the calm side and the
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campaign
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oh my gosh yeah that’s true you have all
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the inside scoop what the heck was going
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on over there
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you know the conversations that i was
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having with people
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in an effort to just say what had
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happened right
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so there was an episode where
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um i was on the road uh bernie sanders
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and all of the candidates i think almost
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everybody maybe you were there andrew i
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can’t quite remember
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had uh spoken at i believe an naacp
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conference in detroit
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and everybody spoke but
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bernie sanders was the only candidate to
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get a standing ovation from the room
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and when i read the new york times
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write-up of the event
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uh the words bernie or andor sanders
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were not mentioned once in this article
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at the time bernie was a number two
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candidate in the polls
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right so i reached out to the author
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this must have driven you
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insane right especially given all of the
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narrative around bernie having a black
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problem right he’s the only one at an
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naacp conference who gets a standing
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ovation from the room
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so i reached out to the the writer who i
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had recently met at netroots
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and i thought we had a lovely talk and i
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said hey i just wanted to you know reach
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out and ask about why it was that bernie
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wasn’t mentioned especially since he did
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so well and because he is
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literally the number two and he’s a
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black audience
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right and he said oh i must have been in
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the bathroom when that happened
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no way so so i said oh okay well the
24:22
footage went up immediately after you
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know you could have watched it
24:26
you can watch your bathroom break
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footage this is like a football game
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where you have
24:30
you have tevo right and you know if you
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were gonna time a bathroom
24:34
a bathroom break i perhaps would have
24:36
timed it not during
24:37
the number two candidate in the race’s
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remarks but you could wait till yang
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yeah we all know that you were a dark
24:45
horse and people were sleeping on you
24:46
for too long
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um but you know you know what you know i
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think it’s true
24:52
but you know his response at that point
24:53
was you know
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not good and relatively hostile and he
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pivoted to some other concerns he
24:59
thought
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you know he thought that the campaign
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had unfairly hit beat up on one of his
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um colleagues because she had written a
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piece that had gotten a lot of criticism
25:06
not from us but from the public because
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it was not a great piece and i was like
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well this isn’t really my issue and
25:11
the conversation devolved but that kind
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of thing happened again and again there
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was another time
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a journalist had written that bernie was
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not not gonna make the debate after the
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heart attack
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that he was going to miss the next
25:21
debate after the heart attack it was
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said declaratively like that
25:24
and so i reached out and said okay well
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all the doctors are saying this kind of
25:28
procedure that he had usually has a
25:30
four-day recovery window
25:31
and people are back out on the golf
25:32
course or whatever and could you would
25:35
you mind
25:36
changing that um and he said no
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absolutely not
25:40
uh i i’m just i’m not gonna i said on
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what basis
25:43
you know this person has a doctor in
25:45
front of their name but they’re not a
25:46
medical doctor i said you are not
25:48
your writer he was an editor your writer
25:50
should not be quoting you
25:51
as a source of medical expertise as to
25:54
when bernie sanders
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can attend a debate and of course he was
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at the debate
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right so it was this kind of thing over
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and over and over again you know bernie
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wins nevada
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and um chris matthews is talking about
26:06
how people are going to be
26:08
you know chopping heads off in central
26:09
park bernie you know bernie supposed to
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be chopping people’s heads off in
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central park
26:13
there’s no mention of the fact that he
26:14
got 70 of the latino vote and how
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important latino vote was going to be in
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the general election
26:19
right um you you had a person bringing a
26:23
swastika a nazi
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flag to a burning rally and getting no
26:26
coverage but you know the use of some
26:28
snake emojis under other candidates
26:30
um you know instagram pages being a 45
26:33
minute
26:34
interview subject for rachel maddow you
26:36
know and on and on and on
26:38
and important things were happening
26:39
right the country was going into a
26:41
crisis toward the end of the primary
26:43
bernie sanders was standing there with a
26:46
lot of the answers and you know assad
26:47
has been championing
26:48
universal basic income we needed big
26:51
ticket ideas
26:52
to get us out of this crisis which we
26:54
all saw coming down the pike
26:55
by the end of the primary season and
26:58
right now
26:59
we are struggling we have gotten this
27:01
stimulus package now that is
27:04
half of what was being offered up prior
27:06
to the
27:07
election and none of the substantive
27:11
structural changes
27:12
that were on offer managed to make it
27:14
through the primary season
27:16
and it’s it’s demoralizing to have seen
27:18
such promise and inspiring ideas from
27:21
people like you
27:22
people like bernie people like elizabeth
27:24
warren and to see
27:25
none of that really reflected in our
27:28
party at present
27:29
your experiences on the bernie campaign
27:33
with the media
27:34
are reflective uh and so i i want to dig
27:37
into this uh
27:38
more because and i also don’t want to be
27:40
like oh
27:41
you know like that like media this is
27:43
that
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um but hearing your perspective is
27:47
fascinating
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so when you talk about corporate media
29:59
uh
30:00
sometimes it brings to mind for me it’s
30:03
like okay
30:04
what is the uncorporate media like what
30:07
is a
30:08
source that you can actually just shrug
30:10
and say they don’t have any incentives
30:12
around suppressing one candidate or
30:14
elevating another
30:16
uh and uh one outlet that people do
30:20
trust more than others um is
30:23
npr which is publicly funded uh you also
30:26
have c-span which is the most boring
30:28
thing in the world but it literally just
30:29
but it just like sticks a camera on
30:31
people and just like it lets them work
30:32
um
30:33
so i had a store like a time when i was
30:35
in a hotel in iowa after a day of
30:37
campaigning
30:38
and then i turned on tv and i was just
30:40
flipping channels then i saw c-span i
30:42
saw myself
30:43
and i was like like what’s this that was
30:45
an event i’d done that day
30:48
and it was just presented without
30:50
commentary it was just me hanging out
30:51
with high school kids answering
30:53
questions
30:54
and i was like wow uh this is
30:57
up um at c-span uh
31:00
very very different than the cable news
31:02
coverage which has a completely
31:03
different rhythm
31:04
and presentation style so
31:08
if we were to want to mend journalism
31:12
like do you have any ideas uh like i
31:15
i think that there should be much more
31:16
public investment in journalism
31:18
i do not see any other way because right
31:20
now you have the corporate incentives
31:22
going one direction
31:23
and then in my mind it’s either
31:25
philanthropy or public resources those
31:27
are really the only two
31:29
and the tech version is philanthropy
31:32
essentially because if you look at the
31:33
wealth and the people who care about
31:34
this it ends up
31:35
being techies very often um
31:38
and so if you don’t love that and you
31:41
know their ups and downs to it like i
31:42
you know i think some of them do a great
31:44
job i’m
31:46
a fan of the atlantic’s work like you
31:48
know i love the atlantic
31:49
um i think intercept is great work um
31:52
but then you pretty quickly land on
31:54
public uh support for journalism
31:57
and then there are a lot of folks that
31:58
are like oh you can’t have the
31:59
government from journalism because
32:01
like you know it’ll be corrupt orwellian
32:02
big brother like you know they’ll like
32:04
censor everything and the rest of it and
32:05
you’re like
32:06
well there is like the bbc which is
32:09
publicly funded and they seem okay you
32:11
have npr
32:12
seems okay you have uh you know
32:15
different
32:15
examples of this throughout the world
32:17
yeah so the
32:19
the conversation about kind of
32:21
government versus private funding is the
32:22
same conversation that ends up happening
32:24
about
32:24
between republicans and democrats about
32:26
big government versus all government
32:28
right and what what is missing from that
32:29
conversation often is like sure
32:32
hypothetically the government could have
32:34
could be corrupt
32:35
but we all know there’s an enormous
32:38
amount of corruption
32:39
in the business world and there are no
32:41
democratic mechanisms for us to do
32:42
anything about that
32:43
so at least when we we have government
32:45
we have some semblance of
32:47
democracy still and we can vote people
32:49
in and out and have an accountability
32:51
mechanism
32:52
nobody really talks about okay we have
32:54
the free market how are we going to hold
32:55
jeff bezos who’s richer than god
32:57
accountable for anything that he does to
32:58
any of his employees et cetera
33:00
but there’s a third option right there
33:02
is independently
33:03
um subscriber-funded media that’s
33:06
neither government or business based and
33:08
that’s where you have outlets like
33:09
current affairs where i’m a contributing
33:11
editor you have outlets like
33:13
the intercept is partially independently
33:15
funded they are trying increasingly to
33:16
get off
33:17
of um peers funding and when people
33:19
subscribe it helps them to be able to do
33:21
that
33:21
um you have outlets like david sirota
33:24
who was my colleague on the campaign but
33:25
a veteran journalist of 20 years before
33:27
that
33:28
who started his own blog the daily
33:29
poster you have a lot of people
33:31
advocate for defecting from their
33:33
journalistic institution glenn greenwald
33:35
recently left the intercept to start his
33:36
own blog
33:37
um that is independently funded on
33:39
patreon where people
33:41
give money to these people you know to
33:43
these individuals
33:44
or in david’s rhoda’s case he’s trying
33:46
to start not just an individual platform
33:47
but a platform where a lot of
33:49
progressive journalists can come and
33:50
write about
33:51
corruption and other kinds of issues
33:53
that get very little hearing
33:55
in the mainstream media but are really
33:57
at the root of a lot of the problems in
33:58
this country
33:59
through his outlet called the daily
34:01
poster so i do think that
34:03
people are finding a lot of interest in
34:05
this and it’s a sustainable model
34:07
to a certain degree but if we are ever
34:09
going to be able to compete
34:11
with the msnbc’s and cnns and fox news
34:14
of the world
34:14
i agree that something more substantial
34:16
has to change and i think
34:18
viewers demanding more of those
34:20
corporate institutions
34:22
would be really helpful because
34:24
currently i think the average american
34:27
believes that those that reporting out
34:29
of quote unquote liberal institutions
34:31
liberal
34:32
um media institutions is being done in
34:34
good faith
34:35
and they don’t know that so many of like
34:38
msnbc
34:39
newscasters um pundits are conservative
34:42
they don’t even know that some of the
34:44
people who are giving advice to the
34:45
democratic party on a daily basis
34:47
you know george bush’s former comms
34:49
woman has a prime time spot at msnbc
34:52
you know fair vote in other
34:53
organizations that have assessed media
34:54
bias
34:55
show that the average msnbc panel is
34:57
skewed more conservative has more
34:59
republicans on it
35:00
than the average fox news panel you know
35:02
and so people are digesting this
35:04
information in good faith not even
35:05
really realizing
35:07
that the institutions that they think
35:08
are liberal and have a liberal bias and
35:10
that they want a liberal bias
35:11
aren’t even liberal they are echoing the
35:13
same kinds of right-wing talking points
35:15
that you get on fox news
35:16
and in fact due to this kind of weird
35:18
populist surge that’s happening
35:20
on the right sometimes you get a fox
35:22
news pundit who’s more willing to talk
35:23
honestly about
35:24
something like trade policies or
35:27
health care even than some of the msnbc
35:30
hosts
35:33
there are two things i’d like to suggest
35:34
here one is
35:36
it’s not left or right anymore it’s kind
35:38
of
35:39
in the institution or outside the
35:41
institution and i love the folks like
35:42
you who are like trying to
35:44
like create the outside of the
35:46
institution
35:47
um ecosystem and voices the second thing
35:51
is that i love the subscriber model
35:56
um that you and others and just
35:59
to be like i don’t know whether this is
36:01
true you’re working at current affairs
36:02
as an editor
36:03
um are are you now at a point where
36:06
you’re generating subscription for
36:07
yourself personally or
36:08
like are you working for a um a
36:11
publication
36:12
so i don’t i don’t get paid by current
36:14
affairs i’m kind of there as a
36:16
um you know an advisory in an advisory
36:19
role as a contributing editor and stuff
36:21
like that
36:21
i my income comes through my podcast bad
36:24
faith so
36:25
you know my co-host virgil texas and i
36:27
and he’s from chapel trap house
36:29
check out bad faith it’s a great podcast
36:31
i’ve been there
36:32
yes you have it’s great everything is
36:34
worth your time and donation don’t you
36:36
want to support brie
36:37
and virgil i appreciate that andrew
36:41
but yeah we you know the subscriber
36:42
model has worked
36:44
um you know for a relatively small sum
36:46
of money each month
36:47
people can unlock you know a ton of
36:50
premium episodes plus we put out a free
36:52
episode every week
36:53
um and they get a lens on the news that
36:56
they wouldn’t
36:57
otherwise get now everyone you know
36:59
doesn’t work
37:00
as well for everyone obviously we’re
37:01
advantaged by the fact that we had
37:03
you know platforms because we knew who
37:04
we already yeah you’re like national
37:06
voices and one
37:07
of the things that that too bree like i
37:09
i struggle with too because you know
37:10
you to yourself you’re you uh but
37:14
you are remarkable virgil is very very
37:16
well known
37:17
and the fact that you can make it work
37:20
um
37:21
does not mean that you know like the
37:22
bottom whatever 90
37:24
some odd percent of folks could make it
37:26
work in the same way that’s true
37:28
but but take take this into account i
37:30
was when i was a completely anonymous
37:32
citizen with 200 twitter followers i
37:34
started a podcast
37:36
and over the course of two years we got
37:38
to about
37:39
i don’t know 8 000 people listening to
37:42
the podcast on average every week
37:44
every two weeks actually and and that
37:46
was that’s that puts you in like the top
37:48
echelon of podcast the vast majority
37:50
of podcasts barely get anyone listening
37:52
to them ever
37:53
um and we have a lot of people listening
37:55
to this are like
37:57
you know like i mean that that sorry
37:59
that resembles reality it’s true
38:01
continue i mean it’s hard to break
38:03
throughs but we we managed to to break
38:05
through
38:06
to go viral a couple of times and we
38:09
never we never monetized the podcast but
38:11
i think that we
38:12
could have and we could have grown it we
38:14
ended up stopping it because i left and
38:15
went to the intercept
38:16
but the thing i will say about the
38:17
internet is that it has a democratizing
38:19
effect
38:20
i my political career to the extent that
38:22
i have one
38:23
came fully out of engaging with people
38:25
and having arguments and discussions
38:27
on the internet inviting people to
38:29
continue those conversations on the
38:30
podcast
38:31
writing articles that concretized my
38:33
views and were able to be disseminated
38:35
far and wide and went
38:36
viral on their own kind of merit not
38:39
because i was a
38:40
big name not because i was associated
38:41
with any institution my most viral
38:43
articles continue to come out of current
38:44
affairs magazine
38:45
i’ve never been published in the new
38:47
york times you know and so
38:49
i want to say yes it’s hard but it’s not
38:51
as hard as it would be if we didn’t have
38:52
the freedom of these
38:53
internet platforms to get around a lot
38:56
of the gatekeeping that has
38:57
traditionally been done
38:58
in this sector again this is why so many
39:01
people
39:02
uh want to be you
39:05
really give me your husband awesome
39:08
um i want to hear more horror stories in
39:11
terms of
39:12
corporate media mistreatment of the
39:14
bernie’s campaign
39:18
you’re gonna get me in trouble look you
39:20
know it
39:22
it it was hard it was hard largely
39:25
because
39:25
you know i know that everybody who works
39:27
for every campaign
39:28
well i think that a lot of people who
39:30
work for a lot of campaigns really
39:32
believe they’re in it for the right
39:32
reasons and
39:33
because their candidate is the one that
39:35
can truly help america and so i don’t
39:37
mean to
39:38
sound like pollyanna about this now i
39:40
just want to interject for a moment brie
39:42
i cannot tell you how many times i did
39:44
an event
39:45
where there were uh tons of journalists
39:48
present
39:49
where i did what i thought was a good
39:52
job
39:53
and got zero mentioned
39:58
i know over and over again i i will tell
40:00
you that i told you this on our podcast
40:02
on bad faith podcast right i remember
40:04
being at the intercept and because i’m
40:06
so online i remember looking at youtube
40:08
videos i would see
40:10
i would be watching burning youtube
40:11
videos and see people from the yang gang
40:13
commenting in them
40:14
right like everywhere i looked on the
40:15
internet i saw yan gang yang and i was
40:17
like
40:18
this feels like an organic phenomenon
40:19
this feels like something
40:21
real and that’s not going away in the
40:22
same way that i saw in a lot of youtube
40:24
comments
40:25
and twitter comments people who who were
40:27
from california who were from kamala
40:28
harris district
40:29
who were not big fans of her and i said
40:31
well this doesn’t bode well for her
40:32
campaign i suspect that this is not
40:34
going to go well
40:34
it was an early indication of the fire
40:37
that you were able to
40:38
you ignite organically despite having no
40:41
participation
40:42
from the media and i remember getting a
40:44
request from your team
40:46
to see if the intercept had any interest
40:49
in profiling or interviewing you
40:50
and you know taking it to my editor and
40:54
like asking what he thought and
40:55
there was a kind of well this isn’t
40:56
really going to go anywhere attitude and
40:58
and i don’t say that to like throw any
41:00
under the anybody under the bus a lot of
41:01
people don’t go anywhere and
41:02
i was i was going off of like youtube
41:04
comments and i could have very easily
41:05
been wrong
41:07
but i can perceive that there’s a
41:09
certain kind of doom or pessimism
41:11
about new people and new ideas among the
41:14
left
41:15
that can sometimes hurt candidates that
41:18
could be really successful aoc barely
41:20
got any attention until she had that
41:21
viral um ad
41:23
in like spring of 2018 right so in your
41:26
case i think there are a lot of factors
41:28
i think that there’s a hostility to new
41:30
people period
41:31
i think if i can say this there’s a
41:34
certain amount of
41:35
you know like racist bias
41:39
frankly i i think that you mean the
41:41
asian thing
41:43
yeah i mean like they were like taking
41:44
inches off of your height and articles
41:46
they were like shrinking you down
41:48
a little bit odd the old the the old
41:50
incredible freaking candidate
41:52
was like huh i did it it was ridiculous
41:55
look
41:56
we haven’t had a you know a large number
41:59
of examples of of american civilization
42:01
descent
42:02
like taking politics by storm that’s not
42:04
a reason for you to ignore it’s a reason
42:06
for you to celebrate first
42:08
the way that you do when a lot of other
42:10
firsts happen in this country and it was
42:11
really remarkable to me
42:13
you know pete buda judge being the first
42:15
openly gay candidate to run
42:17
is a big deal but why wasn’t your first
42:20
status heralded more
42:21
we heard a lot about kamala harris’s
42:23
first status
42:25
you know she’s our first you know asian
42:27
american vp
42:28
or will be but you would have been our
42:30
first asian american president and
42:32
you can’t pretend to care about these
42:35
identity things which are important
42:36
which i think
42:37
matter on a certain level but care
42:40
selectively because you’re obviously
42:41
trying to boost
42:42
certain people’s interests versus
42:43
another and that’s why i think there’s
42:44
so much cynicism
42:45
about identity politics and that’s
42:47
ultimately destructive to a lot of
42:49
broader movements
42:50
um but yeah like i i i thought you
42:54
instantly were exciting largely because
42:55
you were bringing a new idea to the
42:57
table
42:58
new ideas to the table people you know
43:00
we all know that bernie sanders
43:02
you know isn’t popular because he was
43:04
some like rhetorical dynamo
43:06
and he was like wowing everybody with
43:09
these obama-like speeches no
43:11
people were impressed with bernie
43:13
sanders because he stood on a stage
43:15
and said hey health care is a human
43:18
right
43:18
i don’t think that you should die just
43:20
because you can’t afford your
43:23
vision of values principles and goals
43:26
yes very very compelling and it’s
43:28
unadulterated
43:30
until it’s not poll tested you can tell
43:31
he actually believes
43:35
and you and you have some of that too
43:36
andrew like people
43:38
have a lot of resp respect for folks who
43:40
are willing to stand behind an idea
43:42
especially one that’s not test driven or
43:45
pull
43:46
you know pole vetted or whatever and
43:48
just sell it
43:49
and there’s not enough of innovation
43:51
there’s not enough of
43:52
pitching that’s done in the democratic
43:54
party there’s too much pull testing and
43:55
saying well let’s like fit ourselves in
43:57
the image of whatever this print sheet
43:58
of you know
43:59
printed out sheet of paper tells us to
44:00
be instead of having confidence in faith
44:02
in the american people to be able to
44:04
internalize
44:05
digest and adopt a new idea i’m going to
44:08
ask this just because i’m personally
44:10
curious
44:10
do you remember any uh conversations
44:14
on the campaign about universal basic
44:17
income and bernie
44:18
because i was waiting for him
44:21
to uh say something positive about
44:24
universal basic income really the
44:25
the whole time honestly do you remember
44:29
any of those conversations i was curious
44:30
i don’t and i asked but i also wouldn’t
44:32
have really been privy to them
44:34
in my role i will say that in the
44:36
discourse in the lefty discourse i’ve
44:38
noticed there’s
44:38
um you know there’s there’s the jobs
44:42
guarantee camp and the ubi camp and
44:43
there’s some like tension between them
44:45
and there’s a lot of people who are like
44:46
i don’t really care either or both good
44:48
ideas and i think
44:50
that what it felt like to me was that
44:52
bernie
44:53
with the jobs guarantee that was a part
44:54
of the green new deal
44:56
program had just decided maybe maybe for
44:58
messaging clarity reasons like this is
45:00
what we’re going to do it’s a green new
45:01
deal and jobs program the green new deal
45:02
and jobs program that’s what we’re going
45:04
to do
45:04
um but certainly now in the context of
45:08
covet
45:09
when you know bernie’s been talking
45:11
about twelve hundred dollars a lot of
45:12
other people
45:13
went two thousand bill right and has
45:16
been since
45:16
the beginning right meanwhile and so has
45:19
kamala harris by the way
45:20
before she joined up with joe biden she
45:21
was championing two thousand dollars a
45:23
month relief
45:24
but now that she’s a part of this ticket
45:25
has been silent on it and joe biden has
45:27
also been silent on
45:29
wildly silent and media has not pressed
45:31
him on this on whether or not he
45:33
supports cash relief so
45:35
i i think that in a lot of ways you won
45:37
the messaging battle
45:38
even if it took this horrible tragedy um
45:41
to get us there
45:42
i mean i wish that we weren’t in these
45:43
circumstances uh that
45:45
accelerated enthusiasm for universal
45:48
basic income it’s interesting hearing
45:51
your parallel
45:53
set of experiences with the media
45:56
where it blew my mind many many times
45:59
brie because like i’d be there like you
46:01
would have a conversation with a
46:02
journalist and then you’d be like oh
46:03
that was nice and then
46:05
um you know and then it’d be like you’d
46:06
do something and it’s like it didn’t
46:07
happen
46:08
[Laughter]
46:10
and in my case too i’ll share this that
46:12
when i did get press coverage it was for
46:14
things that had nothing to do with um
46:16
what i was campaigning on most of the
46:18
time
46:18
it was for something very personality
46:20
driven uh like
46:22
like when i danced a cupid shuffle like
46:24
and then i showed up on the sunday news
46:25
programs that
46:26
weekend it was like me doing the cupid
46:28
shuffle as like uh
46:30
you know andrew yag like having a good
46:32
time on the trail sort of thing and i’m
46:33
like
46:34
huh yeah anyway
46:38
it’s hard it it reminds me of this
46:40
conversation that’s going on right now
46:41
all right about whether or not
46:43
the squad should use the fact that there
46:45
is a really narrow margin for democrats
46:47
in the house
46:48
to hold up nancy pelosi’s floor vote
46:50
right if a very small number of
46:51
progressives could say
46:52
yes force the vote let’s talk about
46:54
foreign um so they could make
46:56
make it so that nancy pelosi can’t be
46:58
speaker of the house unless she concedes
47:00
to certain demands and what the main
47:01
demand that’s being pushed right now is
47:02
that she
47:03
have a floor vote on medicare for all
47:05
and the idea being not because
47:07
there’s a high likelihood that they that
47:08
we would win um that the house would
47:11
pass medicare for all
47:12
um they’re only 118 co-sponsors in the
47:14
house now democrats have a majority and
47:16
they if
47:17
every democrat in the house would for
47:18
medicare for all we could pass medicare
47:20
for all and i think we should reflect
47:21
on what it means that all the house
47:23
democrats wouldn’t pass medicare for all
47:25
in the middle of a global pandemic
47:27
that’s a real i think indictment of
47:29
our politics right now but you know
47:33
there’s this a lot of people are pushing
47:34
back against the idea saying well you’re
47:35
not going to win anyway so what’s the
47:37
point and it’s all performative
47:38
well for a lot of us especially on the
47:40
left if you don’t do something that can
47:42
grab attention if you don’t do something
47:44
performant if you don’t do the cupid
47:45
shuffle if you don’t
47:46
figure out a way to marry the
47:49
performative and the substantive to say
47:51
force the vote
47:52
and let’s hold hold up nancy pelosi
47:54
speakership let’s let’s
47:55
threaten nancy pelosi who uh you know
47:57
obviously politically
47:58
um because she is one of the least liked
48:02
her favorabilities are worse than trump
48:03
three quarters of americans think she
48:04
should
48:05
should sit down let’s make step down
48:06
let’s make her the center of the story
48:08
and also wet it with some substantive
48:10
policy goals let’s get richard neal out
48:12
of the ways and means committee because
48:13
he’s going to block medicare for all
48:15
let’s get rid of pay go because that
48:16
stands in the way of us being able to
48:18
get all kinds of big ticket items that
48:20
pego requires you to fund them as you go
48:22
along and it makes it very difficult
48:24
um do we kind of put those things
48:25
together because the average american
48:27
doesn’t want to hear a bunch of wonkery
48:29
about paygo
48:29
but they might be interested in nancy
48:31
pelosi right
48:33
and and vice versa and you gotta learn
48:35
how to do a stunt how to figure out how
48:37
to
48:37
exploit the system which is yes very
48:40
biased against the interest of the left
48:42
biased against the interest of of
48:45
working people
48:47
uh i like the idea of forcing the vote i
48:49
mean you know like you should be able to
48:51
vote on a policy that a lot of people
48:52
support and just
48:53
and if you if you’re not for it then you
48:56
don’t vote for it and then we know or
48:57
you know i mean
48:58
you know it’s like it shouldn’t be that
49:00
controversial in my mind um
49:04
well one thing i want to return to
49:06
because it speaks to this problem you’re
49:08
describing right now and i think this is
49:09
one of the core things
49:10
so you said earlier that a bunch of
49:12
folks trust
49:14
liberal media um to report things with
49:17
good intentions and maybe they make
49:18
mistake every once in a while but
49:19
there’s nothing sinister
49:20
afoot uh now
49:24
the trust in media and the trusted
49:26
institutions
49:27
actually changes dramatically
49:30
based upon your political alignment so
49:34
society-wide right now trusted media is
49:36
approximately 42 percent if you say hey
49:39
do you like trust national media to like
49:40
report the news like 42
49:42
not great that’s not very not great it’s
49:44
better than congress though
49:45
yeah congress is like 15 or something
49:47
like that right so
49:49
re-election rate of 94 though so that
49:51
that’s a real problem
49:54
exactly hashtag right all that we could
49:57
get into
49:58
for sure so 42 of people trust the media
50:01
but it actually varies wildly
50:03
uh depending upon your politics uh it
50:05
turns out republicans do not trust the
50:07
media
50:08
at all more or less so you look at them
50:09
it’s down to something like 24
50:12
you look at independence it’s around the
50:15
42
50:15
whatever the national average is then
50:17
you look at democrats it’s in the 60s
50:19
it’s maybe like 62 percent
50:20
so what so what’s happening is you have
50:24
uh democrats who are among the last
50:26
people that believe
50:28
that uh the media is getting it right
50:30
and that
50:31
the liberal media or as you’d call the
50:33
corporate news sources are getting it
50:34
right
50:35
and so there’s like this conversation
50:37
that’s being had
50:38
um that that folks uh
50:41
on really on on either side are feeling
50:44
someone excluded from like in in your
50:46
case the progressives like hey
50:47
is this really what’s going on like my
50:50
guy just knocked it out of the park
50:51
the naacp like you might want to report
50:53
on that you know
50:55
like a lot of people like the idea of
50:56
giving everyone healthcare might want to
50:58
get behind that not treat everyone as
50:59
loony
51:00
who’s for it uh and and then there are
51:02
folks on the
51:03
the right who have a different
51:05
perspective um
51:07
no i’m you know obviously more aligned
51:08
with with democrats
51:10
um but this institution non-institution
51:13
thing
51:14
is actually to me one of the most
51:15
powerful dynamics and the
51:17
media and the folks who trust the media
51:19
and trust that our institutions are
51:20
functioning
51:21
comprise the majority of the democratic
51:23
party uh
51:24
and and then there is this subset that i
51:26
think you are a part of that’s starting
51:28
to question a lot of that and they’re
51:30
like independent news media sources
51:32
there are some independent voices um but
51:36
it’s difficult because there are a lot
51:38
of folks
51:39
who really do not want to question the
51:42
institutional
51:43
powers that be and to me the most
51:45
powerful example of that
51:46
which really blew my mind was before the
51:49
election
51:50
when uh they couldn’t come to terms in a
51:53
relief bill
51:54
and uh steve mnuchin
51:57
i had like a 1.8 trillion dollar
52:01
offer that you you referenced earlier
52:03
and then
52:04
uh nancy did not want that deal for a
52:07
couple of reasons
52:08
and then i was looking around being like
52:10
why are people suggesting
52:12
should probably take this deal like
52:13
people are hurting we can’t wait through
52:15
the winter
52:16
like let’s just do this thing um and i
52:19
said
52:19
that and there were so few people
52:22
that were on board with my saying that
52:24
yeah i was like
52:26
yeah it was me and ro thank you rokhana
52:28
for not leaving me
52:30
all alone on this one um but there were
52:32
so many people that attacked me
52:34
oh yeah uh oh yeah
52:40
yeah you told me i was like look up like
52:42
i i have my
52:44
opinion on this negotiating stance like
52:47
i think you should probably jump on this
52:49
thing
52:49
uh you know and and you can disagree
52:51
with me you can say hey andrew
52:53
i think you’re wrong um without it being
52:56
some kind of
52:58
like you know like uh attack and so
53:00
there was this thing
53:02
there’s this thing that happened at
53:03
least to me and i think bernie for sure
53:06
but uh there was like this institutional
53:09
resistance
53:10
to so to someone uh questioning
53:14
nancy pelosi’s uh process or judgment
53:18
um and it shocked me that there weren’t
53:20
more people that were questioning it
53:22
at that point you know my friend
53:25
at every stage this is this is what
53:27
we’re faced with look
53:29
i i expect that you probably got some
53:31
people accusing you of
53:33
secretly trying to support trump or why
53:36
do you hate the democratic party so much
53:38
you might as well go be a republican i
53:39
mean that’s
53:40
that’s the kind of response that i get
53:41
if i say anything mildly critical of a
53:43
choice made by a democrat
53:45
and in my case i was actually accused of
53:47
sexism that that was oh
53:49
there you go there’s that’s the talk
53:50
there’s another one that happens look
53:52
obviously sexism is real and true in the
53:54
world but
53:55
it can’t be this is again the cynicism
53:57
around identity politics
53:58
identity matters people have been
54:01
marginalized on the basis of their
54:02
identity
54:03
both socially and desure like legally
54:05
our government until
54:07
50 years ago was doing this identity
54:09
matters as a political metric
54:11
however identity cannot be cynically
54:14
used
54:15
by the party apparatus in order to
54:17
deflect substantive criticism
54:18
and the way that’s being done repeatedly
54:20
and that cynicism around identity
54:22
is driving people to the right is
54:24
driving people into the arms of right
54:25
wingers that we
54:26
in in the you know neo-fascist populist
54:30
uprising that created trump in a way
54:32
that we don’t want to happen we need to
54:33
be honest about what’s going on and be
54:35
willing
54:36
to accept criticism so i think that you
54:38
were right about that i think that a lot
54:39
of people now that we see the deal that
54:41
we got
54:42
are understanding that a choice was made
54:44
explicitly
54:45
because nancy pelosi didn’t want to give
54:48
donald trump
54:48
points anything that he could campaign
54:50
over before the election now
54:53
that raises a lot of other questions for
54:54
me why was the election so close
54:56
if donald trump was so vile right why
54:59
was the election so close that the idea
55:01
of letting him
55:01
put out a stimulus check with his name
55:03
on it could have thrown
55:04
maybe we don’t even know that that’s
55:06
true but maybe could have advantaged him
55:08
meaningfully in the election
55:09
why wasn’t the democratic party long
55:12
before we got that close to the price to
55:14
the general election
55:15
running explicitly on cash payments to
55:18
americans why wasn’t that
55:20
arms favored by 88 of voters i don’t
55:23
know what the other 12
55:24
are thinking uh 88 is pretty high
55:28
yes by the way you know what else 88 of
55:30
voters support
55:31
medicare for all 88 of voters support no
55:34
sorry 88
55:35
of democrats support medicare for all 72
55:37
percent of voters according to a fox
55:39
news exit poll a fox news exit poll
55:42
should that 72 percent of americans
55:44
overall support medicare for all
55:45
and about 50 of republicans do so why is
55:48
it that
55:49
joe biden is in in the context of the
55:51
general election saying
55:52
i would veto medicare for all even if it
55:54
passed the house in the senate why is
55:56
why aren’t we asking the questions about
55:57
why the democrats are
55:59
running on these enormously popular
56:01
beneficial policies
56:02
that can make the election not so close
56:04
that we had to deny
56:06
americans much needed economic support
56:09
at a national low point in terms of both
56:12
the economy and our national health
56:15
the the lack of stimulus between
56:18
april and december was
56:22
it’s morally yeah like morally criminal
56:26
you know like looking at that
56:29
objectively
56:30
be like and if you withheld for
56:32
political reasons
56:33
um that’s awful and
56:36
you know you can’t know whether that was
56:38
the motivation but certainly
56:40
it felt a whole lot like that they said
56:43
at one point
56:44
they it was made explicit at one point
56:47
that you know this could this could help
56:48
trump like that was an explicit message
56:50
i don’t remember at this point
56:51
don’t quote me that it came out of
56:53
pelosi’s mouth or somebody else in
56:54
democratic party leadership
56:55
but that wasn’t a creation of the media
56:57
that wasn’t just conjecture that that
56:59
was the message
57:00
and democrats you know a lot of
57:02
democrats who trust the party bought
57:04
into that and said
57:05
well yes the most important thing is
57:06
defeating donald trump therefore
57:08
even if it hurts millions of americans
57:11
were going to keep the stimulus in the
57:12
bag
57:13
and you know that that’s that’s why i’m
57:16
saying again like it should never have
57:17
been that close whether or not it helps
57:19
donald trump was only an issue because
57:21
i believe the the party leadership in
57:24
in the the chosen candidate didn’t do
57:28
enough to distinguish themselves for
57:29
trump and fight affirmatively
57:31
for what they were going to do for
57:32
america instead it was i’m not trump
57:34
let’s defeat trump’s sort of campaign
57:36
and that just doesn’t galvanize people
57:38
the way that cash relief
57:40
medicare for all canceling student debt
57:42
legalizing marijuana
57:44
ubi mobilizes people
57:47
so bree uh now that and i remember
57:50
the the spring very well and i know it
57:54
was deeply painful for everyone on the
57:55
bernie campaign where it felt like it
57:57
was this
57:58
close like right there post nevada and
58:00
then
58:01
um jim climber endorses joe in south
58:03
carolina and then the entire tide turns
58:05
and all the candidates
58:06
um
58:10
had a particular direction
58:14
so it’s been seven eight months since
58:16
then you’ve now pivoted to become
58:18
an independent voice a journalist you’re
58:22
producing things that you believe in
58:24
what do you see
58:25
as like the next number of steps uh for
58:29
progressives for trying to make some of
58:32
these
58:32
changes happen politically for yourself
58:34
individually
58:36
you know i mean you’ve had like a
58:37
fascinating career already and you’re
58:39
still
58:39
just getting started um but like i i
58:42
look up and
58:43
you know there are times when i’m very
58:44
optimistic um there are times when i
58:46
think that the mechanics of our system
58:48
are just desperately broken uh and that
58:51
uh and when you start digging into some
58:54
of these numbers like
58:55
you know an 18 approval rating for
58:57
congress and a 94
58:58
reelection rate you’re like whoa like
59:00
how does that work and then you you
59:02
start
59:03
looking at mechanical fixes um one
59:05
mechanical fix i’ve been pushing very
59:06
hard is ranked choice voting
59:08
and open primaries which i think would
59:10
uh make our politics much more dynamic
59:12
and responsive
59:13
and genuine and then you can you
59:15
couldn’t bully everyone being like
59:17
you’re going to waste your vote
59:18
you’re going to like elect the evil or
59:19
whatever it’s like well if you’re ranked
59:20
as voting we don’t need to worry about
59:21
it anymore so
59:22
let’s pursue true democratic reforms
59:26
yeah i i’m a huge fan a huge advocate of
59:28
ranked choice voting
59:29
um the number one bully pull put to your
59:32
point the democratic party has is
59:34
if you don’t vote for the lesser of two
59:35
evils you’re going to make the evil win
59:37
and we have been operating on that logic
59:39
since you know realignment and the
59:41
democratic
59:42
party became what it is today um in the
59:45
republican party
59:46
became the you know southern strategy
59:48
party of
59:49
of uh white racism that you know it
59:51
emerged as
59:52
and we’ve been trying to struggle out of
59:55
that since the 1960s
59:56
since the 1950s and uh
60:00
i raised this question you know at this
60:03
point kind of infamously
60:04
on our podcast in an episode with noam
60:06
chomsky where i i simply asked look
60:08
let’s assume that donald trump presents
60:10
a unique evil and we all have to vote
60:12
him out this time
60:13
what do we do between now and 2024 to
60:16
make sure we’re not in the same
60:17
situation how do we get out of this
60:19
lesser of two legalism structure
60:21
and if we are willing to pledge our
60:22
votes the democratic party no matter
60:24
what under any circumstances
60:26
i you know i thought michael bloomberg
60:28
um was a closer call in terms of who was
60:30
worse with respect to donald trump
60:32
because he’s a lot more capable
60:33
and has actually enacted had actually
60:35
enacted a much more extreme
60:37
racial pogrom in new york city than
60:39
donald trump managed although he
60:41
certainly tried
60:42
um because michael bloomberg is an
60:43
incompetent unlike donald trump
60:45
um and people were you know willing to
60:48
vote for him
60:48
you know there were donnie joyce people
60:50
were saying they wouldn’t vote for
60:51
bernie but they would vote for for
60:52
bloomberg if he was the eventual nominee
60:55
so what authority do we have what what
60:57
line in the stand
60:58
can we is there if if the democrat if
61:01
democrats are never willing to say
61:02
enough is enough this is not the kind of
61:04
candidate we want representing us this
61:05
is not the kind of party we are
61:07
is there any policy that they won’t
61:08
throw under the bus is there any kind of
61:10
candidate that we won’t accept
61:11
and if the answer is no we’re go we
61:13
should expect that the party moves more
61:15
and more and more to the right over the
61:16
course of history
61:17
the way it’s been doing so what’s going
61:19
to stop that movement i think that
61:20
ranked choice voting is one of those
61:22
things
61:23
i think greater union participation in
61:25
figuring out how to organize
61:26
massive blocks of voters that can
61:29
meaningfully incredibly threaten
61:31
democrats to say we are going to
61:32
withhold our vote we are not going to
61:34
mobilize our population
61:35
unless you adhere to some basic
61:37
standards like the fact that 88
61:40
of democrats want medicare for all but
61:42
barely half of the house of
61:44
representatives
61:45
will co-sponsor the bill
61:48
what that the idea the idea people
61:51
people
61:52
are arguing against forced to vote who
61:53
are like well it wouldn’t pass anyway
61:54
that’s not an indictment of the idea of
61:56
forced to vote that’s a
61:57
colossal indictment of elected
62:00
representatives
62:01
democratic representatives in the house
62:03
we are in the middle of a global
62:04
pandemic where
62:05
15 million people have just lost their
62:07
employer-based healthcare
62:09
all of the people who are arguing if you
62:10
like your healthcare you can keep it
62:12
during the primary election should be
62:15
put on the mat
62:16
by a journalist every single day asking
62:17
have you revised your
62:19
position do you want to apologize for
62:21
misleading the public and spreading
62:22
right-wing talking points because none
62:23
of that was true and now you have to
62:25
answer to
62:25
15 million americans 15 million
62:29
who in the middle of a global health
62:30
crisis have no recourse
62:32
with respect to paying for their health
62:33
care that’s unconscionable
62:35
and yet we don’t have a media apparatus
62:37
who’s willing to do that
62:38
and for people like you and those in the
62:41
left who are willing to stand up and
62:42
articulate
62:43
some you know break from consensus
62:47
are ridiculed called traitors to the
62:49
party
62:50
accused of sexism or some other kind of
62:52
identity based bias
62:54
and there’s no real reckoning at any
62:56
point so i do think that yes
62:58
ranked choice voting needs to be pushed
62:59
democrats will never do it because
63:01
that’s the source
63:01
one of the main sources of their power
63:03
but we have to agitate for it
63:05
um we need to start going to town halls
63:08
take a lesson out of the tea parties
63:09
playbook which is was a lesson out of
63:11
salalinsky’s playbook on the left
63:13
and make life uncomfortable for our
63:15
elected representatives until they
63:17
start actually representing us and that
63:19
goes for some of the people who have
63:21
been progressive champions as well it’s
63:22
not about throwing them out
63:24
or saying they’re terrible people or
63:26
questioning their motives
63:27
but it’s about understanding that there
63:28
is a such thing as institutional creep
63:30
um when you are in office your motives
63:33
start to change
63:34
and you have an incentive in maintaining
63:36
your status and your position
63:37
and you have all these incentives to
63:39
raise money and and give money to the
63:41
parties that you can get
63:42
hierarchy and status within your
63:45
committee positions and all these kinds
63:46
of things which are important
63:47
but shouldn’t come at the expense of the
63:49
people that you were elected to
63:50
represent
63:51
we need to give money to independent
63:53
candidates so that they can rely on the
63:54
people and be beholden to the people
63:56
instead of being beholden to
63:58
corporate interests we need to push for
63:59
campaign finance reform so they don’t
64:01
have the option
64:02
to be dependent on corporate interests
64:04
and we all just have to stay a lot more
64:06
engaged and have
64:08
confidence have faith keep the faith
64:11
that if we do these things and we stand
64:13
together and we recognize that it’s not
64:14
left right that it is top down
64:16
and the 99 stands together it is
64:19
possible for us to have a better world
64:21
it is possible and we should not let
64:23
pessimism cow
64:26
oh you’re like the antidote to cynicism
64:28
i love it anyone
64:30
anyone who needs needs a reminder
64:33
of the the fact that we can do great
64:36
things
64:36
uh brie’s got a podcast every every week
64:39
with
64:40
virgil who’s more of a virgo’s more of a
64:42
downer than bree so you guys know
64:43
there’s a little bit of a
64:44
yin-yang good bad cop situation
64:48
oh yeah there you are you’re a very good
64:49
team um so for you personally
64:53
i’m sure there was like a sense of
64:55
depletion
64:56
after the campaign and then you’ve just
64:58
gotten kind of your
65:00
legs underneath you in terms of this
65:03
new podcast and your new independent
65:05
media project
65:07
would the plan be to just keep on uh
65:10
building your um voice and work until
65:14
like the
65:14
the next candidate catches fire and
65:17
manages to get your attention
65:19
yeah i mean certainly i’m interested to
65:21
see what happens electorally but i’m
65:22
also
65:23
really interested to start to explore
65:25
non-electoral activism you know
65:27
there’s been a little bit of a circular
65:29
firing squad on the left this past week
65:31
or two about force the vote
65:32
and to try to break out of that i’m
65:35
reaching out to
65:36
union leaders and organizers to try to
65:37
come on and give us a more
65:40
um concrete sense of how change happens
65:42
you know
65:43
a lot of left pundits like to say well
65:45
your idea doesn’t work because it really
65:47
requires organizing it requires
65:48
grassroots support i mean like that’s
65:50
great but don’t we play a role in
65:51
helping to germinate that
65:52
can’t we do that why not right like i’m
65:54
not doing anything else i’m just a
65:55
podcaster let me let me call up the head
65:57
of my local dsa
65:58
let me write to my representative and
66:00
see if she
66:02
she can get on the record on for us to
66:03
vote you know let let me
66:05
reach out to the medicare for all
66:07
advocates let me reach out to black
66:08
lives matter advocates
66:10
let’s see what does it actually take to
66:11
get 3 000 people sitting in front of the
66:14
capitol what does it take to organize
66:16
a million person march or the women’s
66:18
march let me let me ask um
66:20
you know this woman not doing anything
66:22
this woman can do anything she doesn’t
66:23
date
66:23
it’s beautiful well i haven’t done it
66:25
yet one thing i want
66:27
oh yo you you you will do um all of
66:30
those things are very doable
66:32
one thing i want to just insert into
66:34
this forced to vote conversation
66:35
and this is something that a member of
66:37
congress informed me of that i was like
66:38
wow that’s freaking
66:40
terrible um is it’s very hard to get any
66:42
vote going
66:43
on the floor because of something called
66:45
the denny hastert rule
66:46
where you need the majority of the
66:48
majority party to be on board
66:50
to even introduce anything so i want you
66:52
all to
66:53
imagine being first let’s say a minority
66:55
legislator so let’s say you’re
66:57
a democrat the senator or republican in
66:59
the house you’re like well i can’t force
67:00
a vote on a single thing
67:01
maybe because we’re not we’re not a
67:04
majority of the majority
67:06
and then i want you to imagine being a
67:07
minority of the majority party where you
67:09
also can’t
67:10
get a vote on anything uh because you
67:13
know like you you don’t have
67:14
i suppose it would be um you know like a
67:17
hundred and
67:18
uh 30 or 140 colleagues on board or
67:21
whatever the number is
67:22
um so that rule just strikes me is so
67:26
terrible like it just seems like such a
67:28
dysfunctional body where it’s literally
67:30
like if you have the majority of the
67:31
majority then you can
67:32
actually advance things and if you don’t
67:34
you can’t and then
67:35
you can just chill out like like yeah
67:39
so it is an action which is why this
67:41
opportunity
67:42
right because the speaker can bring a
67:43
floor vote the speaker regardless of
67:45
the numbers you’ve got can bring us four
67:47
votes well the speaker is the one that
67:49
enacted this rule that’s not even a rule
67:51
it’s like you know it’s like the speaker
67:53
saying well i’m not going to do it
67:54
unless the majority majority so they
67:55
clearly can do what they want yeah and
67:57
it’s an aggregating party for
67:58
herself a power rather for herself all
68:00
of it so much of what we see in politics
68:02
is that people get
68:03
a little bit of power and they hoard it
68:06
you know even you know we talked a lot
68:07
about
68:08
george bush’s overreach and expansion of
68:10
executive power
68:11
and then barack obama came into office
68:13
and instead of dismantling it once you
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get there like well i’m the good guy
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so it’s good if i have power so let me
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keep let me keep what was aggregated for
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me in the last administration and then
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get a little bit more
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and so what we get is increasingly
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individuals
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who are able to lord their preferences
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in a very anti-democratic way over the
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rest of us
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which i’m going to suggest is
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particularly problematic when you’re
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looking at
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legislative body of hundreds of people
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like that
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that to me is like more problematic even
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i mean
68:44
the executive abuses have their own uh
68:46
you know like separate category of
68:49
problem but i feel like in a legislative
68:51
body like hoarding it at that level just
68:53
seems particularly
68:55
um egregious at least to me
68:58
yeah i mean they’re supposed they’re
68:59
literally it’s it’s especially the house
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that kind of representative body the
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most representative body that we
69:06
have basically being frozen
69:09
in an action you know in this idea that
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you know to your point about republicans
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not being able to bring something to a
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floor vote too
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look what’s happening right now who
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who’s fighting for cash relief
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it’s a it’s a independent and a
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republican
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you know um you know who are who are
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leading the chart bernie’s
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you know so it was in the senate it was
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bernie sanders
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and josh hawley exactly and then there
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were some folks working it
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behind the scenes including cory booker
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and then i know this because i’ve been
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actually working this scene for
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a while like i’ve been having
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calls and sessions about cash relief and
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then uh
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and then in the house i’m happy to say
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that dozens of
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um members on both sides of the aisle
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uh got on board with with cash relief
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and so there was like this four corners
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negotiation around the stimulus bill
69:58
if you remember the bipartisan senate
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bill that got proposed in the beginning
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of december didn’t include cash relief
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and we had like a freak out here i had a
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freak out i was like how can there not
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be cash relief in this thing
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um but we’ve been trying to get folks
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excited about cash
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as um part of this bill for weeks
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and so i’m just going to call out a few
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people some of whom you know and love
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but uh lisa blunt rochester and david
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mckinley were the bipartisan sponsors of
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a cash leap bill in the house
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and then i’m happy to say that like
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people from all over the political map
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from
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pramila jayapal to uh to tom reed to
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others and one of the rules we had on
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that bill
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was that we want a republican for every
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democrat um and we got it
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like so it just like it grew it was like
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noah’s ark
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it was wild um but but but so you should
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know that that was happening in the
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house the house i think was more
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um uh stridently for cash relief
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in the senate it blew my mind that after
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bernie and josh hawley came out and like
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hey we should really have stimulus which
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they were totally right
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um and and i was working like senators
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being like you want to get in on that
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because they’re right and like you know
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like everyone agrees with it
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um and so it was odd that we couldn’t
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get more senators on the record
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um for cash relief uh there were three
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that were
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for it behind the scenes anyway sorry
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just one month
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that’s really useful and i think that
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part of it is that they’re not as
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senators aren’t as accountable you know
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they have longer terms
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um their races tend to be uh more
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expensive
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you know um i think they can
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in a lot of ways be less less
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accountable to their constituents plus
71:36
to the earlier point about
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uh media bias i don’t know if you saw
71:40
the clip where bernie sanders
71:42
you know went on msnbc to talk about
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um cash relief and he was pressed by i
71:48
believe it was stephanie rule
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she said well i’m looking at a sheet of
71:53
paper here bernie she had a graphic all
71:54
ready to go that says you’ve only passed
71:56
whatever the handful of uh bills and
71:59
your entire
71:59
time in congress don’t you think you
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should take a different approach
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so she completely took the conversation
72:05
off of this relief bill and millions of
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americans who desperately need it
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to try to give some dig about how she
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doesn’t think that bernie sanders has
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done enough while he is in congress and
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like that’s the kind of crap you get
72:15
and and people get away with it people
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get away with it
72:19
i mean i certainly have an axe to grind
72:21
with msnbc i don’t know
72:24
i don’t i don’t know if you were
72:25
surprised of the entire
72:28
like uh dynamic over there i saw it
72:31
happening i saw you
72:32
you know all the little stuff not
72:35
cutting to you during
72:36
the debates you know like it was it was
72:39
apparent to me
72:40
you know it was apparent to me what was
72:42
happening to you what was happening to
72:42
marianne williamson
72:44
um you know before like a second there
72:48
like
72:48
build a block like i had my eyes open
72:52
um and i don’t think it behooves us even
72:54
if it were to like advantage my
72:55
candidate i don’t think it behooves us
72:57
in the long term for us to um
73:01
ignore those things because it hurt
73:02
every candidate at a certain point right
73:04
there was a point at which
73:05
um uh corey cory booker
73:08
and julian castro both raised concerns
73:10
about whether or not joe biden had the
73:12
stamina to be president
73:14
and in the spin room
73:17
they were kind of immediately shut down
73:20
the coverage of julian castro asking
73:22
that question during the debate of like
73:23
did you just
73:24
you know forget what you just said was
73:26
really
73:27
pilloried even though if you listen back
73:29
to the tape he was completely right you
73:30
cannot disagree with his tone or
73:31
something but he was accurate
73:32
in his assessment of what had just
73:34
happened on the stage and then
73:37
the the little the statement the mild
73:40
you know
73:40
cory booker is so polite he gave a
73:42
really soft mild you know like i’m just
73:44
concerned like it’s something that we
73:45
should consider
73:46
you never heard a peep out of them ever
73:48
again the back it was
73:50
it was like a hard shut down we’re not
73:51
gonna talk about joe biden’s
73:53
um you know stamina anything cognitive
73:56
and we’re just gonna
73:57
we’re gonna push for like this never
73:58
happened and then the idea that anyone
74:00
would question
74:01
whether joe biden’s you know little
74:03
peccadillos here and there
74:05
were a part of or an indication of
74:06
something bigger that was going on
74:08
it was it was fun as this is a left-wing
74:10
attack i’m like
74:11
you know cory booker is
74:14
it’s not exactly what i would call left
74:16
wing he’s like a lovely man
74:18
but he’s this is not exactly what i
74:20
would call a part of the left vanguard
74:22
you know and so this kind of stuff adds
74:25
up and it doesn’t help people not to
74:26
have
74:27
conversations that are gonna emerge in
74:29
the general because donald trump isn’t
74:31
playing by those rules
74:32
vetted in a primary when we can still do
74:34
something about it
74:35
this is something um that’s come out
74:38
recently about diane
74:39
fein feinstein yes yes um
74:43
no and um the average
74:46
age of a u.s senator is 62 and that’s
74:49
average
74:50
so you know and to me age is just a
74:54
number but they’re like some folks that
74:56
like are are um
75:00
feeling their age and others that are
75:02
less so and so you know if there’s some
75:04
kind of
75:05
way to verify what i mean i certainly
75:07
think trump’s been freaking
75:08
deteriorating before our eyes
75:10
last over the last number of years um so
75:14
this to me is i actually something that
75:16
the media
75:18
um should be considered like really much
75:20
more responsible for
75:22
um that we are not uh it it’s like
75:25
uh that that um we have
75:29
leaders who um would not
75:32
be considered for leadership positions
75:34
in other industries
75:37
based upon their um their age and then
75:40
in the public sector it’s like a taboo
75:43
subject to raise
75:44
um in various ways just age like you
75:47
know obviously i supported a very old
75:49
candidate
75:49
you know and you know as much as i felt
75:52
like it was biased and sometimes not
75:54
constructive
75:55
i’m not going to be mad at anyone for
75:56
having a conversation about you know
75:58
does bernie have the stamina after a
76:00
heart attack like that’s a legitimate
76:01
conversation to have
76:03
but the bias the unwillingness to have
76:06
that conversation about joe biden
76:08
you know the unwillingness to have a
76:09
conversation you know
76:11
in light of specific instances of him
76:14
misspeaking or getting facts wrong or
76:16
having
76:16
an emotional outburst at a reporter
76:19
listen
76:20
fat pushing people you know like this
76:22
this stuff is
76:23
fair game if it’s going to be fair game
76:24
about other candidates
76:26
and the idea that it could be spun into
76:28
a left-wing attack it’s just it’s
76:30
it boggles the mind yeah that should be
76:32
there should just be a standard
76:35
even stevens that’s all i ask yeah
76:38
um wow this is so much fun i can’t
76:40
believe
76:41
that time has flown by we should do this
76:43
every week
76:44
i’m going to urge you to replace virgil
76:47
with me
76:48
let’s let’s go to podcast
76:51
at that point i would i would have to
76:53
like answer for why
76:55
i only do podcasts with asian american
77:00
men
77:05
or something about it i didn’t know
77:06
pre-virgil there was another though
77:08
no like my first oh wait you saw you
77:10
told me yes
77:12
that’s right wow
77:15
no wonder you know this feels so
77:17
familiar
77:18
um but incredibly grateful to you
77:22
um really and learned a lot you are such
77:26
a positive voice of both reason and
77:30
progress
77:30
i appreciate the heck out of you if
77:32
there’s anything i can do to help let me
77:34
know
77:34
um and certainly let virgil know that if
77:37
he needs me to pinch hit for him anytime
77:40
show up unannounced i appreciate that
77:42
and i appreciate you two so much andrew
77:44
you’re a clarion voice
77:46
and i appreciate your willingness to
77:48
kind of go against the grain and i
77:49
really look forward to
77:51
whatever is up your sleeve next as well
77:53
thank you bri
77:54
so much fun have a great holiday season
77:56
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Joe Rogan & Michael Malice on Trump’s Trolling

Transcript

00:00
that’ss eyes that are for people who are
00:01
actually suffering minorities be like no
00:02
no this is not cool so she’s not saying
00:05
this from small blogs I’m not seeing
00:07
this from anything main strike yep
00:09
correct because mainstream they’re
00:10
always gonna cover for this that right
00:11
100% of the time yeah they’re gonna
00:13
cover their the thing about those blogs
00:15
is like a lot of them are basically like
00:16
Ari Shaffir refers to them as like
00:18
college papers yeah it’s like a lot of
00:21
these blogs so a college student written
00:23
yeah but they’re often speaking truth oh
00:25
yeah well I would hope I would hope more
00:28
would come out and say hey you can’t say
00:31
you’re Native American just like like
00:33
you imagine the outrage if I just
00:36
started call myself African American
00:37
well do you know what did you see what
00:39
Trump said he said well I can’t call her
00:41
Pocahontas anymore because she’s not an
00:43
Indian and I’m just like oh my god we’re
00:48
not worthy he says some hilarious shit
00:51
oh yeah he really does he really does
00:54
he’s fucking funny off-the-cuff oh yeah
00:57
really is you know and the way he goes
00:59
after people like even though he’s the
01:01
president like he still calls people
01:04
fucking losers I mean he’s still he
01:06
still caused him losers on Twitter and
01:09
goes after them horse face horse face he
01:11
called star McDaniels horse face just
01:14
think of how repulsive he is physically
01:17
he’s fat his faces all fuckin hanging
01:20
off of his bones he’s got white raccoon
01:23
eyes and orange skin and yet he still
01:26
will mock stormy Daniels and call her
01:29
horse face someone tweeted out I forget
01:32
who and I apologized the thing he said
01:34
they go imagine what happens that he
01:36
Trump’s the first person who fucked a
01:38
porn star and she had to brag about it
01:40
and then she paid him yeah yeah well he
01:44
did pay her right but what he paid her
01:48
what she’s gonna have to pay him is
01:50
probably like a factor of three or fours
01:53
I mean how much more she’s gonna wanna
01:55
pain yes for 350k that’s all he asked
01:58
for you uh that’s proved very reasonable
02:01
yeah that doesn’t even cover her book
02:02
yes that’s probably like he just wants
02:04
just be done like that yet it just yet
02:06
give me that paper yeah just give me a
02:07
little something I need a little
02:09
something from you
02:10
with this let this slide I want 300,000
02:14
yeah yeah it’s probably her book that’s
02:16
really all the money no she got more
02:17
than 350 I’m positive
02:19
how much you think she got for that book
02:20
750 I’d guess yeah but she’s got to pay
02:23
taxes sure
02:24
and her agents getting 15 yeah she’s
02:26
probably not even bringing three home so
02:29
it’s all that’s money’s gone oh yeah
02:31
that’s all gone all gone 100% gone and
02:33
no one’s buying that book it stiffed
02:36
yeah yeah nobody gives a shit
02:37
she said it already like I fucked the
02:40
president that’s your book your book as
02:42
I fucked the president well you know
02:43
here’s the funny part with her remember
02:44
this people she was making fun of his
02:46
dick like she’d hit a mushroom deck
02:48
whatever and people are like that’s what
02:50
she said
02:50
and then people were like that you know
02:52
as fucked up as he is that’s body
02:54
shaming he really shouldn’t make fun of
02:55
someone and she’s like you know what
02:56
you’re right I’m sorry
02:57
and then he goes hey horse face she lost
03:01
his fucking mushroom dick at like the
03:02
next day she’s back on it it was amazing
03:05
[Laughter]
The fact that he can call her horse face
and he’s the president on twitter..
But she doesn’t even have a horse face.
It doesn’t matter. I know but it’s just
so weak I mean Ted Cruz really isn’t the
Unabomber or whatever
the fuck you said
he was say that that’s the name they
cease is that Jeff gay fucking it’s also
crazy that was the best part so ted
cruz’s was known as like the best
debater in the senate he had this
Harvard or Yale whatever debating team
great debater everyone we recognized him
for this how did the fuck do you prep
for a debate be like oh yeah well your
dad shot JFK
it’s like what the fuck
wait what well It didn’t have to make
sense right people the people that hurt
Trump supporters don’t want to make
sense they just want him to win right

right exactly and it works yes yeah well
he’s just had to get zingers in oh yeah
yeah I mean it’s like roast battle more
than right and they don’t get that there
04:01
was this my favorite tweet of his my
04:03
favorite where he goes whenever I speak
04:06
of the losers and the haters I do so
04:08
with great affection it’s not their
04:10
fault they were born fucked up at
04:12
exclamation point that’s a real tweet
04:14
tweet it’s the best one
04:16
and it’s true yeah you know one of my
04:20
favorite things was him at a speech
04:21
where he was talking it was 2015 before
04:25
he even talked about running for
04:26
president or it was even I don’t think
04:29
he was a hundred percent open about
04:31
running for president and he said
04:34
there’s two ways to talk to China you
04:36
could you know could prose things you
04:38
could propose things and he says it like
04:39
you know normally and then he says or
04:41
you could say listen motherfucker yeah
04:44
you heard that no oh my god it’s great
04:46
fucking pull it it’s it’s fucking great
04:49
because everybody starts cheering yeah
04:51
because it’s so forbidden in this
04:53
environment wearing an expensive suit
04:55
standing in front of a podium he says or
04:58
you could say listen motherfuckers like
05:00
this is what we’re gonna do and
05:02
everybody started yeah it’s so exciting
05:05
it’s so much more exciting then Marco
05:08
Rubio or you know someone boom Jeb is a
05:12
waste jam is a big fat mistake I watched
05:19
those videos which speech he wasted June
05:22
of 25th now when he said mother when
05:24
he’s just just not speech when he’s
05:26
talking about China and he said listen I
05:28
the fuckers China China China yeah that
05:32
was a thing Puerto Rican when he ordered
05:36
I’m announcing a ban on all Muslim
05:39
immigration Muslim here this is a great
05:43
one do this because it’s leadership this
05:48
time instead of with his name in gold
05:49
it’s with his words this is discussing
05:52
Iraq we build a school we build a road
05:55
they blow up the road they blow up the
05:57
school we build another school we build
06:00
another road they blow them up we build
06:02
again in the meantime we can’t get a
06:04
school built in Brooklyn do the
06:06
audience’s approval talking oil we have
06:09
nobody in Washington that sits back and
06:12
said you’re not going to raise that
06:14
price you understand me
06:17
this is a long time ago sing Chinese
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goods here’s your mother we’re gonna tax
06:23
you 25% while poles 2011 is that what it
06:28
says over there yeah but here’s what’s
06:30
interesting notice the person who posted
06:31
their name is say no to racists yeah
06:40
they probably put it up as a negative
06:41
thing
06:42
well no 2011 he would have been
06:43
considered a Democrat right oh no he’s
06:46
endorsed Romney he endorsed Romney
06:47
Republican race he was a Democrat until
06:50
what 2010 probably around then because
06:52
he was gonna run independent at some
06:53
point Trump 2012 look at that this is
06:55
the guy we’ve been looking for ha ha ha
06:57
seven years ago but it’s just deplorable
06:59
what changed it they probably damaged it
07:03
in the future because it says seven
07:05
years yeah fuck that’s the time travel
07:09
that hack join read uh yeah someone did
07:12
it someone definitely hacked it yeah
07:15
just hilarious they didn’t give the good
07:17
version of that either because they
07:19
believed in it well not just that
07:21
because you also see if you can find the
07:22
better version because he basically
07:24
practices it like you know people been
07:26
saying it like this right you can say it
07:28
like this or you can say listen you
07:31
motherfuckers and that’s when everybody
07:33
starts cheering he actually gave an
07:34
example yeah he actually guys what can
07:39
you do yeah so easy I drop a twenty five
07:43
percent tax on China
07:47
and you know I said to somebody that is
07:49
really the messenger the messenger is
important I could have one man saying
way to tax you 25% and I could say
another listen you motherfuckers brooder
Here’s how the Press lies on the campaign
trail he set a point I remember it was
the sense of it goes you better shut
your mouth so he didn’t say the word
mm-hmm they bleeped it and they bleeped
it to make it look like he was cursing
and he’s like you guys are fucking shady
as hell
that’s very Shady yeah that’s Shady you
can’t just bleep a pause and pretend
that there’s some sort of an offensive
word in there right so that’s really
that’s just deceptive right and it’s
pervasive they do it all the fucking
time
08:40
well who’s good out there to challenge
08:43
him they’re fucked all right fuck you
08:46
know why they’re fucked why because
08:47
we’ve never had this happen before the
08:49
whole time all those Democrats are
08:51
fighting each other for the primary for
08:52
the nomination he’s gonna be tweeting
08:53
the shit out of those debates he’s gonna
08:55
be live tweeting the debates right and
08:56
they’re not gonna they have to worry
08:58
about the tax from their colleagues but
09:00
also from the sitting president I was
09:02
like look at this dope and he’s gonna
09:05
come up with nicknames right now this
09:07
stick Danang dick he already did I’m
09:09
like it’s amazing to demand dick
09:11
Blumenthal senator from Connecticut lied
09:13
about his Vietnam service oh no I
09:15
started calling him Danang dick he lied
09:17
about his Vietnam service so got elected
09:19
yeah Wow
09:22
shameless yeah how did he lie what did
09:25
he say he said he served and he didn’t
09:27
look it up yeah I mean it’s it’s it is
09:30
brazen it wasn’t some ambiguous area I
09:32
think he’s like he never left America is
09:33
my understanding oh yeah

Hillary Clinton Pressuring Media To “Correct” Tulsi Gabbard Stories

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Last week, a number of media organizations, including the New York Times, CNN and Politico, ran reports saying Clinton told the podcast “Campaign HQ with David Plouffe” that Russians were “grooming” a female Democratic candidate — widely assumed to be Gabbard — for a third-party run to play a potential spoiler in the 2020 election.”

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