"Democrats FREAK OUT over Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 Minutes!"
The Jimmy Dore Show (April 5, 2023)
Democrats FREAK OUT over Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 Minutes!
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60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes.
[0:24] “Jimmy Dore: “And you know why they did that? Because they want to get ratings. That’s why they did that. And that’s why they have her on. Because they want to get ratings. Marjorie Taylor Greene has very little power. She is a Congress person. But as far as Congress people go, she’s a first-time backbencher.”
Kurt Metzger: “Long time listener, first time caller.”
Jimmy Dore: “And so they tweet out these pictures of her. And they make her . . . so they’re . . . And so now the liberals, the Hillary and Joe Biden voters are going crazy that they did this.”
Kurt Metzger: “Because 60 Minutes is their territory and they are normalizing her. . . . Basically, she [Lesley Stahl> smuggled an illegal immigrant into their society by having her on 60 Minutes.
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Eric Deggans at NPR [blue check]
@Deggans
Eventually, even 60 minutes has to go for the ratings and page views, I guess.
[1:13] Jimmy Dore: “This guy’s from NPR and he’s their media critic. He says that, ‘Eventually, even 60 Minutes has to go for the ratings and page views, I guess.’”
Kurt Metzger: “Unlike NPR that nobody wants.”
Jimmy Dore: “Eric, they’ve always done that. When has 60 Minutes not gone for the ratings? They’ve always been in the Top Ten shows. I don’t know about lately.
“. . . They’re the ones who pioneered the ambush interview . . .”
“So this guy’s pretending that they never went for ratings before. … This guy is like the Brian Stelter of NPR. . . . Dude, There’s nothing worse than NPR. Nothing.”
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Eric Deggans at NPR [blue check]
@Deggans
“With an ideologue like MTG, being profiled by 60 Minutes is what matters. What the story says, much less so. And I learned that, in part, by listening to Lesley Stahl talk about how the Reagan administration reacted to a story she did.”
Stephen Battaglio [blue check]
Replying to @Deggans
A terrible promotional tweet but shouldn’t we watch before we judge?
[2:50] Jimmy Dore: “So, you learned that the important part is not what is being said but who says it and on what platform. But not what they’re saying.”
Kurt Metzger: “ True or False doesn’t really matter, which is strange.”
Jimmy Dore: “So, what they’re doing, this is Lesley Stahl’s version of [Jimmy Dore interviewing a] Boogaloo Boy. You’re not allowed to interview someone and platform them and make them seem like a normal person. You are not allowed to do that. And he’s a narrative enforcer. That’s why this guy is an establishment tool narrative enforcer. And that’s what he’s doing. And he’s pretending like somehow he’s better than Lesley Stahl.
[3:28] Kurt Metzger: “I cannot wish enough awful on whoever came up with the term ‘platforming’ or ‘de-platforming.’”
Jimmy Dore: “You interview everyone. They interviewed Bin Laden for f’s sake. They interviewed the Ayatollah Khomeini. [Kurt Metzger: ‘Putin’] Because Mike Wallace caught shit for it because he was too nice to Ayatollah Khomeini.
Kurt Metzger: “And you the people watching are so stupid that you’re not qualified to listen to even that. Closed hearing and you just listen to whatever we tell you.”
Jimmy Dore: “Well, Jill Lawrence says “. . .”
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Jill Lawrence [blue check]
@JillDLawrence
“Oh, Lesley. The American people don’t listen to what you say; they only see those great pictures of Ronald Reagan.” It’s all about the visuals. K-state.edu/landon/speaker...
Jimmy Dore: “So, she’s quoting a story that Lesley Stahl did and someone said that to her: They don’t care what you say in the story as long as the pictures look pretty of Ronald Reagan. So she’s quoting that.”
Kurt Metzger: “I think they’re really a little off on that.”
Jimmy Dore: “That was part of the PR. I remember that time of Ronald Reagan. That’s when I became politically aware. And they did talk about the photo op. They didn’t care about what the guy was saying. That’s what they claimed, anyway. And they always had these great photo ops of him looking presidential. And they didn’t care what the reporter was saying underneath the visual. It wasn’t the guy just saying it to the camera. It was showing a pretty visual of Ronald Reagan doing something presidential and they were saying bad stuff underneath the visual, and no one cared.”
“But this was an interview. This is totally different. And they’re trying to pretend that you should never talk to a member of Congress if you’re on 60 Minutes. You should never, ever interview certain members of Congress, someone who represents a million people [actually, about half of that]
Kurt Metzger: “Because they don’t count, number one, those people that would like her they’re the worst people, right? They’ve just conceded, well, that the news is basically always propaganda. And, basically, what you’re supposed to be is a big campaign add. And we’re campaigning early. I don’t know if you’ve seen our astroturf YouTubes and what have you. And so that would be as crazy as if Biden started making campaign adds with Marjorie Taylor Greene. You’re really dropping the ball. Your job is supposed to be to make sure the outcome that we want is happening.”
[5:50] Jimmy Dore: “I’ll skip this but real fast:
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Frank Conniff
@FrankConniff
“Lesley Stahl is such a shitty journalist, executives at Dominion Voting Systems are wondering why they haven’t sued her yet.”
[6:11] Jimmy Dore: “That’s a good joke. Even though I don’t agree with the political sentiment. I wish that more people, if they disagreed with Leslie Stahl would do it like Frank, and do it in a funny way. Here’s someone else: ”
Lindi Li
@LindyLi
“60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl really called terrorist Margorie Taylor Greene “smart & fearless”
Praised her “clout”
Bragged she is a “close advisor” to Kevin McCarthy
Complimented her for being “famous” & a “celebrity”
CBS, you just flushed your reputation down the f’ing toilet
Jimmy Dore: “What does she mean ‘just’?”
Kurt metzger: “I thought it was well into the pipes by now before this
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Norman Orenstein [blue check]
@NormOrenstein
“I have known Lesley Stahl for more than forty years, worked alongside her for many election weeks. She has been a great journalist, but this is a disgraceful, cringeworthy performance. Shameful to the Max.
Jill Lawrence [blue check]
@JillDLawrence
“Oh, Lesley. The American people don’t listen to what you say; they only see those great pictures of Ronald Reagan.” It’s all about the visuals. K-state.edu/landon/speaker...
[7:29] Jimmy Dore: Did Lesley not say ‘Oh, God,’ loud enough, or something. Here’s the last one:
Mary L Trump
@MaryLTrump
Leslie Stahl’s interview isn’t a one-off atrocity. It’s just one symptom of the media turning a blind eye to fascism.
In just the last two weeks alone, the mainstream media have refused to recognize the threat posed by the Republican party and its de facto leader, Donald Trump.
First, they based an entire week of reporting and analysis on Donald’s social media post that falsely claimed he was going to be arrested on March 21.
Then, 60 Minutes made the confounding decision to give a platform to insurrectionist and fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Republican Party has fallen in line behind Donald and, now that indictments against him have been announced, they will stop at nothing to undermine the American people’s faith in the rule of law. Donald’s attacks on social media against NY DA Alvin Bragg have already resulted in an avalanche of death threats.
But just as they did in 2016, the media keep giving Donald millions of dollars worth of air time.
It’s time for the media to take sides – democracy or fascism
Jimmy Dore: “What? That indictment is what wrecks everyone’s faith in the rule of law.”
[8:50] Kurt Metzger: “Who had faith in that?”
Jimmy Dore: “No one ever had faith in the rule of law in this country. Again, George Bush, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, they’re all war criminals …”
“It shouldn’t be that f’ing hard . . .
. . .
[10:20] Jimmy Dore: “Marjorie Taylor Green went on the 60 Minutes and she said stuff and it’s driving people crazy. Here we go. Watch . . .”
Marjorie Taylor Green: “Let me ask you a question back. Why can’t we push for a peace deal in Ukraine?”
“So Marjorie Taylor Green goes on 60 Minutes and she says she wants peace in Ukraine, and the reporter pushes back against peace in Ukraine.”
Kurt Metzger: “to hear hear Lesley Stahl’s moronic thing where I’m like, ‘Lizzy, are you just the voice of the idiot audience that likes 60 Minutes still, or do you think that what you just said sounds right?”
[13:45] Jimmy Dore: “Marjorie Taylor Green is advocating for peace and the journalist from CBS News is advocating for more war. Have things ever turned around since Vietnam. Am I right?”
Jimmy Dore: “Let’s listen . . .”
MTG: “Let me ask your question back. Why can’t we push for a peace deal in Ukraine?”
Lesley Stahl: “But then the Russians will be rewarded with territory for invading a country.”
MTG: “I’m sorry. The Ukraine is not the 51st state of The United States.”
Lesley Stahl: “But is it right to let him attack another country that’s not at war with them? And then you say just let them take what they’ve gotten so far. . .”
[11:20] Jimmy Dore: “First of all, she [Lesley Stahl] misframes the whole goddamn thing. This was a provoked war because the government of Ukraine [The Interim Nazi Regime in Kiev] were killing by the thousands Russian-speaking people in the eastern part of [the former] ‘Ukraine,’ which used to be part of Russia. And so they did this on purpose. And, of course, Lesley Stahl is not going to tell you any of that. But I think it’s hilarious when she says ‘we’re just going to let them invade another country.”
Jimmy Dore: What the […]! Is the United States the world’s George Zimmerman? What are we? Out there patrolling other people’s neighborhoods? There’s a European Union. They could take care of this if they wanted to. And by the way, if it wasn’t for us, there would have been peace in Ukraine a f’ing year ago, in fact, there probably would have never been a war, Lesley, and a hundred thousand Ukrainians wouldn’t be dead.
Kurt Metzger: “Yeah, like rather than rewarding them for taking time, you could reward a bunch of Ukrainians with their lives and not fighting to the last man because a few, you know, Nazi militias are rabid about it.”
Jimmy Dore: “Should we let them? The arrogance of that. It also implies that we have authority in the world. Some kind of ‘moral’ authority in the world. We just killed a million people in Iraq. We just killed another how may people in Libya. 20 years in Afghanistan. We’re committing a genocide in Yemen. We are ...
Kurt Metzger: “We’re not even as good as corrupt cops.”
Jimmy Dore: “We’re not. And we’re currently occupying a third of Syria. So that’s OK for us to illegally invade another country, occupy it, and steal their natural resources; but we can’t let Putin do it?”
[13:04] Kurt Metzger: “She sounds like George Zimmerman on the 911 call. Like, ‘No, don’t. Hey, no one over there. Just wait.’ He goes: ‘They’re always getting away with it.’ And you just ran over and caused the trash that’s right.”
[13:17] We are not the world’s moral authority. We’re more of an armed, fat, violent neighborhood watch idiot. So, Marjorie Taylor Green is advocating for peace. The ‘journalist’ from CBS News is advocating for more war. Boy, have things turned around since Vietnam. Am I right?”
Kurt Metzger: “Lesley Stahl, did she do good work at one point?”
“Jimmy Dore: “Who knows?”