Scheer Robert Scheer its an honor to have you on the show great to be here you are bad i truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine in the l. A. Times the nation true dig radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways theyre actually fewer gate keepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the Mainstream Media is now owned by just a handful of massive corporations how do you feel journalism and news media have changed over the course of your career is it better or worse. We should not under our underestimate the worse at least there used to be something about attracting eyeballs or having readers and so when i was at the l a times it wasnt easy to fire me because there were lots of people want to read me so there was a marketplace restraint that is gone now they dont need eyeballs would you targeted advertising with the surveillance that is the norm to the inter
Excuse to oppose capitalism america israel they try to hijack legitimate protest so legitimate protests i justify and would join but the extremists on both sides doesnt serve the interest of justice but the president never knocks the right wing. Well he did win in. Charlotte he did condemn the nazis he did condemned the way tax cuts he condemned he said there were good people on both sides who were she and said that there are bad people on both sides im glad he said that yes there are bad people on both sides look i wrote a column about that which i said because hes a person of the right he should go out of his way to condemn the right more often im a person who is generally on the liberal side so i go out of my way to criticize the extremists on the left and i think thats a legitimate point to make. Ok there were reports that the president was asked to address the nation and he declined when were going to pass the president s dealing with major problems we see a completely different m
No no this tidal wave of fear is emanating from the marble halls of the Capitol Building and the oval shaped rooms of the white house yes the corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday defense secretary mark asper who spent wednesday morning up posing the United States President Donald Trump the chicken hawk in sheeps threats of military reprisals against. U. S. Citizen well he abruptly reversed a decision to order active duty troops home fr
At the hands of the Minneapolis Police department that death soon led to the protests and riots that weve seen taking place daily across the country and if you think the media has been able to cover whats going on without their usual liberal biased guess again watch them watch them lie to you one after the other as you watch what youre watching and you see what youre seeing and theyre telling you no youre not seeing that i want to be clear in how i characterize this just mostly a problem just trying to gin up it is not generally speaking on really the fires started and the 1st thing i want to. Be spoiled back because its been a mostly peaceful protests but then they try to move it from many of these protests have been largely peaceful mostly peaceful mostly peaceful the mostly peaceful so many good people out there who want change and who are demanding change. And leave it to the to miss falbe on television to spin things this way our country was started because this is how the Boston
Is this movement spreading worldwide. Well i think here is she the beginnings of what anyone should have understood was coming this is a major on all on working people across the worrying i mean you put 40000000 people out were added time when theyre already under pressure because the government didnt prepare very well and then make nor is it manager we know and youre putting people on her own pressure and when you will that with all certainty but they dont know about whether they are. Poor and you know that youre going to be explosions and theyre going to impact what kinds of communities and unfortunately you will see bad reaction by the police in this country you dont have a good record youre going to see anger on the point of people whove suffered more even than the average person were going to employ and then we. And this tragedy of the United States constantly reliables of efforts just split the working class from having a uniform and organized reaction in to fighting battles over