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you may think of it as the channel that hip ties your children. what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a committee revolution in the music business in this country. mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were one national radio station for songs. ending the 80s, you get a lot of hair bands, poison, rat, warrant. sweet surprise sweet cherry pie a lot of sexually explicit lyrics. that s selling. when i would turn on the tv all the rock bands looked the same way, they were expected to have a certain facade. mtv s ratings are surprisingly small but the ones who watch buy a lot of records and tapes and cds and they buy the most of what they see most. recently two members of aerosmith dropped by to screen their new video and bought a big bag of cash. they would submit videos every monday and we would have our meesk meeting and decide. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock and i quickley realized that the music they were playing ....
with confederate flags. they have been saying the president has not even been dog whistling to them, that this election was stolen from you, good people, white people, from the black folks in those counties, in atlanta, in philadelphia, in detroit. that s who stole the election. why do you think the type of person, that type of person showed up at the capitol with confederate flags? because the president was telling them your country what did he say? you re not going to have a country again. what do you think that means? you re not going to have a country anymore. what do you think that means? it means the black man is going to take over. that s what this is all about? i kept looking like when is someone going to say this? do you remember what he said? yeah, cory booker is coming to your neighborhood. that s what this is all about. and that s why we continue to talk. we need to figure this out. that is the impetus, that is the start of this whole exper ....
were enraged, those people who came there with the camp auschwitz t-shirts, who came there from the proud bois as nazis and supremacists, they re saying the president has not even been dog whistling to them that the election was stolen from you, good people, white people from the black folks in those counties. in atlanta, in philadelphia, in detroit. that s who stole the election. why do you think the type of person that type of person showed up at the capitol with confederate flags? because the president was telling them your country what do you say you re not going to have a country again. what do you think that means? you re not going to have a country anymore. yeah, what does that mean? it means that the black man is going to take over. okay. that s what this is all about. coming into your white neighborhoods. and i was wondering when is someone going to say this. that s what this is all about. and that s why we continue to talk. we need to figure th ....
crimes and an insurrection and where we go from here as a nation. in fact, these two stories that i just mentioned to you tonight, they re linked. how does president biden work with a party that has some of its prominent leaders lying about his lawful victory and some, and to be precise and fair not all, but some elected republicans minimizing the violence that left five dead at the capitol. how do you do negotiations over the basics when you don t have any understanding on the fundamentals? there are a lot of smart thinkers who ve studied these types of issues in different societies and a lot of progressives right now around the biden administration who say there can be no unity, no true democracy under the rule of law, unless there are facts and accountability first. keep that in mind as you see this news tonight. former president trump wants to exploit the upcoming trial as a chance to double down on the election lie that partly fed the insurrection. he wants to take ....
now we re getting down to real commerce. aren t these girls just crazy? yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. there s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that s selling. when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain ....