Matt taibbi story that it was brilliant matt taibbi is a real journalist its brilliant the guys one of the best in the business talk about it i want to spend some time talk about what he had to say here with this this is been you know a piece that absolutely blew up all over social media you had a lot of people on the left. Mostly saying type hes lost his mind hes gone off the deep end hes going conservative now because he dared write a piece that said listen folks on the left its ok to ask questions if youre a reporter its ok to say wait a minute slow down a 2nd we may have something wrong and tell you the names names he calls people out as well he should because that is what a journalist does and i think a lot of times especially on the left we like to think hey were much better than conservative media but that doesnt mean everything we say or do is right ok let me. Preface this you and i have been doing Progressive Left wing media for how many years almost almost 2 decades almost 2
A functioning press is vital to any democracy in the present United States is being dismantled by both Major Political parties by a fair and cousins here to talk about it fair and you are a real journalist i mean there is nobody argue with you are real journalists and you write reports that really matter and in those reports you do the damndest things you ask questions and then maybe you disagree with the narrative out there for the day thats what journalists do there are journalism is dying we have a whole generation and how many there snowflakes i mean get these snowflakes Political Correctness its destroying our ability to even ask questions this this matt taibbi story that it was brilliant matt taibbi is a real journalist its brilliant the guys one of the best in the business talk about it i want to spend some time talking about what he had to say here with this this is been you know a piece that absolutely blew up all over social media you had a lot of people on the left. Mostly s
Business intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently incorporate into our forecast that means that by tuesday nov 3rd our illustrious Political Parties could spend well over 12000000000. 00 just to get themselves elected do you really do you really think they spend numbers like that because they really really really really really want to be humble public servants. Not a chance and that is why my friends we are always watching all this. Like you know that i got. This. Well demoted watching the hawks i am i robot joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battlefronts on the war in the pork thank you so much for joining us. Accordi
Sort of. Like you know that i got. To. Welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tyrone been through and joining me today is Award Winning journalist chris hedges to talk about the how our political leaders are spending so much money just to get themselves elected and the other battle fronts on the war in the port thank you so much for joining me lowers i accordingly the federal Elections Commission total federal Election Fund raising was approximately 2000000000 in just the 1st half of 2019 and we havent even started the primaries. What do those numbers tell you about the state of our federal elections but. Its more about what it says about the state of politics its what benjamin demat called junk politics if you look closely at how this money is spent it is not about the dissemination of ideas its about the dissemination of emotions about manufactured political personalities. About making people confuse knowledge with how they are made to feel and i think whats so interesting abou
System that we have and the chaos that is causing and just for those of you out there who are you know perhaps like myself perhaps too busy reading twitter all the time and not enough time to devote to reading a tale to cities i want to read the rest of that quote from the opening of a tele to cities because its quite relevant i think to our time because that book was written in the period leading up to the french revolution and then through the reign of terror which i think is similar to what we have today it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was that of belief it was a part of incredulity it was the season of light it was a season of darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us well well done Charles Dickens captured the guys at that moment to make a Christmas Carol being a condemnation of capitalism osama yes you know the ghost of christmas futu