Jimmy Dore dissects a couple of dangerous idiots: Starbucks plutocrat Howard Schultz, and Hollywood Russophobe Rob Reiner

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Patrice Greanville / 01/30/2019
Jimmy Dore dissects a couple of utterly disconnected-from-reality, status-quo loving idiots: Starbucks former CEO and presidential hopeful Howard Schultz, whose vanity won't let him fade into well deserved obscurity, and (by now) card-carrying Hollywood moron Rob Reiner— yeah the former "Meathead" of All in the Family fame—who has long betrayed his character's progressive persona by becoming a fervid russophobic war-cheering propagandist, and, like all liberals, an extremist of the center. (Which timid, obtuse minds think is a sign of great intellectual wisdom and maturity, the famous "judicious center" indicating prudence and caution in all determinations). In practice, however, the "centrist" position, the default point for all reformism, is an obstacle to real progress, especially when you face a system that can no longer be reformed because it is in terminal decomposition, showing gangrenous tissue everywhere. Only people like Reiner, as Dore indicates, born to Hollywood royalty and fame, and who has lived a life disconnected from the reality defining the lives of untold millions of working stiffs, can naturally think like a reformist, believing the status quo is just hunky-dory.

After watching this show, you'll see why, short of revolution (or his sudden selling out) you'll never see a guy like Dore taking Stephen Colbert's job.

Democrats worry that a third-party bid from former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz could cost them the election, and that's the only thing that seems to worry Pelley...

Dore rightly laughs at CBS' fatuous clown Scott Pelley, supposedly interviewing Schultz, for his ludicrous posturing to inject gravitas during this sleepwalking performance, but we should bear in mind that Pelley's behaviour is merely a symptom of his deeply ingrained deference to capitalist power (billionaires are usually treated very respectfully by media courtiers); and (b) like many of his peers, he's an ignoramus, he doesn't have a clue about what the apparently equally superficial Schultz is talking about, without landing himself into a heap of trouble. Further, making his performance even more pathetic, like his employer, Pelley is clearly solicitous about Democrat party fortunes and the cozy establishment game they represent—that's why he asks, tendentiously, and using the shopworn argument advanced by the Democrats to demonise Nader and later Jill Stein, Sanders, etc., (that candidates outside the duopoly can sink the  "legitimate" major party candidate), if he "hasn't considered how his candidacy could help reelect Trump in 2020." Oh, yea,  since the duopoly candidates are so terrific, that should certainly concern us all.

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So, yes, Dore could have made a bit more of the fact that Pelley literally sucks as a journalist, which is par for the course in the American media system. Pelley, like his peers, is actually an overpaid journo, so it was to be expected that he would offer no pushback, no  "teaching moment" on the topics brought up in the exchange, despite the fact the door was wide open. Even old establishment guard dogs like Mike Wallace would have shown more teeth, a bit of snarling on the public's behalf.

Pelley's lackluster intervention is all the more outrageous because it is framed by the reputation of 60 Minutes, supposedly America's gold standard for probing tv journalism. And there's this: Schultz is so unappealing and so utterly ridiculous, that EVEN establishment comics (Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah) are taking shots at him. And many mainstream media are also laughing. But, of course, getting a few laughs is one thing, explaining why this guy is toxic in political language that everyone could master, is another thing. For that, neither Trevor Noah nor Colbert will do, only someone like Jimmy Dore, or our alternate favorite, Lee Camp—real people's champs.

Incidentally, Jimmy's dressing down of Rob Reiner is well deserved. This buffoon has been hyperactive in his work to push the country to an even more confrontational stance toward Russia, not to mention the current Democrat infatuation with the evil spy agencies and Pentagon in an efort to provoke some sort of a coup on the US to get rid of Trump, which, naturally, offends his liberal sensibilities. Well, guess what, Trump offends us, too, but for his real moral defects and accumulating crimes (including his meddling in Venezuela), but about that exepct not a peep from the likes of this liberal crowd. In fact, one of their tribal leaders, Nancy Pelosi, already came forth with a statement endorsing Trump's lawless pronouncements on Venezuela. Other major Democrats have followed suit, while their peanut gallery is busy demonising Maduro. So much for the #Resistance, to which Reiner, and so many other insufferable idiots like him, so proudly belongs.

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ADDENDUM
And it's not likely we'll see something like this on imperial shill Stephen Colbert's Late Show...that's for sure. Not too funny I suppose.

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