Dems Lacking 2024 Candidates, Courts Brace for Violence
The David Pakman Show - February 8, 2022
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Trump-Affiliated "Rumble" Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million to Abandon Spotify
The right-wing content platform Rumble is now offering Joe Rogan $100 million over four years to leave Spotify and bring his podcast there. Rogan has been facing blowback for hosting vaccine skeptics and using racial slurs in old episodes. Spotify has taken steps to warn viewers about some of his content, and Rogan has issued apologies over the controversies. Rumble’s CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote the podcaster a letter made public on Twitter that reads in part, “we stand with you, your guests, and your legion of fans in desire for real conversation. So we’d like to off you 100 million reasons to make the world a better place.” Missing from this conversation is that Rogan most likely can’t just leave Spotify all of a sudden. He signed a licensing deal with them two years ago so it’s very unlikely that he can get out of the deal if Spotify doesn’t want him to go. This could be just a way for Rumble to get some free publicity and to look like they have the money to pay the most highly-sought-after talent in the podcasting world.
"Comedian" Jim Breuer Loses His Mind
The American right wing has struggled for decades to create satire, parody, and comedy that’s actually funny. Examples include the short-lived Fox News show “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” and more recently Greg Gutfeld’s Show “Gutfeld!” Another person trying to bring comedy to the right-wing crowd is former Saturday Night Live cast member Jim Breuer. He appeared on “Reawaken America” on American Faith and tried to mix a bunch of impressions and over-the-top phrases as ways to deliver his political commentary. Breuer strung together a bunch of inept talking points about vaccine mandates, Russia, Anthony Fauci, and Joe Rogan — but apparently it’s working on his target audience. A few weeks ago, Breuer did stand-up at a conservative event and impersonated a cockatoo that supposedly symbolized the left and he flapped around the stage making screeching noises. While most people would find this style of “comedy” off-putting, for whatever reason the people in attendance at this right-wing event seemed to love it.
From yesterday’s show:
Fox Goes SILENT Moments After Massive Jobs Report
Fox News was hyping up the January jobs report ahead of its release, gleefully predicting that the numbers would not be positive. Unfortunately for them, the report was actually quite good. The US economy added more than 450,000 jobs in January with 150,000 of them being in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector. Fox was not alone in its prediction that the numbers would be negative with the theory being the Omicron wave would keep people from working. Some analyses like one from ADP expected the January jobs numbers to show 300,000 net jobs lost. However Fox was unique for being upset about the report because the network thought it would be a chance to make President Biden look bad. Fox host Steve Doocy asked Fox Business host Stuart Varney, “how did everybody get this so wrong?” Varney responded, “it does run counter to what we were expecting.” For all the talk right-wingers make about the left wanting to the destroy the country, it’s actually them who are rooting for economic trouble when a Democrat like Joe Biden is in office.
From yesterday’s show:
The NEW Most Dishonest Fox News Graphic of All Time?
Fox News host Dan Bongino attempted to “own the libs” with a graphic he had on his show supposedly showing the most unhealthy cities in the United States. The map highlighted cities like San Francisco, California; Seattle Washington; and Portland, Oregon. The primary source for this information was an article from WalletHub. Unfortunately for Dan, he got the information completely wrong. The primary source article clearly showed the opposite — that the cities Bongino had on his map were actually the healthiest cities in the country. To make matters worse, the most unhealthy major cities in the country happen to be conservative ones. They include Brownsville, Texas; Laredo, Texas; and Gulfport, Mississippi. This sloppily-put-together segment was a complete self-own as it actually managed to make the exact opposite point that Bongino was trying to get across.
More on the show:
--Johann Hari, writer and journalist whose latest book is "Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again," joins David to discuss deteriorating attention spans and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3sJ0DBF
--Do Democrats have any good candidates in the bullpen for 2024 if Joe Biden does not run for re-election?
--Courts around the country are bracing for violence as a result of Donald Trump being under three criminal investigations
--Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene rants about "mask" (singular) while visibly struggling to breathe on the House floor
--Donald Trump announces that he is DJ'ing at Mar-a-Lago on the weekends
--Possible the most chaotic voicemail caller in history calls in
--On the Bonus Show: Beijing Olympics viewership falls hard, Olympic teams raise concerns about quarantine hotels, flight attendants worried as alcohol returns to planes, much more...
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