How Cable News Is Profitting Off Of James Comey

FORMER FBI DIRECTOR,
JAMES COMEY, TESTIFIED IN FRONT OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
AND BEFORE AMERICA LAST WEEK.
IT
TURNED OUT HIS READINGS ARE GOLD.
ROUGHLY 19.5 MILLION
AMERICANS TUNED IN THURSDAY.
EVEN THOUGH THE TESTIMONY WAS AT
10 AM EASTERN TIME, 70 AM WESTERN.
APPARENTLY TESTIMONIES
ARE OUR NEW SUPER BOWL.
BUT TROMP STILL GETS BRAGGING RIGHTS
WHEN IT COMES TO RATINGS.
HIS INAUGURATION BROUGHT IN 30.6
MILLION TELEVISION VIEWERS.
JAMES COMEY ALSO CALLED HIM A
LIAR, TRUM CALLED HIM A LIAR
BACK, BUT IT TURNS OUT MOST AMERICANS ACTUALLY BELIEVE WHAT,
HE HAS TO SAY INSTEAD OF TROMP.
THERE WAS A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN POLITICAL PARTIES THERE.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM, AMERICANS
DON'T TRUST OUR PRESIDENT.
BUT IT ALSO DIDN'T SHIFT PEOPLE'S
VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
THIS IS TERRIFYING.
>>THIS IS ONE OF THE SITUATIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE GET WHAT THEY
WANT OUT OF IT.
IF YOU ARE
ALREADY A TROMP HATER OR FIELD THIS ADMINISTRATION IS
ABOMINATION OR INSULT TO WHAT
THIS COUNTRY STANDS FOR, AN OLIGARCH WHO HAS OFFENDED
THROUGH THIS MACHINE ñ IF YOU BELIEVE THAT IT IS LIKE YEAH,
LOOK AT JAMES COMEY.
IF YOU THINK THIS GUY IS A SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESSMAN AND TRYING TO BRING THAT SUCCESS TO WASHINGTON AND
ALL HE NEEDS IS FOR PEOPLE TO GET OFF HIS BACK AND LET HIM DO
HIS THING, THEN YOU'VE YOU CALL ME AS A GUY WHO WAS GETTING IN
HIS WAY.
THIS IS THE COUNTRY WE ARE LIVING IN NOW.
BUT YOU ARE
RIGHT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE FIGURES IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE
THAT EVERYONE IS NOT ON THE SAME
PAGE BECAUSE SO MANY ARE.
PRES.
TROMP IS DEMONSTRABLY A LIAR, WE KNOW THAT.
>> THERE WAS A MAJORITY PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO
BELIEVED THAT TROMP FIRED CALL ME OVER THE RUSSIA THING.
EVEN
THOUGH THEY WANT HIM TO BRING
BUSINESS BACK AND JOBS OR WHATEVER, PEOPLE STILL THINK HE
FIRED HIM OVER THE RUSSIA THING WHICH IS STILL ñ WHETHER YOU ARE
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT THAT IS
STILL AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
>>I THINK WHAT WE MISS IN THESE NUMBERS ABOUT RATINGS IS THAT
THERE WAS A LARGE SWATH OF THE
POPULATION WHO WAS AT WORK.
THEY CARE, BUT THEY WANT TO KNOW HOW
THIS CALL ME IF SHE WAS GOING TO
LAND ON THE GROUND IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES.
IS IMPORTANT BUT
I THINK THERE IS A DISASSOCIATION BETWEEN WHAT IS
GOING ON WITH TROMP AND RUSSIA AND CALL ME AND THE REALITY SHOW
OF THESE TRIALS AND MY EVERYDAY LIFE.
I STILL HAVE TO GO TO WORK
AND MAKE ENDS MEET.
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT ME PERSONALLY
EVERYDAY?
WHERE AS THE REST OF US ñ I WATCHED BECAUSE I HAVE
NEVER SEEN SO MANY WHITE MEN IN
COURT.
IT WAS LIKE THE BEST MOMENT OF TIME, I'M GOING TO KEEP
WATCHING AS LONG AS THEY KEEP TESTIFYING.
>> I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF PORTIONS THAT DO APPEAR TO BE
REALITY TV, BUT I THINK THIS WAS
REAL LIFE AND BROUGHT EVERYBODY DOWN TO EARTH.
IT WAS LIKE OH
SHIT, THIS IS ACTUALLY
HAPPENING.
HE HAS THESE MEMOS THAT ARE DETAILING HOW FUCKED UP
OUR PRESIDENT IS, AND HE IS
RUNNING OUR COUNTRY.
AND THE EXCUSE WE ARE GETTING FROM
REPUBLICANS RIGHT NOW IS THAT THIS IS HIS FIRST RODEO, GIVE
HIM A BREAK.
THAT IS NOT AN
EXCUSE FOR DOING THESE AFTER THINGS.
>>HE DID CALL THE PRESIDENT A LIAR, THE CRESCENDO MOMENT THAT
CAME EARLY ON.
THE OTHER WAY IT IS BEING SPUN IS THAT THIS IS A
DISGRUNTLED GOD BECAUSE HE WAS FIRED BY THE PRESIDENT.
>>YEAH, IT'S POSSIBLE.
MAYBE THAT IS WHY EVEN THOUGH HE SAID
IN HIS EXTEMPORANEOUS NOTES ñ HE HAD THE NEED TO TAKE ñ I THINK
THERE IS ONE REALLY BIG POSITIVE
TAKE AWAY FROM THIS AND THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN
POLITICS AND ARE SEEING WHETHER THEY THINK IT IS FUCKED UP OR
WHATEVER IT MAY BE, PEOPLE ARE
TUNING IN.
PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO PAY ATTENTION, THEY WANT TO
BE INFORMED AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON AND HOPEFULLY THAT
MOTIVATES PEOPLE AND CONTINUES THE ACTIVATION WE HAVE SEEN FROM
THAT.
>>IF THAT DOES ACTIVATE THEM TO BECOME INVOLVED IN WAYS MORE
THAN JUST WATCHING A REALITY SHOW, THEN IT IS A WIN.
IF THEY
ARE LOOKING FOR A GOTCHA MOMENT ñ IT PLAYS LIKE A LAW AND ORDER
EPISODE.
THE PROBLEM IS THERE IS A LOT OF OTHER STUFF BEING DONE
IN THE BACK ROOMS OF WASHINGTON, THERE IS STILL A LOT OF PUBLIC
LAND BEING LEASED FOR MINERAL RIGHTS, TRUMPET SIGNING
EXECUTIVE ORDERS TAKING AWAY
PEOPLE'S RIGHTS LEFT AND RIGHT ñ MY HOPE IS THAT YOU ARE RIGHT,
THAT THIS ACTIVATES PEOPLE TO BE
INVOLVED BEYOND JUST WATCHING THE JAMES COMEY IN
SESSIONS TESTIMONIES.
>> A LOT OF REPUBLICANS SAID WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING?
IT IS
SOMETHING THAT I THINK A LOT OF WOMEN FACE IN THE WORKPLACE WHEN
THEY ARE DEALING WITH HARASSMENT.
EVEN THOUGH HE SORT
OF EXPERIENCED SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT WOMEN EXPERIENCE IN THE
WORKPLACE, HE STILL HAS A WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE AND THAT THE
MAJORITY OF PEOPLE STILL THINK HE IS TRUSTWORTHY AND TELLING
THE TRUTH.
AT LEAST HE HAS THAT ON HIS SIDE.
>> THAT IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE WOMEN ON THE PANEL, YOU GET
THAT PERSPECTIVE.
THAT IS A VERY
GOOD POINT.
WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY NO. AND OBVIOUSLY HIS ANSWER IS
PROBABLY THE ANSWER THAT SO MANY
PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT SAY ñ I WAS
SHOCKED.
>> ANYONE WHO WAS IN THE FACE OF POWER AND DOESN'T WANT TO LOSE
THEIR JOB.
>>THERE ARE SEVERAL PARALLELS WITH SEXUAL HARASSMENT BUT ALSO
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION THAT PEOPLE FACE IN THE WORK PLACE.
IT IS IRRATIONAL AND I THINK
THAT IS WHAT I SAW WHEN I WAS WATCHING JAMES COMEY'S
TESTIMONY.
YOU OFTEN DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND BECAUSE IT IS SO
RIDICULOUS AND RECKLESS THAT YOUR RESPONSE IS THEN
IRRATIONAL.
BUT INSTEAD OF CALLING INTO QUESTION THE
IRRATIONALITY OF THE POWER
STRUCTURE YOU GET CALLED INTO QUESTION.
THEY GO INTO HIS
CREDIBILITY.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WERE ONCE IN SUPPORT OF
JAMES COMEY, THAT ARE NOW SAYING HE IS CRAZY.
DOES PLAY OUT IN
WAYS THAT WE SEE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEXUAL
HARASSMENT CASES PLAY OUT.

How Cable News Is Profitting Off Of James Comey

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