How liberal comedians became lap dogs for establishment power w/Lee Camp | The Chris Hedges Report 

He's not really a court jester. Real court jesters were allowed to criticise their employers, i.e., the king. They had to know their limits. It was risky being a court jester. They could get beheaded ( or worse) if they went too far. Maher is just a mainstream mildly amusing entertainer.

There was always something slick about him that suggested he's a sociopath. He played the game until he got there and then he picked up the board and dumped the pieces, smiling.

I haven't watched late night talk shows for years now.

Then last time I went through airports, there he was on a magazine cover, the types given away to those who already passed security clearance, as if some type of national hero.

He has good writers, but he is very pro mainstream

Younger people may not realize how funny and powerful his political satire had been at one point. The White House Correspondents Dinner made him a hero to many antiwar leftists.

wow I don't think I could face life if a walking dead communist like Hedges was my link to truth ......

The creep who fantasized about 15 year olds? And they eventually did show his Letterman eoisode; pretty tame.

If Bill Hicks were alive today, would he be Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Dore?

You're a good writer my friend.

I'm pretty sure all men from the beginning of time have fantasized about 15 year olds. It's sorta the ideal age for breeding. The problem is that it's always been a cause of male conflict, because it's the ideal age of breeding. You can't fault every man who was ever born for being subject to human biology. Obviously, we have tried to avoid male conflict in society by restricted age limits, but it's not wrong to still have basic biological instincts.

@@PaulSavoy-ky1ct He wasn't fantasizing about 15 year olds. He was making a joke about those that do. Try thinking next time. Hicks' humor was way over your head.

He thinks he's funny. I know because he laughs after every joke he tells.

Bill has great monologues, especially the New Rules segment at the end but his debate format is awful and he's very misinformed.

Bill Maher has always been a second(or third) rate comic and a fourth rate political analyst. He's, coincidentally, exactly as shallow(which is completely) as modern popular(celebrity) culture is.

@@gugy68 those are monologues?! I always thought they were tantrums coming from an old racist curmudgeon

@stefanieb2094 Lol, yep!!! But who am I to judge?

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Dont forget the late Bill Hicks

He said many things that are factually incorrect and contradicted himself on many points. I don't take him seriously.

@@MargaritaMagdalenalike what? I’ve never heard carlin state facts. He was very skilled in observing everyday life and the political environment but he didn’t get into facts. Please give an example.

. "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." ❤

Lee really is actually a great comedian.

And Carrot Top is Lenny Bruce. @@Heirpusher

@@jbholmes99 and Jimmy Dore ain’t no Carrot Top. 😂 He’s not at the top of anything comedically. 😂😂

Yeah, I disagree too with lumping John Oliver in with the late night network hosts. His show goes after a lot of the inequalities in America and the world, and you can tell he really cares about humanity.

People are upset because they don't have the mediocrity of the 1950s American Dream.

Tom Lehrer, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, followed Lenny Bruce.

@@rogersmith7396 I'm only upset non-white Americans didn't have a chance at it. What's wrong with a little economic security?

1950s prosperity was largely illusionary with low wages, short life expectancy, poor medical care, cheap gas, women in the home. Little safety net or consumer protection. There was more commercial competition and fewer imports. Larger exports. Fewer Wall Street money grubbers. Better pensions at your mediocre job. Lower health insurance costs to go with your poor medical care.@@numbersix8919

I was turned on to Lenny Bruce in the early sixties by a friend of mine who was a musician and poet. He was so far ahead of his time and paid the ultimate price for speaking truth to power as a comic in a conservative culture. So much for freedom of speech in America.

They are still looking for the receipts 😂😂😂😂

💯 correct, I quit watching him after he gave Obama a million dollars until I found his Cuban cigars and fancy drinks and speaking with celebrities, just a few, lol. Jez, Hoolywired!! I watched a few of them. Wow!!!!

"his future life as a homeless former-comedian pan-handling for his next lunch." make a good bit: "I got 'schtick' - Get your schtick here! Hey, Buddy, tell you what - I will tell you 3 jokes, YOU buy lunch. waddya say?"

Tree🐸, you are spot-on about Maher and I basically have quit watching him. JUST off and on I would. AND now with him saying on one of his first comeback shows after the writers strike that: Israel always takes The moral high ground, I have decided to boycott him. He's outta his mind. His problem with that whole issue is that his mom was a Jew and so he is a Jew but he only allows himself to be a Jew when it's convenient, otherwise he loves to say he's Irish and I'm part Irish and that man is NOT Irish in any way shape or form. HE doesn't have the humor; he doesn't have to wit; he doesn't have the perspicacity to see through things. AND definitely when it comes to the Palestinian issue, he doesn't see it as does Ireland -- the one European nation that is standing with Palestinians. Everyone knows exactly what has been going on for over a half-century in that country and it was begun by the British and it is maintained by the Americans. A huge ongoing crime against humanity, as America and Britain and the Europeans enable the ongoing genocide, I repeat-- genocide. It is NOT ethnic cleansing , bad as that is. IT'S straight up nazi-like GENOCIDE. .

The world needs more moral spleens and objective brains.

lol

The world needs more brilliance like Lee Camp and Chris Hedges❤❤!

Personally, having loved Lee's political takes and being an avid watcher of all his shows since RT, I was disappointed in Lee when he misrepresented Chapelle's trans jokes in all of his Netflix specials. Either he didn't even watch them, or he didn't really pay attention. VERY DISAPPOINTING.

@@deep-pond He also STILL thinks a jab by corrupt big pharma was a good thing.

Awesome

If he says anything remotely approaching the TRUTH, he won't be allowed anywhere near mainstream TV.

I have quit seeing "programs" from networks.

They still have strong writers and a strong roster of talented performers. The show has become something of an American institution, and is almost half a century old now.

@@Skousen77 I don't have cable, nor any television other than RU-vid and haven't watched a network for over 30 years. Can receive any information I need from shows such as this.

Totally agree! That was the one weak spot of the program. Dore should not be mentioned in the same sentence as Hicks, Carlin, Bruce, Sahl! Completely undeserved.

I think it was because during covid Jimmy Dore was about the only comedian that saw what was occurring and the propaganda and the censoring of everyone who expressed any opinion that was negative toward the pharmaceuticals. THAT was a very big deal because covid went on for three years and actually still is occurring. I am still being censored for anything I say about covid as a commenter. A couple days ago, I was warned that my comment was going to get me cancelled from even being able to access RU-vid and leave comments. AND then I got another comment from them saying the same thing and then I got a third comment saying the same thing. AND then the next day I got a fourth comment saying you've now been banned from leaving any comments on RU-vid and I had to click GOT IT or they wouldn't even let me get into RU-vid and I didn't GET IT. ALL I GOT was that this was fascism and this was wrong. Mind you I'm a commenter I don't have a podcast. I know I could NEVER have a podcast cuz I always say what I think. and you can't do that.

Agreed. Immediately made me question the credibility and narrative of this video and not just because Dore isn’t funny.

Love jimmy, lots of others do too

@@andianonn cool story. Does not change the fact that he is a grifter and not a comedian that should be in anyway discussed with the likes of George Carlin.

I will about Substack now

I subscribe to that, too. Chris Hedges is one of the very best, and may be the best.

Above reproach!!

RT also had journalist Rick Sanchez who was shunned by American media for being too critical.

Here in New Zealand the RT (Russian Television) channel used to be available (on cable) but about a week after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine it became unavailable. I presume this was in the interests of "Freedom of Speech" and "getting both sides of the argument".

RT is propaganda of the worst order! Sick Russian spin on their own ridiculous reasoning.

I will stop watching this video now. Thanks for the tip. Anyone who appears on RT is just as bad as what he is saying about any of these comics.

@@FlanaFugue go back to brunch lol nice. At least you came out. Big day. Not often does someone so clearly retreat into ignorance. What a spotting!

Maher is one of the most subordinated comedians in existence. Maher's best work was in his early years, when he rightly called us cowards for "lobbing missiles from thousands of miles away". He made a 180% turn, and all it took was maybe 20 years.

Bill Mahr has always been Republican Lite to me...

He reminds me of Dennis miller when this happened to the right comedians in the 90s

That's what it's like for me.

lol@@lobotomizedamericans

You are so brave I just can't stomach him 🥺.

You have evolved...Maher is incapable of this.

Now he should interview Chappelle, so he can clear up Lee's misrepresentation of his trans jokes.

Careful. While Hedges has been stalwart until today, he will be the first to warn of creating heroes. Anyone can be coerced. He has warned of this many times.

Several decades ago, I was simultaneously working for two US military entities. At a point in time, two of my co-workers and I witnessed an horrific event. We discussed it, trying to get over the trauma. All three of us were explicitly warned to STFU. In my case, the life of my young son was threatened. What did I do? What is a hero?!

That's how he makes a living mate. Still waiting for viable solutions from him.

U mean you don't want to help buy Chris a new suit? If you make a top of the line donation, you get a basket of heritage organic parsnips, ideal for roasting, for Thanksgiving. I think you may suffer from being too solution oriented ...take the parsnips and savor the exquisite root

​@@bubstacrini8851😢 Are you being sarcastic?

You are obviously on RU-vid. So is he.

Such a pity Lee's shouting, gibbering delivery makes his excellent content all but unwatchable.

I'm still not old enough to not care.

If youre indeed of advanced age then you know that Chomsky was addressing their topics decades ago.Manufacturing consent is on top of the list.

There is a reason they called it the Boob Tube.

How old are you?

Same here

Chris Hedges is unironically Mr. Slugworth, and Lee Camp is merely Putin's version of Bill Maher. Wake up, Qids.

Well, Lee is out of a job since he lost that sweet RT Putin money.

I will try to find his work elsewhere. Thank you for introducing him.

@@satevo462and what has Lee said that is false ?

@@satevo462 No, he works over at Alan Macleod's Mint Press now. Though he & Chris did work for RT at the same time a while back.

No. The difference is one punches up, yet the other punches down.

​@AK-np4rp if you think D.C punched down, you missed the punchline, as did Lee. His trans jokes were never simplisticly about bathrooms...even though there PLENTY of humor to be extracted from that topic as well.

@@Sweet75JennX I wouldn't expect a transphobe like yourself to be conscious of the impact of transphobic jokes. Transsexuals were the focus of the joke and they are a vulnerable group. He was punching down.

@@AK-np4rp aaaaand here we go again..."transphobic". That accusation is losing its arresting effect because of entitled people like youself. Stay for the punchline next time. You'll learn about nuance, broaden your perspective AND be a happier person for it.

He claimed to support Bernie in 2016, but he couldn't wait to tell us how great Hillary Clinton was, even before the DNC rigged the primaries and forced Bernie out of the race. I never believed his claim to be 'for Bernie' - in 2020 he did not have to pretend, he went full neo-liberal bellend.

Well Bernie cashed in himself..I guess the establishment met his price to be a sheep dog.

Seems to me that he chose his master a long time before that. In a way, he became religious after all.

@@terryrobinson2324 Nonsense. Bernie realised the entire DNC and the MSM were against him, he run well into the summer and conceded only a couple of months before the DNC's corporate celebration day for Hillary Clinton. The second time around, there was Covid, the corporate shills banding together, and the real danger of a Trump second term, with fascism well established as mainstream politics. Bernie Sanders fought the status quo (political, financial and media) more than anyone else has done for many many decades.

Once bill mahr endorsed and backed hillary is when I stopped watching his show for good. Bernie Sanders betrayed us all and I no longer support him at all.

yes.

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If they and others like Jimmy Dore and the Duran and Glenn Greenwald and the many whistleblower doctors, etc knew how the massive EMBEZZLING SCAM is done, they could help expose it - which could very quickly end the reign of lying sociopathic money ADDICTS who are totally derelict in their duty and unfit to govern. Here is the MINIMUM we need to know in order to end the reign of corrupt sociopathic money ADDICTS who have been embezzling government money for decades: Remember Henry Ford said that there would be "revolution before tomorrow morning" if the people know how the money system actually worked? Well, the corrupt sociopaths in power know that government money can be issued IN ANY AMOUNT for anything that is physically possible, and they have arranged scams for decades to EMBEZZLE that money! The major one is "privatization", where they pretend they will run something better than the government and "like a business", but this scam is designed so they can bill the government ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and insanely high profits. Wall Street firms fall over each other to invest - so do most Congress (or Parliament) members - when these entities are put on the stock market, because they know that profits are guaranteed via fiat government money. They all know that government money is NOT OUR TAXES, and that countries that issue their own currency do NOT have an actual "national debt" that the liars love to fearmonger us about, etc. We need to know what they want kept hidden from us. The US has been taking over countries since WW2 to do this embezzling scam and has built a corruption cartel of many lapdog countries; the liars demonize any leader who does not submit, to manipulate public opinion so we go along with the coups, invasions, assassinations, etc. The US also directs the WHO, created the WEF, and monolithic entities like Blackrock, Vanguard and others got so big by participating in the embezzling globally! We need to see the BS and FIGHT the lunatic money addicts and their inhumanity. They lie us into wars & then embezzle most of the war money through "privatized" war companies, incarcerate people to enrich themselves via "privatized" prisons. "Privatized" healthcare enriches insurance companies and related companies & investors, another corruption scam where they get torrents of government money but do NOT spend it on the healthcare people need. Vax companies and the digital ID systems to subjugate us are also privatized! So are all the entities to track and control us that the liars pretend are to "help the climate": social credit, ESG, carbon tracking, digital bank currency, 15-minute cities and more. The scheme was to get TRILLIONS from many governments FOREVER while ensuring we could not rise up to stop their corruption, tyranny and inhumanity. (Pretending there is not enough energy, oil, food is how they will try to force us to get those digital IDs - they will say it is so we can get our "rations" and UBI etc to try to survive.) This electronic prison to subjugate is being finalized, so time is running short for us to expose them and stop their plans for us. They use cloaking terms like "private" prisons, "for profit" healthcare, "public-private partnerships", etc, because they know that there is public backlash against privatization; we should always push back and use the CORRECT term when they do this. Currently, public education is being privatized by calling it "school choice" and "charter schools". The lunatic money addicts in power lie, destroy and KILL for more "money fixes". They are totally UNFIT TO GOVERN and should face charges of dereliction of duty, violating the Constitution, embezzling federal money, crimes against humanity, violating the Nuremberg code, war crimes and more.

Jimmy Dore is no leftist, and neither are these fellow grifters.

@@hydroponichomesteader6852 tell us more about your lack of nuance, gross gullibility and raging conservatism. 🙄

Now that you've discovered Jimmy Dore, is time to see through him and move past him

@@hydroponichomesteader6852 every right-wing accusation is actually a confession. The "cult" comment is particularly telling.

Trolling.

woke logic lol

But for four specials? I think Lee made a good point.

Sounds like it hit a nerve for Lee. No judgement here.

the irony of lamenting that folks don't take into account the totality of critique layered in a joke only to then summarize Chapelle's special as "anti-trans" and laden with gripes about bathrooms is rich. Chappelle was making a two-fold critique: firstly, about America's willingness to accommodate for the civil liberties of Trans and gay people, while simultaneously being unwilling to extend those liberties to Black Americans; and secondly the inherit irony of the first given that the LGBTQ equal rights movement so directly borrows from the Black American civil rights struggle. Chappelle doesn't say the following explicitly, but it's still right there: Gender is for white people. What really ticked people off about those specials is that folks were confronted with their a priori, acculturated belief: that black people aren't really people such that categories of gender, much less personhood, aren't applicable. Hence his observation that "it was easier for Bruce Jenner to change his gender than it was for Muhammad Ali to change his name". I'm assuming, based on the affirmative intonated noises Hedges gives during Camps' screed, that Hedges has seen Chappelle's specials. It's just another reminder that class politics so often tries to marshal Black American engagement to pretend at a continuing legacy of resisting one of the central (if not the central) rots of American Empire: white supremacy; only to then jettison Black American political interests whenever it's even slightly convenient.

there are plenty of black trans and many are sex workers. reportedly the largest victims of crime are sex workers being found out by their clients.. @@solomonmorrison6502

"You say you hate him, but I think you love him" To the media about Trump. No one in that room was ready to hear that.

institutions ... whole lotta misogyny out there still

Lickspittal sycophantic comments

True. Much better than his comedian side, tbh. I never liked him on RT (even when I agreed with him). Perhaps he should consider making the same move Russell Brand made to straight up commentary and interviews. He seems much more comfortable sitting down than standing up on stage.

@@StopTechnocracy Lee is trying to appeal to his younger generation, not an older one. The use of "foul" language can have its place, however, it's limited given these times.

Yeah, I loved it.

WE'VE KNOWN.

Great!@@maureenobrien4807

Establishment talking points? Dude, that is all the MAGA movement is. Also, Jon Stewert is allowed his opinion, especially since he brings the evidence to back it up. He argued for the 9/11 people to get the medical treatment they deserved.... the Republicans were against it. Stewart spent so much more time arguing in favor while Republicans just waved him off. So if he has decided to focus solely on how shit the republcian have become then he is allowed. Refute his points instead of just talking shit. Aside from Roseanne (who isn't even a good comedian) the rest all railed against the Republicans almost exclusively and they all brought the evidence to back it up.

Jimmy Dore

The UK has private eye.

Criticism of society isn't comedy. Anger isn't thoughtful. Spade and Miller are not comics, they are marginal actors. Occasionally, with funny lines

Hilarious comment, totally misses the irony

@@freethink9510 wut?

@@gracelynne3918 wut?

Holy ominous 😮

Long live Tupac Shakur! Thug Life forever.

KRS, Brand Nubians, Public Enemy etc got deleted for record executive gangsta rap

It can be kinda funny at first, but it gets old rather quickly. I stopped laughing and then I stopped watching.

Chris Hedges critiquing comedy is ironic given I've never seen him demonstrate even the slightest sense of humor.

@@Kfabiano10 It’s rare to get even a smile!

@@Kfabiano10 Laughing isn't the first impulse of those who muster the nerve to spend their life 'looking into the jaws of the tiger', and giving us (who are listening) field reports of what they're finding there. Cut Chris some respect, he's got much bigger preoccupations than looking for laughs.

Why? Do you enjoy bootlickers that always say they support "The Current Thing"? Because that's all Lee Camp is. I've been keeping track of the guy for about 4 years now and all I ever hear is ADL talking points and anti-white rhetoric.

That is the term, too. Scary stuff.

Technical term for brainwashing.

@@sabbracadabra8367 Also a form of hacking. One of the most famous hackers of all time, Kevin Mitnick, primarily gained access through social engineering.

Lee was on Showtime's series “The Green Room with Paul Provenza” along with Roseanne and Bob Saget. I thought he might be funny. Then I saw his unfunny preaching Leftist shows and I thought he sucked. Very unfunny and I am not just critical of Leftist. Here he sounds smart, but did he make any quips? Seems like most comedians would be making a few more jokes.

unfunny comedians are part of social engineering and mostly they target white audience.

Funny but true. Also not funny and not true.

That's a poor take. George Carlin would strongly disagree with you

16:44

Well you gotta be brave....if you throw in a little crazy, they might leave you alone.

He was very hostile to excess wealth and policy-driven oppression.

I would have thought the same, but then I remembered he spoke at a rally hosted by Pro-Invasion fascists and then wrote an entire ass article about how people are too mean to fascists.

That is unfortunate.

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Chris Hedges claims the CIA had nothing to do with JFK's death, so he isn't that great of a journalist and he still follows this false narrative knowing the opposite is true.

Brilliant? Lee was on Showtime's series “The Green Room with Paul Provenza” along with Roseanne and Bob Saget. I thought he was funny. Then I saw his unfunny preaching Leftist routines and I thought he sucked. Very unfunny and I am not just critical of Left. Here he sounds smart, but did he make any quips here? Seems like most comedians would be making a few more jokes.

lol

Yeah, but that's mainly a conservative track in the culture war.

"Some" people or most people?

To some, it's what America is all about. I don't even know how I feel about that....oh I do....like a fish discovering air.

South Korea and Japan should join the ASEAN asap for self protection rather being U.S puppet.