The Highwire with Del Bigtree - RUSSELL BRAND EVISCERATES THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MACHINE

Episode Date: March 15, 2023

Comedian Philosopher, Russell Brand, took a brave walk on his own high wire when he eviscerated a pundit from MSNBC on the topic of media bias this week on Bill Maher. He passionately and eloquently proceeded to shine a light on the stark reality that news from both sides of the mainstream media machine play the same dangerous game, with the people always being the ones who lose.#RusselBrand #BillMaher #MainStreamMedia #MSNBC #FOX #TruthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

There's one more video I want to share with you as if we haven't had enough that was on our side. Another comedian, maybe we could change some laws to something and make this guy president of the United States because he absolutely nailed it down when it came to lies coming from mainstream media. Take a look at Russell Brand on the Bill Marsh Show last week. A lot of people have said for a long time that Fox News isn't a real news network. It's a propaganda network. It's now all out there. It's all in the Dominion's suit. It's disingenuous to claim that the biases they're exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC. It's difficult to suggest that these corporations operate as anything other than mouthpieces

for their affiliate owners in Black Rock and Vanguard and unless we start to embrace. And also, mate, like just spiritually, if I may use that word in your great country, we have to take responsibility for our own perspective. I've been on that MSNBC, mate. It was propaganda, nutcrackery on there. I went on a show called Morning Joe. It was absurd the way they carried on.

Good Morning Joe. Yeah, I don't know what it was. It wasn't morning. There was no one called Joe there. No one could concentrate. They didn't understand the basic tenets of journalism. No one was willing to stick up for genuine American heroes like Edward Snowden. No one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

And I think to sit within the first. Castle of MSNBC throwing rocks have Fox News is ludicrous. My friend, make MSNBC better. Make MSNBC great again. My friend, I would love, I would, the moment, the moment, the moment you can win on Joe. Russell, darling, the moment that you give me a specific example, an actual example.

Okay, I'll give you a- Wait, wait, wait, wait, just wait, just. How about a specific example? Let me tell you what, the specific guy I'd like to hear him. I'd like to hear a specific example, approval specific example, of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television, saying something they knew was false, and we're saying behind the scenes to people, this is, I'm about to go out. We know that the election wasn't stolen. You've illustrated this example. But I will go out, but I will go out on television and say the opposite.

I will lie. When's my answer? Just give me a specific example. Give me a specific example. All right. I'm with you. I think it's a false equivalency, Russell. It's a total.

No, it's not. That's your home biases, mainly. It's not about bias. It's a false grievance because you don't actually know anything about any of these organizations you're talking about. Even in MSMEC once, big fucking deal. My darling, it was more than enough. You can't come out with such a carry. You don't have a single actual fact.

Do you want an example? Do you want an example? The ludicrous, outrageous criticisms of Joe Rogan around Ivermectin deliberately referring to as a horse medicine when they know it's an effective medicine. Yeah, that's not a bad example. What a Rachel Maddow turning up on the TV saying, if you take this vaccine, you're not going to get it. Non-responsive.

You have to listen. Do you think you can improve America by determinately and avowedly condemning Fox News without acknowledging that you're participating in the same game? Did you not just listen to Bernie Sanders, somebody who plainly legitimately believes in this country and believes it's possible to change, but is bound by corruption, is bound by the lobbying system?

Surely it's clear to you, Bill, as one of the great pundits and experts and comic voices that systemic change is required. Money has to be taken out of politics. We need new political systems that genuinely represent ordinary Americans so that we can overcome cultural differences. And bickering about which propagandist network is the worst is not going to save a single American life, not improve the life of a single American child, not going to approve America's standards. standing in the world and the world needs a strong America. I'll tell you that. I'll tell you that. So you have an obligation, a duty, not to condemn these people.

I don't know if you can feel it, but there's a revolution happening, folks. And it's amazing. We've got Kennedy's thinking about running for president to talk about vaccine issues. We brought you a comedian from San Francisco. I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, Russell Brands. So any of that wants to label these things that conservative or right-wing, or any of it, the whole thing is crashing down because it really just comes down to truth. It comes down to the truth and being able to speak the truth, whether you're cracking a joke

or you're being serious. It's all about representing yourself. So please, as I say it, every single week, sit back and think just about this show and how many brilliant minds have walked across it, how many people have put their careers on the line to speak the truth. This This is our time. Our children are counting on us. There are so many brilliant people that are now walking with us, leading us, walking behind us, lifting us up. It's time to be happy.

It's time to allow ourselves to laugh. It's time to grab our power. It's time for the truth to make the decisions of the world.