Speaker 1: Russell Brand critical thinking, independent minded, Russell Brand interviewing
interview interview had interviewed Ron DeSantis, and it is the most pathetic softball interview.
It's almost like Russell Brand is just sucking up to Ron DeSantis and Ron DeSantis loving
it.
I think that this is part of an effort to make Ron DeSantis seem more, you know, cooler
and hip by.
They give him the microphone and they set up like a podcast studio, and he's appearing
now with Russell Brand.
I am going to show you what a true sycophant interview looks like.
Here is a fluff piece from Russell Brand opening by saying The people of Florida just really
seem to love you.
Speaker 3: In Florida recently, I was struck by the amount of pride that Floridians have
in their state.
You appear to be universally endorsed by the population of Not exactly.
Speaker 1: He did win.
But there are millions of people in this state who voted against this guy.
Speaker 3: Florida.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you noticed that.
I was born and raised in Florida, and while I've always loved the state, we didn't have
the same type of pride growing up that, say, people in Texas have about Texas.
Speaker 1: Right.
Something has changed.
We've gone anti-woke.
It's where pride goes to be born.
But woke goes to die.
Really hard hitting questions.
Here's another hard hitting question from Russell Brand, this time about how great of
a speaker, a great orator or orator DeSantis is now.
Speaker 3: What is evident, even after just a limited amount of time in your company,
is that you are a competent orator, that you are a successful politician, that you are
very appealing, that you've succeeded in Florida.
Speaker 1: Succeeded at what exactly?
Passing insane abortion bans targeting specific private companies despite claiming to be against
business regulation.
What exactly is it that DeSantis has accomplished?
Then they get on to, I guess, mildly more serious questions and they talk a little bit
about January 6th and for now on this issue.
DeSantis continues to defend the failed former President Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I wonder what you feel in particular about the protests around January the sixth.
Speaker 1: Yes, feelings rather than facts.
Speaker 3: Do you think that they were insurrectionists as described?
Do you consider them to be protesters?
What do you think about the subsequent funding that the Capitol Police received and how the
Democrat Party in particular has used these events to enact more power and to control
media spaces?
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's ridiculous how much money that they pumped in for the Capitol
Police.
It was not in.
Speaker 1: They're just pumping, pumping and pumping money.
Speaker 2: Insurrection.
These are people that were there to attend a rally and then they were there to protest.
Now it devolved added devolved into into a riot.
But the idea that this was a plan to somehow over to overthrow the government of the United
States is not true.
Speaker 1: This is such a weird argument.
It's like saying, listen, they were not there to kill anybody.
They were there merely to do a little bit of pickpocketing and stuffing their pants
full of stuff.
But then all of a sudden security showed up and people started yelling.
And next thing you know, a few people were killed, but they were not there for that.
They were there for it.
Does it really matter if eventually they decide those who choose to break the law go inside
and do the things that they did, hey, maybe we can stop the certification.
Why does it matter at what point that happened?
Now, certainly when it comes to something like murder.
Intent is sometimes considered, but you're talking about a crime either way.
Oh, I didn't mean to kill them.
I only meant the punch him and he fell and hit his head on the cement and died for back
home.
I know of a story.
Happened to someone I went to high school with, but.
Okay, we're talking about different levels of crimes.
But the excusing everything, it's it's wild.
Speaker 2: And it's something that the media had spun out just to try to basically, you
know, get as much mileage out of it and use it for for Partizan and for political aims.
And so I know there were a lot of people that were there who were just there.
They were just them.
They didn't have any designs on doing anything.
Speaker 1: And well, most of those people have not actually been charged.
The people that have been charged have been the ones for where there is actual evidence
of criminality.
One more clip from this just pathetic softball interview.
Here is Ron DeSantis explaining how Elon Musk is just really great.
What what great journalism, huh, Elon?
Speaker 2: So I think he understands the threats posed to a free society by woke ideology and
by some of the other corporate consolidations of power.
He's obviously very rich himself.
Nevertheless, I like what he's done with Twitter, and he even floated maybe buying CNN.
There you go.
So hopefully if he did that, I bet you'd probably be a little bit more reasonable by my lights.
Speaker 3: There you.
Speaker 1: Go.
And Russell Brand, just enchanted by Ron DeSantis.
You know, it would be a great thing for someone like Russell Brand to actually pin to Santos
down and say, hey, listen, your primary message has been one of anti-woke.
Here are 510 polls that show most of the country agrees with the so-called woke side, not the
anti woke side.
Isn't this a short sighted and poor strategy for actually winning a general election?
What about the question of, hey, your criticisms of Trump have been extremely milquetoast and
light touch?
Are you trying to position yourself to suck up Trump supporters?
If Trump does himself in, and is that even really a winning strategy for the general
election?
What about, hey, the law you passed in Florida with regard to abortion is retrograde, not
only by American standards, it puts Florida in the.
Dark ages globally when it comes to abortion, even compared to countries you would never
consider our equal in your nationalist view.
Isn't this an absolute disaster?
There are real questions that could be asked here.
None of those questions were asked during this Russell Brand interview.
And there are still people out there saying no.
Russell Brand is a great, evenhanded objective.
You know, he's not in the tank for anybody glowing.
Look at this smile.
Just absolutely delighted.
Truly pathetic stuff.
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