Jenks is currently engaging in a little bit of a beef with Glenn Greenwald,
who he accurately described as someone who's not really on the left.
And he did so in an interview on media rights podcast,
let's take a look at what Jake had to say.
And then we'll go to a very triggered Glenn Greenwald.
>> Mainstream media is disgusting and how they shut out progressives.
In terms of the right wing, no, no, no, Brianna Joy Gray unfortunately is one of
the people that are in the now the fake left.
And so this has become a whole niche part of the industry.
So jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Brianna Joy Gray and
a couple of others in their to be fair to Dave Rubin, he started this whole thing.
The fake left saying, I'm a classical liberal, I'm a progressive,
but it turns out the right wing's right about everything.
Okay, so that's the stick that they do, and they go on Tucker's show and
they dance for them and so it's disgusting.
They're not the real left and here's how you can tell,
they never disagree with tucker.
>> Look, the Tucker element of that is just so demonstrably true and
we'll show you in just a second.
But Glenn Greenwald gets triggered anytime anyone critiques his
appearances on Tucker Carlson.
So, he responds with the nation's single dumbest pundit.
Let's pause for a second, is Glenn Greenwald, not the guy who referred to
Tucker Carlson as a socialist, maybe sit this one out homeboy, but let me continue.
The nation's single dumbest pundit?
And I mean that literally and earnestly, there may be people more malicious,
but there's simply nobody more stupid, more cognitively dense.
Decrees that Bernie Sanders 2020 press secretary is part of the fake left.
>> So, let me jump in now on a couple of things.
So, I just saw that tweet, by the way he's to me, he's not so relevant.
I hadn't even bothered to look at him attacking me.
And so, he everyone, so he pokes and pokes enough that I have to, correct him.
So, in this case,
who else from the Bernie campaign is still talking to Brianna Joy Gray?
So, is it possible that someone from the left would then not be on the left?
Later, when they see that there's money to be made from right wing viewers?
So, that never occurred to you, Glenn that happened to you, Glenn?
How could it not have occurred to you?
And so he says that I'm a dumb pundit.
Well that's interesting, cuz you gonna see later in the story.
Glenn and I used to agree on almost everything.
When we were both progressives who criticized democrats and republicans.
We grow so, does that make you the world's dumbest pundit.
Glenn, were you super dumb before and
over the last two years as you become Tucker Carlson's best friend?
And kissed his ass on a weekly basis?
And ingratiated yourself in humiliating fashion to the right wing?
Did you become smarter?
All of a sudden losing your progressive ideas and principles?
Made you smarter?
Is that what happened, Glen?
So you tell me, I mean you said that I'm not intelligent and you and
I agreed completely before what happened?
>> Okay, so obviously this is sophistry and what it is it's an attempt to
trick his new audience which are honestly less intelligent.
The right wing they'll believe anything, right?
So, he's like, yeah, if you worked on Bernie Sanders campaign,
that means you never change your opinion later.
And the right wing is like, yeah, that's right, that's true.
Glenn Greenwald used to be a progressive and look at that.
He says everything the right wing does is true now and correct and they're Godly and
heavenly.
It must be true.
Okay, no, it isn't true, it's a trick.
>> Yeah, look you triggered him because what you said is demonstrably true.
And he hates when anyone critiques his appearances on his daddy's
Fox News program.
But look, just to answer your question after he had made a career and
a name for himself defending Literal Nazis as a lawyer.
He, engaged in this like Lar ping persona as a progressive.
But in reality I think he's always been questionable and unfortunately.
I didn't know about his past and I didn't know what he really stood for.
He follows, he's not any type of intelligent political thinker,
he just goes where he thinks the popularity is or where the money is.
And we're about to demonstrate that right now.
Now later Greenwald posted this old clip of junk again,
very old clip of bank with the caption, thank you Jake.
And it's what you were referring to.
Let's take a look.
>> Glenn Greenwald, he I believe is really the Gnome Chomsky of our generation.
I know that strong words but I think he's really earned it.
Time and time again pointing out the hypocrisy of the government.
The media being absolutely fearless about it.
And some of just the best reporting there is literally in the world if he asked me.
>> So, Glenn tweeted that old praise toward him by Jenko and
junk responded with.
No problem, I absolutely meant it.
That's why it's so heartbreaking to see you what you've become now,
to be a shadow of your former self being used as a convenient prop by
the right-wing is so sad to watch.
I'm being serious.
You're better than this, Jesus, have some self respect.
Well he doesn't have self respect.
And look this is a perfect tweet demonstrating exactly what Jake
was referring to.
They didn't even wait.
They didn't even wait one day to prove Jake correct.
And it's two screenshots of tweets from Glenn Greenwald,
I spoke last night on Fox about the extraordinary win by Maira Flores 2022.
I think, a nurse married to a border patrol agent,
who is now the first Mexico born congresswoman in US history.
Flipping an overwhelmingly Latino district,
which in 2016 went to Hillary plus 16 points red.
So, he's on Tucker Carlson's show to celebrate a congressional win,
by someone who flipped a typically blue district to red.
>> Yeah, I've got thoughts on that, but show jimmy's too.
And then I want to break it down.
>> Yeah, so let's look at that.
>> So-.
>> Yeah, the great Jimmy Dore segment on Tucker Carlson tonight calling out
Joe Biden for blaming every disaster here at home on Putin.
>> Yeah, so that's not a tweet by Glenn but it shows both.
So, the news broke that I said that they were the fake left the very next day.
Both of them go on Tucker Carlson and
insert themselves right in between his cheeks and they never disagree.
Never, you've got a fascist right winger and
Tucker Carlson and a progressive on the left.
Can't find a way to disagree with Tucker Carlson.
How about the replacement theory?
How about that one?
How about a billion things he says?
That's mental and massively right way?
They're like, no, but Joe Tucker, you're so right about Miraflores.
You're so right about Latinos, there no democrats.
No, they're bad.
They're all Latinos should vote for Republican.
You're so right tucker, you're so right tucker.
Where's the money tucker?
All right, and then jimmy goes on.
And what did he say?
You're so right about everything else in the world.
They're blaming on Putin, Russia is not wrong Tucker, you're right.
Tucker Russia's great.
America is bad.
Yeah, it's all the democrats fault.
It's the most obvious thing in the world.
You get a couple of Patsy's who have no morals,
you have no principles or decency and you get them to dance for you.
Hey, Glenn, show me you disagree with Tucker?
Show me you having a debate with tucker?
Show me you having a fight with Tucker.
Jimmy, you're pathetic, I don't even need to discuss Jimmy.
Look, there is something I slightly disagree with Anna,
which is that I think Glenn is smart.
Okay, that's why I'm more disappointed in him.
I think he was principal leave it on the positions I disagree with him on.
We had a debate now over 10 years ago,
where I moderated on the young church Glenn Greenwald versus Larry Lessig.
Larry Lessig is a Harvard Law Professor,
a godfather of the campaign finance movement.
It was a really interesting debate and and Glenn Greenwald said no,
we should keep money in politics.
Okay, that's an interesting point of view, but
I thought that he meant it and I think he's a smart guy.
I think that Jimmy's and the ruins of the world are pathetic, totally pathetic.
They'll do anything for money and they're not at all smart, right?
But, Glenn knows better, that's why it's disgusting when he dances for them.
So, show me all of your big critiques of republicans guys.
It's so easy to tell who's honest and who's not?
We criticize both republicans and democrats.
They only criticized democrats and progressives and
leave the right wing republicans alone.
Now, I guarantee you as a response to this, that Glenn Greenwald will find
a tiny little smidge where he criticized the right wing.
A tiny little smidge when he criticized republicans in the ocean of his content.
What what what I did it once or twice kind of, I haven't seen it.
Yeah, he hasn't even bothered to do that yet.
So, in the middle of them trying to do a fascist coup Glen,
where they were chanting, hang Mike Pence and Trump was encouraging it and
they were going to destroy our democracy.
You couldn't find a way to criticize republicans.
You couldn't find a way to criticize Trump or Tucker Carlson.
You couldn't find a way?
No, that's what proves you're fundamentally dishonest.
>> Yeah, look at this point.
I think, it's so abundantly clear where these people stand politically,
that like no one on the left genuinely looks at them and things like, no, no,
they're part of us, like our group, our political ideology.
They just come across as right wing cranks either chasing the money or
possibly trying to hide something.
I don't know.
I keep thinking back at the fact that Peter Thiel and
his company specifically spied on Glenn Greenwald, it was a huge story.
And now all of a sudden, Glenn Greenwald carries water for Peter Thiel and
literally works for a company that is heavily invested in by Peter Thiel.
What did Peter Thiel find about you and what are you hiding?
That's what I wannna know.
>> I don't know, I don't care.
All I care about is-.
>> I care a lot.
>> Yeah, well I hear you on that, so that's for journalists to figure out.
But I do know the results.
There's no question about the results.
You used to hold the government accountable.
You used to hold both parties accountable.
Now, all of a sudden, you don't.
The republicans are untouchable, the right-wing are heavenly.
And so your dishonesty is disgusting.
And finally, what actually made me mad was this guy from third way jumps in here,
Let's show that tweet.
Okay, and so it's Matt Bennett and he says, this is lunacy, and
Glenn Greenwald is horrible, but my more fundamental question is why is Jake
gets to call himself a Young Tuck at age 52 whatever, I don't care about that.
But, the reason third ways corporate democrats, they get money from
corporations and then they use it to corrupt the Democratic Party.
They're the worst of the worst, but he saw that video from a decade ago and
he's like perfect opportunity.
I'll put in all progressives in the bucket of Glenn Greenwald in the sellouts.
So, that when you hear a progressive critique of corporate democrats,
which is the great majority of the Democratic Party.
And Joe Biden and Pelosi and Schumer,
you will dismiss it as if it's from the fake left,
the guys who sold out to Tucker Carlson, like Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Door.
No, you don't get to play that trick.
No, the progressive critique of the Democratic Party is excellent.
You guys are sellouts, you take corporate money from people
like Matt Bennett day in and day out and you sell out your own voters.
It's disgusting, but it's possible to say that, and
also say the republicans are doing terrible things and prove both.
When you see anyone only taking one side.
And telling you how wonderful and
amazing democrats are, know that they're not telling you the truth.
Which by the way, is the great majority of the mainstream media, or
you see others taking only the republican side and
never telling you what their faults are, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, etc.
Know that they are not telling you the truth.
We actually covered the real news and both parties make terrible mistakes and
largely serve the elites and the upper class.
Now, Glenn and Jimmy and those guys are their servants and it's pathetic