YOU GUYS REMEMBER JOHN BOEHNER?
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE?
DUDE THAT WOULD CRY A LOT, HAD A REALLY WEIRD SKIN COLOR
THAT WAS A LITTLE TOO ORANGE TO BE NATURAL?
WELL HE APPARENTLY SPENT 18
HOURS SPEAKING TO TIM ALBERTA OF POLITICO AND IN THOSE 18
HOURS, HE UNLEASHED.
HE UNLEASHED ON INDIVIDUALS LIKE
YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT THEM TO UNLEASH ON AND IT WAS FANTASTIC.
SO YOU HAVE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE
INTERVIEWS UP FOR YOU, AND FIRST LET ME SAY THAT I LOVE THE
WAY THE PIECE BEGAN.
IT STARTED WITH:
YOU KNOW WHAT ACTUALLY MAKES ME ENTER INTO A LITTLE BIT OF
THE GAME.
MY IDEAL VISION, WE'LL PASS THE 20TH AMENDMENT AND GET
MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
PROGRESSIVES ARE IN CHARGE AND I'M OUT THERE
SMIRKING SMOKING CIGARETTES WITH JOHN OUT THERE LAUGHING.
HOPEFULLY YOU'RE SMOKING SOMETHING ELSE, NOT
CIGARETTES.
I'M PROBABLY NOT SMOKING CIGARETTES AND I AM
PROBABLY SMOKING SOMETHING ELSE AND THAT IS GOING TO BE A
GREAT DAY IN AMERICA.
SO WHAT DID HE SAY?
LET'S MOVE ON.
HE TALKS ABOUT TREY GOWDY.
HE HAS REPLACED THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND
GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE AND THAT WAS JASON CHAFFETZ, RIGHT?
GRAPHIC 51.
HIS WHAT BOEHNER HAS TO SAY ABOUT TREY GOWDY.
DAMN.
SHOTS FIRED.
SO ALREADY BALLS TO THE WALL.
HE ISN'T HOLDING BACK.
THE JORDAN HE IS REPORTING TWO IS PRESENTED OF JIM JORDAN.
THAT'S AWESOME FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.
NUMBER ONE, IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
NUMBER TWO HE BASICALLY PROVED TO MY BY RESIGNING INSTEAD
OF DOING OVERSIGHT OF DONALD TRUMP WHICH IS TOO HARD OF A JOB
AND COULD GET THEM IN POLITICAL TROUBLE AND WANTED TO GO?
HE WENT RUNNING RIGHT AFTER THE SPOTLIGHT THAT WENT TO FOX
NEWS, CASHED SOME CHECKS, GET HIS PR OTHERS WE CAN RUN
FOR GOVERNOR LATER.
ON THE OTHER HAND, REALLY, JOHN, ARE YOU ANY BETTER?
LOOK AT WHAT A PHONY YOU ARE.
HOW COME YOU DIDN'T SAY THIS STUFF WHEN YOU WERE IN OFFICE?
YOU WAITED AND SO YOU WERE OUT OF OFFICE TO TELL US WHAT
YOU ACTUALLY THINK.
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE HATE POLITICIANS AND THIS IS
PARTLY WHY DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
HE MAY BE A MADMAN BUT AT LEAST HE IS SPOUTING OFF AT
THE MOUTH WHILE HE'S IN OFFICE AND ATTACKING PEOPLE, ETC.
SO APPARENTLY, I MEAN, HOW MUCH MORE BUT I RESPECT JOHN
BOEHNER IF WHEN HE IS IN OFFICE, HE DOESN'T USE THE F OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT HE COULD SAY YOU KNOW WHAT?
CHAFFITZ IS NOT GENUINE, HE DOESN'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE
THINGS HE CLAIMS ARE HIS CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES, HE'S
DOING IT FOR ELECTION REASON SO I'M LETTING GO AGAINST HIM.
THAT WOULD'VE BEEN AMAZING.
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU AND THE NECESSITY FOR
HONESTY, ESPECIALLY AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE SOME CONSTRUCTIVE
CRITICISM FOR MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN PARTY.
WE COULD
DEFINITELY USE MORE OF THAT.
THINGS HAVE BECOME MUCH MORE TRY BALLISTIC.
HOWEVER, AT THE SAME TIME, I HATE THAT YOU USE TRUMP AS
AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE TRUMP HAS, IN MY OPINION LEAD TO MORE
DIVISIVENESS.
I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO IS LIKE TO QUOTE IS IMPORTANT.
YOU HEAR SOME OF THE RHETORIC ON THE SHOW.
BUT I THINK THAT THINGS HAVE DEVOLVED SO MUCH UNDER
TRUMP IN TERMS OF THE WAY PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH ONE
ANOTHER THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SCALE IT BACK CONSIDERABLY
BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME JUVENILE.
I HEAR YOU AND THEN RAND PAUL HAD A GREAT LINE ABOUT HOW
DONALD TRUMP IS TRUTH TELLING WITHOUT THE TRUTH.
THAT'S ALSO DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC BUT AGAIN, BOEHNER PROGRESSED.
CHAFFITZ IS GOING ON THE SPOTLIGHT OF FOX NEWS.
SO ARE YOU.
YOU ALSO GO ON FOX NEWS.
IT'S CONVENIENT TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS WHEN HE IS OUT OF POWER.
BUT HE'S NOT DONE YET.
SO GOING BACK TO JIM JORDAN, HE SAYS THE FOLLOWING:
THOSE ARE STRONG WORDS DUDE.
I LIKE IT.
AND OF COURSE, HE IS REFERRING TO THESE RADICAL RIGHT-WINGERS
WHO WOULD COME OUT AND GO, I'M HOLDING UP THE LEGISLATION.
WHY?
BECAUSE I WANT MORE TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AS AN EXAMPLE.
HE THING THAT THAT IS USUALLY WHAT THEY WANT TO
YOU KNOW, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, MOST OF THE PEOPLE
HE IS CRITICAL I'VE SEEN ARE INDIVIDUALS
THAT HE CONSIDERS TOO FAR TO THE RIGHT.
NOW JOHN BOEHNER IS NOT LIBERAL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
HE
IS RATHER CONSERVATIVE, SO HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE
BEING TOO FAR TO THE RIGHT WHICH I THINK WE'RE SEEING SOME OF
THAT IDEOLOGY PLAYED OUT IN TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION.
THAT WAS MOVED TO SEAN HANNITY BECAUSE I LOVE THIS PART.
SO HE SAYS:
THIS IS SPECULATION ON MY PART BUT THAT WAS AROUND THE TIME
THAT TRUMP ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS GOING TO RUN AND SO I AM
GUESSING THAT HANNITY'S SUPPORT FOR TRUMP MIGHT HAVE
CONCERNED BOEHNER.
BOEHNER CLAIMS HE IS GOOD FRIENDS WITH TRUMP BUT HE SEEMS
TO
BE CRITICAL OF TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION AS WELL.
CONTEXT THERE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT TED CRUZ WOULD DO IS
HE WOULD HOLD UP THE SENATE.
BOEHNER WAS IN THE HOUSE SO
THAT'S WHY HE IS TALKING ABOUT HOUSE GUYS, BUT HE WOULD
SAY OKAY, I AM NOT LETTING US FUND THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE
I HAVE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE REPEAL OBAMACARE.
HE'S A LEGISLATIVE TERRORIST BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT DURING THE
OBAMA YEARS THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE OF APPEALING
OBAMACARE BECAUSE THE GUY NAMED OBAMA WOULD VETO IT.
SO THAT WAS GRANDSTANDING OF BEING A PHONY AND THEY DID
A LOT OF THAT AT THE HOUSE TO WITH THESE RIGHT-WINGERS
AND CHAFF IT'S SO THAT IS WHAT HE IS ANNOYED INN THE SEAN
HANNITY'S OF THE WORLD WITH A AND ABOUT THAT AND SAY WHY
ISN'T PETER SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT?
YOU THAT IS AN IDIOTIC POINT AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD
WIN AND YOU ARE DOING IT FOR PUBLICITY AND HANNITY AND
ALL THOSE TALKSHOW HOST WENT ALONG WITH THAT BECAUSE ALL
THEY WANTED WAS TO PILEUP THE INSIDE EVEN THOUGH THEY
KNOW THEY HAD NO CHANCE OF WINNING IN THAT CASE.
NOW SEAN HANNITY DID NOT TAKE KINDLY TO BOEHNERíS REMARKS
IN THIS POLITICO INTERVIEW SO HE ATTACKED THE BOEHNER ON
TWITTER WITH THE FOLLOWING TWEET.
HE SAID:
HE WAS THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY OF
THE TIME, YOU ARE KISSING HIS ASS, SEAN AND I REMEMBER HOW YOU
TALK ABOUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE AWESOME AND THEY ARE FANTASTIC
AND THANK GOD JOHN BOEHNER TOOK THE GAVEL AWAY FROM NANCY
PELOSI.
JOHN BOEHNER, JOHN BOEHNER AND THEN IT BECAME INCONVENIENT TO
BE UP HIS BUTT AND HE MOVED TO ANOTHER SET AND THEN YOU SHOUTED
AGAINST BOEHNER SO I AM AMUSED YOU CALLING HIM DRUNK BECAUSE HE
LARGELY WAS BUT THAT'S THE THING THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND
OUTRAGEOUS IF A PROGRESSIVE POINTED OUT AT THE TIME SO I
DON'T KNOW WHAT PORTION OF THIS INTERVIEW WAS DONE INTOXICATED,
BUT IF IT WAS, I LOVE IT BECAUSE APPARENTLY LED HIM TO SAYING
THINGS THAT ARE TRUE AND HONEST BUT I LIKE THEY ALL OF A
SUDDEN HANNITY IS FEIGNING OUTRAGE THAT JOHN BOEHNER
MIGHT HAVE A DRINKING ISSUE.
THINK ABOUT IT.
WE HAVE MOVED EVEN FURTHER TO THE RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT I GOT OUT OF THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE
WAS ESSENTIALLY FORCED INTO EARLY RETIREMENT, REQUEST ON
PART OF THE REASON WHY WAS BECAUSE THOSE IN THE FREEDOM
CAUCUS DIDN'T LIKE HIM.
AGAIN, HE WASN'T RIGHT-WING
ENOUGH.
THAT'S INSANE TO ME.
WE HAVE ACTUALLY MOVED BACKWARDS OF THE COUNTRY.
WE ALREADY KIND OF KNEW THAT WITH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION
WE HAVE IN PLACE BUT BOEHNER WAS SOLDIER CONSERVATIVE GUY
THAT WE WERE CRITICAL OF YEARS AGO AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN
HE SEEMS LIKE HE'S A SOMEWHAT REASONABLE SOMETIMES.
LOOK REAL QUICK, THE DYNAMIC HERE, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
PART OF THE STORY IS HOW THEY MOVED OVER SO MESSILY TO
THE RIGHT.
SO JOHN BOEHNER WAS AN ENORMOUS RIGHT-WINGER AND THAT FACTION OF
THE PARTY ALWAYS WANTED TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND MULTINATIONAL
CORPORATIONS BUT THE MORE EXTREME RIGHT WING OF THE PARTY
WANTED BIGGER TAX CUTS AND BIGGER DEREGULATION AND IN
SOME WAYS I AM THANKFUL FOR THAT AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A WEIRD
THING TO SAY.
WHY?
BECAUSE THERE COULD HAVE STRUCK A BARGAIN WITH OBAMA.
OBAMA WANTED TO DO THAT AND IF THEY HAD, THEY WOULD HAVE CUT
SOCIAL SECURITY AND GIVEN MORE TAX CUTS TO THE RICH AND SO
BOEHNER, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, BOEHNER IS NOT REMOTELY GOOD
GUY.
IT IS FUNNY THAT IS SAYING THESE OUTRAGEOUS AND CORRECT
THINGS, BUT WHAT BOEHNER WANTED TO DO WAS ROB YOU GUYS IN
AN EFFICIENT WAY AND HE WAS FRUSTRATED THAT THE JORDANíS
AND THE CHAFFETZíS AND THE HANNITY'S OF THE WORLD WERE SO
STUPID, THE RIGHT WING IDIOTS, WE HAD A GOOD ROBBERY PLAN.
WE WERE ALL GOING TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND YOU WENT AND
GOT SO GREEDY AND THE KOCH BROTHERS AND ADELSON WERE
SO GREEDY THAT THEY PUSHED YOU GUYS TO ONE'S EVEN MORE TAX
CUTS AND EVEN MORE DEREGULATION AND ABSOLUTELY PULVERIZE
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE GUYS
WON AND HERE WE ARE IN TRUMP LAND WHERE THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT THEY ARE PLANNING.
SO HERE'S A LITTLE MORE CRITICISM FOR THOSE IN THE
RIGHT-WING MEDIA.
BOEHNER SAYS:
YOU KNOW, HE
IS NOT CONSIDERED RIGHT-WING ENOUGH.
A COUPLE OF REALLY INTERESTING POINTS IN THAT.
IT SHOWS YOU RUSH LIMBAUGH AND JOHN BOEHNER WERE BUDDIES
AND THEY WOULD GO GOLFING AND HAVE A GRAND OLD TIME AND PLAN
OUT WHAT TO SAY TO RUSSIA'S AUDIENCE AND THEY HAD A GOOD
DEAL.RUSH LIMBAUGH ONCE FAMOUSLY ACCIDENTALLY SAID
AFTER AN ELECTION THAT THE REPUBLICANS LOST, I AM
TIRED OF CARRYING THEIR WATER.
WHAT HAPPENED?
I THOUGHT YOU WERE AN INDEPENDENT VOICE IT WAS
JUST A GOOD CONSERVATIVE AND YOU CAN ABOUT CONSERVATIVE
PRINCIPLES ANYONE WORKING FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A
PROPAGANDA OUTLET THAT NOW WE FIND OUT, NO, YOU WERE DINA
WASN'T ABOUT YOUR OWN OPINIONS OR PRINCIPLES.
BUT YOU GOOD WITH PETER BUT THEN YOU SAW THERE WAS A GREATER
AUDIENCE WITH LEVINE AND THEN FINALLY, THE OTHER PART OF
THE PUZZLE THAT IS NOT IN THIS PIECE IS THAT RUSH LIMBAUGH NOW
GETS FINANCED BY SOME OF THOSE EXTREME KOCH BROTHERS GROUPS.
THEY BUY ADS, THEY DON'T SELL ANYTHING.
THEY DON'T SELL SNEAKERS OR CARS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THEY
BUY ADS ON RUSSIA'S PROGRAM SO HE IS ALSO, HE IS LIKE
JOHN, IT WAS NICE PLAYING GOLF WITH YOU BUT THESE GUYS ARE
PAYING ME MILLIONS OF BUCKS TO DO PROPAGANDA.
DON'T HAVE ANY REAL OPINIONS, HE IS JUST A PAID SHELL.
THIS HELPS TO PARTLY EXPOSE HIM SO THAT'S NICE.
NOW FINALLY, THERE WAS A LITTLE TINY SLIVER OF, I DON'T
WANT TO SAY LOVE, BUT FAIRNESS TOWARD BARACK OBAMA, WHICH I
DID NOT EXPECT.
HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY
ABOUT THAT:
INTERESTING.
HE IS BASICALLY SAYING NO, THIS CRITICISM ABOUT OBAMA DIVIDING
THE COUNTRY IS INCORRECT.
THE MEDIA IS AT PLAY.
PEOPLE WANTING TO REMAIN IN THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BUBBLES.
ITíS A HUGE PROBLEM AND SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AND DO
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT WHICH I THOUGHT WAS FAIR HIM TO SAY.
IT IS NOW, BUT OF COURSE, AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT DRIVES
A LOT OF PEOPLE CRAZY ABOUT POLITICIANS, INCLUDING ME.
WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE, BOEHNER PERPETUATED THAT Saying,
WE'RE NOT DOING OBSTRUCTION.
IT IS OBAMA THAT IS DOING THE OBSTRUCTION.
HE SHOULD BE DOING SOME IT'S AND IF HE DID WE WOULD ALL BE
GETTING ALONG.
NOW THAT HE IS RETIRED AND OUT OF POLITICS HE IS LIKE I
WAS LYING THE WHOLE TIME THAT OBAMA WASN'T DIVIDING US AT ALL.
AND FINALLY THE LAST PART OF IT IS, HE SAYS THE MEDIA ON
THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT ARE DIVIDING US.
WHAT MEDIA ON THE LEFT EYE IT'S NOT LIKE HE KNOWS ANYTHING
ONLINE THAT I WOULD BE SHOCKED IF HE KNOWS ABOUT THE YOUNG
TURKS SO HE IS NOT REFERRING TO ACID.
WHAT, MSNBC FILLED WITH REPUBLICANS AND A COUPLE OF
PROGRESSIVES IN PRIME TIME IS SOMEHOW DIVIDING THE
COUNTRY AND MAKING IT MORE LEFT?
THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS.
ALTHOUGH IS ON TELEVISION IS RIGHT-WINGERS AND LIKE TO
PROGRESSIVES.
SO NO, THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING.
IT IS THE RIGHT WING PURPOSEFULLY DIVIDING THE
COUNTRY FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT.
IT IS US VERSUS MEXICANS, MUSLIMS, GAYS, WOMEN.
THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES DOING THE DIVIDING AND EVEN IF THE LEFT
WERE REALLY STRONG IN THE MEDIA WHICH, YOU KNOW, THE MEDIA IS
REFERRING TO IS ALMOST PURELY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
THAT ARE MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR ENTITIES AND NOT REMOTELY
LIBERAL BUT EVEN IF THAT WERE THE CASE, WHAT THEIR
MESSAGE WOULD BE NO, WE SHOULD BE UNITED, WE SHOULD TREAT
EVERYONE EQUALLY.
HOW DIVISIVE.