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there is an update to the Russell Brand Jeremy Paxman interview
you guys can remember that was a almost divisive interview there are many people
that were upset at the way that we covered it because we were very critical
love the questions that Jeremy Paxman was asking or at least the way in which
he was asking them he seemed very dismissive
up Russell Brand when he was making his points about how
it doesn't make sense to vote especially when you have to decide on the lesser of
two evils and you don't really have a choice
%uh politicians are so corrupt at this point that it doesn't matter who you
vote for your still gonna get the same result
well it turns out that Jeremy Paxman and Russell Brand
actually agree and Russell Brand talked about a little bit in a recent column in
The Guardian
he said the following: turns out that among the disenchanted is Paxman himself
who spends most of his time at the me cart the political establishment
and can't summons up this self-delusion to drag his neighbor across the ballot
box
he more than any other us is aware the politicians are frauds
you know I is very long op-ed by Russell Brand I read it I loved it
I but I feel like I needed English to English dictionary some tax
yes yes there are a few words there that don't translate well right headlight but
we don't like I don't know what a near beers but it it doesn't sound pretty
and associates were not from the UK so I view from the UK were
very angry at our treatment Paxman who they say is a
quality journalist and an often plays that was out getting as probing in hard
questions
and did so with Russell Brand now I I E to me he seemed 42 dismissal Russell
Brand
not just that he was asking tough questions I'm always in favor that I
said that at the time
but that he seemed a good lol you cheeky monkey really a
baby have a musician are you you don't blow it up
and then I'll set up our honestly this facial expressions ok
okay okay facial expressions did make it seem as though you smug
but there was actually something he said in the interview that rubbed me the
wrong way he told Russell Brand
you want a revolution you don't believe in democracy go back and watch it I'm
calling him verbatim
and I just felt like that was like nonsense
there are revolutions in the name of democracy
that's exactly right now exactly were also bring talks about this op-ed
answers
look at look the reason we're not voting it turns out at some points Paxman
didn't vote
is because we're so disenchanted that we don't have democracy
we had real democracy that I'm ecstatic I'm ready to go tomorrow
right but no matter who we both forget the same guy
well you know any talk about a party that in that labor in the opposing party
mcnaughton out where at and a enemies like
look here they are they're all chummy and they all you know swirl claiming
their different ideologies
and then they have the same ideas better example in article
he refers to a guy whose name Clegg
in again I don't know the specifics of the a British
you know politicians and who's who but he says the here's a guy who was saying
we are you free tuition
and and then he reneged on right and he was in liberal wing
and then he tears I worked with cameras part was governed the remains on it
right
so is it was supported bawling cuz the guy who said he wasn't being right thing
doesn't do it anyway anyone's up in the same exact place as guys they all we
were supposed to be fearful %uh
number four and by the way so then the students you know basically righted but
I love designing to people right
when dialogue fail exactly and he said he's basically say
were frustrated cuz its obvious that the politicians are working for
a Cornwall streets and and big business right
he doesn't say the rich I love that in Article leases look I which
he says referring to himself nieces che guevara was rich
CML yes rich people I'm against them have a different set of rules
and them being able to buy the politicians it's exactly what we sell
the owners
is exactly true American unfortunately apparently it's all too true
in Britain is well I mean that's why we saw the Wolfpack 22 tried it
fix the system that doesn't we're getting dozen
see and he had a great line in here too as you can tell I'm excited about but I
thought I'd get a brilliant job when he touched on so many things including the
NSA and how they are parallels between the United States and Britain
I'm so he covered everything you can imagine you should definitely check it
out
in the line I'm referring to is he says they say the system works
what they mean is the system works for me
any such all right about that oftentimes with people in the media
Govind debates and their indignant like what do you mean rebuffed for the world
yeah I do right now because you're a millionaire anchor on TV so work great
for you
right but this mean it is working well for everybody
like a lot of people in Manhattan can't figure out why Bill de Blasio one bite
50 points in the election but we understand we look Bloomberg
Bloomberg done great he done great for you but not necessarily for the guy in
the Bronx
right who was gon stop the press on a daily basis so that's why the water for
overwhelmingly for change in New York so
the fact that Russell Brand is as he says famous and rich
as CEO for the little guy is simply think I'll
I mean there's so many parts I like it he said look when I was poor
and I was are you against the system is all your bitter
right he said now that I'm rich and I'm arguing as a system
this oh you're a hypocrite you're not a hypocrite if you're rich and you're
arguing against the system
then that gives you even more credibility because you're going against
your
own self-interest you're speaking out against your own self-interest
so I actually give him a lot more credit for coming up being so strong about what
he believes and in terms of the redistribution of wealth right if
somebody's which we want to do be like the Koch brothers fight against the
minimum wage fight against
the little guy make sure they get paid as little as possible
so they have the right to pollute in your neighborhood or you want to be like
FDR and change the system
so that it helps the little guy the average guy the middle class guy
was actually try to work hard for a living right so
the fact that you got rich people on the right side is awesome the salute you
want me to vote
he said but the problem is people in America for example gives a British
example an American example
well they voted for change what they got the other guy who then gave transit also
the bankers
and in chief fix the system at all he said will you order for that
and I'm not voting for that and is he is he puts it that way it's hard to argue
with them
it is because you know we were promised a lot a change in we often are
and we almost never get and Paxman himself admitted that at one point he
was
song discouraged about the political climate that he did not himself
which I get a lot of up credit for because as you can tell you know
in the initial interview he did seem dismissive and he came out wrote a
column worries like
yeah I did too let me just region that part really quickly because I think that
he said so in a really great ways to Russell Brand has never voted
because he finds the process irrelevant I can understand that
the whole green bench pantomime in Westminster looks a remote and
self-important echo chamber
but it is all we have in one recent election I decided not to vote
because I thought the choice was so unappealing up by the time the polls had
closed and it was too late to take part
I was feeling really uncomfortable the person who chooses not to vote
cannot be bought even bother to write none-of-the-above
on the ballot prop paper disqualifies him from passing
any comment at all now look I agree with pacs meant that in the end you have to
vote
okay because yes is the lesser of two evils was sometimes it makes a big
difference right
but I don't agree with Paxson when he says what choice do we have
we have a lot of choices here in America for small primaries primaries primaries
that's what they're there for
so you don't have to say the I what can IDO Terry McAuliffe the corporatist
democrat
or Cuccinelli the insane right winger there with those you to chose a Virginia
well you shoulda primary mccall open you should've and the pic good people
Virginia Democratic Party should have a more progressive cavity
right into 101 by the way easier mccall barely beat
that maniac who chewed out right because people don't like the establishment guys
they feel the same thing the Russell Brand is feeling the prostrate it right
in this second of all other primaries what you do is you can't change the
system
Russell Brand sisters and look he's got a couple of ideas one from David gross a
great guy that I know
who was it with one of the founders the 99 percent movement we've interviewed
him a
here at your team is we want the real idea and in Ames ideas are great don't
get me wrong
the real idea is India toll agrees with this too
you fix how weak bond elections
because if the way and like I said today in today's los we just had elections
right New Jersey Virginia a
it Alabama even and and in all these
drew in New York City all these jurisdictions yes democrats wanna some
republicans one another's
guess who won every single instance the guy with more money
every time okay so that's what you gotta fix
that's why we start a walk back I'm telling you walked ash pack dot com
I was ran into Russell Brand not pissed that I didn't talk to him about that
more
because he's looking for an answer that's the answer
its it's not the same Wolfpack is the only answer in terms our pics
getting money out of politics it's a say that
that's the only issue that matters because if you don't fix that issue
however you fix it you not gonna be able to fix anything else
because they work for the guys who fund them and the guys who pawn them are
enormously wealthy
and unfortunately most of them are not like Russell Brand
there like the people like the Koch brothers who want to fix the rules
in their favor finally Russell Brand with one last great line
he said I don't mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already
I don't mind giving my life to this because I'm only alive because the
compassion
I love others