Paris Hilton goes to court, Tommy Chong responds (on MSNBC - it's a republican conspiracy )

[ariesgem]

Run time: 02:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6_WkPDi9A   Posted on YouTube: June 08, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 10, 2007 By DU Member: ariesgem Views on DU: 5597

 

[Redstone]

1. I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,uh....What the fuck was THAT all about?

Redstone

[Drunken Irishman]

14. It's called a nervous tick.

A lot of people have them, just listen to old John Kennedy speeches. Typically they're frowned upon and definitely don't help when it comes to sounding intelligent, but sadly it happens to a lot of people. My aunt has something very similar, except where "uh" is, she constantly says "you know". It's annoying, but very difficult to control.

[slowry]

33. Combination of being pissed off and trying to speak over this interrupting witch, imho. n/t

[valerief]

54. Zactly right. nt

[LoZoccolo]

2. I love clips like these because it shows how arrogant reporters get when challenged.

They rarely apologize or acknowledge doing anything wrong and just go into this shit fit when someone tries to call them on something, but it makes for great theater. I've seen them do this same thing to Michael Moore after Fahrenheit 9/11 came out as well, and there's this part in The Eyes of Tammy Faye where she calls some reporter for being unfair and the guy just turns into a diva.

Plus the interviewer was either not paying attention, stupid, or being manipulative because I see him clearly calling the media for having no reason "to make a circus out of this" and reiterates the accusation about the media's attention after she accuses him of making a weird conspiracy theory (and you can see her backtrack after the reiteration, which is also great theater).

[slay]

9. That reporter was also TOTALLY out of line asking him was he "smoking anything"

today - she seemed to be intentionally cruel to him just because he BUSTED HER and the MSM by pointing out that the REAL news should be about the bullshit Iraq war, Gonzales and the attorney firings, and illegal wiretapping of American Citizens, and not about PARIS HILTON. What a bitch that reporter was to him! Way to go Tommy Chong - you rule! :hippie: (Who was that bitchy "reporter" btw?)

[Rude Horner]

22. This is what news dialog has sunk to

This is classic Republican playbook. The O'Reily's and Limpballs of this world can't disagree with someone by backing up their opinion with facts - they attack the person's credibility instead of debate the assertion.

This woman could have took the high (no pun intended) road and told Tommy that she disagreed with him, but instead, when faced with something she know she can't dispute, brings out the attack dogs by asking him if he's smoked anything. EXTREMELY unprofessional to ask her guest that. But I guess that's what the media has sunk to.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Okay, Tommy...

What handle are you using on here? ;-)

[bleever]

7. Dave?

Dave's not here.

[slay]

8. LOL!

Dave's not here man! :rofl:

[koopie57]

28. Is that you Dave?

[Fridays Child]

4. I'm glad this got to YouTube.

I posted a thread about it, yesterday, but didn't have the clip.

[Lorien]

5. Man oh man

I'm glad I don't have cable. Watching what passes for "news" on those channels really DOES make a person feel like they've fallen down the rabbit hole. And is the media controlled by republicans? The "anchor woman's" very unprofessional response seemed to confirm what Chong was saying.

[tblue]

13. Glad I don't have cable, too. That woman was completely out of line.

What a little snot.

[bleever]

6. My most favoritest fifth recommendation since I don't remember when.

He was talking sense, and she was off on some kind of trip induced by what?


Thank you, God.

[FloridaJudy]

10. "Forgettitol"

It's a Republican drug. It lowers your IQ by 50 points.

[reichstag911]

43. R U a fan of...

...Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music? That's where I first saw "Forgettol."

[FloridaJudy]

47. Sorry, I'd never heard of it

I was attempting a take-off on an old Cheech and Chong routine about a medication called "Dammitol" one could take when fed up with reality.

But having Googled Gun, with Occasional Music it does sound like my kind of novel. I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks.

[reichstag911]

50. Do.

It's a lot of fun, and Lethem's an excellent writer. Another you might like is Motherless Brooklyn, a noirish mystery with a twist for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

[orleans]

11. other posters keep refering to the woman on msnbc as a reporter

she most certainly is NOT a reporter

she is a fucking news model

"have you smoked anything today?"

what a BITCH!

k&r

[reichstag911]

44. The Daily Show...

...calls 'em NILFs: News I'd Like to F--k. Very funny bit by Samantha Bee.

[orleans]

60. oh my god--that was hysterical! i saw that! n/t

[go west young man]

51. "Media MILF" as per a sketch on The Daily Show is a better term

for characterizing these sad sacks that give us tidbits of crap on TV to distract from whats really going on in the world.

[Limelight]

12. Have you smoked anything?

That is an incredibly rude, condescending and unprofessional question to ask. He suggest there are more important things to be paying attention to than Paris Hilton and that republicans love the attention being diverted from those other things so he must be high.

As someone who studied journalism it is my semi-professional opinion that, in the strictest of industry language, she's a stupid cow.:P

[hootinholler]

23. He should said if you can't see this as a diversion then you're tripping.

But I doubt I would have been that witty on air. Great job Tommy.

-Hoot

[koopie57]

29. or he could have asked her

what flavor of kool-aide did she have with breakast?

[Drunken Irishman]

15. What a bitch.

Totally out of line to suggest he was high. Chong brings up a very valid point that sadly has been completely ignored here. It just isn't the Paris Hilton ordeal, it's every sensationalist news story that's come out ever since Bush took office. The media attaches itself to these pointless stories and ignore the real issues facing our country today. They won't report about how poorly Iraq is going, or how fucked up Pres. Bush's administration really is. Instead they give small blurbs and then return to their 24 hour coverage of Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton and the next celebrity to make national news.

Ok I'll admit, Tommy Chong didn't sound like the most intelligent person during the interview, but that shouldn't make his point any less valid. The media in this country is a joke and they're consumed with reporting bullshit stories instead of real news. It's pathetic that Americans eat this shit up, instead of demanding intellectual honesty from reporters.

[ixion]

16. well said

welcome to DU! Glad to have you aboard. :toast:

[skooooo]

17. I don't think Tommy sounded unintelligent at all...

The reporter was just rude.

Tommy's got one of the most recognizable voices, I swear. After listening to C & C albums as a kid, you can't forget that voice..lol.

[padia]

40. welcome D. Irishman

if they were really interested in real reporting they would of had a so called "expert" not a professional comedian on to talk about the topic unless that was MSNBC's way of saying this was a joke, which in that case they should have sold the piece to comedy central

[liberal N proud]

18. That is what happens when you call out the right wing media for what they are.

[Turbineguy]

19. And now back

to our helicopter flying above a police car taking Paris Hilton....

[AndreaCG]

20. Which media whore was that?

[Gatchaman]

21. I gotta admit he sounded a little stoned

but then I realized that's just his natural voice. He's pretty much typecast as a stoner, and his voice has become what we expect a stoner to sound like.

It would have been funny if he had responded to the smoking question with, "Have you?"

I wonder if he's stopped beating his wife yet too?

[Bjorn Against]

26. Exactly, Tommy Chong ALWAYS sounds stoned whether he is or not

I am sure he still smokes up once in a while, but I don't think he is or ever has been the constantly stoned person people think of him as. Part of it is comedy, part of it is reality and part of it is just that he naturally has that stoner appearance.

For the "reporter" to ask him if he has been smoking something when he brings up a point that that a huge percentage of Americans would agree with though was beyond the pale. If this "reporter" does not believe that Paris Hilton is a media distraction when there are much more important issues going on then I think she has been smoking something a lot stronger than pot.

[slowry]

52. He has a fairly heavy Canadian accent, which many associate with "stoned" lol. n/t

[Bjorn Against]

24. I love Tommy Chong, but he did not say it is a Republican conspiracy

He said it was a Republican distraction. That "reporter" was trying to spin his words to make it look like he was claiming there was a conspiracy and that the Republicans were the ones who had Hilton arrested. That is not what he was saying at all however, what he was saying was that the media was focusing way too heavily on this minor infraction from a celebrity when they should have been focusing on much more important stories. He was saying it was a distraction not a conspiracy, don't believe the media spin.

Tommy Chong said the truth and they do not like it when people tell the truth about them so they have to spin it with "have you smoked anything today?".

[slay]

35. You are correct sir !

Tommy never said that - that "talking head bimbo" who MSNBC passes off as a reporter said it, trying to put words in his mouth - in essence attacking him. Shame on her and shame on MSNBC for hiring her! Keep spreading the truth Tommy!

[L. Coyote]

57. The Republican conspiracy was throwing him in jail for selling glass artwork.

Playing politics with the Department of Justice has more faces than firing USAs. It involved prosecuting political enemies for cultural differences. Nixon taught these people all too well about political enemies and how to suppress them.

I have to give Tommy a lot of credit for being so mellow in the face of persecution and prison time. I'd have gone off big time about the "Republican conspiracy."

[Totally Committed]

25. Can you believe that b*tch asked him if he "smoked anything"

for saying the MSM is conspiring with the Republicans to keep real news off the air?

That was the most condescending, rude, and unprofessional behavior!

I don't know why I'm surprised, but Ching was a lot nicer about it than I would have been.

TC

[L. Coyote]

56. Shouldda said, "Yeah, too much pollution and second-hand smoke, B***H!"

Tommy Chong is simply too damn nice.

[KansDem]

59. Or "Why? Want some? Need a 'pick-me-up' after working for neo-con fascists all day?" (nt)

[Roland99]

27. That talking eye candy sure took some offense.

What a waste.

[Ford Prefect]

30. 70's Redux?

Since the airhead wants to revisit the 70's, I think he should have stopped her in her tracks with a line from the original Saturday Night Live: "Jane, you ignorant slut!"

[ShortnFiery]

39. "Jane, you ignorant slut!"

:rofl: I pray that more people become embolden.

Please be aware that the corporate sponsored M$M will NOT put Dear Leader below 39% approval rating, but you have to know, AMONG AVERAGE AMERICANS, the Unitary Executive is now scoring 20% approval ratings. :shrug:

Speak-up and God Bless Tommy Chong! :patriot:

What a sad state of affairs we have reached due to M$M propaganda when THE ONLY people who are NOT afraid to speak truth to power on a REGULAR BASIS are a smattering of Comedians and Celebrities? :(

[slowry]

31. FAR OUT man

Who needs conspiracies, when all these dumb reporters and politicians just naturally say and do the most stupid, childish, evil shit?

[coco77]

32. She also was told by the guy who runs tmz...

that she was being hypocritical because she was saying that the paparrazzi was out of control trying to get the story and he told her that msnbc had reporters out there too, trying to get the story and that they were also covering it as well...

[ProudDad]

34. He was a lot more relevant than they wanted

Got'cha!!!

It isn't necessarily a "republican conspiracy".

It's actually a conspiracy of shared interest among the upper classes and their employees in the media to flood the lower classes with these circuses so that the sheeple don't realize who's fucking them over...

[Tekla West]

42. Bread and a good Circus

or Paris and a Big Mac. I was talking with some band guys who had the misfortune to be in that area of LA and they said the LAPD/Law had 4 choppers in the air. Like she was a flight risk. Or had some big Patriot Games escape plan all cooked up and she was just going to break out and blend in. This was a big distraction, and if like even someone like Tommy Chong can be stoned and know it, how obvious it is to everyone who is NOT in the media - and not smoking the kind bud. He just called her on it, and she was pissed that he had the gall to say what everyone knows is true.

[unblock]

36. SHE was the one who brought up the idea of a "republican conspiracy"

chong mentioned diverting attention, but she clearly put that strawman up in order to follow up with her assinine "have you smoked" insult.

chong could have pointed out that the guy who runs foxnews is the same guy who ran reagan's campaign, for crying out loud. how much more evidence of an unbiased media do you need?

[Hulk]

37. Just blow him off...sort of like the Paul dude on the repug chat session...

We just laugh them off...like "what have you been smoking today"? The mainstream news doesn't want to face this. They are pawns in the hands of this political structure we call a "free democracy". What a joke. The little people just go on about their business. Leave the powers alone. They'll take good care of you.....<flush>

[zeemike]

38. "It was not what you expected was it?"

did you get that?
Apparently she thought he was on there to defend her,, and then he went and spoke the truth (this is just a deversion)...exactly what the did not what to do.

[Johnny Appleseed]

41. fuck'n vodka man!

[The Count]

45. Media whores turn snippy when called on their whoredom. Ashcroft got Tommy

it was his priority at a time when OBL threats news were supposed to be dealt with.
Keep this in mind, when listening. He was another distraction, back then.

[reichstag911]

46. I just emailed KO...

...to nominate his network-mate Contessa Brewer for WPitW.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

53. great idea!!

She was a perfect example of everything that's wrong with the way they cover the 'news'. All agenda and manipulated information.

[cynthia]

48. what an idiot that pretty face is!

she gives real reporters and all women a bad name!

[janetblond]

49. Very Obnoxious

Very Obnoxious interview.
Contessa Brewer doing her Nancy Grace/Faux news act .. all very obnoxious.
I couldn't sit thru the entire video.
All the more reason why I DON'T WATCH TV anymore.

[L. Coyote]

55. Chong's Bongs = HELLO. Timing Folks!! Chong's persecutor got pulled into the USA firings scandal.

Chong's Bongs is back in the BIG news too, and hence, perhaps, there is something not-so-coincidental about the timing of Tommy on MSNBC. He was railroaded and persecuted by GOP political operatives. Meanwhile, I'm just guessing rich heiress P* isn't a Dem???

Did Buchanan use her DOJ position for political purposes? = Chong's Bongs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1077370#1077500


From the 4/23/07 edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Cracking down on drugs and pornography was big business in former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s Department of Justice. When federal prosecutors in California passed on cases involving glass bongs and hard-core sex movies, Pittsburgh-based U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan swooped in and stole the show.

Critics blasted “Operation Pipe Dreams,” calling the nationwide sting on drug paraphernalia trafficking a waste of resources. Buchanan charged on, though, and in 2003 won a conviction against Tommy Chong — the Los Angeles actor made famous by the marijuana-laced “Cheech and Chong” movies.

That same year, she charged Extreme Associates and the California owners of the porn production company in the first major federal obscenity prosecution in more than a decade. Critics again wailed about resources and the government fiddling with constitutional freedoms.

The Justice Department and Ashcroft praised both cases. Buchanan was rewarded with a string of lofty posts, one of which — director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys — has landed her at the forefront of a congressional investigation into a group firing of fellow Republican prosecutors. ...............

[proud patriot]

58. Contessa was rather snotty to old Tommy

x(

[LeftyMcDemocrat]

61. it's dave

dave's not here, man

[opihimoimoi]

62. Sgt Stedenko is watching....Tommy better play it safe....