YOU KNOW HOW THE RIGHT WING HAS CPAC, THAT IS THE CONFERENCE
EVERY YEAR THE MEDIA COVERS LIKE IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT --
THEY LOVE CPAC, THE MEDIA DOES, THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
OH MY GOD,
THE RIGHT WING, SO EXCITING AND INTERESTING, WE HAVE TO COVER
THEM.
POLITICO WRITES AN ARTICLE TODAY AS IF THERE IS NO
LEFT-WING CPAC, BUT THERE IS.
NETROOTS NATION.
THERE ARE MANY
PROGRESSIVE CONFERENCES BUT THE ONE THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THE
PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS IS NETROOTS NATION, BUT POLITICO
WRITES AN ARTICLE AND NEVER MENTIONS THEM.
WHY?
BECAUSE THEY
ARE NOT STEEPED IN MONEY OR DROWNING IN CORRUPTION, AND THEY
ARE LEFT-WING.
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HATES THE LEFT-WING.
YOU
ARE GOING TO DO SOME SORT OF PROTEST?
NOT GOING TO COVER IT.
YOU ARE GOING TO GET ARRESTED BECAUSE YOU HAVE A CONSCIENCE
AND WANT TO FIGHT BACK AND RESIST?
NOT GOING TO COVER IT.
THEY DO PROTEST AGAINST TRUMP, THEY COVER THAT BECAUSE THEY
DON'T LIKE TRUMP, TRUMP IS NOT PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.
TRUMP
IS A RICH GUY, ALSO BATHED IN CORRUPTION, ETC., BUT AT LEAST
THEY FEEL LIKE HE'S AN OUTSIDER SO IF YOU ARE PROTESTING HIM WE
WILL COVER IT.
BUT IF YOU ARE LEFT-WING OTHERWISE, NO.
NETROOTS NNATION GETS ABOUT 1% OF THE COVERAGE CPAC GETS.
NOW ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS DECIDED WE SHOULD HAVE OUR OWN
CONFERENCE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST.
IT DOES EXIST.
ANYWAY,
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS, USED TO BE LED BY JOHN
PODESTA, OF COURSE THE CHAIRMAN OF HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN --
THE NEW CHAIRMAN IS A CLOSE ALLY OF HILLARY CLINTON, THEY DECIDED
THEY WILL PUT TOGETHER THE LEFT-WING VERSION OF CPAC AND
THEY SAY IT WILL BE CALLED THE IDEAS CONFERENCE.
OOH, CAN'T
WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEIR IDEAS ARE.
CAN I GUESS?
THEIR IDEAS
WILL BE EVERYTHING IS FINE, KEEP THE STATUS QUO, LET ME SHOW YOU
A BUNCH OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS AND NOT INVITE ANY
REAL STRONG PROGRESSIVES.
OKAY, LET'S FIND OUT.
POLITICO WRITES
ABOUT IT --
>>THEY GOT THIS FROM THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS.
THAT
MEANS THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE BRAGGING ABOUT.
DID YOU SEE ANY
PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS ON THAT LIST?
AT BEST AN AFTERTHOUGHT.
THEY ARE LIKE, OH, LOOK AT OUR POLITICIAN FRIENDS, WE ARE
SHOWING THEM OFF.
CORY BOOKER WILL BE THERE.
YES ELIZABETH
WARREN WILL SPEAK, I'M SURE THEY AREN'T SO OUTRAGEOUSLY STUPID SO
AS NOT TO BRING BERNIE SANDERS, I'M SURE HE WILL SPEAK, BECAUSE
HE'S BECOME THEIR MASCOT NOW.
THE GUYS WHO HATED HIM WHEN IT
MATTERED, NOW THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER, BERNIE SANDERS, OUR
BELOVED FRIEND, OF COURSE.
I'M SURE THEY WILL ADD HIM TO THE
LIST, HE'S NOT ON NOW, BUT DID YOU SEE ANY OF THOSE STRONG,
PROGRESSIVE FIGHTERS?
ANY ONLINE ACTIVISTS, AND GRASSROOTS PEOPLE
ON THE LIST?
THE SOUND OF SILENCE.
OKAY.
POLITICO EXPLAINS
--
>>IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T WORRY, WE'VE GOT THIS, WE WILL FIGHT
AGAINST TRUMP AND THESE ARE THE GROUPS THAT ARE DOING IT.
DID
YOU SEE ANY ACTUAL PROGRESSIVE GROUPS ON THERE?
ANY GRASSROOTS
GROUPS, ANY ACTIVIST GROUPS?
NOT A ONE.
BECAUSE IN WASHINGTON,
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
THEY HAVE
MONEY, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN
PROGRESS, THOSE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE WE RUN INTO IN THE
COCKTAIL CIRCUIT, THEY ARE SO LOVELY AND THEY HAVE MONEY.
THEY
ARE NEVER GOING TO GET IT, GUYS.
WHAT IDEAS?
THOSE ESTABLISHMENT
GROUPS DON'T HAVE ANY IDEAS, THERE WON'T BE ANY IDEAS AT THIS
CONFERENCE.
AND THEN TOM PEREZ, NEW HEAD OF THE DNC -- I WANT TO
GIVE HIM A CHANCE, MAYBE HE WILL TURN IT AROUND, BUT LET ME GIVE
YOU HIS QUOTE FIRST.
HE SAYS --
>>HE HAS PICKED THE SAME GROUP, BARACK OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTON'S
PEOPLE, LOBBYISTS, ETC.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD HAVE A
CLOSED MIND, OR AN OPEN MIND, THE PROOF WILL BE IN THE PUDDING
AND LET'S SEE WHAT HE DOES, MAYBE HE EXPOSES ALL THE MONEY
THE CONSULTANTS ARE GETTING AND ACTUALLY BRINGS GRASSROOTS
ACTIVISM AND THEY KNOCK ON DOORS WHICH IS A WINNING STRATEGY AND
DON'T WASTE BILLIONS ON TV ADVERTISING WHICH IS A LOSING
STRATEGY THAT THEIR CONSULTANT FRIENDS USED TO GET REALLY RICH,
BUT WE WILL SEE.
BUT ARE THEY ACTUALLY GOING TO SHARE IDEAS?
SO FAR, THEY'VE GOT UNTIL MAY, SO FAR NOTHING.
SO WHEN THEY SAY
UNITY THEY DON'T MEAN LET'S HAVE A CONVERSATION, LET'S SHARE
THESE IDEAS AND LET'S SEE WHAT COMES OUT OF IT AND THEN WE WILL
DO UNITY AFTERWARDS -- NO, THEY MEAN UNITY AS IN BOW YOUR HEAD.
YOU WILL UNIFY BEHIND US.
WE CAN PUT IT TO THE TEST RIGHT NOW.
LOOK, WE HAVE UNITY ON THE LEFT.
PROGRESSIVES ALMOST UNIVERSALLY
AGREE, THE BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN PLATFORM IS VERY
SIMILAR TO THE JUSTICE DEMOCRATS PLATFORM, BRAND NEW CONGRESS,
THE LIST GOES ON, ALMOST ALL PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS AGREE TO
THAT PLATFORM.
ARE YOU IN?
AND A HUGE PART OF THAT IS, STOP
TAKING MONEY FROM CORPORATIONS AND PACS, YOU AGREE TO THAT?
YOU
DON'T. UNIFY BEHIND US, WE HAVE THE REAL VOTERS, THE REAL
AUDIENCE, SANDERS HAS A GIANT EMAIL LIST, YOU LIKE THAT LIST,
YOU WANT THE LIST, BUT YOU WON'T DO WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE
LIST.
YOU JUST WANT THE MONEY.
THEY KEEP SAYING -- I GOT CALLED
OVER THE WEEKEND, DAVID BROCK IS TRYING TO START THE BREITBART OF
THE LEFT.
DO YOU KNOW OF ANY PROGRESSIVE MEDIA?
[LAUGHTER]
WE HAVE 80 MILLION UNIQUE VIEWERS.
BREITBART IS A PIMPLE
ON OUR ASS.
NOPE, I DON'T SEE IT, I WONDER WHERE THE PROGRESSIVE
VOTERS ARE?
I WONDER WHERE PROGRESSIVE MEDIA IS?
I DON'T
HAVE ANY IDEAS, I ASKED ALL MY BUDDIES IN WASHINGTON AND THEY
DIDN'T HAVE ANY IDEAS EITHER.
YOU DON'T WANT TO SHARE IDEAS,
YOU DON'T WANT UNITY.
YOU WANT COMPLIANCE.
THE ANSWER TO THAT,
AND I'M BEING POLITE HERE, IS HELL NO.
NOW, LET ME SEE SOME
SPEAKERS THERE THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO SHARE IDEAS, LET ME SEE
YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THEM, THEN WE WILL HAVE A
CONVERSATION.
BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO ANY OF THAT.
YES,
AFTER RECEIVING PRESSURE, YOU WILL THEN INVITE NINA TURNER I
HOPE, AND A COUPLE OTHER PEOPLE, AND YOU WILL GO OKAY, I DID IT,
IT'S GOOD ENOUGH.
IT'S ALL WINDOW DRESSING.
YOU THINK THEY
ARE GOING TO INVITE FIRE BREATHERS?
PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY
WANT CHANGE, WANT TO DO SOMETHING?
NO, THAT'S SO
IMPOLITE, IT'S SO IMPOLITE.
WE DON'T WANT TO RUFFLE TOO MANY
REPUBLICAN FEATHERS, AND OUR CONSULTANT FRIENDS IN DC WILL
ABHOR THOSE SPEECHES.
NO, THEY WILL KEEP OUT REAL PROGRESSIVES,
LARGELY SPEAKING, EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE PEOPLE THEY CAN POINT TO
AND SAY HERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WE BROUGHT IN FOR YOU. AND WHEN WE
SAY YOU DIDN'T HAVE AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS THEY WILL SAY THERE IS
NO APPEASING THESE GUYS.
WE HAD TWO OF THEM SANDWICHED BETWEEN
ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS WHO ARE PRO-CORPORATE, THEY ARE STILL
NOT APPEASED.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
IF YOU HAVE THE HAUGHTY
DEMANDS AND YOU ASSUME WE SHOULD FOLLOW YOU, I WILL MATCH YOU.
YOU SHOULD FOLLOW US.
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.COM, YOU COULD LOOK UP
THE PLATFORM.
LIKE I SAID, BRAND NEW CONGRESS, A
REVOLUTION, YOU COULD FOLLOW OUR LEAD.
WHY DO THE VOTERS HAVE TO
FOLLOW YOU?
YOU SHOULD FOLLOW THE VOTERS.
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