Bassem Youssef
speaker
1,048 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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I'm sure that like, I don't want my money to be given to some Muslim countries who kill other Muslims. I'm sure. But it is not, here's the thing. What kind of power do we have other than speaking? So what is left for us is free speech. And now when you speak, they call you anti-Semitic. You see why I'm angry?
And this is why, for example, it is very disheartening for me to see that the Western media, Western press that used to be the beacon of freedom are now using as mouthpieces. And it is funny how the New York Times, Nixon got angry in the New York Times in 1971 when they found leaks about him lying about the Vietnam War since the beginning.
And now he hired the plumbers, you know, the special units and orders to go in and find the leaks. This was Watergate, basically, because he was angry to see who leaked that instead of fixing the problem. Now, the New York Times have published this story about the rape that was a hoax that was written by Anna Schwartz, who someone will have no experience with.
And now, when it was leaked, instead of them correcting themselves, they went in and they had their own investigation to see who leaked. The New York Times in 2003 became the mouthpiece of George W. Bush of the WMD. And now, as an American, I see that the New York Times becoming a mouthpiece of a foreign country.
It's a lot of inequality, man. There's a lot of people on the internet, but who have the mainstream media siding with? Yeah, but thanks to social media. Yes, thank God for social media because now it's individuals. They're people. You're comparing BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal with just people with a TikTok account.
Now, it is actually very, very fascinating to see the little man having that power over the media.
But you cannot call people with TikTok propagandists while people being paid to give you the news and they deliberately lie to you.
Yes, yes. But the mechanism and the intentions are different. because here's the thing. I'd rather have the TikTok guy than the- Like the TikTok guy is a TikTok guy, all right? But if you have the New York Times being told that, being exposed to be lying, and then they get this like UN report, which is like a disgrace, and you just put the title and you don't talk about it.
It's like, I'm fine with CNN and Jake Tapper and all of those people spreading the rape allegations for years. They didn't, I don't even want them to refute them. I want them to bring the Israeli reports saying that it didn't happen.
So that's why people in TikTok, because they have to take matters in their own hand.
So you have both. You have both. And it's kind of like the democracy of the social media, as we always call it. But if you have the street-run media, that is the legacy media, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Fox News, all of those people, and they are like spreading lies and they're not even doing their journalistic job in order to at least bring the other side. That's problematic.
Yes.
This is what you're doing. No, this is what you're doing because you go into the deep dive. This is like a no filter thing. There's no spin. The long form. The long form is going to save us. I see why you hate the TikToks, like a dopamine rush. Stupid TikTok.
Five hours later.
I can't look away. For those 30 seconds, I do four hours.
Makes two of us, I can't, I cannot, I cannot. I have a team, by the way, I give my password to like a team, I don't even go there because I once in a dark night, very late at night, I went TikTok and it was like,
I said, no, no, no. No, no, no. This is dangerous. I'm really like an Instagram and Facebook guy.
I don't need that.
And I barely get out of Twitter. I mean, like X, I don't. I can't. X is a cesspool. X is just like the concentrated hate. It's too much.
I feel like it's a small world of comedy. That's why I- No, I think like Joe's story was like, what he did and stuff that he did in the UFC and his podcast and- It just, it's, it's very impressive. The fact that he is there and he's bringing all of those people, whether in comedy or his podcast is very impressive. And this is what, this is what is the media is all about.
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