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Bomani Jones

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Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

It just so happened that I was talking to somebody about this because I was reading this Neil Postman book about education that I kind of had to stop reading because I realized that it was more technically about education as a doctrine, like as a study. as opposed to education as just the general idea.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

But the point they make, if I can't find the exact phrasing, but the point they make is after a certain point where the media gets too big and the media is controlled by a certain number of people, like television was the argument they were making, right? That...

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

But the point they make, if I can't find the exact phrasing, but the point they make is after a certain point where the media gets too big and the media is controlled by a certain number of people, like television was the argument they were making, right? That...

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

But the point they make, if I can't find the exact phrasing, but the point they make is after a certain point where the media gets too big and the media is controlled by a certain number of people, like television was the argument they were making, right? That...

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

It's going to reach a point where a prerequisite for running for president is that you are a famous person, that you have a career already as a celebrity.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

It's going to reach a point where a prerequisite for running for president is that you are a famous person, that you have a career already as a celebrity.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

It's going to reach a point where a prerequisite for running for president is that you are a famous person, that you have a career already as a celebrity.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Well, it's a fair question. The fact that Stephen A. Smith thing has gotten as far as it has. Look, let me tell you this. There's a story running very soon in the New York Times, and I know this because they interviewed me for it, about the idea of Stephen A. Smith being president. And it's not in the sports media section. Right. Like it was by a writer.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Well, it's a fair question. The fact that Stephen A. Smith thing has gotten as far as it has. Look, let me tell you this. There's a story running very soon in the New York Times, and I know this because they interviewed me for it, about the idea of Stephen A. Smith being president. And it's not in the sports media section. Right. Like it was by a writer.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Well, it's a fair question. The fact that Stephen A. Smith thing has gotten as far as it has. Look, let me tell you this. There's a story running very soon in the New York Times, and I know this because they interviewed me for it, about the idea of Stephen A. Smith being president. And it's not in the sports media section. Right. Like it was by a writer.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, I don't know anybody who has said that. I don't. I appreciate the fact that Stephen A. appreciates that this is ridiculous, right? Do you think he does? Do you think he does? He has said at every turn that the idea that someone wants me to be president is an indictment primarily of the Democrats. That's what he does.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, I don't know anybody who has said that. I don't. I appreciate the fact that Stephen A. appreciates that this is ridiculous, right? Do you think he does? Do you think he does? He has said at every turn that the idea that someone wants me to be president is an indictment primarily of the Democrats. That's what he does.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, I don't know anybody who has said that. I don't. I appreciate the fact that Stephen A. appreciates that this is ridiculous, right? Do you think he does? Do you think he does? He has said at every turn that the idea that someone wants me to be president is an indictment primarily of the Democrats. That's what he does.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

He wills that into existence. But these polling, but these polls have willed that into existence. The people that put his name on the paperwork, Cuomo and Bill O'Reilly doing, wow, what a salad. Those three guys doing like town halls and stuff like that. Now, to be fair to Stephen A, what Stephen A will tell you is that he's done political commentary on television for a very long time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

He wills that into existence. But these polling, but these polls have willed that into existence. The people that put his name on the paperwork, Cuomo and Bill O'Reilly doing, wow, what a salad. Those three guys doing like town halls and stuff like that. Now, to be fair to Stephen A, what Stephen A will tell you is that he's done political commentary on television for a very long time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

He wills that into existence. But these polling, but these polls have willed that into existence. The people that put his name on the paperwork, Cuomo and Bill O'Reilly doing, wow, what a salad. Those three guys doing like town halls and stuff like that. Now, to be fair to Stephen A, what Stephen A will tell you is that he's done political commentary on television for a very long time.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

which again is true, but so have I, and I'm not going to be the one to run for president. I also think that part of why people are willing to entertain this notion is that right now he has gotten behind a very bipartisan idea, which is banging on the Democrats. Everybody enjoys that, loves that song, right? Like that one has crossed over. It is top 10. Number one with a bullet and right fast.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

which again is true, but so have I, and I'm not going to be the one to run for president. I also think that part of why people are willing to entertain this notion is that right now he has gotten behind a very bipartisan idea, which is banging on the Democrats. Everybody enjoys that, loves that song, right? Like that one has crossed over. It is top 10. Number one with a bullet and right fast.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

which again is true, but so have I, and I'm not going to be the one to run for president. I also think that part of why people are willing to entertain this notion is that right now he has gotten behind a very bipartisan idea, which is banging on the Democrats. Everybody enjoys that, loves that song, right? Like that one has crossed over. It is top 10. Number one with a bullet and right fast.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

This is what the book says. It says, as Paul Goodman has pointed out, there are many forms of censorship and one of them is to deny access to loudspeakers to those with dissident ideas or even any ideas. This is easy to do and not necessarily conspiratorial when the loudspeakers are owned and operated by mammoth corporations with enormous investments in their proprietorships.