WE HAVE THIS THING IN AMERICAN POLITICS WERE DESPITE THE FACT
THAT POLITICIANS MAKE DECISIONS THAT WILL AFFECT THE LIVES AND
POSSIBLY END THE LIVES OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS IN ANY
NUMBER OF WAYS, THEY WILL THEN TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO GO
OFF TO DINNERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND JOKE, JOKE ABOUT
POLITICS, ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FLAWS, IN SOME CASES
THEIR CORRUPT WAYS, AND IT CAN BE FUNNY BUT ALSO REVEALING AND
DEPRESSING, WE WILL HIT ALL OF THOSE HERE.
THERE WAS THE AL
SMITH DINNER, I BELIEVE THIS WAS LAST NIGHT, PAUL RYAN MADE A
NUMBER OF JOKES, WE WILL PLAY A FEW VIDEOS --
FIRST HERE IS ONE THAT WILL PROBABLY RING TRUE.
>>FACT NUMBER NINE, EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP IN MY OFFICE
AND ICECROSS TWITTER TO SEE WHICH TWEETS I WILL HAVE TO
PRETEND I DIDN'T SEE LATER ON.
>>THAT'S A BRIEF ONE FOR YOU.
THAT'S FUNNY --
>>THAT WAS HIS BEST LINE.
>>IF STEPHEN COLBERT MADE THAT JOKE I WOULD THINK IT WAS FUNNY,
IT'S A LITTLE LESS FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S MAKING THE JOKE BECAUSE
IT'S TRUE AND HE'S PROVIDING A SMOKESCREEN FOR DONALD TRUMP, A
CONSEQUENTIAL SMOKESCREEN THAT AFFECTS POLICY, HE DOES PRETEND
NOT TO SEE THESE THINGS, HE CERTAINLY DOES LITTLE PUBLICLY
TO REIN HIM IN, EVEN DURING THE GRAB HIM BY THE PUSSY FIASCO HE
HAD THE TINIEST BIT TO SAY ABOUT TRUMP.
IT'S ONE THING FOR A
COMEDIAN TO JOKE ABOUT IT.
>>I THINK IT'S A LESSON FOR JOURNALISTS COVERING HIM NOW, HE
IS ASKED ABOUT THESE THINGS, HE DEFLECTS ALL THE TIME, AND HE IS
THE MOST APPROPRIATE COUNTERBALANCE TO TRUMP GIVEN
HIS ROLE AS SPEAKER AND THE FACT THAT HE TENDS TO NOT WEIGH IN ON
SOME CRITICAL THINGS ISN'T JUST AN ABDICATION OF
RESPONSIBILITY, IT SHOWS HE'S FULL OF IT.
>> HE CAN SEE THROUGH THE AGENDA AND HE'S ALREADY DOING THAT, YOU
SAW HIM ON THE MORNING TV SHOWS THIS MORNING FLACKING THIS AND
AGAIN, RIDING THE CHARM OF MAKING FUN OF HIMSELF AND THE
PROCESS BUT THAT SOFTENS THE HARD EDGES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE
TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH.
AND HE ESSENTIALLY RODE ON THAT THROUGH
THIS PROPAGANDA MACHINE OF THE MORNING SHOWS, AND THAT'S WHAT
HE'S TRYING TO DO.
I AGREE, I DON'T FIND ANYTHING CHARMING
ABOUT ALL THIS, I FIND IT SOFTENS WHAT IS A REALLY TOXIC
DIALOGUE.
>>LIKE YOU SAY HE HAS AN AGENDA AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE ACTUAL
LAWS THAT ARE PASSED OR NOT, HE CAN AND HAS PROVIDED A
COUNTERBALANCE IN SOME CASES TO SOME OF THE WORST INSTINCTS OF
DONALD TRUMP, BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY ROLE HE SHOULD HOLD.
HE CAN
HIDE IF HE WANTS TO, THAT'S HIS RIGHT, BUT HE'S ALSO ONE OF THE
MOST POWERFUL MEN IN THE COUNTRY, IF THERE IS SOME SORT
OF DISASTER HE'S NOT FAR OFF THE PRESIDENCY HIMSELF, SO WHEN
TRUMP IS DOING THINGS LIKE TALKING ABOUT POSSIBLY CLAMPING
DOWN THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF MEDIA OUTLETS OR ACCUSING THE
FBI OF COLLUDING WITH RUSSIA TO ATTACK HIM, WHEN HE'S DOING
THOSE THINGS, ATTACKING THESE CORE INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY, YOU ARE THE SORT OF PERSON WHO COULD SPEAK UP ABOUT
THAT.
IF NOT PAUL RYAN, WHO AT THIS POINT?
>>I WAS WATCHING THIS MORNING THINKING HE'S MAKING I THINK A
PLAY FOR BEING PRESIDENT, SHOULD THE NATION SURVIVE TO THE POINT
THAT HE COULD ACTUALLY MAKE A RUN FOR IT, AND HE DOES IT BY
WATERING ALL THESE ISSUES DOWN, BY NOT COMMENTING OR JOKING,
GOING I DIDN'T SEE THAT -- HE WAS OFFERED A TRANSCRIPT OF THE
PRESIDENT'S REMARKS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, HE SAID I REALLY
DON'T READ THE NEW YORK TIMES.
REALLY?
IT'S A MAJOR NEWS
OUTLET, YOU MAY CONSIDER IT BIASED BUT I THINK A TRANSCRIPT
OF THE PRESIDENT -- CERTAINLY THERE'S NO BIAS THERE.
HE'S
BEGUN TO SOFTEN HIMSELF, STAY CLEAR OF THE STUFF THAT'S REALLY
BAD FROM TRUMP, AND BY DOING THAT I THINK CREATE AN
IMAGE THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH A BIGGER POLITICAL ASPIRATION.
>>HE CONTRIVED WITH THE DAMAGE TRUMP IS DOING TO THE REPUBLIC
AND BRAND, I KNOW THAT SEEMS COMICAL AT THIS POINT, BUT HE IS
AND THERE'S STILL SOMETHING TO BE DAMAGED, THAT DAMAGE
CONTINUES AND RYAN MAY FIND OUT THAT WHEN HE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
-- AND HE'S BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE, HE'S A TERRIBLE
CANDIDATE, BUT EVEN HE WASN'T, THE BASE HE EXPECTS TO BE THERE
WILL BECOME WORSE AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DONALD TRUMP.
>>ONE THING I FOUND DIFFICULT ABOUT LAST NIGHT AS I FIND PAUL
RYAN TO BE SO UNBEARABLY SMARMY THAT IT'S REALLY HARD FOR HIM TO
DO COMEDY EFFECTIVELY JUST BECAUSE OF HIS TONE AND THE WAY
HE APPROACHES EVERYTHING, IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE NOT A JOKE AT
ALL.
I DON'T KNOW HOW SOMEONE THAT SMARMY CAN DO COMEDY.
>>LET'S SEE A LITTLE MORE, THE NEXT TOPIC WILL BE SOME OF
THE TWEETS.
>> I LEARNED SO MUCH IN CONGRESS.
FOR EXAMPLE, I LEARNED
THAT TWEETING AFTER MIDNIGHT IS A REALLY BAD IDEA, WHETHER YOU
ARE PRESIDENT TRUMP, OR ESPECIALLY ANTHONY WEINER.
>>OR TED CRUZ, FOR THAT MATTER.
>> I DO REMEMBER, WHAT WAS IT TED CRUZ DID RECENTLY?
>>HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT LIKED INCEST PORN.
LIKES ARE PUBLIC, YOU CAN SEE IT.
>>AGAIN FOR THE MOST PART -- ANTHONY WEINER, OBVIOUSLY IT'S A
BIT OF AN EASIER JOKE SINCE HE HAS BEEN PUNISHED, WHICH IS
WHERE IN WASHINGTON, THE TED CRUZ THING IS FUN, BUT THE
DONALD TRUMP THING, WE CAN ALL JOKE, HA HA, HE TWEETS
CRAZY STUFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, BUT THAT STUFF
MATTERS, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE IT MORE SERIOUSLY.
>>AND THEY DID EVERYTHING BUT CIRCLE A MOB WITH TORCHES ON THE
WEINER THING, YET WE CAN NOW MAKE A JOKE ABOUT IT?
EITHER YOU
THINK IT'S A SUPER SERIOUS THING INVOLVING A MINOR AND A SEXUALLY
EXPLICIT OR CERTAINLY SUGGESTIVE PHOTOGRAPH SENT TO THAT MINOR,
EITHER YOU THINK THAT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU WANT TO GO ON
A JIHAD ABOUT IT, WHICH IS WHAT THEY DID, THEN YOU CAN'T JOKE
ABOUT IT, OR YOU DON'T THINK IT'S THAT IMPORTANT AND YOU CAN
JOKE ABOUT IT.
BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, THEY DROVE --
AND ESPECIALLY DURING THE ELECTION, AS YOU KNOW, THOSE
REFERENCES TO WEINER AND REALLY WHO HE WAS, AND HIS CHARACTER
FLAWS -- I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT JOKE, OR "JOKE," THAT
REFERENCE LANDED CALLED FOR ME.
THE PLAY-BY-PLAY GUY, AL
MICHAELS, HAD TO APOLOGIZE FOR A HARVEY WEINSTEIN JOKE BUT YOU
CAN GET AWAY WITH A JOKE ABOUT A SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE PHOTOGRAPH
SENT TO A MINOR?
DON'T BUY IT.
>>AND IF YOU ARE GOING TO IMPLY LOOK AT WHAT ANTHONY WEINER DID,
WE CAN'T HAVE SOMEONE WITH THOSE PERVERSIONS IN HIGH OFFICE, BUT
DONALD TRUMP IS COOL, LET'S NOT WORRY ABOUT HIS HISTORY OF
HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL ASSAULT.
WE REFERENCE TO THIS EARLIER BUT
RYAN COULD'VE COME OUT MORE STRONGLY -- LET ALONE THE WOMEN
THAT CAME FORWARD, THERE WERE ANY NUMBER OF TIMES PEOPLE COULD
HAVE ATTACKED DONALD TRUMP OR HELP HIM TO ACCOUNT, BUT
ESPECIALLY THE ACCESS HOLLYWOOD VIDEO, YOU CAN'T ACT AS IF WHAT
ANTHONY WEINER DID STRIKES TO THE CORE OF YOUR MORALS BUT YOU
ARE TOTALLY FINE WITH DONALD TROMPING PRESIDENT.
>>IF THEY WERE RINGING A BELL FOR EVERY DOUBLE STANDARD THERE
WOULD BE A GUY BEHIND HIM RINGING A BELL CONSTANTLY.
IT'S ABSURD.
>>SHAME, SHAME.
LET'S GO TO THE NEXT VIDEO.
>>THE TRUTH IS THE PRESS ABSOLUTELY MISUNDERSTANDS AND
NEVER RECORDS THE BIG ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE WHITE
HOUSE.
LOOK AT ALL THE NEW JOBS THE PRESIDENT HAS CREATED JUST
AMONG THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF.
AND WHEN YOU READ THE PAPERS
TOMORROW EVERYONE WILL REPORT THIS THING DIFFERENTLY.
BREITBART WILL LEAD WITH "RYAN SLAMS THE PRESIDENT AMONG
LIBERAL ELITES."
NEW YORK TIMES WILL REPORT "RYAN DEFENSE
PRESIDENT IN A STATE HILLARY WON." AND THE PRESIDENT WILL
REPORT "300,000 AT AL SMITH DINNER CHEER MENTION OF MY
NAME."
>>ANY PART OF THAT IS THE SORT OF JOKE A LATE-NIGHT COMIC MIGHT
MAKE, BUT HE'S NOT A LATE-NIGHT COMIC, HE'S A GUY WHO
UNDERSTANDS THAT CHAOS IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAS CONSEQUENCES,
WHEN YOU DON'T STAFF DOZENS OF IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT POSITIONS,
EVEN HOMELAND SECURITY WENT FOR A WHILE WITHOUT A DIRECTOR,
THESE ARE NOT JUST PUNCHLINES, THESE ARE CONSEQUENTIAL AND HE
COULD PUT PRESSURE ON TRUMP TO TAKE IT MORE SERIOUSLY.
TRUMP BE
WILLING TO LIE ABOUT BASIC FACTS EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS, THAT HAS
CONSEQUENCES, MAYBE HE COULD PUT PRESSURE ON TRUMP TO BE MORE
WEDDING TO THE TRUTH.
>>NOW I WOULD SAY ALL RIGHT, BUT IT'S THAT KIND OF DINNER AND
THOSE JOKES ARE SORT OF ACCEPTED AS PART OF THAT ENVIRONMENT --
THOSE JOKES ARE WRITTEN BY JOKE WRITERS WHO ALL SERVE THAT
SPEECH UP TO HIM AND HE DELIVERS IT, IT WAS DELIVERED WELL, BUT
I'M JUST SAYING IT'S NOT LIKE HE SITS THERE AND CLEVERLY THINK OF
THESE LINES.
IN THAT CONTEXT I WILL GIVE THE GUY A LITTLE WIDER
BERTH, BUT TO JOHN'S POINT, SORRY FOR NOT HAVING A BIGGER
SENSE OF HUMOR ABOUT THIS BUT WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF SO MANY
SERIOUS ISSUES THAT IT'S VERY HARD TO LOOK AT THIS STUFF AND
LAUGH.
THE GUTTING OF THE EPA, THE BRINK OF WAR WITH NORTH
KOREA AND BEYOND, PULLING OUT OF THE IRAN ACCORD FROM A PRESIDENT
WHO PROBABLY COULDN'T EVEN TELL YOU WHAT'S IN IT, THE ISSUES ARE
SO SERIOUS, WE DON'T QUITE HAVE THE SENSE OF HUMOR ABOUT THIS
STUFF THAT RYAN IS HOPING WE WOULD HAVE, OR THAT
CERTAINLY WE CAN PROVIDE ON THIS PANEL TODAY.
>>I AGREE.
>>IT HAS A LITTLE BIT OF A VIBE OF THE HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO
PLAYED THE VIOLIN AS THE TITANIC WAS SINKING, YOU CAN HAVE A
STANDUP COMIC INSTEAD OF A BAND BUT IT'S STILL DEPRESSING.
ANYWAY I WISH HE WOULD TAKE HIS POSITION A LITTLE MORE
SERIOUSLY.
I WOULD BE MUCH COOLER AND HAVE A BETTER SENSE
OF HUMOR WITH HIM JOKING ABOUT THESE ISSUES IF HE WAS
AGGRESSIVELY OUT THERE DAY AFTER DAY TRYING TO PROTECT WHAT IS
LEFT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND THE FUNCTION OF THE GOVERNMENT,
SOMETHING HE TRADITIONALLY HAS NOT BEEN PARTICULARLY
SERIOUS ABOUT.
>>BY THE WAY, HE COULD SAY, IF HE DOESN'T WANT TO DISAGREE WITH
THE PRESIDENT ON EVERYTHING, HE COULD PICK HIS BATTLES, HE COULD
SAY OF COURSE I DON'T BELIEVE JOURNALISTS IN THIS COUNTRY
SHOULD BE JAILED, BUT MAYBE THE PRESIDENT MEANT SOME OTHER
THINGS, TRY TO SOFTEN THOSE EDGES ON THE PRESIDENT'S
COMMENTS BUT GO ON RECORD DISAGREEING.
HE DOESN'T EVEN DO
THAT.
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