The Moment I Realized Media Were Wrong On Trump (Pt. 1)| Bret Easton Ellis | POLITICS | Rubin Report
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Bret Easton Ellis (best-selling author, screenwriter, and podcast host) about the decline of the mainstream media, cancel culture and why he is anti-anti-Trump. Bret is the author of "American Psycho," "Less Than Zero," and his latest hit, "White", and he has been described as the dark laureate of Generation X. Bret shares the inside story of how American Psycho was almost cancelled and a precursor to the cancel culture that we see today. Bret also reveals how the media’s coverage of Trump was a political awakening for him and why he considers himself anti-anti-Trump. He shares how he thinks news institutions like the New York Times and CNN have lost their way. He also reveals the moment that he realized that the media were getting the Trump narrative wrong.
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Ellis is a social commentator among many other things. I'm a little surprised it was 2016 before he picked up the bias . . . as the saying goes, "Better late than never"
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never back down :
I agree. Not a well thought out line. Lost his credibility with me. I’m white. Youngest of seven. My dad worked his ass off in construction to feed us. No privilege there. I was never interested in politics just because. More interested in making a career path for myself. But, I became aware after seeing what the media was reporting on Trump and how I interpreted Trumps speeches. Complete conflict there. I suppose my point is that this whole Trump phenomenon has made us all acutely aware of our individual political stance. And it has nothing to do with being white or any other poc.
You can be privileged and white...it is possible...like black and privileged etc...he meant unaware...uninterested in social issues. It is not about "white privileges "
Whre is part 2?
My moment came when I stopped watching CNN, and could finally start thinking clearer.
That was a perfect starting point. 👊
hahaha, CNN is the worst. pure communism propaganda. one of the few US media Chinese can watch. CCP paid a lot of money to the msm here to advocate their propaganda while they won't allow US ambassador to publish an article about the truth of US-SINO relationship and eveb deleted it from their official social media account
Same. Around 2016 I stopped watching news because it was nonstop awful "news". In early 2017 I couldn't understand why no one on tv was at least calling him president.
@@sophiajack8646 And yet they showed most of his fascist speeches live. On what planet do you live exactly? The planet Fake, trade mark of The Grifting Trump Company? Please do keep watching Fox 'Wir sind Nazi's' News, you ignorant person.
As a career professional audio engineer, I have edited hundreds of interviews. I am so good at it, I can edit a breath to the middle of a sentence and make it sound unedited. My "moment" was when I saw Trump's "these people are rapists, murderers and drug dealers" comment lifted from the middle of a sentence and presented by the MSM as what Trump had said at a campaign rally, claiming that Trump had said ALL MEXICANS are ... Taken out of context and presented to the viewers, an open, overt, unapologetic lie, I was jolted to the awareness of, "What is going on here?"
Appalling, isn’t it? They’ve been brainwashing the masses with out of context sound bites for ages. And there isn’t enough critical thinking in general. It’s group mind, and I’ve seen and experienced how that plays out from a quantum level, even if I can’t scientifically explain it.
Agreed, I had recognized some Alinskyism going on before that but the oft repeated phrase “Trump’s comments about Mexicans” was an excellent litmus test for media types: are they interested in informing you, or misleading you?
Oh! THANK YOU for posting this!! Ever since so-called 'reality TV' became everything, it truly shows that you can't trust anything you see on TV, news, ... even so called live video is manipulated. I'm sick to my stomach about what's going on in the US.
Thank you for sharing.
My dad told me in 1988 that he found it strange that every news station, every day, had the same cat being saved by the fire department, or same stories, all day, no matter the channel. He said there are lots of other news never mentioned. I said yes, but I don't watch TV, so I didn't mind the terrible programming selection. WOW. Choice is edited for consumption. I started caring when the brainwashing activated the zombies to attack rule of law, law enforcement, our constitutional rights, etc, when Bush Jr was in office. Trump is the first conservative President since Reagan. Everyday is a slide towards social programming. Laws and law enforcement are just words on paper if someone can force me to wear a mask or not eat, or keep me home and not work, even though current law grants me freedom of speech, to gather...
As a single black female, I think many of us are conditioned to be the backbone for the black man and just go with what they say. I have watched this president and I have to say he's not doing a doing a bad job. Other's have been worse and he actually listens to the people and he takes action. I respect Candace Owens even though I don't agree with everything she says. But I think I'm going to vote for Trump. It hasn't been bad for me these last 3 years.
Red Afro76 I am not a black mans backbone . WTF ?
The key part that makes this great is nobody has to or needs to fully agree with people to support them. There was this weird shift that happened that somehow if you don’t agree 100% you can’t agree at all or if you don’t your the enemy or racist or every insult in the book one could throw at someone (typically republican or conservative in the receiving end). Liberals who like trump don’t have to become republicans. You can be a Liberal that’s just not a democrat anymore. The shift “Democrats” made further left expanded the Right to consist of some Liberals, libertarians conservatives republicans etc. the democrats made their party shrink by going far left (thinking everyone under the democrat umbrella would follow because the media had demonized trump enough for people to believe the lies) while inadvertently many people saw what was happening. Now there’s a big orange umbrella that trump is working hard to make everyone’s America great again. ;).
@@ssn0651 who said you were?! TF. I said many, NOT ALL. If I ain't you, it ain t you!
The thing is Joe Biden has a very bad history working against the issues of black people. The only thing that connects him is that he was made the Vice President for Obama. And Kamala has a TERRIBLE history with black issues. How is this in the interests of black people at all?
I respect Candance Owens immensely and I am a white girl. If you listen to her, then you are enlightened and free. God bless you.
I get a lot of anti Trump jokes on several of my chat groups.
I'm patiently waiting for November 3rd so I could have the last laugh. Trump ✅
In the Seattle area. I'm drowning in a sea of leftist hatred. People I consider friends say the most vile shit. Several of them were laughing at Rand Paul for catching the Chinese virus. They said he deserved it. How can you be happy someone has a disease?
It seems there is smaller voice on the left who are very loud screamers who have MSM on their side, putting their message out with bull horns. The right appear to be controlled in their viewports, therefore we don’t hear them as much. I’ve been conservative for 40 years and wouldn’t think of screaming at the left, or responding with ugly rhetoric, written or verbal. To me, the left do not have the capacity to reason or debate - they are just angry. Frankly, I know of very few people who are not voting for Trump - we are just not as vocal and make our voices known at the ballot box.
I think that in November we'll see the Democrats more mad than they've been since we took their slaves away . . . I sure hope they left some stuff to burn down . . .
SJA-they keep telling you because they are telling themselves they are right. They think that if they type it enough you will "see the truth". Stay calm, their awakening is still coming (been delayed by covid/or hastened by covid?). Consider them teenagers with raging hormones and no classes on critical thinking. Everyone has to get off fluoride that is in the tap water-that is dangerous and makes one very compliant/toxic. They are actually eating and drinking what keeps their brains fogged! Stay strong and give yourself a hug, lets get through this smarter, happier, stronger, and free in every way.
@@tackyman2011 I lived in Seattle 30 years..watched it go from a safe, fun, clean city, to a increasingly drug infested, homeless destination, gross, unwelcoming cesspool. Worked at an insurance brokerage before being hired at the UW...every morning the entrance had to be hosed down from vagrant urinating in the doorway. And the Leftist mayor restrict the police from doing their job. Tourism dropped, I moved out of state...really sad how Dems destroy everything they touch.
My moment was the moment the media started talking about him. Tucker Carlson is absolutely right. If the left and media say something, the opposite is almost always true.
Accuse your enemy of that which you are guilty is a popular commie slogan.
@@goprojoe7449 Yeah, you mean Alinsky, a New Left sociologist turned community organiser, in his New Left book “Rules for Radicals”, advises to use this: psychological projection as propaganda tool or disorient opposition. Hillary did her senior thesis on Alinsky at Wellesley. QED
@@Orson2u Oh interesting, didn't know that. Talk about a huge red flag. The upside is they tell you exactly who they are and what they're up to.
Big ole facts💯✔mate
Also look at the Frankfurt School of Socialism. Almost every one of their listing of necessary edicts to establish a communist/socialist regime has been accomplished in this country. It is just as Norman Thomas stated years ago, "that the American people will never knowingly accept socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation---without knowing how it happened." We are there, thanks to not just Obama, but the Bushes and Clinton. Each has put their piece in the puzzle. The Patriot Act by George Bush is not for patriots, but against them, and the smug narcissist Obama tore this country apart with his racially charged agenda, and socialist Healthcare. The hour is late my countrymen.
I’m so tired of the word privileged!!! Is a rich kid with bad parents privileged. Is a poor kid with great parents unprivileged?
Great take Kim but you can't talk common sense to these people. Imagine trying to discuss anything with AOC?
@Erika That's exactly the point Erika. Sorry you had to deal with that.
If the kid is white, then yes to both questions....apparently.
If you had an opportunity to become wealthy and give your children and grandchildren a better life, wouldn’t you take it? Then suddenly your kids and grandchildren are targeted as being “privileged “??? ... isn’t working hard and being successful a good thing? Why are haters shaming people who worked hard or lucky enough to have their parents work hard? Ridiculous.
@@websterbrandcoaching9724 The argument would be that you only got wealthy by stepping on the backs on of others.
When you have to work this hard to discredit and smear someone, you become pretty transparent.......to some of us.
@Leo Peridot Would you not strike back at someone who is slandering you 24/7? And BTW, he doesn't have to. Severe normies can see for themselves who the liars are.
@Leo Peridot OMG.......TDS is causing your two brain cells to misfire.
@Leo Peridot have your thoughts go deeper than that .the result is open ended nothing with meaning
The true colors always show through.
@Leo Peridot Your problem is that you want to take everything personal...politics is never personal; it is all business!
I feel ya Bret, I was so much the same way. CNN was my go to for everything for YEARS!! And all the sudden I just could not choke down what they were giving me and started looking elsewhere to find more information. Was shocked at the things I found out, and that so many news channels were going bonkers over 1 guy.
And then I started listening to him, because they hated him SOOOO MUCH!!! He was saying all the things I was feeling, made me fist pump. And then he had me also!!!
This is my favorite channel- I’m a conservative and I really enjoy listening to people talk without having to battle an atagonistic interviewer
I really enjoyed this interview. Thanks. I watched JFK’s assassination with my newborn on my lap and I can’t tell you how heartbreaking it was. Then went through the 60’s in the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco and did the whole trip. Was a Rajneesh neo-sannyasin, then a new age “space cadet,” and became a painter. Always, always a counter-culture liberal. Voted for, and believed in, Bernie Sanders the first time around in the Democratic primaries. I totally bought into the media narrative about Trump. Because I practice a discipline that says to be happy, look for what you prefer in any situation, I started looking for things I could appreciate about the new President. I watched him at work in his cabinet meetings & listened to full speeches....and started listening to people I resonated with on alternative media. It really didn’t take long for me to do a complete about-face. With these daily briefings, I think many are being woken up to who this man really is, rather than who the media & the Dems make him out to be. He’s kept every election promise, yet my friends who used to complain that no one was talking about peace, will Not give him credit for that accomplishment. He can’t do anything they will give him credit for, no matter how much it may benefit those they claim to support. He’s fallible, of course, and I don’t agree on all issues, but what his administration has accomplished in his 3 plus years as President is phenomenal.
Deneen Peckinpah THIS!
Deneen Peckinpah are you now going to go full out defying your former norm publicly? It’s gonna cost ya. Is it worth the cost?
S1t3u5 P7i9d I have already lost two very good friends, one I have been close to for 45 years. I’ve posted on my timeline and gotten very mixed, yet mostly loving responses even from friends that don’t agree. With those that have TDS, there’s really not much to do except let things move forward until the truth comes out in too obvious a way to be denied.
@@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid STFU your a nothing.
Deneen Peckinpah ... well said... you’re a rare open minded person, to look for the good! Good for you !
Dave, these are the real true GET WOKE moments. When life long Dems realize they've been voting for the wrong people.
Glad you got woke up
I think the Reagan quote is more accurate "I didn't leave the democratic party... They left me."
I joined the Democratic party because of JFK. JFK would not be a Democrat today and neither am I. It has clearly become the party of hate.
@Leo Peridot You do know the republicans are the side that faught slavery they also unanimously voted that black men could vote. You should research the votes through history that benefited our black American neighbors. See who voted for or against, you can learn exactly how many votes per side led to any given law or bill.
@Leo Peridot that's a grasp there. You're funny. I didn't come to argue just state the facts which are reserchable. Your statement can't be researched because it's an opinion. Any how good day is you argue with everyone who disagrees with your opinion and I'm not going to argue i research befor i accept anything.
True, thank goodness I got woke up before the next election!
I came around after the Kavanaugh hearings. The media kept bashing President Trump but I noticed he kept winning for America. Trump is the best president America has had in my lifetime
yeah, the malice against Kavanaugh and the shrill and outright lying from the Leftist establishment was a whole new level.
, @Tropic Lightning, That is why I say God interfered with the 2016 presidential election because I am always saying Thank God Hillary didn't win.
I am much more nuanced.
To the negative, Trump is a narcissist, a braggart....that really stretches the truth...and frequent liar about relatively unimportant things, an adulterer, and a man of general low character (some of his business dealings were very bad). His tweets can be really, really tacky (the recent one where he brags about his ratings....as we are in this pandemic... is awful).
To the positive, Trump does want good things for the country. He fights for America. He sees the danger of China. He sees that previous politicians did not get things done. He has called out to black Americans (and God do I hate the hyphenation of fellow citizens) to say “What do you have to lose?” He, through his son in law, did a great job passing the First Step Act (and if you want to be moved to joy, watch that video on RUclips). He calls out media for false/incomplete/un-nuanced reporting.
As president, his results are mixed.... like most presidents. He’s put in place two justices that I like...as well as a number of excellent judges on the lower courts. Far and away, this is his legacy and it is a great one. He has made the country face China..and the UN. However, to be effective - like it or not - he needs allies and he’s done little but alienate people on the world stage. China can play a very long game. Trump has another 4 years. We don’t have Europe, Canada, Japan, Mexico, etc. on board for the fight, so it’s unlikely the fight will mean much over that long game. That is a real worry, to me and I think this is a huge failure. While I believe the Democrats are wrong about the wall, they have that right to do what they’ve done. It’s their version of Merrick Garland. That is why I am frustrated that Trump blew off the Democrats willingness to give $25 billion for the wall in exchange for DACA. I respect and agree with those that say giving citizenship to those whose parents broke our immigration law is wrong.... but this is politics. We are being purists about a political environment that is dirty. Trump should have made that deal. Instead, he caved to those that refused to acknowledge this is a dirty game.
I am a conservative because I believe that humans are imperfect. Trump, more than anyone in my lifetime, illustrates it.
Tropic Lightning - I don’t see it as damning. It is simply accurate. If you’ve ever read Ender’s Game and the sequence of other books, I think of my analysis as what the Speaker for the Dead would say.
Tropic Lightning - Fair points.
My turning point was when the notes were sneaked in to Hillary during one debate. I was already leaning but that tipped the scales.
Trump was not my first, second, or third choice in the 2016 Republican primary. Stridently anti-Trump Fox moderators swung the primary to Trump with their offensive bias in the first Republican primary debate.
Yes, good for you. We really need to be observant AND think for ourselves.
Dirty donna brazile.
Oh man, I didn't notice that.
I saw Dona Brazil do it.
Ruben: What was that moment for you?
Me: That moment for me was when Mrs. Obama said "For the first time in my life I am proud to be an American."
From australia - i too was disgusted by this nasty highly priveliged womans attack on the country which has given her everything
Gary Viehe And their talking of Michele/Michael running again. Deplorable.
and that was I think the exact moment I disliked that woman and could never warm to her. What! you got a nice education, got lucky enough to get married and have children and yet you act all oppressed
@@deneeravid1067 Those children are not her/his biological kids.
BIG MIKE OBAMA
I WAS A LEFTY UNTIL I SAW HOW BAD THE MEDIA WAS ON TRUMP .. I GUESS I SHOULD THANK THEM ...
we thank them too. Not that the right has all the answers and is perfect but most of us want people to be successful and happy as that benefits all of us as a society
Same
@@boycottchyna5400 I like RUclips as the comments are often intelligent and not full of hate. But I would suppose it depends on what program video one was watching. I like informative thought provoking discussions.
@@deneeravid1067 YEP
@@boycottchyna5400 COOL
My moment was watching the media totally ignore everything about Hillary while attacking Trump on everything.
Also, according to CNN, Hillary had a 99.9% chance of being elected.
About 2017, my (very liberal) brother and I were talking about the election and how I didn't vote. He had no problem with my Trump answer (standard stuff - boorish, arrogant, whatever) but when I talked about the Clinton BS and how I would have been thrown in the brig for decades for something like that, he pish-pawed it and said she didn't do anything wrong. This was way after what's his nuts said, 'yeah she's guilty, we just won't prosecute.' I couldn't believe how my own brother reacted. I swallow it down because family, but it still makes me mad.
my moment was when Hillary busy attacking Trump during the campaign, while Trump busy making promises about migration and healt care. Close the border and bring American first is what got me, and long and be hold Trump delivered! So I am sticking with him, cause like it or not we still need to improved migration! The wall is.not finished yet!
Mark Uhler very similar scenario with my brother. We talked about Hillary and how she and Bill ripped off Haiti (Clinton Cash). He said he didn’t care if she was corrupt, he hated Trump more.
Timmy2Fingerz
My moment was watching trump totally ignore everything about covid19 while attacking the press who are asking fair questions. Low predictions indicate a hundred thousand will now die in the us and it will take years for “trumps” economy to recover.
It pleases me greatly that Trump refuses to employ tyranical power to deal with this virus issue. I can't say the same about some of the state goveners.
Yeah, I’m in Cali and SD is already citing people for JUST BEING OUTSIDE. This whole state is ran by tyrants, and the cops with god complex are loving it. If you’re not here, count yourself lucky.
Same here in Brazil with our President Bolsonaro...
Yes, Kate Brown in Oregon. Hardly an epicenter of the virus.
They hate him bc Trump's not a devil worshiper. Think about that for a moment and do some research. You'll get there.
chill out with that bullshit.
Hanna Jean We wish it was BS. It’s not. Argon Roadster is correct. Do the research. Go deep down the rabbit hole. Scary stuff. Get there quick by deep research on Glamis. ... Be VPN protected when you do that though please.
Trump isn't evil he is just an idiot who cant talk without thinking first.
@@educationalsockpuppet3057 First off, why would you talk _without_ thinking first? Is talking without thinking a good policy? Next, do you really believe someone who has accomplished so much in real estate development, hospitality, television, and politics, is really an idiot? Or is it that maybe people who are wise don't speak, think, and act the way you expect. Maybe rather than judge, you should observe and try to understand.
Argon you are right! Some people are not able to understand, but there is deep evil in the world. But more powerful than evil is the Divine that lives in each soul. 🙏💜🌏
I didn’t like Trump but when he won I simply thought, ok well let’s see how he does and give him a chance and support. The media and Dems completely lost their minds and it woke me up to their bias and anti-American agenda. I’m now a proud Republican and will vote Trump in November.
That was so weird to me too. I've always leaned conservative and Republican. My parents dreaded Obama (they hated his record and policies) when he became the Democrat candidate. When he won the election they weren't happy, but had an attitude of grit and bear it for the next 4 years. He was legally elected and throwing a tantrum won't change that. My attitude is that you don't have to like the President, but they were chosen by the people. Respect that. Even our worst presidents haven't destroyed this country. Let's see what happens with this one. I'll be at the polls again in 4 years anyway. Then I move on with my life.
A lot of Democrats and the (leftist) media always behave like hysteric toddlers when they don't get their way. It doesn't surprise me anymore.
My lefty little sister who is 29 years old just told me yesterday that she is a Trump supporter. I was shocked! She said how she had been lied to all those years. I'm not sure what her moment was (I'll have to ask her) but she is now in love with Trump. She also told me how he reminds her of our 13 years now passed away father. I still cant believe it and I am so glad she has had her awakening.
Congratulations.
Its amazing how many people are starting to realize how wrong the liberal media has been for so long.
Kristy Hunter ... so happy for you, hoping that happens for me with a friend, a sister & a neighbor. What do they all have in common....CNN. Something happened to all mainstream media, during the last 30 years....they got owned by just a few people/corporations, all of whom had an anti American agenda. As a result, people are actually watching PROPAGANDA but they don’t know it, they believe that CNN,MSNBC,ABC & all the others, are legitimate journalists, on a legitimate network & they don’t realize that these broadcasters are bought & paid for, & are just doing what they’re told...which is a “hit job” on Trump & half the country, all the time. OAN - One America News, is probably the least biased network now.
My mom too. She was for him but her PC MAGGOT of a sliming "church pastor" would sit there in the OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD in Australia, "teaching" them about "Mexican refugees" during the "caravan" incidents. I said "Mom they're bloody well not even Mexicans. They're from Honduras and hurled rocks and injured Mexican border patrol to ENTER MEXICO on the southern Mexican border". Now without any of my influence she suddenly thinks he's great. I can never tell with her. She's one of those absent minded types just liker HER mother that you can tell a joke to 5 times and she still doesn't get it when Dad got it the first time. Very frustrating to even have a conversation some days and other days she's much better.
Congratulations to her! The saying goes "If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." At 29, she really grew up fast. Well done. And I too am curious what her moment was.
They arn't wrong, they're just flat out lying.
Fact
Exactly!
On November 3rd I'm gonna practice "Democrat distancing" and vote for Trump again.
That's great, do you mind if I borrow your line :-) -keith
bcstractor second to you 😆
@bcstractor Care to back that claim up with some actual links to complete and fully contextually correct info that supports that claim? Not that I or anyone else expects you to do that, of course, since we all know that the contexts of the claim you are pulling from are false and have already been proven as such! 🤣 🤣 🤣
@bcstractor "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dan McFarland
Me too.
"We're breaking the conditioning! We're breaking the conditioning!"
-Alex Jones
And you need slightly crazy people like Alex Jones to do that
AJ is infamous at this point. His legend will live forever.
@Joao Klein All the prophets sent to the J o o s were murdered.
They're breaking the conditioning. Activate the corona protocol. The time for culling has come.
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I'm an independent. I'm voting Trump.
I vote for whoever is good for America & for the past 4 years, P. Trump proved it. TRUMP2020🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
Likewise! This Texas woman voted early in Central Texas, in the Tx. hill country.... "🇺🇸📯TRUMP📯🇺🇸2020"
My moment was the Covington Catholic school scandal.
Mine was when the MSM tried to convince everyone that Obama was the best president ever. I cut my cable service.
Mikki Willis what about Kavanaugh.
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Yes the media had that boy convicted.
@@adadumitrescu412 wasn't that after the Covington kids?
@Mikki Willis The media had no choice. The bait was too good. They had a Trump hat vs a crying indian.
All I know is I can't wait for my first vote to be for Trump.
I assume you've immigrated to the US? More European immigrants is what we need.
@@LawrenceCaldwellAuthor Bot
@bcstractor The word you're looking for is FUCK; with K, not an asterisk. An asterisk is not a letter. Either speak and write fully and bluntly or shut the fuck up. Good day.
@@DieselRamcharger Who?
@@WingmanSR is dumb as fuck! Better?
My moment was when I was in law school and entire elements of criminal law were excluded from the curriculum because they were too “triggering.” Guess we shouldn’t teach lawyers how to prosecute a sex assault allegation... cause that helps the “cause.”
God Help Us
For 20 years I was an independent who thought the two party system we have is bad for the country and voted third party or independent 99% of the time, including 2016 general election.
The moment I realized one of the two parties had become enemy of the freedom, and therefore enemy of the state, happened during the Obama's second term when we had that national "debate" over transgender bathroom use.
My opinion, right or wrong, was very simple. What bathroom one should use is determined by what genitalia they had. Once you had your gender realignment procedure you can use the bathroom of your chosen gender. I was, of course, open to debate and was willing to have an open mind and if given a scientific proof my opinion was wrong (e.g. conclusive medical research showing individuals undergoing hormone therapy can no longer have the sexual drive of their birth gender) I was willing to change my mind.
The "wow" moment was when I realized that the side pushing the "everyone should use the bathroom of the gender they identify with" narrative, not only was not open to real debate but was just toxic and immediately launched personal attacks on anyone not in full agreement with their "official" opinion, shutting them down, calling for them to be "canceled", "de-platformed" and so on.
That was a total shock to me because their stance was so totalitarian, so against everything I strongly believed in (freedom of speech, freedom of thought, open-minded debate, ability to agree to disagree and so on) that I was for the first time scared about the direction the country was going in. The whole episode had such a truly chilling effect on me that I started to look at the left as the enemy and started to have more and more understanding for the 2A crowd. If you are confronted with totalitarianism, the only chance you have of keeping your freedom and not being jailed for your opinions is if you and most of the other freedom loving citizens are armed and ready to defend that freedom. I began to realize the only true protection of the constitution and the Bill of Rights is the second amendment.
I am still an independent but over the last 5 or 6 years since that moment the left kept getting more and more insane, policing our every word, every thought, becoming a horrible thought police akin to East German Stasi. They are now openly talking about and promising socialism in this country, something completely unimaginable just 10 years ago. Something so unacceptable to me and at odds with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution that it is now more clear than ever that they are the enemy within that must be stopped. As a result, this November for the first time ever I will be voting straight Republican and have no remorse about that what so ever.
I still feel if we had more pluralism in this country we would not be as sharply divided as we are now but the time to vote 3rd party or independent and essentially waste your vote is gone, because if they win this country is going down the toilet. Everything founding fathers fought and died for will be gone, our Bill of Rights will be gone, our individual freedoms will be gone. Our tax rate will go to 50% (as we can see from the example of "progressive" Europe) to pay for all the "free" stuff they are promising to their voters and we'll all just stop going to work, inventing, starting businesses and line up for their "free" stuff until there is no one left to pay for all the "free" stuff and this country is completely ruined.
Dean Kuga , I agree with you completely, we just have no luxury of wasting any vote in the November election.
Long time registered independent here, too. I was only slightly aware of the instance that first alarmed you. It was one of many odd conversations going on. I thought, oh, they'll wise up and let it go or insist they are right and become irrelevant." I had too much faith in people getting their fill and hitting them over the heads with reality. But it kept getting worse. Now it seems the trend finally got bad enough for the more moderate, usually quiet majority to realize the responsibility to resist it. When it affects everyone in one way or another, we can't just take care of our own and let the talking heads work it out.
Excellent statement!
Nice. Welcome aboard.
Well said. Thank God you could see them for what they are.
You know that scene in The Lord of the Rings where Gandalf says, ""A thing is about to happen here that has not happened since the Elder Days. The Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong." I think this perfectly sums up what is currently happening in this country :)
Oooh . I like it . I love that movie too .
My moment was the day after the election. I was a student at Orange Coast College the day the psych teacher spent class calling all the Trump voters terrorists.
Oh no! I’m in LA but I’ve been to that school for the OC fair. Sad how bad CA has fallen.
I was redpilled watching CCN. I couldn’t understand why they didnt have a good word to say about Trump. That’s what made me start questioning the narrative! Well done CCN!
What is "CCN"?
You mean Cable News By Communists ( CNBC) ???
That schill Rachel Maddow is openly gay. Trump launches a global initiative to help stop the killing of gays in countries where they see it as a crime. That is a good thing....yet not a word from Maddow...why? Because it would ruin their narrative he's homophobic. Also many Democrats backed that bill, why wouldn't they? But they won't say a word about it, they literally will not take credit for something because it would be a positive for him.
Look at now...not one word about record low unemployment, but now because of the virus unemployment is up-and artificially and temporarily so-but NOW they bring it up.
The people who can't see through this don't want to, and its frightening how many lemmings there are in this country
CNN is the world’s best red pill
I really don’t know how it happened to me. Ive always been Liberal and was so choked up when Obama became president. Now I am pro Trump, I can only think the political media bias agenda turned me.
They are not wrong about trump, wrong sounds as a genuine mistake. They are MISLEADING about trump.
Good point, a deliberate effort not just mistaken.
I truly appreciate the fact that Mr. Rubin allows his guests the opportunity to answer his questions without constant interruptions.
They weren't 'wrong' they were blatantly LYING.
"I have some videotapes to return" is an excuse I sometimes use to get out of awkward situations. The confused looks on people's faces is priceless, especially now that Blockbuster is gone.
Hands down one of my favorite awkward conversational pause responses.
not completely gone, I hear there is still one in Oregon... :p
@@d0sitmatr THEY SHALL RISE AGAIN WHEN THE INTERNET SOON FALLS!!! ;)
They've been lying to you for a long time, buddy. Especially during Reagan. They couldn't stand him.
November 3rd is Comming fast the Marxist/Communist Dumocrats are un-American and are really showing their colors even the Political Map was changed by CNN/MSNBC from the Blue States to now Red States C-19, they are actually one and the same, you might ask why Dumocrats are by definition being wiped out by c-19, gee what could go wrong Red China is also suffering the same thing. Blue States like NY are blaming President Trump for delving out supplies. You really need to stop voting for Dumocrats and RINOS!
Reagan also took a bullet. The shooter had ties to the Bush family. He was not a random stranger
thanksfernuthin YES AND HONESTLY I NEVER REALISED UNTIL TRUMP WHAT LIES WE ALL WERE TOLD. NOW I DO! TRUMP!
I *love* that Tammy Bruce was against it, and now she's flipped and fighting the good fight.
For me it was the reaction to MAGA hats.
Yes I had actually heard maybe a year and a half ago they were saying that they felt MAGA hat was more racist than the American Flag
How'd wearing that MAGA hat work out?
Benedict Donald
@Tater Girl oooooh....somebody's butt hurt.
"The Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, which recently made news by refusing to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders" Was when I saw such a childish turn in American politics.
I always make it a habit to check the names of the journalists I'm reading or watching, do quick searches on them and their publications.
It helps me identity patterns and subversion.
Don’t forget who funds them as well
Bob Thomas yup been labeled crazy my whole life cause I don’t follow narratives pretty sad honestly. Just remember not everyone gets on that boat and I ain’t drowning.
If y’all want to know the people behind the curtain look into Rupert Murdoch, George soros, ever member of the council of foreign relations you will see George Clooney, Anderson cooper, Clinton’s, Rockefeller’s, rothchilds etc etc all trying to social engineer us. It’s one big club and we ain’t in it.
@@tristianherrera3003 That's exactly why they're trying to crush free speech and even limit the spread of things like memes.
Their lies only hold power when obvious truths can't be expressed. Memes are powerful because they are simple images that convey complex ideas and basic truths, and immediately cut through their propagandistic BS.
ScottCantDance very true my friend saddest thing is my family and friends never question anything after years of trying to open their minds they don’t care just been conditioned programed and indoctrinated
Although I’ve always been socially aware.. I wasn’t “political.” It was the treatment of president Trump, the degradation and constant accusations started sounding strange to me so I became curious and began researching and learning. It’s because of the way Trump was/is treated that I became politically aware and omg I can’t believe how blind I was! I don’t belong to left or right, each side has its issues, (I like to think I see things a little clearer coz I’m not in the “left vs right bubble.) but the left has become a group of foaming at the mouth, mentally unstable tyrants! I’m from Australia by the way and have learned heaps about my own political system, the UK’s and many others... I’m kinda hooked now!🤣
Niki Wicche great comment.
I'm with you. Same here.
Even though you cannot vote for President Trump, please pray for us over here. We will not endure as a nation if the evil left ever come back to power soon. God Bless you.
Karen Konz I’m hoping Trump prevails, for the sake of everyone’s freedom which the left are eroding each and every day with their racist and cherry picked facts in their “critical race theory.” From Australia, I’m watching bad people being allowed to get away with whatever they want, while good people are put in jail for defending themselves. Hopefully the majority Do NOT vote by mail, otherwise Trump will lose the election.
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For me it was when I first gave trump a chance and watched a full speech. Then another. And then a few compilations. Then the memes. Then the antifa videos. And then the general protests. And then the media meltdowns.
And then he actually started getting to work and he kept proving himself the best choice day after day.
Matt-Yes! I know economist Steve Moore, who’s worked with Trump before the election and in the West Wing of the WH. He says that the man you see at his rally’s is just how is in person, in the West Wing (Oval Office, etc, the work area of the WH). He’s THE most unfiltered President ever! The most transparent and genuine in that way.
My moment was this damn lock down, losing my job and having too much time to think about what the hell am I gonna do to survive.
I watched Trump at one of the virus briefings. Watched the MSM news that night (I know, but I had to learn) and could not believe what I was hearing! The spin, the hate, the disrespect. THE LIES!
So, I kept watching what Trump said, and, again, the MSM did the same thing. So I read, researched, dug, deeper and further back. I am still shocked (after 2 1/2 months of finding the truth) at how in the world that the fake news can get away with this. This may very well be the silver lining of this lockdown. I am one person who has learned the truth, hopefully there are many more of you.
The truth is there but you have to search for it, as it is not delivered to you 95% of the time. Learn the truth, if you haven't. You owe it to yourselves and your families.
Exactly the same for me. Used to watch CNN. Had to wonder why they hated their own President so much...starting digging. Now I'm praying like mad that this election fraud is exposed.
From South Africa.
True and true, i never hate trump , why shud i hate him when i dont even know what he made wrong , only jealous people are the haters
Me too, this covid rili wake me up and my heart crying everyday how bad the leftist by laucnhing this covid agenda
Anyone who is open-minded and can think for themselves has no choice but to be on the right.
There is simply no room for them on the left.
@@drewyoung7113 - Freethinkers may or may not think alike, but close-minded people do not think. That's why the right embraces tolerance, diversity and liberty, while the left embraces intolerance, group-think and tyranny.
we want thinking men. And women, Lots of women.
@Don Jon - Which explains why the left doesn't bother to think - they're convinced they are right.
Exactly what I've been saying about "liberalism" for years; It's all about fashion.
When he says he was privileged, I'm assuming he means his parents made wise decisions.
Yeah but then he says "privileged white kid", so he clearly believes there's a link between white and having privilege.
Do you really think that everyone has the same starting point in life? Certainly your own life choices dictate a lot, but not all of it is up to you.
@@wes6571 No, certainly people do not have the same starting point in life. As the original post mentions, your starting point depends in large part on your parents decisions and life choices. Unfortunately, a lot of people make bad life choices and set their kids up in a rough spot.
But casually linking it to race is bullshit. If it's a logical error to assume that everyone has the same starting point in life, then it's also an error to assume that white people are somehow privileged because they're all born into some advanced starting point in life.
And if people do want to argue that it is somehow linked to race, and that white privilege is real, then we should be talking about two groups who are more 'privileged' in every way in America than whites. East Asians, and Jews.
@@wes6571 well, you have a newer car and better house therefore you obviously stole them or "oppressed someone" to get them or "your ancestors" did... so I will be showing up to cave your skull in and take your shit... right?
What you said and the fact that the era he grew up in I am sure being white helped out. I mean idk his age but seems I would guess 60’s or 70’s?
My moment was when my mother, a life long democrat, changed her party. She has a republican card.....MIND BLOWN! P.S. I have one also!! Trump 2020!
Follow ur mommy goof boy
Trump will be likened to Lincoln when this month is over
ty Mr President
❤️💪
nope
JFK
Regan
Trump
the rest have been corrupt asf
@joeyripswell
It’s “Reagan”. You must be a big fan.
Good point. One President ended slavery & one President said “I have the best words.”
gawd
whatever
missing a point to dive all over semantics
typical leftist with TDS
That’s not what semantics means. You simply misspelled his name.
As an openly gay man, I morphed into a conservative about 6 years ago when I began to notice how unreasonable, illogical and ideologically driven the left had become. Mainstream positions Dems and liberals held for decades have been jettisoned and only far left extreme views are advanced and promoted. We saw many of these new far left positions debated during the many presidential debates among this cycle of Dems. It truly was shocking some of the policy positions they were pushing.
My night was the night of the election when the media broke down completely in some instances. I have always wondered why those involved weren’t subsequently fired.
Erle Bowman-I’ll never forget the day after the election when CBS national news anchor, Scott Pelley, actually looked sick attempting to talk about the election results. Up to that point he was extremely smug and low key dismissive when talking about candidate Trump. He left anchoring for a good while after that and I thought he retired from total embarrassment. But he showed up again later on the Sunday show, 60 Minutes. I guess they thought he’d put enough distance between his condescension of Americans and his career to give it another try.
@@medicinalpurposes4860 60 minutes is not a leg up in my books. That was the home of Dan Rather who arguably started the resistance to the truth , common sense and creditable journalism.
That was a beautiful moment. And they deserved every bit of that because they were the ones that helped prop him up during the primaries because they thought he had no chance to win in the general. And it backfired on them.
My moment was when my friend said "why not Trump?"
@bcstractor yea I know wym, that bitch Hillary is the worst.
@bcstractor well, I guess the real question would be why vote at all, because you are describing the behavior or all politicians.
He doesn't lie more than any other politician, in fact he lies less, and there was nothing he was gonna be able to do to stop those people from dying, but he has done plenty that has saved people from dying
@bcstractor So pandemic is trump's fault? Economic downturn due to corona is trump's fault? Are you high?
Define "dying"? I dont know, the condition of not being alive?
@bcstractor Gates warned everyone. And who did anything? Why just trump? Who could have seen this coming? That China would fuck it up this bad?
If everyone who was reading science and business knew about it what steps did these geniuses take? Why wasn't the scientific community prepped for this?
Also, I'm not the one who sounds rabid. You are. Enjoy 4 more years of Trump. You deserve him.
When I became a Christian and realized that God is pro life, I became a consertive through and through.
Isn’t God so good ? I am having so much fun getting to know him even more so these days in a personal crisis . He is so faithful. God bless you .
Your religious teachings should not have its hand in anyone's home but yours
When all I had to go on and form my opinion was the media I also hated him. I then realised that all I saw and read was hate and wondered how come someone as bad and evil as him could end up president so I began to research and now am totally pro Trump FOR America. I am British living in France so not directly concerned but now all I do is follow US politics. It's OK to change your mind.
My measure of people: When the media loves someone, that means that they are bad, very bad. When they hate someone, that generally means that they are good. The more they hate, the better that person is. The world is upside down. Bad is good and good is bad. Many are seeing through the lies now.
my moment was just when he was elected in the first place. I was sure it was impossible, so when it happened, I realized I had missed something. I was the one who needed to understand, not everyone else. so, I started digging.
"I was the one who needed to understand, not everyone else." Simple, but well-put. That thought right there is the dawning of maturity. It's scary as hell how many people _proudly_ refuse to have the same thought.
Exactly the same
A statement worthy of a viral meme!
AlexReynard it’s worse in the big cities because everyone is already trying to prove how progressive they are, except that progressivism is really just a cult of discontent.
*LONG LIVE DONALD TRUMP!!*
*TRUMP 2020!* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Another proud Albertan here, Wexit now!!!
@@douglashoule9666 ABSOLUTELY!! FCK TRUDEAU AND FCK QUÉBEC AND FCK ONTARIO!! The Republic of Alberta sounds very nice! Or Alberta USA lol. We are Warriors!
@John L YES! If only we can get Donald Trump to make Alberta the 51st State 😎 lol
@bcstractor 👍If you met Trudeau you would change your mind. At least Trump is doing something about the mass Immigration in the USA. Trudeau keeps bringing them in.
@T҉w҉i҉z҉d҉e҉d҉ L҉i҉o҉n҉ Apparently he feels so special when he likes his own comment lol. TRUMP 2020!! 🇺🇸👍
Mine came in waves on November 8th, 2016, watching the Lib's heads explode as the returns came in. Especially MadCow. Still one the top 2 political nights in American History.
when feeling down I watch them again works everytime
LESS THAN ZERO was a huge book for my friends and me in high school.. Bret Easton Ellis is a legend!
Why don’t you vote???? No wonder we’re in the mess we’re in! Come on! Study your American history now from conservative writers and your eyes will be opened permanently. So relieved to hear of more people seeing through the veil!
My moment was when Trump came down the escalator...
Rainman
Me too! 👋 He said everything I had been thinking!
I didn't vote for Trump (or at all in that election) but I felt EXACTLY like this guy. It was how people and the media reacted that made me stop and say....wait, I know one thing, I can't be with these people....ever!
Same. I was a left-leaning moderate that always voted for the person over the party, but I didn't vote because I honestly couldn't decide who was worse (at that time) of course I did say Trump winning would be a lot more entertaining lol. Election night was my gut check. I watched state after state flip red and I laughed and cheered and realized that deep down I wanted Trump to win. I was completely red-pilled by the resulting temper tantrum. I started looking into stories and my eyes were wide open. I'm now a full-blown Republican and realize that a lot of my left-leaning beliefs were based on lies and twisting statistics/information to suit their narrative.
@@bunny_0288 I remain an independent, but the Dems have just gone completely off the rails.
I was quilting one day when I heard on PBC in MN “Trump says he is against immigration “, about 2-3 times every hour. I heard this all day long. Then a new person came on and actually played the tape where Trump says, “ I’m against immigration WITH OUT VETTING! Changed the whole meaning of the story! Wonder if the guy got fired.
I really like your easy, conversational interviewing style, Dave.
It's always interesting and encouraging to see how other people have come to the same conclusion as I have but through different routes.
As an Englishman I respect how Boris Johnson refused to be interviewed by one of the most savage interviewers - Andrew Neil.
He then went on to win a huge majority.
American Psycho, best book I’ve ever read! I’ve also listened to the audiobook at least 3 times. Wish there was a legitimate sequel set in contemporary times by Ellis!
Señor Snatchworthy It’s my #1 favorite book
Incredible book. One of a kind.
Great to see another person "make sense of the nonsense" and leave the Left. Welcome Bret.
This is exactly my story too
Completely became interested in politics due to the unrealistic hatred for trump.
Unrealistic? The emperor has no cloths.
Bret.. good for you mate. Glad another bright person has seen the way it is. Good to hear you speak...
I realized how sick the left had become seeimg the street protestors and how psychotic amd rude and violent they were, and how zero democrats or leftie MSM would even breathe a single wprd criticizing their behavior. That got me seriously disturbed and really looked into things, then voted for Trump. Also seeing Hillary made my blood run cold.
I used to have TDS bad until I started reading on my own and saw a video about the media’s lies.
He has nailed how the Democratic party has fallen from grace in their actions, lying narratives about Trump, and their split within the party towards Socialism. Thank you for telling the truth!
I really relate with him about the mainstream media. They have let a lot of people down on their sensationalised narratives. So sad.
My moment was at the 2016 NDC watching traitor Bernie ignoring us. And decided that the enemy (Trump) of my enemy (Bernie & Hillary) is my friend. This is how I became a Trump supporter.
I thought that movie was clever, scary, and hilarious at the same time.
I related to so much of this...not into politics, couldn’t identify which party I was with but when Trump became so polarized I got a little more interested. When I heard him say “fake news” I thought he’s ridiculous, he just cant take criticism. But wow. Never would I have imagined these news sources that have been around forever, and that I never would have even thought to question, would spew such lies and be so completely biased. Its been a real eye opener finding the truth vs what they report. It’s really a crime to the American people. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's now the **Mainstream Merdia**
Yes, that's the correct spelling.
A true thinker, what a delight to listen to someone who is rational, intelligent, and thoughtful!
Until last year, I was liberal and quite uninterested in politics and was not reading news for years. I restarted to watch news when Covid19 and BLM broke out and quite quickly realized MSM are lying. When I wasn't interested in politics, I just hated Trump like my Dem friends. But as I began to watch him, I sort of understood why he has so many followers, how he is different from former presidents and why my minor yet constant disgust in stomach stops when I see him. I realized that I had been surrounded by hypocritic monsters. Seeing my FB friends still saying Biden as president-elect, hating on Trump, repeating what MSM repeats, I think that maybe my lack of contact with media helped me open my eyes and wake up early. MSM truly brainwash people completely, even the smartest ones.
My moment was in 2016 when I watched his first debate with Hillary. From that moment on I was a cheerleader for Trump.
Yeah, I just sorted this out as I have been watching the briefings and then watching the news spin doctor. Today they did not even report that those who no insurance can get free medical for coronavirus issues,
That's what clued people in to the downfall of the media: Constant mountain-out-of-molehillery
EXCELLENT piece!!
Again, as always
My moment was when he came down the escalator and spoke. I saw how much he loved America.
I had the exact same experience as him. Adamantly apolitical and relatively ok with the media until I saw what happened in 2016.
My moment was in August of 2015 when I, wondering how this man was so great, watched a rally
I was a DEM all my life shamefully now...then when I saw what clintons got away with, I said NO WAY IN HELLO AM I VOTING KILLERY!
At that point I had done research and KNEW I WAS NOT VOTING A COMMIE INTO WH.
TRUMP 2020 & GOD BLESS HIM!
Agree - the way the MSM treated Donald Trump intrigued me so I looked closer. I saw all the good he did.
I've read all his books, finally get a chance to see him up close. Outstanding. Great guy, fantastic interview.
Good luck getting a reservation at Dorsia now, Bret!
Well played, now I have to return some videotapes.
Nobody goes there anymore (nervously looks off in distance)
I realized news/media were bias when I was reading my local paper and the front page headline was Obama pulling 10,000 troops from the Middle East and the writer praises him for it which took the entire front page and then when I continued reading the newspaper I came to page 6 and there was one small 4-sentence paragraph story on the bottom of the page saying Obama sent 27,000 troops to the Middle East, no reason why, just stating how many troops from which base. I was extremely confused but after I thought about it then it hit me (hit me hard) on what this newspaper was doing. I reread the front page and realized how much of it was not facts, it was the writer’s opinion, the writer’s translation/interpretation of news, of facts. Reading the front page story the second time felt as though I was reading it differently, as if I was finally awake and reading it clearly, it was a strange feeling.
My moment was the day after the 2016 election. I woke to Trump winning, the market was sharply up, and I looked at my wife and said “I think we dodged a bullet”.
My eureka moment was in 1964, when Goldwater ran against Johnson. That is when the media lost sense of neutrality!
Giodwater was continually being characterized as an extremist. He was in fact transparent in saying what he believed.
During his acceptance speech at the RNC, Goldwater said something like: "I stand for this, and this, and this, and this, and whatever else ... if this is extremism, then I am an extremist".
The newspapers of the day, in the biggest capital letters I have seen in newspapers, said: "Goldwater admits he is an extremist".
I saw at that point, that the media was in the business of foisting their opinions on their audience. It is only rarely since then that we have been treated to neutral reporting.
I'm a recovering liberal (haven't voted Democrat since 2004). I consider myself a Constitutionalist, left leaning on social issues, right leaning on fiscal issues, strong advocate for small government, term limits and separation of church and state.
I boarded the Trump train the day he announced his candidacy and have been a strong, undeterred, unapologetic supporter ever since. No, I don't blindly worship him as the second coming of Jesus. In fact, there are a few things he's said and done that I oppose. He can be bombastic, which doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I was worried that other people would be bothered by it and it would hurt his re-election chances. In spite of all that, I think he is one of the best presidents the US has had and I know he is the best president in my lifetime (I was born in the Nixon era). He has set the bar very high by actually keeping his campaign promises and genuinely caring about this country and her citizens. He is essentially showing the politicians how to do their jobs.
Everything was fine during the obama era?!?!?!??! What planet were you living on?
@BrettEastonEllis you just described my whole entire thought process... Exactly the same. Although I know left wing people, that use to be friends, saying "you're being BRAINWASHED" omg please, they're so ridiculous!
It is so weird that people like bret use to be defended by the left but because they do not tow the party line now the left wants their head. Just shows how tribal politics has become
Mr. Ellis could have been describing my own political awakening. My experience was exactly the same but with a different headline on the NYT. I was never interested in journalism or politics until I began to notice how shady it all is. Now I follow both just so I can shout from the roof tops what I have learned. It is so important for people to hear things like this so that perhaps they will see the truth as well. Thanks, Dave and Bret, for doing this work.
Dave Rubin is a national treasure. In my opinion, he defines what it means to be a free thinker. He is rational, kind, and euridite without being pretentious. As a bonus, he is a superb interviewer. Some months ago, I read criticism of Dave by TYT, deriding him for letting an interviewee speak unchallenged. I watched that interview and it was fantastic. Dave gave the interviewee the rope to hang himself, all with aplomb and grace. Again, Dave Rubin is one of the best interviewers now in the public sphere, in the same realm as Stern. Another thing: I remember the criticism of American Psycho in 1989. I didn't pay much attention at the time. Now that I have heard Ellis talk, I am intrigued by this novel, and I am going to give it a second look. Finally, I really don't give a bleeding flip what politics Rubin has, or for that matter Stern or Ellis or anybody else. I just like free thinkers and I like to listen to them talk. In that respect, Rubin is simply sublime.