The American public is hugely divided on every issue – according to the media. But the truth is that the public actually agrees on MOST issues. The media sells you division to juice their ratings and make more money. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Mike Papantonio: The American public is hugely divided on every issue according to the media. But the truth is that the public actually agrees on most issues. The media sells division to this country. They do it to juice their ratings. They do it to make more money. This is all about money. Let’s divide the country and we’re gonna make more money doing it. I’ll tell you what, this was handled by, I think one of the most, by a formidable progressive, wrote for Axios.
Farron Cousins: Yeah. And what’s interesting about this is obviously they did what Les Leopold had also done, they’re looking at the numbers. They’re stripping politics away from it because yeah, politics is divisive. But when you look at what people actually think, what they want and what they believe, pretty much everybody agrees on almost everything. Huge majorities left, right, and center agree that, hey, it’s okay to let immigrants come into this country. Hey, it’s okay for people to own guns. Hey, it’s okay for you to have your own religion, whatever.
Mike Papantonio: Or to be gay. Yeah, that’s what most people believe. But the media takes these talking points, and this is a media creation. They take these talking points from these fuzzy thinking hysterical fringe types. Well, on the left, it’s the snowflake fringe. Everything they read on a headline, they’re gonna accept. On the right is the snowflake fringe that buys into everything. And here’s what we miss. These are people that watch either Fox or they watch MSNBC and CNN. That is all they live by baby. That’s all they understand. Fortunately, it’s less than 2% of the population in America, less than 2% of these snowflakes are out there watching MSNBC saying, oh my God, this is the new talking point. And it just perpetuates itself. Right?
Farron Cousins: And look, the problem is with these networks that, again, only 2% of the country between the two of them actually watch.
Mike Papantonio: By the way, between the two. That’s right.
Farron Cousins: But the problem is the people who make the decisions about our daily lives, those folks in Washington, DC, they watch these.
Mike Papantonio: Yes.
Farron Cousins: And they get fed the division, and they help spread the division. Right? Your Republicans are going on Fox, your liberals are going on MSNBC, and each side is saying, these people are evil over here. No, you’re evil over here. And then when these networks push their agenda, whether it’s to help their advertisers get another war contract or help big pharma kill legislation, those lawmakers who only tune into those programs, they buy into it. So it is a small portion that watches this, unfortunately, it’s the powerful people.
Mike Papantonio: But they’re the loudest. If we do a show, the big mouths, the real snowflake big mouths will show up in the comments. If you look at the comments compared to the likes, the likes are huge. But the comments, you may have a hundred people who are just rabid. They can’t control themselves. They gotta, I’ve gotta respond to this. And the response generally is being driven by what they’ve seen on either Fox for when you do a show or when I do a show, it’s what they watch on the MSNBC and CNN. You know, Papantonio’s a Trump guy. Farron is a crazy communist because this is what the media tells them to say. The only good news, the only good news is it’s less than 2% of the population that fall into that, what I call real, real snowflake class. I mean, when we get the reports from our folks that follow this, yeah, you don’t even have to read the comment. The first two lines you understand, oh, yeah. All right. Yeah, they’re watching MSNBC, CNN, that’s all they’re watching or with you, they’re watching Fox. That’s all they’re hearing. And so we just have to rise above it, don’t we? We have to. We can do better than that. People believe we have a right to vote. They believe in equal protection of the law. They believe that there’s a right to freedom of religion. That there’s a right to freedom of speech. That there’s a right to privacy. That’s what most Americans, those types of things, what most Americans believe. But you have the crazy fringe that feed on all of this. I don’t know. Get a job. What do you wanna say? Go get a job. Do something besides sit in front of the computer.
Farron Cousins: Well, the media wants us to be divided between you and your neighbor. Because if you’re not, if you realize how much you have in common with that person next door to you that is a different political affiliation, realize how much you have in common, then you’ll realize, well, wait a minute, then who should we be mad at? You should be mad at those corporations. You should be mad at those politicians that are basically keeping these networks alive That’s why they sell you division. Go hate this person so that you don’t hate the person funding my campaign or my network.
Mike Papantonio: I call ’em chatter monkeys. It’s like James Carville, the chatter monkey of all chatter, coming on the air and telling young people that they’re stupid, that they’re lazy, that they’ve lost touch with reality, because they won’t vote for Biden. Like that’s gonna really help them turn out. But it’s this chatter monkey mentality, man, it’s just getting worse. It’s just getting worse.
Farron Cousins: It really is.
Mike Papantonio: That’s all for this week. But all these segments are gonna be posted right here on this channel in the coming week. Make sure you subscribe. I’m Mike Papantonio, and this has been America’s Lawyer, where we tell you stories every week that corporate media just can’t tell you because their advertisers don’t allow ’em to tell you or their political connections, they don’t allow it, because if you’re too Republican, you gotta color inside the Republican lines. If you’re too Democrat, God knows you better not color outside the Democrat line. But we don’t worry about coloring outside the lines. Hopefully we’ll see you next week.
Farron Cousins: Ring of Fire founder and host of America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio has a new book came out this week called, “Suspicious Activity.” Like his other books before it, this book actually deals with real legal cases that Mike Papantonio has handled, but in a fictionalized way. The book follows the character of Nick Deketomis that Papantonio first introduced in his book, “Law and Disorder,” and it carries on the story that began in “Law and Disorder” through “Law and Vengeance,” “Law and Addiction,” “Inhuman Trafficking,” and now “Suspicious Activity.” This book, in particular, deals with the financial institutions that have helped launder money for terrorist organizations, which of course is a topic we have covered extensively here on Ring of Fire. So if you’re a follower of Mike Papantonio’s books, or if this is your first one, you can get your copy of “Suspicious Activity” now. Just go to MikePapantonio.com and place your order. And if you haven’t already, check out Mike’s other books, also available on MikePapantonio.com.
