[Peace-discuss] What's so special about Jimmy Dore these days?

[J.B. Nicholson]

I've received a few emails asking why I think so highly of Jimmy Dore and point 
peace-discuss readers to his videos. I thought I'd take this opportunity to respond 
to this.



https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0G2Rs5k5xM has a good summary of why I think Jimmy 
Dore's show matters:

- Important stories that require guts to cover are covered by Jimmy Dore and the 
journalists he points his audience to including The Grayzone, Glenn Greenwald, some 
work from Secular Talk (youtube.com show), Jordan Chariton, Status Coup (youtube.com 
show), some labor activists doing one-off stories about striking workers, and not a 
whole lot of other places.

- There are a lot of shills and establishment-friendly repeaters who go along with 
establishment narrative & fake news. Russiagate, Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" 
exposé, exposing the fake Syrian gas attack, the ongoing torture and imprisonment of 
Julian Assange, and a proper view of recent economic scandals (including 
#ForceTheVote, Amazon labor organizing/union creation/union busting, and what 
happened in the CARES Act) are a few of the biggest stories of the past 5 years. But 
the establishment media has covered them all badly (and some not covered at all, on 
purpose). CNN, BBC, (MS)NBC, Democracy Now, Disney, PBS, The Young Turks, Washington 
Post, The New York Times, and The Intercept are some of the establishment 
propagandists who will distract you or flatly ignore important stories.

- I don't expect this to last: Jimmy Dore has repeatedly told us that he's not above 
being co-opted -- he repeats that claim in this video. He's not above becoming just 
another highly-paid MSNBC Russiagator alongside Rachel Maddow. Nobody has made him an 
offer. So instead he points us toward what actual investigative journalists find out.



I have some issues where I disagree with Jimmy Dore to varying degrees:

- Some of Jimmy Dore's criticisms aren't so important and some critiques distract a 
little from the point he's making (like commenting on someone's wardrobe or 
hairstyle); I don't care if a war criminal has an ill-fitting suit or an unflattering 
haircut.

- His review of former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's claim to anti-war fame (I 
suspect he's still sweet on her).

- His review of Sen. Bernie Sanders (which is changing more toward something 
defensible and backed in facts, like what the late Bruce A. Dixon told us before the 
2016 election in https://blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary).

- The challenge he faces with his endorsement of The People's Party (particularly in 
light of the abject failure of the so-called "Justice Democrats" to be anything but 
just Democrats): Should The People's Party get people elected to Congress, how will 
that party prevent those People's Party Congressmembers from becoming establishment 
bulwarks? I think it would be good to get some challenging questions in front of TPP 
and after seeing 6 or so People's Party-related interviews on The Jimmy Dore Show I 
know I'm not going to get those questions posed there or answered there.

Right now, none of those objections amount to something so important that they 
genuinely interfere with my ability to appreciate the importance of the stories and 
views which he brings up on his show.