{"id":1571080,"date":"2022-07-26T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571080"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:10:01","slug":"russell-brand-mainstream-media-think-that-you-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-brand-mainstream-media-think-that-you-are-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand: Mainstream Media Think That You Are Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussell-brand-mainstream-media-think-that-you-are-stupid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Getting red-pilled has been good for Russell Brand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British comic once sang<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/russell-brand-bristles-wealth-query-lectures-reporter\/\"> socialism\u2019s praises<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/russell-brand-blames-western-culture-media-isis\/\">pounded Western culture<\/a> for real and imagined sins. He simultaneously enjoyed a thriving film career and endless media attention.<\/p>\n<p>Brand slowly changed his attitude over the years. And, at the same time, his traditional Hollywood career shrank.<\/p>\n<p>The film roles mostly dried up. The press accolades went the way of 8-track tapes and pagers. He found himself in a new role, one forged outside mainstream circles.<\/p>\n<p>Call is Big Tent Populism, with plenty of room for Left and Right-leaning followers.<\/p>\n<p>He may not land leading roles in Hollywood anymore, but here\u2019s betting his YouTube account is bringing in plenty of coin. He boasts nearly\u00a0nearly 5.8 million YouTube followers, fans who make his daily videos go viral in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of a following translates to stand-up ticket sales and other revenue streams, too.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/andrew-schulz-infamous-special-investment-return\/\"> Just ask Andrew Schulz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brand\u2019s latest salvo? He\u2019s attacking the press for attempting to decide what the public can and cannot know.<\/p>\n<p>Brand interviewed investigative journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 on the topic. Mat\u00e9, dubbed by The Guardian as a champion misinformation spreader, questions media narratives involving foreign affairs, the war in Ukraine and much more.<\/p>\n<p>That tension\u00a0illustrates how the Fourth Estate operates in modern times, according to Brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFundamentally, the mainstream media think that you are stupid and that you are incapable of forming your own opinion. They want to control the information that you are given,\u201d Brand said, adding how he\u2019d like the data flow to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust give people all of the information you have accessible, and we\u2019ll form our own opinions,\u201d Brand said.<\/p>\n<p>The video then switches to Brand\u2019s chat with Mat\u00e9, who shares how media organs\u00a0attempt to silence debate by calling critics anti-Semites, or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives know that routine. It\u2019s similar to how the far-Left dubs conservatives racists, sexists, bigots and homophobes rather than engage in thoughtful debate.<\/p>\n<p>Brand hints at his hard-Left bona fides in the conversation, suggesting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as merely being accused of anti-Semitism while the real story is more complicated, with most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2019\/12\/british-jews-are-worried-jeremy-corbyn-and-labour-party\/603259\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Jews believing he is, indeed, anti-Semitic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to not be afraid of being called names,\u201d Mat\u00e9 said, adding he was dubbed a Russian asset for not buying into the Russia collusion hoax.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even as media credibility craters, Pulitzers are doubling down on the awards they gave to propagandists for perpetrating the false, dangerous, and damaging Russia collusion hoax. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gJuRpV5b6c\">https:\/\/t.co\/gJuRpV5b6c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1549061194690035712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The conversation showed Brand\u2019s awkward place in modern culture. He\u2019s a professional comic with less connection to Hollywood gatekeepers, a left-of-center soul who burns serious calories attacking Democrats and progressive news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks glowingly of The Guardian of yore, but he skewers the outlet\u2019s current vision.<\/p>\n<p>Mat\u00e9 agrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Guardian has increasingly parroted the line of the national security state,\u201d Mat\u00e9 said, a change since it published Edward Snowden\u2019s leaked information.<\/p>\n<p>Brand wrapped the conversation by noting the mainstream media line that viewers aren\u2019t smart enough to draw their own conclusions, to absorb all the possible data and make decisions from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting red-pilled has been good for Russell Brand. The British comic once sang socialism\u2019s praises and pounded Western culture for real and imagined sins. 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