{"id":1804720,"date":"2023-01-13T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804720"},"modified":"2023-01-13T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:36:56","slug":"adam-carolla-rob-reiner-is-a-useful-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-carolla-rob-reiner-is-a-useful-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Carolla: Rob Reiner Is a \u201cUseful Idiot\u201d"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fadam-carolla-rob-reiner-is-a-useful-idiot%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=1804720&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rob-Reiner-useful-idiot-Russian-collusion-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"swp_social_panel swp_horizontal_panel swp_flat_fresh  swp_default_full_color swp_other_full_color swp_individual_full_color scale-100 scale-full_width\" data-min-width=\"1100\" data-float-color=\"#ffffff\" data-float=\"bottom\" data-float-mobile=\"bottom\" data-transition=\"slide\" data-post-id=\"2035351\">\n<p><span class=\"swp_count\">156 <span class=\"swp_label\">Shares<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/adam-carolla-mainstream-media-big-tech-rigged-election-for-biden\/\">Adam Carolla<\/a> I had so much fun watching an August clip \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/bill-maher-trump-russia-collusion-hoax\/\">Real Time with Bill Maher<\/a>\u201d He played it again last week, as he did last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>This little snippet speaks volumes about America in the new Year, divided by a media keeping critical stories from half the country.<\/p>\n<p>Carolla and longtime \u201cLoveline\u201d Partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/dr-drew-fake-news-press-enemy-people\/\">Dr. Drew Pinsky<\/a> The lack of truth in society was highlighted in the most recent edition of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9kY2FzdG9uZS5jb20vcG9kY2FzdD9jYXRlZ29yeUlEMj0zMTE\/episode\/NTI3YTVkNzctM2FhOS00MzIwLWJkYTMtNzU0NTljOWJjNGVk?hl=en&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjctYSix8L8AhUcAjQIHbxDCKYQieUEegQIWRAF&#038;ep=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Adam and Dr. Drew Show<\/a>.\u201d They also mentioned the Russian collusion hoax, and how Rep. Adam Schiff (the California Democrat) claimed it was true month after month, year after decade, despite having more intelligence than the average citizen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How\u2019s that Trump impeachment evidence coming along? Oh\u2026what\u2019s that? What? You&#8217;ve never had any? Exactly, so please keep talking, it\u2019s all you\u2019ve ever had, and it\u2019s beneath cheap, it\u2019s pathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OYFUkCj6gW\">https:\/\/t.co\/OYFUkCj6gW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian O\u2019Shea (@BrianOSheaSPI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianOSheaSPI\/status\/1611854599358488619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDid he actually think Trump was a catspaw for the Kremlin?\u201d Carolla asked. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to think that, given the information that he had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Rob Reiner believed it,\u201d Dr. Pinsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u201dRob Reiner is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/useful%20idiot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">useful idiot<\/a>,\u201d Carolla said of the legendary director. \u201cYou see him interviewed on [\u2018Real Time with Bill Maher\u2019]. He watches CNN all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cuseful idiot,\u201d according to Merriam-Webster, is, \u201ca naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/celebrities-president-trump-broke-2017\/\">RELATED: THESE STARS WERE BROKEN BY TRUMP (UPDATED)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The duo then cued up the Reiner\/Maher clip in question, noting how many lies Reiner spews in just a short span. The director claimed President Trump personally led an armed insurrection on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wasn\u2019t at the Capitol, and his Tweets that day called for peace. The rioters who caused chaos within the Capitol weren\u2019t armed with guns. Some used found objects in their clashes with the police, deplorable behavior in no uncertain terms.<\/p>\n<p>Except they\u2019re not lies to Reiner. It\u2019s misinformation he learned from hard-Left news sources like CNN and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You\u2019re a pathological liar and gaslighter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RBReich<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdoiA41Gul\">https:\/\/t.co\/gdoiA41Gul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QR811bJvQp\">pic.twitter.com\/QR811bJvQp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thevivafrei\/status\/1611430328073347073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The clip also featured Maher quizzing his panel on the media hiding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, revealed by the New York Post, during the 2020 presidential campaign. The scandal may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11529381\/Hunter-Bidens-laptop-Voters-lacked-critical-information-2020-election-survey-shows.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shifted the election to President Donald Trump<\/a> had enough people heard about it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, both Big Tech and biased media outlets like NPR declared it Russian disinformation without investigating the report or showing evidence to bolster that claim. They eventually confirmed its accuracy, but by then all the presidential votes had been tallied.<\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Podcaster and pundit Sam Harris agreed with the stonewalling tactic. Anything that kept Trump from a second term was worth it, Harris argued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Sam Harris admits the censorship of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was a conspiracy to help Biden, and he stands by it<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u4C4f55lk7\">https:\/\/t.co\/u4C4f55lk7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corvette SCIF Poso \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1560292557896171520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Was it, Maher asked panelist Reiner, the director behind \u201cMisery,\u201d \u201cThe Princess Bride\u201d and \u201cStand By Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At first, Reiner said he wasn\u2019t aware that the media hid the story. Later, he claimed he knew that reporters did just that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which is it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [Rob Reiner] is a talented guy, but he\u2019s a dope. And the reason he\u2019s a dope is because he\u2019s forced it on himself,\u201d Carolla said, noting how Reiner likely restricts his news access to MSNBC-like outlets with one news narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve made yourself a dope by taking the spoon fed s*** that you\u2019re only getting from the White House and CNN,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that Rob Reiner doesn\u2019t have the intellectual firepower to be able to do this, he\u2019s forced himself into being a dope by only getting information from one side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher, by contrast, is as liberal as Reiner but he consumes a variety of news sources. Dr. Pinsky said he talked about that tactic with Maher months earlier, and he found the HBO host eager for more sides of any given news story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s how doctors were once told to conduct themselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seek out information<\/li>\n<li>Question the narrative<\/li>\n<li>Be curious about material that confirms your biases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018We were taught to look for the truth,\u201d Dr. Pinsky said. \u201cThat\u2019s just gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, once you have Trump Derangement, it\u2019s gone,\u201d Carolla said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"swp_social_panel swp_horizontal_panel swp_flat_fresh  swp_default_full_color swp_other_full_color swp_individual_full_color scale-100 scale-full_width\" data-min-width=\"1100\" data-float-color=\"#ffffff\" data-float=\"bottom\" data-float-mobile=\"bottom\" data-transition=\"slide\" data-post-id=\"2035351\">\n<p><span class=\"swp_count\">156 <span class=\"swp_label\">Shares<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>156 Shares Adam Carolla I had so much fun watching an August clip \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d He played it again last week, as he did last year. Why? This little snippet speaks volumes about America in the new Year, divided by a media keeping critical stories from half the country. Carolla and longtime &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[14739,5156,5458,12464,14738,14741,3819,14740],"class_list":["post-1804720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-useful","tag-adam","tag-bongino","tag-carolla","tag-idiot","tag-reiner","tag-report","tag-rob"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}