1418 Dr. Jason Johnson + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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My conversation with Dr Johnson begins at about 44 mins
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Dr. Jason Johnson is an associate professor of politics and journalism in the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University and author of the book Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell. He focuses on campaign politics, political communication, strategy and popular culture. He hosts a podcast on Slate called "A Word"
He is a political analyst for MSNBC, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio and The Grio. He has previously appeared on CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Current TV and CBS. His work has been featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and on ESPN. He has been quoted by The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Wallstreet Journal, Buzzfeed, The Hill newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Dr. Johnson is a University of Virginia alumnus and earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin, |
| 0:04.0 | and he was embarrassing. |
| 0:05.0 | I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, I was asking myself, when are you going to ask him for an autograph or for a selfie or something like that? |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, you've literally sold out at this press conference, our intelligence community, our justice system, |
| 0:20.0 | and worst of all, our country, |
| 0:22.3 | you're the president of the United States, you shouldn't do that. |
| 0:25.5 | And what's the matter with you? |
| 0:27.3 | I mean, whatever happened to the strong words or to the strength of Ronald Reagan when he stood |
| 0:32.2 | there at the Berlin Wall and he said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall? |
| 0:37.8 | What happened to all that? Oh, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. What happened to all that? |
| 0:40.9 | Oh, yeah. Come on, Arnie. You know what happened to all that. You know exactly what happened. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, here we are. Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. It is Monday. We're kicking off another week. I hope to see you at tonight's hangout for paid subscribers. I've got Dr. Jason Johnson joining me. Been a while since |
| 0:59.9 | Jason was on the show. We covered a lot, and it's a great conversation. If you want to jump to it, |
| 1:04.8 | you could skip to it right now. It starts about 44 minutes into today's show. But I've also |
| 1:09.4 | got your headlines and a massive clip show for you here on a Monday as a result of the big summit between Putin and Trump. |
| 1:19.8 | The big dick measuring contest. |
| 1:22.0 | And I think we know who won. |
| 1:24.5 | It was not our guy. |
| 1:26.4 | Yep, that's sad. |
| 1:27.4 | He's our guy that represents us and is getting |
| 1:31.6 | absolutely rolled by Putin over and over and over again. Friday was no exception, so I've got a lot |
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