Ep. 19: The Sad Downfall of Elizabeth Warren
The Michael Moore Podcast
Michael Moore
4.8 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Michael Moore shares his personal history with both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who both starred in 2009's "Capitalism: A Love Story." In very personal terms, he addresses the possible fracture within the progressive movement and why we must move past this in order to ensure the defeat of both Donald Trump and the rotten system that produced Trump.
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The Credibility Gap
Current Affairs
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/the-credibility-gap
Bernie in 1987: Lamenting that there aren’t more women in office and encouraging young girls to run:
https://twitter.com/pjayevans/status/1216826375744737280
Bernie in 1988: “In my view a woman could be elected president of the United States”
https://twitter.com/meaganmday/status/1216793548567113728
Bernie Sanders’s Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton
The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/bernie-sanderss-hard-fight-for-hillary-clinton
Compilation of 40 campaign events Bernie Sanders did for Hillary Clinton in 2016:
https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1147606198050574337
Compilation of 12 rallies and 3 fundraisers Hillary Clinton did for Barack Obama in 2008:
https://twitter.com/ThomasIsOnline/status/1147614729491353603
Exit polling after the 2008 campaign showed that 15 percent of Clinton-supporting Democrats in the primary voted for John McCain in the general election over Barack Obama:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081108082743/http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/exit.polls/
According to data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, only 12 percent of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for Trump in the general election:
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| 0:00.0 | This is Michael Moore and this is Rumble. |
| 0:14.6 | This is going to be a difficult podcast for me to record. |
| 0:19.6 | It's been a difficult couple of days. |
| 0:23.5 | We began at 117 PM on Monday when CNN.com published a story saying that there were people |
| 0:34.8 | in the Elizabeth Warren campaign knew about a meeting and a conversation that Elizabeth |
| 0:42.3 | had had with Bernie Sanders at the end of 2018. |
| 0:45.8 | It was a private meeting and nobody was in the room besides Bernie and Elizabeth. |
| 0:53.1 | And what they told CNN was that Bernie told Elizabeth that he didn't believe a woman |
| 1:02.1 | could win the presidency in 2020. |
| 1:05.4 | And they ran with that story without any backup or agreement or denial from the Warren |
| 1:11.1 | campaign, nothing from the Sanders campaign. |
| 1:15.4 | It was shocking. |
| 1:16.4 | It was a shocking thing to read. |
| 1:17.4 | It was shocking because for me, I know both of these people. |
| 1:22.3 | Elizabeth has, I filmed her for two of my movies. |
| 1:26.9 | I filmed her for Sikho and for Capitalism and Love Story. |
| 1:30.8 | I have known her or known of her since 2004, 2005. |
| 1:36.3 | We first filmed her in 2006 at Harvard and have looked to her, especially during the first |
| 1:47.0 | decade, as kind of an intellectual, spiritual guru of all the things that are wrong with |
| 1:54.1 | Capitalism and income inequality in this country. |
| 1:58.2 | Capitalism and Love Story came out in 2009 and we put out this idea out there about the |
| 2:03.7 | 1% and the 99%. |
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