Ep. 292: Daniel Ellsberg, 1931-2023

The Michael Moore Podcast

Michael Moore

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mike’s friend and hero, Daniel Ellsberg, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He saved our country twice. He helped end America’s mass slaughter in Vietnam, and he helped bring down Nixon. He also inspired Mike — and millions — for decades.

This episode is Michael Moore’s tribute to the great Daniel Ellsberg, and includes Daniel's appearance on Rumble as Michael's first podcast guest in 2019.

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0:00.0	But I just say that we've got to keep our eye on the main ball.
0:05.4	The main ball's elsewhere.
0:07.4	We've got to get this son of a bitch.
0:09.4	And you know, I was talking to somebody over here yesterday on the one of our PR types
0:17.3	and they said, well, maybe we ought to crop the case that the Supreme Court doesn't just
0:21.3	sustain it so forth.
0:22.3	And I said, hell, no.
0:23.3	I mean, you can't do that.
0:26.1	You can't be in a position of having, as I said, it's a big deal.
0:29.9	This morning, we can't be in a position of ever allowing it just because some guy's
0:37.2	going to be a martyr of allowing the following to get away with this kind of old sale fever
0:41.5	or your other wife's going to happen all over the government.
0:46.0	Welcome everyone.
0:47.9	This is Michael Moore on Friday, a good friend of mine passed away.
0:57.4	He was actually a friend of all of you too, even though most of you did not know him personally
1:06.4	through his actions in the second half of the 20th century.
1:13.5	He saved us, this country, perhaps the world, not once, but twice.
1:25.0	His name was Daniel Ellsberg.
1:27.9	He was 92 when he passed on Friday.
1:33.2	He singled handedly, did something to help bring the Vietnam War to an end.
1:42.4	And this action of his caused Nixon to break the law because Nixon wanted to stop him.
1:51.6	He wanted to jail him.
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