Will the Media Ever Stand Up to Trump? (with Judd Apatow)

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Comedian and Hollywood director and producer Judd Apatow joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the U.S. media’s cozy relationship with politicians. Rather than defending Michelle Wolf as she ridiculed the brazen dishonesty of the President and his equally deceitful staff, journalists at the White House Correspondents Dinner threw her under the bus and stood for the people in the White House who abuse them every day instead. The U.S. media’s friendly relationship with politicians was bad enough under previous administrations, but it’s inexcusable under Donald Trump — a president who, according to James Comey’s memos, jokes in private about having reporters locked up and raped behind bars as a way of getting them to give up their confidential sources.

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0:00.0	If you watch the news, it's always funny how they don't want to say Donald Trump is a liar
0:06.2	They always find different words to use to describe him not telling the truth
0:17.5	I'm Mary Hussin. Welcome to deconstructed fake fraudulent dishonest disgusting corrupt sleazy scum slime liars
0:27.6	losers phonies
0:29.2	Bad people sick people enemies of the people the president of the United States
0:34.4	Attacks the members of the press on a near daily basis
0:38.4	publicly
0:39.6	viciously
0:40.8	Relentlessly so when a comedian turns up at the annual White House correspondence dinner and ridicules the brazen dishonesty of the president and of his equally deceitful press secretary
0:50.4	You might think journalists at that dinner would stick up for her get behind her defender
0:54.7	But no they threw Michelle wolf under the bus and stuck up for the people in the White House who abused them every day
1:01.1	instead
1:02.3	Now this is a show which is all about getting behind the headlined beyond the spin and the bullshit and this past week
1:09.1	The US media was filled with some seriously sanctimonious spin and BS and to help me deconstruct some of it
1:16.3	My guest today is comedian and Hollywood director and producer Judd Apatow of knocked up and the big sick fame
1:23.1	Who wrote some of president Obama's best anti-Trump jokes at the White House Corresponders dinner in 2011
1:29.6	He like me isn't happy about how certain members of the media behaved at last week's White House Corresponders dinner
1:35.3	You know what was the most important thing she said the most important thing she said is we're all making money off of this madness
1:41.6	And that is the weird part about it is Donald Trump is correct when he says your ratings go up because of me
1:47.0	So this week why is the US media so spineless? Why can't it stand up to the White House?
1:52.2	Why can't it stand up for the truth?
1:58.4	Derek Lewis says how had had certainly told me that the governor of Parkhurst should be suspended and a threatened to overrule me
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