Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Jimmy Dore Unlocks Twisted New Level Of Stupidity" video.

  1. This isn't complicated. Jimmy Dore explained it recently in one of his Youtube shows: Jimmy wants the Youtube shows to sell tickets to his live performances. To do that, Dore wants the biggest audience possible. Like any good performer, he looks at the metrics of different shows. The shows where Dore gets angry, rants, and ignores facts contrary to his narrative get the biggest audience. So those are the shows he does. People who've been watching him for a long time see that he briefly tried to be "serious" and organize for "Force the Vote" and The People's Party, but that proved unpopular and doesn't sell tickets to his live performances. So he's largely abandoned that. Jimmy Dore is a businessman. He's in this to make money. He's making more money than he ever could have as just a standup comedian, where he was moderately successful at best. He never hit the "big time"--but now his Youtube channel has made him rich. Jimmy won't kill the goose that laid the golden egg and cross Youtube, despite his frequent complaints. Stop looking to a self-described "jagoff comedian in his garage" for insightful political analysis or leadership on any issues. That's not why Dore is here. He's here for himself. Just understand this is his business model, be entertained, and end it there. Dore does sometimes have interesting, thoughtful guests, such as Max Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald, but I noticed that such guests are becoming less and less frequent because, again, Dore doesn't get a lot of views for those "serious" programs. Rants = views and views = money. If you understand that Dore is an entertainer who wants to make money, and that politics is just a way to do that, then you understand him very well. By the way, I used to be a defender/supporter and found him funny. But Dore shifted and hasn't made a secret of why he did that. The worst part of it is that he's not even that funny; he's become increasingly an angry man who yells at the camera and has lost his comedic detachment. Where this will take him, I don't know. Certainly the American public have always rewarded mediocrity, and Dore has cast himself in this role. I think eventually his audience will dwindle but never entirely disappear. Dore has already sidelined himself and there's no coming back from the path he's taken. And so it goes.
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