Hi, this is Robert Scheer with the third edition of my Scheer Intelligence issue with Lee Camp, author of Bullet Points and Punch Lines, billed as The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy–put the emphasis on tragic “tragicomedy,” and I think they’ve got an accurate point to promote this book. You can also read the transcript of this episode below the credits. Listen to the rest of the bonus conversation between Camp and Scheer as they tackle questions about inequality and effective activism, as well as the 2020 general election, in the media player above. The “Redacted Tonight” host wants to focus on the people he calls “the titans of dickery,” in other words, the CEOs, politicians and others who hold disproportionate amounts of wealth and power in American society. Camp would rather talk about what the Bill Mahers of the world conveniently leave out of their jokes. He has no problem throwing a few punches at the cable news channel, but ultimately, he doesn’t see the point in repeating the same lines many other political comedians have built their careers on. That has not sunken in in the way that ‘Oh, Trump’s a dummy’ has sunk in.”Ĭamp adds that he feels similarly about Fox News. I do feel that even the people that watch my show, even the people–even my family, even the people I talk to as friends–they do need to hear about how corporations, corporate America, has taken over, has captured our political systems. I don’t feel that people need to be told what a moron Donald Trump is. “On top of that I feel like, although I will insult Trump here and there for being a buffoon and being a narcissistic, you know, megalomaniacal man-child,” the comedian continues, “I don’t feel that I need to really hit away at that all the time. And even if the Democrats may, you know, pay lip service here and there to caring about climate change, or caring about the environment, if they aren’t going to do anything about it, it doesn’t actually mean anything, what they’re saying. They largely agree on allowing the environmental destruction that is now, you know, destroying our world. “ are two corporate parties that agree on 80 to 90% of the structural issues–probably more like 90%–of the structural issues of this country,” Camp posits. But there is one man that the “Redacted Tonight” doesn’t see the point in harping on about, and that’s America’s latest president. In the first part of the episode, the comedian compared a former Goldman Sachs chairman to syphilis. The Amazon billionaire is hardly the only public figure in Camp’s crosshairs. That’s what made him the richest man in the world now.” It’s by forcing human beings to work until the breaking point. So where’s he going to become the fastest deliverer of products? Well, it’s by forcing human beings to go faster. “Bezos’s brilliant idea, the thing that made him as big as he is, was realizing that a company like Amazon can’t make the trucks drive faster on the highway, because of speed limits. “Bezos has shown again and again that he does not care for his workers,” the comedian continues. To get to the top of an industry, and then purchase and destroy any competitors. “I call America’s best sociopath,” says Camp, with a comedic flair that allows him to speak truth to power with a side of laughter, “because I think in order to do what he’s done, you kind of have to be a sociopath. One man in particular, Scheer notes, comes up in the comedian’s jokes and essays more than almost any other.

dbr:Alternative_media_(U.S.Listen to the first part of this conversation here.Īfter “Scheer Intelligence” host Robert Scheer and “Redacted Tonight” host Lee Camp talked at length about his latest book, “ Bullet Points and Punchlines,” the two talk about Camp’s sense of humor in a bonus segment.

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In July 2022 he started a new show, Most Censored News with Lee Camp with MintPress News.

As a television host he presented the show Redacted Tonight for several years on the network RT America until the network shut down in March 2022.

Lee Camp (born July 21, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, podcaster, news journalist and news commentator.

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