Tim Dillon is tough to pin down, politically talking.
He’s no progressive however he chafes at some conservative platforms. He’s not aghast about Trump 2.0 however doesn’t agree with the President’s aggressive, anti-illegal immigration measures.
The comedian sat down for a lengthy chat with CNN’s Elle Reeve this week. He delicately debunked a few of the reporter’s cussed narratives piece by piece.
The largest? Dillon and his podcast pals helped Donald Trump win re-election.
He didn’t scream or yell. Nor did he flip the dialog right into a “clown nostril on/off” affair. He spoke clearly and patiently, even when Reeve clung to her narratives like Kate Winslet staying afloat in 1997’s “Titanic.”
Within the course of, he mocked the far-Left information outlet to its face.
Dillon began by sharing why audiences not embrace Legacy Media shops as they as soon as did. He didn’t deliver up the intense bias or relentless Pretend Information assaults.
He selected a extra elegant strategy.
“The information has mentioned a variation of the identical factor for a really very long time,” Dillon started. “And folks are likely to get bored.” Sources like CNN and Fox Information “fell on reverse sides of the identical query,” he added.
He mentioned youthful Individuals grew up on-line and like digital information sources, not the “pretend, stilted company communicate of the normal legacy media.”
Ouch.
Later, Reeve pressed Dillon on the facility of the so-called “Dudebro” podcast universe, however he caught to his argument.
“I don’t know if it’s that comedians have gotten smarter or the media’s gotten dumber,” Dillon mentioned, lobbing the journalist’s query again at her. “The media has grow to be predictable and boring, and the Web has been an antidote to that.”
Different revelations from the long-form interview:
Dillon says his podcast bookers reached out to each Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Tim Walz to seem on his podcast, presumably earlier than Election Day.
Each declined the invitation.
Dillon additionally shut down the interviewer’s insinuation that he and his fellow podcasters (Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schulz) tipped the election in Trump’s favor by inviting the previous president and future Vice President J.D. Vance on their exhibits.
Dillon skewered the speaking level with restraint.
“It could be fairly troublesome to take a look at these podcasts … after working an extremely unpopular candidate who was launched very late within the race as a result of an aged man who couldn’t be the president who everybody was advised was functioning because the president for the previous 4 years,” he mentioned earlier than they have been interrupted by heavy winds exterior of their taping studio.
He pressed on.
“[Kamala Harris] was considerably unpopular and wasn’t a star in Democratic politics earlier than this in any respect, and her communication technique was fairly weak. Most individuals have admitted that. So to hold this defeat all on just a few podcasters and to say that they have been the issue, I simply don’t purchase the narratives,” he mentioned. “It’s an effective way to excuse working an unpopular candidate on a platform American individuals weren’t bought on.”
Reeve wouldn’t hand over her narrative. So Dillon saved setting her straight.
“The concept the facility that Theo Von has can be equal to the facility of the intelligence companies or these large Legacy Media establishments appears loopy,” Dillon mentioned.
