David Pakman

In previous years, I was gradually taking on viewing YouTube-uploaded talk programs suited for progressives and progressive politics. (I still do that—but not so much nowadays.)

I tuned in The Young Turks. And then, as one who used to watch more regularly Free Speech TV, I tuned in both The Thom Hartmann Show and The David Pakman Show.

Well, in recent times, I have been tuning out the ones no longer worthy of my time and/or no longer worthy of my general trust.

I tuned out when I sensed there may be a selling out. Well, I wasn’t that cynical to immediately consider it a sellout. But, after the DNC’s rigging of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, I tuned out those who said they would, or we voters should, vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election.

I tuned out Cenk Uygur and The Young Turks.

I tuned out Thom Hartmann and The Thom Hartmann Show.

And I tuned out David Pakman and The David Pakman Show.

It became most obvious to me, not so much with Uygur and Hartmann (who I don’t think of so much as a sell-out but is a, bottom line, Democratic Party Loyalist), that the most immediate sellout who I had been following was Pakman.

The following video is David Pakman’s smear job on 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

After that video, uploaded to YouTube on August 8, 2016, Pakman was taken to task. I tuned out his program. His sidekick, Louis Motamedi, left the show shortly afterward. (It may have been coincidental. I didn’t get myself so involved that I could say one thing or another. But, the timing was interesting. According to Wikipedia, Motamedi’s then-upcoming departure from the program was announced August 15, 2016.) And, after this, I tuned out Pakman.

I feel the loss of my trust in Pakman, and his program, was verified—beyond what I had anticipated—by Hard Bastard. Although his politics are more on the right, I have included Hard Bastard in my “Recommendations” because he contributes a lot that is good for me to follow. I appreciate Hard Bastard’s videos—and he has a number of them—on a propagandizing David Pakman, on his David Pakman Show, and one can find a number of those videos here: Hard Bastard — David Pakman.



Here is one of those videos:

I created this blog entry because, previous to Election 2016, I had been a subscriber to The David Pakman Show. Just last week, I received an e-mail offering a special rate if I was to return with once again subscribing to The David Pakman Show. I think my answer is obvious. While it may not come through here very clearly, I will leave a screen shot copy of that e-mail below.

Note: The next regular blog entry will be not next Monday but Tuesday [February 27, 2018]. There will be the weekend threads this Friday [February 23, 2018]. Posting comments are good seven [7] days from the date of a blog entry.