"Vote for Biden, but Don't Lie About Who He Really Is"

By Michael Moore and Cornel West, Rumble Podcast

21 April 20

Dr. Cornel West is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. In the wake of Bernie Sanders' exit from the Presidential race, and in the midst of the global pandemic, he joins Michael to discuss choosing sides between milquetoast neoliberals and vicious neofascists, Ludwin von Beethoven, Jim Clyburn and wrestling with despair. [The following is an excerpt of the interview]

ello Everybody this is Rumble and I'm Michael Moore. Thank you for tuning into my podcast today. This is episode 70. 70 episodes since we began on December 17th, four months ago. So, thank you to all of you who have been with me from the beginning and to those of you who have just joined me, wellcome. We hit our eight-millionth listener, eight-millionth download this past weekend. Eight-million! In less than for months. Amazing. Thank you.

I have with me a very special guest, one of the great thinkers in this country and certainly one of the great activists for decades. Someone who has led many fights for all the good people, for all the good causes. He is a voice for many, many people. He is a professor of public philosophy at Harvard University. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton. Uh, that's a lot of ivy going on there. If you ever met him or seen him, ivy is not what runs through his veins. He has so much compassion and love, and fight in him for all the rest of us. I'm grateful to have him on my show. I'm going to ring him up on the phone. That is how we're going to have to do this today in the pandemic era of podcasts. [...]

Cornel West: You know the last time I was in Flint and I introduced myself I said I'm in the city of Dee Dee Bridgwater and Betty Carter. They are so much a part of me but I got some Michael Moore inside of me too. That's right on the tape. So I wanted to talk about Bernie coming out of the Jewish sections of Brooklyn and all of the wonderful ways in which he exemplifies so much of the best of that secular Jewish tradition. You know, my dear brother and uh, he's a human being so we criticize him and make him accountable like everybody else. But at the same time if you're honest about the deep love and respect that one has and I have for him and I have for you, and I have for others as well.

Michael Moore: No, thank you for that. That was so kind and generous of you to say that. And thank you for going to Flint by the way and mentioning those two great singers that are also from Flint. Cornell, Seriously ... we're in some deep shit.

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