>> Recently, we applied to get press passes
to the RNC and DNC, as we do every four years.
The Young Turks has been going since 2004.
Some of our most interesting interviews, including
with Grover Norquist, and Joe Crowley before
he was defeated, and I can go on and on, have
happened at these conventions.
The DNC, this time around, denied us a press
pass.
Now, on the one hand, if we're keeping it
real, I get it, coronavirus stays and the
numbers are limited.
So they want to limit the press.
And if you only heard that excuse, you'd think
well, I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously they're
gonna give it to the CNNs of the world.
That's it.
No, actually they pass it off to the Congressional
Press Gallery and they're saying, I got nothing
to do with it man.
It's just people who are approved for that.
But wait a minute, the people who are approved
for that, number one, are a range of folks
including very, very conservative news outlets,
Fox News, obviously, but also folks like the
Daily Caller started by Tucker Carlson.
So now do you think the RNC is just gonna
say hey, you know what?
Why don't we let a bunch of progressive outlets
cover this, but not right wing outlets?
The RNC would never do that, right?
But the DNC is like sure, yeah.
Tucker Carlson both your old website and your
current show, everybody come.
Right wingers, come, come, come, come, come.
But the largest progressive news outlet, no,
thank you.
So I'm gonna give you context on that in a
second.
But first, I was heartened by the reaction
online, which is not a sentence often spoken.
But Brent Welder who is a former Democratic
candidate, and who is a really important part
of the Rules Committee who was fantastic in
fighting back on this.
Nomiki Konst and so many others chimed in
here.
But Brent had these tweets he said, how phenomenally
stupid of the Joe Biden campaign and the DNC
to deny convention press credentials to the
Young Turks, so, so stupid.
And he followed up by saying, but I'm sure
Fox News will get all the passes it wants.
And of course, that is true and they will
get those passes.
So now you say, look, I don't know if we can
let every progressive Tom, Dick and Harry
in.
First of all, the Republicans being in people
like Diamond and Silk, who have three followers
and are totally made up.
So they will let anyone in.
They'll let lunatic people in.
And now on our side, we are a very established
progressive news outlets, and the DNC is like,
what are those?
I wouldn't know a progressive if it ever hit
me across the face.
By the way, it did, Cori Bush hit you across
the face earlier about a week ago.
Okay, so you're gonna get to know us real,
real soon, Jaamal Bowman and many others.
Anyways, but we're not every Tom or Dick or
Harry.
Now look, there's a lot of different metrics.
There's television, there's your own websites,
etc.
But a giant, giant metric is how you do on
social media.
And that's the future, that's the present,
etc.
So I want to show you something that you might
not see all the time.
And no one in Washington has apparently ever
heard of digital media.
I mean, Jesus Christ it's the year 2020.
So how do we stack up against the big boys?
I mean, are we a fringe little outlet?
I don't know maybe in a couple of years you
guys will get a press pass or no, let me show
you the rankings.
Hey, look at that.
TYT with 552 million views.
Now wait a minute, is that our count?
No, that's Tubular rankings.
Is that over the last year?
No, that's just June.
That's half a billion views.
But how do we do against the other guys?
Fox News, not bad.
Almost kept up with TYT. 507 million views,
CNN 416 million views, MSNBC so sad, 228 million
views, not even half of the views of TYT.
Could you imagine if the DNC said no, we're
not letting a small little outlets like MSNBC
in.
Now, no, of course not.
They're filled to the brim with ex-Republicans
and very, very, very conservative Democrats.
So they're like MSNBC, come on in, red carpet.
Young Turks, you're larger than all of them
online.
Nope, I don't know what you're talking about,
nope.
So for God's sake, man, gets some sense.
If you're trying to reach out to progressives,
I literally cannot imagine a worse way of
doing this.
And the reality is, of course, they're not
reaching out to progressives.
And the establishment Democrats, including
the people who control the party, still either
have disdain or loathing for all of us.
And this is one of the many ways that they
showed.
Look, we were gonna do a petition to get you
guys to demand that we, but there's only a
week left.
It's next week, so it's too late.
And they're down to basically a virtual convention
at this point, anyway.
But it is the principle of the matter, guys.
And how they treat progresses both politically
and in media.
It shows you their disdain for all of us and
it's unbearable.
But like I said, look, I'm overall incredibly
encouraged because whether they like us or
not, we're here.
So if you thought squad 1.0 was a good, wait
to get a load of Cori Bush and Jaamal Bowman,
let alone Murray Newman, let alone Monderick
Jones, let alone so many other progressives
coming to Congress.
So DNC might not like it, but we're coming
for them, one way
or another.
