Tim Dillon Agrees To Interview With CNN And It Went Exactly How You Expect

The latest leftist struggle session has arrived with a glorious thud.

Elle Reeve of CNN sat down with comedian Tim Dillon for a little over an hour of unintentional comedy gold. Reeve starts off strong by informing Dillon she’s been “researching comedy” – a surefire sign of a great wit. As becomes apparent within the first minute or so of conversation, Reeve isn’t prepared with a series of questions so much as a series of answers she’d like to elicit from Dillon. 

“Is it a particular kind of comedy?” She asks about the comedic stylings of Joe Rogan’s comedy club. “Like, is it anti-woke?” Reeve persists in demonstrating her authentic confusion as to how jokes work. To his credit, Dillon attempts several patient explanations of the concept. 

“There’s a comedian who lives near me and he has this joke about how he walks all around New York, and he sees all these flags from all these different countries, but he never sees the American flag,” Reeve tells Dillon, throwing in a patriotic swing of the arm for good measure. “Well, we live near each other and I know he’s talking about this little Caribbean grocery store that’s got a little plastic streamer of Caribbean flags and … it feels a little phony to me … it feels like he’s trying to appeal to a certain audience. I’m not accusing you of that, by the way.” 

“I’ve never been to that Caribbean grocery store, I don’t live in your neighborhood,” Dillon informs the interviewer. All rhetoric is oriented towards a specific audience. If Reeve is deluded enough to believe she and her colleagues at CNN are exempt from this fact, it is because she approaches politics with the fervor of a true believer. There is no liberal media. There is only the truth and the right-wing corruption of the truth. 

Reeve takes another stab at her hypothesis: “Do you feel like you’re part of a new establishment that’s being created?” Unfortunately for our intrepid journalist, Dillon does not play along. 

“I don’t think I’m part of a new establishment … I know it’s a popular thing right now, especially in certain media circles to say that, after running an incredibly unpopular candidate who was introduced very late in the race because an elderly man who could not be the president … So to hang this defeat all on a few podcasts and to say that they were the problem…I just don’t buy the narrative,” Dillon responded. Indeed, it’s a fantastical hypothesis, but one the legacy media clings to nonetheless. 

“If you weigh again a few comedians with podcasts verse all the people that supported Kamala Harris, you know, Democrat donors, billionaires, big people, if the idea is that me and a few comedians have more power than multi billionaires, huge media institutions, a whole political party apparatus, I just don’t think most people are going to buy that. I think it seems like a great way to excuse running an unpopular candidate on a platform that American people weren’t sold on.”

Kudos to CNN for airing the entire interview. The true ineptitude of the CNN brain trust, sans editing, is a sight to behold. If only there was a way to play Reeve’s portion of the interview at double speed. Not that I’d dare fast forward through a second of her insights, but because she speaks with all the vitality of a patient hooked up to a morphine drip.

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