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Video]"How Oil Propaganda Sneaks into TV Shows," by Climate Town. Love the folks at Climate Town in general, and this episode really ties into what we're talking about above because it traces an unhinged anti-renewables rant in the show "Landman" back to the director's appearance on...what else? Joe Rogan's podcast.

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Please Don’t Watch This Senate Hearing

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Episode Credits

Creator/Host: Rollie Williams

Writers: Rollie Williams & Matt Nelsen

Director: Matt Nelsen

Editors: Rollie Williams & Paul Ramsdell

Executive Producers: Rollie Williams, Matt Nelsen & Daniella Philipson

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8:568 minutes, 56 secondsfellowship at Harvard. The dude is not [ ] around, okay? He is an expert in climate disinformation and he has dedicated his career [music] to

9:049 minutes, 4 secondsinvestigating the impact of big oil on the public's understanding of climate change. From the late 1980s onwards, oil companies and their trade associations

9:129 minutes, 12 secondsabetted by front groups as well as PR consulting and law firms have waged a multi-deade multi-billion dollar campaign of disinformation, lobbying,

9:209 minutes, 20 secondspropaganda, and the colonization of academia to sabotage science, scare and confuse the public and politicians, and undermine climate and clean energy

9:289 minutes, 28 secondspolicies. As a scholar of disinformation, I do not use the word lie lightly, but no other word adequately describes the oil industry's

9:359 minutes, 35 secondsbrazen efforts to mislead the public about its history of misleading the public.

9:399 minutes, 39 secondsBut when it was Kennedy's turn to ask Supran about his testimony, instead of talking about any of that, he hit Supan with this.

9:479 minutes, 47 secondsUh, Dr. Supin on December 14th, 2023, you you tweeted in support of climate defiance.

9:599 minutes, 59 secondsThat's an entity that uh the Brookings in Institute uh has called a radical climate change group. Is that correct?

10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsUh I don't recall, I'm afraid.

10:0910 minutes, 9 secondsOkay. Would this be the same climate defiance that you I'm looking at your tweet. You you uh tweeted in

10:1710 minutes, 17 secondssupport of them. Would this be the same climate uh defiance that called uh

10:2410 minutes, 24 secondsSenator Joe Biden quote a sick [ ] I don't know. But as I would this be the same climate defiance

10:3310 minutes, 33 secondsthat calls Senator Lisa Marowski a murderer?

10:3710 minutes, 37 secondsI do not know. As I said in my statement, would this be the same climate defiance who who told the CEO of Exxon Exxon to quote, "Eat [ ] Darren." Close quote.

10:5010 minutes, 50 secondsOkay, remember this is a hearing on oil and gas company malfeasants and Senator Kennedy has printed out Dr. Supran's

10:5810 minutes, 58 secondsTwitter feed to insinuate [music] that Supran is some kind of radical climate activist. And just to say it, climate

11:0511 minutes, 5 secondsdefiance is not some kind of eotterrorist group blowing up bridges. They're these guys.

11:1111 minutes, 11 secondsI am Andrew Cuomo. Okay, I am the real Andrew Cuomo. If you are an oil exec, I

11:1911 minutes, 19 secondswill support you no matter what. I do not take no for an answer ever.

11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsAnd also, Dr. Supernan's not part of the group. He retweeted one climate defiance tweet one time. Dr. Supan is a

11:3311 minutes, 33 secondsresearcher who studies big oil. Yet Kennedy's entire line of questioning is him reading climate defiance tweets at

11:4111 minutes, 41 secondsSupan, a man who has never seen some of those tweets before in an attempt to paint Supran as some kind of climate scop.

11:4811 minutes, 48 secondsI'm not responsible for the statements of other people. And I also do not know the answer. That is not my tweet, sir.

11:5311 minutes, 53 secondsAnd Kennedy does this until his time expires. Not a single question about the thing we're here to talk about. Superan

12:0112 minutes, 1 secondtries to clarify that this was a retweet and then we get this little final moment. I did not say that I don't support this.

12:0712 minutes, 7 secondsI simply did not tweet it which as you alleged but you retweeted.

12:1012 minutes, 10 secondsI'd like to make very clear that this form of characteristation is characteristic of the propaganda techniques. You retweeted Senator Mkeley. Thank you.

12:1812 minutes, 18 secondsAre you going to call me a sick [ ] It's Senator Mkeley's time.

12:2212 minutes, 22 secondsAre you going to call me a sick [ ] Are you going to call me a sick [ ] Are you going to call me a sick [ ]

12:3012 minutes, 30 secondsInteresting. Interesting. Now, at first glance, it might seem like a 72-year-old man shouting, "Are you gonna call me a

12:3812 minutes, 38 secondssick fuck?" at a witness on the floor of the Senate might seem a little stupid.

12:4312 minutes, 43 secondsBut in order to understand just how devious this little outburst actually was, we've got to learn a little bit more about John Kennedy. And the first

12:5112 minutes, 51 secondsthing we'll notice is that you don't have to dig to find this clip. You can actually watch it over on Senator Kennedy's YouTube channel where his team

12:5912 minutes, 59 secondsclips out his wackiest Senate takedowns and puts them all online. You tweeted, "Both Texas and Louisiana have their

13:0713 minutes, 7 secondsknives out for black immigrants." Guessing the context, but my suspicion is that it has to do the attorney general Ken Paxton and the attorney

13:1513 minutes, 15 secondsgeneral of You don't [music] have a name, do you? I I just said Ken Paxton.

13:1913 minutes, 19 secondsYou don't have a name, do you? You just said it. You need to stop dipping into your ketamine stash. I want to read you one of your tweets. Gag me with a spoon.

13:2813 minutes, 28 secondsDo you think Senators [music] Yellow Brand is a crook?

13:3113 minutes, 31 secondsNo. And I do not think all politicians are crooks. And why did you call her a crook?

13:3613 minutes, 36 secondsI did not call her a crook. Now, Senator, you need to focus on bill.

13:4213 minutes, 42 secondsYou're doing this again. You did it the last year. You're a whack job.

13:4613 minutes, 46 secondsSenator, what planet did you just parachute?

13:4813 minutes, 48 secondsNo. No. No. Hey guys, you you you [music] trigger my gag reflex, Mr. Be.

13:5613 minutes, 56 secondsWe got a process here. And it's good to know you don't have an agenda.

14:0114 minutes, 1 secondYep. Reading tweets at Soup Brand was not Kennedy's first rodeo. It's actually one of his favorite ways to clip farm for subscribers and followers. He'll dig

14:0914 minutes, 9 secondsup some old tweets and no matter how irrelevant to the task at hand, he'll hit you with some gotcha questions and post the results for views. And if his 5

14:1814 minutes, 18 secondsmillion followers across his social media platforms are any indication, I'd say he's pretty [ ] successful at it. But Kennedy isn't just some dude

14:2614 minutes, 26 secondsstanding outside a bar trying to trick drunk girls into saying something embarrassing. Congressional witnesses [music] are under oath, which Kennedy

14:3414 minutes, 34 secondsvery well knows. That means he can hit them with a retweet from years ago. On June 8th, 2020,

14:4014 minutes, 40 secondsyou tweeted, "The war on drugs was intentionally created to incarcerate black people on mouse." I don't remember typing that.

14:5114 minutes, 51 secondsYou don't?

14:5214 minutes, 52 secondsNo, it's on your Twitter feed. Maybe a retweet. I don't.

14:5614 minutes, 56 secondsAnd if they can't remember it or if they get something wrong, that could constitute lying to Congress, which is not only frowned upon, it's a felony.

15:0315 minutes, 3 secondsNow, obviously, if you're in the administration, it's totally fine. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. I believe you just lied under oath.

15:1215 minutes, 12 secondsThere is ample evidence in the Epstein. Don't you ever accuse me of a crime.

15:1715 minutes, 17 secondsThat's right. Swing for the fences. No wrong answers. But Kennedy is doing this to regular people who almost immediately start questioning everything about their

15:2615 minutes, 26 secondslives because I don't know, maybe I did tweet that and I don't want to go to prison. So, they almost automatically appear confused or shady or weird. And

15:3415 minutes, 34 secondslo and behold, Senator Kennedy's social media team has something new to post for the engagement. Mix in a couple of Kennedy's famous oneliners that he's always coming up with. They're so good.

15:4415 minutes, 44 secondsHe's nervous as a pregnant nun. And you've got yourself a viral moment.

15:4915 minutes, 49 secondsAnd you don't have to take my word for it. Take it away, possessed American Girl doll from the Forbes YouTube channel.

15:5515 minutes, 55 secondsAs many viewers on this channel know, Louisiana's Senator John Kennedy often is caused for viral moments and highly viewed videos. The often humorous

16:0316 minutes, 3 secondsRepublican who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee has boasted multiple moments that have exceeded half million views on this channel.

16:1016 minutes, 10 secondsNow, that's the kind of hard-hitting journalism you can always expect from Forbes.com. But the more I looked into Kennedy's often humorous oneliners, the

16:1816 minutes, 18 secondsmore I realized that a lot of his jokes were actually just other people's jokes that he had memorized and then regurgitated. Like this one.

16:2616 minutes, 26 secondsI don't eat kale. You know why? Because tail tastes to me like I'd rather be fat. [laughter]

16:3516 minutes, 35 secondsNice. I love that joke. I also loved it four years before that when this dude tweeted it. And I also loved it 10 years

16:4216 minutes, 42 secondsago when it was already so old it was a fridge magnet joke. But don't worry, there's more.

16:4916 minutes, 49 secondsI think she's the reason there are [music] directions on a shampoo bottle.

16:5416 minutes, 54 seconds[laughter]

16:5516 minutes, 55 secondsAnd unless you're the reason that your parents drank, you see that it was a big victory.

17:0117 minutes, 1 secondMy mama did not raise a fool. And if she did, it was one of my brothers.

17:0617 minutes, 6 seconds[laughter]

17:0717 minutes, 7 secondsThe brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother's womb. And it

17:1417 minutes, 14 secondsdoesn't stop working until you get elected to Congress.

17:2017 minutes, 20 secondsYep. I mean, that one's a meme. That one's from a t-shirt. That's a bumper sticker joke. And that one's from a famous American poet [music] who died

17:2717 minutes, 27 secondsmore than 60 years ago. I also took a look at Kennedy's best-selling book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why

17:3417 minutes, 34 secondsWashington Never Will. I mean, the title's hysterical. The title's just fantastic.

17:3817 minutes, 38 secondsHow to test negative for stupid for stupid.

17:4317 minutes, 43 secondsYou just can't stop this guy. And in the first two pages, there are nine jokes, which is a pretty great ratio until you

17:5117 minutes, 51 secondsrealize that every single one was lifted from somebody else. And I'm not joking, it's every single one. Most notably, for

18:0018 minutesas long as I can remember, one thing has been true about me. I have the right to remain silent, but not the ability.

18:0718 minutes, 7 secondsAnd that's pretty good. But if it sounds familiar, here's comedian Ron White from the BlueCollar Comedy Tour. I had the

18:1418 minutes, 14 secondsright to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability.

18:2018 minutes, 20 secondsKennedy probably would have titled his book that if Ron White hadn't already done it 20 years ago. Seemed to be a

18:2918 minutes, 29 secondspattern. And the more we looked into it, the more it seemed like Kennedy was just kind of memorizing southern sounding jokes so we could drop them into his

18:3818 minutes, 38 secondsspeeches to sound more folksy. But I mean, he is folksy, right? I mean, there aren't people out here who think he's maybe faking his accent, are there?

18:4818 minutes, 48 secondsWell, let me play you a couple of clips. Here's what he sounds like today. I will [music] not let you down.

18:5618 minutes, 56 secondsI'd rather drink weed killer.

18:5718 minutes, 57 secondsAnd here's a clip from when he was Louisiana State Treasurer.

19:0119 minutes, 1 secondWell, we have another program here at Treasury that we're very proud of that we think can help a lot of Louisianans.

19:0719 minutes, 7 secondsWhoa, different. And now, if you listen to this clip from 2004 when John Kennedy was running for Senate, you might notice another thing that's changed.

19:1519 minutes, 15 secondsI'm very proud of my record on civil rights. I have appointed women and minorities to positions of authority.

19:2119 minutes, 21 secondsYeah. In 2004, Kennedy was running as a Democrat, which might explain why he said things like, "I will not support

19:2819 minutes, 28 secondstax cuts for the top 1% of Americans, and I want an America in Louisiana whose citizens understand that everybody

19:3519 minutes, 35 secondscounts and I'm [music] a Democrat." And Kennedy lost that election in a landslide to a Republican. But don't you worry, folks, because Kennedy just

19:4419 minutes, 44 secondsswitched parties a few years later. So when Trump won Louisiana by 20 points in 2016, Kennedy suddenly had a really good election strategy.

19:5319 minutes, 53 secondsI believe in more freedom. My opponent in this race believes in more free stuff and he wants you to pay for it. And I

20:0220 minutes, 2 secondswant you to extend a warm down home Louisiana welcome to my president-elect

20:1020 minutes, 10 secondsDonald J. Trump. [cheering] Awesome. And according to a mass communication professor from Louisiana

20:1920 minutes, 19 secondsState University, before he got to the Senate, Kennedy never pretended to be a hick. After he [music] got to the Senate and realized that Fox News and its

20:2620 minutes, 26 secondsviewers enjoyed his shtick, he went all in on this new persona. You can write that down and take it home [music] to mama.

20:3320 minutes, 33 secondsNow, maybe he really does have a natural fogghorn leg horn accent.

20:3820 minutes, 38 secondsWhose response? I say, who's responsible for this unwarranted attack on my person?

20:4320 minutes, 43 secondsMaybe. But it's just very hard for me to reconcile this whole like I'm a regular guy just like you angle with the fact

20:5120 minutes, 51 secondsthat he is a very wealthy Oxford educated lawyer with a meandery accent who has found incredible success

20:5920 minutes, 59 secondsadopting the Republican party and pandering to a conservative audience with regurgitated bumper sticker jokes and gotcha questions under oath. So,

21:0821 minutes, 8 secondsallow me to present an alternate hypothesis for why Senator John Kennedy is shouting, "Are you going to call me a sick fuck?" at an expert in climate

21:1621 minutes, 16 secondsdisinformation rather than engaging with the actual material. [music] I mean, it's a great way to get clicks, but even more than that, it's a great way to

21:2421 minutes, 24 secondsdiscredit Dr. Supran. I mean, if he's some kind of radical communist, well, we can't very well listen to what he has to

21:3221 minutes, 32 secondssay about big oil. I mean, he's got an agenda. But while we're, you know, talking about agendas, John Kennedy is

21:3921 minutes, 39 secondsnot just a random senator. He's the senator for the great state of Louisiana, which has historically been a massive oil and gas state.

21:4821 minutes, 48 secondsIf Louisiana was a country, we'd be number one in the world in LG exports.

21:5321 minutes, 53 secondsNow, that is a real accent. Not saying Kennedy's isn't. I'm saying that one definitely is. Also, according to Open

22:0122 minutes, 1 secondSecrets, oil and gas companies contributed $1.7 million to Senator Kennedy, putting him in the top 20 for senators over the past three decades.

22:1122 minutes, 11 secondsEven former Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy called Senator Kennedy out by name as someone they knew they could work with in Congress.

22:1822 minutes, 18 seconds2022 class is focused on reelection. So, I know I have them. Those are the Marco Rubios. Those are the Senator Kennedys.

22:2522 minutes, 25 secondsYou can have those conversations [music] with them because they're a captive audience. So, all that brings us back to this hearing. Of all the times Kennedy

22:3222 minutes, 32 secondspulled this exact same retweet surprise,

22:3422 minutes, 34 seconds[music]

22:3522 minutes, 35 secondswhy are we focusing on this time for the video? Well, it turns out that this hearing is actually pretty important.

22:4222 minutes, 42 secondsBecause a bunch of states are in the process of suing major oil players like Exxon, Chevron, Coke Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and more

22:5022 minutes, 50 secondsfor misleading the public on their role in climate change. And my god, you better believe they don't want that to happen. I mean, no company wants to get

22:5922 minutes, 59 secondssued, but in this case, even having any of those lawsuits go to trial could be catastrophic for big oil because those

23:0623 minutes, 6 secondstrials will involve something called discovery. Discovery is part of the pre-trial proceedings where both sides go out and gather up the evidence

23:1323 minutes, 13 secondsthey'll use during the trial. And for these particular lawsuits about whether big oil misled the public about climate change, discovery will probably involve

23:2223 minutes, 22 secondsdepositions with former employees who might not be able to talk because they're under NDAs. and also the court forcing oil companies to turn over a ton

23:3023 minutes, 30 secondsof internal documents. Now, you may remember when the United States Congress tried to get them to turn over documents and they pull this little move.

23:3923 minutes, 39 secondsNow, apparently that'll work in Congress. I mean, technically, you're not allowed to defy their orders, but they let you do a little defying if they

23:4623 minutes, 46 secondslike you. But when a US court subpoenas documents, you are legally compelled to comply. And that means actually legally

23:5423 minutes, 54 secondscompelled. This is basically what happened to the tobacco companies in the9s. A whole bunch of states sued the tobacco companies and Discovery forced

24:0124 minutes, 1 secondthem to turn over thousands of documents, including one from 1985 that showed that R.J. Reynolds destroyed records and suppressed research about

24:0924 minutes, 9 secondsthe toxic effects of smoking. The company initially fought to keep that document private under attorney client privilege until a Minnesota judge ruled

24:1824 minutes, 18 secondsagainst them. These cases led to big tobacco being held liable under a thing called the master settlement agreement.

24:2524 minutes, 25 secondsAnd as you can probably imagine, it was devastating to the tobacco [music] industry. And that might explain why if you look at Jeffrey Supran in this

24:3424 minutes, 34 secondshearing and then you look a little bit to his left, you see an empty chair. But then if you look even more to the left, you see a different much closer chair.

24:4224 minutes, 42 secondsBut a little more to the left. And what's that? A shoulder. Well, that shoulder belongs to this woman. Her name is Sharon Eubanks and she's the former

24:5024 minutes, 50 secondsdirector of the tobacco litigation team for the United States Department of Justice.

24:5524 minutes, 55 secondsBoth industries lied to the public and regulators about what they knew about the harms of their products and when they knew it. The deceptive advertising

25:0425 minutes, 4 secondsand the PR of the fossil fuel industry is now under intense legal scrutiny.

25:1025 minutes, 10 secondsMore than 1,800 lawsuits has been fi have been filed regarding climate liability worldwide. Many of these cases

25:1825 minutes, 18 secondsconcern the misleading fake science that the industry per purposefully distributed to the public for decades.

25:2625 minutes, 26 secondsBut luckily for big oil, the US government looks a little different these days. Don't you ever accuse me of a crime.

25:3325 minutes, 33 secondsAfter some lobbying from the oil companies, the Trump administration is actively trying to prevent these lawsuits from going forward. In early

25:4125 minutes, 41 secondsMay, the Trump DOJ filed its own lawsuit to stop a Minnesota case, which was on track to begin discovery after the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the suit.

25:4925 minutes, 49 secondsThat same Justice Department filed similar lawsuits in Hawaii and Michigan, also designed to stop these state level cases. [music] I think we actually have a clip of the Trump DOJ here.

25:5925 minutes, 59 secondsOh no.

26:0226 minutes, 2 secondsOh no. Oh, [ ] my life. And to top it all off, Republicans have now introduced federal legislation that would give big

26:1026 minutes, 10 secondsoil full legal immunity from any lawsuit and the discovery process that goes along with them. Here's the Senate

26:1826 minutes, 18 secondsversion introduced by stand-up comedian John Kennedy's number one fan, Ted Cruz, to prohibit liability against those

26:2526 minutes, 25 secondsengaged in the mining, extraction, production, refinement, transportation, distribution, marketing, manufacture, or

26:3226 minutes, 32 secondssale of energy for damages or injunctive or other relief from the use of their products and for other purposes. So,

26:3926 minutes, 39 secondshere we are with some lawmakers arguing, "Yeah, maybe we should give open-ended absolute immunity to the biggest oil companies in the world." Well, also we get this [music] in the Senate.

26:4826 minutes, 48 secondsAre you going to call me a sick [ ] So, what are we going to do about it?

26:5226 minutes, 52 secondsWell, this is mostly playing out in the courts and apparently the highest levels of government. But if you want to learn more about this and maybe even get involved, you can visit the website

27:0027 minutesnoimmunity forbigo oil.com where you can join the petition and a bunch of other stuff you can do to support [music] the cause. Check it out. Link in the description. And if you want to support

27:0927 minutes, 9 secondsSenator Kennedy, there are a ton of old t-shirts and knick-knacks with some of his best jokes on them. and you can buy them so they're part of your life,

27:1627 minutes, 16 seconds[music] too. I'm not going to tell you what to buy. There are truly too many options, but you can just Google what he says and usually find something for less

27:2427 minutes, 24 secondsthan [music] $10, like this mug from the time he said this.

27:2727 minutes, 27 secondsEven duct tape can't fix stupid. Um, and we can all look forward to the day when Kennedy or one of his staffers

27:3427 minutes, 34 secondsfinds this Reddit post [music] with one of my favorite old sayings, cuz I would love to hear Kennedy cover this. That

27:4227 minutes, 42 secondsskeer was so big it could stand flatfooted and [ ] a turkey. Now that, my friends, is one big mosquito. And

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