Name: What the Duke Lacrosse Case Says About Journalism
Uploaded: 2021-07-29T18:25:58.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What the Duke Lacrosse Case Says About Journalism' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What the Duke Lacrosse Case Says About Journalism' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-29. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. Yeah, I think one big point about what you're saying
about these
influential people too is they they benefit from strife. They benefit from
conflict. And so instead
of uniters like Martin Luther King Jr., you have the opposite. You have people
that literally
benefit from people being divided. They benefit from calling people out or
yelling people down
or, you know, getting conflict going. Like that gets them more views. I mean,
that's what's
going on with Facebook. That's what the algorithms that people are complaining
about that are literally
accelerating our path towards some sort of civil war. Yeah. Did you see the
social dilemma?
I did see the social dilemma. Scary shit, right? Scary shit. And I tell you
what I was watching
actually on the plane was this, do you remember the Duke lacrosse players? Yes.
Do you remember
that story? Yes. Explain it to people. Oh, dude, the Duke lacrosse players. So
the whole media
had kind of indicted these guys and they loaded this story with, you know,
class and race.
Explain the story. It was a bunch of lacrosse players. They had a party, right?
A bunch of
guys had a party at their house. Yeah, they're uppity white guys. They play lacrosse.
So it's like
nobody comes from the ghetto and plays lacrosse. So you know that they're
arrogant white guys
who probably, you know, their father may have like a third. They definitely
have a portrait in the
foyer of like, this is my uncle. His ties go back to England or whatever. Right.
So they're douches.
We get it. But they had a party and somebody hired some strippers and the strippers
that came
were like two POCs. They were POC. Yeah, POC. And one of them- A lot of people
listening are like, oh. POCs are people who historically disenfranchised a
little darker melanin tones.
People of color. People of color. People of color. Yes. Yes. And so they came,
they stripped. But the girl, they only stripped for like five minutes and the
girl was saying weird stuff. And then they got mad. The guys got mad because
they felt like they were getting conned, that they didn't get their life. And
then they got mad.
They felt like they were getting conned, that they didn't get their lap dance
worth or whatever, their dancing worth. And then something went awry. And then
the girl called the cops and said, I was assaulted. And then from there it
became a big story.
And it ended up that the prosecutor was withholding exculpatory evidence that
would have exonerated knowingly. I mean, he ended up getting disbarred and
doing time because of this. And you look back now and you're going like, that
guy was doing exactly what online personalities do now.
It's like, this is good for me. I'm in the spotlight. I'm this hero convicting
these douchebags. The media is attaching this big social justice cause to it.
There's this evidence that clearly my client is lying.
Let's just put it to the side because all the attention is on me. And this is
self-aggrandizing for me. So I'm benefit forming. I'll just lie.
And just, you know, there's some evidence that comes that, you know, contradicts
what I'm saying. Let's just, because right now I'm a star.
And so these kids were maligned by the media, all these journalists writing
this horrible stuff about these kids, the culture of the lacrosse players, the
privilege, the white privilege, this, that.
They did this to this poor black person, you know, and then it was loaded
because of Durham, because you got Duke and Duke is like the Harvard of the
South.
And then you got poor Durham and then it was all bullshit. It was all bullshit.
The DNA exonerated the three kids that were on trial and it ended up this, this
girl was like had some mental health problems.
She ended up like killing her boyfriend or something and is in prison like a
couple of years later. She was like off, you know, and some, a few journalists
apologized.
But by that time it was like, you know, now you go to comedy clubs, the joke
that comics tell the most, if they see a black five, like waspy looking white
guys, they're like, Hey, you guys look like the Duke lacrosse play, like that
you use it as a pejorative.
So it doesn't matter if it's true because the media made it true. So a lot of
people don't even know that they did nothing because the narrative had already
been written.
Right. That's the problem. That's the problem.
The problem is once the narrative gets out there, any, any, if there's some
sort of a correction in the newspaper, a couple of weeks later, it's always on
like the fourth page in the lower right hand corner.
Sorry. We have the amendment to the story. Yeah. Turns out nobody raped anybody.
Whoops. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry we ruined your life forever, but we sold a lot of
papers with that. So that, that isn't a real issue.
Here's a real question. Should you be able to make money off the news?
It's a good question, man. It's a good question because if you can make money
off the news, then all of a sudden the news becomes a show and the more
outrageous you can get it, the more clickbaity you can get it, the more you can
sort of jazz up the headlines and distort the story, the more you're going to
get people to tune in.
And if it bleeds, it leads. Yeah. Let's go. I remember when I was working for
fusion, which was like a short lived, uh, company under that was owned by
Disney and, um, Univision. It lasted like a year.
It was totally like, they tried to build a big studio in Miami and they were
trying to target millennials. But by that time, like everything was on the
phone. People were watching you. And it was like, there's just a waste of money.
But I remember one of their slogans was like, start a fight. And I was like, ah,
yeah, cause my co two, my two co hosts were journalists and it was run by
journalists.
And I was like the comedic guy that, you know, they, oh, they had me in a
corner and they opened it up and I came in. I was like, Ooh, ha to make people
laugh.
But, but I was working with like a Peabody award-winning journalist, uh, you
know, Mario, Mariana Atencio and Pedro, uh, Andrade, uh, Andrade. He's, uh,
they, he was, um, from Brazil and they were two serious journalists.
And, uh, you know, the, the, when they, the executive producer sat us down, I
was like, pick a fight, always look to pick a fight.
And I'm like, that sucks. That sucks. Yeah. That should be happening in MMA
with the matchmakers, not your news.
That's hard to hear. Yeah. Pick a fight. Pick a fight because it gets ratings.
People love the drama. They love it.
I mean, if you turned on a real reality TV show, it would just be like a couple
of guys sitting around, you know, picking their nose, changing channels.
But then if you make a reality, you're like, they tell you, that's not, that's
not reality. No line producers going, okay, call him the N word now.
Like, I don't want to call him the N word. Like, no, trust me. We'll figure out,
you know, and then we'll bleep it out. No one will know what you said.
Yeah. Then they let you, they, then they start with the N and lead with the R
and you're like, Hey, I bet you Puck was a really good guy.
I bet you they just edited it. You remember Puck from real world? He was
sticking his finger in peanut butter.
Oh yeah, that's right. He was bullying Pedro. He was a mess.
But the problem with those guys is that you make them more of a mess by shining
the camera on them.
And then you make them famous. Didn't he like lose his marbles after he got off
that show?
Cause he was like one of the most famous guys from the real world other than
Theo Vaughn.
Yeah.
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