Clinton, Blair and Obama Destroyed the Idealism of Politics - Gabriel Byrne on RAI (3/4)

[@sandylt8124]

Wow! I have always loved this actor. Love him even more now!

[@pathacker4963]

Have you seen the film "Into the West"? It's truly magical.

[@pathacker4963]

The Obama Peace Prize made a joke of the Nobel Prize forever.

[@TimothyMusson]

Really enjoying this interview, thanks :)

[@justgivemethetruth]

In Treatment was brilliant ... and what was brilliant about it was the eventually uncovering that the doctor was just as clueless as the patients. It's seemed like a whole attack on orthodoxy and assumed authority. A truly amazing program that I wish had gone on longer, and Byrne played the part perfectly. One of the most mature and intelligent series I've ever seen.

[@watchman6989]

I totall agree with you ... I'm actually watching the series. I also saw him as 'the mechanic' in "Smilla's Sense of Snow" ... brilliant!

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@watchman6989 Don't usually go for Byrne. He is a good competent actor, BUT he's just another actor, a good-looking and well spoken person who just says other people's words, and I don't think much of them. Didn't like Smila's Sense of Snow, it made no sense to me, and what little sense it did make I didn't care about. In Treatment was very good and struck something true about people, which is the kind of move I like. Here's a tip for you, if you search KZbin you will find a reasonable resolution version of the movie "Chilly Scenes Of Winter" from the late 1970's. It is a brilliant movie, I think you will like it. Check it out.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@michellelekas211 If you think so fine, but my opinion on celebrities, especially really rich ones is that what we see of them is totally fake, manufactured PR industry hype. That is just another way the system maintains its version of what is acceptable to think. it is only when actors say the words and ideas of someone that resonates with the people, and half they time they don't agree with what they are saying.

[@michellelekas211]

@@justgivemethetruth I agree with you 99%, really. Byrne is am exception I think. He is also not really very successful...

[@zeke8701]

This segment is very meaningful to me. In many ways, it describes my PTSD experience and coming home to a foreign country. I saw America differently and have never returned to where I once was nor do I want to. I was forever an outsider in so many ways. At 75, I am still coming to grips with it. I am saddened by those comments in which the viewer is so lost in their own shit that they can't listen to a person talk of their personal journey and learn anything. It's called having the ability to step outside oneself and see another.

[@belylisogo]

love this man 💚 so talented, so magnetic - and so deep and sensitive and reflective.

[@andiw7358]

This segment is not really about these characters destroying the idealism of politics. It's maybe about creating an idealism that isn't earned. I like Byrne's perspective. As an outsider, you're not necessarily accepted, but you see truths about people that they cannot see.

[@michellelekas211]

Byrne is smart, humble, and also thoughtful. Surprising combination. Almost never seen.

[@BMC-hl2uh]

I know of what you speak Gabriel. I was also transplanted into America and have lived the loneliness of being in a country where money is God...and, apparently, the only reason for existence. And the sellout of the progressives by Blair, Obama is wholesale and absolutely destructive.

[@simontemplar5506]

In Canada money is God too, get a simple appartment in a popular distric cost half of the money you earn per month! it's a none sens ! it's illogical in 2020 that a greedy landlord live on your back for the rest of your life! everyone have to be owner of his own appartment poor or not. and get their cash back when sell it ! sorry for my english i do not use a translator.

[@ms.j.7095]

I've always loved Gabriel Byrne the actor. Excalibur, The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing, Lost Girls, etc. etc. Loved the interview! I love his activism! Pro-Labor! Pro-Union!

[@tackleberry8604]

Great words from a Great Man.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Great political insights.

[@margaretohara7250]

Excellent insight......so interesting.

[@antennawilde]

Google is burying these Real News segments, they never show up in my feed even though i watch them every day.

[@basilpeterson9592]

Along with subscribing you should also hit the bell next to the subscribe box and you will get notifications of new segments.

[@antennawilde]

Thanks, I'm subscribed but didn't hit the bell. Nonetheless when there are 1/4 through 4/4 segments on channels, they usually come up on the feed to the right. I had to search for "Gabriel Byrne" to find 2/4, then search again for 3/4 and 4/4. Both Google and Twitter admitted to throttling political content during the 2016 primaries so I am quite concerned about what is going to happen after the net neutrality repeal, because there's already censorship

[@jazzsocietyofecuador]

Barack Obama is the quintessential con-artist of the 21st Century. Trump’s election was due in large measure to the lack of voter participation in 2016 which was an expression of voter anger over the Obama administration's abandonment of the working class. Obama’s betrayal of the white as well as the black working class was biblical. His health care program was a gift to the insurance industry and his military interventions and prosecution of whistleblowers eclipsed that of his neocon predecessors. Which Obama voter would have thought that a young black activist constitutional lawyer from Harvard with a Muslim name would be a Trojan Horse for Wall Street, the elites, and the military? Virtually all of Bernie Sanders policies in 2020 were what voters expected from Barack Obama in 2008 and he had the mandate to implement them. Obama single-handedly destroyed the future of a working class Americans and took the lives of countless innocent human beings abroad. This is his “legacy”.

[@valerie9414]

Well said

[@zzendawgie]

❤

[@peterhardie4151]

Screenshot of Miller's Crossing. Watch that film if you haven't already...... twice.

[@SIMKINETICS]

OK, just took your advice, went to the video store, will watch it twice after these Byrne interviews! TRNN is one of my favorite channels!

[@michellelekas211]

@@SIMKINETICS So TRUE

[@brianbooker8736]

With Gabriel's experience he was still considered a part of the Human Family. The Black experience in America has been a lot worse. We came here as property and once we were freed we were viewed as not quite Human. We were sub-Humans, Animals with no self control. And the unfortunate part of this story is that we refuse to confront or deal with this false narrative. I'm glad this Class war is almost over. I've been pretty busy lately but I'll make sure I watch the other three episodes. I'm going to try and make another donation before the end of the month.

[@gerrycullen5750]

I agree with what you are saying Brian. It is true that nothing can be comparable to centuries of slavery. I wish the Historian DR. Gerald Horne's latest book "The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America" would be taught in all High Schools, that would be a good foundation to have a dialogue between Blacks and Whites in the US. But Byrne's intellectual awakening to question everything is universal, a good lesson for all. If everyone would question their beliefs it could be a much better society.

[@musicman7773]

Brian Booker The Class is ramping up as the majority population gets poorer. With half the country making $30,000 or less and homelessness on the rise Class is in your face!

[@robertguard4648]

The class war is almost over? Huh? I mean, I guess from a very bleak perspective that poor people have been so completely beaten down in the U.S. that maybe they will soon permanently surrender to the rich. It's certainly true that poor people hardly fight in the U.S. And when they do, they're so effectively divided by elites, that they're hardly fighting in their own interest as poor people (or, for that matter, middle class people). It's been many decades since effective strikes were even legal in the United States.

[@musicman7773]

Robert Guard This is true! MLK's Poor People's March did not get take off like it should have! No one wants to take up that cause . Just as in the video of a millionaire Democratic donor being interviewed saying never use the term class to describe the climate we are in! Mention Class no more donor's! Everything is run by computers and the internet is driving instant protest around the world instantly. They still want the people to stay the hamster on the wheel in a cage. The show must go on!

[@robertguard4648]

Until Taft-Hartley and the National Labor Relations Act are repealed, people are going to have to confront the fact that it requires breaking the law to effectively confront the owners of this country. It should not be illegal to effectively strike. The federal government should have nothing to do with labor regulation.

[@lnbartstudio2713]

I so appreciate this, liked it and am subscribed but where EXACTLY is the first video you refer to? I looked. Got only the kinds of browser hijackers that lesser resources use.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Someone please tell me what "Reality Asserts Itself" means????

[@tapptom]

When Reagan was in office ...Lee WASSERMAN the Chicago Russian Jew transplant who headed MCA ran him....as Johnny Appleseed and amerika was asleep. Trumpsky is Reagan 2.

[@warplanner8852]

Mr Byrne is an actor whom I liked but believe should have followed Anthony Hopkins principle os shutting the f--k up about politics! I still like him and understand his passion because he came from Ireland but grow weary of his (and others') preach because they are skilled at the lens end of the camera.

[@Johnconno]

Bad play Leo.

[@sarasbelby1725]

Vita

[@missjustice6572]

Politique dont existe

[@deannadelmar4485]

Fake

[@jasontalton9736]

huh?

[@keithdurant4570]

Just like your intelligence.

[@Hatoffrogs]

Deanna Delmar idiot

[@andiw7358]

Nice, assuming someone's intelligence based on one word, rather than using it as food for thought.

[@Hatoffrogs]

Andrea Wisner fake

[@themsmloveswar3985]

The earlier episode involved Gabriel Byrne feeling sorry for himself, and meandering aimlessly. And blaming the Catholic Church, and Thatcher (both of whom advocated personal responsibility). This is about Byrne blaming the British. And the Republicans (the ones in the USA, not the ones in Northern Ireland murdering people - he never said one bad word about them). Always....somebody else is responsible, and he is wallowing in self-sympathy. If you are a sucker for people feeling sorry for themselves, then you will be absorbed by this.

[@MundaSquire]

Oh, the code words, "personal responsibility" says it all about where you are coming from. Of course you fail to see that he is pointedly talking about personal responsibility. It is about the responsibility to think for oneself and not blindly accept the frames thrust upon one by religion or education or the state just because they are supposed authorities. His is a story of self discovery, which is admirable. I find it ironic that the "right" talks about personal responsibility and gives such high value to authoritarian thinking which abrogates actually thinking for oneself. (Your name wants CNN out of airports but let me ask you, who would you rather see: Fox News? A thinking person might realize that CNN is itself status quo, corporate information, but know even deeper that Fox is the same to even deeper proportions.

[@johnb.9806]

He is wallowing in self pity for being a successful A-list actor? No, he is describing his journey from being sent to a seminary in a foreign country as a child and his experiences as an Irish immigrant at a tumultuous time in Irish history, the 70's and 80's. It was very bleak. I'm a Dub too, younger, but I remember it.