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Russell Brand I love you but you’re wrong – Topher VBlog 009 response to Paxman vs Brand interview

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This is a video response to Russell Brand’s interview with Jeremy Paxman on ‘Newsnight’.

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Russell Brand BBC Interview Teaches Americans a Lesson On Questioning Authority

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A friend recently sent me this video featuring the well-loved English comedian and actor, Russell Brand. Brand is known for his controversial opinions and his lack of inhibition in presenting those views, and in this particular interview, he discusses the issue of the seemingly inevitable social and political pyramid of American society, with those on the bottom of the pyramid never having the chance to rise to the top. He criticizes the lack of care Americans show towards the planet, and expresses his deep belief that a revolution may be the sole mechanism through which the people can destroy the pyramid.

My friend who sent me the video wrote the following message: “If you have a second, watch the brilliant Russell Brand make a truly compelling argument out of something that we may dismiss initially as outrageous — but I believe we do ourselves an injustice if we don’t consider what he’s saying. Maybe it’s time to start thinking outside the existing paradigm completely.

This is a truly compelling argument — one that’s worth a listen, and if your mind is open enough, there is plenty to take away from it.

Why DON’T we change this paradigm? Why DON’T we think a little bigger?

It’s already happening, and with the power of social media growing we have the ability to make a difference. Obviously, the flaw in Brand’s argument is the sheer impracticality of it all — he’s totally vague — but has his been considered enough by the experts to have had a chance to develop?

Also, so many recent articles simply marvel at the fact that he’s an actor and wonder “why don’t we have articulate celebrities?” But that kind of attention cheapens this man and his views — it’s superficial, and steering the discussion downhill. Let’s elevate the power of this viral video and talk about the ideas expressed, rather than people.Wat

When I watched Brand’s interview, I wondered about his comments on the American system. Maybe they are worth discussing! Is a revolution the only way to solve the issue of social hierarchy? And does not voting mean anything nowadays; does it actually impact the big picture? How can we make a difference in the system? What about the manner in which Brand conveys his ideas, or the interviewer’s style in response to it? Does that lessen the legitimacy of the argument?

I am in no way suggesting that everyone refuse to vote in the next election, or that anyone spearhead a revolution tomorrow. I am merely suggesting that it is important to do what you do intentionally, consciously; to discuss issues intelligently, and make decisions accordingly; to engage in the conversation, and constantly reconsider the possibilities. It is important to question authority, even if in the end, we agree. It is the process of questioning itself, the discussion, that is crucial. 

Anna D Weill

Currently a student in Barnard College, Columbia University, I grew up in a European home. I have a passion for travel and food, love to read classical literature, and more than anything- I love to write. I have learned that words give us the ability…

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Russell Brand BBC Interview Teaches Americans a Lesson On Questioning Authority

Russell Brand and the Coming Revolution

Whatever one thinks of Russell Brand, his inspired rant on the BBC last night had people on both sides of the Atlantic talking on Thursday, with ideas that usually aren’t aired, such as his absolute disdain for voting or the present sham of a political system in the UK and elsewhere which just doesn’t address the problems of ordinary working people or the environment.

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Russell Brand gave an incredible powerhouse performance last night, during an eleven-minute interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC’s flagship news programme.

Brand was being interviewed by Paxman on Newsnight, to discuss the actor-cum-comedian’s stint as guest editor of the New Statesman.

The interview lasted for almost eleven minutes (10 minutes and 46 seconds, to be precise) and was summed up by Digital Spy as, “incredible [...] television [Brand going] head-to-head with Jeremy Paxman, managing to squeeze together a revolution rally cry, bemoan West Ham’s recent form and discuss Paxman’s beard in a breathless performance”.

Brand’s final assault came when he referenced Paxman’s appearance on the BBC show, Who Do You Think You Are?, the popular British genealogy documentary series that, for each instalment, takes a well-known person from popular culture on a journey to trace her/his family tree.

Russell Brand laid it out in plainspoken english.

I remember I see you in that programme where you look at your ancestors. You saw that your grandmother got fucked over by the aristocrats who ran her gaffe. You cried because you knew that it was unfair and unjust. And that was a century ago. That still happens now. I’ve just come from a woman who is being treated like that.

If we can engage that feeling, instead of some moment of sentimentality trotted out on the TV for people to pore over, emotional porn, if we can engage that feeling and change things, why wouldn’t we? Why is that naive? Why isn’t that my right? Because I’m an actor? I’ve taken that right, I don’t need the right from you, I don’t need the right from anybody, I’m taking it.

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I don’t stand with Russell Brand, and neither should you

I felt an immense amount of affinity with comedian and would-be revolutionary vanguardist Russell Brand as I watched his BBC Newsnight interview with dismissive interlocutor Jeremy Paxman. In a highly public forum, Brand ran the frustrating gauntlet of explaining the very basic tenets of radical politics to a defender of the status quo. It’s a maddening position to occupy — as Brand’s intensifying eyes and harried stares at Paxman evidenced — and it’s a position all too familiar for those of us who have ever identified with anarchism or a radical politics that refuses a predefined program.

Like Brand, I don’t vote (I’m British, but even if I were American, I wouldn’t). Like Brand, I will not give my mandate to this festering quagmire of a corporate political system (anymore than living in it already demands, that is). A thorough anti-voting argument is beyond the remit of these paragraphs; suffice to say there are other ways and hows to enact politics. And, like Brand, I refuse to say what I propose instead when badgered by staunch defenders of capitalism. Brand patiently explained to his pompous interviewer that, no, we can’t offer you a pragmatic alternative program — we’re too entrenched in the ideology of the current one. We have to live, act, think differently, dissentfully, for new politics to emerge. I’m simplifying, of course. But the point is, I’ve learned to leave conversations when the “what do you propose instead?” question is posed to me qua anti-capitalist. If you had a blood-sucking monster on your face, I wouldn’t ask you what I should put there instead. I’d vanquish the blood sucking monster. And it seems Brand is committed to do the same.

I have no interest in a detailed discourse analysis on the comedian’s radical politics as expounded in his editorial essay this week in British left-leaning news magazine the New Statesman. He’s not a theorist, he’s a well-intentioned, wildly famous performer with a “fuck this” attitude and some really nice thoughts; he’s self-aware and self-depricating. He’d probably even be there on the barricades pushing off riot cops. And that means something to me and a number of my comrades (yes, comrades, deal with it). But, no, I’m not jumping wholeheartedly on this Brand-wagon. The reasons are two-fold:

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Firstly, if we want to challenge an inherently hierarchical political framework, we probably don’t want to start by jumping on the (likely purple velvet) coattails of a mega-celeb with fountains of charisma and something all too messianic in his swagger. “No gods, No masters”, after all. Brand is navigating the well-worn conflict facing those with a public platform in the current epoch (myself among them): We have to be willing to obliterate our own elevated platforms, our own spaces of celebrity; this grotesque politico-socio-economic situation that vagariously elevates a few voices and silences many millions is what Brand is posturing against. Would he be willing to destroy himself — as celebrity, as leader, as “Russell Brand”? I think he’d struggle, but I don’t really know the guy.

But beyond this — the general furore and excitement around famous-person Russell Brand saying not-dumb political things on TV should give us pause for thought. If we’re so damn excited to hear these ideas in (in their slightly haphazard form) from a boisterous celebrity, then clearly we have some idolatry and “Great Man” hangups to address (lest we reinstate a monarchy with Brand as sovereign, Kanye as chief advisor). Everything Brand has said, I’ve heard before, especially since Occupy’s 2011 heyday; the radical suggestion that, yes “Shit is fucked up, and bullshit,” was not first uttered by Brand and should not be more exciting nor appealing by virtue of emerging from his cheeky smile. As has often been pointed out, there is a constant conflict at play when radical or militant ideas or images enter the popular imaginary under capitalism (I’ve noted the example here before of a riot scene in a Jay-Z/Kanye music video): At the same time radical ideas might spread and resonate across mainstream and pop media platforms (and thus provide the potential for rupture), these ideas and images are recuperated immediately into capital. Brand calls for revolution, and online media traffic bounces, magazines sell, bloggers like me respond, advertisers smile, Brand’s popularity/notoriety surges, the rich, as ever, get richer.

Secondly, and more immediately worthy of attention given current Brand fever: His framing of women is nothing short of the most archetypal misogyny. I’m not asking Brand to be perfect, but I am asking we temper celebrations of him according to his very pronounced flaws. Writer Musa Okwonga, responding to Brand and possibly coining the term “Brandwagon” was swift to elevate feminist concerns, too often ignored in the excitement around a celebrity appearing to have good politics. Okwonga noted:

… what the writer Sarah Ditum has identified as [Brand"s] “lazy sexism”, evident both in his celebrated MSNBC appearance and in the opening line of his New Statesman guest editorial. Right there, beneath a sub-heading which states that “before the world, we need to change the way we think”, Brand writes that “When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me.”

See, here’s the thing. I and others will run the risk of sounding like killjoys for pointing this out, but if you’re advocating a revolution of the way that things are being done, then it’s best not to risk alienating your feminist allies with a piece of flippant objectification in your opening sentence. It’s just not a good look.

Brand, admirably, is not proposing a program. But Okwonga is right: In our excitement for even a hint of revolutionary fervor ostensibly permeating mainstream debate, we’ve enabled misogyny and Great Man narratives to go unchecked. This is troubling ground to build if we want to fight from it. And, of course, it’s not only through this week’s Brand hagiographies that “lazy sexism” has been troublingly permitted in the name of radical politics — it’s pervasive. Take, for well-worn example, the ongoing yet baffling difficulty many supporters of WikiLeaks and pro-transparency projects seem to have with any criticism of Julian Assange; the willingness with which thousands of Assange acolytes outright rejected sexual assault claims against him. To avoid another maelstrom myself, I simply posit: It is at least logically possible for a man to both be a sexist creepbag and espouse some good political ideas and projects. I don’t mean to draw any strict equivalences between Brand and Assange. I could list a whole host of examples: Recall the viral spread of the “Stand with Rand” sentiment, when Sen. Rand Paul mounted an epic filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination to CIA director. I too stood with Rand’s critique of the Obama administration’s unchecked executive power when it comes to drone kill lists. But I don’t stand in any solidarity with the racist Kentucky Republican.

But the point of rethinking new political and social spaces together — as was felt profoundly by many of us engaged in Occupy’s headiest, fiercest days — was that we don’t need to align with, elevate, celebrate (nor indeed wholly reject or detest) any one person. Yes, we will continue struggle against vanguardism and sexism and so many co-constitutive problems within ourselves and each other. We will fail and fail better and fail. We will struggle to know and reconstitute what “we” even really means. And I take Russell Brand at his word that he wants to fight too. This is no referendum on the comedian or his intentions. But this is no time to forgo feminism in the celebration of that which we truly don’t need — another god, or another master.

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The Alex Jones Show - Sunday, September 01, 2013 (Full Show): Russell Brand, Jerome R. Corsi

The Alex Jones Show - Sunday, September 01, 2013 (Full Show): Russell Brand, Jerome R. Corsi

Video: Russell Brand Breaks Down Syria, Destroys Mainstream Media

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by Anthony Gucciardi
August 30th, 2013
Updated 08/30/2013 at 7:44 pm

After his MSNBC appearance challenging the talking heads of mainstream media generated millions of views on YouTube in a display of just how much the public craves real information, Russell Brand is now back on air exposing the situation and Syria and the mainstream media propaganda.

Appearing in an interview with Alex Jones that filmed today, Russell brings further credibility to the power of the alternatives news and the collapse of the mega media. In fact, Russell’s breakdown of just how distorted the media reporting on the events in Syria are coincides exactly with what I have been reporting on for a number of weeks now. Ultimately, this is a display of just how much of a difference we are making in the alternative news, and more importantly how many millions we can reach by continuing to push out the truth amid the volley of disinformation coming from the media.

We are continually making major strides in the informational battle against skewed news, and this fact is now even being admitted by the very high level officials who seek to send us into Syria-style scenarios that could very well initiate World War 3. One such powerful admission I was extremely pleased to hear about and bring to you was the admission by top Obama adviser and Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski that it was actually the ‘global political awakening’ that was putting a wrench in the Syria war machine.

In other words, elite control freaks like Brzezinski know that we aren’t listening to their warmongering propaganda anymore, and instead we are craving the truth on all fronts. And it’s the public craving for the truth that is halting their entire plan to launch the United States and other nations internationally into a hot war with Syria — one that, despite the information being out there, virtually no one realizes is essentially a major combat scenario with Russia through Assad.

Today’s Russell Brand interview truly highlights the effectiveness of not only alternative news juggernauts like Infowars, Drudge Report, and Storyleak, but the overall power of the entire movement as a whole.

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Video: Russell Brand Breaks Down Syria, Destroys Mainstream Media

Russell Brand Doesn’t Believe the Governments Lies About Syria

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By Andrew Freeman
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August 28, 2013

In the clip below Russel Brand gives a perspective that has rarely been heard on the mainstream media.  He not only questions the official story of the recent chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but also brings up the fact that many western governments lied to the world so they could go to war in Iraq. 

In the short clip, Brand also talks about how more military intervention will not do Syria, or any other country, any good. 

According to wikipedia:

Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975)^[5] is an English comedian, actor, and author.

In 2004, Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK as the host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth, a Big Brother spin-off. In 2007, he had his first major film role in St Trinian’s. He became known in the United States in 2008, after his major role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall; the film led to a starring role in Get Him to the Greek in 2010. He also worked as a voice actor for animated films Despicable Me in 2010 and Hop in 2011. He starred in the 2011 remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur.

Brand is noted in the British media for his eccentricity and for controversies such as his dismissal from MTV after he dressed as Osama bin Laden, his behaviour as presenter of various award ceremonies and his former drug use. In 2008, he resigned from the BBC following prank calls he made to actor Andrew Sachs on The Russell Brand Show, which led to major changes to the BBC’s policy. His drug use, alcoholism and promiscuity have influenced his comedic material and public image. He is also widely known for his short marriage to Katy Perry which ended in 2012.[1]

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