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George A.A. · 624.7K views · 23.0K likes
Analysis Summary
Ask yourself: “If I turn the sound off, does this argument still hold up?”
In-group/Out-group framing
Leveraging your tendency to automatically trust information from "our people" and distrust outsiders. Once groups are established, people apply different standards of evidence depending on who is speaking.
Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979); Cialdini's Unity principle (2016)
Worth Noting
Positive elements
- Provides clips from Jon Stewart's podcast discussing Iran policy history and potential regime change, offering specific insights like Khomeini's pre-revolution promises and distinctions between Iranian society and its regime.
Be Aware
Cautionary elements
- In-group/out-group framing that positions conservative views as vindicated by 'even leftists' to strengthen partisan loyalty.
Influence Dimensions
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Transcript
I think 47 years of western policy to Iran has been rubbish. Literally rubbish. Literally rubbish. I think the only >> the sanctions and the way that they know why. You know why? Because they focused only on the hard power nukes, missiles, foreign mercies, never on the rights of the Iranian people. >> Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, John Stewart is my guilty pleasure. I know everyone on the right can't stand him, but I kind of like him. I think he's consistently funny. Yeah, he has a case of Trump derangement syndrome, but it's not as severe as someone like, I don't know, Rosie O'Donnell. She's a fat pig. I feel like people on the right treat John Stewart like he's Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, John Stewart's constantly attacking Trump, but when Trump does something that's awesome, John Stewart can hold up his hand and say, "Okay, that was awesome." Meanwhile, Kimmel has a lethal case, a deadly case of Trump derangement syndrome. Now, on the situation in Iran, John Stewart invited Christian Amur on his podcast. She's an Iranian British woman. You've probably seen her face on CNN. She's on the left, so imagine my surprise when she was the one educating John Stewart on how right Trump is about this Iran situation. We'll get into that, but first, we got to see this hilarious segment on the Ayatollah. >> Although, H's got to be on high alert. I mean, I doubt he's anywhere near a location that obvious given the advanced surveillance he's been under from American and Israeli intelligence. >> This is the moment that officials say the 86-year-old Ayatollah was killed >> and he's he stayed in his house. Old people are soing stubborn. By the way, there he was martyed at 86. Man, are the virgins going TO BE DISAPPOINTED. I'M SORRY. AM I AM I going too hard on hommining murderous dictator? Like, WHOA. Don't make fun of his erectile dysfunction. THAT'S A BRIDGE TOO FAR, STEWART. GUYING MOWED DOWN HIS own people. But you know, VIAGRA IS A SERIOUS DRUG. But just so you know, Israel and America made their move and now Iran will make their move. >> Iran is widening the scope of its response this morning. Neighbors across the region dragged into the chaos. >> Kuwaiti, the United Arab Emirates, >> basically the whole of the Gulf. >> It's also fired on Europe for the first time, aiming at Cyprus. What? Cypress? I don't even know where that is. Is Cypress even on THAT RISK BOARD? I DON'T even think it's around there. So, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. America and Israel attack Iran. And Iran's answer is to justing attack everybody. That's a great segment. This is the moment on the podcast where John Stewart starts with an incorrect assumption. I guess he thought the Islamic Revolution of 79 in Iran wasn't religious and Christian Amur of course immediately corrects him. >> Yeah. In in 1979 though it seems like that revolution against the Sha wasn't necessarily a religious one. I don't think Humeni >> Yes, it was. But no, but I'm saying don't you think Helmani >> appeared to be a more moderate figure before he got there? You don't think that when he was living in exile? >> No, I don't think he was more moderate. He was a true believer. And but what he did do because you did get quite a lot of the I don't even know what to call them, the upper middle class deciding to go into the streets against the sha and and and vote for him. He managed to lie. He managed to tell everybody that he was going to bring democracy, he was going to bring this, he was going to bring that. And oh no, Abullah will never be in charge, you know. So all of this stuff, you know, was was a lie. And actually very gullible Western politicians believed him at the time. The British government um maybe some in the US government thought, "Wow, we're going to get democracy in Iran. Let's throw the sh over our, you know, decadesl long ally who, yes, was authoritarian." But I think the difference there was that in 1979 after a full year of revolution and let I just have to tell you in New Year's 77 going into 78 Jimmy Carter and Roslin came to Tehran and they had a state visit which culminated in a state dinner and President Carter told the sha that you are our greatest friend and an island of stability in the Middle East. Okay, that meant they knew nothing about the rumblings. The ambassador there knew nothing about 8 days later >> the revolution started. It took a year and one year later Humeni came back. 8 days after Carter's famous you are my best friend and you are you know the the stability of the Middle East which means that nobody knew anything or if they did the message wasn't going up the uh up the chain. I mean that's a simplistic version but that's basically what has been happening. I'm going to just say I think 47 years of Western policy to Iran has been rubbish. Literally rubbish. Literally rubbish. I think the sense of the sanctions and the way that they know why because they focused only on the hard power. Nukes, missiles, foreign mercies, never on the rights of the Iranian people. >> Guys, has Jimmy Carter ever been on the right side of any issue? This guy gave up the Panama Canal. I guess he gave Iran to the Mullers. I think we need to have a conversation about Jimmy Carter. Joe Biden wasn't that bad when you think about what that guy did. >> And the Iranian people are some of the most sophisticated people in that whole region. The best educated, the most female empowerment, the most technologically savvy, the best scientists, doctors, artists for for thousands of years, right? And and we just lump them all as quasi terrorists. all the people of Iran never never put their human rights or their democratic rights not just at the top of an agenda but anywhere on the agenda. >> That's that's what I meant Christian with with even with Kmeni it felt like a bait and switch not to the world but to the Iranian people that he said we're going to give you democracy and to the world and then he gets there and they start massacring everybody and imposing these religious customs which >> because I agree >> that's a very critical moment right there. I can just put myself in there. Oh, I'm a Karen. My name is Wendy Charman. I worked under the Biden regime. I think that's the lady's name that I'm over. It's true. We in the United States lump Iranians in with all the shenanigans in the Middle East without realizing that not everyone is an al Qaeda and ISIS. Yeah, you have a regime in Iran that's truly destructive. But Iranian society is vastly different from that regime. And the only way that regime remains in power is through force. The other thing we say in the West is they're all Muslims and therefore they have the same goals, the same ambitions. That's so vain. It's just not true. Does a Southern Baptist in Mississippi share that much in common with a Pentecostal in Brazil? Of course, they have Jesus, and if they both believe Jesus died on the cross for them, they will be saved. But I can assure you, they are different. Culturally, they're different. And it's the same thing in Iran. Persians aren't Arabs. Persians are technically closer to a European than they are to a Gulf Arab. What they share is Islam. But even still, Iran is Shia Islam. Saudi Arabia is Sunni. They disagree on many big things. I mean, I say both of them are wrong cuz Christ is king, but everyone in the West says they're all the same. Iranians have a society that they have developed over thousands of years. This is a civilization that dates back to biblical times. One of the most interesting figures in the Bible, Cyrus the Great, was a Persian. That's how old and unique their society is. Once you accept that the people in Iran are different from the people in Iraq and Afghanistan, you really have to look at what Trump is doing in a different way. That leads me to this moment where Wendy Sherman, the Biden appointee, admits that Trump's operation is working. >> Also buried in the briefings is this has been planned for months. They and the uh Israelis have planned the attack meticulously. And so they may not have been prepared in any way for the aftermath or uh the collateral effects of all this, but they've clearly put more effort into this than they did to any kind of negotiation for a nuclear deal. Is that fair or unfair? >> I think that's absolutely fair, John. I think that you know our military is extraordinary and they plan for plans for plans. There is nothing they do not plan for and do it meticulously and that's what we're seeing. >> And Christian Amore gives Trump credit for actually doing something different. >> The other thing is that uh what's really uh I think you're right. The president has decided that might makes right. And this is what has been playing out since last January, since his inauguration. I was at the Munich Security Conference when, you know, of last year when JD Vance read the riot act to his allies, not his adversaries, his allies, and basically said, you know, we're going to do what we want. You're a bunch of [ __ ] Uh you don't even enable your, you know, your your far right and all the rest of it. I mean, it was mad. uh and then sort of cozied up a little bit uh as you saw play out in the White House to Putin and dissed uh Zalinski and all the rest of it. So yes, I think they think that they can decapitate whoever. >> So Amore poses another critical question here and I think it's a conversation to be had. >> Okay, one question. Could it be a Berlin wall thing? Because I'm very nervous. We've explained all the possible downsides and the possible cynical deals that might be made around the back of the Iranian people to end this. But could it be Wendy John? I didn't cover the fall of the Berlin Wall. I wasn't a foreign correspondent yet, but it was like no no no until one day it happened. Now it did have Gorbachoff sign off and the the the soldiers didn't shoot and that was crucial which it will be crucial in Iran. But I wonder if you think there might be the space Wendy created by this war uh to allow that there. >> Christian, you should be a journalist because I think there's always that possibility. Anybody who lived through the Berlin Wall falling in the fall, the USSR and all those things, these guys could collapse and there could be a sort of different renaissance. >> Uh look, I think we would all find that a wonderful outcome. This lady worked for Biden and Obama and I think every Democrat president since she's been in professional politics. So, she's going to spew BS and I don't want to hear it. I did want that question to be posed. Could this be a Berlin Wall situation? I think it's possible. A lot of good points were made there. Thank you all very much for watching. God bless and goodbye.
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