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Jimmy Dore
Dore at the 2016 edition of Politicon
Born
James Patrick Anthony Dore

(1965-07-26) July 26, 1965 (age 59)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia College Chicago
Years active1989–present
Political partyDemocratic (until 2016)
Independent (2016–present)
MovementAmerican Progressivism
SpouseStefane Zamorano
Comedy career
Medium
Stand-up comedy
Radio
Podcast
Genres
Observational comedy
Political satire
Subject(s)
American culture
Current events
Popular culture
Politics
Religion
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
Subscribers847 thousand[1]
(31 December 2020)
Total views367.5 million[1]
(31 December 2020)
NetworkThe Young Turks (2009–2019)
Independent (2019–present)
100,000 subscribers
WebsiteOfficial website

James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and political commentator.

Dore is best known for hosting The Jimmy Dore Show. He identifies politically as a progressive.

Early life

Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. He has eleven siblings. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago[2] with a degree in marketing communications.[3] Dore started performing in 1989[4][5] and currently lives in Pasadena with his wife Stefane Zamorano.

Career

Comedy

Dore has made appearances on late-night television on shows such as ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and NBC's Late Friday. He was the lead performer in a Comedy Central Presents half-hour special on April 9, 2004, and Comedy Central's Citizen Jimmy, a one-hour stand-up special which was chosen "Best of 2008" by iTunes. He was a writer–performer for the off-Broadway hit The Marijuana-Logues. He has also performed at Just for Laughs in Montreal, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, and for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.[5] Dore had a role in the 2008 documentary film Super High Me and hosted the podcast Comedy And Everything Else with his wife Stefane Zamorano and previously with Todd Glass, who departed from the show in late 2009.

Much of his material is focused on the corporate news media, social criticism, and politics. He also hosts his monthly show, Left, Right & Ridiculous, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood. Dore's first book, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You, was published in 2014. A comedy special, Sentenced to Live, was released on October 6, 2015.

Dore’s Battle With An Unknown Sickness

At the turn of the century, Jimmy Dore’s life was going well. Until fate stepped in. Dore was not feeling well. He had medical insurance and went to see a doctor. He was diagnosed and given drugs for treatment. Despite the treatment, he got sicker. Six months went by and his doctors said that Dore had something else. He was given more treatments. And another six months went by and Dore he got even sicker. This went on for about four years. Meanwhile, he is going broke from seeing an endless parade of doctors who cannot figure out what is the underlying problem.

Finally, Jimmy Dore was referred to a specialist by the name of Doctor Charles Sharp and was told that he can fix him. When he went to see Dr. Sharp, but he wouldn’t take Dore’s insurance. Dr. Sharp wanted to run MRI’s and CT scans, but Dore’s insurance would not pay for it. Special kinds of tests were required and go to special places to get them. Dore had to pay for all of it out of his pocket. After a while, Dore maxed out his credit cards. From that point on, whenever he would go to a doctor offices, they denied him service. Dore was dazed and confused because he didn’t even know what his illness was. He felt like he was about to die. He was hopeless, not knowing where to turn to or what to do.

One day, Jimmy Dore stepped off a step the wrong way and his spine collapsed. Six vertebrates crunched down. His five foot ten-inch frame shrunk down to five foot six instantly. Finally, he said to his wife Stef, “Hey, I’m just about ready to die. Maybe we should scrape together any kind of money we can and go see Dr. Sharp.” That’s exactly what they did.

Within the first visit, Doctor Sharp diagnosed Dore correctly. Dore had a dead bone in his thigh as well as a dead bone in his spine. He had fractures all over his body from his feet to his fingers all of the way up to his neck and ribs. He had broken bones all over his body.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Dore still worked at the comedy clubs doing stand-up while sitting down. He would be pushed out onto the stage and recite his act. Even though he was doing it all by rote, he was still impressive enough to be offered a special with Comedy Central.

Dore was not cured of his ailment. He was still in pain. It was determined that he would get the same surgery multi-sport athlete Bo Jackson received. While playing for the Los Angeles Raider, Jackson suffered a dislocated hip following a tackle. At 29 years old, Jackson was operated on by a team of doctors. [6]

Jimmy Dore was sent to the guy who invented it. The doctor told him that he would have to take a bone out of Dore’s shin and put it in his thigh. After the surgery, Dore would not be able to step on his leg for six months. It meant that he would not be able to do the once in a lifetime opportunity of doing the comedy special.

That was not his only problem, Dore didn’t have the money for such a surgery. He was told by his doctor, “Well, just so you know Jimmy, at any moment your thigh bone could snap… at any moment you step on stage your thigh bone can snap. Just so you know.”

Jimmy Dore said, “That’s the chance I got to take.”

Basically, he was going to die without the surgery. But he said, “If I cannot do that television special, I was going to kill myself anyway.”

Dore didn’t’ get the surgery and he did do the comedy special as planned. However, Dr. Sharp did help Jimmy get on the road to recovery. [7]

The Jimmy Dore Show

In June 2009, he began producing The Jimmy Dore Show, a weekly one-hour comedic look at the news, which originates at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, airs nationally on the Pacifica Radio Network. It aired online on TYT Network from 2009 to 2019. Dore appeared as a frequent guest host on Current TV's political commentary show The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. Dore continued working with Uygur on The Young Turks as it became an on-line network. In July 2017, Dore began hosting his own show on the network called "Aggressive Progressives."[8]

Dore supported Bernie Sanders' campaign in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, being called "Sanders-obsessed" by The Washington Post.[9] He was critical of Senator Elizabeth Warren for not defending Sanders in the primaries.[10]

In 2016, Dore said a Hillary Clinton presidency would be worse for progressives than a Donald Trump presidency, saying "don't freak out about a Donald Trump presidency! I think, in fact, my theory is that it's even better for progressives in the short-term, meaning in the two-year term, and in four years for sure."[11][12]

A Washington Post article in January 2017 stated that since the presidential election, Dore had "lit into Democrats for blaming hackers for their loss, raised doubts about the credibility of intelligence agencies, and seen the heavy hand of war hawks hyping the Russia connection to destabilize Europe and the Middle East."[13] Dore has been a staunch critic of the Special Counsel investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.[14]

On April 13, 2019, during a livestream, Dore officially announced his departure from The Young Turks Network, citing a desire to focus on his own show and his live performances.[15]

In a July 2020 video, Dore erroneously said Joe Biden had once "hosted a black face affair with a bunch of rich white people" before Dore showed an altered clip circulating on social media since January which had darkened the face of black singer Jerome Powell.[16][17] One day after the video was uploaded it received over 100,000 views, and has since been removed from YouTube.[16]

In December 2020, Dore began circulating a plan to make Nancy Pelosi's re-election as House Speaker conditional on Medicare for All receiving a floor vote. The plan was endorsed by Justin Jackson of the Los Angeles Chargers and political commentators Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray.[18] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the proposal to use her leverage for scheduling a vote that was unlikely to pass.[19] Dore told his viewers Ocasio-Cortez was "standing between you and health care" and, in response to her argument that progressive breakthroughs require years of organising, Dore said "I figured this out in two weeks, AOC! You liar. You coward. You gaslighter."[12] Journalists David Sirota and Ryan Grim also joined the debate to suggest that progressives should use their leverage for other purposes.[20] Dore and his supporters countered that the formality would help to cement the public record about which elected officials oppose popular reforms.[21][22]

Dore's pressure upon Congress seems to have a great affect. According to NBC News, Nancy Pelosi road to re-election of Speaker of the House will require a high-wire act. “…the terrain Pelosi faces will allow almost no margin for error.” [23] Pelosi will have the smallest majority in twenty years. She will have to rely on every Democrat to re-elect as it is certain that not one Republican votes. According to the NBC article, Pelosi, “…remains a source of frustration for younger Democrats eager to climb the leadership chain.” Not only will Speaker Pelosi have Democrat defectors join those voting against her, but there are those Democratic representatives that have health issues.

Anonymous “behind-the-scenes conversations” mention that because of these tight numbers, there are many of her Democratic critics who might consider forcing a second round of balloting. Though this tactic might be rare, it has happened fourteen times, most before the Civil War. [24]

For Pelosi to talk some of the fifteen Democratic opposing freshman into voting for her, Pelosi will be forced to make promises about bills that the House might consider.


Discussion of conspiracy theories

In May 2017, Dore discussed conspiracy theories over the murder of Seth Rich and questioned statements by law enforcement and Rich's family.[25] Dore cited a retracted Fox News story to substantiate his claims, and continued to insist that there were "a lot of red flags" and there "is probably something more to this story" including after the Fox News retraction.[26] In December 2020, an article in New York magazine said Dore's discernment was questionable due in part to his "promotion of conspiracy theories implicating the DNC in Seth Rich's death".[12] Dore has also expressed doubt in the official narrative of the 9/11 attacks, saying "I don't know what happened. I know what didn't happen. What didn't happen is what the government said happened."[27]

In 2018, an article published in CNNMoney described Dore's show as "a far-left YouTube channel that peddles conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Syrian chemical weapons attacks are hoaxes".[28] Dore responded by saying of his show that, "We actually debunk conspiracy theories like the one that says Assad gassed his own people".[29]

In September 2019, the investigative journalism site Bellingcat reported that Dore had received $2,500 from The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees in 2017, described by Bellingcat as a pro-Assad lobby group.[30] That same year, Dore argued that the chemical weapons attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhun was likely to have been a "false flag," orchestrated by groups opposed to Bashar al-Assad.[30] A joint report by the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons stated that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack.[30][31]

Discography

  • It's Not Brain Surgery (2000)
  • Really? (2008)
  • Citizen Jimmy (2008)
  • It's 2016 (2016)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "About The Jimmy Dore Show". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Great Britain Explained in a Way That Makes Sense". YouTube.
  3. ^ "Almost No One Is Watching Morning Cable News". YouTube.
  4. ^ Carnes, Jim (June 21, 2006). "Comedian Jimmy Dore: TiVo to Mac to stage". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 6, 2012.
  5. ^ a b Perlman, Daniel (July 30, 2008). "Jimmy Dore: Waging War on Stupidity". Punchline Magazine. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
  6. ^ Template:Https://www.deseret.com/1992/4/5/18976965/bo-undergoes-major-hip-reconstruction-surgery
  7. ^ "#ForceTheVote Town Hall". YouTube.
  8. ^ "Aggressive Progressives - TYT.com". tyt.com.
  9. ^ Weigel, David (May 27, 2016). "Why The Young Turks, and their viewers, love Bernie Sanders". Washington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  10. ^ Wagner, John; Gearan, Anne; Weigel, David (July 1, 2016). "Does Hillary Clinton really need Elizabeth Warren on the ticket?". Washington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  11. ^ Dore, Jimmy. "Hillary Presidency Worse For Progressives & America Than Trump". YouTube. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  12. ^ a b c Levitz, Eric (December 22, 2020). "The Left’s Most Naïve Cynics Have Turned on AOC". New York.
  13. ^ Weigel, Dave (January 13, 2017). "Some on the left want Democrats to move on from Russian hacking". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  14. ^ Perlroth, Nicole (June 15, 2020). "A Conspiracy Made in America May Have Been Spread by Russia". The New York Times.
  15. ^ Dore, Jimmy (2019-04-14). "Jimmy Dore Leaving TYT Explained". YouTube. The Jimmy Dore Show. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  16. ^ a b Fichera, Angelo (July 17, 2020). "Video Doesn’t Show Biden Hosting ‘Black Face Skit’" FactCheck.org.
  17. ^ Kaplan, Alex (July 17, 2020). "Facebook and other social media platforms let a manipulated Biden “blackface” video circulate for months". Media Matters for America.
  18. ^ Burgis, Ben (2020-12-19). "Jimmy Dore is Right About the Urgency of Medicare For All. But AOC Isn't the Problem". Jacobin. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  19. ^ Intercepted (2020-12-16). "Intercepted: AOC on Ending the Pelosi Era, Biden's Corporate Cabinet, and the Battle for Medicare for All". The Intercept. Retrieved 2020-12-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ Relman, Eliza (2020-12-16). "AOC rejects left-wing calls to force Pelosi to hold Medicare For All vote". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  21. ^ Affairs, Current. "The Case for Forcing a Floor Vote on Medicare for All ❧ Current Affairs". Current Affairs. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  22. ^ MacDonald, Tyler (2020-12-12). "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressured to withhold support for Nancy Pelosi and force Medicare For All vote". Inquisitr. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  23. ^ {https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-likely-be-elected-house-speaker-again-might-require-high-n1252569}
  24. ^ {https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-likely-be-elected-house-speaker-again-might-require-high-n1252569}
  25. ^ "Analysis | The Seth Rich conspiracy shows how fake news still works". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  26. ^ Marcotte, Amanda. "Tale of 2 hoaxes: The Seth Rich conspiracy theory and "Conceptual Penis" prank both expose a fear of women's power". Salon. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  27. ^ Dore, Jimmy (2014-05-14). "The Young Turks - 05.20.14: Fracking, Common Core-Tests, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, GM Recall & Guns". The Young Turks. Retrieved 2020-08-24 – via YouTube.
  28. ^ Mezzofiore, Gianluca; Murphy, Paul P.; Yurieff, Kaya (April 20, 2018). "Exclusive: YouTube ran ads from hundreds of brands on extremist channels". CNNMoney. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  29. ^ "Ads also appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show channel, a far-left YouTube channel that peddles conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Syrian chemical weapons attacks are hoaxes." We actually De-Bubunk conspiracy theories, like the one that says Assad gassed his own people". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  30. ^ a b c Davis, Charles (September 30, 2019). "Pro-Assad Lobby Group Rewards Bloggers On Both The Left And The Right". bellingcat. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  31. ^ "Syrian government to blame for April sarin attack: U.N. report". October 27, 2017 – via www.reuters.com.
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