The Newsroom - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore...(Restricted language)
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2012
- Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) hits the nail straight on the head in the opening minutes on HBO's new series 'The Newsroom'. He is asked by a college student a simple question during a campus debate. 'What makes America the greatest country in the world?'. Daniels initially goes the politically correct route then at the last minute goes with a honest, bold, straight forward answer that sums up a lot of the worlds problems that so many are afraid to accept because we all want to believe in our system and that it is our system that works. The evidence that is out there today is to the contrary and he discloses such information in his argument. We used to be the worlds best of the best and now we are just pretending. The first step to solving a problem is to admit there is one.
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This is what every person outside the USA thinks when the USA says their the best.
This is what US citizens think when morons start yelling "mAkE AmEriCuH GrEaT." 🤦♀️We never were.
@@floridasavannah bruhhhhh. .at least support your country
Sudhanshu Panta supporting “make America great” is not supporting you country, it’s going along with a delusion
Sudhanshu Panta No.
@@amenomnom449 ok destroy it then.
This is aging like wine... 🍷
Funny thing, Jeff Daniels won an Emmy for this show. 2 days later he started shooting Dumb and Dumber 2
Nostalgia is a cheap psychological trick. He's not saying anything real. For instance, he says "We used to take care of our neighbors" but literally the same year this aired the US tied for first place in The World Giving Index, then did so again two more years in a row. He says "We used to make unGodly advances in technology" but to this day the US leads biotech (Monsanto), space travel (SpaceX), and information technology (Microsoft/Apple/Google). If you appeal to nostalgia, you get everyone on board. Liberals here you criticizing modern America, so they cheer. Conservatives hear you praising old America, so they cheer. But he's not saying anything real.
@@Dennis-nc3vw and yet China is seen as the new upcoming power, also regarding technology. Finland is leading in education, the Dutch are number one in biological technology and water infrastructure and many others.
The US might run SpaceX and Google but he sure as hell isn't lying about their position on the world stage. America isn't the leader it once was.
@@lennartvandegeer4365 That's because Europe was in fucking rubble after two World Wars.
Stop being a baby. So we backtracked a tad.
A tad?! A TAD, LLOYD?!!
You drove almost a sixth of the way across the country.. IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!!!
Now we don’t have enough money for gas. We don’t have enough money to eat. We don’t have enough money TO SLEEP!!
We’re in a hole, we just have to dig ourselves out!
You’re right, you’re absolutely right.
Where you goin?
Home. I’m walking home..
I’m only human Harry!
I didn’t know you were the only one that never ever made mistakes!
Harry!!!
Harry!!!
Harry!!!
(Minibike backfire)
Where’d you find that?
Old boy back in the town; traded the van for it straight up. I can get 70 mpg on this hog.
Just when I thought you couldn’t get any dumber, you go and do something like this.
...AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!!!
You still wanna go to aspen?
You bet!!
The only unrealistic part of this is him getting to finish the speech without interruption or screeching over him
That was my first thought!!!
It might just mean that the audiance are self conscious people with proper thoughts rather than just a bunch of hooting monkeys
People had manners
@@user-gx6um9vh8h Not in this world
One of the greatest monologs ever written, and still holds true to this day.
I came back here a few days ago.
And it is still very relevant. Perhaps even more.
BTW. I live in belgium.
yes. very important speech.
I keep coming back to this monologue. It sadly keeps ageing well.
It holds true to this day for one very sad reason, that the message, though heard and understood, has not been acted on to correct the issues that were outlined. It was said in 2012, and here we are in 2023, going into 2024, and it would be safe to say alot of what was said still exists.
@@alexandersanchezjr9391i mean, its way worse now actually. 2012 sounds like a distant dream at this point. Just a shithole country honestly
'The first step to resolving a problem is recognizing that there is one'
That’s what I said. American people acknowledge and Chinese people always coverup.
Like climate change?
The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest. Remove the problem or destroy the problem.
@@MisterMcKinney It's too late the climate.... Very too late !!!
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Anyone else watching this in 2020 and getting anxious realizing it's more relevant than ever?
the reason usa is the greatest "country/gov" of all time in theory is that the constitution limits the gov not the ppl (in theory)
Bill Fred you said what all intelligent people are thinking right now. I am from the uk and our government has given the police the power to arrest anyone who walks down the street without a good reason. I know this virus is bad and people are dying but the attack on liberty and freedom is a major concern that we all should be worried about.
@@ginxxxxx BS
@@ginxxxxx unlimited power for those in power
@@ginxxxxx look corona, look how inefficient selfish polititians are. US System is worst in handling inner crysis
April 2024 anyone?!
o7
May 8, 2024. This resonates stronger today with what is happening in the USA.
We're even worse off.....as demonstrated by the fact that somebody like Donald Trump could ever be elected president.....and not just once.
May 😅
May
"We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy" this one hits fucking home man. The worst part of American politics is the divisiveness.
Can't believe how not true that quote is but people still believe in it. That's exactly how people (mostly men) identified themselves in 20th and 19th century. Part about being easily scared, well, poor people would either be scared of saying the wrong thing or they were poor enough that it wouldn't matter whatever they said. About high middle class, since they didn't have another big worry in life, they had luxury to be included in politics and their voice mattered (as much as it could matter) and since it mattered, of course they have been scared (at least in that aspect of life). Don't even want to start the story of poverty and slavery.
@@milosstojanovic9355At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on youtube is now dumber for reading it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Yes, this is the best line of one of the best monologues. Being American stood for something more than who you voted for. Partisanship is stong now and political institutions are weak.
I heard an old man on NPR before who was from Spain and he was asked what caused the Spanish Civil War and he said "you know what, we just couldn't stand each other." That's America today. Two sides that hate each other and just can't stomach the other side. Trump will do all he can to usher in a Civil War and he will get elected in 2024. I'm so glad I don't live in that country anymore. I'm an expat who left 8 years ago and will never go back.
Partisanship is strong, because it’s a symptom of a society on the verge of collapse.
It takes a fake tv show to tell it like it is
almost always- hollywood has hidden nuggets
Actually we would all be speaking Russian, by the time the US got involved in the War in Europe it was already over for Germany, the only reason the Allies invaded on D-Day was political they didn't care about the people just maintaining the system for the status quo.
Brian Tupper that's why he said used too, and a french would tell you to shut up so stop saying shit
Well if you opened your eyes you would see that not a lot has changed since WW2, the ppl are still slaves to the system and the elite and all the efforts of the establishment has gone into making sure the media and the propaganda machine has gone into overload to fill you're brain full of lies, you are not free you are a pawn of the system doing the bidding of you're masters, sounds like you haven't actually realised it yet. All I ask is you make an effort to look closer at what is really going on, if you still disagree with me so be it not a lot I can do about that and we have to disagree on the subject
I watched The Newsroom full movie here twitter.com/4b0b022cf21b79184/status/824453594590044160 The Newsroоom America is nooot thеee greatest countrу in the world anymoоre Restricted languageee
That rant was definitely more than one sentence.
famguy218 or less
+boss180888 wow, a genuinely funny comment. Good job 😋
+Phil Burton It was at the beginning. I didn't watch the full thing before I wrote that
Because that wasnt his answer. The guy said “let’s talk about..” and he was like “okay,” started rant. 😅
"you know what I mean..."
This is Jeff Daniels most important and memorable roles. This IS one of the most important speeches ever given on TV. This needs to be seen by millions more. Please share. If you really care about the direction of this country you'd stand up and fight for the future our children will inherit. In my experience, it's the people who have left this country and come back, who see this country objectively. Thank you.
This scene lives rent free in my head and it still gets me every single time
I think Newsroom was ahead of its time. I think if you release a show like this today, it would explode. This should be shown today. Reboot Newsroom! Also Jeff Daniels' greatest performance IMO.
Joseph I love him in Gettysburg
I'd like to see him and guy from the John Adams miniseries together in a political show.
I agree. It needs to be shown again, but not on HBO. It should be available to all.....
It will get view hit, but the whitehouse will call it a fake show LOL
Doesn't need a reboot. Just a follow-up. Doesn't even have to be Jeff. The writing and content was what made this show amazing. Relevant and true.
"We waged wars on poverty, not poor people."
There is no better quote that shows the difference between the times of FDR and LBJ verses today.
Lol LBJ?!?! Lyndon did what was going to get him re-elected, he didn’t care for the people
FDR put people in Camps because of their Nationality. LBJ was a stark raving racist.
@@wallen1977 FDR despite his poor record on internment camps (during a world war lets not forget) is arguably one of the best US presidents.
@@vksepe Constitutional Rights only apply during peace?
You ever heard of the War in Vietnam?
I hate that 11 years later this is still more relevant than ever.
Instead of solving PROBLEMS we wish to be ENTERTAINED 🎉
I think instead of solving problems we wish to blame and hate other people.
You can't solve anything.
1) you are not intelligent enough to solve it
2) you have no idea were the problem starts and where it should end
3) people that have a these details rather keep them because it benefits them
4) in order to change anything a civil w. needs to start against the machine
5) that won't happen either because 1) people aren't intelligent enough and are easy to manipulate.
This is the most amazing answer I have ever heard. I totally agree with whoever wrote this show and had the courage to stand up and say it. Somebody has too. I was in the army and fought in Iraq. When I got injured, people said I made a sacrifice for our country. But to be completely honest, I don't know what the hell we were and still are fighting for. It wasn't 9/11 because we got Saddam and osama. and we are still there. We are losing our sons and daughters, mothers and fathers to a war that has no moral value. Bring our men home. The Iraqis and Afghanis dont want us there. We are messing with a culture that has existed just as long as ours. We fought the revolutionary war for our freedom from the British trying to tell us what religion to be and how to live and work and eat, they tried to take away our culture and our way of life. It is exactly like we are doing to them. We are the Enemy over there and more and more each day it angers me that i agreed to follow the orders of my superiors and go along with Bush's and Obama's personal wars. Stop spending billions of dollars on weapons of war and put it toward making our country, what it once was. I remember when gas was 99 cents per gallon and family's were generally caring about their sons and daughters and held family events. Welfare wasn't so prevalent and the unemployment rate was not even heard about. The problem why we are not the greatest country in the world is because we are to busy fighting other peoples wars and we are using more than 3/4 of our nations budget to fight it. Dont get me wrong I love the United States of America more than anything in the world and I would die to defend my country and my family, but only if it is a direct threat to the American Way of Life. I like many others of my brothers in arms Past Present and Future are the History and the future of our countries development, we have fought for Independence, the abolition of Slavery, we have fought to stop the slaughter of millions of Jews and we have leveled city's for the destruction of our country. Do we as this generation want to be remembered as mercenaries who fought for importation and exportation rights, fighting for oil, taking the lives of innocent children and depriving a culture to live free the way they want to live. I sure as hell don't. We are letting our nation slip away. We are losing our freedom because now everything has a price tag and more than 1/2 cant afford to live free anymore. Please leave comments, I want to know what you think about this. We need to stand up and make this country truly FREE.
What are you still doing there? Finishing the job...the job isnt getting those that wronged you but preventing a greater wrong against those who's home you smash into to get those guys.
You cant topple a government and walk out the door in couple years and expect it to work. True Peace after such a sharp and drastic change takes a generation...thats 10-25 years. But it is worth it...cuz those kids you help that country raise in Peace, education and understanding will become the Vanguard that will hold that country together after you leave, but you have to let them grow up first.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach the man to fish, feed him for the rest of his life."
ZurielWraithblades So are you saying the war on Iraq was worth it or even justifiable? I guess you are still waiting for them to 'grow up' are you. Many of those 'kids' who grew up then probably remember only the horrors of war, and losing their families and loved ones around them. You think it will be so easy for them to thank America for their 'freedom'? Do you realize the turmoil that they have had to endure for the past decade? The abject poverty, the dysfunctional government with endless infighting from the different factions, sectarian instability and corruption running rampant.. Yeah they may have a little bit of freedom nowadays from Saddam's totalitarian regime but that just might be outweighed by the chaos they are now experiencing. And it's going to get worse my friend before it gets better.. if it ever gets better.. by the look of things over there, it's on an ever downward spiral.
I agree with Matthew Walker .. GWB's agenda was never really about a 'war on terror' or 'weapons of mass destruction' and certainly never was it in defense of the welfare of Iraqi citizens in general. It was a self-serving agenda with economics as the driving force behind it all. It served as a convenient distraction from problems at home with the economy and there were of course the concerns over securing the oil reserves. And we can't forget that the insatiable hunger of the 'Military Industrial Complex' - a lovely warning phrase coined by good old Eisenhower - could not to be ignored by Bush as he pumped billions of dollars into the beast to make all of them defense contractors happy and fat...
I applaud Matthew for realizing the futility of it all. The governments of the day - whether headed by Republicans or Democrats (Obama isn't much better in this regard I'm afraid) are driven by the strong arm of big industry and their own selfish interests. The government is no longer 'for the people' which is quite sad. The gap between the rich and poor is ever increasing while the government continues to perpetuate the madness and feed the corruption, lies and rhetoric. Matthew, I think you and citizens like you have to take back your own country.. little by little. Push politicians to change. Start thinking local, and what you can do to improve the state of your community around you. There is no easy answer, but you have to tend to your own flock before you can reasonably help others.
Don't get me wrong though.. there is value in having a military and I think Matthew eluded to this as well. If there is a direct threat to our own sovereignty or freedom, they should be brought into action. But we shouldn't be meddling in other people's affairs where we don't belong. War from afar is cold and calculating with a blatant disregard to the 'casualties of war'. I can't and won't condone this. If the military was utilized for positive action and grass-roots building of societies for them to become self-sufficient, then I would support this function of the military. War does not bring peace, but 'helping thy neighbour' might.
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I see you completely miss wtf I was talking about as all you focus on is 'right and wrongs' of US's invasion of Iraq. Right or Wrong US made a bloody mess of their country and you cant just walk out the door.
Governments thrusted up and not backed up fall and chaos of that follows is worst then anything..see Afghanistan after Russian invasion and UN/US lack of backing/support after Russia left...If the world had helped and stayed with Afghanistan back then we'd not have the complete mess it is today.
What the World needs to do is invest in long-term support, both civil and military until that country can actually support its own self by itself like most other countries and it could do prior to said 'war'.
As I said in my before statement it takes a Generation to stablize a country after being so gutted. Im not American and hell I hope they DONT thank you for screwing them up for decades to come, USA did as much damage as previous government and if you walk out now..more...What I hope is that they can atleast look at you and say "well atleast you didnt leave us holding the bag" but guess what..we didnt learn from Afghanistan in the 80s and we are repeating it again today in both Afghan and Iraq..and by us I mean every member of EVERY 1st world nation.
ZurielWraithblades Perhaps I did misinterpret what you said, but you don't necessarily have to get hostile about it to state your case. And perhaps I was a bit emotional too and I apologize. Also, I'm not American either, but probably no better anyway ;)
But I think it's quite hard to pinpoint where everything has fallen off the hinges so to speak. America has made mistakes in diplomacy in the past, so have others, actions always have consequences (and perhaps inaction as well), but we fail to evaluate those potential consequences based on past experiences. It always seems shortsighted - after the fact. Why? Because we're meddling in things we don't fully understand. Who would have thought the Taliban would have become such a threat? Hindsight is 20/20.
America has had a history of directly or indirectly supporting fanatical groups to achieve their end game, only to create a new adversary as an end result. They let Afghanistan go into turmoil because they basically got what they wanted.. they got the Soviets to withdraw and after that, their interest waned.. apart from trying to install some U.S. friendly leaders who either got assassinated or later resisted their own U.S. agenda. All the while, a civil war was brewing paving the way for other threats to easily step in.
It's a complex dilemma.. With a loooonng history of meddling in foreign affairs, it ends up being a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' scenario. For America to have stayed in it, the resources, finances required was a big detractor esp. when the benefits to America seemed unclear at best at the time. Who do you support? The Mujahideen? Which sub-group? Because they were all fighting each other! 'One big mess with no clear solution' was probably what they saw..
***** I always get hostile when I am 'assumed' or treated in anyway as American. Many will flame me but since atleast when the Empire of the Rising Sun attacked them and forced them to join 2nd Great War, they have done more harm then ever good. (by my tally of opinion). Though at first it was with good intentions its slowly like all things in America and now often in most 1st world countries..$ the sole true driving factor.
Going back to what was said in the video...'it wasnt always that way'...I do believe we could and chose not to see what Afghanistan would become, no Taliban wasnt expect but we knew better we choose to forget and ignore cuz it was easier. A country that has had its entire internal structure ripped out is going to become someone rotten's playground. We cant predict fully who..but fact that it WILL is the reason we need to stay. Yes we will still screw shit up, and yes it will be bad, costly and hard...but alternative will cost more.
Like all debts, longer you let them grow, more you pay.
This was one of the best monologues in the history of television. I love it.
It's not.
Absolutely.
Its not ... a monologue.
Dan Everton How is this not a monologue??
@@michaelmoroso9137 A monologue is a long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation. There was nothing tedious about this speech.
Hands down, literally one of the greatest moments in TV history.
StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video.
@@picklerick7207 He tried. He failed. Check out the comments in his video ripping him a new one for several years :D
I'm an old Englishman, even so, I know what is happening in US politics as we approach 2024, and it's not good. The entire Nation is captured by fake politicians and fake news. However, I still believe that DJT will fix it, because NCSWIC!
I keep coming back to this year after year. It rings true in so many ways. Every word from that outburst is what the underlying problem is. “America isn’t the greatest nation in the world anymore. But we sure used to be.”
It is a perfect critique of both sides of the political spectrum. Why people don’t like to pick a side lest they get caught up in a cult of personality due to modern technology and how social media operates. No matter your views, nearly everyone in the US agrees that there is something wrong with America. But all we hear is how absolutely amazing it is and how we should feel horrible for either contributing to the downfall or horrible for thinking it wasn’t amazing in the first place. The ideals of freedom of ideals, of speech, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, were just that: Ideals.
They were ideas that the men of our past fought for. Was it practical? No. Not in the slightest. Yet they fought all the same. Not to make America perfect, but to make it “a more perfect union”. From day ONE this country was not envisioned as a perfect bastion of star-spangled awesome. It was an experiment, a project meant to self improve over years, over generations, into something we could all be proud of.
The men who started this nation were flawed to say the least, so too were the people who further improved upon it. No one was a saint, no one was a demon. America was tested again and again both by foreign powers and our own domestic issues. We stumbled, we fell, we realized our mistakes instead of brushing them off. That is what made us an America worth fighting for, worth preserving and worth advancing. We were built upon change, upon seeing where it could take us to brighter futures. But now we don’t do that anymore.
I try to speak to people on all sides of the political spectrum. One thing I have noticed is a few arguments against another’s policy they might agree with. The “It is not practical” defense. The term “it is not practical” or “it will never happen” are two phrases that are poison to how our political system works! Murphy’s Law states as such, so why not stop fearing the concept and start using it to fight for what you believe in?
Is it impractical that I feel I shouldn’t go bankrupt after one visit to the ER? Is it impractical I feel I should be able to defend my property if someone throws the first punch at me? “It will never happen!” Both sides of the left and right tell me when trying to convince me they are the right choice. And my question is “Why?”
Why are they so impractical? And why should that even matter? These are ideals. Ideals are not reality, but dreams we wish to strive towards. Why do they have to be practical now? Why can’t we do what we were known for in the past: Figure it out! Why have we stopped fighting for the American ideal and instead are forced to pick one bunker for the sake of “practicality”? Why should I sacrifice my hopes for this nation and get nothing in return except fear the other side will come and get me? Why should I not call out someone on my side when they don’t do what they promised? What kind of cult is that?!? Who let a cult start to run politics in America of all places?!?
My point is America isn’t the greatest country in the world anymore. But it could be again. It has the potential regardless of practicality. We need to wake up, to realize that both sides throwing us in these bunkers are the problem. We need to vote not for one side or the other because we fear our opponent, but vote for who we believe is best in our hearts. We need to stop choosing the lesser of two evils, we still lose in the end. We only set the bar lower every couple of years.
The solution is we vote for ideals, we actually read the constitution and take from it the words and culture of “a more perfect union”, of “all men are created equal,” and of the foundation that this nation was made of the people, by the people, and for the people. We, the millions of individuals within this nation, hold a power that those governing us fear we realize. The tables shifted, but we can shift them back. All we need to do is realize how to skirt their game and hold their feet to the political fire when they no longer hold the interests of their citizens to heart. Is this idea practical today? Hell no it isn’t! But it is an idea worth fighting for, and that is the most American thing you can do. Stand up, use your voice instead of your fists, and use your words to fight for what YOU believe in. Not what other people tell you to believe whether it be family, peers, or politicians. What YOU believe in, after thinking and reflecting, and coming to your own conclusions. Will you agree with everything? No. Will everyone agree with you with everything. Also no. But if you stand by your beliefs, beliefs that you choose instead of it being forced upon you, and use your speech instead of violence, you are being the most patriotic American possible.
America is not the greatest nation in the world anymore. The question now is: “How do we the people fix it?”
The Truth hurts. As a child of the sixties this is not where I thought America would be today.
I believe that in the 1960s, despite the problems of a disastrous Southeast Asia war and overt racism, there was a prevalent belief that people of conscience could (and would) create a culture that honored talent, intelligence and decency. America just had to pull together and take on the challenges. It's more of a struggle now because, in spite of all the patriotic language, we are not really committed to being great if that interferes with being comfortable and entertained.
@@rr7firefly amen to that !!!!
The Cold War, Vietnam, Korea and Cuba all happened because the US thought it was their right as victors to a war they didn't partake in up until Pearl Harbor (America's allies called for aid and recieved no answer but Pearl Harbor was what got the US in?) to waltz in and stamp out communism wherever it may land. Communist nations refused to do business with capitalists, and places like Cuba, Korea and the like represented potential traders to suck dry. Never mind the fact that America was butthurt as most countries were sympathetic to communism, giving rise to public healthcare, education and co-operatives, instead of the capitalist regime America tried so hard to propagate. America only seemed good back then because its government has been brainwashing its citizens for decades with relative success, and those it failed ended up as the downtrodden.
Like, holy hell, the US dropped nuclear weapons all over populated islands just to see what would happen and those cases are still being fought to this day. People were still unsure if abolishing slavery was a good idea.
America isn't bad now. It always has been. It's just the information is readily available now so people think it's a recent occurrence.
As a child of the sixties, I agree that America is not even close to where I thought it would be today. We have gone downhill as the hippies had kids and realized they did need M O N E Y and to get it, they had to "sell out". They sold out their ideals, their morals, and their creativity.
The sixties is not recognized for what it was. It was America's GOLDEN AGE. All of the arts thrived: music, painting, sculpture, literature, philosophy, poetry, etc. The sciences thrived with space exploration. Our IDEALS were sky-high. We wanted free love, free music, free food, free everything. We wanted lives of creativity, or meaning, of drugs, of sex, equal rights, and freedom from Calvinism and repressive religious rules. Playboy magazine was great, not only for the open sexuality, but for publishing the best writers of the age. Bradbury, Mailer, Baldwin, Heller, Kerouac, Vonnegut, and dozens of others.
I studied history, and if America ever had a true golden age, it was the brief period from about 1960 to 1970. That was THE decade. If you pluck that out from the 20th century, all you have left are two world wars, a Great Depression, and the atom bomb.
But most of it went down the drain. We hippies are older now and are either retired or back to building pyramids for the Pharaohs. Our society is full of useless work. Wall Street. Diapers. Metamucil, Valium, college tuition, nutty presidents, school shootings, and ethnic and racial hatred. The sixties vanished in a cloud of weed smoke. When the smoke cleared, we were back in 1930. This ain't the year 2020 we hoped for back then. I can do without flying cars, but wtf happened to the music? Where is our moon colony? Why are we still burning coal? Why do we have so many nukes pointed at each other?
Anyway, that's how I remember the sixties. Maybe you see it like me. Or differently. I salute you all by holding up my first two fingers in a V shape and say to your all, "peace, love, and flower power". Sure, it sounds kinda silly, but wasn't it good to try to have? Didn't it fill you with hope?
I was CONVINCED that Tricky Dick WOULD be the worst president I would ever have to deal with...BOY was I wrong.
8 years. This clip is 8 years old. The better part of a decade. And it’s been relevant the whole damn time.
It’s literally never stopped being true.
It's been relevant for a whole log longer. I remember having a discussion about these statistics in 2006
The clip is 8 years old, but the show was on a decade ago. These issues have been relevant since the 90's. I should know, by cause I was alive during that time.
Hell, it might even go further back then that.
@Benj Smith Productions So you are a conservative embarrassed by the reality of it? The "West Wing" was the best show on TV for 5 years and a great show anyway the last couple. the "Newsroom" wasn't nearly as good, but this segment should be required viewing for all schoolkids.
Really now? Tell me how CANADA has "freedom." ua-cam.com/video/t0KB0Wl4TNs/v-deo.html
And it’s clearly gotten worse.
Every once in a while I have to go back and watch this speech, again. Truly great writing and amazing delivery.
Me too
I enjoy moments when the wilfully ignorant are shown the truth that they don't want to admit
Man after the Roe vs. Wade overturn today, I'm seeing this clip popping up everywhere...after watching it, I can see why!
This is, always has been, and always will be the greatest speech about our country.
It's not.
Absolutely.
edoardogargano and why is that since your commenting on everything
Except it is.
The Newsroom has given the 'greatest speech' about the USA ever? Get a fucking grip.
If only Sorkin had any idea just how much further the bar was going to be lowered still.
Southpark episode about JJ Abrams raising the bar.
@@PomTarsons tell me you have autism without telling me you have autism
This still brings tears to my eyes.... and I don't even care who knows it. It's brash, to the point, and everything the people of America in 2021 (and every year) need to hear. This is my favorite clip on UA-cam.
this is also my favorite yt clip. I come back to it everyone once in a while.
Same here.
Yeah, youtube. An american company!! Along with a lot of the most popular apps and websites....and Apple and Google and Microsoft, etc etc etc. It's funny how many people benefit from america and then, like the complaint about it. Even use our satellites to connect with the world.
. And people complain about america on youtube an american company.... Along with a long list of other websites that are american..... Using american satellites to communicate around the world........ Using apple products.....Samsung, A company only possible because america rescued south korea, along with a long list of other countries..... Many of the most recognizable products in the history of the world are from america.... People benefit from america all the time and they complain about it....
Just started watching this series. Great show. I wish that a leader of our nation would say this. And inspire us all to do better.
“Sorority girl, just in case you wander into a voting booth.” BURN
What does sorority mean?
@@jbruv2393 it’s the female version of a fraternity
@@jbruv2393 basically it’s a college club for wealthy young women, typically white women
Michelle Ta no, dumbass, it’s for braindead partying and other degeneracy
@@HaloDude557 yeah, so he's right lmao
That is one of the best speeches of truth I have ever . Way to go Jeff Daniels.
Lordy!
He's just essaying his character!
You know, the one which he didn't create? 😏
Way to go, Newsroom’s writers.
@@BrunetteGiant Aaron Sorkin, he's a legend of a writer check out his imdb!
@@just_doug YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That's an original line that someone took from me. :(
No it's not, he's not saying anything real. He's throwing a bone to both sides to get everyone on board, but no one actually thinks like he's pretending to. I have spelled this out so many fucking times.
it's amazing how true this really became over the years. I remember watching this video so long ago and it was very true back then and I can't believe how even more true it is today... I wish everyone would just recognize and accept that there IS a problem so that we can come together and fix it
I'm not even American, but I feel the feel and message of this video basically applies to anyone who thinks their race/religion/organization/whatever is the absolute bees knees. If everyone was just a bit more critical about the things they do and the things they are part of, we'd be a lot better off.
Many can't bear to step outside of their own ego and recognise their flaws
Key statements to sear into every young Americans heart: :
We didn't beat our chest: We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for: We aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it: We were informed by great men, men who were revered.
Says it all.
And to me nearly the most critical piece is a visual: the small cardboard signs - that were really there in the room, he didn't imagine it - "It's not". "But it can be". Optimism. Pure optimism.
Young american: " You said 'great men' instead of people, you sexist, chauvinistic pig"
* ignores the rest of the statement and misses the point
@@jamesbonnell7023 💚💙❤️💜🧡💛
And yet those statements are still wrong.
To the 401 people that disliked this: you're what's wrong with America.
His whole answer is basically the gods honest truth
Bender Rodriguez I like it all except for the part where he said the people used to be well informed by great mean. I’m curious at what point a large percentage of the population was well informed ever in american history.
Trump supporters disliked this video.
@@Action_Figure_King Well I hate to say that in the last election I actually voted for Trump. But I had two evils in front of me and had to pick the lesser of two. Even then that turned out to be just as bad over the last four years.
I don't normally correct people but I think it proves a point here.
*You're
*God's
@@ronsaustin your spelling is if you believe in the Christian God. I don't believe in that so called God.
The Reason we are not the Greatest Country in The World Anymore - is that The Greatest Generation - who went through the Great Depression and WWII - didn't want their children to suffer the way they had - and they spoiled them rotten. Not that the Greatest Generation was perfect either.
The worst thing they did though was they raised a generation of children who thought they were entitled to whatever they wanted.
He talks about being informed - and - The Greatest Generation, despite their poverty - could mostly read and write - and they read newspapers. You can cram a lot more information into a small amount of space in a Newspaper - compared - to the amount of information that can be conveyed through Television or worse yet - Social Media.
Electrons are complex - and it gets worse from there.
The Talking Heads you had in the early days of TV were all trained as Print Journalists. And yet - Walter Cronkite (whom this show lauds for doing so) did more to lose the Vietnam War in about 30 seconds than Johnson or Nixon did as President - and millions of people died and were enslaved because of that. Thousands drowned, were raped or robbed and murdered by Pirates as Boat People fleeing the Communists.
Of course Truman had abandoned China to the Communists - terming the aide sent to the Corrupt Nationalists as _Sand down a rat hole_ . Tens of millions died because of that. Look up _"The Great Chinese Famine"_ on Wikipedia. The Communists killed between 15 and 55 million people during the Great Leap Forward in and about 1959 by accident (which is not counting all the millions they killed on purpose). Think about that. The Nazi's killed 6 Million Jews in Concentration Camps - and 4 million other people they didn't like as well and that's only 10 million. 15 Million - is the low number. 55 Million people (about the same as the number of people who died world wide during WWII) may have died as well. They don't know - because the people who would have kept track of that - died too.
Obama abandoned Iraq to ISIS - and it was Iran that saved it.
Trump Abandoned the people who had fought for us in Afghanistan when he negotiated a Separate Peace with the Taliban - and Biden carried out that agreement. Remember 9/11? Thanks to Trump and Biden - the Terrorists who attacked us and dropped the World Trade Center - won.
The Greatest Lie Ronald Reagan ever told the American People was "You are good people." We aren't. Of course ... no one else is either. We aren't worse than everyone else - we just aren't any better. We like to think we are - but - we're not.
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The US has never been the greatest! Just one of many examples like segregation of black people right up to the late 60's.
Take a look at what Henry Kissinger did btw, also look at the actions of the CIA under the behest of Eisenhower et. al. You'll quickly find that America wasn't exaclty the moral good facing off against "communism."
We stopped wasting our tax dollars on shitass foreign wars that did nothing and weren't helping anyone. Sounds like a win to me.
We are living that moment about what you said 😢
"If you ever accidentally wander into a voting booth" ... classic! :)
In this time of the Coronavirus, this is 100% true
You both completely missed the point of you think this is only true now. It's been true for a very, very long time.
@@ronsaustin America has always been hostile to non white people . i been to severla countries but some reason american seem to be very hostile it in the energy the minute you talk to someone
not because of the virus. That's something as a consequence what we did in the last decade.
@@taoyu2806 You do know that all(Older) country at some point in history had wars and massive murdering spree right ?
@@taoyu2806 I'd say there's probably 2 windows, after 1863 when they came up with the Emancipation Proclamation basically ending up slavery up to 1913 just before WW1 and they were starting the production chain and innovation was at the forefront, I would easily say that in that time period they were ahead of any other country. The 2nd window would probably be after WW2 between 1946 (First computer completed) to 1991 when globalization started in USA and all the jobs went elsewhere... there was an amazing economical grow because of it but it also killed part of what America was about. For those 2 window USA was without a doubt the best country in the world, innovation, education, economy. movie industry(Hollywood), Stock Market, medical field, Law, etc...
Everything this man said about why America was great is slowly fading away and things like cancel culture and greed have over taken our society.
“We waged war on poverty, not poor people.”
“We didn’t scare so easily.”
“The first step in solving a problem is recognizing we have one.”
Powerful monologue and so relevant today now more than ever.
To say that cancel culture has taken over our society and that's the reason it's slowly falling apart is delusional.
"We didn't scare easy..."
Cough cough McCarthyism
I cannot remember the number of times I have been drawn back to watch this scene again and again. It is brutally honest. Sorkin is a genius and unfortunately usually overlooked.
Thanks Aaron. This is from a Canadian that used to revere USA as a philosophy/way of life to aspire to.
Makes me cry every time i see this. This Country now is not the one I grew up in. We need to stand for integrity, truth, and each other. This 5 minutes is worth being seen by everyone in this country
I was told to watch this by a team member who worked for me. This is ringing true daily. Lastly, who says people that work for you can't enlighten you.
I am a die hard American, but there is so much wrong with the country that could be fixed. Is America the worst place to live? GOD no, I’m still grateful to have been born in the USA, but as he said, America is not the best country in the world anymore. Sure, it’s hard to point out what is depending on what you are defining “the best country” by, but it’s not America anymore. I’m not a politician and I don’t claim to know all the answers, but you can know a problem when you see one.
What I find amusing is there are so many Americans who think they live in the best country in the world, but have never travelled outside the USA .
This speech is Jeff Daniels best. This gave him the Emmy and it was worthy.
tbh i think his speech in Gettysburg convincing the Maine mutineers to fight with them is his best but this is a close second for me
I love how everyone sitting next to him realizes that they have no chance of stopping him.
"I can't follow that"
Well they asked for a "human response" from him...
Well, that's because it was written in the script that way. 😉
I always re-watch this scene, upwards of ten times in a row. I think the entire country needs to hear this again.
I come back to this speech time and time again and it never fails me.
Interviewer: *"what makes America the greatest country in the world?"*
Answer: *"Freedom and freedom"*
Interviewer: *" I'm not letting you go back to the airport without answering the question"*
Yep, sounds like freedom to me.
They keep singing that word over and over again as if freedom and America are mutually exclusive, when in reality, America has always been a slowly progressing nation by fighting systems of injustice towards achieving the necessary standard of what freedom should be. It took until this year for LGBT citizens to be federally protected from being fired on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity! There's no oversight or enforcement of laws being broken by politicians and racial minorities still need to fear for their life and well-being when they go out in public.
So every time I hear someone say we are their greatest country in the world or freedom is what we stand for, I lay out the brutally honest truth. We are not the freest country in the world, that would be Holland where you can solicit a prostitute and smoke marijuana in front of a police officer and nothing would happen to you.
Flash I agree, you’ve watched Jim Jefferies haven’t you lol?
“Freedom and freedom” is such a stupid answer. It made no sense whatsoever and she put no thought into it.
Exactly what I was thinking.
"Freedom and freedom" LMAO. The USA is literally the country that installed dictatorships in most of Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the country with one of the most vast and impactful histories of racism in the world. USA is not even close to being one of the best examples of freedom.
Show: The Newsroom S01E01
Actor: Jeff Daniels
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Jaydev Raol I loved this show, I was mad when they stopped it!!
@@chrism.4600 I know, easily one of my favorite shows. I was pissed that people shit on the writing because it's amazing.
Tony Scott I Agree, Great show, great cast and great writing, Arron Sorkin is a great writer.
Sorkin, FTW
How could people decide to say the writing is shit when it’s literally Aron fucking Sorkin wrote it
He said what everyone outside of America knows is true and correct.
Hello darkness my old friend.
7 years ago and this is more relevant today than when it released...”we didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn’t scare so easily ... we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were Informed”
Sometimes the truth will not be what you want to hear & even hurt like hell. Unfortunately his statement is true.
No it's not sometimes, it's most of the time only we don't accept it, we onlt accept it when it hurts us less
Your are right, but as they say, the truth will set you free.
Well that moderator asked for it...
One of the greatest monologs I have ever hear (Jeff Daniels is awesome). An honest view of our selves. It holds true even more today.
By FAR the greatest explanation of the USA still today!!!
I'm in the Air Force and I'd fight for this man.
This is one of the top 10 moments on TV of all-time in my judgement. His statement is so true on so many levels. He says what only alot of people are thinking and wanting to say.
Every American should start each day by watching this clip, even though it makes me cry realizing how true it is; and how much worse it’s getting every passing day.
Right on target. This should be required viewing/listening for all people. We are not the greatest and we're slipping fast.
StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video.
@@picklerick7207 He tried. He failed. Check out the comments in his video ripping him a new one for several years :D
@@picklerick7207steven crowder is a fucking tool
Watching this after the George Floyd incident and after pondering why multimillionaires and multibillionaires in the govt twiddle their thumbs over deciding whether or not 40 million unemployed and starving Americans get ONE more payment of $1200 is exactly what comes to mind.
One more? Fuck, I haven’t even gotten my first one
Amen. 🙏
People will always take advantage and want more thats just what happens. Exactly we WERE led by great men, men who were revered
Usually, the people with this take on the situation are doing well financially
Lol at actually being satisfied with their worthless bribes. Either open up the economy or embrace communism. There is no in between.
You stimulus advocates are the equivalent of “Let us eat cake”
yep, smiling watching this. nothing is more relevant than this video right now. get it right America?
So much truth. This is surreal. It is now an open secret.
June 26, 2023 - This speech is even more relevant today.
StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video…
"So when you ask: "What makes us the greatest country in the world," I dont know what the FUCK you're talking about. Yosemite?"
Thats some hard shit.
I love watching this.
since i have not had a tv for over 40 yrs i did not know it was a show
i thought it was real if only it was and people woke up
saw the truth and began to do something to change our society
that would be the best holiday gift of all
I love that you don't have TV. Bravo to you! I applaud you.
I watch as little TV as possible because I don't want to be brainwashed by their politics, corporate-controlled news, and commercials that tell me what I should buy.
The only shows I watch are commercial free - like on pay networks (I won't get Netflix), and the occasional 'helpful' show like on car repair, or nature, or space exploration. I am the demographic that advertisers DON'T want to reach lol.
My friend loves the political shows. I tell him, "Dude, it's all a big show to take your mind away from what's really going on. and what's really going on is the biggest transfer of money from the 99% to the top 1% in the history of planet Earth."
We are no more. There's no integrity, no loyalty, no faith. No forgiveness. No love. We are no longer the greatest county in the world and it brings tears to my eyes. It will never be the same again.
Every single person in the world needs to see this!!!
This makes me misty-eyed every time I see it...
I tried to show this to my parents when they told me America is the greatest country in the world. They absolutely refused to watch it. Show's a lot about their intelligence and character as a person.
uses simple facts to debate against them...
I am from India saw it when it was released. And I have tried explaining the same thing abt my country to my parents they had the same reaction as your parents had. I guess we are in minority and the world is fucked. But there is hope our numbers are increasing if the world survives it would be because people who thing humanity matters and logic matters. And I like variety in culture cause it brings different food and flavours of life. It’s just that we need to think in good competition in countries like how to make better lives for citizens.
Great is such a widely opinionated term that left unaccompanied by an adjective that means something. America is the greatest in imports, greatest in social media game, greatest in many different categories. But it is not the greatest in everything. It has its weaknesses. Every country has a weakness and a strength. Many comments say "Canada, Australia, New Zealand are amazing countries. Yeah and their government still steals natural resources such and oil and natural gas from poverty stricken countries such as Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea. Claiming to provide freedom in exchange for the rights to all their natural resources. Canada can be a strong economic power from their business with the US all you need to do is cross the border so tourism is a big boom in Canada hence why major cities in Canada are right across the border. America is a great country but it certainly has its weaknesses. Just like every country in the world.
Rio that’s what his point is that there no proof that says America is the greatest country in the world. If the question was is America great then I guess yes just like most of the countries in the world. And as per American values goes it use to be free trade and democratic values atleast within the borders( cause we all know how many dictators America has supported for their own benefit as well toppled government who were elected). Now since 2016 the country which went japan in 1850s and force it to open the borders and trade is making protectionist Policies. ( it was always there for certain sectors but now propents of free trades and acting communist what an irony). Let the market decide but I guess they are not able to keep up. Right now America is the most powerful and dare I say still the biggest economy powerhouse in the world but the hippocracy is for all to see. And I haven’t yet touched about how the people whose Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal went on with slavery for 90 more years after adopting that line. And killed Native Americans to brink of being less than 2 percent of the population. Shall I go on.
@@Dumbliberal 90% of Native Americans died from the disease that Europenians unintentionally brought over from Europe. They were immune, Natives were not. It's sad, but a reality. No one is saying that the bubonic plague that killed over one-third of the population of Europe and was brought from Asia was because 'yellowman' hated 'white' man. As for US, there was one political party that pushed slavery and exterminated Native Americans for their land - the democratic party. Andrew Jackson was not what America represented. If there was political support to stop slavery early it would happen. Unfortunately, that's what people back then did - they owned slaves. It is worth mentioning that no republican owned slaves in 1860 - something to think about. While Haiti was the first nation to abolish slavery, northern US states did so as well in 1804.
So true. Don't want to live there!
I agree with everything except the implication that we ever were the best in the past. We have things other places don't, yes, but I’m sick of politicians acting like we have to be better then everyone else. Maybe we could fix our problems as a country if we stopped focusing on trying to show up other countries.
I would rather say you can immigrate or emigrate elsewhere than the US only if you can afford it.
Freedom and freedom but not for everyone
Well, look at that! America is now the world leader in other two categories:
1. total COVID-19 cases;
2. total deaths by COVID-19.
Isn't America great (again)?
Pretty sure they still have a lot of adults who believe in angels.
How dare you to say like that. They don't have times for that.
damn straight. ‘murca
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this is the sad truth
1. Per capita false
2. Per capita false
First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.
• StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video.
I wish he said « it could be » instead « it used too ». That second part of the speech is 80% bs
I love how all three actually initially answered in 'one sentence or less'.
This clip brings me to tears everytime I see it and see the state of our nation.... 😭
Best monologue ever. I don’t know when everyone became so damned scared or when the truth became lies and lies became the truth.
Two words: american exceptionalism. This damned awful convinction that America is somehow better than every other country which only americans believe to a point where a scene like this can be shot and the realistic reaction that is portrayed is a collective gasp at the phrase "America is not the greatest country in the world". Now think about this exact scene, change America with any other country and the crowd of americans with the crowd of that country and at best two people will gasp. Because nobody is that much arrogant. There's a lot of proud people from very different countries, even very patriotic. Nobody in the world, even under freaking dictatorships is that much deluded to think their country is that awesome, because *all countries have very real issues* . Americans simply cover their eyes and ears and go "lalalala we're so awesome and free".
It's been twelve years since Aaron Sorkin released this series. And America has only gotten more embarrassing since
That 49th in life expectancy statistic is really showing its true colors now.
YPA Reviews what do you expect from a country who’s primary health concern is greed
I think it has dropped a little farther now...
*"I'll die before I let them vaccinate me with their experimental 5G chip doo-dad!"*
@@krishanubanerjee6955who told u that
Bashed the nail right on the fucking head ,and cracked the board.
Quite stupid eh?
he couldn't say it more this is the truth
StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video.
I living in Italy, and believe me, there's no freedom also here
This scene is like so many years old and yet its more truthful right now... today than what it was when it first aired...
Most definitely, and it is time we recognize this and start making changes to fix stuff. Look at The Red Deal book just recently published. If we follow what Black Lives Matter movement and the Red Nation are trying to do, maybe we can help our white selves free us along with all our sisters and brothers of color.
Rewatching this in 2020 just amplified how true this this actually is
Hi, how about re-watching in May 2021?
@@galicjuszpostrzyzynski4041 hi'how about watching it now while 🇷🇺 fight 🇺🇦
Sad but true and it has only gotten worse 😕
I remember when John Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
What happened to that sentiment.
With all that's going on now, I thought of this video and came back to it. Any one else?
So true this almost made me cry. It's sad what's been happening.
Huh
Yeah, it was getting worse in the 2010's. It barely got better in those days. Thank God it's over!
"Australia, has freedom..." Did not age well.
Well the Victorians didn't ...
it took me two years searching to find this clip thank God am watching it now
StevenCrowder debunked this video in his Newsroom Rebuttal: America Is Not The Greatest Country In the World? video.
@@picklerick7207
Nope. Stop lying as Crowder didn't refute anything.
@@Pikkabuu He refuted everything.
@@picklerick7207
No. He refuted nothing. And you still haven't tackled what I said about his BS.
@@PikkabuuYes he does.
The single greatest opening monologue of any TV series, period, ever, period.
It hooked me into the series right off the bat. One of my fav tv series - such sharp writing, great characters, and fantastic interactions. Sorry it ended.
And in realistic Sorkin fashion, the series goes on to show that America condemned him for telling the truth and nothing he said registered. They aspire for the entire show to tell better news, but the dream is never fully realized.
So keep trying. Admit the USA is not perfect. Have honest discussions about how to make it better. And then try to improve things.
Just because the dream hasn't been realized YET doesn't mean we should give up.
Keep trying.
Biden will be announced the winner today. He will admit that the USA can be made better if the hatred of right and left for each other is ameliorated.
And make Aaron the next president. (Or at least get him to write Biden speeches.) :)
Anyone else watching this in 2021 and getting anxious realizing it's more relevant than ever?
@jo tr lmfao yeah but there for have Biden trash
Sweetie as someone who was alive during his "great" time. No honey no he is remembering history through rose colored smeared glasses. I believe in every generation that came after me. Y'all gave me hope that some day America truly could be great.
3:05-3:12 "So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FXXK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
Came here again because I saw Jeff Daniels on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I never get tired of this clip
This scene aged well for 2024.
Watching this as 2023 comes to a close and man… what a scene. We Americans need to realize that we are not the center of the universe. We have faults, just like everyone else, and just like in the video, we need to recognize our problems so we can start trying to solve them.
Agreed. And problems always arise when American exceptionalism becomes the thing that everybody latches on to. That's when strongmen conmen like Trump start popping up and sucking the country dry.