D.L. Hughley Rips George Clooney & Others as Cowards for Turning on Biden
D.L. Hughley is going scorched earth on George Clooney for calling on President Biden to drop out of the presidential race ... and he says Democrats are missing the big picture.
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00:00I find the whole tone of this insulting, I really do.
00:05I find it insulting for a couple of reasons.
00:08I watched a man get convicted of 34 felonies.
00:11I watched a man get adjudicated for sexual battery.
00:14I watched a man who got convicted of fraud and never have I heard this fervor from the
00:19media in general about his qualifications to be president.
00:23George Clooney never talked about, in that whole article, he didn't mention Project 2025
00:27once.
00:28What is this Stephanopoulos?
00:29None of them did.
00:30But you're going to tell me how somebody's old?
00:32The polls are showing a downward spiral.
00:36That is not true.
00:37Joe Biden's-
00:38That is not true.
00:39Well, it is.
00:40That is not true.
00:41Every poll, DL, is showing that.
00:43But-
00:44They're virtually where they were.
00:45The polls are virtually where they were.
00:47No, they're not.
00:48That's not-
00:49No, they're not.
00:50No, they're not.
00:51They're just not.
00:52And you can look at the CBS poll, look at the CNN poll, he is losing in every battleground
00:57state now.
00:58Okay.
00:59Polls aside.
01:00So the point I'm making is the people who are saying that Joe Biden's mental acuity
01:06is just not there anymore are not supporting Donald Trump, at least in the Democratic Party.
01:12Your point is that the mass media tends to be more liberal.
01:15They want to defeat Donald Trump, but they don't think Joe Biden can do it.
01:20Well, okay.
01:21Maybe they don't think that.
01:23But the conversations that they're having are not really the things that will-
01:27If Joe Biden is a nominee, I don't know how you buy this back.
01:30But if we were having conversations, if as was for in Project 2025, the Department of
01:38Education is disbanded, who does that hurt?
01:40If the social safety net is gone, who does that hurt?
01:44If environmental rollbacks are taken back, who does that hurt?
01:48If women lose the right for their bodily autonomy, who does that hurt?
01:52So I would respect people's right to have their vantage point.
01:57But for me, there's a decided difference between somebody being disappointed with the outcome
02:01of an election and having a disastrous result from it.
02:04So if we're going to have conversations, let's have conversations.
02:07What is really at stake?
02:08The worst that would happen is if Joe Biden couldn't do it, a very competent, capable
02:12woman would step in and do it.
02:13So how is this a real argument?
02:15How is it a real argument?
02:16Your point is stick with the incumbent because history shows you have a better chance with
02:21the incumbent.
02:22But if it doesn't, and if he can't continue, you have a good backup.
02:26So what is the worst that can happen?
02:29What Democrats are saying, the worst that can happen is that Joe Biden, the handwriting
02:34is on the wall and he's going to lose the election.
02:37Ain't I a Democrat?
02:38Don't I talk to me as a Democrat all the time?
02:40Why is it that George Clooney, here's the truth of the matter.
02:43We have a decidedly different vantage point of what we need for this country.
02:47We do.
02:48If you look at the demographic breakdown of the Democratic Party and how they break down
02:52and why they vote the way they do, we have a different vantage point.
02:56And all of this hand wringing, one of the reasons Democrats have problems because they
03:00oftentimes look like feckless cowards, cowards.
03:03Yeah, I understand what we're up against, but we've had worse.
03:07But to have these conversations and not mention the remedy, which you already have, is that
03:12a competent vice president who's already leaning in the polls would take over.
03:15It's a false narrative.
03:16You've never mentioned that.
03:17There are people, there are people who are saying in the Democratic Party, they want
03:23Kamala Harris to be the standard bearer for the party.
03:27They got her.
03:28They already got her.
03:29As a standard bearer, not as a vice president.
03:31As the actual candidate.
03:32As the candidate.
03:33Let me tell you something.
03:34Why would you right now make a president in this culture lesson a lame duck?
03:40It's stupid.
03:42Because he would lose to Trump.
03:45You know what?
03:46Here's what I'll say to you.
03:48I'm bored with all of this hand wringing.
03:51What it is, is the fight we have.
03:53If he stays, then I got to find a way and people got to find a way to win.
03:56If he doesn't, we still got to find a way to win.
03:59Stop having this argument with me.
04:00I'm not talking about you in general.
04:02With the people.
04:03If the worst that can happen is that Kamala Harris takes over.
04:06The worst that can happen.
04:07The worst.
04:08You don't have to give them the power of incumbency and this.
04:10And if you're going to have a conversation about how old he is, have a conversation about
04:14how old they want to take this country back to.
04:16Never once have I heard this conversation in any substantive matter for anybody.
04:20And my people and communities of color, everything's at stake for us.
04:25And I have these conversations about George Clooney.
04:27Yeah, he's not the man he was in Ocean's Eleven.
04:30What are you talking about?
04:34This is crazy to me.
04:35I'm so tired of cowardly people who just don't understand.
04:41Who just don't get it.
04:42And if they do get it, name me a time when somebody gave up the incumbency and won.
04:46If you can vote for a convicted felon, I can vote for a cadaver.
04:49If you can vote for a convicted felon, I can vote for the cryptkeeper.
04:54I'm voting because there are things that are so concerning that I can't let this happen.
04:59And watch these.
05:00It is so cowardly, it's ridiculous.