Tim Dillon is hard to pin down, politically speaking.
He’s no progressive but he chafes at some conservative platforms. He’s not aghast about Trump 2.0 but doesn’t agree with the President’s aggressive, anti-illegal immigration measures.
One thing is clear. Dillon sees right through today’s Legacy Media outlets.
The comic sat down for a long chat with CNN‘s Elle Reeve this week. He delicately debunked some of the reporter’s stubborn narratives piece by piece.
The biggest? Dillon and his podcast chums helped Donald Trump win re-election.
He didn’t scream or yell. Nor did he turn the conversation into a “clown nose on/off” affair. He spoke clearly and patiently, even when Reeve clung to her narratives like Kate Winslet staying afloat in 1997’s “Titanic.”
In the process, he mocked the far-Left news outlet to its face.
Dillon started by sharing why audiences no longer embrace Legacy Media outlets as they once did. He didn’t bring up the extreme bias or relentless Fake News attacks.
He chose a more elegant approach.
“The news has said a variation of the same thing for a very long time,” Dillon began. “And people tend to get bored.” Sources like CNN and Fox News “fell on opposite sides of the same question,” he added.
He said younger Americans grew up online and prefer digital news sources, not the “fake, stilted corporate speak of the traditional legacy media.”
Later, Reeve pressed Dillon on the power of the so-called “Dudebro” podcast universe, but he stuck to his argument.
“I don’t know if it’s that comedians have gotten smarter or the media’s gotten dumber,” Dillon said, lobbing the journalist’s question back at her. “The media has become predictable and boring, and the Internet has been an antidote to that.”
Dillon says his podcast bookers reached out to both Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Tim Walz to appear on his podcast, presumably before Election Day.
Both declined the invitation.
Dillon also shut down the interviewer’s insinuation that he and his fellow podcasters (Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schulz) tipped the election in Trump’s favor by inviting the former president and future Vice President J.D. Vance on their shows.
Dillon skewered the talking point with restraint.
“It would be pretty difficult to look at these podcasts … after running an incredibly unpopular candidate who was introduced very late in the race because an elderly man who could not be the president who everyone was told was functioning as the president for the past four years,” he said before they were interrupted by heavy winds outside of their taping studio.
