Roger Waters gave two interviews recently. It's likely he planned on only the one, but when things didn't turn out so well with the first one, he sought out an opportunity for a second, to set the record straight.
Roger's first interview was with Michael Smerconish. Smerconish has a regular spot on CNN. Smerconish is very "MSM".
The half-hour interview, with Roger shouting at Smerconish at times (but almost always with a smile on his face) was cubed, cut, diced, and sliced by a dedicated CNN staffer down to a mere seven minutes. Roger wasn’t happy.
Roger turned to Russia’s RT.
RT, financed by the Russian Federation, won’t interfere. Any number of independent reporters attest to this. Their boss Margarita Simonyan takes her job very seriously, explicitly not hiring journos from the "old school" when she started the station, even going so far as to "ambush" Putin himself.
Roger Waters got an unedited thirty-six minute interview with RT's Eunan O'Neill where he explains what happened at CNN and what message he’d like to get across.
Michael Smerconish responded by posting the full interview, not shown by CNN, on his own personal website and at YouTube.
Here’s Roger’s interview with RT. Rumble clips don't embed as well with Substack, so your tap or click will instead open a new tab. The interview goes on for about thirty-six minutes.
(Or click: https://rumble.com/v1frsr9-why-should-us-decide-how-everyone-behaves-roger-waters.html)
Audience Reactions
The comments below are taken from the pages of both clips. They’re faithfully reproduced with typos and all.
Roger Thanks for everything!!!!! por el arte, por la humanidad, por la verdad!!!!! Argentina loves you!!!!
Wow.. when Rodger Waters talks about his message and recites the lyrics from echoes, it gave me chills
Watched this many times, tears in my eyes. As an ethnic Chinese, with family living in both mainland and Taiwan, enough of lies the MSM has spread, enough of hatred it had caused. Unbelievable arrogance and ignorance. Thanks Roger for seeing the world with your own eyes and being brave enough to tell the truth 💖
Nice!! Been waiting all weekend for this release and it did not disappoint. It would be phenomenal to get a longer interview with him.
Absolutely love Mr. Waters' knowledge of what is really happening around the world and who the true villains are. It's a plus that he isn't controlled by mainstream media and can be forthcoming with the truth. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Intelligent man. The US government never keep their words,.
Thank you Roger, one of the few that can be counted on. From start to finish.
Very very few would dare to speak the truth, but this man has always been on the side of the truth.
And nowadays, when LIES are all we get from Media, telling the truth is so revolutionary...
I wish many others had the courage to stand up to Goebels' countless BIG LIARS
Is Roger Waters related to Donald Trump because he has so many of The Donalds Traits . He wants to Be A Prick but does Not want to take any Responsibility for being A Prick ! Rodger wants to criticize the United States all while benefiting from the Great Wealth that he Collects from US Music Tours ..... Waters is obviously Grossly misinformed and uses his Platform to disseminate his Vitriolic Misinformation..... Grow Up Roger Waters and stop blaming others for your Bad Behavior
sparkles of truth on western media.....
10.28 DondAss - LOL -Roger DumbAss.
Great to see Roger still challenging himself and others to know the truth. Yet, he goes and breaks your heart at the very end with his glowing assessment of Bill Clinton "just speaking the truth". Roger needs to do some reading on the Clintons. Perhaps the Epstein flight logs and details on the Clinton body count would be a good place to start.
I didn't know mr. Smerconish but from the very beginning he has exposed his propagandized superficiality, wittingly or not, yet he had such shame to claim himself to be a reader (or "I read for a living..", "I'm not a talker, I read.. ")... It's not just an extreme case of lacking self-awareness; it's a serious delusional persona. An entertainer, a people pleaser, fame chaser... NEVER a reader, thinker, even less a journalist. He countered Roger, to whom he claims to be a great fan, with the most disrespectful, despicable laughs since he obviously couldn't muster any facts or solid argument except for some braindead propaganda he "read" on WP. It's cringy and awfully embarrassing to watch him exposed himself in front of a truth teller.
He told the truth that many professionals are scared to read about or educate themselves about fearing loss of income and status. Why are people scared ??? That says a lot.
I'm not sure if we will survive as a species. I am sure that our only hope is to wake up & listen to the good people of the world like MLK, Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters & many others who are part of the silenced & censored minority. Unfortunately Michael your views are extremely mainstream, bias & flawed like far to many.
Good to get to know Roger a bit better. Smerconish is not a good listener. Roger has a bit of TDS tho.
This reporter obviously don't know anything about history,like Roger says Russia liberated Europe from nazi Germany & that's final.
Our role as liberators???
A propagandist vs a truth teller. CNN is an embarrassment to the truth.
Waters is a Putin puppet but pretends he isn't, he doesn't say much about the real aggressors and trouble makers the Russians. No mention of the stirring of trouble for years and the invasion of Crimea that started it all off. He knows perfectly well that RT is Putin's propaganda channel and is happy to appear on it more than just this time.
The American Swamp is the REASON for Ukraine. They're not going to facilitate talks that would expose or, worse, derail their gravy train.
Thank both of you for the interview. Roger speaks nothing new for me, but it is so refreshing to listen to someone else orating exacting how I see things. With one exception, Putin is not the callous leader whom Roger places in the same basket as western leaders. Sorry, but not correct, Putin was forced into his position of conflict with Ukraine, NATO and the USarsewipes.
He is worried about being a Putin puppet and so he blames Russia like a hypocrite doing exactly what they want ...I hate that shit from these fake peaceniks.
Finding an American who maintains a consistent anti war stance is rarer than a dodo bird
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I am here for my fish
There is little hope to think the Banderites (neo-Na -zis) are interested in any form of concession to a peace that excludes racist fascism. Gut then one has to accept that there is such a thing as a just war.
The motivation is outstanding but asking Biden to stop a war that Biden and his evil friends and masters have carefully designed themselves for years seems to me a bit unrealistic. Therefore, the war goes on. We need another idea.
Only thing I disagree with Mr Waters is president Putin “butting heads” . He has repeatedly pointed out to the west, not to cross the line regarding Ukraine!
Did I hear correctly that he called Putin a lunatic?
The Girl in the Café
Release date: Saturday 25 June 2005.
Richard Curtis is the unsung hero of Red Nose Day. He tells (not often) of how he met this hot girl he really fancied, and how she told him she was on her way to Africa to do charity work, and he so fancied her that he asked if she’d let him come along (to Africa) and she said OK and he did.
But when the duo arrived in Africa, their hosts split them up, and poor Richard was left all alone, in a village in the middle of Africa.
Richard noticed a row of huge metal containers at the village's edge, big enough, evidently, for several people at a time to live in. Richard told the villagers he was curious about the containers, asked them what they were. One of the villagers volunteered to show him around.
'The people who die two weeks or more ago, we put them in this first one. The people who die only last week, we put them in this one. The people we think will die this week, we put them in the one at the end.”
Extreme poverty.
Richard's annual Red Nose Day campaigns have raised billions. The movie above - The Girl in the Café - was written by Richard Curtis. It premiered on the BBC on Saturday 25 June 2005, two weeks to the day before Live 8.
Live 8 in Hyde Park 2 July 2005
Two weeks later, after the premiere of The Girl in the Café, Waters and his bandmates reunited for the first time in 24 years at Live 8 Hyde Park London.
“Do the right thing.” - Mary Waters
“Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me.” - Roger Waters
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.” - Nelson Mandela
“Zips shrink here. And it is possible in Reykjavík to have a night of something close to love.” - Gina