Now we see a lot of lawsuits going after the media as well.
You covered this recently on your show.
People are more and more trying to hit especially alternative voices with lawsuits.
Even John Oliver right now is facing a lawsuit by coal CEO Robert Massey.
They're coming after the comedians, Pap.
What do we do here?
Well, the first amendment still is holding up pretty well.
You've got some great case law in place.
The Times case.
You've got about five cases that this Supreme Court has not obliterated yet, and the appellate
courts don't seem to be willing to do that.
But I really do believe, as this public opinion moves further and further against the media,
it's almost a self-imposed problem that they're developing.
I think of the Trump issue.
Look, we can all agree the guy's awful.
Shouldn't be there.
But if all you're doing every night is turning on that television ... The Trump supporter,
middle America, is turning on CNN or MSNBC, whatever it may be, and all they hear is the
attack, the attack, the attack, they, at some point, start developing this mentality that
the media is not our friend.
I'll tell you where it really applies.
If you think about how important this new race war that's developing in the country
... There's no other way to put it.
It's purely a race war.
It is middle America versus others.
And so you come into this thing, and you want media to be able to tell the story, and be
credible in the way they tell the story.
But up to this point, they've spent seven months really affecting their credibility
by not focusing on things that maybe matter to people even more sometimes, if you can
imagine, than the Trump story.
And you and I both agree.
Nobody worked harder to try to defeat Trump than I did or you did, but we have to say
the media has to be aware of the fact that there's a long game.
It's a long game, and they can't damage their credibility in the process.
The more they damage their credibility, the more susceptible they're going to be towards
really getting nailed by a lawsuit someday.
Well, they seem to not understand or maybe not care that you can fight against Trump
and what he stands for and the racism in the country.
You can do that and also spend a lot of time dealing with actual major issues.
Corporate crime, and all that that is going on that is destroying so many lives as you
cover so well on your show and in your new book.
And I want to thank you for coming on and really highlighting those issues, the important
issues rather than just all the shiny bells and whistles that the mainstream media wants
to act like is all that matters.
Thank you, Lee.
I appreciate that.
Thanks, Pap.
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That Time When the Elite of the Western World Rented Pineapples by the Hour - Duration: 7:59.
The humble pineapple is most often seen today either sitting proudly in the centre of an
uncomfortably well stocked fruit bowl or being used as the home of a lovable talking sponge.
However, between the 16th and 18th centuries, pineapples were so expensive and rare that
they were often displayed like fine works of art.
Converting exactly how much a whole pineapple cost back in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
to modern day dollars is almost impossible to do with any real accuracy.
That said, the general ballpark estimates tend to ring in at around five to ten thousand
dollars per pineapple, depending on such things as the quality of the fruit and season.
So how did this particular piece of fruit come to be so valuable?
After the pineapple was first encountered by Europeans on the island of Guadeloupe during
Christopher Columbus' second trip to the Caribbean in November of 1493, efforts were
quickly set in motion to find a way of reliably producing the fruit back in Europe.
(The fruit itself is indigenous to South America and had been cultivated there for centuries
prior to its "discovery" by Columbus.)
Despite sinking vast sums of money into the problem, European royalty, who positively
adored the fruit for its natural sweetness (sugar and sugary items being in short supply),
for centuries after its "discovery" the only real way to obtain a pineapple was to
pay to have one directly imported, which was no cheap affair.
Many transport ships of the age were too slow and conditions too hot aboard the vessels
to keep whole pineapples from rotting during the journey.
So to get a whole pineapple fruit safely from the plant to one's table in Europe took
the fastest ships and most favorable weather conditions.
As a result, virtually the only people who could afford to purchase a whole pineapple,
let alone eat one while it was perfectly ripe, were royalty or the ridiculously wealthy.
The first step to allowing the rich, instead of just the super rich, a chance to own or
even look at a pineapple wouldn't come for another two centuries after its "discovery",
when the Dutch were able to begin successfully cultivating the fruit in the very late 1600s.
Exactly who first managed to grow a pineapple in a non-tropical climate isn't known for
sure, though a woman named Agnes Block is generally credited as being the earliest to
do so around 1687.
While earlier accounts of fruit producing pineapple plants in Europe do exist, whether
or not these plants were cultivated in Europe or simply transferred to the continent as
juveniles isn't clear.
More important than Block in the pineapple saga, however, was Dutch cloth merchant, Pieter
de la Court, who is often cited as the individual who devised the most efficient (at the time)
method of growing pineapples in a non-tropical climate.
His method was mostly comprised of utilising hotrooms that were kept consistently warm
and humid.
These had to be carefully designed in order to vent the smoke and hot fumes out of the
structure, while keeping the weather inside, as well as the soil temperature, within very
specific ranges.
Accidentally burning down one's pineapple hotroom or killing the plants with smoke was
a very common thing in the early going.
After news of Court's ability to grow pineapples and other exotic plants and fruits year round
reached England, many nobles sent their gardeners to the Netherlands to learn his techniques
first hand at considerable expense.
If you're curious about why the Dutch had such a stranglehold on Pineapple production,
it's largely because the Dutch West India Company enjoyed an almost total monopoly on
trade in the Caribbean at the time, allowing wealthy Dutch citizens to import numerous
pineapple plants to experiment with, despite the expense.
As you can probably imagine from the many stereotypes that exist about British weather,
growing pineapples in England proved to be rather difficult and it's noted that only
exceptionally skilled or vastly wealthy gardeners were capable of such a feat.
A man called John Rose is often mistakenly attributed with growing the first pineapple
in England because of the existence of a painting commissioned by Charles II in 1675 in which
he's clearly shown presenting the king with a ripe pineapple.
As it turns out, the pineapple seen in that painting, which was based on a real encounter
the King had, was imported from the Bahamas and ripened in England by Rose.
As for the real first pineapple grown on English soil, that didn't exist until around 1714-1716
when a Dutchman called Henry Telende was able to grow one for his employer, Matthew Decker,
who subsequently had a painting commissioned in 1720 to celebrate the not unimpressive
achievement.
Telende's method of growing pineapples was quite involved, managing to maintain the perfect
soil temperature via a specially designed hothouse containing tan pits lined with pebbles
inside.
On top of the pebbles, he placed manure, then on top of that sat tanners' bark (oak bark
soaked in water).
Finally, the pot containing the pineapple plant was placed in that.
Manure by itself created too much heat in the early going, but the tanners' bark helped
regulate that and provide a more even heat over time, keeping a steady soil temperature
within the very specific range needed for growing pineapple plants.
Even after growing pineapples on English soil became a possibility, getting hold of one
was still so costly that many nobles didn't eat them, opting instead to simply display
them around their homes as one would a precious ornament or carry them around at parties.
Those who weren't quite as affluent could also rent a pineapple for a few hours at a
time.
This pineapple would be passed around from renter to renter for their respective parties
over the course of several days until finally being sold to the individual who could actually
have the right to eat it.
Because of this, even among those who'd handled pineapples, very few ever actually
experienced what it was like to eat a pineapple.
Due to the natural sweetness of the pineapple, which was described as being akin to "Wine,
Rosewater and Sugar" all mixed together, the fruit was seen as nothing short of a delicacy
by the notoriously sweet-toothed English elite living in a time when refined sugar was a
very expensive commodity.
Charles II in particular was said to love pineapple, partly due to its sweetness and
partly due to him being amused by the fact the fruit looked like it was wearing a tiny
crown; as a result, Charles II often referred to the fruit as the "King-pine".
A final reason the pineapple was so popular, at least with artists, was its unconventional,
striking appearance.
As 16th century Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes stated, "I
do not suppose that there is in the whole world any other of so exquisite and lovely
appearances…
My pen and my words cannot depict such exceptional qualities, nor appropriately blazon this fruit
so as to particularize the case fully and satisfactorily without the brush or the sketch."
Dunmore_PineappleIn fact, after the pineapple's introduction to England, it became a prominent
feature of art and architecture of the period, such as Scotland's now famous Dunmore Pineapple
(pictured right), commissioned in 1761 by the Earl of Dunmore.
So the next time you order a pizza and see that they casually put pineapple on it when
you clearly told them not to (because who on Earth would want to sully delectable pizza
with a sweet fruit?
;-)), remember that three centuries ago, even just having said fruit, let alone discarding
bits of it off your main dish, would have been the ultimate sign of wealth and excess.
Today, you might have heard of the tradition of presenting someone with a pineapple as
a housewarming present.
This tradition goes back to the time described in the preceding article when presenting such
a gift was seen as a magnificent gesture.
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and time that went into making these planes our reality
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