On today's show, we discuss the death of a black man in the hands of police in Philadelphia, the fact checking feature on YouTube's Fact Check, and the latest in the Biden vs. Trump campaign. Plus, we have a special guest, Bill Richman.
00:03:39.000It keeps them safe and it keeps other people away.
00:03:43.000So this story, the way it was presented on CNN this morning, verbatim, was, protests erupt in Philadelphia today after police killed and shot a black man.
00:03:53.000Now, let me provide some actual context here.
00:04:32.000It's like, no, I'm Hamilton, but not that Hamilton.
00:04:35.000I'm the Hamilton who sings tunes and stabs cops.
00:04:38.000I just happen to be named Hamilton as well.
00:04:42.000I understand where the confusion arose.
00:04:44.000So, There have been protests in Philadelphia, and police did shoot a black man.
00:04:51.000Now, the black man in question was Walter Wallace Jr., and police were responding to a call about a man with a knife, and he charged at the police officers with a knife.
00:05:00.000For those who have not seen the clip, I warn you, it may be disturbing, but here is what actually transpired.
00:05:37.000That guy was clearly charging cops with a knife!
00:05:40.000And people are saying, the cops didn't do anything to de-escalate.
00:05:42.000Well, what do you do when a guy is charging you with a knife?
00:05:44.000And here's something else that I think people need to take into context.
00:05:47.000We all have, I was talking with the audio before the show, we all have relatives who maybe have acted out for, let's say a relative who maybe was an alcoholic or domestic abuser.
00:05:55.000We had someone who we sort of witnessed swatting around their child, a distant relative.
00:06:00.000And we're like, oh my gosh, we don't know what this person is capable of.
00:06:03.000So we didn't trust them around anybody.
00:06:16.000As far as I'm concerned, someone who charges at cops with a knife with the intent to attack them, as you clearly see there, that is someone who cannot be trusted to be anything other than violent at all times.
00:06:28.000Yeah, they gave him more time than I would have, right?
00:06:53.000And by that I mean potentially your future president.
00:06:55.000I mean this is a situation where it's in broad daylight they can see what's going on and this gentleman didn't just you know he wasn't just standing there and he's being arrested and maybe he reached for his pocket or looked like he was reaching for his pocket.
00:07:05.000He moved around a vehicle towards them with a knife while they're shooting at him while other people are shouting at him to stop and they're backing away and taking this action.
00:07:13.000I mean there's just there's just no question that I think that anyone who criticizes this is really saying oh well he was just gonna threaten with it or yeah he was just gonna use the tip just a flash.
00:07:24.000Just a tip to see, just a tip to see if it kills.
00:07:39.000You believe in completely defunding the police.
00:07:41.000If you don't believe that police have the right to defend themselves, and of course people in the community, by the way, people of color, women of color, we didn't care about that with Jacob Blake, right?
00:07:49.000It doesn't matter that he committed sexual assault, because at this point, this is the victim du jour, which isn't even just people of color, it's people who happen to get shot by cops, regardless of whether or not they sexually abuse other people of color.
00:07:59.000And in this scenario, if you don't think that a cop has the right to defend themselves when they're being charged with a knife, Okay, you believe in totally defunding the police.
00:08:06.000And I tell you what though, if they continue rioting and looting and it makes its way out to Lancaster with the Amish again, bye bye Pennsylvania.
00:08:14.000We're already seeing the polls coming in.
00:08:16.000You have a guy who said he's going to ban all, not just fracking, all fossil fuels and now they're going to start rioting and protesting.
00:08:21.000The only reason Black Lives Matter went away was because the DNC has had a talk with them and said this is showing up.
00:08:42.000I believe they were called because of a man wielding a knife.
00:08:45.000But at the time of this broadcast, I don't know for certain.
00:08:48.000We do know that he had a knife there, as you can see in that video.
00:08:50.000Right, so here's the trade-off, right?
00:08:52.000If this is outside of the bounds for you, a cop being able to defend their own life to make sure they go home to their wife and kids that night, or their husband, then they're just not going to come when you call them with a man with a knife on the street.
00:09:03.000They'll be like, well, hey guys, sorry, we can't come for that because if we have to defend ourselves, you're going to try and kill us.
00:09:08.000Yeah, well no, they want to call a social worker who can come up and ask him about his mom.
00:10:03.000People just don't realize how bad this is.
00:10:05.000I don't think I've told you guys this story, but one time I was representing, a federal judge asked me to represent An inmate in a pro bono civil case.
00:10:12.000And I did, and he had to come from jail for his deposition.
00:10:15.000Marshals brought him out and set him down.
00:10:18.000And during one of the breaks, I'm sitting next to my client defending, you know, objecting to the deposition questions that are being asked by the prosecutor.
00:10:26.000And one of the marshals pulls me aside during the break.
00:10:28.000He goes, hey, do whatever you want to do, but I would just recommend that you not put your pens or pencils near your client.
00:13:13.000I don't understand how robbing a store is now the way to end oppression, when the store is likely black-owned, black-employed people working at the store in your own community.
00:13:24.000When did this become the thing, those five pairs of Nikes are going to make things okay?
00:13:29.000And the other person in there, she said, they ain't got no socks.
00:13:31.000It won't make it okay, but it'll make it better.
00:15:15.000I think this is where I would say, from a legal standpoint, objection irrelevant.
00:15:21.000And I hope we have an insurance policy on Professor Brendan.
00:15:24.000I don't know if it covers murder hornets.
00:15:26.000I think it covered Japanese killer hornets before we whitewashed the name.
00:15:31.000All right, we're going to move on here to the censorship ACB, but first, please do subscribe if you are not on Apple Podcasts, Android, wherever you listen to audio only, because it's also available there every Monday and Thursday.
00:15:43.000And we'll be taking your live chat when we go exclusive to Mug Club after this, people who are not yet a member.
00:15:47.000Okay, so my question is, we all know about Facebook and Twitter, right?
00:16:17.000We've been fact-checked, but then we've been fact-checked when then their facts have changed, so we were fact-checked on being right first.
00:16:23.000So, it's like the inception of shitty fact-check.
00:16:30.000So we're going to be talking about that.
00:16:50.000Look, I did think it was pretty ridiculous that, you know, you had a privileged male, you know, making sure that a privileged white person was sworn in.
00:16:57.000I mean, that's what I'm pretty sure the CNN spot on was on that.
00:17:02.000It's like, oh, what, is there any other characteristic you want to just checkbox their progressives and Democrats about these people who are doing this thing?
00:17:09.000Well, you know what would have been great if Clarence Thomas came out and took him from, he just like came out with lipstick and rouge.
00:17:16.000He just came out like, Bitch, I'm Clarita.
00:18:37.000And here's another one from an angry- and by the way, this is just one- whenever someone is doing a talking like this, you know, that's- they're crazy.
00:18:45.000We saw that before with the lady who was bitching about Donald Trump, and of course when Chris Crocker was talking about like Britney Spears and Leave Her Alone.
00:20:25.000I don't understand how they can unironically talk about how having a woman who has been successful by every measure Ever created by either side, up, down, left, right, center.
00:20:37.000ACB is super, super successful, and yet the people who are attacking her the most are white women.
00:20:55.000Turns out I can do it all, thanks DiGiorno.
00:20:58.000That is, and by the way, DiGiorno, send us a check, that is what ACB is, and it infuriates the left.
00:21:05.000Like most, most, you cannot have all things.
00:21:08.000You can't typically be the career woman and also be the kind of mom that you want to be, have the kind of time with your children that you want, but if you look at the decisions that she's made throughout her life, it is, she's about as close as you get.
00:21:38.000I am a queer, drama, PhD student, and I cannot be... and I don't need someone to... I had to have an abortion because it was the most pain... I didn't have time in my life.
00:21:51.000It's like, okay, well I actually have seven children.
00:21:53.000I've adopted... is it seven children that she has, or five children?
00:23:00.000You don't count unless you are queer, and then depending on the- black.
00:23:04.000Remember we went- We had Black Lives Matter was the thing for a while, and then when, okay, Donald Trump, we went to the Pussyhat, that was really big, and then we went to the trans thing where they could take dumping targets and that they should be allowed in the same barracks in the military, and then we went back to, we're like, you know what, let's go back to the black thing, and then someone says, hey, hey, some of these people who we're talking about who are kind of turning into martyrs, they sexually assaulted women, we're like, no, no, that was me too, we're done with that.
00:23:46.000Just Joe Biden wandering around in the background.
00:23:49.000Speaking of oppressed, Reza Aslanian, I believe, former CNN contributor, you know, he said that he threatened to burn the entire effing thing down if they tried to replace Ginsburg.
00:23:58.000And then people, you know, they brought up his tweet again and said, are you still planning on this?
00:24:08.000No, I don't know if that's, like, if he wants to get an early start on his Valentine, or if he is violating Twitter's terms of service by attempting to dox, or attempting to get someone to reveal private information.
00:24:20.000Yeah, the obvious insinuation is that he wants to burn Dinesh D'Souza's house down.
00:27:10.000It's coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus, Trump is bad, commercial!
00:27:13.000And they were spending money on, one lady saying, if ACB becomes Supreme Court Justice, I was watching this morning, is she going to ban my IVF?
00:27:28.000Didn't you just have your major candidate say that he was going to end all fossil fuels, which is the bedrock of the economy, of arguably the most important state in the election?
00:27:36.000You want people to bitch about IVF on Anderson Cooper?
00:27:40.000Like, this is where you're spending your money?
00:27:59.000It's COVID, it just messed everything up.
00:28:02.000It's like the Olympics, it's just postponed.
00:28:04.000Speaking of fact-checking, YouTube, so this is something we know that Twitter, Facebook are awful, but have you guys, this is my question, have you personally encountered the fact-checking tab, the little pop-up with videos on YouTube?
00:28:14.000Because this is something that's been going on for a while and we've had our conversations with YouTube, but this is something that I would say, just kind of like the last debate, I thought that, I forgot her name, the name of the female who was not Savannah Guthrie, the other one, Welker.
00:28:28.000She was worse than Chris Wallace because she tried to present it as though she was being objective.
00:28:32.000This to me is worse, and this is the person who was the catalyst for the Vox Apocalypse, sorry, this is worse than that because this is subtle, it's pervasive, it's subversive, it's, you know, we're just facts.
00:28:45.000We're sending you to a truthful source, but again, the problem is, just like Dinesh D'Souza talked about in the show, the measure of freedom of a country, and the same thing on these platforms, considering that they say they are open platforms, is whether the rules are applied equally.
00:29:01.000And I don't think I've seen a more blatant abuse of fact-checking than YouTube with these new little pop-ups.
00:29:06.000So, let's go through a couple of them.
00:30:13.000And there's so many more videos, we've run montages on this show.
00:30:16.000Here's the irony, is you can fact check YouTube's fact check by just searching for the videos on YouTube.
00:30:23.000Now you won't find them right away, right?
00:30:25.000You'll have to use some kind of dark web wizardry to actually find the many clips, the dozens of clips of Biden guaranteeing that they'll ban fracking.
00:30:33.000But YouTube is fact-checking themselves!
00:30:36.000I don't know what kind of legal liability that opens them up to, but oh my god!
00:30:40.000This is one... I don't know if there's a court in the land!
00:30:42.000Even Hirono would be like, well, me so horny, but you screwed up!
00:30:48.000It's, you know, and to get to the legal side of it, at one point they were saying, okay, we have an immunity that says we can remove stuff based on good faith.
00:30:58.000This is about affirmatively stating facts and making allegations that are completely untrue and just flip-flopping entirely on their position that they're just going to let the platforms be what the platforms are and only remove dangerous material.
00:31:11.000Look, we all agree that there's a certain level of material that does need to be removed, but we're way past that.
00:31:39.000But no, you're absolutely right, and this is one of those things.
00:31:41.000I said when it happened on election night, I said, oh, Biden may have just lost the election when he talked, when it was fracking, and Donald Trump said, oh, that's a good statement.
00:31:50.000There's a reason that this is one where they're the most aggressive.
00:31:52.000Again, if you type in the variants of Biden fracking, fracking Biden, Biden fossil fuel energy, try, just try a nice little sampling, like a Sherry's Berries of bullshit.
00:32:01.000And see what YouTube does, because they know that right now the polls are shifting in Pennsylvania and Donald Trump has created a new block of undecided voters who plan on voting for Biden going, I know I'm going to lose my job, which is also why we shouldn't have early voting for anyone and everyone, because things change leading up to election day.
00:32:18.000How many people do you think in Pennsylvania, after hearing that Biden is going to ban their livelihood outright, how many of them do you think, I wish I didn't vote four days ago?
00:32:27.000I wish I could have just sauntered on down to the grade school day of and give this guy the old heave-ho.
00:32:32.000Instead, we want everyone to vote as early as possible.
00:32:35.000And that's also something no one's talking about.
00:35:03.000Just stay out of this business altogether.
00:35:05.000You guys are not good at this, and you're not doing it right.
00:35:07.000Even if you're trying your hardest, which we know you're not, you're just lying, right?
00:35:11.000You're doing a horrible job, a horrible disservice to people who are just trying to find information going into an election that's very important.
00:35:17.000Can you get the hell out of the way, please?
00:35:18.000At what point is this election meddling?
00:35:19.000At what point is it election meddling where Joe Biden called Donald Trump xenophobic?
00:35:22.000Joe Biden said he would ban fracking and YouTube is saying that that's not true.
00:35:37.000Just think about how many free ads and exposure are given by this fake fact check.
00:35:43.000Again, it's not just, oh, Biden said ban fracking and now you're going to provide an additional link.
00:35:49.000It's any combination of the words on this topic at all results in, and I'm curious to see what the numbers of searches are for that, and the number of times people are seeing these free ads right in the lead up to one of the most important elections in our history.
00:38:41.000The number one most viewed multimedia website in the world says no when all evidence that we have, including documented video evidence and statements from law enforcement agencies and Intel, say yes.
00:38:54.000You don't think that can affect the election?
00:38:58.000Uh, it's not, it's also, by the way, it's important to, I have a few of them, but it's important to note it's not just the fact checks that are incorrect, but it's not including fact checks when even their partners, who they reference, they're like Snopes, rate Biden as false.
00:39:12.000So they're selective in their fact checking.
00:39:14.000In one scenario, Snopes or PolitiFact is legitimate, and then in the other, they're just not included at all.
00:39:20.000And that's what's, again, is it applied equally?
00:39:22.000And in this case, we have such a clear-cut case because the same fact checker, even on one says, you know what, we're going to have to give this to them.
00:40:03.000I mean, it's just like when we saw Dexter's Laboratory guy on CNN saying, yes, he did say the fracking.
00:40:07.000I mean, people are admitting in certain places, but it's not getting amplified.
00:40:11.000And that's the biggest difference here, is you're seeing for one side, one party, one candidate, a broad amplification of fact checks that are helpful to him.
00:40:24.000I give them no credit for that, by the way, and we have to pull this up.
00:40:27.000That fact checker for CNN, when he was asked that question earlier, said, you know, it's not necessarily true.
00:40:33.000I'll have to kind of give something to Trump.
00:40:35.000If you go to his website, Joe Biden actually says new fracking and new government leases.
00:40:39.000That was the first fact check they did.
00:40:41.000When Trump released the video, there's now no doubt CNN has to come back and clean that up.
00:40:45.000I want to go back and look and see both of those.
00:40:47.000We can put them side by side and see how they changed.
00:40:50.000I think that's the only reason that we're seeing any of that come out is because Okay, if you didn't see the video from Donald Trump tweeting it out or putting it out on his Facebook or whatever, you didn't follow him, you wouldn't see it anywhere.
00:41:00.000And that's why big media, they're putting pressure on big tech to try and silence Donald Trump and to fact check Donald Trump.
00:41:04.000So that's this unholy alliance that's taking place.
00:41:08.000The Vox Apocalypse, let's be really clear.
00:41:14.000It was NBCUniversal didn't like that there was someone out there who was cleaning their clock, and by the way, they also happened to co-produce a show with YouTube.
00:41:21.000Follow the money trail here, and now you have CNN and you have all these other entities who want to make sure that they keep a stranglehold on online content, and they can't compete in the realm of quality.
00:41:29.000Because while we actually sit here, we've just listed for you, I think just today, 14 sources that you can go and look up for yourselves, where CNN, they have legal analysts masturbating on Zoom calls!
00:41:43.000Depending on what you're looking for, I guess.
00:41:45.000Right now, by the way, they're talking on CNN.
00:41:47.000They're doing these Zoom calls and they can't even be bothered to get an actual microphone.
00:41:51.000They're talking about Donald Trump and talking about them stumping in swing states.
00:41:55.000Think of how much ground has to be made up by Donald Trump.
00:41:58.000Just what we're going through right now, the fact-checking, not including ABC, NBC, CNN,
00:42:02.000CBS, MSNBC, everything not named Fox News, and by the way, most of the time Fox News.
00:42:06.000If there were an honest press right now, or at least a fair press, even just a press that were honest about their own personal biases, this election wouldn't even be close.
00:42:16.000The fact that if I searched, did Biden, uh, is Biden going to ban fracking?
00:42:22.000Okay, the fact that I searched those and I am lied to by YouTube and that Trump is even within the margin of error should tell you everything you need to know about the state of this country.
00:42:32.000They try to say, oh, Donald Trump doesn't really have the popular vote.
00:42:35.000Well, okay, let's just add up the influence you have from big tech.
00:42:37.000And I think Epstein, not the pedophile Epstein, the other Epstein.
00:42:40.000So there's like 10 million, 12 million votes that are effectively bought through the censoring that takes place in big tech.
00:42:45.000Another one, this one's important because people will say, oh that's kind of hearsay and you know Biden says stupid shit.
00:42:50.000So maybe he didn't mean what he said about fracking.
00:42:53.000That's not, you can't really hang him on it because he has held two positions on every single issue.
00:42:59.000I don't, you know what, I don't allow that point.
00:43:01.000I agree with everything that you just said.
00:43:04.000But I don't like you, so I won't allow it.
00:43:06.000Here's another example of something very clear because it relates to economics.
00:43:09.000And the second that Biden wades into that, you can just hear the buttholes of moderators.
00:43:16.000Biden also claimed that the deficit with China went up under Trump, and if you search for it on YouTube, there's no fact check at all.
00:43:50.000Are these standards being applied equally?
00:43:52.000And just think of how much manipulation is taking place with this election.
00:43:57.000And I gotta tell you, I do think that YouTube is the most important—people talk about Twitter, people talk about Facebook, sure.
00:44:01.000Unfortunately, though, YouTube has—they have the biggest pockets, being Google and YouTube together, and it's where people go to consume media.
00:44:10.000So there's this semblance of some kind of authority coming from YouTube.
00:44:14.000They think it's an authoritative source, as opposed to their grandmother, you know, posting a picture of prairie dogs' testicles on their wall and below, a MAGA thing.
00:44:20.000You're like, yeah, well, but you posted prairie dogs' testicles.
00:44:24.000So I don't necessarily trust your political sourcing.
00:44:28.000I think that's a good point. I really do. A lot of people do go to Twitter and Facebook to find different stories.
00:44:32.000I used to, I usually go there to find somebody who's telling me like the on-the-ground story,
00:44:36.000so I get it unfiltered to some degree. And now I have fact checks on both of those.
00:44:39.000But this is like the last place, the last place that you can go to and just watch what happened for yourself, right?
00:44:45.000You can hear somebody comment on it if you want, but now you're even stopped and like, hold on,
00:44:48.000this didn't actually happen. And so people who are on the fence, like you said, they're gonna go there and go,
00:44:51.000oh, well, no, they have a fact check there on my Twitter.
00:44:54.000They have a fact check on, on, on Facebook.
00:44:56.000They have a fact check. It must not be true at all. Right.
00:44:58.000It's, it's like, it's like the person who just sits there quietly for a long time,
00:45:01.000doesn't say anything one way or the other.
00:45:03.000And then when they do say something, everyone's like, oh, well I guess that must be true.
00:45:08.000Facebook has been doing this for a long time.
00:45:10.000Everyone's discrediting their fact-checking.
00:45:12.000No one really believes Twitter about anything because Jack Dorsey.
00:45:17.000So now you've got YouTube, who has finally decided to step into the fray of labeling and deciding what content is what, and making affirmative statements about whether things are true or not.
00:45:27.000They clearly don't care about the sources because they're just citing whatever they want.
00:45:33.000Because they were doing this behind the scenes anyway.
00:45:35.000They were manipulating it through the algorithms anyway.
00:45:37.000We saw that with the Tulsi Gabbard situation going on where you would search Steven Crowder changed my mind abortion and an old PBS video would show up.
00:45:46.000So this is something that I think they've overreached again because they're trying to virtue signal to people out there who are saying, why aren't you doing more?
00:46:47.000But we'll make it a thing and we don't want to be fact-checked here on YouTube because, you know, it's gonna be really hard and so we'll just get banned.
00:46:54.000So YouTube, we'll make your life easy right now.
00:46:56.000Everyone else go to Mug Club, we'll be taking your chat right now.