In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, the comedian Russell Brand takes on the question: Is the media actually neutral on the Kamala Harris campaign? And why does it matter? Is it even possible for the mainstream media to be neutral on either side of the Trump vs. Harris debate? And what role does the media have to play in the election of the next Democratic presidential candidate? And is there any reason to think that the media could possibly be neutral in either of them? And if they aren t, what does that mean for the rest of us? And how can we, as a people, find common ground against the forces of globalism and authoritarianism in the face of so much propaganda and disinformation from the corporate and globalist establishment? All of which begs the question, is the media neutral on Trump or is it biased against him? And if it s not, what are we supposed to do about it? Or is there something we can do to make sure that we re all on the right side of history, and that we don t get hijacked by the propaganda machine? The answer to that question is, of course, yes, yes! And yes, we can be neutral. Join us in this episode, wherever we can find us, wherever and however we see it. . Stay Free with Russell Brand by staying free, and remember that we are all free, no matter where we are and no matter what we are in the world, we are free or not no matter of course ! Thank you for tuning in! xoxo, - Rachael ~ - . . . . , , , . , and & : ... ? ( ) -- | @ , & , etc, , , & . - and , or ; ) , And !! Thanks for listening to this podcast! , I hope that you re , Thank you, and I hope you re enjoying this podcast, and we appreciate it! - And I love you, - Gorms, ! - - & I love it! - R. - JUICY, GABE, GULP, GURGLE Dot
00:00:00.000Hello you Awakening Wonders there on Spotify, Apple, Stink Whistle, Gurgle Dot, or wherever you download your podcasts these days to remain at least peripherally connected to some tendril of truth in a bewildering miasma of lies and propaganda.
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00:01:17.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand and this is a day where freedom must be cherished as authoritarianism and bureaucracy insidiously claim yet more territory.
00:01:30.000We stand united as a glorious resistance Surely we shall drink to freedom.
00:01:36.000And next year, the revolution will have taken place.
00:01:38.000Hey, Bongino Army supporters, we love you, you're welcome here, always.
00:01:42.000You know there's been a truce between the Bongino Army and the Brandinis for some time now.
00:01:48.000And will similar truces be achieved across the world that we may unify and fight against the forces of globalism?
00:01:54.000Not that this isn't one globular spherical object floating uninsured through the infinite, so therefore surely there should be some solidarity among us and the maximum amount of control individually and communally.
00:02:10.000Not centralized authority, we should resist it wherever we see it.
00:02:26.000Let us ensure that we remain free here and free wherever we can, as we note that the media is doing an astounding job in amplifying for globalism, amplifying for bureaucrats.
00:02:41.000And again, look, take God Try to imagine, if you could, for a moment, that you were a juror in a Trump trial.
00:02:48.000That is to say, you're neutral on the subject of Trump, because that's what every juror had to claim to be, right?
00:02:53.000Now, remember, remarking at the time, who among us could be neutral on Trump or Kamala at this point, when we've received such various infernos of propaganda?
00:03:05.000From either side, you want to argue, because for surely I am suggesting that we achieve a position of neutrality.
00:03:12.000Who among us Could claim that this propaganda war isn't hotting right up.
00:03:18.000For example, let's have a look at, uh, before we get into this stuff, before we get into this stuff, let's look at some of those artifacts of propaganda, because our main focus today will be about how the media is ensuring you have a very particular perspective of the forthcoming American election, in particular the candidate of Kamala Harris, who they want to be regarded in a high light.
00:03:40.000And indeed, to my earlier point, my Sympathy or open-mindedness towards Trump came not from anything that he said or anything he represents, no, but from the ongoing condemnation of the media class.
00:03:57.000I thought, if they hate him this much, There must be something about him that's significant.
00:04:06.000Indeed, anyone that they want you to hate is surely worth thinking about again.
00:04:12.000And we're gonna have to put aside all of our hatred.
00:04:14.000We're gonna have to put aside all of our loathing.
00:04:16.000We're gonna have to find open-heartedness in ourselves and in one another if we're to be anything other than patsies, rubes and dupes for their system of If you're watching this right now on Locals, welcome you glorious community.
00:05:12.000Alphabet is a massive donor to the political and institutional class.
00:05:16.000Ultimately, they want to corral you into tiny, minuscule hexagons of inanity that your consciousness be controlled.
00:05:26.000We want to burst open that cellular structure.
00:05:30.000So that you can feel the new diaspora of freedom of which we are part and I thank all of you for the compliments on my garments and the simple truth is yes it is my wife's.
00:05:42.000I'm simply too lost in Christ to have time for Fussing over the wardrobe these days.
00:05:47.000I spent the morning in prayer with J. John.
00:07:00.000When is a Bordeaux Czar not a Bordeaux Czar?
00:07:02.000When does it become bizarre to claim that you were or weren't a Bordeaux Czar?
00:07:05.000I don't know, I don't know, but it's like, you know, that will be one of those involuntary laugh moments where an audience now has become more discerning than the propagandists recognize.
00:07:16.000We'll be looking at that Colbert moment a little later where Colbert said to that CNN reporter, You know, you guys are known for being neutral and the audience just laughed.
00:07:26.000That sound of laughter, that is the symphony of awakening.
00:07:30.000That is the symphony of our shared realisation.
00:07:34.000That is us coming to understand that They are, uh, it's so amazing, man.
00:07:40.000Sometimes I jump, I look over at the rumble chat and it's pretty good.
00:07:47.000All puppets, then they're afraid to debate RFK.
00:07:50.000RFK is getting a lot of heat, a lot of heat, and we'll be covering that in some detail a little later.
00:07:57.000Excuse me, I'm just going through all of my varied documents.
00:08:01.000Hey, before we go too far, I'll do a little shout out to our CEO of Rumble, Chris Pavlovsky, who's been talking about Dunkin' Donuts advertising.
00:09:31.000I mean, he should have called me for this.
00:09:32.000I could have given him some production design notes and some creative.
00:09:36.000I would get the donuts, store them internally, get a variety of colored like you know raspberry
00:09:43.000ones, chocolate ones, the regular vanilla color, and then if you're able to dilate on
00:09:49.000command you could dump them donuts right out of your butt.
00:09:52.000Now the problem is with the jelly filled, if you're a US audience, is that that could
00:09:56.000look like internal hemorrhaging and that might oversell the point.
00:09:59.000But that's just some advice on how to handle those kind of ideas.
00:10:04.000We live in a media age that we are having to become acclimatised to.
00:10:09.000We're having to learn quickly to discern the false from the true, to recognise the many false prophets, to recognise that we live in the false Luciferian light.
00:10:20.000The post-enlightenment condition, where we're given so much information that truly we live in its flood, deluged with deceits and untruths.
00:10:29.000Here are some plain moments that you may enjoy.
00:10:33.000At a Kamala Harris rally, some of her supporters are invited to list her greatest achievements.
00:10:39.000The propaganda machine wants you to consider her as a prosecutor, where evidently she had
00:10:44.000some successes, certainly something they're keen to hark back at, although I've heard
00:10:48.000people say that there were pretty punitive sentences for people convicted of marijuana
00:10:54.000offences, that there were some people detained criminally due to a relationship that a prison
00:10:59.000had with manufacturers that were using prison labour.
00:11:02.000So even that aspect of Kamala's career is somewhat murky, and in her position as vice
00:11:08.000president, prior to the ascent of a media campaign that has the unification that we've
00:11:14.000seldom seen, but for perhaps in COVID or when they want us to go to war for something, she
00:11:20.000has been reframed as a figure of salvation around whom the left, or what passes to the
00:13:21.000Or was there not anything to do about it, and so they're just kind of making things up?
00:13:24.000So, I don't think there's an issue with the border at all.
00:13:27.000Yeah, I feel like yes, illegal immigrants are coming to America, but that's what America is all about, is to come to America and live that American dream.
00:13:36.000Because America isn't just for the whites.
00:13:40.000No, it's for everyone around the world.
00:13:42.000We're supposed to be a country of letting people come in and do what they'd like.
00:13:49.000I mean, I understand that with, uh, they say the border crisis is causing all these drug issues and it's causing crime, but in my opinion, there's crime everywhere.
00:13:59.000You can go to New York, you can go to Canada, you can go anywhere across the world and there's going to be crime regardless.
00:14:04.000Yeah, it's a total... they're blowing it way out of proportion, huh?
00:14:36.000It, I suppose, is a clear indicator that we live in a time of vacuity where even ardent attendees of a rally are unable to say why they support a particular candidate.
00:14:51.000Lost in delirium, trapped in emotion, only able to offer invective and fury, or hollow rhetoric, rather than saying, I believe this candidate It's going to be good for my community and good for my family.
00:15:03.000Did you see that policy about how they're going to enable our community to be granted an entire budget and vote which bits we give to schools, which bits we give to hospitals, which bit we donate kick upstairs to defence?
00:15:16.000We're going to say that our community can take this number of migrants that would have to be registered in this way and participate in our community in this way and this is how we believe the borders should be used.
00:15:26.000That is why I so enjoyed meeting Phidias The dude from Cyprus who's become a member of the European Parliament who, through transparency, tells you how the EU works.
00:15:36.000And if you don't know how the EU works, then surely you'll be interested that Ursula von der Leyen, who's just been voted back into her position of uber superiority, conducted private conversations with Albert Baller, CEO of Pfizer, made orders of vaccines that ultimately turned out to be not 100% successful.
00:15:57.000And an interesting wrinkle is that her husband, you'll be astonished to learn, works in the pharmaceutical industry and received some of those contracts himself.
00:16:04.000There is so much room for transparency.
00:16:06.000There is so much room for information.
00:16:09.000In an age where people tell you, like the Democrat Party establishment will tell you, misinformation has to be controlled.
00:16:15.000Look at their supporters, uninformed, misinformed.
00:16:18.000Delirious, bewildered and unable to appoint even a single reason to vote for a candidate that they vociferously support and support through their attendance of that event.
00:17:15.000And indeed, the manipulation that's taking place in techno spaces.
00:17:19.000Start the YouTube countdown, would you guys, because this stuff's going to be too spicy for a media establishment that participates in that kind of propaganda.
00:17:27.000We're going to show you exactly how it's been pieced together and even show you some extraordinary footage of Donald Trump prior to his candidacy and how he was approached with something akin to affection by that off-cited coven of loathing The View.
00:17:45.000We'll also be looking at Bobby Kennedy and the kind of heat and hate he receives from the establishment.
00:17:49.000So click that link in the description, join us on Rumble, and let's speak freely and unite!
00:17:54.000Before we jump into that, and I've got so much more to tell you about actually, I've got some lovely stuff on war, because let's not forget that the apocalypse is encroaching.
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00:20:30.000We were able to look over the fact that they'd gamed it out prior, that there had been patents for vaccines years earlier.
00:20:35.000We can overlook the rise of the turbo cancers and the heart diseases and the Vertigo and the various neurological conditions that seem to be on the rise.
00:20:46.000The sudden rise in cancer in young people.
00:21:04.000Don't you dare try and monkey pox us yet.
00:21:07.000The World Health Organization tonight is declaring MPOX, formerly known as monkey pox, a global public health emergency as a new form... What do we call it, MPOX?
00:21:26.000The virus is now rapidly spreading across Africa.
00:21:29.000Cases have been detected in more than a dozen countries, most of them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more than 14,000 cases there, 524 deaths this year alone.
00:21:42.000Here at home, the CDC is urging doctors and the public to be alert for signs of the virus, including fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, And get inside your house when we tell you are some of the symptoms of MPOCs.
00:21:58.000Even breaking down the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, if you were to investigate the history of that mineral-rich, wealthy territory, its complexity, the conflicts that have been stoked and inspired, the exploitation that has taken place, the careful insertion of both Democrat and Republic into its name, when I'll take a Wild guess and say that the regime there are favourable in one way or another to the kind of interest that previously would have benefited from imperialism or colonialism, whether that had been under the Belgians or the British or America.
00:22:33.000Ah, surely the day will come where we will not yield to monkeypox, mpox, cat in a hat, Fox in socks, made-up diseases, ridiculous pleas for endless tyranny, but we'll unite and demand something resembling democracy together.
00:23:04.000I've not taken the time to measure him.
00:23:07.000But when it comes to being outspoken, you love him because of his Golden Globes monologues.
00:23:12.000You may love him because of his comedy series.
00:23:14.000You may love him because in rhetoric, he has remained true to his origins.
00:23:20.000Ricky Gervais has, throughout his various fame incarnations, just a true to comedy and true to hitting out all against hypocrisy whenever he's considered it to be necessary and relevant.
00:23:34.000I've not watched this yet, I'm pretty excited to see it.
00:23:35.000This is Ricky Gervais talking about politics.
00:23:38.000I guess he's talking a little bit about Brit... Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought I had an Olympic-style nip slip there.
00:23:44.000Why do I keep doing that at a major event?
00:23:46.000Remember, there was the Super Bowl, there was a nip slip.
00:25:20.000I think they should allow people to run for Senate or occupy Parliament or Congress but that Ricky Gervais should give the opening speeches instead of the grandeur of the King turning up or whatever you do over in your country with the Speaker of the House.
00:25:34.000Have Ricky Gervais out there for 10-15 minutes doing a Golden Globe-style takedown, and then you can get on with taking lobbyists' money and investing in companies that you benefit from, or doing PPE deals at the height of a pandemic.
00:25:57.000Let me know in the comments and the chat.
00:25:59.000While we're talking about the ongoing media furore and propaganda campaign that surrounds the ascendancy of Kamala Harris, you know that there are still wars on, you know that there are still parades, Taliban parades, made up of Well there's no nice way of saying it.
00:26:19.000Weapons that were left there by the botched departure augured and augmented by Joe Biden.
00:26:25.000Remember that guy blown away from the dust of history?
00:27:02.000And maybe it's not the Macy's Christmas Day Parade, but it's still enjoyable.
00:27:06.000They've done a good job of learning how to use that equipment.
00:27:36.000They've really adjusted over there in the Taliban to those tanks.
00:27:40.000That's American taxpayer tanks, is it?
00:27:44.000That's all staff like, where did you get that tank?
00:27:46.000Well, actually, I don't like to see people... Imagine if you gave something to a charity shop, Or, you know, and then you saw someone else wearing it.
00:27:55.000Like, if I gave this to a charity shop, and I never would because I adore this garment, but if I saw someone subsequently wearing it, I think I'd really question my original charity.
00:28:04.000Now, if this had been left by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden somewhere in Afghanistan, and then I saw people do it in a parade, I think I would feel agitated.
00:28:11.000And, you know, you can't do too much damage.
00:29:34.000Regardless, the fact is that Promises of yesterday are of as much value as Joe Biden's memories.
00:29:41.000Saudi Arabia are being sold weapons now.
00:29:43.000As tensions with Iran increase in the region, the United States has agreed to resume selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia.
00:29:51.000In 2021, the Biden administration placed an arms embargo on the Saudi kingdom after accusing Riyadh of human rights violations in the war against the Yemen-based Houthis.
00:30:02.000However, Washington says that Riyadh remains one of its most dependable allies in the region.
00:30:08.000Citing bureaucratic hurdles, diplomatic procedures, and geopolitical considerations, the United States will now sell precision-guided bombs and missiles to Saudi Arabia.
00:33:07.000So the bottom line here is yes, there may be more enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, but the fact is we're not seeing that necessarily translate in the almost certain vote.
00:33:15.000And one little other note, Sarah, I will note this.
00:33:18.000Donald Trump is more popular today than he was on August 13th in either 2020 or 2016.
00:33:24.000So the bottom line is, yes, Kamala Harris is doing better in the polls, but there's a long way to go.
00:33:29.000The polls can shift, the almost certain to vote hasn't actually shifted, and Donald Trump is more popular than he was at either 2016 or 2020 at this point.
00:33:37.000Ultimately, sorry about that, I've had a lot of time to swallow and chose the very wrong, the least favourable moment to deal with some saliva.
00:34:00.000Interesting to see that this still qualifies, I would say, as propaganda.
00:34:06.000It's a fear-based piece of propaganda to invite the CNN audience to, you know, that's to galvanize people to vote, I would say, is the function of that piece of propaganda.
00:34:16.000Don't, because of polling, become complacent, I would say, is the message there.
00:34:27.000Some of Kamala Harris's... One of the things about the Kamala Harris campaign is that she has become invisible.
00:34:34.000She has become, in a sense, the true inheritor of Biden's mantle in so much as she is Untraceable.
00:34:45.000It's difficult to know what she stands for, what she believes in.
00:34:49.000Even ardent Democrats, people that as yet still believe in this system, can't point to a Medicare or a New Green Deal, whether you like these policies or not.
00:34:59.000And here, a CNN reporter, stroke propagandist, one might imagine, but although he's asking a challenging question in this instance, asks, would it kill you guys to have a press conference?
00:35:14.000Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?
00:35:16.000Why hasn't she had a press conference?
00:35:20.000Listen, the Vice President and Governor Walz have been busy crisscrossing this country since the launch of this campaign and adding Governor Walz to the ticket.
00:35:28.000You saw the ways in which they went across the battleground states last week, generating rallies of thousands, 10,000 here, 15,000 there.
00:35:38.000But Michael, you know a campaign rally is not a press conference, right?
00:35:53.000You hear her take questions as she's out on the stump and she said last week we're going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month.
00:36:00.000What she's going to be focused on and what this campaign is going to be focused on is communicating directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes.
00:36:39.000I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?
00:36:44.000We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually going to decide this election.
00:36:48.000And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets that we have at our disposal.
00:36:58.000And the manipulation of information, the curation of a reality that becomes impermeable and is impossible for us to interact with, sometimes even impossible for us to understand.
00:37:11.000The authenticity and integrity that may once have been a component of politics has entirely disappeared.
00:37:19.000That might be evident from even that brief Dialogue there.
00:37:24.000But it certainly becomes plain when you look at the way that this campaign is continuing to unfold.
00:37:31.000Let's look now in some depth at the way that the media machine is supporting the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:37:51.000So old media, new media, galvanisation of the voter base and extraordinarily an intention it seems to make Kamala Harris a kind of phantom figure.
00:38:04.000They recognise it seems that the election is theirs to lose from the advent of Trump Aside from his 2016 victory, it has been assumed that the best way to oppose him is to stay out of his way and to focus on negatively condemning Donald Trump.
00:38:21.000Not to rely on the candidate who's opposing him, but to instead...
00:38:26.000Allow a kind of inertia and momentum of fear to gather around the figure of Trump who's already been sort of demonized to an outrageous degree to the point where you sort of forget that there was a time where Donald Trump was just regarded as a kind of Celebrity.
00:38:43.000He wasn't seen as a sort of a threat and as a menace and as a pseudo strongman 21st century Hitler.
00:38:49.000He was regarded as a kind of celebrity.
00:38:51.000Now Joe Rogan picked up on that and showed a bit of footage of Trump appearing on The View prior to the announcement of his candidacy.
00:39:01.000And it's really interesting just to note how he was dealt with.
00:39:05.000We're going to look at that first of all, then we're going to look at how they handle RFK, and then we're going to look as well at the fact that we're becoming more literate.
00:39:12.000Far from falling for misinformation and disinformation and therefore needing more authoritarian protection in the form of censorship, we're becoming so adept So discerning that we're learning to spot bullshit a mile away as Stephen Colbert's audience demonstrated a little while ago.
00:39:29.000But let's have a look at how it was not ever thus.
00:39:32.000There was a time where Trump could appear on The View and is kind of convivial, jolly almost, before he was required to be a kind of demonic Bogeyman of the left.
00:39:44.000Let's have a look at this appearance on The View.
00:40:47.000So, I'm gonna take you at your word that you have not... Really, it ought be the other way around.
00:40:53.000A more viable, appealing, and attractive universe would be one where he was once demonized and vilified, and then one day in the future, the cast of The View welcomed him, and you had the sense of unity And togetherness and a falling away of all of the cruel and inky language spilled, a kind of reconciliation.
00:41:14.000Do any of us benefit from all of this invective and hate?
00:41:18.000Are any of us in any way having our lives or understanding of politics improved by all of this hatred and loathing?
00:41:27.000We'll get into this in a little more detail.
00:41:28.000First, a message from one of our partners and sponsors from some pretty credible doctors, Peter McCulloch and some of his colleagues there over at The Wellness Company.
00:42:37.000It becomes yet more clear that there are benefits to our despair, benefits to our opposition of one another.
00:42:47.000Let's enjoy a trip down memory lane when Trump was still a person that could happily go on The View and chat with Joy Baha and Whoopi Et al.
00:42:55.000You haven't decided yet when you're going to run, but you're thinking about it and you've expressed some of your views,
00:43:01.000which are controversial and in many ways...
00:46:03.000My concerns are mostly about systemic and institutional corruption and how decentralized power would be a pathway for all of us and a Offer us an opportunity for truce amidst endless opposition.
00:46:16.000But what's clear to me is that the establishment hate Trump for a reason.
00:46:21.000And that reason isn't because they want to protect you.
00:46:25.000It isn't because of their own principles and values.
00:46:29.000It will be because of self-service and the ability to maintain power structures that benefit them, whether that's the professional media class or whether it's institutions and organizations that are perhaps a little more esoteric and more difficult to discern. Let's have a look at how the
00:47:22.000It's pretty clear that there's a position being offered by Time magazine.
00:47:27.000It's hardly surprising that that's their position, but what I think is worthy of note and encouraging, and again, I say this as a man who don't have a dog in the fight, who doesn't vote in your country, and who believes in political systems that are somewhat ascendant of what we're being offered by any existing political entity, that Seeing a live audience refuse to take the crackers they're being flipped by the emcees of the establishment, by the amplifiers of the message, is encouraging indeed.
00:47:59.000You perhaps have already seen this moment where the Colbert audience laughs out loud at the idea that CNN are neutral.
00:48:08.000We are becoming awakened and aware of what the function of the media is, that it's owned by a handful of interests, and that it ultimately exists to support the establishment agenda.
00:48:18.000That could be whether or not there are public disturbances in my country, or whether there are political movements that are antithetical to their intentions in yours, or whether there's a global pandemic from the local to the global.
00:48:32.000If they want you to hate someone, Welcome that person!
00:48:36.000If they want you to like someone, be deeply cynical and suspicious about that person.
00:48:40.000I've been in both roles, and I know what I represented across the line of their loathing.
00:48:46.000When I was a member of the establishment, somewhat curious about spirituality, always cynical about establishment power, but willing to enjoy its incredible fruits as part of the Hollywood establishment, I too was enjoyed and fawned over.
00:49:01.000But the minute I began to say, Hey, there's something I don't like about these systems.
00:49:06.000There's something about this that we cannot trust.
00:49:54.000It wasn't supposed to be but I guess it is.
00:49:58.000Listen to Musk or regard Musk's comment.
00:50:02.000He enjoyed it and of course he's delighted because we've just had a billion views on X of his conversation with Trump.
00:50:08.000So we're seeing, I suppose, a more obvious fissure and break emerge between Legacy media and social media that is controlled and co-opted and still somewhat independent social media.
00:50:20.000Elon Musk, many of you have critiques and condemnation abundantly for him.
00:50:24.000But what you can say is that how X was prior to Musk's proprietorship was much more in alignment with meta and alphabet.
00:50:35.000And how those platforms were managed and controlled of is examples being the what was permissible to be discussed or stated during the pandemic period and the Hunter Biden laptop story and the evident and now demonstrable infiltration of deep state agencies like the FBI and CIA.
00:50:51.000Again, my argument without even touching on what Trump represents, even though I must
00:50:55.000say as a public speaker I enjoy him a great deal.
00:50:59.000The clear thing is the establishment do not want him in power.
00:51:03.000And again, I'm very sympathetic to those of you that say that either of the candidates,
00:51:06.000Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will still ultimately end up being in control.
00:51:10.000Clearly there's a preference when it comes to the establishment.
00:51:13.000Now where this war is fought out is of course in the realm of information.
00:51:18.000Bless us, our boral creatures that we may yet be, sprinkled with divinity.
00:51:24.000We'll believe too easily that which is laying before us.
00:51:27.000And if you look online and see, oh well, Kamala Harris seems to be universally adored, we'll
00:51:44.000But deceptive use of adverts that look like Google searches.
00:51:49.000We've already spoken in some depth to Robert Epstein who says for some time Google has been favouring pro-dem posts and search results while masking the opposing view.
00:52:02.000This is already being, this is being now significantly added to by the Kamala Harris campaign that are placing ads that are deliberately designed to look just like the headlines you would find in an ordinary search.
00:52:14.000So you have the robust, full-throated, whole-hearted support of that aspect of the establishment and then you have the insidious stitches of digital manipulation and you would have to say clever online campaigning to add to it.
00:52:32.000Kamala Harris campaign accused of manipulating headlines.
00:52:35.000Axios reporting the campaign is giving real news articles a pro-Kamala Harris spin and then using them in Google ads.
00:52:44.000The trick was, we'll make it like an ad.
00:52:47.000And we'll reframe the headline so that when you're searching, maybe you see the spot and you read the headline, but maybe you don't understand that it's actually sponsored by the campaign.
00:53:12.000This is really, and I should also point out that Google says that there was a glitch in their system that meant that some of the sort of barriers that they try to put in to make it clear what this is weren't working.
00:53:41.000That's a, you know, factual statement.
00:53:43.000That's something that she backs and supports.
00:53:46.000But then they have a description under the headline.
00:53:48.000So you know how there's a headline when you read a news story, then there's like an under headline that you read in the news story.
00:53:53.000But it says this, VP Harris is a champion for reproductive freedom and will stop Trump's abortion bans.
00:53:59.000So the second line in what looks like a news story is actually a campaign slogan, a campaign statement.
00:54:07.000And you know people We all look at so much information, taking so many things so quickly throughout the day, right?
00:54:14.000This is very subtle, very manipulative, and in a moment when you also have a stepped-up threat from Iran trying to get their bots into all of this and influence people in ways that are very subtle and difficult to figure out, this is something that I think requires a lot of diligence on the part of people who are looking for this information.
00:54:31.000And Google says it's just what, they got one by the goalie?
00:54:34.000Yeah, Google says, well, there was a glitch.
00:54:36.000There's supposed to be more disclosure that this is an ad, a campaign ad.
00:54:58.000That a government that is overtly campaigning for more ability to censor and control information that you have access to ought be behaving responsibly?
00:55:08.000When they present you with information that it should be plain, this is a campaign, I paid for this message, I endorsed this message.
00:55:14.000That kind of old school rhetoric that used to surround campaign content.
00:55:18.000It's very interesting that on one hand we're presented with the idea that we are unable to discern true information from false information.
00:55:26.000And elsewhere, they deploy campaign techniques that are deliberately deceptive.
00:55:31.000Somewhat comparable, you might argue, to the Pied Piper campaign that became famous when they suspected that MAGA and Trump-style candidates would be unfavourable even among moderate Republican voters.
00:55:45.000So put Democrat campaign money behind the campaigns of Republican candidates that they regarded to be incendiary or unappealing.
00:55:55.000What extraordinary deception goes on in the name of truth and authenticity?
00:56:00.000Contrast that with the kind of sort of pie-eyed wonder and lack of discernment that defined the vox-popped Kamala campaign supporters earlier there, who couldn't even come up with something that Kamala Harris believed in.
00:56:18.000Speaking even about reproductive health, where I figure that the Trump-Vance position is let the states decide, claiming that Trump wants control over reproductive health seems disingenuous.
00:56:29.000Again, it seems that we're in for a presidential campaign where hysteria around the capacities and intentions of Trump, and I say capacities because the American Constitution and institutions of government, if they're worth anything, should present someone marching unopposed into despotism, And intention, because he ain't said anything other than the odd joke that suggests that he would be interested in that.
00:56:54.000And what I mean is, is when he said there'll be a bloodbath, he was talking about tariffs.
00:56:57.000When he said dictator for a day, he was sort of joking about drilling and the wall.
00:57:01.000So, what I would say to you is that if there is concern about misinformation, don't engage in misinformation.
00:57:08.000Let's have a look at this in a little more depth with this article.
00:57:12.000Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has been running Google Ads just like many others.
00:57:16.000The only problem with her campaign is deliberately making it look like news.
00:57:19.000Outlets like The Guardian, NPR, Reuters and AP, USA Today and Time are on her side by running ads designed to look like flattering headlines, in addition to the propaganda that they're already providing.
00:57:30.000I've noticed how many establishment intellectual lefties are sort of fully behind Kamala Harris.
00:57:36.000No one's saying, And indeed the other globalist candidates and leaders, like the globalist authoritarians that run my country now, enjoy the support of the left because there is this sort of willingness to embrace the idea that this is the lesser of two evils.
00:57:54.000That Trump is so awful we have to have Biden?
00:57:58.000And isn't this campaign, once again, Trump is so awful?
00:58:01.000And aren't we being invited again and again to quake in continual terror that some demonic force will take over if we don't entrust our nations and our planet to these bureaucrats Who don't seem to me to have any real ideals or real care for ordinary people.
00:58:18.000Whether it's for complex social geographic reasons or for the ascent of AI and technology, it's clear that the professional media class that once had at least a conversational affiliation with working people now condemn them and look for further reasons to continue to condemn them.
00:58:37.000With the word racist almost being a synonym for working class these days.
00:58:44.000Axios first reported this and noted that former President Donald Trump's campaign had not done the same.
00:58:48.000So Trump's campaign's not using these type of ads, although, you know, maybe they will because it looks like it's working.
00:58:54.000With this practice repeatedly condemned as one that spreads misinformation.
00:58:59.000Though the practice does not technically violate Google's policies, with a spokesperson saying, sponsored content is easily distinguishable from search results, it looks shockingly deceptive.
00:59:10.000We all saw it then, and we all saw that the intention is to deceive.
00:59:14.000And while we're in the midst of a giddy maelstrom of apparent censorship around misinformation, Why would a presidential campaign be engaging in propaganda that is deliberately deceptive, fascinating, almost as if there are no principles, there are no values, almost as if the world is already being captured by a dark ideology, and that only we as individuals, through the true embrace of real principles, can oppose them?
00:59:39.000Though the ads include links to real articles from the news outlets, the headlines and supporting text have been altered to read as though the articles support the Harris campaign's objectives, notes Axios.
00:59:48.000Spokespeople for brands such as CNN, USA Today and NPR, whose links appeared in Harris for Present ads, said they were unaware their brand was being featured in this way.
00:59:56.000And an unconvincing response from the culprits themselves.
00:59:59.000A source familiar with the Harris campaign ads team said the campaign buys search ads with news links to give voters searching for information about Vice President Harris more context.
01:00:08.000We just want to give you the context where we can resume control over your consciousness digitally, your ideology through propaganda, and all aspects of your freedom while patronizingly telling you that we believe in truth.