The Ben Shapiro Show - April 08, 2022


Biden Gets His Supreme Court Justice | Ep. 1470

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Ben Shapiro reacts to the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson as the 116th Supreme Court Justice, and explains why she's not making history in terms of diversifying the bench, and why the legacy media can't even be trusted to cover basic news. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the Fox News Channel and host of the Daily Wire's "Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He's also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal, and is the author of the book, "Out of the Box: How to Build a Conservative Supreme Court" and "Out Of The Box: A Guide to America's Most Radical Supreme Court Nominees." He also talks about the Justice Department's decision to go after states that restrict hormone blockers and genital surgeries for minors, and calls out the media for not covering the news about that, and says it's a good thing that the left doesn't care about diversity on the Supreme Court bench, because it's already got plenty of diversity on it. The Supreme Court has long had a conservative tilt, and will likely continue to have a conservative leaning court. It's just as conservative as it ever has been, but it's now that it has a woman on it, and that's good news, at least she's a woman! in addition to being the first black woman on the bench. Listen to this week's episode of the show on the show, Ben Shapiro's take on the confirmation vote and why that's a big enough to be the most historic moment in American history. Subscribe to the show to make history, right or wrong? and much, much more! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and more. Download MP3" Subscribe on Podchaser: use the RSS Feeds and other podcasting links below to get exclusive bonus episodes throughout the week, including personalized recommendations from the show? Subscribe on all major podcast directories and social medias including the latest episodes of The Hill's newest podcast, The Hill Street Journal and The Hill s newest podcast Shirts, The Root on your favorite podcast, Shirts and more! Subscribe on Stikr? and other links on the Hill s social media platforms! Shout out to: The Root's newest episode on this episode

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00:00:00.000 Ketanji Brown-Jackson wins her confirmation vote and joins the Supreme Court.
00:00:04.000 The legacy media demonstrate once again why they can't be trusted to cover basic news.
00:00:07.000 And Jen Psaki says the DOJ will come after states that restrict hormone blockers and genital surgeries for minors.
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00:01:23.000 Well, it is so historic.
00:01:31.000 It's the most historic, historic moment in all of history.
00:01:34.000 Katonji Brown-Jackson has been confirmed as the first black woman on the Supreme Court, despite the fact that we can't define the word woman anymore.
00:01:40.000 So she's the first black Meh. 1.00
00:01:43.000 On the Supreme Court.
00:01:44.000 Which wouldn't make her the first black meh on the Supreme Court because we've had Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. 1.00
00:01:49.000 So, actually, again, if you can't define woman, then the historic nature of the selection becomes a little bit more dicey.
00:01:56.000 But, Katonji Brown-Jackson is, in fact, the first black woman to join the Supreme Court. 0.61
00:02:01.000 And the media are just beside themselves with joy over it.
00:02:04.000 Now, at no point have they asked whether she'll actually be a good justice.
00:02:08.000 At no point have they really asked whether her judicial philosophy merits her being on the highest court in the land.
00:02:12.000 The truth is that left-wing judicial philosophy really does not merit anyone being on the highest court in the land because it runs directly counter to the role of the judiciary.
00:02:22.000 According to Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, is to adjudicate the law.
00:02:26.000 It is not to make up the law.
00:02:28.000 It is not to substitute its own politics in place of the law.
00:02:31.000 It is not to put its policy preferences into the law.
00:02:34.000 The role of the judiciary is separate from the role of the legislature.
00:02:37.000 The left does not believe this.
00:02:38.000 The left believes that the judiciary is basically a bunch of very wise leftists who get to do whatever they want to the law and torture the Constitution until it spits out, until it finally rats Out all of their policy preferences.
00:02:51.000 You just torture it hard enough.
00:02:53.000 You just throw it on that table and put the torture machine to a thousand, like the man in black in Princess Bride.
00:02:59.000 Eventually, out will come screaming Roe versus Wade.
00:03:01.000 This is the idea of the Supreme Court, according to the left.
00:03:04.000 Katonji Brown-Jackson is an advocate of that particular belief system.
00:03:07.000 She sort of pays homage to textualism.
00:03:10.000 Or originalism?
00:03:10.000 She suggests the original meaning of the Constitution matters to her.
00:03:12.000 I've seen no evidence that this is, in fact, the case.
00:03:15.000 Nonetheless, the Senate voted 53-47 to confirm Ketanji Brown-Jackson as the 116th Supreme Court Justice on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal, making history in diversifying the bench while leaving unchanged the conservative tilt of a court tackling such hot-button issues as abortion rights and race in college admissions.
00:03:31.000 Now again, she's not making any sort of history in diversifying the bench in terms of ideology.
00:03:37.000 There's already several justices on the Supreme Court and the one she's replacing, Justice Breyer, who are very far to the left.
00:03:43.000 When they say making history diversifying the bench, they mean that she has particular intersectional qualities that supposedly contribute to the nature of the judiciary.
00:03:53.000 Again, I'm hard-pressed to see why that should be the case.
00:03:56.000 Judge Jackson, 51 years old, will be the first black woman to join the Supreme Court, fulfilling a pledge made by President Biden at a pivotal moment in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, a decision that allies credited with reviving his campaign.
00:04:07.000 Okay, now this is just a wild overstatement.
00:04:09.000 The idea that because he said that he'd pick a black woman for the Supreme Court, this is what got him the nomination?
00:04:14.000 No.
00:04:14.000 What got him the nomination is that Jim Clyburn looked at Bernie Sanders and went, that guy?
00:04:19.000 That old kooky socialist nutbag.
00:04:21.000 And then he decided to endorse Biden. 0.94
00:04:23.000 And if Biden had not picked a black woman for the Supreme Court or said that he was going to, that would have had no impact on Jim Clabern's pick.
00:04:29.000 Nonetheless, according to the Wall Street Journal, the thin margin of Thursday's vote and some contentious exchanges during Judge Jackson's hearing underlined how partisan the confirmation process has become.
00:04:38.000 I'm just amused by the media and their take on the Tangi Brown-Jackson hearings.
00:04:42.000 These hearings were pretty smooth.
00:04:44.000 She was asked some pretty obvious questions about her sentencing practices in the past.
00:04:49.000 She was asked some questions about the fact that she sits on the board of a school that has a bunch of radical books that are assigned or in the library.
00:04:56.000 None of this is out of bounds.
00:04:59.000 The fact that the media have decided that this particular hearing demonstrates how polarized we are.
00:05:02.000 After we had the hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in which he was accused of gang rape by the Democrats and asked about boofing in his high school yearbook, Like this is where you're drawing the line?
00:05:13.000 In terms of offensive judicial hearings?
00:05:15.000 Guys?
00:05:16.000 Yeah, I don't buy it.
00:05:18.000 But again, this is how the media play it.
00:05:19.000 If Republicans object to a Democratic judicial nominee, it's because they're divisive.
00:05:22.000 If Democrats object to a Republican judicial nominee, this is because they're standing up for the Constitution and against sexism and RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR So did several Republicans, including Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
00:05:43.000 They said while they don't expect to agree with all of Judge Jackson's decisions, they believe she had the qualifications and temperament for the job.
00:05:49.000 Again, qualifications and temperament are such kind of silly terms for what it means to be a judge.
00:05:56.000 Qualifications should be, can you adjudicate a case fairly and can you read a text?
00:06:01.000 People on the left cannot do either when it comes to judicial confirmations.
00:06:04.000 They pick people who refuse to read text and who cannot do their job fairly because they wish to, again, impose their ideology on everyone.
00:06:13.000 And when it comes to temperament, judicial temperament typically means that you remove yourself from the conflict to the extent that your own policy preferences don't play a role.
00:06:20.000 If you want to go back to judicial temperament all the way back to the Bible, it talks specifically about picking people of good character who are not going to be Bribed by the rich or going to be cuddled emotionally by the poor.
00:06:32.000 The idea is that you're supposed to judge fairly in each case without reference to who the people are before you.
00:06:36.000 This is something that people on the left really don't agree with when it comes to how the judges should act.
00:06:40.000 They believe that the judges should basically take the most sympathetic case for their side and then adjudicate along those bases.
00:06:48.000 Republicans who opposed her confirmation focused on her judicial philosophy and sentencing record.
00:06:52.000 So I love this.
00:06:53.000 So people who voted in favor of her focused on qualifications and temperament, both of which are fungible terms.
00:06:58.000 And Republicans instead focused on her judicial philosophy and sentencing record. 0.99
00:07:01.000 You mean like what she thinks and what she has ruled in the past.
00:07:04.000 And this is now considered very, very bad.
00:07:06.000 Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, he says that Joe Biden has let the radicals run the show.
00:07:10.000 And this is how you end up with Judge Katonji Brown-Jackson, who has ruled like a leftist because she is a leftist.
00:07:17.000 President Biden was elected on the promise that he would govern as a moderate and unite the country.
00:07:23.000 He insisted the radical left would not be calling the shots on his watch.
00:07:29.000 But when it came to one of the most consequential decisions a president can make, a lifetime appointment to our highest court, the Biden administration let the radicals run the show.
00:07:45.000 Well, that obviously is true.
00:07:46.000 But the Biden administration has let the radicals run the show all the way along.
00:07:49.000 And this does raise the real question as to why people like Mitt Romney.
00:07:54.000 Susan Collins, I understand.
00:07:55.000 She's from a swing state, right?
00:07:56.000 Susan Collins from Maine.
00:07:57.000 So you understand it.
00:07:59.000 Lisa Murkowski has been in the Senate for quite a while and her position in the Senate has always been the same.
00:08:06.000 She was sort of a John McCain swing vote.
00:08:08.000 Mitt Romney is from the reddest state in America.
00:08:10.000 He ran for president on the 2012 Republican ticket.
00:08:13.000 I see no excuse for Mitt Romney not only voting for this judicial nomination.
00:08:17.000 I see no excuse for him giving a standing ovation.
00:08:21.000 I'm getting extraordinarily tired of Republicans and conservatives doing this routine, where every time somebody wins a high position, is either elected to it, like Barack Obama, or is selected to it, like Ketanji Brown Jackson then confirmed, and this person happens to embody a philosophy that is antithetical to everything conservatives believe, they still stand up and they applaud the historic nature.
00:08:41.000 Oh, the historic nature.
00:08:42.000 Who cares?
00:08:43.000 I mean, truly, who cares?
00:08:45.000 If we are supposed to be aiming for a society in which we actually judge people based on the quality of their character and based on their politics and philosophy, you know, the things that actually matter in politics and philosophy, then I don't understand why there are so many Republicans who feel the necessity to sort of virtue signal that, oh my gosh, we have a black woman on the Supreme Court.
00:09:02.000 Oh, we have a black female vice president. 1.00
00:09:05.000 We've had a black female secretary of state. 1.00
00:09:08.000 We've had a black president.
00:09:10.000 Can we get over this at a certain point?
00:09:12.000 At what point can we finally just say, let's look at the person as opposed to the intersectional characteristics?
00:09:19.000 And if you're a Republican doing this, you're just as bad as Democrats who do it.
00:09:22.000 Here's Kamala Harris announcing the vote, and suddenly you have Mitt Romney on his feet cheering.
00:09:28.000 On this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 47, and this nomination is confirmed.
00:09:35.000 And there's Mitt Romney standing and cheering because of course, Mitt Romney's one of the By one of the good guys, I mean that the media like Mitt Romney after hating the living bleep out of him when he was running in 2012.
00:09:51.000 I have very little taste for people who get slapped around by the media and their first response is to immediately kowtow to everything that the media wants.
00:09:57.000 It's really kind of...
00:09:58.000 Really kind of yucky.
00:09:59.000 You wonder how you got Trump in 2016, guys?
00:10:01.000 Mitt Romney in 2012 had something to do with that.
00:10:04.000 Meanwhile, you can see in that video a bunch of the Republicans did not stand and cheer because why would they stand and cheer?
00:10:08.000 Did a bunch of Democrats stand and cheer when Judge Kavanaugh was confirmed?
00:10:11.000 Did a bunch of Democrats stand and cheer when Justice Thomas was confirmed, by the way?
00:10:15.000 No, of course not.
00:10:16.000 A Gloria Borger over at CNN, she's very upset that many Republicans did not stand and cheer now that another radical has joined the Supreme Court. 0.87
00:10:24.000 Republicans, by and large, could not leave that chamber quickly enough.
00:10:29.000 And I think it was rude.
00:10:31.000 And I think it was rude that Rand Paul was late.
00:10:36.000 Maybe at a late flight, so we'll give him that excuse.
00:10:38.000 But, I mean, the fact, and Ali Zaslav and our Hill team is reporting that Lindsey Graham wasn't wearing the required tie.
00:10:47.000 So we had to vote from outside the chamber in the cloakroom?
00:10:52.000 Okay.
00:10:53.000 But this is a moment in history, and you ought to show up.
00:11:00.000 Okay, this is so boring.
00:11:01.000 Gloria Borger over at CNN. 0.97
00:11:03.000 I love all these people who, again, spent weeks calling Brett Kavanaugh a possible gang rapist.
00:11:10.000 Like, well, Lindsey Graham didn't wear a tie. 0.97
00:11:12.000 And that's really offensive that Lindsey Graham did. 1.00
00:11:14.000 I'm sorry.
00:11:15.000 Your new standard is that whenever a Democrat wants a thing and Republicans don't give it to them, and not only don't give it to them, don't cheer openly that this means that they're really, really bad. 0.99
00:11:24.000 The media, they're hot garbage. 0.99
00:11:26.000 They really, really are. 1.00
00:11:27.000 John Harwood, he tweeted out yesterday.
00:11:29.000 He's a White House correspondent for CNN.
00:11:30.000 He tweeted out, when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed in 1967 to become the first black man on the Supreme Court, 16 of the 22 senators from the 11 states of the old Confederacy voted no or didn't vote.
00:11:40.000 When Ketanji Brown-Jackson was confirmed today to become the first black woman, 18 of 22 voted no.
00:11:46.000 Oh, yes, it turns out he is suggesting that just as a bunch of racists did not vote for Thurgood Marshall in 1967 to become the first black man on the Supreme Court.
00:11:56.000 Fast forward 50 years, almost 60 years, and for the same reason, a bunch of Republican evil senators from the South didn't vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson.
00:12:05.000 Really, how did the vote go on Clarence Thomas, by the way?
00:12:07.000 You'll recall that there were many, many Democrats who did not vote for Clarence Thomas.
00:12:13.000 He was confirmed 52 to 48.
00:12:16.000 11 Democrats voted in favor of Clarence Thomas.
00:12:19.000 46 Democrats voted against Clarence Thomas.
00:12:22.000 Clarence Thomas was and remains a black person.
00:12:26.000 But according to the media, it doesn't matter how badly Republicans are treated.
00:12:29.000 Republicans can never be intersectional.
00:12:30.000 They're always bad.
00:12:31.000 They deserve exactly whatever it is that they get.
00:12:34.000 So the media are constantly getting things wrong, like John Harwood.
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00:13:52.000 Democrats voted for her.
00:13:53.000 Most Republicans did not.
00:13:54.000 This is not a great shock because again, the judiciary has been politicized since well before Roe versus Wade.
00:14:00.000 To treat this as though Katonji Brown-Jackson was somehow cudgeled about, clubbed about the ears during this confirmation hearing is absurd. 0.96
00:14:08.000 It's ridiculous. 0.84
00:14:09.000 This was an incredibly Cordial confirmation hearing by any standard of the day. 0.95
00:14:16.000 And yet you have the Washington Post trotting out Anita Hill, who, in my opinion, falsely accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
00:14:24.000 They're now trotting her out after trying to make Anita Hill a thing again. 1.00
00:14:28.000 They made like a full HBO documentary about Anita Hill.
00:14:33.000 Based on what exactly?
00:14:35.000 Her account was unverified.
00:14:37.000 It didn't make any sense.
00:14:39.000 Nonetheless, the media tried to turn her into a hero 20 years late.
00:14:44.000 And now they've got her in the Washington Post writing about how terrible it was for Judge Jackson.
00:14:48.000 The title of the piece, quote, the Senate Judiciary Committee mistreated Judge Jackson.
00:14:53.000 I should know.
00:14:54.000 The shameful spectacle of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for Senate Supreme Court nominee Katonji Brown-Jackson makes clear the confirmation process is broken.
00:15:03.000 The panel must act to restore people's faith in it.
00:15:06.000 Well, you know who broke the confirmation process?
00:15:08.000 You were part of that, being trotted out by the Democrats in order to attempt to destroy the life, character, and career of an excellent Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
00:15:16.000 But, says Anita Hill, this is not simply about Jackson's reputation, which was repeatedly smeared by Republican senators peddling false narratives about her supposed coddling of child pornographers and terrorists.
00:15:26.000 It is about the legacy and future of the Senate and the Supreme Court itself.
00:15:29.000 I know something about being mistreated by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:15:33.000 During the confirmation hearing for Justice Clarence Thomas in 91, I was subjected to attacks on my intelligence, truthfulness, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:40.000 In some ways, the committee has changed for the better since then, says Anita Hill.
00:15:43.000 There are now four women on the panel and one black member. 0.86
00:15:45.000 Still, when I heard predictions before the hearing that Republicans would offer little resistance to Jackson's confirmation, I knew from painful experience that assessment was overly optimistic.
00:15:54.000 Even so, I was shocked, shocked by the interrogation of Jackson.
00:15:58.000 Interrogation!
00:16:00.000 It was a brutal, vicious interrogation.
00:16:02.000 It was like when Darth Vader interrogated Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back.
00:16:06.000 Didn't even ask him any questions.
00:16:09.000 She was just, she was shocked by it.
00:16:11.000 She says that it was obvious that no matter how composed, respectful, or brilliant her response is, her critics' only goal was to discredit her.
00:16:19.000 I mean, first of all, well, literally you were in judicial nomination hearings, Anita Hill.
00:16:23.000 The only reason you're a famous person is because you were brought into discredit Clarence Thomas.
00:16:26.000 That is the only reason at all.
00:16:28.000 He had nothing to do with how he would rule on cases.
00:16:30.000 He didn't really have anything relevant to say about his career.
00:16:33.000 All you were there to do was discredit Justice Thomas, and now you're being trotted out as an example of a mistreated black woman, just like, what, Ketanji Brown-Jackson? 1.00
00:16:41.000 Who, again, was treated pretty cordially, and that's just one of many pieces in the New York Times today all about how cruel Republicans were for asking questions of now-Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:16:55.000 It's just terrible.
00:16:57.000 So this brings us to a broader point here. 0.99
00:16:59.000 And that is that the media continue to just be absolute garbage. 0.99
00:17:02.000 And the fact that they are absolute garbage is not lost, I think, on a broad majority of Americans. 0.99
00:17:06.000 More and more, the media have discredited themselves, which is a good thing. 0.99
00:17:10.000 Because frankly, they deserve to be seen with disfavor by the American public.
00:17:15.000 They cover up stories, they miscover stories, they miss headline stories, and they do it on a regular basis.
00:17:21.000 It's thrown everything from domestic to foreign policy.
00:17:24.000 It's incredible how often the media just blow it and then pretend that they're doing it right.
00:17:31.000 Let me just give you a headline from BBC or The Guardian about a terror attack in Tel Aviv last night.
00:17:37.000 So last night in Tel Aviv, Israel, there's a terror attack in which a Palestinian walked into a bar and just shot dead two random Israeli men who were at a bar.
00:17:46.000 Just killed them.
00:17:47.000 Outright.
00:17:48.000 And then, Israeli police went on the lookout for this guy.
00:17:51.000 They finally found him.
00:17:52.000 He proceeded to fire a bunch of rounds at Israeli police officers and in response, they killed him.
00:17:57.000 Here are the headlines from your media.
00:17:59.000 Quote, this is Reuters, Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian after Tel Aviv bar attack.
00:18:08.000 I feel like you're missing some crucial context there, like the fact that this is the guy who perpetrated the attack and fired on police.
00:18:12.000 They didn't just go and shoot a random Palestinian.
00:18:17.000 Okay, just to make clear, this is a Palestinian terrorist who murdered two Israelis in cold blood, and the Israelis then killed him.
00:18:27.000 But it's moral equivalent.
00:18:29.000 What was the deadly attack?
00:18:29.000 What was the deadly attack?
00:18:30.000 Palestinian gunman killed after deadly attack at Tel Aviv bar.
00:18:33.000 What was the deadly attack?
00:18:35.000 What was the deadly attack?
00:18:38.000 It's just pretty incredible.
00:18:40.000 Okay, but this is how the media treat things.
00:18:42.000 Okay, so there was this disinformation conference over at the University of Chicago yesterday.
00:18:49.000 And it went very, very poorly for members of the media.
00:18:51.000 Because there were two college freshmen from a conservative publication called the Chicago Thinker.
00:18:56.000 And they proceeded to ask these very famous members of the media pretty basic questions about why the media are so bad at their job.
00:19:02.000 And these members of the media had really no answers at all.
00:19:06.000 So as you'll see, there were a couple of different college freshmen who got up and basically just humiliated a variety of journalists on the stage.
00:19:15.000 So Ann Applebaum, who's actually written some really good stuff about the Stalin era.
00:19:20.000 She wrote a great book called Gulag about the Gulag system in Russia, but now has become sort of a wild leftist who spends all of her time b*****g and moaning about Trump and the Republicans. 0.67
00:19:28.000 She's sitting with David Axelrod.
00:19:30.000 Again, bias in the media gang.
00:19:31.000 Here's David Axelrod, the former chief of staff to Barack Obama, talking about disinformation In the media.
00:19:37.000 And a college student asks her a pretty simple question about Hunter Biden's laptop and she's got nothing.
00:19:44.000 Amazing.
00:19:44.000 Thank you.
00:19:45.000 Thank you for doing this.
00:19:45.000 Really appreciate it.
00:19:46.000 I'm Daniel Schmidt.
00:19:47.000 I'm a freshman at the University of Chicago.
00:19:49.000 My question is for Ms.
00:19:50.000 Applebaum.
00:19:51.000 So in 2020, you wrote, those who live outside the Fox News bubble do not, of course, need to learn any of the stuff about Hunter Biden, referring to his laptop, of course.
00:20:00.000 A poll later after that found that if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16% of Joe Biden voters would have acted differently.
00:20:09.000 Now, of course, we know a few weeks ago, the New York Times confirmed that the content is real.
00:20:13.000 Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation and what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality?
00:20:27.000 My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop is I think totally irrelevant.
00:20:31.000 I mean it's not whether it's disinformation or I mean I don't think the Hunter Biden's business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States.
00:20:41.000 So I don't find it to be interesting.
00:20:44.000 I mean, that would be my problem with that as a major news story.
00:20:50.000 Okay, so it's not a major news story if Anne Applebaum finds it not to be interesting.
00:20:53.000 Business relationships with foreign countries for a bag man for the Biden family.
00:20:57.000 Completely uninteresting.
00:20:59.000 So what does it matter?
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00:22:20.000 And this is not the only person who just got finished on the stage.
00:22:24.000 There's another college kid.
00:22:25.000 Again, these are very easy questions to answer.
00:22:27.000 If you're an honest person, but unfortunately our media are just utterly dishonest.
00:22:31.000 So a college kid asked Brian Stelter a basic question.
00:22:33.000 You guys spend all day covering Fox News and complaining about Fox News and the evils of right-wing media and misinformation.
00:22:39.000 And then you get a bunch of stories wrong.
00:22:41.000 So please explain yourself, Brian Stelter.
00:22:45.000 Hi, thank you for coming.
00:22:46.000 My name is Christopher Phillips.
00:22:47.000 I'm a first year at the college.
00:22:50.000 My question is for Mr. Stelter.
00:22:52.000 You've all spoken extensively about Fox News being a purveyor of disinformation, but CNN is right up there with them.
00:23:00.000 They pushed the Russian collusion hoax, they pushed the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smeared Justice Kavanaugh as a rapist, and they also smeared Nick Sandman as a white supremacist, and yes, they dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop affair as pure Russian disinformation.
00:23:16.000 With mainstream corporate journalists becoming little more than apologists and cheerleaders for the regime, is it time to finally declare that the canon of journalistic ethics is dead or no longer operative?
00:23:30.000 All the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.
00:23:37.000 Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence, or is there something else behind it?
00:23:44.000 Too bad it's time for lunch.
00:23:46.000 You have 30 seconds.
00:23:47.000 No, I mean, there is a clock that says 30 seconds.
00:23:49.000 But I think my honest answer to you, and I'll come over and talk in more detail after this, is that I think you're describing a different channel than the one that I watch.
00:23:58.000 But I understand that that is a popular right-wing narrative about CNN.
00:24:01.000 I think it's important, when we talk about shared reality and democracy, all these networks, all these outlets have to defend democracy.
00:24:08.000 And when they screw up, admit it.
00:24:10.000 But, when Benjamin Hall, the Fox correspondent, was wounded in Ukraine, the news crews at CNN and the New York Times stopped what they were doing, and they tried to help.
00:24:19.000 They tried to help him get out of the country.
00:24:20.000 They tried to find the dead crew members.
00:24:22.000 That's what news outlets do.
00:24:24.000 That's how they actually do work together, to your question about- Okay, can you stop right there?
00:24:27.000 I just have a question.
00:24:28.000 What in the hell does that have to do with CNN completely blowing a series of stories, in dramatic fashion, over the course of years, all directed in one direction?
00:24:37.000 That someone was wounded and so we had people there who helped?
00:24:39.000 What does that have to do with anything?
00:24:41.000 I mean, I assume so with the Red Cross, but the Red Cross is not a journalistic outlet that purports to be objective in its news coverage.
00:24:49.000 The media continue to be the great story of American politics because it is through the prism of the media that most people find out the information they're supposed to know.
00:24:56.000 But the media spend all day, every day attempting to obfuscate on behalf of left-wing viewpoints.
00:25:04.000 Actually, a good example of this today is the New York Times has now updated its Twitter policy.
00:25:07.000 They're now telling its journalists not to use Twitter as much.
00:25:10.000 In a memo to employees on Thursday shared with The Hill, Dean Paquette, the newspaper's top editor, announced what he called a reset in our approach, handing down new guidance dictating that maintaining a presence on Twitter and social media is now purely optional for Times journalists.
00:25:23.000 He said that people getting feedback online, it can be harmful to Times journalism when our feeds become echo chambers.
00:25:30.000 But here's the thing, I like these journalists being online because now we know exactly what they think.
00:25:34.000 Because the simple fact is, what they think is pretty much always what the Democratic Party thinks.
00:25:39.000 Remember Ann Applebaum five seconds ago here, journalist Ann Applebaum, democracy and misinformation.
00:25:45.000 She said that Hunter Biden was not relevant.
00:25:47.000 The entire media said in October of 2020 that Hunter Biden was not relevant.
00:25:52.000 Today, a couple years later, CBS News is now reporting, quote, While conservative heat has for three years focused on the past business activities of President Biden's son Hunter, a key Senate Republican told CBS News this week that newly obtained banking records raised similar concerns about first brother James Biden.
00:26:08.000 Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge, quote, we have people with the Biden name dealing with the Chinese business people that have a relationship with the Communist Party.
00:26:19.000 I think James Biden was very much a part of this.
00:26:21.000 Bank records released by Republican senators this week indicate James Biden's company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a Chinese finance consulting group in 2018 before his brother Joe announced he was running for president.
00:26:31.000 Grassley says that same year, James Biden and the President's son, Hunter, received monthly retainers totaling $165,000 for Hunter and $65,000 to James.
00:26:42.000 Grassley said his team obtained the records directly from the bank where the consulting group did business.
00:26:46.000 He spent three years investigating and described James and Hunter Biden's business dealings as, quote-unquote, very concerning.
00:26:52.000 It is also unclear exactly where all of Joe Biden's money came from.
00:26:57.000 Good piece in The Federalist by Bob Anderson today.
00:26:59.000 In the week prior to the presidential election, I wrote a piece that asked the question, where is Hunter Biden's money?
00:27:02.000 released to tax returns that don't explain millions in income.
00:27:05.000 Where did it come from?
00:27:06.000 In the week prior to the presidential election, I wrote a piece that asked the question, where is Hunter Biden's money?
00:27:11.000 It was an important question then, even more so now.
00:27:15.000 Recall that despite then-presidential candidate Biden having bragged that he had released his tax returns with what his team called a historic level of transparency, the truth is he only released his individual returns.
00:27:24.000 Those returns provided no detail regarding the source of most of his income, dollars that flowed to him and his wife by way of S-Corps they set up shortly after his departure from the office of the VP.
00:27:34.000 Those entities, Celtic Capricor, His, and Geocopicor, Hers, contained more than $13 million of the $17 million the couple had reported in income after Biden left office, most of it in his first year.
00:27:46.000 The same media that ignored Hunter's laptop has shown a complete incuriosity about these entities, accepting the premise that Joe and Jill raked in $13 million from their book deal to generate their huge increase in income.
00:27:55.000 We simply don't know if that's true.
00:27:57.000 What we do know is that their book sales were absolutely dismal.
00:28:00.000 Perhaps sensing smoke starting to build just before the election, USA Today published a fact-check piece that attempted to support the Bidens earned $15.6 million from speaking fees and book deals in the years 2017 through 2019.
00:28:11.000 And more than $10 million of that total income was profits from Biden's memoir, Promise Me, Dad, and $3 million in profits from Jill Biden's book.
00:28:18.000 Follow the source link to that $10 million number, though, and you'll end up at Joe Biden's campaign website with financial disclosure links only to their individual returns, no S-Corp tax returns.
00:28:27.000 So in reality, readers were left with a smoke screen.
00:28:31.000 And again, it's not as though these books were, like, enormous bestsellers.
00:28:36.000 We're supposed to believe that Jill grossed $3 million, royalties plus 700 grand from speaking fees, for a book that sold 7,000 copies in its first week.
00:28:45.000 And that from that book deal, she netted more than a million dollars in the two years prior to its release, but only $175,000 in the year it was published.
00:28:52.000 It's possible that that was an advance.
00:28:53.000 How does a publisher justify a $3 million advance on a book that sells 7,000 copies?
00:29:00.000 We are also told that Joe netted $12.2 million after expenses in the same deal for a book that sold 300,000 copies, excluding the $4.2 million earned from touring and speaking that yields $8 million of income we are to assume came from book royalties.
00:29:14.000 Okay, let me just make clear that there is no author on planet Earth who has ever made $8 million from a book that sells 300,000 copies.
00:29:21.000 I know because I have books that have sold half a million copies.
00:29:23.000 I did not make $8 million from the right side of history.
00:29:26.000 I can tell you that right now.
00:29:28.000 So where is the rest of that money coming from?
00:29:30.000 We just don't know.
00:29:31.000 We have no clue.
00:29:33.000 But it took two years for the media to report on any of this and they're still not really reporting on the dramatic lack of information about Joe's income.
00:29:40.000 And again, this is true in every arena of American life.
00:29:43.000 The media just use euphemisms or they lie in order to achieve a political purpose.
00:29:48.000 This is what they do.
00:29:49.000 This is particularly true when it comes to social issues.
00:29:53.000 Euphemisms are the name of the game.
00:29:55.000 As we'll see, that's true particularly when it comes to LGBTQ plus issues, but it also happens to be true of abortion.
00:30:01.000 And for years and years and years, the left has promoted the idea that abortion is a sort of safe, sterile procedure in which there is no victim, that it is the death of a cluster of meaningless cells.
00:30:10.000 That is not how abortion actually works. 1.00
00:30:14.000 A true journalist might actually go to an abortion clinic and report on what they saw, but the mainstream media won't do that.
00:30:18.000 We need to have one reporter Mary Margaret Olihan, who actually went to an abortion clinic and talked with people at this abortion clinic. 1.00
00:30:27.000 I want to bring you that story in just one moment.
00:30:29.000 First, if there's one question I never thought would be necessary to ask the general public, it is, what is a woman?
00:30:34.000 But unfortunately, we now have to ask that question.
00:30:36.000 And our new Supreme Court justice does not know the answer to that question.
00:30:39.000 And the Biden administration does not know the answer to that question.
00:30:42.000 Well, I think a lot of people are asking that question these days.
00:30:45.000 Matt Walsh is now trying to find an answer.
00:30:47.000 He's made an entire film.
00:30:48.000 He's written an entire book.
00:30:50.000 Trying to find an answer from the left.
00:30:52.000 Both are called What is a Woman. 1.00
00:30:53.000 The book is now available for pre-order at whatisawoman.com and also on Amazon or hit number one on the bestseller charts in the women's studies category, making Matt not only an LGBTQ plus bestselling author, but also a women's study author.
00:31:06.000 Well, that was, of course, before it was removed from the list.
00:31:09.000 I think it's been put back up now on the list.
00:31:11.000 So help Matt continue to top the women's studies list and find the answer to this elusive question. 0.99
00:31:16.000 Pre-order his book, What Is A Woman, at whatisawoman.com or on Amazon.
00:31:21.000 you're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.
00:31:24.000 So there's this piece over at Daily Wire.
00:31:31.000 And again, it is vital reading because it's doing the sort of journalism that, frankly, you're not going to get from the legacy media, which is simply going to hide the facts.
00:31:39.000 So there's been this story that has gotten almost no national media coverage in which they're pro-life activists and they got a hold of the fetal remains from this abortion clinic in Washington, D.C.
00:31:50.000 And it is pretty obvious from the fetal remains of the abortion clinic that these kids were killed illegally, that these were partial birth abortions in violation of federal law, even if they weren't.
00:31:58.000 The pictures themselves are so gruesome and horrifying as to shock the conscience.
00:32:02.000 The left must keep you at all costs from actually seeing the consequences of their policy preferences.
00:32:07.000 Well, one of our reporters, Mary Margaret Allahan, who does a wonderful job covering this sort of stuff, she actually went to this abortion clinic to ask the abortionists about These fetuses and the fetal remains.
00:32:19.000 And here's what she writes, and it's a shocking story over at Daily Wire today that really you should read and distribute. On Thursday, April 7th, I drove downtown in the rain to an abortion clinic run by Dr. Cesare Santangelo, an abortionist accused of using gruesome techniques to end the lives of unborn babies. I can't stop thinking about what I saw. I've been asking officials for answers and explanations all week.
00:32:38.000 The DC Medical Examiner, Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington Surgiclinic, Curtis Bay Medical Waste Facility, Planned Parenthood, Baltimore City Center, the Department of Health and Human Services.
00:32:50.000 But no one will address why a box allegedly containing 110 pulverized first trimester babies and five preemie-sized babies was about to be sent from Washington Surgiclinic to Curtis Bay Medical Waste Facility.
00:33:00.000 A facility that continues to insist to me, ignoring photographs of its labeling on the box of aborted babies, that it does not burn fetal remains.
00:33:07.000 Officials have said autopsies will not be performed.
00:33:10.000 Authorities will not address whether the five babies were alive when they were killed.
00:33:13.000 The only interest D.C.
00:33:14.000 officials have seemingly shown in this matter is whether members of the pro-life group, the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, committed a crime when they took a box of aborted fetal remains from a dolly outside Washington Surgery Clinic.
00:33:25.000 P-A-A-U told me they asked a driver of a Curtis Bay medical waste truck if they could take the box to give the babies a proper funeral and that he agreed, noting he had already scanned the box into the system and its disappearance would likely go unnoticed.
00:33:35.000 Live Action photographed these five babies.
00:33:37.000 Pro-life medical professionals and experts who examined the photographs estimated they were in the end of the second trimester or in the third trimester when they were aborted.
00:33:44.000 This week, GOP lawmakers called on Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DOJ to investigate the abortions of the five babies and to preserve all of the children's remains as evidence and conduct autopsies.
00:33:54.000 And yet, D.C.
00:33:55.000 officials remain silent.
00:33:58.000 And here's what Mary Margaret Olehan did. 1.00
00:34:00.000 She actually went to the abortion clinic. 1.00
00:34:02.000 Frustrated with the lack of responses, she wrote, I drove to abortionist Dr. 0.98
00:34:05.000 Cesare Sant'Angelo's million-dollar home. When no one answered the door, I drove to his abortion clinic located on the fourth floor of a foggy bottom office building near George Washington University. He's practiced in Washington Surgiclinic for decades.
00:34:17.000 Despite multiple complaints of medical malpractice and allegations, he uses gruesome abortion techniques and allows babies to die after surviving abortions.
00:34:24.000 One lawsuit accused him of bungling the removal of a baby so badly that fetal debris ended up in the lungs of the mother who died.
00:34:30.000 I noticed a sign on the door of the clinic warning visitors they would be turned away without a mask.
00:34:33.000 Hesitant to go in without one, I paused for a moment to search for my purse, and at that moment, a young woman emerged from the clinic followed by a man who I believed to be her boyfriend.
00:34:40.000 She looked stressed, but I was focused on talking to Santangelo, so I went inside and asked the girl behind the desk for a mask.
00:34:45.000 She was friendly, asking if she handed me a mask.
00:34:47.000 Do you have an appointment?
00:34:48.000 No, I told her.
00:34:49.000 I recognized her voice from many times I had called the clinic.
00:34:51.000 I'm looking for Dr. Santangelo.
00:34:53.000 I think you and I chatted on the phone earlier.
00:34:54.000 I'm a reporter with the Daily Wire.
00:34:55.000 I have some questions for him.
00:34:57.000 I'd love to talk to you, too.
00:34:58.000 Her face immediately changed.
00:34:59.000 She's not here right now, she said.
00:35:00.000 I don't think that's true, I told her, glancing around the waiting room, full of patients.
00:35:04.000 But the clinic worker insisted she could tell me nothing, and that all press inquiries must go through the National Abortion Federation, which handles the abortion clinic's publicity and scrutiny.
00:35:12.000 They've also rejected all requests for comment.
00:35:14.000 A second woman who worked at the clinic came out of her office and firmly told me they would not give me any answers. 0.97
00:35:18.000 They both seemed worried about what I would say in front of the patients.
00:35:21.000 I reminded the clinic workers, the Metropolitan Police Department, Republican senators, and the FBI are all involved in the happenings of the last few weeks.
00:35:28.000 If the clinic and Santagela had done nothing wrong, sharing their perspective with the media could only help, I offered.
00:35:32.000 They refused to tell me anything, so I left.
00:35:34.000 But the young woman who was leaving when I walked in the door was still in the hallway. 1.00
00:35:37.000 She appeared to be in great distress, leaning on the wall, heaving and moaning.
00:35:41.000 The man with her looked up when I came out.
00:35:42.000 I could see the pain and anxiety written all over his face.
00:35:45.000 His eyes were red.
00:35:46.000 I briefly wondered if he'd be angry with me if I spoke to the woman.
00:35:48.000 Is everything okay?
00:35:49.000 I asked, taking a back.
00:35:50.000 The woman nodded and attempted to smile at me, straightening up. 1.00
00:35:52.000 She was very pregnant.
00:35:53.000 I believe she was in her second trimester.
00:35:56.000 I asked her what she was doing at the clinic, and she told me I'm here for an abortion.
00:35:59.000 In confusion, I looked at her rounded stomach protruding firmly from her t-shirt. 0.97
00:36:02.000 Did you already get it?
00:36:03.000 I asked.
00:36:03.000 No, she said.
00:36:04.000 It's happening right now.
00:36:05.000 Right now, I repeated glancing back and forth between the couple as the mother leaned with one hand on the wall, clearly in pain.
00:36:10.000 They took the tubes out, she responded breathlessly.
00:36:12.000 She was writhing in pain. 0.66
00:36:14.000 I immediately understood her to mean laminaria sticks, often made out of seaweed, which abortionists use to dilate a woman's cervix.
00:36:20.000 Dr. Ingrid Skopp, Senior Fellow and Director of Medical Affairs at the Pro-Life Charlotte Lozier Institute, tells me the laminary absorbs the water from the cervix and helps the cervix to dilate, making it easier for the abortionist to reach into the uterus blindly with surgical instruments and remove the baby in a piecemeal fashion in a dilation and evacuation dismemberment abortion.
00:36:38.000 But former abortionist Kathy Altman, now an associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, told me it's likely the young woman I encountered would be heading into an induction abortion since she was in the hallway. 0.78
00:36:47.000 If she were going to be having a D&E, the doctor would take the laminaria out at the beginning of the procedure while she was still in the syrups. 1.00
00:36:52.000 In such an induction abortion, the doctor usually injects the baby with digoxin or potassium chloride when he puts the laminaria in and waits a day or two for the baby to die before inducing the abortion.
00:37:01.000 But the baby doesn't always die, Altman told me, and if the doctor does not reach in and cut the umbilical cord before the baby is induced, that baby can be born alive.
00:37:09.000 Since I have become all too familiar with these types of procedures, says Mary Margaret Olihan, I thought that the young woman I saw was about to undergo these types of abortions flashed through my mind as I stood there in the hallway.
00:37:20.000 I also thought of the recordings I had just carefully watched, purportedly showing Santangelo admitting he has had patients who still delivered their babies after the abortionist inserted the laminaria to dilate them.
00:37:30.000 He said in one recording taken by an undercover live action activist, quote, they got some contractions.
00:37:35.000 They panicked.
00:37:35.000 They were in Virginia at the hospital.
00:37:37.000 They went to the hospital because they had some pain. 0.99
00:37:38.000 Instead of calling me at the hospital, they helped them to deliver, which was the stupidest thing they could have done. 0.85
00:37:44.000 As I stood in the doorway, before I had an opportunity to speak to the young woman or even process what was going on, the abortion clinic worker stuck her head out the door. 1.00
00:37:50.000 Don't talk to her, she yelled at the woman and man beside me. 1.00
00:37:52.000 Come inside, come inside.
00:37:53.000 She doesn't want you to talk to me because I'm a reporter, I told the couple.
00:37:56.000 They didn't seem too concerned about this, but as the woman continued to order them inside, shouting over me, they began to go.
00:38:01.000 I urge them to reach out to me through the daily wire if they wanted to talk.
00:38:04.000 The woman nodded.
00:38:05.000 The door closed behind them.
00:38:06.000 I stood in the hallway a moment bewildered by the brief interaction.
00:38:08.000 Then I got in the elevator, went down to the lobby and out into the rain, overcome by the thought that the woman upstairs in so much pain and distress was aborting her unborn baby.
00:38:17.000 Unfortunately, this is the sort of stuff that actually happens.
00:38:22.000 At these abortion clinics.
00:38:24.000 And when you read the record on this particular abortionist, it is hideous.
00:38:28.000 But the media won't report this sort of stuff because they are fully invested in the idea that abortion is a great human right.
00:38:34.000 And so they continue to avoid the actual procedures that take place.
00:38:37.000 The consequences of those procedures.
00:38:39.000 And this is true on virtually every major issue.
00:38:43.000 Pretty much every major issue.
00:38:44.000 And it's particularly true again when it comes to social issues.
00:38:46.000 Which means that members of the Democratic Party continue to take more and more extreme views on these social issues.
00:38:52.000 Which brings us to Jen Psaki. 1.00
00:38:53.000 So the White House has now announced That they are going to sick the DOJ on any state that bans the cutting off of healthy body parts from minors on behalf of the phantasmic notion that boys can become girls and girls can become boys.
00:39:09.000 According to the White House, sex reassignment surgery, again a euphemism, the cutting off of healthy penises and testicles from young boys And the formation of false testes and penises for young girls, and the removal of their healthy breast tissue, and the removal of their uterus and ovaries, that all of this is best practice, according to this White House.
00:39:32.000 The reason that I spell out what happens in these procedures is because, again, euphemisms are the name of the game when it comes to the media, when it comes to the Democratic Party.
00:39:39.000 So here's Jen Psaki yesterday announcing that puberty blockers, hormone therapy, again, another euphemism, the injection of hormones that stop The puberty development of young girls and young boys and can have permanent side effects and if used over long periods of time can end in sterility.
00:39:58.000 That this is in fact best practice for people who may or may not even be suffering from gender dysphoria.
00:40:04.000 According to this White House, this is hideous stuff.
00:40:07.000 Here is your very radical White House explaining.
00:40:11.000 Every major medical association agrees that gender-affirming health care for transgender kids is a best practice and potentially life-saving.
00:40:19.000 All of this begs an important question.
00:40:21.000 What are these policies actually trying to solve for? 0.76
00:40:23.000 LGBTQI plus people can't be erased or forced back into any closets, and kids across our nation should be allowed to be who they are, without the threat that their parents or their doctor could be imprisoned simply for helping them and loving them.
00:40:38.000 What an unbelievable euphemism gender-affirming healthcare is.
00:40:40.000 It's sex-denying surgery.
00:40:43.000 Sex-denying hormone replacement therapy.
00:40:45.000 Gender-affirming healthcare.
00:40:45.000 That's what it is.
00:40:47.000 Gender is a made-up concept about what is going on in your mind. 0.96
00:40:50.000 And so we have to chop off healthy body parts from teenagers based on bad science. 1.00
00:40:55.000 Because let's be real about this.
00:40:56.000 The science is not there.
00:40:58.000 That there's long-term beneficial health effects to doing these things.
00:41:02.000 Especially when, again, you don't have a firm diagnosis before a lot of this stuff is done of even gender dysphoria.
00:41:08.000 In many cases, desistance would actually be the natural outcome of leaving people alone.
00:41:13.000 And yet this White House says that the best course of practice is if a kid comes in at five years old and says, I feel like a little boy today, and it's a little girl, you're supposed to immediately engage in quote unquote, gender affirming healthcare, which means calling the little boy, calling the little girl, a little boy.
00:41:28.000 And then transitioning this kid socially, indoctrinating them in the idea that they are in fact a member of the opposite sex, and then providing them hormone therapy as they get older, and then sterilizing them permanently and chopping off their genitals, or adding false genitals to them, and destroying secondary sex characteristics. 0.93
00:41:43.000 This is what this White House is preaching.
00:41:45.000 And this is because, again, the media engage in euphemistic practice all the time.
00:41:49.000 According to Psaki, she says, quote, Alabama's lawmakers and other legislators who are contemplating these discriminatory bills have been put on notice by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services that laws and policies preventing care that health professionals recommend for transgender minors may violate the Constitution and federal law.
00:42:05.000 The Constitution.
00:42:07.000 Yes, indeed. 0.98
00:42:08.000 When they wrote the 14th Amendment in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, what they actually meant was you have a right to allow a minor to chop off their genitals. 0.94
00:42:17.000 This is precisely what they mean.
00:42:19.000 And again, all of this is pushed forward by media malpractice because the media will refuse.
00:42:24.000 I mean, if you ask the media to actually show on screen what happens during these procedures, they never would.
00:42:29.000 It would be far too graphic and far too brutal.
00:42:31.000 They wouldn't do it because it would completely give the lie to everything they're doing.
00:42:34.000 And so instead they just provide false narratives.
00:42:37.000 Another piece of the Daily Wire today by Dr. Miriam Grossman about the actual data surrounding this sort of hormone replacement therapy and surgery.
00:42:47.000 And the answer is the data just aren't there.
00:42:50.000 According to Dr. Grossman, quote, President Joe Biden has advised parents that early surgeries, hormone treatment, and affirmations are crucial for the health of their gender-confused children.
00:42:57.000 According to the president, these are some of the most powerful things a parent can do.
00:43:00.000 As a child and adolescent psychiatrist who treats some of the families facing these issues, his statements are surprising and, due to their medical and societal implications, warrant thorough fact-checking. To clarify, affirmation means unquestioning acceptance of a child's chosen gender identity, be it the opposite sex, a combination of male and female, neither male nor female, or one of the multitudes of other possibilities presented to children by by the media online and at school.
00:43:22.000 This means abandoning the use of a child's given name and the pronouns consistent with their biology and replacing them with the name and pronouns they've picked, permitting them the clothing and hairstyle of their choice, allowing girls to bind their breasts and boys to tuck their penises and testicles, facilitating the use of the opposite sex restrooms, participation in opposite sex sports teams, and so on. 0.65
00:43:40.000 Hormone treatment refers to both puberty-blocking agents, PBAs, which halt the critical process by which kids mature into adults, and cross-sex hormones, which are given a few years after PBAs to chemically stimulate the puberty of the opposite sex. 0.50
00:43:51.000 Surgeries refer to bilateral mastectomies, the removal of ovaries in the uterus, and the construction of a faux penis in girls and breast implants, the removal of the penis in testes, and the construction of a faux vagina in boys.
00:44:01.000 In the US, mastectomies are performed on girls as young as 13. 0.94
00:44:05.000 Minor boys are being castrated.
00:44:07.000 There is also a surgery that removes all genitalia, marketed by surgeons to individuals who identify as neither male nor female or non-binary.
00:44:14.000 Perhaps Joe Biden believes there's strong evidence these life-altering social and medical interventions lead to positive outcomes.
00:44:19.000 If so, he could not be more mistaken.
00:44:22.000 The severe lack of scientific knowledge of gender dysphoria is acknowledged by experts in the field.
00:44:25.000 The American Psychological Association has stated, quote, because no approach to working with transgender and gender non-conforming children has been adequately empirically validated, consensus does not exist regarding best practice with pre-pubertal children.
00:44:37.000 In 2020, the UK's National Institute for Health Care and Excellence did a systematic review of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and found evidence, medications, potential benefits are of very low certainty.
00:44:49.000 Similarly, Dr. Steven Levine, pioneer in the study, Treatment of Sexuality and Gender Problems Since 1974, arguably the most highly credentialed and respected voice in the field, wrote in an expert affidavit, quote, Professor Carl Hennigan, editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal and director of the Center of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford, along with Professor Tom Jefferson, a clinical epidemiologist, completed an independent analysis of research on transgender medical intervention.
00:45:16.000 Concerning puberty blockers, Hennigan stated, quote, the quality of evidence in this area is terrible.
00:45:21.000 And yet, the president is calling for early treatment.
00:45:24.000 He says it's one of the most powerful things a parent can do.
00:45:27.000 And the media are trotting out all the heroes of the day who do this sort of thing, of course, including people like Jazz Jennings.
00:45:33.000 Jazz Jennings is the poster child for the transgender industry, starting PBAs, puberty blockers, at the age of 11, going on to estrogen in high school, before castration and the construction of a faux vagina at age 17. 0.99
00:45:43.000 Jazz reported to surgeon Marcy Bowers, sexual sensations and orgasm were unknown experiences. 0.68
00:45:48.000 Jazz is now 21.
00:45:49.000 Has gained 100 pounds and is struggling severely with mental health issues.
00:45:54.000 Bottom line is this.
00:45:56.000 The simple fact of the matter is.
00:45:58.000 That once you're on puberty blockers, assistance becomes very rare.
00:46:02.000 The health outcomes of this stuff are unknown.
00:46:04.000 The evidence that this radically reduces suicidality does not exist.
00:46:11.000 And because the media have been pressing forward with the notion that anyone who expresses any sort of gender confusion or gender nonconformity may in fact be a member of the opposite sex, the diagnosis of transgenderism has risen dramatically.
00:46:23.000 As this doctor writes in the pages of the Daily Wire, until very recently, gender dysphoria was a rare diagnosis, prevalence of 1 in 30,000 or 1 in 110,000, and a male-female ratio of 6 to 1.
00:46:34.000 However, a 2021 study suggests the rate of transgender identification among urban youth may now be as high as 9 in 100.
00:46:40.000 So from 1 in 30,000 to 9 in 100, which just to get the math right here, 9 in 100 is the same as 90 in 1,000, which is the same as 900 in 10,000.
00:46:45.000 Okay?
00:46:46.000 Which just to get the math right here, 9 in 100 is the same as 90 in 1000, which is the same as 900 in 10,000. Okay, which means that you're talking from 1 in 30,000 to 2,700 in 30,000 in the course of just a few years. Is all of that newly identified gender dysphoria? 0.84
00:47:08.000 Or, in fact, are we looking at a social contagion pressed forward by the left on the basis of crap gender theory and then pressed forward by a media that refuses to report the facts about this stuff? 0.94
00:47:18.000 And yet this has now become a key part of the Democratic Party platform. 0.93
00:47:22.000 It has become mainstream stuff in the media.
00:47:25.000 The Education Secretary of the United States said yesterday that biological males should be allowed to participate in women's sports if they believe they are female.
00:47:35.000 Here was Miguel Cardona, the Education Secretary, yesterday.
00:47:39.000 Every student in our schools deserves an opportunity to engage in all aspects of school, including extracurriculars, whether it's a club or athletics.
00:47:49.000 And I know there's been a lot of conversation about specific cases, but, you know, across the country, it's really important that we give all students an opportunity to engage and to participate in all that schools provide.
00:48:02.000 It's all happy-dappy-do kind of stuff.
00:48:03.000 The only thing you have to do is deny science, deny reality, and completely obfuscate the issues.
00:48:08.000 Meanwhile, in New Jersey, you know, the entire media very upset that Florida has decided you're not allowed to indoctrinate kids in the bullcrap known as gender theory.
00:48:16.000 You're not allowed to do this.
00:48:17.000 From K to 3, And the entire left says, how dare you do this?
00:48:22.000 It's just terrible.
00:48:22.000 It's just terrible.
00:48:23.000 How could Florida do this?
00:48:23.000 How could you do this?
00:48:24.000 They're saying, don't say gay.
00:48:26.000 How dare they do all of this?
00:48:28.000 And it's not even relevant, say the left.
00:48:30.000 And I mean, why would you even do this?
00:48:31.000 We're not doing this at school.
00:48:32.000 No, you are doing this at school.
00:48:34.000 You are clearly doing this at school.
00:48:35.000 According to the new 2022-2022 New Jersey state sexual education guidelines, They now include gender identity instruction for elementary schoolers.
00:48:46.000 One lesson plan, purple, pink, and blue, according to Fox News, instructs teachers to talk to first graders about gender identity.
00:48:52.000 The first objective is to have the students be able to define gender, gender identity, and gender role stereotypes.
00:48:58.000 The lesson's second objective is to have student name at least two things they've been taught about gender role stereotypes and how those things may limit people of all genders.
00:49:06.000 Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender.
00:49:08.000 You might feel like you're a boy.
00:49:09.000 You might feel like you're a girl, the lesson plan states.
00:49:11.000 You might feel like you're a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are girl parts.
00:49:16.000 You might feel like you're a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are boy parts. 0.91
00:49:19.000 Some people might tell you a penis is a boy part, but it's not according to New Jersey public schools. 0.99
00:49:23.000 I mean, this is sick and perverse kind of stuff. 1.00
00:49:25.000 It really is.
00:49:26.000 And it is promoted by the media and it is promoted by interest groups who continue to dominate the political spectrum.
00:49:33.000 For example, the gay and lesbian Alliance Against Defamation put out a tweet.
00:49:37.000 March 10, 2022, quote, corporations need to be held accountable for their silence on anti-LGBTQ bills in states where they do business.
00:49:44.000 That's why we are updating our studio responsibility index to hold Hollywood accountable.
00:49:48.000 In other words, unless major entertainment media continue to mirror the precept of the radical left, they will be targeted by interest groups and the media will help them in that targeting.
00:50:00.000 Remember, it was places like GLAAD that were targeting Disney, and the media immediately went along with it, calling up Disney.
00:50:06.000 Where do you guys stand at Disney?
00:50:08.000 As a big employer in the state of Florida, where do you guys stand on the Florida, quote-unquote, don't say gay bill? 0.96
00:50:14.000 It bullied Disney into taking a ridiculous stance against parents and against kids. 0.99
00:50:19.000 And Disney, because it's filled with cowards, promptly did that. 0.95
00:50:22.000 There's new tape that's now emerging from that all-hands meeting over at Disney, in which Bob Chapek, who leads Disney, just abjectly groveled in front of his employees. 0.78
00:50:34.000 I've read many emails that have been sent, spoken with LGBTQ plus employees and their allies, met with advocacy groups, and convened my own leadership team.
00:50:44.000 And I have been taken by the honesty, the openness, and the urgency of their stories.
00:50:50.000 I want you to know that your words have made a real impact on me.
00:50:54.000 I understand that we've made mistakes and the pain that those mistakes have caused.
00:50:59.000 And I know that our silence wasn't just about the bill in Florida, but about every time an individual or institution that should have stood up for this community did not.
00:51:09.000 I and the leadership team are determined to use this moment as a catalyst for more meaningful and lasting change.
00:51:17.000 Pathetic, malice, struggle sessions dictated by the media, pushed forward by the media, pushed forward by interest groups in the media, which are basically a merger with the Democratic Party. 0.98
00:51:26.000 It's pathetic. 1.00
00:51:26.000 By the way, Disney, I mean, they are so far down the rabbit hole. 1.00
00:51:29.000 Disney employee Latoya Rabinow, who you'll remember from suggesting that she was inserting a quote-unquote, not-at-all-secret gay agenda into programming at the Walt Disney Company for Children.
00:51:38.000 She also explained that she wants to educate kids about all forms of sexual minorities, including quote-unquote, biromantic asexuals like her.
00:51:47.000 Now, if you can explain what a biromantic asexual is, Congratulations to you. 0.99
00:51:51.000 You have a degree in sociology from a crap state university. 0.98
00:51:54.000 But apparently this is now a thing. 1.00
00:51:55.000 A biromantic asexual. 0.91
00:51:58.000 Apparently she identifies as one.
00:52:01.000 Biromantic. 1.00
00:52:02.000 But not sexual.
00:52:03.000 Just emotionally romantic.
00:52:05.000 But is a minority and thus put upon.
00:52:07.000 And now you as a child need to know about it.
00:52:09.000 Maybe you'll have your own flag.
00:52:10.000 Here's Latoya Raveneau. 0.82
00:52:10.000 It's really exciting. 0.82
00:52:13.000 I identify as like a biromantic asexual.
00:52:16.000 I've had a lot Of learning and growing about myself this year, kind of facilitated by how comfortable I felt on The Proud Family and with my immediate team at Disney TVA.
00:52:27.000 It feels like the things that we believe that we're trying to put into the shows are not what we're seeing in the real world.
00:52:36.000 And yeah, it leaves you in a weird space.
00:52:39.000 No, we're trying to, we're trying to put it in the shows.
00:52:41.000 It's not the stuff we're seeing, but it's the stuff we're trying to put in the show.
00:52:45.000 Again, this is all about a group of adults who are attempting to pervert the minds of children in order to make themselves feel better.
00:52:51.000 That's what this really is about.
00:52:52.000 This is why they are targeting children in the first place.
00:52:54.000 And it's not just Disney, by the way.
00:52:56.000 It's Nickelodeon.
00:52:56.000 Nickelodeon spent the quote-unquote international trans day of visibility trying to indoctrinate kids, because this is whom they are targeting, trying to indoctrinate kids and the idea that little boys can be little girls and vice versa.
00:53:07.000 They did so by featuring a little boy who believes he's a little girl.
00:53:10.000 It's just this horrifying stuff from children's programming.
00:53:12.000 And of course, the media love every element of it.
00:53:16.000 In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, meet Time and Nickelodeon's 2021 Kid of the Year finalist, Rebecca Brusahov.
00:53:23.000 Growing up in the LGBTQ plus community has given me a different perspective on how I see the world.
00:53:28.000 Trans kids are so much more than their gender identity, and it's so important for people to listen to kids.
00:53:35.000 I wish for a world where everyone can be lifted up and celebrated.
00:53:39.000 So today, and every day, we celebrate those who are helping others realize that everyone should be proud of what makes them who they are.
00:53:47.000 Okay, except if what makes you who you are is your actual biological sex, then Nickelodeon is going to reach out to your children and tell them they can be a member of the opposite sex.
00:53:54.000 This is the media promulgating bad, false information, promulgating lies, euphemisms. 0.99
00:53:59.000 This is what they do, and this is why people don't trust the media anymore, nor should they trust the media, because the media are hot garbage in this country. They've been hot garbage for a very long time. It's why the legacy media are falling away and why if you are subscribed to a legacy media outlet, you should really think about pulling your subscription today because they do a horrific job of actually presenting truth and an excellent job of presenting propaganda on behalf of their perceived political Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content. 0.99
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