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00:00:00.000Israel announces a ceasefire with Hamas, anti-Semitic attacks break out in major American cities, and CNN's Chris Cuomo is exposed for helping his brother while covering him for the most trusted name in news.
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00:01:36.000Israel voted in its security cabinet that they were going to announce a ceasefire.
00:01:42.000And Hamas then quickly agreed to a ceasefire.
00:01:45.000Because Israel stopped short of completely destroying Hamas, this meant that Palestinians were out in the streets firing fireworks and declaring victory.
00:01:52.000Weird thing to declare victory when your infrastructure has been crumbled, many of your leadership have been killed, And it's also very weird to declare victory when your entire basis for victory was supposedly that you stood up to this massive Israeli barrage, but you actually didn't.
00:02:10.000So you complain the entire time about how mean Israel is, and then Israel eviscerates a lot of your infrastructure and then you declare victory.
00:02:17.000The real answer is that the Palestinians under Hamas declared victory because they got what they wanted from the world media.
00:02:24.000And what they got from the world media was this vast turn against Israel.
00:02:27.000And it's an amazing thing because the media just decided to conflate Hamas and Palestinians as though they are the same thing.
00:02:32.000As though Hamas, which is the governing terrorist group in the Gaza Strip and has been since 2006, has a coincident interest with the Palestinians who live under its misrule.
00:02:43.000who live under the boot heel of this terrorist regime.
00:02:47.000According to the Washington Post, a ceasefire aimed at ending 11 days of withering combat between Israel and Hamas militants took effect early on Friday hours after Israel's security cabinet voted to approve an Egyptian initiative to stop the fighting.
00:02:58.000The cabinet made up of top security officials and ministers voted unanimously to accept what Israel described as a bilateral and unconditional ceasefire.
00:03:06.000Facing mounting international pressure, including from President Biden in recent days, the Israeli government said it decided to bring the air and artillery campaign to a halt after significantly degrading Hamas' military infrastructure and killing many of its commanders.
00:03:17.000Hamas said that it had also agreed with the Egyptian proposal.
00:03:21.000Zaheer Al-Munu, a media advisor, said the Palestinian resistance will abide by this agreement as long as the occupation is committed.
00:03:29.000Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes and artillery fire, causing extensive destruction, killing 232 Palestinians, including at least 65 children.
00:03:36.000Now, it should be noted that whenever there are these death counts, they typically come from the Hamas information ministry.
00:03:41.000And very often those numbers are wrong.
00:03:43.000And it turns out later that it becomes clear how wrong they were.
00:03:46.000But any child who died as a result of this in the Gaza Strip is a direct result of Hamas, which plants weapons and terrorists behind children.
00:03:54.000We've played tape on this show of people in Gaza explicitly saying to Israeli forces who are warning them to get out of buildings, we want to leave our kids here, so if you hit the building, then you get blamed internationally.
00:04:05.000Hamas's ferocious rocketing left 12 dead in Israel, two of them children, sent residents of much of the country repeatedly fleeing for shelter.
00:04:12.000As the hour struck, Gaza residents cheered from their terraces, celebratory gunfire sounded over the mostly dark neighborhoods, a few horns that sounded from cars braving streets pocked with shell craters, and praise for God rang out from mosques around Gaza City.
00:04:24.000You fire hundreds of rockets at civilian areas, and then you just have your infrastructure bombed into next week, and your reaction to a ceasefire is, we won?
00:04:35.000Now, there was no such reaction in Israel.
00:04:38.000The reason there was no such reaction in Israel is because Israel doesn't want the conflict.
00:04:42.000This is one of the things that I was noting a few days ago about videos of rockets being fired from Gaza.
00:04:47.000What you saw is people in the streets actively celebrating when rockets were fired into Gaza.
00:05:13.000In my conversation with President Netanyahu, I commended him for the decision to bring the current hostilities to a close within less than 11 days.
00:05:22.000I also emphasized what I've said throughout this conflict.
00:05:26.000The United States fully supports Israel's right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket attacks from Hamas, and other Gaza-based terrorist groups that have taken the lives of innocent civilians in Israel.
00:05:38.000Now, there's something that Joe Biden did not mention in his speech, and that, of course, is the vast wave of anti-Semitic attacks that's now hitting American cities.
00:06:11.000Like, really, that makes a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:06:13.000Biden didn't mention this because the left has a perverse perspective on anti-Semitism, which is that anti-Semitism only matters when the person committing the anti-Semitism is a white supremacist.
00:06:22.000When it turns out that antisemitism is a mainstream part of an increasingly mainstream segment of the international left, then antisemitism has to be ignored.
00:06:30.000In other words, when antisemitism is part of a political program, a broader political program, to, for example, end the Jewish state, or part of a broader political program to set up Jews, who are disproportionately well-educated and successful in Western societies, as sort of the evil at the top of the intersectional hierarchy, As beneficiaries of a system that needs to be brought down, then antisemitism gets ignored.
00:06:51.000Which of course is why the Democratic Party, just last year, decided that they were not going to bother censoring, or censuring rather, Ilhan Omar for her blatant antisemitism.
00:07:00.000Instead, they decided that they were going to pass some sort of broad resolution condemning all bad things on planet Earth.
00:07:06.000Because the reality is that the left cannot acknowledge antisemitism when it comes from the left.
00:07:11.000Instead, they have to pretend that it just doesn't exist.
00:07:13.000And so, as we will see, there have been a bevy of anti-Semitic attacks in the United States over the course of the last week.
00:07:20.000It is not a coincidence that it is happening in the middle of this conflict with Israel, because the same people... Again, these people are siding with Hamas.
00:07:55.000Anti-Semitism is part and parcel of the broader international left agenda at this point, and that agenda is to tear down any vestiges and systems that they believe are Implicit in the West.
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00:09:53.000And people on the other side who believe that Israel should make more concessions.
00:09:56.000That doesn't mean that you are anti-Semitic.
00:09:59.000There are a few key indicators as to when anti-Israel sentiment bleeds over into anti-Semitism.
00:10:03.000One, if you're siding with an active terrorist group that is firing indiscriminately rockets at civilians while shielding its own weaponry with children, It's very hard to come up with an alternative explanation for why you think that is okay, other than you don't like Jews.
00:10:16.000If you're treating the Jewish state in a way you would treat no other state, if there's a double standard, okay?
00:10:20.000And this isn't my standard, this is the State Department's standard for anti-Semitism.
00:10:23.000If you treat the Jewish state in a way different than you would treat any other state, It's an indicator of anti-Semitism.
00:10:29.000So those are a couple indicators of when anti-Israel sentiment bleeds over into anti-Semitism.
00:10:34.000And by the way, if you wish to see the full-scale destruction of the state of Israel, you don't wish to see the destruction of any other state on planet Earth.
00:10:40.000You don't wish to see the destruction of any Islamic regime.
00:10:43.000There are over 50, 57, 58 members of the Organization of Islamic Countries, explicitly Islamic.
00:10:49.000Full-on apartheid states for people of other religions?
00:10:52.000You don't care about the 100-plus countries that are Christian in orientation?
00:10:56.000All you care about is the one Jewish state that looks an awful lot like an anti-Semitic double standard?
00:11:01.000Well, the left has embraced that anti-Semitic double standard because the left sees Israel as a repository of colonialism in the region, which has to ignore all of human history.
00:11:10.000There have been Jews in this region since 1000 BCE.
00:11:13.000Jewish presence in the Holy Land predates the existence of Islam by some 1600 years minimum.
00:11:20.000The first and second temples were built hundreds of years before Islam even existed.
00:11:25.000And so the notion that this is some sort of colonialist outpost of Western civilization is a particularly bizarre one considering how Jews were often treated throughout Europe and throughout Russia and throughout every other place throughout human history.
00:11:37.000The notion that the Jews were sort of like put there by the Europeans in order to bother the Arabs is insane, especially considering the fact that British Mandate Palestine attempted explicitly to bar Jews from buying land for decades on end and restricted Jewish immigration in a way that it never restricted Arab immigration, including restricting Jewish immigration from Europe during World War II as Jews were being sent to the gas chambers in Europe and post-World War II in order to placate the local Arab population.
00:12:00.000So you have to just ignore all of history to come to the conclusion that this is a colonialist settler outpost.
00:12:06.000But that is exactly what the left wants to say because this all fits into a broader left-wing worldview.
00:12:10.000The broader left-wing worldview is that anyone who is successful in a Western system is successful because they have somehow victimized the other.
00:12:18.000It's the same thing that you see in America with regards to critical race theory, that inequality of outcome is evidence of discrimination.
00:12:23.000Same thing when it comes to global politics.
00:12:25.000If Israel is very successful and the Palestinians are not particularly successful, that is not because the Palestinian leadership are a bunch of terrorists who have misdirected all funding toward terrorism and destroyed property rights and made it impossible for people to start businesses and crack down on dissent and have destroyed democracy and actually live in a one-party apartheid state.
00:12:59.000So if you ignore all of that just because you don't like Israel, at that point you have to start looking at the possibility that anti-Semitism lies behind this.
00:13:06.000Okay, and again, that is why it is no coincidence that you are seeing Palestinian anti-Semitism on the streets of the United States.
00:13:13.000And you are seeing people on the left look the other way.
00:13:15.000This is not being covered in the mainstream media.
00:13:17.000In much the same way that the mainstream media really didn't want to cover anti-Asian violence in the United States until there was that mass shooting by somebody they could label a white supremacist in Atlanta.
00:13:25.000When that happened, then they could talk about anti-Asian violence and they could pass an anti-Asian hate crime bill, but they will not pass an anti-Semitic hate crime crackdown bill.
00:13:34.000They certainly won't do that because the people who are largely promulgating anti-Semitism in the United States these days are on the political left and that is being mainstreamed into the political left.
00:13:43.000These are from New York over the last 48 hours.
00:13:47.000By the way, Palestinian protesters are specifically attempting to set up protests in Jewish areas all around the country.
00:13:53.000The reason they're doing that, of course, is because they believe that these are pro-Israel centers, and so they have to get in the face of every Jew in order to demonstrate something.
00:14:03.000I'm not sure what it is they think they're demonstrating.
00:14:05.000Yesterday, there was some... I mean, this is an act of terrorism.
00:14:09.000I mean, somebody went and took a small Molotov cocktail, and they took it down to the Diamond District in New York, And they threw like an actual explosive in the Diamond District.
00:14:19.000Okay, then they went to a restaurant, these Palestinian activists, and by activists, I mean criminals.
00:14:24.000They went to, because there are activists and there are criminals.
00:14:28.000If you go to a restaurant and you start spitting on people, you start spitting on Jewish diners, you're a criminal.
00:15:12.000We saw in Los Angeles that there were Jews who were eating outside at a sushi restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard.
00:15:16.000And Palestinian activists slash criminals decided that they were going to stop, try to shout at the Jews, get out of their car, and then go and beat up the Jews.
00:15:25.000We saw a Jew being chased down by a couple of trucks with giant Palestinian flags on the back.
00:15:32.000All this stuff is happening, and the media just have no interest in covering the actual crimes.
00:15:36.000You'll see an occasional story about Eric Garcetti in LA, for example, condemning the hate crimes.
00:15:41.000Nothing yet from Bill de Blasio, so far as I'm aware.
00:15:44.000Nothing from Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York.
00:15:46.000Nothing from Chuck Schumer, the Jewish senator from New York.
00:15:50.000Nothing, in fact, from anybody in the Democratic Party hierarchy.
00:15:54.000The answer is because if they recognize that perhaps the people who are siding with Hamas very often are driven... Well, not very often.
00:16:01.000If you side with Hamas, not just you don't like some things Israel's doing, you side with Hamas, this means you're an anti-Semite.
00:16:06.000There's just no way to read you siding with an actual overt evil terrorist group as anything other than you hate the people that the terrorists are attempting to kill.
00:16:16.000And this has mainstreamed itself into media.
00:16:21.000So there's open antisemitism, and it exists largely at the highest echelons of the Islamic world, particularly in Islamically governed countries like Pakistan.
00:16:31.000There was a Pakistani foreign minister who just went on CNN, and frankly, good for the CNN host here.
00:16:44.000But MSNBC is busily actually promulgating the antisemitism.
00:16:47.000Just like members of the Democratic Party are promulgating the anti-Semitism, just like the Washington Post is promulgating the anti-Semitism.
00:16:53.000Now, this doesn't mean that everybody in the Democratic Party higher echelon is an anti-Semite.
00:16:58.000It just means they're winking and nodding at it.
00:17:00.000I mean, Joe Biden anytime could say something about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:17:04.000Instead, Joe Biden, who was fairly tolerant of Israel performing its duty to defend its citizens, he was out there praising Rashida Tlaib while Rashida Tlaib was being an open anti-Semite supporting actual acts of terrorism.
00:17:18.000In just one second, we are going to get to more of this.
00:17:21.000First, let's talk about the fact that big tech would love to cancel your right to free speech, or at the very least restrict it.
00:19:13.000I mean, I would call that an anti-Semitic remark.
00:19:16.000Well, you see, the point is they have a lot of influence.
00:19:21.000The only guy, the dry guy actually doing what an anchor there is supposed to do.
00:19:26.000That is the foreign minister of Pakistan.
00:19:28.000It's a high ranking official in a foreign government talking about how the Jews control the media.
00:19:33.000Now, this sort of stuff, unfortunately, is fairly well spoken of in elite liberal circles.
00:19:41.000I mean, the fact is that this has been a commonly held and pervasive myth on the left for a very long time, including by people who actually serve inside the Biden administration.
00:19:51.000Robert Malley used to make comments like this about how the American media was controlled by the Israeli lobby and all the rest of this.
00:19:57.000OK, but MSNBC actually just mainstreams this.
00:19:59.000So what you've seen, there are two articles in the last two days, one in The New York Times and one in The Washington Post, explicitly talking about how the two state solution was done.
00:20:07.000Now, why is the two-state solution done?
00:20:09.000According to them, the two-state solution is done not because terrorist groups run the West Bank and run the Gaza Strip and have explicitly refused to acknowledge the right of the State of Israel to exist.
00:20:20.000It's because what you really need is a one-state solution between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, whereby Arabs swamp the Jewish population and they turn it into another Islamic state.
00:20:31.000There's an actual article in the Washington Post today about this by Ishan Tharoor, suggesting that this is the wave of the future.
00:20:37.000There's another article in the Washington Post.
00:20:38.000Talking up Rashida Tlaib, the open anti-Semite.
00:20:41.000It's a piece by Michael Kranish titled, Eight Minutes with the President.
00:20:45.000Representative Rashida Tlaib, the lone Palestinian American in Congress, gains relevance in Israel debate.
00:20:49.000Well, she's gaining relevance because you guys keep giving her relevance.
00:20:52.000And because the Democratic Party refuses to quash its own anti-Semitism.
00:20:56.000Ilhan Omar is not shy about her anti-Semitism.
00:20:58.000Rashida Tlaib is not shy about her anti-Semitism.
00:21:03.000When you back Hamas and when you attack Israel's apartheid state at the same time that you are supporting a one-party terror state in the Gaza Strip, and when you hang out with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and back all of their plays, when you attempt to block military aid to an American ally in a time when they're under consistent rocket fire, When you hang out with Jeremy Corbyn, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, you are now in the anti-Semitic category.
00:21:23.000You have now exited the point where you are just an ignoramus, and you have entered the anti-Semitic category, which is true of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, it's true of Cori Bush, it's true of the Squad.
00:21:32.000The Squad has decided to engage full-scale in anti-Semitism by the State Department definition, treating Israel with a double standard, demonizing Israel, treating Jews as extensions of Israel.
00:21:42.000All of this sort of stuff is stuff that is routinely done by the Squad, and the media as well.
00:21:48.000MSNBC hosted the sponsor of boycott, divestment and sanctions yesterday.
00:21:54.000Omar Barghouti is like an open anti-Semite.
00:21:57.000He has explicitly stated that boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel, which is an attempt to get everybody to stop doing business with the state of Israel.
00:22:03.000He's explicitly said that his goal is the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:22:06.000Here he was being touted on MSNBC yesterday.
00:22:09.000The United States government is complicit through its military funding, academic institutions, cultural institutions, investment funds are also complicit when they invest in companies that are enabling the occupation, the house demolition, and so on.
00:22:26.000So we're calling for ending complicity so that Palestinians can achieve our rights under international law and nothing beyond that, and end to the occupation OK, OK, when he says the rights of refugees, what he means is that every Palestinian should be allowed into Israel to be a citizen of Israel, despite the fact that they explicitly say they want to destroy the state of Israel.
00:22:46.000This is the equivalent of during the Cold War, the United States, the left in the United States saying we should give citizenship to every member of the International Communist Party in order to come to the United States so they can vote to get rid of the United States.
00:23:21.000Now they realize Israel is an apartheid state.
00:23:23.000That was an absolute taboo just a year ago.
00:23:26.000Today, how many members of Congress are saying Israel is an apartheid state?
00:23:30.000How many members of Congress are calling for conditioning aid to Israel or cutting military funding to Israel altogether?
00:23:37.000Cori Bush, for example, Congresswoman Cori Bush, connected Palestinian liberation with the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that let's not send any military funding to an apartheid regime.
00:23:48.000We must be anti-apartheid, period, she said.
00:24:53.000The tolerance for anti-Semitic incidents is tied to the fact that the people who are participating in the anti-Semitism are supporters of some of the biggest Democrats in Congress.
00:25:01.000They're people who ideologically hold the same positions as Democrats in Congress in the same way that for a year and a half, Democ- Democrats decided they would completely overlook and or cheer on rioting and looting because those people agreed with them on fundamental principles.
00:25:15.000And sure, they might go a little bit too far and they might not love it.
00:25:18.000But let's acknowledge that they have a point.
00:25:20.000This is the same reason why they're completely ignoring the anti-Semitic attacks that are happening in New York.
00:25:25.000I mean, Bernie Sanders, who is when people say that Bernie Sanders is a Jew, he's ethnically Jewish and he has no relationship with Judaism.
00:25:36.000He is not a Jew in any sense other than ethnic Judaism in the same way that if you are born into a Catholic family, perhaps you are.
00:25:42.000Ethnically Catholic, if that were a thing.
00:25:45.000And then, if you don't practice Catholicism, in fact, if you spend all your life attempting to rip down Catholicism, it'd be very difficult to call you a Catholic.
00:25:51.000Same sort of thing with Bernie Sanders.
00:26:38.000So don't pretend that the Democratic Party isn't complicit in the anti-Israel move.
00:26:42.000Good for Joe Biden for holding out as long as he did against these folks.
00:26:46.000But when is he going to speak up against the anti-Semitism inside his own party?
00:26:49.000Rashida Tlaib is busily tweeting, if my colleagues even mentioned Palestinians deserving human rights, they are aggressively bullied by those who prefer Israel as it is, apartheid, oppression, occupation, and all.
00:26:58.000My message to you all is this, do not be afraid to stand for justice.
00:27:05.000The American people are absolutely not with you by any poll statistic.
00:27:09.000But the Democrats are too afraid of people like Rashida Tlaib because she's intersectional.
00:27:13.000She then quotes Peter Beinart, who is Hamas' favorite commentator, and who also believes that Israel Israel should essentially be destroyed.
00:27:20.000He says the reason the American debate over Israel-Palestine could shift dramatically and quickly is that many Democratic politicians don't need to be convinced that what Israel is doing is wrong.
00:27:27.000They just need to be convinced that they can say so without hurting their careers.
00:27:30.000I don't think that Beinart is completely wrong about this.
00:27:32.000I think that Beinart recognizes that the Democratic Party has moved in a radically anti-Israel direction the same way that Peter Beinart has moved in a radically anti-Israel direction.
00:27:41.000I'm old enough to remember when Democrats suggested that anti-Semitic attacks against Jews were driven by Trump's unmoored rhetoric with regard to white supremacy or something.
00:27:48.000They blamed the Tree of Life shooting on Donald Trump.
00:27:51.000They get a wide spate of anti-Semitic attacks, and it has nothing to do with the Democrats in New York explicitly talking about the evils of Israel, how it's an apartheid state, and how Israel does not have the duty to defend itself, and siding with an actual terrorist group.
00:28:04.000You have the Democratic Party at the highest echelons refusing to condemn the anti-Semites in their own ranks, and it has no impact at all.
00:28:11.000You're gonna have to explain that one.
00:28:13.000Bottom line is anti-Semitism from the left is fine according to the left.
00:28:19.000And they'll just push full-on anti-Semitism in the media up to and including full-on pieces calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:28:26.000When people say one state solution, understand that what they are calling for is the destruction of the state of Israel in the way that they are articulating this.
00:28:33.000And you have top Democrats, of course, trying to actually block Israel from being able to defend its own citizens.
00:28:38.000Remember, every anti-missile missile that is fired by the Iron Dome costs about $100,000.
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00:30:14.000Meanwhile, CNN just Disgraced itself once again, according to the Washington Post, Chris Cuomo took part in strategy calls advising his brother.
00:30:25.000This is not a shock in any way, shape, or form.
00:30:27.000I mean, it's pretty obvious this is going to happen.
00:30:29.000The only thing that's humiliating about this for CNN is that Chris Cuomo got caught.
00:30:33.000And the fact is that Jeff Zucker was on the phone with, like, Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.
00:30:38.000Members of the media are constantly strategizing with other members of the Democratic Party, because the media is an entirely Democratic-run operation at this point.
00:30:47.000There's a reason why AP and Hamas are in the same building.
00:30:51.000AP does propaganda work for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:30:55.000The notion that the media does not have very cozy relationships with the people that it covers is just insane, which of course is why the entire media is out in defense of Chris Cuomo today, despite the fact it should be a pretty humiliating headline.
00:31:06.000According to the Washington Post, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo advised his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and senior members of the governor's staff on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations made earlier this year by women who had worked with the governor, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
00:31:20.000Cuomo, one of the network's top stars, joined a series of conference calls that included the Democratic governor, his top aide, his communications team, lawyers, and a number of outside advisors, according to people familiar with the conversations.
00:31:31.000The cable news anchor encouraged his brother to take a defiant position and not to resign.
00:31:34.000At one point, he used the phrase cancel culture as a reason to hold firm in the face of the allegations.
00:31:39.000In a statement, CNN acknowledged that Chris Cuomo took part in the strategy sessions, saying his involvement was a mistake.
00:31:46.000They said Chris has not been involved in CNN's extensive coverage of the allegations against Governor Cuomo on air or behind the scenes, in part because, as he has said on the show, he could never be objective, but also because he often serves as a sounding board for his brother.
00:31:57.000Well, weird, because he covered him for a year on COVID, while he was covering up nursing home deaths, while he was lying to the public.
00:32:05.000He was covering his own brother on the air for a year, The statement says it was inappropriate to engage in conversations that included members of the governor's staff, which Chris acknowledges.
00:32:15.000He will not participate in such conversations going forward.
00:32:19.000The anchor said he was walled off from coverage of the governor without mentioning the special dispensation he received from CNN to feature him on his show during the pandemic.
00:32:27.000The episode illuminates how the Cuomo brothers, who are 13 years apart in age, have benefited from their respective high perches in politics and media.
00:32:34.000Early in the COVID pandemic, a top Department of Health doctor was dispatched to the Hamptons to test Chris Cuomo and his family, The Washington Post had previously reported.
00:32:43.000Former and current administration officials said the anchor played an active role early in the governor's coronavirus strategy, as he was strategizing with Cuomo on COVID and then covering him on CNN.
00:33:10.000He's not Fredo, because apparently, according to Chris Cuomo, if you say that he is like Fredo, like the stupider younger brother who's being dragged around based on the family name, if you say that, then obviously that is, like, he said that was like the N-word for some reason, which is weird, because The Godfather is, like, about an Italian crime family, and, um, I really don't think that the ethnicity of the Cuomos has much to do with the Fredo reference.
00:33:30.000It's one of the most iconic references to a dumb younger brother, a dumb older brother, actually, in the history of cinema.
00:33:36.000But, in any case, The governor only trusts about five people, one advisor with knowledge of the strategy session said, so that's why Chris is on these calls.
00:33:45.000Inside CNN on Thursday, several employees described a sense of unease about the role Cuomo played in advising his brother, with one calling his decision to do so really upsetting.
00:33:54.000Another person said that in a political climate in which CNN journalists come under intense scrutiny, having one of their own offering advice to a major Democratic figure felt like a self-inflicted wound.
00:35:06.000It's the most obvious conflict of interest in media history, right?
00:35:09.000I mean, his own brother, he's advising him on COVID, and then he's covering him on air, doing joking routines about how he's the best governor in America and how there are homosexuals and such.
00:36:20.000Flashback to Chris Cuomo, not all that long ago, saying, yeah, it's kind of unusual that I cover my brother, but it's just something we have to do.
00:36:27.000Me having you on the show is an unusual thing.
00:37:57.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the continued cozy relationship between the media and the Democrats, who are basically their sponsors.
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00:40:53.000It's just a difference of degree, not a difference of kind between how the media normally treat the Democratic Party.
00:40:57.000There are dozens and dozens and dozens of members of the media who immediately jumped right back into the Biden administration after having been in the Obama administration, been hired by CNN, then go right back into the Biden administration.
00:41:06.000You think they didn't talk with members of the Democratic Party all that time?
00:41:11.000I mean, CNN Global Affairs Analyst Anthony Blinken is now the Secretary of State.
00:41:15.000Barbara McQuaid was an MSNBC columnist, NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst, and then was tapped for Joe Biden's legal review team.
00:41:23.000Richard Stengel was an MSNBC political analyst.
00:41:26.000They used him as a foreign affairs reporter.
00:42:12.000Chris Cuomo isn't going to lose anything.
00:42:14.000In fact, as even the Washington Post notes, there is literally nothing facing Chris Cuomo at this point.
00:42:21.000Says Eric Wemple, writing for the Washington Post, The CNN issued a statement defending Cuomo, quote, the early months of the pandemic crisis were an extraordinary time.
00:42:29.000We felt that Chris speaking with his brother about the challenges of what millions of American families were struggling with was of significant human interest.
00:42:35.000As a result, we made an exception to a rule we've had in place since 2013, which prevents Chris from interviewing and covering his brother.
00:42:42.000According to Eric Wemple, the reason Chris Cuomo now acknowledges it was inappropriate to advise his brother in strategy sessions is because he got caught.
00:42:51.000He gets no credit for acknowledging his transgression.
00:42:53.000How are we to trust the pledge not to backslide?
00:42:56.000And that, of course, is exactly correct.
00:42:59.000So you wonder why we can't have a common set of facts?
00:43:01.000The reason is because very often the facts are just not reported.
00:43:05.000You can't have a common set of facts when people on one side refuse to acknowledge that the facts even exist.
00:43:10.000We cover on this show all the time facts that do not tend to support Republicans and do not help Republicans.
00:43:16.000We covered extensively January 6th and the lead up to January 6th.
00:43:19.000We covered extensively the allegations of voter fraud and voter irregularities.
00:43:22.000I said over and over that I wasn't seeing the evidence that was being suggested by the Trump campaign.
00:43:29.000We cover news that cuts in all directions and then we comment on that news.
00:43:35.000But there are two types of media bias.
00:43:36.000One is how you cover the news, and the other is what you don't cover.
00:43:39.000And the fact is, the media have just decided that they don't wish to cover news they don't wish to cover.
00:43:44.000Which is why you don't see any headlines over at the New York Times or Washington Post on an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents.
00:43:49.000It's why you don't see the New York Times or Washington Post cover anti-Asian hate until it turns out there's an actual anti, supposedly targeted anti-Asian violence, supposedly, because it's not racially motivated so far as we are aware based on the evidence, but this anti-Asian attack in Atlanta.
00:44:05.000No comment on the amount of anti-Asian hate implicit in democratic policy with regard to, for example, campus issues and barring Asians from higher education.
00:44:30.000The entire media are members of the political establishment who are jealous of their elected brothers and wish to be of aid to them sometimes and wish to make a buck off of the family name.
00:44:43.000Chris Cuomo is just the entire media writ small.
00:44:48.000And once you recognize this, you can recognize the agenda in pretty much everything they do.
00:44:51.000And you shouldn't take them seriously.
00:44:53.000And if you do take them seriously, at the very least, you ought to get some countervailing points of view.
00:44:58.000I'll just note that CNN was rated by the pathetically stupid Organization News Guard, which is supposed to be the guardian of objective journalism.
00:45:05.000They're rated an 8 out of 10 in terms of objectivity, in terms of trustworthiness.