Kamala Harris has been the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential nomination for 25 days now, and the media have done nothing to question her. Why is this happening? Is it because they just don t have a clue what to ask a Democratic presidential candidate about? Or is it because Kamala Harris is the first woman to become the de facto Democratic nominee in 25 days to be asked a single question by the media about her running mate, Sen. Joe Biden? And what does that say about the state of journalism in America at large? And why does it matter that the media don t even bother to ask her a question about her run-in with the party nomination process? Well, you guessed it, it's because they don't have any questions to ask. And that's because journalism has been dead for the last 20 years, at least since Barack Obama came onto the national scene. And now that they re back, they re just as incurious as they were before Obama came on the scene, and suddenly they're just as interested as they ever were before he was elected. And it's a good thing, because they're back to being curious about what's going on in American politics. And they're getting a whole lot more curious than they ever have been in the past 20 years. and they're enjoying it! -- and that's good. -- by the way, that's not even close to being interested in what she's doing. . in this episode of The Weekly Standard's new podcast, hosted by John Avlon and Alex Castellani, featuring special guest, Alex Blumbergerts, host of the podcast, and host of The Daily Beast's newest podcast, Caitlin Collins Collins, joins us to talk all things politics, culture and culture, and all things political and culture and politics, and so much more. And, of course, there's a little bit of everything else. and a lot of other stuff, too! -- including: to keep us up to date on what s going on around the world, including the world of politics and pop culture, including, you know what that's going to happen in 2020 and what's happening in 2020, and what s happening in the world and why it s going to be a good ol' ol and why we should we care about it, and why you should be paying attention to it, right? and what it s gonna happen next year.
00:00:02.000It's another day of Kamala Harris being asked zero questions.
00:00:05.000That means it's time to update our calendar.
00:00:06.000It has now been 25 full days that Kamala Harris has been the de facto Democratic nominee and has answered zero questions from the media.
00:00:14.000And you would think that might bother some people in the media.
00:00:17.000But as it turns out, nope, not really.
00:00:19.000Mildly perturbed, or at least they have to pretend they're mildly perturbed about half a second every day.
00:00:24.000Then they go right back to bootlicking Kamala Harris.
00:00:27.000And this is the untold story of the last 20 years in American politics, minimum.
00:00:31.000Basically, since Barack Obama came onto the national scene, No one in the media has had any curiosity about asking Democrats questions.
00:00:38.000That's how you get 25 days of Kamala Harris ousting her boss as the presidential nominee, who is, by the way, still serving as President of the United States, despite his obvious senility.
00:00:49.000You get 25 days of her just getting glowing media coverage.
00:00:52.000A media massaging her shoulders, bootlicking her at every turn.
00:00:56.000And she's able to get away with this, and it does have a real-world impact.
00:00:59.000You know, I think that the change in how the media actually did their job probably started with Barack Obama.
00:01:05.000I'm old enough to remember the Clinton era.
00:01:08.000When Bill Clinton left office, I was 16 years old, so I kind of remember the Clinton era.
00:01:12.000And the media, while they were willing to treat Bill Clinton with some kid gloves, they did break some pretty major stories, ranging from Travelgate to Chinagate to, obviously, the Lewinsky scandal, which got preempted by Matt Drudge.
00:01:24.000So they actually sorta kinda did their jobs.
00:01:26.000And then, of course, during the Bush administration, they hated George W. Bush, so they did everything they could to cover every small peccadillo anyone involved in the Bush family or the Bush circle was involved in.
00:01:52.000They didn't want to do that, so instead they decided they were going to become the full-fledged Praetorian Guard for Barack Obama.
00:01:58.000And then, because Barack Obama reshaped the nature of American politics, and because the media had spent eight years with their muscles atrophying, they were no longer able to journalism for Democrats.
00:02:08.000They, of course, were able to go hard at Donald Trump.
00:02:10.000Everything Donald Trump did and did not do became front-page news.
00:02:13.000We had four long years of them claiming that there had to be, just around the next corner, evidence that Donald Trump was, in fact, a stooge of Vladimir Putin.
00:02:20.000Everything Donald Trump ever did was the most scandalous thing anyone had ever done for four long years.
00:02:25.000And then, of course, Donald Trump lost the election in 2020, and then went right back to that comforting, warm, urine-filled kiddie pool that was the Barack Obama years.
00:02:35.000And they're there right now, and they're enjoying it.
00:02:36.000They had like a three-week Intermission, where they were basically forced by circumstance and by the incompetence of Joe Biden to do their job.
00:02:44.000And it must have been unusual for them.
00:02:46.000It's like they were suddenly hit with a volt of electricity and they had to actually get up and walk around.
00:02:52.000But it turned out that wasn't journalism being alive.
00:02:54.000That was like the experiment with frogs, where you are able to galvanize a frog and suddenly it moves a little bit, even though it's dead.
00:03:03.000For three weeks, they were galvanized into the imitation of journalism, and that was them asking about Joe Biden's health, and trying to figure out what his level of decline was, and going to their sources.
00:03:14.000And then it turns out, nope, they were dead after all, because Kamala Harris comes in, And suddenly they're just as incurious as they ever were about Barack Obama.
00:03:32.000This would have been actually on Monday night.
00:03:35.000Stephen Colbert had on Caitlin Collins from CNN.
00:03:38.000And Caitlin Collins was obviously talking about how terrible Trump is, and what a terrible job he's doing, and how Kamala Harris is all the momentum, and all of that sort of thing.
00:03:46.000But that's not the interesting part of the clip.
00:03:47.000The interesting part of the clip is that Stephen Colbert says, in all seriousness, in perfect seriousness, with a straight face, that the legacy media are objective, that CNN is objective.
00:03:57.000And listen to the reaction of the crowd.
00:03:59.000Again, this is a crowd who opts into viewing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which means that they are all on the left.
00:04:49.000CNN makes a... Was that supposed to be a laugh line?
00:04:51.000It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is.
00:04:55.000Okay, that is an incredible admission, number one, by Stephen Colbert.
00:04:58.000That's not supposed to be a laugh line.
00:05:00.000But more importantly, listen to the natural reaction of the crowd.
00:05:03.000He says, I know you guys are supposed to be objective and that you just cover the news.
00:05:07.000That's an amazing thing for people to laugh at.
00:05:10.000But the media have become such a laughing stock that every normal American looks at CNN and what they see is a left-wing outlet, which is correct, which is why in the end, maybe, maybe Kamala Harris can't get away with this.
00:05:23.000The media are doing their damndest to help her steal this election.
00:05:25.000When I say steal the election, I don't mean like she's gonna change the votes, like she's gonna rig the ballot boxes or anything like that.
00:05:31.000But to steal the election means to completely obscure the record and positions of one of the candidates, to completely hide every piece of relevant information about that candidate.
00:05:40.000In favor of attacking the other candidate so that the candidate you prefer ends up in the White House.
00:05:46.000And that's what the media are doing right now.
00:05:47.000The media have become a laughing stock.
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00:06:50.000What they did with Hunter Biden in the last month of the 2020 election, where they went out and they said it was all disinformation, it was all fake, it was all phony, and then nobody reported on it.
00:08:00.000I mean, you understand that if you go back 25 days, that's when Joe Biden stepped out of the race.
00:08:07.000And if you went back 25 days before that, that was before the first debate.
00:08:11.000That's how long a period 25 days is in American politics.
00:08:15.000And Kamala Harris has been able To skate completely across the campaign with not even a ripple from the legacy media.
00:08:23.000In fact, the legacy media are going out of their way to claim that the media are actually right-wing and are bending over backward in order to take care of Donald Trump and the right.
00:08:31.000This particularly stupid argument, which finds its roots probably in Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, an idiotic book by a foolish man.
00:08:40.000The idea being that corporations run the media, therefore the media is a right-wing tool of
00:08:46.000these evil capitalists or some such nonsense.
00:08:48.000The left has been continuing to try and prop up this line for, I don't know, decades at
00:08:54.000Here is a left-wing guest on left-wing MSNBC on left-wing Morning Joe trying to explain
00:08:58.000the left-wing media are actually secretly right-wing.
00:09:01.000What I call the both sides media in this book has given them cover to act this way.
00:09:06.000And it's, you know, in large part how the media has allowed them to, given them a permission structure to act this way, just because they don't want to be labeled as the liberal media.
00:09:16.000And so they'll bend over backwards to kowtow to the right and basically act as their assignment editors.
00:10:13.000A vibe established there by Donald Trump standing in front of a portrait of himself in tennis gear as he did this two-hour Twitter-spaced interview.
00:11:01.000But Kamala Harris is not facing down any of that because the media are acting as her Praetorian Guard.
00:11:05.000Donald Trump, again, is running at the media as much as he is running against Kamala Harris.
00:11:11.000I mean, the New York Times has an entire display piece called, Kamala Harris found her footing in the spotlight.
00:11:16.000Did you find her footing in the spotlight?
00:11:17.000Or has she only been in the spotlight for about 25 days here, and you guys are doing your best to drag her across the finish line?
00:11:24.000It's a performance worthy of Samwise Gamgee.
00:11:27.000They're not able to carry the ring of power, but they are able to carry the person who's carrying the ring of power, Kamala Harris, all the way up that mountain.
00:11:35.000Meanwhile, again, Kamala Harris, she still has a set of positions that are utterly failing in a wide variety of swing states.
00:11:44.000So the Washington Post, in an accidental bit of journalism, has a piece today titled, In Pennsylvania, Harris Can't Shake Her Anti-Fracking Past.
00:11:50.000Quote, After years of positioning herself as a climate crusader and ardent opponent of fracking, Kamala Harris has avoided mention of such credentials in this must-win state for Democrats, where natural gas drives the economy, culture, and everyday conversation.
00:12:00.000Her new approach is proving a tough sell.
00:12:02.000Many of the swing voters here, whose livelihoods rise and fall with the fortunes of the fossil energy industry, have not forgotten the last time Harris ran for president, when she called for a ban on fracking.
00:12:13.000However, these concerns are putting out of reach voters who might otherwise fit the profile of the vice president's target audience.
00:12:19.000There are people like 31-year-old Emmanuel Paris, whose quest to expand his family's 400-employee construction firm into green energy projects drove him to get a master's degree in sustainability management.
00:12:28.000He has no doubt climate change is real, but he'll be voting for Trump.
00:12:30.000Quote, So, she has switched her own position on this.
00:12:37.000Does anyone believe that she's very much in favor of fracking?
00:12:40.000Joe Biden has spent his presidency attempting to put limitations on investment in oil refineries, only to then try and reverse himself the minute that oil prices started to increase.
00:12:50.000Joe Biden has banned federal lands for purposes of fracking.
00:12:53.000Do you think Kamala Harris would be anything different?
00:13:06.000Back in 2019, of course, she campaigned on Medicare for All and openly spoke of outlawing private health insurance.
00:13:11.000Now, according to Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Ducey, quote, a campaign official said Harris will not push the subject of single-payer or Medicare for All this go-around.
00:13:22.000Now again, back in January 2019, Ducey specifically asked Harris, how important is it to your health care plan to get rid of private insurance companies?
00:13:28.000And she said, quote, I'm glad you asked.
00:13:30.000Yes, the bottom line and the most important is everyone have access to health care.
00:13:51.000Same thing with regard to her bizarrely pro-Hamas positions.
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00:15:05.000So the reality is that she picked a vice presidential candidate who has himself engaged in deep relationships with people who are radically anti-Israel.
00:15:16.000For example, here's Tim Walz praising radical Imam Asad Zaman.
00:15:20.000He said he has no association with this person, despite the fact that apparently
00:15:24.000this person's group received about $100,000 in taxpayer assistance for various projects.
00:15:29.000Here's Tim Walz introducing this particular radical Muslim.
00:15:32.000I would like to first of all say thank you to the Imam.
00:15:37.000I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it.
00:16:19.000Most Americans are not feeling good about the country right now.
00:16:21.000They don't feel good about the economy, they don't feel good about our foreign policy, and they shouldn't.
00:16:24.000But because there is a face that is not Joe Biden or Donald Trump, now the media are saying, you feel the joy, don't you?
00:16:31.000Now, you may feel joy if you're a double-hater, if you hate both these candidates, and you're a swing voter, and you don't want either of these people, and now there's somebody new.
00:16:37.000But do you feel joyous about the direction of the country?
00:16:39.000That's the question you should be asking yourself, because Kamala Harris is basically saying she is a representative of joy, but we also know that she has embraced every radical policy position put forward by Joe Biden.
00:16:50.000Including, by the way, his bizarre futzing around in the Middle East, which we'll get to in a moment.
00:16:55.000According to Politico, when Kamala Harris formally accepts her party's nomination at the DNC next week, tens of thousands of activists plan to greet her with a message, change your stance on Israel or risk losing the election.
00:17:05.000Asma Mohammed won't be protesting, however.
00:17:07.000She'll be inside the arena itself, one of 30 uncommitted delegates representing a grassroots voter consortium that has opposed President Biden's support for Israel and its ongoing war in Gaza.
00:17:16.000In recent weeks, the uncommitted movement has seen the promise of a new path forward for Palestinians thanks to Harris' rise and her pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
00:17:24.000See, look how Politico spins this as a positive.
00:17:26.000So Kamala Harris is associating herself with some of the most radical pro-Hamas people in American politics.
00:17:32.000She is named as her Jewish liaison a pick of J Street, which is a radically anti-Israel group that was propped up by the Obama administration simply as a tool to fight AIPAC.
00:17:41.000And now the media are playing this as a big win for her.
00:17:44.000Look how she's bringing the pro-Hamasniks into the tent.
00:17:47.000In a statement to Politico, the Harris campaign said the vice president will continue to engage with the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian community members pushing to end the war in Gaza and fight to secure a ceasefire deal.
00:17:57.000As she has said, according to a spokesperson, it is time for the war to end in a way where Israel is secure, hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinian civilian ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.
00:18:08.000Well, if she's got a magic wand, would love to hear about it.
00:18:10.000But the whole point here is that this political piece is focused on a pro-Hamas activist who now says that she is very much in the Harris camp.
00:18:20.000Apparently, she's very happy about the tonal switch.
00:18:23.000She says, the path to victory runs through Michigan.
00:18:26.000She said, there's not a lot of time for people to make big decisions.
00:18:29.000Having that plan ahead of the DNC would be incredibly helpful, not just to delegates, but to people who are feeling completely left out, disenfranchised, and hopeless in November.
00:18:36.000She says, we're really relieved Josh Shapiro wasn't the pick.
00:18:39.000Governor Walz has been a big supporter of Israel, but he's also had some nice things to say about the uncommitted movement, about these people who are a part of the party and they deserve to be heard.
00:18:47.000I've worked with Governor Walz to pass some really good legislation.
00:19:01.000So Eric Swalwell, Democratic congressman from California, who most recently was in a congressional hearing with yours truly not performing particularly well.
00:19:09.000Well, he was on CNN trying to explain that she doesn't need to ask questions because she's filling arenas.
00:19:24.000She's talking particularly about her economic message.
00:19:28.000She's also been going across the country, filling arenas and talking about what she's going to do on the rights that were robbed for women when Roe was taken away.
00:19:40.000The border crisis that she's going to solve.
00:19:42.000That her economic policy won't benefit billionaires, but it will benefit hardworking Americans.
00:19:49.000She calls it, it's working for working people.
00:19:53.000Okay, well, thank you for not spilling any of her actual policy positions, but he said the important part out loud, which is, of course, that as long as she can sustain giant crowds and the media really don't rip on her for it, then she can take this thing all the way to the White House without ever answering a question.
00:20:15.000I mean, even in this line, she's lying.
00:20:17.000It's not her agenda, it's Donald Trump's agenda, and she's stealing it.
00:20:21.000She certainly, again, has many parts of President Biden's agenda that she helped pass, that she supports, but she's also going to be putting forward her own agenda.
00:20:29.000And that's something you heard her talk about when she talked about no taxes on tips in Nevada earlier this week.
00:20:34.000She's putting forward her agenda, which means she never has to answer questions.
00:20:37.000I really did not realize that that was, you know, the way this works.
00:20:41.000That if you put forward agenda items, you no longer have to answer questions.
00:20:44.000But apparently, that is the way that it works.
00:20:46.000Anderson Cooper playing full defense on CNN.
00:20:48.000He was talking with Scott Jennings, who's a Republican representative on CNN.
00:20:53.000He is the face they put on the network to represent conservatism some of the time.
00:20:58.000And Anderson Cooper He was questioned about, you know, her flip-flops.
00:21:02.000He said, does it matter that she's flip-flopped?
00:21:04.000Should we even care that she flip-flops?
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00:24:29.000Hey, look, here's Megan Thee Stallion shaking her ass on stage, followed by Kamala Harris shouting about joy and how Donald Trump's a big old mean orange man.
00:24:37.000Then Tim Walz gets up there and he does his knockoff Bernie Sanders routine, and that's taken the message to the people.
00:24:42.000Now, honestly, maybe this is what the American people deserve.
00:24:45.000Maybe what they deserve is a full-on vibes election where we just don't even pretend to care about positions, the most radical positions in the history of American politics over here.
00:25:05.000In the end, we are to blame for the decisions that we make.
00:25:08.000With that said, it doesn't help when the media are acting as a wall rather than a window on the Harris campaign.
00:25:14.000And that continues, by the way, with regard to Tim Walz.
00:25:16.000The media continue to play a form of defense for Tim Walz's alleged stolen valor.
00:25:21.000When I say alleged, it's been pretty clearly demonstrated that Tim Walz has been lying about his rank for years, that he's been exaggerating his military service for years, And the evidence keeps on pouring in.
00:25:32.000In fact, here is an entire montage of Tim Walz falsely claiming to hold a rank that he doesn't hold.
00:25:38.000As a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard and a retired Command Sergeant Major.
00:25:43.000As a retired Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard out of Minnesota.
00:25:47.000Retired out as Command Sergeant Major.
00:25:49.000I spent 24 years in the military, uh, Congressman, as a Command Sergeant Major.
00:25:53.000I know Tim Walz is one of those everyday people.
00:25:57.000I am retired Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard.
00:26:06.000What I consider to be the responsibility and the privilege of being the highest ranking enlisted personnel ever to serve in Congress.
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00:29:25.000Well, now the UAW is trying to silence Elon Musk in an attempt to curb whatever union support there is for Donald Trump.
00:29:33.000According to CNN, the United Auto Workers Union on Tuesday filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk for threatening to intimidate workers who go on strike.
00:29:42.000Now you may be asking yourself, wait, is anyone going on strike?
00:29:44.000Does Donald Trump have workers who are striking?
00:29:47.000Well, during Trump's interview on X Monday Night with Musk, who is also the principal owner of the social media platform, the pair discussed a potential role for Musk in Trump's administration should he get re-elected.
00:29:57.000Trump called Musk, quote, the cutter and praised Musk for his anti-union stance.
00:30:11.000So the UAW is now claiming that this is interference with or restraint or coercion of employees.
00:30:18.000And that this is a violation of labor law for suggesting he would fire employees engaged in protecting concerted activity, including striking.
00:30:47.000But it's all political because everything is political.
00:30:50.000Everything in this day and age is political, which is why the media are a joke.
00:30:54.000It's why people en masse were laughing at Stephen Colbert when he suggested that CNN is an objective media outlet, because they absolutely are not.
00:31:01.000And if they were an objective media outlet, you know, they might ask where the President of the United States is at some point.
00:32:03.000That guy, the idea that he is running planet Earth right now is just beyond, beyond the capacity of normal humans.
00:32:09.000It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:32:13.000He was so not with it, they tossed him as a nominee, and suddenly they're leaving him in the White House for the duration.
00:32:18.000Speaking of which, we'll get to the matters in the Middle East, which continue to heat up despite the best attempts of the White House to tamp them down.
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00:33:05.000Perhaps the most hilarious story in all of this, all this disinformation and misinformation coming from the mainstream media, is the fact that the Harris campaign is so insecure that despite the fact the entire legacy media are on her side, apparently, the Harris campaign put out Google ads to rewrite news headlines.
00:33:22.000This is Axios reporting, quote, the Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News, and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found out.
00:33:35.000But she is so wildly insecure that she's got her campaign using SEO in order to legitimately change the headlines that appear on Google.
00:33:43.000It's a common practice in the commercial advertising world that doesn't violate Google's policies, but the ads mimic real news results from search closely enough they have news outlets caught off guard.
00:33:52.000According to Google's Ad Transparency Center, the Trump campaign is not running these type of ads.
00:33:56.000The ads say they are sponsored, but it's not immediately clear the text that accompanies real news links is written by the campaigns and not by the media publications themselves.
00:34:04.000While we understand why an organization might wish to align itself with the Guardian's trusted brand, we need to ensure it is being used appropriately and with our permission, a Guardian spokesperson said.
00:34:11.000Spokespeople for brands like CNN, USA Today, and NPR, whose links appeared in Harris for President ads, said they were unaware their brand was being featured in this way.
00:34:20.000So again, when Democrats do it, presumably this is just an act of genius, but if Republicans did it, it obviously would be deeply corrupt.
00:34:31.000She keeps just dumping on the media and they will take it and they will take it because as I've said too many times over the past few days in the most disgusting image in modern American politics, the Democrat media complex is a human centipede and they will eat whatever it is that Kamala Harris is serving up.
00:34:43.000Okay, meanwhile, over in the Middle East, everyone continues to await the possibility of an Iranian attack Meanwhile, by the way, American troops are being wounded in the Middle East by Iranian forces.
00:34:54.000According to the Times-Visceral, eight U.S.
00:34:56.000service members were injured in a drone attack on a base in Syria last week, according to the Pentagon.
00:35:00.000Reuters first reported that several U.S.
00:35:02.000and coalition personnel were wounded in a drone attack on Friday at Rumailin Landing Zone, which hosts troops from the U.S.
00:35:08.000and other countries in the U.S.-led coalition.
00:35:10.000Pentagon spokesperson, Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder, tells reporters three personnel had already returned to duty.
00:35:16.000The eight troops were treated for traumatic brain injury and smoke inhalation.
00:35:21.000So, again, those forces were carried out by Iran-backed forces.
00:35:25.000The Pentagon had nothing to say about that.
00:35:28.000So, in the face of a second-rate power with evil leadership, the United States continues to try and downplay any conflict because they don't understand that the way you actually stop Iran is to scare the crap out of them.
00:35:39.000That, by the way, is the reason that Iran has not launched a full-scale strike at this point against Israel in the aftermath of the killing of Ismail Hania, the head of Hamas in Tehran.
00:35:47.000The reason they haven't done that is because they are now scared of the Israelis.
00:35:49.000The Israelis have done two things that directly target Iran in the last six months.
00:35:53.000After Iran launched its 300 missile strike against Israel, none of which actually killed anyone in Israel, Israel then launched a weapon that nobody knew that they had.
00:36:03.000to hit a place very close to their nuclear facility, warning the Iranians, we have tech that you've never even seen yet.
00:37:00.000Because what the administration wants more than anything else is to leave Iran intact, to ensure that Iran is not scared, and to end conflict early.
00:37:08.000And because they're just misbegotten in their foreign policy ideas.
00:37:11.000They're just totally stupid in their foreign policy.
00:37:13.000They have two central ideas in foreign policy, both of which are dumb.
00:37:16.000One is the centrality of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
00:37:18.000The idea that if you focus in on that and solve that, all the other problems solve themselves.
00:37:22.000As it turns out, what the Abraham Accords actually proved is when you ignore that problem, all the other problems solve themselves.
00:37:28.000So that's dumb idea number one, which we'll come back to in a moment.
00:37:30.000Then there's dumb idea number two, which is that the way to actually achieve peace in the Middle East is through negotiated settlement short of victory.
00:37:38.000That is actually not how you achieve peace in the Middle East or anywhere else.
00:37:41.000It turns out in the history of warfare, the wars that tend to be won are wars where you actually win.
00:37:47.000It turns out that negotiated settlements very rarely lead to long-lasting peace when both sides see themselves as intact in some major way.
00:38:03.000The Cause of War by Jeffrey Blainey reviews every war that happened on planet Earth between 1700 and 1987.
00:38:12.000And one of his major conclusions, Geoffrey Blainey, in The Causes of War, is that the way that you actually get to a lasting peace is not through a negotiated settlement, where everyone is a little unhappy.
00:38:21.000The way you tend to get to a lasting peace, historically speaking, is when you win a war and you scare the other side so crapless that they're unwilling to go up against you again.
00:38:29.000The point that he makes with regard to, say, World War I. So everyone says, oh, World War I, it was supposed to be the war that ends all war.
00:39:07.000The same thing holds true in the Middle East.
00:39:09.000And yet the Biden administration, knowing none of these things, continues to push forward an idiotic foreign policy.
00:39:14.000So Hamas has now sent a signal, according to the New York Times, that the group will not take part in the round of ceasefire talks on Thursday, sending a strong signal any breakthrough in negotiations was still elusive even as the United States, Qatar, and Egypt were stepping up pressure on Hamas and Israel to reach a deal.
00:39:28.000Ahmed Abdulkhadi, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, said in an interview Hamas had decided not to participate in the talks because its leaders do not think that the Israeli government has been negotiating in good faith.
00:39:38.000Oh no, you mean that the hostage-holding, baby-killing group, Hamas, is saying the Israelis are not negotiating in good faith?
00:39:45.000Well, then we must take them quite seriously, obviously.
00:39:49.000The fact that the Biden administration continues to try to foist this thing forward is totally crazy.
00:39:53.000Hamas, by the way, has no interest in this.
00:39:55.000Yesterday, they fired two long-range rockets.
00:39:59.000The goal was to basically scuttle any peace deal here.
00:40:02.000The reason they're trying to scuttle any ceasefires is because they want to drag in Hezbollah and Iran, hoping that Hezbollah being dragged in in the north, Iran being dragged in, will cause Israel to redirect a lot of their military resources away from the Gaza Strip, thus allowing Yehia Sinwar and Hamas to survive in the Gaza Strip.
00:40:18.000They don't want a negotiated settlement here.
00:40:20.000And the problem is, you can't get to a negotiated settlement without Hamas releasing the hostages.
00:40:27.000Hezbollah and Iran are looking for an off-ramp.
00:40:30.000Here's a point that's been made by David Friedman, the former U.S.
00:40:33.000ambassador to Israel under Donald Trump.
00:40:35.000He says, let's review how we got to this sorry place.
00:40:37.000First, Iran and Hezbollah are threatening war with Israel, but looking for a way to climb down the tree insofar as they will fare poorly in any battle.
00:40:43.000Two, Iran is hinting at a Womat attack if a ceasefire can be negotiated.
00:40:46.000Three, Sinwar is out of weapons and soldiers.
00:40:48.000All he has is the ability to drag Hezbollah and Iran into a war against Israel.
00:41:05.000Nonetheless, the Biden administration continues to put pressure on the Israelis.
00:41:09.000Unbelievably, Joe Biden's UN ambassador says the envoy Well, if she's got any ideas, we're all ears.
00:41:16.000She says, the overall goal in the Middle East is to quote, turn the temperature down, quote,
00:41:19.000that starts with finalizing a deal for an immediate ceasefire with hostage release in Gaza.
00:41:23.000We need to get this over the finish line.
00:41:25.000Well, if she's got any ideas, we're all ears.
00:41:28.000If you can somehow get the terrorist group to give up the babies and the women
00:41:31.000and the people they're holding hostage, then good luck to you.
00:41:36.000But the reality is, peace breaks out in the Middle East when the giant terror group in the heart of the Middle East,
00:41:42.000backed by another giant terror state, is largely ignored and isolated.
00:41:46.000That is when peace tends to break out in the Middle East.
00:41:48.000That was the secret of the Abraham Accords.
00:41:49.000It remains the secret of Middle Eastern peace today, except it's not a secret.
00:41:53.000It's only that idiots refuse to see it.
00:41:56.000In a similarly stupid piece of news, Tony Blinken, our moronic Secretary of State, He has now put forth a condemnation via his spokesperson, Vedant Patel, condemning Itamar Ben-Gavir, who's a very right-wing member of the Israeli coalition government.
00:42:12.000Because he went to the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av.
00:42:16.000Okay, so, as a frequent visitor to the Temple Mount in Israel, because I am a Jew, and the Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, not the Western Wall, not any other place.
00:42:27.000And because it turns out that it's actually the only place in Israel that you can actually find apartheid is on the Temple Mount where Muslims are allowed to pray freely and Jews are watched closely and largely banned from praying.
00:42:39.000Izmar Ben-Kavir went up there on Tisha B'Av and he said no discrimination.
00:42:43.000Because that particular fast day, which we observed yesterday in the Jewish calendar, that particular fast day is about the destruction of the Temple.
00:42:52.000Which, wait for it, was located on the Temple Mount.
00:42:54.000And then as it turns out, Muslims, as they very frequently do throughout the history of their religion, decided that they would take a holy site of another religion and build a giant mosque on top of it.
00:43:07.000Obviously, Istanbul used to be called Constantinople.
00:43:10.000So, the fact that Jews went up there to pray, that being treated as some sort of outrage by the Blinken State Department is idiocy of the highest order.
00:43:18.000Blinken said, quote, Have you think that Hamas is being held back from giving up hostages because Jews went up and walked around on the Temple Mount?
00:43:42.000But again, leave it to Tony Blinken to take the dumbest possible position.
00:43:46.000In a piece of good news, for which they do deserve some credit, Tony Blinken finally has approved weapon sales of more than $20 billion to Israel.
00:43:52.000Now, again, it really was not up to him.
00:43:55.000Congress passed a $20 billion aid package months ago.
00:43:58.000Tony Blinken has been holding that up.
00:44:01.000Apparently, that includes F-15 fighter jets and about 33,000 tank shells.
00:44:06.000However, the F-15s are not expected to arrive for several years.
00:44:10.000The most notable approval is the sale, again, of the F-15s.
00:44:14.000Other sales include $774 million in tank shells, $102 million in advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, $61.1 million in 120mm high explosive mortar shells, and $583.1 million in tactical vehicles.
00:44:27.000Now remember, all that money has to be spent on American armaments.
00:44:30.000Not only that, the contracts of American aid that go to Israel require that Israel spend its All spending it's going to do abroad on military aid has to be spent in the United States, generally speaking, for the vast majority of weapon systems.
00:44:44.000In any case, that is a piece of good news.
00:44:47.000Another piece of good news is that they are now lifting the 2021 sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia, weapons ban.
00:44:53.000So apparently, maybe, maybe, we can hope reality is beginning to set in in the absence of President Joe Biden, who again, may or may not be comatose.
00:45:01.000Alrighty, coming up, we are going to get to this Snow White debacle.