The story of the current Israel-Hamas conflict happens to be extremely simple. Hamas is a genocidal, Jew-hating organization that openly seeks the extermination of Israel. This makes it only the latest and most radical iteration of a radical Muslim movement that has sought Israel s destruction since long before Israel was even born. That mission has not waned in the 76 years of modern Israel s existence. Unfortunately, that mission is also the passionate belief of a vast majority of Muslims living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel, by contrast, is a democracy, the world s only Jewish state, and has repeatedly sought to make land for peace deals with Arab countries and organizations. Those concessions have brought Israel no friends in the Palestinian West Bank or Gaza Strip. Far from it. Concessions have generally emboldened Israel s enemies. That s exactly what happened in the Gaza Strip on October 7th, 2011, when more than 1,500 Hamas terrorists crossed the Israeli border by breaching the border wall around Gaza and killed some 1,200 Israelis in their beds at a music festival and elsewhere. Here is a partial list of those who have been extraordinarily weak in their condemnations of Hamas, or who have engaged in a full-scale moral equivalence with Hamas. UNICE Chief Catherine Russell, UNICEF Chief Catherine Russel, WHO Chief Catherine Graves, WHO Director-General, Prof. Francesca Volca, UNRWA Chief Dr. Tedros Volchiv, and WHO Chief Commissioner for Children's Rights and Emergency Preparedness, Dr. Kavell Vellian Ted Gross, all make their voices heard loud and clear in the world. It s finally here! The best deal of the year: 50% off new Daily Wire Plus annual memberships! Subscribe to Dailywire for the past year, plus $50 off your first month free shipping, plus an additional $100 off your next month's shipping plan! Today s deal is the time is now the time to join Dailywire Plus annual membership? Go to DailyWire.com slash subscribe to join now! Join right now! Subscribe to join today! Learn more about your ad choices and get 20% off the best deal on the show on the best deals on the market? Subscribe to my ad choices? Subscribe & more! Get exclusive discount code: VIP access to my newsletter, VIP access only on my podcast, VIP Access to my show, VIP Only VIP access?
00:00:07.000Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe to join right now.
00:00:11.000The story of the current Israel-Hamas conflict happens to be extremely simple.
00:00:15.000Hamas is a genocidal Jew-hating organization that openly seeks the extermination of Israel.
00:00:20.000This makes it only the latest and most radical iteration of a radical Muslim movement that has sought Israel's destruction since long before Israel was even born.
00:00:28.000That mission has not waned in the 76 years of modern Israel's existence.
00:00:32.000Unfortunately, that mission also happens to be the passionate belief of a vast majority of Muslims living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
00:00:40.000Israel, by contrast, is a democracy, the world's only Jewish state, and has repeatedly sought to make land for peace deals with Arab countries and organizations.
00:00:48.000Those concessions have brought Israel no friends in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
00:00:52.000Concessions have generally emboldened Israel's enemies.
00:00:55.000That's exactly what happened in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:57.000In 2005, Israel pulled out of Gaza in an attempt to stop the costs in blood and treasure associated with policing the area.
00:01:04.000All Jewish assets in the Gaza Strip were promptly destroyed by Palestinian Arabs.
00:01:08.000Elections were then held in the Gaza Strip, and Hamas was elected.
00:01:11.000To lead the Gaza Strip, they promptly consolidated their control by killing members of the Palestinian Authority.
00:01:16.000They then stole as much international aid as they could to build rockets and terror infrastructure, ignoring the needs of their population entirely.
00:01:23.000And then they launched repeated rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.
00:01:26.000For the last two and a half years or so, as Hamas itself says, the organization attempted to deceive Israel into believing it had been deterred from large-scale terrorist action.
00:01:34.000Then, on October 7th, Simchat Torah, the happiest day in the Jewish calendar, at least 1,500 Hamas terrorists and many civilian fellow travelers crossed the Israeli border by breaching the border wall around Gaza and killed some 1,200 Israelis in their beds at a music festival and elsewhere.
00:01:49.000They raped women, then murdered them or dragged them in captivity back to Gaza.
00:02:56.000As a new poll from the Arab World for Research and Development shows, 75% of those polled in the Gaza Strip and West Bank supported the October 7th massacre.
00:03:58.000If you're a human rights organization, presumably you should have had some pretty strong condemnation of Hamas's assault on Jews, the worst assault since the Holocaust, or Hamas's handling of the Gaza Strip, which is terroristic and fascistic.
00:04:10.000Here is a partial list of those who have been extraordinarily weak in their condemnations of Hamas, or who have engaged in full-scale moral equivalence with Israel's defensive actions in Gaza.
00:04:18.000UNICEF Chief Catherine Russell, Amnesty International, WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus, the International Committee of the Red Cross, UN Commissioner on Human Rights Volgur Turk, the UN Relief and Works Agency, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, the Open Society Foundations.
00:04:37.000The list of such organizations goes on and on and on.
00:04:41.000And of course, this sort of attitude is extraordinarily common in the legacy media, as we've been detailing for weeks on this program.
00:04:47.000Now, once you have your mouthpieces, the true magic begins.
00:04:57.000Instead, you focus in on the details, so as to avoid discussing the main story altogether.
00:05:02.000You try to discredit a single detail from Israel, and then you use it to suggest that everything emerging from Israel is false, despite the fact that Israel has a robust free press, and routinely admits to mistakes, and despite the even more obvious fact that Israel's enemies routinely lie.
00:05:15.000That is, lying, in fact, is a key part of their strategy.
00:05:19.000Take, for example, MSNBC's Mehdi Hassan, a consistently propagandistic opponent of Israel all the way back to his days at Al Jazeera.
00:05:26.000Here he was last week, suggesting that because the Israel government's public relations team may have mislabeled a calendar in their expose on Hamas's terror tunnels beneath Al Shifa Hospital, this means that Israel is a totally unreliable source on everything.
00:05:43.000But why should we believe what your government says either?
00:05:46.000Your military spokesman on Monday pointed to an Arabic document in the basement of a Gaza hospital and claimed it was a guardian list on which every terrorist writes his name.
00:05:56.000It was just a calendar with the days of the week on it.
00:05:58.000Your colleague in the prime minister's office, Ofir Gendelman, posted behind-the-scenes footage from a Lebanese short film and claimed it was Palestinians in Gaza Faking their own injuries.
00:06:51.000Here is surveillance footage from the day of the attacks.
00:06:54.000These, you will see, are hostages being ushered into the hospital by the terrorists into this amazing hospital that is a pure medical site, a civilian site.
00:07:14.000Here you can see the medical personnel helping to usher these people in.
00:07:18.000These people wearing scrubs, ushering in members of Hamas with hostages.
00:07:23.000By the way, they drove past a bunch of hospitals to get to Al-Shifa.
00:07:28.000This is not a bunch of medical personnel who are deeply concerned about helping the medical situation of the hostages, who, by the way, would have been much better off if they'd been left in Israel.
00:07:38.000Which is why when Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, had brain cancer, Israel treated him and then released him.
00:07:45.000In any case, you can see these are members of the medical personnel at Al-Shifa who are helping Hamas.
00:07:52.000And then we're lying to the media about it, pretending that it was a pure medical site.
00:08:06.000And then they told the media lies about it.
00:08:08.000And then the media ran with that story.
00:08:10.000Here are witnesses from al-Shifa, whose names cannot be revealed because they will be killed, talking about how the base was used as a base by Hamas.
00:08:21.000Says if the Jews dropped an atom bomb on Shifa Hospital, it would be a slaughter of global proportions.
00:09:45.000But the big story, obviously, For Mehdi Hassan, it's whether Israel is disseminating endless misinformation about a calendar on the wall of a terror tunnel, and whether it kept track of terrorist hostage handlers or not.
00:09:57.000It's not just Mehdi Hassan playing the baffling with bulls**t game, it's the usual suspects at CNN too.
00:10:01.000CNN reported over the weekend that the IDF, in showing the media the weaponry found at al-Shifa, quote, might have rearranged weaponry prior to exposing that weaponry to the media.
00:10:11.000The implication from CNN is that Israel is falsifying something, which is absurd.
00:10:15.000Anytime the DEA makes a bust and then shows the drugs on the table, they have rearranged the drugs.
00:10:20.000Were Israel to leave all weaponry in place, that would be dangerous, given that booby traps have already killed or wounded a high number of Israeli soldiers.
00:10:28.000We've seen this sort of game laundered into false accusations by pro-Hamas forces that real photos of burned babies are in fact AI-generated images.
00:10:36.000The insistence by pro-Hamas propagandists that if babies were mostly burned alive rather than beheaded, this somehow means Israel is dishonest and Hamas is its moral equivalent.
00:10:45.000And now, most amazingly, people are claiming that Hamas didn't even conduct the massacre at all.
00:10:51.000That is a contention making its way around the internet and the Arabic world thanks to a report from Haaretz, a far-left disgrace of an Israeli publication.
00:10:58.000That story from Haaretz states that according to Israeli officials, Hamas terrorists initially did not know about the music festival they ended up devastating.
00:11:05.000That instead, they quote, found out about the Nova festival through drones or from those flying in parachutes and directed terrorists to the location using their comms system.
00:11:14.000That report also included a single unsourced police allegation that an IDF helicopter targeting terrorists at the site, quote, apparently harmed a few partygoers who are in the area.
00:11:22.000The police have, by the way, denied the report, saying, quote, the police investigation does not refer to the activity of IDF forces and therefore no indication was given of harm to civilians as a result of aerial activity at the site.
00:11:33.000Nonetheless, that Haaretz report has now metastasized into the pro-Hamas lie that Israel slaughtered its own citizens en masse.
00:11:40.000The most viral Twitter account on Twitter tweeted yesterday, quote, Will you condemn Israel now, given they have admitted to Haaretz that Israeli helicopters murdered Israeli civilians on October 7th?
00:11:52.000Yesterday, the Palestinian Authority, this is the supposedly moderate peace partner the Biden administration is pushing, announced that Israeli helicopters had killed all 364 people at the music festival citing the report in Haaretz.
00:12:04.000The leader of the Palestinian Authority, again, a supposed moderate, Mahmoud Abbas, is a full-scale Holocaust denier.
00:12:11.000The baffling with bulls**t isn't relegated to focusing on details and then blowing them up into entire false narratives.
00:12:16.000It also extends to giving credence to total liars.
00:12:19.000That's precisely why the legacy media claims that Israel had bombed a hospital early in the conflict when it was Palestinian-Islamic Jihad.
00:12:26.000Why the legacy media have claimed each and every day that electricity was out at al-Shifa, when clearly by contemporaneous footage it was not.
00:12:33.000That Israel is targeting civilians when it isn't.
00:12:36.000In fact, as journalist David Collier points out, the media routinely use accounts from open terror supporters for their Gaza coverage.
00:12:44.000Dr. Khaled Abu Samra, who claimed that Israel was shooting at those waving white flags, posted that, quote, history is being made on October 7th.
00:12:50.000Mohammed Abu Salmia, head of Shifa Hospital, who routinely praises terrorists on his social media, is also routinely quoted by the press.
00:12:57.000Munir al-Borsh, director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry, who claimed dogs were eating bodies of civilians.
00:13:03.000That guy is literally part of the Hamas government.
00:13:06.000And there's one other element to baffling with bulls**t. Pretending you just don't know enough to make a judgment between Israel and its enemies.
00:13:19.000This allows journalists, who are supposed to be focused on truth, to give equal credence to propagandists and truth-tellers.
00:13:24.000Both sides, they cry as they host people who openly call for the destruction of the State of Israel and valorize Hamas.
00:13:30.000It doesn't take much to turn a clear narrative into a muddy one.
00:13:33.000Just some lies, some laser-like focus on irrelevant detail, an echo chamber, some shoulder-shrugging ignorance when questioned, and a lot of radical and fellow travelers to promote all of that bulls**t.
00:13:45.000From these elements, truth can be turned to falsehood, and we're watching it happen in real time.
00:13:49.000In just a second, we'll get some actual good news from Argentina.
00:13:52.000First, if you're looking for a killer Black Friday deal, I have one for you.
00:13:54.000It's a free Moto G 5G phone from Pure Talk.
00:15:02.000There are questions about God's existence.
00:15:04.000Most of the questions I have center on why vegetables taste bad, but everything that's bad for you tastes really good.
00:15:10.000Well, in order to solve that conundrum, that cosmic conundrum, I've relied on balance of nature fruits and veggies.
00:15:14.000They're a great way to make sure you're getting essential nutritional ingredients every single day.
00:15:18.000Balance of nature uses an advanced cold vacuum process that encapsulates fruits and veggies into whole food supplements without sacrificing their natural antioxidants.
00:15:25.000The capsules are completely void of additives, fillers, extracts, synthetics, pesticides, or added sugar.
00:15:30.000The only thing in Balance of Nature's fruit and veggie capsules are, well, you know, fruits and veggies.
00:15:33.000There's never been an easier way to make sure you're getting your daily dose of fruits and veggies.
00:15:37.000Balance of Nature actually sent a bunch of fruit and veggie capsules down to the studio for my team to try.
00:15:41.000Everybody is feeling brighter, healthier, sunnier, more energetic.
00:16:44.000So, he won a huge victory yesterday in Argentina's presidential election, vowing to halt decades of economic decline in a country reeling from triple-digit inflation.
00:17:20.000Latin America's third biggest economy has suffered decades of crises under interventionist governments big on welfare that resort to printing money to finance spending, fueling inflation, while borrowing heavily only to default on their debt.
00:17:30.000Access to dollars is strictly controlled, leading to a thriving black market for greenbacks.
00:17:34.000Analysts warn the peso is ripe for a sharp devaluation.
00:17:36.000So despite all of the inflation that's been taking place, actually the peso is still worth too much money.
00:18:12.000He also has suggested that he wants to cut ties on a governmental level with Brazil and China, saying he would not do business with communists.
00:18:22.000Now, it's going to be rough on an interpersonal and business level to do that sort of thing, and he is sad that he's not going to do that.
00:18:29.000However, he is very much oriented toward the West, which means that the press hate him.
00:18:34.000If you're Yair Bolsonaro and you're very oriented toward the West, you like the United States, for example, you like Israel, you like Europe, that means that you're super bad.
00:18:41.000If you're Lula da Silva, who is an actual tyrant in Brazil, and who loves Russia, and who loves China, and who loves Iran, then you're good, according to the international press.
00:18:50.000Again, the media, the international media, they are a smoking garbage heap.
00:18:55.000Or run by activists from the left, which is why they hate Javier Mille.
00:18:58.000We're gonna bring you more on Javier Mille in a second because this dude is just spectacular.
00:19:53.000You send in your Legacy Box filled with old VHS tapes, camcorder tapes, pictures.
00:19:57.000Their team digitizes everything by hand right here in the United States.
00:20:00.000You'll get it back on the cloud or thumb drive along with your originals.
00:20:03.000Legacy Box digitizes over 15 different types of analog media, so whether it's VHS tapes, super 8mm film reels, or photo negatives, they have you covered.
00:22:01.000In other words, would you not close Argentina's relations with China?
00:22:04.000He says, I would not promote relations with communists, nor with Cuba, nor with Venezuela, nor with North Korea, nor with Nicaragua, nor with China.
00:22:13.000He says, so for Venezuela, you're changing policies.
00:22:21.000And by the way, it's going to be a test of the Biden administration as to what they do with this guy, because if they do not immediately bring Millet and Argentina into the fold, it is proof positive that this administration does not give a damn about pro-America sentiments in Latin and South America.
00:22:35.000This guy is begging for Argentina to make great friends with the United States.
00:22:39.000If Biden somehow rejects that on behalf of the international leftism, it demonstrates full scale the impact of a foreign policy rooted in leftist nonsense.
00:22:48.000Meanwhile, here's Millet on dollarization.
00:22:50.000That, of course, would be the transfer away from the absolutely worthless Argentinian peso and toward the American dollar.
00:22:59.000I think there's a previous discussion about dollarization.
00:23:02.000Actually, strictly speaking, it's to get rid of the central bank.
00:23:06.000The dollarization is an instrumental issue at the end of the day.
00:23:11.000One has to do with a moral issue, which is that stealing is wrong, and seniorage is nothing more or less than a swindle by politicians against good people.
00:23:21.000Therefore, let's say, if we consider that stealing is wrong, one of the greatest thieves in the history of mankind is the central bank.
00:23:28.000The second point has to do with a technical issue, because in the Argentine case, it is more evident when a product has no demand, its price is zero.
00:23:36.000So, if the local currency has no demand, and its price should be zero, the equilibrium real balances are zero.
00:23:43.000Whatever amount of money a central bank wishes to impose, the counterpart is that the price level is infinite.
00:25:51.000Now, the reality is that he can do this.
00:25:54.000So people in America can say, why can't we do this here?
00:25:56.000And the answer is because we don't have 143% inflation.
00:25:59.000The reason that he is able to say the truth about government spending is because it has reached such an exorbitant and insane proportion that they've bankrupted the country no less than three times.
00:26:09.000They've defaulted on their debts repeatedly, which means it's impossible to raise new debt.
00:26:13.000When you keep defaulting on your debt, nobody wants to lend you money in the future.
00:26:16.000Right now, the big question is how they're going to pay back the IMF.
00:26:18.000The IMF has like a $43 billion loan out to Argentina right now.
00:26:22.000In order for Argentina to get back on some sort of decent track, they are going to have to take some new debt.
00:26:27.000The guarantee of that debt is going to be Millet's ability and willingness to cut future government spending.
00:26:32.000And this means dumping the garbage philosophy of Peronism.
00:26:35.000Now, the reason that Peronism is so important for people to understand is because Peronism is almost identical with the kind of economic policy that has been pursued by the left wing in the United States.
00:26:58.000So the basic idea is, sure, there will still be private businesses, but we will give them subsidies.
00:27:02.000We'll tell them how to do their business.
00:27:04.000We will protect a few core businesses and business sectors, and we will fund them.
00:27:08.000All of our friends will get super duper rich.
00:27:11.000And if this sounds a lot like the Democratic Party policy on economics, and part of the Republican Party policy on economics, frankly, that's because it is.
00:27:18.000It turns out That whether you are right or whether you are left, subsidies to political friends in order to protect particular industries, not core national security industries, but just industries that you think are special, to protect certain segments of the population, it turns out they bankrupt the country.
00:27:33.000If you go back to the original Peronist philosophy of Juan Perón, Who was the left-leaning Argentinian who ran Argentina until his wife took over and then they wrote a musical about her with Madonna and all the rest of it.
00:27:50.000Peronist philosophy has dominated Argentina for literally decades.
00:27:53.000And if you go back and you actually look at the principles of Peronism, they sound very much like the modern Democratic Party.
00:27:58.000Quote, A true democracy is that in which the government does what the people want and defends only one interest, the people's.
00:28:05.000Peronism is essentially of the common people.
00:28:07.000Any political elite is anti-people and thus not Peronist, right?
00:28:13.000Whoever in the name of Peronism serves an elite or a leader is a Peronist in name only.
00:28:17.000For Peronism, there's only one class of person, those who work.
00:28:20.000Working is a right that creates the dignity of men.
00:28:22.000It's a duty because it's fair that everyone should produce as much as they consume at the very least.
00:28:28.000And then Peronism talks about how, essentially, you need to balance the right of the individual and society as an economic doctrine, a social market, putting capital to the service of the economy and the well-being of the people.
00:28:40.000Anybody who you've heard, by the way, right or left, talk about the idea that capitalism is really a tool, right?
00:28:47.000The markets ought to work for the people, not the other way around.
00:28:51.000That philosophy is, in essence, a Peronist philosophy.
00:28:55.000It's not the job of quote-unquote markets to work for.
00:28:58.000Markets are not an instrument of the government.
00:29:00.000Markets are a description of relations between human beings.
00:29:04.000Markets are a description of how people trade with one another and under what conditions.
00:29:08.000Suggesting that the markets should work for the people is a Rousseauian way of describing a vague general will and then directing government power at achieving that supposed general will.
00:29:16.000And what it ends up with is massive amounts of debt.
00:29:19.000In reality, it amounts to tremendous economic inefficiency, Redistribution of resources, tremendous economic controls on industry, and, as always, huge debt.
00:29:30.000Back in October, Reuters reported on the problems for Argentina.
00:29:36.000They pointed out that the $600 billion economy has been engulfed by a deep crisis that involves runway inflation, a dearth of U.S.
00:29:42.000dollar reserves, and an electorate with little trust in its currency.
00:29:47.000The country could be in danger of defaulting on that $43 billion program with the International Monetary Fund.
00:29:53.000That would actually be Argentina defaulting on its debt, not for the third time in the last couple decades, but for the 10th time overall.
00:30:00.000The government keeps on spending and spending and spending.
00:30:03.000They keep on just blowing out the debt.
00:30:50.000And again, the West ought to be embracing this guy.
00:30:53.000It is an incredible judgment on the media and on the West that many of them are more comfortable with Lula da Silva in Brazil than they are with Javier Mille, an open ally of the United States who is desperately seeking a better relationship with the United States.
00:31:07.000The fact the media Find it easier to sympathize with Lula, tells you everything you need to know about the media and our modern left-wing political leadership.
00:31:15.000Millet is precisely the kind of leader that Ronald Reagan was begging for during his presidency.
00:31:20.000A democratically elected classical liberal who is seeking economic openness and freedom and to pay back the country's debts.
00:31:26.000And the media are like, I don't know, this guy seems kind of crazy.
00:31:29.000This guy seems too, you're hearing him described as an anarcho-capitalist, as a far-right character.
00:31:35.000I noticed that Argentina has 143% inflation because of the program you guys like.
00:31:41.000So now it's time to try something different.
00:31:42.000So good on Argentinians for realizing that.
00:31:44.000By the way, he was boosted to power by young people.
00:31:47.000So for all the talk about how young people have lost it, again, young people are fat and happy when the country is fat and happy.
00:33:12.000Also, with the release of our Daily Wire Black Friday Shopping Guide packed with the best deals of the year, like 50% off Daily Wire Plus Memberships, you'd think our surprises for Black Friday have already been revealed.
00:34:25.000Media Matters, for those who don't know, was a group that was founded by Hillary Clinton's close advisor, David Brock.
00:34:30.000It was specifically designed at the time to be an anti-right-wing messaging machine designed to rob any sort of right-wing outlet of advertisers and profits.
00:34:39.000It's been very effective in that goal.
00:34:42.000And they've been going after Elon Musk, Hammer, and Tong, and particularly ratcheting things up over the course of the last few months because Elon is so active on Twitter.
00:34:51.000And as we talked about a little bit last week, Elon embroiled himself in a controversy because, again, he's very active on Twitter and he Sort of retweeted and restated another tweet from somebody that many people then accused of being anti-semitic.
00:35:04.000He said, listen, I'm talking about the ADL.
00:35:06.000I'm talking about left-wing Jews who have been very big on open borders and then suddenly are very big on not open borders the minute that it turns out a lot of people got imported hate Jews.
00:35:16.000And he obviously was not talking about the entire Jewish community or all Jews or anything remotely like that.
00:35:21.000I mean, I know Elon just a little bit, but the implication that Elon Musk is anti-Semitic, like the implication that Donald Trump is anti-Semitic, I find it very weird that many of the people who are jumping on that bad wagon, people like Media Matters, are very soft on actual Hamas If you're a fan of Hamas, if you're a person who's from the
00:35:39.000river to the sea, Rashida Tlaib, places like Media Matters will defend you.
00:35:43.000If you are a person who actively promotes terrorist entities, who actively sides with
00:35:50.000those terrorists, if you're Linda Sarsour or something, then Media Matters, you're the
00:35:55.000But if you're Elon Musk, then all of a sudden... So, what that says to me is ulterior motive.
00:35:58.000They hate Elon Musk because Elon Musk just does not mirror the woke priorities of the left.
00:36:02.000So, what we saw last week was yet another attempt to un-person Elon Musk, which is not going to work because he's incredibly rich, he's incredibly famous, and he's incredibly valuable to a wide variety of human beings, ranging from Tesla owners to the federal government with regard to SpaceX.
00:36:18.000And so now they've been attempting to undercut him with advertisers on Twitter, now known as X. And so Elon is now pushing back on all of that.
00:36:28.000He's pushing back on all that in a few different ways.
00:36:29.000First of all, again, the implication that Elon Musk is an anti-Semite is, to me, quite absurd based on the record that is currently available.
00:36:39.000He literally tweeted out just three days ago, quote, That seems like a lot more pro-Jewish than a huge majority of the people on the left who are ripping on Elon Musk.
00:37:28.000group that describes itself as a progressive research and information center, published earlier this week research showing that X had posted ads appearing next to neo-Nazi posts.
00:37:37.000Ex-CEO Linda Giaccarino previously said brands are now protected from the risk of being next to potentially toxic content on the platform, but Musk said the split-second court opens on Monday.
00:37:45.000ExCorp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and all those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.
00:37:52.000He posted a statement with the headline, And here's what he said, quote,
00:37:58.000this week, Media Matters for America posted a story that completely misrepresented the real user experience on
00:38:02.000X in another attempt to undermine freedom of speech
00:38:33.000It is why I see Kara Swisher spending every waking moment of her life going after Elon Musk, going after, it was Mark Zuckerberg before.
00:38:41.000Any social media platform that does not mirror the priorities of Kara Swisher becomes a bad social media network that must be hit with advertiser boycotts.
00:38:49.000Here are the facts on Media Matters research.
00:38:52.000To manipulate the public and advertisers, Media Matters created an alternate account and curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account's timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts.
00:39:01.000These contrived experiences could be applied to any platform.
00:39:04.000So in other words, Media Matters created a false account.
00:39:06.000Then they proceeded to algorithmically figure out which tweets would be the most likely to appear in their Twitter feed if they kept accessing pro-Nazi tweets.
00:39:15.000And then when ads were served to them, they then screen-capped that.
00:39:18.000Once they curated their feed, he says, they repeatedly refreshed their timelines to find a rare instance of ads serving next to the content they chose to follow.
00:39:25.000Our logs indicate they forced a scenario resulting in 13 times the number of ads served compared to the median ads served to an X user.
00:39:31.000Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article.
00:39:39.000Which is an insane rate of success if you're hoping to prohibit advertising content from appearing next to really disgusting posts.
00:39:46.000For one brand showcased in the article, one of its ads ran adjacent to a post two times.
00:39:50.000That ad was seen in that setting by only two users, one of which was the author of the Media Matters article.
00:39:54.000For another brand showcased in the article, two of the ads served adjacent to two posts three times.
00:39:59.000That ad was only seen in that setting by one user, the author of the Media Matters article.
00:40:02.000In other words, they totally created an account just to manufacture a story that this is a thing that is happening all over Twitter, when in fact it's happening because Media Matters basically gamed the system to achieve an end where they can then say to advertisers that if you're Honda, you're at risk of appearing next to a neo-Nazi post.
00:40:17.000Media Matters article highlights nine posts they believe should not be allowed on X. Upon evaluation, only one of the nine organic posts featured in the article violated our content policies.
00:40:25.000We've taken action on it under our freedom of speech, not reach enforcement approach.
00:40:40.000Media Matters does not reflect the user experience on X.
00:40:44.000So, he is now filing this lawsuit against Media Matters, presumably for what he is going to accuse them of is some form of fraud, some legal form of fraud, in an attempt to artificially interfere with business contract.
00:40:56.000A tortious interference with contract would probably be the basis of the lawsuit here.
00:41:03.000And this is part and parcel a broader attempt to de-platform Musk from his own platform.
00:41:07.000This is why they were so angry when Twitter got taken away from Jack Dorsey.
00:41:10.000When Musk bought Twitter, at the expense of like 20 billion dollars, that is just down the toilet.
00:41:14.000I mean, Twitter is now worth maybe half of what it was when Musk bought it at the then-going price.
00:41:19.000They're now attempting to essentially destroy Musk over all of this by claiming falsely that he is an anti-Semite.
00:41:29.000And again, you have to consider the source.
00:41:32.000When you see people on MSNBC who are hot and bothered over Elon Musk's supposed antisemitism, and in the very next segment, they are having on some wild anti-Israel prognosticator accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes, and making excuses for Hamas, you have to wonder, what is the real agenda there?
00:41:48.000It doesn't feel like the real agenda has anything to do with Jew hatred, per se.
00:41:53.000Okay, in just one second, We'll get to the actual latest news in Israel.
00:41:57.000The Houthis are ramping up their attacks from Yemen because, again, Iran is making all sorts of trouble in the region.
00:42:02.000First, with Thanksgiving just a few days away, I want to show some gratitude for some of the people on my team.
00:42:07.000Justin, who makes sure that the show is top quality.
00:42:10.000Savvy, who informs me of all the latest gossip.
00:42:14.000Jake, for keeping me up to date on sports and speaking occasional American-accented Hebrew with me.
00:42:18.000Zach, for always laughing at my jokes and taking super awkward pictures and also informing me of the latest in the Star Wars universe.
00:42:25.000Kelly, for being the world's best assistant, considering she literally has to tell me, I'm not kidding, when to take out the trash and when to pick up my kids.
00:42:32.000And Fabby, of course, for being an amazing makeup artist and also being literally willing to kill on my behalf.
00:42:37.000It takes an amazing team of people to make this show successful, just like it takes an amazing team to make any business successful.
00:42:42.000We found a lot of these people on ZipRecruiter, and you can too.
00:42:45.000If you're hiring, you need to find the best people for your team.
00:43:24.000ZipRecruiter is indeed the smartest way to hire.
00:43:26.000Well, meanwhile, the media continued to be really, really terrible at their jobs.
00:43:30.000This is particularly true on Israel, of course.
00:43:31.000They claimed yesterday, it was the biggest headline of the day, that Israel was about to strike some sort of ceasefire deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:43:38.000Then they had to walk that back because it was denied by both Israel and the United States.
00:43:41.000It turned out not to be true, this giant pause.
00:43:44.000Now, the Biden administration is trying to push the idea that they're getting closer to a deal, but they really shouldn't be talking about anything.
00:43:50.000What is the state of negotiations as of this morning?
00:43:51.000are you talking about any of that publicly?
00:43:53.000John Finer, who is the deputy national security advisor, he was saying on national TV,
00:44:12.000So I think you heard probably the Prime Minister of Qatar speak to this earlier today.
00:44:16.000They have been extremely close, obviously, to these negotiations, as we have.
00:44:21.000The United States has been following this minute by minute, hour by hour, up to the level of the President, for whom this is a major overriding priority, obviously in part because there are a number of Americans who are in this horrific situation.
00:44:34.000What I can say about this at this time is we think that we are closer than we have been perhaps at any point since these negotiations began weeks ago.
00:44:42.000That there are areas of difference and disagreement that have been narrowed, if not closed out entirely.
00:44:50.000Okay, so why is he talking about that publicly?
00:45:10.000And the fact that there's still people in the international media who believe that Israel has some sort of responsibility to Hamas under these circumstances is insane, absurd, and disgusting.
00:45:20.000Prime Minister Netanyahu said a pause in combat is exactly what Hamas wants so they can regroup.
00:45:26.000So I want to distinguish within a pause for a few days in order to get hostages released and a ceasefire.
00:45:33.000The Prime Minister was referring to a ceasefire.
00:45:36.000We are against a ceasefire because that would allow Hamas to retain power, to regroup, to rearm and strike again.
00:45:43.000But it would be a ceasefire for a few days?
00:45:54.000It's not a ceasefire because we will continue to push against Hamas to dismantle their military infrastructure and their terror infrastructure.
00:46:05.000Meanwhile, Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have now seized a ship in the Red Sea.
00:46:11.000This stuff is really dangerous, because when you start endangering the world's choke points in terms of trade, that is a major problem.
00:46:18.000It led to the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, for example.
00:46:21.000The Straits of Hormuz are another example of a place where oil ships out, and if the Iranians were to make serious trouble over there, that'd be a real problem for the world economy.
00:46:27.000Folks who are isolationists on foreign policy seem to forget that there is in fact a globe, and on that globe there are certain choke points in terms of trade.
00:46:35.000And when those choke points get owned by nefarious powers, their prices at the grocery store go up.
00:46:42.000We have a very interconnected world economy.
00:46:45.000And the simple fact is that it does make a very large difference to you exactly who owns those choke points and how those choke points get run.
00:46:52.000So, yesterday, a cargo ship partially owned by an Israeli business person was hijacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea on Sunday.
00:46:58.000The cargo ship, the Bahamas-flagged Galaxy Leader, was leased from a British company partially owned by an Israeli named Dharami Ungar to a Japanese company.
00:47:05.000The ship left a port in Turkey, was headed for India, and was sailing under the Bahamanian flag.
00:47:10.000There are apparently 25 crew members of different nationalities, including Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Filipinos, and Mexicans.
00:47:43.000Well, because the media are pushing this idea that unless Joe Biden swivels and becomes wildly anti-Israel, that he's going to lose the next election.
00:47:50.000I'd love to see the data that support the idea that if he swivels on behalf of Hamas, that suddenly he's going to win the election.
00:47:56.000Joe Biden is unpopular because Joe Biden is deeply unpopular.
00:47:59.000Brand new polling out yesterday shows that Joe Biden's approval rating is down to 40%.
00:48:04.000Strong majorities of all voters disapprove of his handling of foreign policy.
00:48:08.000Now it does say that they also disapprove of his handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
00:48:12.000But what's weird about that particular question is that that means a bunch of people who are on the right, meaning people who love Israel very often, a lot of those people disapprove of his handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
00:48:26.000So in other words, to suggest that everybody is mad at Biden because he's too pro-Israel is to ignore the reality, which is that by the same poll of all entities in the poll, ranging from Israel to Hamas to Donald Trump to Joe Biden to the Republicans in Congress, the single most popular entity in the poll was actually the state of Israel.
00:48:44.000So it'd be very weird for, for example, Joe Biden to sort of abandon Israel in the face of all of that.
00:48:50.000Again, by the same poll that is showing Joe Biden unpopular, it shows that Israel has a plus 23 rating.
00:49:13.000So if the implication there is that Joe Biden is supposed to swivel on behalf of Hamas, I'm not sure exactly how you make that case.
00:49:18.000Particularly this is something that Nate Silver, the pollster, has pointed out.
00:49:21.000Nonetheless, Joe Biden is seeking to start to militate between two positions.
00:49:27.000This, for example, Is why President Biden has now said that he's going to issue visa bans on quote-unquote Israeli extremists attacking Palestinians in the West Bank.
00:49:35.000Unclear exactly who he's talking about.
00:49:37.000Obviously no criminal should enter the United States.
00:49:39.000So if somebody is committing a criminal act, Jew or not Jew, they should not be entering the United States.
00:49:44.000But the idea that there is like this vast criminal underclass in the West Bank that is pursuing extraordinary acts of violence is not actually told out by the data.
00:49:54.000There are some people who are doing that and they should be arrested.
00:49:57.000The notion this is anywhere on par with a massive problem that there are hundreds of thousands, 10,000, 8,000, 800 people who are attempting to immigrate from Israel to the United States after conducting criminal activities against Arabs in the West Bank.
00:51:13.000Sure, we made agreements about communications, fentanyl, climate change, but most importantly, we got the thing America really needs right now.