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Joe Biden's Ministry Of Truth | Ep. 1485


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00:00:00.000 The White House Correspondents Dinner features America's political elites mocking you, the Biden administration proposes their ministry of truth, and the New York Times puts out a hit on Tucker Carlson.
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00:01:21.000 One of my most hated events of the year is always the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:01:38.000 I hate this event.
00:01:39.000 I think that it's just terrible.
00:01:40.000 There are many events during the year that I think are awful, including the State of the Union Address.
00:01:44.000 I think it's a monarchic institution.
00:01:45.000 I don't care who gives it.
00:01:46.000 But the White House Correspondents' Dinner is particularly Gross.
00:01:50.000 And there are a bunch of reasons why it is gross.
00:01:52.000 Now listen, I happen to be a wealthy human who owns a tuxedo and has nice watches and I don't mind going to fancy dinners.
00:01:58.000 However, when the entire purpose of the dinner is to allow the people who are supposed to police the people in power and the entire dinner is the people in power and the people who are supposed to be covering them with a Gimlet I. And instead, they are hobnobbing with one another and with Hollywood elites, and they are hanging out, eating very fancy food together, and telling nice jokes about one another, and massaging each other's shoulders.
00:02:20.000 You're giving the game away, and it's just yucky.
00:02:23.000 That's why I don't like this dinner.
00:02:25.000 Not because it's a bunch of rich and famous people who are getting together, but because these are people who are not supposed to be congenitally friendly toward one another.
00:02:32.000 The journalistic establishment is supposed to be policing the people in politics.
00:02:36.000 The people in politics are supposed to be attempting to take care of the business of the nation.
00:02:41.000 And instead, it's all of these people getting together and basically laughing at you.
00:02:45.000 Because everything that they complain about is a joke to them, but it is a reality to you.
00:02:51.000 Every single thing that they complain about, every single thing that they joke about and they mock, they are mocking you.
00:02:57.000 They're not mocking each other.
00:02:58.000 Understand that when the White House mocks the journalists, they're not really mocking the journalists, they're tutting them, they're slapping them on the back.
00:03:05.000 It's like when you and your buddies go out for a drink and you're kind of breaking each other's balls.
00:03:08.000 That's what it is.
00:03:09.000 And when the journalists mock the White House, understand that they are not actually mocking the people in power.
00:03:15.000 They're basically giving praise to the people in power by saying, look how nice our relationship really is.
00:03:20.000 Secretly, this is what it's really like.
00:03:23.000 Behind closed doors, we're all smoking cigars together and massaging each other and giving each other swag bags.
00:03:28.000 And that's really what and Hollywood is there to kind of glue it all together.
00:03:32.000 This is the specter of the controlling apparatus in American life.
00:03:35.000 That's not a conspiracy theory.
00:03:36.000 That's just reality.
00:03:38.000 It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Hollywood and Democrats in the media and the Democratic Party, they all work together in order to create cultural institutions that cram down a particular point of view on you.
00:03:47.000 And that's what the White House Correspondent Center is.
00:03:50.000 Now, there used to be a time when it wasn't quite this, right?
00:03:53.000 When George W. Bush was president, for example, the media really didn't like George W. Bush.
00:03:57.000 George W. Bush really didn't like the media.
00:03:58.000 And it was like they were taking a sort of break from hating one another to joke with one another.
00:04:02.000 And it was somewhat nice.
00:04:04.000 But when it has been Democrats and the media at the White House Correspondents and when it was Barack Obama, basically this event died.
00:04:09.000 When Barack Obama became president, the media were so focused I'm giving him a fifth chakra Al Gore style massage that there was no way for them to get together with dinner without it also ending up as one night stand.
00:04:20.000 There was just no way for that to happen.
00:04:22.000 And then when Trump was president, he said, I'm not going to go because why would I bother showing up to listen to you guys?
00:04:28.000 Just roast me, but not in good nature, because you hate me.
00:04:30.000 You wouldn't roast me in good nature.
00:04:32.000 By the way, there's a difference.
00:04:33.000 I've been roasted.
00:04:34.000 I've been roasted by both people who kind of like me and by people who hate my guts.
00:04:37.000 And there's a wide scale difference between the two.
00:04:39.000 And Trump said, I'm just not going to show.
00:04:41.000 And now Biden is back.
00:04:42.000 And so this dinner was much more like Barack Obama's dinner.
00:04:47.000 So Joe Biden was the keynote, of course, and Trevor Noah was the emcee.
00:04:54.000 And I will say Trevor Noah was a lot better than I thought he would be.
00:04:56.000 I thought that Trevor Noah was actually not terrible.
00:04:59.000 He's told some jokes about both sides.
00:05:01.000 As a conservative, I will freely admit that I think that the jokes about the left were much funnier than the jokes about the conservatives.
00:05:07.000 Joe Biden, however, is one of the least graceful human beings on planet Earth.
00:05:11.000 I mean, he just, he is graceless.
00:05:13.000 His entire rant was not about himself.
00:05:15.000 Normally you go up there, if you watch George W. Bush's little comedic speeches during the White House Correspondents Center, they were mostly self-effacing.
00:05:22.000 He would get up there and he'd tell jokes about himself.
00:05:25.000 Joe Biden gets up there and he mainly just tells jokes about how horrible his opponents are.
00:05:29.000 He makes like one joke about the fact that he's unpopular, and then he just moves right into, and my opponents are awful.
00:05:35.000 I don't know how much dope they shot into this guy, but his energy level was so wildly out of tune with how energetic he has been in normal daily life that you figure that maybe Elon Musk bought Coca-Cola, inserted the cocaine, and then gave the first samples to the President of the United States.
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00:07:00.000 So Joe Biden began by joking about how only 42 percent were applauding him.
00:07:05.000 This was his only decent joke of the night.
00:07:06.000 Ladies and gentlemen, President Joe Biden.
00:07:14.000 Thank you, Steve, for that introduction.
00:07:17.000 And a special thanks to the 42% of you who actually applauded.
00:07:24.000 Can I just point out here that when you actually watch the footage here, it's really galling.
00:07:30.000 One of the reasons that it's really galling is not just because of all of the cozy relationships in the room.
00:07:35.000 It's really galling because all of these people kept us locked down for two years, and they pretended that they cared deeply about COVID, and it was all about how we just have to protect you.
00:07:45.000 But then when it comes time for them to get together in a very crowded ballroom, inches from one another, In tuxedos?
00:07:51.000 Then it's totally fine.
00:07:52.000 By the way, Joe Biden said that he showed up.
00:07:53.000 Anthony Fauci didn't.
00:07:54.000 He said, ah, it's still a pandemic.
00:07:56.000 We can't just show up to the... Okay, so Biden showed up.
00:08:00.000 He sat in the room.
00:08:01.000 His concession to Anthony Fauci is that he wouldn't eat.
00:08:04.000 Because apparently now there's some scientific evidence, according to Joe Biden, that if you eat, you're likely to get COVID.
00:08:09.000 I'm going to have to have that one explained to me.
00:08:11.000 Why if you're sitting directly in proximity to somebody six inches away from you and screaming into each other's ears, because these dinners are very loud, that that is significantly better than if you're sitting next to that person and eating.
00:08:20.000 Anyway, so Joe Biden starts with that joke and then it's all downhill from there.
00:08:26.000 His worst joke of the evening was his attempt to go after Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:08:29.000 This is just a bad joke.
00:08:30.000 I don't know who's writing this crap, but when you have the entire Hollywood comedic establishment at your disposal, theoretically, you should get somebody who can write a joke.
00:08:36.000 Instead, he apparently got Ron Klain to write his jokes.
00:08:39.000 This is such a botchery of a joke on every single level.
00:08:43.000 Here we go.
00:08:45.000 Ronald Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear this wall down.
00:08:49.000 Today's Republicans say, tear down Mickey Mouse's house.
00:08:53.000 And pretty soon they'll be storming Cinderella's castle, you can be sure of it.
00:08:56.000 That is, is that what is, hmm.
00:09:02.000 It's a questioning, huh? So that was kind of the nature, and that was his entire, his entire routine is about how terrible his opponents were.
00:09:15.000 And then there was Trump as horrible plague. Here we go. This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six It's understandable.
00:09:24.000 We had a horrible plague followed by two years of COVID.
00:09:28.000 Ha ha ha. You see, Trump was like a plague.
00:09:35.000 I'm going to compare him to COVID.
00:09:36.000 Now imagine if Trump had made that joke about Democrats, how they were a horrible plague upon the land.
00:09:40.000 Yeah, would have gone great.
00:09:42.000 And then he joked about vaccinating and boosting and why he's there.
00:09:47.000 We're here to show the country that we're getting through this pandemic.
00:09:51.000 Plus, everyone had to prove they were fully vaccinated and boosted.
00:09:58.000 So if you're at home watching this and you're wondering how to do that, just contact your favorite Fox News reporter.
00:10:06.000 They're all here, vaccinated and boosted.
00:10:11.000 Okay, so I'm just going to point out that, again, being vaccinated and boosted is no guarantee you're not going to get COVID and that you're not going to have a super spreader event.
00:10:17.000 Just putting that science out there.
00:10:20.000 That third booster shot does not prevent you from getting COVID.
00:10:23.000 I know because, again, I was vaccinated, not boosted, and got COVID.
00:10:28.000 My dad was vaccinated and boosted and got COVID.
00:10:31.000 So, uh, no.
00:10:32.000 So, again, super, super funny stuff.
00:10:34.000 And then he joked about Sean Hannity and the suggestion here is that Sean Hannity is really bad because he used to text with Mark Meadows.
00:10:40.000 Fox News, I'm I'm really sorry.
00:10:44.000 Your preferred candidate lost the last election to make it up to you.
00:10:48.000 I'm happy to give my chief of staff to you all so we can tell Sean Hannity what to say every day.
00:10:56.000 OK, well, the joke here that that is really unspoken here is that Joe Biden's chief of staff tells the Democratic media what to say every single day.
00:11:05.000 Yes, Sean tends to share the views.
00:11:07.000 He's an opinion host.
00:11:07.000 He tends to share the views of Republican administrations.
00:11:10.000 The problem is that in that room, it's supposed to be objective media, and they share all the views of the Democratic administration.
00:11:15.000 Ron Klain has all these people on speed dial.
00:11:17.000 By the way, I do love the fact that Joe Biden is straightening his tie by pulling it directly down.
00:11:21.000 He's so off-kilter.
00:11:23.000 He's like, I'm going to straighten my tie.
00:11:25.000 It's solid stuff there.
00:11:26.000 OK, so Trevor Noah then gets up there and this is the clip of the night.
00:11:30.000 This is the one that's going to appear in all the attack ads about Joe Biden.
00:11:33.000 So Trevor Noah gets up there and he tells a joke about inflation and the cutaway to Joe Biden laughing wildly at his own inflation.
00:11:40.000 I understand he's trying to be good natured and laughing jokes about him, but this one is not going to play well in Peoria, as they say.
00:11:48.000 These people have been so hard on you, which I don't get.
00:11:50.000 I really don't.
00:11:51.000 You know, I think ever since you've come into office, things are really looking up.
00:11:55.000 You know, gas is up, rent is up, food is up.
00:11:58.000 Everything.
00:12:02.000 Joe Biden finds this hilarious.
00:12:03.000 It is.
00:12:03.000 I mean, after all, he's there in a tux.
00:12:06.000 He's very wealthy.
00:12:06.000 He owns a bunch of houses, has $5.2 million in unexplained income while he was out of office, while Hunter was going around picking up bags of cash.
00:12:12.000 What does he care?
00:12:13.000 What does he care?
00:12:14.000 And that is the point inside that room.
00:12:17.000 These folks do not care about inflation.
00:12:18.000 They're all doing fine.
00:12:19.000 They're all doing great.
00:12:20.000 They did great during the pandemic, by the way.
00:12:22.000 This is the laptop class.
00:12:23.000 They were sitting in their rooms, holding their jobs.
00:12:25.000 You were the one who was out of a job while they shut down your small business.
00:12:28.000 And now they're back in the room, hanging out with one another and chiding you about your vaccine status and being vaccine boosted.
00:12:34.000 Because they're the special people.
00:12:35.000 They're the special people.
00:12:37.000 Good for Trevor Noah, at least, mocking this.
00:12:38.000 Trevor Noah did mock the fact that all these people had gotten together for their super spreader event.
00:12:44.000 It is my great honor to be speaking tonight at the nation's most distinguished super-spreader event.
00:12:50.000 No, for real, people, what are we doing here?
00:12:51.000 Let's be honest, what are we doing?
00:12:53.000 Like, did none of you learn anything from the Gridiron Dinner?
00:12:55.000 Nothing?
00:12:56.000 Huh?
00:12:56.000 Like, do you read any of your own newspapers?
00:12:59.000 I mean, I expect this from Sean Hannity, but the rest of you?
00:13:02.000 What are you doing here?
00:13:05.000 Mm-hmm.
00:13:06.000 Well, I mean, why does he should expect that from the rest of them?
00:13:09.000 Because the rest of them during the entire pandemic were actively avoiding their own rules.
00:13:13.000 The rest of them during the pandemic were out there partying.
00:13:16.000 London Breed was doing it because her soul felt it.
00:13:19.000 Gavin Newsom was at the French Laundry.
00:13:20.000 So he really shouldn't be particularly surprised.
00:13:23.000 OK, at the very end of this, Trevor Noah finally did this routine very end.
00:13:27.000 A very moving tribute to journalism.
00:13:29.000 And here's the thing, this falls on deaf ears because that room is just filled with a bunch of administration lackeys.
00:13:34.000 And herein lies the point.
00:13:35.000 Again, people treat the Democrats and the media and Hollywood as though these are separate apparatuses.
00:13:41.000 They are not.
00:13:41.000 The Democrats, Hollywood, the media, they are all part of one big social group.
00:13:46.000 They all know each other.
00:13:47.000 Y'all hang out together.
00:13:48.000 Y'all love each other.
00:13:49.000 Y'all have the same priorities.
00:13:50.000 They mirror one another.
00:13:51.000 They create an echo chamber that completely excludes you.
00:13:54.000 This is how they end up in the bizarre position of embracing the most radical policies imaginable.
00:14:01.000 You have to be in a real echo chamber to come up with the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
00:14:05.000 But that can't happen if you are Democrats being reflected by the media or being reflected by Hollywood.
00:14:10.000 The White House Correspondent Center is a perfect encapsulation of how left side of the aisle politics actually works.
00:14:16.000 So when Trevor Noah does these sort of these homages to the journalists who are out there working hard every day, let me just point out that those journalists are not out there working hard every day.
00:14:27.000 Some of them are.
00:14:28.000 The vast majority of them are not.
00:14:29.000 They're just reading Twitter and they're reporting what their Democratic overlords would like them to say.
00:14:35.000 The reason we're here ...is to honor and celebrate the Fourth Estate and what you stand for.
00:14:41.000 What you stand for.
00:14:43.000 An additional check and balance that holds power to account and gives voice to those who otherwise wouldn't have one.
00:14:50.000 Every single one of you, whether you like it or not, is a bastion of democracy.
00:14:59.000 Okay, so I'm just going to, again, point out here that when he says that you are the defenders of democracy, our journalistic establishment abandoned that pursuit a very long time ago.
00:15:09.000 They did.
00:15:09.000 They have not been the defenders of democracy in the United States for a very long time.
00:15:13.000 They are selective defenders of policies that they like, and they are attackers of anybody who crosses them.
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00:16:51.000 So according to the Wall Street Journal, Roger Koppel and Abigail Devereaux reporting, the Department of Homeland Security has announced the formation of the Disinformation Governance Board, charged according to Politico with, quote, countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.
00:17:08.000 In a twist to Implausible for Fiction, the abbreviation is DGB, one letter off from KGB.
00:17:14.000 The stated goal of combating misinformation and disinformation is framed to seem unobjectionable.
00:17:18.000 Who objects to truth and pines for falsehood?
00:17:20.000 DGB experts will guide the way, separating the informational wheat from the disinformational chaff.
00:17:24.000 But there's one small problem with empowering truth experts.
00:17:27.000 Experts are people, and people respond to incentives.
00:17:30.000 People, therefore, experts respond to incentives as well.
00:17:34.000 Graham Medley, British expert involved in the UK policy response to COVID, illustrated the point in recent testimony before Parliament.
00:17:39.000 The worst thing for me, he said, would be for government to say, why didn't you tell us it could be that bad?
00:17:43.000 Inevitably, we were always going to have a worse case, which is above reality.
00:17:46.000 Put yourself in his shoes.
00:17:47.000 If you predict doom and nothing happens, it was because of your wise warning.
00:17:49.000 If you don't predict doom and reality is worse than you expected, you'll be blamed and shamed.
00:17:53.000 The incentives are clear.
00:17:54.000 Truth experts at the DGB will proclaim grave threats around every turn when even any threats are minor to non-existence.
00:18:02.000 The dangers of the DGB will amplify if it becomes the tool of partisan political actors, and it already has.
00:18:07.000 Executive Director Nina Jankiewicz once described Hunter Biden's laptop as a Trump campaign product and has written that America's informational landscape includes declining trust in the media fed by the Trump administration's relentless attacks on the fourth estate.
00:18:18.000 She has said, quote, unless we mitigate our own political polarization, our own internal issues will continue to be an easy target for any malign actor, Russian, Iranian, domestic or foreign to manipulate.
00:18:29.000 And here is Nina Jenkiewicz.
00:18:31.000 I mean, this is an actual tape of her singing about disinformation to Mary Poppins.
00:18:35.000 So we've got theater kids running disinformation departments inside the Department of Homeland Security.
00:18:40.000 The Ministry of Truth is here.
00:18:41.000 And the future is tap shoes stomping on the human face forever.
00:18:47.000 Bombering is really quite ferocious.
00:18:49.000 It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet.
00:18:55.000 So disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious.
00:19:00.000 It's how you hide a little idle lie.
00:19:05.000 When Rudy Giuliani shared bad intel from Ukraine.
00:19:08.000 Or when TikTok influencers say Covid can cause pain.
00:19:11.000 They're laundering dissent for when we really should take note.
00:19:14.000 And not support their lies with our wallet, voice or vote.
00:19:17.000 Oh!
00:19:18.000 Information laundering is really quite ferocious.
00:19:20.000 It's when a huckster takes their lies and makes them sound precocious.
00:19:23.000 By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet service.
00:19:26.000 Information's origin seems likely less atrocious!
00:19:29.000 Ha ha ha!
00:19:31.000 Whoo!
00:19:32.000 So that is your new head of the disinformation department over at the Department of Homeland Security.
00:19:39.000 We're going to go ahead and close out the meeting.
00:19:41.000 Weird, creepy Mary Poppins.
00:19:43.000 Do you trust her to determine what is misinformation and what is disinformation?
00:19:47.000 And why is the government doing that at all?
00:19:49.000 And why are the journalistic establishment not up in arms about this?
00:19:53.000 I mean, you know, if Trump were doing it, they'd be up in arms about it.
00:19:56.000 But you have the Washington Post actively cheering this stuff on.
00:20:00.000 Barack Obama, a couple of weeks ago, he gave a speech in which he talked about how the government should basically crack down on social media to prevent the distribution of quote-unquote misinformation.
00:20:08.000 The Washington Post, which I will remind you, is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, because only certain billionaires are bad, according to media.
00:20:15.000 Jeff Bezos is a good billionaire because he's on the left, but Elon Musk is a bad billionaire because he's not of the left.
00:20:20.000 The editorial board at the Washington Post has an entire piece today titled, Barack Obama's Smart Way to Change the Disinformation Debate.
00:20:28.000 Barack Obama may have done too little when he was president to counter Russia's subversion of our democracy on social media.
00:20:33.000 Now, however, he's trying to make up for lost time.
00:20:35.000 The former president spoke at Stanford University April 21st to lay out his vision for fighting disinformation on the internet.
00:20:41.000 His focus on the subject is fitting.
00:20:42.000 The dusk of his administration marked a turning point from techno-optimism to pessimism after election interference revealed how easily malicious actors could exploit the free flow of information.
00:20:51.000 But whatever blame the White House deserved in 2016 for failing to speak publicly about or retaliate against Moscow's incursions, Congress and companies have fallen even shorter in the years since by failing to enact reforms or reform themselves.
00:21:03.000 And this is where Obama's ideas come in.
00:21:06.000 His diagnosis is on target.
00:21:08.000 The Internet has given us access to more people, more opportunities, and more knowledge.
00:21:12.000 This has also helped the nation's adversaries play on our pre-existing prejudices and divisions to sow discord.
00:21:20.000 So we need to have Congress step in, and we need to have the law rein in what you can and cannot say, according to the Washington Post.
00:21:28.000 Again, these are your journalists, the people that Trevor Noah is praising as the people who are going to protect democracy.
00:21:32.000 Remember, the Washington Post still has the ridiculous aphorism, democracy dies in darkness, emblazoned at the top of the page.
00:21:39.000 And their editorial board is very much in favor of the darkness, so long as the darkness is being sponsored by Democrats in charge.
00:21:46.000 Or how about CNN's David Zuruik, who says, you know what?
00:21:49.000 We can't have people like Elon Musk taking over Twitter because we need to control the means of communications in this country.
00:21:55.000 We need control.
00:21:56.000 We can't give up control.
00:21:58.000 There's a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country.
00:22:05.000 In 1927, we had the Radio Act.
00:22:07.000 1934, the Communications Act.
00:22:09.000 Congress stepped in.
00:22:11.000 We made rules.
00:22:12.000 FCC wasn't great, but it's still regulating the broadcast industry.
00:22:16.000 You can't use vulgar language.
00:22:17.000 You can't do all these things with speech.
00:22:19.000 You need controls on this.
00:22:21.000 You need regulation.
00:22:22.000 You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country, or we are headed to hell.
00:22:29.000 We're headed to hell if people like Elon Musk own companies like Twitter.
00:22:32.000 Now, I noticed that he's not really complaining about the major media conglomerate owned by CNN.
00:22:37.000 I noticed he's not really complaining about the Washington Post right here.
00:22:41.000 CNN's at David Zerouek.
00:22:43.000 These are your journalists.
00:22:44.000 These are your journalists.
00:22:46.000 And then they get together with their Democratic bosses and they party it up.
00:22:51.000 And they laugh at you because their problems are not your problems.
00:22:54.000 Their problem is how do we advance the interests of the regime?
00:22:57.000 That is their problem.
00:23:00.000 It is incredible how Orwellian all of this has become.
00:23:02.000 We have a Department of Homeland Security that focuses in on opening the border and policing disinformation.
00:23:08.000 We have a Department of Health and Human Services that focuses on on puberty blocking children.
00:23:13.000 We have a Department of the Treasury that focuses in on how much deficit spending we can do and how much more we need to continue to do.
00:23:19.000 It's just the reverse of reality.
00:23:19.000 This is all Orwellian.
00:23:22.000 In a second, we're gonna get to Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, praising his new pick to head the Disinformation Department.
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00:24:51.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, for his part, the head of Homeland Security, he was praising Nina Jankowicz over the weekend.
00:24:56.000 He was praised as the new head of the Disinformation Governance Board.
00:25:00.000 Republicans are criticizing your decision, the administration's decision to choose Nina Jankowicz to lead this disinformation board.
00:25:09.000 They say she is not somebody who is neutral.
00:25:12.000 Your response?
00:25:13.000 Eminently qualified, a renowned expert in the field of disinformation.
00:25:17.000 And neutral?
00:25:18.000 Absolutely so.
00:25:21.000 She's absolutely neutral, guys.
00:25:22.000 She's absolutely neutral.
00:25:24.000 And overall, the media are like, this is just, this is all Yeah, Brian Stelter, he literally said this.
00:25:29.000 He said, this is Fox News misinformation.
00:25:32.000 And you covering it and saying it's a ministry of truth.
00:25:34.000 That's Fox News misinformation.
00:25:35.000 Nobody should be upset about any of this.
00:25:37.000 Alejandro Mayorkas, who again is one of the creepier figures in American public life, just because everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie.
00:25:45.000 So he is assuring us that he's not going to monitor American citizens.
00:25:49.000 Yeah, I believe all of the people in structural power.
00:25:51.000 I mean, it's not like they spent four years pursuing a Russian disinformation hoax about the Steele dossier, pretending that they were at any moment going to uncover evidence that President Trump was a Russian asset.
00:26:00.000 I definitely, it's not like they trumped up a FISA warrant on Carter Page based on nothing.
00:26:06.000 I definitely trust them not to monitor American citizens.
00:26:08.000 These people are super trustworthy.
00:26:11.000 Will American citizens be monitored?
00:26:14.000 No.
00:26:15.000 Guarantee that.
00:26:16.000 So what we do, we in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.
00:26:22.000 You don't, but will this board change that?
00:26:24.000 No, no, no.
00:26:24.000 The board does not have any operational authority or capability.
00:26:31.000 Oh, they don't have any authority or capability, because as we know, the government is typically hemmed in by its own restrictions.
00:26:38.000 They would never involve themselves in things that are beyond their permit.
00:26:42.000 You would never have, for example, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration trying to force every person in the United States to vaccinate.
00:26:49.000 You definitely wouldn't have, for example, the IRS cracking down on conservative 501c3s.
00:26:54.000 These things would never happen.
00:26:56.000 We should probably trust Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:26:58.000 And I'm so glad that we have our journalistic hound dogs who are on the trail here tracking down all aspects of ultra-crepidarianism from our governmental actors.
00:27:07.000 Really important stuff.
00:27:08.000 By the way, he assures us that they are not the opinion police.
00:27:11.000 Well, I mean, how you define disinformation and misinformation is an opinion.
00:27:15.000 Yes, you are the opinion police and you've set yourself up as such.
00:27:19.000 Do you really think that Jankiewicz is anywhere near objective enough for this particular job?
00:27:25.000 Yes, I do, and by the way, highly regarded as a subject matter expert, and I don't question her objectivity.
00:27:35.000 There are people in the department who have a diverse range of views, and they're incredibly dedicated to mission.
00:27:43.000 We're not the opinion police.
00:27:47.000 Yes, you are.
00:27:49.000 Yes, you are.
00:27:49.000 And you're helped out by your friends in the media, who spend all day every day deciding which opinions are okay and which opinions are not okay, and then stumping for legislation to crack down on the opinions that are not okay.
00:27:59.000 And they will force corporate America to do their bidding.
00:28:02.000 Certain corporations are good, certain corporations are bad.
00:28:05.000 And they can determine that by who they force to do this sort of stuff.
00:28:07.000 They're refreshingly open about it at this point.
00:28:10.000 It really is amazing.
00:28:11.000 It is not a coincidence that the minute that Elon Musk takes over Twitter, you suddenly have a slate of stories about how bad it is to have billionaires involved in politics.
00:28:19.000 Like they were fine when it was Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
00:28:21.000 When it's Elon Musk, then obviously the math is completely different.
00:28:26.000 The Wall Street Journal has an entire piece today.
00:28:28.000 By the way, people should know, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is conservative.
00:28:30.000 The Wall Street Journal reporting is actually left of the New York Times by most available studies.
00:28:34.000 They have a reported piece today called, The Shadow Crew, who encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
00:28:39.000 Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla's CEO's ear.
00:28:44.000 Wow.
00:28:45.000 I mean, because they're evil.
00:28:47.000 This is why, as CNN commentator David Zerouk said, we must regulate this sort of stuff.
00:28:55.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Musk's declined to be interviewed.
00:28:58.000 It isn't clear whether he took any of their advice or merely followed his own gut.
00:29:03.000 And here we are talking about a bunch of massive billionaires and internet trolls who controlled Elon Musk, and we can't allow them to be setting the standard.
00:29:14.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, before and during Mr. Musk's breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian-leaning activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved.
00:29:22.000 This group includes the so-called PayPal Mafia, former executives at the online payments company who include Mr. Musk, the investor Peter Thiel, and the entrepreneur David Sachs, as well as ancillary figures like the venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor who once served on the automaker's board, and Mr. Musk's brother Kimball, a Tesla board member, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:29:40.000 Their involvement may help explain one of the great mysteries of his Twitter obsession.
00:29:43.000 With all the problems in the world, why has Mr. Musk decided he alone can fix it?
00:29:49.000 Wow, I mean, that's just terrible.
00:29:51.000 Wow.
00:29:52.000 I mean, these billionaires, they must be stopped, except for, you know, like Jeff Bezos.
00:29:55.000 He shouldn't be stopped.
00:29:56.000 Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post, you have a piece called, How a Billionaire's Boys Club Came to Dominate the Public Square.
00:30:03.000 The world's richest man, Elon Musk, attacked a publication owned by the world's third richest man, Jeff Bezos, last month for reprinting a column by the world's 13th richest man, Mike Bloomberg.
00:30:11.000 The Bloomberg Opinion article posted by the Washington Post asked whether Musk's recent investment in Twitter would endanger freedom of speech.
00:30:17.000 WAPO always good for a laugh, Musk wrote in a tweet with smiling and crying emoji.
00:30:21.000 The jab underscored an unusual and consequential feature of the nation's new digital public square.
00:30:26.000 Technological change and the fortunes it have created have given a vanishingly small club of massively wealthy individuals the ability to play arbiter, moderator, and bankroll.
00:30:33.000 I noticed you didn't give any craps about this, Washington Post, when Jeff Bezos was buying you.
00:30:37.000 I noticed that you didn't care whatsoever when Bill Gates was involving himself in every aspect of COVID policy.
00:30:43.000 I noticed that you didn't care when Pinch Sulzberger and the Sulzberger family owned the New York Times for a century.
00:30:47.000 I noticed you didn't care about any of this.
00:30:49.000 You only care the minute that Musk gets involved.
00:30:51.000 And suddenly, it's the Billionaire Boys Club.
00:30:54.000 These are your journalistic watchdogs.
00:30:55.000 Man, they are just, they are, they are such, they're amazing.
00:30:58.000 And by the way, your journalistic watchdogs, they're also determining which corporations advertise and how they advertise and how those corporations act.
00:31:05.000 They have to be the great determinants.
00:31:07.000 Which is why you have the New York Times running an extraordinarily long piece on Tucker Carlson, a three-part piece called American Nationalist.
00:31:14.000 How Tucker Carlson stoked white fear.
00:31:16.000 White.
00:31:17.000 Again, whenever the New York Times writes white, you have to put the H before the W. How he stoked white fear to conquer cable.
00:31:23.000 So the New York Times has this extraordinary, I mean, it's a really, really long piece about the evils of Tucker Carlson.
00:31:32.000 Part one, Tucker Carlson, once a failed pundit, stoked white fear to conquer cable.
00:31:36.000 Part two, how Tucker Carlson reshaped Fox News and became Trump's heir.
00:31:39.000 Part three, look inside the apocalyptic worldview of Tucker Carlson tonight.
00:31:45.000 Wow.
00:31:46.000 By the way, what is the apocalyptic worldview of Tucker Carlson tonight?
00:31:50.000 Night after night, this is what the New York Times says, and this is why he's so bad.
00:31:53.000 Night after night, the host of the most watched show in primetime cable news uses a simple narrative to instill fear in his viewers.
00:31:59.000 They want to control and then destroy you.
00:32:03.000 Okay, I'm just going to point out that this has been a hallmark of all democratic politics for literally ever.
00:32:07.000 And it's not just Tucker Carlson saying that.
00:32:09.000 And depending on who the they is and who the you are, it could be true.
00:32:13.000 Democrats are constantly saying that white people are out to get black people in the United States and this is the systemic racism from which we all suffer.
00:32:21.000 It's the New York Times that's constantly suggesting that plutocrats are out to get the poor.
00:32:25.000 It's the New York Times who's out there saying that Tucker Carlson is the they who's out to get the you.
00:32:29.000 So why is it so bad if Tucker Carlson says they are out to get you?
00:32:32.000 Well, because he's bad.
00:32:34.000 That's it.
00:32:34.000 They don't care what you think.
00:32:36.000 They want to control your mind.
00:32:37.000 They want you to kiss the ring.
00:32:39.000 They're not sentimental.
00:32:40.000 They want power.
00:32:41.000 They hate you.
00:32:42.000 They want to hurt you.
00:32:44.000 They call you a racist.
00:32:45.000 They want to control what you... These are all things that Tucker Carlson has said about his opponents.
00:32:49.000 All that's true.
00:32:50.000 I don't know what to tell you, New York Times.
00:32:50.000 I'm sorry.
00:32:52.000 You guys do want to control how I raise my child.
00:32:56.000 You do call us racists if you oppose anything we do.
00:32:59.000 Again, it's all the apocalyptic worldview of Tucker Carlson.
00:33:02.000 This is how your journalismers are journalisming to the praise of Trevor Noah and to the cheers of tuxedoed cretins at a giant dinner.
00:33:11.000 According to the New York Times, a New York Times analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households five nights a week.
00:33:21.000 He's done so since the beginning, but the show has gotten darker.
00:33:25.000 Here's how the show works.
00:33:26.000 When you enter Mr. Carlson's world each night, you are among his three million plus viewers and part of a Fox News audience that is 92% white and overwhelmingly older, according to Nielsen data.
00:33:38.000 They are the ruling class.
00:33:39.000 They threaten everything you believe in.
00:33:41.000 Well, I mean, wow, white and elderly, man, that has to be that has to be.
00:33:45.000 They include Democratic and some Republican officials, members of the media, big tech executives, academic sports and Hollywood stars and others.
00:33:52.000 Many of the people here have been attacked in dozens or even hundreds of episodes.
00:33:55.000 Who are these people, by the way?
00:33:57.000 These people include Barack Obama, who is the president of the United States, and Joe Biden, who is the president of the United States, and Anthony Fauci, one of those prominent people in the history of the country.
00:34:05.000 And Ilhan Omar, an open anti-Semite, and AOC, one of the most prominent Congress people, and a radical leftist, and Kamala Harris, the VP.
00:34:11.000 How dare he attack public figures?
00:34:13.000 My God, attacking public figures?
00:34:14.000 That has to be stopped.
00:34:15.000 Mr. Carlson, again, this is all the New York Times covering Carlson, who's very bad.
00:34:19.000 And we're being told by the New York Times, which is an outlet, it is an editorial page for the left, the entire newspaper, not just the editorial page, all of it.
00:34:26.000 They're saying Tucker Carlson is evil and bad.
00:34:29.000 Mr. Carlson tells you over and over, they don't care about you and will do whatever they can do to maintain power.
00:34:36.000 Well, I mean, yes?
00:34:41.000 I'm just wondering, what is controversial about this in the political sphere?
00:34:45.000 How is that different from anything Bernie Sanders says on the left, or Joe Biden, for that matter, says today?
00:34:51.000 And then they just have a bunch of little clips of him talking about George Soros, who's a very powerful human being, and Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi, all very powerful human beings.
00:35:01.000 It's just this is the New York Times going after Tucker.
00:35:04.000 Basically, the entire article is they've discovered that there is a popular person who is not on their side of the political aisle.
00:35:09.000 Now, what's amazing is that Tucker and I disagree about a lot of things, right?
00:35:12.000 You can watch a Sunday special I did with Tucker.
00:35:13.000 We disagree on free markets.
00:35:15.000 We disagree on how much the government should get invested in the economy.
00:35:19.000 We disagree on foreign policy.
00:35:21.000 But Tucker is not wildly outside the mainstream of anything that is just the right.
00:35:25.000 Mr. Carlson frames nearly every topic on his show as a ruling class plot from gun control to marijuana legislation to COVID restrictions.
00:35:32.000 Well, again, again, kind of.
00:35:36.000 I mean, like.
00:35:38.000 When people are in charge and they have institutional power and they use the institutional power to cram down what they want upon you, that is the ruling class attempting to rule you, is it not?
00:35:49.000 But according to the New York Times, you're not supposed to say this.
00:35:52.000 Only they can use this sort of language about you.
00:35:55.000 You're not the ruling class, but they treat you as the ruling class.
00:35:58.000 And then the actual ruling class goes to the White House Correspondents' Dinner and jokes about you and mocks you.
00:36:03.000 So, the New York Times, again, everything is dedicated to the idea that everyone who they don't like is either racist or evil, white nationalist, ought to be suppressed by government, free speech ought to be quashed, the limitations ought to be made, and corporations ought to be cuddled into place.
00:36:19.000 And if you respond to any of this, this makes you the problem.
00:36:22.000 If you say, no, no, no, I don't want corporations cudgeled into doing the work of left-wing wokesters.
00:36:27.000 And so if they do, then they're going to meet with the disapproval of government actors who are going to remove their special privileges in Florida.
00:36:34.000 This is just the natural consequence of the left attempting to take over institutions.
00:36:37.000 There will be pushback and there should be pushback.
00:36:40.000 And this means that you are the problem.
00:36:41.000 And if you say that if the media decide to get involved in corporate America and then there are counter boycotts, this makes you the aggressor.
00:36:49.000 This is the entire game the left is playing.
00:36:53.000 Propped up by the journalistic lackeys.
00:36:55.000 Coming up, we'll get to members of the media openly saying that they want to cudgel corporations into doing what they want and they should regulate corporations and all this, but they get very mad when it's Florida and Disney.
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00:39:04.000 Well, what is a fair share?
00:39:05.000 By nearly every measure, the U.S.
00:39:07.000 has the most progressive system of taxation in the world.
00:39:09.000 I mean, the top 40% of earners pay 95% of all federal income tax.
00:39:14.000 So they actually pay more than their share of income.
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00:39:19.000 I think they should just pay more.
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00:40:15.000 So again, all of the levers of power, Democrats, media, Hollywood, and then all the people that they try to cudgel into place, the members of corporate America.
00:40:29.000 They do form a power apparatus in the United States to pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.
00:40:34.000 And it's not as though the ball is being hidden here.
00:40:37.000 MSNBC's Ali Velshi, for example, he told Bill Maher, he's on Bill Maher, he said, it's good.
00:40:43.000 It's good to force corporations to go woke.
00:40:45.000 It is good that their staffers are doing that.
00:40:47.000 And then we in the media promote all of this.
00:40:50.000 You do this, and then when Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, when he says, we're going to provide a counter incentive here, because we're not going to allow asymmetric polarization to happen in which you guys get to use every tool of governmental and media power in order to cudgel corporations to do what you want.
00:41:05.000 And then we're supposed to sit here and just shout free speech.
00:41:07.000 That's not the way this works.
00:41:08.000 They're not engaged in free speech.
00:41:09.000 They're being cuddled into place by you and compulsive tactics by you.
00:41:13.000 And so we are going to provide a counter-incentive, and now these corporations might have to think twice.
00:41:17.000 This makes DeSantis the bad guy, according to everybody from The Atlantic to The New York Times, because this is the game.
00:41:21.000 If you uncover what they're doing and then respond, this means that you're bad.
00:41:24.000 But they are allowed to just do it.
00:41:25.000 So here's MSNBC's Ali Velshi pushing it.
00:41:28.000 I actually think companies are a good place right now to see some of this leadership.
00:41:33.000 It's going to be complicated.
00:41:34.000 They're going to make mistakes.
00:41:35.000 They're going to get in trouble by the public, and they're going to get in trouble by Ron DeSantis and a bunch of governors.
00:41:39.000 But the bottom line is I think it's a good development that companies are wading their way into politics.
00:41:43.000 They were always there anyway with their paychecks, with their donation checks.
00:41:47.000 Now they're getting there and actually talking directly to what the problems are.
00:41:53.000 No, that is incorrect.
00:41:54.000 Okay, what corporations used to do is lobby on behalf of their direct political interests.
00:41:57.000 Now they're being pushed into position by people like reporter Ali Velshi.
00:42:03.000 They're being pushed into that by that power apparatus at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:42:07.000 If they don't do what those people say, those people initiate boycotts against them, and they go after them to destroy them.
00:42:12.000 By the way, that entire New York Times piece on Tucker Carlson is deliberately aimed at Tucker Carlson's advertisers.
00:42:16.000 The idea is that if you advertise on Tucker Carlson, it's because you are complicit in white supremacy and white nationalism, and therefore, you should remove your dollars from Tucker Carlson, even if you advertise on both MSNBC and Fox News.
00:42:29.000 So when there's pushback, then all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, you're threatening free speech.
00:42:33.000 You guys don't get to play this game.
00:42:35.000 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
00:42:39.000 They've got to be willing to engage in war.
00:42:40.000 You cannot play fair with people who don't play fair.
00:42:42.000 There are no rules.
00:42:42.000 Roland Martin, for example, telling Tiffany Cross openly that Democrats should not play fair in 2022.
00:42:50.000 They've got to be willing to engage in war. You cannot play fair with people who don't play fair. There are no rules. The other side has shown that they will do whatever is necessary in order to win.
00:43:05.000 This is what they think. And then when people fight back, then those people are bad. The The reason that I bring this up is because, guess what?
00:43:13.000 A lot of folks on the right have been getting dyspepsia over Ron DeSantis and the removal of the Reedy Creek Special Tax District, which by the way, again, this is sort of how politics has worked forever in the United States in the sense that if you take a special tax break from a government and then you oppose that government, very often the government will crack back against you and take away the tax break.
00:43:30.000 But put all that aside, people will get how Ron DeSantis is now involving himself in punishing corporate speech Well, the entire left has been pushing corporations into speech issues they don't want to be a part of.
00:43:41.000 Remember, Disney didn't want to be a part of this fight.
00:43:43.000 It was pushed by the wokesters and governmental actors on the left, as well as the media, into sounding off on a topic that was completely outside of its purview.
00:43:51.000 Completely outside of its purview.
00:43:52.000 And then it got clocked.
00:43:54.000 Well, now, what do you think the predictable result of this is?
00:43:56.000 And this is a good result for the country.
00:43:58.000 The predictable result is that CEOs are beginning to think, hey, maybe we should only involve ourselves in the issues that directly affect our stockholders.
00:44:06.000 Like they always have done.
00:44:08.000 Good.
00:44:08.000 That is a good result.
00:44:11.000 The Wall Street Journal reporting, in private meetings and coaching sessions over the past few weeks, top business leaders have been asking a version of the same question.
00:44:17.000 How can we avoid becoming the next Walt Disney Company?
00:44:20.000 The fallout from the recent political spat between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has alarmed leaders across the corporate sphere, according to executives and their advisors, and heightened the challenge for chief executive officers navigating charged topics.
00:44:31.000 At many companies, vocal employees have in recent years pushed bosses to take public stands on social and political issues.
00:44:36.000 Florida's pushback against Disney has raised the stakes.
00:44:39.000 The number one concern CEOs have is, when should I speak out on public issues, said Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic and now senior fellow at Harvard Business School.
00:44:46.000 As one CEO said to me, I want to speak out on social issues, but I don't want to get involved in politics.
00:44:51.000 Which I said under my breath, that's not possible.
00:44:53.000 Some executives might be relieved.
00:44:55.000 The old idea that CEOs should focus on shareholder returns and stay out of politics lingers in some corporate suites, even in a politicized age of public social media discussions and more activist workforces.
00:45:05.000 Certainly, the consequences of weighing in appear to be changing.
00:45:07.000 Lawmakers for years have expressed displeasure when companies take public stands on issues like voting access through critical tweets, public remarks, and in some cases, calls for public boycotts.
00:45:15.000 Disney's experience shows a willingness to go further, corporate advisors say, by challenging arrangements that have helped a company to operate.
00:45:21.000 Governor DeSantis in April signed into law a bill that would terminate a special tax district that allowed Disney to self-govern the land that houses its Orlando-area theme parks, hotels, and resorts for more than half a century.
00:45:31.000 David Berger, a partner who specializes in corporate governance at Wilson, Sansani, Goodrich, and Rosati said politicians seem increasingly comfortable taking on businesses when it is advantageous for them.
00:45:41.000 It used to be the Republicans especially, but both parties like big business.
00:45:44.000 And now what you're seeing is both parties like to use big business as political footballs one way or another.
00:45:48.000 No, the difference is that the left used businesses as political footballs qua businesses.
00:45:52.000 If the business did business and just didn't acquiesce to the predations of the left, this made them an enemy.
00:45:58.000 Hobby Lobby.
00:45:59.000 Little Sisters of the Poor.
00:46:00.000 Masterpiece cake shop.
00:46:02.000 All these places became enemies just by not acquiescing in their own business.
00:46:08.000 The right is now saying, you don't get to weaponize these businesses against their own will and bully them into taking a position.
00:46:13.000 And if you do, they will be clocked back into place by counter incentives.
00:46:16.000 And the left says, no, no, no, this is very bad.
00:46:18.000 It's a predation on freedom.
00:46:21.000 And then you have the libertarian wing, the people at Reason Magazine, for example, Stephanie Slade writing for the New York Times about how terrible this is.
00:46:28.000 We're now anti-big business.
00:46:29.000 No, it is not anti-big business to say that businesses should do what businesses do and be involved in the issues in which businesses are involved.
00:46:36.000 It is pro-big business to say they should go back to serving their stockholders, not to serving the stakeholders at the White House Correspondents' Dinner who demand that they do certain things upon penalty of media-pushed boycotts and Democrat-pushed legislation that punishes them.
00:46:52.000 Evening the playing field is what allows corporations to go back to actual work.
00:46:57.000 All of which goes to, once again, the simple fact that institutional power in this country is held almost entirely by the left.
00:47:04.000 And the fact that the right is now challenging that institutional power is what has them so hot and bothered.
00:47:07.000 It's what has them being made so crazy.
00:47:09.000 It's why they're talking about shutting down Elon Musk and Twitter.
00:47:12.000 It's why they're talking about departments of disinformation at the federal level.
00:47:16.000 It's why they are all fired angry at Ron DeSantis for simply saying what everyone knows, which is if you are going to provide governmental dispensations for only left-wing corporations, there will be and should be a response that says to corporations it's now an even playing field.
00:47:28.000 You get involved, you get clocked, and that is true on both sides of the aisle now.
00:47:31.000 If you want to not get clocked, then how about this?
00:47:34.000 Elect people on both sides of the aisle who are not going to get involved in your business.
00:47:39.000 But if we were going to have one side of the aisle involved, you're going to have both sides of the aisle involved, and that's just the way this is going to work.
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