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00:00:00.000BuzzFeed's big Trump scoop implodes, the media botch a hit on Christian high school students, and the media try to target me with selective editing.
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00:01:45.000Because it turns out that many of them are not interested in being honest.
00:01:48.000Now, this is not every member of the media.
00:01:50.000There are some members of the media who I am sure are interested in being honest.
00:01:53.000But for the media, it is all about jumping to conclusions, about creating the clickable piece, about ensuring that they are the first on a story, even if they are dead wrong on the story.
00:02:02.000And we saw this over and over and over over the last 72 hours.
00:02:05.000Multiple stories the media put out were outright false.
00:03:07.000They manufactured stories deliberately so they would not have to talk about that.
00:03:10.000Instead, they have a narrative that they have preconceived and that they are going to bang into the ground.
00:03:15.000And that narrative is that pro-lifers are evil, That people who are white are evil?
00:03:19.000That people who are Christian are evil?
00:03:21.000This is the narrative, and they are going to hit that narrative as hard as they can over and over and over, and it doesn't matter who gets stuck in the crossfire.
00:03:27.000It doesn't matter whether it is a bunch of Christian high school students.
00:03:30.000So, late on Friday afternoon, as Sabbath is falling, I start seeing online there's some talk about Covington High School, which is a Catholic high school.
00:03:41.000Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky.
00:03:44.000And I don't really pay much attention to it.
00:03:56.000Because they're saying that these kids from Covington Catholic High School were harassing a Native American man.
00:04:02.000And the reason they're saying this is because the Native American man went on national TV and lied about it.
00:04:05.000Because he said that these kids surrounded him and tried to intimidate him, and that he was there defending a group of black Israelites, which is to say a cult that exists in New York City mostly.
00:04:16.000They call themselves offspring of the Jews, but they really have nothing to do with Judaism.
00:04:25.000These folks showed up and they started harassing the high school students in reality.
00:04:28.000But the way that this guy portrayed it on national TV was that the high school students, these white high school students, some of whom were wearing MAGA hats, were supposedly harassing the black Israelites.
00:04:36.000And then this guy stepped in and defended them.
00:04:38.000And for that, he was basically intimidated.
00:04:39.000And he's an older Native American guy.
00:04:48.000We're going to start from the very beginning.
00:04:49.000Here's the original video that the media put out of this confrontation.
00:04:53.000The original video is cut from a two hour long tape.
00:04:57.000The two hour long tape, as we will talk about, shows the precise reverse of what the media said happened because they're damn liars.
00:05:04.000Because they are damn liars and they knew full well they should wait for the full story to come out and they did not wait for the full story to come out.
00:05:10.000There were a lot of people on the right.
00:05:12.000Some people I'm friends with who jumped on this and started talking about how the kids were guilty.
00:05:17.000And I can only get upset with them a little bit because the fact is that they were assuming good faith on the part of the media.
00:05:22.000That is always a mistake, as was reiterated to us over the last weekend.
00:05:25.000You cannot grant... You wonder why President Trump is popular when he says the media suck at their jobs?
00:05:31.000It's because they do suck at their jobs.
00:05:33.000Hey, their pre-existing suckage was there long before President Trump came along.
00:05:38.000You want to know why so many people in the middle of the country resonate to President Trump when he rips on the media?
00:05:42.000Because they deserve every last iota of it for coverage like this.
00:05:45.000So here's the original video that was put out by members of the media, and there were headlines across the board.
00:05:57.000Even if the media had told it the way that it actually happened, that's not a national news story.
00:06:01.000It's a bunch of high schoolers acting like jerk-offs.
00:06:05.000Last time I checked, high schoolers acting like jerk-offs is not a national news story.
00:06:08.000But in any case, even assume that the media are telling the truth, it's not national.
00:06:14.000But here is the video they showed, and it turns out this is wildly out of context, as we will see.
00:06:18.000So here is the original video they show that's supposed to tell the whole story about these evil white high school students wearing MAGA hats, mocking, laughing at this Native American guy surrounding him and harassing him.
00:06:30.000So if you can't see this, there's a guy standing in the middle of the crowd and he's banging on a drum.
00:06:33.000And the kids are chanting along with him.
00:06:36.000And it looks like they're mocking him.
00:06:37.000And there's one kid who's standing directly in front of him.
00:06:39.000And he's just kind of smiling awkwardly.
00:06:43.000And some of the kids are laughing and videotaping.
00:07:01.000First of all, nothing bad happened to the guy.
00:07:02.000There was no violence done to the guy.
00:07:05.000We're really now going to punish, not at school, like you suspend the kid at school if he does something like this, but we're going to, in national media, dox these kids for something like that.
00:07:13.000So here is the reaction, the reaction to just the video alone.
00:07:18.000The reaction to just the video alone is Reza Aslan of CNN.
00:07:24.000He tweets out, honest question, have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid's?
00:07:29.000This kid's like 16 years old, he's literally standing there.
00:07:32.000Literally standing there, smiling a little bit.
00:07:58.000Now, let me just say, I do not think that it is any coincidence that on the same weekend the media decided to go after Karen Pence for teaching at a Christian school, that the former head of the DNC is suggesting that Christian schools should be shut down as hate factories.
00:08:13.000In the media, the far left in this country, the increasing mainstream of the Democratic Party, they hate religious people, hate them with a passion.
00:08:21.000If this were just a normal high school, not a Catholic high school, you think Howard Dean reacts quite the same way?
00:08:30.000Which, Huffington Post, again, is just a manure pile of journalism.
00:08:35.000They don't even attempt to do journalism.
00:08:36.000They just, they're moveon.org under another name.
00:08:40.000So the guy's name is Christopher Mathias, and he puts up a photo of this kid, smiling, next to a photo of white kids pouring drinks and ketchup on lunch counter protesters in Birmingham in 1960.
00:08:53.000As though these are equivalent in any way.
00:09:10.000And in fact, as we'll see, this kid, when somebody tried to start confronting the Native American guy, this kid turned around and tried to stop it.
00:09:21.000This reporter from BuzzFeed put up a picture of this kid next to a picture of Brett Kavanaugh and wrote, It's the look of white patriarchy, of course, but that familiarity, that banality is part of what prompts the visceral reaction.
00:10:04.000There's a reporter from the New York Times who actually put up a tweet quoting a Facebook post by someone named Marlon James, who I've never heard of.
00:10:12.000And here's what the statement says that the New York Times reporter endorses.
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00:12:44.000Here is what Phillips told the newspaper and then we will see that there is video footage that shows he is lying.
00:12:49.000So he says that he accused the teens of harassing and intimidating him and claimed the scene grew ugly.
00:12:54.000He said, it was getting ugly and I was thinking I've got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial.
00:13:00.000I started going that way and that guy in the hat stood in my way and we were at an impasse.
00:13:04.000He just blocked my way and he wouldn't allow me to retreat.
00:13:07.000And as you'll see from the tape, this is just an outright lie.
00:13:10.000He then accused the teens of chanting, build the wall.
00:14:32.000Now you're wondering, because I keep saying that he's lying.
00:14:34.000Here is the actual tape, several segments, beginning with black Israelites shouting slurs at the student, shouting at a black student.
00:14:40.000student and then you will see phillips approach the crowd and walk into the middle of the crowd the crowd did not surround him the crowd did not mob him nothing like that he walked into the middle of the crowd singing and chanting walked directly up to the student you saw in the original tape and then started banging his drum in the student's face here's what it actually here's what actually happened that the media refused to cover because they're they're liars your college degrees was paid off of the bloodshed of slavery - What?
00:15:08.000Your houses, your mortgages, everything your parents owned was given to you by the bloodshed of our people.
00:15:34.000And then, you will see, I mean, there's tape of it, of Phillips walking into the middle of the crowd and banging his drum right in this kid's face.
00:15:41.000And there's another piece of tape in which the kid turns around and tries to actually stop another kid from having an argument with Phillips, because Phillips is shouting that all these white kids should go back to Europe at one point.
00:15:52.000Or it wasn't, I think it was one of Phillips' friends who was shouting at somebody.
00:16:04.000First of all, all these folks online started trying to dox the kids.
00:16:08.000So Kathy Griffin, dox means find their personal information and put it out publicly.
00:16:12.000So Kathy Griffin Put out a statement saying these kids deserve to be doxxed.
00:16:16.000They're 15-year-old, 16-year-old kids who didn't do anything.
00:16:19.000And she's saying... Now, you may say these kids were a little bit rude.
00:16:22.000You may say that these kids shouldn't have been making faces in the tape.
00:16:25.000Are we going to pretend that this is the great crime of the century?
00:16:29.000Are we going to pretend that this wasn't a manufactured media lie from the very outset?
00:16:33.000Is that what we're going to pretend now?
00:16:34.000We're going to pretend that these kids decided to mob a Native American guy, when precisely the opposite is the case.
00:16:39.000The guy walked into the middle of the crowd to confront people, banged his drum in a kid's face, while black Hebrew Israelites were shouting at people?
00:16:45.000Do we have the tape of the guy walking into the crowd?
00:17:01.000He's walking into the middle of the crowd with a bunch of dancing friends of his.
00:17:06.000Banging the drum, walking into the middle of the crowd.
00:17:08.000He deliberately sought out the crowd, walked into the middle of it, and we're supposed to believe that the kids wouldn't let him move through, mobbed him, and scared him.
00:17:35.000Okay, David Hogg was, but he was untouchable.
00:17:39.000The Parkland kids, if you said anything about the Parkland kids, even saying they didn't know what they were talking about on Guns, even saying they have a right to speak out, they went through something terrible, but they don't know what they're talking about, even this was considered uncouth.
00:17:51.000The entire left mobilized to destroy these kids.
00:17:53.000Destroy them for doing nothing, so far as I can tell, that is even remotely worthy of this sort of reaction.
00:18:00.000Andrew Hodge is the brother of one of these kids.
00:18:04.000Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother, Alex, who got married last night.
00:18:09.000Instead, my family had to deal with the fallout of my youngest brother, Michael Hodge, being falsely accused for standing and smiling in front of an indigenous man with a drum.
00:18:17.000People then proceeded to spam my family with harassment and threats of physical violence.
00:18:20.000We then find out our parents' address was posted online.
00:18:23.000If that wasn't enough, our family-operated business has been slandered and attacked.
00:18:27.000No one reviews evidence or does any due diligence.
00:18:29.000They immediately escalate things to a state of frenzy over much of nothing.
00:18:32.000The zealots scream for the head of Michael Hodge, knowing that there will be zero consequences to them if anything happens to him.
00:18:38.000My parents, uncles, aunts, receive messages stating that they are pieces of bleep parents and won't be able to protect Michael Hodge forever.
00:18:44.000Seriously, what kind of behavior is this?
00:18:54.000Volunteered for Drug Free Clubs of America.
00:18:57.000And as an aspiring chef, people then started circulating articles of him regarding his dreams and goals of being a chef, find the colleges he plans on attending, and proceed to blow them up, encouraging them to rescind offer and calling him a racist P.O.S.
00:19:28.000It saddens me people have nothing better to do on Saturday than scour the internet for drama, and then dig up info on a family, and rile up an army to attack them.
00:19:41.000By the way, quick correction, Phillips, the Native American guy at the center, is a Vietnam vet, not a World War II vet.
00:19:45.000Just want to correct that for the record.
00:19:47.000Because when we screw something up on this show, we try to correct it, unlike members of the media who keep doubling down.
00:19:52.000Then, the kid who's at the center of all this, the kid who did something terribly, terribly wrong by apparently standing there while a guy banged a drum in his face, that kid put out a statement too.
00:20:00.000And here's what his statement says, quote, I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me.
00:20:12.000I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protester.
00:20:15.000I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4.30 p.m.
00:20:43.000They called us racist, bigots, white crackers, F-words, meaning insult for gay people, and incest kids.
00:20:48.000They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would harvest his organs.
00:20:54.000I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.
00:20:56.000Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group.
00:21:06.000The chants are commonly used at sporting events.
00:21:09.000They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school.
00:21:12.000Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants.
00:21:15.000We would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.
00:21:18.000That's the chanting you're seeing the kids doing.
00:22:12.000I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves.
00:22:14.000To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me.
00:22:17.000We had already been yelled at by another group of protesters, and when the second group approached, I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers.
00:22:25.000I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation.
00:22:29.000I realized everyone had cameras, and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict.
00:22:35.000I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.
00:22:39.000During the period of the drumming, a member of the protesters' entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we stole our land and we should go back to Europe.
00:22:45.000I heard one of my fellow students begin to respond.
00:22:47.000I motioned to my classmate and tried to get him to stop engaging with the protester, as I was still in the mindset that we needed to calm down tensions.
00:22:54.000I never felt I was blocking the Native American protester.
00:22:56.000He did not make any attempt to go around me.
00:22:58.000It was clear to me he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.
00:23:02.000The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the buses had arrived and it was time to go.
00:23:06.000I obeyed my teacher and simply walked to the buses.
00:23:09.000At that moment, I thought I had defused the situation by remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had happened.
00:23:14.000In a second, I'm going to read you the rest of the student's statement.
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00:24:21.000Okay, so more from this student who's been wrongly maligned by the lying media.
00:24:25.000His name is Nick Sandman, and he's the one who is apparently just like accused gang rapist, falsely accused gang rapist Brett Kavanaugh for standing there and not doing a thing.
00:24:54.000I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated, or be provoked into a larger confrontation.
00:25:00.000I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to my ideals.
00:25:04.000My faith teaches me to remain respectful of others and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence.
00:25:11.000I respect this person's right to protest and engage in free speech activities.
00:25:14.000I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial any day of the week.
00:25:17.000I believe he should rethink his tactics of invading the personal space of others, but that is his choice to make.
00:25:21.000I'm being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination in my family's name.
00:25:27.000My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my family in a respectful way in all public settings.
00:25:32.000I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults.
00:25:36.000One person threatened to harm me at school.
00:25:37.000One person claims to live in my neighborhood.
00:25:39.000My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.
00:25:45.000I love my school, my teachers, and my classmates.
00:25:48.000I work hard to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular activities.
00:25:51.000I am mortified that so many people have come to believe that something that did not happen, that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward Native Americans or African Americans.
00:26:01.000I do not have hateful feelings in my heart.
00:26:02.000I did not witness any of my classmates doing that.
00:26:04.000I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself.
00:26:06.000But I can tell you, my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of all races and cultures.
00:26:11.000We also support everyone's right to free speech.
00:26:14.000I am not going to comment on the words or accounts of Mr. Phillips, as I don't know him, and would not presume to know what is in his heart or mind, nor am I going to comment further on other protesters, as I don't know their hearts or minds either.
00:26:24.000I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the U.S.
00:26:32.000I can only speak for myself and what I observed or felt at that time, but I would caution everyone passing judgment based on a few seconds of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet as they show a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.
00:26:44.000I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened.
00:26:48.000I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.
00:26:52.000That's the kid the media are tearing down today, because they are disgusting.
00:26:56.000Because the members of the media who have continued to push this, even after it's been debunked, are revolting.
00:27:20.000During the March for Life, all the media were concerned with, many in the media, I always say many because, again, there are exceptions, many in the media were concerned with finding ways not to talk about the March for Life, but to manufacture out of whole cloth stories that fit into their wheelhouse.
00:27:35.000I know this because they also did this to me.
00:27:37.000So you may have noticed that on Friday and Saturday, trending on Twitter was the phrase, Baby Hitler.
00:27:43.000Why was that phrase trending on Twitter?
00:27:44.000Well, because if you listen to the podcast on Friday, you will know that I made a very specific argument in which I referenced the kind of joking, oft-discussed issue of, would you go back in time and kill Baby Hitler?
00:27:55.000This issue, by the way, is not unique to me.
00:27:57.000The New York Times wrote a piece on it in 2015.
00:28:09.000And Jordan Ull took 21 seconds of my podcast from last week, from last Friday, and he cut it out of context.
00:28:16.000And then he put it up on the internet.
00:28:17.000And it got 1.2 million hits, views within just minutes because everyone on the left wanted to proclaim that I had said something crazy at the March for Life because this fits in with their lying, stupid, nonsensical, false narrative that people at the March for Life are inherently crazy and wild.
00:28:34.000And so here is the 21 second clip that this piece of garbage knowingly cut out of context and then put up as though I was saying something wild out of context.
00:28:44.000Here's the 21 second clip and then You will hear the full clip, and you will see the media ran with the story because they were trying to manufacture a story in order to target not really only me, but the March for Life as a whole.
00:28:56.000Look at these crazy kooks out there showing up in the snow to march for unborn babies.
00:29:15.000What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler was take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler's house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler.
00:29:23.000Okay, and then there's a cheer from the crowd.
00:29:25.000Oh, look at these crazy people cheering about ba- First of all, Even out of context, is the idea from the left that you have to kill baby Hitler?
00:29:32.000I don't understand where the controversy is even here.
00:29:35.000Like, is the idea that, logically speaking, you must kill a baby who will grow up to be Hitler because we live in a minority report universe where you go back in time and you get to determine what crimes people commit before they commit them?
00:29:45.000That in and of itself is immoral, but...
00:29:47.000This was not a context-free statement.
00:29:50.000I wasn't randomly discussing the idiotic internet baby Hitler hypothetical.
00:29:54.000I was discussing it in the context of a very specific argument.
00:29:57.000It is an argument made in the book Freakonomics and defended by the authors of that book that suggests that abortions in the 70s led to lowered crime rates in the late 80s and early 90s.
00:30:09.000By the way, there's a quasi-racist element to this argument, because overwhelmingly, or at least disproportionately, the babies being killed in abortions in the 70s were of minorities and poor.
00:30:19.000So the idea is if you kill poor minority unborn babies, they won't grow up to be poor minority criminals.
00:30:25.000Okay, so I was making the argument against that.
00:30:27.000Here is the full context of what I said, which if you listened to last Friday's show, you will know is what I said, because you listened to the show and you're not a media hack.
00:30:37.000That argument is that abortion lowers the crime rate, right?
00:30:41.000That what has lowered the crime rate traditionally has been killing all the would-be criminals.
00:30:45.000I don't know who's comfortable with the pre-crime version of humanity, where we get to decide before you're born whether you're likely to be a criminal and then abort you based on future criminal activity in which you have not participated.
00:30:55.000The argument, I guess, here is that would you kill baby Hitler at all?
00:30:59.000And the truth is that no pro-life person on earth would kill baby Hitler.
00:31:07.000What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler was take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler's house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler.
00:31:23.000You take the ultimate criminal and you say, this is the ultimate worst person on earth.
00:31:28.000If you knew him as a baby, you wouldn't morally be allowed to kill him as a baby because babies are not responsible for the actions of their future selves.
00:31:35.000Instead, you work to ensure the life of the baby and then try and bring him into the best circumstances.
00:31:43.000Not only will I double down on this, I will infinity down on this.
00:31:46.000Because this is the easiest, most clear argument.
00:31:49.000There is nothing wrong with this argument in any way.
00:31:51.000And people on the left still have failed to explain what is wrong with the argument, because they didn't engage with the argument.
00:31:56.000Instead, because I said the phrase, baby Hitler, and because that's inherently kind of funny, which is sort of the point, because I said that phrase, they decided that they were going to come after me with a hatchet.
00:32:08.000If they want to be the defenders of people who kill babies, go for it.
00:32:17.000There were media outlets that took that 21-second clip I showed at the beginning, I played at the beginning a few minutes ago, they took the 21-second clip and posted that.
00:32:24.000And when I contacted these media outlets and said, guys, you might want to actually put up, like, you know, the full three-minute clip so people know what I'm talking about, the media outlets would say, okay, you know what, you're right, maybe we'll put up the three-minute clip, but we're not going to change the article or change the transcript.
00:32:36.000That's right, because you got clicks off it because you're liars.
00:32:39.000Because if you lie, and if you lie consistently enough, then people start to believe the lie.
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00:36:15.000They said that they knew for a fact that Trump had told Michael Cohen to lie.
00:36:20.000Well, if that's true, that's impeachable.
00:36:22.000If it's true that there's evidence that Trump told Cohen to commit perjury, that is open subordination of perjury and obstruction of justice, he would likely find himself impeached, if that were true.
00:36:32.000Or at least, he'd be in serious jeopardy of impeachment.
00:36:34.000But, as it turns out, BuzzFeed is totally full of crap.
00:36:37.000Now, when we analyzed the article last week, I talked specifically about the holes in the article, namely, They don't cite any of the documents.
00:36:44.000It's two unnamed law enforcement officials.
00:36:46.000We didn't know what the documents actually said.
00:36:48.000There was a lot of vagary about the article itself.
00:37:09.000But, on Friday, they did something unique.
00:37:12.000On Friday night, they disputed the BuzzFeed story.
00:37:15.000They came out and they said, this is just not correct.
00:37:18.000Here is what Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller's office, said in a statement, quote, Okay, so the Mueller report, right, the people compiling it, Robert Mueller's team, over at the FBI, said openly, BuzzFeed is totally full of crap.
00:37:25.000Characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding Michael Cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate.
00:37:32.000So Mueller committed the Mueller report, right?
00:37:36.000The people compiling Robert Mueller's team over at the FBI said openly BuzzFeed is totally full of crap, totally full of it.
00:37:44.000Not an it's an unbelievable statement.
00:37:47.000Because BuzzFeed was basically claiming that the president was on his way out.
00:37:49.000They were claiming his presidency was over.
00:38:48.000But I think what we have discussed this morning, just in the context of the president's lawyer calling for a leak investigation, we're being extremely careful.
00:38:55.000Okay, so they're not going to explain why they're defending the story, and they're not going to explain why Mueller's office just clocked them in the side of the head with a meat hook.
00:39:03.000So the people are saying heads should roll at BuzzFeed.
00:39:06.000That you're hurting the news business as a whole.
00:40:50.000So, you wonder why people in the media are not trusted by the American people?
00:40:54.000Maybe because they promote lies for their own political point of view.
00:40:57.000I'll give you another example of that.
00:40:59.000So, when I say that the media have a bunch of narratives and they seek to promote those narratives at every available opportunity, I mean it.
00:41:04.000So, let's look up some headlines about the Women's March.
00:41:07.000Okay, so the Women's March took place on Saturday and nine people showed up.
00:41:12.000The number of people who showed up for the Women's March was significantly lower than the number of people who showed up for the Pro-Life March that we were at on Friday.
00:41:20.000And the Women's March received significantly more TV coverage than the March for Life.
00:41:23.000According to Media Research Center, the 2019 Women's March, which, again, had nine people there, received roughly 15 times more news coverage than the 47th March for Life on broadcast television.
00:41:35.000And the only coverage the March for Life has received on television at all has been my comments about why you should not slaughter the unborn on the basis of suspicion of future crime and a bunch of high school students being lied about by the national media.
00:41:49.000The 2019 Women's March fetched 14 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage between Wednesday morning and Saturday evening as opposed to 58 seconds for the March for Life.
00:41:59.000Where, by the way, the Vice President personally appeared and the President of the United States appeared via tape.
00:42:42.000post women's march has always been divisive here's how we can fix it the so what was the actual story from the women's march it wasn't that they were sort of plagued by controversy It was that at the Women's March, Linda Sarsour, who is one of the chairwomen of the Women's March, got up and openly called for a boycott of the State of Israel, which is base anti-Semitism.
00:43:03.000She called for it from the podium and people cheered.
00:43:06.000I'm looking at the headlines from Google.
00:43:08.000There is not a single headline on Google News about what Linda Sarsour said at the top of the Search for Women's March.
00:43:20.000Anything from Medicare for all to ending the war in Yemen, just standing up for free speech and our constitutional right to boycott divestment and sanctions in these United States of America.
00:43:38.000So there she is, saying that we should be in favor of BDS.
00:43:41.000Now, the way that these activists couch it is, we're in favor of the right to boycott.
00:43:44.000You have the right to boycott in the United States, you just can't get a federal contract if you do.
00:43:48.000Just like you can't get a federal contract if you racially discriminate against black people.
00:43:52.000But, there she is, being cheered from the podium for doing this routine.
00:43:56.000Tamika Mallory, by the way, one of the chairwomen of the event, she was asked by Margaret Hoover last week whether Israel should exist.
00:44:03.000Again, this is just base, root anti-Semitism.
00:44:05.000Here's Tamika Mallory explaining Israel does not have a right to exist as a nation.
00:44:09.000I have said many times that I feel everyone has a right to exist.
00:45:11.000Well, first of all, I think that right now, in this moment, in the United States, we have to center this conversation.
00:45:17.000I think that concerns of anti-Semitism with the current administration and the White House are absolutely valid, and we need to make sure that we are protecting the Jewish community and all those that feel vulnerable in this moment.
00:46:39.000What they want to do is press forward an agenda.
00:46:40.000And you know, I've spent, honest to God, I've spent the last couple of years really working on trying to see people who don't agree with me as if they are speaking in good faith.
00:46:48.000And I've always tried to do this, really.
00:46:50.000I've spent a lot of my life trying to see people on the other side as people of good faith.
00:46:56.000And I was willing to give people the benefit of the doubt on that.
00:46:59.000Over the past 72 hours, I gotta tell you, my opinion on this has shifted a little bit because I can't grant you the premise of good faith when you act in openly bad faith.
00:47:07.000When you promulgate lies for political purposes because it serves your narrative.
00:47:12.000If you do that, you're not acting in good faith anymore.
00:47:15.000And this is not directed at every member of the media, again.
00:47:17.000It's not directed at every member of the left, again.
00:47:19.000But if you were promulgating these lies after they had been debunked about these kids, if you were promulgating the BuzzFeed story after Mueller came out against it, if you were promulgating The baby Hitler controversy, after it was obvious that it was a non-troversy, that no one cared, and that it was a sheer political hit.
00:47:33.000If you were doing any of that stuff, you weren't acting in good faith.
00:47:35.000And more than that, if you knew that these were bad hits, and you didn't speak up, this makes you complicit.
00:47:40.000If you knew these were bad hits, and you stood there, and you continued to maintain that they were good hits, or you just stood there and stood aside, and you wouldn't defend these kids, or you wouldn't defend Trump against the BuzzFeed story after Mueller debunked it, There's nothing I can't grant you.
00:47:56.000I can't grant you the benefit of the doubt.
00:48:03.000Let me remind you, there was this thing called the March for Life that happened on Friday that the media largely ignored in favor of these other two narratives that were sheer garbage.
00:48:12.000And it was one of the great moments, I have to say, it was one of the great moments of my public life.
00:48:16.000I thought it was an unbelievable showing.
00:48:18.000Probably six, somewhere between, I don't know, five and ten thousand people showed up for the live podcast on Friday, which was just wonderful.
00:48:24.000And then, Hundreds of thousands of people showed up for the March for Life speech.
00:48:27.000So people who listen to the podcast, I'm sure, you know, heard my comments during the podcast because it was the podcast.
00:48:33.000But they may not have heard my March for Life speech.
00:48:35.000So here in its entirety was the speech that I gave at the March for Life on Friday in front of probably a couple of hundred thousand people.
00:50:12.000We falsified anti-scientific arguments about the origin of life.
00:50:16.000We pretended that human beings were not actually human beings.
00:50:20.000We pretended that human beings with DNA different from their fathers and their mothers, human beings producing their own red blood cells by 12 weeks, their own fingerprints By week 8, their own developing eyes, legs and hands.
00:50:32.000By week 5, their own forming nervous systems.
00:50:35.000By week 3, we pretended that these were not human beings, human lives at all, but disposable balls of meat.
00:50:42.000We fought to avoid looking directly at the ugly truth of what we had done.
00:50:53.000What we were really engaging in was the mass killing of the unborn, of course.
00:50:57.000Millions of children who would never be held, who would never open their eyes, who would never see the sun rise, who would never become parents and then grandparents.
00:51:06.000The dismemberment of babies in the womb, the torture of tiny bodies.
00:51:10.000And we told ourselves that we were virtuous for our lie.
00:51:16.000We told ourselves that the killing had to continue, because if it didn't, we'd be disadvantaging women, or raising crime rates, or imposing economic hardship.
00:51:24.000We told young women that abortion wasn't merely a choice.
00:51:36.000Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York said just a few years ago that those who are right to life, quote, have no place in the state of New York.
00:51:42.000Just this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that pro-lifers were not in line with, quote, where we are as a society.
00:51:52.000Maybe we today here are not in line with society.
00:51:55.000We do live in a time when the Democratic Party has embraced abortion as a sacrament.
00:51:59.000And, by the way, a time when many in the Republican Party spent years pledging to defund Planned Parenthood and then didn't do it when they were given the power to do so.
00:52:08.000We live in a time when pro-life nations around the world are loosening their own restrictions on the killing of the unborn.
00:52:14.000So perhaps we are out of line with the rest of society.
00:52:47.000The media will ignore us, because they always do.
00:52:49.000They'll cover other marches, you know, the five people who show up tomorrow.
00:52:53.000They'll cover the march as they prefer politically.
00:52:56.000They bet that the tens of thousands of us who brave the cold every year to stand here with the souls of the future America will be forgotten.
00:53:09.000Our children, slaughtered over the decades, remember.
00:53:13.000They look at us from above, and they know that they meant something, that they do mean something, so long as we keep them in our minds and in our hearts.
00:53:22.000Our children standing here with us, the ones who are here today, they will remember too.
00:53:26.000They will remember, and they will march until they no longer have to march.
00:53:34.000Our children yet unborn will remember, and they will thank us in their prayers.
00:53:38.000And most of all, God, the God who built and preserves nations, who brings life and maintains it, who stands with those who suffer most at the hands of evil.
00:53:51.000He will remember America and he will bless her.
00:53:53.000God will bless us because we are the guardians of his most precious creations.
00:53:59.000We stand between America and the darkness and we will march until that darkness is banished forever and all of our children can stand together in the sunlight.