On this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, host Ben Shapiro talks about the massive anti-Trump riot that took place in the U.S. Capitol on January 25th, 2019, and how the left is going to use it as an excuse to shut down the political opinion of half the country for the next several years. He also talks about how the media are using the incident as a cover for their own agenda and how they will continue to do so for years to come. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He is also the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and hosts a regular radio show on SiriusXM Radio's Power 99.7FM in Baltimore, MD. He is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and has been featured on CNN and other major news outlets. Ben also writes for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, and the Weekly Standard, and is the author of several other publications. The Dark Side Of books including "The Dark Side of Politics" and "The Other Side Of . and "The Daily Beast". Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, and listen to his new podcast "Ben Shapiro's wherever you get your news and opinionated opinions. on topics ranging from politics, culture, entertainment, politics, social media, and culture, and everything else going on in American life. - including his newest novel, "The Devil Next Door," out now! , out on Amazon Prime Video! Ben is a new podcast that you can stream on Prime Video and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, wherever else you get the latest thing you can get your most authentic source of news and information, including on the most authentic and up-to-date, including the latest in the most authentic thing going on around the world, including social meds and the of it all, including . on the , wherever you re listening to it, The Devil s Guide to it all! Subscribe and review it on your favorite podcast, listen to it on the best of it! , Subscribe on iTunes, subscribe on Podchronicity, wherever else is best, watch it? subscribe on it's greatest listening experience is available, and share it on social media and it s all good and most authentic, it s the most profound and most profound, real, and most impactful
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00:01:19.000Okay, so the continuous attempt by the media to use the Capitol riot as an excuse to basically shut down the political opinion of half the country, that is an ongoing thing.
00:01:56.000Theme number two was the left is going to use this as a baton for the next several years in order to club into submission anybody, anybody who opposes any element of their agenda.
00:02:05.000See, right now there are some Republicans who are receiving quote-unquote strange new respect from the left.
00:02:11.000These are people who, very often, I like.
00:02:13.000People like Senator Ben Sasse from Nebraska, people like Liz Cheney from Wyoming.
00:02:16.000Do you actually think that Democrats, for more than five seconds, are going to appreciate Liz Cheney and Ben Sasse?
00:02:36.000They are in the minority when it comes to the Democratic Party.
00:02:38.000They are in a vast minority when it comes to our media, for sure.
00:02:42.000The fact is that the strange new respect being garnered by some of these Republicans will evaporate literally the moment their agenda comes into conflict with the agenda of the left.
00:02:51.000I know this because I got some of this in 2016, right?
00:02:53.000In 2016, I didn't vote for either of the candidates.
00:02:55.000I said neither one of these people meets my minimum qualifications to be president of the United States.
00:02:59.000And I got a few nice articles from Some of the big newspapers, the strange new respect.
00:03:04.000And then literally the minute I said, oh yeah, and by the way, I also like Trump's judicial picks.
00:03:09.000It was like, oh, well, we always knew that he was a crazy right-winger liking Trump's judicial picks.
00:03:13.000That just shows that he's in league with fascism.
00:03:16.000And this is the game that the left loves to play.
00:03:19.000You're going to be their friend so long as they can use you to serve a particular agenda.
00:03:24.000Well, right now, The left is going whole hog, full bore in attempting to use what happened at the Capitol riot, again, an act of nearly unprecedented evil, right?
00:03:33.000It was the second storming of the American Capitol building in American history.
00:03:39.000So that was a very, very ugly, horrifying incident.
00:03:42.000We are very lucky it didn't get a lot worse because there is some pretty solid evidence that people in the building wanted to do actual violent harm to Vice President Pence, to members of the Senate, to members of Congress.
00:03:52.000Also, members of the media, members of the tech, Companies, members of the Democratic Party are seeing this as just a way to, as a pretext, frankly, to shut down other alternative sources of information.
00:04:07.000We've been seeing it for a long time, this goal of the left, which was to sort of chip away at the facade of free speech until it crumbles.
00:04:14.000Well, now they're not just chipping away.
00:04:15.000They've grabbed the jackhammer and they are just going to work.
00:04:18.000Everybody who supported Trump in any way is now guilty.
00:04:42.000And there is no question that this is the agenda that is going to be pursued.
00:04:45.000Now, there are two agendas that are scary for people who are conservative.
00:04:48.000One is the sort of legislative agenda of the Democratic Party, which does run contrary to American perceptions of rights on everything from economics to freedom of speech to freedom of religion.
00:04:57.000And we'll be talking about all of those legislative infringements, those executive infringements against your rights under the Constitution of the United States.
00:05:06.000But there is something else that's happening, and that is the continuation, the deepening, the broadening of a social culture of ostracization, marginalization, and quashing of dissent.
00:05:18.000America has always run along two tracks.
00:05:24.000And when the culture of the United States is censorious, when the culture of the United States is one that does not tolerate dissent, when the culture of the United States ostracizes particular points of view, very often it is only a moment before that is actually encoded in legislation.
00:05:38.000And even without it being encoded in legislation, it can make your life absolutely miserable.
00:05:42.000If you are barred from jobs because of your political point of view, if you are barred from the media Through which you disseminate information.
00:05:50.000Not media as in like the press, like the medium, plural.
00:05:53.000If you are barred from the use of social media, for example, because your viewpoints are now considered dangerous, not on the basis of you actually posing a danger, but on the basis that perhaps some nutty person could take your views and then twist them to get to a particular conclusion, and now you can be blamed for the violence.
00:06:09.000Well, the social situation in which you live is just gonna be made worse and worse.
00:06:13.000The polarization is gonna get wider and wider.
00:06:16.000Unity is not going to be constructed this way.
00:06:18.000Unity is constructed through honest engagement.
00:06:20.000But what we have right now is dishonest disengagement.
00:07:25.000Number two, there's an actual market reason why you want to get rid of your competitors.
00:07:29.000See, we here at the Ben Shapiro Show and at Daily Wire generally, we cut against our own market interests because we don't like to engage in either regulatory or cultural capture.
00:07:37.000What I mean by that is we have never said that people who disagree with us should be quote-unquote de-platformed.
00:07:42.000We have never claimed that you should not listen to Pod Save America.
00:07:44.000We have never claimed you should not watch MSNBC.
00:07:47.000We have suggested disagreement with those people.
00:07:49.000I've said many of those people I think are idiots, but I've never said that their advertisers should pull.
00:07:53.000I've never suggested that podcasts should be pulled from Apple Podcasts or that people who Who do shows for those outlets should not be allowed to write for popular publications.
00:08:03.000I've never suggested that any of these places ought to come down, other than when I suggested that maybe mutually assured destruction has to take place because the left is aggressing in this area.
00:08:39.000And I thank you for doing that, really.
00:08:40.000We thank our audience, because you make it possible every single day for us to do what we do, and we couldn't be more grateful for that as we surge into new areas.
00:08:47.000Okay, but when it comes to the media, Again, it's twofold their goal.
00:08:51.000One, ideological dissent must not be brooked.
00:08:54.000And two, what if we could just wipe away the competition?
00:09:09.000On wide parts of the left, again, not everybody on the left feels this way.
00:09:12.000There are some liberals who believe in the possibility of having discussion and dissent and debate, but they are increasingly a minority inside their own political worldview.
00:09:21.000We'll get to the proof that this is becoming the mainstream of the Democratic Party, if it is not already the mainstream of the Democratic Party, in just one second.
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00:11:18.000And presumably members of their family.
00:11:20.000Their children will grow up to be racist.
00:11:21.000So here he is ostracizing literally half the country.
00:11:25.000It doesn't mean that a voter believes that their vote means what you think it means.
00:11:30.000Well, but it also believes, it also means that you share something with that person and you must own up to it.
00:11:38.000And we have to stop saying, giving people an out.
00:11:41.000For people who represent the worst behavior.
00:11:44.000Stop trying to make an excuse for people who voted for someone who has those beliefs.
00:11:49.000You may think that you don't believe that, but in a way, what you're doing, you're complicit with it because you are voting for the same type of person.
00:11:57.000Everything bad a candidate does, you are now complicit in.
00:11:59.000So, did you know that every Democrat who was a fan of Ted Kennedy was a fan of him drowning a woman at Chappaquiddick?
00:12:04.000Were you aware that every single Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 was totally fine with him banging women in the Oval Office using cigars?
00:12:45.000And he had a piece today talking about maybe what we're gonna need on the right here at the state level is anti-discrimination law that applies to politics.
00:12:51.000And he makes the point that we now have a situation in anti-discrimination law where as a private actor, you're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion.
00:12:59.000He says, why not on the basis of politics too?
00:13:02.000Because obviously that is the next step here.
00:13:04.000We've already moved beyond no discrimination against immutable characteristics, right?
00:13:09.000Now it's about things like sexual orientation, which is a behavioral thing, or religion, which is a behavioral thing.
00:13:15.000So why not do it with politics as well?
00:13:19.000So, in any case, maybe that's the way that states are gonna move, is that we're gonna now force private companies to hire people regardless of political orientation.
00:13:27.000Now, I'm a believer that freedom of association is still a thing.
00:13:30.000We shouldn't be doing this on any front.
00:13:31.000But if the left pushes this, that is going to be the natural reaction here.
00:13:36.000And you can see, the quest to stymie, it is widespread, and it is deep, and the media love it.
00:13:42.000Your denizens, the people who are claiming for the last several years, That freedom of speech and freedom of the press were under assault in America.
00:13:50.000Donald Trump was going to come to the offices of CNN and shut them down.
00:13:53.000Their ratings have never been better, by the way.
00:13:55.000Well, a former Facebook insider named Alex Stamos was talking with your most reliable source, Brian Stelter.
00:14:00.000He is the most reliable of all the reliable sources.
00:14:03.000His job is to be a media watchdog, which basically means he watches Fox News and then muses about it.
00:14:07.000Honestly, it's really kind of a sad show.
00:14:09.000Anyway, Brian Stelter was talking with former Facebook insider Alex Stamos, and Stamos says, You know what?
00:14:16.000The big problem here is that there are people who can get information from places that are not CNN.
00:14:35.000The attempt here to quash the ability, socially speaking, and then eventually governmentally, of people they disagree with to speak is very real, and they're not being in any way reticent.
00:14:48.000Here's Alex Stamos, former Facebook insider, to the nodding of Brian Stelter, who's supposed to be Captain First Amendment over here.
00:14:55.000We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.
00:15:00.000There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN, and they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views.
00:15:10.000And so it's up to the Facebooks and YouTubes in particular to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation.
00:15:17.000And then we're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem.
00:15:20.000You know, these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes.
00:15:30.000We need to de-platform all of these places.
00:15:47.000I think Alex Jones is a kook and a nut.
00:15:49.000But because I don't think that these folks have any standards whatsoever.
00:15:52.000I think that their standard, for people who should not be platformed on YouTube, is they disagree with me.
00:15:57.000When he says that Newsmax and OANN ought to come down, I don't think that he believes that because OANN and Newsmax were saying things that were not true about Dominion voting systems and the veracity of the last vote.
00:16:07.000I think these folks are upset because Newsmax and OA, I think they would apply the same exact logic to Fox News.
00:16:11.000In fact, there are articles over the weekend exactly applying the same logic to what if Fox News came down?
00:16:15.000Wouldn't that be nice if we could just create the media monopoly anew?
00:17:12.000I mean, if you can't see the threat here, if you can't see the socially fascistic threat here, I don't know what you're watching.
00:17:18.000I don't know what country you're living in if you don't see the socially fascistic threat that has been materializing in extraordinarily rapid fashion.
00:17:23.000I mean, the Capitol riot was chum in the water to people who wanted to shut down freedom of speech and freedom of dissent.
00:17:30.000Those rioters did something horrible and evil.
00:17:37.000There are criminals who should go to jail.
00:17:40.000It is also true, again two things being true at once, that there are a bunch of people who saw this as an opportunity and now they've ratcheted up the volume in dramatic fashion.
00:17:48.000Here is Mika and Joe talking about Twitter and Facebook.
00:17:51.000Because Facebook's algorithms were set up to cause this sort of radicalism to explode, Guess what happened?
00:18:06.000So you actually had Facebook and Twitter set up their business models in a way that would lead to the insurrection against the United States of America.
00:19:13.000They hold themselves to a lower standard, because in many cases, they are more dishonest.
00:19:17.000They are extraordinarily dishonest, not in that they are telling overt lies all the time, but in that they lie about themselves.
00:19:22.000They lie about what they are and what they are not.
00:19:25.000If you think that Don Lemon or Chris Cuomo or, yes, Jake Tapper, that they don't have political opinions, and I like Jake, that they do have political opinions, and it is fairly obvious they have political opinions.
00:19:34.000They do have audiences, and they do cater to those audiences.
00:19:37.000That's why they're on the air, and the audiences have political opinions.
00:19:41.000Now, last week, when there was this big hubbub about Politico, because I wrote the Politico playbook.
00:20:04.000Or, alternatively, you have no idea what your own audience is.
00:20:07.000You have such a perverse, bizarre, funhouse mirror version of yourself that you are the only objective voice in a world of bias.
00:20:14.000It's kind of self-serving, don't you think?
00:20:17.000We'll get to the complete lack of self-awareness among members of the media, which allows them to push forward with a censorious social sphere in just one second.
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00:22:19.000We have to look at your profession, Jake, the media.
00:22:22.000You know, why is it that people who lean in one direction politically watch one cable news station, some who lean in another direction watch yours or another one?
00:22:31.000Okay, I mean, I don't want to get into a conversation about CNN.
00:22:34.000We have a whole show that does that called Reliable Sources, but I will say there are channels in which lies are told, and there are channels in which facts are told, and people who want the lies, they don't come here.
00:22:48.000People who want a particular point of view go to CNN and MSNBC, and people who want another political point of view go to Fox News or Newsmax or OANN.
00:23:14.000It's this perception, it's this self-righteous perception of the media that allows them to push forward with the idea that everybody else should just be shut down.
00:23:22.000Okay, and this is extended to those who are in the legislative community.
00:23:28.000So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who is of course the id of the Democratic Party, she says what all the Democrats apparently are thinking, but won't say out loud because it's too stupid.
00:23:35.000Here's Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-Twitch.
00:23:38.000We said that she has now demanded resignations!
00:23:47.000No, that's not how anything works here.
00:23:49.000Anyway, here is AOC suggesting- Oh, sorry, I can't call her AOC.
00:23:52.000Apparently it's sexist or something, even though it's her Twitter handle.
00:23:54.000Representative Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, the most honorable of all Congress people, suggesting that it's time to demand resignations of, like, everyone she disagrees with, all of them.
00:24:04.000I have demanded the resignations of Senators Ted Cruz, Senators Josh Hawley, Republican Minority Leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, along with many others, because this is not just about political opinion or partisanship.
00:24:33.000This was about the abandonment of our sworn oath.
00:24:40.000Yeah, when I think somebody who really shows fealty to the Constitution of the United States, it's the person who believes, literally said last week, that Congress should quote-unquote reign in the media.
00:24:51.000I feel like that dry ramen guy might point up to the text of the Constitutional First Amendment, literally says Congress shall make no law.
00:24:59.000But don't worry, it's all about fealty.
00:25:02.000Because she's a totally objective source, according to herself.
00:25:05.000The lack of self-awareness is truly incredible.
00:25:07.000Okay, in just a second, we're gonna continue with the rest of the self-aware brigade.
00:25:11.000Okay, so meanwhile, the Washington D.C.
00:25:14.000Attorney General, a person named Carl Racine, he has been attempting to rebut some arguments of the right.
00:25:19.000So, one of the arguments of the right is, you know, you guys are very much against political violence when it seems to spring from the Trump side, but you weren't so against political violence when it was springing from your side of the aisle five minutes ago.
00:25:28.000The defense, apparently, from members of the left, Is that, well, yeah, but it's different when our side does it.
00:25:38.000Yes, I'm noticing the double standard.
00:25:42.000He says, you know, Black Lives Matter, that's different from the Capitol riots.
00:25:46.000When people like General Mattis make clear that what this was was an attempted insurrection into our democratic ways, we know quite easily that the Black Lives Matter protest was unbelievably different.
00:26:01.000And by the way, do not let Anyone, including Ken Cuccinelli or other elected officials, tell you that Democratic elected people did not condemn the violence that occurred during the summer protest.
00:26:39.000That's the way that all of this works.
00:26:40.000And the media are declaring that before there is healing, before we come together around some basic principles like facts should matter and violence is bad, there needs to be some sort of reckoning.
00:26:50.000It's weird because there's no reckoning on the other side.
00:26:51.000When the other side does something bad, there's no reckoning.
00:26:53.000They were just correct to do it in the first place.
00:26:55.000So if you said, listen, we're not going to have a conversation about violence in politics until you guys disown the Black Lives Matter movement, which has expressed antipathy toward America's founding, antipathy toward America's principles, until you stop with the nonsense where you go nice on rioters because they're on your side, or pretend that Antifa is just a philosophy and is no threat whatsoever.
00:27:15.000Before we get together on that, we're gonna need some of that.
00:27:41.000There's a piece today from Melody Barnes and Carolyn Janney.
00:27:45.000Melody Barnes is co-director of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia.
00:27:49.000Janney is the John Nau Professor of History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia.
00:27:53.000They have a piece in the Washington Post titled, In a Civil War, Accountability Must Precede Healing.
00:27:59.000And then they compare this to the Civil War.
00:28:00.000And then they say that this is just like when General Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant And how it was bad that Grant paroled Lee's army and sent them home on the promise they would not be disturbed by U.S.
00:28:11.000officials so long as they agreed to henceforth obey the law.
00:28:14.000They say, with no consequences for their acts of rebellion, the months after Appomattox saw former Confederates regain local and state control and bend it to their purposes.
00:28:21.000They passed Black Codes, which limited the freedom of four million newly emancipated men and women.
00:28:25.000They escalated violence against both African-Americans and white Southern Unionists.
00:28:28.000The Union might have been preserved by the war, but the mystic cords of memory, which Lincoln spoke of in 1861, had yet to bind the hearts and souls of Confederates to their former enemies, black and white.
00:28:37.000So first of all, why are you in, why in the world are you comparing like normal Republicans to Confederates?
00:28:43.000I have a feeling that that might be one of the obstacles here.
00:28:46.000Who are the people out there who are calling for the Capitol rioters not to go to jail?
00:28:49.000Is there any widespread opposition to the Capitol rioters going to jail?
00:29:11.000Before reconciliation can take hold, say these columnists, we must be clear about who we want to be as a nation and act on values that support the practice of democracy.
00:29:18.000We must also use our constitution laws and norms to defeat those who don't support them.
00:29:21.000The lesson that must be learned from the Civil War and Reconstruction is that accountability, not denial, is essential to healing.
00:29:26.000Yes, but who is calling for non-accountability for people who rioted?
00:29:33.000And yet, for some odd reason, for some weird, odd, strange reason, it seems like they are claiming that tens of millions of Americans are in favor of what happened at the Capitol riots.
00:29:43.000And then there is the deeper perspective from Christina Beltran.
00:29:46.000She's an associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, again, a member of our elite ruling class.
00:29:52.000She had a piece over the weekend in Washington Post saying, to understand Trump's support, we must think in terms of multiracial whiteness.
00:29:58.000So she's trying to understand how many people in the Latino community voted for Donald Trump and how many members of the black community voted for Donald Trump.
00:30:08.000Because black-whiteness is a serious problem.
00:30:10.000It sounds like an oxymoron to you, but apparently, according to this professor, it's a real thing.
00:30:16.000What are we to make of the leader of the Proud Boys, who is of Latino descent, and more broadly, of Latino voters inspired by Trump?
00:30:23.000What are we to make of unmistakably white mob violence that also includes non-white participants?
00:30:27.000I call this phenomenon multiracial whiteness, the promise that they too can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion, and domination.
00:30:37.000So basically, anybody who voted for Trump and is not white, they're still white, they just don't know they're white.
00:30:43.000But don't worry, this is bringing the country together, you see.
00:30:45.000It's all bringing the country together, because if you can claim white supremacy, lies at the root of your opposition, well then you can just ignore them, and you can excise them from American public life.
00:30:54.000Speaking of which, today, there is a piece in the Washington Post from Kevin Blackistone.
00:30:59.000Kevin Blackistone most famously suggested back in 2013 that the national anthem of the United States was political and shouldn't be played at basketball games, or football games, because it was a war anthem.
00:31:13.000Now, he is suggesting, of course, that Kelly Loeffler, the defeated, soon-to-be former Georgia senator, who owns the Atlanta Dream, which is a WNBA franchise, that she should be forced out of the WNBA.
00:31:25.000Forced out of it, because she was thinking of challenging the electoral votes in Congress, but then decided not to.
00:31:32.000So for that, she should be forced out of her position.
00:31:35.000Okay, this is how it's gonna go, guys.
00:31:38.000People are going to be forced out of public life.
00:31:57.000There's a brand new Washington Post poll.
00:32:00.000Okay, and it's all about the incoming Biden administration.
00:32:03.000It says that only 49% of Americans have a great deal or a good amount of confidence that Joe Biden will make the right decisions for the country's future.
00:32:11.000That would be 89% of Democrats, of course, but only 43% of Independents and 12% of Republicans.
00:32:16.000So nobody is actually all that confident in Joe Biden.
00:32:20.000Beyond that, when it comes to things like Race.
00:32:24.000Only 51% of Americans believe that they have a good deal of confidence, or any confidence, in Joe Biden.
00:32:30.000To address unequal treatment because of race, only 50% of Americans believe that Joe Biden is going to improve America's standing in the world.
00:32:37.000Less than half of Americans believe that he's going to rebuild the economy.
00:32:41.000The polarization here is pretty extreme.
00:32:43.000And the reason the polarization is pretty extreme is because there is actually no attempt to understand anybody on the other side of the aisle.
00:32:50.000There's only an attempt to excise everybody on the other side of the aisle.
00:32:54.000And the media cheering it on, cheering it on.
00:32:56.000You want to know, I talk about the media a lot, but the media is the chief method by which you get your information.
00:33:01.000Okay, it's like if somebody has a vision problem and it turns out that no matter what they see, it is always in a particular shade.
00:33:08.000You might say, oh, maybe it's the glasses you're wearing.
00:33:10.000Maybe it's the media or the glasses the American public wears.
00:33:13.000If those glasses happen to be tinted a particular shade, a particular shade of blue, everything is going to be viewed through those spectacles.
00:33:21.000And if somebody ever says, hey, you might want to try this other pair of glasses.
00:33:24.000And then the members of the media are like, no, you can't try those other pair of glasses.
00:33:27.000Those other pair of glasses can make you into terrorists.
00:33:30.000Yes, that may have something to do with our common polarization.
00:33:33.000By the way, the media monopoly that they are attempting to set up here through social pressure against the big tech companies ongoing, through social pressure against you, through social pressure against your employers, what does it result in?
00:33:44.000Does it result in the kind of balance and objectivity that they proclaim it's going to result in?
00:33:49.000I will show you some pretty hardcore evidence that no, all they want to do is just establish A monopoly on your informational sources while providing with democratic propaganda.
00:34:06.000Folks on my side of the aisle, my parents canceled the LA Times in the mid-90s because of the bias of the LA Times.
00:34:11.000This is a long problem, and the media's decision to become a tool of one political party as opposed to the other, is one of the greatest exacerbating factors in the conflict that is ripping apart American everyday life.
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00:35:29.000Okay, in just a second, we are going to get back to the proof that the media who are attempting to establish a monopoly on your ability to see information, that they are a little biased, just a little, just a little, that their perception of themselves is not accurate.
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00:37:28.000And so that new, that new, wonderful, clean and pure dissemination of information, the organs of our media, the ones that you trust, right?
00:37:51.000I know how objective our media are because I watched a CBS Sunday interview with Kamala Harris by Jane Pauly.
00:37:57.000Okay, like, and I will tell you, this is interviewing the likes of which I have not seen since, I don't know, like, somebody in the Soviet Union bootlicked Stalin.
00:38:08.000Like, I mean, this is really solid stuff right here.
00:38:11.000This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism you are gonna be getting for the next four years.
00:38:15.000And everybody who doesn't believe this is hard-hitting journalism, it's probably misinformation that they're saying it's not hard-hitting journalism.
00:38:20.000So Kamala Harris, Who is one of the most phony politicians I have ever seen in my life.
00:38:26.000It's like Hillary Clinton got more phony.
00:38:29.000And Kamala Harris is as purely artificial as any character I have seen in American politics, right or left.
00:38:37.000Whenever she gets into an awkward situation, she breaks into the crazy joker laugh.
00:38:41.000The media realized how phony she was back in January of 2020 when she dropped out of the race.
00:38:46.000They're like, oh yeah, yeah, she was really a terrible candidate.
00:38:48.000And then they have to manufacture enthusiasm for her.
00:38:50.000By the way, they're not doing her any favors because eventually when she runs for president, They will have set up a bubble around her.
00:38:55.000The problem is when the media set up a bubble around her, presuming they haven't actually shut down all the alternatives, somebody will prick that bubble and then the entire bubble collapses.
00:39:20.000She dropped out of the Democratic primaries, again, after having lied about Joe Biden being a racist, and then having suggested maybe Joe Biden should drop out because Joe Biden was a sexual harasser.
00:40:04.000I mean, if she wore, like, you know, fancy, fancy, you know, if she wore fancy shoes, like, then that would also be awesome, but she wears Converse, which means she's a real person.
00:40:23.000I remember the softball interviews with Mike Pence where they talked about what a wonderful man Mike Pence was and his tremendous family life.
00:40:28.000Oh wait, that never happened ever, not for a single iota of time.
00:40:31.000Here was Jane Polly interviewing Kamala Harris.
00:40:34.000You have to subscribe to Daily Wire, honestly, so you can see clips like this.
00:40:38.000Because it doesn't do it justice for you to hear clips like this.
00:40:42.000You need to subscribe so you can see, visibly, clips like this.
00:40:45.000Because Jane Polly's reaction is everything here.
00:40:58.000Here is Kamala Harris being interviewed by the very objective journalist Jane Polly over at CBS Sunday.
00:41:05.000I was raised to understand many people will tell you it is impossible but don't listen.
00:41:13.000I mentor a lot of people and I tell them that there will be people who will say it's not your turn, it's not your time, no one like you has done it and I'll tell them and don't you listen and then I will go on to tell them I eat no for breakfast.
00:41:39.000I don't know what's going on with her, but she like is constantly breaking into this weird, like she starts the sentence with laughter and then she ends the sentence with laughter.
00:42:52.000They will tell you when dissemination of information is improper.
00:42:55.000They will shut down Facebook and Twitter because, God forbid, shows like this one should have greater ratings than the midday crap they put on at CNN.
00:43:30.000Because that, those are your truth tellers.
00:43:32.000Those right there, those are your truth tellers.
00:43:34.000And it's not just Jane Polly, of course.
00:43:35.000I'm suggesting she's representative of the media because she is representative of the media when faced with Kamala Harris, who has now been deemed wondrous.
00:43:58.000I was like, no, you've just been convinced because they're going to have, like they had a full controversy for a week over the Vogue cover of Kamala Harris, which was supposedly disrespectful because she was wearing Converse, which she does.
00:45:03.000Because when I think of just a brand of Catholicism that heals America, it's definitely the brand of Catholicism that says that we should let boys into girls' locker rooms, that we should shut down religious freedom on the basis of quote-unquote transgender rights, and that we should ensure that abortion is made available to as many people as humanly possible.
00:45:22.000That sounds like super Catholic stuff to me.
00:45:23.000This is in the religion section, religion section of the Washington Post.
00:45:27.000Pitching himself as president, Joe Biden promised to heal America's hurting soul.
00:45:31.000His experiences with suffering and healing were well-known, including the deaths of his wife and two children, his struggle against stuttering, many political losses.
00:45:37.000On a bigger stage than ever, Biden was trying to show the country how he did it, through his Catholic faith.
00:45:43.000Now, Biden will lead a nation deeply in need of healing.
00:45:46.000With soaring coronavirus cases, thousands dying daily, millions out of work, hunkered down in isolation, he is not facing one America but two, each claiming with new religious fervor that God and righteousness are on its side.
00:45:58.000As divided as any are Biden's own people, U.S.
00:46:00.000Catholics, with millions who don't even see him as a legitimate Catholic at all because of his support for abortion access and LGBTQ equality.
00:46:07.000And the question is how the country will adjust to a man whose faith doesn't feature literal Bible-waving promises to save Christianity or threats that political opponents might eliminate God.
00:46:15.000Biden presents a less common image, a devout, church-going liberal.
00:46:19.000The country will soon observe for the first time a president who goes to mass every Sunday, plus on Catholic feast days and sprinkles, conversation casually with scripture, religious hymns, references to religious history, but describes faith's purpose in general, inclusive terms as sustenance for the weary, encouragement for the suffering, and obligation to welcome and care for one another.
00:46:36.000Wow, I mean that sounds controversial to me.
00:46:39.000Wow, I can't, why would anybody disagree with Joe Biden?
00:46:41.000I mean, the man's obviously in favor of every good thing and against all the bad things.
00:46:45.000And his Catholicism is super-duper-pooper-scooper unifying.
00:46:49.000Meanwhile, as if that pathetic interview from Jane Polly wasn't enough, Jessica Bennett over at the New York Times has a piece today called, Kamala Harris Will Make History, So Will Her Big Blended Family.
00:47:00.000Stepkids, nieces, a doting husband, his ex-wife, what the Harris-Emhoffs can show the country.
00:47:08.000Remember that time when the media decided that Mike Pence was a very, very bad man because he's been married to one woman for his entire life?
00:47:14.000And not only has he been married to one woman his entire life, he asks her permission before he goes out one-on-one with women from the office because he wants to respect her?
00:48:30.000He's been in Congress since he was 30 years old.
00:48:32.000He was actually too young to serve in the Senate when he was elected.
00:48:36.000He's been in Congress since he was now seven years younger than I am.
00:48:40.000He's been living on the public toll that long.
00:48:42.000He's a lifelong politician, but he is a man of moderation and principle, or alternatively, he's just a tool for whatever the prevailing ideology of his party is that day.
00:48:51.000And the prevailing ideology of his party is radical leftism.
00:48:55.000Okay, just gonna take one example really fast.
00:48:58.000Here is Joe Biden's deputy science policy chief talking about COVID-19.
00:49:01.000So COVID-19 should be the least political element of all of American life.
00:49:17.000Not hard science chair, social science.
00:49:18.000Social science is like, Where they do these studies that either confirm what you already knew or are badly flawed.
00:49:24.000Here is Alondra Nelson suggesting what we need to do about COVID-19.
00:49:30.000Perhaps never before in living memory have the connections between our scientific world and our social world been quite so stark as they are today.
00:49:40.000The COVID-19 crisis has inflicted extraordinary suffering, but it has also held up a mirror to our society.
00:49:49.000Reflecting in its deadly wake, resource gaps and medical disparities.
00:49:54.000The inequality we've allowed to calcify.