The Ben Shapiro Show - The Hysterical Media Are The Problem | Ep. 1135

00:00:00.000 While the media fulminate about a supposed coup, the legal process moves forward, media outlets push social media outlets to censor conservatives, and COVID hospitalizations hit record levels.

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00:01:46.000 Okay, so...

00:01:48.000 Right now, the legal process continues unabated.

00:01:51.000 There are lawsuits.

00:01:52.000 The lawsuits have been filed.

00:01:53.000 They will be examined by courts.

00:01:54.000 There are investigations that are going on into voter fraud and voter irregularity.

00:01:58.000 We'll see how widespread these are.

00:02:00.000 And yet, everybody is in such a rush.

00:02:01.000 Such a rush.

00:02:02.000 So we've been told a few things.

00:02:03.000 One, we're being told this is a coup.

00:02:04.000 And the media are very upset about this.

00:02:06.000 This is a coup.

00:02:07.000 It's not a coup, as we'll explain in a second.

00:02:08.000 Usually, a coup requires you to actually violate the law.

00:02:12.000 I'm sorry, not a single state has certified its election result yet.

00:02:15.000 Not a single elector has voted yet.

00:02:17.000 So what the hell are you talking about, a coup?

00:02:19.000 Like, what are you even saying?

00:02:20.000 Okay, so that's narrative number one that you are hearing.

00:02:22.000 Narrative number two that you are hearing is, well, if the transition isn't sped up right now, if Trump doesn't concede and then speed up the transition, well then, clearly that's going to lead to dire ramifications down the line. 0.93

00:02:32.000 Yeah, bullcrap.

00:02:34.000 Okay, so all of that comes from a 9-11 report, the 9-11 commission report, that suggested that because the transition from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration was delayed in 2000, that somehow led to 9-11, that's nonsense. 0.95

00:02:45.000 The reality is that that was a cover story for the fact that the Clinton administration basically let al-Qaeda run wild.

00:02:50.000 It was not about the transition.

00:02:52.000 The fact is that there were serious governmental problems that preceded the transition.

00:02:55.000 There were serious governmental problems after the transition, before 9-11.

00:02:58.000 But this idea that if Trump doesn't turn over the keys to the car to Joe Biden today, that somehow the United States is in innate danger.

00:03:04.000 Joe Biden doesn't have any power until January 20th.

00:03:07.000 It takes a little while to transition in.

00:03:09.000 But he doesn't actually have any power until January 20th, even if Trump were to concede the election today.

00:03:14.000 So basically, the media are now creating a crisis where none exists, and they're steadfastly determined to have no sense of humor about this entire thing.

00:03:23.000 The media has been ramped up to such an extent.

00:03:26.000 I don't like language with regard to stealing elections or rigging elections.

00:03:31.000 But I think it is fair to say that the media attempted to rig this election in advance.

00:03:34.000 That does not mean they changed the process.

00:03:36.000 It means that they used all the authority they could possibly wield in order to lie to the American public about a variety of narratives ranging from Russian collusion to President Trump's sole responsibility for COVID.

00:03:46.000 And now they're so ramped up.

00:03:47.000 They've been ramped up since Trump was elected in 2016.

00:03:50.000 And now they're so ramped up that they can't ramp back down.

00:03:53.000 It's like after you spend 26 hours awake, you can't fall asleep.

00:03:56.000 The media have been doing that.

00:03:58.000 They're high on their own farts and they can't get over it.

00:04:00.000 And so everything at this point is about the crisis.

00:04:03.000 Now, you might look around and say to yourself, wait a second, there is no crisis.

00:04:06.000 It turns out the vast majority of Americans are already pretty sanguine about the election.

00:04:11.000 If you look at the polling data right now, a lot of Republicans are Mistrusting the system.

00:04:14.000 A lot of Republicans are upset about the system.

00:04:16.000 But overall, 8 in 10 Americans believe that the election is over.

00:04:19.000 Only 3% of Americans, by polling data, believe that Donald Trump will end up as President of the United States on January 20th.

00:04:25.000 In other words, people are coming to the conclusions they want to come to.

00:04:27.000 There's no violence in the streets.

00:04:28.000 By the way, it would have been precisely the opposite if Trump had won.

00:04:31.000 If Trump had openly and obviously won on election night, they'd boarded up all the stores in the major cities.

00:04:37.000 There would have been actual street-level violence if Donald Trump had won the election on election night.

00:04:43.000 So spare me the hysterics about how the United States is in the middle of an anti-democratic meltdown.

00:04:48.000 It is not even close to that.

00:04:50.000 But the media have decided that because they have to manufacture this narrative from whole cloth, that everything is in crisis, right?

00:04:54.000 We're in crisis mode.

00:04:55.000 I'm asking you, look around you today.

00:04:57.000 Do you see crisis?

00:04:58.000 Seriously, do you see crisis wherever you are living?

00:05:01.000 Do you see people in the streets burning things?

00:05:03.000 Do you see people rioting and looting?

00:05:05.000 That's more than you could say six months ago when Democrats were egging on people rioting and looting.

00:05:09.000 Do you see violence in the streets?

00:05:10.000 Do you see mayhem?

00:05:12.000 Do you foresee a future in which Donald Trump, even after all the legal challenges go through, and let's say that all the legal challenges are rejected and the election is certified, do you see Donald Trump holing up in the Oval Office and snorting blow and firing machine guns through the door and shouting, say hello to my little friend?

00:05:26.000 Do you see that happening?

00:05:28.000 Or do you see him leaving in an orderly transition of power, just like every other president since the foundation of the Republic?

00:05:34.000 Can we get over ourselves, in other words?

00:05:36.000 But no, we cannot, because the media have to, here's the thing, the media, their biggest meta-narrative, the biggest meta-narrative of all, was probably the biggest lie, which was that Trump was an overt threat to American democracy. 0.98

00:05:46.000 Trump was a fascist, he was Orange Hitler, and he was going to ruin American democracy top to bottom.

00:05:51.000 Now, those of us who watched the political system closely saw that we didn't like a lot of Trump's rhetoric, but he was not a threat to the system, like in any way, shape, or form. 0.97

00:05:58.000 In fact, he was much less of a threat to the system than Barack Obama.

00:06:02.000 Right, Barack Obama, Barack Obama actually went after journalists.

00:06:11.000 His own DOJ wiretapped journalists.

00:06:14.000 Barack Obama was a president who militarized his IRS against conservatives by essentially implying they should do it, and then they went ahead and they did it.

00:06:22.000 And Barack Obama did threaten some of the foundational institutions of the republic.

00:06:29.000 Donald Trump really did not.

00:06:31.000 It was the outgoing Obama administration that politicized its intelligence agencies to go after people like Michael Flynn without any actual legal basis for doing so. 0.99

00:06:39.000 So spare me all of this, Donald Trump was a fat... But here's the thing, the media have been so invested in the notion that Donald Trump is Hitlerian, that even after they believe that he has lost the election, and even though they know that if Trump is found to have lost the election here, he is going to leave in an orderly transition of power, they have to maintain the fiction.

00:06:56.000 Because otherwise, it turns out they've been full of crap for years.

00:06:59.000 If it turns out that Donald Trump complains, says that he didn't lose the election, complains it was voter fraud and voter irregularity, but he leaves and turns over the keys and nothing else happens, it turns out that he was not a threat to the Republic. 0.97

00:07:13.000 He never was a threat to the Republic.

00:07:16.000 And the media can't handle that, because if that's true, then the media just went hog-wild hysterical over almost literally nothing.

00:07:23.000 They are not heroes.

00:07:24.000 They are not democracy dies in darkness. 0.90

00:07:27.000 They are just a bunch of hysterical ninnies who spend their days wrapping themselves up in the mantle of protecting democracy while actually just screaming at the moon. 1.00

00:07:37.000 And so they have to maintain that fiction. 0.86

00:07:39.000 So that's what we're getting today.

00:07:41.000 The first indicator this was happening, well not the first indicator, but the most obvious indicator this was happening yesterday, was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did a presser.

00:07:49.000 At that presser, he was asked about transition of power.

00:07:52.000 And he made a joke.

00:07:53.000 It is perfectly obvious this is a joke.

00:07:54.000 Like, incredibly obvious this is a joke.

00:07:56.000 He smiles at the end and people laugh.

00:07:59.000 I understand that members of the left have an investment in pretending they don't understand jokes.

00:08:02.000 It's one of the great irritants of my life in the industry that I am in.

00:08:07.000 I will tell a joke, the media will steadfastly insist I did not tell a joke, critique the joke, and then say that it would have been funny if it had been a joke.

00:08:14.000 That's the way all of this works.

00:08:15.000 But if I do a ten minute segment, a humor segment, Reading straight the lyrics to WAP, this is treated as though I am perfectly serious, right?

00:08:25.000 This is the way that the media treat any conservative who tells a joke.

00:08:28.000 Okay, so Mike Pompeo tells a joke yesterday, right?

00:08:31.000 This is a joke.

00:08:32.000 He is joking.

00:08:33.000 It is perfectly obvious he is joking.

00:08:35.000 Now, I'm not a person who dismisses straight statements as jokes when they're not jokes.

00:08:39.000 This is clearly a joke.

00:08:41.000 OK, and then not only is it a joke, he follows up by explaining that there will be an orderly transition of power.

00:08:47.000 The media decide that what Mike Pompeo is actually saying is there will be no orderly transition of power and that he and Donald Trump are going to call in the tanks to defend the White House from the from the invasion of Joe Biden.

00:08:59.000 Here's the actual clip.

00:09:00.000 You tell me whether you think that Mike Pompeo is joking here.

00:09:02.000 He is obviously joking here.

00:09:04.000 There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

00:09:09.000 All right.

00:09:10.000 We're ready.

00:09:11.000 The world is watching what's taking place here.

00:09:13.000 We're going to count all the votes.

00:09:15.000 When the process is complete, there'll be electors selected.

00:09:18.000 There's a process.

00:09:18.000 The Constitution lays it out pretty clearly.

00:09:21.000 The world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is functional today, successful today, and successful with the president who's in office on January 20th, a minute afternoon, will also be successful.

00:09:35.000 Okay, that last statement is exactly what Democrats have been asking Mike Pompeo to say, and every other Republican.

00:09:40.000 There will be a smooth transition of power.

00:09:42.000 That first statement is clearly a joke.

00:09:44.000 He's joking that there's going to be a transition to a second Trump term, and then he moves on to, and then whoever the president is, there will be a smooth transition, right?

00:09:50.000 That's what he says.

00:09:52.000 The media lost their bleep over this.

00:09:54.000 They lost their bleep.

00:09:55.000 How dare Mike Pompeo?

00:09:56.000 That's not a joke.

00:09:57.000 He's probably serious.

00:09:58.000 Probably Mike Pompeo is going to call out the Proud Boys and they're going to hold themselves up in the Oval Office. 1.00

00:10:05.000 Or, alternatively, you guys are hysterical, ridiculous people. 1.00

00:10:08.000 Hysterical, ridiculous people. 1.00

00:10:09.000 Because everyone on both sides of the aisle is saying the same thing. 1.00

00:10:12.000 They are.

00:10:13.000 Everyone is saying there's a legal process.

00:10:15.000 The legal process will be carried forward.

00:10:17.000 And guess what?

00:10:18.000 When the legal process is over, one of these two people is going to be president of the United States or president-elect of the United States, and then we're going to move forward because that's how it works.

00:10:26.000 That's how it works, gang.

00:10:27.000 Everybody knows this, except the mainstream media, which, again, are invested in the false narrative, and we are on the verge of watching democracy meltdown.

00:10:32.000 They are invested in that narrative because that's the narrative they've been pushing for four years.

00:10:35.000 If it turns out that democracy did not meltdown during Trump's term, and will not meltdown if there is a transition from Trump's term, it turns out they were just overt liars for four years, and they can't handle that.

00:10:44.000 So instead, they'll just keep lying.

00:10:46.000 Better to maintain the fiction than to acknowledge the reality.

00:10:49.000 In just one second, we'll get to more of this because it turns out that Republicans are being straightforward about this.

00:10:54.000 There's a legal process.

00:10:55.000 It will be fulfilled.

00:10:56.000 And if there's a transition of power called for, there will be a transition of power.

00:10:59.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second first.

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00:12:13.000 Alrighty, so.

00:12:15.000 It's not just Mike Pompeo who is saying the perfectly obvious.

00:12:17.000 Mitch McConnell is saying the perfectly obvious.

00:12:19.000 Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, who is going to be the check against Joe Biden if, in fact, Joe Biden is inaugurated in January.

00:12:28.000 Mitch McConnell says, of course there's going to be a transition.

00:12:30.000 I don't know why you guys are so eager and freaking out.

00:12:35.000 What exactly is going on that has got your knickers in a twist?

00:12:39.000 I don't think we're going to have An interrupted transition to whoever is the next administration.

00:12:48.000 I think we ought to quit all the hand wringing and not act like this is extraordinary.

00:12:53.000 We're going to get through this period and we'll swear in the winner on January the 20th, 2021, just like we have every four years since 1793.

00:13:03.000 Okay, well, so what's the controversy here?

00:13:07.000 I'm just I'm just confused.

00:13:08.000 What exactly is the controversy here?

00:13:09.000 There is no controversy here.

00:13:10.000 You know who else says there's no controversy here?

00:13:12.000 See, this is the funny thing about the supposedly incoming Biden administration.

00:13:16.000 Biden's going to say stuff and everybody's just going to ignore him.

00:13:19.000 Biden is just the old man sitting in the corner, just happy to be there.

00:13:23.000 He's so happy, Biden, right now, because he thinks he won the presidency.

00:13:26.000 And so he's just sitting over in the corner and everybody is ignoring him.

00:13:29.000 He has nothing of relevance to say.

00:13:31.000 The media are angry because they don't actually want to listen to Joe Biden when Joe Biden says there will be a smooth and orderly transition and this is really not that big a deal.

00:13:39.000 Biden said the obligatory words about how Trump is a poor sport and how he should just concede.

00:13:44.000 But then he was asked about the transition.

00:13:46.000 And Biden's like, yeah, there'll be a transition.

00:13:49.000 Even Joe Biden is like, you guys are like, can everybody just calm the hell down a little bit?

00:13:53.000 Like the election happened last Tuesday.

00:13:55.000 It is eight days later.

00:13:57.000 It turns out, again, not a single state is going to certify its vote until next week at the very earliest.

00:14:03.000 And not a single elector is going to vote until mid-December.

00:14:06.000 So just cool your jets.

00:14:07.000 Even Joe Biden is like, what's the crisis here exactly?

00:14:10.000 Like, I might find it annoying, I might find it irritating, but is it a crisis of constitutional government?

00:14:14.000 Here's Joe Biden telling everybody to cool it, and then the media just ignoring him because Joe Biden has been irrelevant since the start, continues to be irrelevant, and will be irrelevant throughout his administration.

00:14:24.000 We are already beginning the transition.

00:14:27.000 We're well underway.

00:14:28.000 And the ability for the administration in any way by failure to recognize our win does not change the dynamic at all in what we're able to do.

00:14:42.000 So I'm confident that the fact that they're not willing to acknowledge we won at this point is not of much consequence in our planning and what we're able to do between now and January 20th.

00:14:54.000 Okay, so that is Joe Biden literally saying, none of this is a big deal.

00:14:58.000 And then the media are like, no, it's a huge deal.

00:15:00.000 A huge deal. 0.99

00:15:01.000 This is all fantasy land crap from the media. 0.98

00:15:05.000 So here's some of the media overreaction. 0.97

00:15:07.000 So Frank Filiuzzi, who's a former FBI official who appears on MSNBC to say hysterically wrong things.

00:15:12.000 He appeared with Nicole Wallace on MSNBC, where he explained that essentially you are now seeing the predicate to a barricaded subject in the White House.

00:15:20.000 So he literally thinks that Donald Trump is going to do the Scarface routine.

00:15:24.000 He literally thinks that Donald Trump is going to go out there and he's going to grab some barbed wire and he's going to start stringing it along the front of the White House.

00:15:33.000 And then he's going to hole up in there with an RPG. 0.97

00:15:35.000 Here's Frank Filiuzzi, an actual paid contributor at MSNBC, saying a silly, silly thing.

00:15:40.000 Well, we're coming very close to having what the Bureau calls a barricaded subject.

00:15:45.000 The barricaded subject is in the White House.

00:15:47.000 And what we saw the President-elect do today was right on the money with regard to initial negotiation with a barricaded subject.

00:15:57.000 You want to let that barricaded subject know that this is going to be okay.

00:16:01.000 I'm going to listen to what you have to say.

00:16:03.000 You can vent and vent and vent.

00:16:05.000 You can call me names and not acknowledge my authority outside the perimeter here.

00:16:10.000 But eventually, we're going to get this done.

00:16:12.000 And eventually, in this case, Nicole, there's going to be a time where Joe Biden calls the SWAT team.

00:16:19.000 What in the actual hell is he talking about?

00:16:22.000 Like the hostage negotiation?

00:16:24.000 What?

00:16:25.000 So it's like Waco is what you're saying.

00:16:28.000 It's Ruby Ridge or Waco is what Frank Faluzzi is saying.

00:16:31.000 He's not being hysterical at all.

00:16:32.000 That is a perfectly objective, newsy take over on MSNBC.

00:16:37.000 I'm supposed to respect these media outlets.

00:16:38.000 I'm supposed to pretend that these people are truth tellers and they are objective news journalists.

00:16:44.000 Come the hell on.

00:16:46.000 Come the hell on. 0.92

00:16:47.000 I mean, honestly, that's really funny.

00:16:49.000 Like the fact that members of MSNBC are like, he's just like a barricaded subject.

00:16:52.000 I mean, it's just like a man who's taking his wife hostage and threatening to shoot her in the face.

00:16:56.000 What we have to do is we have to have a hostage negotiation.

00:16:58.000 And the best hostage negotiator I know is the senile old man in the corner talking to the tree.

00:17:03.000 Okay, Frank Filiuzzi, thank you for that very, very newsy update from MSNBC.

00:17:08.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second, because again, the narrative that's being crafted in real time is that we have to rush.

00:17:13.000 We have to rush, because if we don't rush, there'll be a coup.

00:17:17.000 There's no coup.

00:17:18.000 There's no rush.

00:17:19.000 Everything is fine. 0.99

00:17:20.000 Calm your asses down. 0.98

00:17:21.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second. 0.98

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00:18:34.000 Jesse Wegman has an opinion piece today, a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, which, of course, is basically just Salon.com at this point.

00:18:41.000 He has a piece today titled, The Republican Party is Attacking Democracy.

00:18:45.000 Our survival as a nation depends, above all, on the loser accepting the results of an election.

00:18:50.000 OK, well, the results of the election are not yet clear.

00:18:52.000 The results of the election have not yet been certified.

00:18:55.000 Not one state has certified its vote.

00:18:56.000 Not one elector has voted.

00:18:58.000 It would be a threat to democracy if, say, we went through this entire legal process, and the election was certified, and all the electors voted, and then Trump was like, I'm not leaving.

00:19:06.000 Right?

00:19:07.000 Then you would have a constitutional crisis.

00:19:08.000 There is no indicator that this is going to happen.

00:19:11.000 But it doesn't matter. 0.95

00:19:11.000 The media, again, have to spin this narrative that Trump was always a threat to democracy, and that justified us being absolute horrific garbage at our job. 0.95

00:19:18.000 It justified us silencing dissent. 0.95

00:19:20.000 It justified us reporting rumor. 0.82

00:19:21.000 It justified us reporting anonymous bullcrap.

00:19:23.000 For years, because after all, if you're reporting on Orange Hitler, you have to make sure that you stop Orange Hitler by any means necessary. 0.94

00:19:29.000 And now, when it appears that Trump might leave office, they have to re-examine all of their premises.

00:19:34.000 Wait a second.

00:19:35.000 Hitler never left office. 0.92

00:19:36.000 See, the hallmark of dictators is that they don't leave.

00:19:39.000 The hallmark of dictators is that if they are challenged, they liquidate their dissenters.

00:19:42.000 But Trump isn't doing any of that.

00:19:44.000 So one of two things is true.

00:19:45.000 Either the media are a bunch of liars who spun out this bizarre narrative and now are forced to confront that false city or Trump actually is going to be Orange Hitler.

00:19:55.000 And that in the end, Donald Trump is going to call in the jackboots.

00:19:58.000 So they're just going to continue playing in this fantasy land.

00:20:00.000 I mean, it really is an incredible thing.

00:20:02.000 They are so stuck in their own heads that they can't get out.

00:20:05.000 So Jesse Wegman says it turns out there was a coordinated attack on the 2020 election after all.

00:20:10.000 It began several years ago and accelerated in the last several months.

00:20:13.000 Now that election day has passed, it has launched into overdrive.

00:20:15.000 Its weapons are baseless insinuation and evidence-free charges deployed solely to sow chaos and undermine the results of a free and fair election, one that produced a clear winner and an even clearer loser.

00:20:25.000 But the most dangerous attackers are not the Russians or the Chinese. 0.92

00:20:28.000 They're the leaders of the Republican Party.

00:20:31.000 In the face of a commanding national triumph by President-elect Joe Biden, not just an electoral college victory, but a popular vote margin approaching 5 million, President Trump and top Republicans are behaving like spoiled children, refusing to let go of their toys.

00:20:43.000 Now, I have a question.

00:20:45.000 Stacey Abrams, Governor of Georgia, right?

00:20:47.000 No?

00:20:48.000 No?

00:20:49.000 Buehler?

00:20:50.000 Hillary Clinton, right?

00:20:51.000 Legit President of the United States in 2016, Donald Trump illegitimate, Russian collusion, Facebook's fault, etc.

00:20:58.000 I'm just, I'm not willing to hear that it is a deep and abiding threat to democracy when people use the legal process in order to challenge a vote.

00:21:05.000 So just to be straight about this, the media's take is that if the entire intelligence apparatus is mobilized in order to investigate a bullcrap claim of Russian collusion, that is not, in fact, a coup.

00:21:14.000 And if you say it's a coup, you're really bad.

00:21:16.000 But it is a coup if you file a lawsuit that goes to court and then you abide by the results. 0.99

00:21:21.000 I don't think you know what the word coup means, you asshats. 0.98

00:21:24.000 I really don't. 0.98

00:21:25.000 I don't think you know what any of this means.

00:21:27.000 I don't think you know what fascism means.

00:21:28.000 I don't think you know what coup means.

00:21:29.000 I don't think you know what any of this means.

00:21:31.000 So what is their proof that the coup is happening?

00:21:34.000 The proof is that Republicans won't congratulate Joe Biden.

00:21:37.000 Now, I'm unaware of a constitutional provision that says that you have to congratulate a person who is not yet officially the president-elect.

00:21:44.000 OK, Joe Biden is projected to be the president-elect.

00:21:48.000 That is true.

00:21:49.000 It is true that Donald Trump has a heavy legal burden in order to demonstrate voter fraud sufficient to overturn election results.

00:21:54.000 All of that is true.

00:21:56.000 It is true that if you had to place money on it right now, Joe Biden is the most likely person to be taking the oath of office on January 20th.

00:22:01.000 But if you had to bet, that is true.

00:22:04.000 None of that means that there is anything mandating that people say that Joe Biden is president-elect now or that President Trump can cede the election before all of the legal challenges are exhausted, especially if he believes that there is serious voter fraud.

00:22:18.000 And yet, this is the proof.

00:22:19.000 The proof of fascism is not that Trump is holing up in the Oval Office and preparing the brigades.

00:22:23.000 The proof of fascism is that Ron Johnson won't say congratulations to Joe Biden.

00:22:28.000 If that's your proof of fascism, guys, I have a feeling that you really don't know what fascism is.

00:22:32.000 Here was an MSNBC reporter haranguing various Republicans for not saying congratulations to Joe Biden because, again, apparently, according to article 79 of the Constitution of the United States.

00:22:43.000 If Republican senators refuse to congratulate the projected winner of an election three weeks before the actual electoral vote, well, that means that there's a coup underway.

00:22:54.000 Everybody on red alert, DEFCON 1 gang.

00:22:56.000 Here is MSNBC harassing Republican senators.

00:22:59.000 Did Vice President Biden win the election?

00:23:01.000 It'll play out.

00:23:03.000 We'll know when the electors come to town and it's official.

00:23:07.000 Senators, did Vice President Biden win the election?

00:23:10.000 We don't know yet.

00:23:11.000 Was there any fraud in your race as far as you know?

00:23:13.000 I don't believe so.

00:23:15.000 Iowa has a really great election system and I trust the integrity of our process.

00:23:21.000 Do you suspect fraud anywhere else?

00:23:24.000 I can't speak to that.

00:23:26.000 Have you spoken to Vice President Biden yet?

00:23:29.000 I have not.

00:23:29.000 Do you believe he won the election?

00:23:32.000 Okay, so, and they won't say, they won't say if they believe he won the election.

00:23:35.000 Wow!

00:23:36.000 A coup!

00:23:37.000 A coup!

00:23:38.000 So, Breonna Keillor over at CNN, I was in the gym when this was playing yesterday, and even I was like, come on, come on.

00:23:46.000 She had this whole harangue about how terrible it was that Republican senators would not actually congratulate Joe Biden.

00:23:52.000 And then she showed a list of the various Republican senators who had not congratulated Joe Biden.

00:23:57.000 And by the way, the chyron on this read, Trump's defiance fueled by enablers like Barr, McConnell, Fox.

00:24:04.000 Now remember, Breonna Keillor is not supposed to be an opinion host, right? 0.53

00:24:09.000 She is not supposed to be Rachel Maddow, right?

00:24:11.000 If this were a Rachel Maddow thing, I'd be like, okay, whatever.

00:24:13.000 That's okay.

00:24:15.000 Understood.

00:24:17.000 She's not, right?

00:24:18.000 She's an objective journalist.

00:24:20.000 Journalism-ing over at CNN.

00:24:23.000 The chyron reads, Trump's defiance fueled by enablers like Barr, McConnell, Fox.

00:24:29.000 I mean, that's pure opinion.

00:24:30.000 There's in no way, that is not a factual statement.

00:24:34.000 Okay, first of all, defiance fueled, right?

00:24:37.000 These are all opinion terms.

00:24:39.000 They're fueled by, how do you know any of this?

00:24:41.000 This is your opinion.

00:24:43.000 Maybe it's good opinion.

00:24:44.000 Maybe it's true opinion.

00:24:45.000 Maybe it's wrong opinion.

00:24:46.000 I don't know.

00:24:47.000 But one thing is for sure, you are not in any way an objective journalist.

00:24:51.000 And I am unaware of the constitutional provision that suggests GOP senators have to congratulate Joe Biden and that if they don't, we declare a coup and roll in the tanks to stop Donald Trump.

00:25:00.000 Here's Breonna Keillor yesterday.

00:25:02.000 The Republican senators who are still silent about Biden's win, they're enablers, too.

00:25:07.000 And here is the list.

00:25:08.000 We're going to leave this up for a second because it is rather long.

00:25:11.000 But if a GOP senator is not named Romney, Sasse, Murkowski or Collins, they're on this list where the sound of silence is more abundant than that Simon and Garfunkel song where the duo wrote about silent masses who didn't use their voices, quote, and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made, end quote, that they made.

00:25:31.000 These senators, who are not powerless, they're just afraid of the consequences of using their power, which is where courage comes in.

00:25:38.000 And so far at least, they lack the courage to serve their country over their party.

00:25:43.000 So much objective journalism right there.

00:25:45.000 The hallmark of objective journalism is when in the middle of a news report you start quoting Simon and Garfunkel lyrics.

00:25:50.000 That is definitely the mark of objective journalism.

00:25:53.000 I can't count the number of times Walter Cronkite randomly launched into Rolling Stones lyrics.

00:25:57.000 Just for no reason.

00:25:59.000 By the way, if that is your height of cultural reference, move on.

00:26:03.000 Move on, Brianna.

00:26:04.000 By the way, she got mad at me for pointing this out yesterday.

00:26:07.000 She got very angry at me on Twitter for pointing out that this was a very, very silly segment and that she, in fact, is masquerading as an objective journalist.

00:26:17.000 She tweeted at me. 0.96

00:26:18.000 She said no.

00:26:19.000 I said it shows a lack of courage, prioritizing the country.

00:26:22.000 And I'll add to that here, class, all of which Republicans have historically prided themselves on.

00:26:25.000 If you're going to quote me, quote me.

00:26:27.000 Tweetstorming a straw man is a weak move.

00:26:28.000 I didn't quote her.

00:26:30.000 I literally just said that there is no constitutional provision mandating that people congratulate a person who is not yet president-elect.

00:26:36.000 I tweeted back, that's all fine opinion.

00:26:37.000 It is not objective journalism.

00:26:38.000 I also don't remember the same umbrage regarding, say, Governor Stacey Abrams of Georgia.

00:26:42.000 No reply from a Breonna Keillor at this hour.

00:26:44.000 We'll bring you all updates in just a second.

00:26:46.000 We'll get to more media malfeasance because here's the thing.

00:26:49.000 This is now being spun into an attack on any news that Democrats don't like, which is not a shock.

00:26:55.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:28:01.000 Alrighty, so.

00:28:03.000 Here's the reality.

00:28:04.000 The media, of course, are invested in the narrative that this is a constitutional crisis and something deeply horrible is going on.

00:28:09.000 Almost everybody congratulates Joe Biden.

00:28:12.000 I do love Breonna Taylor of CNN suggesting that the Republicans who have historically prided themselves on class and decency, they're acting in an unclassy way.

00:28:19.000 Yeah, I remember all those times CNN gave Republicans credit for being classy.

00:28:22.000 Remember that?

00:28:22.000 Do you remember that?

00:28:23.000 No?

00:28:24.000 Because it never happened?

00:28:25.000 Yeah, me neither.

00:28:26.000 Don Lemon kind of let the cat out of the bag last night on CNN.

00:28:30.000 He basically said, listen, you have to give us some time to get over this.

00:28:32.000 And that's what's happening right here.

00:28:34.000 The media need Trump.

00:28:36.000 The media love Trump.

00:28:38.000 They need him because he makes them feel so good about themselves.

00:28:41.000 They get to claim that big orange Hitler over here justifies anything they do. 0.88

00:28:45.000 They can be just as bad as they want to be.

00:28:47.000 Because after all, they are just policing, policing the most dangerous threat to the Republic.

00:28:52.000 And well now, the prospect is that Donald Trump will not be president in January.

00:28:59.000 And the media are the ones who are pushing that prospect.

00:29:01.000 So now they're stuck in this kind of awkward place where they want to cover Donald Trump.

00:29:05.000 They need to cover Donald Trump.

00:29:08.000 But they're looking at a future where there may not be a Donald Trump to cover.

00:29:12.000 They're looking at a future where they may have to masquerade as journalists again, but they're not going to, of course.

00:29:18.000 They're going to declare whichever Republican is next on the list is the new orange Hitler. 0.67

00:29:23.000 Nikki Haley will be the Indian Hitler. 0.94

00:29:26.000 Or it'll be Ron DeSantis, the Florida man Hitler. 0.85

00:29:29.000 The next Republican will always justify the media's malfeasance because they're never going to change their practices.

00:29:35.000 They're never going to be introspective enough to recognize that they are not in fact journalists.

00:29:38.000 They're just activists masquerading.

00:29:40.000 Here is Don Lemon letting the cat out of the bag.

00:29:42.000 We're having a hard time getting over the fact that we've spent the last four years targeting this guy and then he may not be there for us to bounce off of.

00:29:50.000 This is like, give us a while here in the news media, because, you know, we have to, we got to learn how to quit the other person, right?

00:29:59.000 It's like a breakup.

00:30:00.000 We got to get the other president, the other out of our phone contacts, so we can stop talking about it.

00:30:06.000 Right now he's flailing.

00:30:07.000 Everything is flailing, flailing, flailing.

00:30:09.000 I'm just here to tell you it's going to be okay.

00:30:11.000 He's just flailing.

00:30:12.000 OK, but the reality is what he says at the very beginning.

00:30:15.000 They are having a hard time breaking up with Trump, which shows the game, right?

00:30:19.000 The game for the media was always using Trump as a baton to club everybody who disagrees.

00:30:25.000 The facts don't matter to our media, to our esteemed media.

00:30:28.000 Let's just be clear about this.

00:30:29.000 The facts are secondary to the narrative.

00:30:31.000 Okay, so this became perfectly obvious.

00:30:33.000 There's a game that's being played right now, and this is a dangerous game.

00:30:35.000 It's been played by the media for a while, where facts are secondary to the narrative.

00:30:38.000 Whatever the story is, if the story cuts against Republicans, it is a good story.

00:30:42.000 If the story cuts against Democrats, it is a bad story.

00:30:45.000 Not only is it a bad story, it is now deemed misinformation.

00:30:48.000 The media have played this game.

00:30:50.000 Particularly with social media, where they have declared that anything they don't like is misinformation.

00:30:55.000 They've expanded the term misinformation from false stories to things we don't like.

00:31:00.000 This is how you got the Hunter Biden story censored by social media and by other media outlets for three weeks leading up to the election.

00:31:06.000 And the New York Post's Twitter account suspended by Twitter for a story that was not factually untrue.

00:31:11.000 Right?

00:31:12.000 This is the game.

00:31:13.000 This is, again, the narrative for the media matter because they are activists.

00:31:17.000 Understand this.

00:31:17.000 Journalists, your objective journalistic crew, they are not journalists.

00:31:20.000 They are activists.

00:31:21.000 They are activists masquerading as journalists.

00:31:23.000 Okay, and not only that, they have decided that they are going to use their journalistic bona fides in order to pressure social media and other outlets into quashing people who disagree with them.

00:31:33.000 So your objective journalists will say, over at CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times, they'll say things like, you know, Daily Wire, which is probably the most popular right-wing site on the internet, Daily Wire, my outlet, that, you know, they're very biased.

00:31:47.000 They're not objective news.

00:31:48.000 They're really not a news outlet.

00:31:49.000 They're more of an opinion outlet, and they're misinformation.

00:31:52.000 And then we'll say, okay, you need to show us what we said that is untrue.

00:31:55.000 They'll say, well, it's from a conservative angle.

00:31:57.000 Right, we say that it's from a conservative angle.

00:31:59.000 Say, yeah, yeah, but it's misinformation.

00:32:00.000 Well, no, it's not misinformation.

00:32:02.000 We're actually more honest than you are because we say exactly what we are while you masquerade.

00:32:05.000 And then these media outlets, they go to the social media heads and they say, because we called it misinformation and because we are objective, we have declared ourselves objective, you should stop the dissemination of this misinformation.

00:32:18.000 You should downgrade the material.

00:32:21.000 This is the game here.

00:32:23.000 Right?

00:32:23.000 Anything is justified so long as you're fighting the fascists.

00:32:25.000 And the fascists are all people you disagree with.

00:32:28.000 A perfect example of this yesterday.

00:32:30.000 And social media heads go for this, by the way.

00:32:32.000 Social media heads at Facebook and at Twitter and at YouTube, they buy this.

00:32:36.000 They're just looking for an excuse.

00:32:38.000 They have a bunch of woke staffers and they're looking for an excuse to please their woke staffers by lying and labeling stuff that cuts against the woke and cuts against the left, misinformation.

00:32:47.000 Perfect.

00:32:48.000 Case in point example yesterday.

00:32:50.000 Kevin Roose, who is an activist, okay?

00:32:52.000 He is not a tech journalist.

00:32:53.000 He calls himself a tech columnist for the New York Times. 0.99

00:32:56.000 And he's just, he's garbage at his job. 0.93

00:32:58.000 Every single day, Kevin Roos tweets out the most highly trafficked links on Facebook, or the most engaged links on Facebook. 0.97

00:33:06.000 And usually, it's a bunch of conservative links.

00:33:08.000 And the reason for that is because conservatives have no other place to gather their news other than via conservative outlets on Facebook.

00:33:14.000 Because the fact is that the New York Times is not, not a single Trump voter that I am aware of works at the New York Times.

00:33:20.000 Not one, right?

00:33:21.000 Nobody works at CNN who's an open Trump voter.

00:33:23.000 Not one face on the network is an open Trump voter.

00:33:26.000 At least not anybody who's not like a contributor they just bring on to Badger.

00:33:31.000 Okay, so here is the game.

00:33:32.000 Kevin Roos tweets those things out.

00:33:34.000 He tweets out a list of engagement and it'll show like us, Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's Facebook page, Dan Bongino, Mark Levin, right?

00:33:41.000 That's what it'll show.

00:33:42.000 And then he will direct that at Facebook and he'll say, you guys are obviously biasing your algorithm.

00:33:46.000 How could you allow the dissemination of this sort of conspiratorial material?

00:33:50.000 Now, he never actually has to show why that material is bad.

00:33:53.000 In fact, even if the material is true, he treats it as false.

00:33:57.000 And then the social media bros, they're like, oh, well, if Kevin Roos says so, we have to listen to Kevin Roos.

00:34:01.000 He works for The New York Times.

00:34:03.000 Or they go over to their friends over at PolitiFact or Snopes or FactCheck.org, all leftist interest groups.

00:34:08.000 who don't bother to fact check, they implication check, or they narrative check.

00:34:15.000 And then these social media heads rely on the fact-checking organizations to rule that something is false when it isn't in fact false.

00:34:22.000 And then they downgrade all the material they don't like, right?

00:34:24.000 This is the little game they play.

00:34:26.000 So yesterday, Kevin Roos tweeted out, Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now.

00:34:32.000 These are all among the 10 most engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours per News Whip.

00:34:37.000 Okay, and then he tweets out the links.

00:34:38.000 Here are the titles of the links.

00:34:41.000 Republican in Michigan goes from loser to winner after technical glitch fixed.

00:34:44.000 Officials urge confidence in system.

00:34:46.000 That's from us over at Daily Wire.

00:34:49.000 A.G.

00:34:49.000 William Barr authorizes DOJ to look into voting irregularities.

00:34:52.000 That's from Breitbart.

00:34:53.000 Michigan legislature holds rare emergency session to investigate election irregularities.

00:34:57.000 That's from Dan Bongino.

00:34:59.000 Purdue, Lawfler.

00:35:00.000 Call on Georgia Secretary of State to resign over election.

00:35:03.000 That's from Breitbart.

00:35:05.000 He says that these are all right-wing misinformation.

00:35:07.000 There's only one problem.

00:35:08.000 Not one of those titles is inaccurate.

00:35:10.000 Every single one of those is factual.

00:35:12.000 Every single title is factual.

00:35:14.000 And so I pointed this out.

00:35:16.000 I pointed out that the goal here for Kevin Roos is not to police misinformation or bad data.

00:35:20.000 The goal is to bully and club social media into downgrading conservative outlets.

00:35:24.000 So, here is how Kevin Roos responded, and this is the whole ballgame, folks, when it comes to the media.

00:35:28.000 This is the whole ballgame.

00:35:29.000 He responded.

00:35:31.000 For the conservatives who are mad about this, yes, it is possible for a story to be factually accurate and for it to be part of a misinformation campaign aimed at undermining confidence in an election.

00:35:42.000 So in other words, he's saying all these stories are accurate.

00:35:44.000 All of them are factual.

00:35:45.000 But I don't like the implication of the stories.

00:35:47.000 Therefore, Facebook should downgrade them.

00:35:49.000 I don't like the narrative that is forwarded by these stories.

00:35:52.000 Therefore, Facebook should censor them.

00:35:54.000 So in other words, if it doesn't match a narrative I don't like, I'm just going to ignore it.

00:35:57.000 I'm going to pretend that it is a lie.

00:35:59.000 And then I'm going to call on social media to censor it.

00:36:01.000 I'm going to call on our newspapers not to cover it.

00:36:04.000 This is the game.

00:36:05.000 And it is the most dangerous game.

00:36:06.000 When I said that the media rigged this last election, Again, I don't mean that they changed the balloting.

00:36:12.000 What I mean is that they lied about the narratives, and they promoted stories that were designed to forward the narratives, and they completely destroyed stories that were factual that undercut the narrative.

00:36:22.000 Right?

00:36:22.000 That's what the media did.

00:36:23.000 That's why the media are garbage. 1.00

00:36:25.000 They are garbage. 1.00

00:36:26.000 They are unfixably garbage. 1.00

00:36:28.000 When Kevin Roos acknowledges overtly that it is possible for a story to be factually accurate and for him to call it misinformation anyway because it is part of a quote-unquote misinformation campaign aimed at undermining confidence in an election, he's making the agenda perfectly obvious. 0.97

00:36:43.000 If it does not match Kevin Roos's political priors, if it doesn't match the New York Times or the CNN or MSNBC's political priors, well then it isn't news.

00:36:51.000 It's unfactual.

00:36:51.000 We're just going to ignore those stories or pretend that they're false.

00:36:54.000 Or we will call them misinformation.

00:36:56.000 Now, let me just point out, by Kevin Roos's standard, Donald Trump is 190% correct in calling the New York Times fake news, right?

00:37:03.000 Because under Donald Trump's standard, the New York Times is constantly printing stories, many of which are factually true, but forward a false narrative.

00:37:11.000 So for example, the New York Times for years printed anonymous allegations about Donald Trump and Russian collusion.

00:37:18.000 Did it turn out that that was all false?

00:37:19.000 Yes, it turned out there was no Russian collusion, right?

00:37:21.000 That's what the Mueller report found.

00:37:24.000 How about the New York Times promoting the narrative of systemic racism?

00:37:28.000 They print stories that are factually true on their face, but don't go far enough to actually include the relevant details.

00:37:37.000 And then they forward a narrative.

00:37:39.000 It doesn't mean the story is factually untrue.

00:37:41.000 It doesn't mean I'm calling for the New York Times to be censored.

00:37:44.000 But folks on the left do call for censorship.

00:37:46.000 Folks on the left are looking for social media to prevent you from seeing the information you want to see.

00:37:51.000 This is the goal.

00:37:52.000 Okay, this is not a mistake.

00:37:54.000 Kevin Roose is being very, very open about this.

00:37:57.000 The pressure tactics are on. 1.00

00:37:59.000 The media are garbage. 0.99

00:38:00.000 And the media are attempting to leverage social media to shut down anybody they don't like. 1.00

00:38:04.000 That is what you are seeing in real time right now.

00:38:06.000 That's why the media are so invested in this coup narrative.

00:38:09.000 Because again, the coup narrative allows them to suppress information they don't like, because after all, if you're stopping Hitler, you can suppress bad information. 0.64

00:38:17.000 You have to prevent the Nazis from getting their message out.

00:38:17.000 Right?

00:38:20.000 Well, what if they aren't Nazis?

00:38:21.000 What if they're just people who disagree with you?

00:38:23.000 And what if they're saying is actually true?

00:38:25.000 We'll get to all of this and more in just one second.

00:38:28.000 Because it turns out they're not just targeting conservative news.

00:38:31.000 They're not just targeting you and preventing you from seeing the information you want to see.

00:38:34.000 They're targeting individuals who have the temerity to just disagree.

00:38:38.000 It's not even about pretending it's misinformation anymore.

00:38:41.000 They're just going after people who they think disagree in any way at all.

00:38:46.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:40:08.000 We're going to get to the Targeting of people who disagree, individuals who disagree, not just media outlets like mine, but individuals who disagree like you.

00:40:15.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.

00:40:16.000 First, if you weren't already disgusted by the legacy media, you absolutely should be now.

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00:42:13.000 Alrighty, so it's not just that the media promote false narratives.

00:42:21.000 It's not just that they push for the suppression of narratives they don't like, even if those narratives happen to be backed by the facts.

00:42:27.000 It is also that the left in general is now targeting individuals.

00:42:31.000 And we've known this for a while, right?

00:42:32.000 You've felt this in your business.

00:42:33.000 You work at a company, I can't tell you the number of letters and calls I receive along these lines.

00:42:37.000 I work at, I mean, from prominent people.

00:42:39.000 I work at this company, I work in this industry, and people are basically threatening to blackball me unless I do exactly what they want me to do.

00:42:46.000 And this has cheered on.

00:42:47.000 It's cheered on.

00:42:47.000 So the garbage people over at the Lincoln Project have decided that they are now going after Jones and Day, right?

00:42:53.000 Jones Day. 0.93

00:42:53.000 Jones Day is one of the biggest law firms in the country. 0.93

00:42:56.000 They tweeted out yesterday, employees of Jones Day and Porter Wright, do you believe your law firms should be attempting to overturn the will of the American people?

00:43:03.000 According to law.com, the American lawyer, the Lincoln Project, a political action committee founded by former Republican figureheads, is pledging to spend at least $500,000 on an advertising blitz vowing to target Jones Day and Porter Wright, Morris and Arthur for their role as counsel to the Pennsylvania Republican Party and President Trump, respectively, as they bring unsupported claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

00:43:24.000 Right.

00:43:24.000 Again, they are threatening Jones Day.

00:43:27.000 And in fact, the Lincoln Project was attempting to out individual lawyers.

00:43:30.000 They were saying you should harass the lawyers at Jones Day for representing the Pennsylvania Republican Party in court.

00:43:35.000 Now, by the way, that is the lawsuit that is most likely to succeed, right?

00:43:38.000 The Pennsylvania Republican Party is suing because they say that the Supreme Court's in that the courts in Pennsylvania basically usurped the legislative authority in lengthening the election by allowing ballots arriving after election day still to be counted, even if they did not have proper postmarks.

00:43:57.000 And now the Lincoln Project is going after the lawyers.

00:44:00.000 Now, let me just be frank about this.

00:44:01.000 OK, I've worked in big law.

00:44:03.000 Big law is a Democratic repository.

00:44:05.000 I would say that 80 percent of people who work in big law are Democrats.

00:44:09.000 It is a very, very Democratic industry.

00:44:11.000 Doesn't matter.

00:44:11.000 Lincoln Project is still going after Jones Day for having the temerity to represent the client.

00:44:16.000 So Jones Day actually had to put out a statement yesterday because of all this nonsense.

00:44:20.000 He said Jones Day is not representing President Trump, his campaign, or any affiliated party in any litigation alleging voter fraud.

00:44:25.000 Jones Day is also not representing any entity in any litigation challenging or contesting the results of the 2020 general election.

00:44:31.000 Jones Day is representing the Pennsylvania GOP in pending litigation brought by private parties in April 2020 and the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in August 2020.

00:44:39.000 In that litigation, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order extending the statutory deadline to return mail-in ballots established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.

00:44:47.000 Yeah, they're not.

00:44:48.000 The media will not retract any of that stuff.

00:44:49.000 of law question under the US Constitution. Jones Day will not withdraw from that representation.

00:44:53.000 Jones Day expects the media will correct the numerous false reports given the facts set forth above. Yeah, they're not. Okay, the media will not retract any of that stuff.

00:45:02.000 Don't expect anybody to back off the Lincoln Project or a bunch of grifters seeking to make a bunch of democratic money in the aftermath of failing inside the Republican Party.

00:45:10.000 So this is why when you hear Joe Biden call for unity, when you hear from members of the media declaring a bright new dawn, an era of good feelings? Yeah, no.

00:45:19.000 No.

00:45:20.000 I'm sorry.

00:45:21.000 You guys are too invested in destroying your political opposition for there to be an era of good feelings.

00:45:25.000 I don't believe you.

00:45:27.000 I am skeptical of your calls for unity. 0.91

00:45:29.000 I think by unity, you mean shut the hell up.

00:45:31.000 And we're not going to shut the hell up.

00:45:32.000 We have no intention of shutting the hell up.

00:45:34.000 We're not going to stop saying true things because they don't fit your narrative, Kevin Roos.

00:45:39.000 We are not going to stop printing material that happens to be true, even though Facebook doesn't like it.

00:45:45.000 And by the way, we are not going to be protecting the tech bros if the tech bros decide that they are going to suppress material on behalf of the Kevin Reusses and Kara Swishers and Judd Legum of the world.

00:45:55.000 We're not going to do that.

00:45:57.000 This is a pressure campaign by the media to shift the nature of American politics, and you cannot go along with it, and we will not go along with it either.

00:46:07.000 But inside the Democratic Party, that pressure campaign is on the march.

00:46:12.000 That pressure campaign is not just on the march inside the media battle.

00:46:16.000 It's on the march inside the Democratic Party.

00:46:19.000 The woke have basically declared war on everyone who is not completely woke inside the Democratic Party. 0.50

00:46:24.000 Rashida Tlaib and the Squad are going to war against any Democrat who suggests maybe it's a bad idea to alienate half the American public by calling them racist, sexist, and bigots for not liking socialism.

00:46:33.000 According to Politico, Rashida Tlaib isn't apologizing for wanting to yank money away from bad police departments.

00:46:38.000 She has no second thoughts about her embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement or for wanting to aggressively fight climate change.

00:46:43.000 House Democrats lost seats instead of expanding their majority, underperforming expectations across the board.

00:46:48.000 And moderates have pounced on liberals like Tlaib.

00:46:50.000 A pounced pounce.

00:46:52.000 The Michigan Congresswoman accusing them of handing conservatives a set of slogans and policies to scare voters.

00:46:56.000 But Tlaib and other House progressives don't want to hear it.

00:46:59.000 It all amounts to unfair blame-casting designed to shame them into staying quiet, they say, right as Democrats gain control of the White House.

00:47:05.000 We're not going to be successful if we're silencing districts like mine, said Tlaib.

00:47:08.000 Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced.

00:47:14.000 I can't be silent, you see. 0.98

00:47:16.000 If you oppose Rashida Tlaib's ridiculous and radical agenda, even inside the Democratic Party, this means you are a racist.

00:47:22.000 She said we are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer.

00:47:27.000 Right, so this is the thing.

00:47:28.000 She doesn't want unity with 70 million Americans who voted for Trump.

00:47:31.000 She doesn't even want unity with the vast majority of the Democratic Party who did not vote for Rashida Tlaib.

00:47:36.000 She wants dominance. 1.00

00:47:38.000 So do the media.

00:47:39.000 They also want dominance.

00:47:41.000 And they will use the same slurs that they've used against Republicans, even against Democrats.

00:47:45.000 See, this is the beauty of the woke.

00:47:46.000 At least their purity test applies to their own party.

00:47:49.000 In fact, there was a letter that went out yesterday from New Deal Strategies, the Justice Democrats, Sunrise Movement, and Data for Progress.

00:47:54.000 These are some of the most radical groups inside the Democratic caucus.

00:47:57.000 There's a letter that went out to various Democrats and to the media.

00:48:03.000 What went wrong for congressional Democrats in 2020? 0.93

00:48:06.000 Their answer was that they didn't go radical enough, and that if you disagree with them, you are, in fact, a vicious and horrifying racist.

00:48:14.000 They say, over the last half century, Republicans have harnessed strategic racism to divide the electorate.

00:48:19.000 Too often, Democrats shy away from conversations about race and keep issues of economic justice and racial justice in separate silos.

00:48:26.000 Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle, based on terms like defund the police or socialism, have become scapegoats for representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats.

00:48:35.000 Not a single Democrat, progressive or otherwise, argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes.

00:48:40.000 Moreover, these attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements.

00:48:44.000 The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment, which is core to the GOP's election strategy.

00:48:48.000 Our party should not feed into it.

00:48:50.000 Conservative Democrats may change the terms and people we blame and fear year by year, but Democrats must take on the Republican Party's divide and conquer racism head on and not demobilize our own base.

00:49:01.000 Hey, so the good news is at least the woke are attacking even people inside their own party.

00:49:05.000 So the media have fallen to the woke.

00:49:08.000 The social media have fallen to the woke.

00:49:10.000 The woke are taking on Democrats inside their own party.

00:49:11.000 That is the battle of the future.

00:49:13.000 The battle of the future is going to be over whether you even get to see the material you want to see.

00:49:17.000 Over whether you get to treat your friends and neighbors as friends and neighbors.

00:49:20.000 This is why pasting over all of these deep philosophical conflicts, right?

00:49:25.000 Conflicts I talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps.

00:49:27.000 Go pick it up today.

00:49:29.000 Pasting over those deep philosophical conflicts with Grandpa Simpson over here, Joe Biden, it ain't gonna work.

00:49:34.000 It's why the media are militantly refusing to listen to Joe Biden when Joe Biden is like, listen, there's a process and the process will play out.

00:49:40.000 No one cares what Joe Biden has to say because the battle has moved beyond Joe Biden.

00:49:46.000 Joe Biden may have been a last gasp attempt by Democrats to basically stop the battle from raging, but Joe Biden doesn't have the stones to actually stand up to his own party.

00:49:54.000 Joe Biden doesn't have the stones to tell Michelle Obama to be quiet when she says things like 70 million Americans are motivated by hate and chaos and racism.

00:50:02.000 He doesn't have the stones for that.

00:50:03.000 Nobody in the Democratic Party has the stones for that.

00:50:06.000 And so what this is going to come down to is a battle to suppress.

00:50:10.000 The media are going to continue pushing narratives they know are false because it justifies their behavior.

00:50:15.000 Members of the Democratic Party are going to continue to justify their lies that Americans are, broadly speaking, racist because it justifies their strategy.

00:50:24.000 And you are going to be the only people standing in the breach.

00:50:26.000 And we are going to be standing with you in the breach.

00:50:28.000 That is the battle for the next decade.

00:50:31.000 The battle for the next decade is, will they be able to shut you up? 0.99

00:50:35.000 Will they be able to tell you that because you are a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, you need to be shut up? 0.95

00:50:40.000 Will they be able to say that things that are factually true are factually false because they do not agree with their narrative? 0.60

00:50:44.000 Will they be able to take control of all the institutions to such an extent that you are forced not only to be quiet, but to mirror their political priorities?

00:50:51.000 Because here's the thing.

00:50:52.000 We went real fast in this country from, why can't we just have polite conversations about politics?

00:50:56.000 Please stop being so militant in your pursuit of conservatism.

00:51:00.000 To, silence is violence.

00:51:02.000 We went real fast from one to the other, didn't we?

00:51:04.000 The progression went like this.

00:51:06.000 You conservatives, you should be more polite.

00:51:07.000 And conservatives are like, OK.

00:51:09.000 And then it went to, well, you shouldn't just be polite. 0.98

00:51:10.000 You should shut up.

00:51:11.000 You should be silent.

00:51:13.000 In fact, stay silent for your own safety.

00:51:15.000 And many conservatives, because they felt like they were being browbeaten, were like, I guess OK.

00:51:19.000 And now the message is, if you do not literally repeat the words we are saying to you right now and agree that they are true, Then we will castigate you as an enemy.

00:51:29.000 If you refuse to say right now, President-elect Biden, because he is not in fact President-elect Biden, you are the enemy.

00:51:33.000 If you refuse to say, America is systemically racist, you are the enemy. 0.98

00:51:36.000 If you don't post a black square on your Facebook page, you are the enemy. 0.98

00:51:40.000 If you refuse to post the tautological, semantically overloaded lawn sign on your lawn, you are the enemy.

00:51:49.000 That is the battle.

00:51:50.000 The battle for the future is this culture war.

00:51:52.000 It is the reason Trump was elected in 2016.

00:51:54.000 It's the reason why Democrats did not see the vast amount of support that not only Trump, but Republicans across the country had in 2020.

00:52:01.000 That battle is not going to abate anytime soon.

00:52:04.000 Okay, now, let's talk a little bit about the actual voter fraud allegations that are still out there.

00:52:09.000 So yesterday, the former Nevada AG detailed some voter fraud allegations.

00:52:14.000 Here was the former Nevada AG talking about it.

00:52:16.000 Do you have specific sworn allegations that people are willing to say that I broke?

00:52:21.000 So the Attorney General has been attacking me for a week without evidence and he tweeted today that now we don't have, there's not evidence of widespread voter fraud.

00:52:30.000 So they've backed off the fact that there's zero voter fraud.

00:52:33.000 Now they're saying we haven't produced enough.

00:52:36.000 We're outside of the system.

00:52:37.000 This is a needle in a haystack type situation.

00:52:40.000 We've produced dead voters.

00:52:42.000 We've also produced over 3,000 people that moved out of Las Vegas this year and still voted in this election.

00:52:51.000 Okay, so is there evidence in a country of 150 million people of voter fraud?

00:52:55.000 Sure.

00:52:55.000 And voter irregularities?

00:52:56.000 Sure.

00:52:56.000 Again, the legal burden, as I keep saying, is very, very high here.

00:52:59.000 The Trump campaign has to show not just that there was voter fraud, but also that it impacted the outcome of the election because the voter deficits in many of these states are tens of thousands of votes.

00:53:07.000 It makes it difficult to prove that.

00:53:09.000 One of the controversial cases that came up yesterday was one of a Pennsylvania postal worker Originally, this Pennsylvania postal worker named Richard Hopkins, he claimed that a postmaster in Erie, Pennsylvania instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day.

00:53:22.000 I talked about this on the show yesterday.

00:53:25.000 Attorney General William Barr authorized federal prosecutors to open probes into credible allegations.

00:53:29.000 Well, according to the Washington Post on Monday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S.

00:53:33.000 Postal Service's Office of Inspector General the allegations weren't true.

00:53:37.000 He signed an affidavit recanting his claims.

00:53:40.000 Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted late on Tuesday that the whistleblower completely recanted.

00:53:44.000 Hopkins did not respond to messages from the Washington Post, but in a YouTube video he posted Tuesday night, he then denied recanting.

00:53:51.000 He said, I'm here to say I did not recant my statement.

00:53:53.000 That did not happen.

00:53:55.000 So who do you believe?

00:53:56.000 I don't know who to believe.

00:53:57.000 Okay, but the bottom line is you'd have to prove the allegations anyway.

00:54:01.000 The postal worker again said later on video that he had been pressured into recanting in some way.

00:54:09.000 James O'Keefe tweeted out we have recordings of the federal agents who coerced this man through a four-hour interrogation without representation who stands by his original affidavit regarding backdating ballots.

00:54:17.000 Stand by for recordings doubling down on backdating ballots.

00:54:20.000 This is Soviet-style truth suppression.

00:54:23.000 US official stands by his original affidavit.

00:54:27.000 Earlier this week, of course, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham urged the DOJ and the Postmaster General to look into the allegations from Hopkins.

00:54:35.000 Later on Tuesday night, O'Keefe dropped video of Hopkins claiming he did not recount his allegations and would like a retraction from the Washington Post.

00:54:42.000 He said, you'll find out tomorrow.

00:54:44.000 He said, I'd like the Washington Post to recount their wonderful little article they decided to throw out there.

00:54:49.000 Then in another post, O'Keefe published a video of Hopkins allegedly being pressed by agent Russell Strasser and later telling O'Keefe he still stands by his claim.

00:54:57.000 One of the quotes, Agent Strasser, I'm trying to twist you a little bit.

00:55:02.000 So, he apparently has been placed on non-pay status by the Postal Service.

00:55:07.000 So we will bring you new details of that story as they arise.

00:55:10.000 Meanwhile, the Allegheny Board of Elections voted on Tuesday to count more than 2,300 ballots that do not have dates on the outer envelope, according to numerous local news sources.

00:55:19.000 Again, are these numbers that would shift the election in Trump's favor?

00:55:23.000 Probably not, but if you are worried about voter fraud and voter irregularity, you should be worried about this story.

00:55:27.000 The ballots, which have not been opened, all arrived on or before Election Day as they are stamped with the date when they are received, according to elections employees. Triblive.com reported, the Board of Elections made up of Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Councilman Sam DiMarco, and Councilwoman Bethany Hallam voted 2-1 to count those votes. After a brief discussion, DiMarco voted against the motion. They are stamped with the date when they are received, of course, but they are not stamped with the outer, with the postmark on the ballot.

00:55:52.000 Apparently, the exact number of ballots that did not have dates on them was 2,349.

00:55:58.000 Fox News notes that the law in the state says the ballot mailing envelope has to contain the date, and that tens of thousands of ballots had still not been counted in Pennsylvania.

00:56:07.000 Well, the good news is, at least the New York Times called up the various election officials and got them to say there was no evidence of voter fraud, so that's exciting stuff.

00:56:13.000 Because I know that the New York Times usually takes officials at their word.

00:56:16.000 This is what the New York Times does.

00:56:17.000 Now, let's say the New York Times has a story that something bad has happened inside the Trump administration.

00:56:21.000 Usually, they then call up the Trump official, and if the official says it didn't happen, the New York Times goes, oh, okay, and just moves on with their day.

00:56:27.000 Or, alternatively, that is not how any of this works.

00:56:30.000 The New York Times has a piece today called, The Times Called Officials in Every State No Evidence of Voter Fraud.

00:56:34.000 Oh, you mean the people who are in charge of overseeing elections say that they did a good job?

00:56:38.000 Well, then everything's hunky-dory, I guess.

00:56:41.000 Again, every allegation of voter fraud that is credible should be investigated.

00:56:45.000 This is what the DOJ says.

00:56:46.000 This is what Reason tells you.

00:56:48.000 The likelihood that it will impact the outcome of the election is not particularly high. 0.97

00:56:52.000 But the notion that if you ask a question about it, that this means that you are bad and that you have to be suppressed is, of course, incredibly, incredibly silly.

00:56:59.000 Nonetheless, that is exactly what the New York Times is now saying.

00:57:03.000 The New York Times suggests election officials in dozens of states representing both political parties said there was no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump's portrait of a fraudulent election.

00:57:16.000 Over the last several days, the president, members of his administration, congressional Republicans and right-wing allies have put forth the false claim that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump and have refused to accept results that showed Joe Biden as the winner.

00:57:27.000 But top election officials across the country said in interviews and statements, the process had been a remarkable success.

00:57:32.000 Despite record turnout and the complications of a dangerous pandemic.

00:57:35.000 Okay, just a quick note here.

00:57:36.000 If Joe Biden had lost, do you think this would be the story?

00:57:39.000 Let's say that Joe Biden had lost.

00:57:40.000 And let's say that Joe Biden said, guys, I think they're voter irregularities.

00:57:43.000 Or in the words of Joe Biden, Trump is an illegitimate.

00:57:46.000 Let's say that he had said that.

00:57:48.000 You think the New York Times calls up all the election officials and they all say it's clean?

00:57:51.000 And then they're like, why won't Joe Biden concede?

00:57:54.000 I, again, have serious doubts about our mainstream media.

00:57:57.000 Very, very serious doubts about the establishment media.

00:58:00.000 That suddenly, the election is fair and clean.

00:58:01.000 Remember, up until the last two weeks of the election, the narrative from Democrats is that Trump was going to seal the election by burning mailboxes.

00:58:08.000 That Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general, was taking mailboxes out of circulation and decommissioning machines that were able to sort mail-in ballots.

00:58:16.000 That was the narrative.

00:58:17.000 It was all preset.

00:58:18.000 If Biden had lost, that was going to be the narrative.

00:58:20.000 It was voter suppression and Trump messing around with the balloting.

00:58:24.000 But if Trump loses and then Trump has questions about voter fraud and voter irregularities, or anybody else does, then suddenly that's very bad because the election officials say it's clean.

00:58:32.000 So guys, I guess that it's all clean.

00:58:34.000 I guess that we are all good to go here.

00:58:37.000 Again, none of this means that Trump will be declared the winner of the election or that the election results will be reversed.

00:58:42.000 We don't know yet.

00:58:44.000 It is unlikely.

00:58:45.000 With that said, The media's eagerness to put this thing to bed betrays a different agenda.

00:58:52.000 I do not think that they are in it for the good of the country or the protection of democracy.

00:58:55.000 I think they're in it for their own skins and the preservation of the narrative that says that their political enemies are in fact still deplorables.

00:59:02.000 They do not have to investigate or understand in any way.

00:59:05.000 Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:59:08.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 11, 2020

The Hysterical Media Are The Problem | Ep. 1135

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