The Ben Shapiro Show - The Left Panics Over Elon Musk’s Twitter Power Move | Ep. 1475

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00:01:28.000 Elon Musk has now made an audacious offer to buy all of Twitter and to take it private.

00:01:33.000 The offer was apparently a $43 billion bid for the company and it also includes a threat.

00:01:39.000 The threat is that because Musk is a 9.2% stakeholder in Twitter because he owns the largest single chunk of Twitter of any investor, that if they don't allow him to buy the rest of the company, he will just start selling shares on the open market and tanking the stock price by flooding the market with Twitter stock.

00:01:56.000 The Thursday offer, according to the Wall Street Journal, was the latest in a will-he-or-won't-he saga between the world's richest person and the social media service. The offer was at once serious, Musk disclosed it in a federal filing, and at the same time tinged with humor as the offer was for $54.20 per share, a barely valid marijuana reference. Twitter confirmed it had received the offer, said its board would review the proposal.

00:02:19.000 It's also weighing a so-called poison pill.

00:02:21.000 That'd be a legal mechanism that would prevent Musk from significantly increasing his stake in the company.

00:02:25.000 According to a person familiar with the situation, investors apparently were unimpressed.

00:02:29.000 Twitter shares fell nearly 2% to $45.08 per share, indicating skepticism that a deal would happen.

00:02:34.000 Well, I mean, of course they're skeptical of this because the board has no interest in Musk taking over.

00:02:38.000 He will fire all of them.

00:02:40.000 Musk, for his part, has said that he wants to reorient Twitter away from the censorious ways that Twitter has been run in the recent past.

00:02:47.000 The corporate board over at Twitter has been very interested in using algorithmic censoring in order to prevent the spread of information that they don't like, which is why you saw, for example, in October 2020, the complete shutdown of the New York Post's Twitter account.

00:03:00.000 It's why you see the Babylon Bee having its account suspended for mentioning that men cannot be women and women cannot be men.

00:03:05.000 It's kind of sporadic enforcement.

00:03:07.000 So long as Twitter feels like it's not going to earn tremendous public blowback, it will kind of push back, it'll ban accounts, and everybody knows that Twitter is wildly biased to the left.

00:03:16.000 I mean, this is just something that anyone who engages with Twitter knows.

00:03:19.000 The Twitter trends are just left-wing trends all the time.

00:03:23.000 It's something I've personally noticed because as a rather notorious person, I trend on Twitter probably once every three weeks, and Twitter has this little game that they play where my name starts to trend for a good reason, and then they wait for about five hours, and then they wait for a tweet from somebody on the left, and then they trend that tweet.

00:03:38.000 So they make sure that the Twitter trend is always about something negative.

00:03:41.000 This is just something Twitter always does.

00:03:43.000 And if you look at the way that they describe the Twitter trends, Twitter always takes the left-wing point of view on any given issue.

00:03:49.000 So Elon Musk is trying to reorient away from that because he says, correctly, that the true value of Twitter lies in the idea that we are all supposed to be able to spread and share our opinions, barring maybe the most extreme opinions, the most violent opinions.

00:04:03.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter executives spent years trying to promote what they called healthier discourse on the platform, adding content moderation largely on the argument that it is good for business.

00:04:12.000 Now, Elon Musk wants to take the company in a different direction.

00:04:15.000 In offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion, the world's richest man says he is intent on transforming the company into a bastion for free speech.

00:04:21.000 By taking it private, he says, he would remove the persistent pressure on the company from advertisers and shareholders about content that is potentially offensive to some users or could be deemed abusive.

00:04:31.000 He said in a federal filing on Thursday, Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.

00:04:36.000 That moderation light philosophy flies in the face of what Twitter has been attempting to do since about 2016, when both Salesforce.com and Walt Disney Company seriously considered offers, and their executives then said, we wouldn't offer it to Twitter because it was too open.

00:04:48.000 We need them to shut it down.

00:04:50.000 The nastiness is extraordinary on Twitter, said former Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger in 2019.

00:04:55.000 Like a lot of these platforms, they have the ability to do a lot of good in our world.

00:04:58.000 They have an ability to do a lot of bad.

00:04:59.000 I didn't want to take that on.

00:05:01.000 And this has always been the particularly peculiar narcissism and egoism of a lot of people in big tech.

00:05:07.000 You're engineers.

00:05:08.000 Your entire job is just to be a platform.

00:05:11.000 And yet, suddenly, because many people are using your service, because it is a platform, you now feel that God has tapped you on the shoulder in some way and told you that it is your job To increase the value of the discourse.

00:05:21.000 It's your job to make discourse better.

00:05:23.000 It's your job to nudge people in Cass Sunstein fashion and make them better human beings.

00:05:28.000 Mark Zuckerberg is not capable of making you a better human being.

00:05:30.000 Jack Dorsey is not capable of making you a better human being.

00:05:32.000 And Elon Musk is not capable of making you a better human being.

00:05:35.000 Nor are they truly capable of making the discourse in the country wildly better through their censorious efforts.

00:05:41.000 Instead, what ends up happening is they ban a bunch of accounts that ought not be banned, and then those people go, and they find other ways to distribute their information, and all the people who are disenchanted with the service think that the service is biased against them, because it usually is.

00:05:54.000 Musk does want to take that on.

00:05:55.000 Over the past two weeks, he's argued in a blizzard of tweets, and again Thursday in his securities filing, that censorship, not abuse, is the company's core problem, which again, As Musk is saying, this is true.

00:06:05.000 This has been true for a very, very long time.

00:06:09.000 As somebody who makes his living online, as somebody who has 4 million Twitter followers, And I would say maybe 10 million overall social media followers minimum.

00:06:17.000 I can tell you that when they switch over the algorithms without telling you what is going on in order to minimize the reach of particular posts, this makes everyone very suspicious of one another.

00:06:27.000 And it actually silos people off.

00:06:29.000 I would much rather that I see more left-wing content.

00:06:32.000 I do already.

00:06:33.000 I'd rather see more left-wing content, so long as it means I also get to see more right-wing content, than see exactly what Twitter wants me to see.

00:06:40.000 So, Musk did an interview at a TED conference in Vancouver over the last 24 hours, and he went off on the free speech orientation of Twitter.

00:06:48.000 Here's what he had to say.

00:06:50.000 If in doubt, let the speech, let it exist.

00:06:55.000 It would have, you know, if it's a, you know, a gray area, I would say let the tweet exist.

00:07:04.000 I do think that we want to be just very reluctant to delete things and just be very cautious with permanent bans.

00:07:14.000 Of course, he's exactly correct about all of this.

00:07:16.000 He said, any action should be made apparent, so anyone can see what is happening behind the scenes, so there's no manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.

00:07:25.000 Which, of course, is something we've been calling for here at the Delaware for quite a while.

00:07:28.000 If you're going to manipulate us, at least show us what manipulation is taking place.

00:07:32.000 Don't make us kind of shoot in the dark for how you are suppressing information or not suppressing information.

00:07:37.000 That suspicion, by the way, is what leads to the rise of conspiracism.

00:07:40.000 Because if I don't know what's happening behind closed doors, but I know you're doing something to screw with how my speech is distributed behind closed doors, this makes me more likely to believe conspiracy theories about exactly what it is that you are doing and what it is that you are thinking.

00:07:52.000 Musk continued by saying that it's important that we have broadly inclusive platforms, that the play that he's making for Twitter is not predominantly a profit-driven play.

00:08:00.000 Which, by the way, I'm sure is true.

00:08:02.000 And a lot of people saying, no, no, no, it is a profit-driven play for Musk. 0.97

00:08:04.000 Well, I mean, profit, I'm sure, is involved because Musk is a very, very wealthy man who doesn't make stupid economic decisions as a general matter. 0.84

00:08:11.000 However, there are better investments than Twitter.

00:08:13.000 I think that Musk actually does believe that he makes a world of difference by getting involved in platforms like Twitter and opening them up.

00:08:19.000 My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

00:08:37.000 He is absolutely correct about this.

00:08:38.000 If we can't have platforms where we at least argue and discuss with one another, if there's a feeling that you have to be on a different platform in order to discuss politics, then Twitter, and Twitter is just for the left-wingers, it's amazing.

00:08:49.000 Everybody on the left is constantly worried about news siloing, about information siloing.

00:08:53.000 You guys created the silos.

00:08:55.000 You are the ones who are hardening the silos.

00:08:57.000 We know what you are doing.

00:08:59.000 On a business level, Musk says he's not sure that he's going to be able to acquire Twitter.

00:09:02.000 There's already been pushback from some of the investors, including a Saudi prince who's a major Twitter shareholder.

00:09:06.000 His name is Al-Waleed Bin Talal.

00:09:08.000 He took to Twitter to say he was already rejecting the entrepreneur's cash offer for the social media platform because it was apparently too low.

00:09:15.000 Musk, for his part, he then tweeted, you know what, why don't you ask the shareholders whether it's too low?

00:09:20.000 He said, quote, it would be utterly indefensible not to put this offer to a shareholder vote.

00:09:23.000 They own the company, not the board of directors.

00:09:26.000 He also pointed out in a filing that there's been Goldman Sachs reports showing exactly how much the company is worth, and I'm offering you more than the company is worth.

00:09:39.000 He posted the Goldman Sachs rating for the company according to Daily Wire.

00:09:44.000 He said, quote, which of course is true.

00:09:46.000 They lost a lot of money last year.

00:09:47.000 to shareholder interest they would be breaching their fiduciary duty. The liability they would thereby assume would be titanic in scale. And he posted a screenshot of Goldman Sachs' equity research rating for Twitter saying that the company was a sell stock as it was falling behind performance forecast, which of course is true. They lost a lot of money last year, they lost a lot of money the year before. According to Goldman Sachs, in analyzing Twitter's Q4 21 earnings report and forward operating commentary, a few key themes, many of them reiteration of the past year, were front and center.

00:10:14.000 First, Twitter management expressed optimism on the ability to grow users at an accelerated pace versus prior periods.

00:10:20.000 However, we remain below that forecast.

00:10:22.000 Second, Twitter remains in investment mode against goals aimed at user growth, product innovation, and advertising diversification.

00:10:28.000 So he's saying, you know, you guys keep saying that it's worth a lot of money, but I've noticed that you guys keep losing money.

00:10:32.000 And then when I offer to pay you a lot more money than the stock is actually worth, you're telling me no, right?

00:10:37.000 He is offering $54.20.

00:10:39.000 The stock is currently valued at somewhere between $43 and $47, kind of bouncing around a little bit.

00:10:45.000 So he's offering a pretty solid premium above what the actual public stock price is worth.

00:10:49.000 And a bunch of people are saying they don't want to sell their stock.

00:10:52.000 That has a lot less to do, I have a feeling, with people not willing to make profit because they really think the upward trajectory of Twitter is strong.

00:10:59.000 And a lot more to do with the simple fact that they don't like the idea that Musk is going to come in and open up the business.

00:11:05.000 And you can see this from the commentary.

00:11:06.000 So, for example, you have Scott Kessler, Vice President and Global Lead for Technology at Third Bridge, a research firm, quote, Sometimes when people are idealistic or aspirational, they don't think about the other side of these considerations.

00:11:16.000 Reducing harassment is something the company spent a lot of time and money on over the last couple years.

00:11:20.000 I think by many accounts, they've done a pretty good job.

00:11:24.000 Joan Donovan, Research Director at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, said reducing the harm caused by online campaigns targeting minorities and other vulnerable groups needs to be a priority in the C-suite.

00:11:37.000 Musk does not seem concerned with that.

00:11:39.000 Now, I've noticed that they keep quoting people who have never owned a business.

00:11:41.000 They're quoting a lot of people who are experts in academics, people who work for places like the Harvard Kennedy Shorenstein Center on Media, research directors, and you know what they aren't?

00:11:51.000 Billionaires.

00:11:51.000 And there is a reason they're not billionaires.

00:11:55.000 Now there's some equity analysts who are saying, no, no, no, the real reason that Twitter is doing this is because they want to be more advertiser friendly.

00:12:00.000 But here's the thing.

00:12:01.000 When you have as many users as Twitter has, advertisers will find a way to advertise on your platform and all these sort of gutlessness where they say, oh, you know, advertisers might run screaming away from our platform.

00:12:12.000 Yeah, no, they won't.

00:12:13.000 Advertisers will deal with it, and what they will say is the same thing that advertisers should always say, which is, we're not responsible for every comment on Twitter.

00:12:20.000 We just advertise on Twitter because that's where the eyeballs are, which is the way the business is supposed to work in the first place.

00:12:26.000 Musk did say he's not sure that he's going to be able to acquire Twitter because, of course, the board is attempting to put all these poison pills in the deal.

00:12:31.000 Here was Musk yesterday.

00:12:33.000 And I'm not sure that I will actually be able to acquire it.

00:12:37.000 And I should also say, the intent is to retain as many shareholders as is allowed by the law in a private company, which I think is around 2,000 or so.

00:12:48.000 So it's definitely not from the standpoint of letting me figure out how to monopolize or maximize my ownership of Twitter.

00:12:56.000 Musk also said that there might be a plan B if plan A fails, meaning if he does not have his offer accepted, then there might be something on the horizon here.

00:13:05.000 So, you don't like to lose.

00:13:07.000 If, in this case, you are not successful in, you know, the board does not accept your offer, you've said you won't go higher, is there a plan B?

00:13:15.000 There is.

00:13:21.000 I think we would like to hear a little bit about plan B.

00:13:28.000 For another time, I think.

00:13:30.000 Another time?

00:13:31.000 Yeah.

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00:14:45.000 So a lot of people on the right are celebrating Musk.

00:14:47.000 A lot of people on the left are very angry at Musk.

00:14:49.000 I mean, listen, I think Musk is doing amazing work.

00:14:51.000 I mean, first of all, he's an amazing entrepreneur.

00:14:53.000 He's revitalized the space program in the United States.

00:14:55.000 Tesla is an incredible company.

00:14:57.000 And he is one of the great entrepreneurial stories of the 21st century, maybe the best entrepreneurial story of the 21st century.

00:15:04.000 And the fact that he is now dipping his toe into these waters in an attempt to broaden freedom of speech makes him somewhat heroic.

00:15:11.000 I'm not going to put any sort of shine on this.

00:15:13.000 It is a heroic act to take your money and put it where your mouth is.

00:15:16.000 If you believe that Twitter is doing a bad job in preventing content from being disseminated to the public, and then you decide to take billions of dollars and plop them on the table, This is an act of actual free speech heroism.

00:15:29.000 And the people he's fighting are all on the board.

00:15:31.000 Twitter's CEO, Parag Agarwal, according to the Wall Street Journal, declined to discuss specifics of Musk's offer, only saying the board was considering it.

00:15:38.000 He said the company had a strong culture of protecting its users and that, quote, no one man can change that.

00:15:43.000 Well, I mean, he can if he actually just takes over the company.

00:15:46.000 Now, the left has lost its mind, and this just shows you where they are in free speech.

00:15:50.000 They hate the idea of a platform that is not moderated by a bunch of left-wingers sitting in offices in Silicon Valley.

00:15:57.000 They cannot deal with it.

00:15:58.000 And they cannot deal with the idea that the algorithm should be public.

00:16:00.000 It's amazing.

00:16:01.000 I've said for a while that we are now in an unbelievable, sort of a bizarre period in which the press are the leading advocates of censorship.

00:16:09.000 Members of the press, members of the left wing, people who were the liberals, the people who supposedly said back in the 1970s that we may not agree with what you say, but we will die for your right to say it. 0.72

00:16:18.000 Well, now the idea is we may not agree with what you say, and we will kill you if you try to say it.

00:16:23.000 That's the basic idea.

00:16:24.000 So members of the media have been losing their minds over the idea that Elon Musk is going to come in and open up Twitter, because after all, it might hurt their feel-feels.

00:16:32.000 So you have Axios.

00:16:33.000 Here's a headline from Axios, quote, Elon Musk goes into full goblin mode.

00:16:38.000 The world's richest man, someone who used to be compared to Marvel's Iron Man, is increasingly behaving like a movie supervillain, commanding seemingly unlimited resources with which to finance his mischief-making.

00:16:49.000 You see, it's mischief-making.

00:16:49.000 If you take a- By the way, Jack Dorsey is a very, very wealthy man.

00:16:53.000 Mark Zuckerberg over at Facebook, incredibly, incredibly wealthy.

00:16:56.000 I've also noticed that nobody had any problem whatsoever when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post.

00:17:00.000 Democracy dies in darkness, guys.

00:17:02.000 So billionaires, it turns out, own a lot of things, including major media outlets, including major social media outlets, and they control these things.

00:17:10.000 It's just that you like the way that they've been controlling things so far because you like the fact that things like the Hunter Biden story get buried.

00:17:16.000 You like the fact that accounts that you don't like get banned.

00:17:19.000 And now, when the shoe's on the other foot, let me just say this, go build your own.

00:17:23.000 Go build your own, right?

00:17:24.000 That's what we've been told.

00:17:24.000 We've been told if you don't like Twitter, go build your own Twitter.

00:17:26.000 Okay, fine.

00:17:27.000 Well, if Elon Musk takes over Twitter and you don't like how it's run, go build your own and see if everybody likes left-wing Twitter better than they like a more open and free Twitter.

00:17:35.000 Axios, again, a press outlet complaining that he's a movie supervillain.

00:17:39.000 Since when is it a movie supervillain move to buy a supposedly free speech outlet and make it more pro-free speech?

00:17:45.000 It's incredible.

00:17:47.000 It really is.

00:17:47.000 I mean, the hatred of free speech these people hold is insane.

00:17:51.000 MSNBC's Katie Turrer was on the air warning panicked viewers.

00:17:54.000 Oh my god, don't worry.

00:17:56.000 It'll probably be okay.

00:17:57.000 But I mean, Musk is a scary guy.

00:17:58.000 He's a scary dude with his free speech and stuff.

00:18:01.000 There are real and devastating consequences for using that platform to lie.

00:18:07.000 And we've seen it.

00:18:08.000 We've seen it happen.

00:18:10.000 I wonder, you know, when talking about this, it's, you know, it's kind of funny.

00:18:14.000 Oh, Elon Musk wants to buy it.

00:18:15.000 But there are massive Life and globe altering consequences for just letting people run wild on the thing.

00:18:23.000 Oh my god, it's just a life and globe altering con... What about the life and globe altering consequences of having a bunch of ninnies from the left wing decide what you can and cannot see? 1.00

00:18:32.000 By the way, as someone pointed out, no one on the left seems to have a problem with the fact that they Saudi Prince, who's not exactly famous for allowing free speech.

00:18:38.000 I mean, five seconds ago, we were being told by the left wing that the Saudi Arabian government was the apex of all evil because they had Jamal Khashoggi murdered.

00:18:46.000 the Muslim Brotherhood fellow traveler who used to write for the Washington Post.

00:18:50.000 They had him murdered at the Turkish embassy. 0.96

00:18:52.000 And so the Saudis were the worst people in the entire world. 1.00

00:18:54.000 Now they have no problem, but the Saudis owning a large chunk of Twitter and allowing left-wing censors to actually crack down on content. 0.97

00:19:01.000 But if Elon Musk takes over, that's a huge, huge problem.

00:19:05.000 We cannot allow this.

00:19:06.000 All of the furrowed eyebrows and the worried faces and the carousel-ishers of the world.

00:19:11.000 Oh my God, what if Elon Musk would take over?

00:19:14.000 And then people might get more abusive on Twitter.

00:19:16.000 Here's the thing, Twitter does not ban abuse.

00:19:18.000 It just bans a particular type of abuse.

00:19:22.000 Twitter, in many cases, is the abuser.

00:19:23.000 Twitter will allow people to simply trend people for no reason based on 10-year-old posts, 15-year-old posts.

00:19:29.000 Twitter is an abusive place.

00:19:31.000 As I've said before, it is a place to dunk and be dunked upon.

00:19:33.000 That is all Twitter is.

00:19:35.000 And yet everybody on the left is acting as though it's sacrosanct territory.

00:19:38.000 Sort of reminiscent of that time that I wrote the Politico playbook about a year and a half ago, and the entire Politico newsroom had to have an all-hands meeting in order to assuage the feelings of all of the weeping children who constitute their editorial staff.

00:19:49.000 It's the same thing, except the entire press.

00:19:52.000 The entire press is now, oh my god, Twitter?

00:19:54.000 You know, our playground?

00:19:55.000 The place where we develop policies like boys can be girls and girls can be boys?

00:19:58.000 You're saying that you might not ban the people we want you to ban?

00:20:01.000 That has life and globe-altering consequences.

00:20:04.000 Well, yes.

00:20:06.000 That's Elon Musk's point.

00:20:07.000 That when you guys set the standard, you alter the way that politics is run.

00:20:10.000 And maybe you ought not be the final arbiters.

00:20:12.000 Maybe you ought to let the people decide.

00:20:14.000 And if there are going to be algorithmic changes or algorithmic demotions of particular content, maybe that ought to be transparent so that we can all see what's going on.

00:20:23.000 These advocates of freedom and openness of information, it turns out they're not interested in free and open information.

00:20:28.000 They're interested in funneling the information they want directly into your skull.

00:20:31.000 And if anybody gets in the way of that, including Elon Musk, this makes him really bad.

00:20:35.000 And you can see the fun in all the people on the left who have now flipped on this.

00:20:38.000 Trump was a fascist, but if I don't get exactly what I want, democracy dies in darkness.

00:20:42.000 So you have Robert Reich. 0.91

00:20:44.000 Former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and he tweets out, Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for violating his First Amendment rights by keeping him off their platforms.

00:20:53.000 Someone should remind him there are private companies to which the First Amendment doesn't apply.

00:20:56.000 That is in July of 2021.

00:20:59.000 Fast forward less than a year, quote, we are watching a hostile takeover of Twitter by the richest man in the world who regularly tries to silence critics.

00:21:06.000 This is what oligarchy looks like.

00:21:08.000 So it's a private company that can do whatever it wants when it was banning Trump.

00:21:12.000 When it's Elon Musk saying, I want to unban people, then it's a hostile takeover of Twitter by a rich man who is an oligarch. 0.99

00:21:20.000 It's just, it's pathetic. 0.95

00:21:22.000 You have David Levitt, a journalist who has written for CBS. 0.98

00:21:25.000 Here's what he tweeted out.

00:21:26.000 If Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War III and the destruction of our planet.

00:21:33.000 Don't overstate the case there, David.

00:21:35.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:21:38.000 Woo! 0.99

00:21:39.000 World War 3 and the destruction of our planet if Elon Musk takes over. 0.99

00:21:42.000 By the way, these people are so up their own asses, it's unbelievable. 0.99

00:21:46.000 Their heads are so far up their colon, it's coming out their face again. 1.00

00:21:51.000 You have to really live on Twitter if you believe that Elon Musk taking over Twitter is going to destroy the Earth.

00:21:58.000 Really?

00:21:58.000 We have hundreds of thousands of people who are murdered in wars every single year around the planet.

00:22:03.000 Elon Musk takes over a social media service where people jabber and send memes to one another, and suddenly this is World War III and the end of our planet.

00:22:12.000 But you can see, the panic is real.

00:22:13.000 And the panic, again, is because their institutional control is threatened, and Musk is threatening their institutional control, and they cannot take it.

00:22:20.000 If Musk does nothing else, the fact that he is exposing left for the anti-free speech force it is, is totally worthwhile, even if he doesn't end up taking over Twitter.

00:22:27.000 It is perfectly clear.

00:22:28.000 You can see who's out there defending Twitter as it currently stands, by the way.

00:22:30.000 Anybody who says that Twitter is not a left-wing biased company, you can see exactly the political breakdown.

00:22:34.000 Everybody on the left is freaking out over Musk changing the rules, which suggests they know that the rules are rigged in their favor.

00:22:42.000 Okay, but it's not just Robert Reich or Axios or David Levitt.

00:22:45.000 It's Matthew Roja from Salon.com.

00:22:48.000 So he tweeted out, quote, Dear Parag, this is the current CEO of Twitter.

00:22:52.000 If you're reading this, right now the world needs to know that you are stronger, smarter, and more tenacious than Elon Musk.

00:23:00.000 Spoiler alert, he isn't.

00:23:01.000 He thinks he can beat you.

00:23:02.000 The free world needs to know he is wrong.

00:23:04.000 Yours truly, a lifelong and long verified Twitter user.

00:23:08.000 Lifelong?

00:23:09.000 In Twitter, Is he 17?

00:23:13.000 When did Twitter open?

00:23:14.000 It was like 2005, maybe?

00:23:16.000 So, lifelong and long verified Twitter.

00:23:18.000 By the way, that's how you should sign on.

00:23:19.000 I'm going to sign all of my letters from now on.

00:23:21.000 Like that.

00:23:21.000 A verified Twitter user.

00:23:23.000 Ooh.

00:23:24.000 A blue check.

00:23:25.000 Ooh.

00:23:26.000 Then you have David Rothkopf.

00:23:28.000 of the Daily Beast, quote, we are the assets of Twitter.

00:23:31.000 If we walk out the door, the moment Elon Musk takes it over, it is nothing.

00:23:34.000 And I can tell you, I for one, have no desire to participate in the social engineering experiments of that particular out of control megalomaniac.

00:23:42.000 You on Facebook, David?

00:23:45.000 Who owns Twitter right now?

00:23:46.000 I guess it is It's just, it's unbelievable. 1.00

00:23:49.000 By the way, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. 0.99

00:23:51.000 Jeff Jarvis, this may be the single funniest tweet. 0.99

00:23:55.000 This is a professor at CUNY.

00:23:56.000 He's a professor, one of our great intellectual luminaries.

00:23:59.000 Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.

00:24:05.000 Yes, it is just like when a billionaire takes over a private company and seeks to open it up to more free speech that's just like Hitler.

00:24:16.000 I can see how you could make that mistake.

00:24:18.000 The only thing separating Elon Musk from Hitler is apparently the mustache and the fact that Hitler murdered his political opponents and gassed millions of people and started a world war.

00:24:29.000 Other than that, the same.

00:24:31.000 It's just like the end of... I don't like these people.

00:24:34.000 Then you have Max Boot, who... It's kind of sad to watch people who 20 years ago actually wrote good stuff just kind of destroy themselves.

00:24:41.000 This includes people like Ann Applebaum over at the Washington Post and now Max Boot.

00:24:45.000 Max Boot, who lost it because of Trump.

00:24:47.000 He's actually written some good books on guerrilla warfare, and I've praised his books before.

00:24:50.000 Max Boot tweeted out, he's just lost his mind.

00:24:54.000 I mean, maybe he feels special because he wears a fedora in his little profile photo there.

00:24:59.000 Like he's a hard hat.

00:25:01.000 Hard-nosed journalist walking the beat in Chicago in 1921.

00:25:04.000 He tweets out, quote, I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter.

00:25:10.000 He seems to believe that on social media, anything goes.

00:25:12.000 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

00:25:18.000 Democracy dies unless you moderate the content exactly as I want.

00:25:22.000 Unless there is top-down imposition of content moderation, democracy dies.

00:25:27.000 Um, maybe you don't understand the word democracy, but it seems to me like you just don't like the oligarch who is attempting to open things up.

00:25:36.000 You just want things more closed.

00:25:40.000 It is astonishing to watch.

00:25:41.000 It really is.

00:25:42.000 Our press, the left wing, they have all decided that Elon Musk opening up Twitter is a really, really bad thing.

00:25:48.000 Business Insider tweeted out the headline, Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter represents a chilling new threat.

00:25:55.000 Billionaire trolls taking over social media.

00:25:58.000 I mean, if billionaires owned social media, wouldn't that be such a problem?

00:26:02.000 That would be so bad if billionaires owned social media, man. 0.99

00:26:05.000 That would suck.

00:26:06.000 Like, every social media company is owned by a billionaire. 0.96

00:26:09.000 Just gonna point that out.

00:26:11.000 But, oh my goodness, these folks.

00:26:13.000 So, let it never be said again that Twitter is an unbiased source as it currently stands, because you can see precisely who's coming out of the woodwork to defend Twitter as it currently stands, and it is all the people who hate all conservatives and wish them all to be banned from social media.

00:26:27.000 It's really, really amazing.

00:26:28.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:26:29.000 Joe Biden's approval rating continues to tank.

00:26:31.000 He's down to 33%, according to Quinnipiac Poll.

00:26:33.000 His support among young people collapsed by double digits in his first 14 months in office, according to John Regalizzo over at dailywire.com.

00:26:40.000 According to a report from Gallup, over the course of Joe Biden's presidency so far, his approval rating declined by 19 points among millennials, from 60% approval to 41%.

00:26:49.000 21 points among Generation Z, from 60% to 39%.

00:26:53.000 Older generations, meanwhile, had changed their opinions significantly less.

00:26:56.000 As a result, older Americans are now more likely to approve of the president than younger Americans are, which is an incredible statistic.

00:27:02.000 Because, after all, his entire drive was supposed to be, young people will support me, college-educated liberals will support me, and minorities will support me, and he's losing pretty much everyone.

00:27:11.000 During Biden's honeymoon period, according to Gallup, 60% of both Generation Z adults and millennials approved of the job he was doing.

00:27:17.000 By the summer, Biden had lost significant support among Generation Z millennials and Generation X, ranging from 7 to 10 percentage point drops.

00:27:24.000 All generational groups have become less approving of Biden since the summer after the troubled U.S.

00:27:28.000 withdrawal from Afghanistan in late 2021.

00:27:31.000 Older generations were less inclined to change their opinions of Biden, perhaps because they have some sympathy for him as an older gentleman.

00:27:37.000 Baby Boomer's opinions of Biden didn't change much.

00:27:39.000 Their approval of Biden stood at 53% during the honeymoon phase and dropped to 52% during the summer of 2021, dropped to 46% in fall of 2021 and early 2022. Traditionalists, the generation before the baby boomers, didn't change their opinion of Biden much at all.

00:27:53.000 Their opinion was at 48% after Biden took office.

00:27:56.000 It was 47% in the summer.

00:27:57.000 It is now back at 48%.

00:27:58.000 Part of that is, again, because people who are older tend to have more experience, and so they really don't shift their opinions quite as quickly as people who are younger.

00:28:07.000 Bottom line, though, is that Joe Biden is falling apart, and it is clear that he is falling apart.

00:28:13.000 Every one of these gaffes is now painful to watch.

00:28:15.000 So, yesterday, Joe Biden, he suggested that we are cutting down all of our forests.

00:28:22.000 I don't know where he is getting this information, but here is Joe Biden talking about environmentalism or something.

00:28:29.000 For the rest of the world, one of the proposals I have and will go into now is to build back a better world.

00:28:35.000 So all those countries in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East, who don't have the capacity to make it better for themselves.

00:28:43.000 We cut down all our forests.

00:28:45.000 We're doing fine.

00:28:45.000 Guess what?

00:28:47.000 We're part of the reason for the global warming.

00:28:49.000 We did.

00:28:50.000 We cut down all of our forests because we didn't.

00:28:52.000 I'm just going to point that out.

00:28:53.000 We did not cut down all of our forests.

00:28:54.000 We have a lot of trees here in the United States.

00:28:56.000 But that was just the beginning.

00:28:58.000 Joe Biden also gave us a Jeb Bush please clap moment.

00:29:02.000 He explained that you can cheer for him.

00:29:05.000 Well, the problem is no one wants to, Joe.

00:29:07.000 No one.

00:29:08.000 Here we go.

00:29:09.000 Thanks for making a difference for the families here in North Carolina, Governor.

00:29:13.000 You're setting an example all across the country.

00:29:15.000 Thank you.

00:29:16.000 And look, you can cheer.

00:29:17.000 It's all right.

00:29:20.000 Oh my goodness.

00:29:21.000 But that wasn't the worst because the worst is he finishes this speech and Joe Biden literally starts shaking hands with no one.

00:29:21.000 Okay.

00:29:27.000 No, nobody like people who aren't there.

00:29:29.000 He's shaking hands with ghosts.

00:29:31.000 It's as though Patrick Swayze is just standing on the other hand here, like, like from ghost, just speaking to him.

00:29:37.000 It's corn pop.

00:29:38.000 It's the ghost of corn pop.

00:29:40.000 I will describe this to you if you're just listening and you can't watch it, but you really should watch the clip.

00:29:43.000 It's amazing.

00:29:43.000 He finishes his speech.

00:29:44.000 He literally puts out his hands.

00:29:45.000 You shake hands with a person who is not there.

00:29:48.000 Our president is seeing things.

00:29:50.000 Here we go.

00:29:51.000 God bless you all.

00:29:53.000 He finishes, he turns to his right, and he proceeds to put out his hand as though he's going to shake hands with somebody.

00:29:58.000 And then he turns to the back as though he's going to shake hands with somebody.

00:30:01.000 Corn Pop is in neither place.

00:30:03.000 And then he just wanders around the stage aimlessly until somebody directs him offstage.

00:30:07.000 He is, uh, he's definitely with it.

00:30:10.000 So, this Biden administration, which is in serious, serious trouble, they've come up with their new plan.

00:30:14.000 Wait, wait, guess what it is?

00:30:15.000 Guess what it is? 0.99

00:30:17.000 Yes, they're doubling down on the equity garbage. 0.97

00:30:18.000 That's what the plan is. 0.98

00:30:19.000 The plan is, we're losing everybody, double down on what pleases college-educated, white, liberal women who want C.R.I. 1.00

00:30:25.000 Rao over to dinner to explain to them their racial flaws, and also black Americans. 0.99

00:30:30.000 This is like, this is his plan. 0.90

00:30:32.000 By the way, black Americans are not buying this, increasingly. 0.82

00:30:35.000 He's down with everybody except for college-educated white women. 0.99

00:30:38.000 So now the Biden administration, this is their new plan to win people back. 0.97

00:30:43.000 They trotted out domestic policy advisor Susan Rice, who was a garbage heap while she was serving in the Obama administration as national security advisor. 0.94

00:30:49.000 Now she's back as domestic policy advisor. 0.74

00:30:52.000 And apparently he is going to advance racial equity.

00:30:56.000 He's going to advance racial equity.

00:30:58.000 And some of the steps that they are pushing are promoting fair housing policies, which presumably means spending more government money on affordable housing, which of course ends generally with rent control or crappy affordable housing, because that's what the government does, strengthen the nation-to-nation relationship with Native American tribes and Alaska Natives, We're going to have to explain how that works.

00:31:19.000 End private prisons, which presumably means the closing and shuttering of prisons, which will exacerbate the crime rates.

00:31:27.000 And combat xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, without mentioning who exactly is committing the vast bulk of hate crime against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

00:31:34.000 And the answer is not white people.

00:31:36.000 So that's going to be kind of awkward for the Biden administration.

00:31:40.000 More than 90 federal agencies released their action equity plans on Thursday.

00:31:44.000 They were ordered by President Biden during his first days in office.

00:31:47.000 All cabinet level agencies unveiled what senior Biden officials called an ambitious equity and racial justice agenda around labor, housing, the environment, healthcare, broadband, and law enforcement.

00:31:57.000 With police reform and voting rights legislation stalled in Congress, according to Axios, the Biden administration's executive actions are aimed at doing what it can to fulfill a promise to address systemic racism.

00:32:07.000 Details released by the White House also included plans to make national parks more accessible to people with disabilities and reduce discrimination against LGBTQIA2 plus minus plus equal sign, caret sign, command sign, hashtag tilde.

00:32:21.000 People.

00:32:22.000 Senior Biden officials said agencies would simplify grants programs and government documents to make services easier to access for people of color and tribal communities.

00:32:29.000 So every single department of the government is now going to be oriented toward the idea that America is systemically racist and only reverse discrimination is capable of rectifying that discrimination.

00:32:39.000 The Department of Housing and Urban Development vowed to examine how to reduce bias in home appraisals.

00:32:43.000 The Department of Commerce promised to spend $50 billion on broadband infrastructure in rural and tribal communities.

00:32:49.000 By the way, broadband infrastructure is definitely going to solve the problems in rural and tribal communities which have, unfortunately, an extensive rate of crime and alcoholism and abuse.

00:33:00.000 Probably more internet is going to fix that.

00:33:02.000 That's where we need to put our focus.

00:33:03.000 The Department of Veterans Affairs said it will work to improve the social and economic determinants for the health of LGBTQIA plus minus divided by assigned veterans.

00:33:13.000 Because that's, with our military shrinking, we need the Department of Veterans Affairs really focused in on, you know, the vast bulk of our soldiers who are, in fact, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, etc.

00:33:24.000 NASA said it would release Earth science data in more accessible formats to show environmental challenges in underserved communities.

00:33:32.000 Because that's what NASA does. 1.00

00:33:32.000 They don't explore space anymore. 1.00

00:33:34.000 Instead, they release reports on how racist the environment is.

00:33:38.000 Here, for example, is NASA explaining its new magical equity plan.

00:33:42.000 We are no longer going to worry about, you know, getting to Mars.

00:33:46.000 We're going to worry about whether there are enough black astronauts or something.

00:33:50.000 At NASA, all of our missions, whether it's in space or here on Earth, they're going to require equal opportunity.

00:34:00.000 And so today we're releasing NASA's 2022 Equity Action Plan.

00:34:06.000 It outlines this agency's strategy to improve fairness and to try to give more opportunities for Americans across the country.

00:34:17.000 Diversity in space!

00:34:22.000 Yeah, I'm sure we're freaking out the Chinese with this stuff. 1.00

00:34:24.000 I mean, if we don't have a lesbian little person in space by the year 2025, I think America has failed. 0.96

00:34:30.000 I mean, honestly, we've had first black woman vice president, first black female Supreme Court justice, although we don't know what a woman is, but until we have a lesbian transgender woman who's a little person, who's black, who has one foot in space, so that we have equal opportunity, I think NASA has failed. 0.92

00:34:50.000 That's really where things are at.

00:34:53.000 So this is all exciting stuff.

00:34:55.000 Well, the media and the Biden administration, they're very focused on equity, equity, equity, equity.

00:34:59.000 But here's the thing.

00:35:00.000 All of that is a lie.

00:35:01.000 What they're actually focused on is just lying to you.

00:35:04.000 We're not going to do that here at Daily Wire.

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00:35:29.000 Rosas was reporting from the ground firsthand, and he gives his experiences and exposes the media's attempts to convince Americans that fatal and destructive riots were actually mostly peaceful.

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00:35:43.000 They did not give you the whole story.

00:35:46.000 I was there.

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00:35:50.000 I saw all the riots with my own eyes.

00:35:53.000 Windshields being smashed, giant rocks that were being thrown, businesses that were starting to be looted.

00:35:58.000 The crowd started to become hostile.

00:36:02.000 All the cops were trapped and surrounded.

00:36:04.000 Police were being ordered to retreat.

00:36:06.000 I experienced the tear gas.

00:36:08.000 I experienced the smoke.

00:36:09.000 This was very real to me.

00:36:11.000 The mainstream media, they were trying to call them protests.

00:36:14.000 CNN with that chyron saying, fiery but mostly peaceful.

00:36:17.000 They're trying to push a narrative of don't believe your lying eyes because they were trying to appease a very dedicated Antifa movement that's there.

00:36:26.000 When you read my book, Fiery But Mostly Peaceful, you will get the full story.

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00:36:39.000 Yeah, I mean, the media lied so unbelievably much in 2020 and Julio really does pull back the curtain because he was there.

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00:36:50.000 You're listening to the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast and radio show in the nation.

00:36:54.000 Here's the thing.

00:37:00.000 All of this equity stuff, it's not going to work, and Democrats know it's not going to work, which is why they're running headlong away from this sort of stuff.

00:37:06.000 So, for example, yesterday, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, he actually called out Black Lives Matter, saying, I noticed that you guys don't have anything to say when black civilians are being killed by other black civilians, and if you actually cared about black lives, you might comment on that.

00:37:20.000 That used to be a quote-unquote right-wing talking point. 0.98

00:37:22.000 The reason Eric Adams is saying it is because it turns out the equity agenda of Joe Biden and company is garbage and people don't like it. 0.98

00:37:28.000 I thought Black Lives Matter. 0.97

00:37:30.000 Where are all those who stated black lives matter? 1.00

00:37:36.000 Then go do an analysis of who was killed or shot last night.

00:37:42.000 I was up all night speaking to my commanders in the Bronx, in Brooklyn. 0.88

00:37:47.000 The victims were black. 0.97

00:37:50.000 Many of the shooters were black.

00:37:53.000 Okay, so when you have people like Eric Adams who are now mirroring talking points that were used by Republicans in 2020, you know the Democrats have gone down the wrong path here.

00:38:01.000 The polls, by the way, show the Democrats have gone down the wrong path. 0.91

00:38:03.000 They keep saying equity, equity, equity, and we need to mainline a bunch of this garbage into teaching your kids. 0.99

00:38:10.000 We need to teach your kids that America is a systemically racist country. 0.99

00:38:13.000 We need to teach your kids about gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten.

00:38:18.000 And it turns out Americans generally don't like this sort of stuff.

00:38:20.000 There's a new poll out from the Associated Press and what it found is that Americans are quote-unquote very split about how much children in K through 12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.

00:38:31.000 About 4 in 10 Republicans say teachers in local public schools discuss issues related to sexuality too much.

00:38:36.000 Only about 1 in 10 say too little.

00:38:38.000 Among Democrats, those numbers are reversed.

00:38:41.000 Meaning that they think that teachers should talk about sexuality more.

00:38:44.000 I'm looking at the stats right now, and here is what it says.

00:38:47.000 Partisans split over parent and teacher influence on school curricula.

00:38:50.000 But it finds that all adults, 50%, say that parents have too little influence on what is said in the classroom.

00:38:59.000 About 50%.

00:38:59.000 That's 38% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans.

00:39:04.000 How about teachers?

00:39:05.000 51% of all adults say teachers have too little input on what goes on in the classroom.

00:39:09.000 So I think people just don't understand this question.

00:39:12.000 62% of Democrats, however, say that teachers have too little input.

00:39:15.000 So they say, Democrats are fairly consistent here.

00:39:18.000 What they say is 38% of Democrats think parents have not enough impact.

00:39:23.000 62% of Democrats think that parents, that teachers have too little impact.

00:39:28.000 So they want teachers, not parents, Democrats do.

00:39:32.000 For Republicans, those numbers are reversed.

00:39:34.000 65% of Republicans say parents should have more power.

00:39:35.000 40% of Republicans say teachers should have more power.

00:39:39.000 But here's the thing about this poll.

00:39:41.000 When you look at the downline numbers, this is not a poll of parents.

00:39:44.000 This is a poll of all Americans.

00:39:47.000 And it wildly undersamples parents.

00:39:50.000 And for people for whom this is the top priority, what gets taught in schools, I guarantee you, people who have kids, they're not siding with Democrats on these issues.

00:39:58.000 So you have a bunch of single ladies up in San Francisco who are saying, yes, teachers definitely should be teaching what they want to teach and not what parents want. 1.00

00:40:04.000 And then you have parents who actually make this their number one issue, saying the opposite. 0.98

00:40:08.000 Democrats are fools to embrace this issue. 0.98

00:40:11.000 And yet they do embrace this issue. 0.99

00:40:13.000 And I honestly, I think so much of Democrats embracing these issues is about their mirroring of what the media say.

00:40:20.000 And you have practical examples of this, of course.

00:40:22.000 And you remember last year that the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the Del Rio sector horse patrol unit on the border because the media pretended that members of the border patrol were whipping migrants.

00:40:36.000 They were not whipping migrants.

00:40:37.000 They were actually using the reins to control their horses.

00:40:40.000 And you remember that Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, promised a speedy investigation into the so-called whipping, as according to Breitbart.

00:40:50.000 He said it would be completed in days, not weeks.

00:40:53.000 Well, that happened months ago.

00:40:54.000 That was in September of 2021.

00:40:55.000 Now they've completed the investigation, and they've quietly leaked the fact that none of it was true.

00:40:59.000 There was no whipping.

00:41:01.000 Okay, but this just demonstrates how this administration runs.

00:41:04.000 It just mirrors whatever they think the media want from them.

00:41:08.000 And this is true on matters of equity as well.

00:41:10.000 The media actively downplays the real problems of real Americans in favor of racial wokeness.

00:41:16.000 There's a study from the Washington Free Beacon came out yesterday, which confirms what everybody knows.

00:41:21.000 Which is that the media dramatically undercover the race of suspects if the suspects happen to be black. 0.60

00:41:26.000 The Washington Free Beacon points out that the man arrested for Tuesday's New York City subway shooting is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics.

00:41:34.000 A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that.

00:41:37.000 In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, this suspect's race was not mentioned.

00:41:41.000 The same was true for coverage offered by Reuters.

00:41:43.000 The Washington Post only mentioned the race of the suspect in relation to his condemnation of training programs for low-income black youths.

00:41:50.000 Media critics on the right say the conspicuous omission of race from these news reports illustrates a trend among prestige papers, which de-emphasize or omit the race of non-white criminals while playing up the race of white offenders.

00:42:01.000 But is it a real pattern?

00:42:02.000 Yes.

00:42:03.000 A Washington Free Beacon review of hundreds of articles published by major papers over a span of two years finds the papers downplay the race of non-white offenders, mentioning the race much later in articles than they do for white offenders.

00:42:13.000 These papers are also three to four times more likely to mention an offender's race at all if he is white, a disparity that grew in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020 and the protests that followed.

00:42:22.000 The Free Beacon collected data on nearly 1,100 articles about homicides from six major newspapers, all written between 2019 and 2021.

00:42:29.000 Those papers included the Chicago Tribune, LA Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

00:42:36.000 For each article, we collected the offender's and victim's name and race and noted where in the article the offender's race was mentioned, if at all.

00:42:42.000 The data suggest an alarming editorial trend, in which major papers routinely omit information from news reports, presenting readers with a skewed picture of who does and doesn't commit crime.

00:42:51.000 These editorial choices are part and parcel of the racial reckoning that swept newsrooms in the wake of Floyd's murder, which saw journalists dramatically overhauling crime coverage to emphasize the view that the criminal justice system is racist at the root, perhaps at the expense of honesty about the individual offender's crimes.

00:43:06.000 So they looked at which paragraph the offender's race was mentioned in.

00:43:10.000 For white offenders, the race of the suspect was mentioned between 30 and 40 percent of the time.

00:43:22.000 In the first 10% of the article.

00:43:24.000 And another 30-40% of the time in the second 10% of the article.

00:43:27.000 So, in other words, in the first couple paragraphs of the article, if it's a white offender, it was gonna get mentioned like 70% of the time.

00:43:32.000 Black offender? 0.98

00:43:34.000 Black offenders, 70% of the way down in the article is where the plurality of racial mentions happen.

00:43:41.000 All racial mentions were backlogged in these articles.

00:43:45.000 That is not a shock, because of course, the media have an agenda.

00:43:48.000 And then the Democratic Party mirrors that agenda.

00:43:51.000 And you can see it in individual cases.

00:43:53.000 The media will go out of their way to cover certain crime stories as national crime stories, and they will go out of their way to downplay certain crime stories as national crime stories.

00:44:00.000 So as I mentioned yesterday, there was a black man who went around attempting to ram Orthodox Jews with his car in Lakewood, New Jersey.

00:44:07.000 It is not a national news story.

00:44:09.000 You don't know the name of the man unless you listen to the show.

00:44:11.000 You don't even know about the story unless you listen to the show.

00:44:14.000 However, there is a full-scale, long piece in the Washington Post today about a man who was shot by the cops.

00:44:22.000 His name was Patrick Loyola.

00:44:23.000 He was killed by a police officer in the western Michigan city of Grand Rapids.

00:44:28.000 Here's the way the Washington Post describes it.

00:44:30.000 Quote, what began as a traffic stop ended with Leoya shot in the head.

00:44:33.000 The latest police shooting of an unarmed black man to shake the nation.

00:44:36.000 He was 26 years old, a father of two.

00:44:38.000 The headline from the Washington Post is family of man shot by Michigan police.

00:44:42.000 A son was quote, killed like an animal.

00:44:44.000 Sounds like rather inflammatory coverage, does it not?

00:44:47.000 I mean, it sounds as though this person was just killed for no reason at all.

00:44:50.000 Well, fortunately, there is tape of the incident.

00:44:52.000 And what the tape of the incident actually shows is that this particular suspect not only resisted arrest, but grabbed the officer's taser and then proceeded to wrestle with the officer on the ground continuously for minutes at a time.

00:45:05.000 In fact, we have some of the tape.

00:45:06.000 This is disturbing, so if you're disturbed by this sort of thing, don't watch it.

00:45:10.000 But you can see the suspect repeatedly grab, like put his hand on the officer's taser.

00:45:14.000 Rule of thumb, if you grab an officer's taser, you're going to get shot.

00:45:18.000 That is the rule of thumb.

00:45:19.000 And you are no longer unarmed.

00:45:20.000 If you grab an officer's taser, or you attempt to take a taser away from an officer, you are attempting to become armed.

00:45:25.000 That is the goal of grabbing the taser in the first place.

00:45:27.000 No officer of the law anywhere in the United States will allow you to take a weapon off them without shooting you.

00:45:32.000 Simple, simple fact.

00:45:34.000 And yet the Washington Post covers this as though this person, you read the first few paragraphs, And what you get is that this guy was shot for no reason whatsoever.

00:45:43.000 His mother, Dorcas Leoya, said through tears, quote, I'm surprised and astonished to see that it's here that my son has been killed with a bullet.

00:45:49.000 That was my beloved son.

00:45:50.000 I'm sure that's true.

00:45:52.000 But that does not change the underlying facts, which is if you resist arrest from a cop by trying to grab his weapon, you're going to get shot.

00:45:58.000 The department released four videos on Wednesday that showed the incident from various vantage points, including from the passenger riding with Lillia and the officer's body camera, which turned off as the men struggled and didn't capture the shooting because of the pressure on the camera, presumably.

00:46:11.000 And then, of course, you get the obligatory paragraphs about the local authorities who were troubled by the footage and how the video was painful to watch.

00:46:17.000 Yes, it turns out that virtually all police footage is very difficult to watch, particularly when someone dies on camera.

00:46:23.000 But the tape shows Lillia grabbing repeatedly for the weapon.

00:46:26.000 Here's some of the tape.

00:46:30.000 You can see.

00:46:32.000 Look, look.

00:46:32.000 He takes his hand.

00:46:33.000 He has it.

00:46:33.000 He's grabbing the officer's taser right now.

00:46:35.000 He's not letting go of the officer's taser.

00:46:39.000 Right?

00:46:40.000 Let go of the taser! 0.99

00:46:43.000 Okay, you can see.

00:46:44.000 He's gonna yell, let go of the taser.

00:46:49.000 Okay, and then he shoots the suspect.

00:46:51.000 And the reason he shoots the suspect, and it's horrible to watch.

00:46:54.000 It always is horrible to watch somebody die on camera.

00:46:56.000 Terrible, terrible stuff.

00:46:58.000 That's The difficulty of being a police officer when someone is trying to take a taser off of you.

00:47:03.000 Family said the video showed he was not posing a threat when he was killed.

00:47:05.000 They described it as difficult to watch with Leoya's brother, Thomas, calling it the quote, most horrifying thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:47:10.000 Well, I'm sure it is a horrifying thing to watch, but the notion that he was not posing a threat.

00:47:16.000 He's repeatedly grabbing the taser.

00:47:18.000 Now, the reason that I point this out.

00:47:20.000 Is because every single case like this is covered by the media as though it is just purely a case of an innocent person being shot by the cops for no reason at all without resisting arrest.

00:47:29.000 And then it is treated as an aspect of criminal justice racism.

00:47:33.000 That is not criminal justice racism.

00:47:34.000 There is no evidence of racism in this tape.

00:47:36.000 There's not even evidence that the cop was violating the law in this tape.

00:47:40.000 But this is a national news story.

00:47:42.000 And I guarantee you the Biden administration will speak about it.

00:47:44.000 You'll have the president of the United States make comments about it.

00:47:48.000 And they will just continue to mirror bad priorities, largely because of the media coverage.

00:47:52.000 And this is the thing, overall.

00:47:53.000 The left has now created an echo chamber of its own making.

00:47:55.000 It's actually very damaging for the left because they're out of touch with the rest of Americans.

00:47:58.000 And if anyone, from Elon Musk to the Daily Wire, if anybody threatens that monopoly on informational dissemination, they get very, very, very angry.

00:48:06.000 I'm perfectly happy to read you articles from the Washington Post and the New York Times and from the L.A.

00:48:10.000 Times.

00:48:10.000 I do it pretty much every day on this show.

00:48:13.000 However, the left wishes for you only to hear those points of view.

00:48:18.000 And because they've created this monopoly on information, I think they don't even understand the damage they are doing to themselves.

00:48:23.000 They've now walled themselves off from the rest of the American public, and they're going to pay the price electorally in 2022 in really, really heavy ways and beyond.

00:48:31.000 Alrighty, we have another hour of the show later today, but first, you cannot forget to end your week by tuning into The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:48:37.000 Drew shows every Friday.

00:48:38.000 He's got an exciting evening planned for you, as always.

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