As Joe Biden prepares his team, the media can t help but drool. The culture wars continue and deepen as the left feels its oats and Democrats try to grab control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday s mid-term election. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 30,000. The media immediately began trumpeting this. They couldn t wait for this moment when they could begin treating Joe Biden as the President-elect of the United States. And this is what created Trump in the first place: the fact that your media, the people who are supposed to bring you truth, are cheering on Democrats. All they are good for is sneering at your priorities, sneaking at your policy preferences, and sneering personally at you personally. This is what your objective media do. They made money during the Trump administration, playing a little game where they pretended to be objective while characterizing you as deplorable and characterizing Trump as an evil, orange, Hitlerian piece of crap. But now they are going right back to that fan service. When you see how the media tries to credit it to Donald Trump, how you see it? When a Democratic president takes office, how does the stock market go up after the election? How does that work? Ben Shapiro's take on it? Subscribe to his new show, The Ben Shapiro Show? on Apple Podcasts and wherever else you get your news and information? Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s newest podcast, "The Real Ben Shapiro"? Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podchaser Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on Spreaker Subscribe on PODchaser Learn more about your ad choices and more. Shout out to my friends at The Root Out! Thank you for listening out to me on and I hope you ll leave a review on my podcast out on your review and review my review on your podcast on my Insta story on Instagasm? I ll be listening out on it on Instafare And I ll send it out to your friends on Instapay Thanks, Ben Shapiro & I ll say it out on Instacare , I ll do it out there on , I tweet it out it's Greatness Out There or I ll tweet it Out On It Out on It's Out on That's Out On That And I Love It Out On My Story AND I'll Thank Him Out on My Story Out On This
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00:01:31.000The media just couldn't wait for this moment.
00:01:33.000They couldn't wait for the moment when they could begin treating Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States.
00:01:39.000Now, as we have said many times, formally he is not president-elect of the United States until December 14th.
00:01:43.000On a legal level, Trump has still lawsuits outgoing.
00:01:46.000The chances that he's gonna win those lawsuits are of course very low right now, given the evidence that we have before us, but the media couldn't wait for this.
00:01:54.000And this is what created Trump in the first place, is the fact that your media, the people who are supposed to bring you truth, the people who are supposed to be objective, All they are good for is cheering on Democrats.
00:02:04.000All they are good for is sneering at you, sneering at your priorities, sneering at your policy preferences, sneering at you personally.
00:02:13.000And they made Quan during the Trump administration.
00:02:15.000They made Bank during the Trump administration, playing this little game where they pretended to be objective while characterizing you as deplorable and characterizing Trump As an evil, orange, Hitlerian piece of crap, right?
00:02:40.000Okay, so yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 30,000.
00:02:43.000The media immediately began trumpeting this, because this was evidence that the markets love Joe Biden.
00:02:49.000Or alternatively, this is evidence that the markets are kind of happy with status quo, and they understand that Joe Biden is unlikely to be able to do anything, given the fact that Congress is likely to be Republican, or at least the Senate is likely to be Republican.
00:03:02.000So, President Trump came out for about 60 seconds and he announced that the stock market reached $30,000.
00:03:07.000Now, five seconds ago, when Trump talked about the stock market, the entire media laughed at him.
00:03:11.000The entire media suggested the stock market is not a good reflection of how Americans think.
00:03:14.000Kamala Harris said in an open debate, the stock market doesn't matter because 50% of Americans don't have money in the stock market.
00:03:20.000But now, the media were all out there chomping at the bit to try and credit Joe Biden with the increase in the stock market.
00:03:26.000By the way, what worthy of note, when the stock market jumped after the last election, the media tried to credit it to Barack Obama instead of to Donald Trump.
00:04:38.000What exactly happened with the stock market here?
00:04:39.000What happened is that the stock market does not like uncertainty.
00:04:42.000The stock market hates new information.
00:04:45.000When there's a vast change upon the land, the stock market absolutely hates it.
00:04:50.000Okay, so if Democrats had taken the Senate, the stock market would not have jumped at the same way.
00:04:54.000If there had been no coronavirus vaccine being developed, the stock market would still be in the doldrums.
00:04:59.000In the last three weeks, we've had news that Republicans are likely to keep the Senate, and we've had news that the Biden administration, when it comes in, if it comes in in January, is likely to pick Janet Yellen, who's a longtime Federal Reserve insider.
00:05:12.000Jerome Powell was not really very different from Janet Yellen in terms of governance.
00:05:16.000And we also know that these vaccines are on their way, so the stock market is pricing that in.
00:05:20.000It's not that the stock market loves Joe Biden, and it's not that the stock market dislikes Donald Trump.
00:05:24.000After all, the stock market continues to rise radically under President Trump.
00:05:29.000The media credit Biden with this thing because the media cannot wait to attribute every good thing to a Democrat and every bad thing to a Republican.
00:05:34.000Here's how the New York Times reported this.
00:05:36.000Stocks on Wall Street rallied to records on Tuesday as key states certified Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.
00:05:42.000And news that Janet Yellen will be the next treasury secretary raised expectations for a big push of government spending to aid the economy.
00:05:48.000Now, do you think it's more about Biden or do you think it's more about him not selecting, say, Elizabeth Warren for his secretary of the treasury, which is a real possibility?
00:05:56.000you The growth expectations were bolstered by news late on Monday that Yellen, the former chair of the Federal Reserve and a proponent of government intervention in the economy, is Biden's pick for Treasury Secretary.
00:06:06.000Yellen said in October the economy needed extraordinary fiscal support during the pandemic after two decades at the central bank, analysts say, should be able to foster a close relationship between the two institutions.
00:06:16.000OK, now again, this has very little to do with Biden because Jerome Powell, who is running the Federal Reserve, pretty similar to Janet Yellen, and Steve Mnuchin, who's the Treasury Secretary, is basically a Democrat.
00:06:26.000I mean, Steve Mnuchin was a lifelong Democrat, actually, until Trump selected him for his cabinet.
00:06:30.000And Steve Mnuchin was happy to spend oodles and oodles of money.
00:06:45.000They're also excited about Joe Biden's cabinet picks.
00:06:48.000We're going to get to those crappy cabinet picks in just one second, because they really are pretty garbage.
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00:08:01.000Okay, so Joe Biden's picks for his cabinet are indeed all part of the foreign policy blob as it is called in Washington, D.C.
00:08:10.000A group of supposed intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals who've been wrong about every major foreign policy issue of their lifetimes, but speak in honeyed tones.
00:08:18.000You've got Tony Blinken over at Secretary of State, who has spent the last couple of decades being wrong about everything from injecting American troops into Syria to the Iran deal, which he says was just a godsend, a wonderful godsend.
00:08:29.000Jake Sullivan, Over at National Security Advisor, Spott, who spent the last few years talking about the evils of Trump pulling out of the Iran deal.
00:08:37.000By the way, a move that precipitated the rise of an alliance in the Middle East that spans now all the way from India to Greece, essentially, against the Iranian threat.
00:08:46.000You've got the foreign policy blob of John Kerry, the former Secretary of State under Barack Obama, worst Secretary of State in American history.
00:08:51.000He will be back as a climate envoy, which means that Joe Biden is serious about climate change and the media are there for that as well.
00:08:58.000So yesterday, Kamala Harris did a did a presentation.
00:09:02.000Biden and Kamala Harris did a presentation of all of the members of the new cabinet, and it was like a bizarre awards show for career bureaucrats who suck at their jobs.
00:09:12.000It's like the Oscars for foreign policy mush minds. Here is Kamala Harris talking about, we selected a cabinet that looks like America, and then you look behind her, it's just a bunch of white dudes. Here's Kamala Harris.
00:09:21.000When Joe asked me to be his running mate, he told me about his commitment to making sure we selected a cabinet that looks like America.
00:10:30.000My problem is, when she suggests it's diversity of viewpoints, what she actually means is, behind me, I have a person who's Hispanic, and I also have, like, one person, maybe, who's black, and everybody else is a white dude who knew Joe Biden since, like, 1980.
00:10:46.000So, John Kerry gets up, and he says he's gonna work on climate change.
00:10:48.000After his wonderful work in ensuring that the Iranian government was strengthened in pursuit of regional terrorism, he is now going to work on climate.
00:10:55.000Which is a pretty good guarantee that we're all gonna boil to death as the world heats.
00:10:58.000Because John Kerry has been unsuccessful at everything he has ever tried because he is a garbage person.
00:11:02.000He's a garbage person, and a garbage politician, and here he is, now being brought back, again, for another role, this time to presumably quash American economic growth in the name of ridiculous solutions that are not solutions so he can pretend to have solved climate change, when in fact he will not have solved climate change.
00:11:17.000Fracking, a thing the Democrats hate, has done more to reduce carbon emissions in the United States than any single policy any of these Democrats will ever propose, bar none.
00:11:24.000Anyway, here is John Kerry talking about how he believes in science and God.
00:11:40.000Joe Biden and I were college kids when we lost the president who inspired both of us to try to make a difference.
00:11:49.000A president who reminded us that here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own.
00:11:57.000President Joe Biden will trust in God, and he will also trust in science to guide our work on Earth to protect God's creation.
00:12:11.000Okay, I'm sorry, but John Kerry invoking God, does anyone believe that John Kerry is like a deeply religious thinker, that this is how he thinks of politics?
00:12:18.000I mean, John Kerry's been in politics for years and years and years and years.
00:12:21.000This is trying to paper over radical leftism with a veneer of kind of sort of soft, general Wonderful Americanism.
00:12:31.000What he really means is now I'm going to get to go over to Paris and hang out with all my really close buddies and talk in my terrible French accent.
00:12:37.000And maybe I'll have some nice wine and then I'll sign away half of America's economic freedom.
00:12:52.000The president-elect is tapping John Kerry, the former Secretary of State and the Democratic Party's 2004 presidential nominee, to be his presidential climate envoy, the campaign announced on Monday.
00:13:06.000I don't know if you remember all the way back to 2000.
00:13:09.000In 2000, the rip on George W. Bush is that he lacked gravitas.
00:13:13.000But Al Gore, Al Gore, Captain Chakra's over here, right?
00:13:17.000The guy who is with the masseuse with the shot.
00:13:18.000In any case, that may be old news for all of you.
00:13:21.000But Man Bear Pig, Al Gore, Al Gore, he was just, he was weighted down with all of his gravitas.
00:13:30.000John Kerry has gravitas, which If you believe that, then I have a Ponzi scheme I'd like to talk to you about.
00:13:38.000So apparently, according to the Washington Post, installing the senior statesman into the newly created position gives it gravitas at a time when U.S.
00:13:44.000credibility abroad on global warming and other issues has waned under President Trump.
00:13:48.000The move also marks the first time the National Security Council, the main White House body for setting foreign policy, will include someone dedicated to climate change.
00:13:55.000Kerry tweeted on Monday, The work we begin with the Paris Agreement is far from done.
00:14:00.000I'm returning to government to get America back on track to address the biggest challenge of this generation and those that will follow.
00:14:09.000And then his face collapsed in on himself.
00:14:15.000Let's just point out here that the Paris Accords were a complete sham from the beginning.
00:14:18.000They were a non-binding commitment made by various nations who did not keep up to those commitments.
00:14:24.000They laid forth a series of steps that would not have radically lowered the climate over the course of the century anyway, but they gave Democrats something to talk about having done when in fact they actually did nothing.
00:14:35.000As the Washington Post sort of quasi-admits, under that 2015 accord, nearly 200 nations agreed to set their own non-binding targets.
00:14:43.000Non-binding, non-binding, that would be the word there.
00:14:45.000Okay, I now make a non-binding pledge to you.
00:14:53.000They had their own non-binding targets for cutting emissions.
00:14:56.000The success of the agreement relies on how well U.S.
00:14:58.000diplomats such as Kerry can wield soft power to convince China, India, and other nations to curtail emissions as they grow their economies.
00:15:05.000Given John Kerry's record on soft power, the answer is really, really poorly.
00:15:32.000Meanwhile, the supposedly incoming Biden administration What other sort of policy can we expect from a Biden administration?
00:15:40.000racist policy as well, which is to say, in an overt attempt to twist American law in order to violate basic American precepts in the name of equality of outcome. What other sort of policy can we expect from a Biden administration? According to Politico, Politico is now pushing in Politico magazine, a piece by Cheryl Cashin, she's a law professor at Georgetown, and she suggests it's time for new anti-racist policy. Now, as we've discussed before on the program, anti-racist
00:16:08.000does not mean against racism in the parlance of the left.
00:16:11.000Anti-racist policy means that you get rid of any policy that does not result in equal outcome.
00:16:17.000Not equal opportunity, not equal access to rights, equal outcome for various racial groups.
00:16:21.000And what this actually means is discrimination under American law and badly formed policy designed to subsidize particular people of particular races at the expense of other people of particular races.
00:16:32.000And Cheryl Cashin is eager to push forward the notion that a new Democratic coalition is on the rise.
00:16:53.000It's the reason why he lost three and a half million votes from 2008 to 2012.
00:16:56.000He lost with virtually every demographic group vote in 2012.
00:17:00.000He still won the election because he was able to turn out the base and because he was able to motivate a sort of intersectional coalition to win.
00:17:06.000Democrats think that is the future, and so they want to double down on that in policy.
00:17:09.000Cheryl Cashin says, A sizable majority of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and other minority groups still vote Democratic.
00:17:15.000A sizable majority of white Americans vote Republican.
00:17:18.000While no racial or ethnic group is a monolith, partisan identity still has much to do with attitudes about race.
00:17:23.000White Democrats are more likely than white Republicans to acknowledge systemic racial discrimination against black people, while white conservatives are more likely to perceive discrimination against themselves than to acknowledge racial discrimination against blacks.
00:17:33.000So she is basically suggesting that white people are instead resentful.
00:17:38.000And so Biden needs to forget Those racially resentful white people who may oppose things like affirmative action.
00:17:43.000Instead, she says, a more viable strategy for progressives than trying to win over Trump's supporters right away would be to continue to win elections powered by energized majorities of black Americans in critical states in coalitions with other energized people of color, rightfully taking their place in American politics and the critical mass of whites willing to see and resist racism.
00:18:01.000As Biden implicitly acknowledged in his victory speech, the Democratic Party cannot win a governing majority, which now hinges on two Senate runoff races in Georgia without speaking authentically to and actually redressing the burdens and aspirations of black people.
00:18:16.000Well, with Democratic control of both chambers, says Sheryl Cashin in Politico, an unshackled Congress could abolish anti-black policies and processes the federal government set in motion and repair continuing damage.
00:18:28.000Well, it would look like a $60 billion investment in communities hit hardest by COVID-19 could be financed by repealing tax breaks for large corporations included in the first federal COVID-19 relief package.
00:18:37.000So instead of giving money to companies to keep people employed, instead you should directly invest in areas that are heavily minority.
00:19:11.000When she talks about exclusionary zoning, she means getting rid of local laws that privilege single-family homes and exclude denser affordable housing.
00:19:18.000So in other words, she wants to have a federal law that prevents you, you're living in a single-family home suburb, right?
00:19:25.000She wants the person The developer, to be able to come in, buy four single-family homes directly next door to you, knock down all of the homes, and build a low-income apartment complex.
00:19:35.000That might change your quality of life, regardless of who is actually occupying those apartments.
00:19:39.000But she says that because, in her view, minority people are inherently poor, this means that this will be helpful to minorities is getting rid of all of those local land-use regulations at the federal level.
00:19:49.000Also, she suggests that Congress could condition federal infrastructure or other spending on measurable local progress in creating affordable housing in high-opportunity areas.
00:19:57.000As though people don't then make the decision to leave those areas and move to other areas, right?
00:20:02.000Biden's already promised to back similar legislation.
00:20:05.000Also, they want to apply a formula across all federal programs to ensure targeted spending in census tracts with persistent poverty.
00:20:13.000If we're talking persistent poverty in white communities in white Appalachia, she wouldn't be talking about this.
00:20:19.000What she really means is trying to inject money into impoverished black communities as an attempt to get those people to vote Democratic.
00:20:27.000And of course, this will all be paid for by repealing tax cuts for the people who actually pay all the taxes in the country on the top end of the tax spectrum.
00:20:34.000The great lie of the Democratic Party has always been that people at the top end of the income spectrum in the United States don't pay their fair share of taxes.
00:20:42.000People at the top end of the income spectrum in the United States pay virtually all net taxes in the United States because they don't receive benefits back from the federal government.
00:20:50.000Okay, so that's the sort of radical policy you can look forward to if the Democrats were to take control of the Senate and if Joe Biden is inaugurated, right?
00:21:01.000What the media are going to tell you, and this is the really critical point, what the media are going to tell you is that all of this is uncontroversial.
00:21:06.000This is the part where you're going to go quietly nuts over the course of the next several years, or maybe not so quietly nuts.
00:21:12.000It's the reason the media got Trump in 2016.
00:21:15.000The reason is the media more than any other force in American life have lied to you and they have denigrated you.
00:21:20.000The media are trotting out all of these radicals.
00:21:38.000These are perfectly in line with reason and decency.
00:21:41.000And if you oppose them, it's because you are against reason and decency.
00:21:44.000This is the line Barack Obama used for eight long years, and the media simply mirrored it.
00:21:48.000The media ignored everything that Barack Obama did to violate the Constitution, and there was plenty there.
00:21:52.000They ignored the fact that he militarized wings of the federal government against his political opponents.
00:21:56.000They ignored the fact that he spied on journalists.
00:21:58.000They ignored all of that, and then they told you that he had no scandals.
00:22:01.000His only scandal is that he wore a tansuit at a press conference.
00:22:03.000By the way, that happened to be the press conference where he declared that ISIS was dead shortly before ISIS was revived.
00:22:08.000I know everybody likes to ignore that part.
00:22:10.000Okay, but the media are going to drive you up a wall, which is why you need to cut the cord and stop subscribing to them and find different alternative modes of communication because that is what is coming next.
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00:24:24.000And it's not just the so-called objective journalists, it's also your comedians, right?
00:24:27.000Comedians used to come with a patina of objectivity.
00:24:30.000Johnny Carson famously did not give away, he was a Democrat, but he famously did not give away his own political positions on things because he said it would undermine his ability to do comedy.
00:24:38.000Now you have overt hacks like Stephen Colbert, who's essentially a Spartacus Club socialist from college.
00:24:44.000Talking about politics in the most sycophantic possible way, but he's a comedian, guys, so that means we have to take him with a certain grain of salt.
00:24:53.000I'm just gonna give this because it's the best example of somebody desperately seeking to perform illicit services on behalf of Democrats.
00:24:58.000So Barack Obama's on his book tour right now, and that means the entire media has kicked into gear to go back to the Halcyon Obama era when they could sit around and massage Barack Obama's shoulders as he told them that he was going to prosecute them for treason.
00:25:10.000In any case, here is Stephen Colbert last night I mean, this is just sycophantic, drooling nonsense.
00:25:35.000I don't want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office.
00:25:38.000You've got to ease me into this a little bit.
00:25:41.000But then there are your actual objective journalists, people like Yamiche Alcindor.
00:25:46.000So Yamiche Alcindor has a long history of being a partisan hack.
00:25:50.000She is a correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
00:25:56.000She worked as a reporter for both USA Today and The New York Times.
00:25:58.000Now, when Donald Trump said that she was a political hack, the entire media and journalistic establishment came to her.
00:26:03.000She's an amazing reporter, amazing, amazing reporter.
00:26:06.000Here is your very journalism objective journalist being so objective in her journalism and the journalism is going to get absolutely everywhere.
00:26:12.000She talks about the glories of Joe Biden's cabinet.
00:26:15.000I was talking to a Democrat who just said this also felt like the Avengers.
00:26:18.000It felt like we're being rescued from this craziness that we've all lived through from the last four years.
00:26:24.000And now here are the superheroes to come and save us all.
00:26:41.000Now, I'm not sure how you objectively cover a superhero or a person you think is a superhero, but Yamiche Alcindor thinks these people are superheroes.
00:26:46.000And there's Nicole Wallace just nodding along.
00:27:26.000But here is Andrea Mitchell saying, well, you know, here's the thing.
00:27:28.000He's really just like a non-political guy.
00:27:31.000See, the implication here is that if you disagree, it's because you're political.
00:27:33.000Here's Andrea Mitchell, very objective news journalist for NBC News, being very objective in journalism.
00:27:38.000They are now being told that it is not going to be political.
00:27:42.000And Joe Biden is saying, these are people, this is a team who's going to tell me, this team will tell me what I need to know, not what I want to know.
00:28:16.000They could literally just have somebody from the administration walk out, pick at random a member of the media from the press pool, have that person stand behind the podium and just defend the administration that day.
00:28:59.000They're just career people, you know, career people, because career people are never political.
00:29:02.000If you work in Washington, D.C., your entire career, you're no longer political, unless you're a Republican who's worked in Washington, D.C., your entire career, in which case you're obviously a terrible person.
00:29:10.000But here is Martha Raddatz doing the work for the Democrats.
00:29:13.000This is about the least flashy team you could possibly get.
00:29:20.000They are humble, and they are lifelong public servants.
00:29:24.000When I look at that group up there, and let's put John Kerry aside, because as we know, he was the Democratic nominee for president once, but they are not political.
00:29:32.000They are just career people, and as they say, they really do reflect America.
00:29:40.000So, is it any shock then to learn that there's this giant revolving door between the media and the Biden administration?
00:29:47.000Ash Scowell over at Daily Wire details this.
00:29:49.000that she says for four years, CNN and MSNBC, MSNBC decried the revolving door between the Trump administration and Fox News.
00:29:55.000Now, analysts and contributors from those networks are joining Joe Biden's transition team and administration.
00:29:59.000For starters, Biden's pick for Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, worked as a global affairs analyst for CNN after serving as deputy national security advisor for Obama between 2013 and Blinken also worked for Bill Clinton's administration in the State Department.
00:30:11.000Jen Psaki just left the CNN payroll as a commentator to join the Biden transition team as a senior advisor.
00:30:17.000Before that, she worked as the spokesperson for the State Department under Obama and then as White House Communications Director.
00:30:23.000NBC News and MSNBC have even more analysts headed to Team Biden, including Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, He's the former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's brother and the Chief of Staff to Obama.
00:30:32.000Emanuel will be guiding Biden's COVID-19 response.
00:30:35.000Barbara McQuaid, a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, will join the Biden transition as part of the Justice Department review team.
00:31:17.000I'm all for protecting thought we hate, but not speech that incites hate." And he suggested that perhaps we should ban burning the Quran or false narratives and lies on social media.
00:31:29.000She's a, Jean-Pierre, she's a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
00:31:32.000She left the network and made a work on Biden's campaign before she joined Kamala Harris as her chief of staff.
00:31:38.000And then there's John Meacham, presidential historian, MSNBC contributor, who failed to disclose to the network that he was writing speeches for Biden during the campaign and then went on air and talked about about how wonderful the speeches were that Joe Biden had just given.
00:31:49.000The revolving door between the media and the Democrats is not a coincidence, because the media and the Democrats are a revolving door.
00:32:25.000Point two is they then shut the door behind them.
00:32:27.000Because the idea is if they are the objective ones, anyone who disagrees with them is not objective and is thus a purveyor of quote unquote fake news.
00:32:33.000And thus, They should not be allowed to disseminate their information.
00:32:37.000The objective media cadre are not invested in the viability of the First Amendment.
00:32:42.000They're invested in their own viability and in curbing the First Amendment to prevent anybody from saying things they don't like because, of course, they are the expositors of truth while everyone else is an expositor of lies.
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00:34:27.000Deep down, they have to understand that they've completely blown up their credibility, that the American people do not trust them, and the American people should not trust them.
00:34:33.000And so the way that they have posed themselves is they have increasingly come out of the closet as members of the left, but it destroys their self-image to acknowledge their own politics.
00:34:45.000I'll give you just a brief anecdotal example.
00:34:48.000So back during the 2012 Republican National Convention was held down in Tampa.
00:34:52.000And I was there and I remember I was walking around the floor and the floor of the convention is kind of a fun place to be.
00:34:57.000They have like a media row in the media row.
00:34:59.000You have all of these kind of prominent media people who are sitting in their little booths broadcasting from the convention back in the days when we could all meet together and at one of these booths at the ABC News booth with Sam Donaldson and Sam Donaldson at that time was doing like a 15 minute opinion piece every day.
00:35:13.000And I saw him walking around and it occurred to me, you know, it's kind of weird that Sam Donaldson is now doing sort of quote opinion stuff, given the fact that for years he was the quote unquote objective journalist on ABC, right?
00:35:23.000He was the guy who people would go to.
00:35:25.000He was a trusted name in objective news.
00:35:35.000So Sam Donaldson, I was talking with him and I said to him, I'm wondering, sir, if you have the same opinions now that you had then on politics.
00:36:21.000Okay, some of them are better at separating their objective journalisming from their own political opinions, but most of them actually suck at it because human beings have biases, and those biases infuse how they think very often, unless they have methodologies for thinking, like formalistic methodologies for thinking, as in law, like originalism.
00:36:38.000Unless they have actual methodologies that you can follow a step-by-step process to go from point A to point B.
00:36:44.000That is based on some objectified metric of interpretation.
00:36:48.000If you don't have that, then basically they're just jumping from point A to point B because point A and point B are the same in their head, meaning their political view and their opinion journalism are exactly the same.
00:36:56.000That is how you get to the point where Andrea Mitchell and Martha Raddatz are suggesting that overtly political people are not political because in their view, those people are not political.
00:37:09.000This is why I don't think that the media are badly motivated.
00:37:12.000I don't think that they are lying to you in the sense that they are purposefully trying to prevaricate.
00:37:18.000I think that for them, they actually believe that their opinions are the objective truth.
00:37:21.000They believe that the things they say are objectively true, no matter whether those things are opinion.
00:37:26.000And they've been in the bubble so long that nobody has ever disagreed with them.
00:37:29.000And so they walk around all day long thinking that they are the expositors of capital T truth, and anyone who disagrees must be an expositor of falsehood.
00:37:37.000And I guess this gives them the justification for doing what they are doing right now, which is attempting to slam the door behind them.
00:37:43.000And when I say slam the door behind them, what I mean is that they are now attempting to turn social media into basically a bullhorn for their own politics.
00:37:51.000So the Democrats turned the media into a bullhorn for their politics, because the media is totally democratic.
00:37:55.000And then the media, your establishment legacy media, they decided that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, all these places have to be turned into a bullhorn for them.
00:38:25.000I remember my first being aware of media bias when I was about 12 years old and my dad looked at the front page of the LA Times in which they printed a photo that was overtly false of supposedly an Israeli soldier beating a Palestinian man.
00:38:36.000It turns out there was an Israeli soldier who was actually defending an Israeli man from being beaten by Palestinians.
00:38:50.000But there weren't a lot of great alternatives.
00:38:51.000If you were in L.A., you could get the Daily News, which was a fine paper, but it didn't have the same sort of breadth and scope as the L.A.
00:38:59.000And then the internet cropped up, and you could easily cancel your subscription.
00:39:03.000You could easily stop visiting these sources of supposed news.
00:39:07.000You could easily find alternative sources of information.
00:39:09.000And so the internet opened up this whole new vista of ways for people to get information and facts That they had not been provided because the media engage in selective reporting.
00:39:18.000There are several types of media bias.
00:39:19.000There is the media bias in which they simply do not report facts they do not like.
00:39:23.000And then there's the media bias in which they inject the facts they do like with a particular shade of coloring in order to receive, in order to achieve certain outcomes.
00:39:32.000And so what happened is that as the internet came up, and Matt Drudge was the leader in this, as the internet came up, suddenly you could get news from places that were not the LA Times without the filter of Pinch Solsberger at the New York Times.
00:39:44.000People were into it and then Facebook came along and Facebook provided you an easy way of getting all of that news.
00:39:49.000An easy way of networking with other people who might think like you.
00:39:52.000An easy way of disseminating information through channels of like-minded people so that you could actually blow up news.
00:39:59.000It wasn't merely that you could find news on some obscure website that the media had refused to report.
00:40:03.000It was that you could actually You could actually allow your friends and family to see those pieces of news quickly and easily simply by sharing.
00:40:11.000And this is why people rushed to Facebook, because it wasn't just about creating social networks.
00:40:15.000When it came to news, it was explicitly about finding alternatives to the mainstream media.
00:40:21.000See, if you subscribe to the New York Times or the LA Times or the Boston Globe or NBC, CBS, ABC, you watch those on your basic cable, or you watch those on network news, if you did all that, you didn't need to be on Facebook for your news.
00:40:35.000This is why news sharing on Facebook blew up because there were so many people who went to Facebook specifically to avoid, specifically to avoid the mainstream media dominance of the space.
00:40:46.000And so this provided the impetus for publications like ours, Daily Wire, to begin and garner hundreds of millions of views over the course of like a single month.
00:40:54.000This is what allowed other right-wing outlets to start to thrive, specifically because, again, if you wanted to view the New York Times or any of the legacy media, you knew about them.
00:41:03.000If you wanted other sources of information, you needed a platform where you could view those other sources of information, and Facebook made it quick and made it easy.
00:41:09.000Well, now the establishment and legacy media, because they believe that they are the sole expositors of truth, they have decided they are going to Curb social media.
00:41:16.000They're going to attack social media until social media refuses to allow you to see the stuff you went on Facebook to see in the first place.
00:41:22.000And Facebook, because now apparently they're being controlled from the inside by their woke staffers and craven politicos, now because of that, you're starting to see social media curb their own, your ability to access the information you went there to see in the first place.
00:41:37.000And they're doing so at the behest of a pathetic Self-indulgent media firmly convinced of their own virtue.
00:41:42.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
00:41:44.000This is what it's gonna be like for years, by the way.
00:41:55.000Will you even get to access the information you want to see?
00:41:58.000Will you be able to fight back against the misinformation put out by the left if the left controls all the sources of informational dissemination?
00:42:04.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.
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00:44:20.000Okay, so the media's goal here is now to reestablish their dominance.
00:44:30.000Because the social media companies, they took you in, they said that you had a platform now where you could see stuff that was not the mainstream media.
00:44:36.000Again, the mainstream media dominated the space.
00:44:38.000They didn't need the social media companies.
00:44:40.000The social media companies were explicitly an alternative to those mainstream media companies.
00:44:45.000Now the mainstream media, legacy media companies, they're attempting to use social media in order to shut down the debate again.
00:44:50.000They drew you in and now they are shutting the door.
00:44:52.000They're shutting the door and they're making sure that you don't see anything that they don't want you to see.
00:44:56.000And they are laundering their information in order to do so.
00:44:59.000So what they have basically declared is that Facebook, for example, should shut down any right-wing site.
00:45:04.000So the way they do this is they actually just go in very often and they falsify information.
00:45:08.000People on the left will just go in and falsify information.
00:45:10.000So what they'll do is they'll do things like this.
00:45:12.000They'll go to NewsGuard, which is a pathetic site, which is designed to basically say that anybody on the right is disinformation.
00:45:18.000If you say you're overtly conservative, they say that you are not a trusted news source.
00:45:24.000If you're The New York Times and you're pretty overtly leftist, but you try to pretend that you're not, then you are a trusted news source.
00:45:29.000If you're The Daily Wire and we just say we're conservative, NewsGuard will literally say to us that we are not a trusted news source because we are more honest about our own political biases than the New York Times.
00:45:37.000And so NewsGuard will then be used by Facebook in order to shut down our traffic.
00:45:42.000You will see people on the left suggest that we at the Daily Wire were disinformation.
00:45:47.000Well, they'll go over to Wikipedia and they will actually use a sentence in our Wikipedia profile inserted by a partisan leftist that does not reflect reality in any way.
00:45:56.000Right now, the Wikipedia profile literally reads, many of the website's stories involve unverified information and may be considered fake news.
00:46:02.000They then link to a story that does not say anything like that.
00:46:05.000There's nothing in the story that even alleges that.
00:46:08.000So, before the election, this is not a shock, and here they are, here are your journalistic tech activists, okay?
00:46:13.000They are not journalists, they are activists, they are the tip of the spear in terms of trying to get social media to shut down dissemination of all information that doesn't come from the New York Times.
00:46:22.000Kevin Roos, who spends every day trying to get Facebook to shut down traffic to places like Daily Wire, or The Federalist, or Breitbart, or The Blaze, or any place that he disagrees with.
00:46:32.000He has a piece today with Mike Isaac and Shira Frankel saying Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth.
00:46:40.000By civility, they mean that they just want you not to be able to see any information that is not from the New York Times.
00:46:46.000In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding.
00:46:52.000Election-related misinformation was going viral on the site.
00:46:56.000President Trump was already casting the election as rigged.
00:46:58.000Stories from right-wing media outlets with false and misleading claims about discarded ballots, miscounted votes, and skewed tallies were among the most popular news stories on the platform.
00:47:05.000Now, note, the reason that a lot of those stories were popular on the platform is because the New York Times refused to report many of them, and a lot of them were true.
00:47:14.000Hey, we reported election irregularities in Michigan, okay, and it was a true story.
00:47:19.000Kevin Roos suggested that it was a false story openly on Twitter, and now he's writing a story about how Facebook needs to shut down those sorts of stories, even though he acknowledged the story was true on Twitter.
00:47:29.000The employees proposed an emergency change to the site's News Feed algorithm, which helps determine what more than 2 billion people see every day.
00:47:37.000It involved emphasizing the importance of what Facebook calls News Ecosystem Quality Scores, or NEQ, a secret internal ranking it assigns to news publishers based on signals about the quality of their journalism.
00:47:48.000Typically, NEQ scores play a minor role in determining what appears on user feeds.
00:47:51.000But several days after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to increase the weight that Facebook's algorithm gave to NEQ scores to make sure authoritative news appeared more prominently, said three people with knowledge of the decision who were authorized not to discuss internal deliberations.
00:48:06.000The change was part of the break glass plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election.
00:48:11.000It resulted in, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, a spike in visibility for big mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times, and NPR.
00:48:18.000While posts from highly engaged hyper-partisan pages such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats became less visible, the employees said, it was a vision of what a calmer, less divisive Facebook might look like.
00:48:28.000Some employees argued the change should become permanent, even if it was unclear how that might affect the amount of time people spent on Facebook.
00:48:34.000In an employee meeting the week after the election, workers asked whether the Nicer News feed could stay, said two people who attended.
00:48:39.000First of all, Zuckerberg is in control of his company, or if he is in control, maybe he's not.
00:48:43.000If he is in control of his company, this would be about the damn time for him to turn to his employees and say, why do I care what you think of the Nicer News algorithm?
00:48:49.000You are not the great arbiter of what truth constitutes.
00:48:52.000And by the way, for the New York Times to say that their program, that they've been pushing results in a spike in visibility for them, means they boosted their own traffic by basically hijacking the levers of power at Facebook via their staffers.
00:49:03.000CNN, The New York Times, and NPR, all massive publications with huge, $100 million budgets.
00:49:15.000Guy Rosen, a Facebook executive, said that the plan was meant to be temporary, but apparently there are many people on Facebook who want to see it not be temporary.
00:49:24.000Instead, they would like to see Facebook continue to boost only information that they like and denigrate all of the information that they don't like.
00:49:31.000This is all part of the plan for the radical journalistic left.
00:50:00.000The lid is going to clamp down on your ability to get information.
00:50:02.000It's why you should go subscribe to your favorite publications right now before it is too late.
00:50:07.000So speaking of this, the media have, as I've said, been in a long running battle to basically shut down all methods of information that allow you to see alternative sources.
00:50:20.000The staffers at a variety of different outlets for dissemination of information, they have been very vocal in their attempts to shut down that dissemination of information.
00:50:27.000So, as I've been saying, Facebook itself had an algorithm that it put into place that boosted the New York Times, CNN, and NPR in the aftermath of the election.
00:50:33.000We know for a fact that they shut down our traffic like probably three weeks before the election.
00:50:37.000We could see it in the actual metrics over at Daily Wire.
00:50:41.000And the New York Times continues to push this day in and day out.
00:50:44.000You do not deserve to see information that Charlie Warzel and Kevin Roos and Kara Swisher at the New York Times don't want you to see.
00:50:49.000You should only see the information that they want you to see.
00:50:51.000See, this is the difference between folks on the left and folks on the right.
00:50:53.000I have never, not once, told you that there should be some attempt to shut down CNN, NPR, New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC.
00:51:03.000I've said you might want to cut your cable because they're lying to you.
00:51:06.000But I have never said, I have never said that there should be an attempt by any overt authority, any major social media platform to shut down systems of informational dissemination that I don't like.
00:51:19.000I've never said CNN, New York Times should be downgraded in terms of their ability to have reach on Facebook's platform.
00:51:24.000I've never said anything remotely like that.
00:51:26.000In fact, when it comes to people asking me what sources of information they should view, The truth is, I don't even tell them not to read the New York Times.
00:51:32.000I tell them they shouldn't subscribe, but that's because you shouldn't fund people who are overtly against you and don't like you very much, but...
00:51:39.000I've always said, when people say, what do you read?
00:51:41.000I'll tell you, I read the New York Times, the Washington Post.
00:51:44.000I'll tell you that I read alternative sources of information, ranging from the Daily Wire to the Washington Examiner to the Federalist and all the rest.
00:51:50.000And when people ask, what sort of podcast should I listen to?
00:51:53.000I've always told them, listen to my podcast, then listen to Pod Save America, and then decide which one of us you think is being more honest.
00:51:58.000Decide where you think you come down on various issues.
00:52:02.000To folks on the left, it is anathema to allow you to listen to alternative points of view.
00:52:06.000It is very bad for them to allow you to listen to alternative points of view.
00:52:11.000In fact, if a left-wing host were ever to suggest that you might give a listen to my show, they would be run out of town by their own supporters.
00:52:20.000I say to my listeners all of the time that you should listen to alternative sources of information other than mine.
00:52:25.000I've had on this show, many times, people on the left.
00:52:28.000On our Sunday special, we routinely feature guests who disagree with us.
00:52:31.000The same simply does not hold true for many members of the left.
00:52:34.000And this is why you see pieces like this one from Charlie Warzel, another one of the informational shutdown advocates of the New York Times, what Facebook fed the baby boomers.
00:52:44.000I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
00:52:48.000Well, clearly, Charlie Warzel should police what kind of feed you have on your Facebook.
00:52:53.000He said, In mid-October, I asked two people I'd never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to Election Day.
00:52:58.000I wanted to immerse myself in the feeds of a type of person who has become a trope of sorts in our national discussion about politics and disinformation, baby boomers with an attachment to polarizing social media.
00:53:07.000By the way, we should analyze the word disinformation here.
00:53:09.000Okay, misinformation is overt falsehood.
00:53:11.000Disinformation, generally speaking, used to refer to an overt psychological campaign waged by a place like the Soviet Union in order to push false narratives about America.
00:53:22.000If we're speaking about disinformation in that way, the mainstream media engage in disinformation campaigns and tactics far more often than people in the right wing.
00:53:29.000The mainstream media have sold the lie that America was rooted in racism and bigotry and continues to be the home of racism and bigotry.
00:53:38.000The mainstream media has sold the lie that Donald Trump was a Russian collusion actor.
00:53:43.000And in the case of that particular story, that was actually Russian disinformation.
00:53:47.000In any case, Charlie Weitzel says Facebook is bad.
00:53:50.000Really, you should just read the New York Times.
00:53:51.000He said, I went looking for older Americans, not full-blown conspiracy theorists, trolls, or partisan activists, whose news consumption has increased sharply in the last few years on Facebook.
00:54:00.000Neither of the two people I settled on described themselves as partisan.
00:54:03.000Both bemoan the toxicity of our politics.
00:54:06.000Here's a sample. A set of adoring grandparents posing with rosy-cheeked babies. Mimi and Pop Pop's first visit since March, the post reads. Next, a meme of Joe Biden next to a Photoshopped for sale sign. For more information, contact Hunter, the sign reads. After that is a post advertising a funny rude metal sign displaying a unicorn in a tutu giving the middle finger.
00:54:25.000Thought of you, the post reads. Below that is a screenshot of a meme created by the pro-Trump group Turning Point USA.
00:54:31.000The post reads, displaying a series of photos of abandoned buildings, empty grocery store shelves, and bleeding men in makeshift, dirty hospital beds.
00:54:39.000The feed goes on like this, an infinite scroll of content without context.
00:54:42.000Ah, you need context for socialism being awesome, guys.
00:54:50.000Now, perhaps Charlie Warzell doesn't understand how the internet works, but memes exist on both the right and the left, and they're quite popular on all sides.
00:54:56.000Specifically because they're basically the junk food of informational dissemination.
00:55:01.000But he says, touching family moments are interspersed with Bible quotes that look like Hallmark cards, hyper-partisan, fear-mongering, and conspiratorial misinformation.
00:55:23.000And this is the way that so many on the left think.
00:55:25.000They think, I don't like what other people are reading.
00:55:27.000Therefore, I should be in control of what other people are reading.
00:55:30.000Therefore, I should try to prevent other people from reading the things I don't want them to read.
00:55:34.000And this is how you end up With the ridiculous story that we saw break yesterday about Penguin Random House staffers trying to get Jordan Peterson's book canceled.
00:55:45.000Okay, so Jordan Peterson's book, his last book, 12 Rules for Life, which is great.
00:56:01.000You know how much money the publisher made off of Jordan Peterson's good book?
00:56:04.000Said they could publish a bunch of woke crap that sold seven copies?
00:56:09.000A lot of those books got published because Jordan Peterson exists.
00:56:11.000Apparently, according to Vice World News, several Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted management about the company's decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson at an emotional town hall on Monday.
00:56:23.000Dozens more have filed anonymous complaints.
00:56:40.000And we provide them, as employees, with the insurance to which they are entitled.
00:56:44.000And, if they tried to run the editorial on this site, if they tried to tell me how editorials should be run here, they would be fired, and they would find themselves unemployed.
00:56:53.000The idea that they would come to me crying, crying about a decision to publish Jordan Peterson is unthinkable and unthinkably stupid.
00:57:02.000And yet it's taken seriously in the halls of corporate power because they are so unwilling to defend the First Amendment and broadness of speech protections that they won't stand up for their own values.
00:57:11.000It's all about the sensitivity of their own employees, as though there aren't 10 employees waiting to get in the door in the middle of a global pandemic to work at a publishing house.
00:57:18.000On Monday, Penguin Random House Canada, Canada's largest book publisher and a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, announced it will be publishing, beyond order, 12 more Rules for Life by Peterson to be released in March 2021.
00:57:29.000The book will be published by Portfolio in the U.S.
00:57:31.000and Penguin Press in the U.K., both part of the Penguin Random House empire.
00:57:36.000Four Penguin Random House Canada employees, who did not want to be named due to concerns over their employment, Well good, they should be concerned.
00:57:43.000Okay, can I tell you something we're never gonna do at this company?
00:57:56.000During which executives defended the decision to publish Peterson while employees cited their concerns about platforming someone who is popular in far right circles.
00:58:04.000He's an icon of hate speech and transphobia.
00:58:06.000The fact he's an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book.
00:58:10.000I'm not proud to work for a company that publishes him.
00:58:12.000A junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community and who attended this town hall told Vice World News.
00:58:17.000Okay, well, if you're not proud to work, there's the door.
00:58:44.000Another employee said people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.
00:58:48.000They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father.
00:58:51.000Another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.
00:58:56.000The company, since June, has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things, and then publishing Peterson's book goes completely against this.
00:59:02.000It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative!
00:59:07.000Their efforts were completely performative.
00:59:09.000I mean, I'm glad that you're just noticing this now, but, um, yeah, all these corporations, they're doing performative wokeness to shut you up.
00:59:15.000Because your perspective is annoying to them.
00:59:19.000They'll do it because they don't want legal liability, and they don't want HR grievances.
00:59:23.000But if it comes up between, here we can publish a book that's gonna sell 3 million copies, and you guys are gonna bitch a little bit, that's a pretty obvious decision.
00:59:30.000But the fact that this is even being taken seriously speaks to the leftist mentality.
00:59:33.000It is not about free speech, and it is not about any sort of diversity of thought.
01:00:07.000But you don't have the courage of your convictions.
01:00:09.000You just want to take control of the company itself.
01:00:12.000Apparently, Scott Sellers, Director of Marketing Strategy, spoke about how the company has to work with writers whose views we, quote, don't necessarily support.
01:00:20.000But said Sellers also defended Peterson by stating he supports same-sex marriage.
01:00:23.000The implication being, of course, that if Peterson did not support same-sex marriage, they simply could not publish the book.
01:00:57.000And it's based on his book, Hillbilly Elegy.
01:00:59.000So Hillbilly Elegy sold a bajillion copies.
01:01:02.000The book was basically a story about poverty culture in white Appalachia.
01:01:07.000It was about how his family came from Kentucky, and how he grew up in impoverished, formerly industrial areas of Ohio, and how a culture of poverty contributes to drug use and to bad parenting, and how in order to break that cycle of poverty, very often you have to make deliberate decisions to change how you have thought about your life.
01:01:25.000That's what Hillbilly Elegy is about, and it's an interesting sociocultural study.
01:01:29.000It became sort of a decoder ring for a lot of people in the media about Trump's America, because they were wondering, why did all these rural white people vote for Donald Trump, this New York real estate mogul?
01:01:40.000And so, Hillbilly Elegy became kind of the way that they decoded that.
01:01:43.000Because these were a lot of people who were impoverished, and these impoverished people had been stuck in cycles of poverty, and Donald Trump promised them a way forward, and he promised them that he was gonna solve some of their problems, and he took them seriously.
01:01:53.000Okay, that was how Hillbilly Elegy was viewed.
01:01:55.000Then, there was a switch, a couple of years ago.
01:01:57.000So this book was published in 2016, it was widely heralded right, left, and center.
01:02:23.000So Hillbilly Elegy on his face was bad because it talked about white poor people and cultures of poverty, which suggested that perhaps cultures of poverty have nothing to do with race and that the way to break cycles of cultures of poverty is to make individual decisions, which cuts against the intersectional argument that all poverty is connected with systemic Racism and evil and can only be broken by the system itself being broken.
01:02:42.000Okay, so that was point number one against teleology put forward by the left Point number two is why are you even taking these Trump supporters seriously?
01:02:48.000Because as we all know, they are bad people.
01:02:51.000And then point number three is that hillbilly elegy is a simplistic view of the power of individual decision making and that we should never tell people that they themselves have the capacity to rise in America.
01:03:02.000So it was sort of a threefold attack on hillbilly elegy.
01:03:04.000And suddenly hillbilly elegy went from being the darling book of the critic circle to being a whipping post for so many leftist think pieces.
01:03:30.000The movie doesn't go into sort of all the socio-cultural stuff, the socio-economic stuff that the book does, because a book is a book and a movie is a movie.
01:03:37.000But it is a good, well-told family story.
01:04:06.000And the reason they've savaged this thing to death is because when it was greenlit, it was considered a sort of, again, decoder ring for Trump's America.
01:04:13.000And then after Trump won, it became an evil book that was justifying the evils of Trump's America.
01:04:18.000So the Atlantic, for example, has a big piece by David Sims called Hillbilly Elegy.
01:04:22.000It's one of the worst movies of the year.
01:04:25.000The new Netflix film is a think piece trap, shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside.
01:04:30.000Everyone in this world is one of three kinds, declares Maw Maw, the wise grand matriarch of Ron Howard's new film, Hillbilly Elegy.
01:04:35.000A good Terminator, a bad Terminator, a neutral.
01:04:37.000I hate to correct Maw Maw, who is trying to encourage her impressionable grandson, J.D.
01:04:40.000Vance, to follow a righteous path by invoking Arnold Schwarzenegger's beloved action franchise.
01:04:45.000There is no such thing as a neutral Terminator.
01:04:47.000These cyborg heroes exist to either protect or destroy.
01:04:50.000I cannot imagine what a neutral Terminator would do.
01:04:52.000Momo is entitled to her bad movie opinions, of course, but this monologue is the kind of speechifying that rings hollow throughout Hillbilly Elegy, an adaptation of J.D.
01:04:59.000Vance's best-selling 2016 memoir that debuts on Netflix tomorrow.
01:05:04.000When it first arrived on bookshelves, Vance's story was celebrated as a glimpse into an oft-ignored pocket of America, the white working class of Appalachia and the Rust Belt who swung to Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
01:05:13.000Held as an anger translator and cited by both Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, Vance wrote about growing up poor, living with a heroin-addicted mother, and clawing his way into Harvard Law School.
01:05:21.000The book arrived at a seemingly serendipitous moment, offering a bleak but candid view of communities gutted by drug abuse and poverty.
01:05:26.000As you can see, really, the rip on the movie is going to be a rip on the book.
01:05:30.000We can't have a movie that makes a Republican book look good.
01:05:32.000and perseverance, launching vague broadsides against the American welfare system, the author often appears uninterested in interrogating deeper systemic issues.
01:05:39.000As you can see, really, the rip on the movie is going to be a rip on the book.
01:05:43.000J.D. Vance happens to be a Republican.
01:05:44.000We can't have a book that makes a Republican, a movie that makes a Republican book look good.
01:05:49.000In adapting the book, Howard and the screenwriter Vanessa Taylor have gone even further, stripping the text of anything that might feel remotely controversial or pointed.
01:05:56.000Netflix's Hillbilly Elegy is an Oscar-friendly narrative of personal triumph in the face of great hardship, a movie designed to end with an uplifting epigraph.
01:06:03.000It is also one of the worst movies of the year, stuffed with A-list stars and tearful monologues.
01:06:07.000It is a neutral terminator of a film, polished yet utterly inert.
01:06:12.000Okay, so again, all that matters here is that the basic movie is bad, because JD Vance is bad, because Hillbilly Elegy is bad.
01:06:20.000And this is how entertainment is going to be treated.
01:06:22.000We know that the Oscars are only going to feature stories that the left likes.
01:06:25.000You have to have a particular protagonist, or a particular percentage of staffers, or members of a particular sexual orientation, or sexual or racial minorities.
01:06:36.000Every aspect of your culture is going to be turned in favor of the leftist narrative.
01:06:40.000And if Hollywood deigns to step out of that narrative for like one single second and make a movie like Hillbilly Elegy with big stars, then Ron Howard, one of the biggest Democrats in Hollywood, will be eviscerated by the media for it.
01:06:54.000The left has designs on your personal future, on what you can see, on the information you can consume.
01:07:00.000They have personal designs on exactly how your kid is going to be educated.
01:07:05.000John Murakowski, over at RealClear Investigations, has a piece talking about anti-racist teaching in K-12 schools targeting whiteness.
01:07:13.000He says, the notices to parents began arriving fast and furious in the weeks after the death of George Floyd in late May. In dramatic urgent language, K through 12 schools across the country, both public and private, profess solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves into racism-free zones. The president of the Lower Merion School Board on Philadelphia's affluent mainline declared to families, we need to eradicate white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy in all of our institutions.
01:07:44.000In Maine, a coastal public school district where 3.7% of the students are black or Hispanic, the superintendent declared war on quote, the intentional barriers white people have built to harm black people.
01:07:54.000The top administrator added, we grieve for all of the black lives taken by white supremacy at Brentwood College School in LA.
01:08:00.000They've made more changes to the curriculum this year than any other in the private school's five-decade history.
01:08:05.000Teachers are introducing critical race theory and assigning readings from garbage purveyor Ibram Kendi.
01:08:10.000The academic and author who contends race-neutral policies are the bulwark of the white ethnostate.
01:08:17.000The nation's K-12 schools have been incrementally adopting multiculturalism and ethnic studies for decades, but those courses were the exception, not the rule.
01:08:24.000This summer's BLM protests have sparked new levels of commitment, a newfound urgency, and a new trend—anti-racist pedagogy.
01:08:30.000And if administrators deliver on their promise, the sweeping changes will introduce new courses, shift hiring priorities, rebalance student demographics, redirect stipends and scholarships, and revise conduct standards.
01:08:40.000That is the way the educational system is going to move.
01:08:44.000The Biden era is not going to be an era of great comity and unity.
01:08:48.000The Biden era is going to be an era in which all informational dissemination systems ranging from the educational to Hollywood to corporate America to social media are going to be directed at you and your values.
01:09:02.000So get on board or they're going to throw you off the boat.
01:09:06.000Well, this brings us to the end of today's podcast.
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