The Ben Shapiro Show - The Media Can’t Wait To Kiss Biden’s Ass | Ep. 1145

00:00:00.000 As Joe Biden prepares his team, the media can't help but drool.

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00:01:31.000 The media just couldn't wait for this moment.

00:01:33.000 They couldn't wait for the moment when they could begin treating Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States.

00:01:39.000 Now, as we have said many times, formally he is not president-elect of the United States until December 14th.

00:01:43.000 On a legal level, Trump has still lawsuits outgoing.

00:01:46.000 The 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.

00:01:53.000 They couldn't wait for it.

00:01:54.000 And 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.

00:02:04.000 All they are good for is sneering at you, sneering at your priorities, sneering at your policy preferences, sneering at you personally.

00:02:11.000 This is what your objective media do.

00:02:13.000 And they made Quan during the Trump administration. 1.00

00:02:15.000 They 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? 0.99

00:02:25.000 This is how they made their money. 0.97

00:02:26.000 If you look at the subscription numbers on the New York Times and the Washington Post, they skyrocketed.

00:02:30.000 Why?

00:02:30.000 Because they were doing fan service to a liberal audience.

00:02:33.000 That is what they are for.

00:02:34.000 And now they're going to go right back to that fan service.

00:02:38.000 They're going to go right back to it.

00:02:40.000 Okay, so yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 30,000.

00:02:43.000 The media immediately began trumpeting this, because this was evidence that the markets love Joe Biden.

00:02:49.000 Or 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.

00:03:02.000 So, President Trump came out for about 60 seconds and he announced that the stock market reached $30,000.

00:03:07.000 Now, five seconds ago, when Trump talked about the stock market, the entire media laughed at him.

00:03:11.000 The entire media suggested the stock market is not a good reflection of how Americans think.

00:03:14.000 Kamala Harris said in an open debate, the stock market doesn't matter because 50% of Americans don't have money in the stock market. 0.98

00:03:20.000 But now, the media were all out there chomping at the bit to try and credit Joe Biden with the increase in the stock market.

00:03:26.000 By 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.

00:03:33.000 So you see how the game works.

00:03:34.000 When a Republican takes office, any stock market growth is the result of the Democratic predecessor.

00:03:39.000 When a Democrat is supposedly elected, then that Democrat immediately is credited with all gains in the stock market.

00:03:44.000 When a Republican is in charge and the stock market is going up, the stock market doesn't matter.

00:03:48.000 Only rich people care about the stock market.

00:03:49.000 Not true, by the way.

00:03:50.000 There are plenty of people who have money in 401ks and that 401k is invested in stocks and bonds.

00:03:55.000 Okay, but President Trump comes out and he says, look at that, the stock market's over 30,000 and the media mock him mercilessly for it.

00:04:01.000 Here was President Trump yesterday.

00:04:04.000 The stock market's just broken 30,000.

00:04:06.000 Never been broken, that number.

00:04:08.000 That's a sacred number, 30,000.

00:04:10.000 Nobody thought they'd ever see it.

00:04:12.000 That's the ninth time since the beginning of 2020.

00:04:16.000 And it's the 48th time that we've broken records during the Trump administration.

00:04:25.000 And I just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that work so hard.

00:04:29.000 And most importantly, I want to congratulate the people of our country because there are no people like you.

00:04:35.000 Okay, now let's be very, very clear.

00:04:38.000 What exactly happened with the stock market here?

00:04:39.000 What happened is that the stock market does not like uncertainty.

00:04:42.000 The stock market hates new information.

00:04:45.000 When there's a vast change upon the land, the stock market absolutely hates it.

00:04:50.000 Okay, so if Democrats had taken the Senate, the stock market would not have jumped at the same way.

00:04:54.000 If there had been no coronavirus vaccine being developed, the stock market would still be in the doldrums.

00:04:59.000 In 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.

00:05:12.000 Jerome Powell was not really very different from Janet Yellen in terms of governance.

00:05:16.000 And we also know that these vaccines are on their way, so the stock market is pricing that in.

00:05:20.000 It's not that the stock market loves Joe Biden, and it's not that the stock market dislikes Donald Trump.

00:05:24.000 After all, the stock market continues to rise radically under President Trump.

00:05:28.000 Doesn't matter.

00:05:29.000 The 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.

00:05:34.000 Here's how the New York Times reported this.

00:05:36.000 Stocks on Wall Street rallied to records on Tuesday as key states certified Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.

00:05:42.000 And news that Janet Yellen will be the next treasury secretary raised expectations for a big push of government spending to aid the economy.

00:05:48.000 Now, 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?

00:05:56.000 you 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.

00:06:06.000 Yellen 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.

00:06:16.000 OK, 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.

00:06:26.000 I mean, Steve Mnuchin was a lifelong Democrat, actually, until Trump selected him for his cabinet.

00:06:30.000 And Steve Mnuchin was happy to spend oodles and oodles of money.

00:06:33.000 So nothing really changed.

00:06:34.000 It doesn't matter.

00:06:35.000 The media have to pretend that this is Joe Biden's stock market rally.

00:06:39.000 And that the stock market matters again, right?

00:06:41.000 So the media are just on board with all this.

00:06:43.000 They're here for it, man.

00:06:44.000 They are so excited.

00:06:45.000 They're also excited about Joe Biden's cabinet picks. 0.99

00:06:48.000 We're going to get to those crappy cabinet picks in just one second, because they really are pretty garbage. 0.98

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00:08:01.000 Okay, 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.

00:08:10.000 A 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.

00:08:18.000 You'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.

00:08:29.000 Jake 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.

00:08:37.000 By 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.

00:08:46.000 You've got the foreign policy blob of John Kerry, the former Secretary of State under Barack Obama, worst Secretary of State in American history.

00:08:51.000 He 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.

00:08:58.000 So yesterday, Kamala Harris did a did a presentation. 0.58

00:09:02.000 Biden 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.

00:09:10.000 It was really incredible.

00:09:12.000 It'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.

00:09:21.000 When 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.

00:09:32.000 That reflects the best of our nation.

00:09:36.000 And that's what we have done.

00:09:38.000 Today's nominees and appointees come from different places.

00:09:42.000 They bring a range of different life and professional experiences and perspectives.

00:09:49.000 And they also share something else in common.

00:09:53.000 An unwavering belief.

00:09:55.000 In America's ideals.

00:09:58.000 An unshakable commitment to democracy, human rights, No, no, actually.

00:09:58.000 What?

00:10:07.000 They all share experience in the Obama administration where they drone civilians.

00:10:11.000 They also share an unshakable commitment to priorities on foreign policy, including the cutting of the American military.

00:10:16.000 They also share... I love when she's like, they have such different backgrounds.

00:10:20.000 They all went to Ivy League schools.

00:10:21.000 They all think exactly the same on foreign policy.

00:10:24.000 And there is very little dissent in that particular room.

00:10:26.000 So that's okay.

00:10:27.000 I went to Ivy League schools too.

00:10:28.000 I don't mind people who go to Ivy League schools.

00:10:30.000 That's fine.

00:10:30.000 My 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.

00:10:41.000 Isn't that exciting, guys?

00:10:43.000 Super, super exciting stuff.

00:10:44.000 Among them, John Kerry.

00:10:46.000 So, John Kerry gets up, and he says he's gonna work on climate change.

00:10:48.000 After his wonderful work in ensuring that the Iranian government was strengthened in pursuit of regional terrorism, he is now going to work on climate.

00:10:55.000 Which is a pretty good guarantee that we're all gonna boil to death as the world heats. 1.00

00:10:58.000 Because John Kerry has been unsuccessful at everything he has ever tried because he is a garbage person. 0.99

00:11:02.000 He'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. 0.99

00:11:17.000 Fracking, 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. 0.99

00:11:24.000 Anyway, here is John Kerry talking about how he believes in science and God.

00:11:31.000 No, no, he does not.

00:11:33.000 John Kerry, go.

00:11:36.000 Fifty seven years ago this week.

00:11:40.000 Joe Biden and I were college kids when we lost the president who inspired both of us to try to make a difference.

00:11:49.000 A president who reminded us that here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own.

00:11:57.000 President Joe Biden will trust in God, and he will also trust in science to guide our work on Earth to protect God's creation.

00:12:11.000 Okay, 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?

00:12:18.000 I mean, John Kerry's been in politics for years and years and years and years.

00:12:21.000 This is trying to paper over radical leftism with a veneer of kind of sort of soft, general Wonderful Americanism.

00:12:29.000 That's all this is.

00:12:31.000 What 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.

00:12:37.000 And maybe I'll have some nice wine and then I'll sign away half of America's economic freedom.

00:12:41.000 Sound good, guys?

00:12:42.000 Sound good?

00:12:43.000 According to the Washington Post, everybody's excited.

00:12:46.000 Dino Grandoni with Alexa Ellerbeck.

00:12:52.000 The 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.

00:13:00.000 Ooh, gravitas!

00:13:01.000 Selling the senior statesman into the newly created position gives it gravitas.

00:13:04.000 Ooh, gravitas.

00:13:05.000 We're back to gravitas.

00:13:06.000 I don't know if you remember all the way back to 2000.

00:13:09.000 In 2000, the rip on George W. Bush is that he lacked gravitas.

00:13:13.000 But Al Gore, Al Gore, Captain Chakra's over here, right?

00:13:17.000 The guy who is with the masseuse with the shot.

00:13:18.000 In any case, that may be old news for all of you.

00:13:21.000 But Man Bear Pig, Al Gore, Al Gore, he was just, he was weighted down with all of his gravitas.

00:13:30.000 John Kerry has gravitas, which If you believe that, then I have a Ponzi scheme I'd like to talk to you about.

00:13:38.000 So apparently, according to the Washington Post, installing the senior statesman into the newly created position gives it gravitas at a time when U.S.

00:13:44.000 credibility abroad on global warming and other issues has waned under President Trump.

00:13:48.000 The 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.

00:13:55.000 Kerry tweeted on Monday, The work we begin with the Paris Agreement is far from done.

00:14:00.000 I'm returning to government to get America back on track to address the biggest challenge of this generation and those that will follow. 0.96

00:14:09.000 And then his face collapsed in on himself.

00:14:11.000 Like a mudslide in the Beverly Hills.

00:14:13.000 In the Hollywood Hills.

00:14:15.000 Let's just point out here that the Paris Accords were a complete sham from the beginning.

00:14:18.000 They were a non-binding commitment made by various nations who did not keep up to those commitments.

00:14:24.000 They 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.

00:14:35.000 As the Washington Post sort of quasi-admits, under that 2015 accord, nearly 200 nations agreed to set their own non-binding targets.

00:14:43.000 Non-binding, non-binding, that would be the word there.

00:14:45.000 Okay, I now make a non-binding pledge to you.

00:14:47.000 I'm gonna give away all my money.

00:14:48.000 Hey, guess what?

00:14:48.000 I'm not gonna do that, because it was non-binding.

00:14:51.000 Isn't that funny?

00:14:51.000 See how that worked?

00:14:52.000 It was non-binding.

00:14:53.000 They had their own non-binding targets for cutting emissions.

00:14:56.000 The success of the agreement relies on how well U.S.

00:14:58.000 diplomats such as Kerry can wield soft power to convince China, India, and other nations to curtail emissions as they grow their economies.

00:15:05.000 Given John Kerry's record on soft power, the answer is really, really poorly.

00:15:09.000 Really poorly.

00:15:10.000 Okay, so.

00:15:11.000 But they're really happy again.

00:15:12.000 John Kerry is back, guys.

00:15:13.000 And everybody is so excited.

00:15:15.000 I mean, AOC is excited.

00:15:17.000 Bernie Sanders is super excited.

00:15:20.000 The folks over at the Sunrise Movement are really, really excited.

00:15:24.000 Those are the crazy people who approached Dianne Feinstein and tried to lecture her about climate legislation. 1.00

00:15:28.000 And she was like, who are these stupid kids and why are they in my office? 1.00

00:15:31.000 And so that's exciting stuff. 1.00

00:15:32.000 Meanwhile, the supposedly incoming Biden administration What other sort of policy can we expect from a Biden administration?

00:15:40.000 racist 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

00:16:08.000 does not mean against racism in the parlance of the left.

00:16:11.000 Anti-racist policy means that you get rid of any policy that does not result in equal outcome.

00:16:17.000 Not equal opportunity, not equal access to rights, equal outcome for various racial groups.

00:16:21.000 And 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.

00:16:32.000 And Cheryl Cashin is eager to push forward the notion that a new Democratic coalition is on the rise. 0.91

00:16:37.000 What's that coalition look like?

00:16:39.000 Well, it is the Obama coalition, of course.

00:16:41.000 That Obama coalition was not a broadcasting coalition attempting to appeal to people across the spectrum.

00:16:46.000 It was a coalition specifically designed to go at woke white women College students and minorities. 1.00

00:16:51.000 That was Obama's entire 2012 pitch.

00:16:53.000 It's the reason why he lost three and a half million votes from 2008 to 2012.

00:16:56.000 He lost with virtually every demographic group vote in 2012.

00:17:00.000 He 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.

00:17:06.000 Democrats think that is the future, and so they want to double down on that in policy.

00:17:09.000 Cheryl Cashin says, A sizable majority of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and other minority groups still vote Democratic.

00:17:15.000 A sizable majority of white Americans vote Republican.

00:17:18.000 While no racial or ethnic group is a monolith, partisan identity still has much to do with attitudes about race.

00:17:23.000 White 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.

00:17:33.000 So she is basically suggesting that white people are instead resentful. 0.52

00:17:37.000 They're racially resentful. 0.63

00:17:38.000 And so Biden needs to forget Those racially resentful white people who may oppose things like affirmative action.

00:17:43.000 Instead, 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.

00:18:01.000 As 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.

00:18:12.000 So what exactly does that look like?

00:18:14.000 What exactly does that look like?

00:18:16.000 Well, 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.

00:18:27.000 What would that look like?

00:18:28.000 Well, 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.

00:18:37.000 So instead of giving money to companies to keep people employed, instead you should directly invest in areas that are heavily minority. 0.89

00:18:45.000 That's what she's talking about.

00:18:46.000 She says new investments should be allocated to black communities.

00:18:50.000 Bolder still, Congress could atone for the federal legacy of promoting segregation by enacting a law that bans exclusionary zoning.

00:18:56.000 Now, normally, exclusionary zoning used to refer to zoning practices that said, you cannot be a black person and live in this area.

00:19:02.000 That is against the federal constitution of the United States.

00:19:05.000 It also happens to be violative of the Civil Rights Act.

00:19:07.000 It's been federally illegal for half a century.

00:19:09.000 Okay, well, that's not what she's talking about.

00:19:09.000 Thank God.

00:19:11.000 When she talks about exclusionary zoning, she means getting rid of local laws that privilege single-family homes and exclude denser affordable housing.

00:19:18.000 So in other words, she wants to have a federal law that prevents you, you're living in a single-family home suburb, right?

00:19:24.000 Racially diverse, doesn't matter. 1.00

00:19:25.000 She 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. 1.00

00:19:35.000 That might change your quality of life, regardless of who is actually occupying those apartments.

00:19:39.000 But 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.

00:19:49.000 Also, she suggests that Congress could condition federal infrastructure or other spending on measurable local progress in creating affordable housing in high-opportunity areas.

00:19:57.000 As though people don't then make the decision to leave those areas and move to other areas, right?

00:20:02.000 Biden's already promised to back similar legislation.

00:20:05.000 Also, they want to apply a formula across all federal programs to ensure targeted spending in census tracts with persistent poverty.

00:20:11.000 Okay, again, here she is. 0.99

00:20:13.000 If we're talking persistent poverty in white communities in white Appalachia, she wouldn't be talking about this.

00:20:19.000 What she really means is trying to inject money into impoverished black communities as an attempt to get those people to vote Democratic.

00:20:27.000 And 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.

00:20:34.000 The 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.

00:20:40.000 That, of course, is a complete lie.

00:20:42.000 People 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.

00:20:50.000 Okay, 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?

00:20:56.000 That is what you can look forward to.

00:20:58.000 And the media are there for it, man.

00:21:00.000 And here's the thing.

00:21:01.000 What 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.

00:21:06.000 This 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.

00:21:12.000 It's the reason the media got Trump in 2016.

00:21:15.000 The reason is the media more than any other force in American life have lied to you and they have denigrated you.

00:21:20.000 The media are trotting out all of these radicals.

00:21:22.000 John Kerry is a radical.

00:21:23.000 Jake Sullivan is a radical.

00:21:25.000 Tony Blinken is a foreign policy blob member.

00:21:28.000 It doesn't mean he's a radical.

00:21:29.000 He's just wrong about everything.

00:21:30.000 They're going to trot forward all of these people and all these radical policies as completely non-radical.

00:21:35.000 Natural responses to the world around you.

00:21:37.000 And these are not.

00:21:38.000 These are perfectly in line with reason and decency.

00:21:41.000 And if you oppose them, it's because you are against reason and decency.

00:21:44.000 This is the line Barack Obama used for eight long years, and the media simply mirrored it.

00:21:48.000 The media ignored everything that Barack Obama did to violate the Constitution, and there was plenty there.

00:21:52.000 They ignored the fact that he militarized wings of the federal government against his political opponents.

00:21:56.000 They ignored the fact that he spied on journalists.

00:21:58.000 They ignored all of that, and then they told you that he had no scandals.

00:22:01.000 His only scandal is that he wore a tansuit at a press conference.

00:22:03.000 By the way, that happened to be the press conference where he declared that ISIS was dead shortly before ISIS was revived.

00:22:08.000 I know everybody likes to ignore that part.

00:22:10.000 Okay, 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.

00:22:19.000 Your media are lying to you.

00:22:22.000 They're lying to you.

00:22:23.000 And they're going to tell you that everything they say is a matter of fact as opposed to a matter of opinion.

00:22:28.000 That's the biggest lie of all.

00:22:30.000 It's not just that they lie about policy and say it's effective when it isn't, although they do that.

00:22:34.000 It is that the media are telling you the biggest lie, which is they are lying to you about who they are, and about who you are.

00:22:39.000 They are saying that they are reasonable, objective voices, and you, for not agreeing with them, are an unreasonable partisan hack.

00:22:46.000 I'm going to show you proof of the media doing just that in one second.

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00:23:58.000 Okay, so...

00:23:59.000 As I mentioned, the great lie the media have been telling you for years is a lie about you and a lie about themselves.

00:24:03.000 The lie about themselves is that they're objective.

00:24:05.000 The lie about you is that you're a partisan if you disagree with them.

00:24:08.000 And so they're just going to go right back to this method of informational distribution.

00:24:12.000 They are going to go back to performing illicit services for Democrats.

00:24:15.000 They're going to go right back to turning their entire profession into the Democratic massage parlor. 1.00

00:24:22.000 That is what they are going to do.

00:24:24.000 And it's not just the so-called objective journalists, it's also your comedians, right?

00:24:27.000 Comedians used to come with a patina of objectivity.

00:24:30.000 Johnny 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.

00:24:37.000 Jay Leno did the same thing.

00:24:38.000 Now you have overt hacks like Stephen Colbert, who's essentially a Spartacus Club socialist from college.

00:24:44.000 Talking 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.

00:24:51.000 Here is Stephen Colbert.

00:24:52.000 He's not even the best example.

00:24:53.000 I'm just gonna give this because it's the best example of somebody desperately seeking to perform illicit services on behalf of Democrats.

00:24:58.000 So 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.

00:25:10.000 In any case, here is Stephen Colbert last night I mean, this is just sycophantic, drooling nonsense.

00:25:17.000 Can we just take a moment?

00:25:19.000 And I want to talk.

00:25:20.000 I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment, because I'm having to get used to looking at a president.

00:25:29.000 Again, you know, I've gotten out of the habit.

00:25:33.000 I've got to warm up for Joe Biden.

00:25:35.000 I don't want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office.

00:25:38.000 You've got to ease me into this a little bit.

00:25:41.000 But then there are your actual objective journalists, people like Yamiche Alcindor.

00:25:46.000 So Yamiche Alcindor has a long history of being a partisan hack.

00:25:50.000 She is a correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

00:25:56.000 She worked as a reporter for both USA Today and The New York Times.

00:25:58.000 Now, when Donald Trump said that she was a political hack, the entire media and journalistic establishment came to her.

00:26:03.000 She's an amazing reporter, amazing, amazing reporter.

00:26:06.000 Here is your very journalism objective journalist being so objective in her journalism and the journalism is going to get absolutely everywhere.

00:26:12.000 She talks about the glories of Joe Biden's cabinet.

00:26:15.000 I was talking to a Democrat who just said this also felt like the Avengers.

00:26:18.000 It felt like we're being rescued from this craziness that we've all lived through from the last four years.

00:26:24.000 And now here are the superheroes to come and save us all.

00:26:27.000 Oh, they're like the Avengers, guys.

00:26:29.000 That's objective journalism at its finest.

00:26:31.000 The Avengers.

00:26:32.000 Which presumably means they'll break lots of things and then everybody will cheer.

00:26:38.000 That's what the Democratic Avengers are here to do.

00:26:40.000 They're like superheroes.

00:26:41.000 Now, 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.

00:26:46.000 And there's Nicole Wallace just nodding along.

00:26:48.000 Isn't that funny?

00:26:49.000 Yeah, they're all superheroes.

00:26:49.000 Isn't that great?

00:26:50.000 Your objective journalists.

00:26:52.000 Andrea Mitchell.

00:26:53.000 She comes out and she says, Biden's not political.

00:26:55.000 That's the thing about Joe Biden is he's not political.

00:26:57.000 He literally is the guy who suggested that Mitt Romney was going to put black people back in chains.

00:27:03.000 He was a moving force behind the implementation of Obamacare.

00:27:07.000 He was the first major American politician to publicly support same-sex marriage.

00:27:11.000 He has spent his career borking people.

00:27:13.000 He went after Robert Bork.

00:27:15.000 He went after Clarence Thomas.

00:27:16.000 Joe Biden is the definition of a political animal.

00:27:19.000 He's been a politician literally his entire adult life.

00:27:22.000 He was elected to high office at the age of 29.

00:27:23.000 The hell is she talking about?

00:27:26.000 But here is Andrea Mitchell saying, well, you know, here's the thing.

00:27:28.000 He's really just like a non-political guy.

00:27:31.000 See, the implication here is that if you disagree, it's because you're political.

00:27:33.000 Here's Andrea Mitchell, very objective news journalist for NBC News, being very objective in journalism.

00:27:38.000 They are now being told that it is not going to be political.

00:27:42.000 And 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.

00:27:50.000 That is a big change.

00:27:51.000 Oh, I mean, this team is not political.

00:27:54.000 It's not a political team.

00:27:55.000 Every one of the people on that team has been a longtime Democratic hack inside the halls of Washington power.

00:28:01.000 The story is not Biden doing what Biden is going to do, because Biden is a Democrat.

00:28:04.000 He's going to appoint other Democrats.

00:28:06.000 The point here is that the media are also Democrats.

00:28:09.000 And I, honest to God, don't understand why any incoming Biden administration would even need a press secretary.

00:28:14.000 They don't need one.

00:28:16.000 They 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.

00:28:24.000 That is what the media do.

00:28:25.000 I mean, Andrea Mitchell has moderated presidential debates. 0.71

00:28:29.000 You know who else has?

00:28:30.000 Martha Raddatz.

00:28:31.000 So Martha Raddatz came out and she said his foreign policy team, Joe Biden's foreign policy team, is not political.

00:28:36.000 Remember, Martha Raddatz has moderated presidential debates.

00:28:40.000 She claimed not a single member of Biden's foreign policy team was political.

00:28:43.000 That would include John Kerry, John effing Kerry, Jake Sullivan, and Tony Blinken.

00:28:51.000 She, I mean, come on. 0.89

00:28:52.000 She actually puts John Kerry aside.

00:28:54.000 She says, when I look at that group up there, let's put John Kerry aside because he was the Democratic nominee.

00:28:58.000 But they're not political.

00:28:59.000 They're just career people, you know, career people, because career people are never political.

00:29:02.000 If 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.

00:29:10.000 But here is Martha Raddatz doing the work for the Democrats. 0.99

00:29:13.000 This is about the least flashy team you could possibly get.

00:29:17.000 They are deeply experienced.

00:29:20.000 They are humble, and they are lifelong public servants.

00:29:24.000 When 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.

00:29:32.000 They are just career people, and as they say, they really do reflect America.

00:29:40.000 So, is it any shock then to learn that there's this giant revolving door between the media and the Biden administration?

00:29:47.000 Ash Scowell over at Daily Wire details this.

00:29:49.000 that she says for four years, CNN and MSNBC, MSNBC decried the revolving door between the Trump administration and Fox News.

00:29:55.000 Now, analysts and contributors from those networks are joining Joe Biden's transition team and administration.

00:29:59.000 For 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.

00:30:11.000 Jen Psaki just left the CNN payroll as a commentator to join the Biden transition team as a senior advisor.

00:30:17.000 Before that, she worked as the spokesperson for the State Department under Obama and then as White House Communications Director.

00:30:23.000 NBC 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.

00:30:32.000 Emanuel will be guiding Biden's COVID-19 response.

00:30:35.000 Barbara McQuaid, a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, will join the Biden transition as part of the Justice Department review team.

00:30:41.000 She previously served as U.S. 0.84

00:30:42.000 Attorney for Eastern District of Michigan under Obama.

00:30:44.000 Richard Stengel, a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC, who by the way is just awful.

00:30:49.000 I mean, Richard Stengel?

00:30:50.000 Has been wrong on every major political issue he has ever covered.

00:30:54.000 Stengel is a disaster area.

00:30:55.000 He's been tapped as Biden transition's team lead for the U.S.

00:30:58.000 Agency for Global Media.

00:30:59.000 He wrote an op-ed in 2019 for the Washington Post.

00:31:02.000 As you'll recall, he talked about it at length last year, in which he called for free speech to be restricted.

00:31:07.000 I'm so glad he is representing America with regard to the global media in the Biden administration.

00:31:12.000 He wrote in that piece, quote, How about Corinne Jean-Pierre?

00:31:15.000 Jean-Pierre, she's a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

00:31:16.000 who must add new guardrails.

00:31:17.000 I'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.

00:31:27.000 How about Corrine Jean-Pierre?

00:31:29.000 She's a, Jean-Pierre, she's a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.

00:31:32.000 She left the network and made a work on Biden's campaign before she joined Kamala Harris as her chief of staff. 0.97

00:31:38.000 And 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.

00:31:49.000 The revolving door between the media and the Democrats is not a coincidence, because the media and the Democrats are a revolving door.

00:31:54.000 They are just the same.

00:31:55.000 They're the same.

00:31:56.000 There's no difference between Jen Psaki as the White House press communications official, and Jen Psaki as commentator on CNN. 1.00

00:32:02.000 It's the same Jen Psaki, and CNN basically is just an outlet for For Joe Biden.

00:32:06.000 But there's something more important here.

00:32:07.000 There are two things that are more important.

00:32:09.000 One is the implication the media are constantly drawing about themselves.

00:32:12.000 And so when they say that Joe Biden's team is apolitical and professional and expert and elite, when they say it, it's objectively true.

00:32:12.000 They're objective.

00:32:20.000 And you are a fool for not believing them. 1.00

00:32:22.000 You're a partisan for not believing them. 1.00

00:32:24.000 That's point one.

00:32:25.000 Point two is they then shut the door behind them.

00:32:27.000 Because 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.

00:32:33.000 And thus, They should not be allowed to disseminate their information.

00:32:37.000 The objective media cadre are not invested in the viability of the First Amendment.

00:32:42.000 They'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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00:34:20.000 Okay, so much of this for the media is about maintenance of their own position.

00:34:26.000 They understand.

00:34:27.000 Deep 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.

00:34:27.000 They do.

00:34:33.000 And 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.

00:34:44.000 It really does.

00:34:45.000 I'll give you just a brief anecdotal example.

00:34:48.000 So back during the 2012 Republican National Convention was held down in Tampa.

00:34:52.000 And 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.

00:34:57.000 They have like a media row in the media row.

00:34:59.000 You 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.

00:35:13.000 And 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?

00:35:23.000 He was the guy who people would go to.

00:35:25.000 He was a trusted name in objective news.

00:35:28.000 And so I went up to him.

00:35:29.000 And I will say, as a man with magnificent eyebrows, Sam Donaldson puts me to shame.

00:35:34.000 That is a dude with eyebrows.

00:35:35.000 So 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.

00:35:43.000 And he said, yes.

00:35:44.000 And I said, well, do you think that maybe your opinions shaped how you covered politics?

00:35:48.000 He said, no.

00:35:49.000 And I said, well, I don't think you're being honest because frankly, I think that your opinions do shape your policies.

00:35:55.000 Do you think you're better than I am?

00:35:57.000 You think you're better than I am?

00:35:57.000 He got very angry.

00:35:59.000 And I said, well, I mean, kind of.

00:36:00.000 I'll tell you my biases and then I'll give you what I think.

00:36:03.000 And then you can make a decision as to whether you believe me or not.

00:36:05.000 And you can take everything I say with a grain of salt.

00:36:07.000 He got very, very angry.

00:36:08.000 OK, but this is how members of the media think.

00:36:10.000 They're like dolphins.

00:36:12.000 Okay, they have two sides of their brain.

00:36:13.000 One is the political side of their brain, and one is the objective journalisming side of their brain.

00:36:16.000 And they believe that they can turn off one side in favor of the other side.

00:36:19.000 And that is not true.

00:36:20.000 It is not true at all.

00:36:21.000 Okay, 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.

00:36:38.000 Unless they have actual methodologies that you can follow a step-by-step process to go from point A to point B.

00:36:44.000 That is based on some objectified metric of interpretation.

00:36:48.000 If 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.

00:36:56.000 That 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.

00:37:05.000 See, they're just saying the truth.

00:37:07.000 They're just saying what's true.

00:37:09.000 This is why I don't think that the media are badly motivated.

00:37:12.000 I don't think that they are lying to you in the sense that they are purposefully trying to prevaricate.

00:37:18.000 I think that for them, they actually believe that their opinions are the objective truth.

00:37:21.000 They believe that the things they say are objectively true, no matter whether those things are opinion.

00:37:26.000 And they've been in the bubble so long that nobody has ever disagreed with them.

00:37:29.000 And 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.

00:37:37.000 And I guess this gives them the justification for doing what they are doing right now, which is attempting to slam the door behind them.

00:37:43.000 And 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.

00:37:51.000 So the Democrats turned the media into a bullhorn for their politics, because the media is totally democratic.

00:37:55.000 And 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.

00:38:04.000 Because here's what happened.

00:38:06.000 And it's very clear that this has happened from the data.

00:38:09.000 Originally, when the internet sprung up, you could get the New York Times on your front doorstep.

00:38:13.000 You get the LA Times.

00:38:14.000 A lot of people said, I don't like what I'm being provided here.

00:38:16.000 I think what I'm being provided here is politically biased and I'm being lied to.

00:38:19.000 I don't agree that what these people are presenting as quote-unquote objective truth actually represents objective truth.

00:38:24.000 I remember media bias in my family.

00:38:25.000 I 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.

00:38:36.000 It turns out there was an Israeli soldier who was actually defending an Israeli man from being beaten by Palestinians.

00:38:42.000 They miscaptioned it.

00:38:43.000 The New York Times had to run a correction.

00:38:45.000 The L.A.

00:38:45.000 Times picked up the same photo.

00:38:47.000 I remember my father calling in and canceling the L.A.

00:38:48.000 This was back in the 90s.

00:38:48.000 Times.

00:38:50.000 But there weren't a lot of great alternatives.

00:38:51.000 If 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.

00:38:57.000 Times, because the L.A.

00:38:58.000 Times was much bigger.

00:38:59.000 And then the internet cropped up, and you could easily cancel your subscription.

00:39:03.000 You could easily stop visiting these sources of supposed news.

00:39:07.000 You could easily find alternative sources of information.

00:39:09.000 And 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.

00:39:18.000 There are several types of media bias.

00:39:19.000 There is the media bias in which they simply do not report facts they do not like.

00:39:23.000 And 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.

00:39:32.000 And 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.

00:39:42.000 And people were into it.

00:39:44.000 People were into it and then Facebook came along and Facebook provided you an easy way of getting all of that news.

00:39:49.000 An easy way of networking with other people who might think like you.

00:39:52.000 An easy way of disseminating information through channels of like-minded people so that you could actually blow up news.

00:39:59.000 It wasn't merely that you could find news on some obscure website that the media had refused to report.

00:40:03.000 It 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.

00:40:11.000 And this is why people rushed to Facebook, because it wasn't just about creating social networks.

00:40:15.000 When it came to news, it was explicitly about finding alternatives to the mainstream media.

00:40:21.000 See, 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.

00:40:32.000 You already had all that.

00:40:33.000 It was for everybody else.

00:40:35.000 This 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.

00:40:46.000 And 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.

00:40:54.000 This 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.

00:41:03.000 If 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.

00:41:09.000 Well, 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.

00:41:16.000 They'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.

00:41:22.000 And 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. 0.63

00:41:37.000 And they're doing so at the behest of a pathetic Self-indulgent media firmly convinced of their own virtue.

00:41:42.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second. 0.89

00:41:44.000 This is what it's gonna be like for years, by the way.

00:41:46.000 It's gonna be like this for years.

00:41:47.000 This is the battle.

00:41:48.000 I've been saying this for months now.

00:41:49.000 This is the battle.

00:41:50.000 It's been obviously the battle since the Hunter Biden shutdown.

00:41:53.000 This is the battle.

00:41:54.000 Will you even get to see?

00:41:55.000 Will you even get to access the information you want to see?

00:41:58.000 Will you be able to fight back against the misinformation put out by the left if the left controls all the sources of informational dissemination?

00:42:04.000 We're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:44:20.000 Okay, so the media's goal here is now to reestablish their dominance.

00:44:30.000 Top down.

00:44:30.000 Because 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.

00:44:36.000 Again, the mainstream media dominated the space.

00:44:38.000 They didn't need the social media companies.

00:44:40.000 The social media companies were explicitly an alternative to those mainstream media companies.

00:44:45.000 Now the mainstream media, legacy media companies, they're attempting to use social media in order to shut down the debate again.

00:44:50.000 They drew you in and now they are shutting the door.

00:44:52.000 They're shutting the door and they're making sure that you don't see anything that they don't want you to see.

00:44:56.000 And they are laundering their information in order to do so.

00:44:59.000 So what they have basically declared is that Facebook, for example, should shut down any right-wing site.

00:45:04.000 So the way they do this is they actually just go in very often and they falsify information.

00:45:08.000 People on the left will just go in and falsify information.

00:45:10.000 So what they'll do is they'll do things like this.

00:45:12.000 They'll go to NewsGuard, which is a pathetic site, which is designed to basically say that anybody on the right is disinformation.

00:45:18.000 If you say you're overtly conservative, they say that you are not a trusted news source. 0.68

00:45:22.000 If you are covertly leftist, right?

00:45:24.000 If 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.

00:45:29.000 If 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.

00:45:37.000 And so NewsGuard will then be used by Facebook in order to shut down our traffic.

00:45:42.000 You will see people on the left suggest that we at the Daily Wire were disinformation.

00:45:46.000 Why?

00:45:47.000 Well, 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.

00:45:56.000 Right now, the Wikipedia profile literally reads, many of the website's stories involve unverified information and may be considered fake news.

00:46:02.000 They then link to a story that does not say anything like that.

00:46:05.000 There's nothing in the story that even alleges that.

00:46:07.000 It doesn't matter.

00:46:08.000 So, before the election, this is not a shock, and here they are, here are your journalistic tech activists, okay?

00:46:13.000 They 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.

00:46:22.000 Kevin 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.

00:46:32.000 He has a piece today with Mike Isaac and Shira Frankel saying Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth.

00:46:39.000 Civility and growth.

00:46:40.000 By civility, they mean that they just want you not to be able to see any information that is not from the New York Times.

00:46:46.000 In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding.

00:46:52.000 Election-related misinformation was going viral on the site.

00:46:56.000 President Trump was already casting the election as rigged.

00:46:58.000 Stories 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.

00:47:05.000 Now, 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.

00:47:12.000 Kevin Roos himself has said this.

00:47:14.000 Hey, we reported election irregularities in Michigan, okay, and it was a true story.

00:47:19.000 Kevin 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.

00:47:29.000 The employees proposed an emergency change to the site's News Feed algorithm, which helps determine what more than 2 billion people see every day.

00:47:37.000 It 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.

00:47:48.000 Typically, NEQ scores play a minor role in determining what appears on user feeds.

00:47:51.000 But 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.

00:48:06.000 The change was part of the break glass plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election.

00:48:11.000 It 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.

00:48:18.000 While 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.

00:48:28.000 Some employees argued the change should become permanent, even if it was unclear how that might affect the amount of time people spent on Facebook.

00:48:34.000 In an employee meeting the week after the election, workers asked whether the Nicer News feed could stay, said two people who attended.

00:48:39.000 First of all, Zuckerberg is in control of his company, or if he is in control, maybe he's not.

00:48:43.000 If 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?

00:48:49.000 You are not the great arbiter of what truth constitutes. 0.95

00:48:52.000 And 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.

00:49:03.000 CNN, The New York Times, and NPR, all massive publications with huge, $100 million budgets.

00:49:09.000 All of them got bigger.

00:49:10.000 Meanwhile, any alternative source of information was blocked.

00:49:13.000 Shocker.

00:49:14.000 Shocker.

00:49:15.000 Guy 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.

00:49:24.000 Instead, 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.

00:49:31.000 This is all part of the plan for the radical journalistic left.

00:49:36.000 They pretend they are objective.

00:49:37.000 If you don't agree with them, it's because you're bad.

00:49:39.000 And the social media feeds should only reflect real news like the New York Times and NPR and CNN.

00:49:45.000 Give me an effing break.

00:49:47.000 And that's what you're going to be dealing with under a Biden administration.

00:49:49.000 A media, the Praetorian Guard for Joe Biden, the Praetorian Guard for Democrats.

00:49:53.000 Every Republican will be castigated as evil and malevolent and satanic.

00:49:57.000 That is where all of this is going.

00:49:59.000 So get ready.

00:50:00.000 The lid is going to clamp down on your ability to get information.

00:50:02.000 It's why you should go subscribe to your favorite publications right now before it is too late.

00:50:07.000 So 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.

00:50:07.000 All right.

00:50:20.000 The 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.

00:50:27.000 So, 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.

00:50:33.000 We know for a fact that they shut down our traffic like probably three weeks before the election.

00:50:37.000 We could see it in the actual metrics over at Daily Wire.

00:50:41.000 And the New York Times continues to push this day in and day out.

00:50:44.000 You 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.

00:50:49.000 You should only see the information that they want you to see.

00:50:51.000 See, this is the difference between folks on the left and folks on the right.

00:50:53.000 I have never, not once, told you that there should be some attempt to shut down CNN, NPR, New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC.

00:51:01.000 I've never said that, not once.

00:51:03.000 I've said you might want to cut your cable because they're lying to you.

00:51:06.000 But 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.

00:51:06.000 Because they are.

00:51:19.000 I've never said CNN, New York Times should be downgraded in terms of their ability to have reach on Facebook's platform.

00:51:24.000 I've never said anything remotely like that.

00:51:26.000 In 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.

00:51:32.000 I 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...

00:51:39.000 I've always said, when people say, what do you read?

00:51:41.000 I'll tell you, I read the New York Times, the Washington Post.

00:51:44.000 I'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.

00:51:50.000 And when people ask, what sort of podcast should I listen to?

00:51:53.000 I'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.

00:51:58.000 Decide where you think you come down on various issues.

00:52:01.000 Folks on the left won't do that. 0.96

00:52:02.000 To folks on the left, it is anathema to allow you to listen to alternative points of view.

00:52:06.000 It is very bad for them to allow you to listen to alternative points of view.

00:52:11.000 In 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.

00:52:18.000 They'd be run out of town on a rail.

00:52:20.000 I say to my listeners all of the time that you should listen to alternative sources of information other than mine.

00:52:25.000 I've had on this show, many times, people on the left.

00:52:28.000 On our Sunday special, we routinely feature guests who disagree with us.

00:52:31.000 The same simply does not hold true for many members of the left.

00:52:34.000 And 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. 0.63

00:52:43.000 Many Americans' feeds are nightmares.

00:52:44.000 I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.

00:52:48.000 Well, clearly, Charlie Warzel should police what kind of feed you have on your Facebook.

00:52:53.000 He 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.

00:52:58.000 I 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.

00:53:07.000 By the way, we should analyze the word disinformation here.

00:53:09.000 Okay, misinformation is overt falsehood.

00:53:11.000 Disinformation, 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.

00:53:22.000 If 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.

00:53:29.000 The mainstream media have sold the lie that America was rooted in racism and bigotry and continues to be the home of racism and bigotry.

00:53:38.000 The mainstream media has sold the lie that Donald Trump was a Russian collusion actor.

00:53:42.000 Hey, that's disinformation.

00:53:43.000 And in the case of that particular story, that was actually Russian disinformation.

00:53:47.000 In any case, Charlie Weitzel says Facebook is bad.

00:53:50.000 Really, you should just read the New York Times.

00:53:51.000 He 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.

00:54:00.000 Neither of the two people I settled on described themselves as partisan.

00:54:03.000 Both bemoan the toxicity of our politics.

00:54:06.000 Here'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.

00:54:25.000 Thought of you, the post reads. Below that is a screenshot of a meme created by the pro-Trump group Turning Point USA.

00:54:31.000 You're sitting on socialism.

00:54:31.000 The post reads, displaying a series of photos of abandoned buildings, empty grocery store shelves, and bleeding men in makeshift, dirty hospital beds.

00:54:39.000 The feed goes on like this, an infinite scroll of content without context.

00:54:42.000 Ah, you need context for socialism being awesome, guys.

00:54:45.000 That's really what you need.

00:54:46.000 And you need context for memes.

00:54:48.000 Now we need to contextualize memes.

00:54:50.000 Now, 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.

00:54:56.000 Specifically because they're basically the junk food of informational dissemination.

00:55:01.000 But he says, touching family moments are interspersed with Bible quotes that look like Hallmark cards, hyper-partisan, fear-mongering, and conspiratorial misinformation.

00:55:09.000 The feed is, in a word, a nightmare.

00:55:11.000 I know because I spent the last three weeks living inside it.

00:55:15.000 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:55:16.000 This is just a joke.

00:55:17.000 It's a joke.

00:55:17.000 Charlie Warzel thinks that this is a nightmare because Charlie Warzel doesn't like what he's reading.

00:55:21.000 That's the end of the story.

00:55:23.000 And this is the way that so many on the left think.

00:55:25.000 They think, I don't like what other people are reading.

00:55:27.000 Therefore, I should be in control of what other people are reading.

00:55:30.000 Therefore, I should try to prevent other people from reading the things I don't want them to read.

00:55:34.000 And 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.

00:55:45.000 Okay, so Jordan Peterson's book, his last book, 12 Rules for Life, which is great.

00:55:48.000 You should read it.

00:55:49.000 Jordan's a friend.

00:55:50.000 I love Jordan.

00:55:52.000 Jordan's a really, really good guy.

00:55:53.000 Jordan's book sold 3 million copies.

00:55:56.000 You know how many crappy, woke books that sold 5,000 copies Jordan Peterson's book supported?

00:55:56.000 3 million copies.

00:56:01.000 You know how much money the publisher made off of Jordan Peterson's good book? 0.97

00:56:04.000 Said they could publish a bunch of woke crap that sold seven copies? 0.85

00:56:09.000 A lot of those books got published because Jordan Peterson exists. 0.96

00:56:11.000 Apparently, 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.

00:56:23.000 Dozens more have filed anonymous complaints.

00:56:26.000 Okay, so...

00:56:28.000 Like, so what?

00:56:29.000 I'm so tired of companies being run by the peons.

00:56:33.000 That's not how this works.

00:56:34.000 I run a company.

00:56:36.000 We love our staffers.

00:56:37.000 We love them so much that we pay them.

00:56:39.000 And we support them.

00:56:40.000 And we provide them, as employees, with the insurance to which they are entitled.

00:56:44.000 And, 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. 1.00

00:56:53.000 The idea that they would come to me crying, crying about a decision to publish Jordan Peterson is unthinkable and unthinkably stupid. 1.00

00:57:00.000 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:57:02.000 And 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.

00:57:11.000 It'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.

00:57:18.000 On 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.

00:57:29.000 The book will be published by Portfolio in the U.S.

00:57:31.000 and Penguin Press in the U.K., both part of the Penguin Random House empire.

00:57:36.000 Four Penguin Random House Canada employees, who did not want to be named due to concerns over their employment, Well good, they should be concerned.

00:57:43.000 Okay, can I tell you something we're never gonna do at this company?

00:57:47.000 Hold a town hall.

00:57:48.000 It's not gonna happen.

00:57:49.000 If you got a complaint, you can come and talk to me about it.

00:57:51.000 We are not holding town halls.

00:57:52.000 We are not holding whining grievance sessions.

00:57:54.000 not a thing that is going to happen.

00:57:56.000 During which executives defended the decision to publish Peterson while employees cited their concerns about platforming someone who is popular in far right circles.

00:58:04.000 He's an icon of hate speech and transphobia. 0.63

00:58:06.000 The fact he's an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book. 0.93

00:58:10.000 I'm not proud to work for a company that publishes him.

00:58:12.000 A junior employee who is a member of the LGBTQ community and who attended this town hall told Vice World News.

00:58:17.000 Okay, well, if you're not proud to work, there's the door.

00:58:19.000 Enjoy!

00:58:20.000 But they held the town hall anyway.

00:58:22.000 By the way, the idea that he's an icon of hate speech and transphobia is absurd on its face.

00:58:26.000 I love that this employee says the fact that he's an icon of white supremacy regardless of the content of his book.

00:58:31.000 So it doesn't matter if his book explicitly denounces white supremacy.

00:58:35.000 All that matters is that there are a bunch of people I don't like who like his book.

00:58:38.000 That means we should ban his book.

00:58:40.000 Let's just preemptively burn books.

00:58:41.000 He hasn't even read the book, but let's preemptively burn the thing.

00:58:41.000 Why not?

00:58:44.000 Another employee said people were crying in the meeting about how Jordan Peterson has affected their lives.

00:58:48.000 They said one co-worker discussed how Peterson had radicalized their father.

00:58:51.000 Another talked about how publishing the book will negatively affect their non-binary friend.

00:58:56.000 The company, since June, has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things, and then publishing Peterson's book goes completely against this.

00:59:02.000 It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative!

00:59:05.000 Okay, spoiler alert, guys.

00:59:07.000 Their efforts were completely performative.

00:59:09.000 I 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.

00:59:15.000 Because your perspective is annoying to them.

00:59:19.000 They'll do it because they don't want legal liability, and they don't want HR grievances. 0.68

00:59:23.000 But 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. 0.99

00:59:30.000 But the fact that this is even being taken seriously speaks to the leftist mentality.

00:59:33.000 It is not about free speech, and it is not about any sort of diversity of thought.

00:59:37.000 It is simply about who gets to rule.

00:59:40.000 That is all.

00:59:42.000 The Penguin Random House Canada employees said the company was secretive about releasing the new book.

00:59:46.000 One said the title didn't appear in an internal database that normally includes all future books.

00:59:51.000 The junior employee said, I feel it was deliberately hidden and dropped on us once it was too late to change course.

00:59:54.000 Again, you have options.

00:59:56.000 One of those options is not working there.

00:59:57.000 You can do it.

00:59:58.000 I've done that before.

00:59:59.000 When I disagreed with the publication, I walked out the door.

01:00:01.000 When I disagreed with Breitbart in 2016 and how they handled a particular controversy, I left.

01:00:05.000 You can do it too.

01:00:06.000 Anytime you damn well please. 0.93

01:00:07.000 But you don't have the courage of your convictions. 0.91

01:00:09.000 You just want to take control of the company itself.

01:00:12.000 Apparently, Scott Sellers, Director of Marketing Strategy, spoke about how the company has to work with writers whose views we, quote, don't necessarily support.

01:00:20.000 But said Sellers also defended Peterson by stating he supports same-sex marriage.

01:00:23.000 The implication being, of course, that if Peterson did not support same-sex marriage, they simply could not publish the book. 1.00

01:00:29.000 This is ridiculous crap. 1.00

01:00:30.000 But this sort of ridiculous crap extends to every area of the American culture. 1.00

01:00:34.000 Like, every area of the American culture. 1.00

01:00:35.000 If you so much as wink at people who do not think like you, you will be taken out to the woodshed.

01:00:42.000 So, let's take an example.

01:00:44.000 So there's a new movie that's out on Netflix called Hillbilly Elegy.

01:00:46.000 I got to see an early viewing of the movie because I'm a special person.

01:00:51.000 It is the story of J.D.

01:00:52.000 Vance.

01:00:53.000 Vance is a columnist for National Review.

01:00:53.000 J.D.

01:00:55.000 He went to Yale Law School.

01:00:56.000 He served in the military.

01:00:57.000 And it's based on his book, Hillbilly Elegy.

01:00:59.000 So Hillbilly Elegy sold a bajillion copies.

01:01:02.000 The book was basically a story about poverty culture in white Appalachia.

01:01:07.000 It 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.

01:01:25.000 That's what Hillbilly Elegy is about, and it's an interesting sociocultural study.

01:01:29.000 It 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?

01:01:38.000 Like, how did that happen?

01:01:40.000 And so, Hillbilly Elegy became kind of the way that they decoded that.

01:01:43.000 Because 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.

01:01:53.000 Okay, that was how Hillbilly Elegy was viewed.

01:01:55.000 Then, there was a switch, a couple of years ago.

01:01:57.000 So this book was published in 2016, it was widely heralded right, left, and center.

01:02:01.000 Okay, then...

01:02:02.000 There was a move that happened probably 2017, 2018.

01:02:05.000 A backlash against the book after Trump won.

01:02:07.000 And the backlash went something like this.

01:02:09.000 It was really threefold.

01:02:10.000 One was...

01:02:11.000 Hillbilly Elegy is bad because it takes white poverty seriously. 0.67

01:02:14.000 As we all know, poverty is a racial problem. 0.75

01:02:17.000 White poor people are still beneficiaries of white privilege. 0.82

01:02:20.000 So why are we even talking about them? 0.85

01:02:22.000 That was point number one.

01:02:23.000 So 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.

01:02:42.000 Okay, 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? 0.75

01:02:48.000 Because as we all know, they are bad people.

01:02:51.000 And 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.

01:03:02.000 So it was sort of a threefold attack on hillbilly elegy.

01:03:02.000 Right?

01:03:04.000 And suddenly hillbilly elegy went from being the darling book of the critic circle to being a whipping post for so many leftist think pieces.

01:03:10.000 Okay.

01:03:11.000 So in that glowing period where hillbilly elegy was popular all the way across the aisle, they made a movie of it.

01:03:15.000 Okay, and the movie features some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

01:03:18.000 It's got Glenn Close as Mama, and it's got it's got Amy Adams It's got Amy Adams playing JD Vance's mother Okay, and the movie's good.

01:03:28.000 It's a good movie, okay?

01:03:30.000 The 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.

01:03:37.000 But it is a good, well-told family story.

01:03:39.000 Amy Adams is terrific in it.

01:03:40.000 I mean, she's physically transformed.

01:03:42.000 You can't recognize her, right?

01:03:43.000 Amy Adams is a very beautiful woman.

01:03:44.000 She plays somebody who's essentially gone to seed, and she's very good.

01:03:48.000 Glenn Close plays Mama, and she's very, very good.

01:03:51.000 The performances across the board are universally quite good.

01:03:55.000 The script is...

01:03:57.000 Inarguably apolitical.

01:03:59.000 It is not a political script.

01:04:00.000 It is very obviously not a political script.

01:04:02.000 The critics have just savaged this thing to death.

01:04:05.000 They've savaged this thing to death.

01:04:06.000 And 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.

01:04:13.000 And then after Trump won, it became an evil book that was justifying the evils of Trump's America.

01:04:18.000 So the Atlantic, for example, has a big piece by David Sims called Hillbilly Elegy.

01:04:22.000 It's one of the worst movies of the year.

01:04:25.000 The new Netflix film is a think piece trap, shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside.

01:04:30.000 Everyone in this world is one of three kinds, declares Maw Maw, the wise grand matriarch of Ron Howard's new film, Hillbilly Elegy. 1.00

01:04:35.000 A good Terminator, a bad Terminator, a neutral.

01:04:37.000 I hate to correct Maw Maw, who is trying to encourage her impressionable grandson, J.D.

01:04:40.000 Vance, to follow a righteous path by invoking Arnold Schwarzenegger's beloved action franchise.

01:04:45.000 There is no such thing as a neutral Terminator.

01:04:47.000 These cyborg heroes exist to either protect or destroy.

01:04:50.000 I cannot imagine what a neutral Terminator would do.

01:04:52.000 Momo 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.

01:04:59.000 Vance's best-selling 2016 memoir that debuts on Netflix tomorrow.

01:05:04.000 When 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.

01:05:13.000 Held 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.

01:05:21.000 The book arrived at a seemingly serendipitous moment, offering a bleak but candid view of communities gutted by drug abuse and poverty.

01:05:26.000 As you can see, really, the rip on the movie is going to be a rip on the book.

01:05:28.000 Vance happens to be a Republican.

01:05:28.000 J.D.

01:05:30.000 We can't have a movie that makes a Republican book look good.

01:05:32.000 and perseverance, launching vague broadsides against the American welfare system, the author often appears uninterested in interrogating deeper systemic issues.

01:05:39.000 As you can see, really, the rip on the movie is going to be a rip on the book.

01:05:43.000 J.D. Vance happens to be a Republican.

01:05:44.000 We can't have a book that makes a Republican, a movie that makes a Republican book look good.

01:05:48.000 That can't be a thing.

01:05:49.000 In 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.

01:05:56.000 Netflix'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.

01:06:03.000 It is also one of the worst movies of the year, stuffed with A-list stars and tearful monologues.

01:06:07.000 It is a neutral terminator of a film, polished yet utterly inert.

01:06:12.000 Okay, so again, all that matters here is that the basic movie is bad, because JD Vance is bad, because Hillbilly Elegy is bad.

01:06:20.000 And this is how entertainment is going to be treated.

01:06:21.000 I mean, we know this.

01:06:22.000 We know that the Oscars are only going to feature stories that the left likes.

01:06:25.000 You have to have a particular protagonist, or a particular percentage of staffers, or members of a particular sexual orientation, or sexual or racial minorities.

01:06:36.000 Every aspect of your culture is going to be turned in favor of the leftist narrative.

01:06:40.000 And 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.

01:06:52.000 That is the way this is going to go.

01:06:54.000 The left has designs on your personal future, on what you can see, on the information you can consume.

01:07:00.000 They have personal designs on exactly how your kid is going to be educated.

01:07:05.000 John Murakowski, over at RealClear Investigations, has a piece talking about anti-racist teaching in K-12 schools targeting whiteness.

01:07:13.000 He 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.

01:07:40.000 That's the Lower Merion School Board. 0.96

01:07:44.000 In 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. 0.88

01:07:54.000 The top administrator added, we grieve for all of the black lives taken by white supremacy at Brentwood College School in LA.

01:08:00.000 They've made more changes to the curriculum this year than any other in the private school's five-decade history. 0.91

01:08:05.000 Teachers are introducing critical race theory and assigning readings from garbage purveyor Ibram Kendi. 0.97

01:08:10.000 The academic and author who contends race-neutral policies are the bulwark of the white ethnostate.

01:08:17.000 The nation's K-12 schools have been incrementally adopting multiculturalism and ethnic studies for decades, but those courses were the exception, not the rule.

01:08:24.000 This summer's BLM protests have sparked new levels of commitment, a newfound urgency, and a new trend—anti-racist pedagogy.

01:08:30.000 And 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.

01:08:40.000 That is the way the educational system is going to move.

01:08:42.000 So prepare for it.

01:08:44.000 The Biden era is not going to be an era of great comity and unity.

01:08:48.000 The 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.

01:08:59.000 The fight is not ending right now.

01:09:01.000 The fight is just beginning.

01:09:02.000 So get on board or they're going to throw you off the boat.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 25, 2020

The Media Can’t Wait To Kiss Biden’s Ass | Ep. 1145

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