The Ben Shapiro Show - The Media’s Next Big Lie | Ep. 1157

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00:01:42.000 We begin this morning with a fascinating piece over at the Columbia Journalism Review.

00:01:48.000 This piece was not meant to be a rip on CNN, but it is in fact a rip on CNN because it just goes to show how the sausage is made when it comes to the media.

00:01:57.000 Media very often are not following the news, they are creating the news, or they've decided to craft a narrative and they are going to fit the news into the narrative.

00:02:05.000 And this becomes perfectly obvious in this piece from the public editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, Ariana Pekeri.

00:02:11.000 It's called CNN Public Editor What Comes After Trump and COVID.

00:02:15.000 It seems like a good moment, with the ends of the Trump administration and global pandemic in sight, to ponder what is next for CNN.

00:02:20.000 After years of long, chaotic days, news producers on the brink of burnout or well past it are certain to welcome a time of relative calm, as long as they are able to retain their jobs.

00:02:29.000 WarnerMedia announced a new round of layoffs this fall.

00:02:31.000 At a recent company town hall, its chief executive Jason Killar was asked if CNN was at risk, as some have speculated.

00:02:37.000 Killar didn't explicitly say no, a reporter noted at a deadline, but appeared bullish on the cable news network, highlighting its recent ratings success.

00:02:44.000 Inside the network, according to informal conversations with several staffers in the weeks since the election, there is pride that CNN ended the month of November on top in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic, both in primetime and in total-day audiences.

00:02:55.000 There's a belief the network may benefit from the fact that Fox News fans are depressed and MSNBC has not yet figured out how to position itself in a changed news cycle.

00:03:03.000 Says the Columbia Journalism Review.

00:03:05.000 Like every other news network, it may struggle in 2021.

00:03:07.000 CNN must figure out how to cover a Biden administration that isn't defined by conflict.

00:03:13.000 Having a president in Trump who is well-versed in reality TV and whose main aim was to outrage and troll his political opponents has been a boom for ratings.

00:03:20.000 Likewise, Trump may have broken the grading curve.

00:03:22.000 Think about the potential controversy if Joe Biden had been the first to nominate a recent general to lead the Pentagon.

00:03:27.000 And so this Columbia Journalism Review article is all about how CNN is now looking for a narrative.

00:03:31.000 And this is the dirty little secret about how the media do their business.

00:03:35.000 It is about ratings.

00:03:36.000 In the end, it is largely about ratings.

00:03:38.000 They're not following the most important news.

00:03:40.000 They're not following the most vital news.

00:03:41.000 They're not telling you the truth about the news.

00:03:43.000 They're not providing you a well-balanced view of the news.

00:03:45.000 They are there to drive a narrative.

00:03:47.000 And if that narrative sells, well, that's what they're looking for.

00:03:50.000 And so right now, CNN is looking for a new narrative.

00:03:52.000 Now, we know that this is what mainstream establishment legacy media outlets do.

00:03:56.000 We know that the New York Times, for example, in the aftermath of the failed attempt by Robert Mueller's team to go get Donald Trump, That the New York Times, Dean Beckett, held an editorial meeting with all of staff and said, we are going to shift resources into covering the racism narrative.

00:04:09.000 And then magically, voila, within the next year, every single story turned into a racism story.

00:04:14.000 We got the George Floyd protests.

00:04:15.000 We got the protests in the streets.

00:04:16.000 We got the 1619 Project and all of this, right? 0.58

00:04:19.000 We know that the New York Times officially stated that they were following a narrative. Now, usually newsrooms are called newsrooms because they cover the news, not because they're narrative rooms. But let's be real about this.

00:04:31.000 Legacy media, establishment media, they're not there to cover the news. They're there to make the news. So what exactly will CNN be looking to push over the next few years?

00:04:38.000 According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the chatter within the network is that there's an appetite for a dramatic news storyline to replace Trump, most likely to be propagated internal discussions had suggested through punditry instead of more expensive and risky reporting.

00:04:50.000 It could put the moderate Biden administration in opposition to those on the extremes of his party.

00:04:54.000 Or, depending on Republican behavior, the narrative may dissect Biden's prediction that he was best suited to forge bipartisanship.

00:05:00.000 The network will also seek a Biden whisperer, a journalist impeccably connected, as the New York Times' Maggie Haberman has been with Trump, who can offer access and micro scoops on the new administration.

00:05:11.000 The well-intentioned journalist at CNN says the Columbia Journalism Review may still have to fight to do anything other than conflict-ridden segments that seek drama to juice ratings.

00:05:18.000 And this is the point.

00:05:20.000 Okay, CNN is going to look for whatever is the juiciest, and not only whatever is the juiciest, but whatever is most calibrated to please their leftist audience.

00:05:26.000 Notice the narratives that Columbia Journalism Review is suggesting.

00:05:29.000 One is Joe Biden is too moderate, and the other is Joe Biden is too moderate, right?

00:05:33.000 Those are the two narratives they are suggesting.

00:05:34.000 One is that he's too moderate for the radical wing of his party.

00:05:37.000 And the other is he's too moderate compared to these terrible, awful, evil, no good, very bad Republicans.

00:05:42.000 And it is this drive from the media to create narrative that has driven the backlash against the media.

00:05:48.000 It is this drive by the media to craft narrative that means that we no longer trust the media.

00:05:54.000 And it's why there's so much doubt over our institutions.

00:05:56.000 I've been saying this for the past week.

00:05:58.000 To use the metaphor again, if the media are the glasses through which we view the world, and if it turns out the lens is cracked, it makes it very difficult to discern what is beyond the lenses.

00:06:07.000 And as we see from our media, they are a cracked pair of glasses.

00:06:11.000 They are shading the world in a particular direction, and so you don't know what to trust.

00:06:15.000 And this is why there's so much endemic mistrust in all of our institutions, up to and including our elections.

00:06:20.000 Okay, well, last night, the Electoral College did vote to elect Joe Biden.

00:06:23.000 That was perfectly predictable.

00:06:25.000 Obviously, the state votes had been certified in states ranging from Michigan to Pennsylvania to Georgia.

00:06:30.000 There's still, as we'll get to, an ongoing legal case in Georgia.

00:06:34.000 But with the vote of the Electoral College, that means that Joe Biden is officially the president-elect, at least until he is ratified January 6th by the Congress of the United States.

00:06:41.000 There's a procedure for that.

00:06:42.000 Here is what that looked like last night when the Electoral College, which again, you have basically people meeting in every state, they voted to elect Joe Biden president, which again, is in accordance with the votes in those states as currently certified by those states.

00:06:55.000 I will now announce the tally of the vote for the office of president of the United States for Joseph R. Biden of Delaware, a Democrat.

00:07:06.000 Ayes 55, noes zero.

00:07:09.000 Thank you.

00:07:11.000 That was the state of California that was announcing California put Biden over the top last night.

00:07:16.000 And the media were just beside themselves.

00:07:18.000 They're beside themselves at the magic of this moment.

00:07:20.000 And it was very clear, obviously, who they were rooting for.

00:07:23.000 You saw people like CNN's David Chalian saying it's time to celebrate democracy.

00:07:23.000 Right.

00:07:27.000 Now, I don't remember the sort of talk after the 2016 election when Donald Trump won.

00:07:31.000 Right, then it was the Electoral College is very bad.

00:07:33.000 We need to stop talking about the Electoral College.

00:07:35.000 Let's do popular vote kind of stuff.

00:07:36.000 But now it's a celebration of democracy because, of course, this is narrative.

00:07:40.000 That's an opinion.

00:07:40.000 It is not fact driven.

00:07:41.000 Here's CNN's reporter.

00:07:42.000 He's a journalist, David Chalian.

00:07:45.000 It is sort of a day to step back and celebrate democracy, but it is also a day that has responsibility attached to it.

00:07:54.000 Our responsibility to show all the viewers, to show the country and the world, this process unfold while Donald Trump and his allies want to suggest falsely without any, any realm of fact that the election was rigged or stolen or some way not what it is.

00:08:13.000 So much journalism happening right there.

00:08:14.000 It's a magical day for democracy.

00:08:16.000 In a way, the 2016 was not a magical day for democracy.

00:08:19.000 This was just, it was a great day because CNN has a narrative to drive.

00:08:23.000 Now, the Republicans in many of these states have put up what they call alternative slates of electors.

00:08:27.000 Those electors have not been certified by the state legislature, so they don't actually really mean much.

00:08:31.000 The only way they would mean something is if there were a legal challenge that would be elevated to the Supreme Court, which would overturn the electoral slates that have been created in these various states, or it got to Congress, and then there was some way That Congress voted to overrule those state electors and then they would put in these replacement electors.

00:08:45.000 That isn't going to happen, but that is what has been happening on the ground as far as what Republicans are doing.

00:08:51.000 Now, all of this tied into the Joe Biden narrative.

00:08:53.000 So Joe Biden decided that he was going to do a victory speech last night.

00:08:56.000 Joe Biden didn't have to do a victory speech last night.

00:08:59.000 He did a victory speech the night of the election.

00:09:01.000 And in fact, he's going to get to do another victory speech, presumably on Inauguration Day, when he's inaugurated in January.

00:09:07.000 So why exactly did he bother to do this victory speech again?

00:09:10.000 The reason is out of spite, right?

00:09:12.000 I mean, that's the only reason that he needs to do this.

00:09:14.000 The process worked as the process is supposed to work.

00:09:15.000 People brought their legal challenges.

00:09:17.000 The states rejected the legal challenges.

00:09:18.000 The Supreme Court rejected several legal challenges.

00:09:21.000 And then the Electoral College voted.

00:09:24.000 But he felt the necessity to go out there and do a speech about how he was going to be a president for all Americans while basically crapping on Trump and crapping on Trump supporters, which is a strategy.

00:09:33.000 I don't think it's a very good strategy, but again, it ties into the broader democratic narrative, which is that Donald Trump is an enemy of democracy and Joe Biden is a friend to democracy.

00:09:42.000 As we will see, there were some questions to be brought about just how much of a friend to democracy and freedom of the press Joe Biden is.

00:09:49.000 And meanwhile, the media continued to craft that narrative in just one second.

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00:11:23.000 Alrighty, so Joe Biden decides that he is going to do a victory speech.

00:11:28.000 Now again, there's no necessity for the victory speech, right?

00:11:31.000 I mean, he thinks that this thing was over election night.

00:11:34.000 It's now officially been voted on in the Electoral College, which means officially he's president-elect.

00:11:38.000 Okay, and that means that he's going to be able to do a big inauguration.

00:11:42.000 But that's not what this is about.

00:11:43.000 What this is about is, again, driving the narrative forward.

00:11:45.000 The narrative is always and forever that Joe Biden is a friend to democracy.

00:11:48.000 Democrats are friends to democracy.

00:11:50.000 While Republicans who have outstanding questions or who are upset about the election, those people are enemies of democracy.

00:11:55.000 But don't worry, Joe Biden stands for all of you.

00:11:57.000 All of you.

00:11:58.000 So here is Joe Biden last night.

00:12:00.000 A member of the Electoral College, representing the certified winner, cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United States in an act just as old as our nation itself.

00:12:14.000 Once again, in America, the rule of law, our constitution, and the will of the people prevail.

00:12:22.000 Our democracy pushed, tested, threatened, proved to be resilient, true, and strong.

00:12:29.000 Okay, so again, this is part of the broader narrative, which is that Trump filing lawsuits in a variety of states is somehow a threat to democracy.

00:12:36.000 No, actually.

00:12:37.000 You know, it's not a threat to democracy.

00:12:39.000 Working within the actual system of the democracy in order to challenge election results, whether you bring the evidence and you overturn the results, whether you don't bring the evidence and you don't, the process worked.

00:12:48.000 It was supposed to work.

00:12:50.000 And the fact that Trump challenged the election, You know, he had every right to do that.

00:12:53.000 I think some of the things he was saying were not accurate.

00:12:57.000 I think that many of the claims that he has made are not backed by sufficient evidence to actually show their truth. 0.63

00:13:01.000 But the idea that democracy was ever truly under threat here is pretty ridiculous on its face.

00:13:06.000 And yet that is the narrative that's going to be driven because, again, for Democrats, the rule is when they win, democracy worked.

00:13:12.000 When they lose, democracy did not work.

00:13:13.000 So when Donald Trump won in 2016, democracy did not work.

00:13:16.000 In fact, I have right in front of me, four years ago, a bunch of different famous people on the left talking about how democracy had not worked because Donald Trump had won.

00:13:27.000 December 12th, 2016, John Podesta of the Clinton campaign, he literally said, Involving whether electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution to have their questions addressed.

00:13:39.000 He was saying the electors, right, a bipartisan slate of electors back in 2016 said Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

00:13:45.000 Maybe we should vote for Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College. 1.00

00:13:47.000 And John Podesta of the Clinton campaign was like, those questions deserve to have answers.

00:13:51.000 Joy Reid tweeted out an opinion piece from the Washington Post titled, The Constitution lets the Electoral College choose the winner.

00:13:57.000 They should choose Clinton.

00:13:59.000 Chris Hayes over on MSNBC.

00:14:01.000 Captain, I love democracy over there now.

00:14:03.000 He tweeted out, On December 6th, 2016, Fun fact, states decide how to apportion their electors.

00:14:09.000 They could give them all to, say, whichever candidate won the majority of counties.

00:14:13.000 Jonathan Weissman of the New York Times said the framers left electors free to choose.

00:14:16.000 They should exercise choice by leading the election as the people decided it.

00:14:20.000 Right, so there was a whole push by the left in 2016 to overturn the results of the Electoral College and to push against how the Electoral College worked.

00:14:26.000 But now we are being told, of course, that anybody who challenged the results of election in legal processes inside courts across the nation, that all of this was anti-democratic.

00:14:37.000 Nope, that is perfectly within the boundaries of how all of this was supposed to work.

00:14:41.000 And in fact, you know who knows this?

00:14:43.000 Is Joe Biden.

00:14:44.000 And the reason that we know that Joe Biden knows this is because if you go all the way back to 2016, there was an attempt, actually on January 6th, 2017, rather.

00:14:53.000 That was the date on which Congress had to ratify the Electoral College when Donald Trump was elected.

00:14:57.000 And you know who had to preside over the ratification?

00:15:00.000 Was Vice President, then Vice President, Joe Biden.

00:15:03.000 Democratic lawmakers.

00:15:04.000 tried to overturn the results of the Electoral College in early January of 2017.

00:15:08.000 Here's the New York Times reporting January 6th, 2017.

00:15:11.000 One by one, the Democratic lawmakers stepped up to the microphone on Friday, holding onto their letters and an impossible dream, denying the presidency to Donald J. Trump two weeks before his inauguration.

00:15:19.000 And one by one, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, presiding over a joint session of Congress to validate the Electoral College results, turned back their challenges with a stoic message, pounding his gavel without hesitation.

00:15:29.000 It is over, Biden said at one point, as Republicans rose to their feet to cheer.

00:15:32.000 So Biden knows better than anybody else.

00:15:34.000 That there are a bunch of Democrats who are perfectly willing to overturn the results of the 2016 election.

00:15:38.000 Representative Barbara Lee of California, for example, she got up and said, Mr. President, I object because people are horrified.

00:15:44.000 The members, quote, spoke of voter suppression, of Russian interference, and of the bracing fear consuming many Americans.

00:15:51.000 Repeatedly, Biden asked if anyone could produce an objection that was joined by a senator.

00:15:55.000 He said in that case, and then when no one could, he said in that case, the objection cannot be entertained.

00:16:00.000 As the exercise neared its end, Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, said, I do not wish to debate. I wish to ask, is there one U.S.

00:16:06.000 Senator who will join me?

00:16:07.000 Biden reached for his gavel. As Biden read the final numbers, there were conspicuous demonstrations against Trump erupting among visitors to the gallery.

00:16:16.000 One woman shouted, I rise to defend our democracy. 0.95

00:16:18.000 We reject this electoral vote.

00:16:20.000 I rise to defend free and fair elections.

00:16:22.000 A man cried in a moment.

00:16:24.000 Donald Trump, as commander in chief, is a threat to American democracy.

00:16:27.000 A couple of people were arrested at the US Capitol.

00:16:29.000 And Biden knows that, right?

00:16:31.000 So was that a threat to democracy?

00:16:33.000 Not really.

00:16:33.000 The process worked as it was supposed to work.

00:16:35.000 Was this a threat to democracy?

00:16:37.000 Not really.

00:16:37.000 The process worked as it was supposed to work.

00:16:40.000 And Biden continued with this sort of quasi-vindictive victory speech, which was mostly designed to, again, suggest the narrative, which is he is super pro-democracy.

00:16:47.000 Dude loves democracy.

00:16:49.000 But people who oppose Joe Biden don't love democracy, even if they accept the results of the Electoral College, because that's how the process works.

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00:18:07.000 All righty. So Joe Biden continued with his victory speech and no necessity for this.

00:18:12.000 He did this because it's all about narrative driving. So here he was saying, I won by the same margin that Trump did. Yes. And I'm sure that you will receive the exact same media backlash that Donald Trump did in the aftermath of his win in 2016.

00:18:23.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:18:25.000 The Vice President-elect Harris and I earned 306 electoral votes, well exceeding the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory.

00:18:37.000 306 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that Donald Trump and Vice President Pence received when they won in 2016.

00:18:46.000 Excuse me.

00:18:47.000 At the time, President Trump calls the Electoral College tally a landslide.

00:18:54.000 By his own standards, these numbers represented a clear victory then, and I respectfully suggest they do so now.

00:19:02.000 Okay, and then Biden continued by talking about the legal processes that were in place.

00:19:06.000 He had to clear his throat a fair bit, which had people speculating on his health somewhere in the background.

00:19:10.000 Kamala Harris was getting very, very eager.

00:19:12.000 In any case, here was Joe Biden talking about the legal processes.

00:19:16.000 In America, when questions are raised about the legitimacy of any election, those questions are resolved through the legal processes.

00:19:25.000 And that's precisely what happened here.

00:19:28.000 The Trump campaign brought dozens and dozens and dozens of legal challenges to test the result.

00:19:34.000 They were heard again and again.

00:19:36.000 And each of the times they were heard, they were found to be without merit.

00:19:42.000 Um, so, here is the thing.

00:19:44.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:19:45.000 If the legal process worked, then it wasn't a threat to democracy, was it?

00:19:48.000 I mean, seriously, he's saying, we have a process, the process worked, and then earlier he was saying that it was a tremendous threat to democracy from Trump and Team Trump.

00:19:57.000 Now, again, this is all just part of the bullcrap lie that you're going to be sold over the next several years, which is that if you oppose anything that Joe Biden does, it's because you're an enemy of the majority, you're an enemy of democracy, you're a radical.

00:20:08.000 That is part of the broader narrative push that is going to be made right here.

00:20:11.000 Okay, now, how do you know that so much of this is narrative?

00:20:16.000 Because we've been told, of course, that Joe Biden, for example, is a great friend to liberties, a friend of democracy, a friend of the press, right?

00:20:21.000 Donald Trump is one of the narratives the media drove for years, is that Donald Trump was a threat to the press.

00:20:26.000 The Washington Post put up a slogan on their front page, Democracy Dies in Darkness.

00:20:30.000 It was just for Trump.

00:20:30.000 That's the only reason they put it up there.

00:20:32.000 They decided that democracy dies in darkness because the freedom of the press was at Sure, Donald Trump didn't jail journalists.

00:20:40.000 Sure, he didn't surveil them in the same way that Obama did.

00:20:42.000 In fact, he didn't even try to propagandize to them in even the same way that Obama did. 0.96

00:20:45.000 I mean, Ben Rhodes overtly said in an interview that he was lying to an echo chamber of idiot foreign policy journalists about the Iran deal, and they just lapped it up. 0.72

00:20:53.000 Certainly, Trump never received that sort of credulous media attention from the establishment media. 0.93

00:21:00.000 But we were told that Trump was a radical threat to the press.

00:21:02.000 So far, Joe Biden has not answered a single difficult question in the entire campaign.

00:21:06.000 In the post-election period, he's not answered a single difficult question.

00:21:10.000 So yesterday, he finishes his little victory speech.

00:21:13.000 And Peter Doocy from Fox News immediately pipes up and says, Question, when did you know that Hunter Biden was under, was under prosecutorial threat?

00:21:22.000 When did you know that he was under investigation?

00:21:23.000 Okay, that's a real question.

00:21:25.000 It's a question that he has been avoiding.

00:21:26.000 It's a question that Dr. Jill Biden, I've been reliably informed by lots and lots of people that Dr. Jill Biden is in fact the greatest, she's not just a doctor, she is the greatest doctor.

00:21:35.000 Like, it basically goes, Dr. Jonas Salk, Dr. Joe Biden basically slammed the front door on reporters who were asking questions about Hunter.

00:21:47.000 So Peter Doocy, whose job it is to be a reporter, he asked a reporter a question.

00:21:51.000 And Joe Biden got mad because this is what Joe Biden does.

00:21:53.000 Because it turns out that Joe Biden has the same sort of politician dictatorial tendencies as most other politicians in Washington, D.C.

00:22:00.000 He is all in favor of freedom so long as that freedom expresses itself in support for him.

00:22:04.000 If it cuts the other way, then not so much.

00:22:06.000 So here was the end.

00:22:07.000 I mean, honestly, he does this whole thing about how democracy has been vindicated and how the process worked.

00:22:13.000 And then Peter Doocy does a journalist-y thing. 0.99

00:22:15.000 And Joe Biden thinks that journalist jobs are to kiss his ass. 1.00

00:22:19.000 This is what he thinks. 1.00

00:22:20.000 So this exchange is pretty incredible.

00:22:23.000 May God protect our troops and all those who stand watch over our democracy.

00:22:28.000 Thank you.

00:22:40.000 Appreciate it.

00:22:41.000 Thank you.

00:22:44.000 Okay, so what Peter Ducey is shouting, when did you know that your son Hunter Biden was being investigated, Mr. President-elect?

00:22:50.000 And Biden turns back to the press, just to, like, he doesn't, you could just ignore it and walk off stage, he can't, right?

00:22:55.000 Instead, he turns back, he says, thanks for the congratulations.

00:22:57.000 It is not the job of the press to congratulate you.

00:23:00.000 That is not the job of the media.

00:23:01.000 That is not, but you could, listen, Biden could be forgiven for thinking that.

00:23:06.000 I mean, he spent his entire career in the warm caresses of the media ever since Barack Obama decided to pluck him from obscurity and make him his vice president.

00:23:06.000 He could.

00:23:14.000 So why wouldn't he think that it's the job of the press to kiss his ass? 1.00

00:23:17.000 I mean, so far, that's what they've been doing. 1.00

00:23:19.000 They did it the entire time during the election cycle.

00:23:22.000 And that's the narrative you can prepare for from now on, is Joe Biden is just too good.

00:23:25.000 He's just too freedom loving.

00:23:27.000 He's just too democratic.

00:23:28.000 He's just too unifying.

00:23:29.000 That's the big problem.

00:23:30.000 That's the reason he can't get anything done, is because there are just too many people who are mean to Joe Biden, particularly on the right.

00:23:36.000 They're just mean to Joe Biden.

00:23:37.000 And if it weren't for that, Joe Biden would be able to get things done.

00:23:40.000 He'd be more popular, probably.

00:23:43.000 That is the way the media are going to treat this, because everything is the narrative and the narrative is everything.

00:23:47.000 In just a second, we'll get to the media's narrative about COVID, because it turns out that was completely wrong.

00:23:51.000 And then they wonder why people don't trust them when it comes to their COVID coverage now.

00:23:55.000 It's because you've been wrong on pretty much everything on that particular score.

00:23:58.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:25:31.000 One of the first people to receive it was a New York nurse named Sandra Lindsay, who said that she received the vaccine and she feels great.

00:25:38.000 I received the vaccine a short while ago.

00:25:41.000 I feel great.

00:25:43.000 It didn't feel any different from receiving my annual influenza vaccine.

00:25:49.000 I am very proud to be a healthcare worker and I'm also very proud to be in this position to promote public confidence in the safety of the vaccine.

00:26:00.000 I encourage everyone to take the vaccine.

00:26:04.000 Okay, so this thing went out.

00:26:06.000 It went out by the millions of doses.

00:26:08.000 Apparently 2.9 million doses went out the front door.

00:26:11.000 Just a little trip down memory lane when it comes to the crafting of narrative.

00:26:13.000 So you'll remember that over and over and over during the campaign, Trump said, by the end of the year, we're going to have a vaccine.

00:26:18.000 And the media just kept throwing cold water on it.

00:26:20.000 It was impossible.

00:26:21.000 It was never going to happen.

00:26:22.000 So you have Misha Alcindor.

00:26:23.000 You know, Trump ripped on her at a White House press conference and the entire media infrastructure came to her and said, Oh my God, she's such a great journalist, incredible journalist.

00:26:30.000 Here's what she tweeted May 15th, 2020.

00:26:32.000 President Trump just now at the White House on a coronavirus vaccine.

00:26:35.000 We're looking to get it by the end of the year if we can.

00:26:37.000 Moving on at record, record, record.

00:26:38.000 Note, experts and officials say it is likely faster than what is possible.

00:26:43.000 Okay.

00:26:43.000 What?

00:26:44.000 There is Jonathan, Stephen Greenhouse over at the New York Times.

00:26:44.000 What?

00:26:44.000 PolitiFact!

00:26:47.000 What is August 27th, 2020?

00:26:50.000 Three question marks.

00:26:50.000 What?

00:26:51.000 Trump boasts inanely we will produce a vaccine by the end of the year and maybe even sooner.

00:26:55.000 Is Trump suggesting he'll pressure the FDA into approving a COVID vaccine in 2019?

00:26:59.000 Reporter for the New York Times.

00:27:02.000 PolitiFact.

00:27:02.000 Fact checked on April 23rd, 2020.

00:27:05.000 OK, they fact checked because Trump said that the U.S.

00:27:09.000 is very close to a vaccine.

00:27:10.000 They fact-checked it.

00:27:12.000 Is the U.S.

00:27:12.000 very close to a vaccine for the coronavirus, as President Trump said during tonight's coronavirus briefing?

00:27:16.000 Public health experts say it could take a year and a half to roll out.

00:27:19.000 Excellent fact-checking, PolitiFact.

00:27:21.000 You are not biased in any way.

00:27:23.000 Charlotte Clymer, the LGBT activist, put out a tweet.

00:27:28.000 From the debates, in which Trump said during the debates, we will have a vaccine by the end of the year.

00:27:31.000 This is only in October.

00:27:32.000 It's October 22nd, when it was becoming pretty clear that we were very close to a vaccine.

00:27:35.000 Trump tweeted out, we'll have a vaccine by the end of the year, New Year's Eve.

00:27:39.000 And then it was a thing from, um, from Riker on Star Trek, from Unsolved Mysteries, saying, this is fiction.

00:27:47.000 This is fiction.

00:27:48.000 This was all made up.

00:27:50.000 Aaron Rupar from Vox.com, he tweeted out a clip of Donald Trump saying that the vaccine would be available in a couple of weeks.

00:27:56.000 This is November 2nd, 2020.

00:27:59.000 And Rupar then tweeted, that's the surest indication yet that we're not close.

00:28:03.000 Excellent journalism in there by Aaron Rupar.

00:28:05.000 Objective journalist from Vox.com.

00:28:07.000 Very explainy over at Vox.com again sometimes.

00:28:09.000 Jessica Huisman tweeted, go ahead and flag this tweet.

00:28:12.000 Trump tweeted on May 14th, good numbers coming out of states that are opening.

00:28:15.000 America is getting its life back.

00:28:16.000 Vaccine work is looking very promising before end of year.

00:28:20.000 Jessica Huisman tweeted, go ahead and flag this tweet for when we do not have that vaccine by the end of the year.

00:28:24.000 How about we flag your tweet?

00:28:26.000 Tim O'Brien, Lib commentator said, no one in Trump's own government, at least those leading Operation Warp Speed, whom I interviewed, believes a safe, properly tested coronavirus vaccine will be ready by the end of the year.

00:28:36.000 Amazingly irresponsible for Trump to be touting this in the midst of this crisis.

00:28:39.000 This is August 27th, 2020.

00:28:41.000 And then, of course, Kyle Griffin from MSNBC, whose Twitter account, as a low-level producer over at MSNBC for, I believe, Lawrence O'Donnell, his Twitter account can, because he apparently has like the emails of everybody in the echo chamber, if he tweets something, it becomes like a national story.

00:28:54.000 He tweeted out, May 15th, 2020, a fact check from NBC.

00:28:59.000 Oh look, a miracle.

00:29:05.000 Or alternatively, you guys were lying the whole time because bottom line is that you wanted it not to be true.

00:29:12.000 Many of you were rooting for it not to be true.

00:29:14.000 You weren't willing to hold off on it.

00:29:15.000 You weren't willing to just say, okay, well, you know, it's possible that this could be the case.

00:29:20.000 Instead you jumped to, it's a, In November, right?

00:29:22.000 The day before the election, people were tweeting, it's impossible a vaccine will be available by the end of the year.

00:29:26.000 The very next week, the very next week, which by the way is not a coincidence, you started to see drug companies come out of the woodwork and say, oh yeah, by the way, all of our studies have been going really, really well.

00:29:36.000 If that news had come two weeks earlier, maybe that affects the election.

00:29:38.000 Dr. Marty McCarry from Johns Hopkins University, he had serious doubts.

00:29:41.000 I had him on the show.

00:29:42.000 He had serious doubts as to whether that was not held up by the drug companies for electoral purposes.

00:29:48.000 There are a couple of stories that were really held up before the election that could have made a difference in the election.

00:29:53.000 They really could have.

00:29:54.000 This is why when people say it's rigged, there is rigged as in like people formally changed votes or the voting machines were hacked.

00:29:59.000 And then there's rigged as in the conditions of the election We're not free and fair on a broader level in that all the information that you should have known was not made available to you.

00:30:09.000 If we had known a week before the election, if the American people had known a week before the election, the vaccine was going to be ready and good to go by the end of the year.

00:30:16.000 And that, in fact, companies like Pfizer had the vaccine ready and good to go.

00:30:19.000 Like we know for a fact, by the way, that Pfizer already had the numbers in the FDA.

00:30:23.000 Administrators inside the FDA made them go back to the drawing board and add a few more people onto their study, even though they already had enough results to announce.

00:30:31.000 We also know the Hunter Biden story was out there, and we know that that was not confirmed by the DOJ, and the media not only refused to report on it, they actively attempted to suppress the information on the Hunter Biden story.

00:30:41.000 We know all that stuff.

00:30:42.000 Would that have made a difference in the election?

00:30:43.000 It certainly wouldn't have hurt Trump.

00:30:45.000 That is for sure.

00:30:45.000 It certainly wouldn't have hurt Trump.

00:30:47.000 In any case, the vaccine is being rolled out.

00:30:49.000 That is a triumph by the Trump administration.

00:30:52.000 Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, like the actual, apparently, he's not just a doctor, he's like the best doctor in all the land.

00:31:01.000 Dr. Fauci, he said that there will be herd immunity by the end of June 2021.

00:31:05.000 Which, by the way, also gives the lie to Bill Gates' bizarre comment that we wouldn't be getting back to normal until 2022.

00:31:09.000 Here he was talking about herd immunity.

00:31:12.000 I had been saying, by my calculation, sometime by the end of March, the beginning of April, that the normal, healthy man and woman in the street, who has no underlying conditions, would likely get it.

00:31:24.000 At the end of the day, the real bottom line is, when do you get the majority, the overwhelming majority of the population, vaccinated so you can get that umbrella of herd immunity?

00:31:36.000 And I believe if we're efficient about it, and we convince people to get vaccinated, we can accomplish that by the end of the second quarter of 2021.

00:31:45.000 Namely, by the end of the late spring, early summer.

00:31:49.000 And by the way, point of fact, the media, which has now shifted its narrative to we have to convince all these unbelievers to get the vaccine, that shifted immediately on the election, like on a dime.

00:32:00.000 Andrew Cuomo went from we have to have our own state commission to determine whether the vaccine is safe to give us the vaccine like right now and I'm going to be out here and I'm going to be telling all of you that you need to get the vaccine.

00:32:10.000 It's like, dude, five seconds ago, you were saying that you couldn't get the vaccine because it was developed under the Trump administration.

00:32:14.000 The good news is the vast majority of Americans say they would receive the vaccine.

00:32:17.000 Forty percent say they will take it as soon as it's available.

00:32:19.000 Forty four percent say they would wait a bit before getting it.

00:32:21.000 This seems to be age striated, as by the way, it should be. 0.97

00:32:24.000 If you're elderly or you're vulnerable, you should be looking at the vaccine like, give me that sucker right now. 0.52

00:32:28.000 And if you are young and you're healthy, you might be saying, I'm going to wait a little while because who cares if I get it? 0.91

00:32:32.000 I'm probably going to be fine, right?

00:32:34.000 By the actual statistics, if I'm 20 and I get it, then my chances of death are exceedingly low.

00:32:39.000 If, however, I'm 65 and I have a preexisting heart condition, give me the vaccine right this very instant.

00:32:44.000 Only 15% of Americans, according to a new poll, say they would refuse the vaccine entirely in the new survey that was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News.

00:32:53.000 More than 8 in 10 Americans say, of course, they will receive it.

00:32:57.000 Among those who have been most closely hit by the pandemic, 45% said that they would receive the vaccine right now.

00:33:03.000 Among Americans who have not contracted the virus or don't know somebody who has, only 30% say they would be willing to be inoculated immediately.

00:33:10.000 Only 7% of Americans over the age of 65 say they will never be vaccinated.

00:33:14.000 That number rises to 20% among those between 18 to 29.

00:33:18.000 93% of elderly Americans say they are willing to receive the vaccine.

00:33:21.000 More saying they will get it right away, 57%, rather than further down the line, 36%.

00:33:26.000 80% of U.S.

00:33:27.000 adults under 30 are willing to get it, but they're more likely to say that they would wait rather than getting it right away.

00:33:31.000 That's actually good news because, again, we're going to be tranching this thing out.

00:33:34.000 So if you're young, you are going to be waiting for it.

00:33:36.000 So the fact that you're willing to wait for it is probably not a bad thing.

00:33:38.000 So all of that is very good news with regard to the vaccines.

00:33:40.000 Meanwhile, New York is talking about doing a full shutdown.

00:33:44.000 Despite data suggesting that the shutdowns probably are not going to do anything.

00:33:49.000 The reason I say probably is because there are contact tracing studies in New York right now that show that the vast majority of COVID spread is happening in household transmission. 0.92

00:33:57.000 There was Mayor Bill de Blasio, the most garbage mayor in America.

00:34:00.000 And man, is that a close battle between a bunch of Democratic mayors ranging from Eric Garcetti to Ted Wheeler in Portland to Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. 0.98

00:34:07.000 to Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta.

00:34:09.000 And now you have de Blasio still has to top that list.

00:34:11.000 Sure, he was saying they may have to do a full city lockdown again.

00:34:16.000 There's a potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown in the coming weeks because we can't let this kind of momentum go.

00:34:25.000 I mean, think about it for a moment.

00:34:27.000 This city was the epicenter.

00:34:28.000 We fought back.

00:34:29.000 We became one of the safest places in the country.

00:34:31.000 We opened our schools when most major cities didn't.

00:34:34.000 We've kept our schools safe.

00:34:36.000 But now we're seeing the kind of level of infection with the coronavirus we haven't seen since May.

00:34:43.000 And we have got to stop that momentum or else our hospital system will be threatened.

00:34:49.000 Okay, so quick note.

00:34:51.000 He's talking about shutting down all of the restaurants, like all of them.

00:34:54.000 Well, it turns out that restaurants and bars account for less than 2% of new COVID cases in New York. 2%!

00:35:00.000 That's what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

00:35:02.000 He said private gatherings account for the vast majority of new statewide cases, according to Newsweek.

00:35:06.000 Less than 2% are coming from bars and restaurants.

00:35:09.000 According to the data, 74% of new cases have come from private social gatherings.

00:35:14.000 He said, in many ways, you can understand what happened.

00:35:16.000 You close bars, you close restaurants, you close theaters, you close stadiums, you close mass gatherings.

00:35:20.000 Where do people go?

00:35:21.000 They go home.

00:35:21.000 Well, no, that's actually not totally the case.

00:35:24.000 What's actually happened, this was always true.

00:35:27.000 Okay, the virus continued to spike in New York even after most of the shutdown happened.

00:35:30.000 The reason being people went home and they stayed home with people for more than 15 minutes.

00:35:34.000 Of course the number one vector of transmission is people being at home.

00:35:38.000 But they're talking about shutting down everything in New York.

00:35:41.000 My friend Dave Rubin had a good tweet.

00:35:42.000 You want everything to reopen?

00:35:44.000 Tell everybody in Congress.

00:35:45.000 Tell all of your mayors.

00:35:46.000 Tell all of your state legislatures.

00:35:47.000 None of them get a salary until things are open.

00:35:50.000 So they can be just like all the people they are shutting down.

00:35:52.000 And then we can talk about what should stay open and what should not stay open.

00:35:55.000 What's an essential service and what is not an essential service.

00:35:58.000 Alrighty, in just a second.

00:35:59.000 We're going to get to the news that William Barr, the Attorney General of the United States, is stepping down as of next week.

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00:38:34.000 All righty, so Meanwhile, William Barr, the Attorney General, has stepped down out of his job.

00:38:45.000 Overall, William Barr did an excellent job as Attorney General despite the massive slings and arrows.

00:38:48.000 It's amazing to see how the media continued to treat William Barr despite the fact that, according to their light, he should be a hero today.

00:38:55.000 I mean, William Barr did not actually reveal news of the Hunter Biden investigation.

00:38:58.000 I think that that was a dicey move considering that it was overtly known.

00:39:01.000 I mean, people were actively reporting that he was under investigation, Hunter Biden.

00:39:06.000 The DOJ refused to confirm or deny based on Justice Department protocol that you don't do anything that affects an election.

00:39:10.000 It turns out that refusing to comment on a widely known matter is in fact affecting an election.

00:39:15.000 I think there are open questions to be asked about that.

00:39:17.000 I do wonder whether Trump's His sort of bizarre requirement to constantly go online and sound off about these things pushed Barr into a bad position.

00:39:26.000 He kept saying over and over, I want William Barr to prosecute Hunter Biden.

00:39:29.000 I want William Barr to open an investigation into Hunter Biden.

00:39:33.000 And Barr's like, I'm the head of the DOJ.

00:39:35.000 I'm supposed to be impartial here.

00:39:37.000 How does it look if I just announce that I'm opening an investigation or it's already open into Hunter Biden after you said to do that?

00:39:44.000 That is not exactly a great look.

00:39:46.000 So I'm wondering if that had some impact here.

00:39:48.000 In any case, overall, William Barr was a very strong Attorney General.

00:39:52.000 As Laura Ingraham said on her show last night, people who are suggesting that Barr is a weak Attorney General, either on the left or on the right, are being absolutely inaccurate.

00:39:58.000 His treatment of the Mueller probe was exemplary.

00:40:02.000 His decisions whether or not to prosecute in various cases have been nearly invariably good.

00:40:08.000 So William Barr put in his resignation yesterday.

00:40:11.000 He said he would resign it next week.

00:40:13.000 According to CNN, his departure was announced by the president on Twitter moments after counting in the Electoral College put Biden over the 270 votes.

00:40:20.000 He tweeted out, just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House.

00:40:24.000 Our relationship has been a very good one.

00:40:25.000 He has done an outstanding job.

00:40:26.000 As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.

00:40:30.000 Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting Attorney General.

00:40:34.000 Highly respected Richard Donahue will be taking over duties of Deputy Attorney General.

00:40:38.000 Thank you to all.

00:40:40.000 There are some people who have been suggesting to me he's going to fire William Barr, but it was basically irrelevant at this point anyway.

00:40:45.000 A White House official said Barr was not forced out or fired.

00:40:48.000 Said he wasn't asked to resign.

00:40:49.000 It was a very amicable meeting.

00:40:52.000 Another person familiar with the matter described the meeting as cordial.

00:40:56.000 So Barr put out a letter talking about this.

00:40:59.000 He said that any outstanding allegations of voter fraud would continue to be reviewed.

00:41:04.000 He had said earlier this month there was no widespread evidence of voter fraud that had been brought to his attention.

00:41:07.000 That doesn't mean no voter fraud.

00:41:09.000 And Barr wrote a very complimentary letter for Trump.

00:41:11.000 He said, your record is all the more historic because you accomplished it in the face of relentless, implacable resistance.

00:41:15.000 No tactic, no matter how abusive or deceitful, was out of bounds.

00:41:18.000 The nadir of this campaign was the effort to cripple, if not oust your administration with frenzies and baseless accusations of collusion with Russia.

00:41:26.000 So, Barr is moving out of the job.

00:41:28.000 Of course, these are the last days anyway for the Barr DOJ, no matter how you were going to slice it.

00:41:35.000 Meanwhile, as all of this goes on, the media are finally starting to notice that maybe there's some conflicts of interest with Joe and Hunter Biden.

00:41:40.000 Now it's fair to talk about all of this.

00:41:42.000 So Michael Scherer has a piece over the Washington Post.

00:41:44.000 The last time Joe Biden worked in the White House, his son-in-law, Howard Krein, mentioned executives from his healthcare startup firm would be visiting Washington.

00:41:50.000 The vice president promptly arranged a meeting between the group, which included Krein's brother, Stephen, and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

00:41:57.000 He knew about startup health and was a big fan of it.

00:41:58.000 Howard Krein, the husband of Biden's daughter Ashley, told the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2015.

00:42:02.000 He asked for Steve's number and said, I have to get them up here to talk with Barack.

00:42:06.000 Now Biden is preparing to step back into the Oval Office with radically different expectations about how he will handle the relationship between his official power and his family's private interests.

00:42:14.000 Notice how the Washington Post is suddenly reporting on this.

00:42:16.000 Until five seconds ago, it was completely verboten to talk about the fact That Joe has been facilitating his family's business interests for years.

00:42:24.000 It's perfectly obvious this has been happening.

00:42:26.000 He's giving his son, Hunter, lifts on Air Force Two to China.

00:42:29.000 He was looking the other way when Hunter was going and cashing checks in Ukraine using his name.

00:42:33.000 I mean, it is perfectly obvious what was going on for years.

00:42:36.000 But we were told we're not allowed to report on this now.

00:42:38.000 The Washington Post has decided to report on it.

00:42:39.000 But how are they going to report on it?

00:42:41.000 Not by suggesting that perhaps Joe Biden's history of familial corruption is bad, but by suggesting, well, you know, now he's going to change.

00:42:48.000 It's a brand new time.

00:42:50.000 It's a new leaf.

00:42:51.000 Turn it over.

00:42:52.000 Again, the narrative above all.

00:42:53.000 Narrative, narrative, Uber Alice.

00:42:56.000 My son, my family will not be involved in any business, any enterprise in conflict with or appears to be in conflict.

00:43:01.000 The president-elect told CNN this month, according to the Washington Post, that pledge has now been handed over to lawyers for the presidential transition who are drafting new rules for the Biden White House that are likely to be more restrictive than the rules that govern the Obama administration.

00:43:14.000 The potential family conflicts, both with Biden and his top White House advisors, are more extensive than the Obama White House confronted.

00:43:20.000 Biden's son Hunter is facing a federal investigation over taxes paid on a business venture in China, which also included Biden's brother James.

00:43:26.000 A situation that is certain to test the president-elect's promise to let the DOJ operate independently of his personal interests.

00:43:32.000 Both men have worked for years at the intersection of government and the private sector, using the Biden name to win work and sometimes partnering with Biden donors.

00:43:39.000 Through his lawyer, Hunter has promised not to work for any more foreign-owned companies and to, quote, keep his father personally uninvolved in his business affairs.

00:43:46.000 John Owens, the husband of Biden sisters Valerie and a former college classmate of the president-elect, owns a Delaware-based telemedicine company that markets itself as a solution amid pandemic restrictions, with medical second-opinion operations in Europe and Asia.

00:43:58.000 The president-elect spoke to a conference for the company, Metaguide International, in 2017, and the firm boasted about it in its marketing materials.

00:44:06.000 Biden and his wife, Jill, have also given speeches during the Trump administration at events produced by StartUp Health, a firm that has investments overseas and that continues to boast about its Biden ties, and a 2011 Oval Office meeting with Obama.

00:44:23.000 Among the investors is Joe Kiani, a major Biden donor, who has also had Biden speak at a patient safety conference he sponsored in 2017.

00:44:31.000 Much is riding on exactly how Biden decides to create the bright line he has promised.

00:44:35.000 Existing ethics rules regulate the disclosure of non-public government information and financial conflicts for spouses and minor children.

00:44:41.000 But the business dealings of extended family for both elected officials and political appointees traditionally fall into a legal and political gray zone.

00:44:49.000 Why, look at that.

00:44:50.000 That's amazing.

00:44:51.000 Really the question is how Joe Biden's going to be, you know, going forward.

00:44:54.000 It's not going to be about his history, his longstanding history of corruption.

00:44:57.000 It's going to be about how things are going forward.

00:44:59.000 Wow.

00:45:00.000 Excellent job by the media.

00:45:01.000 It's safe to do it now.

00:45:02.000 It's December 15th.

00:45:03.000 You're allowed to report it now.

00:45:04.000 So I'm glad that you're on it.

00:45:06.000 Also in the most complimentary fashion, which is that certainly Joe Biden will not be a fox guarding the hen house.

00:45:11.000 He will be just the greatest, the greatest guard against his own corruption.

00:45:15.000 Given his career of not guarding against his own corruption.

00:45:19.000 For sure, that's going to be it.

00:45:20.000 Well, William Barr is in fact leaving a bit of a welcome gift for Joe Biden.

00:45:25.000 According to the Daily Wire.com, Reince Vedra reporting, Special Counsel John Durham is reportedly ramping up his criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the 2016 campaign.

00:45:36.000 Attorney recently tapped by A.G.

00:45:36.000 Durham, U.S.

00:45:38.000 Barr to be special counsel, is apparently adding more prosecutors to his team.

00:45:42.000 The latest development in the case comes after Politico reported over the weekend that Durham has been zeroing in on Christopher Steele.

00:45:48.000 Politico reported in a previously unreported move, Durham enlisted a British law firm over the summer to take Steele to court in London, aiming to compel him to turn over notes he had taken of his meetings with the FBI in 2016, according to people with direct knowledge of the episode.

00:46:00.000 The underlying context for the request, people said, is that Durham believes Steele's notes could contain evidence.

00:46:06.000 that FBI agents improperly disclosed classified information about Crossfire Hurricane, as the Bureau dubbed its Russia probe, in the course of questioning Steele about his own findings.

00:46:14.000 DNI John Ratcliffe said last week he thinks Durham should release an interim report because some Democrats had tried to stop the investigation.

00:46:21.000 Durham, however, is appointed special counsel.

00:46:23.000 That means it is very difficult to get rid of him.

00:46:25.000 So that's something that Biden would presumably have to contend with.

00:46:29.000 Meanwhile, in other Democratic news, Nancy Pelosi is desperate to retain her speaker position.

00:46:34.000 According to the Daily Wire, Emily Zanotti reporting, Speaker of the House Pelosi is desperately whipping support to maintain her hold on the Speaker's position. She's urging her supporters in Congress to return to Washington, D.C. in January to be present for the vote, even if they're currently staying away over COVID-19 worries. According to Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi is fine with House Democrats skipping work if the votes are about legislation. 0.99

00:46:57.000 But in January, she's going to demand every Democrat show up in person to vote for her for Speaker. 1.00

00:47:01.000 Her message is clear.

00:47:02.000 Her power is more important than anything else.

00:47:04.000 And she has been, in fact, demanding that her supporters return for the vote.

00:47:08.000 She is deeply worried that there might be some sort of challenge.

00:47:11.000 She has had help from her top deputies, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, according to Politico.

00:47:17.000 She and her supporters have also deployed some former Obama administration alum and big donors to help squeeze undecided Democrats.

00:47:24.000 According to Emily Zanotti, Pelosi is currently leading the race only by a narrow margin.

00:47:29.000 Her rift with progressives and Democratic socialists in Congress has only grown wider.

00:47:33.000 Democrats had a number of unexpected losses in the November election.

00:47:36.000 That means that they now hold just a 10-seat margin over Republicans 2-22 to 2-12.

00:47:40.000 There's one last race that is outstanding.

00:47:43.000 It is likely that that will turn to the Republicans as well.

00:47:47.000 So hilariously enough, the person who's coming into the crosshairs now is AOC.

00:47:51.000 I'm sorry, not AOC.

00:47:52.000 The Honorable Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez DeTwitch.

00:47:56.000 She's coming into the crosshairs now because she has suggested that she's going to support Yeah, sure.

00:48:00.000 Sure you are, Alexandra.

00:48:01.000 I'm sure that's exactly what is happening.

00:48:03.000 thing is an assumption and a false one.

00:48:05.000 These structural negotiations happen.

00:48:06.000 They just aren't live tweeted.

00:48:08.000 These negotiations started months ago and include house rules, PAYGO exemptions, committee makeup, vote commitments, investigations, et cetera.

00:48:14.000 So her answer is that she's holding Nancy Pelosi, she's holding her feet to the fire.

00:48:18.000 Yeah, sure, sure you are, Alexandra.

00:48:20.000 I'm sure that's exactly what is happening.

00:48:23.000 Good stuff.

00:48:24.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to be getting to more bizarre moves by the radical left.

00:48:32.000 So, the ongoing battle inside the Democratic Party between the radical left and the moderate left, it really is largely just a question of timing.

00:48:41.000 Because let's face it, Joe Biden is not significantly more moderate than the radical leftists in his coalition.

00:48:46.000 He just wants to get there more slowly.

00:48:47.000 And the media are trying to cover for him. 0.75

00:48:49.000 You want to see an obvious, ridiculous example of media bias.

00:48:53.000 Michelle Boorstein has a piece over at the Washington Post suggesting that Joe Biden is going to change what it means to be Catholic.

00:48:58.000 I have a feeling that no.

00:49:01.000 That institution, a couple thousand years old, I don't think the doddering octogenarian who can barely get a sentence out of his face is going to be changing the meaning of Catholicism for millions of people.

00:49:09.000 I just don't think that's going to happen.

00:49:11.000 Here's the Washington Post, however, Biden could redefine what it means to be a Catholic in good standing.

00:49:16.000 Catholics are divided on whether that is good.

00:49:18.000 He's not going to be dividing people on what it means to be a Catholic in good standing.

00:49:23.000 It's not going to suddenly become Catholic Church doctrine that same sex marriage is wonderful and abortion is fine. 0.96

00:49:28.000 Both of which are things that Joe Biden apparently believes.

00:49:31.000 According to the Washington Post, however, again, this is in their religion section.

00:49:34.000 It's not not bad.

00:49:36.000 Catholics' view on Biden seems to serve as a proxy for what kinds of Catholicism they think most urgently needs to be advanced.

00:49:42.000 Should it be more focused on qualities like engagement and empathy or on purifying doctrine?

00:49:46.000 Is it as interested in Catholic teachings on poverty, refugees, and in the environment as those on sexuality and reproduction?

00:49:52.000 Or should it continue to place abortion law above all?

00:49:54.000 See, here's the thing.

00:49:55.000 You shouldn't have to have those values in competition with one another.

00:49:58.000 This is something the Catholics know.

00:50:00.000 All religious people know this.

00:50:02.000 A religious worldview is holistic.

00:50:04.000 It encompasses things ranging from views on poverty to things like abortion.

00:50:08.000 It's not like you have to pick one or choose the other.

00:50:10.000 But according to the Washington Post, you do, you see.

00:50:13.000 And Joe Biden stands with Catholicism on issues like poverty and the environment.

00:50:17.000 But, you know, he's just a little wishy-washy on the whole killing babies that are in the womb and also same-sex marriage.

00:50:22.000 Like, that stuff, he's not great on Catholic doctrine, but, you know, you're gonna have to choose.

00:50:27.000 Despite these divisions, says the Washington Post, Biden is poised to make his mark on American Catholicism.

00:50:31.000 For the next four years, the country will see its president go to mass every Sunday, take out a rosary at times of contemplation, and quote his favorite childhood nuns and Catholic poets.

00:50:39.000 Okay, I have just a quick point here.

00:50:52.000 No.

00:50:53.000 My point is no.

00:50:53.000 That is my point.

00:50:55.000 I know many, many, many, many believing Catholics and people who are deep believers who go to Mass on a regular basis.

00:51:00.000 Not one of them looks to Joe Biden as a Catholic leader.

00:51:03.000 Not one.

00:51:04.000 He is a political leader who happens to identify as Catholic, although he's been refused communion in at least a couple of churches because of his position on abortion.

00:51:13.000 I'm frankly in a state of bewilderment as to how he has not been refused communion everywhere, given his position on abortion, same-sex marriage, and not only that, but because he's talked about the morality of same-sex marriage, not just its legal status, but also his belief that a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy.

00:51:27.000 I mean, these are completely violative of Catholic doctrine.

00:51:30.000 Now, he's free to take whatever position he wants.

00:51:33.000 But I just find it weird that the Washington Post is trying to turn him into a Catholic leader.

00:51:37.000 What the Washington Post is really saying is that Catholicism would be great except for all the Catholicism involved.

00:51:42.000 And religion is great except for when it comes to doctrine.

00:51:45.000 Jade Hendricks, former Executive Director of Government Relations at the U.S. 0.99

00:51:48.000 Conference of Catholic Bishops said, most people don't pay attention to bishops, they do to the US president.

00:51:53.000 When the president is almost diametrically opposed to the most basic human right, that creates problems across the board.

00:51:57.000 How bishops address this is tricky, but if they don't, President Biden can redefine the perception of what it is to be a Catholic in good standing.

00:52:03.000 Yes, I mean, it would be about time for religious Catholics to stand up and say, no, we are not going to be paying attention to Joe Biden's commitments on issues like abortion.

00:52:13.000 Speaking of which, just a couple of logical correlators to Joe Biden's political positions when it comes to sort of the radicalism of the Democratic Party?

00:52:20.000 Just want to point this out.

00:52:21.000 So Joe Biden literally said in a town hall that nine-year-olds should be able to decide whether they are a boy or a girl.

00:52:28.000 That not only does not jive with Catholic doctrine, it does not jive with human reason or biology.

00:52:34.000 So there's a tweet that came up last night, and I thought this was just a fascinating tweet because it does show the logical conclusion, like the logical endpoint of the leftist position on biological sex and gender.

00:52:46.000 So there is an Orlando trans activist and science writer uh, named Zinnia, Z-Jump TV. Okay, and this tweet started to go viral last night, even though it was about a week and a half old. And here is what the tweet says. If children can't consent to puberty blockers which cause any permanent changes, even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with

00:53:13.000 no professional evaluation whatsoever? This is literally a position that permanent changes are fine as long as you're not trans. An inability to offer informed consent or understand the long-term consequences is actually an argument for putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers until they acquire that ability. 0.94

00:53:31.000 Okay, so that sounds wild to you.

00:53:36.000 If you follow what this person is saying, this crazy person, this person is saying.

00:53:40.000 That because sex is assigned at birth, right?

00:53:42.000 This is language that the left now uses on a routine basis.

00:53:44.000 Sex is assigned at birth.

00:53:45.000 When you have a baby, you actually can't tell the gender.

00:53:47.000 This is something Charles Blow said on Twitter the other day, and I laughed at him for it.

00:53:51.000 He suggested that if a baby comes out of the womb, and you look at the baby, and the baby's a girl, you can't actually say that that baby is a girl because the baby may turn out to be a boy.

00:53:58.000 You can't have a gender reveal party based on an ultrasound because gender is chosen later.

00:54:03.000 Okay, so this trans activist is saying, okay, if that's the case, if gender is chosen later, then shouldn't we put every kid on puberty blockers so they are not forced by their hormones into the uncomfortable position of being at odds with their chosen gender?

00:54:15.000 Why not make kids genderless widgets from the time that they are small, so that their hormones don't force them into the binary decision between being a boy and being a girl?

00:54:23.000 That is what this trans activist is saying.

00:54:25.000 Now, that sounds crazy, because it is crazy, but it is totally the logical conclusion of the position that gender is chosen and that sex is assigned at birth.

00:54:33.000 Because if you see human beings as genderless widgets and sex as a biological nuisance, then this is the logical position. 1.00

00:54:40.000 This is the logical endpoint.

00:54:41.000 Now, nobody on the left ever talks about the logical endpoint because they don't want to talk about the logical endpoint.

00:54:45.000 The moment you start talking about logical endpoints for these positions, the entire position completely falls apart.

00:54:50.000 But this person happens to be hitting the nail on the head.

00:54:52.000 If you believe that children choose their own adventure, then presumably you should put every seven-year-old in America on puberty blockers so they have the freedom to choose whether they are boys or girls.

00:55:04.000 This should be the position.

00:55:06.000 Another radical position that I noticed and I think that is worthy of note.

00:55:09.000 Noah Berlasky is a person who writes for NBC News.

00:55:11.000 He writes think pieces for NBC News.

00:55:13.000 He tweeted out the other day, quote, parents are tyrants. 0.90

00:55:16.000 Parents is an oppressive class like rich people or white people. 0.94

00:55:19.000 A lot to unpack right there.

00:55:22.000 So note, Noah Borlatsky is, I believe, a white writer for NBC News who apparently is not earning a low salary.

00:55:28.000 I don't know if he has kids.

00:55:29.000 If he does, what could... He's 50 years old, guys.

00:55:31.000 I assume he had, like... At a certain point, your parental issues are gonna have to be solved.

00:55:35.000 But parents are tyrants. 0.89

00:55:37.000 Parents is an oppressive class like rich people or white people.

00:55:40.000 Well, once you take the position that the government knows better than you do how to raise your own child, that the American Federation of Teachers should decide exactly what your child learns, and that whatever is the prevailing leftist ideology of the day ought to be crammed down on parents.

00:55:52.000 Parents really don't have autonomy to decide what their kids should and should not learn.

00:55:56.000 In fact, parents shouldn't even have autonomy to decide what public school to send their kids to.

00:56:01.000 Well, the idea there is that you are in fact liberating children from their parents.

00:56:04.000 This is a sort of Marxist trope.

00:56:06.000 In the Communist Manifesto, there is this idea that parents are in fact an oppressive class and that you need the state to liberate children from the bondage of their parents.

00:56:14.000 Now, in the real world, here's how we see all of this.

00:56:17.000 There is accepted tradition brought down over thousands of years of human history.

00:56:21.000 Human nature is fundamentally unchanging.

00:56:23.000 Parents are there to provide the established wisdom to their children.

00:56:27.000 Over time, people can determine that perhaps an established piece of wisdom is false.

00:56:31.000 But that requires careful consideration.

00:56:33.000 Parents are not an oppressive class.

00:56:34.000 Parents will liberate you from the shackles of barbarity. 0.56

00:56:38.000 If you've ever met a child, you understand that kids cannot be trusted to do anything.

00:56:42.000 Parents need to be there, not only to provide for them, but to guide them in the confusing process of growing up.

00:56:48.000 But if you're a big believer in the idea that parents are oppressors, that children are innately wonderful and not only innocent, but good, and that it is only the shackles of society that make them bad, these are the positions you end up with.

00:57:01.000 The state should liberate children from their parents.

00:57:03.000 The state should allow children to decide what their gender is.

00:57:07.000 Now, if all this sounds crazy, it's because it is crazy.

00:57:10.000 It is crazy.

00:57:11.000 But you watch, anything that is crazy becomes mainstreamed within five years.

00:57:16.000 Within five years, this all will be part of the mainstream discussion.

00:57:18.000 Will be, when should puberty... I mean, the puberty blocker conversation about whether kids should be having puberty blockers, whether or not they're trans, that stuff is basically already on the table.

00:57:28.000 I mean, when we are talking about judges mandating That parents who don't want their kids to have puberty blockers give their kids puberty blockers at the age of 10 because one parent disagrees with the other parent.

00:57:38.000 Or when a kid declares themselves trans at 12, and a judge decides that if a parent refuses to do that, then the kid needs to be taken out of the home.

00:57:44.000 This is already happening in some areas of Canada, for example.

00:57:47.000 That is the case that is being made.

00:57:51.000 All of that gender ideology, all of that belief about the evils of parenting and the good of the state, all of that is buried deep within the sort of moderate veneer of Joe Biden's philosophy.

00:58:02.000 He just doesn't want to get at it or he doesn't want to think about it because he might come to these sorts of conclusions eventually.

00:58:07.000 The hard left will come to those conclusions if they think about it long enough.

00:58:10.000 So, what I would like to know, in the end, is how any of that jives with things like Catholic doctrine, or history, or for that matter, decency.

00:58:20.000 How do these things become mainstream?

00:58:21.000 They become mainstream when the media decide that it's time to silence you about these particular issues.

00:58:26.000 Now, it's going to take a while on this.

00:58:27.000 I mean, this is the bleeding edge of the radical left.

00:58:30.000 Let's not pretend this is the mainstream Democratic Party position.

00:58:33.000 The mainstream Democratic Party position is that boys can become girls and girls can become boys.

00:58:33.000 It is not.

00:58:37.000 Not that we have to mandate puberty blockers for children, but that children should be able to get puberty blockers if they declare themselves a member of the opposite sex. 1.00

00:58:44.000 But it's not that far a move from one to the other.

00:58:48.000 And it is not the position of the Democratic Party that parents are an oppressive class.

00:58:51.000 It is just the position of the Democratic Party that if Child Protective Services decides that you are raising your child not in accordance with the proper woke ideology, that you're a bad parent and that they should show up to try and re-educate your children, right?

00:59:04.000 So, again, all of this is the sort of exaggerated form of the moderated argument, but it's important to recognize the exaggerated form of the moderate argument because it does shed light on what the moderated argument actually is in so many of these cases.

00:59:18.000 You're seeing exactly this relationship between radicalism and moderation inside the actual formal Democratic Party these days.

00:59:25.000 You're seeing this battle break out between the Ilhan Omars of the world and the Joe Bidens of the world.

00:59:28.000 Ilhan Omar, for example, she said yesterday that she's angry that the radicals don't have a big enough seat at the Biden table.

00:59:35.000 Don't worry.

00:59:36.000 They'll get the big enough seat.

00:59:37.000 They will, eventually.

00:59:38.000 It may take a couple of years, but you watch.

00:59:41.000 Senator Bernie Sanders has said he doesn't think the progressive movement has a big enough seat at the table with the Biden team.

00:59:46.000 Do you agree with him?

00:59:50.000 I do.

00:59:51.000 And this is what we have been saying and asking for.

00:59:55.000 We worked diligently in trying to make sure that the people understood.

01:00:01.000 Okay, so you watch.

01:00:01.000 The radicals are on the march.

01:00:03.000 How do we know, by the way, that the radicals are on the march?

01:00:07.000 Because Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Linda Sarsour are all campaigning for Raphael Warnock.

01:00:11.000 and we continue to be hopeful in having that partnership.

01:00:15.000 Okay, so you watch, the radicals are on the march.

01:00:18.000 How do we know, by the way, that the radicals are on the march?

01:00:20.000 Because Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Linda Sarsour are all campaigning for Rafael Warnock.

01:00:23.000 You know, who else is campaigning for Rafael Warnock down in Georgia?

01:00:26.000 Joe Biden.

01:00:27.000 He's campaigning for a guy who's openly anti-semitic down in Georgia and who hangs out with the likes of Linda Sarsour.

01:00:33.000 By the way, Raphael Warnock.

01:00:34.000 New piece of footage of him yesterday.

01:00:36.000 The Senate candidate in Georgia.

01:00:37.000 He praised Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam as important.

01:00:40.000 Which is interesting because Louis Farrakhan has suggested that Jews need to experience a little bit of that genocide kind of stuff.

01:00:46.000 Here is Raphael Warnock in 2013.

01:00:48.000 Okay, this is not when he was a kid.

01:00:50.000 In 2013, praising the Nation of Islam.

01:00:53.000 The Nation of Islam is significant, but its numbers don't come anywhere near the membership of our churches.

01:01:06.000 Its voice has been important.

01:01:11.000 Its voice has been important even for the development of black theology.

01:01:16.000 Because it was the black Muslims who challenged black preachers. 0.97

01:01:21.000 Good stuff there from Raphael Warnock. 0.89

01:01:22.000 This is the person the Democrats are trying to put into the United States Senate.

01:01:27.000 Other Democrats who have gained prominence during this moderate era in Democrat thinking?

01:01:32.000 Ted Wheeler.

01:01:33.000 So Ted Wheeler, that mayor of Portland, he actually apologized.

01:01:38.000 I'm not kidding.

01:01:38.000 He apologized for dismantling the autonomous zone in Portland.

01:01:42.000 So they tried to create a Chazz Chop in Portland and Ted Wheeler sent in the troops, basically, and said, no, you're not doing that.

01:01:49.000 Well, now apparently he has apologized.

01:01:53.000 And they are negotiating with the occupiers.

01:01:55.000 It's hilarious.

01:01:57.000 This is all according to Red House on Mississippi.

01:02:00.000 That is the protest group.

01:02:02.000 The Daily Wire reported last week that Wheeler ordered members of the Red House Autonomous Zone to leave or face eviction by force after protesters who'd been occupying the land around Red House for several weeks set up makeshift barriers and declared the space indigenous land.

01:02:14.000 Wheeler announced that Portland Police would use all lawful means to clear protesters from that home, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.

01:02:21.000 At the time, Wheeler went so far to say that he would end the illegal occupation.

01:02:25.000 However, Red House now says the mayor has apologized for the incident and is in negotiations with both the protesters and the home's owners, and protesters reportedly agreed to remove barriers surrounding the autonomous zone.

01:02:35.000 Wheeler then confirmed the negotiation and a subsequent deal.

01:02:38.000 He said, this agreement is an important step toward de-escalation and a long-term resolution for the neighborhood and the Kinney family. I maintain the measured optimism we can accomplish this step and move toward the next steps to advance the safety and well-being of the family and safety of the neighborhood. Yeah, Ted Wheeler standing strong for moderation over in Portland.

01:02:54.000 And the moderates in the Democratic Party, the only question is when they will cave, Because if we've seen one thing among Democrats, they never move back to the center for very long.

01:03:02.000 It is always a stopgap holding move until they move radically to the left.

01:03:07.000 So watch for that to happen in the near future.

01:03:08.000 Cheered on, of course, by the members of the mainstream media.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 15, 2020

The Media’s Next Big Lie | Ep. 1157

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