Major League Baseball moves the All-Star Game out of Georgia based on media lies, and 60 Minutes runs a completely false hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Ben Shapiro explains why the media is so dumb and dumbfounded by Joe Biden's voter ID law in Georgia, and why it's time for the public to wake up to the fact that this law is more liberal than anything in Delaware's voting law. Plus, a look at how the media failed to fact check Biden's claim that the Georgia voting law was like a Jim Crow voting law, and how it was actually much less restrictive than what you'd get if you polled the American people. Today's show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Stand up for your digital rights! Take action at Expressvpn.com/ProtectYourDigitalRights and get an extra 3 months of ExpressVPN service for FREE today. That's ExpressVPN, the VPN service you ve all been waiting for. It s super simple to use, and you get 100% of your network data for free! Connect with ExpressVpn and get three months of service for just $99.99! Check out ExpressVPN today! You get 3 months free with no obligation, no credit card required, no strings attached, no fees, no spam, no pop-ups, and unlimited access to all of your favorite features and features including the best practices, including the ability to access all of the features you ve been wanting! and much more! - all you need to use ExpressVPN is giving you access to everything you ve ever heard about! Thanks to ExpressVPN! If you like what you do online, you'll get a FREE 3-months of the service? - use Express VPN! Want to upgrade your data protection and access all the latest features and access to the best features, all for only $99, you can get, you ll get $3,000, no longer get it for free, no obligation to use it, no broker, no f&#@tweet me ? and more? . Subscribe to my entire year, no ad-free version of the show coming soon, only $5, no promo code: bit.me/theresort_alotof the show is coming, and get a whole bunch of stuff like that, and I'll send you a review and more like that in the ad-only version coming soon!
00:00:00.000Major League Baseball moves the all-star game out of Georgia based on media lies, and 60 Minutes runs a completely false hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:01:45.000Now, I've been hesitant to use the phrase enemy of the people because it's a Stalinist phrase that suggests that people should go to jail or that bad things should happen to people.
00:01:52.000But let me just say that the media are the enemies of the truth.
00:01:55.000The establishment media are just partisan hacks at this point.
00:01:58.000They've allowed Joe Biden and the Biden administration to simply lie about the content of this Georgia voter law, which is more liberal with regard to early voting than laws in places like New Jersey.
00:02:08.000Its voter ID requirement is utterly uncontroversial.
00:02:11.000It did not dismantle all ballot drop boxes or anything like that.
00:02:14.000Ballot drop boxes are a new thing that were sort of created for the pandemic.
00:03:01.000You have to be so unbelievably ignorant and stupid to believe that this Georgia law has anything to do with Jim Crow.
00:03:07.000And yet, if you polled Americans, I would bet money that half of Americans think that this is Jim Crow racism, this Georgia voter law, which again, is more liberal than Delaware state voting law, apparently.
00:03:26.000They are simply propagandists on behalf of the Democratic Party.
00:03:29.000This partisan hack group decided to push that lie and not just push that lie, then in activist fashion to try and pressure private corporations into pressuring public bodies like the Georgia state legislature or like the governor of Georgia.
00:03:43.000So they're trying to mobilize corporations to do their dirty work for them.
00:03:46.000They don't have control of the levers of power in Georgia.
00:03:49.000So instead what they're going to do is they're going to try and get private corporations to pressure all of these public bodies into doing what they want.
00:04:38.000We're going to pull the All-Star Game from Georgia.
00:04:41.000And this follows in the footsteps of other sports that have done similar things.
00:04:43.000We saw the NCAA pull basketball games from North Carolina after a bill that would have protected women's bathrooms in Charlotte.
00:04:51.000We saw that there were sports leagues that attempted to target Arizona in the aftermath of Jan Brewer, former governor of Arizona, pushing the idea that Arizona was going to enforce immigration law on a state level.
00:05:27.000You can have a friend go get you water.
00:05:29.000This is the same law that applies in a bevy of states, but that's not what you heard about this law, is it?
00:05:34.000What you heard from Stacey Abrams, who is a liar, and Joe Biden, who is a liar, and the media, who are liars, is that this is a Jim Crow voting tactic designed to stop black people from voting.
00:05:45.000And Major League Baseball decided to mirror that lie.
00:05:48.000Again, these lies were consistent over and over, and the media just repeated them.
00:05:54.000The Washington Post reported, Abrams actually claimed, this is a claim from Stacey Abrams, again, the greatest politician in American history, Stacey Abrams.
00:06:03.000She claimed, quote, that the Georgia GOP traded economic opportunity for suppression.
00:06:11.000The Washington Post, by the way, did report in a fact check that experts consulted by the newspaper said the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.
00:06:18.000But that didn't stop the Washington Post from simply repeating ad nauseum Joe Biden's lines about how this was Jim Crow racism.
00:06:26.000Biden said that he would strongly support the league boycotting the city over the law that was passed by democratically elected officials, according to Daily Wire.
00:06:34.000Georgia Governor Brian Kemp fought back against all of this.
00:06:37.000He said, there's no way we should apologize for this law.
00:06:57.000We shouldn't apologize for wanting to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
00:07:03.000Maybe there's an argument for boycotts and protests and moving all-star games, but that is not what happened.
00:07:11.000What happened was Georgia is going to have secure, very accessible, and fair elections in the future in this state.
00:07:19.000It can also went ahead and slam Joe Biden, who of course had lied about the Georgia law over and over and over again.
00:07:26.000Certainly doesn't help when you have the president of the United States saying that and nobody in the national media, at least in the mainstream media, will even ask for a correction when he simply lies, gets a four Pinocchios of all people of all places from the Washington I mean, that should tell you right there, he's not being truthful.
00:07:47.000He continues to lie and mislead about what the bill does.
00:07:51.000So how exactly did this boycott come about by the MLB?
00:07:54.000How exactly did Major League Baseball, America's national pastime, decide that they are simply going to inject themselves into American politics on the state level and punish states on the basis of democratic lies?
00:08:04.000Here's, I'll give you that story in just one second, because it truly is incredible.
00:08:07.000It shows you how a small and transient group of people, along with the media pushing from the outside in activist fashion, can make this stuff happen.
00:08:15.000It really is an amazing, amazing thing.
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00:09:46.000They just have to be very loud and very intransigent.
00:09:48.000And they work an inside-outside game with the media.
00:09:50.000They push from the inside, this small intransigent group of folks, and then you have the media pretending that this represents a broad majority inside the corporation, and threatening that corporation with outside action if they refuse to acknowledge what these wokesters inside their own halls want.
00:10:08.000You get Woka Cola because you have a very small percentage of employees at Woka Cola, 20% of the employees, and they decide that they don't like the Georgia law.
00:10:16.000And then you have the media on the outside yelling at Coke.
00:10:18.000And you have all of the heads of Coke going, well, you know, does it really matter if we like, just say we don't like the Georgia law?
00:12:42.000Commissioner Rob Manfred, according to ESPN, made the decision to move the All-Star Game and Events, along with the amateur draft from Atlanta, after discussions with individual big leaguers and the Players' Alliance, an organization of black players formed after the death of George Floyd last year.
00:12:56.000This all came together rather quickly, said Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Hayward, who is black.
00:12:59.000We had, I think, a day left in spring training.
00:13:01.000The Players' Alliance, we gathered and got as many people as we could on a call.
00:13:04.000It was probably less than 50 guys on there out of the 100 or whatever.
00:13:11.000We wanted to make sure, I think, that regardless of what happened, the decision was made and that we were there to do what we could in Atlanta.
00:13:16.000So, number one, they promulgated a lie.
00:13:18.000That the Georgia voter law was about voter suppression.
00:13:21.000And that was based on a larger lie that Democrats were pushing over the course of the last few years, which is every time they lost an election, it was about suppression of the black vote.
00:13:35.000I mean, really repulsive that the media parroted that lie and treated it as legitimate over and over and over.
00:13:40.000But for our purposes, it's just as important to see that the MLB shifted its entire stance and removed, according to the Cobb County officials in Georgia, $100 million in revenue from Cobb County because 45 players in MLB decided to write a letter to Rob Manfred.
00:14:02.000According to Daily Wire, Georgia County that voted for Biden will lose $100 million over the MLB relocating the game.
00:14:10.000$100 million is removed from the local economy, people will lose their jobs, because Jason Hayward, who makes millions of dollars for being an overrated baseball player, and some 40 other players, decided that it was deeply necessary for the MLB to move its all-star game.
00:14:24.000And Rob Manfred, because he's a coward, decided to go along with it.
00:14:27.000But was it really about those players?
00:14:31.000It was certainly partially about those players, because those players were very loud, and they were shouting about racial justice, even though, again, this had nothing to do with race, and it was based on a lie.
00:14:40.000But it was about this intransigent, woke minority inside MLB combined with a media that was actively pushing this stuff.
00:14:51.000And when I say actively pushing this stuff, let me give you an example of just how actively they were pushing this stuff in just one second, because it shows what the media are.
00:15:01.000They're an activist propaganda group on behalf of the Democratic Party.
00:15:05.000They deserve no more respect than the normal press release that you get from the DNC, or from the Democratic National Campaign Committee, or from Media Matters.
00:15:25.000Something you can do that's amazing for your family.
00:15:27.000So, if you have family, if you have parents, grandparents, just your family, you want to make sure that your family memories are preserved.
00:17:25.000What the media do is they then call up MLB's advertisers.
00:17:28.000They call up Woca Cola and they say, you guys advertise with MLB.
00:17:31.000You just said that you came out against the Georgia bill, but I see that you're advertising with the MLB who's having their all-star game in Georgia.
00:17:48.000When the media call up Coca-Cola for comment, they're not calling them for comment.
00:17:51.000They're demanding action from Coca-Cola.
00:17:54.000Because the threat is, we are now going to run a headline saying that Coca-Cola is a bunch of hypocrites.
00:17:58.000This is why, number one, these corporations should never give an inch.
00:18:01.000Because once the inch is given, they are done.
00:18:03.000The minute you feed a toad to the alligator, the rest of you is gone.
00:18:06.000Okay, this is the Robert Shaw scene in Jaws.
00:18:09.000The minute you're sliding down that deck and you're trying to fend off the shark with your feet, pretty soon you're gonna find your torso in its mouth.
00:18:15.000That is what's happening to all of these corporations right now.
00:18:19.000So, how does he, this is the perfect proof.
00:18:22.000CBS put out a headline over the weekend.
00:18:24.000Here was the headline, it was Friday night.
00:18:27.000Quote, three ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law.
00:19:29.000Because if the media actually reported what's going on with MLB, it would be perfectly obvious how hypocritical MLB is.
00:19:35.000As Fox News reported, it turns out that Major League Baseball is protesting that Georgia voting law.
00:19:40.000Meanwhile, they have bolstered ties with a Communist Party-backed Chinese company that cracked down on an NBA executive who supported the pro-democracy move in Hong Kong.
00:19:49.000The MLB signed a deal with Tencent on Wednesday.
00:19:51.000It's one of China's largest tech companies.
00:19:53.000It's one of the Chinese firms that briefly dropped NBA games in 2019, after former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey publicly voiced support for pro-democracy protesters facing a Beijing-backed crackdown in Hong Kong.
00:20:05.000As always, it turns out that these sports teams, it's all about the money.
00:20:08.000It's not about how they are principled opponents of the Georgia voting law.
00:20:11.000It's because they wish to avoid the scrutiny of the media, who don't care at all that all of these corporations are doing business with the worst people on earth.
00:20:20.000Companies that are sponsored by the repressive and tyrannical Chinese government.
00:20:25.000It's just, it's an incredible, incredible, that headline, my goodness, CBS News eventually pulled it.
00:20:30.000But the fact that it was even up just demonstrates where your media are, and they are garbage.
00:20:34.000By the way, speaking of hypocrisy, remember, Joe Biden called for MLB to move the All-Star Game, right?
00:20:42.000Stacey Abrams didn't call for it, but basically said that the Georgia voting law is Jim Crow, which promulgated the myth.
00:20:49.000The media pushed it, and then you had just enough people inside MLB yelling about it that Rob Manfred wimped out, because that's what he was going to do.
00:20:56.000Meanwhile, Jen Psaki can't answer a very simple question.
00:20:59.000Why is it that you're saying companies should boycott Georgia, but you, the President of the United States, the White House, you are not calling for the United States to boycott the Olympics in China?
00:21:09.000Which it turns out is, you want to know a country that has really restrictive voting laws?
00:21:27.000And yet, strangely, Joe Biden seems perfectly willing to have an Olympics in China.
00:21:32.000When can we expect a final determination from the president about the United States participating in the Beijing Olympics, given that he said the Chinese president doesn't have a democratic bone in his body?
00:21:46.000Olympic Committee would play a big role in... ...on Major League Baseball here in the United States.
00:21:51.000He actually didn't, I think, I don't know if you heard the question, the answer that happened a few minutes ago, where we addressed this, and I answered the question.
00:21:59.000So, and I give a little more context, but maybe you weren't paying attention to that part.
00:22:05.000You're fine with the United States doing the Beijing Olympics because you don't care if China represses its own people.
00:22:11.000But you do care about lying about Georgia so that you can presumably win a bigger share of the black vote by lying to black voters that Jim Crow is coming for them.
00:22:18.000It's not a shock that the same Joe Biden who claimed that Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains is claiming that a law that expands voting access in Georgia actually restricts it to hurt black people.
00:22:26.000They're just damned liars, and the media repeat it.
00:22:50.000He's going to lose his seat because it turns out that the people of Georgia only voted for Raphael Warnock basically because Donald Trump intervened in the Georgia Senate race.
00:22:58.000Both of those seats should have gone Republican.
00:23:01.000Second, it turns out that when you lead a movement to boycott your own state, that's really unpopular, which is why Stacey Abrams, who is the lead promulgator of the overt lie that this was a Jim Crow Georgia voting bill, even she came out against MLB.
00:23:14.000She said she blamed Republicans for it.
00:23:16.000She said they prioritized making it harder for people of color to vote over the economic well-being of all Georgians.
00:23:21.000Like many Georgians, I am disappointed the MLB is relocating the All-Star Game.
00:23:24.000However, I commend the player's owner and lead commissioner for speaking out.
00:23:28.000So in other words, she wants it both ways.
00:23:29.000She's very happy that everybody's speaking out and removing the All-Star Game, but also she's sad they're removing the All-Star Game.
00:23:34.000That's because she's recognizing, maybe for the first time, that people losing economic activity because they disagree with Stacey Abrams might not be a great electoral strategy in a state like Georgia.
00:23:45.000The backlash is coming, and it's coming strong.
00:23:59.000He says, maybe I was wrong to think conservatives should refrain from adopting the bullying, boycotting tactics of the left.
00:24:04.000I made the case against emulating progressives in these pages last summer as I lamented the rise of the woke corporation, documenting how many of my favorite companies embrace values antithetical to my own.
00:24:13.000But it's increasingly clear that the sharp increase in corporate virtue signaling after George Floyd's death wasn't a passing trend, but a sea change.
00:24:18.000Perhaps it's time for conservatives to boycott companies that hate us.
00:24:38.000If this is the country that the left wants, this is the country they're going to get.
00:24:41.000They're going to get a backlash in Georgia electorally, and in the culture sphere, People on the conservative side of the aisle are gonna start businesses that do not cater to the woke, that decide they're gonna cater to everybody, and they're gonna just tell the woke to shove it, because here's the dirty little secret.
00:25:04.000The dirty secret of the media is that they are a mirage.
00:25:07.000The media have a perception of power because they can drive narrative.
00:25:10.000But, not enough people pay attention to the narrative to actually make a difference.
00:25:14.000It's just these corporate leaders are so online, they're so on Twitter, that they're afraid of seven people on Twitter.
00:25:19.000We know this, for example, because Harry's Razors decided to cancel advertising with some of the shows on Daily Wire because one of the Daily Wire hosts made the crazy statement that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and you're not allowed to say that.
00:25:31.000So Harry's Razor was like, this doesn't agree with our values.
00:25:48.000But there's only one thing worse than boycott tactics, and that is letting the other side use them and then being victimized by them.
00:25:56.000There's only one thing worse than having nuclear weapons, and that is the other guy having nuclear weapons and you being completely disarmed.
00:26:02.000The right is not going to stand for this any longer, nor should they.
00:26:05.000The blowback is coming, and it's going to come very strongly.
00:26:07.000And the more the media just let it out of the closet exactly what they are, the more the blowback is coming.
00:26:11.000And it's going to come against the media, too.
00:26:13.000There's a reason that right-wing media are growing.
00:26:15.000And we will continue to grow here at Daily Wire, because people don't want to get their news from a bunch of partisan hacks who won't announce that they are even partisan.
00:26:23.000We here at the Daily Wire acknowledge we're conservative.
00:26:27.000I've told you, go listen to Pod Save America, go listen to my show, and then, where we agree on the fact pattern, that's the fact, everything else is opinion.
00:26:35.000And nobody on the left will do that, because they are liars, because they lie about their own agenda.
00:26:38.000It's not just they lie about the facts, they lie about their own agenda.
00:26:41.000I don't lie about my agenda, you know my agenda, the moment you set foot in the hearing range of this show.
00:26:47.000But the media just lied to you, and they lie consistently, and they lie with narrative.
00:26:51.000It's happening over and over and over.
00:26:54.000So, over the weekend, There was a rather major story, but it's not a major story because here's the way it works when it comes to crime stories.
00:27:01.000If there is a crime story that backs the media narrative that America is systemically racist and evil and filled with white supremacist right-wingers, then that's a national story.
00:27:10.000If a person who is not moving along with that narrative commits a murder in a high-profile fashion, that's not a national news story.
00:27:19.000So, if a white person kills a black person on the street, that's a national story because it underscores the idea that America is evil and systemically racist and how could we be such a terrible country?
00:27:27.000If a black person kills a white person on the street, which in terms of statistical probability is actually more likely to happen, that's not a national story, that's a local news story.
00:27:34.000Okay, if you... Perfect example over the weekend.
00:27:39.000It turns out that there was an attack on the U.S.
00:28:02.000It turns out that the attacker was a 25-year-old black man who was a follower of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
00:28:10.000This person's Facebook page describes himself as a follower of Farrakhan, in which he said that Farrakhan was Jesus, he said that he was his spiritual father, and he called himself Noah X. Many Twitter accounts initially rushed to assume the attack was carried out by a white supporter of former President Trump, But the minute that it turned out that this was a Louis Farrakhan supporter, boom, it was gone from the media.
00:28:35.000Just as many police officers were killed this week at the U.S.
00:28:39.000Capitol as were killed on January 6th.
00:28:42.000There was one police officer, we still don't know how he died, we don't know if he was murdered at the Capitol, but Officer Brian Sicknick died, maybe presumably, I mean, again, the facts are still coming out during the January 6th attacks.
00:28:53.000A US Capitol Police officer was just murdered over the weekend. It is not a national news story because of the identity of the perpetrator. The media have decided it's not a national news story because they are partisan hacks.
00:29:04.000Because all they care about is the Democrat-leaning narrative.
00:29:09.000If that had been a Donald Trump supporter, every Republican in America would have been asked about how your vote for Donald Trump effectuated this kind of thing.
00:29:16.000But this person was a follower of Louis Farrakhan.
00:29:18.000Will a single Democrat who's met with Louis Farrakhan be asked about this?
00:29:21.000Will a single Democrat who's made nice with Louis Farrakhan, I'm talking about Representative Hank Johnson, I'm talking about Rashida Tlaib, I'm talking about Ilhan Omar, I'm talking about all the Democratic members, No, don't be silly.
00:30:03.000And if they weren't targeting the public figure, they'd find themselves in court.
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00:31:26.000First, as we return from Easter and Passover, it's important to reflect on the impact these holidays have on our faith, the impact that Judeo-Christian values have on our culture.
00:31:34.000More and more, the left wants to erase those values, replace them with their own pseudo-morality.
00:31:38.000One of the reasons we've launched a brand new talk show with Candace Owens, one of the fiercest protectors of conservative values and free speech, go behind the headlines in Twitter fights, see Candace as herself funny, Political, insightful, you're going to love her show.
00:31:48.000Watch our host, lively discussion panels, exclusive interviews with an always exciting round of guests.
00:31:53.000Candace is the first Daily Wire show to appear in front of a live studio audience, an element that's rarely been seen in conservative media.
00:31:58.000It cements our commitment to fighting for the culture.
00:32:42.00060 Minutes ran a propaganda piece about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:32:45.000Now, DeSantis has been the target of the media ever since the beginning of the pandemic, because DeSantis took a different strategy than California and New York, and he showed them up.
00:32:53.000It turns out that DeSantis ran this state beautifully, the state that I am in.
00:32:56.000Well, New York and California ran their states like garbage.
00:33:00.000Andrew Cuomo shipped COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes.
00:33:02.000He killed thousands of them and covered it up.
00:33:05.000In California, they shut down the entire state for a full year and ended up with the same deaths per million ratio as Florida, despite the fact that California has one of the youngest populations in America and Florida has the oldest population in America outside of Maine.
00:33:16.000But the media hate DeSantis because DeSantis didn't listen to their pathetic lies about COVID and how to treat COVID and all the rest of it.
00:33:26.000He knew it was a threat that mostly centered on elderly people.
00:33:28.000And so he protected the elderly and he told everybody else to go out and use risk assessment and wear masks when they felt that they were at risk and then live their lives.
00:33:46.000The media like Cuomo and they like Newsom.
00:33:48.000So, since the beginning of the pandemic, they've been covering every idiotic story out of Florida and then never doing follow-up to show that they were wrong.
00:33:55.000So they'll have some moron lawyer walking around the beaches of Jacksonville dressed up as the Grim Reaper.
00:34:00.000And saying like, wow, look at this guy.
00:34:14.000Okay, well now, they're trying to suggest that DeSantis is corrupt.
00:34:18.000So, a couple of weeks ago, they just put, like last week, they put out a story in the media that was a lie, that DeSantis was covering up deaths.
00:34:24.000And it turns out that the person who authored the study they were drawing from said that the media were lying about it.
00:35:10.000Okay, so here is what their supposed story is at 60 Minutes.
00:35:14.000Their supposed story is that Ron DeSantis allowed Publix to hand out the vaccine, the grocery chain, Publix, to hand out the vaccine because they gave him $100,000 in his super PAC.
00:35:23.000Okay, there's only one problem with the story.
00:36:00.000Not accelerate the rollout of the vaccine in the oldest state in America?
00:36:05.000Okay, so it's not just that 60 Minutes botches the story.
00:36:07.000By the way, Democratic officials say that they botched the story.
00:36:11.000Democratic state officials said it's false and offensive.
00:36:14.000According to Daily Wire, the segment featured reporter Sharon Alfonsi ambushing DeSantis at a press conference last month, aggressively questioning him using a misleading narrative about the way he has responded to the COVID pandemic.
00:36:25.000Alfonsi tried to suggest that Publix, the largest grocery store chain in Florida, had engaged in pay-to-play by donating money to DeSantis' campaign in exchange for being awarded a contract to distribute vaccines in the state.
00:36:37.000Publix put out a statement, they said, the irresponsible suggestion there is a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state's vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive.
00:36:49.000We're proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to do our part to help communities emerge from the pandemic.
00:37:00.000Former Florida State Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, slammed 60 Minutes, saying DeSantis' office did not push for selecting Publix.
00:37:08.000Moskowitz is director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management and has overseen the state's response to the pandemic.
00:37:15.000He said, I said this before, I'll say it again.
00:37:16.000Publix was recommended by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Health as the other pharmacies were not ready to start.
00:38:35.000All the experts from the Lincoln Project, when they were not busy covering up for people who were abusing male staffers, they were like, look at the experts.
00:41:26.000Then they tried to promote the narrative that Ron DeSantis was in corrupt fashion, rolling out the vaccines only for his political rich allies.
00:41:40.000And finally, they are now promoting the narrative that Ron DeSantis, for $100,000 donations from Publix, decided that he was going to allow, you know, the largest grocery chain in Florida to hand out the vaccine.
00:41:50.000And this is treated not only as legit news, but as driving the news.
00:41:57.000Hey, according to Axios, the 60 Minutes program highlighted reports of vaccine favoritism with Florida's poorer communities being left behind in the rollout.
00:42:03.000There's no Publix in Belle Glade in Palm Beach County.
00:42:06.000Oh, so they found a town where there's no Publix to suggest that now using the most, the most branched grocery in the state is a bad thing.
00:43:54.000If you follow his life story, there's no question.
00:43:55.000He's just, if you follow his text messages, he's got, but the media have been in steady coverup mode for Hunter Biden being a bad person, because they're afraid it's going to reflect badly on Joe, which is unbelievable.
00:44:05.000They could just say, listen, Hunter's garbage.
00:44:15.000Well, now Hunter Biden has acknowledged that that laptop is probably his, and the media are like, well, Same media saying it was a non-story.
00:44:25.000Now they're like, he has a new book out.
00:44:26.000And you know, it's a moving and wonderful book.
00:44:31.000Except that the book is basically a cover-up.
00:44:33.000Except that the book basically excuses him for his own activity.
00:44:38.000Doesn't really talk about the fact that he was scoring deals to get on the board of Amtrak and scoring high-paying gigs consulting, and the media treat him with just absolute kid gloves.
00:44:48.000He has no answers, but they'll treat him credibly.
00:44:51.000Here's Hunter Biden talking with CBS News saying, you know, I'm cooperating with the DOJ.
00:45:32.000Not that Hunter Biden is a scuzzbucket who just picked up a $2 million advance from Simon & Schuster for basically lying about his own history.