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00:02:30.000Fully formed as soon, literally the moment, that there was a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
00:02:37.000The entire legacy media infrastructure, every major Democrat in America decided this was the fault of Libs of TikTok.
00:02:44.000And Tucker Carlson, and Matt Walsh, and Chris Rufo, and me, and any other American who did not like Drag Queen Story Hour, or who was not in favor of same-sex marriage, or who believed that transing the children is a bad thing.
00:03:00.000If there's anything wrong with any of those things, then it is your fault if a deranged individual goes to a gay nightclub and shoots a bunch of people.
00:03:07.000Now, the narrative was crap from the beginning.
00:03:10.000It's crap because unless you are inciting violence, actively calling for people to do violence to other human beings, you are not responsible for the violence that they do.
00:03:17.000This has been the rule in free speech for literally ever.
00:03:21.000And yet the left jumped out in front of the story before they even bothered to wait for any facts at all and said that essentially the uptick in sentiment against the transing of the children was responsible for a mass shooting at a gay nightclub.
00:03:34.000Because this is the game that they always play.
00:03:36.000It doesn't matter whether the person was deranged.
00:03:39.000It doesn't matter if the person had a long history of red flags that were ignored by police.
00:03:44.000It doesn't matter whether the square peg fits in the round hole or not.
00:04:02.000All the members of the media had to do was wait for the facts, which is, in fact, their job.
00:04:07.000I understand we have a media infrastructure that rewards people who are first and wrong rather than rewarding people who wait and are right.
00:04:13.000That is just how our media infrastructure generally works now.
00:04:16.000If you jump on a story and it turns out that you're wrong 90% of the time but 10% of the time you're right, we remember the 10% of the time that you're right and we forget the 90% of the time you're wrong because you were first and that's the really important thing.
00:04:26.000And so there really is no disincentive for members of the media to create fully formed narratives completely In coincidence with Democratic priorities, and then to just run those out there.
00:04:37.000Because after all, if they're wrong, we'll just memory hole it.
00:04:40.000Three months from now, nobody's going to remember that the media made a complete mockery of themselves.
00:04:44.000Nobody's going to remember that all the media had to do was wait for a few days.
00:04:57.000Watch how fast this story gets memory hold now.
00:04:59.000According to Axios.com, the public defenders for the suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub said in a Tuesday night court filing obtained by a New York Times reporter, their client is non-binary and uses they them pronouns and the media are confused and bewildered and puzzled because after all, This throws a wrench into all of their greatest hopes and desires regarding the narrative.
00:05:19.000Remember, from the very beginning, it was perfectly obvious this person was deranged.
00:05:22.000How did we know this person was deranged?
00:05:23.000Not just because they committed a mass shooting, which is deranged activity, but also because we knew within hours that this person had been arrested last year for threatening his mother with a gun and threatened to blow her up with a homemade bomb before the police arrested him and then didn't take away his guns.
00:05:37.000So that would be pretty good evidence of being a deranged violence individual who should have been on the police radar, should it not?
00:06:17.000It has been non-stop blanket narrative coverage since the shooting.
00:06:21.000And now it turns out that the suspect is saying that he is non-binary.
00:06:25.000And this puts the media in a huge pickle.
00:06:27.000It puts the media in a pickle for a couple reasons.
00:06:29.000One, it turns out the narrative is not quite as simple as they thought it was.
00:06:33.000Two, they now cannot claim that this person is mentally ill or deranged because after all, they've created a system in which you declaring that you are a non-binary human, a thing that does not exist.
00:06:43.000We are all members of biological sexes.
00:06:46.000That you declaring that you are non-binary actually makes you more sane.
00:06:50.000That in some ways, you saying that you are non-binary, what that is, that is the true you.
00:07:19.000And then, when the person goes to prison and suggests that he is a member of a they-them species that does not exist, you say, oh well, because this person obviously is a deranged individual with mental illness.
00:07:31.000But now, the left is confused and they're bewildered and they're puzzled and they don't know what to do.
00:07:35.000And so, some of the ways they've been reacting, quite fascinating.
00:07:39.000So Ben Collins, who's just the worst actor in all of this, he's the senior reporter at NBC News, who's blamed literally the entire right for everything that has happened right here.
00:07:48.000He's appeared on television basically saying that if you oppose Drag Queen Story Hour, which in fact is a wonderful, wonderful thing, he said this on TV, that Drag Queen Story Hour is wonderful.
00:07:57.000It's where little kids get to meet drag queens.
00:08:03.000Well, he was also on your TV yesterday, was Ben Collins, suggesting that the Nazis are coming.
00:08:09.000That really what this is about, it's the evil people at Bright Barber who are calling for death upon gay, lesbian, trans people.
00:08:16.000He can't provide any evidence that that's happening, but you know, it's really, the Nazis are coming, guys.
00:08:19.000And you know, the Nazis, they really didn't like gender non-binary people.
00:08:24.000So if you say that there is no such thing as a non-binary gender, if you say that boys are boys and girls are girls, basically you're a Nazi.
00:08:32.000And because you're a Nazi, people are shooting up gay nightclubs.
00:09:37.000The suspect is requesting to go by they, them, according to court docs provided to the New York Times.
00:09:41.000The Colorado suspect was 15 when they requested a name change.
00:09:45.000So first of all, I love that the entire media has to immediately shift I mean, sure, he just murdered five gay people and injured another 25 people, but the important thing?
00:10:04.000This person's harassment by Edgelords online was thoroughly documented on the hate site Encyclopedia Dramatica, which outlined a harassment campaign repeatedly calling this person a They accrued some of those posts and mocked the person's grandmother's GoFundMe to send the person to Japan.
00:10:16.000I'm studiously avoiding saying the name of the shooter because this is something we do on the show to prevent mass shootings, something no one in the media apparently will do.
00:10:23.000We on this show and over at our site, over at Daily Wire, we do not mention the names of mass shooters because it gives them exactly the sort of notoriety and glory they're looking for.
00:10:30.000No one in the mass legacy media will do this.
00:10:35.000Encyclopedia Dramatica, the hate site that compiled years of records of online bullying of the Colorado Springs suspect, updated the page when they realized that the shooter had an entry for years, adding that this person, quote, shot up a gay bar because he was tired of all the harassment.
00:10:47.000OK, so the narrative is now shifting from Ben Collins in real time.
00:10:49.000So now the shooter he's sympathetic to.
00:10:53.000Now the shooter had a rough childhood.
00:10:55.000Everybody was bullying this non-binary person, and that's probably why.
00:10:58.000So, as it turns out, according to Ben Collins, the right is to blame because this person was a disciple of the right.
00:11:06.000I mean, the media tried to trot out not the relevant fact that this person was a psychologically disturbed human being with violent tendencies.
00:11:54.000And then, the evidence comes in that the person actually is non-binary because this is what the person now claims, and apparently has been claiming, And their response is, well, probably if they are non-binary, they are non-binary.
00:12:10.000So either this person was bullied by the right into shooting up a gay club, or the person was a disciple of the right, so shot up a gay club.
00:12:17.000Or maybe your narratives aren't so comfy cozy.
00:12:25.000You want people you disagree with silenced.
00:12:27.000Only the left does this in modern America.
00:12:29.000Only the left immediately jumps on instances of violence and suggests that half the country has to be shut up on controversial public issues, including transing of the children.
00:13:22.000All you had to do was report the fact as they developed, and you couldn't.
00:13:25.000You couldn't even wait long enough to do it.
00:13:28.000And by the way, you think that if they had waited for 48 hours and it turns out that the guy had some manifesto online where he said he was a big fan of Tucker Carlson, you think that you wouldn't have had that conversation?
00:13:38.000You still would have had the same conversation.
00:13:39.000You just would have had actual facts to back you.
00:13:41.000But you had no facts to back you and you jumped anyway because you don't care.
00:14:00.000And a year from now, they will talk about how they are the objective journalismers who love the fact, don't care about narrative, they report without fear or favor, that all they care about is bringing you the crucial information you need in order to form your views.
00:14:18.000But let us not forget, let us not forget what's happened over the course of the last few days.
00:14:22.000Literally yesterday, yesterday, this narrative imploded on them like the Hindenburg.
00:14:27.000Literally yesterday, the entire legacy media, all of it, was doing this routine.
00:14:33.000So Nicole Wallace over at MSNBC, she was blaming Tucker Carlson for all of this, of course.
00:14:39.000I think, Donna, that the part of the story that makes people feel like it isn't about them should be thrust under the Klieg lights.
00:14:46.000I mean, everyone that spreads hate, and there are hosts who were named in the coverage yesterday.
00:14:51.000I think Tucker Carlson gives a lot of air time to hate for the LGBTQ community.
00:14:57.000A lot of elected Republicans do as well.
00:15:01.000And this tragedy has not shamed them at all.
00:15:06.000Okay, by the way, I should note here, there are further updates on the shooter, okay?
00:15:11.000His upbringing is marked, this is according to the Denver Gazette, by a biological father with a criminal history who dabbled in drugs and worked in the porn industry, and a mother with multiple arrests in California and Texas.
00:15:21.000Also, shortly before he changed his name, the suspected shooter apparently was a target of online bullying and showed signs of fascination with gay culture.
00:15:38.000Meanwhile, MSNBC's Donna Edwards did the same thing, blaming Tucker Carlson.
00:15:42.000I have real questions about these platforms like Twitter that continue to amplify and allow this kind of hateful language that then plays in to violence happening.
00:15:55.000I think, you know, I mean it has to, it has to stop and these platforms have to bear some responsibility for their role in contributing to it and I don't even have much to say About a Tucker Carlson or anybody else who lifts up violence and glorifies violence against a community and then says hands off when it comes to violence that actually does happen in that community.
00:16:25.000The entire legacy media, virtually all of them, without exception.
00:16:30.000And not just members of the legacy media.
00:16:31.000And there was lots of, I mean, Kara Swisher, the world's worst tech journalist, just an awful, awful censorship-driven tech journalist, supposed tech journalist over at the New York Times, calling out the quote-unquote year-long propaganda from the right against the LGBT community for what happened in Colorado Springs, of course.
00:16:50.000More than two dozen people were injured.
00:16:52.000At least one club patron attacked and subdued the shooter, pinning him to the floor until the police arrived.
00:16:59.000He sounds, you know, problematic and on lists and stuff like that.
00:17:03.000A lot of the right wing is saying, don't politicize this right after the event.
00:17:07.000And I think I shall politicize it because this is a year of propaganda from the right that smeared the LGBTQ and especially trans community as groomers.
00:17:16.000All this legislation, all this hatred, It's, you know, Lauren Boebert saying she feels this is very upsetting has been right at the forefront of using terms like groomers and pedos around gay people and trans people.
00:17:30.000And Matt Walsh, who is just the most loathsome person I think you've ever got to meet, is immediately saying, oh, that they're trying to castrate young people, which is crazy.
00:17:38.000OK, so this is one of the more loathsome people in the media.
00:17:46.000By the way, it is chemical castration when you actually pump sterilizing drugs into young people because they are gender confused, or when you perform surgeries on minors that sterilize them.
00:18:13.000When I heard about the news about the shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, I couldn't help but think of the rhetoric spewed by those like James Dobson.
00:19:03.000So you think the political discourse that's going on now is a contributing factor to this kind of violence?
00:19:07.000You can't target a group to be feared and to be hated.
00:19:09.000was gay, which means that he's amazing at his job.
00:19:11.000Pete Buttigieg, he was out there and he was making the same point. The idea is that this shooting could be laid at the at the feet of all of his political opponents.
00:19:19.000So you think the political discourse that's going on now is a contributing factor to this kind of violence?
00:19:25.000You can't target a group to be feared and to be hated.
00:19:29.000A group, by the way, that never did anything to you, but is politically convenient to attack.
00:19:34.000And then act surprised when a disturbed person or who knows goes out and follows that through with physical violence.
00:19:44.000There has always been a relationship between the social and political demonization of a group and that group's vulnerability to being physically attacked.
00:20:01.000No, he has no evidence to back that at all.
00:20:03.000But he did tweet about it as well, just to make clear that this is what Pete Buttigieg thinks.
00:20:07.000The Secretary of Transportation of your federal government, he tweeted the same thing.
00:20:10.000Quote, if you're a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared, not because any of us ever harmed you, but because you find it useful, don't you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows.
00:20:23.000Why, it's almost as though you had an agenda, and the agenda is that we have to support and celebrate everything that you want us to support and celebrate, or you're going to blame us for murder.
00:20:30.000Well, I'm sorry that your narrative fell apart.
00:23:48.000Okay, so the reaction in the media, this says it all.
00:23:50.000So CNN had to finally report this this morning.
00:23:52.000And Alison Camerota was reporting that the shooter in this case, in his court filings, says he is they and that he's non-binary.
00:24:00.000Now in this clip, there'll be a couple of points where you hear... That is CNN not doing what we do here at Daily Wire on the show.
00:24:07.000That is CNN saying the shooter's name.
00:24:09.000We don't do that on the show, as I've explained already, because again, we don't wish to give notoriety to people who desperately seek notoriety.
00:24:16.000It is just another incentive for them to go out and commit shootings like this.
00:24:19.000But, there's pretty good social science on that.
00:24:21.000Because again, we care about mass shootings, but apparently members of the media Very often, they don't care enough to either wait for the facts on them or to stop using the names of the shooters glorifying them.
00:24:32.000In any case, Alison Camerota reports on this and you can see how upset they are that the narrative just collapsed in on them like a dying star.
00:24:39.000Attorneys for the accused shooter say in new court filings tonight that the suspect now identifies as non-binary.
00:24:49.000In a footnote to a motion asserting legal privileges, the public defenders say, quote, is non-binary.
00:24:57.000They use they them pronouns and for the purposes of all formal filings will be addressed as So in other words, not Mr. or Ms.
00:25:08.000Joining me now, CNN political commentator Errol Lewis.
00:25:10.000Also back with me, Al Franken and Joe Walsh.
00:26:09.000But I was told that the minute that someone declared, by your standards, that somebody was non-binary, we all have to assume that they were non-binary.
00:26:19.000We're not allowed to deadname the person.
00:26:20.000In fact, you using this person's dead name would be an act of bigotry by you.
00:26:26.000Welcome to the world that you've created for yourselves.
00:26:28.000If narratives matter more than facts, then you don't have to worry about things like whether this person identified as non-binary 30 seconds ago or not.
00:26:42.000And all you had to do was wait for the facts, and you couldn't.
00:26:45.000Now the story's about your malfeasance and it's about the cynical garbage that was pumped out there by Democratic top politicians suggesting that anybody who didn't vote for the Respect for Marriage Act or anybody who wants to ban the mutilation of minors in their state is somehow complicit in a murderous attack.
00:27:11.000How about politicians saying that half the country should be silenced?
00:27:14.000How about your political leaders telling you that you're a bigot because you don't like drag queens gyrating around in front of children, and if you oppose it, then probably you want people shot.
00:27:23.000That's a national news story, and that does affect everybody.
00:27:26.000And pretending that it doesn't is a joke.
00:27:57.000He was just going to school that day on the bus and he was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.
00:28:03.00019 other people have been injured, including an American citizen.
00:28:07.000I don't expect that the Biden administration will launch some sort of FBI investigation into who actually conducted this and whether there was complicity from the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.
00:28:17.000We send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority and we send financial aid to Hamas as well, by the way.
00:28:22.000But I'd just like to point out here that our clear-eyed members of the media, they really are quite moral and amazing.
00:28:30.000So first, you have members of the media who suggest this is an attack on quote-unquote Israelis.
00:28:43.000But beyond that, it was just yesterday that Whoopi Goldberg, our great moral leader, over at The View, literally questioning on national television whether Hamas and the Taliban are terrorist groups.
00:28:52.000After all, terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
00:28:55.000She tweeted something comparing the US, Israel, Hamas, and the Taliban as all terrorist organizations.
00:29:03.000And she has maybe way more knowledge and experience in the very complicated Middle Eastern relations.
00:29:08.000But I did find that being on a foreign committee and comparing the country to a terrorist, a known terrorist, those are organized terrorist communities, that, not Israel, but Hamas and the Taliban, that- It depends on who you talk to.
00:29:31.000It depends on who you talk to, says Whoopi Goldberg.
00:29:33.000By the way, what they're talking about there is Ilhan Omar, at one point in a tweet, lumped together Hamas, the Taliban, Israel, and the United States.
00:29:41.000Okay, and Whoopi Goldberg, because she has to defend Ilhan Omar, because she's a member of the radical intersectional left, she said, well, are Hamas and the Taliban terrorists?
00:30:37.000According to Whoopi Goldberg, Hamas, the Taliban, not terrorists, Republicans who vote against an overbroad bill targeting quote-unquote domestic extremism, that may wrap into it a bunch of people who just disagree.
00:30:48.000Those people are the real domestic terrorists.
00:30:52.000Slow clap for Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of the geniuses over at The View.
00:30:55.000A woman so brilliant that she literally believes everyone on earth is racist except for Hitler.
00:31:00.000Remember, she once suggested that the Holocaust was not racist because Jews are white people.
00:31:04.000Okay, meanwhile, Anthony Fauci did his final press conference as a member of the federal administration yesterday, and it was a tearful moment for all involved.
00:31:17.000There was a weird incident where people actually tried to ask him a tough question, and Karine Jean-Pierre jumped in front of that question like a bodyguard taking a bullet.
00:31:25.000It began with Karine Jean-Pierre praising Anthony Fauci as one of our great public servants who had completely blown everything during the pandemic, but apparently he did an amazing job, according to Karine Jean-Pierre.
00:31:34.000Whether it be HIV-AIDS, Ebola, or COVID-19, for close to four decades and under seven Republican and Democratic presidents, Dr. Fauci has always led with the science, and our country is stronger and healthier because of his leadership.
00:31:57.000And then Dr. Ashish Jha, who is the current COVID coordinator, he came out and praised Fauci as well, because there's nothing I love better than people on the public payroll as bureaucrats praising one another.
00:32:20.000Well, hard to follow Dr. Fauci, who I would argue has been the most important consequential public servant in the United States in the last half century and a leader and a role model for so many of us.
00:32:36.000A person who blew it along every step of the way, who flip-flopped on every major issue, and then who posed himself as the science, if you doubted any of the things that he was saying.
00:32:46.000By the way, he said a bunch of stuff that wasn't particularly accurate yesterday, did Anthony Fauci.
00:32:51.000So, first, there was this incident that was pretty amazing, where a reporter demanded that Anthony Fauci actually answer some questions about the origins of the virus.
00:32:59.000Now, Anthony Fauci has been wildly incurious about the origins of the COVID virus in the first place.
00:33:05.000The evidence suggests at this point that there is a significant possibility, if not probability, that the Wuhan virus was originally developed in a Chinese lab.
00:33:15.000That it was essentially a piece of gain-of-function research that got loose because of bad protocols.
00:33:20.000What we do know is that the Chinese government then covered it up probably since October.
00:33:24.000That's not me, that's Scott Gottlieb, who's a moderate former head of the FDA.
00:33:28.000In his book, he talks specifically about how China essentially hid this thing for months and months and months while it ran wild throughout Wuhan and then eventually infected the entire world, killing probably four or five million people.
00:33:38.000But Anthony Fauci has been questioned significantly about the beginnings of the Wuhan virus because, after all, he's been an advocate of gain-of-function research to the point where the NIH was actually giving grants to labs in China to do gain-of-function research.
00:33:52.000And if those grants weren't the ones that actually led to the gain-of-function research that led to COVID, money is fungible, and being part of the broader project is kind of a problem.
00:34:00.000Now, again, Anthony Fauci's been wildly incurious about the origins of the virus.
00:34:04.000He just keeps saying over and over that it was a wet market that drove all of this.
00:34:18.000She has a valid question. She's asked a valid question. You've asked your question. You should allow her to ask a question.
00:34:25.000She's asked a valid question, Dr. Fauci, about the origin of COVID-19. It is not your turn. It is not your turn. You can't understand people. You can't read a press briefing.
00:34:36.000You need to call from people across the room. She has a valid question. She's asked about the origin of COVID-19. I hear the question.
00:34:44.000I hear your question, but we're not doing this the way you want it.
00:35:12.000You recall that Jim Acosta actually did this during a press conference with Donald Trump, where somebody took the microphone away, and this was the end of the Republic.
00:35:18.000We have the White House press secretary telling people they can't ask Dr. Fauci questions about the origins of the virus.
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00:38:57.000Folks, I want to give you an update on my student debt relief plan.
00:38:59.000that out there. Joe Biden looks like the night. Joe Biden looks like the guy at the end of Indiana Jones and the last crusade who drinks from the wrong cup. Joe Biden is starting to look like that. It's not it's not a great look, guys.
00:39:13.000Anyway, Joe Biden gave you an update that we're going to suspend student loan emergency manager emergencies.
00:39:19.000Folks, I want to give you an update on my student debt relief plan. As Americans continue to recover from the pandemic, my administration has been working to provide student debt relief to millions of working and middle class families across the country.
00:39:34.000But Republican special interests and elected officials sued to deny this relief, even for their own constituents.
00:39:41.000But I'm completely confident my plan is legal.
00:39:44.000But right now, it's on hold because of these lawsuits.
00:39:48.000We're not going to back down, though, in our fight to give families breathing room.
00:39:51.000That's why the Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to rule on the case.
00:39:57.000But it isn't fair to ask tens of millions of borrowers, eligible for relief, to resume their student debt payments while the courts consider the lawsuit.
00:40:06.000For that reason, the Secretary of Education- Wait, so it's not considering the lawsuit or is it an emergency?