Chris Matthews announces his retirement from MSNBC. Why did he decide to leave the network? And what will his replacement do now that he's out of the job? Glenn and Pat discuss all of that and more on today's show.
00:00:00.000Hey, it's Super Tuesday. We've got to look at all of the choices as we prepare for our broadcast tonight, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
00:00:10.400You just don't want to miss this. It's I mean, what the Democrats?
00:00:15.380Oh, the places they will go tonight on the Blaze TV.
00:00:20.620We give you all of these things, including the theories of why Chris Matthews is retiring on today's podcast.
00:00:26.040We have the latest from Dr. Robert Epstein on the rigging of the 2020 election, Texas and Biden and Beto, which is a weird combination when you throw Texas in there.
00:00:40.100A coronavirus update for you, one for the ages, because we also did Profiles of Courage.
00:00:46.020And my, were they. Oh, you're going to be inspired by these politicians who are so courageous.
00:00:52.820Also, we found a staff member doesn't eat Chinese food right now because they're afraid of the coronavirus.
00:01:00.320That led to about 40 minutes of just nonstop, relentless mocking that you do not want to miss.
00:01:06.760Also, I don't want to miss the mockery that's going to go on with the candidates tonight on Super Tuesday.
00:01:11.480If you happen to be listening to this on Super Tuesday, we have coverage tonight starting at 8 p.m. Eastern on BlazeTV.com.
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00:05:55.180If they're firing you, no network allows you to go back on the air, which reminds you, I just would like to remind you, I believe there were four or six months of shows I did after Fox supposedly fired me.
00:06:32.460It happened because CNN is the establishment network that uses revolutionaries.
00:06:41.740MSNBC is the revolutionary network that uses the establishment.
00:06:50.440And the revolutionaries are done with the establishment.
00:06:55.100When Chris Matthews said last week, Bernie Sanders taking over the Democratic Party and winning like he's winning is like the Nazis taking France.
00:07:53.300Chris Matthews, you embarrassed yourself with the way you behaved with the revolutionaries.
00:07:59.460And you are now paying that price that I told you would come.
00:08:05.400You're lucky to get out of there before anything worse happens, because those revolutionaries are now talking about fulfilling my prophecy from Fox when I said they're going to come in and drag you out of your studio and into the streets and beat you to death.
00:08:24.000I was wrong there now Bernie Sanders supporters are now saying they'll set you on fire in the street.
00:08:30.160So you're lucky you got out before all of that.
00:08:35.640But it was a it's a sad day to see a guy who has that long of a career who has at times been very right and very helpful to the country, even though I've disagreed with him.
00:08:48.680It's sad to see him brushed aside and forced to read a statement that is as ridiculous as that one that the new generation is coming in.
00:09:01.600Well, all of those grandparents that were watching you, Chris, they also have a wealth of experience and a wealth of knowledge.
00:09:09.320Should they be brushed aside for this new enlightened generation?
00:09:14.600Because it doesn't seem that enlightened to me, I think, too.
00:09:19.280I don't know how much you put on this, but here's a guy who is an old school Democrat.
00:09:30.960And here's a guy who has been critical of the sort of revolutionary wing of the Democratic Party, a guy who says, you know, who's given Sanders and Warren a hard time.
00:09:42.880You go back and read her article, the accuser.
00:10:47.660And it's and she's outwardly saying it's because of Warren.
00:10:50.580I think this should be remembered not as the Chris Matthews program, but the Chris Matthews program, because that's what's happening at NBC.
00:11:01.040There is a program that is going to get rid of all of the establishment voices, anybody who is at least on MSNBC, anybody who is not down with the radicals.
00:11:15.340Again, CNN is the establishment power.
00:11:19.300That's the network of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, and they excuse the revolutionaries.
00:11:43.220And if you think that the revolutionaries won't come for you.
00:11:48.380Well, you're a fool because they're starting to come for anybody now like Chris Matthews, who has anything other than lockstep parroting in mind.
00:12:01.420Yeah, could you imagine this five years ago?
00:12:47.400He was the head and chief editor of Psychology Today.
00:12:51.660He's got his psychology degree from Harvard.
00:12:56.660He is very, very well respected and published until he started tracking what Google was doing.
00:13:05.020And once he started tracking what Google and Facebook were doing, especially in the case of the election, he started to become very, very worried because what he found was they can manipulate and have manipulated our elections already.
00:13:24.080And they can dramatically change the outcome.
00:13:28.080He said in his latest op ed that the Republicans have almost no chance of winning, no matter how bad the other candidate is, no matter how good we are.
00:13:42.660If it's even close, five percentage points anywhere in the country, advantage Democrats because of what high tech will do.
00:13:52.240He's going to be on a special with us tomorrow on our Wednesday night special where we're going through all the things that are happening to our election that no one's paying attention to.
00:14:50.620And just to preface that, let me point out that I study these effects, you know, after I discover them, which is, you know, which is a hit and miss, I have to say.
00:15:02.260But I study these effects one at a time.
00:15:06.120I think I just got to make this point.
00:15:08.140In other words, I find out something that can shift opinions like bias in search results or bias in search suggestions or those little answer boxes that they show you at the top of a page of search results or, you know, bias in news feeds, whatever it is.
00:15:28.420But in reality, they're all being used at the same time.
00:15:32.760And so I don't even know what happens when you have, you know, five, six, seven, eight different types of manipulation running simultaneously.
00:15:45.660So now with that preface, let me say that the new technique that we are following now that we're studying and trying to quantify, we call it YME, the YouTube manipulation effect.
00:15:59.440It turns out that YouTube is possibly the most powerful manipulation tool.
00:17:03.180The one that suggests the video you should watch next.
00:17:05.900And she explains we're altering, we're aggressively altering our up next algorithm that suggests what you should watch by pushing up in ranking.
00:18:08.740But then I learned that currently around the world, and this blew me away, 70% of the videos that people watch on YouTube are suggested by that up next algorithm.
00:18:25.820So what this means is Google has the power to send people down rabbit holes, literally send them down rabbit holes by watching a sequence of videos.
00:18:37.520And, of course, people have no idea that there's any bias associated with these videos.
00:18:53.060Where they had indoctrinated somebody and they had taken him and really done a number on him to get him to believe certain things that he had to go and kill somebody.
00:19:06.060And for years I have said, Google in time will have the power because they'll be able to target.
00:19:14.640And I'm not suggesting they're doing this, but they could target individuals because they would know more about that individual than that individual knows.
00:19:22.240And you could sway them one way or another to do good or to do evil, whatever it is.
00:19:27.760But that Manchurian Candidate, this is technology now that in the 1950s, our CIA and the Soviets would have killed to have to be able to manipulate not just one individual, but a lot of individuals, maybe an entire country or world and move them in one direction or another.
00:19:49.020This has never, ever been able to be able to do anything like this.
00:20:19.080It sounds impossible, but it's actually true.
00:20:21.240There was actually a study done by The Guardian in the UK looking at the quantity of information that Google has.
00:20:27.320So they know exactly who you are, they know how to influence you, and the point is, if you ever get on YouTube, they can take you in any direction they want if you're vulnerable.
00:20:40.860In other words, if you're undecided on some issue, they can take you down a rabbit hole.
00:20:46.420But the point is, we are actually in the process now, it's extremely exciting what we're doing, of attaching numbers to this effect.
00:20:54.140In other words, we're actually measuring very, very precisely how much power this technique has to shift opinions, to shift purchases, to shift votes.
00:21:05.960And I won't have solid numbers, I think, until sometime in April.
00:21:10.700But the point is, we've got this thing running now.
00:21:23.940And, of course, what I want to do is, if I can get the resources, is I want to monitor this in those final months leading up to the 2020 election.
00:21:34.240Because I am quite certain that given the level of individual targeting that Google and, to some extent, Facebook, to a lesser extent, Twitter, given the individual targeting that they can do, given how much they know about you,
00:21:50.640that means they can identify state by state by state, swing state by swing state, swing county by swing county, they can identify who the vulnerable people are,
00:22:03.820who the people are who are not yet committed, who have not yet decided.
00:22:07.700And they, at an individual level, can use a dozen or more subliminal techniques to shift their opinions and their voting preferences with no one knowing that they're doing so and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace.
00:22:24.980So I think I may have asked you this yesterday, but I'd like you to clarify on something.
00:22:31.180You know, I have friends who are, you know, they're deep, deep, deep, deep thinkers to the point to where it's like, okay, shut up.
00:22:44.440And I have been watching conversations that are happening that I found at first perplexing this argument about free will, that free will exists or free will doesn't exist.
00:22:55.920I really thought that we had solved that, you know, in the Enlightenment period.
00:23:01.180But I, when I started realizing what they're really talking about, because a lot of them are kind of, you know, Google kind of, you know, Silicon Valley people.
00:23:11.840What they're really talking about is this idea that free will is a thing of the past, that you don't know where that idea came from or that action came from,
00:23:26.060because we're going to be living in a world of constant manipulation.
00:23:34.140Yes, but, you know, I understand that this issue drives people crazy.
00:23:59.360And you feel like you have free will and all that.
00:24:01.720The problem comes when you're, you're, you're being subjected to forms of control that you can't see.
00:24:07.680Now, you don't know what, I mean, the point is you don't, you don't know what you don't know, right?
00:24:13.660So you have no idea that moment to moment in time, right?
00:24:19.920You know, there, there, there are other people or other algorithms, you know, controlling what you do, determining what you think, what you buy, your attitudes, your beliefs, who you vote for.
00:24:31.280If, if you can't see those forces of control, then at that point, if you do feel like you have free will, and you probably do, it's an illusion.
00:24:43.620So we're, that's the point we're at now.
00:24:46.240If there is free will, it's just an illusion these days, because in fact, you're being subjected to very, very powerful forms of control that have never existed before.
00:25:02.720I, I want to give your address because I, I cannot recommend strongly enough that if you have money and you want to be involved in something, you know, we free slaves with the Nazarene fund.
00:25:16.300Uh, and with, uh, uh, with, oh, you are, um, we have been doing, you know, work in different places all around the world and in the country, just helping people get back on their feet with mercury one.
00:25:29.200This is critical for democracy and for our Republic.
00:25:34.360If we lose the vote and we are being manipulated without our knowledge, without any measurement on it, we are done as a free people.
00:25:43.180I want you to go to my Google research.com and make a pledge to help.
00:25:50.240Even if it's $5, if you can do one, you know, every month, whatever you can do, I need you to help him, uh, put this together and he needs a ton of money.
00:26:01.660We're going to need a lot of people doing this.
00:26:04.360Please go to my Google research.com and help Dr. Epstein, uh, monitor.
00:26:10.500This is, this is, this will be the whole, uh, ball of wax.
00:40:30.460I mean, they want him to be the guy, and they just don't have the confidence that he is the guy.
00:40:35.920If they can con themselves into thinking, yes, he's the guy, I think it will help.
00:40:41.700And you'll see a big, big bubble for Biden tonight.
00:40:46.400And I would argue, too, this is probably the most interesting night of the entire primary.
00:40:50.560It could set it up into either it's going to be a contested convention, one or the other could win.
00:40:55.280The other part I would just add on to this is that this is the only time you're going to see a massive change in the election from South Carolina to today,
00:41:04.720only three days in between and not enough time to actually get quality polling.
00:42:04.260I want to just say, yes, there is in Wuhan, there is a Chinese restaurant that in the basement has an elevator and that elevator goes down through the core of the earth and all the way up to our Chinese restaurants here.
00:42:21.260It's where they get all of the bats and everything that they use in in Colonel Chow's chicken, not general, just the Colonel Chow.
00:42:31.680And they get all the bat wings and everything right directly from that elevator that goes through the center of the earth directly to China.
00:42:40.960And how can you not eat Chinese food here?
00:42:47.240Like, you know, they're all flying over there.
00:42:51.520Well, really, are they more than the the people that are, you know, flying over to Europe or whatever, because they're working at a Chick-fil-A or a McDonald's and they've got their family over in Mexico?
00:43:10.040That people now, because the idea being that I guess the theory being that because Chinese people work at Chinese restaurants and they have relatives in China that they might visit, get coronavirus, come back and I guess get it on your General Tso's chicken.
00:43:26.400I guess that's the theory behind this.
00:45:03.020On our honeymoon, it was the DC sniper story was like in full effect.
00:45:09.320Do you remember the story where there's the guy who was in the back of his car and he was shooting people at gas stations as they were pumping their gas?
00:45:16.120And she was freaking terrified over this.
00:45:20.200Now, we were not anywhere near Washington, D.C.
00:45:37.440But it was one of those things that every time you're pumping gas, it was like, you know, you had to like hide behind the car or something because who knows?