Another great show today, we address all of it. We ve been here before, and we address it in a really important segment of the program. We also have James O'Keefe on talking about muckrakers and our responsibility as Americans. Also Bitcoin, inflation, the Fed, the economy, and the economy all on today s show.
00:03:49.600Nixon was the answer for the other side.
00:03:52.200And as we know many times, the other side is just as bad.
00:03:56.920Because we fight over the two parties, we become tribal, and we fight blindly for things, and people that we would never really fight for, if we hadn't been convinced the other side was the enemy.
00:04:13.760The 1960s, I think, was just an abomination.
00:10:14.540It was your generation that was the yuppie, not mine, and certainly not our parents.
00:10:21.120It was your generation that fought against the U.S. in Vietnam and the Cold War.
00:10:27.600You were the ones saying that Reagan is a warmonger and he's going to get us all vaporized.
00:10:32.740You went on with your life, but it was my generation as a kid that woke up with night terrors night after night about being vaporized because of your political propaganda.
00:12:31.340They always have been and always will be.
00:12:33.740Now I want to make sure that I'm not making just a total blanket statement of all those who grew up in the 60s because many live through those times and learned from their mistakes.
00:18:12.620And it is the time to either stand up and be counted or kneel down.
00:18:20.260Well, that's why I say I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
00:18:24.340This book, American Muckraker, I talk about the problems in journalism and the crisis of conscience that we as citizens face because we all suffer.
00:18:33.620In fact, the first chapter of this book is called Suffering.
00:18:35.920And people might be asking, why is James O'Keefe writing about that theme?
00:18:40.180Well, it's because, you know, people that blow the whistle on these institutions, a lot of the people come to us inside of these different departments.
00:18:48.100And I've personally struggled and felt pain enduring the defamation and the lawsuits and even the incarceration and most recently FBI raids against me.
00:18:59.140But, you know, I think in life we all suffer.
00:19:01.560It's just a question of do you want to follow your conscience or not?
00:19:04.660And I think it's better to follow your conscience and expose what's what's going on.
00:19:08.560So I'm trying to create a movement of these people to do this.
00:19:14.540American Muckraker is a handbook on how to do journalism living in clown world.
00:19:18.600Explain what Muckraker means because it's an old timey, you know, early 20th century word.
00:19:23.300Yeah, it's from it's from about 100 years ago, 120 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, in this passage, Pilgrim's Progress, he talked about the man with the muckrake.
00:19:35.400And what I define it is basically a journalism who does a journalist who does expose reporting, making public what powerful people want kept private for the wrong reasons.
00:19:47.020And I distinguish a muckraker from a corporate journalist because many of the people in corporate journalism merely represent they act as representatives for those in power.
00:20:00.540And, of course, you have to be skeptical of what you're told.
00:20:03.280You have to question what you're told.
00:20:05.260You can't just act in symbiosis with people in pharmaceutical companies and the government.
00:20:10.700When did we stop thinking that journalism is printing something that someone else doesn't want printed and exchange that for public relations?
00:20:22.720Well, the second chapter of this book, I call it medium, and I do my best job of trying to tell the story in one chapter of the history of all media.
00:20:32.300I don't think there was a particular point in space and time.
00:20:35.240I think it's gotten horrifically bad in the last two decades, mainly because of the consolidation of tech and the decimation of the country's newspapers.
00:22:17.960Fast forward a year, a federal agent shoved up my home with a search warrant.
00:22:22.380They put me in handcuffs, threw me against my hallway wall, raided my home, and took my two iPhones, just my iPhones, not my laptop or anything else.
00:22:30.700Very unusual, by the way, and particularly aggressive to do it against a journalist.
00:22:36.180On the search warrant, it said, accessory after the fact and misprison of a felony.
00:22:42.240Now, these are crimes that they are, I guess, looking for, but I have not been charged with anything.
00:22:48.080But to even do this to a reporter, accessory after the fact is completely unconstitutional.
00:22:54.240The Supreme Court of the United States, in a case called Bartnicki v. Bopper, protects the right of a journalist to receive a document, even if that document was stolen by a third party, so long as the journalist had nothing to do with the theft of the document.
00:23:12.720And it seems that it's coming out now it wasn't.
00:23:15.260But, Glenn, this was a horrible and egregious violation of my rights.
00:23:19.020And, of course, what's even more egregious is that within moments of me being out of handcuffs, I got a text message from the New York Times national security reporter who somehow had got access to this information and knew the subject of the grand jury subpoena.
00:23:33.200So this is what we're talking about in this book.
00:23:35.280It's also just the nature of our circumstances these days when the government teams up with media, which teams up with pharmaceutical companies, which teams up with the executive branch of government.
00:24:59.600I think it's a mass movement of truth-tellers that bring reality, cinema verite, that the images are more powerful than their ability to manipulate words in a newspaper.
00:26:02.240You're not entitled to multiple realities in this life.
00:26:05.100And they're trying to coerce us through shame and humiliation and the terrifying power of the press to believe that 2 plus 2 equals 5.
00:26:13.640And I talk about that in a chapter called Power.
00:26:17.460And it really – what changed for me was when I stopped seeking approval, when I no longer wanted to be liked by the New York Times is when I was free.
00:27:49.280I know that so many of my liberal and progressive friends are with me on this.
00:27:54.220And they do not want to say it out loud because they are scared to be called anti-vax or to be called science denial or to be smeared as a trumper.
00:28:03.700I'm sorry, if you believe the science, you will look at the data that we did not have two years ago and you will find out that cloth masks do not do anything.
00:28:14.980You will realize that you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and carrying Omicron.
00:28:22.340And you will realize, most importantly, that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime.
00:28:30.140The city of Flint, Michigan, which is 80 percent, I think, minority students, has just announced indefinite virtual schooling.
00:28:38.240In the past two years, we've seen among young girls a 51 percent increase in self-harm.
00:29:23.140Look at what's happening in England right now.
00:29:25.840They're back open 100 percent and you're on the wrong side of history and it is going to be a massive moral failing.
00:29:34.840And I think there's two things that are important about that clip and so many others that we've played recently where people like Barry Weiss, who's not conservative.
00:30:55.100Let's welcome these people in, because once we get people like Bill Maher and Barry Weiss and so many others in our group, the the tide is not going to be able to be stopped.
00:31:07.800The other thing that I think is important to to recognize from that clip is.
00:31:13.720Listening to them talk about the restrictions and shutting down schools for indefinite online learning and vaccine cards and restrictions and mask mandates and all of these things.
00:32:39.980The left and blue states have turned this country into a two-tiered society where I feel completely normal on an everyday basis.
00:32:49.540If you're listening to me in New York, if you're listening in California, this may be a totally different situation in your life.
00:32:56.140But it's been over a year, well over a year, where I have felt none of this.
00:33:03.840Living in Texas, living in Florida, living in some of these southern states.
00:33:07.360And you're seeing this now with the economy and the job numbers where hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing in every other region.
00:33:19.600It's happening in mass, mass numbers that maybe we've never seen before in the history of the United States.
00:33:25.920Here's what I think really has to be understood.
00:33:28.480I have been telling you for 20 years, there is going to come a time where we're going to have the industrial revolution that took 100 years.
00:33:42.840I've told you for 20 years, in the end, tech will be despised because tech is going to be seen as the enemy because it will be AI and robotics and everything else that take your job.
00:34:24.440I know because I read futurists and futurists like Ray Kurzweil, you don't know if they're actually predicting the future or making the future at this point, okay?
00:34:35.700Because they're all at Google and everything else.
00:34:37.880And they have been talking about this for a very long time.
00:34:41.440But you don't hear any politician talking about it.
00:34:43.760You don't hear Google setting up big, huge training centers to retrain truck drivers who in six years, eight years, will probably lose their jobs because there will be automatic driving trucks.
00:34:56.820It'll be the first impact on trucks and big, big jobs.
00:35:02.100You don't see them talking about that, do you?
00:35:04.540Do you see any of these big tech places?
00:36:02.360And they will look to tech to protect them with the promise that the government and the banks and the new world order will protect tech when the jobs are gone.
00:36:31.200Hoping that you're not going to figure it out.
00:36:34.560Because there's three ways for this to end.
00:36:36.220You catch on early enough, right now, and you stand up against it, and we throw these bums out, and we all talk to each other about the truth.
00:36:55.680The other is, we all decide we're going to stay asleep, and we just let them steamroll over us, and we're in a virtual cage.
00:37:06.840And when we wake up, there's nothing you can do about it, and you're just in that system.
00:37:10.640Or, God forbid, the third one, and that is, we figure it out almost too late, and you got to fight for it, and then it just goes, but ugly.
00:37:44.860You think you're using the global warming people, and you're telling them, we're going to fix the planet.
00:37:50.660But when they figure out that this is nothing but a giant money-making scheme by the richest people and the richest corporations in the world, and you never meant it.
00:38:01.440You were just looking for power and money, they will come to your studio and rip you out of the street, out of their seat, live on television, and beat you to death in the streets.