On today's show, I discuss how the media's handling of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings has proven that the left-wing bias in the media is so extreme that it is beyond repair, and that the media are in fact an enemy of the people.
00:00:00.000So I want to revisit something I said at the top of the show yesterday, and I admitted that I did think, I had thought, I used to think that some of Trump's, President Trump's anti-media rhetoric was overblown and even dangerous, potentially.
00:00:18.760But the media's handling of Brett Kavanaugh and this whole story has been just so completely terrible that it's proven him right in every respect.
00:00:32.480About everything he said about the media has been proven right.
00:00:35.300They really are an enemy of the people, to use a phrase that he's gone back to many times.
00:00:40.180And it's a phrase that the media gets very upset when he says that, but I think they've proven it.
00:00:47.280They are so fully invested in their left-wing ideology.
00:00:53.100They're so fully invested in, you know, those convictions that they cannot be ethical or honest or objective, even if they tried to be.
00:01:23.000Let's just recall one other before we get to this one.
00:01:25.200Probably the most egregious example prior to this was Ferguson.
00:01:29.600Ferguson, recall how the media in that case took the very first version of the story that they received and they repeated it.
00:01:39.120And this is a story given to them by the accomplice, by Mike Brown's friend, who had just robbed, you know, helped in this strong-arm robbery and was obviously trying to cover for himself.
00:01:50.700So, and that should have been obvious to any experienced journalist, hearing the story of the friend who's gotten in trouble with the police for one reason or another, you should think, well, let's, this story might not be, let's, let's back up.
00:02:05.260Before we repeat this story, let's back up here for a minute.
00:02:09.740They took the story and they repeated it, hands up, don't shoot, and so on and so forth.
00:02:13.200And they, they kept repeating it as absolute fact, even when it became clear, even when it was confirmed that the story was false, fabricated, made up, they still repeated it ad nauseum.
00:02:27.100There were people burning down buildings because of the, of the, the false narrative that they constructed and they kept repeating it.
00:02:38.360Um, well, now they are waging an all-out war, an explicit smear campaign against, uh, Kavanaugh at the behest of the Democrat party and for the purposes and no other purpose other than this.
00:02:51.140And that is to keep a, a, an, an abortion opponent off of the court.
00:03:23.020That's what they, that's what they try to do.
00:03:24.540They, they, they, they bring destruction and, uh, chaos, which is what the media does.
00:03:30.720Um, and I don't think, now listen, because sometimes we can go too far in the direction when we talk about fake news and we say, well, it's all fake news and everything they say is wrong.
00:03:48.560And, and, and they're just all the time, just inventing stories out of thin air.
00:03:53.240And, um, no, that, that's, that's not correct.
00:03:58.700Uh, it's, it's not, you go pick up, if you actually ever, ever did decide to read the New York times, you're not going to find cover to cover as it were, uh, nothing but total mythology.
00:04:07.400That's, that's, that's not how fake quote unquote fake news works.
00:04:10.500That's not generally how media bias works.
00:04:12.900Most of the time with media bias, you know, and you read a story, you hear a story in the news.
00:04:18.620Most of the time, you can be pretty sure that 85 to 95% of what they're saying is basically true.
00:04:24.300Uh, maybe even a hundred percent is true, but most, this is how it usually works with media bias.
00:04:29.960They're very selective in the stories they tell us and in the ways that they present those stories.
00:04:41.400Um, but on occasion, when they really feel compelled to it, when they have a very strong ideological interest and also when they have a strong ratings interest as well.
00:04:54.960And when those things intersect, then it's game over.
00:04:57.000But, but on, on those occasions, they will, they are willing to go with a completely made up story.
00:05:03.660Not a story that they necessarily made up, but a story that was given to them that was, that is, that is very, very likely fabricated.
00:05:11.680So hands up, don't shoot is one example of that, where they were willing to go with a fabricated, dangerous story and roll with it because of ideological reasons and because it was great for ratings.
00:05:23.580And now they're doing the same thing with Brett Kavanaugh, um, and especially with Julie Swetnick.
00:05:28.580So that, that's exhibit A, um, Monday night, MSNBC aired an interview with, uh, with Julie Swetnick, you know, the third Kavanaugh accuser.
00:05:38.000Swetnick's story is totally ridiculous, literally unbelievable in the sense that it cannot be believed.
00:05:43.880She claims that Kavanaugh and his friends were members of an organized rape gang that would systematically drug and brutalize women at parties that those women, including Swetnick herself, would continue attending despite knowing that they'd probably be raped.
00:05:58.000Okay, that's the story that she tells.
00:05:59.820Um, they, NBC News admitted they could not find a single person to corroborate her account.
00:06:04.700They could not find a single person to, uh, substantiate anything she said.
00:06:08.900They could not find a single other eyewitness.
00:06:11.860There are no nothing from this period of time when you've got these apparently, uh, terrorist boys running around, raping people left and right.
00:06:19.880Um, they also said that Swetnick's account had changed in the last week.
00:06:23.900What she told NBC, NBC News was not completely consistent with what she had said through her lawyer, Avenatti, uh, just only a week ago.
00:06:31.720Yet they chose to air, and this is what I'm talking about, this is a perfect example of how the fake news thing works.
00:06:38.420Nobody is, is claiming, at least not any rational person is claiming that NBC News is the originator of Swetnick's story.
00:06:46.700No, Swetnick, who appears to be a bit of a nutcase, um, she, she came forward with this story and they said, let's go with it.
00:06:55.580Uh, now these people at NBC News, these are smart people.
00:07:01.560So they're just like you and I, the first time they hear the story, they're just like you and I.
00:07:05.040They know that, okay, come on, really?
00:07:07.000Before you even get into a lack of corroborating evidence, lack of witnesses, so forth, uh, before you even get into that, they're going to have the same reaction any other normal person with a brain would, and they're going to say, really?
00:07:16.920Uh, but, and if this accusation came out against a liberal nominee for the Supreme Court or a liberal politician, they would absolutely spike that story, and for good reason.
00:07:29.580I mean, they'd be justified in doing so because it's completely unsubstantiated and it is ridiculous on its face, but here they went with it, um, even though it is libelous, despicable propaganda, they reported it, they presented it as hard news, and so, yeah, um, fake news.
00:07:50.760Not only that, but, but as I mentioned yesterday, Swetnick, uh, on NBC was clearly regurgitating, blatantly regurgitating stories that she had heard herself in the media the previous week.
00:08:06.880So she, uh, you know, she used certain key phrases.
00:08:09.940She called Kavanaugh a, quote, sloppy drunk, a, quote, mean drunk.
00:08:13.120She said that he, he pushed girls into walls and all this stuff.
00:08:16.220Those are, those are stories, allegations, descriptions that the media had been churning out and, uh, and, uh, uh, reporting, quote, unquote, over the last week.
00:08:27.960So she was taking those lines and those stories from the media and repeating it back to the media, and they were then repeating it as if it was new information.
00:08:36.740Um, meanwhile, the, the rest of the left-wing media have been digging into these accusations that Kavanaugh threw ice at somebody at a, at a party three decades ago.
00:08:50.400Originally, now, this has changed a little bit.
00:08:52.300I think it was originally that he threw a beer on somebody, and now, then it was ice, and then maybe it was a beer first, and it became ice, or an ice, and then, I don't know.
00:08:59.900Um, it's, it's, it's all confused, but he, according to, uh, these people that are coming out through CNN and the left-wing media, Kavanaugh was drunk at some point in his college years, and he threw something at somebody, okay?
00:09:15.900CNN openly questioned whether Kavanaugh's ice-throwing history should be disqualifying.
00:09:24.260That was a question that was asked by, by, by a CNN anchor to, um, to Democratic Senator Hirono, who, just as a side note, this Senator Hirono, who I never, was never on my radar prior to all this, but, uh, apparently she's, we're talking about one of the biggest hacks and liars in all of American politics, and, and I didn't even really know about her, but now, now she's kind of risen to the surface, um, much like pond scum.
00:09:51.260Um, and, anyway, she, um, she, that's, that's a metaphor.
00:09:59.480I'm just saying she's, in a way, behaved like pond scum, let's just say.
00:10:04.760Um, she was asked, is this disqualifying?
00:10:09.300And she said, well, this is why we need an FBI investigation, okay?
00:10:12.440This is why we need an FBI investigation, is to find out whether there was, uh, whether, whether ice was thrown.
00:10:18.800Um, then consider Allison Camerata on CNN.
00:10:23.800She, uh, someone came on, on CNN, a voice of reason came on CNN and said that, well, to talk about him throwing ice is, quote, a distraction, it's a degradation of the debate.
00:10:36.240Camerata said, this is what she said, she said, I disagree.
00:10:38.940I think it's part and parcel of the entire thing.
00:10:41.480I think that if you're known as a belligerent, mean, fighting drunk, that's relevant.
00:10:46.160I think that it's relevant to then a, a woman who says that you would corner her and put your hand over her mouth.
00:10:52.500Somehow that, that I think makes more sense than if you were just a fun drunk who always fell right asleep.
00:11:02.060Now, first of all, I don't think a fun drunk is someone who falls asleep.
00:11:04.760That's a lame drunk, but put that to the side.
00:11:06.420Um, she, she is directly saying, she's actually saying that a guy throwing ice when he's drunk 30 years ago is an indication that he might be a serial rapist.
00:11:21.620Another sidebar for a moment, all of this hand-wringing over Kavanaugh's alleged aggression as a teenage boy, his supposed fights that he got into or whatever, it is all so stupid.
00:11:37.040In fact, I would be more suspicious of a guy who never got into fights as a teenager than a guy who did, because it's the most normal thing in the world.
00:11:47.180The most normal thing is for a guy, um, uh, you know, men between the ages, certainly starting it around.
00:12:38.360And it's, it, it's, it's, especially as a teenager, all it indicates is that there is a presence of testosterone in this person, which again is normal.
00:12:47.980I mean, when I was a kid, uh, I mean, I can think of so many, I once, I punched my friend in the head when I was a kid because he fouled me during a pickup basketball game.
00:12:59.400And then he wouldn't admit that he fouled me.
00:13:01.900And, uh, and cause I, look, I was that guy in pickup basketball.
00:13:05.480Every time I went for a shot, I would, I would say, and one because I got fouled all the time.