Ep. 103 - How Cronkite Turned The MSM Against The USA
Summary
The mainstream media have a new murderous totalitarian to pine for, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Little Rocket Man and a leading figure in the North Korean regime that tortures hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in concentration camps and enslaves and starves millions more through the most oppressive state on the face of the earth.
Transcript
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And the gold medal for moral idiocy goes to, you guessed it, the mainstream media.
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More than a century after Lincoln Steffens fawned over Lenin, 85 years after the New York Times
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denied Stalin's Holodome War, the mainstream media have a new murderous totalitarian to pine for,
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Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Little Rocket Man and a leading figure in the North Korean regime
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that tortures hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in concentration camps and enslaves
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and starves millions more through the most oppressive state on the face of the earth.
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The American mainstream media may despise their own country now, but it wasn't so long ago
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that American journalists were actually patriots.
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We will explain when and why American journalists stopped considering themselves Americans and
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Let's get into Kim Jong-ho, the dragon lady from, I don't remember her name, but the
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They are in love with the face of the regime that regularly threatens to nuke the United States.
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That has violated decades of UN resolutions, official US policy that constantly threatens
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to vaporize us with the kid from UP's desk button bomb.
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Business Insider reported, quote, North Korea's princess, Kim Yo-jong, threw Pence side-eye.
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They also reported, quote, North Korea's princess, Kim Yo-jong, wraps up whirlwind, historic visit
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The best part of this, by the way, is she isn't a princess, and nobody calls her that other
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For some reason, they've decided to call her a princess.
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The New York Times, quote, Kim Jong-un's sister turns on the charm, taking Pence's spotlight.
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The Washington Post, the Ivanka Trump of North Korea, captivates people in the South at the
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CNN, the most trusted name in apples, or whatever they do.
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CNN headline reads, quote, Kim Jong-un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics.
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She will put a young, telegenic face on the regime.
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This is a calculated move from Kim Jong-un, experts say, to answer Ivanka Trump's presence
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Kim Yo-jong is the perfect counterpart to this.
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And it also is a signal that North Korea is not, you know, this crazy, weird, former Cold
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War state, but that it, too, has young women that are capable and are the future leadership.
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They have one woman who is capable of future leadership.
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She's the only one they don't starve and enslave and kill.
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Gary Kasparov, the chess player and activist now, got in on this one.
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He said, someone tells CNN that their site has been hacked by the North Korean propaganda
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So that was how the mainstream media reported on Kim Yo-jong.
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125,000 people there are held in concentration camps.
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Even with black market, they live on a third of what Cubans live on from their government.
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People are sent overseas to be slaves for the regime.
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There is no electricity throughout most of the place.
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There is no working plumbing throughout most of North Korea.
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They tortured an American high school, or a college student, rather, to death.
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They regularly torture hundreds of thousands of their own people.
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Here is how the mainstream media reported on the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence.
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CNN, gay Olympic athlete turns down Pence meeting.
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The Daily Beast, to win respect from LGBT Olympians, Pence must condemn conversion therapy.
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And you, and Mike Pence, when did you stop beating your wife?
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This is based, by the way, this gay therapy thing.
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This is based on a left-wing myth that Mike Pence supports electrocuting homosexuals.
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It's because in his 2000 congressional campaign, his website said that he supported an HIV treatment funding law that had a provision, with a provision, that some funds go toward institutions that treat people who want to change their sexual behavior.
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And as a millennial, let me tell you, we could all probably change our sexual behavior a little bit, you know.
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So, a line on a campaign website that allows some HIV treatment funds to go to institutions that treat people who want to change their sexual behavior.
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That has become Vice President Pence wants to electrocute gays, according to the mainstream media, where democracy dies in darkness.
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And the final headline, last but also least, Slate, quote,
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Olympics jerk watch, the vice president of the United States of America, the jerk watch, murderous dictatress who tortures hundreds of thousands of people to death, enslaves and starves a million more, whose regime just two years ago murdered an American student.
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She's a charming princess who throws side-eye, rightly throws side-eye at the American vice president, like a better version of Ivanka Trump.
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Nice guy vice president of the United States, whose greatest vice and craziest days were probably when he played acoustic guitar in college.
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That guy, nice guy Mike Pence, who, as Hollywood and D.C. crumble with hourly accusations of rape and sexual harassment, refuses to dine alone with women because he doesn't want even the appearance of impropriety.
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That guy is a monster who's a fool and a jerk and an embarrassment and definitely, definitely wants to electrocute gays.
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For most millennials and post-millennials or whatever they are, this is all they've ever known.
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The media despising virtually any display of American strength or patriotism and certainly any Republican in office.
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There was a time long, long ago when mainstream journalists actually liked their country.
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I'm not saying they didn't like to puff up lefties like Lincoln Steffens and Walter Durante did.
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But the media writ large generally rooted for their country.
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They considered themselves on the same side as their country.
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They didn't consider themselves outside of their country or above their country.
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We saw this as recently as the Second World War.
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On March 17, 1942, General MacArthur landed in Australia.
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The New York Times headline, MacArthur in Australia as Allied Commander, move hailed as foreshadowing, turn of tide, third National Army draft begins in capital.
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I don't know why it's going to turn the tide, but clearly the Times is rooting for them.
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The New York Times reported, quote, Tunisian resistance ends in rout of Germans.
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On June 6, 1944, the Allies landed at Normandy.
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If D-Day had occurred in 2018, CNN or the New York Times would no doubt report something like, quote, 200,000 Allies dead.
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But thankfully, D-Day occurred in 1944 when the New York Times ran the headline, quote, Hitler's seawall is breached.
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On February 11, 1945, at Yalta, the New York Times doesn't even pretend.
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At the bloody, awful landing at Iwo Jima, where American casualties exceeded Japanese casualties,
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where just the 25th Marines 3rd Battalion suffered an 83.3% casualty rate,
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the American press supported their country against its enemies,
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held by the press and by the American officials.
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That time period coincided with the Korean conflict,
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a military engagement that nearly spilled into mainly in China.
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The show featured interviews with government and military leaders.
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the people of the United States a firsthand account
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the anti-McCarthy television journalist on CBS.
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but even Murrow, in between attacks on Republicans,
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Two killed in shooting mourned far beyond Iraq.