01:00 Kamala loves to drink, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157117
10:00 DNC, Day Four: So She Spoke Finally, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSFiyZ1fPU
20:00 Bryan Caplan argues that silence is better than news, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=146911
27:30 Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTf4JYfMuoI
30:00 How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy: IPA Encounters with Batya Ungar-Sargon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P81rbOs0pWc
31:30 Diversity Increases Daily Friction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157201
34:00 Kamala Harris grew up in Berkeley, CA, but doesn’t talk about it, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-hometown.html
40:00 Ben Shapiro on race & IQ
45:00 Conservative media generally aims at the working class
54:30 Republicans say the FBI, Secret Service are dragging their feet investigation the Trump assassination attempt
1:01:00 Mark Zuckerberg regrets going along with Biden administration’s pressure to censor covid-related posts, https://www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zuckerberg-neutral-politics-letter-election-2024-02b86372?st=arq8kd0217vgc9m
1:07:45 Doug Emhoff’s many affairs – some still going, his ex-wife paid by Kamala campaign https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1828101746649886805
1:13:00 Thomas Crooks father has lawyered up. Chat: He is lawyering up because the parents of the school shooter in MI were convicted.
1:15:00 The Great Awokening and the Alt Right rose together in 2014, 2015
Hate Comments About Gus Walz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157131
Kamala Harris, LBJ & The Passage Of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157143
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157174
The Secret Life of John le Carre, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157153
Diversity Increases Daily Friction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157201
The Need To Feel Superior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157206
Speaker 0: So we have more evidence that Kamala Harris has a drinking problem. And apparently, people have been speculating about this. For many many years. So I I…
It was all new to me, but that everything just falls into place, it it it explains her bizarre behavior. It explains why someone this insecure. Would need something to fall back on to give herself a liquid courage because she doesn’t feel adequate to the moment, so she’s clearly choosing something else to help her a get by. And, Mark Hal show this morning recommended Sean Spice podcast, and it mentioned that he brought up the Kamala harris drinking problem with James Blair. ?
The political director of the…
Speaker 1: Question came up from a bunch of people. About a tweet that you sent. I’ll read it to you. It says, a lot of rumors out there about Kamala having a Serious drinking problem, apparently coming into focus as campaign heats up stay tuned. What do we need to be aware of what how concerned should we be?
What do you guys know and how are you preparing to deal with this?
Speaker 2: I I probably won’t break news here, and I I probably won’t offer a lot of comment, but I would say, , look online. There is a lot of chatter out there. There are a lot of, , I I’ve heard these rumors and there talking about it. So, I simply put out there that this is something that there seems to be an uptick and so we’ll see what happens and
Speaker 0: what. Is…
Speaker 1: Do you guys… Like, and I I get… I mean, I… The people who have shared that concern with me and said, hey, James tweeted this out. They they say that what…
, we’ve seen stuff on Tiktok? We’ve seen stuff on social media. Are there is there any testimonial evidence that you’re aware of or somebody credible is saying, , I I’ve watched her, , in briefings or in the morning or she needs to… Like, is there anything from someone of significance making an allegation that you’re aware of?
Speaker 2: I have heard from sort from some sources who say they are witnesses to this. Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay. . James, like I said, I I left a lot on the table here? I mean,
Speaker 0: Okay. So it it really… It makes a lot of things fall into place. ? At its own it wouldn’t mean anything, but then you you find so many bizarre clips of Kamala harris online.
And it starts to make everything fall into place. . This here is a tweet from back in 20 22. Friend wants to know if Kamala harris is high or drunk in this clip, Or she just dumb. She’s she’s rambling here about what a joyful warrior she is.
So this is speculation going back many many years. How come kamala Harris having a drinking place.
Speaker 3: Will let anyone take your joy from you? I call myself a joyful warrior. Never let anyone take your joy from you. You do what you gotta do?
And isn’t that a wonderful way live. To know you have purpose? Come Right.
Speaker 0: Is that what this insecure this… So when who who comes across so vac. It just doesn’t read true that the joy is real. It sounds much more like alcohol. .
People are were explaining her her laughter as as a product of being drunk but for many, many years. ? This… As opposed back in December of last
Speaker 3: today. As it is tomorrow. Today is today. And yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.
Speaker 0: Okay. That that looks like an Ai video.
Speaker 4: So great to your mother is spectacular be kind to her.
Speaker 5: She’s your most popular mama mom campus or wherever you are right now are you unicorn? No
Speaker 4: It’s so great. Your your mother is spectacular be cutting to help.
Speaker 5: She’s your most popular my mom camp. Or wherever you are right now uni the bar? No
Speaker 3: As we’re gonna put in
Speaker 6: the hard work over the next accept said face.
Speaker 3: Because we’re gonna put in the
Speaker 6: hard work over the next accept said face.
Speaker 3: Well because we’re gonna put in the
Speaker 6: hard work over the next accepting a face.
Speaker 0: . Just try to make sense
Speaker 7: so drew is Joe mention of Joe biden Madam White President.
Speaker 3: Come on, Charlemagne man. I really. It’s Joe
Speaker 7: I can’t tell.
Speaker 3: No. No. No. No. It’s Joe Biden.
It’s Joe Biden and don’t start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he’s president. This Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: Do you think Joe mentioned
Speaker 8: is the problem?
Speaker 3: And it’s Joe and it’s Joe Biden, and I’m vice president. My name is Kamala Harris, and the reality is because we are in office. We do.
Speaker 0: Real president it is Okay.
Speaker 3: Today come harris. Black women are 3 times more likely to die in connection with childbirth. Native women twice as likely. Rural women 1 and a half times likely. On the issue of black women and native women, it often has nothing to do with her soc economic or education level.
It literally has to do with the fact that when she walks into that doctor’s office or that clinic or emergency room, she’s not taking us seriously. And so when I was in the senate, dealing with this, 1 of the proposals and that is still part of our.
Speaker 0: . And this is a tweet from 20 22. As Kamala always drunk. National claims black women are not taken seriously. Did this woman spent any time working
Speaker 3: In the White House is to address 1 piece of this, which is the racial bias piece of it by requiring training of health care providers. She on the issue of racial bias.
Speaker 0: Hey. Another…
Speaker 3: Sounds spent tonight talking with you…
Speaker 0: . This is for a tweet from 20 19. It was come drunk or drugged up last night? What’s with the slur?
Speaker 3: About my plans to address the problems that keep you up at night. But first I have a few words for Donald Trump, who we all know is watching. So president Trump, you spent the last 2 and a half years full time trying to so hate and division among… Us. As…
And that is why we’ve got nothing done. You have used hate, intimidation, fear, and over 12000 lies as a way to distract from your face policies and your broken promises. The only reason you’ve not been indicted is because there was a memo in the Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. Health but here’s what you don’t get. What you don’t get is that the American people are so much better than this.
And we know that the vast majority of us have so much more common than what separates us regardless of our race where we live are the party with which we’re registered to vote. And I plan on focusing on our common issues our common hopes and desires, and in that way, unifying our country, winning this election and turning the page for America, And now, President Trump, you can go back to watch in Fox News.
Speaker 0: I come in in the chat, she should come clean. Ask for help her popularity would soar. It’d be like at a bad soap opera. So I just put drunk kamala into Youtube. .
We got video reports here from 10 days ago, 5 months ago, Sky News. Kamala. Harris obviously drunk while speaking Internet claims. Drunk kamala 7 days ago, 6 days ago, went year ago. Viral video shows, Us president Kamala Harris.
Speech was she drunk. So let’s get a a fact check here.
Speaker 9: A video of United States vice president Kamala Harris making unclear statements is being shared on social media platforms with the… Claim that she gave the speech under the influence of alcohol. A keyword search based on text seen on a banner in the background led us to the transcript of Harris speech from the video published by Howard University. This transcript does not contain the lines heard in the viral video. Further search yielded video footage of the speech on the official Facebook page of Na na Ra pro choice matter.
Speaker 0: Okay. I can do without that. Analysis. So Vp Kamala harris drunk don’t or dumb. With the ruthless.
? I I played that already. So we we need to hear first to Andrew reports from people who work with whether her we know that she loves to drink. But that doesn’t mean that she has a drinking problem. It’s just that the drinking problem would explain so much that is otherwise somewhat unfathomable.
She gave okay speech. Last night, the Democratic convention last week. This is the commentary magazine
Speaker 10: show. It’s 60 it’s long time, ? And But, nonetheless, he he was in both places. So the the whole message, what the whole thrust of this convention is, we’re back in 2008, It’s hope and change baby. Kamala harris is gonna bring the coalition of the ascend and the rising American electorate to overthrow white supremacy and smash the patriarchy.
However, there 2 problems. And I think this is why the convention was successful in some ways, but I’m not sure it was the ground that the Democrats. Wanted to have. The first problem is it’s not 2008. Joe Biden and Kamala harris are the sitting president vice president of the United States.
The Democrats control the senate It’s not as though we’ve been living through 8 years of George w bush.
Speaker 0: Okay. I found another clip getting talked about.
Speaker 7: On a different front, actually this week reported that president Trump, if it thinks it gets the second term. We’ll sort of dial back for lack of better term D programs at the by administration’s put in forth. I, obviously I know you disagree with that. I obviously, believe that you don’t want him to get a second term. That said, if that does happen, what do you think that would do to race relations in this country.
Speaker 3: Well, let me say we’re gonna win. So it’s not gonna happen. But I think that… Put listen. We…
Today is actually, I believe in anniversary in terms of doctor King. And and we… I was just in Selma, and we celebrated it well, acknowledge the 50 ninth anniversary of of bloody son. Day.
I think it’s really important that we as Americans always embrace our history, the parts that we’re proud of and the parts that we’re not proud of, but that we can’t forget. And we should all agree that we should teach history, we should learn history. If we’re were to ever have an accurate idea of where we want to go and where we don’t want to go in the future And that means also acknowledging the importance of diversity. It means acknowledging the importance of of of the fact that everyone should have equal opportunity to compete and and equity. And, of course, inclusion that, , hey, let’s look around the room and see who’s not here and did we leave the door open?
Speaker 0: Yeah. It it’s hard to fathom them how someone could… Be such a mess and the explanatory variable. She’s got a drinking problem. It just seems to the be the answer to so much this otherwise be will.
Speaker 10: And the Iraq war and the financial crisis. We’ve been living through 4 years of inflation, the border and Afghanistan under the same person now who wants to have another 4 years. So that’s problem number 1. And the second problem. Is that Kamala Harris is not?
Barack Obama. Sure. Barack Obama said in his beeps that they both have funny names and unusual life stories. But can we just take a step back? I I mean, I really dislike Barack Obama as many of our listeners may have noticed over the years.
I really do. But I respect him. The guy risked his entire career to oppose the Iraq war in October 2002. At a time when it was not the set.
Speaker 0: And, this is John Pod here analyzing Kamala. Tyler. I can I ask you
Speaker 11: a question because you said they’re young man, young man of bureau acquaintance? Are are are way more for Trump than you realize, and there was something this this convention was very well watched according to the polls. Right. Upwards of 20 to 28000000 people watched every day. And I’m not sure that young men saw literally anything for them in all 4 nights Mark was on, my podcast commentary podcast the other day, this is appointed that Mac Cotton makes has been meghan on our podcast made every day of that convention, which is that…
You would believe that in the democratic party was overwhelmingly or that America… If you were a March, you came down to watch and you watched this was your first exposure, you would assume that America was 80 percent black and 70 percent female. Then I don’t know what was there for if, if conventions are efforts to represent to say, we are the country vote for us, I think there was a real interesting gap in showing an America that was… This is a country. I I hate to…
I mean, I don’t wanna sound right it… 74 percent white. This country is 74 percent white, and that convention was 74 percent not white. And this country is 50 percent women, 50 percent men and the convention was overwhelmingly seen. And not just carmel.
I mean the roll call the states, all of that.
Speaker 0: Yep.
Speaker 11: Alex, is that… Does this ring? III agree a hundred percent. I think they would also have thought that 70 percent of American men were yoga pants.
Speaker 3: No public events today and still no interview since taking the nomination from Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: What what Biden probably sun at the beach in Home, but the judge, but Kamala Harris is probably doing debate prep at the White House. And now, director Quentin Tara is offering her this age advice. Just all about winning the election. ? It doesn’t matter how we look.
Speaker 11: We’re
Speaker 8: at this moment It’s about fucking winning. It’s a mad king dash, and she is running and she’s not stopping truth stumble. I’m gonna vote for a fucking anyway no matter what she says in a stupid fucking interview. So don’t that’s a lot of cursing and a lot of booze, judge. But look, I think you call that kind of advice pulp fiction.
But Judge, how does this square with what Kamala Harris said herself?
Speaker 3: Never let anyone tell you who you are, you showed them who you are. You don’t me…
Speaker 0: And taking him literally that. You’re not gonna have to maintain any narrative unless you can find some support for it from other people. So you can’t just go your own way.
Speaker 3: Car that is. She never… We don’t know who she is. She
Speaker 0: Okay. Another quick burst from the commentary. We magazine crew on her big night.
Speaker 10: The sentiment in the democratic party, and it turned out because of facts on the ground and his leadership that he was ahead of the curve of where the Democrats were gonna go. K. He then gave a speech in 2004, where even though he was a senate candidate. Everyone watching his speech at the 2004 Dnc 20 years ago knew, that he was destined for great things.
That the next morning, people knew that he was destined for great things. Then, he wrote a worldwide best seller called the audacity of hope where lines would form for blocks. To to have him sign
Speaker 8: And the Nebraska chamber of commerce.
Speaker 10: And then he announced his campaign for presidency in Springfield Illinois, and essentially marshal the movement of young people and anti war Democrats to topple the Clinton dynasty, Has Harris done? Oh 0, and he had a signature issue the whole time. Health care. Universal health care.
Has Harris done any of those things Any Okay.
Speaker 11: Okay. I think you have now set the table perfectly. The Harris campaign is is is Obama man the way Beetle man was the cover band 2 hour show on Broadway for the beatles and it’s weird because, yeah, these songs don’t fit the present moment. Did you say, Obama did… The the audacity of hope was an interesting title book because, Obama was an audacious politician as you as you lay out, he did 2 or through audacious things, and then he did actually in the first 14 months of his administration.
He was an audacious president. He did past 4 colossal pieces of history altering legislation in 14 months with with a senate with largely in almost 60 or for a long long period 60. So said it. Okay. Very audacious.
Last 6 years, not ad audacious wasn’t really able to be audacious, but he spent almost a decade being America’s most audacious and being rewarded for it. She is the opposite of Au audacious. Absolutely. She has been handed. She was handed a party’s nomination, without having to do a single thing.
We don’t…
Speaker 0: Okay. A good point there from John Pod of commentary magazine. So I read a great blog post by economist Brian Kaplan. He’s responding to Richard Hana, who posted an essay sa where the media is good and honest. And this is Brian Kaplan response.
The mainstream media is awful compared to silence If I could either have the media, keep saying and writing what they’re currently saying Or shut down forever. I strongly prefer the latter. I to see where I’m coming from consider this thought experiment from philosopher Michael Humor. Suppose you learned that there was a school staff mainly by right leaning teachers and administrators and at this school, an ugly large number of lessons touch upon or perhaps sent on bad things that have been done by Jews throughout history.
None of the lessons are actually false. All the incidents related to things that genuinely happened nor were done by Jews. For example, murders the Jews committed. Times went Jews started wars, times when Jews robbed or exploited to people.
Every people has done some bad things. The lessons for some reason, emit or downplay, good things done by Jews and emit bad things done by non jews. What would you think about this school. Hope you agree with me that this is a store, story of it lousy school. It be fair to describe the school as promoting hatred towards jews, even if none of the lessons explicitly stated that 1 should hate jews.
Right, I hope you agree that no parent or voters should tolerate a public school that operated like this. Now, What if the school’s right wing defenders explained that there’s was actually nothing the slightest bit racist or otherwise objection about the school because it was only teaching facts of history all these things happened? You don’t wanna lie or cover up history. Do you hope you agree that this would be a pathetic defense. And Prime Kaplan now adds his commentary.
This is how I see mainstream news media. The problem isn’t limited to race gender and sexual orientation where Richard Don nun agrees to the media is crazy. Problem isn’t specifically factual errors, the central problem is the mainstream media standard operating standard is to use selective presentation to spread absurd views about practically everything that matters. So Kaplan now lists some of the big sins in the big picture of the news media. Number 1, endlessly complaining about alleged social problems such as poverty, homelessness, the environment racism, Covid, Ukraine, terrorism, immigration, education, drugs, Elon Musk Even if all the coverage were true, the media is still aggressively promoting the absurd view that life is unbalanced terrible in America and reliably getting worse.
2, painting government intervention as the obvious solution to social problems, often the media openly asked loaded questions to this effect. Why isn’t the government doing more about this with an ex tone. The rest of the time they rely on heavy handed situation like the people of flint Michigan feel like they’ve been forgotten, forgotten by who? By government our save, of course. Mainstream media barely considers where the past government policies have work, how much they cost whether they have important downsides.
So there is a big bias in the news media and in academic analysis of government and politics in favor of taking action, even though frequently taking action is the wrong thing to do. Sometimes you’d be better off doing nothing. Spreading numerous 0.3, the media endlessly shows g test stories about ultra problems such as terrorism plane crashes, police murdering innocent school shootings, toddlers dying of Covid and the like. They show almost nothing about statistically common problems such as car crashes or death by old age. Media doesn’t spread paranoia.
It spreads inverted paranoia. There 0.4, promoting social desi durability bias. Media standard talks as if stuff that superficial sounds good is reliably good and stuff that superficial sounds bad is reliably bad. As a result, the news media fo hostility to good stuff that sounds bad, an gender support for bad stuff that sounds good. If a firm downsize due to technological change, what are the odds that the media child, this is how progress works.
Tractors put a lot of farmers out of work? No. If the government cuts spending, what are the odds of the media users, we could interview the visible losers, but that’s hardly fair unless we interview the invisible winners, which we can’t do, so let’s just move on. What whipping up support for the latest crusade. So the media promotes mass hysteria such as about islamist Iran in the hostage crisis, the war on drugs free Kuwait, the war on terror, Iraq war.
Was it Rwanda, what were the various African? Countries that became here about 20 years ago. The 2008 financial crisis, Covid, black lives matter now the Ukraine war that they keep these topics in the news for months and years with almost no skeptical or voices is a thinly va declaration that these are the most important problems on Earth. Think about Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, and we should all enthusiastically be on the bandwagon to solve them. In hindsight, the problems the immediate deem important are highly arbitrary and the bandwagon usually turns out to be a major problem in itself.
There’s an old joke about getting mug by reality when mainstream media speaks, it is reality that gets mug. Mainstream media is the great mug of reality, even when his individual stories are rock solid. It tends to promote a deeply false big picture of the world unless you have the intellectual steel to remind yourself this is a horribly misleading perspective. By consuming media will make you believe this deeply false picture. And I would contend it won’t get you to believe a deeply false picture if that goes against your interest and your values.
But you’ll recognize that many other people will be operating within this particular rubric. So what’s the alternative? Most people would have a better big picture if they weren’t called Turkey, read no newspapers watching no Tv news. News free people could just base their views on firsthand experience, which though biased is much less biased, than stand media coverage. Most people’s first end experience with immigrants.
Is probably a pretty accurate perspective on immigration. And The media is the highest profile segment of the left, even higher profile than the current government. So if the mainstream media dis expanded what would happen, Pe will insist conservatives would figure out how to keep their anger at its current level. Well, conservatives just don’t care that much about politics.
The the mainstream media has to provoke conservatives day after day after day to keep them engaged in enraged. Conservatives natural state. Is complacency about politics.
Speaker 11: Well she behind the scenes, but let’s just say… She’d have to do a single thing. It has been handed to her and a script has been handed to her. Now she may have been partial author of the script, but has been handed to her about a a blueprint about how to go and how to win. And she executed that script last night in a speech that was astounding mediocre.
Now when I say is all I’m saying that… I’m saying this as a speech. Okay. So I’m now gonna pull my credentials. I was a presidential speech writer for Ronald Reagan if I…
If I… , I’m, , like, my words written for all rate.
Speaker 0: Right. I’ve been getting into the thought of this left wing woman. But, An Saga. She’s got a Phd from Uc Berkeley. And she’s coming from a Marxist left perspective, but she has many interesting things to say, here she’s speaking you see Berkeley Moscow school.
Speaker 12: Here for a dollars
Speaker 0: 3 years ago.
Speaker 12: Also because I… It’s an issue that you raised in the book. And I know it’s an important issue to you. And that is the impact of what you describe as woken on the the way the Jews and Israel are for portrayed in the media. So
Speaker 13: can you say a
Speaker 12: little bit about how you think that Woke media is… Undermining the position of Jews, even… III think I’m characterizing. You fairly sometimes enabling antisemitism in a certain way. You write in your book that, quote, the re reorganization of society into a crude binary where power is a 1 way street and 1 racial reduces it to a op press and dominate another.
In this context, the left has long cast the Jews in the role, the op proxima to whiteness if not worse So can you say a little bit of what you mean by that and then how you see it extending to a lot of media coverage of israel’s as well.
Speaker 14: Okay. I wanna be very clear. I don’t think… I still think I say that we heard me say this before? I still think that we are generation of Jews are the luck is Jews to ever walk planet Earth.
I don’t think anti antisemitism is the biggest threat to America or the biggest threat to American Jews. It is rising. It is true. So the only Juice to ever walk planet Earth who were lucky than us was us 5 years ago before it started to rise. Okay?
Well, I I don’t see it as the… A great threat. It is rising. It’s rising on the left and it’s rising on the right. And it’s rising, , because of just the breakdown of the concept of the common good.
It’s rising because of the rise of cons thinking on both sides and because of woken. But again, I… We’re not even the primary, , like, when it comes to, like, woke road kill. It’s, like, the working class of all races, , and then, , Jews.
And that… Like, it’s we’re not really… We’re not the… I don’t think we’re the primary target or the most important target. I mean, it’s terrible that it’s rising and if you wear Yam like Ethan does, you’re…
If you identifies Jewish, especially in New York in a lot of liberal cities. It’s not it’s not great. But, , it… This is something that, , sc, it’s suzanne, like, , and it’s not it’s just not… I’m not an alarm.
If about that. I don’t believe in… I… Because I I just don’t think that it is as threatening as a lot of people make it out to beef, sometimes for a political gain. I.
Speaker 0: Yeah. She’s she’s right. Jews overall have it pretty good. About And there’s a good long interview with her that Don’t wanna play some more that are placed…
Speaker 14: Literally putting money in their pockets. So it’s it’s complex. It’s comments. I don’t wanna say that they’re sort of evil con.
But their belief in this this this merit belief that your talents and your brilliance ent you to such a better life than someone who’s job involves working with their hands. , that’s sort of the bread and butter of liberal wisdom today. Really underlies so much of it. And and it really is in attention with a more just world. Which is why you see liberal elites often, they’re sort of their number 1 concern is why are the elites not more racially diverse as opposed to the question of, like, why are our elites so much richer than everybody else?
, of course, the elites should be more diverse. Of course, everybody wants that everyone should have access to the American dream, whatever that means for them. But you can ask that question. In 2 ways, you can ask that question in a way that does not disrupt the gap between the elites and everyone else. Or you can ask it in a way that says, what about everybody else?
Speaker 15: What’s been the reaction when you apply this traditional marxist analysis to the?
Speaker 14: Well, amazing me, I’m very popular with conservatives.
Speaker 0: You are.
Speaker 14: I am. And and that’s despite top being upfront. I’m a Marxist, Like, I’m not gonna sugar coat that. , I… So that to me is is Larry.
, I have feeling liberals say me, how dare you speak to conservatives. Why would you go talk to conservatives? And I would say like I’m bringing marxist to conservatives. Shouldn’t that be goal number 1 for anyone on the left? Like, isn’t
Speaker 0: Interesting Had in the New York Times over the weekend. There are Brazilian possible Starbucks orders and it’s killing the company. Right. You’re already in line at Starbucks, and there’s some dude ahead of you got a posted note with all the different orders of his office mate. Where you order coffee in Australia.
It’s just so blunt. It it’s so simple. ? You don’t have the 12 vent ground a double pump 1 to 4 shots of espresso half half, oat milk, non fat milk, soy milk, milk, milk, whipped cream, syrup brown sugar white, she’ll get no sugar mocha drizzle . You don’t have all this stuff.
Right. It in a much G society. These things are so much simpler. And this was pointed out in a book by Gerald Stone who was born in the Usa, up in the Usa, worked in journalism in the Usa, and then after the Cuban missile crisis, he moved his family to Australia. So his father…
His parents of Jewish, his father was a an alcohol smuggle during prohibition. His ancestors came from from Russia, But he founded 60 minutes Australia, and then Fox caught him back to the United States in the late eighties early nineties, and he Recognize then when he would have a team and they would order out food, it would took a lot more time and effort. Back in Sydney, bio holding an urgent production meeting that ran over. I’d call for some chicken or ham and cheese sandwiches, and not expect to hear a murmur of descent in New York in a similar situation. The entire meeting grinds to halt as a selection of menus from the nearest fast food stores is passed around to ponder 1 person to water Mexican another Chinese.
So the board diverse your society, the more friction you have in your daily interactions in the less social cohesion, social trust and the left recognizes this with regard to economic inequality. They recognize that the boar une society is In all likelihood, you’ll have less social cohesion, less social trust, but it’s amazing that the left doesn’t recognize that, the more religious ethnic and racial diversity, you’ll have less social cohesion and social trust. So let’s get a little burst here of Glen Green ward, talking with Jesse Waters about kamala Harris.
Speaker 13: About where you grew up, which is at the core of who you are? People can’t trust you. Maybe 1 day she’ll be asked about it. Or maybe not. Investigative journalist Glenn Green this year.
So, Glenn, the media now, basically sidelined in an election year usually a pretty big year for the press in this country. It’s where they get the ratings it’s where people participate participated in the democratic process, but they don’t care. What does that tell you who about the media?
Speaker 16: If you have any job at all as a journalist. Number 1 job that you have is to demand account accountability and transparency from people who are seeking political power. And the idea that she’s not sitting down for any interviews. It’s not just a media strategy. I think we have to remember that Kamala Harris was basically a national joke.
Until there was this explosion of media propaganda on her behalf about 34 5 days ago when the Democrats imposed her on the party in the country without having a single vote, And 1 of the reasons is because every time she spoke off script as vice president, it was a gigantic embarrassment And in 20 19, when she ran for president in the democratic primary, her campaign was such a disaster that she had to drop out before the first vote cast. Even though she had every strategic advantage in the world, They’re petrified letting her speak without a tele prompt without a script. Because they know that she has no mastery of any of these issues and she’s proven that over and over and Lo so, no soul. No real beliefs sp beliefs of any kind.
Speaker 13: You’d think the media after covering for Joe Biden for 4 years. And ruining what little credibility they had left. Would feel a little embarrassed about basically pivoting in 3 weeks and going right back to another kind of corrupt cover up and they have no qualms about it.
Speaker 16: I think the a systemic attempt on the part of the media to lie to the country and concealed Joe Biden true mental state is 1 of the biggest journalist scandals. In the last several decades. I mean, everybody knew. , those of us who were willing to say it We’re all speaking openly about it. It was an open secret in Washington and the media pretended they didn’t know.
And they were so shocked that debate happened. And you’re right that wasn’t a Gigantic. Scandal reflecting yet again, their desperation. Their willingness to do anything to help the democrats defeat Donald Trump, and you’re right if they cared it all about their credibility. They would be leading the way demanding that Kamala Harris sit down for an interview and yet, not only aren’t they doing that.
They’re doing all the propaganda again that they can for.
Speaker 13: Glenn, what city were you born in?
Speaker 16: In New York City.
Speaker 13: And where were you raised?
Speaker 16: I was raised in South Florida and of in a Water.
Speaker 13: So okay. Is that hard Remember that? Okay. That’s not that hard. You didn’t lie to me about it.
Maybe someone can…
Speaker 16: That’s a point. Does she has no consistency. She changes every time, and that’s why they don’t wanna do interviews.
Speaker 0: . Thanks, Glenn. Thanks, Jesse. Trump Right. So this idea that she has a drinking problem.
It just makes so many other things like, fall into place that that her otherwise be will. And you think, this doesn’t make sense. This is a a smart woman. ? She’s not nearly as smart as a sister.
She failed the California State Bar the first time, but she’s still gotten above average Iq. Looking at the chat, speaking of John Pod har, do I think that Steve Sailor deb diminishes himself when he engages with John Pod as p attacks. Now. A don’t.
I think that Steve Sailor has a particularly tight Twitter game, Nathan Kaufman has a tight Twitter game. If you are going to be as out there where the buses don’t run no more. If you’re gonna take… Unpopular positions as Nathan Kaufman and Steve Sailor takes.
Then don’t don’t admit feeling down. Right, Don’t don’t give your enemy unnecessary vulnerability. Usually, if you’re a live stream we’re a talk show host, if you’re essentially selling your soul online to develop a following, then admitting vulnerabilities is a great way to to connect with people and to build an audience, but when you are as consistently brave as Nathan Kaufman and see sailor don’t do it. And they they abide by a very tight we’ll we’ll focus Twitter game.
Speaker 14: Since that, like, obviously something we should all want, but no. They’re like, no. You’re not supposed to talk to them. So…
But I I will say that it has been taken as, an an intervention of the left, even by a lot of people on the left, and I’ve been very g by that. Of course, a lot of people are very dug to this. To this woke worldview for you, But I think even at the New York Times now, you’re seeing a little bit of a shift. I I think that, I think Liberals are terrified of the midterms that are coming, they sense that something has gone wrong and that they’ve sort of, , enabled something that
Speaker 0: And, this interview was conducted 2 years ago.
Speaker 14: And I think that you’re… You’re starting to see a little bit of a shift. I I don’t think it’s gonna be enough, but I think that, , I think it’s becoming clear. That working class and middle class liberals have been abandoned by the Democratic party, and by the woke intelligence that likes to speak on their behalf, but but working class and middle class liberals of all races are are looking at this woke m saying, this is not for us. This is for you, and that’s becoming more and more apparent.
Speaker 0: So the outright had 2 favorite Jewish pun targets. 1 was Ben shapiro. The other was Bethany Man. This is Nathan Ko noting that, Ben shapiro here talking with Joe Rogan. Knows all about…
Race and Iq. He also knows that blank slate race denial is bus causing so much of our nonsense and work policies.
Speaker 17: A lot of people who will… I think what’s causing all of this is that there’s a deep desire right now in in a free society to try and figure out why some people seat and some people fail, and we’re never allowed to say that there are natural issues at stake. And and some… And and I understand the resistance to it based on race.
So, for example, you see a lot of people who will say you can’t ever talk about racial differences in Iq because that is going to lead to… Towards this racist conclusion your race defines your Iq, which is, , a silly conclusion. Like, there are racial differences in Iq based on kind of group statistics that has no relevance to the particular individual standing in front of you. And so you saying this black eye is stupid because he’s black is racist. That you saying there group differences in Iq because every study ever done a shown group differences in Iq, not even based on racial groups necessarily based on different groups generally between between, , age groups.
Their are differences in Iq, actually. If if you if you show that, at least from young 2 to, like, 12. If you if you mention any of these things, then you’re overriding the idea of Tab ras human being who can be created in whatever image you want. Like, what people really want is to correct the cosmic imbalances is Thomas Sol. I know what do you think is behind it.
Speaker 7: I think I think you’re hitting the nail on the head, and I I think there’s
Speaker 0: . That was Ben Shapiro talking about race and Iq, brother brave off him. A a little bit more from. But… Yeah.
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Speaker 15: And that’s 1 of the things about you. You you say very strongly in the book, which is when you look at the concerns of minorities of blacks and Hispanic communities. They are nowhere near as concerned. About race as privileged white ale. Yeah.
You make a powerful point at the beginning of the book where you talk about the consensus model of the media, and it’s certainly been argued for a long time that a progressive mainstream media is necessary to media community debate. And build consensus. But you make the point that in fact, this notion of consensus was very short lived and that it was not the media creating that consensus. It was the media reflecting a consensus that existed in society that no longer exists, and I’ll just read out a a few comments because what you say is very powerful and it’s new to to the debate, and you say the consensus that allowed Americans with different values and political orientation to get their news from a shared source was in fact kept alive not so much by a political agreement as by an economic reality. The 2 decades between the mid forties and the mid sixties were a time of buoyant, social, mobility, Working class wages rose steadily and significantly so much so and this is a lovely phrase, so much so that the very idea of working class was almost an mechanism.
Given how little distinguished that working class from the middle class were from even the rich and you talk about how class interests were the same passions were the same values were the same. People drove the same sorts of cars. And engaged in the same sorts of past. That’s now changed. Can you talk about that consensus model that we once aspire to and the fact that it didn’t even exist?
Speaker 14: Yeah. We like to look back… Fondly on the Walter Cro E rise like, oh, conservatives and Liberals got their news from the same place, but it wasn’t because he was speaking to the middle politically. It’s because there was so much economic mobility in the United States at the time, that people did not see themselves as part of different strata. And so they could get their news from the same source because he was speaking to people from all economic strata, and it was not insane to think that a guy who drove a pickup truck and was a plumber would have the same interest as, , a lawyer living, , in a maybe a much nicer neighborhood, but they were just not so astronomical different, whereas you look at America today, and the top 10 percent owns over 50 percent of all the wealth of the country.
, we focus so much on the 1 percent. But it’s really the 10 percent. That are… That see themselves as, like, the good guys, they see themselves as on the side of the little guy when actually they are living lives that are unimaginable to the vast majority of Americans who are downward mobile because of things like globalization, things that were enabled by both parties.
By this handshake agreement by both parties And so I think that that that is a really important point. , , partisan media. We often act, like, the thing that distinguishes our media is, like, there’s, , the liberal echo chamber and the conservative echo chamber. But, , As somebody who has part of my job as a news opinion editor to watch.
Fox News in Cnn all day long. I can tell you the thing that distinguishes them is not politics. It’s class. That’s the number 1 thing that distinguishes them The Cnn host is imagining a viewer with a college education and the Fox news host is not. That’s it.
And and that distinct…
Speaker 0: Yeah. That… That’s a key point that doesn’t get put up much Fox News is aimed at a a working class. Talk radio overwhelmingly is aimed at the working class.
Speaker 14: Which distinction is growing. And it has so much, so many ramifications at this point. If you don’t have a college degree, not only are you not gonna make as much money? Not only are you not going to increasingly be able to afford a house, your health outcomes are worse, your likelihood to be obese is much higher. Your likelihood to die of Covid is much higher.
Your likelihood to die of an opioid addiction is much higher. I mean, your your children’s downward mobility is a fore gon conclusion. And so that to me is is the thing that we’re missing. We use race and we use partisan and politics to distract from the real divide because it lets us off the hook.
Speaker 0: And according to a sophisticated survey of American elite journalists in 20 18, only 4 percent identified as conservative and only a little bit over 10 percent attended religious services regularly.
Speaker 15: And you mentioned partisan ship. And again, there’s another wonderful discussion in the book where you talk about, the problem with today’s media is not that it is partisan, but who it is partisan for and who has been left without a partisan press or anyone else for that matter pushing their interests. Who is, and you’ve mentioned the concept of the working class or middle class? Who is the press now? Who is the media for the working class for the middle class for anyone that’s not elite.
Speaker 14: So talk radio is for people who work with their hands? People who drive long haul. Joe Rogan, 3 hour interviews who has time to listen to that, people whose jobs involve driving or, , working with their hands, Fox News, only 25 percent of their audience has a college degree. Fox News is now watched by more Democrats than Msnbc and Cnn combined.
So over the last 10 years, working class liberals have migrated to Fox News because they no longer see their values reflected at Cnn and Msnbc, which worked very hard to show that they’re not for them. Podcast podcasts, Youtube Tv shows, , there’s increasingly a lot of ways for working class people to get their news outside…
Speaker 0: . So she published her book in 20. 21. And it’s it’s pretty good.
So name of the book here, bad news, how work media is undermining democracy. And she talks about major just switch in the news media in the 19 fifties and the Joe Mccarthy, witch hunt gave this shift the justification that needed. So the news media said, wow, by reporting Joe Mccarthy accusations, our reporters were simply amplifying his charges, so we should… Stop doing so much reporting and do more analyzing, put things in contests, contacts. So you had this switch from reporting to a journalism.
Journalism isn’t just reporting. You get to put things in context. So you don’t just report the facts, but you interpret them and because most people in the news media liberal, right, most journalism tends to get a liberal interpretation. In the 19, sixties and seventies, the Los Angeles Times wanted to compete with the New York Times it wanted to gain national prestige and as top editors knew what they had to do.
They had to go up market. And that meant switching from being a conservative newspaper to being liberal. The editor in chief of the La Times.
Nick Williams said, newspaper prestige, not always, but usually is a function of liberal estimation. If you want prestige in America By and lodge, you need to be liberal. Most intellectual are liberal, editorial prestige depends on what intellectual judge it to be. And the New York Times also wanted to go up market. They didn’t wanna cover New York so much.
They do wanna talk about labor. They wanted to appeal to an audience that was overwhelmingly white, upscale people with influence and, and newspapers began focusing more and more on the suburbs. So the editor in chief the La times put it bluntly, we don’t sell any papers in watts.
And when Otis Chandler publisher the La times was asked why his paper failed to covering communities of color. There’s we can’t get advertising to spot that. Because the mass black audience in the Chicago audience do not have the purchasing power that our stories require. To spend additional money in the times. So to make sure advertisers knew who their readers were and to signal to readers who their readers were the media by and large stop talking about the working class stop addressing their issues stop representing their lives.
And in the 19 sixties, you got 2 more elite magazines cropping up in New York City, specifically for the purpose of promoting class, through elite liberal taste, the New York review books, which I love and subscribe to and New York Magazine, which I get through my Apple news plus subscription. I love both publications. And these are publications explicitly designed to stoke and Last anxieties of urban college graduates living in fear, not knowing what the book of the moment is or where the right place to eat is or what wine water, people fear losing their claim to elite status. Just 29 percent of Rush limbo limbaugh audience and just 24 percent of the Fox News audience graduated from college, 54 percent of daytime, talk listeners have only a high school degree or less. So conservative torque radios is the perfect companion for the long haul drive, or if you’re working on a factory floor, also Youtube and podcast podcasts.
So conservative media identify the abandoned abandoned working class masses is ready to market. And then Rush limbaugh portrayed the media as arrogant left part of an out of touch elite in his approach work because in large part it was true. So Rush Limbaugh filled the gap that was left when the mainstream immediate dropped the working class audience. And so it it’s easy to make mainstream media, the boo man because the working… The mainstream media had turned his back on the working class in favor of more upscale citizens.
. Fox news is not making anyone conservative. It is conservative because it caters to the working class, a class that has been long abandoned by the liberal elite press. And here is a great concept from the tal.
There’s a tau concept of He. At He is something that has been abandoned. And is no one’s responsibility. And if you find an item that is clearly He abandoned, then you can claim it as your own. And the news media essentially signaled that the working class was He, and then groups like Fox News and talk radio claimed it.
Speaker 14: Out of the mainstream that, , long ago abandoned them?
Speaker 15: What is the role now of of the mainstream because 1 of the interesting things in the book is the discussion of the outs outside influence of the New York Times and the Washington post and to some extent, other newspapers. What was another media. What was their role? And what do you see their role as now. So the
Speaker 14: New York Times has always been a reflection of ruling class norms. But the ruling class used to like to think of itself as above partisan citizenship. It was considered cor and kind of lame to to get your news from a place that your neighbor, the Republican would never be able to really get their news from. That was considered, , not the way that the aspirational elite in the elites like to think of themselves that’s really changed. So now 91 percent of new york times readers are Democrats.
91 percent. I mean, it it takes a lot of work to sq away your legacy to that degree. Essentially, what the New… Times in the Washington post and Npr and the Atlantic and and the newer public all these ballots that used to be distinct.
They now are all going for the same, , 8, 10000000 Americans who are progressive and upper middle class and elite. Times, they’re all sort of leaning into whatever it is that they can do to get that readers leadership, which is why you you have the same types of content in all of these outlets. And why it’s impossible now for working class people and for conservatives. To even read them for for news and for information. So so in that sense, , that’s what the New york times tells you right now, it tells you what the ruling class is looking for and what they’re looking for is a product that to , it looks like social justice, but actually what it is is it is a defense of the economic interests of…
Speaker 0: Well, it it’s social justice as another tool for feeling superior to everyone else. The ruling elites, the ruling our, they always have new ways of speaking, right, new social norms, new ways of conducting themselves. And so if you don’t keep up, , then you are regarded as b united, But if you learn the proper vocabulary, then you’re see as part of possibly the elite investigators.
Speaker 18: All I can really tell you is the secret service and fed, , Fat fbi are basically dragging their feet. They’re still w us. We’ve gotten some transcribed interviews, but the documents we request are are heavily red redacted. They’re delivered, , the day of the investor… The interview.
So we really can’t use the documents to conduct the interviews effectively. So we’re we’re we’re not getting squad from my standpoint from the, secret service or or the?
Speaker 13: We have to rely on leaks to hear the truth. 1 whistleblower told senator Josh Holly that the top brass at secret service headquarters told agents to not request extra manpower for the rally where Trump was shot. Why would you do that? Why not just deny the request? Why make a point of telling them not to ask?
Was it because they didn’t want the denial of extra manpower for Trump in writing? The allegation contradicts the secret service director’s testimony. He said Trump wasn’t denied resources for that rally. We’re also finding out that at least 5 secret service agents were placed on leave after the shooting. Including the head of the Pittsburgh field office, who was in charge of the security at the Trump rally and the site agent who was in charge of devi advising the security plan.
That agent was actually on Trump’s detail, And we don’t know if they were placed on leave for disciplinary reasons or something else. But it’s also been reported that the day before Trump was shot, local police set aside radios for the secret service. But the secret service never picked them up. So when local police were radio that there was a man on the roof, the secret service never heard it. They apparently didn’t know crooks was up there until he fired shot.
This story isn’t adding up. How could the secret service be that incompetent was Crooks working alone. Congressman and Mike Walt says this, I find that hard to believe. And I wanna see where’s the proof? How did he learn to build those Ie?
How did he learn to install remote d? How did he conduct those searches and not get popped? Crooks was using 3 foreign encrypted apps to send messages? The Fbi cracked into 2 of the 3 they say, but they won’t tell us what’s in them. They also found 700 messages sent on social media.
But a source says to the post that it’s possible they weren’t written by crooks, maybe by an older family member. Quote, some of the comments were years old. They didn’t think the language matched what would be expected from a 15 or 16 year old. So there was some discussion of her whether it could have been his dad or or a shared account. Just like with the Jfk assassination, the Intel agencies are gonna try to hide the full story from us.
But a lot of people inside those agencies aren’t happy. We expect to see a lot more leaks from whistleblower blower. Which gives us hope that we might 1 day find out what really happened in Butler. Congressman corey mills this year. Congressman lot’s happened in the last 72 hours with this story.
What are you seeing now?
Speaker 19: Well, look, we had our very first hearing today if you will our 4 on where we had Ben Sc who is 1 of the actual counter snipers that was on the ground there. He confirmed not only what type of a sophisticated explosive device that Thomas Crooks had as well as for the multi channel d, but he also confirmed 2 key things. 1, that the secret service refused the offer of communication platforms to be able to ensure that everyone has a comm channel that they can utilize. And 2, that they were offered a surveillance drawn by local law enforcement and once again, the service refused to utilize it. So now we have 3 things, Jesse.
We have no comm per plan and no communications, which is refused. We have no increase in presence by the secret service as they claimed, they didn’t want to make the offer that was refused. We had no surveillance drone capability or way to be able to get views onto the Ag building because it was refused. The question now becomes why was the secret service setting this up for failure by not going forward when utilizing all the available assets and resources to ensure the safety and security of former president Donald J Trump.
Speaker 13: What could their possible explanation be for refusing all of this stuff?
Speaker 19: Well, again, I think that they’re gonna try and run this whole idea of negligence or the fact that they’re gonna try and say that it was the fault of 3 or 4 the officers. The bottom line stops at the director themselves. And I can tell you we ask Dan Gin today, former secret service officer, whether or not he feels safer for fact with Ronald Roe at the seat and he said absolutely not. Look, this is a culture of a foster D society whereby they are not trying to send their best. I went through a plethora of list since 20 23 to 20 24 of all the failed and miss missteps that has been taken by the secret service.
So I can tell you it is a culture issue. It is D at heart, but this is either criminal gross negligence, or purposeful intent, and that’s we’re set out it’s actually fine. .
Speaker 13: Well I hope you find out what happened. Thank you so much, Congressman.
Speaker 0: That Okay. Let’s have a quick scroll through the stories that I bookmark on Twitter. This is significant Mark Zuckerberg says that it was improper for the biden administration to have pressured. Facebook to sensor content in 20 21 related to the coronavirus pandemic and he regrets that Facebook bowed to that pressure. And an important point on Taiwan, they have 3 weeks of fuel on the island, barely…
3 weeks of food. Taiwan needs a civil defense plan as much as a military 1. They need food reserves, fuel and medicine, Taiwan refuses to take their own defense seriously. Washington Dc family lose custody of their autistic son 16 because they refused to let him transition. And become a goal.
But Jeffrey Tucker says when Tucker Carlson, was fired. I could not understand at the time he was the highest rated news show beating all competition. Isn’t that what networks want. Now it’s obvious to me. Look at the ads, not the rating.
That’s what matters. Tucker his ads from just a handful of companies and non profits. Among them my pillow. Otherwise, there was a complete boycott going on due to the content of the show. Now we know that Mainstream advertising this level is entirely captured and controlled as Elon Musk has discovered, represents a fundamental distortion of the market.
This is the whole reason his show had to go is using our prime real estate, not earning money sucking the air out of the room. It was his very popularity that was the problem. Kamala harris has interrupted her vibes campaign with an economic proposal, so crazy even her media allies can’t go along with it. At 1 standard deviation in Iq increases a doctor’s quality and reduces patient mortality risk by 12 percent. But 1 standard deviation increase in Iq by your doctor.
Significantly improves the doctor’s quality reduces patient mortality risk by 12.2 percent, and the average wide and Asian is turned away from medical score. . Has higher test scores and higher intelligence the average black and Latino who’s admitted to medical school. You really want the the smartest doctor you can possibly get.
Speaker 14: Highly educated over educated liberal coastal leads.
Speaker 15: And how has the internet exacerbated that trend and how have pay walls and the subscriber model? Changed that notion of what the media is.
Speaker 14: Right. So it used to be that we had a very robust local news media. You had a lot of towns in America that were, , 40 percent Republican and it’s 60 percent Democrat, a lot of independence. And so publishers, they sort of had a choice.
They could lean left or right and get, , 50, 60 percent of the town’s, , readers leadership, or they could report the new straight, have a kind of even balance a editorial page and get a hundred percent of the town’s readers leadership, and a lot of them did that. What happened with the Internet was with the rise of the Internet you had sort of the death of the local news newspaper industry. Now 75 percent of of of of, journalism jobs are internet, digital jobs, and they exist primarily on the coasts. And they are very national in in nature. They don’t do anything, , really local.
It’s very much about the national picture and what they have done is because they’re online. They have given their their their journalists, a window into the readers shift. So exactly what makes people click. what makes them close the browser. what words will make them show up, will make them read longer, and all of that information has allowed publications to tailor their content to the very zip codes that they are trying to attract, which, of course is, , the elite liberal zip codes.
And so it really exacerbated this , it used to be that journalists, they’re were always kind of a little bit to the left. They… They were more liberal than Americans at large, but their bosses were the owners of a corporation or Republicans or both. And they wanted the whole town to be able to read this paper, and so the journalists were pulling to the left.
And their bosses were sort of pulling to the right and they ended up in the center. What happened with the Internet was you no longer measure your success based on the diversity of your readers leadership, the reach of your readers leadership. You’re measuring success in terms of what’s called engagement. That thing about having more people click having more people comment on Facebook, share on Twitter, and we know that, , the most extreme readers and viewers are always the most engaged. So journalists still pulling to the left because they’ve always been more liberal, but now the corporate profit motive is pulling in this direction too because the more extreme you go to the left, the more extreme your readers leadership is gonna become the more, , your…
The happier your stream readers will be, and the more engagement you’ll get, and that’s kind of what you’re selling. So, , it really shifted the model and erased the the profit motive and being balanced.
Speaker 15: Can you see that model changing back? Or can you only ever see it being exacerbated?
Speaker 14: I do think we’re seeing a little bit of a kind of a a shift in top… I do think we’re we’re seeing the New York Times sort of varies… Slowly carefully while pretending it’s not doing it, like, trying a little bit to get a little bit of its credibility back. , I think that when… I I think it’s very tied to the political situation.
I think if and when the Democrats get slaughtered in the midterms, there’s gonna be… , like, like, right after Glenn Young in won. I don’t know if who that is.
Speaker 15: We do, but please talk about it.
Speaker 14: Yeah So Glenn Young was this there is this very moderate Republican, not very affiliated with Trump at all, sort of kept trump very much at Arm length, and he won an election in Virginia, which is a state that went to to to Joe Biden by 20 points. There So 6 months after Joe Biden won, that a state that was plus 20 for the Democrats flipped Republican in a in a gu race in a governor’s race. And , in the lead up to the election, they were all saying, oh, this is about white supremacy, This is about white supremacy, , all of these people are voting for because it’s white there, , the white supremacists when it turned out that the people who showed up for him were black moms, Hispanics. Working class people, a lot of Democrats, , who were just sort of sick of the culture wars that are being waged by elites. And, there was 1 week where Cnn sort of, , was like, well, we clearly got this wrong.
Let’s talk a little bit about excess is of awoke. ? And then, of course, went right back to, like, and I managed to to slip in and get my little appearance on cnn and that week. , Like, right I mean they let me talk about the book which was really nice of them. But so so I think that, , what if the political situation is as dire as it seems like it is, we might get a little bit of, , a little bit of.
Speaker 15: So it might be as a few years ago when in the New york time spent 5 minutes trying to understand what motivated at Trump vote. Think
Speaker 0: Okay. Laura Loom has an interesting tweet out Douglas M h ex wife. Appears to be getting paid by Kamala Harris campaign. So Kamala Harris and her husband’s ex wife want you to think there just 1 happy blended family. But is it all just transactional to keep the scorn ex wife at Bay so she doesn’t speak out about Douglas M house many affairs.
According to Laura Luma Douglas M house, many affairs are still ongoing to this day. And here’s the Wall Street Journal report that I mentioned about…
Speaker 20: Mark Zuckerberg says White House was wrong to pressure Facebook on Covid. Meta ceo also says he won’t repeat 20 20 efforts. To fund local elections, which republicans criticized as Z bucks. By Siobhan Hughes. 08/26/2024, 08:09PM eastern time Washington, Meta platform chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said it was improper for the Biden administration tough pressured Facebook to sensor content in 20 21 related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Vowing that the social media giant would reject any such future efforts. Zuckerberg also said he didn’t plan to repeat efforts to fund profits to assist in state election efforts. A Covid era push that had drawn Republican criticism and sparked many Republican leaning states to ban the practice. In a letter to house judiciary committee chairman, Jim Jordan, r Ohio that touched on a series of controversies, Zuckerberg wrote that senior Biden administration officials, including from the White House had, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid, 19 content, including humor and Satire and expressed a lot of f frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree. At the time, Facebook’s publicly stated goal was to push millions of people toward Covid 19 vaccines.
In his letter, Zuckerberg didn’t indicate whether, he had changed his mind about that goal or whether he simply felt that the Biden administration had gone too far. The Wall Street Journal reported in 20 23 about debates between the company and the White House over humorous or content over Covid related content, including humorous or satanic posts. Zuckerberg said that he believed the pressure from the administration was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it, or He said that the company had made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information we wouldn’t make today and that. I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction… And we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Speaker 0: That’s good news that Facebook and Mark zuckerberg, have clarity and because Republicans have effectively fought on the the censorship issue. Chen and the they fought, and they they’ve had a great deal of success. Much of it engineered by Mike Pence is very good in the way he frames things. And looking at Laura Loom, she breaks a lot of stories, and she notes that the father of the Trump shooter has hired a powerhouse criminal lawyer. So why is he lawyer up.
I what does he have to hide? And how is a social worker? Able to hire a high priced criminal attorney? Thing that makes sense is that the criminal attorney wants publicity and is is probably giving the the father, a great deal or even doing it Pro bon.
So why is this guy, Thomas Crook father. Lawyer ring up. What does he what does he have to hide?
Speaker 15: Ut and then turned off again.
Speaker 14: Exactly. I mean the problem is is that every generation of journalist that comes in is younger, more over educated at increasingly stupidly fancy schools. Where the number 1 thing they teach them is critical race theory and to have contempt for people without a college degree and they’re bringing all of that energy into the newsroom with them, And anybody older than them, , you wonder where is Gen x? Why aren’t they standing up to them, So as 1 New York Times editor once said to me, was, like, look, imagine that the younger generation is not only much better than you at these digital skills that they need. But if you disagree with them, they call you racist.
And we know how the New York Times responds when younger generation of… Of employees calls, , an older journalist, they fire them. So in that sort of an atmosphere. It’s very hard to imagine the ship turning around sadly.
Speaker 15: Can we talk about the subtitle? To to your book. How woke media is undermining democracy. Can you talk a bit about what you regard as woke? It’s now an all encompassing term from a positive or a negative perspective, how do you conceive of it?
Speaker 14: Yeah. To me. So so, , the word woke comes from Black slang from the seventies, and it it was used to refer to something very important, which is being aware of systemic racism. And, , we do still struggle with that in a limited way. We still have a a problem with mass incarceration against Black and, Hispanic men.
We still have a problem with police brutality, not police shootings, but, police in salt black, people more. They lay hands on them. They pull them over more. They rest them more. They get them up more national emergency.
This is very important stuff.
Speaker 0: Good point. In the chat why is Thomas Crooks father lawyer up because we we had the parents. People of the Michigan shooter who got criminal convicted for what their son did. So maybe they’re common sense reasons.
Speaker 14: Our public school systems are segregated and more so in liberal cities actually? And then there’s sort of inter generational poverty in, about 20 to 30 percent of Americans descended from slaves. So these are 4 very limited areas, but very important areas where we’re still struggling with, systemic racism. And I would say in the seventies, if you would say to someone stay woke. It meant be aware of this stuff of the ways in which.
, America has failed us descendants of slaves and continues to. And and that I think is it’s very important. When I use it in my book, I’m using it the way, , it’s colloquially used today, which is the way soc use it. Now, soc psychologists have noticed something very interesting. And they call this phenomenon the great awakening.
So I use it in that sense. And what they’re referring to there is not being aware of these 4 issues that I think are very important and by the way, that Republicans now are also very engaged with. So there’s no partisan in divide over that anymore. They are using it refer to something that happened around 20 15, which is that white liberals became more extreme and academic in their view on race than black and Latino Americans. And they outs strict black and Hispanics in in how they think about how how crazy they view race.
And that view comes straight from critical ways there it comes straight from the university. It’s totally academic. It’s a binary that describes all power and all agency to white people and a unique evil to whiteness and and and powerless and agency and and and no no no esteem, nothing to people of color, and that it it takes a world that used to be based on right versus wrong, and replaces it with 1 based on who has power and who does not. And then all virtue is as described to the powerless and all evil to the powerful. That’s the woke world view that, , white liberals have that most black and let latino know people, it’s totally foreign to how they think about themselves because it’s embarrassing and humiliating and gross.
It’s just gross to think about people that way, People don’t think about themselves in that way. But white liberals think about them that way, that that’s the great awakening and and the numbers on this are just staggering, so pew a study. And they found that just 6 percent of Americans call themselves progressive. And have this woke worldview view. So for example, they asked them, , they asked the the question they…
The proposition they posed was, , America’s institutions are so deeply racist that they all need to be raised and rebuilt from the ground up. So, , other the 6 percent who call themselves progressive, over 90 percent believe that. But only 6 percent of Black Americans are in that group of progressive. Most of them are much more moderate.
2 thirds of Black Americans call themselves either conservative or moderate. So that the the community itself does not see itself as liberal. And so all of these reviews, , the def fund the police, the critical race theory the idea that these institutions all have to be rebuilt from the ground up. None of these reflect where the black community is at. Their woke.
Because they reflect how white liberals have out case the people that they’re alleging to.
Speaker 0: So the outright gained steam at about the same time as the great awakening. And I don’t think that’s a coincidence. You started to have more more Americans feeling the growing disdain for being white and the growing radical of our elite and they radical lies in the opposite direction and explored the right. The alt right didn’t emerge out of nothing.
It emerge out of particular context and that context was the great awakening.
Speaker 14: We’ll be representing.
Speaker 15: This rise of race as the defining characteristic of our community and society. Seems to have happened both in the Us and here in Australia. Relatively recently.
Speaker 7: Mh.
Speaker 15: Is that the case? And why do you think it’s happened when it has? And why do you think it’s taken hold? It seems to have taken hold so quickly and so firmly.
Speaker 14: So you’ll tell me if this explains what’s happened in Australia. I’m not qualified to say. In my view, it’s taking hold in America at exactly the time when, the intelligent got rich. That’s what happened over the last 20 years is… , 30 years ago, college professors, journalists, writers, they were not rich.
It were a solidly middle class. Over the last 30 years, 20 years, knowledge industry jobs have started to pay a lot of money. That merit democratic rise. Based on talent intelligence would have you has taken people who see themselves as, , on the side of the little guy and just catapult them into the elites. That’s a very uncomfortable place to be if you think that you’re so much more moral than your neighbor who’s, like, slightly less liberal in.
Your whole self esteem is built in, , being more liberal than that guy. And I think it’s a big distraction exercise. They wanna talk about race because they don’t wanna talk about economic inequality because they’re benefiting from it.
Like I said, unconsciously it probably because, , these people… I think I think they’re sincere. But, I’m not qualified to say years ago. And I argue you that it’s that combination of, like, wanting to distract from the economic piece plus that business motive of corporations just making so much money and you brought up subscriptions. , the New york times and a lot of these places switched from a model based on ads to a model based on subscriptions and the New Times explicitly called for having what it called a 2 way street between journalists and readers.
They wanted journalists giving readers what they wanted. And what those readers wanted was to get high on a sense of their own virtue. Of course, without touching their bank accounts while feeling like everybody around them is a white supremacist who doesn’t get it, and they’re white supremacist, but a little bit of a less bad 1 because they get it. And, , Thomas Frank wrote this book, what’s the matter with Kansas. 2004.
My book is really response to that, and he he was trying to figure out why the white working class was voting for Republicans instead of for Democrats, which he said was less their economic interest. But what he uncovered was this thing called backlash culture. He said that they were being whipped up into a frenzy by these Republican, , talks radio hosts and Fox News and politicians who who had created this booking for them to be, , enraged about so that they would feel like they were involved in this very just fight against this boo pokemon and then vocal Republicans. Sound familiar. I mean, it’s very similar.
It’s it’s , the New York Times and the Washington post and all of these outlets. They’re looking at what makes their readers emotional because that makes them engaged and that makes them click and that makes them come back and that makes that’s how they create revenue. And it turns you can tell exactly what makes, , affluent, white liberals very emotional because those are the words that appear the most in the new york times in Washington bows and Npr, and Msnbc and cnn and it’s the words Donald Trump and white supremacy. I mean, click case closed.
Speaker 15: Well, yeah, you you mentioned, Trump, and this is a question from Ben. Is the media angry…
Speaker 14: No. It’s all escalation escalation escalation. Any any politician who says, why is there no no fly zone immediately we’ll get, , they’ll go first to Cnn an Fox news like, There’s just total escalation escalation escalation. It’s it’s terrible.
Speaker 15: Well let let’s let’s talk about that and people like Glenn Greenwood have spoken about that too that for all the tragedy in Ukraine. There’s not… Or there doesn’t seem to be a lot of debate in a elite media between the various options, the Us or the Eu or Nato might undertake… Is that just a function as he describes of the power of the war party? Is it is it something else.
Speaker 14: No. I think he’s right. I mean, there’s just… , obviously, like, journalists, like, , the more dramatic it is, the better, whatever it is. They’re obviously looking at their numbers, People, I guess are responding to this and watching and staying and not changing the channel, but, it it’s appalling.
I mean, it’s a it’s utterly appalling, the the degree to which they will sell out their own working class, their own neighbors. And I believe this the the civilians in Ukraine, just to get the story that they want just to get the story that pushes. , that’s that that’s the clear agenda of, , so many in the American elites. In Ukraine and in Russia. So I’ll give you an example.
, a month ago, there was a big truckers protest in Canada. And it was a working class… It was a labor strike , it was the biggest labor strike. I can remember in my life. They said vaccine mandates.
Were not working. And they were they were hard as fascist and nazis, , from the get go. ?
Speaker 15: They went. That’s exactly how they were described in the Australian media. When they were when the debate. The strike was even talked about at all.
Speaker 14: Right. So it was immediately tar them as as as Nazis even though there was only 1 Nazi flag and a hundred thousand people showed up 1 of them at a Nazi flag. Everybody’s a Nazi. So that’s how they treated the working class.
Anybody who sort of, , it, , gets in the way of, like, this sort of liberal elite economic agenda gets hard as a big or a racist or or Nazi. But now you look at what’s happening in Ukraine and Facebook a couple weeks ago decided that the Az Battalion, which is an val Neo nazi, Battalion, fighting on behalf of Ukraine, their Ukrainians, but Ukraine has an elite battalion that is a valid Neo nazi. Facebook decided you’re now allowed to praise them. You’re were not allowed to praise them up until now because they’re neo Nazis, They…
An internal memo was leaked to the intercept. Now that you’re allowed to praise the Eyes of Battalion and say, oh, look how brave these soldiers are these neo Nazi soldiers. And it… So it just goes to show you, like, these words, like nazi actual Nazis.
Like, they… They’re just taking this woke worldview view and applying it to Russia and you Crane where words have no meaning. It’s just about their agenda And what is their agenda. , So, , during the black lives matter. I’m up of 20 20, everybody posted a black square.
For Black lives matter. Now everybody’s changed their handle to to be a Ukrainian flag, why? Like, why? , like, I Ukraine on the right side of this.
III have no problem saying that I totally think Ukraine is on the right side of this. National sovereignty is extremely important. But the fe with which the wine moms have taken this up as their issue. It it makes no sense.