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The Lies Of The Fact-Checkers | Ep. 1097

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	Facebook removes two separate conservative ads for violating the scruples of fake fact-checkers at PolitiFact.
	Joe Biden pushes anti-vaccine propaganda as Trump fights with his CDC director.
	And Kamala Harris pushed a bail fund that bailed out some rather unsavory characters.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
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	Okay, so before I begin, I just want to note that it is, in fact, the 233rd birthday of the Constitution of the United States.
	On this day, 233 years ago, the signatories of the Constitution in 1787 got together.
	They signed the document.
	It is an incredible document.
	And I want to take just a brief moment and read to you from my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps on the Constitution, because it's important to recognize why the Constitution is important.
	So, Abraham Lincoln suggested that the Constitution was a frame of silver, a picture of silver around an apple of gold.
	The apple of gold being the Declaration of Independence, meaning we have certain fundamental philosophies in the United States.
	This philosophy of the Declaration of Independence, and it was protected by a system that was designed to ensure that the philosophy was enacted.
	Here's how I talk about it in my book.
	The philosophy of the United States rests on three basic principles.
	First, the reality of natural rights, which pre-exists government, inalienable and precious.
	Second, the equality of all human beings before the law and in their rights.
	And finally, the belief that government exists only to protect natural rights and to enforce equality before the law.
	American philosophy believes these propositions are self-evident, in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
	The Founders attempted to implement American philosophy through a unique set of institutions.
	The Constitution of the United States was a compromise document designed to enshrine American philosophy via a limited government system.
	That constitutional system's enumerated powers balance the necessity for action embodied in the legislative power with the necessity to avoid tyranny.
	The constitutional system's checks effectively balance the requirement of an executive powerful enough to respond to threats and enforce law with the requirement to avoid despotism embodied in checks and balances.
	The constitutional system's federalism was constructed to frustrate national schemes, to subsume the character of local communities, while simultaneously preventing those local communities from becoming autocracies.
	Okay, so to put that in maybe even simpler English, there are basically three things that the Constitution was designed to do.
	One was to enumerate powers.
	The government is only given a certain number of enumerated powers.
	The Constitution lists them off.
	And this was that the government did not have the ability to infringe upon your core rights as a human being.
	Second, the constitutional system put in place these checks and balances between the various branches of the federal government so that you didn't have an executive branch that overran all of its boundaries, or a legislative branch that overran all of its boundaries, or a judiciary that overran all of its boundaries.
	Again, the idea was that ambition was supposed to counteract ambition, and in doing so, your rights as an American would be protected.
	And finally, the Constitution set up a federalist system, a federalist system that allows the federal government to do things that need to be done, but also prevents the federal government from infringing on the local character of communities.
	And at the same time, prevents local communities from infringing on the core human rights of the citizens inside those local communities.
	That's what the Constitution was designed to do.
	And over time, as it was amended, increasingly did.
	It is a document well worth celebrating.
	And when you see so many people in the United States today who essentially see the Constitution as a vestige of a dead past, oh, it's this document that means nothing anymore.
	Understand, there's a long history to that kind of thinking, going all the way back to the progressives at the beginning of the 20th century and the worst president in American history, Woodrow Wilson, that this view of the Constitution as a barrier to the things we want to do The Constitution is a barrier to a government becoming so powerful that it can cram down on you anything, including violations of your rights in the name of pure majoritarianism, in the name of the mob, in the name of your local community, without any sort of federal intervention.
	And there was a balancing act that was attempting to be done by the Founding Fathers, and they achieved it in incredible fashion.
	The Constitution is unbelievably durable.
	It's one of the reasons why.
	You see so many folks on the left today and they declare Donald Trump a fascist.
	And you look at what Trump actually does and you say, how?
	Like, how?
	Name me the fascist thing that Trump is doing.
	Even if you thought he had authoritarian tendencies, the document has been so robust that it has prevented that from happening, even if you're on the left.
	And the same thing is true on the right.
	Barack Obama, I think, had extraordinarily authoritarian tendencies.
	It's why he talked about a pen and a phone.
	It's why he talked about bending law pretty routinely.
	It's why he militarized parts of his own government, the IRS, for example.
	But the Constitution is robust enough to even hem in the most authoritarian characters who take up the presidency.
	Now, that doesn't mean that we don't need to do a better job of electing our public leaders.
	What it does mean is that we ought to recognize that the Constitution systems, those checks and balances, are crucial.
	And in a time when exactly those things are coming under fire, it is important to remember why they are important.
	Right now, we have ascendant wings in maybe both parties that see the fundamentals of the Constitution as a threat to the future of the country.
	Who believe that enumerated powers prevent the government from doing what it is supposed to do.
	Why can't we just do bigger things?
	Why can't we just move beyond these enumerated powers?
	I mean, these people lived 230 years ago.
	The reason that the Constitution is still relevant is because human nature has not changed in the last 233 years.
	The reason the Declaration is still relevant is because human nature has not changed since the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
	But there are people who want to overthrow these fundamental principles, right?
	They believe that enumerated powers are a problem because they prevent the government from doing the things we want to do.
	And this is what you see from Democrats who say, for example, that the federal government should be able to cram down on you a health care mandate, or the federal government should be able to cram down on you federal education mandates, or all this stuff is beyond the scope of what the federal government was designed to do.
	You see the same thing in the way that members of both parties seem to dislike checks and balances.
	That they believe that the federal government ought to have no checks and balances.
	Right now, you're seeing this mostly from the Democrats who want to get rid of the filibuster, who say that the Senate itself is constituted undemocratically.
	Which, by the way, is the point.
	It is the point, is that states were supposed to be able to check each other because they were independent bodies before the foundation of the United States.
	The checks and balances were part of the system.
	They were designed to create gridlock.
	When you see people bemoaning gridlock at the federal level, gridlock was part of the system.
	It was designed for gridlock.
	But people don't like gridlock, except if their rights are being violated.
	And then when it comes to federalism, you see the Democrats taking the position that states should either summarily be overrun by the federal government, or, if they're red states, and if they're blue states, they should be left to their own devices by the federal government.
	As soon as you believe that the institutions of the Constitution are no longer important, you have left behind the philosophy that believes the Declaration is important because all of those mechanisms were designed to protect that core of gold, that philosophy that suggests that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
	Alrighty, so, just thought that I'd sound off a little bit on Constitution Day because this is one of our great forgotten holidays, Constitution Day, September 17th.
	Alrighty, meanwhile, We are seeing Facebook beginning to involve itself in censorship to an extraordinary degree.
	There's a couple of stories that are coming out of Facebook that are truly disturbing.
	And really it has more to do with the fact-checkers that Facebook has chosen to rely upon than Facebook itself.
	They shouldn't have set up the system this way.
	But the fact that Facebook set up the system so that left-wing fact-checkers could skew the system is really a horrible move and unjustifiable.
	I'll explain in just one second.
	These are some pretty wild stories in how social media can really screw with the political narrative on the basis of the left really lying.
	The fact checkers are just, so many of these fact checkers are just liars.
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	There's been a lot of talk in the recent past about social media and its crackdown on the flow of information.
	And I have defended some of these companies, and I have gone after some of these companies.
	Of all the social media companies, I've defended Facebook the most because, frankly, it would be hypocritical for me not to, considering that Facebook has been of benefit to my company.
	Considering we do tremendous traffic on Facebook?
	But that doesn't mean that the system that Facebook has set up for fact-checking is not unbelievably skewed and actually quite dangerous.
	I'll give you two examples today.
	So Facebook set up this system.
	The system is that if you get dinged by one of their designated fact-checkers, they will censor your ad.
	They will remove your ad.
	Well, what happens if the fact-checkers that were designated Our left wing.
	So PolitiFact is not a fact-checker.
	PolitiFact is a left-wing outlet.
	It is like a media matters left-wing outlet.
	It is designed to fact-check implications.
	PolitiFact will do these fact-checks where they will fully admit right in the body of the article that what they are fact-checking is not factually false.
	They'll just say that we don't like the implication, therefore we rate it mostly false.
	PolitiFact is an overtly political outlet.
	The fact that they masquerade as an objective fact-checker is a joke.
	This has been true for literally years.
	I remember several years back I cut a video in which all I did was just read statistics from Pew Global Polling on the feelings of Muslims globally about a wide variety of controversial issues ranging from support to terrorism to support for honor killings and all this.
	I read all of this.
	That was the entire video.
	The entire video was just noting what percentage of Muslims in Afghanistan believed in honor killing and then saying, this seems like an extreme belief.
	That was the entire video.
	PolitiFact rated the video false because they said that my standards for extremism were not objective standards of extremism, which is not, in fact, a false rating.
	That is just them saying they disagree with my definitions.
	Okay, that's called a political argument.
	PolitiFact does this stuff all the time.
	All the time.
	And the fact that Facebook decided to use PolitiFact as one of its trusted fact checkers leads to perverse results like this.
	And there are now two separate ads that have been taken down after being declared quasi-false by Facebook.
	So the first ad came from the America First PAC.
	This is one of Donald Trump's super PACs.
	So it's not related to the Trump campaign.
	A super PAC operates independently of the campaigns.
	This is not Trump himself.
	This is the America First PAC.
	It's run by Linda McMahon, who used to be the head of his small business administration.
	Okay, so the super PAC ran this ad.
	As you are about to hear, the ad is completely accurate.
	There's nothing wrong with this ad.
	The ad makes a simple claim.
	Joe Biden is going to raise your taxes.
	That's the entire claim.
	PolitiFact rated the ad mostly false.
	It was removed from Facebook on the basis of PolitiFact's bullcrap fact check.
	So here is this ad.
	Sometimes politicians accidentally tell the truth.
	And it's true.
	The New York Times says Biden's tax increases are more than double Hillary Clinton's plan.
	Even the Tax Policy Center admits taxes would increase on all income groups.
	If you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.
	Big tax increases crushing our recovery.
	It could go higher.
	America First Action is responsible for the content of this advertisement.
	There's not a single word of that that is false.
	In fact, the ad itself cites its sources, right?
	Throughout the ad.
	So PolitiFact, the ad launched August 4th.
	It was then slapped with a mostly false rating by PolitiFact.
	And then it was blocked by Facebook, like full-on blocked by Facebook.
	Again, the ad directly quotes Biden saying, if you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.
	So what exactly, how exactly did PolitiFact rationalize its mostly false rating?
	They accused the PAC, this is according to John Bickley, editor-in-chief of Daily Wire, of not giving the audience, for the 30-second spot, enough context and giving the wrong impression about what Biden meant.
	So it's a context check, okay?
	Nothing in there is actually false.
	They say that it is lacking context, which normally we would call the basis for a political discussion or argument, right?
	If you cite to me a fact and I say, listen, here's what you're missing.
	You're missing this particular context.
	It doesn't mean that what you are saying is overtly false.
	It means that I believe that you are not placing it in the proper context, right?
	That's how a lot of political conversations go.
	But PolitiFact rated it mostly false.
	So here is how their stupid fact check begins.
	They say a new ad from a pro-Trump super PAC uses out-of-context footage of Joe Biden to claim that the former vice president wants to raise taxes for Americans across the board.
	While the America First action ad presents that remark out of context, some tax experts estimate that Biden's plan would mean higher taxes on average for all income groups, but those increases would be relatively small for all but the biggest earners.
	So in other words, they say that while it's true that Biden is going to increase taxes for everyone, he's mostly going to increase taxes for rich people, therefore the ad is mostly false.
	That's insane!
	So you're admitting that the ad is true, You just agree with Joe Biden's policy, and so you're going to declare the ad mostly false.
	PolitiFact specifically cites a Biden campaign official as supposed evidence of the Democrats' intent.
	The full exchange shows that Biden was saying his plan would raise taxes for people who, in his words, quote, benefited from the GOP's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
	A Biden campaign official said his point was that the wealthy, not all Americans, would not benefit from his plan.
	But here's the thing.
	Everybody benefited from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 because everybody received a tax cut.
	So that's a bullcrap fact check.
	It's just not true.
	The fact check goes on to make a similarly flimsy case against the ad's inclusion of Biden warning his tax increases could go higher.
	The supposed evidence of this being quote-unquote mostly false is the following full quote from Biden, quote, That's literally him saying he's going to increase taxes.
	tax for their capital gains as their tax rate is.
	And I think we should raise the tax rate back to, for example, I take it back to where it was before it was reduced.
	It could go higher.
	That's literally him saying he's going to increase taxes.
	This ad is not false.
	So PolitiFact declared it mostly false based on the fact that they actually agree with Joe Biden's policy.
	you That isn't even the worst case of Facebook removing something based on a bullcrap PolitiFact fact check.
	The worst case is there is a group, there's another group that is called the Americans Principles Project.
	The American Principles Project ran an ad in Michigan.
	This ad in Michigan targeted the governor of Michigan because the governor of Michigan backs the so-called Equality Act.
	And the so-called Equality Act essentially abolishes the ability of biological women to compete against only biological women in sports.
	The Equality Act suggests that if you are a man and you say that you are a woman, you should now be able to compete with women in sports.
	Transgender women should be able to compete with actual biological women in sports, which of course destroys women's sports because now you have biological males competing with biological females.
	In a second, I'm going to show you this ad.
	Then I'm going to tell you what the PolitiFact check said.
	This ad was taken down from Facebook.
	This is unconscionable stuff.
	If Facebook is removing ads and content based on the biased insanity of PolitiFact, Facebook needs to feel the heat on that.
	I've been a great advocate of not regulating these social media companies because I don't want the government sitting above the social media companies and determining exactly what can and cannot be put on there because I don't want Elizabeth Warren in charge of that.
	I don't want the Democrats appointing a majority of the FCC and then cramming down their perspective on what should be online on these various social media companies.
	I'd rather let a thousand flowers bloom.
	It makes it very difficult for me to make that case.
	When companies like Facebook that control huge flows of information allow this sort of nonsense to happen, where they explicitly outsource their judgment to politifact.
	At that point, they're just a left-wing source.
	Masquerading as an objective source, which is not acceptable under any circumstances.
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	Okay, so here is the other ad that was run.
	Again, there is nothing that is inaccurate about this ad.
	Nothing.
	It was pulled down because PolitiFact, a biased source, is used in the algorithm for Facebook.
	Facebook should change its algorithm.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Honestly, they should bar PolitiFact from being part of the program for gaming the system.
	I think Facebook's core assumption is that PolitiFact is going to act like a fact checker, not like an arm of the Democratic Party, but apparently that assumption was incorrect.
	It should never have been made.
	I mean, PolitiFact has always been an arm of the Democratic Party.
	In any case, here is the ad that was banned.
	All female athletes want is a fair shot at competition.
	At a scholarship.
	At a title.
	At victory.
	But what if that shot was taken away by a competitor who claims to be a girl, but was born a boy?
	Senator Gary Peters and Joe Biden support legislation that would destroy girls sports.
	They call it equality.
	Really?
	That's not fair.
	Not fair at all.
	Vote against Gary Peters and Joe Biden.
	They are too extreme for Michigan.
	Okay, that's Senator Gary Peters, the ad is against it.
	Everything about that ad is true.
	Every single word about that ad is true.
	It is, of course, true.
	I mean, this has become the basis for lawsuits in places like Connecticut, where transgender athletes are competing against biological women, and they are destroying them.
	Because it turns out that if you grow up as a boy, you have a different physiological structure than growing up as a girl.
	Of course, of course.
	I know, biology.
	This stuff's super controversial.
	So the science is real, crowd on the democratic side.
	Okay, so here's PolitiFact's fact check that caused Facebook to take this down.
	Quote.
	Their specific criticism is that allowing transgender girls and women to compete on the basis of their gender identity would create an uneven playing field for student-athlete and ultimately end girls and women's sports.
	Quote, that's a prediction we can't fact check.
	That's a prediction we can't fact check.
	So they overtly say they can't fact-check the position.
	It doesn't matter.
	Because they say that the ad is lacking context, it's missing context, Facebook removed it.
	So PolitiFact says we can't fact-check the ad.
	And Facebook's response is, okay, we'll take it down.
	This is getting to be quite ugly.
	And it's not just Facebook, obviously.
	We're seeing this on YouTube as well.
	A little bit earlier this week, Dr. Scott Atlas, who's been a guest on this program, Dr. Atlas had some videos on YouTube talking about COVID.
	Atlas has been a lockdown skeptic since the earliest days, and he has claimed repeatedly that, for example, this thing has differential diagnoses based on whether you're elderly or whether you're younger.
	He has said that there's not a lot of evidence that children are passing this with great frequency, for example.
	It was a video of that that was taken, so YouTube took down that video, saying that it did not meet with the WHO's information.
	Okay, well, if you had to abide by what the WHO says is true, standard, then saying in February that this thing was airborne would have conflicted with the WHO.
	If you had said in late February, hey, we should all mask up, that would have conflicted with the WHO.
	Using the W.H.O.
	as the scientific gold standard, then removing videos that conflict with the W.H.O., which was a Chinese-run operation, essentially, in the early days of COVID, is crazy.
	That's exactly what YouTube did.
	YouTube put out a statement to the Wall Street Journal saying it removed the Atlas interview for, quote, falsely stating that a certain age group cannot transmit the virus.
	The company was apparently referring to Dr. Atlas's remark amid a discussion about school reopening that children, quote, do not even transmit the disease.
	That seems to have been an exaggeration for emphasis.
	Dr. Atlas corrected himself in the next answer, saying transmission by children is, quote, not impossible, but it's less likely.
	That is 100% true.
	So what they are now doing on YouTube is they are acting as though everything that you say spontaneously is a term paper.
	So if I exaggerate for emphasis, which everybody does, rhetorically speaking, every single day, everybody, if you speak off the cuff, you're likely to be banned by YouTube because you didn't footnote everything in precisely the way that YouTube wanted.
	You get the same thing on Facebook, by the way.
	My co-host, another host over here at The Daily Wire, Michael Moles, He's been dinged by Facebook because he said, for rhetorical emphasis, that there was, quote, no evidence that masks work.
	He then followed up by suggesting that the Swedish health officials and the Norwegian health officials had basically said that there's not a lot of evidence that it works.
	OK, so he emphasized and he overemphasized and he exaggerated for emphasis.
	And Facebook dinged him.
	Right.
	This is the kind of stuff where it only works on one side, by the way.
	If you are a Democrat and you say that Donald Trump is removing mailboxes from the streets to prevent mail-in voting, so to steal the election, they won't remove any of that crap, any of it.
	Hey, here's Scott Atlas on Tucker Carlson last night saying, this is absurd.
	I think this sort of move to censor people like me, and others, I'm not just talking about myself, really has precipitated a backlash here.
	We saw it in the media now, lots of things have been written talking about what I've said and how outrageous it is that that stuff was censored, or even an interest by some of my former colleagues in censoring me by public shaming or cancellation.
	These kinds of things are really destructive and harmful.
	Not only is it wrong in terms of the truth, it's also instilling fear into the public.
	Okay, so it's crazy.
	I mean, you now have a complete grip on the flow of information.
	Another example.
	So, last night, Tucker hosted on his show a Chinese scientist.
	This Chinese scientist has claimed that the virus was produced in a Wuhan lab and then released.
	And now, I don't know whether that's true or not.
	You don't know whether that's true or not.
	YouTube doesn't know whether it's true or not.
	Nobody knows whether it's true or not.
	It doesn't matter.
	YouTube took down the video.
	And so did Facebook, by the way.
	Here's Tucker Carlson talking about that last night.
	It's clear that Dr. Li Min Yang is a serious person.
	She is making a very serious claim.
	So within a few hours of her interview last night, a video of the segment reached 1.3 million people on Facebook.
	And why wouldn't it?
	The coronavirus pandemic has touched the life of every American.
	And justifiably, people want to know where it came from.
	But Facebook still doesn't want you to know that.
	So Facebook suppressed the video, presumably on behalf of the Chinese government.
	Facebook executives made it harder for users to watch our segment.
	Those who found the video had to navigate a warning.
	The interview, quote, repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact checkers say is false.
	OK, this standard is the problem.
	OK, which independent fact checkers?
	Who are these independent fact checkers and why should we trust them?
	You have to fact check the fact checkers because not all fact checkers are created equal as we have seen.
	They will overtly rate false claims that are clearly true.
	There's two separate ads just in the last week that have been removed that are overtly true and that the fact checker itself admits are basically true.
	This is dangerous stuff.
	It is.
	And if these companies wish to remain independent, and they don't want everybody just rushing to the government for a solution, which, again, I am against.
	I don't think the government should step in in these cases overall.
	It's gonna be real difficult for the government not to step in at the behest of people who believe that their rights are being violated by social media companies that are, at the very least, quasi-fraudulently claiming to be open and objective participants in a platform rather than in some sort of publication.
	And I'm against that sort of legislation.
	But you gotta make it easier for me, guys.
	You can't do this.
	You can't make PolitiFact your outsourced fact checker and then claim that you are merely a platform and not a publication.
	PolitiFact is a publication, and if you are just doing their bidding, you become a publication as well.
	This is dangerous stuff.
	Hey, in just a second, we are going to be getting to all of the latest on COVID because there are some crazy stories today out on COVID and the handling of COVID, particularly in blue areas.
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	Alrighty, so.
	Some news on COVID.
	It is incredible that the treatment of COVID, people keep screaming from the rooftops, follow the science!
	Sorry, this is the Democrats.
	Follow the science!
	But they don't actually follow the science.
	In fact, they don't care about the science.
	This has become overtly political.
	It's been overtly political for months now.
	And yet the Democrats keep claiming that they're following the science.
	And I'm just wondering, How?
	Now, I've been very critical of much that President Trump has done with regard to, with regards, or at least said with regard to COVID.
	I think when it comes to what he's done, I'm not sure that he had tons of choices on what he's done.
	It seems like everybody has failed pretty much everywhere because there aren't great policies when it comes to a global pandemic that seems to basically stick around until it burns its way through communities.
	The basic logic of COVID is that it burns through communities.
	All you can do is shield the sick and the vulnerable, the elderly, and then it just passes through and then it's done, right?
	This is the lesson from Sweden, where they never shut down.
	And their big failure was they didn't protect the sick and vulnerable at the very beginning.
	If they had, Sweden would be widely perceived to be what it is.
	a model for how to handle this thing. Everybody in Europe is now experiencing the so-called second wave. It is not a second wave. It is a continuation of the first wave. It's just that when you lock down, all you did was delay the inevitable, which is the spread of this thing through communities.
	Now, maybe that's a good thing, right? Delaying it allowed for better therapeutic procedures.
	It allowed for hospitals to figure out how to treat this thing better. The death in hospitals rates is down dramatically, right? Florida and Georgia and Texas and Arizona, they all got waves.
	Those waves happened a lot later than New Jersey and New York, and that meant that they weren't having people lying on their back with ventilators.
	They were flipping people on their stomachs.
	They were giving them remdesivir.
	They were giving them steroidal injections.
	They had better treatments for this thing, so the death rates were much, much lower.
	That's why when people say, well, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, look how badly they handled it.
	The curves are not even comparable in terms of death.
	Right.
	New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, their curves are enormous in terms of death because this thing hit early and hospitals didn't know how to handle it.
	Some of that is Cuomo's fault.
	Some of it's not Cuomo's fault.
	Some of it is just if it hit you early, then there wasn't much you could do.
	But lockdowns are not the solution, particularly not endless lockdowns.
	It doesn't matter.
	Democrats are pursuing endless lockdowns today.
	New York City announced that schools will not physically reopen for all students on Monday.
	Instead, the city is doing a phased-in reopening by grade level through the next few weeks.
	This is the second time Bill de Blasio, garbage commie mayor of New York, has delayed in-person classes.
	Three days before the start of the school year, they announced this.
	So parents had made their plans.
	They'd figure out what to do.
	And by the way, online schooling is failing everywhere it's tried.
	Heavy, heavy percentages, like up to half, maybe more than half in certain school districts of kids are not even logging on to go to Zoom school.
	Because honestly, you can't keep kids concentrating in regular school.
	What, you think you're going to plunk them down in front of a boring screen?
	Like my daughter is doing some Zoom school right now as we prepare for our move.
	And she is a kid with an extraordinary attention span.
	I mean, she, you know, she's brilliant.
	She's going into first grade.
	She reads at fourth grade.
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	She's still easily distracted because she's literally sitting there looking at a screen while the teacher's walking around the classroom dealing with, it's kind of half in class, half Zoom school.
	And that's a problem.
	This stuff does not work.
	Okay?
	Zoom school is not good.
	It is not good.
	The only way that it works is if basically you're homeschooling your kid and you're just using the Zoom as a supplement.
	That is the only way that it works.
	And parents have built their lives around this stuff.
	Parents still have to work.
	Parents still have to have lives.
	I mean, school is about a couple of things.
	Yes, it's outsourcing the education, but it's also outsourcing the daycare.
	Everybody understands what school is.
	Bill de Blasio, three days before the start of school, cancelled it in New York City.
	There is no curve in New York City.
	Because everybody died in New York City.
	It burned through.
	It burned through New York City.
	The transmission rate in New York City is well below 1%.
	It's extremely low.
	The number of positive tests in Manhattan is nearly zero.
	The number of deaths in Manhattan is zero.
	And yet they're still not reopening the schools, which again, are not a main vector of transmission anywhere in the world.
	They are not.
	There is no evidence.
	I mean, I mean this seriously.
	There is no evidence that schools are main vectors of transmission.
	That does not mean COVID can't be transmitted at a school.
	It does mean that the chief vectors of transmission, so far as we have seen, are not in schools.
	And this is true across Europe.
	It's true pretty much everywhere, which is why you're having to see all of these idiotic headlines declaring teachers are getting COVID.
	And then you read the story and it turns out the teacher got COVID three weeks before a school reopened.
	There was an AP story that cited this, right?
	That said, oh, look at these three teachers.
	They died from COVID.
	All three of them had gotten COVID from places that were not in school.
	I'm reading you the stats from Manhattan.
	Here are the stats from Manhattan as of yesterday.
	This is worldometers.info, which is, I believe, the Johns Hopkins University information.
	Manhattan, which is a population of 1.6 million, is Manhattan County.
	You ready for this?
	Here's how many positive COVID tests they had yesterday.
	Positive COVID tests yesterday.
	63.
	In a county of 1.6 million people.
	How many new deaths did they have yesterday?
	Zero.
	Zero!
	Yesterday.
	And Bill de Blasio is shutting down all of the schools.
	They're not physically reopening.
	He said he spoke for hours yesterday with the head of the Principals and Teachers Union, who said schools are not ready to reopen.
	They've been saying this for many weeks.
	The mayor said the information flow about exactly what was needed, about exactly what was needed, where it needed to be improved.
	Okay, so he says that many outer borough families are pragmatic and understand the realities of life.
	He says, I feel for any parent that has to make new arrangements.
	I know people will do what they have to do.
	He declines to apologize to New York City families for the last minute change.
	This is anti-scientific nonsense.
	It is anti-scientific crap.
	Bill de Blasio is a garbage, garbage mayor.
	My goodness, he is a garbage mayor.
	Wild.
	Okay, and what we are also seeing is that the party of science is covering up the science in many cases.
	So we've been hearing from the media over and over and over again that the real bad guy in all of this, of course, is Ron DeSantis in Florida.
	Now, let's be clear, the dashboard for Florida when it comes to COVID info is maybe the most transparent dashboard anywhere in the country.
	They've been extremely transparent about their information in Florida.
	You know where they weren't quite so forthcoming about their information?
	In the Daily Wire's new home city of Nashville.
	According to Fox17.com, this is an insane story.
	The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor's office and metro health department decided to keep it secret.
	Okay, so the claim from the left is that Republican governors and mayors have been covering up deaths and cases.
	There's not evidence of this.
	There is now evidence that in Nashville, the mayor's office was covering up the fact that bars and restaurants were not vectors of transmission.
	So they could justify shutting down the bars and restaurants.
	They literally put thousands of people out of work in order to, and then covered up the data suggesting it was unnecessary.
	This is an insane story.
	Emails between the mayor's senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture, but what they reveal is disturbing.
	The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.
	And most disturbingly, how to keep it from the public.
	On June 30th, contact tracing was given a small view of coronavirus clusters.
	Construction and nursing homes were found to be causing problems with more than a thousand cases traced to each category, which makes sense.
	I mean, we know the nursing homes are a chief factor.
	We also know that contract workers who are working in close proximity with each other tend to spread it.
	Bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.
	Leslie Waller from the health department asked, this isn't going to be publicly released, right?
	Just info for the mayor's office.
	Correct, not for public consumption, writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles.
	A month later, the health department was asked point blank about the rumor there were only 80 cases in all of Nashville traced to bars and restaurants.
	Reporter Nate Rao asked, the figure you gave of more than 80 does lead to a natural question.
	If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn't that mean restaurants and bars aren't a very big problem?
	Health Department official Brian Todd asked five health department officials, please advise how you recommend I respond.
	The name at the top of the response is clipped, but here is the answer, quote, my two cents.
	We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site.
	We could still release the total, though, and then a response to the over 80 could be that because the number is increasing all the time and we don't want to say a specific number.
	Neither the health department nor the mayor's office would confirm the authenticity of the emails, but a council member named Steve Glover had a Metro staff attorney inquire.
	Here was the official answer.
	I was able to get verifications from the mayor's office and the Department of Health.
	These emails are real.
	Glover says they're fabricating information.
	They've blown their entire credibility.
	It's gone.
	I don't trust a thing they say going forward.
	Nothing.
	He says we raised taxes 34%.
	We put hundreds, literally thousands of people out of work that are now worried about losing their homes, their apartments.
	And we did it on bogus data.
	That should be illegal.
	Yes, it damn well should be.
	It damn well should be.
	You want to build trust with the public?
	You know what you don't do?
	Lie to them about the vectors of transmission.
	Schools are not main vectors of transmission.
	Hey, we don't know about bars and restaurants, broadly speaking.
	What we do know is that in Nashville they covered up whatever data they did have.
	How are you supposed to trust public officials when they're overtly lying to you?
	That's crazy.
	And then these same people will be like, the science says lockdowns are necessary.
	The science, the science.
	And then the same people will try to Andrew Cuomo at the DNC to proclaim that he did a wonderful job in coffin-covered New York.
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	And we'll get to more of the science is real gang on COVID-19 in just a second because Joe Biden gave a big speech about science being real.
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	Alrighty, so Joe Biden, the party of science.
	So yesterday, he gives a speech about vaccines.
	And in the middle of the speech, he basically says, I like vaccines and I like science, but I don't like Trump.
	And I don't like Trump.
	And that means that I'm not going to trust a vaccine, but maybe I will trust a vaccine, but maybe I won't.
	And then he fell asleep because that's what he does in the middle of his speeches.
	The Harris-Biden campaign moving forward with alacrity.
	Here was Joe Biden yesterday.
	So let me be clear.
	I trust vaccines.
	I trust scientists.
	But I don't trust Donald Trump.
	And at this moment, the American people can't either.
	So Donald Trump is not actually running the vaccine development.
	Nor is he forcing procedural changes at the FDA.
	This is actually kind of dangerous.
	What we have seen in polls is that more and more Americans are refusing to take the vaccine, even if it's developed.
	So if you actually want this thing to come to an end, what you really need is vulnerable Americans to take the vaccine.
	I don't know that you need children to take the vaccine.
	The reason I say that is because if kids get it, Who cares?
	Kids are not dying from this.
	Period.
	End of story.
	The number of kids who have died from this is in low double digits in a country of 330 million people.
	But if you are elderly, if you're at risk, if you have a pre-existing condition, if you have diabetes or something, then getting the vaccine is pretty damned important.
	And you would like for people who are generally healthy to also get the vaccine so they don't become vectors of transmission because adults do transmit this to adults.
	The evidence is that kids don't transmit it quite as much or in as severe numbers as adults.
	So what you don't want to do is undermine the vaccine.
	Party of Science should understand this.
	After all, science is real.
	They even put it on their stupid lawn signs.
	Okay, except that now you have Joe Biden openly questioning whether, if a vaccine is developed under the Trump administration, people should take it.
	And the polls are reflecting this.
	In early May, most Americans, 55%, said they would get vaccinated for COVID-19 if and when a vaccine becomes available.
	Now, four months later, less than one-third of Americans, 32%, say they plan to get vaccinated.
	That is a 23-point decline that is being overtly pushed by the Democratic Party and the members of the media.
	The Science Is Real Party is anti-vaccine if Trump develops a vaccine, because it might be good for Trump.
	This is just the denial of reality.
	This is a common part of the denial of reality for so many members of the Democratic Party.
	If something good happens and Trump is president, it wasn't good.
	That's the way the thinking goes.
	Seriously, the newer skeptics tend to be Democrats who could have predicted this.
	According to Yahoo News and YouGov, they've consistently found a hardline group of anti-vaxxers who say they will not get vaccinated no matter what.
	It's about 20% of the population.
	They're generally concentrated more on the right.
	But while the number of Republicans who say they would get vaccinated has declined 14 points from May, from 47% to 33, the corresponding number of Democrats has plummeted twice as much, from 70% to 42% over the same period of time.
	So the science is, I am very pro-vaccination, the science is real party is undermining American faith in vaccines.
	Again, because it might redound to Trump's benefit if people actually were to take the vaccine.
	And so you have Joe Biden overtly saying, well, I like vaccines and I like science, but I don't like Donald Trump.
	What does that have to do with anything?
	If vaccines were developed under Barack Obama, I would take them.
	Like, what the hell are we talking about here?
	I don't think that Barack Obama would deliberately put out— I really dislike Barack Obama.
	I don't think Barack Obama would deliberately put out a faulty vaccine to kill people.
	Like, what the hell are you talking about here?
	Meanwhile, what we are learning from the Science is Real party is that vaccines are bad or questionable if developed under Trump, but masks are very good.
	Now again, the evidence on masks is mixed.
	It is mixed.
	There are studies that suggest that masks are useful, if particularly you're in populated areas.
	And they're mostly useful not to you, they're useful for protecting other people.
	So you sneeze, you're wearing a mask, instead of it going everywhere, now it just goes mostly into the mask.
	It gets outside the mask a little bit, but mostly it goes into the mask.
	This is why I have long been a proponent of, if you are in a crowded area, When you're in an area where people are vulnerable or elderly, you should wear a mask.
	My parents, when they come over to my house, they wear masks.
	Like, I'm a mask proponent.
	But to pretend that there is no mixed evidence on this is very silly.
	The Netherlands, Sweden, all of the Scandinavian countries do not mask up.
	The masking rate in Scandinavia is below 10%.
	The masking rate in Italy is close to 90%.
	Italy got whomped.
	The Netherlands did not.
	Not nearly in the same numbers.
	Okay, so the evidence is mixed, right?
	We can say that, like you can be pro-mask and also acknowledge that the evidence is mixed as to the efficacy of mask adoption of masks, particularly if people are not wearing it properly.
	Like my wife, when she was in medical school, as I've said, they actually had full courses.
	They had like a full seminar on how to properly don PPE, personal protective equipment.
	If you put on the mask wrong, it's a problem.
	If you put the mask below your nose, that is a problem.
	You see all these videos of people in crowds and people are cheering them for wearing the mask and they've got the mask below the nose.
	That's not doing anything.
	You breathe through your nose, idiots.
	If you actually want the mask to work, you gotta put it up above your nose.
	You see people who are... I still see tons of people wearing neck gaiters.
	There's a study from the CDC that came out and said neck gaiters are worse than nothing.
	Because neck gaiters actually encourage people to violate social distancing and they actually aerosolize stuff better because if you sneeze into a neck gaiter, then actually it explodes out.
	But half the population is still wearing neck gaiters.
	So all of this is to say that when people keep talking about masks as opposed to a vaccine, the answer is both and, right?
	We want a vaccine.
	And also, if you're in a crowded area, you should wear a mask.
	But instead, you got Joe Biden being like, I don't trust this Trump vaccine.
	I don't trust it at all.
	But masks, masks, masks, masks, masks.
	Now, here's the reality.
	Everywhere the virus has gotten bad, people mask up.
	There's lots of data to show this.
	When the virus got bad in Florida, people masked at a higher rate.
	When the virus got bad in New York, people masked at a higher rate because they thought that it was going to protect them because people act in self-preserving fashion.
	It doesn't matter to Joe Biden, though, because for Joe Biden, it's really about the virtue signaling of suggesting he's going to mandate mask wearing because you can't trust your neighbor.
	You can't trust your neighbor.
	Now, I wonder how many people really believe that they cannot trust their neighbor.
	And if they really believe that, maybe you shouldn't be out in public places with neighbors who are like that.
	But Joe Biden is really putting heavy focus on the mask and he's performing serious alarmism in the process.
	He's really banking on COVID getting a lot worse before the election.
	You can tell he is.
	And so Biden now is trying to proclaim that his legal team thinks he can push a nationwide mask mandate.
	There is no constitutional authority to do this.
	He's changing his tune on this because Trump has rightly pointed out that when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say, we would love everyone to wear a mask, they don't have the authority to do that.
	So really, it's just them jabbering nonsensically.
	Now, Joe Biden has been roped into saying that he might have the legal authority to mandate that you wear a mask.
	There is no such authority under the Constitution.
	There's a question, I think it can be answered in the positive, a question whether I can mandate over state lines that every single state has to comply.
	Our legal team thinks I can do that based upon the degree to which there's a crisis in those states and how bad things are for the country.
	And if we don't do it, what happens?
	But I would make the case.
	I'd make the case why it's necessary.
	So he talked to governors, is what he says, but even the implication that he has the constitutional authority to cram this stuff down is not correct, obviously.
	Okay, meanwhile, supposedly Trump is the person who is anti-science.
	Now, listen, Trump tweets out a bunch of stuff, and he has tweeted out a bunch of stuff in the past that is anti-science.
	Okay, Donald Trump has tweeted out a bunch of crap about vaccines that I find absolutely absurd on every scientific level.
	Donald Trump has not been, I would say, friendly toward many of the findings of science in the past.
	Openly acknowledge this.
	When it comes to vaccines, what Donald Trump says about vaccines is significantly less dangerous than what Joe Biden is saying about the vaccines for this thing right now.
	Here was Donald Trump yesterday saying that Biden should stop his anti-vaccine nonsense.
	I'm calling on Biden to stop promoting his anti-vaccine theories because all they're doing is hurting the importance of what we're doing.
	And I know that if they were in this position, they'd be saying how wonderful it is.
	They're recklessly endangering lives.
	You can't do that.
	And again, this is really a case that they're only talking to just started talking a little bit negatively, and that's only because they know we have it or we will soon have it.
	And the answer to that is very soon.
	OK, so there there is this controversy that broke out because yesterday the CDC director, Robert Redfield, made a couple of comments.
	He said there wouldn't be wide availability of the vaccine until the middle of next year.
	And then Trump came back at him.
	And he said, no, it'll be available sooner.
	I think that what the controversy is over is who the vaccine will go to.
	Wide availability means like general public availability, but to the elderly, to the most vulnerable, to healthcare workers, it's supposed to be available by the end of the year.
	I think pretty much everybody agrees on that at this point.
	But.
	You know, again, the party of science not being particularly scientific about vaccines, not being particularly scientific about COVID, and apparently in Nashville, openly covering up information.
	Well, openly.
	Now it's open.
	Covering up information about COVID spread in New York, shutting down the schools.
	This is no longer scientific.
	This is political.
	It's pretty obviously political, which is why it was amazing to watch.
	So Donald Trump yesterday. He was he was in this presser and he was asked about the COVID response. And he says, if you just look at the at the red states, the red states actually did pretty well here. He's not wrong about this. He got all sorts of flack on it. Here's what Trump said. So we're down in this territory. And that's despite the fact that the blue states had had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, we're at a level that
	I don't think anybody in the world would be at. We're really at a very low level. But some of the states, they were blue states and blue state management, by the way, would recommend they open up their states. I think it's very important that they.
	Open up their states.
	People on the left went nuts over this because he's the president of all the states.
	Why is he separating red and blue states?
	This was Chris Hayes' take.
	He just couldn't believe it.
	Couldn't believe it.
	If you take out the blue states, well, then we're at a very low level.
	If you don't count the deaths of Americans, then there's fewer American deaths.
	If you're a state that voted for Hillary Clinton, well, then it's your fault, I guess.
	Your aunt's death.
	It doesn't actually count, you see.
	It's a message from the President of the United States.
	Okay, the ire from Chris Hayes here.
	Let me just point out that at the DNC, they literally had a woman whose father died of COVID, suggested her dad died of COVID because he voted for Trump.
	The Democrats have been claiming for this entire time that Andrew Cuomo is a model of American governance while Ron DeSantis is a villain of history for his handling.
	It was you guys who made this political.
	You're the ones who decided Donald Trump was the worst president of all time and Andrew Cuomo is the best governor of all time to excuse Andrew Cuomo's garbage governance or the fact that the states that have been hit hardest are almost universally democratic states.
	And to justify the fact that you guys continue to back lockdown policies that are ineffective at best and extraordinarily damaging at worst.
	Okay, so you made it red versus blue.
	You did.
	It shouldn't be red versus blue.
	It should be everybody pursues the best policy.
	That is clearly not what is happening at this point.
	The good news is, again, the Party of Science is the Party of Science, and so Nancy Pelosi, honestly, she put out an ad yesterday saying that Mother Earth is angry.
	The Party of Science going full-on Gaia Pagan here.
	Here is Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, putting out an ad saying that Mother Earth is angry at us.
	That's what's happening here.
	Mother Earth is angry.
	She's telling us, whether she's telling us with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the West, that the climate crisis is real and has an impact.
	Sixteen people have died in Washington, Oregon, and California, including a firefighter and a one-year-old baby.
	Our firefighters have been so very, very courageous.
	OK, we can stop it there.
	I mean, I'm sorry.
	The Mother Earth is angry crowd.
	Mother Earth is angry crowd.
	Men can be women crowd.
	Babies inside the womb are not babies.
	And hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die by the end of the year based on a study that was wrong in nearly all of its specifics very early on and now is putting in bad data again.
	And also, vaccines are bad if they're developed under the Trump administration.
	Spare me.
	Spare me just a little bit.
	Just a little bit.
	Alrighty.
	We'll be back here later today with a lot more content that I didn't have a chance to get to.
	Otherwise, make sure that you come back tomorrow for much, much more.
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