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April 5, 2021 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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The Propagandist, Lying, Activist Establishment Media Must Be Torn Down | Ep. 1228
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Major League Baseball moves the all-star game out of Georgia based on media lies, and 60 Minutes runs a completely false hit piece on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Over the weekend, Major League Baseball, the national pastime, decided that they would become just the Democratic pastime.
They decided they were going to cancel the All-Star Game in Georgia.
This cancellation was based on overt Democratic lies parroted and forwarded by an establishment media that are partisan hacks.
They are partisan activist liars.
This is what they do for a living.
Now, I've been hesitant to use the phrase enemy of the people because it's a Stalinist phrase that suggests that people should go to jail or that bad things should happen to people.
But let me just say that the media are the enemies of the truth.
The establishment media are just partisan hacks at this point.
They've allowed Joe Biden and the Biden administration to simply lie about the content of this Georgia voter law, which is more liberal with regard to early voting than laws in places like New Jersey.
Its voter ID requirement is utterly uncontroversial.
It did not dismantle all ballot drop boxes or anything like that.
Ballot drop boxes are a new thing that were sort of created for the pandemic.
It limited the number of those.
It didn't get rid of all of them.
It expanded, in many ways, the voting hours in Georgia.
This is an extraordinarily mild law in Georgia, but that's not what you'd get if you read your mainstream media.
If you read your establishment media, what you would get is that this was a Jim Crow attempt to stop black people from voting.
That was a lie, a lie, a lie.
It was a lie all the way through.
And Joe Biden kept saying, Jim Crow.
Over and over and over.
And nobody in the media saw fit to fact check that statement.
They would fact check very specific statements that Joe Biden made on occasion.
So you get the Washington Post giving Joe Biden four Pinocchios for suggesting that the Georgia bill limited voting hours.
But would they overall rate his statement that this was like a Jim Crow voting law?
Of course not.
Of course not.
Even though it is overtly a lie.
You have to be so unbelievably ignorant and stupid to believe that this Georgia law has anything to do with Jim Crow.
And yet, if you polled Americans, I would bet money that half of Americans think that this is Jim Crow racism, this Georgia voter law, which again, is more liberal than Delaware state voting law, apparently.
So here's what happened.
Joe Biden and the Biden administration and his partners in the media, because that's what they are.
They are not objective in any way.
They are simply propagandists on behalf of the Democratic Party.
This partisan hack group decided to push that lie and not just push that lie, then in activist fashion to try and pressure private corporations into pressuring public bodies like the Georgia state legislature or like the governor of Georgia.
So they're trying to mobilize corporations to do their dirty work for them.
They don't have control of the levers of power in Georgia.
So instead what they're going to do is they're going to try and get private corporations to pressure all of these public bodies into doing what they want.
Now, there's a certain irony to this.
Members of the left are constantly saying, Corporations, they shouldn't be donating money in politics.
They shouldn't be in politics.
Look at these corporations with their corporate money influencing politics.
And then, at the exact same time, they will demand that these corporations actively use their businesses, right?
Not just their funds, their businesses themselves.
They should change how they do business in order to punish Republican states.
And so they put a lot of pressure on Major League Baseball.
Joe Biden went on ESPN and he overtly called for Major League Baseball to remove the All-Star Game from Georgia.
And Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred, who's an abject coward.
He's a pathetic, abject coward.
He's a yellow-bellied coward.
That cowardly, ridiculous person decided, you know what?
That's what we're going to do.
We're going to pull the All-Star Game from Georgia.
And this follows in the footsteps of other sports that have done similar things.
We saw the NCAA pull basketball games from North Carolina after a bill that would have protected women's bathrooms in Charlotte.
We saw that there were sports leagues that attempted to target Arizona in the aftermath of Jan Brewer, former governor of Arizona, pushing the idea that Arizona was going to enforce immigration law on a state level.
This is nothing new.
It's just the latest iteration.
And it's the most ridiculous iteration because it is based on just complete, utter lies.
Again, the Georgia law is not offensive for anyone who's actually looked at the Georgia law.
The lies about this bill are insane.
The lie that you can't drink water or be given water if you're 150 feet from a polling place.
No, you can't have a partisan activist bring you water.
But there are poll workers there and they will bring you water.
You can bring water yourself.
You can have a friend go get you water.
This is the same law that applies in a bevy of states, but that's not what you heard about this law, is it?
What you heard from Stacey Abrams, who is a liar, and Joe Biden, who is a liar, and the media, who are liars, is that this is a Jim Crow voting tactic designed to stop black people from voting.
Again, an overt lie.
And Major League Baseball decided to mirror that lie.
Again, these lies were consistent over and over, and the media just repeated them.
The Washington Post reported, Abrams actually claimed, this is a claim from Stacey Abrams, again, the greatest politician in American history, Stacey Abrams.
She claimed, quote, that the Georgia GOP traded economic opportunity for suppression.
This was suppression of the vote.
The Washington Post, by the way, did report in a fact check that experts consulted by the newspaper said the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.
But that didn't stop the Washington Post from simply repeating ad nauseum Joe Biden's lines about how this was Jim Crow racism.
Biden said that he would strongly support the league boycotting the city over the law that was passed by democratically elected officials, according to Daily Wire.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp fought back against all of this.
He said, there's no way we should apologize for this law.
Are you guys insane?
There's nothing wrong with the law.
There were mechanical issues that needed to be fixed.
There were reasons to try to figure out a better way, a more accessible way, and a more secure way for us to hold elections.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
We shouldn't apologize for wanting to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Maybe there's an argument for boycotts and protests and moving all-star games, but that is not what happened.
What happened was Georgia is going to have secure, very accessible, and fair elections in the future in this state.
It can also went ahead and slam Joe Biden, who of course had lied about the Georgia law over and over and over again.
Certainly doesn't help when you have the president of the United States saying that and nobody in the national media, at least in the mainstream media, will even ask for a correction when he simply lies, gets a four Pinocchios of all people of all places from the Washington I mean, that should tell you right there, he's not being truthful.
He continues to lie and mislead about what the bill does.
So how exactly did this boycott come about by the MLB?
How exactly did Major League Baseball, America's national pastime, decide that they are simply going to inject themselves into American politics on the state level and punish states on the basis of democratic lies?
How did this happen?
Here's, I'll give you that story in just one second, because it truly is incredible.
It shows you how a small and transient group of people, along with the media pushing from the outside in activist fashion, can make this stuff happen.
It really is an amazing, amazing thing.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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So how did all of this materialize?
It materialized because just like all corporate blowhardism, basically you have a small intransigent group of people inside a corporation.
Doesn't have to be very large.
They just have to be very loud and very intransigent.
And they work an inside-outside game with the media.
They push from the inside, this small intransigent group of folks, and then you have the media pretending that this represents a broad majority inside the corporation, and threatening that corporation with outside action if they refuse to acknowledge what these wokesters inside their own halls want.
Right, this is how you get Woka Cola.
You get Woka Cola because you have a very small percentage of employees at Woka Cola, 20% of the employees, and they decide that they don't like the Georgia law.
And then you have the media on the outside yelling at Coke.
And you have all of the heads of Coke going, well, you know, does it really matter if we like, just say we don't like the Georgia law?
Is that really that big a deal?
We'll just put out a statement saying we don't like it and then they'll leave us alone.
Okay, this is what happened with the MLB, with Major League Baseball.
And again, On a personal level, I don't have a lot of brand investments, right?
I don't care if I don't drink Coke.
It doesn't make any difference to me.
I don't drink Coke in the first place.
I'm not a soda person.
But I do care about Major League Baseball.
I'm an enormous baseball fan.
I've been an enormous baseball fan my entire life.
My father and I wrote a full-on book about the 2005 Chicago White Sox championship season.
We went through literally every game that season.
That's how big a baseball fan I am.
I'm a huge, huge baseball fan.
I grew up with it.
It's a part of sort of the lifeblood of the country.
And seeing that lifeblood poisoned with the politics of wokeness is deeply disturbing.
It's disturbing on a number of levels.
First, they're taking things that we all should be able to share together and they're wrecking them.
They're politicizing them.
But just as importantly, they are taking cherished aspects of American culture and they are turning them to politics.
And once you do that, there's nothing we share.
They're making it.
The left is making it.
So there's literally nothing we share.
We can't share a baseball game without getting political.
We can't pick a razor brand without getting political.
Everything is political now, and this is the way they want it.
This is why when you hear some conservatives say, why are you so worried about the culture wars?
Why don't you just worry about the spending?
I care about the spending.
I do.
I care about Joe Biden's crappy bills.
We'll get to that.
But I care much more deeply about culture because culture is upstream of politics.
A culture that refuses to acknowledge dissent as legitimate.
A culture that refuses to acknowledge political diversity.
A culture that says you can't work at this corporation because you voted for Trump.
Or that you can't have an all-star game in your state if you voted the way we don't like.
That culture is not destined to remain.
That is a culture that is destined to break down, to polarize, and then to just collapse in on itself like a dying star.
And that's what we're seeing in the United States right now.
How exactly did Major League Baseball, again, A coalition of teams with an antitrust exemption that should be removed now?
How did that coalition of teams with teams all over the United States, including in red areas?
Okay, Georgia, despite the fact that it just elected two blue senators in a bizarre special election, it still is a red state.
It has a red legislature.
It has a red governor.
And now after this, it's going to have two red senators next time it comes up.
How exactly did this league decide that it was time to just alienate half of its fanbase?
Minimum half of its fanbase?
Commissioner Rob Manfred, according to ESPN, made the decision to move the All-Star Game and Events, along with the amateur draft from Atlanta, after discussions with individual big leaguers and the Players' Alliance, an organization of black players formed after the death of George Floyd last year.
This all came together rather quickly, said Chicago Cubs outfielder Jason Hayward, who is black.
We had, I think, a day left in spring training.
The Players' Alliance, we gathered and got as many people as we could on a call.
It was probably less than 50 guys on there out of the 100 or whatever.
We had our conversation.
We knew how we felt about it.
We wanted to make sure, I think, that regardless of what happened, the decision was made and that we were there to do what we could in Atlanta.
So, number one, they promulgated a lie.
That the Georgia voter law was about voter suppression.
It was not.
And that was based on a larger lie that Democrats were pushing over the course of the last few years, which is every time they lost an election, it was about suppression of the black vote.
It was a lie.
It's been a lie.
It continues to be a lie.
This has nothing to do with Jim Crow.
It has nothing to do with race.
And it's disgusting.
I mean, really repulsive that the media parroted that lie and treated it as legitimate over and over and over.
But for our purposes, it's just as important to see that the MLB shifted its entire stance and removed, according to the Cobb County officials in Georgia, $100 million in revenue from Cobb County because 45 players in MLB decided to write a letter to Rob Manfred.
I mean, that's unbelievable.
According to Daily Wire, Georgia County that voted for Biden will lose $100 million over the MLB relocating the game.
$100 million is removed from the local economy, people will lose their jobs, because Jason Hayward, who makes millions of dollars for being an overrated baseball player, and some 40 other players, decided that it was deeply necessary for the MLB to move its all-star game.
And Rob Manfred, because he's a coward, decided to go along with it.
But was it really about those players?
Was it really?
It wasn't only about those players.
It was certainly partially about those players, because those players were very loud, and they were shouting about racial justice, even though, again, this had nothing to do with race, and it was based on a lie.
But it was about this intransigent, woke minority inside MLB combined with a media that was actively pushing this stuff.
Actively pushing this stuff.
And when I say actively pushing this stuff, let me give you an example of just how actively they were pushing this stuff in just one second, because it shows what the media are.
They're an activist propaganda group on behalf of the Democratic Party.
That's all they are.
They deserve no more respect than the normal press release that you get from the DNC, or from the Democratic National Campaign Committee, or from Media Matters.
They're just an activist group.
They're a propaganda outlet.
They are the Pravda of the Democratic Party.
We'll get to the proof in the pudding in just one second.
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Okay, so.
Here is the proof that your media are just a bag of flaming garbage who need to be torn down.
CBS, they're just activists.
CBS, because MLB didn't shift just because of these woke players, these 45 woke players or whomever.
By the way, how many total MLB players?
Total number of MLB players right now is something like 1,000.
There are 1,000 players on opening day rosters of the MLB.
Over 1,000.
Less than 50 players made the MLB move that.
According to ESPN.
That's how little the intransigent minority has to be in order to reshape the entire industry.
It's unreal.
It's unreal.
And that only happens because the media are who the media are.
Cause what do the media do?
What the media do is they then call up MLB's advertisers.
They call up Woca Cola and they say, you guys advertise with MLB.
You just said that you came out against the Georgia bill, but I see that you're advertising with the MLB who's having their all-star game in Georgia.
Why would you do that?
And then Woca Cola calls up MLB and they say, you know what?
It's real awkward for us.
Why don't you move the all-star game?
That's how this little pathetic game works.
And the media are in on it.
When the media call up Coca-Cola for comment, they're not calling them for comment.
They're demanding action from Coca-Cola.
Because the threat is, we are now going to run a headline saying that Coca-Cola is a bunch of hypocrites.
This is why, number one, these corporations should never give an inch.
Because once the inch is given, they are done.
The minute you feed a toad to the alligator, the rest of you is gone.
Okay, this is the Robert Shaw scene in Jaws.
The minute you're sliding down that deck and you're trying to fend off the shark with your feet, pretty soon you're gonna find your torso in its mouth.
That is what's happening to all of these corporations right now.
So, how does he, this is the perfect proof.
CBS put out a headline over the weekend.
Here was the headline, it was Friday night.
Quote, three ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law.
Does that sound like news to you?
That was not in their opinion section.
There was no opinion tag or disclaimer on the article.
Three ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law.
So, number one, a few problems.
One, it is not a restrictive new voting law.
It expands voting.
Expands it.
Two, so that's just a lie.
Two, that is a perfectly activist headline.
You would see that from the Democratic National Committee.
You would see that at Stacey Abrams' website.
Three ways companies can help fight, right?
The implication being if you don't, then you're in favor of Georgia's evil restrictive new voting law.
The media are activists.
If you give them an iota of respect, it is because you're being a dumb-dumb.
They deserve none of your respect.
This doesn't mean don't watch what they say and then don't fact-check it.
You should fact-check it.
But if you take what they say at face value, it's because you're a moron.
There is no way that you should be watching CBS News and taking it at face value.
There's just no way to do it.
And it's just mirroring Democratic Party priorities.
That's all they do.
That's their actual agenda.
Why?
Because if the media actually reported what's going on with MLB, it would be perfectly obvious how hypocritical MLB is.
As Fox News reported, it turns out that Major League Baseball is protesting that Georgia voting law.
Meanwhile, they have bolstered ties with a Communist Party-backed Chinese company that cracked down on an NBA executive who supported the pro-democracy move in Hong Kong.
The MLB signed a deal with Tencent on Wednesday.
It's one of China's largest tech companies.
It's one of the Chinese firms that briefly dropped NBA games in 2019, after former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey publicly voiced support for pro-democracy protesters facing a Beijing-backed crackdown in Hong Kong.
As always, it turns out that these sports teams, it's all about the money.
It's not about how they are principled opponents of the Georgia voting law.
It's because they wish to avoid the scrutiny of the media, who don't care at all that all of these corporations are doing business with the worst people on earth.
Companies that are sponsored by the repressive and tyrannical Chinese government.
It's just, it's an incredible, incredible, that headline, my goodness, CBS News eventually pulled it.
But the fact that it was even up just demonstrates where your media are, and they are garbage.
By the way, speaking of hypocrisy, remember, Joe Biden called for MLB to move the All-Star Game, right?
That's the real reason this happened.
Joe Biden called for it.
Stacey Abrams didn't call for it, but basically said that the Georgia voting law is Jim Crow, which promulgated the myth.
The media pushed it, and then you had just enough people inside MLB yelling about it that Rob Manfred wimped out, because that's what he was going to do.
Meanwhile, Jen Psaki can't answer a very simple question.
Why is it that you're saying companies should boycott Georgia, but you, the President of the United States, the White House, you are not calling for the United States to boycott the Olympics in China?
Which it turns out is, you want to know a country that has really restrictive voting laws?
Like super restrictive voting laws?
Not about like, People who are partisan giving water bottles to people 150 paces from the voting place.
But you know, people being sent to detention camps if they vote the wrong way.
You know, China.
Bad voting laws over there.
And yet, strangely, Joe Biden seems perfectly willing to have an Olympics in China.
When can we expect a final determination from the president about the United States participating in the Beijing Olympics, given that he said the Chinese president doesn't have a democratic bone in his body?
Well, I think the U.S.
Olympic Committee would play a big role in... ...on Major League Baseball here in the United States.
He actually didn't, I think, I don't know if you heard the question, the answer that happened a few minutes ago, where we addressed this, and I answered the question.
So, and I give a little more context, but maybe you weren't paying attention to that part.
Oh, no, you're just a liar.
You're just a liar.
You're fine with the United States doing the Beijing Olympics because you don't care if China represses its own people.
But you do care about lying about Georgia so that you can presumably win a bigger share of the black vote by lying to black voters that Jim Crow is coming for them.
It's not a shock that the same Joe Biden who claimed that Mitt Romney wanted to put black people back in chains is claiming that a law that expands voting access in Georgia actually restricts it to hurt black people.
They're just damned liars, and the media repeat it.
They repeat it full scale.
Now, here's the good news.
There's going to be a backlash.
Okay, so let's talk about that backlash for a second.
Here's the reality in Georgia.
What's about to happen in Georgia is that Raphael Warnock is about to lose his seat.
Okay, he is up for re-election in about a year and a half here.
Not even, right?
He's up for reelection.
Yeah, about a year and a half.
November of 2022.
He's gonna lose his seat.
He's going to lose his seat because it turns out that the people of Georgia only voted for Raphael Warnock basically because Donald Trump intervened in the Georgia Senate race.
Both of those seats should have gone Republican.
So that was up there.
Second, it turns out that when you lead a movement to boycott your own state, that's really unpopular, which is why Stacey Abrams, who is the lead promulgator of the overt lie that this was a Jim Crow Georgia voting bill, even she came out against MLB.
She said she blamed Republicans for it.
She said they prioritized making it harder for people of color to vote over the economic well-being of all Georgians.
Like many Georgians, I am disappointed the MLB is relocating the All-Star Game.
However, I commend the player's owner and lead commissioner for speaking out.
So in other words, she wants it both ways.
She's very happy that everybody's speaking out and removing the All-Star Game, but also she's sad they're removing the All-Star Game.
That's because she's recognizing, maybe for the first time, that people losing economic activity because they disagree with Stacey Abrams might not be a great electoral strategy in a state like Georgia.
The backlash is coming, and it's coming strong.
And it should come strong.
And there's a piece by Dave Seminara in the Wall Street Journal called What I Wouldn't Give for a Shave That Isn't Woke.
He says, from my closet to my bathroom, my house is full of leftist brands.
It's time to do something about it.
He says, maybe I was wrong to think conservatives should refrain from adopting the bullying, boycotting tactics of the left.
I made the case against emulating progressives in these pages last summer as I lamented the rise of the woke corporation, documenting how many of my favorite companies embrace values antithetical to my own.
But it's increasingly clear that the sharp increase in corporate virtue signaling after George Floyd's death wasn't a passing trend, but a sea change.
Perhaps it's time for conservatives to boycott companies that hate us.
Yes, this is correct.
It's time for companies to form on the right in direct opposition to this stuff.
We're going to be doing that at Daily Wire.
I promise you it's coming.
We are going to be forming companies that are specifically designated in order to take on the woke culture in corporate America.
And you should do the same.
If this is the country that the left wants, this is the country they're going to get.
They're going to get a backlash in Georgia electorally, and in the culture sphere, People on the conservative side of the aisle are gonna start businesses that do not cater to the woke, that decide they're gonna cater to everybody, and they're gonna just tell the woke to shove it, because here's the dirty little secret.
The woke don't have that much power.
The media are a paper tiger.
The media yelling at you, and saying how they're gonna boycott you, and they're gonna be mean to you, no one gives a crap.
No one gives a crap.
The dirty secret of the media is that they are a mirage.
The media have a perception of power because they can drive narrative.
But, not enough people pay attention to the narrative to actually make a difference.
It's just these corporate leaders are so online, they're so on Twitter, that they're afraid of seven people on Twitter.
We know this, for example, because Harry's Razors decided to cancel advertising with some of the shows on Daily Wire because one of the Daily Wire hosts made the crazy statement that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and you're not allowed to say that.
So Harry's Razor was like, this doesn't agree with our values.
OK, well, you know, fine.
Fine.
You don't like us.
You don't like our listeners.
That's fine, Harry's Razors.
We'll just launch a different brand of razors and our people can go to us.
Because guess what?
Two can play at this game.
I've said for a long time, I don't like boycott tactics.
I'm not a fan of them.
But there's only one thing worse than boycott tactics, and that is letting the other side use them and then being victimized by them.
There's only one thing worse than having nuclear weapons, and that is the other guy having nuclear weapons and you being completely disarmed.
The right is not going to stand for this any longer, nor should they.
The blowback is coming, and it's going to come very strongly.
And the more the media just let it out of the closet exactly what they are, the more the blowback is coming.
And it's going to come against the media, too.
There's a reason that right-wing media are growing.
And we will continue to grow here at Daily Wire, because people don't want to get their news from a bunch of partisan hacks who won't announce that they are even partisan.
We here at the Daily Wire acknowledge we're conservative.
I've told you.
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And nobody on the left will do that, because they are liars, because they lie about their own agenda.
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But the media just lied to you, and they lie consistently, and they lie with narrative.
It's happening over and over and over.
Another example.
So, over the weekend, There was a rather major story, but it's not a major story because here's the way it works when it comes to crime stories.
If there is a crime story that backs the media narrative that America is systemically racist and evil and filled with white supremacist right-wingers, then that's a national story.
If a person who is not moving along with that narrative commits a murder in a high-profile fashion, that's not a national news story.
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So, if a white person kills a black person on the street, that's a national story because it underscores the idea that America is evil and systemically racist and how could we be such a terrible country?
If a black person kills a white person on the street, which in terms of statistical probability is actually more likely to happen, that's not a national story, that's a local news story.
Okay, if you... Perfect example over the weekend.
It turns out that there was an attack on the U.S.
Capitol Police.
A member of U.S.
Capitol Police was killed by a person who drove a car into two U.S.
Capitol Police officers, then got out of his vehicle with a knife, and then he was shot by the police.
The immediate response by the media, by many of the media, was this has to be some sort of white supremacist, right?
This has to be a QAnon guy or something.
Well, it turns out not.
It turns out that the attacker was a 25-year-old black man who was a follower of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.
This person's Facebook page describes himself as a follower of Farrakhan, in which he said that Farrakhan was Jesus, he said that he was his spiritual father, and he called himself Noah X. Many Twitter accounts initially rushed to assume the attack was carried out by a white supporter of former President Trump, But the minute that it turned out that this was a Louis Farrakhan supporter, boom, it was gone from the media.
You haven't heard about it at all.
You haven't heard about it at all.
Just as many police officers were killed this week at the U.S.
Capitol as were killed on January 6th.
There was one police officer, we still don't know how he died, we don't know if he was murdered at the Capitol, but Officer Brian Sicknick died, maybe presumably, I mean, again, the facts are still coming out during the January 6th attacks.
A US Capitol Police officer was just murdered over the weekend. It is not a national news story because of the identity of the perpetrator. The media have decided it's not a national news story because they are partisan hacks.
Because all they care about is the Democrat-leaning narrative.
And let me just tell you this.
If that had been a Donald Trump supporter, every Republican in America would have been asked about how your vote for Donald Trump effectuated this kind of thing.
But this person was a follower of Louis Farrakhan.
Will a single Democrat who's met with Louis Farrakhan be asked about this?
Will a single Democrat who's made nice with Louis Farrakhan, I'm talking about Representative Hank Johnson, I'm talking about Rashida Tlaib, I'm talking about Ilhan Omar, I'm talking about all the Democratic members, No, don't be silly.
Don't be silly.
Because that, of course, is a local news story.
In a second, we're gonna get to the biggest media botchery of the day.
I mean, it's just, the media are, they are out, and they are proud, and they are living life to the fullest.
The backlash is gonna be extraordinary, and I cannot wait for it.
I am here for it.
That's the biggest media botchery of the day.
It is purposeful botchery.
It is, frankly, defamation.
And if they weren't targeting the public figure, they'd find themselves in court.
We'll talk about that in just one second.
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In just a second, we're going to get to the worst media botchery of the day, and it is purposeful.
It is purposeful, malicious media botchery.
We'll get to that in just one second.
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This is not just them being bad at journalism.
It is that they are hacks.
They are partisan hacks with an agenda.
This is deliberate.
These are propagandists.
60 Minutes ran a propaganda piece about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Now, DeSantis has been the target of the media ever since the beginning of the pandemic, because DeSantis took a different strategy than California and New York, and he showed them up.
He made them look really bad.
It turns out that DeSantis ran this state beautifully, the state that I am in.
Well, New York and California ran their states like garbage.
Andrew Cuomo shipped COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes.
He killed thousands of them and covered it up.
In California, they shut down the entire state for a full year and ended up with the same deaths per million ratio as Florida, despite the fact that California has one of the youngest populations in America and Florida has the oldest population in America outside of Maine.
But the media hate DeSantis because DeSantis didn't listen to their pathetic lies about COVID and how to treat COVID and all the rest of it.
DeSantis knew COVID was a threat.
He knew it was a threat that mostly centered on elderly people.
And so he protected the elderly and he told everybody else to go out and use risk assessment and wear masks when they felt that they were at risk and then live their lives.
He didn't destroy the economy.
He didn't prevent people from living their lives.
He didn't kill all the restaurants.
He didn't prevent people from eating outdoors the way they did in California.
DeSantis handled it right.
Cuomo and Newsom handled it wrong.
The media like Cuomo and they like Newsom.
So, since the beginning of the pandemic, they've been covering every idiotic story out of Florida and then never doing follow-up to show that they were wrong.
So they'll have some moron lawyer walking around the beaches of Jacksonville dressed up as the Grim Reaper.
And saying like, wow, look at this guy.
He's shaming Ron DeSantis.
They'll never follow up to point out that no one actually got COVID on the Jacksonville beach.
They'll have story after story about how, look at Ron DeSantis in Tampa.
I mean, they had the Superbowl there.
Surely there will be a massive outbreak.
No massive outbreak, no follow-up.
Okay, well now, they're trying to suggest that DeSantis is corrupt.
So, a couple of weeks ago, they just put, like last week, they put out a story in the media that was a lie, that DeSantis was covering up deaths.
And it turns out that the person who authored the study they were drawing from said that the media were lying about it.
It's okay.
They've promoted the idea of hashtag DeathSantis.
It doesn't matter.
All that matters is the narrative.
It doesn't matter that the excess death numbers that were being used in Flora were the same as the excess death numbers everywhere else.
It doesn't matter.
DeSantis is the bad guy.
So 60 Minutes tried to generate a headline last night with a story that is just complete bullcrap.
It's just not true.
And of course, Drudge Report, which has basically just become the Huffington Post.
You may have noticed this.
It's pretty incredible, right?
Drudge, who used to be a fairly conservative-slash-libertarian voice, his headlines are now indistinguishable from Huffington Post.
Indistinguishable.
The headline over at Drudge right now is DeSantis accused of pay for play in Vax rollout.
Grocery chain gave PAC $100,000.
Okay, so here is what their supposed story is at 60 Minutes.
Their supposed story is that Ron DeSantis allowed Publix to hand out the vaccine, the grocery chain, Publix, to hand out the vaccine because they gave him $100,000 in his super PAC.
Okay, there's only one problem with the story.
It's not true.
It's not true.
That's not why he allowed Publix to do it.
He didn't... CVS and Walgreens had the vaccine.
I know, I was here.
CVS and Walgreens had the vaccine first.
They were insufficient at pushing out the vaccine.
So local officials said, why not give it to Publix?
There are 800 Publix around the state of Florida.
What if Publix were able to do it?
And it sounds like, hey, that's a good idea.
Let's do it.
Publix gives money to politicians on both sides of the aisle.
It's a grocery chain.
You think Ron DeSantis was corruptly using Publix to accelerate the rollout?
What was he supposed to do?
Not accelerate the rollout of the vaccine in the oldest state in America?
Okay, so it's not just that 60 Minutes botches the story.
By the way, Democratic officials say that they botched the story.
Democratic state officials said it's false and offensive.
According to Daily Wire, the segment featured reporter Sharon Alfonsi ambushing DeSantis at a press conference last month, aggressively questioning him using a misleading narrative about the way he has responded to the COVID pandemic.
Alfonsi tried to suggest that Publix, the largest grocery store chain in Florida, had engaged in pay-to-play by donating money to DeSantis' campaign in exchange for being awarded a contract to distribute vaccines in the state.
Publix put out a statement, they said, the irresponsible suggestion there is a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state's vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive.
We're proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to do our part to help communities emerge from the pandemic.
Former Florida State Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, slammed 60 Minutes, saying DeSantis' office did not push for selecting Publix.
Moskowitz is director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management and has overseen the state's response to the pandemic.
Sixty minutes.
He said, I said this before, I'll say it again.
Publix was recommended by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Health as the other pharmacies were not ready to start.
Period.
Full stop.
No one from the governor's office suggested Publix.
It's just absolute malarkey.
This is a Democratic official.
It's a Democratic official.
Okay, so what did 60 Minutes do in order to generate this fake narrative?
So there's this exchange about a month ago between Sharon Alfonsi and Ron DeSantis.
Here is how 60 Minutes cut the exchange.
Okay, here's it.
I'm going to show you how they cut the exchange.
Then I'm going to show you the full exchange.
They cut out the part where DeSantis explained why she was lying and wrong.
They just cut it out completely to make it look like he was just being randomly combative.
So here's the fake exchange from 60 Minutes, the selectively edited exchange.
Then I'm going to play the full exchange.
Here's the selectively edited one.
I met with the county mayor.
I met with the administrator.
I met with all the folks at Palm Beach County and I said, here's some of the options.
We can do more drive-thru sites.
We can give more to hospitals.
We can do the Publix.
And they said, we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents.
But Melissa McKinlay, the county commissioner in the Glades, told us the governor never met with her about the Publix deal.
The criticism is that it's pay to play, Governor.
It's wrong.
It's wrong.
It's a fake narrative.
I just disabused you of the narrative and you don't care about the facts.
Okay, and so everybody was like, oh, look at that combative Ron DeSantis.
Look at him.
All the experts from the Lincoln Project, when they were not busy covering up for people who were abusing male staffers, they were like, look at the experts.
Look at Ron DeSantis.
What a combative, he is a liar.
Okay, here's the full exchange because we have tape of it.
Here's the full exchange.
60 minutes sliced out the entire explanation by DeSantis of why Sharon Alfonsi is just lying and wrong.
They just cut it out because he made her look like a fool.
Here was the entire exchange.
First of all, when we did the the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens, and they had a long-term care mission.
So they were going to the long-term care facilities.
They got vaccine in the middle of December.
They started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs.
So that was their mission.
That was very important, and we trusted them to do that.
As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points.
So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot.
But we wanted to get it into communities more.
So we reached out to other retail pharmacies, Publix, Walmart.
Obviously, CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission.
And we said, we're going to use you as soon as you're done with that.
For the Publix, they were the first one to raise their hand and say they were ready to go.
Okay.
And he does this full explanation.
He says, he says, they calculated 90% of their seniors live within a mile and a half of a Publix.
They said, we think that would be the easiest thing for our residents.
So we did that.
And what ended up happening was he had 65 Publix in Palm Beach.
Palm Beach is one of the biggest counties, one of the most elderly counties.
We've done almost 75% of the seniors in Palm Beach.
And the reason is because you have a strong retail footprint.
So our way has been multifaceted.
It has worked.
And we're also now very much expanding CVS and Walgreens now that they've completed that long-term care mission.
Okay, that was his full explanation.
She just cut all of it out.
Just cut all of it out to make it look like he was not telling the truth.
His own officials, right, Democrats are saying that he's telling the truth and 60 Minutes is lying.
She should be fired for this.
She should lose her job.
This selective editing is a hit piece.
It is a hit piece from 60 Minutes.
And it's being now laundered into the public press.
It's being laundered by the media.
So here's how Axios covers this.
Quote, Florida governor clashes with 60 Minutes over COVID vaccine rollout.
Oh, it's just a clash.
It's just a clash.
Why it matters.
Okay, that was a lie as well.
The idea that DeSantis was just giving vaccines to the rich?
No!
He was putting it where the old people are.
The old people in Florida happen to be in the richer communities generally.
Okay, that was a lie as well.
The idea that DeSantis was just giving vaccines to the rich.
No, he was putting it where the old people are.
The old people in Florida happen to be in the richer communities generally.
That is ridiculous.
Of course he was giving the vaccines to the old.
The old were the ones dying of COVID.
What was he supposed to do?
Give it to people who were poor and young?
Made no sense at all.
They pushed that narrative.
So they've now tried several different narratives to try and nail DeSantis because they see DeSantis as a possible 2024 contender.
So they're trying to knock him out early.
First, they promoted the lying narrative that by having the state open at all, he was killing people.
It was not true.
Then they tried to promote the narrative that Ron DeSantis was in corrupt fashion, rolling out the vaccines only for his political rich allies.
Wrong.
He was rolling it out for the elderly.
Then, they tried to promote the narrative that Ron DeSantis was covering up the COVID numbers.
That was also a lie.
And finally, they are now promoting the narrative that Ron DeSantis, for $100,000 donations from Publix, decided that he was going to allow, you know, the largest grocery chain in Florida to hand out the vaccine.
And this is treated not only as legit news, but as driving the news.
Driving the news.
Hey, according to Axios, the 60 Minutes program highlighted reports of vaccine favoritism with Florida's poorer communities being left behind in the rollout.
There's no Publix in Belle Glade in Palm Beach County.
Oh, so they found a town where there's no Publix to suggest that now using the most, the most branched grocery in the state is a bad thing.
You know how stupid that is?
So you find the grocery that's the most common in the entire state.
And you say, you know what?
You guys should hand out the vaccine.
So what did 60 Minutes do?
They went to a community that doesn't have a branch.
And then they're like, you know what?
Because this community doesn't have a Publix, no Publix should have it!
The hell are you talking about?
State Democratic Representative Omari Hardy told the show you have lots of folks who don't have cars in the community.
It's a round trip of over two hours with 34 stops to the nearest Publix 25 miles away.
Publix isn't the only outlet handing this out.
CVS and Walgreens are also handing it out.
And there are state pop-ups giving out the vaccine.
And this is all, it's just wrong.
It's a lie.
It's just not true.
But it doesn't matter, because 60 Minutes drives the narrative.
Because the media are driving the narrative, and they're just absolute disgusting partisan hacks.
You should not trust them with an iota of your time, with an iota of your money.
You shouldn't trust any narrative they push.
They're out-of-the-closet propaganda on behalf of the Democratic Party, just trying to push Joe Biden to a second term on a gurney.
It's unreal.
And they'll do it any way they can.
Take, for example, the unbelievable coverage of Hunter Biden's new book.
So Hunter Biden has now put out a book.
Okay, his book is an attempt to cash in on the fact that he's a garbage human.
Okay, this has nothing to do with Joe.
Hunter's being a garbage human is not on Joe.
It's on Hunter.
Hunter's a garbage human by every specification.
He's a longtime crack cocaine addict who used to mess around with strippers, impregnated one, had her get a paternity test.
The child never really comes up in his book.
Like, none of this.
He's a bad, all he does is run around picking up bags of cash on behalf of, because he has a last name that's Biden.
Hunter is just a bad person.
If you follow his life story, there's no question.
He's just, if you follow his text messages, he's got, but the media have been in steady coverup mode for Hunter Biden being a bad person, because they're afraid it's going to reflect badly on Joe, which is unbelievable.
They could just say, listen, Hunter's garbage.
Joe's fine.
They can't do that.
Instead, it has to be, Hunter Biden's story doesn't even exist.
The Hunter Biden laptop story, disinformation, Russian disinformation.
Well, now Hunter Biden has acknowledged that that laptop is probably his, and the media are like, well, Same media saying it was a non-story.
Now they're like, he has a new book out.
And you know, it's a moving and wonderful book.
It's a moving and incredible book.
Except that the book is basically a cover-up.
Except that the book basically excuses him for his own activity.
Doesn't really talk about the fact that he was scoring deals to get on the board of Amtrak and scoring high-paying gigs consulting, and the media treat him with just absolute kid gloves.
He has no answers, but they'll treat him credibly.
Here's Hunter Biden talking with CBS News saying, you know, I'm cooperating with the DOJ.
I'm a nice guy.
There's a current Department of Justice investigation into your finances.
Yep.
What is it about?
Can you say anything more?
I can't, but I can say this, is I'm cooperating completely.
And I am absolutely certain, 100% certain, that at the end of the investigation, that I will be cleared of any wrongdoing.
You're 100% certain you'll be cleared?
I'm 100% certain of it.
And all I can do is cooperate and trust in the process.
Sure.
Sure.
Yeah.
By the way, the book is being covered as a wonderful piece of literature.
That's how they're covering it.
Hunter Biden bares his soul.
Bares his soul.
That's the story.
Not that Hunter Biden is a scuzzbucket who just picked up a $2 million advance from Simon & Schuster for basically lying about his own history.
Unreal.
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