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May 19, 2021 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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The Masks Are All Coming Off | Ep. 1258
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Public health pseudo-experts and their political allies are unmasked as science deniers, the Andrew Brown case comes apart, and the radical left's mask comes off when it comes to winking and anti-Semitism.
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Alrighty. So over the past few days, it appears that the Biden administration has now come around to the science and many in the Biden administration are now acknowledging that they were lying about the science for months on end.
Some of us were saying from the very early days of the pandemic that once you had had COVID, you were basically immune now to COVID and you were not passing COVID.
And that is what the statistics showed.
Some of us were also saying that the masking was really only necessary in close quarters And once you are vaccinated, you are done.
Once you are vaccinated and two weeks past that second vaccination, you are done.
And you'll recall that on Friday, because Joe Biden had had a very bad news week, he decided that he was going to unmask publicly.
Well, now Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, except for Dr. Joe Biden, who, as we all know, is the greatest doctor in the history, not only of America, but of the world.
It goes like Dr. Joe Biden, Hippocrates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. J, Dr. Pepper, and then all the rest of the doctors.
Dr. Fauci, yesterday, he admitted, on national TV, that he was wearing a mask for no reason.
Which is weird, because when he was sitting in front of the Senate, and Rand Paul was questioning him about this, he was like, no, there's a very good reason it's the variants.
Except there wasn't, and Fauci was lying.
When your public health experts acknowledge that they have lied to you now about a variety of issues, for your own benefit, maybe you should stop listening to them and start looking at the underlying data.
Here was Fauci acknowledging that he's a liar.
I'm obviously careful because, I mean, I'm a physician and a health care provider.
I am now much more comfortable in people seeing me indoors without a mask.
I mean, before the CDC made the recommendation change, I didn't want to look like I was giving mixed signals.
But being a fully vaccinated person, the chances of my getting infected in an indoor setting is extremely low.
And that's the reason why in indoor settings now, I feel comfortable about not wearing a mask because I'm fully vaccinated.
So in other words, he was fully vaccinated months ago.
Fauci is an elderly dude.
He was obviously at the top of the health care chain.
That dude was vaccinated months and months and months ago, probably as of January, at a minimum.
OK, and Dr. Fauci was walking around for months on end indoors with a mask.
And when he was asked about it, he said, well, it might be necessary.
Why?
Because he wanted to mirror the political predilections of the Biden administration.
Again, it is just a source of astonishment to me that we have treated the Trump administration for a year on COVID as a great controlling force standing above the public health establishment and bossing them around and telling them what to do and twisting the science.
And here you have Anthony Fauci openly acknowledging that he lied to you for months because he wanted to send you a message that it was important to mask even after you were vaccinated and only once the vaunted CDC decided to get on board did he decide to unmask.
Well, Rand Paul had something to say about this.
He said, Well, um, weird because I was saying this to you before and then I'd get trended on Twitter every five minutes for saying that you were wrong.
Well, Rand Paul was right and Fauci was wrong.
Every exchange they've had for the past several months, Rand Paul was right and Fauci was wrong.
My question to him would be, did you just discover vaccine immunology?
Did you not believe in vaccine immunology a couple of weeks ago when I asked you this?
Or were you doing it for show?
And it sounds like you heard him say he didn't want people to see him without a mask.
The thing is the science hasn't changed.
We've known that when you're vaccinated, we've known this for quite a while, that you're not transmitting it and not getting it.
We've known that for months now.
But also vaccine immunology, if you believe in it, if you believe in the vaccine, that's what happens.
You don't have to wear a mask afterwards.
So the masks are coming off, not just obviously physically, but they are coming off in terms of politics right now.
Democrats, are continuing to maintain their adherence to masking, even when it is completely unnecessary.
There was a bizarre situation yesterday in which a bunch of Republicans unmasked on the House floor.
And this included people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, but it also included Thomas Massey and a bunch of other House members.
And Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who is vaccinated, came over and started yelling at them and saying, why are you unmasking?
And the answer is they are unmasking because why in the world would they be masking at this point?
There's no reason for them to.
If everybody in the chamber has had the ability to get a vaccine, which they have, once you are vaccinated, you don't have to care whether somebody else is vaccinated or not.
And if you wish not to vaccinate, and you wish to be in a public setting, you also—that's your responsibility.
You want to give it to each other?
That one's on you.
And if you're vaccinated, you shouldn't care.
Okay, but Nancy Pelosi has maintained these House rules that say that you have to mask on the House floor for no reason at all.
In fact, the current House rule states that masks must be worn in the chamber except when speaking during debate.
The members can go without masks in House office buildings and elsewhere in the Capitol complex.
Rule breakers are fined 500 bucks for a first offense and $2,500 for a second offense.
Brian Mast, Republican of Florida, led this rebellion.
The Army veteran interrupted a Republican conference meeting to tell his colleagues he was done wearing masks and would not wear them on the House floor going forward.
Last week, Mast rose during a House vote and asked that given the updated CDC guidance, we all take off these stupid masks.
And apparently, the other members who refused to mask included Chip Roy of Texas, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Thomas Massey of Kentucky, Beth Van Dyne of Texas, Gary Stube of Florida, and Mary Miller of Illinois.
Pelosi says that 75% of the House members are fully vaccinated.
She says we can't go back to pre-pandemic operations with 75% of the people vaccinated and the other 25% having had the opportunity to get vaccinated.
Okay, so what this is at this point, it is just pure politics.
And when it's unmasked, it's just pure politics.
What that means is that it was always pure politics.
And when you take off the Phantom of the Opera's mask and something ugly is underneath, the thing that was ugly underneath was always there.
It was just being masked.
This has been pure politics for a year at this point.
Over a year.
I mean, we're in May.
For over a year, this has just been pure politics.
And the media continue to promote the pure politics because they continue to suggest that you need to continue masking up.
Why?
Well, because how can you trust the guy next to you?
Again, if you're vaccinated, you don't have to trust the guy next to you.
That's the point of a vaccine.
But the media continue to promulgate this nonsense.
Why?
Because if they can continue to prolong the feeling that the pandemic is a real problem in American life, and that it is something for Biden to overcome, then it gives him something to push against, and it tends to jog the American public into wanting things from the government, as opposed to going back to regular life.
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The New York Times has a piece today called a new honor system on masks.
Am I to trust these people?
When Tori Saylor, 27, stepped out of her apartment in Kalamazoo, Michigan last week, she knew that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention had already given fully vaccinated Americans the go-ahead to shed masks in most situations.
Ms.
Saylor, who is vaccinated, wore one anyway.
And when she summons an elevator in her apartment building, she confronted her first real test of the new era.
Twice, the doors opened to reveal people who were not wearing masks.
And twice, she let the elevator go.
Am I to trust these people, having never met them?
Said Ms.
Saylor, who has multiple sclerosis and gets an infusion therapy that compromises her immune system.
Despite her vaccination status, it is unclear whether her body will be able to effectively produce antibodies to fight off COVID-19.
Okay, but that's going to be true forever.
I mean, and literally for most diseases.
Like, if you are immunosuppressed, this is a different story for you.
But the vast majority of people who are addicted to masks are not immunosuppressed.
The vast majority of people who continue to wear the masks are people like Nancy Pelosi, who's okay.
These people are doing it as a form of virtue signaling.
It is a way of spotting the people in the crowd who are like you and they are the good people.
The good people wear masks even after they're vaccinated to demonstrate just how wonderful they are.
The New York Times says our capacity to trust other people's honesty has already been tested and fibs or omissions may have happened along the way. Did every person who drove across the state line follow 14-day quarantine rules? Did everyone who got an early vaccine fit the eligibility rules at the time? So it's no surprise that the latest honor code, the federal government's guidance encouraging vaccinated Americans to take off their masks, was greeted with skepticism in parts of the country that have not already done so.
Fewer than half of Americans over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated.
Well, first of all, a much larger percentage are at least half vaccinated, which gives you a large amount of immunity.
It's a very complicated symphony right now, said Dr. Howard Markle, a medical historian at the University of Michigan.
There's been such an erosion of trust, distrust for government, distrust for the virus, distrust for this party or that party.
So when you tell the public what to do, there are people who say, how can I trust the guy without the mask?
Okay, but again, nobody is saying that people who are unvaccinated have lost all risk now that they've decided to unmask.
All we are saying is that once you've had the opportunity to get vaccinated, if you've turned it down, that one's on you.
Immunosuppressed people are a different story as I've said all along.
Then you take whatever precautions you have to take just like you would with any other serious illness if you are immunosuppressed or you have some sort of medical issue.
But the vast majority of people right now who are continuing to wear the mask are people in blue cities who have decided they are better people for wearing the masks even after vaccinated or people who have a screw loose.
Because so much of this has become cultural and so little of it seems to be about science.
The mask is coming off with regard to the teachers unions too.
So Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, she admitted yesterday that the CDC had indeed sought her advice on how to write their school guidance with regard to reopening, which is insane, right?
That's crazy.
That's the interest group writing the rules for the road.
And parents are beginning to have it with the American Federation of Teachers.
They are done.
She was on Washington Journal on C-SPAN, and people just called in and just slammed Randy Weingarten, as they should.
Here's the thing for the left.
As the masks come off, the situation gets worse for them, not better.
The true left is not a spectacle that you like to see.
The left has to hide behind Joe Biden and his barely animate visage.
The left has to hide behind the media, pretending that what they are doing is guided by science in moderation.
When people get to see the left full in front of them, they don't like it very much.
Randy Weingarten is one of the people who represents the hardcore radical left, and people aren't liking it.
There was one parent calling in to slam Weingarten.
I mean, no disrespect to you, but, you know, this union thing.
One time in our country, a union was a wonderful thing.
Now the union creates lazy, ineffective people, and it also creates children that have no education.
I look at my grandchildren.
It is pathetic how the teachers' union and the government has failed our children.
I don't see how you could sit up there and defend that.
You can see how Weingarten is very unhappy with this particular caller.
And then a teacher called in and slammed Weingarten and said, I'm confused.
Why are we shut right now?
Unfortunately, you started off by throwing the last administration under the bus.
But, you know, that was kind of just one thing that happened.
That's all right.
The part that I don't understand is how come the parochial schools and the private schools could navigate their way through this scenario But the public schools didn't seem to be able to manage that.
Yup.
Americans are very unhappy.
They're very unhappy with the entire direction that the left is taking them, because the entire mandate for Joe Biden was to be not Donald Trump.
And instead, he took it as a mandate to be as radical as he wanted to be, to please his teacher union allies, to have Anthony Fauci out there lying on behalf of the administration for political purposes.
When the masks come off, people don't like it.
We'll get to racial issues in just a moment because the masks are coming off on racial issues as well.
It's pretty astonishing how fast the masks are coming off, honestly.
We'll get to that in just one moment.
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Okay, so, meanwhile, on racial issues, the left's radicalism is being unmasked pretty routinely.
This is pretty astonishing.
Today, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, apparently, she has now announced she will only be giving interviews to black and brown reporters.
This is just racist.
I mean, I'm sorry, it's just racist.
If Joe Biden were to say, I'm only giving interviews to white Catholics, everybody would say that is racist and that is discrimination.
Lori Lightfoot says, I will only give interviews to people who look like me.
And the entire left just kind of shrugs.
That's the way that it goes.
First of all, it may violate constitutional provisions.
She is a government officer discriminating openly on the basis of race.
NBC5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to state, quote, as Chicago mayor reaches her two-year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting one-on-one interviews only to black or brown journalists.
Apparently, the same message was given to WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz, who tweeted, I was told the same thing.
Chicago politics reporter Heather Cherone also tweeted, I can confirm.
Okay, that is probably a violation of the law.
But the fact that this is even considered a possible political strategy demonstrates how insane the left has become.
Lori Lightfoot is considered a mainstream Democrat.
And yet, this sort of thing is tolerated.
Not only tolerated, but celebrated on the left.
Meanwhile, false narratives are trotted out on a regular basis, and then, when they fall apart, you just never hear about it again.
So, here's a perfect example.
You may have heard, because we talked about it on the show, about this case of Andrew Brown Jr.
So Andrew Brown Jr.
was shot, he's a 42-year-old black man, and he was shot to death as he drove his vehicle last month in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
And you remember, there was talk of riots, there was a big protest that was held, the family did a big presser, and they had people like Benjamin Crump there, and there they accused the officers in this case of pure murder.
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Here is Benjamin Crump explaining that this was murder and then it turns out not too much.
Attorney Harry Daniels will put this in greater context.
Exactly. Execution.
Okay, so you can hear people shouting that this was murder and that the cops need to be arrested.
And Benjamin Crump got up there and he said the exact same thing.
Well, now it turns out that the body cam footage has been released.
So yesterday they released the body cam footage.
What happened here is that Andrew Brown was a drug dealer.
Okay, and they were there to deliver a drug warrant.
This is all alleged, right?
Alleged drug dealer.
They were there to deliver a drug warrant.
And Andrew Brown decided to try and run down cops with his car.
So here is what the body cam footage looked like.
Go, go, go, go!
So you can see the cops there hopping out.
in his car, he starts to back up and then, and they're telling him to stop, they're telling him to stop.
And then he tries to drive over some of the cops and they shoot at him.
Right, that's what happens.
Okay, so when people say that he was unarmed, a car is a deadly weapon, right?
If you run over somebody with your car that is considered assault with a deadly weapon.
He, Andrew Brown backs up once the SWAT team arrives to deliver the warrant.
And then he proceeds to try and drive forward through the cops.
.
Which is why the DA came out and said, no, there's not going to be a prosecution.
Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble said during a news conference on Tuesday that they were justified in their actions, the cops, because they had reason to believe they were in danger.
Andrew Brown Jr.
was fatally struck by gunshots on April 21st, according to the Washington Post, as he attempted to drive away from deputies who were executing a search warrant on felony drug charges at his home.
Womble, who previously said the shooting was justified, held the news conference to discuss details of the state's Bureau of Investigation findings.
Womble said Brown's attempt to flee escalated the situation from show of force to an employment of force.
During the news conference, Womble recounted the events of April 21st.
Brown was sitting in his dark BMW on the day officers from multiple agencies attempted to serve search and arrest warrants based on alleged drug activity.
At around 8.23am, a detective drove his vehicle in front of Brown's to prevent any forward movement.
Two deputies approached Brown's car on the driver's side as two others moved toward the passenger side with guns drawn as they gave commands to Brown.
Brown threw down his phone as officers approached closer and quickly backed his car away from officers as one had his hand on Brown's driver door handle.
That deputy was pulled over the hood of the car, according to Womble.
When Brown backed up enough to the point where he was blocked by his home, he turned his steering wheel to the left toward the law enforcement officers who were scrambling to get out of the way and yelling for him to stop, according to Womble and the video footage.
The first shot was fired during this moment, piercing the front windshield of Brown's car as his vehicle continued to move.
More shots followed, hitting Brown's passenger window and rear passenger side door, while his vehicle continued to accelerate across a vacant lot toward a white van occupied by an investigator.
Officers fired five additional shots.
The total time, as you can see from the video, is five seconds.
Okay, so there are eyewitness statements that suggested that it was much longer, that these officers basically were waiting, and then they just shot him for no reason at all.
But that is not true.
Okay, it happens to be that in all likelihood he was trying to conceal evidence and then he was trying to run over cops.
Brown had abrasions on his body that were caused by the shrapnel apparently and a plastic bag in his mouth with a substance that's consistent with crystal meth.
Although autopsy and toxicology reports haven't been finalized according to the DA.
The footage shared by Womble brought more questions by reporters at the news conference, who pressed him about saying Brown was aiming for officers instead of fleeing.
The clips have also prompted more criticism about how authorities handled sharing information with the public.
And of course, you have people saying that the footage was cherry-picked.
Okay, um, cherry-picked?
That's the video.
That's the video.
And here's that we've now reached the point in American life where even the unmasking of a story as untrue doesn't actually change the story that is told by the media.
It just brings further questions, right?
When there is video of Jacob Blake holding a knife and resisting arrest and reaching into his car and there being a knife on the floorboards of the car, then we are told that the cops still shouldn't have shot him.
When there is full-on video, of a 16-year-old girl attempting to stab to death another 16-year-old girl while shouting that she's going to kill her.
That is still not enough for people.
Remember that time?
It was so cute when Americans were naive enough to believe that body cam footage was actually going to answer a lot of these questions.
And then it turns out that people don't give a damn about body cam footage because the narrative is all that matters.
But here's the thing.
I think for most Americans, the narrative is not all that matters.
When it comes to most Americans, they believe what they see with their eyes.
And the narratives that are being promulgated by the media and by the Democratic Party, they're just not true.
Now, there have been narratives promulgated by the right that are not true.
That happens too.
But as the masks come off, the people in power are being unmasked as people who are willing to twist fact in order to achieve a political end.
And you can see that in everything from COVID policy to race policy.
You can see it with regard to what's going on currently in the Gaza Strip with regard to Israel and Hamas.
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The latest on the situation over in the Gaza Strip is that Israel continues to bomb Hamas.
Hamas continues to fire flurries of rockets at civilian areas in Israel.
And as with every time, Israel fights back against the terrorist group Hamas, or against Fatah, which is a terrorist group, or against Islamic Jihad, which is a terrorist group.
If it goes on for more than a couple of days, then the world's like, no, this has to stop.
This has to stop.
And it doesn't matter that Israel, as a sovereign state, not only has the right, people use this phrase, right to defend yourself, right to defend yourself is like the most basic of human rights.
But it's not about Israel just has a right to defend itself.
Israel has a duty to defend its citizens.
End of story.
Israel has a duty to kill the people who are firing rockets at it.
They have a duty to stop and neutralize the threat of having to put tens of thousands of citizens underground every day for weeks on end.
That is their duty.
The United States government has the same duty to you.
Any government has a duty to its citizens to prevent them from being targeted by terrorist groups.
And the fact that this is even remotely controversial is beyond me.
It's crazy to me that people see this as controversial or that people see some sort of moral equivalence here.
You have to be out of your moral mind in order to believe this, truly.
Now, the way the New York Times and the media are playing this, of course, is, again, it's about the narrative, and that narrative is being unmasked every single day, right?
The way that they treat this is completely free of context.
What they will say is, well, man, Israel has hit a lot of the sewage systems in Gaza.
I mean, they've knocked out a desalination plant.
Okay, Israel is attempting to kill people who are firing rockets at their civilians.
Those terrorists deliberately hide among civilians.
They deliberately hide in areas with high-value targets Hamas is hiding their rockets next to the desalination plants.
Hamas is hiding... The difference between Israel and its enemies is that Israel uses its rockets to defend its citizens.
Hamas uses its citizens to defend its rockets.
Hamas is interested in using human shields in order to prevent Israel from knocking out its weaponry, which is why they build these tunnels under civilian areas.
It is why they fire rockets from civilian areas.
We've shown you that video before.
There is not only no moral equivalence here, there is no geopolitical rationale by which what Hamas is doing is justified in any way whatsoever.
Even their purported rationale with regard to Sheikh Jarrah, this idea that Israel having a 50 year ongoing court case that ends with the eviction of four buildings in Sheikh Jarrah.
If you think that's an excuse to fire hundreds of rockets into civilian areas, by the way, killing Israeli Arabs, killing foreign workers in Israel, you're out of your mind.
You're crazy.
Even on a legal level, the whole thing is crazy.
The fact is Sheikh Jarrah is largely Arab.
Not every Arab in Sheikh Jarrah is being removed.
The only buildings that are being cleared and evicted are buildings that have been under legal dispute.
There are a bunch of buildings that between 48 and 67, the Jordanian government, which had grabbed that land as part of the 48 war, handed legal title to the buildings to Arabs who were in that area.
Those legal titles have been upheld by the Israeli courts.
Okay, so this is, the whole thing is wild.
The idea that what happened on Al-Aqsa had anything to do with Jewish interventionism is insane on its face.
Al-Aqsa is off limits to Jews.
It is because it was being used as a staging ground for riots, specifically because, again, this whole thing was started by Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.
Mahmoud Abbas canceled elections at the end of April.
And then because he canceled elections because he thought Hamas was going to win, he decided he was going to launch a round of violence.
And Hamas, not wanting to be one-upped by Fatah, decided to get involved by firing hundreds of rockets at Israel.
It is that simple.
That is what is happening right now.
Because guess what?
Israel is not in the Gaza Strip.
Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip in 2005 at great cost.
I know people who were cleared from the Gaza Strip.
I'm talking about Jews who had been there for years and decades and they were forced out of their homes.
It was Jews removing Jews so that they could have a true apartheid state in the Gaza Strip where there are no Jews.
And that area is completely run by Hamas.
And now Hamas is now firing rockets over its border into Israel.
It's an amazing thing that anybody sees moral equivalence here.
You have to be so ignorant and so stupid and so morally backward.
But fortunately, we have a world full of stupid, ignorant, and morally backward people.
The New York Times is putting all the focus on the humanitarian cost in Gaza without, of course, recognizing the reality, which is that all of the damage that is being done is being done because of what Hamas is doing.
They say the nine-day battle between Hamas militants and the Israeli military has damaged 17 hospitals and clinics in Gaza, wrecked its only COVID test laboratory, sent fetid wastewater into its streets, and broke water pipes serving at least 800,000 people, setting off a humanitarian crisis that is touching nearly every civilian in the crowded enclave of about 2 million people.
Okay, number one, Israel has been providing free water and electricity to the Gaza Strip for literally decades.
If Israel wanted to make life super miserable, all they would do is just cut that stuff up.
But they won't do that because Israel is a humanitarian state.
How humanitarian is Israel?
Israel reopened a border crossing so Israel could send humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Hamas started firing rockets at the humanitarian crossing.
Sewage systems inside Gaza have been destroyed, says the New York Times.
A desalination plant is offline.
Dozens of schools have been damaged or closed, forcing some 600,000 students to miss classes.
At least 213 Palestinians have been killed, including dozens of children.
Now, the New York Times doesn't acknowledge where it got those stats.
The answer is it got those stats from Hamas.
But if you want to know why children and civilians are dying, I have a video that explains exactly why children are dying in the Gaza Strip.
This is courtesy of Sky News.
I believe in the Arab world.
Okay, and it's been translated.
So this is an IDF phone call to a Gazan to evacuate his building with civilians before they're bombing, right?
We have tons of tape of this.
Israel does this routinely.
If they wanna knock out a piece of military infrastructure, because Hamas tends to locate in civilian areas, they will call the buildings and tell people to clear out, which is certainly not what Hamas is doing.
Hamas has been firing rockets randomly into Israeli cities and hitting whatever they can hit.
Cars, buildings, children, they don't care.
Israel calls first.
The meaning of this conversation, and I'll read you the transcript of the conversation as it plays out, it just demonstrates the lack of moral equivalency here.
Okay, so here's the IDF phone call.
They called Gaza to say, evacuate your building.
We're going to bomb the building.
Says, I can't get all of the people out.
I need at least two hours to get them out.
And Israel says, listen, we're going to bomb the building.
He says, you want to bomb?
Bomb whatever you want.
And Israel says, no brother, we need to do everything we can so you don't die.
And the Gazan says, we want to die.
And the Israeli says, but you have a responsibility for children's lives.
And the Gazan says, if children need to die, then they'll die.
And the Israeli says, God forbid, God forbid, what are you doing?
He says, this is how we reveal your cruelty.
I mean, I don't know exactly what you expect of Israel.
Are they expected to not perform their duty and defend their own citizens?
What exactly are they expected to do?
All the people who pretend that they give a damn about the Palestinians, by the way, all these people do not give a damn that Hamas, which is an actual overt terrorist group funded by Iran, dedicated to spending tens of millions of dollars every single year building terror tunnels to kill Israelis and harm Israelis, they don't care that these people are living under Hamas repression.
Over 40 people were just arrested in Hamasistan, in the Gaza Strip, for supposedly spreading Jew propaganda.
No one cares about that.
Because they don't care about the Palestinians.
All they care about is that they don't like the Israelis.
This is not about being pro-Palestinian.
This is about being anti-Jew.
That's all this is.
And the media will take any opportunity they can in order to push this stuff.
So when I hear Joy Reid saying things like, Americans have no empathy for Palestinians.
No, you have no empathy for Palestinians so long as you wish for the Palestinians to be governed by Hamas and by the Palestinian Authority and by Islamic Jihad.
I mean, it's unreal.
You didn't care about these people five seconds ago, the minute that they started firing rockets into Israel and Israel started defending itself and its citizens.
Then all of a sudden, your humanitarian side came out.
Weird.
Weird how that worked, Joy Reid.
I have to say, Congresswoman, I've been following this from a distance for a really long time.
And I've never felt like Americans really care that much about Palestinians.
As you said, they don't hear Palestinian voices.
There seems to be no empathy.
I mean, Gaza is a prison.
OK, Gaza is run by Hamas.
Gaza is run by Hamas.
Israel is not occupying the Gaza Strip.
They removed themselves 15 years ago.
But Joyree doesn't owe anything, and she's a moral idiot.
So, that's just the way this works, unfortunately.
We'll get to more of this in just one second, because the moral idiots are all over our media.
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Okay, so the media continue to be garbage at their jobs.
Right before the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which is why I was off for the past couple of days, Israel knocked out this building in Gaza, which was being used by Hamas.
Just clearly being used by Hamas.
And the Associated Press had offices there.
Now, the reason that Hamas locates in buildings with the Associated Press there is specifically because they wish to use the Associated Press as a shield.
This is why.
Because then Israel hits an empty building.
There was no one in there.
They hit the empty building, and then the Associated Press starts whining to the world about how terrible it is that Israel would knock down a building.
How awful.
Awful that Israel would do this sort of thing.
Except that Israel had apparently showed smoking gun material, classified material, to the U.S.
government explaining that Hamas was in the building.
Okay, which is not a shock because Hamas and the Associated Press have a covert deal.
That deal is that Associated Press gets to stay in Hamasistan so long as it prints Hamas propaganda and does not print stuff that it knows about how Hamas uses civilians as human shields.
David Harsanyi has a good piece over at National Review about this.
According to AP CEO Gary Pruitt, he said his organization had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building.
He said, this is something we actively check to the best of our ability.
We would never knowingly put our journalists at risks.
This is nonsense, says Harsanyi.
Pruitt knowingly puts journalists at risk every day he sends them to places like Gaza.
But how did Pruitt actively check?
Did he ask Hamas?
Did he call the landlord?
Did he ring the bells?
It is, of course, highly probable that Hamas was using journalists as human shields.
Because this is what it does.
During the last major outbreak of violence in 2014, Gaza's Shifa Hospital became a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who could be seen in the hallways and offices, according to the Washington Post.
The AP did not report that.
Why?
Because they were working hand-in-glove with Hamas.
In 2014, former AP reporter Maddie Friedman recounted, quote, the AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby, and AP would not report it.
Not even in AP articles about Israeli claims that Hamas was launching rockets from residential areas.
This happened.
Hamas fighters would burst into the AP's Gaza Bureau and threaten the staff, and AP would not report it.
This also happened.
Cameramen waiting outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza would film the arrival of civilian casualties and then, at a signal from an official, turn off their cameras when wounded and dead fighters came in, helping Hamas maintain the illusion that only civilians were dying.
This too happened.
The information comes from multiple sources with first-hand knowledge of these incidents.
Now, what's incredible about this is that there are members of the Obama administration who fully acknowledge that this happened.
Okay, there are members of the Obama administration who fully acknowledge this was probably being used as a Hamas headquarters.
Okay, Tommy Veeder, who worked for Barack Obama, he didn't just drive his van, he was one of his advisors.
He tweeted out, yeah, probably Hamas was in the building, but still, you shouldn't hit the building.
Unreal, because at a certain point, it is not about being pro-Palestinian, because if you're pro-Palestinian, you should not be pro-Hamas.
It is about just being anti the Jewish state.
And you can sense why, okay?
Because there's a broader left-wing agenda out there, unfortunately.
It's what people have termed, accurately, the Red-Green Alliance.
And basically, green being Hamas, red being communists.
There's this longtime feeling on the left that Israel is a colonial state, that Israel is an outpost of Western civilization, and so many of the people who are angry at Western civilization are angry at Israel.
They're not angry at Israel, and therefore they're angry at America.
They're angry at America, and therefore they're angry at Israel.
Or they're angry at Europe, and therefore they're angry at Israel.
So Europe, because Europe has always had issues with Jews, has attempted to separate off, except for a couple of countries right now, like Hungary and Austria.
But the reality is that the left, all over the Western world, has decided that Israel is the bad guy.
Why?
Because Israel is part of this broader rubric of hierarchical values.
The way the left views the world is that if you are successful in a civilized system, it is because you have victimized someone.
This is the view in the United States.
In the United States, from the left, the view is that if you are successful in the United States, it's because you have white privilege, or because the system was built to accommodate you, or because you have internalized your own whiteness.
And the same thing happens internationally.
If there is a group that is successful, and you can castigate them as white, Jews suddenly became white for this purpose, and you can castigate them as white versus the quote-unquote brown Palestinians, which is the way that Rashida Tlaib talks about this, then that is just another indicator of hierarchical systems that have to be torn down, which is why you've heard Rashida Tlaib explicitly say this.
She'll say Black Lives Matter is the same thing as the Palestinians.
They are not the same thing.
For a variety of reasons, they are not the same thing.
For one, Black Lives Matter as a movement, last I checked, was not supposed to be firing rockets into American cities.
I was told the Black Lives Matter movement was distinct from the rioters and looters.
If she wants to make a different claim, that's on Rashida Tlaib.
But it is not a surprise to see Black Lives Matter supporting Hamas.
They came out and tweeted yesterday, By free Palestine, they don't mean a separate state of Palestine living alongside in peace and harmony a Jewish state.
They mean wiping out the state of Israel.
and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation.
Always have and always will be.
Hashtag Free Palestine.
By Free Palestine, they don't mean a separate state of Palestine living alongside in peace and harmony of Jewish states.
They mean wiping out the state of Israel.
This has been in the BLM manifesto for quite a while.
Okay, Faith for Black Lives is a group that put out a letter to the Biden administration trying to urge Biden not to sell weapons to Israel to defend itself.
.
Okay, and unfortunately, this has infused a huge percentage of the Democratic Party.
This whole perspective has infused a large percentage of the Democratic Party.
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So there's a battle going on inside the Democratic Party right now.
And that battle is, how far do they want to go in pursuit of the radical left's vision of tearing down the system?
Joe Biden posed himself as a moderate.
Then, he got into office and he's been very immoderate.
Okay, with regard to Israel, so far, Joe Biden has been kind of shockingly moderate.
I would have expected him to cave immediately to the Rashida Tlaibs and the AOCs, but the House Democrats are moving in that direction pretty damned fast.
House Democrats yesterday blocked consideration of a bill sanctioning Hamas's financial supporters.
So, Hamas is firing rockets at civilian areas, and House Democrats are trying to protect them.
According to Fox News, House Democrats rejected a Republican push on Tuesday to consider legislation that would apply sanctions on Hamas militants amid an escalating military conflict with Israel.
Democrats blocked a bid to bring the Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act up for consideration in a 2-17-209 vote along party lines.
The bill was introduced by Representative Brian Mast of Florida.
It would impose sanctions on foreign entities known to have provided financial assistance to Hamas, among other measures.
Mass was reintroducing the bill.
It passed the House unanimously in 2019.
Unanimously.
So all 200 Democrats who voted against this voted in favor of it when Trump was president.
But now that Biden is president, and now that half the Democratic Party has proved that it is in the pocket of people who are at least Hamas supporters, they are more than happy to vote down the ability to vote for a bill that would cut off financial aid to Hamas, an actual terrorist group.
Okay, so it's amazing.
The entire media will cover the battle between Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy, but nobody in the media really sees fit to cover the internal battle happening inside the Democratic Party on whether to embrace Hamas or whether to not embrace Hamas.
And that seems like a major battle because Joe Biden is wavering, right?
He's right on the line.
So, for example, Joe Biden, he has vetoed, to his credit, Resolutions at the United Nations to condemn Israel.
Which is insane, first of all.
The United Nations is a garbage organization.
They should salt the earth.
The building should be knocked down.
They should salt the earth.
It's just a horrible organization.
It was a bad idea to begin.
It's a bad idea now.
Anyway.
Biden has done the right thing on that.
He's mostly stayed out at this point, which is the proper thing to do when a United States ally is facing down a terrorist group.
It's amazing that we have to actually say these things out loud.
But Biden is simultaneously attempting to placate his left wing.
So he went and visited Michigan yesterday, and he was hanging out with Rashida Tlaib and decided it would be worthwhile to kiss this anti-Semites ass.
Rashid.
Tlaib, where's Rashid?
I tell you what, Rashid, I want to say to you that I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people.
And it's my, from my heart, I pray that your grandma and family are well.
I promise you I'm gonna do everything you see that they are on the West Bank.
You're a fighter, and God thank you for being a fighter.
She's a fighter.
I mean, for Hamas.
It is worthwhile remembering at this point that Rashida Tlaib, upon entering office, somebody went to a world map in her office and put a post-it that said Palestine with an arrow toward Israel.
On that.
So yeah, Rashida Tlaib is a radical anti-Semite.
She has been for a very, very long time.
And there is the President of the United States praising her.
Well, she confronted Biden on Tuesday over his support for Israel, urging him to stop enabling a government she said was committing crimes against Palestinians, according to a Democratic aide familiar with the exchange.
During a conversation on a tarmac in Detroit, where Biden had arrived to visit a Ford factory, Tlaib echoed a scathing speech she delivered last week on the House floor, telling the president he must do more to protect Palestinian lives and human rights.
She of course does not care that Hamas is a terrorist group that is presiding over the lives of millions of people in the Gaza Strip and was about to take over running the Judea and Samaria areas of the West Bank as well.
Meanwhile, You have the Biden administration busily pursuing deals with the people who are enabling Hamas.
So at the same time that Biden is sort of taking a moderate position on Israel, as a broader policy position, he is not.
As a broader policy position, the administration continues to pursue some sort of deal with the exact terror state that is enabling Hamas right now.
According to the New York Times, Iran is exporting hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil each day, violating American sanctions even as world powers negotiate to lift the economic penalties and revitalize a nuclear accord that was rendered all but defunct by the Trump administration.
So now, Iran is violating the sanctions, they are exporting oil, and the Biden administration is trying to cut a deal with them as they funnel that money into Hamas.
It's not a consistent or coherent policy, and I just don't think that Biden holds up against the left flank of his party for very long here.
The Biden administration is far too focused on revitalizing a bad vision of the Middle East in which Iran is a regional power, which is why, of course, Jen Psaki at the White House was ripping the Trump administration for what's going on.
Now, let's be real about this.
This is happening as a result of the Biden administration deciding to make nice with Iran.
And as a result of them deciding to restore aid to Palestinian terrorist groups.
But here is Jen Psaki trying to blame Trump for that.
I would say that we are not following the same tactics of the prior administration.
The president has reinstated humanitarian assistance and security assistance to the Palestinians.
That's something that was stopped back in 2018 and we felt was not a constructive action by the prior administration.
Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don't think they did anything constructive really to bring an end to the long-standing conflict in the Middle East.
Oh, you mean except for signing actual peace deals between Arab nations and Israel?
Sure.
But here's the thing.
Is this administration going to continue to hold up against its own left flank?
I highly doubt it.
You have members of the Obama administration, who freely acknowledge, by the way, that Hamas uses AP offices as bases, explicitly fundraising for groups like Islamic Relief.
Crooked Media put out a fundraiser for Islamic Relief, a group that was labeled a an illegal organization by the Israeli Minister of Defense in 2014 because they were directly funneling money to Hamas. And so the sort of red-green alliance lives and it continues to run.
It's pretty incredible stuff.
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