Charlie weighs into the biggest news story of the weekend. No, not Joe Biden nearly getting us into WW3 by threatening to remove Vladimir Putin from power; but the slap heard round the world! Charlie breaks down the Will Smith, Chris Rock slap frame by frame. Does the entire interaction make sense with how human beings behave in real fight? Or does this look like two actors putting on an Oscar worthy performance? Charlie breaks it all down including Will Smith's acceptance speech and Chris Rock's decision to not file a criminal complaint. Does it add up? Charlie explains his conclusion. Next up, Charlie reviews the disastrous polling from NBC—a notoriously Democrat friendly polling group—that has Biden at a record low approval rating. What are the main drivers for this most recent polling collapse. Charlie also gives an update on redistricting across the country and handicaps the GOP's prospect of regaining control of the Senate. Charlie then moves to a little covered, but BLOCKBUSTER story out of the UK of a former news executive, Mark Sharman, who has blown the whistle on a government warning policy in that country demanding the UK media cover government COVID propaganda and ignore competing narratives. How much did this same tactic impact American media? Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Was The Slap Fake00:10:23
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It's time for us to weigh in on what is being called the top news story of the weekend.
It's not Joe Biden getting us closer to nuclear war.
It's not inflation.
It's not the Russian forces marching into Ukraine.
No, no, no, no.
It's Will Smith going up to Chris Rock and allegedly slapping him and causing all of this pandemonium.
Now, the moment I saw the clip, just so you know, my first instinct was that this was fake.
Like, there's no way this is real.
These people are all narcissists and sociopaths, and they just want attention.
And they're, I mean, they're celebrities.
That's what they do.
And they're actors.
So let's just start with that.
These are actors.
So they're used to pretending to do something that isn't real.
Now, there's a mixed opinion here, and I'm definitely in the minority of the opinion where I think the whole thing is fake.
I think it's all staged.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Now, for those of you that don't know what happened, Will Smith, who is like an AAA listed, AAA listed actor, whether you like him or not.
I'm not a big Will Smith fan.
I used to be, but he's become super political and kind of weird lately.
But he's definitely very popular, has a lot of talent.
He's done some phenomenal performances before.
Chris Rock, I'm actually a big Chris Rock fan.
I think he goes against political correctness, and I just think he's hilarious.
So Will Smith was up for best actor and ended up winning best actor last evening.
And so Chris Rock is kind of doing the typical Oscar thing.
By the way, Oscar ratings were down.
Oscar viewers are.
I didn't even know the Oscars were on.
I wouldn't have watched it even if I knew it was on.
I used to watch the Oscars way back when, before they became totally woke and just completely deranged.
So Chris Rock started to make jokes about Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
But first, you know, Will Smith received jokes about how the fact that Will Smith has an open marriage with Jada Pinkett Smith and seemed unmoved by this.
Regina Hall made that joke, Play Cut 7.
Will Smith, you're married, but you know what?
You're on the list.
And it looks like Jada approved you, so you get on up here.
Get on up here.
Seemed perfectly fine with that.
But then this is the full clip.
I want you to watch this carefully.
We're going to dissect this like the Zapruder film.
If you don't know what the Zapruder film, that was the film that finally you saw the shooter or the shot come that made JFK's head go back into the left.
So this clip is bleeped out for all the swear words.
And this is Will Smith coming out of the crowd.
Mind you, no security, no cops.
Will Smith weirdly kind of like does a pivot U-turn afterwards after he slaps Chris Rock?
He doesn't like look at Chris Rock and tell him like you better stop that.
No, it's just kind of like a slap, a U-turn, and a move.
That's weird.
For anyone that's actually done a confrontation before, that's not exactly how it usually goes.
Usually your adrenaline is pumping so heavily, you don't just kind of slap and turn away and walk properly in perfect form back to your seat.
Okay, full clip.
Keep my mic open.
Play cut 14.
Y'all got to see it.
It's really good.
You know who's got the hardest job tonight?
Javier Bardim and his wife are both nominated.
Now, if she loses, he can't win.
He is praying that Will Smith wins.
Like, please, Lord.
Jada, I love you.
G.I. Jane 2, can't wait to see it.
All right?
It's Jeff.
That was a nice one.
Okay.
I'm out here.
You see, Will Smith laughs at first there.
He weirdly laughed.
And then Will Smith starts to walk up.
And then that looks...
Wow.
Now stop there.
Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me.
But then Chris Rock says, wow, wow, as soon as he got hit, it's really weird.
Stage.
And then Will Smith just starts screaming and says, I'm going to, okay?
Now, that part didn't look as stage when he says, I'm going to.
But the whole thing's really bizarre.
No security, no buffer zone.
Almost like Chris Rock was expecting it.
Now, if this wasn't the Oscars, then I would say, well, you know, these people wouldn't be able to pull off an acting job like that.
But the Oscars, the ratings are record low.
They're more irrelevant than ever.
So let's just watch just the slap, play cut 16.
I'm going to narrate this.
Let's play cut 16.
I'm out here.
Hello, Richard.
Look, just walking up casually and then turns around as if nothing's wrong.
That's so, who does that?
As if he's just kind of like picking up a bag of groceries.
Like, there, you turn, turn around.
What?
Really?
Kind of like turning off a light.
Doesn't say anything to him.
My suspicious radar is off the charts.
Let me just say that much.
Doesn't make any sense.
Now, of course, Will Smith has said that he has an open marriage with Jada Pink and Smith.
Whatever.
I mean, I guess that's normal in Hollywood.
I'm not even getting into that.
And then Will Smith starts yelling at him.
So what's the takeaway point here?
Well, look, it's not as if we're immune to actors faking things.
Jussie Smollett, of course, a couple years ago in Chicago.
It's Will Smith, the Jussie Smollett of the Oscars with Chris Rock.
I don't know.
I think there's something deeper than what we're being told here.
Now, if he would have stayed on stage, they possibly would have removed him from the Oscars and he wouldn't have been able to get the award.
Just going up and slapping the host, and not punching, by the way, but slapping the host.
What's the point of that if you're actually trying to take a stand for your wife?
Because at first he laughs.
He's like kind of chuckling and laughing at the entire thing.
And also the open hand.
WWE actors usually do that.
They usually have an open hand.
And by the way, only one hit.
And Chris Rock seemed like overly dramatic in the way that he moved his head, don't you think?
Like overly dramatic the way he went there.
Kind of similar to the Z Bruder film back and to the right.
We may never know the truth, but I don't trust these people.
And you don't either.
Or you shouldn't.
They are actors.
So the consequence, the relevance of this is pretty insignificant.
The Oscar ratings are so low that they had to fake a violent attack on live TV between Will Smith and Chris Rock.
I think that's right.
It's pure pro wrestling.
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Do you think that was legit after seeing all those tapes?
And so then Will Smith starts by laughing.
And then the fact he was front row, that's normal.
He was up for an Academy Award.
But I remember in Oscar years past, there used to be like a band.
Underneath, it was really hard to kind of get up there.
It seemed awfully accessible and no one was blocking it and there was no security and there was no anything to get through.
And then Chris Rock isn't pressing charges.
And then Chris Rock, after getting hit, said, oh, I just got hit.
Yeah, we know that.
And then why didn't Chris Rock respond in kind of like, what are you doing?
Like, what is this?
In fact, almost like if he was expecting it.
A lot of circumstantial mystery around this.
It seemed too clean, too quick, too scripted.
In fact, Chris Rock's performance of that might actually warrant him an Oscar.
It could be real, of course, obviously.
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Just when you think Joe Biden can't be in a worse position.
A new poll comes out from NBC News.
Biden's job approval rating has declined to 40%.
71% of respondents expressed low confidence in his ability to deal with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The 538 average, which is the average coming into the midterms, only shows Republicans widening their gap heading into November.
Gas prices, inflation, the porous southern border, the kind of pompous, elitist tone from the top levels of the regime is only playing into what is going to be hopefully a red wave coming into November.
How is Kamala Harris addressing gas prices?
Play cut 12.
Well, first of all, we've been, you know, understanding that it is a real issue.
What we have done is we've actually released some of the reserves, the petroleum reserve, to bring down the cost of gas prices.
And we are also dealing with the cost of gas as just part of the issue of the cost of living, right?
And cut four is the news report on Joe Biden's polling, play cut four.
And long term, since the start of his presidency, 2021, this number, the approval of Joe Biden on the economy, has just ticked down and down and down.
This is a new low for him on the economy.
33, 63, ask voters, sort of an open-ended question here.
What do you think the most important issue facing the country is?
And there you can see the top two now: cost of living, jobs in the economy.
Russia-Ukraine war, obviously capturing everybody's attention right now, but it's the cost of living, it's jobs.
Now, cost of living in Phoenix has gone up 20% plus this last year, 20% plus in just Phoenix alone.
Now, Joe Biden's response to this, obviously he was in Europe trying to beat the drums of war, trying to get us into a conflict of epic proportions by outwardly calling for regime change in Russia.
But what should the Republican response to this be?
Well, Republicans are in a great spot.
Unfortunately, redistricting did not go the way that we would have liked.
Redistricting in many states was actually subpar.
Democrats played to win when Republicans just kind of sat on their hands.
The maps were nowhere nearly as good as we would hope them to be.
Florida is the last state.
The maps in Florida have yet to be decided where Ron DeSantis really needs to hold the line in Florida to get some decent maps.
You might say, Charlie, what do you mean maps?
Every 10 years, there's a census done.
And based on the results of the census, every state is legally required to redraw their congressional districts.
Those congressional districts are drawn by the state House and the state Senate and then approved by the governor.
They could be sued and challenged in court.
Every state has a different way of doing their maps.
Ron DeSantis released a map that would show 18 Republicans and 10 Democrats.
It'd be a pickup about three to four seats, which would be a massive win.
There's about 27 swing districts across the country, 27 swing districts, House districts.
And then, of course, there are some very important Senate races.
Nevada, where Cortez Mastro, the current Senator Nevada, is in a very difficult spot, down 10 points to Adam Laxalt and the generic Republican in Nevada.
Mark Kelly, who is underwater in the state of Arizona.
Raphael Warnock, who's underwater in the state of Georgia as well.
New Hampshire is a potential pickup.
Now, in addition, Republicans need to hold on to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The great Ron Johnson in Wisconsin has a very, very difficult race coming up, and Ohio as well.
Ohio is going to be fine, but Tim Ryan's going to be a formidable candidate in Ohio.
He really will.
But the generic ballot is trending and favoring Republicans.
And here's my message for Republicans: you need to metaphorically go for the kill.
I say metaphorically.
You do not, you should not play not to lose.
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All of us have been in class where you want to ask a question.
You raise your hand.
You say, I have a question.
So teachers have a decision to make of who to call on.
Sometimes it's the most eager.
Sometimes they force questions out of students that are in the class, students that haven't asked a question in a while or they seem uninterested or disinterested.
It's a way to maybe re-engage them, to re-excite them about the topic or whatever they might be talking about.
Questions are a great way to engage in dialogue in the Socratic method.
Questions is how you pursue what is true.
Now, when a teacher or a professor is deciding who to call on, hopefully they will be doing so in a way that is fair and that allows students an equal participation or an equal opportunity to participate.
But not this teacher, Professor Ana Maria Candela, is a professor of sociology, that gives it away, at Bingmanton University.
She has a policy where, quote, she says this, she wrote it.
It's not like it's a mystery.
She wrote that, quote, if you are white male or someone privileged by the racial and gender structures of our society to have your voice easily voiced and heard, we will often ask that you hold off on your questions or comments to give others a priority and we'll come back to you a bit later or at another time.
Quote, our experience with this practice is that within little time, those who feel most privileged to speak begin to take the initiative to take to hold space for others who feel less comfortable speaking first.
As you can imagine, has been tremendous benefits for our society as a whole when we learn to hold space and listen to others whose voices are typically discarded in silence.
So, according to Professor Ana Maria Candela from Bingmanton University, she says white people need to wait their turn and go to the back of the line, even if they might have a pressing, wise, or important question.
What's amazing about this story?
So, the university comes out and they say it's a violation of their school rules.
Good for them.
Otherwise, they would be investigated by the Department of Education, hopefully, for a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
But what's incredible is that the other professors rally behind her saying she's doing the right thing.
Ithaca New York.
Some students and professors at Bingminton University held a rally last week in support of sociology professor Ana Maria Candela, who came under fire recently for an affirmative action policy on her syllabus.
About 100 people gathered under the clock tower at Bingminton University for the rally on Friday.
One person held a sign that said, kick racism out of Bing.
Wait a second.
So you kick racism out of Bing by being racist to white people.
Well, that's what Ibram X. Kendi has said.
That is the policy of CRT.
The world that you are entering into, that your children are going to be raised into, is racism to get rid of racism.
Another sign, using an expletive, criticized the university's lack of respect for academic freedom.
You hear that?
So now all of a sudden they're really big on free speech if professors want to discriminate against white people.
Discrimination is wrong against white people.
It's wrong against black people.
Discrimination is evil because you are putting a preference on things people cannot change instead of things people can change.
It's a very basic moral principle.
The West was built, America was built based on this idea that we want to put preference on things you can change.
How hard you can work, what you study, what your output is, how early you wake up, your character.
These are things you can work on.
These are things you can change.
You cannot change your skin color.
With progressive stacking, less privileged students, like women and people of color, may get priority to speak during class discussions.
She says, quote, but those with more privilege, like white students or men, may not always get a chance to speak right away with this new policy.
This is actually a rebuttal to it.
That was a problem for one student, a white male by the name of Sean Harrigan.
He was worried his participation grade would suffer.
This is a great point.
It's a great point because you get judged based on your participation in the classroom, but Professor Candela says, no, no, if you're a white person, that doesn't matter.
You're privileged.
If you get a C or a D in class, you'll be fine because you're a white person.
Harrigan also told the Post he filed a Title IX complaint against Candela for what he said was discrimination on the basis of sex.
In a statement, Bingminton University said Candela had violated policies laid out in the faculty handbook, but still over 100 faculty members are uniting and consolidating around her.
They are saying she's doing the right thing.
Now, this shouldn't come as any surprise.
United Airlines says they want half of their new pilots to be hired by half their new pilots to be non-white pilots.
Capital Street Advisors, same thing.
This is all happening at Bingmanton University up in New York, but it's spreading all across the country.
What happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
Media As Propaganda Megaphones00:08:18
Goes into the corporate boardrooms, goes into the halls of Congress.
It continues to grow.
Okay, cut eight.
I want to get shift gears here about how we process information in the West.
I want you to listen to this tape here of a former news executive revealing the government came forward and warned networks to air COVID propaganda.
I remember where I was two years ago.
In fact, two years ago was one of the most frustrating news cycles ever.
We went from one mass-induced trauma hysteria to the other, one after the other.
We started with the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns and then went straight into the Floyd situation in the summer of 2020.
Now, I remember watching the news.
I remember just being quarantined in Arizona for six weeks.
That part was actually really nice.
I rode my bike every day.
I was able to get out.
No one was in the office.
We actually weren't even doing a daily.
I think we started to do a daily show during the lockdowns.
We were only doing it a couple of times a week.
So I was able to relax for six weeks, most relaxed I've ever been.
And we actually got a lot done.
It's where we kind of formulated the idea of the radio program.
And we were totally against lockdowns, by the way, even though I kind of enjoyed it for six weeks, totally against the idea of lockdowns.
And so I want you to listen to this.
This is a news executive saying that the government approached news networks, telling them they had to air very specific propaganda related to COVID.
Play cut eight.
So can you just start by explaining this chilling warning that Ofcom gave near the start of the pandemic and how you think that may have impacted the coverage?
Well, I definitely think it impacted.
It's not so much an Ofcom regulation.
It was advice or a warning, actually.
It's like a little bulletin.
It was a warning to basically say do not question the official government line.
Now, to be fair to them, they said you can have opposition voices on, but presenters must intervene if there's any danger of harmful or misinformation.
Now, we have a couple other tapes here that we're going to dive into.
This is exactly why you must support independent media.
This is why talk radio is so important to support, why our podcast is important to get behind, not just ours, but in our genre, let's say.
This guy, Sky News, formerly BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, is saying that news companies in Britain and all across the West received formal written warnings saying, you better not question the party line.
That's pravda.
This is where I laugh when some people say, well, Charlie, Vladimir Putin is so terrible.
He controls the media of Russia.
And I say, I agree.
Controlling the media is a terrible thing, which is precisely what our media has become.
Our media have become megaphones.
They've become amplifiers.
They have become lockstock and barrel of whatever the regime wants them to say.
So this is a former news executive who reveals the government came in and intimidated, basically pseudo-blackmailed these companies.
Now, you might remember that as part of the COVID stimulus bill, it was tons of money to go to national public radio.
It was tons of money to go to all these news outlets.
We didn't receive any of that money.
Of course not.
We're independent.
We say whatever we want.
And then you combine all of that with the nonstop Pfizer advertisements.
By the way, did you know the Oscars was brought to you by Pfizer yesterday and BioInTech?
It's true.
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It's just so shameless, just so nakedly corrupt.
There's not a lot of us out there in the independent media space.
I could name a couple.
There's just not a lot.
And Salem, to their great credit, our partner on radio, they've really allowed us to continue to say what we want to say.
But this is evidence where if you're watching cable news, and God bless cable news, it's played a role in America the last... couple decades, but it certainly isn't helping the country largely now.
You're watching CNN and you're watching MSNBC.
You're watching paid-for propaganda and propaganda that if they dare diverted from the party line, they would be punished for such behavior.
Let's go to cut nine.
He continued to say that most broadcasters followed the instruction and the one who didn't got censored.
You lived through government-created, state-subsidized mass formation psychosis over the last two years.
Play cut nine.
And so did that essentially turn presenters at the BBC Sky News into essentially representatives of the government?
Yes, I think it did.
Not just on-air talent.
I think that warning affected all broadcasters.
Most of the major broadcasters followed it.
And actually, it was only the one or two little smaller ones who wouldn't have that backup power who got caught.
I mean, Oxfield Community Radio was censored for putting something out.
Now, this is just an example in the United Kingdom.
But we know the exact same sort of interference from the Center for Disease Control, the NIH, happened here.
And this proves the point that the narrative is actually the untouchable control mechanism in America.
We call it the narrative industrial complex.
Whoever controls the narrative can control whether or not your kid wears a mask in school or not.
Whoever controls the narrative controls whether or not we're going to put up tolerating a burning of a Wendy's in our entire civilization or whether or not we're going to classify grandmothers that walk into the Capitol and take a selfie and call them insurrectionists, even though no one's been charged with insurrection.
Why do you think Fauci and Walensky have been plaster on every single major outlet?
These media companies are funded by the government and funded by pharmaceutical companies.
Our show is not.
We're not the only one, but there's not a lot of them.
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So let's go to cut 10.
He finishes by saying that this will lead to the biggest attack on free speech because we've never seen anything like it.
Play cut 10.
But actually, I think what it's led to, I think it's created an environment which will lead to the biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I've known in my lifetime.
I've never seen a warning from OSCOM like that.
I've never seen the broadcasters toe the line.
Why Haven't They Crushed Us Yet00:04:40
And rather than question the government, they became cheerleaders for the government.
And that's what they've become.
And what's so interesting is that most people go into journalism because they have this idea, albeit misleaded and misguided, that when they join these major media institutions, they're going to be exposing corruption and fighting the man.
Now, that sort of spirit of kind of regime challenging journalism, that dies when you go to journalism school.
That dies when you go to the University of Missouri Journalism School, which is one of the best in the country.
It dies when you go to Columbia Journalism School, which is supposed to be one of the best.
You see, most journalists, and we deal with a lot of journalists in our life, kind of more incoming than anything else, especially on the left, is that they're very comfortable protecting and defending the status quo of the regime.
In fact, they look at it, their job is to not try to root out corruption wherever it might be or inconsistencies or hypocrisy or cover stories that matter.
No, instead, the journalists that are now in power, especially at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Huffington Post, they are activists with a Twitter account, a notepad, and a word quota to meet every single week.
These are the exact same people that would be participating throwing rocks in BLM riots if they didn't have to submit a story once every two weeks.
These are the very same people that basically do the press releases for Department of Justice and CIA and the FBI, and they just rewrite it as a news story.
And what's so amazing is how strong the conservative movement is today, despite having the New York Times, having Harvard, having these major accrediting institutions totally captured the FDA, CDC, NIH.
And one of my theories is this, and this is a new theory that I've really been working on the last couple of weeks.
And I haven't really built it out as deeply as I would like yet, but I'm going to tease you on it.
Someone asked me the other day, said, Charlie, if they control every institution, why haven't they basically crushed us yet?
If they control Disney, Harvard, FBI, CIA.
Now, the answer is two part.
The answer is first, we haven't given up and we're building our own stuff.
That's part of it.
But they really did have a window to kind of execute a kind of like nail in the coffin, if you will, kind of like totally sealing the conservative movement for good.
And I know this is going to sound really silly.
However, they're just not very smart and they're really lazy.
Is that they have captured these institutions, but they just don't work as hard as conservatives do.
I mean, I see the Biden White House.
These people are not smart.
They are not worldly.
They're not wise.
And they just don't put as many hours in as I know the Trump administration did.
Joe Biden certainly isn't.
And so, one of the great opportunities for us as conservatives, us as constitutionalists, us as freedom lovers, is that, yes, we're up against the FBI, we're up against the Department of Justice, we're up against Google, but we're also up against very fragile people.
We're up against people that don't work as hard, and they're not very smart.
They just aren't.
And we have the creativity, we have hopefully the ambition in a good way to try to save the West.
We are definitely motivated.
They're motivated too, but they like take Arbor Day off and they're not as they don't have the grit.
When you control everything, you tend to get apathetic.
Like, I'll spend the weekend in Martha's Vineyard.
We can crush the insurrectionists next week.
Like, ah, whatever.
I'm going to go to Catalina for a week.
We can always crush the gun-grabbing Walmart people next month.
When you control every institution, it creates a culture of apathy and arrogance, which is a massive opportunity for us constitutionalists to reclaim the country.
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