Is This How The NSA Is Spying On Tucker Carlson? (Ep 1555)
The NSA/Tucker Carlson scandal is exploding, In this episode, I discuss the growing scandal. Also, I address the troubling new story about the dangers of mask usage in children.
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Biden’s plan to destroy the suburbs is a threat to communities.
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Holy Moses, folks.
I've got some updates for you on this NSA, Tucker Carlson, traffic-shaping, traffic-shaping scandal.
What the hell's traffic-shaping?
Stay tuned.
We're doing some homework on that.
Fascinating how the NSA may be getting around domestic spying rules to spy on you.
Really, really Weird how nobody's talking about that.
Got a hero of the week, really fantastic.
I've got a clip that's going to blow your mind.
This is how you handle the media.
I've also got Sky News strikes again about the panic porn over the Delta variant.
We're all supposed to be terrified now of the Delta variant.
God forbid we leave our house.
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Let's get right to it.
Before we do, Producer Joe, I know I do it sometimes before, sometimes after the spot, but if you wouldn't mind in your worst 1960s game show voice, traditional Friday opening, please.
Fine, sir.
It's Friday!
Yeah, Joe's very excited today.
Me too.
Nice summer weekend coming up.
It's been a long day.
Thanks to everyone who watched me fill in for Hannity last night.
And please stay tuned.
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I'll get to that in a second as well.
I've got a big surprise on this weekend's show on Fox News.
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All right, Joe, let's go.
There we go, baby!
All right, there you go.
Joe burned out on the Friday thing.
He doesn't have a lot of energy for the let's go baby today.
That was it.
Joe burned his whole gas tank on that one.
It was a big Friday opening today.
So listen, the show this weekend on Fox News, I'm super excited about it.
We got a tremendous guest lineup, the best one yet.
Unfiltered, Fox News Channel, Saturday night, tomorrow, 10 p.m.
We've got Don Jr.
The President of the United States can't answer basic questions about domestic issues.
I have a feeling America's not back with this moron in charge.
I'm telling you now, if you haven't heard his name, you should.
He was a guest on my first show.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson from North Carolina, ladies and gentlemen, remember the name.
He's back this week, and I've got a killer debate with a liberal I think you're really, really gonna like about defunding the police.
Well, Sebastian Gorka sent me a text of an appearance he did on Newsmax.
I covered it yesterday.
I rarely play clips twice, but this is super important, folks.
This is kind of like a big deal.
Ron Burgundy style.
In light of what Tucker Carlson's been claiming on his program, that he has in fact been spied
on by the NSA, Sebastian Gorka went on Newsmax and just dropped the bombshell the other day.
Again, how it hasn't been picked up by people, I don't know.
I'm going to play just the second portion of it yesterday where he says he was spied
on Steve Bannon and others while he was at the White House, Gorka.
And the way the NSA did it was using this thing called traffic shaping, and he explains
I did a little homework on this.
Someone turned me on to an article.
It's fascinating, but I want you to listen to Gorka first.
Again, I don't play clips twice often, but this one's important.
Check this out.
The methods they used are absolutely unconstitutional.
There's a dodge they worked out called traffic shaping, whereby they know that they're not allowed to spy on U.S.
persons in the United States.
But they know that internet communications are absolutely global.
So the NSA uses its capacity to shape internet traffic to move the nodes of connections.
So instead of my email going from Washington D.C.
to New York, they route it through Malaysia and they say, oh look, that's a foreign communication, therefore we can intercept it.
So with traffic shaping, they break the constitutional restrictions on the NSA.
I mean, listen, I played it yesterday, I'm playing it today.
As to proof, a very, very highly respected journalist has the evidence and she promised
me that she will publicly disclose her sources.
So when she does that, we'll have something to refer to.
I mean, listen, I played it yesterday and playing it today.
How this isn't a front page story, I'm really unsure.
I'm unclear.
You have a former member of the Trump White House.
Again, you don't have to like him.
I do.
You don't have to.
It doesn't require you to like him.
He's a credible guy, suggesting that a source working with a mainstream media source, and I know who that source is, that that source told him he was spied on using this technique called traffic shaping.
A friend of mine, let's just say, turned me on to this piece about traffic shaping.
This should be tattooed on your skull, folks.
Traffic shaping?
You know, the NSA is not legally allowed to spy on American citizens in their emails.
They can vacuum up, however, email traffic overseas from foreign sources, which I don't think is a bad thing.
They're not U.S.
citizens.
We have no obligation to not spy on foreign countries.
They spy on us.
But I am an absolutist of the highest order when it comes to constitutional protections, Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure for your traffic.
It's why I don't like the Patriot Act.
Never did.
And I'm really starting to question what the hell is going on with our NSA.
This is an article from 2017.
Folks, it'll be in my newsletter today.
Please.
Read it.
It's in my Bongino.com slash newsletter.
If you don't want to sign up for my newsletter, totally get it.
Just go right to this article and read it.
The clicks aren't important to me.
What's important to me is that you read this.
Sent to me by a friend.
It's an older piece from the Century Foundation and it probably explains best what traffic shaping is.
It's by Sharon Goldberg.
It says, surveillance without borders, the traffic shaping loophole and why it matters.
There's a lot of articles out there.
I don't know this woman, don't know her politics, I don't care.
But explains it quite well how the NSA is getting around this constitutional ban on spying on American citizens to potentially spy on you.
And that's why I'm not willing to throw out the Tucker Carlson piece where he says he's being spied on by the NSA.
And I'm certainly not willing to discard what Sebastian Gorka just said.
Like the media, they're like, oh, just ignore them, they're too crazy.
Really?
You know, Spygate sounded crazy at one point too, until it turned out to be real.
Here, quote from this piece.
This report, they're talking about a report that was done on this, describes a novel and more disturbing set of risks.
As a technical matter, the NSA does not have to wait for domestic communications to naturally turn up overseas, abroad.
In fact, the NSA has technical methods that can be used to deliberately reroute internet communications.
Listen to this kicker.
The NSA uses the term traffic shaping to describe any technical means to deliberately reroute internet traffic to a location that is better suited operationally to surveillance.
Since it's hard to intercept Yemen's international communications from inside Yemen itself, the agency might try to shape the traffic so it passes through communication cables located on friendlier territory.
Think of it as diverting part of a river to a location from which it's easier or more legal to catch a fish.
Folks, again, how is this not a front page story?
We know the technique exists.
Gorka is now alleging that a major reporter, and I know who it is, this is a serious person, is about to break a story about traffic shaping being used not to target Yemen or fish in Yemen, but to target U.S.
citizens on U.S.
soil by diverting their traffic overseas where they can, air quotes, legally hoover it up, vacuum it up, and use it later on.
Folks, I can't emphasize to you enough that the key distinguishing component, I named three of them yesterday, but the most important component of a free constitutional republic in contrast to a socialist totalitarian regime where you have no big archive given rights, the key distinction, don't ever forget this, is the hardline distinction between the private and public self.
In a truly free constitutional republic, like we're supposed to have.
You are supposed to be free in your private self to communicate, to live your life, to engage in activities, to provide services, to work.
You are free to do that without government interference.
You have a bill of rights that protects you.
The government can interfere and take your liberty, but conditions have to be met.
They have to provide some kind of a warrant that shows probable cause that you committed a crime and infringed on the private civil liberties of others.
If the government is allowed to invade the private self and read Sebastian Gorka's emails, Steve Bannon's emails, or Tucker Carlson's emails with no warrant, no evidence of probable cause whatsoever, folks, there is zero distinction between us and a totalitarian regime.
There's no difference.
The public-private distinction is what matters.
That's it.
That is the most important thing.
This is a big story, and we're not gonna let it go.
And my sources are telling me, don't discard it.
I can't with 100% certainty tell you Tucker Carlson's story is true.
I can, however, tell you that the evidence he's provided, the reading of his own emails, which he has not personally disclosed, indicates that somebody's lying.
Either Tucker Carlson or the NSA.
And if I'm a betting man, I'm betting it's the NSA.
All right, it's Friday, so I do have a loaded news show today.
I don't want to leave anything on the table.
I want to move on to another story that's important.
Folks, you know, the identity politics racial warfare game that liberals are imposing upon this country and is destroying us and ripping us apart piece by piece is doing real damage.
And I want you to be aware of this because it's very important.
I'll get through this story quick because I've got a lot of other stuff to get to, but it's important.
I saw it in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
They are using this disparate impact thing To pollute and corrupt our society.
Disparate impact means this, and pay very close attention to the term, along with traffic shaping, I want you to add this to your vocabulary.
Because the left is having a very difficult time showing overt instances of racism, Remember the Juicy Small A thing?
Was the NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace with the noose that was a garage pull?
They can't find this stuff anymore.
It's becoming increasingly difficult.
You know why?
Because we're a really good country.
Full of good people.
And people want to love each other for who they are and care about each other because of their character.
There are very few instances, they're not zero, but thankfully very few instances of overt racism.
But because the left needs, needs, I'm writing this down so I don't forget, needs that narrative, the racism narrative, to divide us because they profit off the division.
Remember, it's by the left telling you Republicans hate you, that's their sole agenda.
Look, Republicans hate you because they're racist.
Well, protect you.
They don't run on their issues.
They run on that.
They need division to do that.
That's their coin of the realm.
Well, there is very little division in the United States right now, so the left has to create it.
So when they can't prove racism, they use this term, remember it?
Just with traffic shaping, add this to your vocabulary, disparate impact.
What does that mean?
Well, because they can't prove racism, what they do is they go to, say, a suburb somewhere, and they say, ah, in this suburb we have...
7 Cuban families, 70 white families, 5 Puerto Rican families, and say 3 black families.
And the population of the United States is, I don't know, whatever, 7% black, you know, 2% Cuban.
So because this doesn't fit the general population breakdown of the United States, there's clearly racism.
Yet the weird thing is if you go and knock on every door in that community and you speak to people and you say, hey, is, you have any instances of, were you discriminated against when you bought this house?
Do you feel like the black families, the Puerto Rican families, the Cuban families and white families would all tell you no.
So it's strange, there's no actual complaints of racism in the community, yet because it doesn't marry up with the national population breakdown, the left says what?
It's definitely racism because it's had a disparate impact on black families that could have moved there.
So then it's really weird, because even if you put out a survey saying, were you prevented from moving to this community because you were black?
It's weird, they don't get any answers to the survey because they can't find any.
This disparate impact is being used to destroy the country.
I'm going to tie it to two stories in a minute.
First, here.
It's happening again now in science.
Great, great piece by Heather MacDonald.
Brilliant, brilliant writer.
It's in the Wall Street Journal.
The National Institutes of Health, now we're polluting science too?
Their diversity obsession subverts science.
A project to understand the brain becomes a futile effort to make up for educational disparities.
They're using disparate impact here again.
So the National Institutes of Health now wants to determine who gets a grant based on your race.
Not that you actually know anything.
You know, Armacost may have some breakthrough for Alzheimer's.
He needs a grant.
But wait, is he black?
He's not getting it.
Guy may have a breakthrough for cancer and I'm like, Guy, wait, is Guy Puerto Rican?
Guy's not Puerto Rican, doesn't fit the breakdown.
He doesn't get the grant.
I'm not kidding.
This is actually happening.
And here's the crazy thing.
The NIH is now distributing your taxpayer grant money based on allegations of racism.
But here's the weird thing.
The grant applicants have never had to put their race down on the paper.
So how the hell were they discriminated against if nobody knows what their race is?
From the piece to Dr. Collins who runs the NIH and his academic peers, these disparities, remember disparate impact, are virtually irrefutable evidence of discrimination.
Though grant reviewers don't see an applicant's race for a grant.
But the use of population data as a benchmark for assessing institutional racism ignores racial disparities in academic skills, achievement, and study practices that the NIH didn't cause and couldn't possibly do anything to remedy.
You get what they're doing here?
Grant applicants don't even include their race on the grant.
And the NIH is paying, no, no, you deny them because it's racist.
How?
We don't even know what race they are, you idiots!
But they're using this disparate impact thing, because the percentage of grant applicants aren't black or Cuban or Puerto Rican or whatever.
Why does this matter?
It's going to play into defund the police and this other story right here in a minute, which I'm going to address on my Saturday night show on Fox with the liberal I debate, Jamou Green, I promise you.
Well, AFFH is back.
What's that?
Just a news article.
Be in the show notes.
Read it.
Biden's plan to eliminate suburb-friendly zoning might land in Democrats' budget bill.
Go to the screenshot quick.
I want to tie this all together for you before I move on with a hilarious clip of what happened in Times Square.
This AFFH, Joe Biden, wants to make grants, government, federal, taxpayer-funded grants, conditioned on the fact that you put projects in Section 8 housing in your suburbs.
That's it.
It's summed up.
Now I'll give you the more eloquent portion here.
From just the news it says, portion of Biden's 2.3 trillion dollar American jobs plan offers grants to cities that take, quote, concrete steps to end exclusionary zoning for single family homes.
They want to get rid of minimum lot sizes, parking requirements, and prohibitions on multifamily housing.
Let me sum this up for you, why this matters, and how it relates to the NIH story, though most of you are putting two and two together, and how it relates to defund the police.
Biden wants to destroy your suburbs.
Why?
He wants you to build projects and Section 8 housing in the suburbs.
Okay, great.
Why?
Because the Democrats for years have congregated in cities and have thrown away a lot of votes.
They win races in cities for Congress and elsewhere 90 to 10.
You may say, Dan, what's the problem?
Democrats should love winning 90 to 10.
They don't.
They hate it.
Because you wasted 40 votes.
You only need 51% to win.
You don't need 90.
So the Democrats want those people out of the cities, into the suburbs, where they're losing elections to Republicans by one or two points.
You get it?
Guys, does this make sense?
Everyone?
They're wasting votes!
Everything is about power to Democrats.
That's why they hate the suburbs.
So Biden wants to make federal grant money to states and suburbs, your money you gave to the government, conditional on you putting projects in the suburbs and moving the city population into the suburbs.
What are they basing it on?
Just like the NIH.
Disparate impact.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is illegal to discriminate based on race and housing.
Period.
You do it, and you're caught, you're in big trouble, and you should be.
The problem is, black and Hispanic families move where they want to move.
Some don't want to move to certain neighborhoods, some want to move to other neighborhoods.
Neighborhood I live in, we had my block, my old house, the guy in the corner of the cul-de-sac was black, my neighbor was Cuban, the neighbor across the street is Mexican.
I'm not making it up, I'm just telling you a fact.
Why did they move there?
I don't know.
I don't talk to too many people.
I have no idea.
It's already illegal to discriminate.
So they're going to get the numbers for these neighborhoods and say, you don't have enough Puerto Rican residents.
You're not getting federal grant money.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, the gavel.
I thought that was defunding the police.
Didn't the liberals just make an argument to us over a period of two weeks that because Republicans didn't want to fund Joe Biden's ridiculous stimulus bill that doesn't mention the police at all, as I argued with Leslie Marshall last night, they argued that not signing that bill was defunding the police because some of the money could have made it to municipalities and suburbs.
So if that's defunding the police, how is Making money to the suburbs and municipalities conditional on you building projects, and if you don't they take the money away How isn't that defunding the police?
I know liberals' heads are spinning, the foam out of the mouth is coming out right now.
I know you're clawing at your faces because you realize, holy, he has a point.
We can't say Republicans are defunding the police because they're pulling money out of the suburbs while we're right now in Biden's family plan, legit, threatening to pull real money out of the suburbs if you don't build projects.
The face clawing is happening right now because they realize now they're caught.
All right, gonna move on.
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This video is quite hilarious.
It's about 15 seconds.
I just need a little bit of a comic relief moment on Fridays here.
And we do have a Hero of the Day.
Guy, make sure we get to that.
Hero of the Week, actually, because we haven't done a Hero of the Day, because it's important.
The great Vernon Jones.
But this video makes me laugh.
So as a reporter up in New York, she's given a little on-site hit there, live, and she's in Times Square.
If you're watching on Rumble, you'll probably get this right away.
If you're listening on audio, I'll explain afterwards.
She's giving this hit about how Mayor de Blasio up in New York City is putting out this edict that, we gotta save energy, man!
It's really hot in New York, the grid is strained.
But I'd like you to pay special close attention to the background of this shot.
Check this out.
While Maurice and Jessica Con Edison crews are all hands on deck tonight trying to restore power as quickly as possible, but City Hall and Con Ed are pleading with people to lower their AC and not use appliances like dishwashers and microwaves to avoid even bigger outages.
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Joe, you get it?
Guy, you catch that?
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Joe, what did you catch in the background there?
The dude walking across the back there?
No, no, it's not the dude.
Guy, what do you think?
What about it?
Yes!
Joe, you missed it.
Can you play it again, please?
Folks, she's talking about the mayor saying how we need to save energy.
Joe, look at the background.
Play it again.
You got it?
Alright.
Folks, she's in Times Square.
There's like 57 billboards running 4 million LED bulbs on each one.
And it's like, really bro?
You're giving a lecture?
I'm not blaming the media, it's not her fault.
But did anyone in the newsroom, Joe, you've been in the media business.
Did anyone in the newsroom be like, hey folks, The background here looks kind of dumb.
We're telling people to save energy at Times Square, where we just probably burned through the entire, you know, Northwestern basin in oil, just lighting up Times Square for that one shot.
Man, like who?
It reminds me of a quick story.
I don't like to do a lot of personal stories, but this one's funny.
When you do this a lot, you have to pay close attention to your surroundings.
But I was a brand new agent on President Bush's detail.
You know, you go to the security, presidential security site after doing criminal work for a while.
I'm new.
And George W. Bush was stopping at a site.
You know, he had an alcohol problem earlier in his life.
He talks about it.
It's not a state secret.
It's an open thing.
And imagery mattered.
So we were going to do some meet and greet and it was in a restaurant.
And I'll never forget the staffer I'm walking through with.
I'm like, yeah, let's do the shot here because there was no windows in this one portion.
It was just safer.
You know, you don't want someone to shoot through a window.
You're doing the security.
The staffer would not do this shot no matter what.
And I'm like, what the hell?
Why would she wouldn't say?
I'm like, why won't she let me take, put him here?
Like stand right here.
Well, After about, I don't know, a few hours of negotiating this thing.
The staffer says to me, all right, all right, listen.
So we'll just stop arguing.
She didn't want to argue about it anymore.
She's like, we're not doing the shot there.
Forget it.
Find a different spot.
She's like, the background is the bar portion with all the alcohol in the background.
And you know, he used to drink when he was younger.
He doesn't anymore.
And he didn't say it.
The staffer did.
He probably wouldn't have cared any less.
I mean, no big deal.
He doesn't drink.
But the staffer's like, I don't like the imagery in the background.
And I said, all right.
You know, I totally get it.
And she was very smart, very savvy.
Like, she knew what she was doing.
I just got to show you, like, you're in the news business.
Folks, I really think, you know, we should pay heed to the mayor, save some energy, but really they just burned out the entire Texas oil supply, lighting up that one shot in the background of Times Square.
And like nobody in the newsroom ever thought like, does this look kind of stupid?
I covered it on Hannity last night.
I wanted to make sure I got to it again.
What is it called?
Is that what that is?
He's giving me all kinds of technical talk for you people in the media business.
How you doing?
All I call it is a really crappy background shot that nobody thought about.
That's my technical term for it.
All right, moving on.
Yeah, I know.
It's like thick in that one.
Moving on to some serious news.
Sky News, folks in Australia, strikes again.
Sky News has been all over.
The coronavirus lab leak story.
We played multiple cuts.
I believe they're in Australia.
Um, they strike again here on this one.
Folks, this story is, is irritating me because the panic porn about the Delta variant of the coronavirus is insane.
It's gotten to the point now where we've reached near hysteria.
Um, I believe it's fear porn.
The left, Has enjoyed this new acquiescence by the population to the diminution of civil liberties?
I mean, this is really when you think about it.
Talk about a cornucopia of goodness for the left, right?
The left's goal has always been for you to forfeit your freedom and liberty.
Your real freedom and liberty.
Your money, your ability to spend it, where your kids go to school.
These are all real things.
They're, you know, they may not be material, but they're real examples of freedom and liberty.
The left has tried to get that away from you for years.
They don't want you to pick your doctor.
They want government healthcare.
You get the point.
So the coronavirus to them was just, I mean, you talk about manna from the skies.
They're like, wait, so we can scare people with the coronavirus and all of a sudden they'll give up their right to assemble in public?
We did.
We weren't allowed out.
They'll give up their right to practice religion.
We won't let them in church.
You give up your right to speak.
They got YouTube and fake book and Twitter banning people.
This to them must've been the greatest thing ever.
They don't want to give it up.
Don't ever forget the sage words of Lord Acton.
Power is corrupting.
The left does not want to give up the coronavirus panic porn because they can use it to take your civil liberties and flush them down the toilet bowl.
We need foreign news outlets to tell the truth.
The Delta variant is the new panic porn.
You go to that disaster of a website, Drudge Report, and seemingly every day there's a new, Delta variant!
It's gonna kill us all!
We're all gonna die!
It's insane!
That's why you should use BonginoReport.com instead.
Seriously, to get away from those lunatics.
That's why I put it together for you with Matt every day.
Here's Sky News.
Overseas, this reporter and a guest he has saying, guys, ladies, can we please collectively remove our heads from our cabooses in the media and be honest about this Delta variant?
Is it serious?
Of course it's serious.
It's a virus.
Is it killing people on the 10 to 20 times the rate, the original alpha version of the coronavirus?
No, not even close.
Matter of fact, the fatality rate is lower.
Check this out.
See, this is the latest alarmism.
We're talking about the highly contagious Delta variant.
Governments in Australia are loose with the truth.
They ignore the facts.
But isn't it true, Craig, that the latest data from the UK shows the case fatality rate
for this Delta strain amongst the unvaccinated is 0.08 percent.
And that's without any early treatment.
But the case fatality rate for the original coronavirus is 1 to 2 percent.
So 0.08 percent for Delta makes it less deadly than the normal flu.
The data out of the UK, and this is quite significant data, it's done on large sample sizes, shows that this Delta variant that we've had all these bureaucrats running around saying how deadly it is, now we have to lock down, is something like one tenth as deadly as the original alpha strain.
That's what the data shows.
Now, the case fatality rate you just mentioned there for the unvaccinated in the UK, 0.08%, which is less than the regular flu season.
So we're locking the whole place down for this Delta variant which the case fatality rate is less than the regular flu season.
Now I haven't seen one medical bureaucrat in this country refer to that very important data as from UK public health.
They won't do their homework and they ignore the truth.
Again folks, it's sad we have to go to overseas media outlets to get some honesty and truth.
But the lab leak, Sky News is all over it.
I don't know these people at Sky News, they could be total libs, I have no idea.
All I know is I care about truth and facts, and what the guy just said, and his guest, is a fact.
The fatality rate of the Delta variant, you almost have to say it with fear in your mouth, the Delta variant, is 0.08.
0.08 not 0.8 not 8.0 0.08 and by the way that's the case fatality rate not the
incident fatality rate which would be far lower Because the case fatality rate only measures measured cases.
What's the difference, Dan?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, many people infected with the coronavirus don't show any symptoms, never go to the doctor, and never get a test.
So the number of people infected is likely higher, meaning the fatality rate is likely lower because you missed people who were infected and nothing happened.
There's a great piece on this again in the newsletter today.
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I have the JAMA thing with the masks.
I'll get to him.
I got a ton of feedback on that.
You got this story and the traffic shaping story.
They're all, nothing's a must read, but yeah, I can't get, I'm not here to give orders, but I've highly recommended reading.
Great piece in the blaze by my friend, Daniel Horowitz about this, the Delta deception, new COVID variant might be less deadly.
Is that headline right?
Might be less than... Gee, did you mess with that?
No, he didn't mess with it.
It might be less than... But that's crazy, because Drudge is telling us we're all going to die every day.
Here, here are some of the headlines Horowitz puts in his pieces.
The headlines are screaming with panic over the impending doom of the Delta variant hitting the US.
Here, this is CNBC, the lunatics over there.
WHO says Delta's the fastest and fittest COVID variant.
And we'll pick off the most vulnerable folks, pick them off one by one.
Here's another one from CBS.
The highly contagious Delta variant could cause the next COVID-19 wave.
This virus will still find you.
As if it's got eyeballs and is a thinking creature.
Yeah, the Terminator, that's right.
It will never stop.
Remember that line in the original Terminator?
Was it Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn?
It'll never stop.
It'll find you.
It has no feelings, man.
Here's Bloomberg.
Delta variant gained steam in under-vaccinated U.S.
counties.
horrible. Here business insiders, the Delta variant might pose the biggest threat yet to vaccinated
people. Of course, none of that's actually true. And here's Dr. Fauci saying, quote,
the Delta variant is the greatest threat in the U.S.
Trying to keep a level-headed show on Friday before the weekend.
Folks, this is all fear and panic porn designed to keep you scared because people who are scared
are more willing to forfeit their civil liberties.
Period.
That's the only reason.
Don't take these losers seriously.
Let's go to the data.
I'm sure the data will be banned by Fakebook and YouTube and the YouTube communists that watch my show, but here's the actual data.
I thought we were doing science.
The deadly Delta variant is going to kill everyone.
Well, the Delta variant has a 0.1% case fatality rate out of 31,132 Delta sequence infections confirmed by investigators, according to Horowitz's piece.
That's the same rate as the flu.
They round it up, by the way.
That's the same rate as the flu and is much lower than the case fatality rate for the ancestral strain or any of the other Corona variants.
As we know, the case fatality rate is always higher than the, what I made, the point I made before, is always higher than the infection fatality rate.
Because many of the mildest and asymptomatic infections go undocumented.
While confirmed cases tend to have a bias towards those that are more evidently symptomatic.
Why?
Because if you're sick, are you going to go to the doctor and get a test?
I know liberals find this hard.
But the 0.08 fatality rate is likely an overestimate itself.
Because it doesn't factor in cases nobody went to the doctor for.
I'm tired of correcting these idiots all the time.
My gosh, can you surgically remove your heads from your rumps, please?
So we can make informed decisions?
You're gonna lock down over this thing again?
Not here.
Lock down your liberal states.
We're done with you down here in Florida.
We're done listening.
You've lost all credibility.
All right, I've got some funny video of Joy Reid coming up next, who can't seem to get out of her own way.
Doesn't even understand the topics she brings up on her own show.
Folks, it's her show.
She can control the topics.
She controls the topics and still doesn't know anything about them.
Hilarious.
And we got Truth Time with Thomas Sowell coming up soon, too.
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I got to tell you, she's, um, what do you think guys?
We've had, you know, a gold and silver for a while.
It's been Brian Stelter and Chuck Todd.
I think Joy is making some moves though on number two.
You think so?
Yeah.
He's shaking his head, Joe.
What do you think?
Yeah.
Yeah, they have.
Well said.
Jo says she's working hard.
She is.
She's doing a good job working hard.
I almost admire her tenacity there.
She wants that silver medal spot from Chuck Dutt.
She may be shooting for the gold.
Who knows?
So, Joy reads on her show last night.
And of course Joy Reid is trying to do her best to engage in a full-time disinformation campaign.
That's what she does.
She wants you to believe critical race theory isn't happening.
As we play on the radio show a lot, these aren't the droids you're looking for technique.
She's trying the Jedi mind trick on people that even though critical race theory and its principles are being taught in schools, that's what the fight's about.
She realizes she's losing the PR fight.
So what is she doing?
She's engaging in a disinformation campaign to suggest No, none of that's critical race theory.
Matter of fact, anyone you even think is associated with critical race theory is not, and I'm going to prove it to you.
So she has a guy on her show last night, Ibram Kendi, who's already admitted he's inspired by critical race theory.
He's one of these guys who believes in white oppression and white guilt and, you know, all this other crap, white privilege and the knowledge construct, the power nonsense of critical theory.
So she has him on the show and she's looking to embarrass Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
Josh Hawley had quoted Ibram Kendi's book.
So Joy Reid apparently hasn't read Ibram Kendi's book and had him on the show last night and this happened.
Check this out.
But here is Senator Josh Hawley, sort of one of the worst sort of offenders here, slamming you by name.
Dr. Ibram Kendi wrote this.
The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
That's right.
That's what he said.
Think about that for a moment.
He's saying that he's opposed to equality under the law.
Dr. Kendi and his followers are in no uncertain terms advocating for state-sanctioned racism.
Given the fact that they can't seem to quote Dr. King accurately, I'm just going to assume that they're misquoting you or getting the wrong context.
Dude, hold on.
We have had some epic classic moments in this show that I've had a lot of fun with, you know, poking fun at media people.
This one takes the cake.
Joy Reid, who could have simply gone to a search engine Looked up the quote Josh Hawley read on the floor there.
She didn't do it.
It's her show, folks.
She wasn't a guest.
It's her show.
She can't say, I was surprised it was a guest.
I'm a guest on Hannity's show.
I'm serious.
I have no idea what Sean's going to ask ever.
None of that stuff's rehearsed.
The fights with Geraldo aren't rehearsed.
I have no idea where that's going.
Maybe she'd have an excuse.
It's her show.
The copy she's reading in the teleprompter is hers.
So she's like, Josh Hawley said that you recommended future discrimination in your book somewhere, and they're in accord.
That's not your quote, right?
So, Daily Wire, Ben Johnson picked this up.
This article will be in the newsletter today as well.
MSNBC host Joy Reid accuses Josh Hawley of misquoting Ibram X. Kendi.
The problem?
It was a real quote.
Let's go to the actual quote, which sounds suspiciously exactly like the quote In Ibram X. Kendi's book, he says, unfortunately for MSNBC and Joy Reid, Senator Hawley quoted Kendi accurately.
On page 19 of Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist, Kendi wrote, it's going to sound familiar, folks, because you legit just heard it, what, 15 seconds ago from Josh Hawley?
Racial discrimination is not inherently racist.
The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.
The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
That sounds awfully like what we just heard from Josh Hawley.
It's in the book.
All they had to do, all they had to do, the programmers, is look it up.
It would have, the search engine would have nailed it.
How did you miss that?
It's her show.
It's her show.
Holy Moses.
As Joe just said, she may not be the silver winner yet in the dopey media personality Olympics, the talking head Olympics, but she is really giving it a go.
She's training her.
Rocky.
She's training.
She's running.
She's like jumping over the park benches.
She's, she's bench pressing that.
Remember Rocky's got the log on his back or something like that.
What's that?
Well, yes, yes, he brought up a good point.
But she's doing it with three masks on.
And the aliens that could have come out in the USO report are watching this training with Joy reading her three masks on like, screw this place.
We're out of here.
You turn.
We ain't invading this joint ever.
These people are far too dumb for us to invade.
We are gone.
It's her show.
What a clown.
Oh my gosh.
Is this woman ridiculous?
Stupid.
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Friday, big holiday weekend coming up.
Got a few more quick stories to get to and our Hero of the Week.
You're going to love Vernon Jones just humiliating CNN, which is hilarious.
But it's time for Truth Time with Thomas Sowell.
Again, as I said, the intellectual lodestar of my life.
Man changed my life.
His book, Vision of the Anointed, you should all bring it to number one on Barnes & Noble or whatever.
Don't buy it on Amazon.
It's a great book.
I'm not kidding.
It changed my life.
I'm not being hyperbolic.
The man is a genius.
He's not just an economist.
He's a philosopher, whether he thinks so or not.
So on Bonginoreport.com, we have a rumble page associated with that too.
We do clips and they put together, it's about a minute 45.
This one we cut to a minute for the sake of time.
But here's some of Thomas Sowell's just great quips over the years in honor of the man's birthday.
Check this out.
Hillary Clinton said, you know, it takes a village to raise a child.
And someone said, it takes a village idiot to believe that.
What they're saying is they want to come in there and tell them.
You see, it's part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price when they're wrong.
How much should people really worry about the balance of trade?
Somewhat less than you worry about being struck by lightning.
Now, when I was a kid, I briefly tried to play basketball.
And I mean, I was lucky to hit the backboard, nevermind the basket, you know.
But I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had.
You cannot measure opportunity by outcomes.
May I suppose that Tom Sowell is duly impressed?
Oh, you might say the road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.
Folks, there's another like.
If you want to watch the full clip, you can watch it on the Rumble Bongino Report page, which is different than Rumble.com slash Bongino.
We have two of them.
Subscribe to both.
You can see the whole clip there, but some of the genius of Thomas Sowell.
The path to Hades is paved with Ivy League degrees.
It's a trade deficit.
You should worry more about being struck by lightning.
I mean, the man's a genius.
The man is a genius.
Changed my whole life.
I told Guy this morning, I wasn't kidding.
I read his, what was his thesis in college?
The Defense of Say's Law?
Everything he's put out I've ever read.
Changed my life.
Real genius.
Happy birthday.
I hope we have him.
I think he's 91.
Hope we have him 10 more years.
But he's getting up there in age.
So, thanks Thomas Sowell.
Always good on a Friday.
All right, some quick stories here over the week, and then we will see you all on Monday.
Actually, Monday, there'll be no podcast on Monday.
We'll be back on Tuesday.
So there'll be a Best Of on the radio program as well.
So we appreciate it.
The Best Of should be pretty good.
We got some of our most fiery segments we'll be putting together in a compilation.
Producer Jim's working on that with Mike now.
We gotta start posting Ws.
Folks, this Arizona win was huge for us.
The Arizona win in the Supreme Court about their voting rules.
They banned ballot harvesting and they made voters vote in their own precinct.
Now, the Democrats are trying to use the Voting Rights Act to say, Arizona demanding you vote in your own precinct is racist.
Now, again, that in and of itself is racist, folks.
Why?
It's racist because insisting that black voters can't figure out where their voting precinct is while whites can is racist.
So the fact that this case was lost at a 6-3 decision in the Supreme Court bodes very well, as you can see in this Just the News story, it'll be in my newsletter today.
Scoda's decision on Arizona voter rules could mean big trouble for the DOJ suit against Georgia.
Huge, huge trouble.
As we see in the piece, Alan Dershowitz himself, who's an expert in this kind of stuff, has said, listen, the Attorney General, in name only, the Aguaino, Merrick Garland, is suing Georgia over their rules.
Well, the fact that Arizona won huge in the Supreme Court 6-3, that this, quote, SCOTUS decision absolutely damages Merrick Garland's case against Georgia.
Again, folks, I'm not suggesting we should not continue full steam ahead with a 2020 audit.
We should.
Absolutely.
We need answers.
But if the reason for a 2020 audit is that we suspect a lot of malfeasance due to poor voting rules, if we can fix them now, we should take a little victory lap.
It's a good thing.
We don't have to be depressed all the time.
We do have to post some W's.
It's not enough.
It's not an excuse to stop anything.
I'm just saying, we are making some headway here.
These new Arizona rules, now codified.
This Georgia lawsuit against their voter rules is gonna go down in flames.
They have no chance.
It's gonna go down big.
I never redo stories either, but this one I want to throw in there before we get to the Hero of the Week because I got an enormous, unexpected amount of feedback on it.
Matter of fact, Tucker Carlson picked up this story last night on his show as well, if you saw it.
We discussed yesterday this Journal of the American Medical Association pediatric study about masks on your kids.
Folks, it is not cost-free.
These masks, according to this well-respected medical journal, JAMA, it's Journal of American Medical Association, are saying, this is not good.
These masks have a significant downside.
Your kids are inhaling their own carbon dioxide.
I told you, please print this article.
Bring it to your school boards and pass it out to everyone there and ask them to justify why they want to keep a face diaper on your kid.
And if they do, I suggest you sue them.
Because now you've informed them that there are significant medical consequences to this decision and they've ignored it.
Why did I get a ton of feedback?
I thought I was pretty clear.
Maybe I wasn't.
Maybe it's my fault.
But people were like, I can't find the article.
It's in my newsletter.
Here's how you get it.
I have it.
I included it.
I never include an article two days in a row, but I did today.
If you want to access the article, let me see where I have it.
Hold on before I send it out.
Cause I don't want to mess this up before the weekend.
Giraffes haven't sent the rumble description to good.
Okay.
All right.
This is my actual email that I'm going to send out in a few.
It is under on my newsletter.
It is the first article.
It says the mask study I discussed in the show today.
Okay?
It's the first article.
It'll be linked.
You'll go right to this.
How do you get the newsletter?
Go to Bongino.com slash newsletter and just click subscribe.
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Bongino.com slash newsletter.
You will get this emailed to you.
It is the first article in today's show.
Guy said it's attached to the Rumble too.
That's how you get it.
Or you can just go direct.
If you don't want to do any of that, that's fine too.
Again, it's not about the clicks.
It's about you getting this article.
But it's a long title to remember, that's why I make it easy.
JAMA, Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air with or without Face Masks in Healthy Children.
Again, the piece is devastating.
Look at this.
From the piece, it talks about this hypercapnia.
That these kids, their problems can be understood as consequences of elevated carbon dioxide levels in inhaled air.
We breathe in oxygen.
We breathe out carbon dioxide.
We're not supposed to reverse the process.
And it says, quote, they concluded there was ample evidence for adverse effects of wearing such masks.
He highlighted it right there.
Print this.
Highlight it.
Give it to your school board.
Sue them.
Demand they provide answers.
Or scientific studies saying this isn't true.
They can't do it.
It'll be in the newsletter today.
Fight back!
We have the science on our side.
We're the truth tellers.
All right, finally, our Hero of the Week.
You know Vernon Jones in Georgia?
This guy's a fireball, man.
He's running for governor down there.
Big fan of Vernon Jones.
Like him a lot.
So Vernon Jones is at a little presser event with Rudy Giuliani, and I believe Bernie Kerik is there.
And some CNN hack starts asking him a bunch of stupid questions.
And I've never seen—this is our Hero of the Week, Vernon Jones.
I haven't seen anyone turn the tables and humiliate a CNN reporter like this since Donald Trump was running.
Watch Vernon Jones turn the table on this buffoon.
Check this out.
Was the drop-off boxes used in 2020 elections?
Was it?
Was it used in the 2020 elections?
Now, be as bold as you were bold to ask Rudy Giuliani a question.
I'm asking you now.
Did, were the drop-off boxes used?
Let's put the camera on him.
Let's put the camera on him.
Now, was the drop-off boxes used?
Now, raise him around.
What press are you with?
He's with CNN.
Were the drop-off boxes that were used in our election, this gentleman's with CNN.
He's with CNN.
What's your name?
Mr. Sayers.
Mr. Sayers, were the drop-off boxes used in the 2020 election and the 2021 runoff, were those drop-off boxes written into state statute?
I do not know, sir.
Are you open to looking to see if it works?
Sir, I just asked a question.
No, I'm just asking you a question.
You've asked me a question already.
Was it?
Was it?
Are you going to look into it?
Here's CNA.
Yes.
Everyone.
Yes.
Big round hero of the week.
Jogi.
Everybody's the beautiful.
He interviews the CNN guy.
Has to turn the camera on reporter and starts asking him the question.
If you're in Georgia, make sure you take a look at the great Verdon Jones, man.
I am really digging this guy's chili, man.
Very, very well done.
That's our hero of the week this week.
All right.
Got to run holiday weekend coming up again.
There'll be no podcast on Monday.
There'll be one on Tuesday.
We'll have a Bongino brief over the weekend.
However, you can listen to that.
It'll be a best of on Monday on the radio program, but please, we will have a brand new Fox show We got the great Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, a rock star, Mark Robinson on, who I promise is gonna burn the house down, Don Jr., and I've got a debate.
I'm gonna bring up this, they better be prepared, this AFFH thing.
They better be ready to go and just defund the police thing with a liberal, because I'm ready to rock and roll.
Don't miss the show, unfiltered, tomorrow, Saturday, 10 p.m.
