Andrew Clavin mocks the NY Times’s Hitler-Trump comparison in Charles Blow’s op-ed, calling it "left-wing sophomore trash," while dissecting media bias—from Fusion GPS’s Clinton-funded Steele dossier (a smear tied to dismantling the Magnitsky Act) to Project Veritas exposing Times editors dodging questions like Watergate-era figures. He ties Trump’s demonization to Goebbels-style propaganda, accusing outlets of repeating lies (e.g., white supremacist claims) while ignoring scandals like Obama’s uranium deal or Comey’s preemptive Clinton exoneration. The episode ends with a detour into Halloween horror—recommending Twilight Zone’s "The Elevator"—before pivoting to self-promotion, framing media hysteria as a distraction from substantive governance failures. [Automatically generated summary]
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Here's the amazing thing.
Now there's this breaking scandal going on, started with the Hill newspaper, that the Russians were passing millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation that may have been meant to influence her so she would approve of their buying up 20% of our uranium supplies.
There's a great story out of the EPA of how they're taming the EPA and the regulatory monster there.
Is the media covering any of that?
No.
Know why?
they are destroying themselves by seething in their own hatred, and we have the videotape.
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All right.
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Yeah, sure.
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So, you know, I hate, here's the thing.
There's a story broken.
I read about it.
I read it on the show yesterday, that the Russians were funneling millions of dollars into Hillary Clinton's, you know, what it was, the Clinton Foundation.
And during this time, Clinton was Secretary of State, and she approved the sale of 20% of our uranium supplies to Putin.
The thing is that what the Hill is now reporting is the FBI knew and reported it to the Justice Department.
And so the Obama administration knew.
That means Eric Holder knew.
That means Robert Mueller, who was the FBI head, knew, he's now the special prosecutor investigating Trump, and they didn't do anything about it.
They hid this.
It seems like it really is disturbing.
It seems like they covered it up.
What is the media covering?
They're covering whether Donald Trump said something untoward when he made a condolence call to a Gold Star family.
I mean, this story, this story is trash.
It is a trash story.
And I'm going to cover it a little just to show you why it's trash, but also to show you why it's so bad, that the media is like seething in its own hatred.
You know, there was a poll recently that says something like 46%, was it?
I think it was 46% of people now believe that the media is making up stories about Trump.
They're making up stories about Trump.
And the reason they believe that is because the media is making up stories about Donald Trump.
They believe it because it's true.
And the thing is, the trick that they use is they take everything he says and they just give it the worst possible spin.
And it never occurs to anybody to say, just parse that for me.
What exactly were you saying?
Did you say, as they now say, that Obama never called Gold Star families?
Or did you mean that, you know, you don't always call gold star families, but they don't do that.
They purposely don't clear it up.
And now, this Florida congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, this is a woman who has been calling for Trump's impeachment since the first day he was in office and predicting he's going to be impeached and saying he must be impeached.
She's that person, okay?
She just hates the guy.
And so she says Donald Trump called the parents of Sergeant LaDavid Johnson, who's one of the four Army guys who were killed in this Niger ambush.
They're out there fighting Boko Haram, just one of the worst Islamist groups ever.
I mean, I like the fact that every one of these groups has a different name, but they're all Islamist groups, okay?
So he called and he said, she says he said to her, said something insensitive.
Here she is just reaming him.
This is on MSNBC, but she has been everywhere, CNN2.
He was almost like joking.
He said, well, I guess you knew something to the fact that he knew what he was getting into when he signed up.
But I guess it hurts anyway.
You know, just matter of factly that this is what happens.
Anyone who is signing up for military duty is signing up to die.
And that's the way we interpreted it.
And it was horrible.
It was insensitive.
It was absolutely crazy and unnecessary.
Now, is there really with this Russia story, with a story, a wonderful story out of the EPA that they have stopped this conman practice they had of suing, of having people sue, it was called sue and settle.
They would sue a state for something it was doing, and then they'd settle so that the EPA would get even more power in the settlement.
And then the EPA would say, well, we can't do anything because we've made this settlement, so we have to follow these rules.
They've ended that practice.
It was an absolute con game that the EPA was running.
Donald Trump said to the parents, you know, he signed on for this.
He knew what he was signing on for, but I guess it really hurts anyway.
First of all, maybe that's not the most articulate thing to say.
Okay, I'll grant you that.
He's not the most articulate guy.
But what is he?
Does anybody think that Donald Trump has no feeling for the military?
I mean, this is the guy.
Remember how Obama would have Marines hold an umbrella over him, you know, stand there holding an umbrella over them as if they were the butler?
And remember how Donald Trump, when the Marines' hat blew off, the president of the United States, Trump, went and retrieved his hat and put it back on his head twice?
I mean, does anybody think that this is a guy who doesn't care about the military?
Obama gutted the military.
You know, Trump is trying to build the military back up.
So he said, you know, I know he signed up for this, but I guess it hurts anyway.
In other words, every soldier knows when he takes this job that he is risking his life, but when it happens, it is still awful.
That's obviously what he was saying.
That is obviously what he was saying.
And how is this?
So really, Sarah Huckley Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, she said everything that has to be said about this.
I think it is appalling what the Congresswoman has done and the way that she's politicized this issue and the way that she is trying to make this about something that it isn't.
This was a president who loves our country very much, who has the greatest level of respect for men and women in the uniform, and wanted to call and offer condolences to the family.
And I think to try to create something from that that the congresswoman is doing is frankly appalling and disgusting.
So let's say, let's just cut off the crazy left for a minute, because I know we love to concentrate on the crazy left because they're so crazy.
And you have to concentrate on them because they will eat their way into the heart of American society if you don't stop them.
But still, just cut those people off.
Let's say that's 10, 15% of the people.
The rest of the people, if they took a breath, if they calmed down for a minute, would anyone believe, you know, maybe if you're further left you are, the more you hate Donald Trump, you might say, wow, this guy's an oaf.
You know, this guy can't even speak.
He can't speak right now.
But does anybody really believe that this is a big news story, that this is something that needs to be politicized?
That the grief, the grief that these people, these parents of our heroes, the guys who are out there fighting to keep us free, the grief they must feel, I'm sure there's nothing a president can say that is going to make anything, you know, make it any better.
Does that really have to become a news story?
So, okay, so if she's politicizing this thing, the congresswoman is politicizing this thing, and Trump says, you know, go ask John Kelly, the general who's now his chief of staff, go ask John Kelly about his son because his son was killed in Afghanistan, Robert.
And Donald Trump made a very beautiful speech on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery and talked about how he grieved with John Kelly and all this stuff.
But Obama never called John Kelly, apparently.
And Trump talked about that on Fox Radio.
I think I've called every family of somebody that's died, and it's the hardest call to make.
And I said it very loud and clear yesterday.
The hardest thing for me to do is do that.
Now, as far as other representatives, I don't know.
I mean, you could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?
You could ask other people.
I don't know what Obama's policy was.
I write letters, and I also call.
So, okay.
I have to play this.
So they have this woman, Frederica Wilson on.
She's on every station.
She's politicizing this phone call.
She's making a big deal out of it.
She's calling the Niger killings Trump's Benghazi.
No evidence of anything like this at all.
We don't know anything really about it.
Needs to be investigated.
We need to find out more about it.
But to call it Trump's Benghazi is absurd and ridiculous.
I don't even know why that has to fill up airspace.
So now Trump says this about John Kelly.
And here's Joe Scarborough.
Joe Scarborough does the thing saying, you know, the media shouldn't be covering this.
We have to cover important things like health care and all this stuff.
We have to cover this.
But while we're talking about it, and then he says this.
Do you think, Mika, if we have to talk about what's happened over the past several days on this story, I think it would make more sense to talk about what the president did to the chief of staff and his wife and their daughter-in-law and their grandchildren and their family when the president dragged their son into the limelight for a cheap political shot in the talk radio show.
So used his son's dead body to attack Barack Obama and by extension, other predecessors.
If there's going to be a discussion, I think that's the discussion to be had.
Exactly what is John Kelly's response to the president of the United States doing something that no one, no president with any shred of humanity would ever consider doing.
So he brings up John Kelly defending himself, and he has no shred of humanity, but nobody's going to even question.
Only a woman from the BBC, that Katie Kaye, questioned Congresswoman Wilson about what she's doing, about whether she was politicizing anything.
You know, it is all the double, it's not, it's beyond double standard.
It's just hate.
It is just hate.
And all the news that's not being covered while they talk about this is the point.
All the scandals that are coming out from the Obama administration, the real story about Comey and how he basically was drafting a letter in May before he had even talked to Hillary Clinton.
He was drafting a letter in May exonerating Hillary Clinton.
These are the news stories, and these are the things that are not being covered.
Why does it matter?
Why do I keep picking on the press?
Why aren't I getting into the substantive issues?
It's because I think the press is at the heart of what is happening in this country.
This is a divided country, but we're not a divided people.
We're not a divided people.
When you see the hurricanes hit down south, you didn't see people knocking on doors saying, are you a Democrat or a Republican?
Because I want to figure out whether to save you or not.
I want to figure out whether to bring my boat from the next state over and row over.
You know, you've got to be of the same party.
You didn't see that.
You didn't see people saying, are you black?
Are you white?
And people were risking their lives in the Vegas shooting.
You didn't see people asking what political party you were from.
You didn't see only the press is selling this, and they are selling it because they're Democrats, and they're selling it for political purposes.
They know they are setting a narrative.
They're setting a narrative.
And the narrative is that there is the Democrat side, you know, gay marriage, government health care, all these things.
And the other side is hatred.
Let me just show you, just to go back in time for a minute.
Remember, Barack Obama was evolving in his feelings about gay marriage.
And this is an issue that I truly doesn't matter to me one way or the other.
I don't think I'm always for more freedom, let people do whatever they want.
If that can be done, if that can be done, let people do whatever they want and we'll deal with the problems as they come up.
But Barack Obama didn't feel that he could say this.
2008, this is what he was saying.
Do we have that cut?
Yes, 2008 is number 17.
I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.
Now, for me as a Christian.
For me.
For me as a Christian, it's also a sacred union.
You know, God's in the mix.
Okay, so it's a sacred union.
God is in the mix.
It's gay marriage is not a good thing.
Now, California then had Proposition 8, remember, that said there should not be gay marriage.
They voted for it.
It won handily and was struck down by the court, which said you have no right to pass your own laws.
We are the court.
We will pass the laws for you.
Keith Olbermann, then working for MSNBC, comes on and he makes this speech about that vote.
To me, this vote is horrible.
Horrible.
Because this isn't about yelling and this isn't about politics.
This is about the human heart.
And if that sounds corny, so be it.
If you voted for this proposition or you support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions because truly I do not understand why this matter to you.
What is it to you?
In a time of impermanence and flyby night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option.
They don't want to deny you yours.
They don't want to take anything away from you.
They want what you want, a chance to be a little less alone in the world.
So if you agree with this, or if you agree with the sentiments behind it, you're a horrible person who just wants gay people to be alone in the world, but not Barack Obama.
You know, Barack Obama, this is 2008, same year that Obama was saying these things before he evolved, right?
But not Barack Obama.
If everyone who voted for this was hateful, why wasn't Barack Obama hateful?
They are selling you a bill of goods.
They're selling you these lies.
They're setting up, I always say when you argue with leftists, you should never talk about people.
Don't talk about Trump.
Don't talk about Obama.
Talk about principles.
Talk about principles, because when you go after them on principles, they cannot argue with you.
When you go, you know, since all people do bad things, you get into these stupid arguments.
Well, he did this and he did that.
So, you know, they are feeding, they are feeding the division that is really, you know, endangering our polity.
It's endangering the country.
It is causing us to treat each other badly.
And it's all of it generating from this hateful, churning with hate press that is spewing its hate onto us and toxifying our conversation.
I want to get to this New York Times thing about Hitler, but Lee Smith is on the line and I don't want to keep him waiting.
So Lee, are you there?
I am.
Nice to be with you, Angie.
Thanks for having me.
Oh, it's good to see you.
Lee Smith is the senior editor at the Weekly Standard, writes great stuff all over the place.
I saw you in the Federalist, and I saw your piece about the Steele dossier in the Federalists.
And the reason I wanted to have you on is because this story, every time I read about it, I find it by the third paragraph.
I can't follow it.
It's so complex.
And in order for people to understand it, they have to remember what the Steele dossier is, and we have to give at least some explanation of the Magnitsky Act.
So let's start with what the Steele dossier was and where it came from.
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Okay, the Steele dossier was a file compiled by a Washington, D.C. communications firm called Fusion GPS.
And what it is, this is the premise for the Trump-Russia narrative or the great Kremlin conspiracy, as I like to call it, that's been filling the media, print, and broadcast for nearly a year now.
It was this insane conjuries of unfortunately pornographic fantasy, the different stuff that the President Trump was supposed to have been doing.
Clearly, there's some disinformation in there.
Clearly, there's also things that may be true.
They may have actually heard different Russian officials saying different things to other Russian officials.
But that's—it's named the Steele dossier because the man whose byline was on it is Christopher Steele, a former—yeah.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
This is the document, though, that made Comey.
I mean, Comey was kind of swayed by this, wasn't he?
I think that Comey took a lot of it to heart, but it's unclear why, whether or not he was part of it.
I mean, look, what the Steele dossier is, it's political warfare, right?
It's political warfare, and Comey, it's unclear whether or not Comey was participating in a campaign of political warfare against newly elected President Trump when he and other intelligence officer officials went and briefed both outgoing President Obama and incoming President Trump on the existence of a nonsensical document that the press held off on publishing because none of it was verifiable.
The point of briefing President Obama and President Trump on this nonsensical dossier, and we can go into further details about why it's absurd, the whole premise of it.
The reason that they briefed Obama and Trump was to put it into the open, right?
So at that point, the press could report, oh, all of these press organizations already had the document.
They would not publish it because they knew it was nonsense.
They couldn't verify it.
But it was when the intelligence community briefed Presidents Obama and President Trump on it.
They thought that they could go out and release this dossier, what it said.
CNN was the first one out reporting on the briefing, and then it was BuzzFeed that same afternoon that actually released the document.
Okay, so now we've got the steel documentation.
I want to keep it as simple because it's very hard to follow.
So we've got the steel document.
It's sometimes called the, you know, it's the thing with the Russian prostitutes and all this stuff.
So we've got that, and it's come out.
Now, on the other side, we have the Magnitsky Act.
And I don't want to get into the deep weeds, but the press keeps basically saying, oh, this is about Russian adoption, but that's not what it's about.
The Magnitsky Act, Magnitsky was a lawyer who was basically murdered by Putin's Russia.
Is that fair to say?
Yes, he was detained in jail, mistreated, and likely murdered.
And there's certainly a lot of evidence that Magnitsky was murdered in jail by his captors.
And so to punish him, this is the.
So to punish the Russians, they pass this thing that has become known as the Magnitsky Act, right?
Yes, Bill Browder, William Browder, had hired Magnitsky to look into corruption against him.
The Russian officials pulled Magnitsky and put him in jail.
So Bill Browder has been the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, which sanctions different Russian officials close to the regime of Vladimir Putin.
And Putin hates this because it makes it hard for them to feed their money out into Western banks, right?
Exactly.
So it's a key Russian foreign policy goal to try to dismantle that sanctions regime against Russian officials.
Okay, and I know this is a big part of how Putin has bought his way to power, is letting people deal with the West, you know, letting people basically buy up what the Soviet Union used to own and then send their money out to the West.
Okay, so what is the connection between the Steel dossier and the Magnitsky Act?
The Steele dossier, as I said, was compiled by a Washington, D.C. communications firm known as Fusion GPS.
So ostensibly, they put this out there to show that Donald Trump was going to collude, was colluding with different Russian officials for, and the quid pro quo was he would win the 2016 presidential election with Russia's help if he promised to dismantle sanctions on Russia.
So Fusion GPS put that document out there.
Except Fusion GPS is also a part of the anti-Magnitsky campaign.
They are working on behalf of Russian interest to dismantle a sanctions regime against Russian officials.
So this propaganda factory has been hired by Russian officials to propagandize against the Magnitsky Act.
Right.
So the thing that we have to look at then, and this is something a couple of press advits have mentioned that this is curious, but most of them have not.
Most of the people that were watching, whether it's CNN, whether it's NBC, large parts of the print media, they're not putting together the fact that this company, this organization, is doing, on one hand, it's clearly paid by Russia.
And on the other hand, the more closely we look at it, it seems quite possible the steel dossier is also a function of a Russian information war campaign.
That's what this is.
So I think that it's time that people look very closely at what this organization is doing.
Thank goodness up on the hill now.
Senator Grassley is looking closely at this.
Just yesterday, I believe it was, two of Fusion GPS's principals decided to take the Fifth Amendment and not answer questions regarding the Steele dossier and probably anti-Magnitsky campaign as well.
So how does the press, I mean, we've been talking all week here about the NBC and their incredibly corrupt behavior around the Harvey Weinstein scandal, you know, basically putting the lid on their entertainment arm as well as their news arm.
But NBC was involved in this as well, weren't they?
Yes.
William Browder, when I spoke and I wrote the long article for the Federalists, William Browder believes that Ken Delanian from NBC News is working.
He alleges that they're working in tandem with Fusion GPS.
Wow.
Browder also says, and I have this from a few other journalists as well, is that Fusion GPS is a very important organization in the city.
In Washington and in New York, they assemble lots of different stories and they put them out, they hand them out to people.
These guys are deeply embedded in the press, in press circles.
Browder said that when he Tried to get the attention of different editors here in Washington and New York and what Fusion GAPS, the role they were playing in the Magnitsky campaign, they all backed off.
The journalists, the editors backed off saying, sorry, Fusion GPS is much too embedded, and our processes were not going to go after them.
You may have seen yesterday also one more thing: is that it's not just, they have their hands in lots of very dirty campaigns.
You may have seen a story in Fox News yesterday about Fusion GPS's role in smearing Venezuelan journalists, Thor Halverson, Alec Boyd.
Fox did a story on this last night.
I reported this for Tablet magazine about two months ago.
So, Fusion GPS, it's important to understand the different things they do.
They don't just package articles for journalists to pick up on, they also manage smear campaigns.
Yeah, this is.
That is what Steel Dasi is.
It's a smear campaign against Trump.
And they did this in Venezuela as well.
They're doing it with Bill Browder.
Do they—I mean, I know this is a big part of the news now, these guys who just feed smears to the media, and the media use the smears so they don't want to alienate the sources of the smears.
Absolutely.
So what is it about Donald Trump and the Magnitsky Act— Did the Putin basically think that Trump would not touch the Magnitsky Act, but maybe Hillary would, do you think?
I'm not sure if it's that clear.
I mean, my sense is that an information operation like this, the target can't be too specific, right?
So for me, from the very beginning, the idea that somehow they were targeting, they were going after Hillary to ensure Trump's victory seemed nonsensical, right?
They might have thought, who knows what goes through their head, oh, yeah, we would prefer Trump, but these things backfire so quickly.
An information operation has to be very broad.
I think the target was, which they hit, was to sow confusion in the American political system.
That's what they look how easily it backfires, right?
They say, well, we're going to try to elect Trump, and then they elect Trump, then all this news comes out, and the president who's actually in power is like, well, I can't give these guys a break, or I'll look like I'm crooked.
I have to come down even harder on them.
And the Russians have been doing information operations for a very long time.
We'll go back to the elders of the protocols of Zion.
They know how to run information campaigns.
This was supposed to be a very broad campaign.
It was.
They've been hugely successful.
It's an amazing thing.
Thanks partly to the American press.
Thanks in large part to the American press.
Who plays along?
No question about it.
Lee Smith, senior editor of the Weekly Standard.
I know you've just been through an ordeal yourself.
I really appreciate your coming on.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you very kindly.
It's great seeing you.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks.
This is, you know, I'm reading Cheryl Atkinson's new book, Smear, and she just talks about this: is that you cannot, this is now a major part of the news business, is printing these smears that are fed to you by operatives.
And Fusion GPS is among the chief.
This was basically perfected by the Clinton campaign when they were going after the bimbos, as they called them, who Clinton was abusing.
This is kind of the, they kind of invented the modern smear, and it's being carried on like this.
The one thing about Putin is you've got to remember, he could not have known that Donald Trump was going to be president of the United States.
He must have been playing his game to wrongfoot Hillary because he must have thought she was, you know, and he, and it sounds like he bought her.
You know, it really does.
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And if you lose your keychain on your phone, on your smartphone, you have a little app, you press the app, and it will make a noise.
And it will not only make a noise, it's kind of like ways.
There are a lot of different people, you know, kind of keying off it so it can locate where your keys are.
And you can say, you know, I'll find it over.
I'm getting closer, I'm getting further away.
As you're walking, you can look at the app and do this.
I have now used this three separate times to find my keys.
Wait, three separate times to find my keys.
And you know, I hike and my keys fall out of my pocket.
What happens to me is I'll be listening to something on my phone.
I'll take the phone out of my pocket and I'll knock out my keys without knowing it.
And then, you know, you hike down the mountain, and by the time you get far away, it takes you 40 minutes to get back to find your keys.
But with this, you press the button, you say, Oh, I dropped my key somewhere.
I'm getting closer, I'm getting closer, and there they are.
So, what happens if you lose your phone?
You press this little thing.
I'm telling you, it's like this big.
You press this little thing, and your phone lights up.
Even if it's turned off, your phone lights up and plays a noise so you can find your phone.
It is a great thing.
You can put it on keys, wallets, even your cat.
You can put it on your cat.
And, you know, you truly put it on your cat's collar.
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For people like me, this thing, I mean, really, it is just absolutely indispensable.
So I have to read you this New York Times column.
Let us go to the New York Times op-ed page, or as I like to call it, Knucklehead Row.
All right.
Lies And Propaganda00:12:26
Charles Blow, the most aptly named columnist at the New York Times, because everything he writes blows, he wrote this column today: Trump isn't Hitler, but.
You know the old expression that everything you say before but doesn't matter?
Trump isn't Hitler, but the lying, the lying.
So he starts out, he says, It is a commonly accepted rule among those who are in the business of argument, especially online, that he or she who invokes Adolf Hitler, either in oratory or essays, automatically forfeits the argument.
The reference to Hitler is deemed far too extreme, too explosive, too far beyond rational correlation.
No matter how bad a present-day politician, not one of them, has charted or is charting a course to exterminate millions of innocent people as an act of ethnic cleansing.
And yet, but, but, yeah, but, and yet, I cannot believe the New York Times ran this piece.
And yet, as many have noted, no person of sound reason or even cursory political awareness cannot be immediately struck by how similar Hitler's strategy of lying is to Donald Trump's seeming strategy of lying.
Tell a lie bigger than people think a lie can be, thereby forcing their brains to seek truth in it or vest some faith in it even after no proof can be found.
Guy writes badly too.
Trump is no Hitler.
Hold the press.
Hold the press.
Trump is no Hitler.
But, but the way he has manipulated the American people with outrageous lies, stacked one on top of the other, has an eerie historical resonance.
Demagogy has a fixed design.
Just this week, Trump told the colossal lie that President Obama and other presidents, most of them, didn't make calls to the families of fallen soldiers.
And once again, we see them taking what he said, which was not that they never made calls, but they didn't always make calls.
Trump and Bush, they sent out form letters.
It's a time of war.
The president cannot be on the phone all the time.
But when called out about this lie, Trump quickly retreated to one of his shield phrases, that's what I was told.
The world has seen powerful leaders use lying as a form of mass manipulation before.
This is an amazing, amazing piece of trash that really belongs in a left-wing college sophomore rag.
The world has been powerful, seen powerful leaders use lying as a form of mass manipulation before.
It is seeing it now, and it will no doubt see it again.
History recycles, but the result doesn't have to be and hopefully never will be again a holocaust.
It can manifest as a multitude of other lesser horrors in both protocol and policy, including the corrosion and regression of country and culture.
That is the very real threat we are facing.
That from the New York Times.
Now, you know, all week, our friend James O'Keefe over at Proger Project Veritas has been catching out New York Times editors of various levels who were basically just saying, yeah, we hate Trump and we run our stories to destroy Trump.
That's what we're doing.
That is what the New York Times is doing.
We used to be a newspaper.
Now we're a left-wing rag that runs stories trying to destroy Trump.
So Dean Baket, the guy I call Blithering Prevarication III, is, yeah, who runs the New York Times, said it was a sin to do this.
It was a sin to do undercover journalism against the New York Times.
And he found the truth.
It's a sin.
And, you know, the New York Times just did an undercover piece about the alt-right.
They just went undercover.
Yeah, but that wasn't a sin, but this is a sin.
But luckily, luckily, James O'Keefe got the what's his name?
Clifford Levy, the deputy manager and managing editor of the New York Times.
He confronted him, and Levy explained everything.
It just came out, clean.
He was very honest and direct.
Here's the video.
Mr. Levy, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas.
Is Nick Dudek still working at the New York Times?
You said you're reviewing the situation.
We checked.
He's no longer on the directory of the New York Times website.
You had any comment about Desiree Shu released yesterday?
She's a senior editor, and she said the same thing that he said.
You said that Nick was just a junior position who did the unethical activity.
So what do you have to say that now a senior editor has been exposed?
No comment.
Do you agree with Dean Bequet, executive editor, saying that I'm a sinner?
Okay.
He is avoiding us.
He is going into the coffee shop.
The deputy managing editor for the New York Times has ran into a coffee shop and is avoiding us at Project Veritas.
We're doing the same thing that they do.
We're Asking them simple questions.
Does their paper use their paper for editorial agenda?
I just love that.
I love that.
And you know why they're acting like that?
They're acting, it is like Watergate.
It's just like the public officials, corrupt public officials running away from the press.
And you know why?
It's like it's a sin because they're the ones who decide.
Remember, like in Breaking Bad, I am the one who knocks.
The New York Times thinks they are the ones who decide who's corrupt.
It can't be them being corrupt.
It's a sin to investigate them because they are the investigators.
They are the ones who decide.
And you know, if you want to talk about lies and you want to talk about Hitler, Goebbels used to say, you know, Hitler's propaganda minister would say that the way to do this is you keep repeating the lie over and over again until it's in people's heads.
And this is what the press keeps doing.
They keep saying, you know, the one I keep referencing because it's so powerful is Donald Trump said there were really nice people in the white supremacist movement.
When you go back to the transcript, he's obviously saying there were really good people who supported the Confederate statues, but they just keep repeating the lie over and over again.
So somebody, and we just heard from Lee Smith how, you know, Fusion GPS propagated these lies with the help, with the help of James Comey, with the help of NBC News, with the help of all these reporters who don't want to take these liars down.
So when we are talking about the big lie, you know, I don't know.
I don't want to make reference to Hitler, but the New York Times and the rest of the press have a lot to answer for.
Stuff I like.
All right.
So yesterday in the mailbag, that really was a good mailbag.
I really enjoyed doing that.
Yesterday in the mailbag, somebody asked about scary episodes, scary things for Halloween, you know.
And obviously I was naming some of the things I like, which I like ghost stories.
But I was thinking that, you know, there used to be all these anthology shows.
I've tried a number of times.
They're starting, restarting up Spielberg's amazing stories, I think.
But I've tried a number of times to get a new anthology show going, but the studios don't like them because they're expensive, because you have to hire a new cast, new script, new sets every single time, and you can't do it the way you used to do it in a sound stage all the time.
So it's more expensive.
So they don't like these things and they're afraid they'll lose audience and all this stuff.
So anthology shows have kind of gone out of fashion.
We don't know if they've gone out of fashion with human beings, but they've gone out of fashion with studio heads, so they're not being made.
But when you go back to some of these things, there were some really, really spooky stories and some obscure ones that only I know.
Really obscure stories that only I know.
One of them, now this one, Roald Dahl, everybody knows Roald Dahl because of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, what are some of the others?
The amazing BFJ, Amazing Mr. Fox, and all this stuff.
He was a wonderful children's writer, but he was also a really, really weird writer for adults.
And he won The Edgar several times, twice, I think, as many times as I've won it, actually.
So he must be a really good writer.
I've been nominated five times, but I've won it twice.
But Roaldahl run, and one of the stories he won it for was called The Landlady, and it is in his anthology, Kiss, Kiss.
And his adult stories are really, really creepy.
But what other things that people don't know, because I think it was a British thing, was he had an anthology show called Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected.
And The Landlady was one of their shows.
And I remember seeing it, and it just sent an absolute chill up my spine.
It's about a British guy down by, I can't remember if he's in Brighton or whatever, and he can't get a hotel room, so he goes to what, like a BNB, a bed and breakfast, and he meets the landlady.
And here's just the scene where he first comes in.
I always put the chain at night.
Safer.
Welcome home, dear.
Oh.
I tell all my guests that to treat my house as home.
Home from home, dear.
Do put your hat there.
And let me help you with your coat.
Thank you very much.
I expect you are from London, aren't you?
That's right, yes.
You'll find a bath so much more restful.
Shall I lead the way?
Oh, please.
We have the house all to ourselves.
The fact is, I'm just a teeny weeny bit juicy.
Particular, if you see what I mean.
But I'm always ready.
Be prepared, as we used to say in the girl guides.
Everything's always ready here.
Just a very creepy lady in a place.
Of course, I guess it's creepier and creepier.
I don't want to give anything away.
It's only a half hour.
Personally, I would read the story because I love reading stories rather than watching them.
But this is, and by the way, it's on YouTube.
The whole show is on YouTube.
You can just watch it right there.
Another one from Twilight Zone.
A lot of people don't know that The Twilight Zone came back in the 80s.
A color version of it came back in the 80s, and it was not very good.
And it was kind of, I don't know, just, its time had passed.
But there was one of them written by the great Ray Bradbury, and it was called The Elevator.
And I thought, I thought this must be a short story, and I remember combing through.
I have lots of collections of Ray Bradbury.
I remember combing through every collection, but it wasn't.
It was written specifically for this.
And it is two brothers.
It's very short.
It's like 15 minutes long.
This you can get on YouTube too.
It's worth watching.
Two brothers arrive at a closed factory and their father has gone missing.
And they know he's been in there.
There's rumors that he's been doing some secret experiments and all this.
And the older brother doesn't really like the father that much, but the younger brother kind of idolizes him.
And it's the relationship between these two brothers as they go looking for the missing father.
Here's just a quick scene.
Anyone here?
What's the matter?
Well, he told me never to come in here.
He doesn't want anybody prying.
He has gone mad.
He's not mad.
Why would he come here in the middle of the night twice a year?
Maybe it's something that doesn't need to be tended to.
Maybe something he's growing.
Dad!
It's really spooky.
It gets spookier and spookier.
And it really, it actually kept me from sleeping for about 10 minutes after I watched it.
So it's really good.
Also, I won't play a cut from this because I'm out of time, but The Hitchhiker on the original Twilight Zone, if you've never seen the episode called The Hitchhiker, you can't get that on YouTube.
You can, but it's all kind of, it's not, it's put up there by an amateur yet, so it's not, it's not really good quality, but you can always, I think the, I think Twilight Zone is still on Netflix, isn't it?
It is somewhere.
Yeah, you can get it.
It's easy to get.
The hitchhiker with the best, one of the best episodes ever.
Good Halloween watching.
That is stuff I like.
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Keep Michael Knowles employed.
It is a really good story.
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