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Aug. 25, 2020 - Louder with Crowder
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CNN Dishonestly 'Fact-Checks' the RNC | Elijah Schaffer Live from Kenosha | Good Morning #MugClub
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I'm a real life atomizer.
That's so many droplets.
It's a lot of droplets.
Thank God we all did the Popsicle stick COVID blood brothers here.
Oh good.
You didn't do it, no.
You might, by the way, in the next couple days you might feel a slight cough.
You may want to lay down for a bit.
And stay away from my newborn son.
Thank you.
No, your newborn son is completely fine.
He's fine.
Virtually fine.
I don't want to get in trouble.
Virtually means almost, almost all kids fine.
We have a little bit of echo.
I don't know if the shotgun mic is on or what's going on, but really glad to be with you guys today.
We have Elijah Schafer on, down on the ground in Kenosha.
Kenosha.
What did I say?
No, we're just making fun of Kenosha.
He's repeating me.
Kenosha, which is kind of surprising because he's actually bigger in Sheboygan.
And then we'll be talking about why New York sucks, why New York City sucks.
And we're going to do a recap here of the RNC from last night and you guys voted on Twitter.
We will be broadcasting live on Thursday night because I think we're actually going to have Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr.
live.
So if we didn't have that, I wouldn't want to do it.
Sure.
But it was pretty funny last night.
We're going to get into some highlights, but for me the highlight was when Donald Trump was talking to his group of people.
Yes.
And he said, you know this virus, okay, the coronavirus, the China virus, there are many names.
I'm not going to get into all the names.
So many names.
I want to hear the names.
But, you know, some people may be offended, but that's what it is, folks.
Elaborate.
So many names.
Do you mean the virus or the disease itself?
Um, we have Audio Wade in third chair.
Bill, uh, Half-Asian Billersman will be back tomorrow.
Gerald A. is back.
He's a father now, so that's very nice.
His, uh, sperm works, uh, quarter black carrot is here.
Hey, good morning.
And we do have a quick off-the-top I want to show you.
There's an update here on Jacob Flake.
New video footage that shows another angle where many people have been saying, hey, why didn't the cops try and detain him first?
Why didn't they try and subdue him?
Which, by the way, they don't have to do if he's reaching into a car out of sight.
But you know what?
The good news is they did that also.
Here's the new footage from another angle.
Jacob Flake, here we go.
There, right there, you can see the car.
This was taped on an old graph calculator.
Look, that's him on the ground and the cops trying to restrain him right there.
See?
Two cops trying to restrain him.
On this side of the car, he gets up, out of the restraint, and starts walking around.
And we have no confirmation, by the way, whatsoever.
Some people have said that he had a knife.
Some people said that he was saying he was going to get a gun.
We don't know.
But his rap sheet, there was a current warrant out for his arrest.
There is a warrant out right now for being a sex offender and domestic abuser.
Me too!
You too!
His wife too!
The lady he sexually assaulted too!
How about that?
Context is racist, Stephen.
Context is absolutely racist.
I heard a lot of racial slurs in that video, didn't you?
Yeah.
Everybody's been saying it was race-motivated.
Dad!
So they must have heard that.
Yeah.
No.
Dad!
We don't know what they're saying!
It is honestly just remarkable and I felt like I was beating my head against the wall.
It's still the number one trend all over Twitter.
Yesterday said this is a completely justified shooting and that's without the new context and footage that we have.
Go home and have dinner, officers!
Thank you for your service!
Yeah, exactly.
But you know what's gonna happen.
If they use these people as the fall guy, this is a travesty of justice.
Okay?
It's a travesty of justice.
Now, I'm not saying that that guy should be shot because of his prior crimes, but there is an active warrant, right?
So the police officers are clearly trying to arrest him there.
There's an active warrant!
For serial killings!
And his actions right then are enough!
But again, if they know who this guy is, maybe they do, maybe they don't, That would also add to it because there's a warrant out for his arrest, which is not that hard to figure out if you run the plates.
Yeah, exactly.
And I saw so many tweets yesterday saying that reaching into your car while casually ignoring police officers is not a death sentence.
And I was like, what?
In what world?
What was he, reaching in for a bouquet of flowers to give the cops?
Like, what do you think he's gonna do?
As a matter of fact, if anything, being casual there is almost more suspicious.
It's like, he was casual.
Get on the ground!
Stop resisting arrest!
Oh, you know, I'm just going to grab myself a quick trip biggie.
You know, I hear you, officer.
He was parched.
I'm going to reach in here a little bit.
I don't understand.
Give me a second.
You know me, I got some sour skittles in this bag.
No, no, he was reaching in.
Did you guys want some?
This is a guy who was reaching in for the cure for cancer.
Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly.
At least he was casual about it.
At least he was casual about it.
He was casual after throwing the officers off of him with a perfect Ipan Sayanagi.
Yeah, right?
Well, luckily for us, we have LeBron James tweeting about it, so there will be some justice, apparently.
We're smart people, you know.
No, let's not.
We're going to violate YouTube's guidelines.
You can't make fun.
Functionally retarded.
All right.
So, here you go.
Does that change your opinion on the Jacob Blake situation?
It only reinforces my view, and again, my view is always, wait for the facts.
And then we waited, saw the tape, found his rap sheet, which was not being reported anywhere.
I haven't found it reported anywhere else outside of AP, Associated Press.
Sorry, someone's going to hang me on that.
And now we have more information!
But expect him to have a write-up in Variety about what a gentle giant he was.
He was a saint.
He was a soulful saint.
What a gentle, averaged-sized, giant-hearted man he was.
It's a little tough to make that work when you're not 6'4".
Really quickly, let's go to CNN to see this man do an upper lip.
Republicans tout Trump's handling of pandemic.
Hmm, yeah, well you know what, we're gonna fact check CNN's fact check.
Went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.
They can't just say Donald Trump responded to the pandemic faster than Democrats.
They got really mad when they cut from one of his speeches because they said it was misleading, when the fact is he showed a video of Joe Biden saying it was xenophobic, of Nancy Pelosi saying come on down to Chinatown, it's totally fine, like that is doctrine.
Oh, so she was saying, come on down to Chinatown, uh, at a different time where the pandemic wasn't going on?
This wasn't after Donald Trump's stated travel ban?
No, it was, but we just, but we don't, but we don't like him.
No, no.
And CNN was like, his limited travel ban, he can't hang his hat on that.
Like, that was like the end of the pandemic.
It was like, he did That was just the beginning of what he was doing.
No, that was the beginning.
Well, you guys did nothing.
What do you want from me?
And then you tried to blame him.
I didn't do enough.
Well, let's get to that, because there's so much with the audience today.
Yes.
But before that, I also just wanted to get to this.
Cultural appropriation is a real problem, folks, as seen by those damn filthy Asians stealing bubble tea from the blacks.
Here you go.
This establishment is not black-owned, but you're stealing black culture.
Is this not black culture?
That Asian man is terribly confused.
He's like, I'm sorry?
This is a problem he just can't solve.
What, are you going to strip them?
Are you going to delouse them?
How are you going to expose them?
You came here because you're stupid.
What made you think it was black owned?
That's why I came here for my friends to find a place of black business.
This is not black owned.
This is not black owned.
Asians stealing black culture once again.
Your homes don't cost me.
I came here to see what you know about black culture.
You have a little faith, I know you do, but I did not argue with you because you're a queen.
Oh, please someone just sew her lip shut like a scarecrow.
I'm out.
How could you be that dumb?
Ma'am, that's because you're stupid.
What do you mean by stupid?
Unintelligent.
Functionally retarded.
Kim Jong Un doing his talent show, Run DMC, like, this is ours!
Run DMC with all Koreans!
And she walks in with a cell phone, oh no, you're not black.
What about the sign outside made you think, oh, this is black-owned?
I don't know.
All of the Asian people that work there?
I don't know why you ownin' a Vietnamese soup place and y'all ain't from Ghana, bitch!
It's bubble tea.
Has anyone been under the impression that bubble tea is anything other than offensively Asian?
This bitch.
I think the establishment was called Tea Trap, and so I guess she thinks that it's talking about trap music.
It's a trap!
Yes, because tapioca balls came from Ghana.
You're right.
Exactly.
Oh my god.
Alright, so my question for you actually is, do you think that the word fact check, we're going to get into the RNC and the fact checking here in a little bit, has the word fact check lost all meaning?
And I tried to tune into ABC thinking it was just CNN.
They are just as bad.
ABC, CBS, there is no place to go.
No safe haven.
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It's the only way we're able to do this.
We've been remonetized on YouTube, but it's... Clock's ticking.
It's not exactly what you would... We're not Scrooge McDuck.
You would think!
You got re-monetized.
We were re-monetized.
In the loosest of senses.
They still give you no money, but you're eligible.
What's the sound of a reverse ka-ching?
Yeah, I don't know.
Ching-gutch?
I don't know.
But that's what just happened when we covered Jacob Blake.
So before we get to the fat tip checking, what did I say?
Did I say it right, Jacob Blake?
Yeah.
I was laughing at Ching Guk or whatever you said.
That sounds racist.
Why are you appropriating our sound?
Here we go again.
Ma'am, that's our Cantonese.
You can go screw yourself, that's what I think.
General Tso.
General Tso.
Everybody knows Tso was riding the railway to Canada with Tubman.
Oh.
Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
I think you are retarded.
You are a dumb bitch.
You are a dumb bitch.
Yeah, and be really polite about it.
No, no.
No, no, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes.
Very, very dumb bitch.
Yeah.
No, you don't.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
You dumb bitch.
You misunderstand.
Go to Dumb Bitcher- Dumb Bitcherendia.
Dumb Bitch View.
Where you come from.
Where you live.
Very present.
Very present.
For uneducated bitches.
You go with your own kind.
You saying go with black people?
No, no, no, no.
You believe in segregation.
I believe in separation of dumb bitches.
I like this guy.
It's gonna be on a rooftop with a 30-odd stick.
We'll be taking your chat, too, by the way.
We don't do Super Chat on YouTube because, again, not worth the Benjamins.
Super Chat there on the Blaze when we go behind the paywall.
I think we actually have a clip first, before we get to the fact check, of Brian Stelter, correct?
Do we have that there?
He was complaining he was being interviewed.
Well, she shouldn't be complaining if he's being interviewed.
I mean, that's a win.
Sure.
I mean, honestly, yeah.
Put that in the W column for Brian Stelter, because there is no reason for this man to be on television.
Not at all.
Talentless, unlikable, and, you know, listen, for all the superficial reasons, we can't say it on YouTube, but I believe this next clip speaks for itself.
Let's roll it.
One-third of the country is disconnected from the normal news system, the NBC, the New York Times, and the Globe.
And they've opted into this alternative reality.
Insiders are boxed out of the news.
We don't have standards and practices.
We don't have checks and balances.
We don't have the kind of journalistic standards that other networks do.
And that's a problem.
That actually hurts us.
It hurts our credibility.
Yeah.
That's why your credibility took a real ass-kicking over the last couple of hours.
Because of Fox News.
Because of Fox News.
They don't have the journalistic standards like we did in our fact-checking of Jesse Smollett, which I then defended after we found out that it's not very common for people to make nooses out of shoelaces when they're two Zambian personal trainers.
We should have seen the signs, but I'm gonna double down still straight!
So to speak.
Obviously.
I bet you this is like therapy.
He's just opening that closet door and slamming it.
Just like, in, out, in, out, like Grover.
Over, under, and through!
I was seriously blown away to hear him say that those news organizations did have journalistic standards.
Have you seen any of the live streams that we've done?
Have you seen anything that you've put on air that has turned out to be completely false?
That's the problem with alternative media, is someone like you gets to have a voice as legitimate as the person who... I don't even know what connection this guy has!
But it's deep.
Like, I never believed in the Illuminati, but what is happening there?
They got him on a different network.
He had sex with some pigs.
Yeah, exactly.
That's the collab that we needed.
The crossover of Brian Stelter on another network.
Where was that?
ABC?
It was MSNBC.
Who says at MSNBC, like, dammit, we need Stelter.
Bring him on.
It's time.
I mean, when he walks in the room, somebody's like, that's the guy!
That's exactly who we've been looking for!
They just put up the stelter signal.
It's just a pint of Chunky Monkey.
He's like, ah!
I'm needed!
Trying to get off his sweater, but he can't.
Like, these buttons are so tight!
Son of a bitch!
Oh, damn my grip strength from years and years of non-physical labor, as well as lack of mentally stimulating activities.
I'm of no value!
But well paid!
It's almost like God had an extra mold and said, toss that one on there, see what happens.
So, the highlight, before we get to the fact-checking, the highlight of last night, for people who didn't watch the RNC, I don't know, did you guys all watch it?
I did.
Was this Cuban immigrant, a guy named Maximo, I want to make sure I get it right, Maximo Alvarez, and this is something Something I've talked about before, because Cuban immigrants were the single most reliable Republican voting bloc for a long time, like 80-something percent.
And there's a great film from Andy Garcia, is it The Lost City?
I can't remember what it was, but it was about sort of the changeover, I think, of Batista to, you know, Guevara and Castro, and that kind of whole changing of hands.
A remarkable film, and it didn't really get a lot of attention.
I think Cuban Americans, those immigrants, it's really a group that people should study.
Yes.
And the reason for that is because they came here for the American dream when even Democrats were still selling that.
At that point.
As something that was, you know, it was something to aim for.
It was something to strive for.
Yeah.
And now that's changed.
I think that's the biggest difference that you see between the Republican convention and the Democrat convention is you're down, you're out, you can't do it, systems stacked against you, unless the guy who's been in office for 59 years returns and he'll save you.
And the Republican, there was a lot of hero worship of Donald Trump.
a little bit of that. But they have to contrast it because Joe Biden is saying that nothing he's
Yes.
doing is correct. And so they're saying, hey, actually, Donald Trump did this, this, this,
and improve my life this way. And thank you very much. But this Cuban immigrant came in.
And what I loved about his speech, I highly recommend you go watch the whole speech,
is no one can ding him for it. When he actually says communism, socialism, that that's what this
is. He knows. And no one can say, oh, that's fear mongering.
He lived through it and floated over on this desk chair.
He's like, OK, we're going to America.
He made it happen.
And Cuba, it's not like they were some backwater.
They were very prosperous.
Tons of money was pouring down there from American companies.
So he gets to see prosperity, people being misguided and falling into communism, and a true dictator, not somebody like, oh, Donald Trump's a dictator.
A true dictator and seeing exactly what happens.
And they came here for freedom, and that's why they vote Republican.
As opposed to like Honduras or Venezuela where they've created nothing aside from Miss America, wonderful contestants.
But outside of that, not a whole lot!
So let me show this first before we get to the fact check, but I think everyone should see this and I would love to have him on the show.
Maximo Alvarez, the Cuban immigrant, business owner in Florida, last night at the RNC.
Those four promises, spread the wealth, free education, free healthcare, defund the police, Trust the socialist state more than your family and your community.
They don't sound radical to my ears.
They sound familiar.
I choose President Trump because I choose America.
I choose freedom.
He's the most authentic speaker.
Still hear my dad.
There is no other place to go.
Bye.
Thank you and may the good Lord bless America.
I love hearing that from Cuban Seymour Cassell.
It sounds like it.
A real one.
Yeah.
Oh, there he is.
Wow.
Star of...
But he means it.
I think the strategy you see from the RNC is, hey, we're going to have a bunch of Americans who are just like you.
That's why we have a lot of people who are just small business owners or nurses.
The problem is they're just like you, but they come across as inauthentic because they're not polished speakers.
And so that's where you have politicians or people like Joe Biden who've never worked a day in their life in the private sector since the ripe old age of 24.
And they act like they're just like you, but they can sell people on it because they're good communicators.
And so unfortunately, the people who are like you and who will vote just as you are voting for President Trump, they come across as reading off a prompter and wooden, and I think there's a disconnect.
So sometimes the people who are best, their stories are best told, they're not best told by themselves.
Yeah, absolutely.
And there was a couple of other people, too.
I mean, Hershel Walker was one of the guys that spoke.
He was actually great, because they're dealing with a couple of things.
One is that socialism, this whole push from the left for socialism, is going to work, and it's fantastic.
He just refuted that right there, bringing somebody on who's dealt with it before.
And then Donald Trump is a racist, and he's like, I've known the man for 36, 37 years, and I've had a personal friendship with him, and you're telling me?
I grew up in Georgia.
This is what he said.
I grew up in Georgia.
I know what racism looks like.
He's not a racist.
I've known him for 36, 37 years.
And that man loves his soup and salad.
That's what he said.
He said he got muscles in his lower abdomen.
All he does is eat like a small cup of soup and salad each day.
He was a great athlete.
Yeah, he was a great athlete.
Still is, which is kind of funny.
Mentally a little bit loose, but we were like Panera Sides for lunch.
Yeah.
I was just going to say that what you were talking about with authenticity, a lot of times when people think that they're seeing something authentic, it's just really good people.
People who are really good at faking it.
Yeah.
But yeah, when you see actual authenticity, it actually is really refreshing to see that Cuban fella.
I forgot his name, Mr. Alvarez.
The Cuban fella!
Mr. Alvarez.
Senor Alvarez.
You know what?
No Cuban would be offended by that.
The only thing he might be offended by is like, I am 100% American.
He actually would.
You Ralphie looking Christmas story son of a bitch.
I am that.
I am that.
You go shoot your Red Ryder BB gun in your Cuba.
I can't put you in a raft.
I am 100% American.
You shoot your Ojo out.
You shoot your Ojo.
Very nice.
Pendejo.
Um, I don't know what that means.
We devolved.
We devolved.
Yeah, and I think what was really most surprising was the fact-checking of the RNC.
So Brian Stelter lamented that people aren't getting their news from CBS, MSNBC, CNN.
And I think it's a great thing because of the kind of fact-checking that they do.
So actually, we're going to do another segment.
We did this a long time ago with the Washington Post.
But fact-checking the fact-checkers.
Fat check!
Fat check!
Fat checker!
Fat checker!
Fat backer!
Check!
Dude.
That gets me, Em.
Yeah, I'm ready to go now.
I'm excited.
In!
Ready!
So we had that stealth talk, we already showed it.
Okay, so here's one thing they tried to fact-check at CNN.
Then I'm going to actually just read the article in real time.
We were preparing and doing research and then I realized that CNN fact-checks their own false fact-check in their same paragraph.
You'll see what I'm saying.
But first let's go to some video clips.
This is where they're talking about how Joe Biden, they're trying to fact-check that Republicans at the convention said that Joe Biden actually condoned or supported the violent rioters.
Give us some examples of what you saw tonight that needs to be fact-checked, and we understand this is just a small sampling.
So we had Donald Trump Jr.
suggest that Joe Biden described riots as, quote, peaceful protests.
In fact, Biden explicitly condemned protest violence and looting.
No, let's go to the tape.
Biden did call them peaceful protesters many times.
Let me read some actual quotes.
He said that Donald Trump's use of federal force in Portland was egregious.
And this is a direct Biden quote.
They are brutally attacking peaceful protesters, including a U.S.
Navy veteran.
Biden, then Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
That's remarkable because the only other statement he issued was to Cardi B.
Cardi B and BuzzFeed!
Not that I'm particularly pro-veteran or anything, I don't want to say that.
They have that little lower third on the DNC where it's like, this is not an endorsement at all of military action.
It's like, oh, why would we want the military to be the military?
How dare you?
And the worst example he could pick is Portland.
Yeah, I was about to say, if you're gonna pick one city where you could, like, make it seem like there were peaceful protests, you wouldn't pick Portland.
It's the last place you would pick.
Mom doped up on meth.
Ah, why can't we say black lives matter?
You've been saying it for months.
Like Nashville or something, I don't know.
Little Rock, Arkansas.
Also, they sent us, by the way, proof that walls work.
Right?
They're running down the police precinct, they put up a wall, it works.
They're going to the White House, they put up a fence, it works.
It does work.
Who knew?
Chaz, they put up a wall and all of a sudden they're protected.
So you know what?
Thank you for proving our point.
The first thing they did was build a wall.
And let me go, I just want to be clear about something before we move on here with the fact check.
The COVID situation, the riots that have been emerging at the same time.
I am not saying that the virus is a hoax.
I want to be very clear.
The virus is not a hoax.
The virus is real.
But they try and say, just like Mashable, that you are being unscientific.
These are the people who, by the way, say you can't vote in person, despite the fact that both Fauci and Birx, who agree on almost nothing, both said, if you can go to Trader Joe's and pick up your General Orange Chicken, I know I'm botching that because they appropriated culture, if you can go pick up your Orange Joe Chicken, whatever it's called, I have no idea, someone can correct me.
General Joe's!
That's probably what it is.
You can go vote.
So who's anti-science now?
But let's be clear, when people like me say this is a social engineering experiment, what do I mean?
I mean it is the most powerful political weapon that I can think of having ever been wielded in my time.
Let's walk through the timeline now, because sometimes you're too close to the forest to see the trees.
Okay, so with the COVID, you cannot Go to work, open a business, go to church, go to school, you can't vote, but we're going to declare racism a national health emergency so you can riot in the streets.
And people wonder why we think that this is some kind of an engineering program to control people.
Yeah, and that's why the death rate is important.
That's why it's important to say that all of this sort of social engineering or whatever, whatever you want to call it, is over a disease that has like a one-half of one percent chance of actually killing you if you get it.
I've known four people who've gotten it now.
You've known two?
Yes.
None of them had any serious symptoms.
Right, yeah.
And a total, but that's also half of people are asymptomatic.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
By the way, Steve, one caveat there, it depends on what you're protesting.
Right.
So it just has to be on the approved list.
Yeah, that's what it is.
You have to look for that.
Well, who are you protesting?
Donald Trump?
Oh, right this way.
We have some bricks and black cats.
We couldn't get cherry bombs this month, but we're hoping, fingers crossed with Amazon Prime kicking in, but some of the van delivery drivers are afraid to come on out here.
Yeah, we don't know why.
We'll get you some TNT or some quarter sticks of dynamite, and we'd like you to just follow our usher to the police precinct.
Gee, thanks.
It's very well organized, yeah.
I'll get y'all M-80s!
That's very sweet of you.
I already came with my own M-80s.
Came prepared.
Go enjoy yourself.
Is this like riot tourism?
I like it.
Kenosha.
I'm amazed they found a black person in Kenosha.
Oh jeez.
And banned.
Bubble tea, really big in Kenosha.
They're hunting them down, man.
Here's another one.
Here's another fact check that they issued on unemployment claim from, I guess, the arts.
Here you go.
Multiple speakers from Congressmen Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan tout economic records that have been obliterated by the pandemic.
They cited the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
Well, we don't have that anymore.
We're now at 10.2%, higher than at any time since the Great Recession.
Here's the thing, you know, they're actually rebutting their own claim right now.
Let's go live to CNN.
Look at this.
NYC struggles to bounce back after pandemic.
My point here is obviously we broke economic records.
No one denies it.
Before the pandemic and all parties, including Joe Biden, everyone is acknowledging that this is an outlier and temporary.
Because Donald Trump is saying, we'll get back and open sooner.
And Joe Biden is saying, this little blip is going to go away once you elect me in November.
Right now, they are saying, bounce back from the pandemic.
Bounce back means that you know there is a return to normal.
So their fact check here is, well, actually, this was obliterated by the pandemic.
Yeah, because you wouldn't allow people to go to work.
But you are assuming that this is temporary, by the way.
Exactly.
And as soon as the virus goes away, all of this stuff comes back.
And if you remember when he was giving the State of the Union, it was like, what are they going to say against him?
Every single number that he's putting out there on the economy is just killing it.
And now the stock market, and I know people say the stock market is not necessarily the economy, but look at the recovery that it has made.
We're not very far off the highs we saw in the NASDAQ, even higher than it was before.
Yeah, and there's going to be a delayed reaction with businesses reopening.
Of course, yeah.
And that's the problem.
By the way, we did see unemployment to a record low under President Donald Trump.
European countries have had their economies crumble.
They've suffered far worse than the United States.
And yeah, we did have an incredible salary increase for the average middle-class American income.
And we did have record low black unemployment.
But because of this pandemic, which, by the way, originated patient zero, okay, Wuhan, they're having pool party!
It's inflatable giraffes and crap.
Let me rephrase, it's not the pandemic that did this.
It's the overreaction because of scare tactics in the media about a pandemic.
They wouldn't talk about these numbers before when it was actually happening, but now that they're not happening because of them, now they talk about it.
Lockdowns have never worked in history, but okay, let's try them again and see if it can ruin the economy so that we can elect somebody else who's terrible at their job to begin with.
And one thing from that CNN lower third, it still says, NYC struggles to bounce back after pandemic.
Can we say that we're after the pandemic?
No!
No, because one life is too many, you white prick!
But CNN is telling me that it's after the pandemic.
One life!
One life!
Yes.
One voice.
Billy Gilman knows what I'm talking about.
One voice was heard when he came out of the closet.
I get that reference.
Wow.
I do not.
That's because you and I both hate our childhood.
Yeah, exactly.
I had the Christmas record.
Billy Gilman Christmas album.
Who would do that to you?
It's a duet!
Yeah, let's do it!
I wouldn't go around that.
Come on, let's do it!
No, no, no, I don't want to do it.
Street Red is like tanking for both of you right now.
You know what my classic was?
Oh, we'll be talking about Jerry Seinfeld's piece there on New York that's being shown on CNN right now.
But we were so poor at one point that my parents couldn't get the album, the Chipmunks Christmas album.
They got the Happy Hamsters.
My parents got the Happy Hamsters and they got the open cassette tape because I assume it was the floor model.
Did your parents steal it?
It was just like a Rat Pack team sped up.
Oh, so they had the voices?
They had, yeah.
That's great.
And then they would have little sides like, Well, I saw Mommy kissing under the mistletoe last night, Melvin.
Oh, that's no fun.
Dad's not very happy about that.
That's why they collect it above scale.
A little addendum.
Alright.
They just read the lyrics?
It's the golden arcs.
It's not arches.
Okay, let's go to this article here, and I think you obviously have the thing there that we're going to be hitting for the fact-checking, because I want to read the rest of this article.
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Eastern, unless there's breaking news, and we start maybe 15, 20 minutes late.
I had a day with Jacob Flake.
Thursday night, we'll be live-streaming the RNC... What did I say?
I said Flake.
It's Blake, actually.
It's Blake.
Oh, I said Flake?
Yeah, earlier you said you didn't want to say Flake and now it's in your head.
That's because I'm still thinking about how they stole our bubble tea!
That does take a minute to get over.
General Tso!
We was kings, man!
We was kings!
If you're going to claim something, why bubble tea?
Tea kings.
That's like the least cool thing to claim.
Dumb bitches be dumb.
Claim, claim, claim.
No, that's a term of endearment.
Okay, so this is one.
Let me bring this up here.
This is where they do fact check.
Fact check.
Hit it when I check the fact, okay?
Tim, the audio wait isn't on the soundboard today.
Trump Jr.
claims China wants Biden to win.
Here are the facts.
And this is the facts first from CNN.
This is what it says.
The U.S.
intelligence community did not determine that China preferred Biden because he would economically or otherwise weaken the U.S.
Rather, it outlined... This is a CNN fact check.
Rather, it outlined that China preferred that President Donald Trump lose the election because it was unpredictable and because of the many actions he has taken against China.
Oh!
Fact check!
No, no.
It's not that they want Biden to win.
It's that China, officially on record, wants Trump to lose.
So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
This is from CNN right now.
I'm reading from themselves.
This is journalistic standards.
This is their fact check.
They're so nitpicking and they admit in their own fact check, which is labeled facts first, that they are wrong.
I can see the fact checkers sitting there watching going, what do we do?
Post it!
Post it!
There's so many people out of work right now, I'm so scared.
Let me just write, well, it's wrong, but let me just rephrase it.
Can I phrase it in the form of a question?
Where's Trebek, son of a bitch?
Print it.
Fact check.
That goes to print tomorrow.
Front page.
It's not that China wants Biden to win.
They don't want Trump to lose.
That'll throw them for a loop.
By the way, do we have a lead on that bubble tea bitch yet?
Fact check.
Trump Jr.
falsely says middle class has done better under Trump than Obama.
Here is their facts first.
And I don't need a fact check.
They fact check themselves.
Actually, middle class income grew in the final years of the Obama administration but has stagnated under Trump.
But that's not all.
Median household income stayed essentially flat in 2018 at $63,200, breaking a three-year streak of increases according to the most recent Census Bureau data.
Oh.
Self-check!
Actually, yeah, the first two, we have 2016, we have 2017, there was an increase.
And then it remained flat.
And then there was an increase, by the way, in 2019, which they don't talk about, and 2020, until the temporary pandemic, which is what you guys claim.
But yeah, listen, if you want to look at the actual numbers, Barack Obama, eight years, a $1,000 average income, middle class income increase.
Donald Trump, $5,000.
So notice they don't actually use the numbers there.
Sounds like a bit more.
And am I the only one who notices this?
Barack Obama is the only president in American history who, for some reason, when he was president, there was a time warp where he wasn't responsible for all the crap that happened.
While he was president, it was always George Bush's fault, and now all the success of Donald Trump is Barack Obama's doing.
Remember he would come and be like, I know I had to recover from a bad economy, from horrible policy, and I know that right now unemployment is terrible and drone strikes, but just watch, the next guy's gonna come in and I'll take credit for that shit.
That's all me.
And my wife, woman, Melania.
Sorry, Michelle.
But you know that if the economy were bad, now we know that if the economy's bad, it's Trump's fault.
If the economy's good, it's Barack Obama.
The thing is, it's not a standard we used before.
No one goes like, well, Reagan was only successful because of Carter.
Clinton was all HW.
Don't try and sell me that false bill of Bill Clinton goods.
We're crying out loud.
There's nothing that he can do right.
There really is nothing that he can do right at this point.
CNN acknowledges it themselves.
All right, we go down to... Do they have any more fact-checking?
Those are the only two.
Wow.
No, is that it?
They have more.
They do have more?
Where?
Oh, okay.
Here we go.
Here we go.
That's right.
I have to keep scrolling.
I have to keep scrolling.
Fact check.
Trump falls to Clinton's opponents of inventing postal workers.
Hold on a second.
Oh, what is it?
Okay.
Fact check.
Haley inaccurately suggests all Democrats want government-run health.
This is true of some Democrats, but it's not a policy Joe Biden supports.
While he does advocate broadening the government's involvement in the nation's healthcare system, he does not back so-called single-payer programs like Medicare for All, which were pushed by others in the primary.
Hold on a second.
Unironic self fact check.
Unironic self fact check.
Yeah, he was the one who did the healthcare mandate.
Yeah, it was a death march.
That was a death march.
And by the way, before the mandate, he and Barack Obama pushed for a public option, which they had to scrap.
So keep in mind, they said that if they had, he did puss.
He did puss.
He's got a wonderful puss.
I prefer the term puttem.
It's been ruined through years of bubble tea.
Thank your Zambian appropriated victims, Joe Biden.
Oh my god, so this is what they say.
No, Joe Biden and Barack, it would be a lot different if he were an unknown like Donald Trump.
These were arguments that could be used.
This man, he is only a record.
He's a walking record of failures on race, on healthcare, on guns, not only policy-wise, but even knowing About any of these things.
He thinks that if you aim a double-barreled... He thinks that you can scare off intruders and a woman can protect her house by aiming a double-barreled shotgun in the sky!
Which is illegal in most places, by the way.
Totally illegal!
Totally safe, I don't know.
They gotta come down from time to time.
Maximo Alvarez is sitting there in Florida on his poor sex.
Son of a bitch!
What's going on?
Is it hailing?
What is this?
This is not the country I know.
Oh my gosh.
They're going to put clips up.
Joe, isn't this you saying that universal health care is a good thing?
That's not me.
Shut that up.
I don't understand.
No, no, no.
Okay, here you go.
Here's another fact check.
Jim Jordan claims Democrats are trying to confiscate U.S.
citizens' guns.
This is CNN.
It says, facts first.
Some Democrats have supported a mandatory gun confiscation buyback.
Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, instead supports a voluntary buyback program.
Hold on a second.
Some Democrats.
Do you mean like Beto O'Rourke, who you promised would be your gun czar?
Yeah.
Joe Biden said, who's the most extreme person I can find on guns?
Beto O'Rourke.
Oh yeah, we're going to take your guns.
Yeah, he's like that guy.
He said, hell yeah, we're going to take your guns.
Watch this kickflip.
And he, and Joe Biden, like Joe Biden picked, that's why, in case you've noticed, he hasn't really been talking about Beto.
And Beto's been losing weight like he's Tom Hanks in Philadelphia because of all the stress.
He's like, I'm going to be the gun czar, the suspense is killing me.
I don't think you're going to be because that would be the equivalent to Joe Biden saying, hey, can someone guarantee me a loss on this election?
Can I find the guy who said he will take all of your firearms away and make them my guns are amidst the surging crime and record violent assaults occurring at major cities across this country with more first-time gun buyers than ever in the history of the United States including Democrats?
Yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna stick with Beto O'Rourke.
I'm gonna stick with Francis.
As if Democrats didn't already have a law and order problem.
We don't need any more.
For credo, loud!
It reads so much worse.
This is honestly, I'm more convinced than ever that Joe Biden is going to lose when I'm reading CNN clearly trying to carry his water.
I mean, do you think those guys are going to reread the facts and be like, this was a really bad idea?
This was a bad idea.
What were we thinking?
Might not look good off the cuff.
You know, this would have been a lot better if Biden had actually given us comment, but he was too busy talking about whaps with Cardi B in Buzzfeed.
He was too busy giving an interview to the website that has single-handedly create clickbait listicles.
He's a busy man.
He's a busy man.
He's got stuff going on.
But where's Macaulay Culkin?
That's what I want to know.
Where is he now?
Yeah, where is he now?
What?
It's always those pop-up ads that are like, to child actors who are dead.
You're like, oh my god, Macaulay Culkin?
And you're like, no, he's still alive.
No, it's other, not him.
Elijah Wood.
Elijah Wood.
He has a picture of him back from Avalon days.
And you're like, what?
Oh my gosh, he never grew up.
He must have progeria.
Let me see.
Is there anything else?
Fact check.
Donald Trump claimed that Biden called the President xenophobic.
Here's what we know.
Facts first!
From CNN.
Biden did accuse Trump of xenophobia.
That's it!
They lead with it.
Fact check.
Great job.
It goes from fact check.
Donald Trump Jr.
claimed that Biden called him xenophobic.
Here's what we know.
The very first phrase.
Biden did accuse Trump of xenophobia.
Well, there you go.
Why do a fact check?
Why do anything?
It's just like you saying, hey.
It's like, facts first.
I'm really shitty at my job.
Yeah, we just suck, I mean.
Facts first.
This is the outfit that puts Stelter on prime time.
You came here for a fact check?
We can't be bothered to do our due diligence.
We're too busy hooking Stelter up to a pudding IV.
They needed 15 fact checks and they were running a little low.
I just need a few more.
What are you going to put up?
Let me read the rest of this because I have to.
Facts first.
Biden did accuse Trump of xenophobia in an Iowa campaign speech the same day, January 31st, at Health and Human Services.
But it was not clear if Biden was even aware of the travel restrictions at the time.
And his campaign says he wasn't.
Well listen, that can be a defense for anything with Joe Biden.
It really can at this point.
He wasn't aware of Donald Trump's policies at that time.
Really?
What was he aware of?
Soup?
We're not really certain.
He was milling around the basement.
Soup's made good.
It's warm on my face.
Hey Joe Biden, what do you have?
It's a warm egg.
That's Joe Biden.
It's a Cuban Joe Biden.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he does when he goes on Telemundo.
When he's by himself.
Yeah.
He's a warm egg.
They're like, hey, Joe Biden, what do you have every day in your European carry-all?
A hot sauce!
A hot!
Joe, stop.
It's embarrassing.
I know.
Every time.
Every time we go out, Joe, stop.
He's not even aware of his general surrounding.
He has less response on an EEG than someone on dialysis in an induced coma.
Joe, are you alive?
Huh?
Huh?
What?
So this is a fact check.
The very first statement is, he did accuse Donald Trump of xenophobia, but we're not sure if he knew exactly why because he's retarded.
No, but it was for different reasons.
I don't think we said that the reasons mattered.
He just accused him of being xenophobic.
Donald Trump claimed that Biden called the President xenophobic.
Here's what we know.
He did call him xenophobic!
It doesn't matter why!
Well, he called him xenophobic, but not because of that.
Which, by the way, is anyone else surprised that, uh, if you want to talk about racism, we were on the show, and I remember someone saying, oh, you might get in trouble for that, when they were wearing the African garb.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we just started laughing our asses off because it was going on live.
And then everyone gave them crap.
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, listen.
Somebody's selling Ethiopian food.
I love Ethiopian food.
You get the spongy bread, you dip it, right?
It's fun.
It's a lot of fun.
It's communal.
But then they're up there wearing your clothing, which are you, which is often used ceremoniously.
And there's completely tone-deaf.
Yeah, where's that lady with the cell phone?
You guys are taking my culture!
She's the kind who shows up to a Chinese street fair where they're doing that dragon, you know, like the little rascals.
She's like, OH NO!
NO!
STOP THAT SHIT!
THAT'S WHAT MALCOLM X WAS TALKING ABOUT!
This right here!
She's fun at parties, man.
Just a ton of fun.
She is the black equivalent of... She's an African-American uneducated Karen.
If she goes around with bubble tea as like number one on her hit list, can you imagine her life?
Like everything she sees... Oh, it's all on her hit list.
I guarantee if you dig it, she's been doing it everywhere.
She's like showing up at Talbot's.
No!
No!
She's like, Subways?
No!
Wakanda had Subways!
You're just appropriating our transportation system!
Subway!
Jared!
Black, we don't know what's going on there!
No, I don't know what's going on there.
You know!
What?
I take a flatbread, bitch!
Black Forest ham?
What is she gonna do, starve?
Yeah, right.
Bitch gotta eat!
Oh my gosh.
Bubble tea!
Bubble tea.
Of all the things!
Of all the hills to die on, I mean, come on.
It's the most clearly gross Chinese thing.
Or whatever.
Korean is a Korean, is a Chinese, is a Vietnamese.
Asian.
Just call it Asian.
Vietnamese?
Asian.
Okay, let me be clear here.
I know that China, Vietnam, North-South Korea, or as I like to call them, bad Korea, good Korea, Taiwan.
Right, I get that they're all different countries.
But when it comes to food, with the exception of Korean barbecue, it's pretty gross.
It's from Taiwan.
So, it's from Taiwan?
Taiwanese bubble tea.
Taiwanese?
Let them have it!
Not a whole lot comes out of there, you crazy African, you crazy POC bitch!
There's not a whole lot coming out of there.
It's just action figures, because they already have the molds, and bubble tea!
Let them have the win!
Those molds last longer.
You guys had a president!
And as an objective, basic white guy observer, let the Taiwanese have a win!
All right, we are going to come back, actually, with Elijah Schaefer, who's on the ground in Kenosha.
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Excellent.
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Did they find you?
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Alright, we have on the show right now, he's been on the ground for us before in Dallas when the riots were first starting, and now he is in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Elijah Schaefer, are you there, sir?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I can hear you.
I'm actually outside of the DNC looking real good.
If you really notice this, this is actually the best convention that we've had so far for Joe Biden.
This is kind of what you're going to get.
A lot of this.
It looks like when I'm done with a bonus round in Super Street Fighter.
It's true.
The key is to high kick with the shot kick with Ryu.
You win.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, actually, what's kind of funny, I mean, it's hard to say this is funny when this is someone's entire livelihood destroyed, but right near here, about a block away, there's the Democrat building for the left.
So it's boarded up with every other business.
The buildings around it have been burned to the ground, dozens of cars set on fire, and they have a nice little banner above their boarded up store that says, Well that'll teach that parking lot to not support men who are serial violent offenders with a warrant out for current sexual assault, domestic abuse, and wrestling with cops.
So that'll teach them!
I think we're all learning a little bit about ourselves.
Right now, I want to go to a clip really quickly and then ask your question on this, Elijah Schaefer, where someone, I believe this is your footage, aimed an actual gun at you yesterday in Kenosha, of course, the place where Jacob Blake was shot by police.
Let's go to the clip.
Did you guys hear that click, by the way?
Bring up that last screen grab right there if we can.
If you were to see a rifle round go through the side of that skull right now, it would be entirely appropriate for the police to do.
Because he aimed, and a click, that just as easily could have been a boom and a life is over.
And some people consider that a tragedy.
I don't.
Because that could just as easily have been a reporter, Elijah Schaefer.
That was a real gun.
Was he dropping the hammer on you, Elijah?
This again is in Kenosha.
Did he pull the trigger?
Sorry, just if you notice, I transferred into the office.
You look an executive.
I like your office.
Wow.
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It's got a fun chouette to it.
Trespassing is a crime.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But no, I mean, out here there's no laws.
And yeah, he pointed a gun at my face.
I think he just accidentally dry-fired it.
So you know when you accidentally pull the trigger on a gun?
No, I don't because I'm not an idiot.
I literally have never accidentally dry-fired a gun in my life.
You know how when you point a gun at people's faces you pull the trigger?
You're not living here, here's what's crazy.
You're not, this is not where rules exist.
Like, good is evil, evil is good.
These are peaceful protesters.
What your viewers don't understand is like, every shot of glass is just like a drop in the bucket.
This is peace, this is peaceful.
Glass shards.
Someone actually took a little Pepsi.
I mean, this is what peace looks like.
And safety first is lighting your city on fire and then accidentally almost shooting a reporter on the ground.
Because who knows and who says, like Obama said at the DMC, you know, these are peaceful.
They're peacefully shooting people, peacefully committing arson.
I mean, there's peaceful destruction, peaceful assault.
I mean, peace has a whole new meaning in 2020, and I'm not sure I understand it.
Well, that's just because you apparently have taken firearm safety courses, so there's a cultural disconnect.
Double D, bitch!
Let me ask you this.
How do you compare what's going on now in Kenosha, by the way, of all places?
We always thought this would happen in major cities.
Milwaukee, Chicago, New York.
But Kenosha, Wisconsin, is where it's happening now.
How would you say this compares to what we saw after George Floyd in places like Dallas, where you helped report for us?
And by the way, I also want to make sure people know that your channel is slightly offensive on YouTube.
How does this compare to post-George Floyd?
Okay, well, I don't know what this does for George, considering the fact that some of these Businesses are actually black-owned businesses and minority-owned businesses.
But what's the most important thing here is this is actually kind of worse than the Minneapolis in a lot of ways because there was at least 10 structure fires.
They burnt down a credit union.
They burnt down the youth correctional facility.
They burnt down the office furniture supply store because nothing says, uh, let's end police brutality like burning a L-shaped office desk, you know, really helping the community there.
Symbol of oppression.
I don't like IKEA!
I can't read Swedish, bitch!
Yeah, you know, what is the worst issue, too?
I mean, I think there was even a Chevy Impala that was burned here as well.
And so, I mean, these are cars the black community could have used.
They would have liked some of these.
Well, I won't shed any tears until the Chrysler 2000 or whatever it is has been burned down.
And that's my culture.
Let me ask you something.
What happened last night?
Yeah.
What happened with... well, Dodge Caravan should update their software because it's like driving in a 1992 vehicle.
What happened last night with... there was law enforcement.
Again, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
For people who don't know, Elijah Schaefer.
There was a curfew.
The National Guard was deployed.
It looks like... and keep in mind, Kenosha is not nearly as big of a city as a lot of these other places.
It looks like the rioters had free reign of the city.
I mean, this looked like it was happening on a grand scale.
Can you clarify for us?
Yeah, so they said they were deploying about 125 National Guard to help out county and state troopers and police.
I don't know how, if like in the middle of, you know, safely firing a firearm in someone's face,
they also like don't know how to count out here because they grossly under-provided the amount
of officers they needed. I think they had about a hundred in total with like 1500 to 2000 rioters.
So I don't know, I'm not like that good with fractions, but usually that doesn't turn out so well.
No.
And they, the police didn't, weren't making arrests.
There was no contact.
They stayed at the, at the county courthouse.
But the, the people, it took, I think the total response time for fire trucks to come to put out building fires was approximately like 57 minutes.
So it took almost an hour for, for fire departments to come.
But there's, this is where, this is where I'm just like, what the, Okay.
you know, what is going on?
We got the state of emergency alert on our cell phones right through the warning system,
about an 8 p.m. curfew at 8.22 p.m.
So somebody's not- Okay, oops.
Was that the guy from Hawaii that sent out the missile alert about accidents?
I am legend.
The sun's already gone down.
You're like, oh, it went beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
We're going to go really quickly to Behind the Paywall here, Elijah Schafer.
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