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Ari Fleischer - July 12th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh it's amazing to me, you know, if if a Republican says one thing, there's one the one way the media will cover it.
If a Democrat says it, they always get a pass.
There's always the double standard.
You know, the dirty Russian disinformation dossier goes viral.
Three long years the country dragged through hell over uh Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier.
Donald Trump uh had had two hookers in his room in the writs, and they were urinating in his bed.
None of it was true.
And then when they knew it wasn't true, they still went forward with FISA applications to spy on Carter Page and backdoor spy on the Trump presidency at that point, but previously the Trump campaign and transition team.
Uh, three years of lies, no apologies, no correcting the record, none of that.
It never happens.
Although the Hunter laptop in 2020, uh dis Russian disinformation.
It wasn't Russian disinformation.
We're getting more and more information every day.
All of it's true.
But of course, the media, only recently have they said, oh, this might be true because there's a grand jury investigating Hunter Biden, and they would don't want to say, oops, we were wrong again.
But these are all in the lead up to significant, very important presidential elections, 2016-2020.
The impact it has, I'll let you decide.
You know, for example, Joe Biden conflates the Latino community to tacos.
Imagine if a Republican said this.
Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the Bogota's of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio.
Is your strength.
We're not tacos.
Probably will become a bumper sticker and t-shirt.
Kamala Harris or never-ending word salads.
Imagine a Republican candidate sounding like this.
It is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day.
We must together work together to see where we are, where we are headed, where we are going, and our vision for where we should be.
Because we have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen.
To see what is possible, to see what can be unburdened by what has been, to reject the notion that the way things have always been has to be the way things will continue to be.
I have a motto.
I drink I eat and drink no for breakfast.
I eat no for breakfast.
I eat no for breakfast.
There is no vaccine for racism.
The climate crisis represents an existential threat to who we are as a species.
Talking about the significance of the passage of time.
Right?
The significance of the passage of time.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.
You've got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are, because you have been forced to have to take it seriously.
You're forced to take it seriously.
Passage of time.
Time every day is about time.
I you c you know, or the giggling vice president all at all the inappropriate moments.
I mean, you c you cannot make this stuff up.
It's so bad.
Uh you've got, you know, so many examples.
Anyway, Ari Fleischer has now come out with a book that is a must read.
He has spent well over a year working on this project, and it's about how corrupt the media in this country is and the impact it's having on the country, with example after example, uh that he brings forward in his book.
He's a former White House press secretary.
It's called The Suppression Deception Snobbery and Bias and Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong.
It's now in bookstores as of today.
It's on Amazon.com.
We put it up on Hannity.com.
Uh Mr. Uh Fleischer, welcome back to the program.
Um, I think it's a best selling book in the uh that you've made here.
Everything from Russia collusion, the lab leak story, the Hunter Biden laptop, mostly peaceful protests.
Only one riot matters.
We ignore five hundred and seventy-four other riots.
There's so much fertile ground here for you.
Yeah, and don't forget that Donald Trump stole the blue mailboxes uh off street corners, that way he could steal the two thousand twenty election.
Every time a mailbox was removed, they blamed it on Trump, even though he had nothing to do with it.
Oh, Sean, it's just one after another, and and I'm proud to say, thank you for your help.
The book is already number one on Amazon's political list.
And I think it's because people know.
People know they're not getting the news straight and objective from the media and they're fed up.
And it's why the mainstream media, CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times, the Washington Post are in decline and denial.
And the American people know better and they want better, which is why I wrote the book.
You know, there's it's there's been some jealousy over the years.
They they've never quite understood the success of either talk radio or the Fox News Channel or conservative publications over the the failure of liberal networks, because it's dramatic and it's been longstanding.
It's not something that's that's that's new.
It's because they look down on conservatives.
There is an intellectualism, there is a sense of snobbism, which is why I call it suppression, deception, snobbery, and bias.
They think there's something wrong with the seventy-five million Americans who voted for Donald Trump.
They think there's something wrong with people who believe life begins at conception, or people who were raised to shoot weapons, to shoot guns, whose father and grandfathers all taught them how to hunt at a young age.
They cannot relate to people who go to church once a week.
This is the problem with the media.
And in my book begins with a show on CNN where Don Lemon had two guests on his show where they put out fake Southern voices and mocked Trump Trump supporters.
They acted as if these CNN commentators were Trump supporters, and and they laughed at them.
And Don Lemon ended the segment by saying he was laughing uproariously, caught his breath, and he said, Thanks.
I needed that.
This is how they view half the country.
And they all call themselves journalists.
The country intellectually and proudly supported Donald Trump.
That's foreign thinking to the mainstream media.
Let's go with the biggest scandal of all, because it was three years of never-ending conspiracy theories and lies and a huge hoax.
And the foundation of it was that Donald Trump colluded with Russia uh to win the election in 2016.
We know we now know it was manufactured out of whole cloth.
But we knew it even before Donald Trump became president in January 2017.
But yet that narrative went on for month for th three long consecutive years, with no evidence, only debunked evidence.
The media was out there breathlessly reporting every false story, every false aspect of the dossier.
And there's never, to my knowledge, been a correction, an apology, uh uh a promise to do better going forward in the future.
And that's one of the breaking news.
From the start, so was the Steel Dossier.
But the reason they got so much ink and so much attention in the mainstream media twisted itself into pretzels to try to make it true, even when they put stories on the air, they later retracted, was because if the news was anti-Trump, it got a bump.
And that should have been the press's slogan.
You know, it used to be if it if it bleeds, it leads.
It became under Trump.
If it's anti-Trump, it gets a bump.
They sacrifice objectivity, they sacrifice neutrality all to get Trump.
Because the snobs in the media really did think that the public made a mistake when they elected Trump over Hillary, and the press took it upon themselves to extract their to their pound of flesh from Donald Trump.
Reporters can't do that, Sean, and I blow the whistle on reporters.
You point out that the White House briefing room has 49 seats, and you hired a research firm to go through public records and find the ro voter registration information on these reporters, and you found out a ratio of twelve to one the seats are occupied by registered Democrats.
Isn't that nuts?
That's exactly right.
I hired an opposition research firm.
Your voter registration information is public.
Only one Republican sitting in those seats.
Uh when the first day they came back from no no reporters in the briefing room because of COVID.
Every seat filled, 49 of them.
Most are independent or not registered, which I find to be window dressing.
I think they're mostly still Democrat activists, soft on Biden, brutal on Trump.
But amazingly, twelve of them included the New York Times reporter, the NPR reporter, the Bloomberg reporter, all registered Democrats.
Twelve to one ratio.
Think about how different news coverage would be if the ratio was six to six.
Or if it was twelve to one Republican to Democrat.
Think about what a tough time Joe Biden would be having from the White House press corps if the ratio was twelve to one Republican to Democrat.
But this is the original Senate journalism.
The people who go into it are m by and large cut from the same liberal, college educated Democrat voting, think alike, th think alike, act alike, tweet alike, cloth.
And that's the one.
Well, you've got what I call the the the media mob uh blue check mark, you know, cult on Twitter, for example.
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All right, our final moments with Ari Fleischer's new book out today, destined to be a bestseller, Suppression, Deception, Snobbery and Bias, And why the press gets so much wrong?
It's also on Amazon.com and Hannity.com.
You know, I I talked about the one issue of Russia collusion on the other side of that.
That was 2016.
In 2020, then we've got this laptop weeks before the election of Hunter Biden, and it is instantly dismissed by everybody in the media as being Russian disinformation.
You have former Intel officials without any evidence whatsoever declaring that it looked like Russian disinformation.
Uh again, no investigation behind it at all.
Uh it w they were wrong on every level.
You know, what what impact does that have to these instances have on election results?
Well, and this is why I called it s suppression.
When the press suppresses the news so they can help the Democrats, they hurt the country.
And that's exactly what they did.
The issue here was always Joe Biden's honesty.
It was when Joe Biden said he had no idea about his son's business dealings, only to be proven wrong as a result of the discovery of his son's laptop.
But the press couldn't tell that story.
After letting Biden hide in his basement for a year, do you think they were going to put a story on the air that made Biden look bad?
They couldn't, because they become activists.
There's another story I tell Sean in the book about the time that during the campaign, Biden appeared before the AFL CIO, a friendly audience, and one young woman asked him how do we get more people to join unions.
And Biden just sat there on camera.
And he he he started breathing heavy.
And he paused, and then you hear him say under his breath, move it up there.
Move it up there.
And then he started to answer the question.
His teleprompter was stuck.
He had the Q and the A loaded in the teleprompter ahead of the event.
It was staged.
Do you think the press held him to account?
Do you think the press said to the person who was going to be the oldest president in history?
Why did you need a teleprompter to have an A for a question like that?
How did you get the question in the first place?
Was this all staged?
They went silent.
They'd appounded a Republican who they caught getting a QA in advance and loading it on their teleprompter.
Time and again, they suppressed news that hurt Joe Biden.
And they deceived the public by putting news on the air that was wrong that hurt Donald Trump.
Suppression, deception, snobbery and bias.
Why the press gets so much wrong, which is the full title of your book.
You know, it's interesting because even during the campaign, it was so self-evident that Joe is weak and frail.
Everybody now knows.
Polls now show a major majority of Americans see it, that he is not up to the job.
Um the New York Times now has had a series of articles saying he's too old to run again in 2024.
Um obviously they're looking at it from a political power standpoint, and and they want a preferred party, the Democratic Party to win, and they think it's so bad, so obvious that even they now have to turn on the person that they assisted in 2020 uh to become president.
Yeah, it's fascinating what's going on.
And I I'd say after being so easy on Joe Biden during the campaign, and then especially at the beginning of his administration, it took the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
That did lead to much more critical coverage of Joe Biden, and it stayed relatively critical since then.
But still, all you have to do is watch the White House briefing room, and it still is a home game for the Biden administration.
That room was so much worse, so much more intense, so much more focused on the negative when I was the press secretary, and certainly was the case for every one of Donald Trump's press secretaries.
And even though they have gotten tougher on Joe Biden, they are still way easier on him than they ever were on Donald Trump.
All right, Ari Fleischer, thanks for being with us.
The book is out today suppression, deception, snobbery, bias, and why the press gets so much wrong and bookstores uh today, Amazon.com, Hannity.com.
Ari, thanks for being with us.
Quick break right back.
Your calls on the other side, straight ahead.
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As we return to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
We'll get to your calls in a second.
I mean, as bad as circle back Jen Psaki was, I...
I can't believe that Corine Jean-Pierre is getting away with just outright lying.
Now she did say we're not gonna pay attention to the polls, 32% what the Siena New York Times poll.
Then she says 92% of Democrats support Biden.
No, they don't.
They sixty-four percent don't want him to run.
And then she says, and the economy is bounced back from the pandemic.
No, it has not.
I, you know, I Dread tomorrow's uh consumer price index, inflation numbers that are coming in.
I they they're gonna be another forty forty plus year high disaster, which means the inflation that was supposed to be transitory is probably gonna be showing us we're in a recession.
Anyway, listen to her.
We're not going to pay attention to polls.
That's not what we're going to do here.
What we're going to focus on is delivering for the American people.
The president's response to a new poll in the New York Times today showing that 64% of Democrats say that they would prefer a different candidate in 2024.
And um I would also say from that very same poll, um, there were ninety-two percent of uh Democrats who uh support this president as well.
Look, you know, uh not to be not getting to uh you know politics from here or get into a p any political analysis.
Um this is not something uh you know, there's gonna be many polls, they're gonna go up and they're gonna go down.
Uh this is not the thing that we are solely focused on.
Uh we are focused on things like today's signing this bipartisan gun reform legislation, which will again save lives.
Do we have more work to do?
Absolutely.
Uh, we're gonna continue to I was talking about inflation and how important uh that is a priority for this president and how we have seen gas prices go down by close to 30 uh cents a gallon the past 25 plus days.
Uh that is something that the president's going to continue to work on because we still need to give uh Americans relief.
We saw we have seen an economy that has bounced back from when he walked in to this administration over a year ago, uh after dealing or still dealing really in reality with a once in a generation uh pandemic.
I mean, I I can't I she struggles to explain if Biden was even aware that our strategic petroleum oil reserves were being sent to China.
She doesn't have an answer.
You just can't you you just cannot make this up.
Anyway, let's hit our busy phones.
I'm not as patient as I should be today, especially after a vacation.
Uh all right, let's go to uh Scott is in Georgia.
Scott, how are you?
Glad you called.
Um I'm worried about the state of Georgia in this sense.
There's been too much division among Republicans down in the state of Georgia.
And I, you know, some of it I understand, some of it I don't understand.
It doesn't matter to me.
Georgia is now a must-win state.
And that means we need Herschel Walker in the Senate.
And the all they've been doing is running negative attack ads.
The media mob have been attacking Herschel left and right, saying a lot of things, by the way, about him that is just not true.
Um they totally leave Raphael Warnock, the the number one liberal in the Senate alone.
Um, you know, here you have Kemp running against a woman responsible for getting rid of the b the all-star game down in Atlanta uh and saying that the worst place to live is in the state of Georgia.
I'm like, and you want to be the governor of that state?
So I don't know what's going on with the Republicans down in Georgia, but you better get your act together because November's gonna be upon you fast and put aside your differences and understand that the that these two radicals can't win.
There's got to be some sense of understanding of what's at stake here.
Anyway, glad you called, Scott.
Thanks, Sean.
And just say a follow-up on that.
I'm not anywhere near where that riffraff is, uh down in the central part of the state.
We're up in the Great Ninth District, up in the northeast Georgia Mountains, we're the most conservative county in Georgia.
So I don't think there'll be any problems with us keeping uh our part of the state red.
Um but I did want to uh mention there's been a lot of talk about this uh a lot of these far left leaning extremist groups that are basically putting, in my opinion, putting bounties on the heads of our Supreme Court justices.
Doxing them, so don't so and you know offering rewards to find out where they're at.
My comment and maybe my suggestion if we get anybody uh in Congress that happens to be listening to you, including our great state representative or uh House Representative Andrew Clyde, is my idea is that we make it a federal law that if any Supreme Court justice happens to be assassinated,
and I hate to use the word, but if any Supreme Court that happens to be sa assassinated, that the control that the party whose president nominated that Supreme Court judge, the leaders of that party at the time that it happened, be the ones that will make the pick for a new Supreme Court justice.
I think that will take the wins out of all these left-wing extremist groups in trying to get rid of the government.
Well, we're not going to get that done.
Um we have a process.
I'm not sure if the like likely would take a constitutional amendment, which we all know is a very difficult process in terms of fundamental fairness.
I, for the life of me, cannot believe we we live in this alternate universe with Democrats.
574 riots, dozens dead, thousands of cops injured, billions in property damage, not a peep.
Democrats were either silent or supportive, or they lied and said, Oh, they're mostly peaceful.
Uh people like Kamala Harris, they're not gonna stop.
They shouldn't stop.
We're not gonna stop.
Take note, beware, it's gonna keep going.
And then tweeting out the bail fund after a police priest is burned to the ground.
Um she's supporting insurrection.
There's no there's the the double standard exists on so many different levels.
If I I would I promise you, I will never give out the address of any liberal just because I don't like them, because it is dangerous to do such a thing.
Look, you you gotta know and understand whenever you get uh a big crowd or a big audience, that you know, with it comes some sense of responsibility.
My conscience forbids me from doing something that stupid.
I'd never give out the address of a Supreme Court justice or support the idea of marching in their neighborhood in front of their house, uh, giving out this name of the schools that their kids go to, the churches that they attend, and when they attend them.
That's all happened.
And it has the seal of approval of Joe Biden, his White House, Pete Buddha judge says they should expect it.
I mean, there's a part of me that says, well, fine, if that's if that's your expectation, we'll give out all of your addresses.
But I I just can't do it because it would be, you know, it's just the wrong thing to do.
It's dangerous.
They're intimidating, they're harassing.
You know, now we have groups paying 200 bucks if they identify the location of a Supreme Court justice.
Well, okay, well, when where's that going to end?
Is it gonna be senators next?
Is it gonna be congressmen next?
Is it gonna be members of the media, people like me next?
Um, I've already had enough problems uh out in the public at different times.
And you know, I I I I I just don't get the mindset.
I don't get the thinking, but they feel justified in this, and something this isn't gonna end well.
And if somebody's hurt, that I blame them in part.
But do you think that we that it would take a constitutional amendment to do this?
This is something that a bipartisan Congress can move forward with and pass a law.
Not an a constitutional amendment, but a law.
And then you would find out which members of Congress, if their true colors come out, which this, like I said, should be a bipartisan issue.
There should be no one that would be against this because it works both ways.
Listen, I think it would take a constitutional amendment.
We know where the authority rests, it's with the president, they make the selection, and the advice and consent role is laid out to very clear in the Constitution.
That is the role of the U.S. Senate.
Advise and consent, and they then go through the approval process.
I'm sorry, I'm talking about a law that would Yeah, but I'm saying you can't pass a law.
This was the issue that I had with Pennsylvania during the 2020 election.
I mean, their constitution specifically spells out uh the circumstances under which one can vote by mail, and rather than go through the arduous, difficult process of amending the Constitution, they just passed the law instead, which I would argue had a court taken it up and taken it seriously would have been deemed unconstitutional.
All right, but anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thanks, Scott.
Florida Michael next Sean Hannity Show.
What's going on, Michael?
How are you?
Hey, good afternoon, Sean.
It's about 88 and sunny in Florida, my man.
Um I think it's really rich that this uh a Democratic media uh circus is talking about Biden 24 and who they're gonna replace him with.
Last I checked, Sean, and I'm pretty sure he was well, November of 22 is gonna be well before November of 2024.
And the American people have had enough.
And they need to get out and they need to vote all of these clowns out of office.
And on a daily basis, they need to show and talk about the progressive policies that every one of the this administration, Grant Home, to Yellen, Majorists, especially uh Garland, everything that they are doing that is destroying the civil uh liberties and American ideals of every American.
You know, you had you had families just a couple years ago that could finally maybe afford to get that 10-year-old car that they could kind of trust, maybe to get their family around, and that's gone now.
They sure as heck can't afford an apartment now.
And that's all due to the policies of these progressives.
The Democratic Party, as tough as they all act like they are, they were taken over by a bunch of freaking young communists.
So do you want to have a young ones?
It's the young, it's the middle-aged, and it's the decrepit old people like Joe.
So it's the whole party.
That's what I'm saying.
They they're not showing the backbone to fight them.
So that ought to tell you something about your party right there.
they're allowing these young punks to come in and take over.
Oh, look, I've said...
...
All right, back to our busy phones.
Uh Peter, New Jersey.
Thank you, Michael.
What's up, Peter?
How are you?
Hey, uh hi, Sean.
Thanks for taking the call.
Really, it's a great honor.
Uh listen, just going back to these last couple calls.
I think the issue is this is a referendum on the electorate as much as anything.
I mean, they have to overcome the press.
Uh, they have to overcome uh their bias towards uh Trump and and others in the Republican Party.
And frankly, after the last election, after seeing all of things that he did over his last 50 years in his campaign, how can you be fooled like that?
I I really have a uh I'm in New Jersey now, so you know I'm outnumbered 20 to one.
But nationally, too, I I'm very concerned that the electorate uh can handle this because they're really the only ones that can fix it, not the press.
It's we the people, and that's why I've been pushing for election integrity measures in every state, and that's on the state level.
Uh that's why, you know, people have got to be engaged to understand what's at stake.
Look, there's a very strong part of me that believes that these polls are correct and this could be a wave election, but I don't take anything for granted.
Certainly the House is going to be an easier win than the Senate.
And and just winning the House alone would be a big deal.
If we win by a big margin, that would even be a bigger deal.
Um, but these Senate races, you know, we're looking at every bellwether state.
Uh I'm not saying I'm optimistic, I'm not saying I'm pessimistic.
I'm saying I'm realistic.
It's gonna be hard in Georgia, it's gonna be hard in North Carolina, it's gonna be hard in New Hampshire.
They're spending tens of millions of dollars to destroy Ron Johnson and Wisconsin.
It's gonna be hard in in Ohio, hard in in Missouri, hard in Arizona, hard in Nevada.
So we've got we've got a lot of work to do.
Then we have, of course, Washington State and Alaska with Kelly Jubacca.
Uh these are very, very important races.
But at the end of the day, we, the American people, get the government we deserve.
I've got to believe record high gas prices and inflation that people feel every day is going to dictate the outcome of this election.
I hope so.
Because you know what?
People that traditionally would vote Democrat, they see and they feel it every day.
The disaster of these policies.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Peter, 800-941-SHAWN, our number.
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