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Episode 39: Why the Media Owes Us All an Apology

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Episode 39: Why the Media Owes Us All an Apology

Monday, 7th June 2021
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Up next, How woud what Janno called?

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I'm part of the Remember

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when the media roundly dismissed the idea that

0:07

COVID could have begun as a laboratory

0:10

accident in Wuhan, China. Remember

0:12

when so called journalists demonized

0:15

anyone who thought the Wuhan

0:17

lablick theory had legs as

0:19

a racist, crackpot conspiracy

0:21

theorist. I do. I

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know you do too. And now it looks

0:26

like the media owes us all an apology

0:28

for not doing their jobs. This is out allowed

0:30

with Gianno called will thank

0:41

you for joining that. While with Giano calls out. Today

0:44

is a very special day because

0:47

I want to talk to you directly about

0:49

what's going on in our country. As

0:52

you all, I'm sure are aware,

0:55

we've been living in a scenario

0:57

whereas freedoms have been you, sir,

1:00

the ability to make money for many

1:02

Americans has diminished. The

1:05

ability to go outside with

1:07

your normal everyday clothing

1:10

without the face masks, of course, has

1:13

been beyond us for over

1:15

a year. The ability to just live

1:18

your life as you have always gone.

1:22

Why. Because COVID nineteen

1:25

came around, many doctors

1:27

didn't know what it was or how to respond

1:29

to it, and we understand that it was new

1:31

for all of us. But then there

1:33

were individuals in which we relied

1:36

on to tell us the truth. Certainly

1:39

we know we weren't going to get that from the media person

1:41

and we were in the midst of

1:43

an election and an economy

1:46

that was booming was no longer.

1:50

So what do we do. We look for the White

1:52

House, We look for our infectious

1:55

disease experts to tell us how

1:57

we should move in this pandemic, what should we

1:59

be doing one And for many of us, we didn't begin

2:02

to take it seriously until they

2:04

canceled the NBA. Then

2:06

that's when it was a true panic

2:08

that ensued. But there

2:10

was one guy, doctor Anthony

2:12

Fauci, who was

2:15

supposed that got us through one

2:17

of the most horrific events

2:19

our country has ever experienced. And

2:23

unfortunately, I have some bad news

2:25

to report, and I actually have a

2:28

word of the day. The word of the

2:30

day is finessed, doctor

2:32

Anthony Fauci. Finessed. The majority

2:34

of the American public and the mainstream

2:37

media was totally complicit in it.

2:40

They were complicit by

2:42

not taking in all sides of information.

2:45

They were complicit by virtue

2:47

of listening to one man who

2:50

in some cases did not follow all the

2:52

science. They were complicit

2:54

because they wanted to ensure that another

2:56

man by the name of Donald Trump was

2:59

going to lose the election.

3:02

To what costs, people lost

3:04

their livelihoods. But

3:07

I guess in Trump is in president,

3:09

so for them perhaps it

3:11

was well worth it. And

3:14

as you know, Dr Anthony Fauci is the director

3:16

of the National Institute of Allergy

3:18

and Infectious Diseases, and

3:21

he is the media's golden boy throughout

3:23

the coronavirus, almost like another

3:25

governor that we know who was

3:27

the golden boy throughout the coronavirus, Andrew

3:30

Como, the governor of New York. But thanks

3:32

to the Freedom of Information Act, we

3:34

now have thousands of private emails

3:37

did doctor Anthony Fauci has

3:39

sent or received talking about COVID

3:42

nineteen And

3:44

I'm gonna read one of them to

3:46

you, and I'm sure you

3:48

will be very upset by the fact

3:50

that we've lived through all of this and

3:53

this man had a point of view that he talked

3:55

about on television and privately

3:57

through emails he was saying something else all

3:59

together. A writer sent him

4:02

a note asking about face

4:04

masks while traveling, and he said

4:06

mask are really for infected people to

4:08

prevent them from spreading infection to

4:11

people who are not infected, rather than protecting

4:13

uninfected people from acquiring

4:16

infection. The typical mask

4:18

you're buying a drug store is not really effective

4:21

in keeping out virus which

4:23

is small enough to pass through the material. He

4:27

also went on to say, this

4:30

is what really gets

4:32

me, and we're talking about the country's

4:34

leading infectious disease expert.

4:38

He said the writer

4:42

if they were to where they

4:44

didn't need to wear a mask during travel,

4:46

to a very low risk location. All

4:50

right, now, I don't know what very low risk location

4:52

really means, but certainly

4:56

if we listen to this SoundBite

5:00

as Dr Fauci has described

5:02

the important to wearing masks and

5:04

honestly flip flopped on him many times,

5:07

maybe he'll tell us what exactly that means,

5:09

but I doubt it. Take a listen. He spoke

5:11

about my emails. You look at

5:13

my emails. I never in the email

5:16

said anything derogatory about

5:18

President Trump. Well, the

5:20

true mark of someone is if they look good

5:22

even when their personal emails come out.

5:24

So you pass the chest that very feel

5:26

with us with foot fast Now I don't know

5:28

about you, but just listening to what

5:30

he had to say and just hearing the various

5:32

sound bites, I'm

5:35

a bit confused, and I feel like Dr Fauci

5:37

was also confused by telling

5:39

us one thing and believe in another. Now,

5:43

interestingly enough, there's been actual

5:46

elected officials in the Senate and

5:48

the House of Representatives, even Donald

5:51

Trump himself who questioned Doctor

5:54

Fauci's quote unquote science.

5:56

And I'm a big believer in science. So don't think

5:58

that I'm providing conspiracies

6:00

here, because we can all find a media

6:03

reporting on this. Senator Rand

6:05

Paul was one of them. He started

6:07

an argument with Dr Fauci

6:09

when he came before one of the Senate

6:11

committees. It was a congressional

6:14

hearing on the origins

6:17

of COVID nineteen and

6:20

theories have circulated throughout

6:22

the pandemic about whether the coronavirus

6:25

sprouted in a lab and was accidentally

6:28

or purposefully released, And

6:32

of course the consensus varied

6:34

in a lot of cases where Dr

6:37

Fauci said no, it was this. The media

6:39

just believed that they didn't listen to any opposing

6:41

viewpoints on the issue, and

6:43

they just took his word as gold. And

6:46

you know it's honestly just that's

6:50

not journalism. You're supposed to you

6:52

hear what a person says, you investigate

6:55

and you source it, and then you come

6:57

to your own conclusions. You don't just take the word

7:00

of one individual. And and how do I

7:02

know this to be true? Because whenever Trump

7:04

said something was true, they would say, oh,

7:07

uh no, we need to we don't believe you,

7:09

We don't believe you. And they would maybe

7:11

somebody, possibly in one of those

7:13

conservative media outlets, would would find

7:15

something that verifies what he said. Others

7:18

would say, oh, it's just a conspiracy

7:20

theory, right wing conspiracy theory,

7:22

just like the origins of

7:24

COVID nineteen. We need to pause him for a quie

7:26

break. We'll be back in a minute. So

7:31

during the Senate Committee hearing, Paul

7:34

and we're talking about Senator Ran Paul focused on

7:36

the speculation that the virus may

7:39

come from may have came from a lab

7:41

in Wuhan, China, and

7:47

Dr Fauci. Dr

7:49

Fauci was questioned about this. Paul

7:53

said, Dr Fauci, we don't know whether the pandemic

7:55

started in the lab and Wuhan or evolved

7:57

naturally, but what we what we want to

7:59

know? Paul began to

8:01

say, three million people have died from

8:03

this pandemic and that should

8:05

call us to explore all possibilities. Now,

8:08

Rand Paul has talked about the fact

8:10

that he believes that the virus

8:12

did originate in Wuhan, China,

8:15

in a lab. But in this instance,

8:17

he was telling Dr Fauci, Listen,

8:19

we have all these people who have died from

8:21

COVID nighteen. Shouldn't all cards

8:24

being on the table as to what

8:26

we should be exploring to

8:29

to see if this is true or not? Like, shouldn't

8:31

we be asking these these questions. Shouldn't

8:33

we be investigating everything? You

8:37

know what Dr Fauci said, He told

8:39

him he was wrong, flat out,

8:41

You're wrong. Basically, you don't know what

8:43

you're talking about. Now we're talking about Senator

8:46

Rand Paul isn't just a senator.

8:49

He's elected clearly, he represents

8:52

his constituency constituency, but

8:54

he's also a scientist. He's a fellow scientist.

8:57

He's a doctor just like Dr

8:59

Fauci, and he has every

9:01

right just like we do who lost

9:03

our freedoms and rights over the

9:05

course of over a year. We

9:08

should be questioning it too, but

9:10

Dr Filgi said, no, you're wrong, and you know what the

9:12

media did. He wrote them off as another Trump

9:14

conspiracy theorist who was

9:17

against science, even though he's a doctor.

9:20

This is where

9:22

we are in a place

9:24

where you simply put, cannot

9:27

just trust something that the mainstream

9:30

media says. If you read it,

9:32

you better go try to find five other sources

9:35

to verify what you just read. I

9:37

never thought that I would be in a place,

9:40

especially when it comes to science, which we

9:42

know the Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of

9:44

science, where people who

9:46

are so afraid to

9:49

be honest. And we're talking about

9:51

now a number of doctors who have lost everything

9:54

because they were honest about

9:56

what their beliefs were with the origins of COVID

9:58

nineteen, how Ton in new COVID nineteen,

10:01

who legitimately were labeled

10:04

conspiracy theories. Let's not even just talk about

10:06

that. Let's move on. Let's move on beyond just those

10:08

who were labeled conspiracy theories. What about

10:10

those who said that if you believe that the

10:13

virus occurred in this lab

10:15

in China, that you were a racist. What

10:18

about that? What about if you Donald

10:21

Trump labeled the

10:23

virus, which a lot of reporting now

10:25

backs up, and a lot of journalists, if you if

10:27

you're looking at the reporting now, a lot of journalists

10:29

have admitted on the record that

10:31

they dismissed the

10:34

the origin of the virus coming from the Wuhan

10:36

lab because Donald Trump and Republicans mentioned

10:38

it. Let this

10:41

again because of the

10:43

source of it. Instead of investigating it, they

10:45

decided, Hey, you know, we're

10:48

we're gonna label this, uh, this

10:50

is a racism which we often

10:52

see on the left. We're gonna label this as racist

10:55

and we're going to We're going to say

10:57

that in this case because Donald

10:59

Trump meant should do. There's some fringe theory

11:01

that is in the back rooms of the internet, the black

11:03

hole of the internet where all Trump

11:06

supporters lie and don't when

11:08

they reside and don't believe in science. You

11:11

understand that,

11:13

you who may not have believed

11:16

the mainstream media, you're not crazy.

11:19

Even though your friends and family maybe

11:22

have said, listen, you gotta stop listening to that. This

11:24

is what you need to do. You need to go do this, that

11:26

and the other because that's what the media

11:29

said you should do. And he said, no, I want

11:31

to think for myself. I

11:33

want to do the research. I want to see the compelling

11:35

evidence. Of course, we all want to be safe. And I'm not

11:37

saying that folks should not

11:39

have taken precautions. Absolutely they should

11:42

have, but we we we want

11:45

the press to hold those accountable

11:48

for what they what they told us. But they're

11:50

not gonna They're not gonna do that because they've been complicit.

11:54

You know, it's interesting. There's an individual who's

11:56

a reporter. He used to work for Fox News Channel.

11:59

He recently tweeted about

12:02

the origins of it. And

12:05

as we know, China has

12:07

not obliged

12:09

American investigators to go

12:12

into this particular lab and

12:15

and and see was there

12:17

any origins of it theory. They've pretty

12:19

much locked Americans

12:22

and any health officials out of the process.

12:24

It's a guy by the name of Adam hows Ling. He

12:28

has reported and we're talking about the origins

12:30

of it. He is reported that

12:33

U. S Intelligence now has

12:35

a Chinese defector with Wuhan

12:38

Info in Chinese trying

12:40

to produce variants that suggested came from bats

12:43

to cover up that the coronavirus

12:45

originally came from a lab.

12:48

And we're talking about that that Wuhan Lab

12:50

in particular. Now

12:52

I'm interested in knowing now

12:55

with the press taking a turn,

12:57

said, oh maybe that was something to this after all.

12:59

Sorry they we you know, pretty much

13:01

ended livelihoods for millions of people

13:03

across the across the country, and

13:06

we were complicit and uh

13:09

not actually getting

13:11

a fact fact based analysis

13:13

and getting other points of view and allow them

13:15

to speak openly about this. Maybe

13:18

maybe maybe maybe it'll jump

13:20

in on it now and see,

13:23

you know, how to how to possibly

13:25

uh verify what's

13:27

what's being reported now I

13:30

kind of doubt it though. You know what, folks, I

13:32

think what we're looking at now is

13:35

medium outpractice. The

13:37

institution that is supposed to

13:40

look out for our best interests has

13:42

failed us. They've been

13:44

derelicting their duties, and

13:47

now it's upon us to

13:50

look for other

13:52

sources of information or verify

13:55

three or four times what we read because

13:58

we just simply put, cannot

14:01

be trusting to an institution

14:04

that has failed us far too many times. You

14:08

know, you would think when

14:10

officials like CDC former CDC

14:12

Director Robert Redfield back

14:15

the live leak theory,

14:18

you would think the media would

14:20

take it more seriously. Some

14:23

of the scientists that we're working

14:25

in the Wuhan lab. They're back

14:27

in November twenty nineteen, were

14:30

hospitalized with COVID nineteen

14:33

symptoms. That's back in November

14:35

twenty nineteen, among

14:37

other circumstantial evidence. We've

14:40

seen other instances

14:43

where there was clearly, in my

14:45

opinion, a cover up by way of China.

14:48

Why don't you allow people to investigate?

14:50

We know exactly how COVID

14:53

nineteen would benefit China.

14:55

They're gonna overtake the US economy

14:58

sooner than they I'd have And

15:01

truthfully speaking, when Trump got in and

15:03

he was ushering in a prosperity

15:05

that we've never seen before. The lowest black unemployment

15:08

rate ever recorded, the lowest

15:10

his spending unemployment rate ever recorded,

15:13

the lowest for Asians, winning

15:15

fifty year low. I mean, the list

15:18

goes on and on. With GDP growth

15:20

rocketing, you know, we can talk about spending

15:22

it. I'm all about us

15:25

containing our spending as a country. I think

15:27

we all should always should do that. But the Trump

15:29

was spending money, but we had a GDP

15:32

growth that would have allowed

15:35

us to spend and be able to pay whatever

15:38

debt we head back, especially if things were to

15:40

continue. Also

15:42

we know China trade. Trump

15:45

was very hard on China when it came to trade,

15:48

and there was a lot of words fired back

15:51

and forth. When it came to trade. We're

15:53

talking about a trade deficited over

15:56

five hundred billion dollars

15:58

a year. You're

16:01

talking with the B five million,

16:03

five hund a billion dollar trade deficit with

16:06

China. And Trump said, hey,

16:09

we need we need to get this this deficit

16:11

under control. They need to be doing better trade

16:13

with us. We we shouldn't be at a deficit. Of

16:16

course, mainstream media, oh no,

16:18

no, no, no, no, we can't have that. We absolutely

16:20

cannot have that. We you know, we don't want to get

16:22

into the fight with China. We don't want

16:24

to get into a fight with China. I mean, you're

16:27

the president of the United States. You

16:29

represent your country. You should be getting the best

16:31

deal for your country. And

16:33

the economy continued to do well. So I

16:37

can't factually say that China

16:39

released it, but I can say it, in my opinion

16:43

looks like it to me. It

16:45

in my opinion, looks like that it

16:47

would have benefited them, especially

16:50

with all the fights that were going on when it came

16:52

to trade. And if

16:54

you can weaken the US economy

16:57

and thereby other economies around

17:00

the world. You're in a position to really

17:02

dominate. We know that China has been doing work in

17:04

Africa, we know they've been doing work

17:06

all all across the globe because

17:09

they want to be the world's superpower. We understand

17:11

that. So we we understand exactly

17:16

what, why, why it would make sense

17:18

for China to release something like that from their point

17:20

of view. I mean, all of us obviously

17:22

suffered because of it. How many

17:25

people have lost loved ones because of this,

17:29

millions of people across the world, And

17:31

then you look in the US and you look state by state.

17:33

This was a very serious thing. And

17:36

we continue to see evidence that points

17:38

to China. And maybe

17:41

now the media is beginning to think, oh,

17:43

maybe we should hold them, account of them. But

17:45

what will happen? What would Joe Biden do? We

17:47

know about his son

17:50

and his business dealings with China, And we've

17:52

heard the reporting from the New York Post and

17:55

Joe Biden's sons business partner who

17:57

talked about tem percent for the big Guy, which he alleged

18:00

was ten percent of whatever Joe

18:02

Biden's son earned would go to Joe Biden

18:04

himself. We understand

18:07

that. So can we have faith

18:09

and a president,

18:13

a commander in chief to take action

18:15

if we were to discover, and it were to be

18:17

fully verified that China

18:20

unleashed this virus in the world, can

18:22

we expect him to do anything about it? I

18:25

don't have much hope, my friends. I'm gonna be honest with

18:27

you about that. I really don't. Before

18:30

we move on, let's take a quick brand back in a

18:32

second. I

18:37

mean, the question is that political correctness

18:40

play a part in all of this? Did

18:43

it? I mean it

18:45

was? Was that a part of it? You can't call people

18:47

out now because it's deemed racist. I don't

18:50

know, but perhaps it did. I know for some folks

18:52

that truly did. If you read the New York Times

18:54

and the Washington Post, it clearly

18:57

clearly shows that if you if you mentioned

19:00

China in a particular light, especially

19:03

if it was coming from Trump, it was deemed to be racist. We

19:05

saw what Nancy Pelosi did. She

19:07

went down to Chinatown in San Francisco

19:09

and said, hey, we're open for business.

19:12

And I'm not sure if that tweet is still up because she

19:14

called Trump essentially a racist

19:17

for saying, hey, we need to close the border um

19:20

allowing certain people into into the country

19:22

coming from particular regions of the world,

19:25

it was considered racist. Do

19:27

we see group thinking media? Absolutely?

19:31

Absolutely. Whatever the New York

19:33

Times says, it's gold for so many

19:36

people in the media, it's

19:38

the gold standard, especially especially

19:41

that idea. Is disappointing when you see them

19:43

operate with so much liberal bias on

19:46

these issues on a weekly

19:48

basis, and sometimes they don't even

19:50

admit it. And this

19:52

is this is what I don't understand.

19:54

Where are the standards in journalism. They've gotta

19:56

be more, more, more

19:59

honest journalists out there, and I know that

20:01

there are. We had hair is foking on a

20:03

couple of maybe two or three weeks ago. I had

20:06

hair Is foking on talking about integrity and the press.

20:09

I see some of my colleagues in

20:11

in the in the media, Fox News in other places

20:14

they do. But you see a report comes out

20:16

by them, and people on New York Times

20:18

and other places try to debunk it and

20:21

ends up being true. And

20:24

you know what, I gotta tell you, I am

20:26

honestly tired of

20:29

Donald Trump being so right on these issues.

20:32

He'll say something that media will say, oh,

20:34

that's completely outlandish, can't be true. It sounds

20:37

crazy. And to be honest with you, he

20:39

said some things where I'm like, no, that can't

20:41

be true. It does sound crazy, and

20:43

then he comes out he was right the whole time. I'm

20:46

honestly, I'm

20:49

tired of it because I expect much

20:51

more from our institutions. I

20:53

expect much more from our press. I

20:56

expect them to operate with integrity.

20:58

I expect them to be unbiased,

21:01

which is almost not

21:03

even a word you can apply to the mainstream

21:06

media because some of them are operating like

21:08

democrats with press passes all day.

21:11

And now we're in a scenario where

21:14

our lives, our livelihood

21:16

for many of us have

21:18

been usurped. Folks have lost

21:20

their families and couldn't even go to the funerals,

21:24

they couldn't travel on planes. And

21:27

we find out that one man, Dr

21:29

Anthony Fauci, and there's thousands of emails

21:31

out there, and I encourage people to go we

21:34

as much of it as you can wasn't

21:37

completely in totally honest with us. And

21:40

that, my friends, is why I needed to speak

21:44

to you very directly, just

21:46

one on one, because I'm very, very

21:49

disappointed well where we are

21:51

as a country, and my only

21:53

hope is that we'll see

21:55

more people who are willing to come out and

21:57

be honest. I'm hoping that

21:59

there the factor that Adam

22:02

Howsley is reporting on, who

22:05

has Wuhan info. I'm hoping that

22:07

that person comes to light, and I'm hoping that our

22:09

government, our

22:11

government takes very serious action

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if it is proven, if

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it is proven without question and without

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doubt, that China

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unleashed its virus in the world, that

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there will be legit action taken

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and no other country will be able to do this

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to us. Again, thank

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again, God bless. If

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