Media Lies & Hypocrisy: From Don Lemon to Andrea Mitchell to the NYT

Published Feb 24, 2023, 9:00 AM
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Welcoming as verdict of Senator tab CRUs been Ferguson with you and Senator You and I were chatting before the show that it's been one half of a week for the corrupt media and they've just been stepping in it all week long. Well listen, it's it's one of the most dangerous aspects in our democracy today is that we no longer have a free and independent media. We no longer have a media that engages in actual journalism. And I don't think that's hyperbole. You know, there was a time when people in the media viewed their mission as reporting both sides, as reporting the facts and letting you decide. There was a time when journalists were trained to focus on the facts, the who, what, where, when, why, and not focus on editorializing. That no longer is the mission of the corporate media. The corporate media today, they have embraced their view as propagandists. They have embraced their view as partisans, and in fact, when it comes to partisans, I think the corporate media are the most vicious leftists there are. They will criticize the Democrat Party for one thing and one thing only, and that's not being leftist. Enough there. They view their job as drive them to the left, and they also are the attack dogs. And I got to say, when they're engaged in attacks, their bigotry comes out, their ignorance comes out there, desp despising of anyone who is an a leftist comes out, and it really the double standard is profound. Yeah, you look at this week and just one of those perfect examples is what happened with Don Lemon. And to be clear, before we play this, if a Republican, if AMES servative would have said this on TV, I have no doubt that they would have been fired. In fact, I can even say if I was at CNN, and I was there for seven years, if I would have said what I'm about to play for you, I would have immediately been shown the door. And yet Don Lemon gets to come back without an apology. Take a listen, it's all to talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think that I think it's the wrong road to go down. She says, people, you know, politicians are something and not in their prime. Nicki Haley isn't in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered being a prime in our twenties and thirties and maybe forties. That's not, according to me, prime for what it depends. I mean, it's just like prime. If you look it up, it'll if you look if you google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say twenties, thirties and forties. I don't I agree with that, So I think she has to be careful about saying that. You know, politicians aren't in their prime. You can qualifier talking out prime for like child about that. Dan. Facts are Google and everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says twenties, thirties and forties. And I'm just saying, Nicki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve, because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is. Now. I love it because they're even mocking him on the set. They can't believe he's actually saying this. They're they're obviously trying to protect him in a sense. But then he doesn't even have to apologize and Ernie gets his job back. Right. Well, look, his comments there are drippingly misogynistic. You know, Joe Biden is what one hundred and forty two years old, and according to him, apparently Biden is in his prime. But but he's willing to suggest that that once a woman hits her forties, by her fifties, she's over the hill, just you know, put her out to pasture. And it's there's a reason he's willing to say say that because he doesn't consider Nicki Haley a woman. It's the point we made on the pod we just did with Wesley Hunt. Don Lemon does not consider Wesley Hunt to be a black man. Don Lemon does not consider me to be hispanic. If you dare to be conservative, the left erases you from whatever victim class they want to put and they put everyone in victim classes, but they define it. You're only black if you're a leftist, as Joe Biden said, if you're not voting for Joe Biden, you ain't black. I mean, what a bigoted thing to say. Don Lemon, I promise you despises Clarence Thomas. Why because he dares as a black man to be a conservative. And Don Lemon not only despises Nicki Haley, but he views her with a particular If it were just a white guy, fine, he could live with that. Old, fat, bald white guys are the one group they think are allowed to be conservatives. But if you're a woman, you're a traitor. And so his comments reveal the particular contempt, you know, the differential of how the left treats Clarence Thomas versus how they treated antonin Scalia. Antonin Scalia was a strong conservative, was brilliant, and the left didn't like him, but they didn't react. You know, you had one magazine that that portrayed Clarence Thomas as an uncle Tom, basically shining the shoes of antonin Scalia. That's bigoted and racist. But they are rather contempt is their feeling. And so after he made these comments, CNN realized, oh, he stepped at it. Now, you're right, Ben, if you'd said the exact same thing, if you read his words on air, they would have fired you, probably before you were finished speaking. Yeah, But for Don Levin, because he's a leftist and because he was attacking a Republican, all is fine and good. So he put out a tweet. I want to read the tweet he made. The reference I made to a woman's prime this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman's age doesn't define her, either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day. Now, this statement is several things. I'll tell you what. It is not an apology. Nowhere in there are the words I'm sorry. Nowhere in the words are I'm a bumbling left wing, hypocritical, misogynist jackass, which is what he should have said. You know what. He also doesn't say that what he said was wrong. What he says is it's inartful. In other words, may have been true in his mind, but he didn't express it quite as artfully as elegantly as he might have. And he said and irrelevant now relevant doesn't mean wrong either. It just means well, I shouldn't have pointed it out because I don't know. It's not relevant because people criticize me. And he goes on, he says and I regret it. He doesn't say I'm sorry, He doesn't apologize to Nicky Hayley, to women, doesn't apologie. And then he says, a woman's age doesn't define her, either personally or professionally. Well, he still isn't disagreeing with his assinine statement. Look, my wife Heidi turned fifty last year. Heidi Cruz is absolutely in her prime. In fact, Heidi is going to run a marathon next month to celebrate turning fifty. Margaret Thatcher, who last I checked, wasn't in her twenties or thirties or four and she was in her prime. Unbelievable leader. You want to talk about a woman who bestrode the earth like a colossus, who, along with Reagan and Pope John Paul, changed the course of human history. But you know what, Don Lemon doesn't think she was in her prime because she's not a woman. Why because she's conservative and you don't count as a woman for leftists. And then the amazing thing is what a CNN do They take him off the air for two days and then back on air because it's a double standard that only applies to one political side of the aisle. There was something that I laugh about because I woke up this morning to a text from a former colleague of mine at CNN and it said, please check Don Lemon's Twitter And at four thirty five am, he took so much heat from the tweet that you just read that. He then put out a new tweet and this is what it said. I appreciate the opportunity to be back on CNN this morning today, to my network, my colleagues, and are incredible audience. I'm sorry, I've heard you, I'm learning from you, and I'm committed to doing better. See you soon. Yet he still can't bring himself to actually apologize to the person he originally offended. So even the like, okay, let me be cleared, let me be clear, Ben, it's not just Nicky Haley who he did insult her by saying she's not in her prime, but he insulted every woman in her fifties and her sixties and her seventies. What an asinine statement. By the way, under the Constitution, the minimum age to be president of the United States is thirty five. So I guess in Don Lemon's world there is a fifteen year one window when a woman in her prime is allowed to be president between thirty five and forty nine and a half. And what an assinine proposition. And mind you, Joe Biden, they don't think anything of it. Hillary Clinton, I guarantee you Don Lemon never said, you know what, Hillary Clinton wasn't in her forties when she ran for president. It's an absolute double standard. No, it certainly is. And by the way, Don Lemon wasn't the only one to step in it this week. Andrea Mitchell had her own big oops moment. I'm going to tell you about that in a second, but first one to tell you about Patriot Mobile. Many of you have actually reached out. It's cool when we start to hear from you with it. Make the switch to Patriot Mobile, the only conservative Christian cell phone coming to us. One of that was a small business owner send a message to me saying, Ben, they're awesome. Thanks for telling me about Patriot Mobile. 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Any push to censor America's teachers and tell them what they should be teaching in the best interests of our children in partnership with the parents of America is I think wrongheaded. The people who know our children best are their parents and their teachers in terms of the time they spend, in the investment they've placed in the brains and capacity of our children, who are our nation's future. And it should not be some politician saying what should be taught in our classrooms. And I mean this story. The problem with it is it's not true, Senator, as you pointed out, So there are lots of problems with it. Number One, Andrea Mitchell is the question is incredibly ignorant. Like what she's saying, it's not even just a little bit not true. It's a total blatant lie. But it is a blatant lie based on her assumptions that all Republicans are ignorant philistines who don't want history taught in any way. Who don't want who don't want slavery or the aftermath of slavery taught? Now, of course, Florida schools teach about slavery and the aftermath of slavery. And by the way, you want to talk about who wants to cover up history Andrea, Who was it that signed the Emancipation Proclamation? Oh yeah, that was Abraham Lincoln. That was the first Republican president. Who was it that founded the ku Klux Klan? Oh yeah, those were Democrat politicians. Who was it that wrote the Jim Crow Laws? Oh yeah, those were Democrat politicians. Who was it that eulogized an exalted Cyclops of the ku Klux Klan Robert Byrd, Oh yeah, that was Joe Biden, the sitting Democrat president of the United States. You want to talk about who doesn't want to deal with slavery in the aftermath of slavery, it is Andrew Mitchell, who's never reported on any of those facts. The absurdity of saying that Republicans, in this case Rohn de Santis don't want the fact of slavery taught is deliberately ignorant, and it's based on the same assumption. Look, what she is doing and what Don Lemon did are the exact same thing. They have contempt for anyone who isn't a leftist, and they assume these ridiculous caricatures. So for example, Ben, I'll go back to twenty twenty one where Andrea Mitchell again tweets out I had commented about the Trump impeachment trial, the second trial, and I said it was as Shakespeare put it, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. Now Andrew Mitchell jumps on Twitter and she tweets the following Ted Cruz says, impeachment trial is like Shakespeare, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. No, that's Faulkner. Now that's her response. Now she I actually little a little bit of time elapsed because Twitter was really wonderful in that, and that everyone piled on and pointed out that no, you fool, that is in fact from William Shakespeare, from Macbeth. Life is a tale tool told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. And Faulkner when he wrote the sound and the fury was quoting from Shakespeare. So Mitchell, finally, when the entire world padded on her how ridiculous she was. She sends out this this sort of apology tweet. I clearly studied too much American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Senator Cruz. Now, look, I don't care about the fact that she gets this wrong, but it reveals a mindset, which is listen, you can disagree with me. You think you can think I'm wrong. I'm probably wrong about a lot of things in life. Certainly my wife and daughters would tell you I am. But Mitchell, among all the criticisms, I think it would be difficult to make the case that I'm in a literate imbecile. I might be misguided, I might be mistaken. But but I did manage to pass the third grade. And but to Andrea Mitchell's mind, any Republican is an oath, is a bigot is an So the sort of her ignorant dripping no, that's fuckner. No, my dear, I actually have studied literature, and it shows a mindset. And by the way, let's go back to Kamala Harris's answer. After you see Mitchell's dripping condescension for the state of Florida, and notice, by the way, her total loving question for Kamala what does Ron de Santis not understand about the black experience? Good job, Andrea cutting question, way to put put Kamala on defensive, like, please attack one of the leading Republican opponents to Joe Biden. Yeah, shooting fish in the barrel. And this is what the media does when they have these soft interviews. And I love how they put up their exclusive right like it's a really big get for for Andrew Mitchell with the Vice president and then you just hand them these questions when there's real pressing matters. This is what they give them. Well and being given the please attack the Republican, of course, Kamala Harris is more than happy to oblige because look, Andrea Mitchell is a leftist. The interview would not have proceeded differently if they had the press secretary for the Joe Biden for President campaign conducting it. The press secretary would ask the same questions Andrea Mitchell would because they both have the same objective, which is to get the Democrats reelected. Now you look at Kamala's response, where Kamala's like, well, I don't know what he knows or doesn't know. Silly ignorant, bigoted Republican. But what I know is nobody should censor teachers. Now let me pause for a second and say that that actually is an answer. On one level, that sounds well, censorship is bad, so gosh, nobody should censor teachers. That sounds great. And she says no politician should decide what's taught in school. Well, what she's not acknowledging is that every public school sets curriculum, and curriculum is set, so for example, you choose, are we going to teach arithmetic? Are we going to teach history? Are we going to teach English? What are the topics that we want to set for students to learn in our schools? And the irity is when she says no politician should decide what's being taught. Kamala Harris adamantly wants. What happened here is Rhonda Santis declined to have Florida schools teach the curriculum for the so called AP course in African American Studies. That was a hard leftist critical race theory narrative about how America's fundamentally and irredeemably racist. It cited numerous Marxist authors pushing critical race theory, dividing us on race, indoctrinating, And this is one of the things that so often today's left does. They're criticizing is what they are trying to do. They want teachers to indoctrinate, and Kamala throws in teachers and parents. Well, to be honest, she doesn't believe in parents because Kamala and Biden and the Democrats they don't want parents to have a say. If you ask parents, should we be teaching critical race theory in schools, the overwhelming majority of parents say no. And by the way, Democrats, when it come to critical race theory, they give incoherent answers. On one level, they say it's not being taught, it's only a college level class. On the other level, they say, if you don't teach it, you're a racing slavery from school. Well, those are both false statements, but it shows the hard ideology of today's Democrat politicians and also the blatant partisanship of today's corporate media. And Mitchell did have to come out after she was hammered for lying and give a quasi apology at the very end of her show, as she described as a PostScript, here is the again fake apology from another member of the liberal media, and a PostScript. In my interview last Friday with Vice President Harris, I was imprecise in summarizing Governors to Santas's position about teaching slavery in schools. Governor to Santas is not opposed to teaching the fact of slavery in schools, but he has opposed the teaching of an African American studies curriculum, as well as the use of some authors and source materials that historians and teachers say makes it all but impossible for students to understand the broader historic and political context behind slavery and it's aftermath in the years since. So I'm wrong, but I'm still right. Is that the new apology of the left when you screw up this big Well, she just gave Don Lemon's apology. She said it was inartful. No, it was false. It was a blatant lie. It was an ignorant lie. You're still not correcting the lie. And in fact, she says he's opposed to teaching an African American studies curriculum because she says, historians say this is necessary to understand it, really, which historians. Those would be the Marxists that are pushing critical race theory, which I don't know that Mitchell claims this, but I'm certain she does claim that it's not being taught in schools, except now she says it's essential to understand slavery. Once again, it's not an apology, it's a non apology because she flat outled. She flat out led on air, and she didn't care to even bother to know what the facts are. And look, this is very similar to the earlier controversy in Florida where the media and I don't know Mitchell said anything about it, but I bet you did, where they attack the Florida law as they don't say gay law. Yeah, and it never said that anywhere in there at all. What the Florida law essentially said, I said, if you want to call it something, the right thing to call it is, don't say sex. It prohibited teaching about sexuality four grades pre K, kindergarten, first, second and third grade, so third graders in below don't say sex. And by the way, look, I'm a parent, you're a parent. I don't want my kindergartner being taught about gay sex or straight sex like I want my kindergartner playing with blocks, and I would be deeply dismayed to have the teacher getting into sex and sexuality with five year olds. Most parents agree with that, By the way, a large majority of Florida parents agree with that. And let's be clear, the Florida law by fourth grade fourth grade, hey have at it, you know apparently you know, play Debbie does Dallas and getting anything you want, but wait until they get to fourth grade. And so the media was deliberately dishonest about that law, just like they're being deliberately dishonest saying don't teach about slavery is like don't say gay. That is not, in fact what is happening. But remember we started this podcast with the premise the media has abandoned its mission of actually being journalists and reporting facts. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite saying what don Lemon said. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite asking that profoundly ignorant and dishonest question that Andrea Mitchell said. Can you imagine Tim Russert doing that? They're used Can you imagine Ted Copple doing that? They're used to be actual journalists who cared about getting it right, who cared about not engaging in political advocacy, And the Don Lemons of the world and the Andrea ChEls of the world have utterly abandoned any pretense at journalism. Yeah. Another example of this is in the New York Times. We've got new intel on the fallout of when one of your colleagues was asked to write an op ed and it was total chaos that this was given to a sitting US senator. Before I tell you that story, I want to talk about our good friends. Over to Gusts of Precious Medals. If you've been working hard and preparing for retirement, you know right now more than it probably any other time, you want to protect what you've saved. That is where august of Precious Metals comes in. 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Augusta Precious Metals dot Com center. There was another story this week that really pulled back the curtain behind the initial freakout over Tom Cotton riding. An op ed at The New York Times set the stage for everybody. They may have forgotten this story, and then we'll get in the nitty gritty of the total anarchy that happened at the idea the thought of a sitting uf senor writing an OpEd the New York Times. So this was in the summer of twenty twenty, and you'll recall there were Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots all over the city, all over the country. Rather, there were American cities on fire, there were riots, there were stores being looted, there were police cars being firebombed, there police officers being murdered. And during all of this time, Tom Cotton, my colleague, Republican senator from Arkansas, wrote an op ed, and in the op ed he advocated that the president should send in the National Guard to quell the unrest, and he submitted the op ed to the New York Times. I don't believe they solicited it. I think he just submitted it and the New York Times made the decision to publish it. Now. Personally, I actually didn't agree with Tom's up ed. I didn't think that was the right solution to send in the National Guard. I thought it should be handled as a law enforcement matter. I think they should have send in police officers and arrested the riders and put them in jail. But I didn't think that. I was not persuaded that the National Guard was the right avenue for stopping the riots. I think the riots should have been stopped using law enforcement. Be that as it may, it was a perfectly reasonable point of view, and because the New York Times dared to acknowledge it exists, there was a meltdown in the newsroom. And one of the things that's happened in journalism is there are lots of twenty somethings who were basically kids. They've come out of universities that were woke a little sanctuaries, and they're now working. They're working at places like The New York Times, and they have very fragile sensitivities, and they freaked out. They freaked out and demanded that the editor of the editorial page be fired. Now, who was the editor of the editorial page? Guy named James Bennett. James Bennett is a down the road left wing Democrat partisan. He is unquestionably Democrat. The chances that James Bennett agreed with Tom Cotton's op ed I can quantify they were zero point zero zero percent. He did not agree with it. By the way, James Bennett's brother, Michael Bennett, is a sitting Democrat senator from the state of Colorado. He's a Democrat through and through well. The children on the New York Times staff revolted, and what happened the weak need ownership at The New York Times promptly responded by firing Bennett. Why for acknowledge for daring to publish the op ed? Don't mind you. Nobody would have minded if The New York Times wrote an editorial next to the op ed and said, we disagree emphatically with the views advocated by Senator Cotton. This is a terrible view and it's wrong. That's they're right, But the children didn't want that. They didn't want even the fact that someone had a different view acknowledged. And then there's a new book coming out that quotes someone named Charlie Wartzel, who I've never heard of, but he is apparently a tech writer. He's a white guy, which, unfortunately, in the modern leftist order of things, races is preeminent to everything. But this fellow Charlie Wartzel, the tech writer started to cry because quote and this is from the new book that came out, none of his friends wanted to talk to him anymore because he worked for this horrible, evil newspaper that would print this op ed. Now, first of all, okay, the reporter started to cry, are you serious? Are there any journalist left at the New York Times the idea you think of hard scrabble journalists. Can you imagine Woodward and Bernstein weep being of, oh, you very scary thing you publish. My friends won't talk to me. I mean, this sounds like a seventh grader throwing a fit. I'm reminded of the great movie A League of their Own, where where Tom Hanks goes. There's no crying in baseball. If you had real journalists, there should be no crying among journalists. Look, if JFK is shot, you can cry. If Martin Luther King is shot, you can cry. If the Challenger Space Shuttle blows up, you can cry. But if you read scary words that frighten you and your censorious friends are mad at you, a real journalist doesn't cry and complain fire the bad man. It is indicative of just how broken today's corporate journalist is. Yeah, and so people understand this as well. The reason why Tom Cotton's letter, I think was probably published is he's a former guy that enlisted in the United States Army, and so he had a unique perspective on the National Guard. Whether you agree with him or not, what he was saying in his op ed, it was it completely made sense for his op ed to be published based on his service in the military, so people also know this inside baseball. Back in June two thousand and six, while he was stationed Iraq, he actually gained a lot of public attention for writing an open letter to the editors of the New York Times. So it's not the first time he'd written a letter. It's not the first time he'd submitted it to The New York Times either, and yet he does it, they print it, and then it's off with their head. Anyone that actually helped allow this to see the light of day, look, it is an example of how these are no longer journalists. The fact that Republicans exist should not be a triggering event for real nalists and these little children that throw fit. By the way, the New York Times is a hard partisan indoctrination like like, I don't actually understand the value of having an editorial page that only carries one view. I guess their diversity of opinion, as they have Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, but they almost never run views from any conservative, from any Republican that The New York Times has to have to ask you this, how many times have you submitted op eds over I mean your career. It's ten plush years in the Senate. But how many times have you even ever gotten a chance to submit and knew that? Or is it a waste of time? I guess a better way of putting it, like, you know they're gonna say no to you? Or have you ever had success of writing an op ed that has actually been published in a liberal newspaper? So I've yes, I've written over the last ten years at least dozens, probably hunt of op eds. So I like writing op eds. I like communicating the same reason I do the podcast, same reason I write books. I think one of the real responsibilities of doing this job is to use the pulpit and try to persuade. I've had a lot of op eds published in the Wall Street Journal. I've had a lot of op eds published in the Houston Chronicle, in the Dallas Morning News, have had a lot of op eds published in USA Today, have had opeds published in the Washington Post. I don't remember. I think the New York Times may have published one op ed of mine. I don't remember for sure. We submit a lot to the New York Times, and they fairly routinely turned me down. Now I will tell you what I'm using time when when I did make the New York Times editorial pages, so they bashed me repeatedly. But one of their left leaning editorialists, a guy named Frank Bruney, who had written written in The New York Times bashing me over and over again. He retired from the New York Times. I decided to stop writing, and his farewell column was published on June seventeenth, twenty twenty one. And it's a fairly remarkable column. And I just pulled it up on my phone a second ago. I want to just read you the beginning of it. The title of his column is Ted Cruise, I'm sorry, And here's how the column begins. I owe Ted Cruise an apology, though really it's the readers to whom I should say I'm sorry. One day in twenty fifteen, when I had a column doing hours and couldn't settle on a topic, I took the easy root of unloading on Cruise, who was one of the many unappealing contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. He was fair game for rebuke, no question there. But did I illuminate his dark character, enlighten my readers, or advance any worthwhile cause by comparing him repeatedly to the unstoppable entity in the horror movie. It follows, No, I just swam with the snide tide. I did that too often, many columns do, And he goes on to talk about how, basically in the columns he just wrote hard leftist drivel because it was easier to propagandize with all of the assumptions of one political side, versus actually being a real objective commentator, which sadly the New York Times and much of the corporate media has abandoned as a vision for what they will do. Yeah, well, you figured it right on his last one, though, right, I mean, just you do your whole career being a sell out, and you're like, Okay, maybe I should have done it a little differently. You can't make that up. I want to go. I did kind of like that. His twenty fifteen column compared me to an evil, malevolent, demonic spirit. I have joked more than once. I've made this promise on the campaign trail. I've said, listen, if the New York Times ever starts praising me, I'm they have to resign. Right then and there, and so you know, calling me Beelzebub is probably part of the course for the Times. Yeah, and you know what, it's not the worst thing someone's ever said. That's what I always revived me that I can't believe so and so said something about you, Mike. Trust me, it's not the worst thing that's ever been said. Just get my name right, that's all I care about. You do that, and I'm happy to move on one last thing. And the media is freaking out over this, and the lefties are just losing it. There was a headline also in the New York Times, an opinion piece by Brett Stevens, and the headline reads, the mask mandates did nothing period? Will any lessons be learned? Question mark? Before we get into this article, we want to tell you about our friends over at Chalk. All right, if you are a man and you feel like you've got a little bit older, you feel like you've lost a little bit of your strength and vitality, and you don't want to be, you know, kind of a woke liberal. You don't want to be weakness and placent, then you need to check out Chalk. 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Chalk q dot com center that this opinion piece in The New York Times by Brett Stephen was awesome just because the pictures and if you look at the pictures, it's all these disgusting masks that are on the ground that polluted the country and really the world because of the obsession with masks. And now we're finding out that the most rigorous and this is from this op ed and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficiency of mask for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses including COVID nineteen. It was publishedly last month, not a lot of hoop law, and the consensus was clear this was basically a total waste of time. There was no evidence quote that they mask make any difference, is what was said full stop in this and the man the left is freaking out over the fact the New York Times allowed this to even be published. Well, that's exactly right, and I'll tell you that the up ed continues after the authors of this story says there's just no evidence that they masks make any difference, full stop. The OpEd goes on from there to say, but wait, hold on, what about ND ninety five masks is opposed to lower quality surgical masker or cloth masks, makes no difference, none of it, said Jefferson. What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates. They were convinced by non randomized studies, flawed observational studies. What about the utility of masks in conjunction with other preventive measures such as hand hygiene and physical distancing or air filtration. There is no evidence that many of these things make any difference, and the op ed continues, these observations don't just come from anywhere. Jefferson and eleven colleagues conducted the study for Cochrane, a British nonprofit is widely considered the gold standard for its reviews of healthcare data. The conclusion were based on seventy eight randomized controlled trial, six of them done during the COVID pandemic, with a total of six hundred ten eight hundred and seventy two participants in multiple countries, and they track what has been widely observed in the United States. States with mask mandate mandates fared no better against COVID than those without. Now, look, you and I were saying this a year ago, We were saying this two years ago. The data were there then, by the way, Fauci said it two years ago until he decided it was politically more advantageous to flip and order people to wear masks, And you are right. It's stunning the Times publish this. I do wonder if there is a newsroom of crying children screaming that somebody else be fired for daring to publish this. But also, more broadly, there's the accountability. Where's Faucci being held accountable? Where's Joe Biden being held accountable? Right now today the Biden administration is litigating in federal court to have the authority to reinstate the mask mandate on airplanes. Now, if this is right, that the data show they have zero efficacy, who's going to stand up and say I was wrong? Have you heard Joe Biden say that Chuck Schumer or Fauci or anyone. These people that wrecked our economy, that destroyed millions of children's education, that destroyed businesses, that did trillions of dollars of damage. These people that decreed that elderly would die alone and not have their children and grandchildren able to hold their hands, have to date born zero responsibility. And even worse, they try to gaslight the American people. You have Randy Garden saying, oh, we didn't want to shut down schools. It was Republicans who shut down schools. It's the absolute brazen hutzpah of just inverting reality. And yet you know what, our corporate media, the double Standard, liked Don Lemon, everyone who got up and lied to you for year after year after year liked Don Lemon. Will be back on air, like Andrea Mitchell, be back on air, because if you were lying in pursuit of leftist ideology, truth and falsity don't matter. Integrity doesn't matter, standards don't matter. If you are a propagandist, if you work at Pravda, which sadly too many of our journalists believe they do, then all that matters is your politics, and journalism is dead. I couldn't have said it better myself, Senator. It was a fun show today just to look at this terrible week for the left and getting busted over and over again all across a spectrum. Don't forget we do the show three days a week. Make sure you hit that subscriber auto download button. Please write us a five star review as well. It helped us reach more people on the charts, and we will see you back here in a couple of days.