The election is drawing near, and while the media tries to distract us by gabbling about whether Trump is wearing a mask or by covering up allegations that Joe Biden is as corrupt as Ben Gazzara and Roadhouse before Patrick Swayze kicked him in the face as he so very richly deserved. Let's get serious and take a look at the issues. What do the candidates believe and how will those beliefs translate into policy? You know, I don't care either, but let's see if we can find out anyway.

Donald Trump believes in low taxes and deregulation. Joe Biden believes he's in Ohio when in fact, he's outside a warehouse in Sheboygan wondering when the stagecoach will arrive to take him to California. Donald Trump believes in putting America first. Joe Biden believes there's a stain on his basement wall that bears a remarkable resemblance to either Elmer FUD or possibly Antarctica. Donald Trump believes the news media is corrupt and dishonest. Joe Biden believes the news media is those fuzzy shapes at the other end of the gym who keep asking him to pass judgment on the soul of Donald Trump, whoever that is.

Donald Trump says China is responsible for spreading the coronavirus and should be punished. Joe Biden says, come on, man, here's the deal and then hopes no one will ask him where China is on a map or what China is or where he is or who he is. Donald Trump wants to know if Americans are going to let a virus dominate their lives. Joe Biden wants to know if it's safe to come out yet. Donald Trump looks forward to building a space force and taking America to Mars and beyond.

Joe Biden looks forward to building the new Lego Super Mario set and hopes he can finish before Jill makes him go out and talk to those fuzzy shapes in the gym again. Donald Trump believes if Joe Biden is elected, Kamala Harris will be the president. And so does Joe Biden. Trigger warning.

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He says these Democrat senators should be investigated to see if they have any ties to America. And now that's that's ridiculous. They don't have any of those ties. Yesterday was a remarkable day and a dangerous day in the history of our country. The not very grand goober's at Facebook and Twitter decided to censor a legitimate news story because they feared it would hurt Joe Biden, the candidate they hope will win the election. And that censorship is still going on today.

The stories in The New York Post, which is I think the longest running published paper in America, was founded by Alexander Hamilton. And that was the story I told you about yesterday, about emails from a laptop which seemed to indicate the then Vice President Biden was in touch with an adviser to the corrupt energy company who gave his son Hunter, a high paying sinecure. Now, the allegations may turn out to be true and they may turn out to be false.

But as I told you yesterday, Andy Stone, the content manager at Facebook, announced he would limit the spread of the story but would still have his left wing fact checkers attack. It is no surprise there. Stone has spent most of his life working for Democratic candidates and organizations on Twitter with a hard left. Bias has been exposed by Project Veritas. They did everything they could to stop the story from being tweeted, including a lock down on the account of the White House press secretary Kealey McEneaney and members of Congress and the Post itself, according to Media Research Center, Facebook and Twitter, have given over 90 percent of their political contributions to Democrats this election cycle 90 percent.

So we know where they stand and why they're doing this. Look, they gave no plausible reason for doing what they're doing. The story, again, may turn out to be untrue. It's got some red flags. I'll talk about those. But it's provenance is still better than all those stories about Trump's collusion with Russia and its more solidly based than the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. And no one did anything to stop the spread of those. Rather the opposite.

Jack Dorsey, a Twitter put out a tweet saying, Our communication around our actions on the New York Post article was not great and blocking the URL sharing via tweet or D.M. with zero context as to why we're blocking is unacceptable. That's not the point at all. Facebook and Twitter's actions represent pure, pure election tampering for and by the left, and it's far worse than anything Vladimir Putin could pull off. And beyond the damage done to our electoral process, which is considerable, is the damage done to our First Amendment culture.

That's the deep seated and widespread belief in free speech that gives life to the words in the Bill of Rights. They're just words on paper. They will not stand unless we, all of us accept free speech is a basic basic right now. This attempt to censor this story seems to have blown up in the tech titans faces because this story has gotten much bigger because of the censorship. But even so, the damage to the culture of free speech is done and it's still being done.

And the Twitter and Facebook people and the Democrats who support them should pause and think whether it's worth losing free speech forever just to secure a temporary political victory. Then after they've pause and after they thought they should be tarred and feathered, their companies should be destroyed, the building should be burned down, and the ground on which they stood should be covered with salt to make sure nothing like it ever grows there again. I'm absolutely serious about this. I've been on this hobby horse for a while that the your right to free speech is a God given right.

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It's Clay V and I want to make it clear again that the big story today is the censorship. I'm going to talk about the Joe Biden story, but the censorship should be on the front page of every paper. I don't expect it on The New York Times. The New York Times is now just basically a left wing rag. It's terrible. But The Wall Street Journal, the story was buried in a editorial on the editorial page, and it should be a front page story.

This is because Ted Cruz has now announced that he is going to subpoena the big tech guys and talk to them. Here he is cut 15.

This is election interference. And we are 19 days out from an election. It has no precedent in the history of democracy. The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on. Chairman Lindsey Graham and I have discussed this at length. And the committee today will be noticing a markup on Tuesday to issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Friday to come before this committee and the American people and explain why Twitter is abusing their corporate power to silence the press and to cover up allegations of corruption.

This is this is really important. And again, it's more important so far, so far than the Biden story, because the Biden story needs to be checked and we'll talk about that. But this is the big story, and it should be on the cover of every paper, every news outlet that cares about free speech, because underneath this underneath this is a genuine threat, a philosophical threat to free speech. Barry Weiss, the woman who was forced out of The New York Times for not having for having wrong think essentially for not being on the board with every right wing idea, a left wing idea.

She has an excellent piece in tablet. She says this talking about something else, but she says the new creed, the premise of the new creed goes something like this. We are in a war in which the forces of justice and progress are arrayed against the forces of backwardness and oppression. And in a war, the normal rules of the game, due process, political compromise, the presumption of innocence, free speech, even reason itself must be suspended.

Indeed, those rules themselves were corrupt to begin with, designed as they were by dead white males in order to uphold their own power. This attack on free speech is deep philosophical and it goes through the left. And I'll talk about that first. There is a story, a big piece in the Times Sunday magazine. And this is a person I'm going to get a little personal here, but I'll explain why in a minute. This is by Emily Bazelon, one of their legal writers.

Very smart lady. It's called the problem of free speech in an age of disinformation now, by the way, it's always been an age of disinformation. Politics has always been people slinging lies with each other and the lies going around the world before the truth gets its pants on. That has always been the case. The only thing is, is, of course, there's so much more out there now and that's going through the Internet. But the other thing about that is that has given conservatives, people who believe in the Constitution.

That's how I define conservatives, people who believe that the Constitution is the law of the land and hasn't been replaced by any woke realization in the hearts and minds of leftists. The Constitution is the law of the land. That's what conservatives believe. The Internet has given conservatives a new voice in the same way the printing press gave new voices to people who disagreed with the Catholic Church. It's exactly the same. This is a new independent voice that is getting out there.

And yes, there's a lot of disinformation, but there was always a lot of disinformation. Now, Emily's piece begins by talking about the this bogus article I told you about by Rosa Brooks. This is the one, Rosa, in The Washington Post. I read it to you. It was where she gamed out at what she's a law professor at Georgetown University. She gamed out all the different things that would happen if Biden won or if Donald Trump won.

And she wrote this in The Washington Post With the exception of the big Biden wins scenario, each of our exercise reached the brink of catastrophe with massive disinformation campaigns, violence in the streets and a constitutional impasse. So, in other words, nice country you've got here. Shame if anything would happen to it. If Joe Biden doesn't win big, everything falls apart. Big fire is a threat. Incredibly stupid. Emily Bazelon sees it differently. She thought it was a wonderful, wonderful thing that happened.

She writes this summer, a bipartisan group of about a hundred academics, journalists, pollsters, former government officials and former campaign staff members convened for an initiative called the Transition Integrity Project. By video conference, they met to game out hypothetical threats to the November election and a peaceful transfer of power if the Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, were to win, dividing into Team Trump and Team Biden. The group ran various scenarios. All right. So she sees it as a bipartisan thing.

Now, in fact, at National Review, they they pointed out that the Trump officials were being played by people on the who were Republicans like who Michael Steele and Bill Kristol never trump those guys who hate Donald Trump. Not a bipartisan thing. It was a completely bogus left wing event. All right.

But she sees it as is a bipartisan, wonderful idea. And by the way, it's gaming out the future like they have no idea what's going to happen. But but this was their idea. Now, Michael Anton reacted to this, and Emily Bazelon describes it this way. The next day, Michael Anton, a former national security adviser to Trump, published an article about the Transition Integrity Project called The Coming Coup. Democrats, he said, were laying the groundwork for revolution.

Anton wrote, Without evidence in the American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute, he warned that ballots harvested lawfully or not could tip close states to Biden. This then went viral. And this is what Emily Bazelon is saying, the dangerous to the country. Now, let me just pause here to say what is personal? Emily Bazelon is my dearly beloved cousin. She was a child in my house. I would visit her house. I love her.

I love her sisters. I love their family, even though I know members of their family have a problem with me and my opinions. But that's fine. I still love them. I love her. I respect her. The American mind is where my son Spencer no relation works, right? He is one of the people editing content at the American Mind and at Claremont. So what we've got here is my beloved cousin telling my beloved son to shut up.

Right. They're not having this is a Thanksgiving argument for me, OK? They're sitting around the table. They're not saying they're not saying, oh, Emily's not saying, oh, the integrity project was right and Michael Anton was wrong. And Spencer was saying, oh, no, Michael Anton has a point. And the integrity project was bogus. No, that's not what they're saying. What Spencer is saying is he is saying Michael Anton has a right to speak and Emily Bazelon is saying, no, he doesn't.

That's not the same argument in an argument. One person says you're wrong. The other person says you're wrong. And then they look for the facts and they fight it out. And that's how the third party asked the observer gets to the truth. But one side is saying this is dangerous. It's not dangerous for this idiot, Rosa Brooks, to tell us that if Joe Biden doesn't win big, there's going to be violence. That's not dangerous to Emily, but it's dangerous that Michael Anthony says, wait a minute, you're setting up a coup and that spreads around.

Let me read more of Emily's article. The United States hurts my heart. By the way. I got to tell you, it hurts my heart to have these two love on different sides of the fence. But not it doesn't bother me. They disagree. It has never bothered me that people in my family or in my country disagree. It bothers me that one side wants to shut down the other. And it's only one side. It is only one side.

It is only the left that wants to end free speech. And I'll show you why in just a minute. Emily Bazelon says the United States is. The middle of a catastrophic public health crisis caused by the spread of the coronavirus, but it is also in the midst of an information crisis caused by the spread of viral disinformation, defined as falsehoods aimed at achieving a political goal. It's a crisis that anyone should disagree. Misinformation, she says, refers more generally to falsehoods.

Seven months into the pandemic in America, with Trump leading the way, Coryna coronavirus skeptics continue to mock masks and incorrectly equate the virus with the flu. Now there's this is not science what she's saying. She thinks what she's saying is absolutely true. Let me go back. I was reading you Matt Ridley's article about what we have learned from science, and that really supports wearing masks as I do indoors in close contact. He says data can be trustworthy but inadequate.

Evidence based, evidence based medicine teaches doctors to fully trust only science based on the gold standard of randomized controlled trials. But there have been no randomized controlled trials on the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of respiratory diseases. One is now underway in Denmark. In the West, unlike in Asia, there were months of disagreement this year about the value of masks, culminating in the somewhat desperate attempt argument of mask foes that people might behave to complacently when wearing them.

I don't think that's a desperate argument, but still the scientific consensus is that the evidence is good enough and the inconvenience small enough. And we need not wait for absolute certainty before advising people to wear masks. Nobody, by the way, I don't think anybody objects to people advising you to wear masks. They object to being forced to wear masks. They object to mandates. So it's not quite science. This mask, they're saying, makes sense tonight.

And I again, I agree with this, but I don't think anyone should be silenced for saying this.

Obviously, they shouldn't be silenced because if they're right and they may be right on another level, they may be right that the mandate itself is damaging to the polity. The mandate may be damaging to our sense that we make decisions about our health on our own. We have the right to smoke cigarettes. We have the right to drink. We have the right to do a lot of things that health Nazis may not like. But we have the right to do them and we may.

Indeed, it's an argument to be made that we have this certain right to not wear masks in situations where they may not do any harm. But this is the idea. The settled science argument is one of the reasons the left feels has convinced itself that it has the right to to silence other people. Let me just play an exchange that happened yesterday between Kamala Harris, who's now one of whose people now has got the virus herself, and Amy Barrett.

Right. Just listen to this exchange. And one of the things you'll note about this is supposed to be this great day that she's not not that good at cross-examination, but she tries to set up the person spring this brilliant trap. Listen to this.

Do you accept that covid-19 is infectious? I think yes. I do accept that covid-19 is infectious, that that's something of which I feel like, you know, we could say you take judicial notice of. It's an obvious fact. Yes.

Do you accept that smoking causes cancer?

I'm not sure exactly where you're going with this, but you know that the notice that the question is what it is you can answer to if you are now, Senator Harris. Yes, every package of cigarettes warns that smoking causes cancer.

And do you believe that climate change is happening and it's threatening the air we breathe and the water we try?

Senator, again, I was wondering where you were going with that. You have asked me a series of questions like that are completely uncontroversial, like whether the nineteen is infectious, whether smoking causes cancer and then trying to analogize that to eliciting an opinion on me. That is a very contentious matter. Opinion from me. That has been a very contentious matter of public debate. And I will not do that.

I just I just want to point out the mindset. Right? One of these things is not like the other. Right coronavirus is infectious. I don't think anybody disagrees with that. Smoking does cause cancer. The science on that is really, really sound. But one of these things is not like the other, because the climate change argument is an argument made from computer models about what will happen in the future. A computer model and Matt Ridley says this is Article two is a guess.

It's a guess made with the help of a tool called a computer that computes numbers that you put in to the computer. It is completely a guess that has not been tested yet. It's not settled science and the fact that Kamala Harris, the candidate for vice president to be president, no doubt the fact that she can't tell the difference is one of the problems on the left because they see great benefit to be had from a climate crisis, great strides towards socialism.

And so that has become fact in their mind. And anybody who says anything against it is a denier like the Holocaust deniers, who they also think they should be able to censor. And I don't. But the Holocaust deniers, again, are denying something that happened for certain in the past. Climate deniers are saying, no, your guess is wrong. Very. Very different now, as you know, is a federal law that you're not allowed to play Christmas music after Santa Claus reaches Times Square at the Macy's parade.

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I just make it look this easy. All right, let's go back to Emily Bazelon article The Conspiracy Theory. She says, the lies, the distortions, the overwhelming amount of information, the anger encoded in it. So we're angry. They're not angry. They just want to shut us down. That's all. These all serve to create chaos and confusion and make people, even nonpartisans, exhausted, skeptical and cynical about politics. The spewing of falsehoods isn't meant to win any battles of ideas.

Its goal is to prevent the actual battle from being fought by causing us to simply give up. And the problem isn't just the Internet. A working paper from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, released earlier this month, found that effective disinformation campaigns are often an elite driven, mass media led process in which social media played only a secondary and supportive role. Trump's election. How Trump became in charge of mass media, I don't know, since they all hate him.

Trump's election put him in the position to operate directly through Fox News and other conservative media outlets like Rush Limbaugh's talk radio show, which have come to function in effect as a party press, the Harvard researchers found, as opposed again, it's it's the inability to see. It's the inability to see both sides. It is so amazing here. This is that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and The Daily Wire, I presume, serve as a party press, but not CNN, not ABC, where George Stephanopoulos worked with the old Clinton hack and where they silenced the Jeffrey Epstein story while Hillary Clinton was running.

That's not a party press. That's it's only it's only the people who are open about their their bias. On Fox News, Sean Hannity tells you he's a right winger daily. While I tell you I'm a conservative. These are all things just this is why I so rarely pick on MSNBC. They tell you we are a left wing outlet.

I'm fine with that. I'm fine with there being a left wing outlet. What bothers me is The New York Times with their headline, All the News that's fit to print running garbage every single day. That's what bothers me. It bothers me that they took a once great paper with a slight liberal bias and turned it into a left wing, really a communist supporting rag. The thing is, as always, with these questions, it's not who's right, it's not who's wrong, it's who decides.

And what's very clear from Emily's article and from Kamala Harris questions is these people are not capable of deciding. There's only two kinds of speech. There's free speech and there's speech determined by the people in power. Right. Because if speech is shut down and it doesn't matter whether people in power have the votes or not, they have no right to do it. Let me end with this conclusion from the Emily Bazelon piece. Scholars argue something that may seem unsettling to Americans, those silly Americans.

The scholars argue that perhaps our way of thinking about free speech is not the best way. At the very least, we should understand that it is the only way other democracies in Europe and elsewhere have taken a different approach. Despite more regulations on speech, these countries remain democratic. In fact, they have created better conditions for their citizens, agree to sort what's true and what's not, and to make informed decisions about what they want their societies to be here in the United States.

Meanwhile, we are drowning in lies. Europe is a dead unit. It is a dead geographical unit that is disappearing off the face of the earth. As we speak, the nations of Europe are just peering. Where's Brexit? What has happened to Brexit? Has Brexit actually come through or is it impossible to break away from the EU? The Europe is a dying society. This society is still very vibrant and alive and the last bastion of Western thinking and a revolutionary bastion of Western thinking.

Where she's right. We do not accept. We do not accept that the powers that be the elites, the New York Times have the right to silence the people. We do not accept that. And does that create problems? You bet it does. Does it create problems? Have everybody talking at once? Sure it does. But free speech means the people decide and everything else. Everything else means the powerful, the side. If you don't believe me, here's another story and not a documentary called What Killed Michael Brown has been censored by Amazon Prime.

This is by Shelby Steele, one of the finest scholars in the country, one of the most terrific writers in the country. His books are absolutely shockingly good. He is. I just love reading his stuff. He occasionally writes in The Wall Street Journal, not enough as far as I'm concerned. He's a he's a black guy. And that's that's what he writes about. He works at the Hoover Institution up at Stanford and he writes about race. And that's what he writes about.

He has made a documentary with his son, a filmmaker, Eli Steel, about the fact that Michael Brown was not killed in accordance with the left wing narrative that says police are targeting black people. And that's not true. The Obama Justice Department said the same thing. This is a documentary and you can find it at what killed Michael Brown dot com. You can find it at at what killed Michael Brown dot com. And it will tell you the story of the truth about what killed Michael Brown and how it violates the left's story.

Amazon Prime rejected it. In an email, Amazon informed the Steeles that their film is, quote, not eligible for publishing because it doesn't meet prime video content quality expectations. Amazon went on to say it will not be accepting resubmission of this title and this decision may not appeal. There are two kinds of speech, this free speech and the speech design decided by the powerful. This is really interesting because this is true. The actual Shelby Steele version of the story is the truth.

OK, so we know that. We know that. And the story Hands Up, Don't Shoot is false. Every investigation has shown that it's possible the investigation is wrong. That's why I don't think the people who say hands up, don't shoot should be censored. I don't think they should be censored.

I think the argument should be continued, but not this massive, massive corporation called Amazon. This incredibly huge corporation has the power to shut that speech down. And again, I don't care these people who say, well, it's not the government, so it's not violating the First Amendment. The First Amendment is a protection of your God given rights. It's violating your God given rights because Amazon controls all information in this country, just like Google does, and they have to be broken up or controlled one of the other.

And don't forget the tars and tar and feather. All right. Let's look at this Biden story and let me tell you why I worry about it. It's so perfect, right? This computer, this laptop was supposed to have been left at this repair shop and in it are like thousands of emails, basically confirming everything that right wingers think about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, that they are criminals, that Hunter Biden was basically using Joe Biden's vice presidency to get these big jobs and that the money was flowing back and forth and Biden knew about it.

It may all be true. It may all be true. I'm just saying a little perfect. You know, there's so many emails in this computer and there are pictures of Hunter Biden naked and all the stuff. If it's untrue, it is a John le Carré level up, you know, I mean, it's a brilliant, brilliant disinformation op, so it really feels like it might well be true. But there are also these red flags. And you want to be you just want to be restrained about it.

You want to say you say let's let's find out, you know, how you find out. You publish the piece, you spread the information. You have reporters go out, some trying to debunk it. So I'm trying to prove it. You let them print all their stories, you let them tweet their stories, you let Facebook. The more you fight speech with speech and fight disinformation with information, always. That's always the answer. Otherwise, it's just the powerful.

It's just Jeff Bezos saying, no, I don't want that truth. That's not the truth. I want to come out. That's the only those are the only choices. Those are the only choices. All right. So let's recap. Right. The Post published an email from a guy named Vadim Pozharskiy, an advisor to the board of the Ukrainian energy company Verismo, absolutely corrupt company that was addressed to Hunter Biden. It thanked him for setting up a meeting between Pisarski and Vice President Biden, who has again and again said that he never met with anybody or discussed Hunter Biden's dealings.

Here's a bunch of his denials cut for the vice president.

How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never sold my soul reserves. I have never discussed with my son on the. Brother or anyone else in the do with their business, period. And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration will be an absolute wall between personal and private in the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business?

Yes, I stand by that statement.

Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position, knowing that it was really because they wanted access to you? Well, that's not true.

You're saying things. You do not know what you're talking about. No one said that. Who said that?

Scott Hunter is getting 50 grand a pop. He knows nothing about oil companies. I mean, obviously, they were looking for some kind of connection. Doesn't mean they got it. The Biden campaign says there was no meeting on Biden's schedule, but they can't rule out that he met with this guy, this Purisma guy off the books. Now, you've got to be careful about that. Again, they didn't say that happened. They said they can't guarantee that it didn't happen, but they have no information that it did happen.

So it's not it's not.

They're acknowledging that he might have you know, how it is on both sides. We both sides do this. The right is going to run a story that says there that the Biden campaign says he might have met with them. Well, they're not saying that. They're saying they can't prove that he didn't meet with them, which is a little different. All right. Meanwhile, the Post has new material, right? Hunter Biden entered into a consulting contract with China's largest private energy company that initially earned him ten million dollars a year for introductions alone, according to leaked emails.

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OK, so the new information from the post is Hunter Biden entered into a consulting contract with China's largest private energy company that initially earned him 10 million bucks a year for introductions alone. That's what he says, according to the leaked email. They just wanted introductions. So who are you going to get introductions to from Hunter Biden in an email chain from August 2nd? Twenty seventeen, Biden discussed to deal with the former chairman of CFC China Energy Yuming, saying he agreed to change the terms of Biden's three year consulting contract with CFC, which initially promised Biden 10 million bucks per year for introductions alone to make it much more lasting and more lucrative.

Now, Rudy Giuliani and this this laptop, which apparently has gone to the FBI, though the FBI will not confirm that it apparently was given to the FBI by the guy in the shop who is a Trump supporter and who's kind of when they talk to him about it. That's one of the reasons. That's one of the red flags. The guy in the shop is a big Trump supporter, and he hasn't quite told the story in a plausible way yet.

But still, again, there are so many emails, so much information in here that would be a major, major op to pull this off. But Rudy Giuliani is saying that this money was going directly to Joe Biden through the family. And Giuliani lays out these emails on his podcast.

Why was he paying for everything for the family? Because he was getting the money and they were keeping it from Joe and have to report it. But he paid, for example, his his half sister's entire college education pay for a lot more things. In fact, in his own words, pay for everything. But then it goes on to say, because the boss remember the godfather, the boss has to what is bik the boss have got to get his money.

The boss here is Pop. It's really hard, but don't worry, unlike Pop, that's one of the names for. Joe Biden, Democrat candidate for the United States presidency, I won't make you give me half your salary. OK, left wing press, what are going to do with that? So he's saying you say these emails show that Biden, Joe Biden was taking half a cut of half of the money that Hunter Biden was getting by using his name with these corrupt companies.

It's pretty heated stuff. I mean, it's a real charge is being made by a real person, though. Giuliani is not the man he was. Bassil, who is he's he's making a genuine charge. It should be investigated. It's certainly more weighty than the Russian collusion hoax. It's more weighty than Russian prostitutes urinating on Donald Trump. It's more it's got more provenance than the charges against Brett Kavanaugh. But again, you know, I'm not saying it's true.

I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying it should be investigated and should be discussed and should be debated, just like the charges against Brett Kavanaugh. We came out and we fought back against the charges against Brett Kavanaugh and The New York Times sold them with everything it had and it lost and it lost the will of the people and the goodwill of the people. And that was a fair debate. I thought the Times acted despicably. I said so at the time, but I never said I never said they should be silenced.

I never said that some committee, some government committee should come down and silence The New York Times. And I never would say it, but they are saying it about me. They're saying it about us and they're saying it about Fox News. And they're saying that about Trump and they're saying about all these people. It's a different argument. Again, let's get back to that again. Even though I'm waiting for confirmation of all this, even though I'm waiting for confirmation, I don't think Giuliani should be silenced.

They think they think Giuliani should be silenced. And I don't think the Times, New York Times would be, you know, A.B. Stoddard, who a good reporter, I think she's she used to be with Real Clear Politics. I'm not sure where she is now. She was on the Fox panel and she was saying, oh, it's all legal. You know, it's a legal thing. It's it's wrong. She says it's wrong, but it's a legal thing for this nepotism, for him to use the name and all this stuff.

And I was thinking, really, really? Because is that the way a reporter behaves? I mean, we picture a reporter with his SNAP, remain his press card in the band of this had to hammering away at it is Olympia typewriter. And Cary Grant comes in and says, hey, I got a story for you. You know, the vice president's son was getting these jobs. We think, well, that's legal. I'm not going to investigate that.

No, of course not. Every reporter should be on fire to get the truth of this. Even if they mean to debunk it, they should be on fire to get the truth. And whatever the truth is, without fear, they should print the truth. That is the right attitude to take. And, you know, if if it is true, if it is true, this is money, corruption, money, corruption is really bad.

So, you know, people get angry at me when I say this because they want Barack Obama to be Satan. And Barack Obama was not Satan. He was not money corrupt when he was in office. Barack Obama was not money corrupt when he was in office. I have no doubt that if the ayatollahs in Iran had come to him and said, we're going to give you 50 million dollars, just let us build our nuclear bomb in peace, I think Obama would have turned it down.

Obama was philosophically stupid, was philosophically naive, and he abused power. Obama was a lot more like Nixon. Nixon thought he had the right to abuse power because he thought the radicals of the 1960s were a threat to the American way of life. Obama thought we were a threat to the American way of life, so he thought he had the right to abuse his power. He had the right to abuse the IRS and the FBI in investigating Trump because he thought the threat was so great.

That's corrupt. It's definitely an abuse of power and it's definitely a kind of corruption, but it's not. I will pay you money and you will destroy the country. I don't think Obama would have done that. That's not who he was. Hillary is money corrupt. Hillary takes money for favors, or at least there's a lot of evidence that she does. If this is money, corruption, it's bad. If Joe Biden was collecting that money, that is really bad because that guy will give you anything for a buck and that is really, really dangerous.

John Kennedy put this well, you know, the senator put this well, that what the issue is here is cut.

Tenth, President Obama put Vice President Biden in charge of the America's foreign affairs with two countries, Ukraine and China. And in both cases, his son, Mr. Hunter Biden walked away with millions of dollars of contracts. I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but I'm telling you this. This is the message it sent to the rest of the world. The foreign policy of the United States of America can be bought like a sack of potatoes as a voicer machine.

He gives you great soundbites. Trump obviously jumped on this. This is politics as it should be. Politics is is going to be. He jumped on it right away. There's one Vice President Biden.

You owe the people of America an apology because it turns out you are a corrupt politician. Joe Biden must immediately release all emails, meetings, phone calls, transcripts and records related to his. At his family's business dealings influenced paddlings around the world, including China and including Russia, including Russia.

You know, the thing is, they've been saying all this stuff about Trump and they've investigated him by every organ of investigation this country possesses, and they still haven't gotten a damn thing on him. But that doesn't stop The New York Times every single day running another article about what a threat he is to our governance. And yet that threat has never manifested itself. But nobody you know, again, you have never heard me. You have never heard Ben Shapiro.

You've never heard Michael knows. You never heard any of us say The New York Times should be shut down. They should be stopped from spreading their material. We don't say it because we believe in free speech and we believe we can win an open argument which tells you what the left believes about their argument. They don't believe they can win. And Trump is absolutely right when he says what he says here, when he says he and any charge against him gets spread like wildfire, is cut to false and libelous stories every day, false and libelous stories.

And they knew they were false, too. They knew they were false. They were never taken down by Twitter or Facebook or the mainstream media, never once. Yet with Biden today, they take negative posts down almost before they even go up. They're trying to protect him. They're trying to protect Biden.

It's pretty embarrassing. It's pretty embarrassing. I think that Fox News is reporting the story in a very responsible way. They're reporting it in a very responsible way, pointing out the red flags, pointing out that what the story is, Trump, what they're saying is true. The only people lying here are Twitter and Facebook and all the papers not covering the story at all. That's that's a lie by omission. That is a lie by omission. This is a legit story from a legit paper.

If this story turns out to be untrue, the Post is humiliated, the Post will be implicated. But they have very long standing, probably the longest standing news organization. They have a right to to say what they want to say. They should be trusted. They should be spread around. It is not for Twitter. I mean, what training what background is Jack Dorsey have in journalism that he's telling The New York Post their story is no good.

And instead, what's he doing? He's censoring Kayleigh McEnany. They actually look at his account. This is the White House spokesperson.

Here she is cut from the Ayatollah Amarant death to Israel. And this is permitted on Twitter, but not an email that is reported, by the way, by Fox News, his news division and The New York Post, a credible outlet. You are not allowed to share that information. And make no mistake, if they can ban the press secretary of the United States for President Trump, they can then be pleasant citizen. And that is pathetic.

That that's exactly right. See if they can ban the president, if they can ban her, his spokeswoman, they can ban you. And they will. And they do. And this is it. You know, this is the whole fight. This is the whole reason. This whole reason. I come on and make silly jokes. It is it's the whole reason I come on and make silly jokes. And sometimes even I don't like jokes about women, jokes about other races, jokes about all the things that I kid around about.

I make them because you should be able to make them. That is important. It is important that we can say all the things that we have to say and fight it out. The more information, the more the easier it will be for us to pore through it and find out what is true. It's who decides there's free speech in this speech controlled by the powerful. Those are the only two kinds of speech there is. Here's Senator Josh Hawley talking about.

This is cut three.

That's basically at this point, Laura, big tech versus democracy. I mean, that's what it is. These tech companies want to rig an election. They want to control what we read. They want to control journalists in this country. They want to control the news. This is looks like to me like an in kind campaign contribution to the Biden campaign. I want to know what context did Twitter and Facebook and others have with the Biden campaign when they decided to start censoring this New York Post story on behalf of the Bidens?

This thing just stinks. It reeks. We're not stupid. We can see that Twitter rushed to suppress this story, to censor it on behalf of the body. It's just like Facebook rushed to do the same thing. Yeah, this is the fix is in. They want to rig the election and use their monopoly power and we can't let them do it.

And part of this, I'm sure a part of ramping this up is that they think that Biden is going to win. The polls show Biden so far ahead. They think he is going to win and they want to cut him off at the pass so he's not going to destroy their monopolies. They have an interest. You know, this is the big thing. This is the big thing. Corporations have an interest. Everybody has an interest. We all have interests.

We all act in our own interests. I mean, it's very rare that any of us act in such a way that our interests are completely laid aside. People do it. People give their lives for their country. They do wonderful sacrificial things. But most of the time, most days. On a daily basis, they're acting in their own interest. Amazon has an interest, right? All these all these places have an interest. Facebook, Twitter, part of their interest is global, isn't part of their interest is globalism.

Let's play that clip that you were playing before from Trump about globalism.

The last administration sold out American workers like never before, and they sold them to donors, special interests and globalists. And if you take a look, we have probably plenty of them watching right now. And I understand where you're coming from, but didn't work out too well with me. And I know I'm speaking to some Democrats and some of you are friends of mine. You will see things happen that will not make you happy. I don't understand your thinking.

I don't understand how you can be backing such policies.

But you're wrong to guys like Baz's, the guys like Twitter, like Facebook hearing that is like when right wingers here, I'm going to raise your taxes. Our feeling is you have no right to take away my money. When you fight against Global, you're taking away the money from people like Jeff Bezos, from people like Facebook. When people like Twitter, these big corporations live off globalism. And look, nobody wants free trade to be shut down entirely.

But it is a good idea that we protect our country first. This is where our rights come from. This is where our rights are protected. We lose this country. We lose free speech here. We go in the European direction and say, yes, the powerful the king can decide what we poor peasants can say and what we can't say. What's hate speech? What's antiscience? He let the king decide we lose that we lose the last, best hope of Earth.

We lose the last, best hope. There's nowhere to go from here, folks. This is it. This is the place. This is an island of free speech. This is the first time. This is the island of the First Amendment. And when we let it go, when we convince ourselves we're so right that the other side can't argue when we say The New York Times is so bad that they should be shut down. When we say that the American mind or Claman is so bad that they should be shut down, doesn't matter which side doesn't it doesn't matter which side doesn't.

We are throwing away the last, best hope of Earth. It'll never come back. It'll be a thousand years before you get that free speech back. And we have to protect it with everything we've got. Twitter, Facebook, broken up, shut down, buildings burned, earth salted. These are your God given rights. Protect them with everything. You've got to stop there. I will have a show tomorrow. Be there. I'm Andrew Clavon. This is the Andrew Clavon show.

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