WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.559 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:08.800 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.519 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:33.320 to the right. Here's your Conservative but Not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.920 Well greeting's, my friends, and welcome to today's episode of The Todd Huff 6 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.359 Show. It's a pleasure to be here. You know the routine, you 7 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.159 know the drill. Todd at todhoffshow dot com is the email. You can 8 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:55.719 also send us text message three one seven two to one zero two eight three 9 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.640 zero. Just make sure that you make it count and make sure that you 10 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:06.319 include the appropriate amounts of adoration and praise, which again may be significantly more 11 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:11.640 than what you expect. So have you seen or read much about heard much 12 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:19.760 about this discussion? These I don't know if accusations. I guess in some 13 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:26.480 circles they're straight up accusations. But have you seen the questions, discussions, 14 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:37.319 allegations, at least pertaining to what the media may have known in advance of 15 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:45.920 Hamas launching its terror attack on the nation of Israel On October seventh. Have 16 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.159 you followed this? Have you seen this? I've got something in the stack 17 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.920 of stuff today at todtebshow dot com if you want to read more. But 18 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.319 that's what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about this 19 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:05.319 because this, of course is a massive problem. Now I'm looking here at 20 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:13.159 an article written at pjmedia dot com, written by Victoria Taft posted looks like 21 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:20.400 Sunday afternoon. Now the headline of this one is media in panic and panic 22 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:28.360 mode over questions about whether they knew in advance about Hamas attack on Israel. 23 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:35.199 Now pause for a moment, because now these folks you know this. But 24 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.000 this is a prime example of why context matters, because because we all can 25 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:45.199 look, I grew up in the nineteen eighties. In fact, I'm about 26 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:50.439 to have a birthday here and a little bit later in the year. And 27 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.520 I was born in the last well born at the end of seventy seven and 28 00:02:54.960 --> 00:03:00.039 raised during the eighties. That was really the prime years of my childhood. 29 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:10.199 Was a teenager in the nineties basically, and the I remember the Gulf War, 30 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:15.560 right, I remember I was in I'm trying to remember was that in 31 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:21.080 nineteen ninety one I think so. I would have been a young teenager back 32 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:23.479 in those days. And I remember we had in the classrooms back in the 33 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:29.120 day. This was high tech back in the day here in central Indiana. 34 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.199 I'm sure these were all over the country. We had, wasn't it called 35 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:38.199 channel one? Channel one? We had TVs mounted in the corner of the 36 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:43.520 classrooms. One corner one television mounted in the corner of the classroom. Now 37 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:49.560 this was back in the day when TVs had back These TVs weren't flat these 38 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.960 TVs, you know, they had all the stuff that made the screen work 39 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.680 in the back of the television. So these things were in the corner, 40 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.439 but they were you had to pull them out a little bit so they would 41 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.319 fit up there. But they're not TVs like we had the day. But 42 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.080 we had we had televisions. We had televisions back in the nineties. They 43 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.599 were color, and they were in the corners at least of my classroom in 44 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:16.079 nineteen ninety one, and we had a daily quote unquote news broadcast. I 45 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:23.639 guess that also typically coincided with the video announcements that we would do at the 46 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.600 school. I was, by the way, boy, that may be something 47 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.319 to discuss at some point in time, I did the video announcements back my 48 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:32.879 senior year. I think it was, yeah, my senior year of high 49 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:39.199 school, back in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety six, and I'm sorry, 50 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.720 lots of fun with that. We had way more fun than we should 51 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.480 have had. But same television, right, So we had school announcements and 52 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:51.040 then we had news, news brought to you by Channel one. And I 53 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:59.079 remember watching as we prepared to invade Iraq back in those days. I remember 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.639 watching the journalists cover that and so forth, and context matters. So some 55 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:09.000 people think, well, wait a minute, why can you have media when 56 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.439 the United States is about to launch an invasion? But you can't have it 57 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.680 when Hamas the Palestinians are just trying to fight for their liberation, for their 58 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:23.519 freedom, which of course is complete and utter nonsense. That is not what's 59 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.920 going on in Israel. In fact, we'll get into Israel a little bit 60 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.720 more today, and as fate would have it, tomorrow, I'm releasing another 61 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.480 column talking about the background of Israel. It's the second of a two part 62 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:43.839 series, and you can get that for free Todd Huffshow dot Com slash column. 63 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.480 You can sign up there and you'll get that tomorrow when that goes out 64 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:51.920 anyway, So there is a difference. Context is king. Context matters. 65 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:59.879 The context is that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Hamas is not gauged in 66 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:08.000 engaged in legitimate military activities. Hamas is a terrorist organization that is launching acts 67 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:15.879 of terror against civilians, civilians in Israel. This is not the same thing. 68 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.759 So that is important to note the first Well, for multiple reasons, 69 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:27.560 Hamas is targeting women and children. Hamas is using what we clearly define as 70 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:31.480 terrorism. Now, the media often misses what terrorism is. But terrorism is 71 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:39.319 when you use violence or intimidation or some combination thereof, usually against civilians, 72 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:45.519 but really against anyone, so as to help you achieve a political ends. 73 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:49.959 That's what terrorism is. Terrorism says, Okay, you won't do it our 74 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:55.199 way through your normal political system. You won't. We can't win the argument 75 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:59.560 politically, we can't. We can't convince you to do X, Y or 76 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:01.519 Z. We're going to force you. We're going to make you so scared 77 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.879 to go outside, to go to a shopping center, to go to work, 78 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:11.800 right that we are going to launch a terror attack to make you pay 79 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.680 until you submit to what we want. You could argue that terrorism in that 80 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:20.240 sense is the exact opposite of what these jokers and clowns in the media tell 81 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:26.199 you they're helping to defend, which is our democracy. It's the polar opposite 82 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.040 of that. It's not the will of the people, it's the coerced will 83 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:35.920 of the people. That's the that's the objective, that is the stated objective, 84 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:42.680 and terrorism, and it is the stated objective of Hamas. Hamas wants 85 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:48.279 the political eradication of the nation state of Israel from the river to to see 86 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:55.720 Palestine will be free. Simply means that the eradication of anyone who is not 87 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:01.759 well, anyone who is Jewish between the river, which is the Jordan River, 88 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.920 along the eastern border the eastern part of Israel all the way to the 89 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:13.839 Mediterranean Sea, which forms the western border of that nation. So that is 90 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:20.720 an important differentiation. The other thing is so not only is it terroristic to 91 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.120 activities, it's not a true legitimate, active war, which of course that 92 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.040 begs a whole nother series of questions and so forth. But they don't they're 93 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:39.559 not. Hamas is not trying to Hamas tries to embed itself with its civilians. 94 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.200 They want to launch attacks and then look like the civilians. They want 95 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.159 to hide amongst the civilians. In fact, I've got a story in the 96 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.480 stack of stuff which, surprise, surprise, one of these terrorist thugs that 97 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:56.960 Israel, the IDF has recently taken out, had been holding one thousand Palestinians 98 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.480 as hostages, as hostages in order to make them as a human shield so 99 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:09.320 that he could determine where they are, put them around a base of operations 100 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.360 where they're launching missiles or whatever, and then dare Israel to try to take 101 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.840 out that base of operations, because of course he's wanting he desired, this 102 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:24.600 terrorist was desiring the death of as many Palestinian hostages people they are supposed to 103 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:31.279 be allegedly fighting for their freedom. He wanted them to die in as many 104 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.200 of those folks to die as possible, or to at least serve as a 105 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:41.360 deterrent to protect him and his location and his operation and his military equipment and 106 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:46.039 so forth. Anyway, So that is what Hamas does. They don't get 107 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.919 into uniforms so that they identify themselves. They try to blend in as civilians. 108 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.159 They use methods of terror. This is not a legitimate army. This 109 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.360 is not a legitimate military operation. They target civilians, They target babies, 110 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.519 they target women, they target the elderly, they target the sick, they 111 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.879 target anybody other than people that can fight back, because you see what happens 112 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.399 when they target people that can fight back. That's what's happening now. That's 113 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.960 why they're calling for a ceasefire and all of this. They can't fight back. 114 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.919 There are a bunch of whimps and what's is over there and hummas pounding 115 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.960 their chest until someone steps up who's got the MC to punch them squarely in 116 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.600 the mouth. And that's what's happening anyway, So the military, excuse me. 117 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:39.159 The media. The media has been called out. There's a Twitter account 118 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:48.039 called Honest Reporting at Honest Reporting is the Twitter handle, honest reporting dot com 119 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:54.360 is the website, and in the article that they've tweeted and posted, it's 120 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:58.799 basically it's calling out the journalist. It's saying, hey, how did you 121 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:03.480 know? Is it coincidence? Is it coincidence that you were there? On 122 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:11.200 October seventh headlined this thing, by the way is broken borders ap and Reuter's 123 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.039 pictures of Hamas atrocities raise ethical questions. On October seventh, Hamas Terris were 124 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:22.639 not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly 125 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:28.360 rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza based photo 126 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.159 journalist working working for the Associated Press and Reuter's News agencies, whose early morning 127 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:41.120 presence at the Breech border raises serious ethical questions. What were they doing there? 128 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:43.840 That's the question. What were they doing there? How did they know? 129 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.320 Were they just hanging out there? Was it a perfect timing situation? 130 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.519 I mean, this was from what what six was it like six am or 131 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.879 something on a Saturday morning, early Saturday morning, just hanging out at this 132 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.639 at this border in the right place of the border to where they can capture 133 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.200 the images that were necessary. Also, you may remember if you were like 134 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:13.000 me and saw some war correspondence in the you know, covering conflicts and so 135 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:18.120 forth. All the media has identification. The media has certain I think often 136 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.440 don't they wear yellow vests? They were a vest that marks them as media. 137 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:28.480 These photojournalists did not. And this is a lot of questions here. 138 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.240 What is going on? How did they know about this? And all this 139 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:39.039 website. All this group Honest Reporting dot Com did was raised the question this 140 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:46.200 has caused the AP and the media to go into absolute meltdown mode. Absolute 141 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.480 meltdown moad, because of course you can't question the media. Questioning the media, 142 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:52.120 if you follow the narrative of the day, means that you're trying to 143 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:58.320 thwart and undermine our democracy. You're trying to overthrow a free press and everything 144 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.639 else, which is an obsert accusation. That was not the meaning of the 145 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.240 First Amendment to say to maintain a free press, you have to have an 146 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.039 accountable press. You should be able to say whatever you want to say about 147 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.440 the press. The press is free to respond, The press is free to 148 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.320 explain why these allegations and questions are unfounded. Go for it. Don't start 149 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:28.039 crying and saying that there's some sort of an attack on the media now blaming 150 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:33.879 someone here like this group Honest Reporting dot Com, when in reality, the 151 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.559 reason that there are so many questions about what's being reported in the world today 152 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:45.960 is because the world has seen way too many professional deceivers in your industry. 153 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.080 Timeouts in order, timeouts in order. When I come back, I want 154 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.679 to say more about this and get into other things that I've got in the 155 00:13:52.720 --> 00:14:00.200 stack as well. My friends, sit tight back in just a minute. 156 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:16.360 Welcome back, my friends. So do you trust the media? Now? 157 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.120 Oz Oz has been and she's got a point here. It's something that we 158 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:28.919 should at least be aware of. Oz has asked this since the early boy. 159 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.519 I just want to mention this because I think, I think in fairness, 160 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:39.840 it's it's just something that we should we should just ask. And Israel 161 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.960 again, Israel is the is not the aggressor here or anything like that. 162 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:48.000 I just I just want to raise this question because it as we're talking about 163 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:56.919 what journalists knew along the border between Gaza and Israel on the morning of October 164 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.279 seventh, why were they there? It's also a fair question to say, 165 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.320 how did Israel not know? Did they? No? I know, there's 166 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.559 lots of questions about this. There's all sorts of rabbit holes as you can 167 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.519 get yourself down and everything else. And look, I'm not here, that's 168 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:18.759 not I don't know. It's these are fair questions to ask, and that's 169 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.720 really the point to me. There are fair questions to ask, no matter 170 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:31.039 if you're asking them of the Israeli government. The United States government, the 171 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.120 media. These are fair questions. No one, my friend, is above 172 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.360 question. You can ask me questions why. That's why. That's why I 173 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.519 give out the email address. That's why I give out the text number. 174 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.240 Now, obviously I can't respond to everything. I do my best, I 175 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.000 really do, but you're free to ask. No one is above reproach. 176 00:15:54.440 --> 00:16:00.720 No one is. When you start having a mindset that says this, this 177 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:07.480 group shouldn't even be questioned, that's really setting the stage for bad things to 178 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.840 come in the future. You are creating an environment that says, hey, 179 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:21.000 this is where corruption can really take root. I mean case in point, 180 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:30.360 look at the Hunter Biden Joe Biden situation, with the alleged corruption and so 181 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.919 forth, with Ukraine, China, you name it. There's lots of lots 182 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:38.840 of figures that are popping up on that radar. When people are allowed to 183 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:45.639 operate in the dark without any accountability whatsoever, then bad things, bad things 184 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.679 can happen. It's the entire reason that we in this nation have. It's 185 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:56.159 why the founders were so insistent upon a free press, because they wanted that 186 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.720 free press to hold our government account, to be able to tell the people 187 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:07.599 what is going on to be able to present or give a voice to people 188 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:15.279 who are questioning things. It gives the government of a method, a means, 189 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:21.799 a form of media to communicate back with their answers. Doesn't mean that 190 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:26.319 their answers are always true, doesn't mean that the allegations are always true. 191 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.720 But it is necessary. It is a necessary component for a free people. 192 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.079 We have to know what is going on. We have to at least have 193 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:41.039 the ability to question what is happening. And the moment that we're not allowed 194 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:47.000 to ask questions, bad, bad, bad things happen. This is not 195 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.319 This is not a complicated sort of situation. It's just the way that it 196 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.799 is. Now. I'm going to go back here to this PJ Media article 197 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:04.599 because the article that I referenced, the initial one which was posted again at 198 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:10.319 Honest reporting dot com. I'll put all this stuff in our stack of stuff 199 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:15.400 if you want to read it. The PJ Media piece basically starts by referencing 200 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:22.000 that, but also then goes further right. It begins to look at the 201 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.000 greater context. And Honest Reporting is doing this too, by the way, 202 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:32.640 Honest Reporting is doing this too, And so the media has gotten itself really 203 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.160 worked up in a tizzy. This was on This would have been on Friday. 204 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:41.160 They issued, well, Reuters issued the following statement, Reuters doesn't like 205 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:48.559 being questioned about about this and response, excuse me to the honest reporting story 206 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:56.119 which I referenced earlier. This is what Reuter's said on the tenth of November. 207 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.200 We are deeply concerned. Oh yes, deeply concerned about the ear responsibility 208 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:08.119 of honest reporting and publishing such damaging accusations. Why don't you just answer the 209 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:14.160 accusation? I just look, I'm not one to say that someone should just 210 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.440 go out there and make all sorts of accusations, right, wild accusations can 211 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:25.079 cause problems. I recognize that, But answer the allegations. Don't just basically 212 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.640 cross your arms, you know, walk off in a in a tizzy, 213 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.720 take your ball and go home. Answer the questions. You're just concerned. 214 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:38.880 They say they're deeply concerned about the irresponsibility of honest reporting and publishing such damaging 215 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:45.440 accusation. It's executive director, Reuter's Rights has accepted that there is no evidence 216 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:53.640 to support the incendiary insinuations in the report. The baseless speculation. I mean, 217 00:19:53.720 --> 00:20:00.319 listen to all these adjectives descriptors here and Honest Reporting's post pre in it 218 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:07.680 as quote raising ethical questions end quote has posed grave risks to journalists in the 219 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.079 region, including those working for Reuter's pause for a moment. How can raising 220 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:22.119 questions about whether journalists are how journalists were there? How can raising questions about 221 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:26.200 what is really going on? Was that a coincidence? Was it discussed in 222 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:30.160 advance? Were they invited? Were they invited by Hamas for some sort of 223 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.759 a briefing early in the morning and then found themselves in the middle of watching 224 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:41.160 an invasion unfold, a terrorist activity unfold? Give us something we know that 225 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.880 they were there. This has been documented to be shown to be accurate, 226 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:51.359 that they were there. Why and notice this statement doesn't address any of that. 227 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.960 It just says things are They're deeply concerned. Onto sporting is irresponsible. 228 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:11.920 They published damage accusations, incendiary insinuations, baseless speculation poses a grave risk to 229 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:22.160 journalists, including those working for Reuters. I mean, how if you're telling 230 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.799 the truth and if there's nothing nefarious going on, just explain it. Take 231 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:32.200 that paragraph I just read, replace it with answers. Don't act like you're 232 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.279 above responding to these questions. Because if you think about it, it's a 233 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:42.200 fair question. It wasn't just Hamas that was documenting the death and destruction that 234 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:47.880 was unleashed upon the Israeli people on the morning of October seventh. It was 235 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:53.240 also journalists that work for Reuter's, AP, CNN, whatever else. Why 236 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:59.920 just why instead of taking this this stupid paragraph, replace it with an ext 237 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:07.720 explanation. They continue the Israeli government and others amplified honest reportings baseless speculation. 238 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.680 Honest reporting must take responsibility for the spread of misinformation. It is triggered. 239 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:21.759 What's the misinformation? What is the misinformation here? Tell us we have no 240 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:26.240 idea until you tell us. Of course, that's part of the the that's 241 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:33.039 part of the objective. The part of the objective is to just to raise 242 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:40.480 a protest so much just to start throwing counter accusations at the one who raised 243 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:45.039 the questions. Tell us what we're supposed to be so worked up about here? 244 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.880 The spread of misinformation. Of course, that's a phrase that was made 245 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:55.279 popular when Trump was president, and of course during the COVID years where you 246 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.640 couldn't even ask a question. Asking a question was a kin in the minds 247 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:07.039 of these well the debased minds of these radical leftist and journalists raising questions they 248 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.759 believe is akin to spreading misinformation. Anyway, I'm going to continue reading this 249 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:18.640 stupid statement here. Honest reporting must take responsibility for the spread of misinformation it 250 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:26.759 has triggered, triggered, and for the risk and reputational harm its inflammatory claims 251 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:36.799 have caused to journalists reporting on this conflict. I just you know, if 252 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:41.920 you don't believe a politician is being honest and you say politicians lie, it 253 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:47.960 would be like politicians getting together and saying you've were deeply concerned. We are 254 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:53.799 deeply concerned that you've said such damaging things about politicians. These baseless speculations and 255 00:23:55.720 --> 00:24:02.200 incendiary insinuations that you've written about have no place free society. You've posed graver 256 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:06.599 risks to politicians in Washington, d C. We can't do our job. 257 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:11.559 Our lives are in jeopardy thanks to you folks who raise questions about our integrity. 258 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.319 How dare you do such a thing. You've triggered so much misinformation. 259 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.720 We don't know what to do. We can't function. Our reputation is at 260 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:27.640 risk because of your inflammatory claims that politicians are sometimes corrupt, how dare you? 261 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:32.359 We're all at risk now January. So every morning we wake up, 262 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.680 we're in fear of a January sixth, of a pearl harbor day of a 263 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:40.640 nine to eleven, which, of course January sixth is just as bad as 264 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:42.519 any of those days. We're supposed to believe, as they've told us. 265 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:49.039 I mean, it's ridiculous, it's absolutely utterly Often it's the stupid statement here 266 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:52.240 and then I'll take a break. It is the job of journalists, this 267 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:56.960 statement says, to document important news as it unfolds and to provide a first 268 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:03.160 hand account of events on the ground. This is the essential role of a 269 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:07.960 free press in war zones, and we've remained fully committed to providing this coverage 270 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:15.480 both from Israel and Gaza as the conflict continues. Reuters publishes fact base news 271 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:23.839 fairly, accurately and independently, in keeping with the Thompson Reuter's trust principles in 272 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:27.680 the Middle East and around the world. Did you hear one bit of a 273 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:36.000 response, one bit of a response to the allegations. No, it's just 274 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:41.079 broad based. Don't ask me about that. Don't try to question what we 275 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:48.759 do doing so simply by raising the questions, raising your ethical questions. As 276 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:53.599 you put it, they're not really ethical though, that's of course honors reporting. 277 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:57.920 You guys aren't being honest or being unethical, causing our journalists to be 278 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:03.359 at risk. Give me a break. Nothing in response to any of it, 279 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:08.079 just virtue signaling and posturing. This is to be expect that it's us 280 00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:15.400 as usual, my friends, timeouts in order back here in just a minute. 281 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:22.079 Welcome back, my friends. You know, this whole discussion here, 282 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.440 this whole discussion. It reminds me. It reminds me of what we refer 283 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:34.799 to here at the Toddhu Show as the seven pillars of propaganda. You've heard 284 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:41.359 me talk about this from time to time, the seven pillars of propaganda, 285 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:47.519 and the media is one of them. So the thinking goes, the thinking 286 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:52.200 goes that there are you've heard me say, eighty percent of the people in 287 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.319 this country would agree with eighty percent of the things I say on this program. 288 00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.960 I do believe that to be true. By the way, I also 289 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.000 believe that it should be the case that one hundred percent of the people agree 290 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.920 with one hundred percent of what I say on this program. But that's beside 291 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:10.119 the point. For just the moment. And so if that's the case, 292 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:15.400 then how how in the world do we have all of the mess that we 293 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.000 have? How right? How do we have it? How do we have 294 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:23.200 the nonsense happening in our classrooms? How do we have an open border? 295 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:30.039 How do we have American weakness projected abroad? How do we have I mean 296 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:36.319 complete dysfunction in the United States Congress and our state houses in many instances. 297 00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.359 How do we have all this? How do we have this absolute mess? 298 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:47.000 Well, what's necessary is for a group or in this case, groups of 299 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:56.319 influential and powerful people who control the levers of information, who control what you 300 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:04.200 can see and consume, who try to influence your thinking, manipulate your thinking. 301 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.000 If you have control, if the people who are in the minority have 302 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:18.160 the control of these powerful levers of society what I refer to as the pillars, 303 00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:23.200 and they are used for propaganda, then that's precisely what can happen. 304 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:30.319 And look, I want to say this idea was I'm building upon the idea 305 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:36.960 that was really created by Rush. Rush Limbald probably ten years ago heard Rush 306 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.640 talking about the four corners of deceit, and I think there's a couple of 307 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.720 more groups that need to be identified, and so we've changed the name to 308 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:52.599 the Seven Pillars of Propaganda, because that's really what they're designed to push, 309 00:28:52.839 --> 00:29:00.440 is this propaganda message. A message of propaganda is when people are given information 310 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:10.759 that is misleading and designed to create in them a certain conclusion. See on 311 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:12.839 this program, I come on here and I talk with you. I share 312 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:17.960 with you my thoughts. I try to make the case right before your eyes. 313 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:23.200 I don't do any subtle mystical smoke and mirrors stuff. I just say, 314 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.880 this is what's going on, this is how I think about it, 315 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.559 this is why, and I try to address it head on and I try 316 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.799 to do, you know, to to answer the questions I think that people 317 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:40.000 might have. I try to answer some of the questions that I get from 318 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.799 folks. All of that. That is not how the Seven Pillars are propaganda 319 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:52.000 view this. The seven Pillars are propaganda. They view this as a they 320 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.559 view their area, so to speak, their their pillar there. They're the 321 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:03.279 seven pillars. Would be government would be academia would be entertainment would be the 322 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.240 media would be science. Yes, science, I mean, look at what 323 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.359 happened during COVID. By the way, it would be woke business. I 324 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.480 used to call it big business, but I really think it's woke business, 325 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:21.000 and it would be big tech. And so when you look at those institutions, 326 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:25.519 if you will, and you look at the fact that they are in 327 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.920 lockstep with the leftist narrative of the day, and you look at the tools 328 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.960 and techniques that they use to promote their propaganda, you can see why they 329 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.839 do it and you can see how they do it if you understand who these 330 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.160 folks are and understand why they do what they do. Now, does that 331 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.480 mean that every single person who is in academia? Does that mean every teacher 332 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.799 is bad? Of course not, of course not. Does that mean that 333 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:57.279 every person who's an athlete and in entertainment is a bad of course that's not 334 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:02.960 the case. Does that mean that there's no truthful journalists? There are some, 335 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.200 there aren't many, that's the problem. Does that mean every scientist is 336 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.720 engaged in deceiving the American public? No, that doesn't mean that. But 337 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:18.200 are there enough? Are there enough of the folks in these fields, especially 338 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.680 at the top, at the upper rational And I think about the FBI is 339 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:27.119 a great example. The FBI is an absolute utter train wreck, right now 340 00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:33.440 it is being used to target political enemies of the Democrat Party of the left. 341 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:41.559 And it's not because now you need agents at all levels to participate in 342 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:48.839 this nonsense in order to accomplish your goal. But it starts at the top. 343 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.119 And yes, there probably are some at all levels who are corrupt, 344 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.119 but the truth is there's a lot of good folks in there too, they're 345 00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.720 just not the ones who wield the power to control, have the authority, 346 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:07.640 and so forth. And so media is one of these and the idea that 347 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:13.680 they are above reproach that they can't be questioned, especially fairly questioned about why 348 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:20.839 journalists were there, ap journalists, Reuter's journalists, photo journalists, Why were 349 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:28.039 you involved in reporting on the morning of October seventh in Israel, in southern 350 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.960 Israel? How were you there? What caused these series of events to line 351 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.240 up so that you were there? It seems like a very fair question to 352 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.359 me. Reuters won't answer it. Ruter's is appalled that you would ask. 353 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:45.359 Ruters is appalled and offended, and their virtue signal and they talk about how 354 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:51.640 dangerous the simple question is. Asking a question creates more danger for the journalists 355 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:57.359 and the minds of routers than having scores of journalists who are engaged in professional 356 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:04.319 deception each and every day. That, my friends, is utterly absurd and 357 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:09.119 ridiculous. The real problem is the fact that they are deceptive journalists who are 358 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:16.240 running the show many times in newsrooms around this country. Questioning those folks is 359 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:21.720 not the problem. The problem is that they exist. To begin with, 360 00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:37.960 quick time out my friends, back here in just a minute. Welcome back, 361 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:39.400 my friends. If you look at your calendar, you're going to see 362 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:46.079 that it is the middle almost smack dam in the middle of November. And 363 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.720 you know what happens after this. 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He's a great guy. He's a conservative guy. He understands 380 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:14.559 the business and he can help youisolhealth dot com. Give give him a call 381 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:17.599 today, email him today, whatever is easiest for you. Eight one five 382 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:22.840 three seven two thirteen sixty three. Eric Wilson at I SOOEL Health. So, 383 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.599 my friends, we are in You've heard me say on this program many 384 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:32.639 times before. We are in the midst of a cold civil war, and 385 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:38.679 it's a war of information. It's a war of simple it's a war of 386 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:44.079 truth. The war that's really being waged in this country is the war on 387 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.000 truth. That's what we try to do. You know every day. You 388 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:53.039 know our mission here, my mission at this program is to help people hear 389 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:59.239 and receive truth. That's my objective. That is my mission. Not that 390 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.880 I've got it all figured out, although I can certainly understand why you might 391 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:06.519 think that I've got to be getting very, very close. But the truth 392 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.800 is, my friends. We see what happens when truth is abandoned. When 393 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:16.159 truth is abandoned, we have disaster. Disaster follows. We have what we 394 00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:22.039 have in our public schools today. We have confusion on an issue that there 395 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:28.159 should be absolute moral clarity concerning, which is the issue of Israel versus Hamas. 396 00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:34.440 This is not complicated. These things become more complex and more complicated in 397 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.679 the minds of people who have been who've had the truth withheld from them, 398 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:44.960 or who have been lied to, and they're lied to repeatedly by the people 399 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:51.320 operating the levers of power at these seven pillars of propaganda, which I went 400 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:55.679 through last segment. I went through that and these questions and concerns about what's 401 00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:02.039 happening or what happened on October seventh, concerning how journalists happen to be there 402 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:12.199 whenever they were Hamas was launching terrorist attacks on Southern Israel. It's a question 403 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.079 that they should answer. Why would they not answer it? You know, 404 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:21.559 I mean it seems to me methinks they don't protest too much. I think 405 00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:23.440 that they're raising too much of a stink about this. Just tell us what's 406 00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:28.920 going on. Answer the question. Don't act like it's beneath you to answer 407 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:32.360 it. Don't act like you're offended that someone would question your integrity. Get 408 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:37.760 over it. Come on, grow up. Put on your big boy or 409 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.480 big girl pants. By the way, there's only two types of pants. 410 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.320 You got to pick one, big boy or big girl. But you gotta 411 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:47.039 pick it. You gotta put it on. You got to show up. 412 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.000 You gotta be prepared to make the case for what you're doing. Quit acting 413 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.800 like questioning the media is the end of the free press. Give me a 414 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.960 break. The end of the free press happens when it is erupted by people 415 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.760 who want to shove propaganda down your throat. If they don't like the questions, 416 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.159 that means they don't want to face the reality. They don't want you 417 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.079 to know the reality of what they've really done to the so called free end. 418 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:22.840 Quote press timeouts in order, my friends sit tight back in a minute, 419 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.800 I'll go back in, my friends. I don't know if any of 420 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:30.559 you saw the UFC five you have seen two ninety five over the weekend, 421 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.559 you would have If you did, you would have seen, you would have 422 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:42.239 seen. Let's see Trump, Kid, Rock, Tucker Carlson, who's the 423 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:46.000 fourth one, oh, and Dana Dana White come out together. Of course, 424 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:52.519 fans go wild for them as well. They they should. By the 425 00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:54.280 way, that you might not have well, you may have seen, you 426 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:57.920 may not have seen at the moment, I don't know. There is a 427 00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:02.239 was a comedian there near the front the octagon, Bill Burr, who's got 428 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:07.079 some language in his stuff, but he's a pretty funny guy. I think 429 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.400 he's pretty honest in some things. Anyway, his wife is sitting beside him. 430 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:16.719 She decides to give Trump. It appears Trump from the back the two 431 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:22.119 fingers salute, and so many people are proud of this and happy about this. 432 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.320 I just can't imagine something like that making my day. Someone flipping off 433 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.400 the president. But what do I know. I gotta go SDG. My friends,