Michael Malice on Corporate Media, Corrupt Journalism, and Fake News

0:01 I don't think that people who work for the New York Times or academics sound like morons to Their audience because if you sat down the average person and says this writer for the New York Times is a they would laugh in your face because by definition someone who works for the New York Times is intelligent that is the extent of logic to the average person now that is decreasing as fewer and fewer receive their information from Outlets such as New

0:30 York Times Fox CNN and so on and so forth but we're taught since kindergarten uh that those who work for certain Hollow institutions who've been around for a long time sure they get it wrong sometimes but they have a commitment to truth they're doing their best we all make mistakes would you like to be judged for your worst mistake so there it's the same thing as the school teacher they're right there's a reason they're at the front of the room and

0:56 you're sitting on the desk our journalist today malevolent or just sloppy the reason we know that they're malevolent and not simply sometimes mistaken or sloppy is because there's a lack of consequences for their behavior so for example let's suppose someone cheated on their wife and they genuinely felt bad about it if they are cheating over and over again or taking no steps to be around you know at a bar with getting drunk with other women you

1:27 realize they don't really care that they cheated so you have people like Brian Williams who brazenly lied you have people like Joanne Reed who called the FBI and herself and then lied and said she didn't remember uh sending out those blog entries uh about gay bating certain politicians they weren't fired they weren't given any real consequences whatsoever if I'm an organization dedicated to promulgating information and truth and I have someone of my staff who has been untruthful in ways that

1:58 most people would never dare to dream and I still have them on my staff and shrug my shoulders that tells me truth isn't my highest priority if you see things like for example Julie snik during the Kavanaugh hearings they couldn't put her on TV fast enough when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of basically having these drunken gang parties uh no one who put her on TV had any consequences for doing so there was no kind of oops what have we done uh so

2:25 that's just one of myriad examples of brazen Li such as categorizing the Riots of 2020 as mostly peaceful as fires burned in the background and things like this so that's the difference between having a bias and an agenda uh they start with their conclusion and they find information that fits their narrative as opposed to having preconceived ideas which we all have looking at the data and writing a story uh within that vein has the elite establishment become

2:55 more corrupt I don't think corpor be has gotten more corrupt at all I think it's just gotten much easier to expose their depravity of malfeasance and I can give a very easy example which is we're all taught in high school about yellow journalism William Randol Hurst the Spanish American war Remember the Maine and how the newspapers lied to get us into war and there's a record scratch and all of a sudden the newspapers are honest and objective and we're never

3:20 told at what point and by what mechanism this yellow journalism fell out of favor and the newspapers are to be trusted so this has been going on for over a 100 years um back in the day newspapermen just like actors and actresses were regarded as people of low character and kind of just reprehensible gutter rats and then they kind of thanks to the Oscars and other such mechanisms have put over onto the masses that these are

3:49 great people that we should all venerate but they had it right the first time that's the thing that I think people don't appreciate it's not simply that every word they say is a lie including and and the it's that they also have a very strong incentive and need to crush opposition and to discredit anyone who has an opposing perspective and we saw this for years when there was all this cater Walling about the fact that fox which

4:16 certainly has an agenda of their own exists at all and that oh my God you know conservatives are getting conservatively biased news this cannot stand this they their licenses should be taken and so on and so forth and and now I think there would be happy to exist in a media Universe where Fox would be their only opposition is Corporate media a totalitarian tool Corporate America and corporate media very much has this idea of we are going to tell you what is

4:48 acceptable to think and what subjects are acceptable to talk about and what positions are acceptable to have and anything outside of this is weird and therefore bad and there for not what decent people think about or discuss so they invoke uh something which is an element of every society things like heresy and taboo they don't use those words but they certainly use that kind of social pressure to ensure that they have as much dominance over the cultural

5:18 conversation as possible something which has become now almost impossible for them not that long ago certainly in my lifetime you had three major news networks then maybe Fox after you had ABC CBS NBC uh all three were variants of leftism but you had the perception that you're having different choices uh now there's I don't know how many news networks there are on YouTube you basically have infinite because anyone with a mic and a camera could have their

5:44 own news channel uh and there is much hand ringing CNN did this publicly Brian stelter not that long ago had a piece like how is it that these YouTube channels have more viewers than us CNN uh something must be done about this well you were the problem and this is the something that is being done about the problem why is the corporate media able to be so blatantly left of center progressives don't regard themselves as Progressive they regard themselves as

6:11 honest so the opposition's progressivism isn't although it could ensi call conservatives whatever else want to call it it's dishonesty and uh stupidity so they are not looking at it as uh you know we're having a different point of view we're looking at as we're providing information and facts to our audience whereas they're the bad guys are providing lies and propaganda why can't everyone see the corporate media's bias because you are taught from a university system that is

6:42 even further leftist than the media that this is basically what all right good thinking people believe we're we're all taught you know that universities are there to Pro teach us the leaders of tomorrow which is a nice usefm for saying we're here to inculcate the next generation of Elites who are going to maintain societal dominance so at no point is there this position that and I certainly wouldn't agree with this I don't think most people would agree

7:12 either that every point of view has some validity or equal validity so they will say with a straight face you've got the Bernie Sanders types and you've got the Hillary Clinton DLC types so we're absolutely for disagreement and having a discussion on the issues but past a certain point Point uh that is where error lies and these people are not to be listened to or trusted and they don't have uh good intentions besides is the media really catering to

7:41 only half the country I I would not say that politics is 5050 that's either to tological where it's just like go you have two sides and one is one but I don't think even if you're going to divide America roughly into right or left that both sides are either equally true equ Al powerful or equally represented in the population certainly they're not geographically equally represented you're not going to have you know in a city 50% red 50% blue and the

8:08 rural area 50% red 50% blue and if both of red and blue exist Nationwide that doesn't at all imply that they exist equally that there going to be 50% and 50% not to mention the idea that these terms are perfectly coherent which is not necessarily the case either there's many reasons people tend to vote Republican or tend to vote Democrat and there's reasons for different individuals as well what do you think about the term fake news I think you know the term fake news

8:37 was pretty effective for president Trump uh because it's kind of a vulgar very in-your-face term it's not a sophisticated term but that also speaks to the idea that these esteemed Outlets are not at all worthy of being treated any better than let's suppose something like the New York Times or the Daily News what was Trump's role in all of this I think Trump was useful in demonstrating

9:07 the minations of the corporate press he was useful in showing how juvenile uh many of their agents are um he was useful in demonstrating how contemptible and contemptuous they are toward the average person how driven by hatred uh they are and how far they'd be willing to go uh in terms of maintaining their control over the microphone and over the country I

9:39 think the many comparisons of him to Hitler as if Hitler was the only authoritarian in world history speaks to how little they are at heart concerned about genocides and about minorities um Ein Rand was asked about this in interview in 1979 he said to her I don't understand why you are so hard on these people why can't you just say I disagree and she said because I look at them because they

10:11 don't hesitate to sacrifice whole Nations and I think he also showed how much of collusion there is between both political parties in furthering the agenda for war and I think that was a big one the the fact that Trump normalized the Ron Paul skepticism of American imperialism within the Republican Party the fact that he looked at Jeb Bush on the debate stage and said

10:44 your brother 911 happened under your brother's watch that's not keeping us safe was a shocking statement but also kind of pulled out the rug from the idea that warmongers are the ones who keep us from dying as opposed to to inviting attacks um from countries that we've bombed needlessly as a New Yorker how do you respond to Trump's personality I think the New York aspect of trump was the fact that he didn't

11:16 smile and Nod when people went after him but in fact you know as many have discussed was a counter puncher that he always went for the juggler um that he refused to play this game of treating his opponents with respect uh he very pointedly referred to them as like Marco instead of Senator Rubio uh you talked about Hillary instead of Secretary State Clinton little moments like this did a great deal to bring these people down to

11:48 earth and again so much of what is presented in corporate media is designed to imply that certain individuals should be treated with with deference and respect when in fact they should be treated with uh contempt at the very minimum and that certainly applies to president Trump as well is Trump a kind of traitor to his fellow Elite I don't know that I would say Trump was a member of the elite in the sense of the political Elite uh I don't think for

12:19 example if someone said Simon Cowell you know who's parallel to Trump and that he was the host of you know American Idol and everyone knew his name and he's very wealthy he's influential in a certain context T but in terms of you know aining about politics no one would take Simon Cowell seriously one way or another and I'm sure he's a very intelligent man but he's that's neither here nor there so I think why the elites

12:42 despise president Trump is for a long time it was like the WWE you had this pantomime which is I'm the good guy wrestler you're the heel you know like your manager is distracting me uh and so the distracting the ref and you get the chair and you slam me in the back of the in the back of my head and then you pin me and it's the everyone knows their parts then you have this guy come along

13:05 with his Twitter and as a politician who's not particularly quick at my feet and I know my script I have to react to what is this guy saying now they weren't good at improv and the fact that they weren't good at improv and he forced them to play on his Turf as opposed to playing their game caused them a lot of distress because I think people don't appreciate to what extent a lot of Elites are lazy like like you know a lot

13:30 of Republicans just want to get elected cu the Democrats are bad there's two choices once I've demonstrated your bad vote me in I'm not going to do anything I just want to be in office I don't really care about policy so you know that was something that really bothered a lot of them that he forced them to kind of have to react to him whereas they were a little too comfortable before was the Elite's reaction to Trump

13:52 just because he's a republican the reaction to Trump was not all simply a function of Trump's republicanism which you know even there was very dubious he had no history within the Republican party uh many of his views if some other Republican put them forward would not have been uh treated with the vifer that he personally was treated why the media hated him to some extent was for decades the the battle was Mitch McConnell goes to his constituents and says Nancy

14:24 Pelosi is terrible vote me in I'm going to fight Nancy Pelosi you know from the Senate Nancy Go San Francisco says Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans are terrible vote me and a speaker in the house I'm going to fight him from the house and the whole time this is happening you have the New York Times And The Washington Post lobbing grenades uh from their place of safety Trump took the battle to them and they were

14:45 completely unprepared for this this was historically unprecedented uh no president had really gone after the corporate press in the same way that President Trump had I remember very vividly in the early years of president Bush's presidency he was at a game with Dick Cheney there was a microphone on him a hot mic and he referred to Adam kber I believe the guy's name and he said he's a major league from The New York Times and then this's a

15:10 huge brewhaha and he had to apologize whereas if it was President Trump pointing out that this New York Times Reporter is a major league people would be applauding and he'd be like I said what I said and it's the truth where's the lie so I think that's a major shift uh even within what um 15 or 16 years is the Trump phenomenon a product of the internet age I I don't think Trump could have been elected

15:37 president without the internet he tweeted his way into the White House I think Trump's energy certainly ties into kind of Internet culture because think about it if you was the 1950s and you had someone speaking like him it would be Beyond The Pale this is unconscionable you're a complete L uh and no one would to even shake his hand so I think the cooning of American culture which a lot of people regard as dilars in some ways is admirable because

16:07 respect and civility is a mechanism used by Elites to maintain their hold on power because if you and I are talking about well I'm just going to go in your house and take away your second amendment rights that's not the beginning of a conversation that's the beginning of an act of War meaning there's no reason to have a civil conversation with someone who intends to restrict your freedoms or in any way aggress upon you as a person whereas for

16:35 a long time that had been and still is attempted to be uh a the basis for discourse so I'm going to sit down and I'm going to talk about how I think it's a good thing that you're not going to be able to protect yourself and your family and your home in complete defines of the Constitution cool we're not having this conversation I'm getting guns I'm going to make sure I do everything in my power to have other people have the right to

16:56 have guns in their house and there's no point us talking any further because even if you were negotiating good faith this is a non-starter if you like this clip it is part of a much longer conversation that is only available at dsav america.com so head on over there and subscribe it's our substack where you can get that and so much more it's a great way to also keep track of everything we're doing here at dad Saves America