The Dan Bongino Show - He’s Back! (Ep 1467)

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

In this episode, I discuss the bombshells in President Trump’s barn burner speech at CPAC. I also discuss the big changes coming, which will impact future elections.  News Picks: Donald Trump an...d Ron DeSantis finish number one and two in the CPAC straw poll. President Trump vows not to start a third party. Media coverage of my viral speech at CPAC.  Serious election reforms are being discussed in these key swing states. Bill Maher slams the cancel culture cowards. Hyatt hotels stands up for free speech and rejects cancel culture. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. for, issues you stand for, this country, what you've done to build this country into the economic and freedom juggernaut it was and hopefully will become again, I need you to be proud. I said this at CPAC in a speech that I gave on Friday that went viral thanks to you and a lot of folks spreading it around. Be proud, stand up. Chest out, shoulders back, chin high. You're on the right side of this.
Starting point is 00:00:55 I want to play a brief clip of that. More importantly, I want to get to the barn burner President Trump put out there. Long, long speech, two hours, but there's a few snippets of it that are really imperative. He gets it. I told you he gets it. He's back, President Trump put out there. Long, long speech, two hours. But there's a few snippets of it that are really imperative. He gets it. I told you he gets it.
Starting point is 00:01:08 He's back, President Trump. I got that. Also, I got our hero and zeros of the day. We got a zero of the day from Newsweek. Loaded show today on this Monday. Finally, it's been hard the last few weeks for material folks. Not today.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Producer Guy here was like, are we going to get to all this i'm like not sure don't know today's show brought to you by express vpn why haven't you gotten a vpn yet protect your online data from prying eyeballs get a vpn go to express vpn.com slash bongino don't wait welcome to the damn bongino show let's get right to it loaded show our first sponsor of the day our friends at tommy john the 75-inch TV, not the 50, the ribeye, not the sirloin, business, not coach. There are times when paying a little more is worth it.
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Starting point is 00:03:06 Keep it together. TommyJohn.com slash Dan. They look great too. See site for details. All right, producer Joe, let's go. There it is. Yeah, good to see Joe on a Monday loaded weekend. So I spoke at CPAC on Friday.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Thank you to everyone that showed up. Joe and I did the show there last year. This year is a lot going on. Maybe we'll do the show there next year. Say hello to everybody again. We got to decide that. But my speech at CPAC, just a quick backstory. So I promise you, I don't say this to sound like, yeah, look at me.
Starting point is 00:03:36 Super edgy, cool guy. No dice. I don't do that. Self-praise definitely stinks. But the speech went viral. It was their most watched speech or clip of it on their cpac uh twitter account by by far thanks to you um and one of the things i brought up is exactly what i was talking about before is your need to be be proud chest out chin up i know we took it on the
Starting point is 00:03:58 chin in this last election i get it it's tough but folks the core of my speech which i i i'm not kidding i thought of two minutes maybe less than that Right, Paula? Paula's in the other room now. Give me a yell. Give me a yay. Right. That's right. Thank you. You hear that? I thought of this speech two minutes before walking out. I was chatting with a guy in the green room and didn't realize my speech was like two minutes away. And Paula's like, hey, guy talking to Dan. He was a nice guy, but Dan really has to go on stage like now. And I was like, oh my gosh, I don't even have anything. And I thought to myself, it's time to dust off. Dust off.
Starting point is 00:04:36 He dust off the knee. Get up, everybody. We need to get up. We need to get back in the fight. Trump's back in the fight. We're all back in the fight. We're all back in the fight. Here was the end of my speech. It was about 15 minutes. This is just about 30 seconds, but this was in the fight. We're all back in the fight. We're all back in the fight. Here was the end of my speech.
Starting point is 00:04:45 It was about 15 minutes. This is just about 30 seconds, but this was literally the end. And thank you for sending this viral. Where I emphasize the need for you to be proud. Stand up. We are on the right side of history. If there was ever a right side of history,
Starting point is 00:04:57 you are on it. Check this out. Leave here tonight with your chest out proud. You are the renegades. You are the misfits. You are the out proud. You are the renegades. You are the misfits. You are the real fighters. You're the one that matters. And don't make, make no mistake as you leave.
Starting point is 00:05:12 You are on the right side of everything. Free speech, the freedom to protect your family, the freedom to assemble, to make your own money, to save your own life through your health care, and to get your kids in a good school. That is you. You are on the right side. Be proud. Say your prayers. Thank the Lord Almighty. You are on the right side of history. Amen. I need you all to be proud. I need you. I need you to need me to be proud. You need me to need others to be proud. You may say, oh, what are we talking about? Silly things like being proud of where we stand.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Because folks, I was sensing after the election, this almost apathy, like, gosh, did we do something wrong here? Almost buying into the left-wing lunatics narrative. You know, back in the 60s, it was cool to be the hippies and the misfits, right? The renegades, as I said in the speech. That's us now. It's only us.
Starting point is 00:06:13 You're the real renegades now. We're the land of misfit toys. I don't mean that as an insult. I mean it as a compliment. We're the counterculture revolution now. Just us. No one else. Don't count on the ACLU or
Starting point is 00:06:31 any liberal free speech advocate to come in and say, hey, you know what? These conservatives, we don't like their ideas, but they may be onto something. We should join them in the fight. No, no. No, no, no. Don't waste your time. It's just us now. Don't ever forget real renegades, real dissidents in times of a freedom crisis, never have a safe place. You'll never have a safe home. Never. You'll never be safe from tyranny,
Starting point is 00:07:01 Never. You'll never be safe from tyranny. But you'll damn well be on the opposite side of it. And you can be proud, your chin up, head held high, shoulders back, that when the tyranny came, you were on the other side of it. You were the warriors for freedom. And I need everyone to get up and be proud again. President Trump's back.
Starting point is 00:07:24 We're back. I want to make one final note here. There's no timeouts, folks. There's no pauses. There's no do-overs. It's not a video game. There's no time for that. The time right now to get up and re-engage, no matter how depressed you are
Starting point is 00:07:40 about what happened in the 2020 election, is yesterday, not today. Today's already too late. We have to get back in this fight. I need you. I cannot do this alone. Trump can't do it alone. You can't do it alone. You need me. I need you. Please. It is so time to get back in this fight. I want to thank OANN too, the network, for running my speech. Hmm. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:08:11 I want to say that again. I want to thank OANN, the network, for running my speech. Joe, I'm looking for an um. Hmm. Hmm? Paula. Hmm. Or hmm.
Starting point is 00:08:23 Sorry. Hmm. Paula said an um. Guy, can I get an um from you? Hmm. Hmm. Yeah, sorry. Paula said it. Gee, can I get an um from you? Yeah, I got a big um. Again, I want to say it a third time. I want to thank you to OANN for running my speech. Okay, moving on.
Starting point is 00:08:43 If you like that sort of thing, some of you will pick up what I'm putting down. He's back. He's back. The kid is back. The kid in New York, that was a complimentary term, not an insult.
Starting point is 00:08:58 President Trump back, gave a, gosh, what was that? About two hours? That was a long speech. I stood there and listened to the entire thing although I have to be honest halfway through I really needed a bathroom break bad I drank a lot of water had a few adult sodas the night before on date night with Paula was slightly dehydrated so I had been drinking a lot of water halfway through the speech I was like is there a pause button for this? So yes, I had a hit pause on the TV
Starting point is 00:09:29 thank God for DVRs and you know but the speech was good listen, it was not his standard go off script all the time get off on tangents but really rouse the crowd
Starting point is 00:09:43 emotional speech, granted but it was a good speech anyone telling you otherwise it's just the time, get off on tangents, but really rouse the crowd emotional speech, granted. But it was a good speech. Anyone telling you otherwise, it's just silly. They're just playing stupid games. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But here are his key takeaways. I've got a few snippets from it.
Starting point is 00:10:00 And these are important, and I'm going to get into why. The key takeaways. Number one, he's listening. We know election reform is a huge issue. Do we not? Check out this CPAC 2021 poll. Most important issues. Shocker. What have we been saying? Key, three weeks now, right? If you're not going to run on election integrity and free and fair elections and cancel culture, those two things, please don't run for office cpac 2021 poll most important issues no surprise to listeners of the damn bogito show election integrity ding ding ding kenny bell how to stop the kenny bell it rings for like two minutes election integrity president
Starting point is 00:10:39 trump gets that ladies and gentlemen he totally gets it because he listens and he's not stupid like some other candidates out there who are still going to run on things that are really important, but they're going to highlight it in their campaign, leaving election integrity behind, not realizing if we don't have free and fair elections, nothing else really matters. But here's video number one from President Trump asking the question. But here's video number one from President Trump asking the question. I bet you love this guy. Joe, how much do you love this guy?
Starting point is 00:11:11 What's the first thing out of his mouth you're going to say? The question I'd ask, hey, you miss me yet? Check this out. Hello, CPAC. Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me now? I laughed when I heard that. That was great.
Starting point is 00:11:31 I mean, yeah. That was great. That's so, I love this guy. You miss me? Yes. Yes, we do. CPAC and outside. Oh my gosh, I'm crying already. The show just started.
Starting point is 00:11:43 My eyes will be red the whole show now. It's not a joke. It's not some act. I don't like, there's not like a sniffer salt that makes me cry for the day. This guy just cracks me up. That's what I love about this guy. I promise you that was not in the teleprompter.
Starting point is 00:11:54 You miss me yet? Yes, we do. All right, back to the substance of speech. These are all short, like 30 second clips or so. Most of you heard it, but I do want to make a point of emphasizing this for a reason. It's not just I'm bringing this up to repeat what he said during the speech.
Starting point is 00:12:07 I'm bringing this up for a reason. I wrote it down. He listens, Trump. He has good instincts. He has solid instincts. I'm thinking back to a time when Mitt Romney lost the election to President Obama, and I was in a group of conservatives, and we brought this guy in to talk about how we would fix the party. And the first thing he said is, we should never talk about immigration again. True story.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Everybody in the group was like, what? Excuse me. What happens, Trump runs, makes immigration the centerpiece of his campaign and wins. He's got great instincts on issues. We got to fix some of the personnel instincts. I think he realizes that. But on issues, he has great instincts. So what's the first thing, one of the first things he brings up in his speech? What did I just tell you was going to matter? I'm not going to say I didn't tell this to his team too. I'm not suggesting I made him say this. I did not. He's got good instincts outside of what I say. Election reform and cancel culture.
Starting point is 00:13:08 You don't run on those two things. Please don't run. President Trump gets it. Check this out. Another one of the most urgent issues facing the Republican Party is that of ensuring fair, honest, and secure elections.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Again, showing you you're not wasting your time tuning into the show every day. Joe, how long have we been on this for? Election Reform and Care is called about a month now. Easy. I'd like to think that the show has become a success. Thanks to you. You're the most loyal audience in the history of audiences.
Starting point is 00:13:42 We love you to death. But I listened to you as well. My email is out there. People email me. They email Paula. They go to the info account. They email us and we read your emails. How do I know elections matter?
Starting point is 00:13:54 Not just because of a CPAC poll, because I listen to my audience and they're like, hey, Dan, elections really matter to us. What happened in 2020 can't happen again. These last minute election changes, all that stuff. That's why Trump gets it. He has amazing instincts for issues. He just does. Okay. Here's takeaway number two. So first good instincts, right on election reform, boom. Number two, again, you're not wasting your time. What did I tell you a month ago? There will be no third party run by President Trump. You want to start a third party, do your thing.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I'm telling you there's no math for it. You cannot win. We do not have a parliamentary system in the United States. We don't have it. We have a, I wish we didn't. I'm not recommending or endorsing the two party system. It's broken. I'm just telling you, strategy wise right now, that's what we're stuck with. I told you he would not start a third party because we have single member districts in Congress.
Starting point is 00:14:57 One person wins. Right, Joe? The congressman or woman wins. There's not two people based on how much of the vote you got. Right. Well, congressman, parliamentary, you know, representative, so-and-so is going to get this many delegates. No, no, it's not the way it works. You either win as a Republican or a Democrat or else you split the vote. I told you Trump wasn't going to do it. I got a lot of emails. Again, I'm not trying to be right. I'm just trying again to tell you the guy has good instincts. The Republican Party is a disaster. A third party. The math is an even bigger disaster. Trump gets it. Here's Trump on the third party yesterday.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Before I am not starting a new party. That was fake news. Fake news. Now, wouldn't that be brilliant? Let's start a new party and let's divide our vote so that you can never win no we're not interested in that folks i there's things i can and can't say okay for obvious reasons even saying i can't say it i shouldn't say i told you this a month ago he was was not going to do this, okay? He's not stupid. The Republican Party's a mess. 80% of it is a train wreck. But 100% of a third-party strategy will fail. There's no math. And people say, well, what if he started a third party just to run nationally? Forget about congressional districts where only one person wins and you'd be splitting the vote. Okay. You need 270 electoral votes to win, right? That's how it works. The presidential race is 50 state elections, 50 separate state elections. You need 270 to win.
Starting point is 00:16:36 If you don't get to 270, what happens? The race goes to the House of Representatives, where the House of Representatives, each state gets one vote. Whoever gets a majority wins. So you're suggesting to me states run exclusively by Republicans or Democrats, because no one will get to 270 if Trump were to run in the third party, that they are going to then go and vote outside of the Republican or Democrat party and vote for a third party. It's not going to happen. There's no math. He knows that. and vote for a third party. It's not going to happen. There's no math.
Starting point is 00:17:04 He knows that. He's not stupid. And anyone who thinks he's stupid, you're stupid for thinking he's stupid. All right, let me get to my second sponsor, and I got a few more videos here. Do we get a teaser for 2024? I think we did.
Starting point is 00:17:19 I think we did. I got that. A rejection of cancel culture. Issue two, elections, cancel cancel culture because trump doesn't lick his finger and and see where the winds are blowing trump just gets it he's got good instincts i got that and then a line that has the media going crazy today's show brought to you by armacost favorite sponsor of the show his buddies my buddies at rock auto chain stores have different price tiers for professional mechanics and do-it-yourselfers like Armacost.
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Starting point is 00:19:18 Yeah, sorry. But I still love the theme song. All right, getting back to the show. So did we get a teaser from President Trump about what's coming up in 2024? Gosh, I hope so. I hope this is a teaser. So he said something in the beginning of his speech about this journey not being over. I mean, what is he talking about?
Starting point is 00:19:40 Journey not being over? Is he taking some kind of like eat, pray, love journey or whatever? I don't think that's what he's talking about. Check this out. President Trump on the journey not being over. To so many wonderful friends, conservatives and fellow citizens in this room and all across our country,
Starting point is 00:19:57 I stand before you today to declare that the incredible journey we begun together, we went through a journey like nobody else. There's never been a journey like it. There's never been a journey so successful. We began it together four years ago, and it is far from being over.
Starting point is 00:20:17 We've just started. Hmm. What could he be talking about? No idea. Of course we know what he's talking about. Again, dust off, everybody. Dust off. Time to dust off.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Everybody off the mat. Off the mat. Time to get back. Back. Back. Back. I grew up in Queens. Every Italian kid like me in Queens you know Bongino
Starting point is 00:20:45 I'm only actually half Italian I'm Irish, German a little bit of French apparently too just found that out not that long ago but every Italian
Starting point is 00:20:53 in New York does that you know back back to hands get back right Joe back in the fight back you Joe seen me
Starting point is 00:21:01 Joe seen me do it my mother's husband no no my mother divorced he died everybody back Italian guy time to get back in the fight he's Trump's back what's our excuse back
Starting point is 00:21:19 time to get back journey not over that's good that's good like to hear that I'd prefer your journey not be overdue. And I promise he's not talking about like some world tour, like whatever the kiss reunion or whatever it may be. I don't think that's the journey he's quite talking about. I know Guy was laughing in the background. Guy, let me guess here. You were laughing because he said it was the greatest journey ever, like a huge journey right now, right? Was that what you were laughing at?
Starting point is 00:21:45 How everything Trump does, it's the hugest and the biggest, right, Joe? That's funny, right? I can tell. I can see Guy laughing. I know that's what he's laughing at because he listens to the clips as they play in live time. He's like, this was the greatest journey ever. That's what I love about you. Everything is the greatest and the hugest and the biggest.
Starting point is 00:22:03 I'm from Queens. Everybody from Queens is like that. I get it. I've explained this a thousand times. Trump's from Queens too. Queens, New York. The reason guys from Queens and even the ladies from Queens are like this is because in Queens, when you grew up there, we were never considered as tough as the Brooklyn kids. You're from Brooklyn. You're just tough or the Bronx automatically. Paula lived in the Bronx and people thought she was tough when she moved to Queens because she was from the Bronx, which is hilarious because Paula's not really known for her UFC skills, but everybody thought she was so tough. Right, Paula? She's from the Bronx. Stay away from her. Paula was like, yeah. Remember when Eddie Murphy walks into the cell in training places?
Starting point is 00:22:41 Because karate, man. And he's like, yeah, that's Paula that's Paula she's like yeah I'm from the Bronx meanwhile Paula really doesn't do a lot of like superman punches or things like that you know if you're a UFC fighter so you're not really considered tough when you're from Queens so you got to exaggerate everything to make people believe you're tough but you don't have the prestige and money of the Manhattan kids either like oh my gosh you were born you were born in Manhattan? Woo, you must have money. That guy's got a lot of dough, whatever. So you always got to exaggerate everything there too to compete with the Manhattan kids.
Starting point is 00:23:10 So you're like sandwiched in the middle. You're not like an upper level elite rich dude because you're from Manhattan and you're not a street brawler from the Bronx or Brooklyn either. You're the Queens kid. So everything has to be exaggerated. That's why Trump does that.
Starting point is 00:23:23 It was the hugest, biggest journey ever. That is my Donald Trump. I get it. I grew up in Queens. There's parts of me, it's the same way. I'm telling you, that's just Queens guys. That's why he is. That's, I just noticed him laughing.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I know, I know that's what you were laughing. I could see it. All right, here's Trump again. Two more quickies here. Again, the guy gets it with the issues. Do not sleep on the man's political instincts don't do it he runs for office the first time he won the presidency the second time he got the most votes of any republican ever to run for office ever for the presidency the results weren't what we wanted but this is the first time this guy's ever run his instincts are tremendous
Starting point is 00:24:05 here he is focusing on what i told you is the only two issues you are the only two issues we should run on in 2022 to make them a highlight in 2024 highlight once we get in office we can fix everything else election reform and cancel culture check this out we reject cancel culture. Check this out. We reject cancel culture. Told you. Short clip, obviously, but he went on a little bit about it as well. Why? Again, you think he's just wasting his time? The guy's speech was like an hour and 50 minutes long, right? You think he just threw that in there randomly? Like, oh, let me just bring up cancel culture. No, he has really solid strong political instincts that liberals just don't get all right one final one did this set the liberal
Starting point is 00:24:51 media on fire whoa after this doozy that there was a total meltdown amongst the blue check mark brigade brigade on twitter even though i don't post a lot of unique content on twitter anymore really any once in a while retweet something but um i do sometimes go on there to see what the blue check mark brigade is melting down about because it's so funny to watch trump said this and liberals absolutely lost their marbles check this out but who knows who knows i may even decide to beat them for a third time. Okay? Beat them for a third time.
Starting point is 00:25:38 I just snored. All right. Surprised, actually. all right surprised actually that that like uh the internet around the world wasn't shut down the whole internet joe the minute that was said like the cancel code shut down the whole internet shut it down be no video audio tweets parlays anything shut the whole internet down for a day we can't have any we can't have that uh that quote get out there they i'm telling you they melted down i've never seen anything like well i have but it was almost unusual in its hysteria he's back told you he's back. It's time for us to dust off. I can't dust off very well on this arm because my elbows are just horrendous these days.
Starting point is 00:26:30 But I'm trying. Everybody dust off. Back in the game. All right. No more time. No timeouts. No pause in the video game. No throwing the red flags for review on the field.
Starting point is 00:26:49 It's time to get back in the mix. It's our party, our country. It's worth fighting for. What's the alternative? All right, let me get to this article. Speaking of the, what are the two big i can't say this enough the two big issues you should be hounding your local officials the right way but we get it you know we should be hounding them about election reform and cancel culture
Starting point is 00:27:16 now i showed you that screenshot from i just realized i did this totally out of order there's supposed to be the screenshot now there you you go. This is Guy's first time running a whole operation by himself, Joe, behind his, and he actually did, he knew what to do. He just rolled right into it. I had that photo before showing you the CPAC, and granted, the CPAC poll's not some unbiased sample of people. I get it. But I'm telling you, even when you look at unbiased polling of Republicans, election reform is number one. There are things happening. I telling you, even when you look at unbiased polling of Republicans, election reform is number one. There are things happening. I want you again, chest out, shoulders back, chin up.
Starting point is 00:27:52 Your emailing and calling of election officials demanding you better fix these elections. The pressure you're putting on them matters. It's only a few months after the November 2020 election. And there's already stuff being done right now to fix elections in the future. Are we done? Does it mean no, this stuff hasn't passed. But again, Throw it out. The verdict is in. No done. Forget done. There is no done. You don't have an option for a done because there's no alternative. There's no done. Your efforts matter. Look, just the news article. Be in the show notes. I ask you, please subscribe to our newsletter. It is the show notes. Same thing. Bongino.com slash newsletter. It is free free i will send you these
Starting point is 00:28:45 articles every day you won't regret it we're almost at a half i think we're maybe over a half a million on our newsletter just the news article by daniel pain efforts are underway in key battleground states to return voting systems to pre-2020 rules good legislators are looking to roll back major changes to mail-in voting and early voter lists. Why are they doing that? They're not doing it because they're nice guys. Politicians are almost never nice guys or gals. They're doing it because they want to stay in power.
Starting point is 00:29:16 How do they stay in power? By getting your vote. How do they get your vote? By responding to what you tell them you want them to do. So by emailing them and calling them and saying, hey, I'm really not cool with these ridiculous, unconstitutional rule changes to elections. I think we should focus on voter integrity, election integrity issues.
Starting point is 00:29:35 It matters. Here you go from the Just the News piece. Changes to election rules, some of them enacted prior to 2020 and others put in place in response to COVID have included expansive mail in voting, which, by the way, I'll side note, the New York Times noted repeatedly mail in voting was more susceptible to rejection. I'll throw that in there. Expanded early voting. OK, folks, we're early voting now, like three months out or something. early voting. Okay, folks, we're early voting now, like three months out or something. Is this insane? Relaction of verification rules. Why would we do that? And extensions to ballot receipt deadlines. All that stuff in swing states could be changed. Matter of fact, in some swing states, there's legislation moving right now that will change it. Why? Because your voice matters. Look what's happening in Georgia. the senate passed a bill that would
Starting point is 00:30:25 require voters to submit photocopies of their voter id for absentee ballot application what's the problem with that hey just show us you're the person actually voting is that really controversial am i missing something here i don't think so the bill would also do away with current signature matching the system currently in place for absentee voting. The system's ripe for fraud and abuse, especially if the governor Kemp agreed to activist demands to make it more onerous for officials to reject disputed signatures. Why would you do that? Georgia, let's go on this.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Let's go. Let's go. We got that. Let's go back. We're all back now. We're all back. Let's go. We got that. Let's go back. We're all back now. We're all back. Okay. Ow. So soft these days. Pennsylvania. Was Trump lost by fewer than 100,000 votes? State lawmakers have signaled an intent to repeal the state's no-excuse mail-in voting system. First implemented in 2019.
Starting point is 00:31:27 State Senators Stefano and Mastriano went back. You get it? Mastriano, Mastriano. You get it? Paula, you get that? State Senators Stefano and Mastriano went back. Last month, said in a Senate memorandum. Some of you will get that.
Starting point is 00:31:39 Bonji, you know what I'm saying. At a state memorandum, they intended to introduce legislation repealing the no-excuse mail-in ballot provisions put in place two years ago via States Act 77. Mastriano, Stefano, Bongino, let's go back. Let's move that. Let's move that. I like these two guys.
Starting point is 00:31:57 All right, let's move that. Let's get that going. Let's get some brews here. Let's get some brews here for those of you who like the Bronx tale. Finally, these things going on in Arizona. It's a bill under consideration in Arizona where Trump lost just by 11,000 votes,
Starting point is 00:32:15 which would make it a felony for any public official to proactively send out a mail-in ballot to any voter not on the state's early voting list. Gee, that sounds like a good idea. Why would we want to send out a mail-in ballot to any voter not on the state's early voting list gee that sounds like a good idea why would we want to send out a ballot not requested by someone who's not even in the state's voting system that seems kind of dumb yeah there were things happening and they're happening because of you because you're back. We're all back in the game now. We're emailing, we're calling, we're doing our thing. We're seeing legislators show up at our Martin County,
Starting point is 00:32:52 Florida, whatever, Republican Lincoln dinner. Listen, we all eat bad chicken at those dinners. We get it. I've been to like 25,000 of them, okay? When you see them, your first question, hey, what are we doing about the elections? What are we what are we doing now luckily in martin county we've got a solid system florida but what are we doing we're all back now election reform and cancel culture what are we doing if they don't have an answer for them you may want to reconsider your vote in a primary i'm just saying things are happening because of you. Alright, let me get to my third sponsor. And the other side of this, again, I keep saying it, hammered home, elections
Starting point is 00:33:31 and cancel culture. One and two, the deuce, that's what you got to run on. I got the cancel culture segment coming up next. What did I warn you about cancel culture? Once it turns on liberals, even liberals will turn on cancel culture. I got a piece of video showing you exactly what I mean. The guy I'm going to play next is, he's the Tucker Carlson of the left.
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Starting point is 00:36:18 All right. Back to the show. Cancel culture, issue number two. If you're not involved and you're running for office and cancel culture and you don't have some solutions, please pull your name off the ballot and stop wasting everybody's time, including mine. I told you cancel culture, which is a leftist phenomenon. Cancel culture is cannibalistic by nature. Why, ladies and gentlemen? Because very simply, it is a power trip.
Starting point is 00:36:40 That's what cancel culture is. The people who want you canceled because you're a Trump supporter, the people who want you canceled because you're a Republican, the people who want CPAC canceled because it's a conference of conservatives, the people who do that are losers. They have no lives. They're complete zeros, total life degenerates. They are the scum of the earth, if I may. I'm sorry for sounding a little hostile, but they are. They're losers. They don't have real jobs.
Starting point is 00:37:11 So this is not a joke because unfortunately, I've gotten reports about some of them where people report on the cancel culture people. I've read them. Not my reports are from others. And when you see the people doing it, you're like, my gosh, that guy sounds like a real loser. They are, but they get power from canceling others. Now, what's the problem with that? And why is that inherently going to turn cannibalistic as the cancel culture people
Starting point is 00:37:30 turn on themselves? Because eventually you run out of people to cancel. Ladies and gentlemen, you can only call, right, Joe? You can only call so many conservatives, Nazis, and racists before eventually people stop taking you seriously. So then when you're like, my gosh, but I canceled that last guy and I feel so empowered because I'm such a loser and I have no job. And that was my one meaningful thing I've done in my life. I canceled that Nazi or whatever it may be, right? When you run out of people on the right because people stop listening to you,
Starting point is 00:37:58 they then start searching for people on the left because the people on the left don't know how to respond. Because they, why do they not know, Joe? Because why, why would, why would a leftist have a battle plan for being canceled? They think they're the cancel culture people too, right?
Starting point is 00:38:12 They're like, no one's going to cancel me. I'm canceling you. Right. You can't cancel me. I'm a leftist. So they don't know what to do. So they start eating each other alive.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Well, Bill Maher, not a fan of maher i gotta be candid but it's attacked sometimes on not sometimes but all the time on conservatives and christians i am a believer in jesus christ proudly are pretty offensive and gross but bill maher is the tucker carlson of the left. What do I mean by that? Joe, let me ask you. You can be the ombudsman here. Tell me you understand my analysis here. Yeah, I think I know what you mean.
Starting point is 00:38:51 I watch, you know, Tucker at night. I enjoy his show. But I don't agree with everything Tucker says, but Tucker has this theory I've heard from people who know him that once in a while, you got to take a grenade. Let's call it a turd grenade because it's family friendly, but that's not the real term. If you get what I mean, it rhymes with hit. You it a turd grenade because it's family friendly, but that's not the real term. If you get what I mean,
Starting point is 00:39:05 it rhymes with hit. You take this turd grenade and you just throw it in the crowd, right? You throw this to, in other words, like Tucker likes to start controversy.
Starting point is 00:39:13 He does. So he'll say things that sometimes the Republican establishment a lot of times just doesn't like because he believes it. Whether you believe it or not,
Starting point is 00:39:22 he didn't really care. Maher does that on the left. He doesn't really care if leftists kiss his caboose. I think he cares about stuff that really matters to him, as evidenced by this segment here. Here's Bill Maher and his show on HBO this weekend. Just humiliating cancel culture wussbags who go, like I told you, why? Because Maher understands that this
Starting point is 00:39:47 eventually will come for him too. That's why. Check this out. And finally, new rule, liberals need a stand your ground law for cancel culture so that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you'll stand your ground. Stop apologizing, because I can't keep up anymore with who's on the shit list. Now, lately, Republicans have been trying to appropriate the term cancel culture to describe what happens to them when they get a just comeuppance for actual crimes. And this muddying the water is unfortunate because cancel culture is real. It's insane. And it's growing exponentially. And it's coming to a neighborhood near you. If you think it's just for celebrities, no. In an era where everyone is
Starting point is 00:40:44 online, everyone is a public figure. It's like we're all trapped in the hills have eyes and Wi-Fi. Take Mr. Emmanuel Cafferty. He is, was, a San Diego gas and electric worker, but he got fired because someone reported him making a white supremacist hand gesture outside the window of his truck. But he's not a white supremacist hand gesture outside the window of his truck. But he's not a white supremacist. He's Latino. And he wasn't making a hand gesture. He's probably just flicking a booger.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Is this really who we want to become? A society of phony, clenched avatars, come? A society of phony, clenched avatars, walking on eggshells, always looking over your shoulder about getting ratted out for something that actually has nothing to do with your character or morals? Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Like I said, I'm not on board with this guy. He had a fit and a shot at Republicans. By the way, Joe, thank you for editing those cuss words. I did not put that in my subject line. Joe's a pro. Didn't have to do it. Usually I put edit cuss words out, please. But Joe, right on that. Very good, thank you.
Starting point is 00:41:49 You're welcome. Yeah, man. Yeah. He's right. I'm not sure he's doing this out of the kindness of his heart. Again, I think Bill Maher understands that eventually they're going to come for him too.
Starting point is 00:42:04 As he said there in the clip, you think this is just for Hollywood people? You're all public figures now, all of you. Sounds like something I said, Joe, about what, two, three months ago when I said this fight's coming to your door soon? Yeah. And liberals went crazy? Oh my gosh, what does he mean? That's what I mean. So cancel culture will collapse.
Starting point is 00:42:24 We want to speed the collapse because eventually liberals will understand they're next Marr gets it now but it will collapse because it's strategically ridiculous too what do I mean let's go to Saul Alinsky's rules again rule number 13 what is it Alinsky's rules for radicals rule number 13 13, pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions. People hurt faster than institutions do. Why will cancel culture collapse?
Starting point is 00:43:02 Well, again, first, they go after liberals. Liberals are starting to see that. But secondly, because liberals are now so eager to cancel everyone and everything that they've broken Alinsky's rule number 13, Joe. The primary component of rule number 13 is to isolate the target. Isolate. Reminds me of my old police academy instructor in the mypd we had to do a baton test on a dummy to make sure you could use the pr24 baton and they wanted you to simulate the strike and this guy john b i'll call him he started like really whacking the dummy because he didn't know
Starting point is 00:43:37 you weren't supposed to hit it and the guy said simulate simulate he was so mad at the guy. Isolate. I wish, I wish that guy, that guy, Courtney, the instructor was back. Isolate. Isolate.
Starting point is 00:43:54 True stuff. That message was funny. Simulate. Sam, this kid, but the back pounded it. There's a cop. That said,
Starting point is 00:44:01 simulate the strike. You dunce. This is not isolation, folks. The left now wants to cancel everybody. Your dog, your cat, grandma, you. You voted for Trump. You stayed at a Trump hotel once. You bought a MAGA hat.
Starting point is 00:44:24 You accidentally had a bottle of Trump wine in your fridge. Everybody has to be boycotted now. When you don't isolate the target and you target everyone, everyone understands the hilarity of your lack of isolating a target and you look like a buffoon. What do I mean? So the Hyatt was, there's going to be another fake leftist boycott, which the Hyatt, I think is kind of laughing off a little bit, but the Hyatt was boycotted for hosting cpac by the left and again hyatt people just left this off this is just really stupid here's an article in the blaze being the show notes hyatt hotel fires back at democrats demanding boycott of hotel chain for hosting cpac hyatt gave a really good statement listen they'll probably fold eventually hyatt they
Starting point is 00:45:05 most of them do sadly but at least for now they're holding strong um and if they do i really don't care anymore you know why folks because we'll just there will be a just a free speech hotel chain too i'm not kidding you laugh i'm not joking there will be an entire free speech economy that people in the cancel culture business will have created by themselves. They are creating billions of dollars in opportunity. Here's a statement by the Hyatt about hosting CPAC. We take pride in operating a highly inclusive environment. We believe that the facilitation of gatherings is a central element of what we do as a hospitality company. We believe in the rights of individuals and organizations to peacefully express their views
Starting point is 00:45:44 independent of the degree to which the perspectives of these hosting meetings and events align with ours. Good. Again, they'll probably fold. Most of these companies do because they're full of woke idiots and they don't understand leftist boycotts are a total joke run by a couple of blue checkmark idiots out of their mommy's basement who have no other jobs and no money to spend at the Hyatt anyway. But I really don't care if the Hyatt folds or not. It doesn't matter. It'll just give me another business opportunity. I'm not kidding. I've got things I'm working on now with a bunch of people. There are meetings happening right now, I assure you. Right now. Right now. Where people are building an entirely parallel free speech economy and it's being created by
Starting point is 00:46:27 liberal cancel culture idiots who recommend you boycott the hyatt because they hosted conservatives liberal you have no once this hardened economy happens liberals you will be totally powerless and then what'll happen joe when the parallel economy is built social media you know vpns whatever it may be when all of it's built and we're done, I've got a lot of things coming up, big time, publishing companies, everything. When it's built and you can't attack us anymore because we don't care and we laugh at you, there's no boycott to be had because our entire business model is your boycott. You get it? That's our entire business model. Your boycott only makes us richer.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Once that happens, they will turn on themselves. business model. Your boycott only makes us richer. Once that happens, they will turn on themselves. They will, because they can't give up the power of having to cancel people, and they will eat their liberal selves alive, guaranteed. Like I said, chest out, shoulders back, chin high. There's a plan. It's happening right now. I promise you. Liberal cancel culture wusses are creating billions of wealth in a now conservative free speech economy. I promise you. All right, let me get to my third sponsor.
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Starting point is 00:49:13 lifelock.com slash Bongino. Get that website right? lifelock.com slash Bongino. Save 25% off today. Thanks, LifeLock. And thanks for staying on top of my credit. I appreciate that. All right. Showing you again how stupid cancel culture has become. This was, I mean, if this is not the single dumb, and believe me, in cancel culture, it's hard to rank the stupidity because the stupidity is so rife. It's really hard to narrow it down. Here was the big controversy about Hyatt. One, Hyatt's you know according to liberals not allowed to host conservatives because liberals are you know communist terrorists totalitarian authoritarian thugs the cancel culture ones um they do they they just terrorize people all day i will cancel your
Starting point is 00:49:57 job we'll come after you we'll show up at your house so this is a real article by uh shenaid baker is it shenaid am I saying that right I don't know it says Irish Sinead sorry Sinead if I'm not she actually reached out to me she wanted some comment about something I'll try to call you back today uh Business Insider Hyatt Hotels says it is taking claims that the CPACs that I can't even read this headline this is so stupid the CPAC stage Joe was inspired by a Nazi rune I don't even know what that is by the way they're taking these claims very serious yeah i know i know i i and they call the hate symbols abhorrent i i this is so embarrassingly stupid i'm really embarrassed. Folks, here's a little note for CPAC and others
Starting point is 00:50:47 when stuff like this happens. Let me show you what they're talking about first. So Sinead Baker wrote this piece. Some liberal, here's the Daily Beans podcast. I don't even know who this person is, but apparently there's a podcast called the Daily Beans. They tweeted out, has anyone noticed the shape of the CPAC stage
Starting point is 00:51:04 is in the Odell rune ss insignia i don't even know what that is apparently it's some nazi thing and they show it compared to the stage at c-pack oh my gosh c-pack is full of nazis and people fall for this stuff oh it is so exhausting will you guys just stop issuing statements about this stupidity folks does anybody really believe anyone that the c-pack designers were sitting in a room gee paula joe please can we get a little three-way vote on this does anybody in this room actually believe the c-pack guys are sitting in a room like this all right um i don't know how many board members say there's like seven or eight let's say there's nine like the supreme court or something it requires five to get a vote and they're like let's do the stage design so someone came and said guys i got
Starting point is 00:51:57 an idea there's this nazi symbol i really dig called the opal rune which i've never heard of in my life i don't even know what it is and somebody said hey check this I got a screenshot of it um I suggest we endorse nazism and we use the opal room if you're he's laughing is this as dumb as it does anybody actually believe that of course they don't but media lunatics write these stories and they force people like the hyatt to make statements hyatt people let me just suggest to you how you handle this and cpac who did a decent job at it folks this is not serious okay it is not worth a response. It's a stage designed to look like a stage. The fact that it resembles some ridiculous Nazi symbol
Starting point is 00:52:54 because some leftist said so, and you know it has nothing to do with it, you're not entitled to a response for stupid. My gosh, why are we even responding to this? This is done all the time where they just make something up out of thin air. Is that a Nazi symbol? I don't know. I don't know anything about Nazi symbols.
Starting point is 00:53:23 I'm not a leftist. I don't know. I don't know anything about Nazi symbols. I'm not a leftist. I don't know. Somebody designed the stage that would look cool on walking out. And then some left is like, that's a Nazi symbol. And everybody's like, oh, my gosh, we got to apologize. What are you apologizing for? You didn't do anything. They do this all the time.
Starting point is 00:53:43 You don't believe me? Here's example number two the independent how did the okay sign become a symbol of white supremacy what what are you talking about what are you talking about how did the okay sign become a symbol of white supremacy? Because of you idiots. Here's our white supremacist of the day, if it was in fact true. Oh my gosh, it's AOC giving an okay sign. What is that?
Starting point is 00:54:16 Is she a white supremacist? Joe, someone investigate. Is the Hyatt going to issue a statement on this too? Too far. Has AOC ever stayed in the Hyatt? Yeah is too far it's definitely joe should she aoc's office should issue a correction and a statement don't you think you bet and the hyatt as well i mean if she stayed there she's definitely a white supremacist of course she's not a white supremacist ladies and gentlemen Of course she's not a white supremacist, ladies and gentlemen.
Starting point is 00:54:48 Silly, ridiculous, dopey policies. No one actually believes that. They just make this stuff up. Do you understand they just make it up? And we fall for it, apologizing. CPAC handled it well. But why is the Hyatt issuing a statement on this? Here's what you should have said.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Ladies and gentlemen, it's a stage. The fact that some leftist lunatic, who seems to have an unusual interest in Nazi symbols, by the way, made some ridiculous correlation that doesn't exist, doesn't require us to apologize when we didn't do anything wrong. Thank you, double-barreled. By the way, thank you to all the people at CPAC who listened to the show, came up and took selfies, and they love the Double Barreled. I know, I'm sorry. It's the family-friendly Double Barreled, if you get what I mean.
Starting point is 00:55:34 All right, Guy, we're going to have to skip this Wall Street Journal stuff. I love this story for tomorrow, but I got to get to this segment in the end. I'll get to this Wall Street Journal story tomorrow about how this energy policy in California is just backfiring so badly and screwing over the people you think it's supposed to help. But I got to get to this segment first. Usually at the end of the show,
Starting point is 00:55:53 I try to do some kind of hero. I have heroes of the day today. I got a couple of videos. But I got a zero of the day first. Our zero of the day, we may start to incorporate this too, is Daniel Villarreal at Newsweek, journalist who apparently doesn't practice actual journalism-ing. Here's Daniel Villarreal at Newsweek, writes an article about me at CPAC in my speech,
Starting point is 00:56:15 article overall one too bad, but at the end, he just includes fake news because Daniel Villarreal doesn't have the time to actually go out and verify that what he's saying is true. So he wrote in his story, what did I tell you about this story about Cumulus and Westwood? How it was going to come back again and again and again. I've told you a million times. Here's Daniel Villarreal repeating some fake news that Bongino, that's me, and other conservative radio hosts were ordered by Cumulus Media not to repeat Trump's thoroughly debunked claims that widespread voter fraud had stolen the election from him. Cumulus Media is a media outlet with
Starting point is 00:56:50 numerous right-wing radio stars. Ladies and gentlemen, we have offered $100,000 from my own personal Dan Bongino account to anyone in the media who can produce the actual electronic email from Cumulus Media ordering me to do that. No one has claimed the $100,000 because the story's fake. I've debunked it six different ways from Sunday, but Daniel Villarreal couldn't bother to actually check with Cumulus who would have debunked the story too. Daniel, of course, is a Newsweek journalist, so facts aren't really their thing. I'm sure the fact checkers, Joe, will be all over that. Right, sure. So I emailed Daniel Villarreal telling him what a buffoon he was.
Starting point is 00:57:29 And this is the new version of the story. He thinks I didn't catch this, by the way. And I noticed how he, now he cites the Washington Post. Now it's about the Washington, not about him. The Washington Post reported that Cumulus Media,
Starting point is 00:57:41 a media outlet with right-wing stars, including Bongino, ordered its conservative media hosts not to repeat Trump's debunked claim. Bongino contacted Newsweek to say that Cumulus Media never sent him such a report. Oh, thank you. Thank you for the correction. Maybe you want to put that in before you write the story the first time. You know, journalism things, fact-checking and all that. There's our zero of the day, Daniel Villarreal. Journalists, folks, journalists who really couldn't even bother to call Cumulus and say, hey, did you, did that actually happen? Crazy Joe, right? Fact-checking, you know? Thank you, Daniel. We needed a good segment today. You provided us some good material.
Starting point is 00:58:15 Been holding on to that for the whole weekend. Here are our heroes of the day. First, I don't, I don't know, uh, Caitlin Bennett. I've heard, I've heard of her before, but Caitlin Bennett is, um, I guess an amateur journalist who's actually interested in fact-checking. She ran into another fake news specialist, Jim Acosta at CPAC. And here's Caitlin Bennett doing actual journalism work. Here's one of our heroes of the day, Caitlin Bennett, asking Jim Acosta why he's such a fake news specialist. This is pretty awesome. Check this out. One last question, Jim. Will you disavow and denounce Antifa? I'm so sorry. We really are.
Starting point is 00:58:46 We already talked to you. Yeah. Well, I'm asking. You're just so handsome. I can't get away from you, Jim. Will you denounce Antifa by name? Will you denounce Antifa by name? The violence.
Starting point is 00:58:58 Denounce their violence. BLM and Antifa. Of course. Specifically, you like to talk about Trump supporter and their violence. Why don't you talk about the Democrat violence? But ma'am, I've already spoken to you, I'm sorry. Antifa, here, I'll put on the COVID barrier. And so am I, so leave me alone.
Starting point is 00:59:16 Leave me, just keep walking. You guys know where they put the golden Trump? You guys know where they put the golden Trump? Why are you obsessed with him? You don't ever stop thinking about him, do you? Trump. You guys know where they put the golden Trump. Why are you obsessed with him? You don't ever stop thinking about him, do you? Caitlin Bennett. I don't know you. Maybe I should hear over the day. Caitlin Bennett. I already talked to you, ma'am. She goes, yes, but you're so handsome. I need to keep.
Starting point is 00:59:46 I heard you. That was the best line of the whole thing. Caitlin Bennett, there's heroes of the day. I ran into our friends at Project Veritas, James O'Keefe's group. You're wondering what this white thing here is. If it's a liberal, they're probably like, oh my gosh, a white thing, Deb Bongino. Oh my gosh. Was he at that Nazi convention at CB? No, no. I ran into the Project Veritas people who I love and adore. As I always say, Project Veritas, the most dangerous organization in America, if you are not a truth teller. And I begged them. I begged them. Paula, did I not? Did I not beg them? I begged them for my own retraction alpaca. And I got one, even though I don't have to retract anything. I will give this to Daniel Villarreal for his retraction in Newsweek, by the way in honor of the project veritas people you know this song
Starting point is 01:00:29 retract oh the retraction alpaca running out of air how do you do that joe when you sing how do you stop running out of air uh is there a trick to that oh no, no. Okay. Eventually it comes to an end. You just think, oh, okay. It does, right? So maybe you have to train your lungs. It's my favorite song, the Retracto Alpaca. Project Veritas gives these out to journalists they force to retract things. So Veritas, if you could go contact Daniel Villarreal for me and give him a Retracto Alpaca, I would really, because I really don't want to give away mine, but I will. This is the retracto alpaca.
Starting point is 01:01:09 Here is Project Veritas, my heroes of the day. Again, the most dangerous group in America to people who like to spout lies and misinformation, confronting noted fake news specialist, Dave Wiener-Golweigel. I don't even know his name. This guy's a real tool. Dave Weigel, who used to go after me personally all the time. When you look at Dave Weigel, I don't even know his name. This guy's a real tool. Dave Weigel, who used to go after me personally all the time.
Starting point is 01:01:27 When you look at Dave Weigel, he resembles a 70s porn star a little bit. You'll see that from the video. But here's Project Veritas issuing Dave Weigel, Dave Weigel, his two retraction alpacas for having to retract articles about Project Veritas. Check this clip out. This is hilarious. Weigel. Hey, Christian Hartsock, Project Veritas. to retract articles about project veritas check this clip out this is hilarious why gal oh yeah hey christian hartzog project veritas have you met uh retracto the correction alpaca
Starting point is 01:01:52 we distribute these these alpacas to journalists who have to retract things we owe you two because you've had to make two retractions the first one was for a story you did in 2013 where you said we quote untruthfully portrayed the san diego acorn guy which of course you had to retract the second one huh yeah kyle kyle uric you claimed that we recorded bernie sanders volunteers i suppose to minimize the impact of the story but of course they were paid staffers take your own peccas they were well earned i think it's important to speak to the american people as to why it took you seven years to issue the first retraction. It took you seven minutes for the second one, but you deleted the tweet too. Why did you need to retract in the first place?
Starting point is 01:02:32 Yeah, again, I'm in the middle of something. You don't feel that you owe the American people an explanation. I actually haven't even looked at the alpacas now. They are cute. Well, it's eco-friendly. That's good. Yeah. They're cute. is now. They are cute. Well, it's eco-friendly. That's good. Yeah. They're cute. Did you see the part, Joe, where there's two folks, if you're watching on video, you saw it, but if you're listening on audio or terrestrial
Starting point is 01:02:55 radio, there's two of them there from Project Veritas walking with Dave Weigel asking these questions and the other guy, there's actually three. There's a guy holding the camera. Excuse me, there's three guys. There's another guy with him. And like halfway through, did you see it, Keith?
Starting point is 01:03:09 He's like, he's showing the audience the retraction alpaca. You got to watch it. Rumble.com slash Juan Gino. Did you catch it, Joe? The second guy who I met backstage, who's hilarious too. He's like this, showing the audience the retraction alpaca. It's hilarious. The greatest scene ever. Retracto, the retraction alpaca is hilarious. The greatest scene ever.
Starting point is 01:03:27 Retracto, the retraction alpaca. I got my very own, which I will give to Daniel David. Is it David or Daniel Villarreal for having to retract this Newsweek column. All right, I'm running out of time. I do have to get this last video though. Three heroes of the day. Just quickly, the Golden Globes were last night. Nobody knows.
Starting point is 01:03:44 Nobody watched it because it's Hollywood and Hollywood hates us. And we pay back the favor, which is great. But remember this from the Golden Globes last year, Joe. Here is a 30-second segment of comedian Ricky Gervais last year at the Golden Globes. We had to bring him back as a heroes of the day today, just filleting his Hollywood phony fake fraud audience. Bring it Ricky Gervais. Apple roared into the TV game with a morning show,
Starting point is 01:04:13 a superb drama, yeah. A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. So, well you say you're woke, but the companies you work for, I mean, unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you? So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right? You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about yw llatfform i wneud sbeth gwleidyddol, yn iawn? Ni ydych yn bosis i ddysgu'r cyhoedd am unrhyw beth.
Starting point is 01:04:45 Ni'n gwybod unrhyw beth am y byd gwirioneddol. Mae'r rhan fwyaf ohonoch wedi treulio'n llai yn ysgol na Greta Thunberg. Felly, os ydych chi'n gynrychioli, yn iawn? Gwnewch ymlaen, cymryd eich award bach, diolch eich arweinydd a'ch duw a... Felly... Worth bringing back. That blank spot at the end is intentional.
Starting point is 01:05:15 Believe me. If you heard the real thing, that would not do well on Terrestrial Radio. We would probably get an FEC fine. Thank you, Ricky Gervais. Gosh, did that need to be said? All right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in.
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