The Dan Bongino Show - The “Bombshell” That Wasn’t (Ep 1401)
Episode Date: November 25, 2020In this episode, I provide hard evidence of the media’s role in promoting a viral hoax. News Picks: Is President Trump going to pardon Mike Flynn? No, Parler wasn’t “hacked.” This is a B...S story being promoted by the liberal media to try and stop Parler. Is Fakebook targeting conservative websites again? School systems are reporting increased rates of failure from virtual learning. Here is the CDC data on coronavirus infections. Book publishers employers reportedly crying after news of Jordan Peterson’s new book. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with
your host, Dan Bongino.
Folks, we're going to go into this today, the whole concession talk again.
There will be no concession.
Not today.
How many times do I have to say this?
Not tomorrow.
Paula, how's next week looking?
Is it looking okay?
No, Paula's shaking her head.
Joe, how do you feel?
Next week, is next week looking good maybe?
Uh-uh.
No.
Not so much.
No.
Okay, me either.
Me either.
So that's two out of three.
And as Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.
They're not going to be a concession until we're sure we have an actual free and fair
result.
OK, OK, OK.
I got a video today, though, I'm going to show you at the beginning of the show showing
you how the media was obsessed with Al Gore not conceding in 2000 while they're obsessed with President Trump conceding despite significant disputes about what the results of this election are.
That video is great.
Hat tip newsbusters.
We'll get to that also today on the agenda.
Please don't go anywhere.
It's a loaded show.
I haven't said that in a while.
I am going to go through the anatomy of a hit today.
through the anatomy of a hit today. How the media colludes with lunatics on social media,
does no fact-checking whatsoever, runs with totally fake stories. I'm going to walk you to a hit.
Someone tried to shake us down for some money, and it didn't work out over at Parliament. I'm going to walk you through exactly how they all coordinate. You're going to love this story,
I promise you. And then at the end of the show today, I want to get
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back again. There's talk of a potential
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Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show
on this Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Fine, sir?
No, I'm doing pretty good, man.
Just looking for the concession stand,
but I can't find one.
It's not going to, it's, I can't see it.
It's just not going to happen.
And like Joe said, and Paula, two out of three,
well, three out of three in this case,
next week doesn't look good either. Just putting that out there. By the way, Paula, two out of three. Well, three out of three in this case. Next week doesn't look good either.
Just putting that out there.
By the way, tomorrow, programming note.
Yeah.
Tomorrow we will be off, but there will be a Bongino Brief on our feed.
It is, if you want to go to get the Bongino Brief, Amazon Alexa has it.
You can go to the settings and just hit add content and you can add it.
It's also on Apple Podcasts.
We'll put it up on gino.com and everywhere. So check it out tomorrow, the Bongino Brief, please. We'd love to have that. All right, let's get add it. It's also on Apple Podcasts. We'll put it up on gino.com and everywhere.
So check it out tomorrow, the Bongino Brief, please.
We'd love to have that.
All right, let's get to it.
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looking for professor exud so i said I'd get to this first,
just quickly. There will be no concession until we can determine we had a free and fair election.
So again, everyone waiting on it, you can just keep waiting because there will be none.
But just a quick media montage here, hat tip our friends at Newsbusters. What I'm going to play for
you is video audio of the media during the Al Gore-, excuse me, Al Gore Bush fight in 2000,
where remember that went on for 37 days. And the media, of course, because Al Gore was a Democrat
and that election was disputed, the media was encouraging Gore, don't you concede? We found
fraud here, what we think is fraud there. And then you're going to hear and you'll see the media now.
He must concede no evidence of fraud.
So that's this is a media montage of media when it was a Democrat Gore versus media on
concession now that it's a Republican and Trump.
Check this out.
This is hilarious watching these fronts.
There is no question or very little question that Al Gore won the votes cast in the state of Florida.
The question is, will he win the votes counted?
There's some stories in Florida still developing. We don't know all the facts, but it really looks odd.
Some say, listen, Danny, is the quote, is the fix in in Florida?
There is no evidence whatsoever of illegal votes or any kind of election fraud.
Voting irregularities are alleged in some counties.
Some irregularities in the vote count. Voting irregularities are alleged in some counties. Some irregularities
in the vote count. Voting irregularities. Voting improprieties. Just to be very clear,
there is no evidence of, quote, clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities.
Do you think in Florida that voter fraud has been perpetrated? Problems with voter fraud.
There is no evidence of fraud. Democrats say two Republican workers committed a felony.
Voting offices resembling crime scenes.
There is no evidence.
He has yet to put forth any evidence.
There's no evidence.
There is no evidence of malfeasance.
A poll worker shows up to the elections office this afternoon with a bag of ballots.
Why are they showing up now? We're watching a conspiracy theory be woven in real time.
Baselessly crying fraud, making unhinged accusations.
Yesterday, early editions of the New York Post got it wrong, printed out Bush wins.
The Gore campaign today boldly predicted that when the final vote is in, they will prevail.
There it is. You may be saying if you're listening on radio or audio,
Dan, that's weird because in one sentence I'm hearing media people say
there's evidence of fraud in this Gore Bush election.
Oh, my gosh, we need to look into this. Ballots are showing up. This is crazy time.
And in the next sentence, what am I hearing? I'm hearing some of the same media enterprises say there's no fraud.
President Trump has to concede. Yeah, that's exactly what you're hearing.
When it involves a Democrat, don't concede. When it involves a Republican, you must concede immediately. Don't overthink it. That's exactly what that was. If you're watching on Rumble, you saw it. It's obvious because the older video footage you can see is from 2000. It's grainier. They're just phonies. So we'll continue to ignore them. Thanks. Keep waiting on that concession. You can hang out over there. We got a chair in the corner in our green room. It's not actually a green room. Our studio is an old apartment,
but it's a bedroom next door. You can hang out over there and we'll get back to you next room.
I'm closing the door for Thanksgiving. So bring food and stuff. There's a bathroom. Don't worry.
You can even brush your teeth. Just don't use my toothbrush. We have an extra quip in there.
I'll give you one. Don't use mine. Here's one more quick piece of video. You know,
it's the day before Thanksgivinggiving keep you in a good
mood despite everything going on um president trump still swinging gotta love this guy he did
a little presser yesterday about the uh massive run-up in the stock market which crossed 30 000
yesterday and uh president trump wanted to take a bit of a celebratory lap and i don't blame him
so he's out at the press conference and he ended the press conference this way check this
out and i just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that work so hard
and most importantly i want to congratulate the people of our country
because there are no people like you thank you very much everybody
i love it and this guy's just great. Did you catch it, Joe?
That was cool.
And I want to congratulate the people of this country because they're nothing like you idiots.
Well, I threw idiots in, but believe me, that's what he was thinking.
That is 100% what he was thinking.
Still swinging.
Not an ounce of fight drained from his body.
Good for him because we got big fights ahead.
All right, let me get to my story today so i asked paula
i was kind of tossing this around i'm like what do we talk about first because i have a lot of good
stuff and i don't want it to seem self-serving obviously i have a financial interest in parlor
um and i want to cover this first but the story is fascinating because it involved a
viral story with air quotes yesterday and parlor was the subject of it and if you don't know what
happened behind the scenes you think this story was real and some of you may be new to my show
may have some liberal leanings believe still that the media tells you the truth this story and what
happened to us yesterday in this viral hoax and parlor is such a damning story not so much about Parler, although we were the focus of it, but about how easy it is to fish and hook in idiots in the media who at a moment's notice will propagate a false story as long as it meets their political needs.
And yet demand a fact check from a Republican about any story about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump says he likes ice cream.
Fact check it.
And yet when you ask them to fact check stories like this one about Parler, they do no
fact. They just run with the story. Here's what I mean. Let's get right to this. First, let me just
talk about the New York Times first, because what's going on here is part of a larger operation
by people in the mainstream activist liberal media to engage in massive anti-civil liberties
movements and speech suppression. They want everyone wiped
off Facebook with any influence at all, Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. But make no mistake,
the New York Times is now Pravda. And these three are part of it, Kevin Roos, Mike Isaac,
and here she is, Shira Frankel again. Remember Shira Frankel, anti-free speech activist who
wrote about us the other day? Now, the New York Times, which promoted the pee-pee hoax, of course,
and did no fact-checking on that at all,
they wrote this article yesterday,
Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth,
blah, blah, blah.
What's this article really about?
Let me get to the screenshot there.
It's an effort by people in the media
like these folks here at the New York Times
who want, make no mistake,
their only goal is to silence conservative speech.
That's it.
They've no, the facts and truth are not their goal. Here's what they wrote in their piece in
there. They're talking about this new algorithm that Facebook alleged, Facebook denies this,
to be fair, you know, which they won't be to us, but I'll give you, but Facebook denies this
happened. But it says that Facebook wanted to emphasize the importance after the election.
This is from a source of what they call news ecosystem quality scores.
Oh my gosh, does this sound Orwellian?
Or Joe, NEQ scores.
So I guess we'll call them NECU score, NECU, NEC scores,
which is a secret internal ranking Facebook assigns to news publishers
based on signals about the quality of their journalism.
So the allegation here is that Facebook gave these high next scores to make sure authoritative news
appeared more prominently. This is hilarious. What is this? This is nothing more than a threat
by the peepee hoaxers that the New York Times, who've gotten almost nothing right about Trump
for four years now, have humiliated themselves, journalism, everything.
New York Times, the, you know, Walter Durant, the New York Times that was on the side of the
Soviet Union versus America. Remember that New York Times? Those guys, yeah, and ladies out there.
This piece is nothing more than an attempt to cover for Facebook to say, no, no, no, Facebook,
they're just promoting this score because Joe, they're just trying to promote that's a quote from the piece authoritative news sites yeah joe just to be clear i'm just this is a quote we're just a question
just to make sure you can you know the audience is picking up what i'm putting down here bunt bunt
do you think that authoritative news sources that facebook is trying to promote that new
york times are referring to are bongino.com that nailed the Spygate hoax, Breitbart that's pretty much on top of stuff, The Daily Caller,
Chuck Ross over there.
Do you think that's what they're talking about for authoritative news sources that Facebook
wants to promote?
Yeah, man.
I do think that.
Don't even have to think about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it.
Of course. that that's it of course it's folks the authoritative news sources are the pp hosts new york times the washington post
shows of course messing with you no it is this is not at all this is what they're doing they're
trying to provide cover from facebook oh folks don't worry don't worry we're the new york times
facebook's next score which again again, Facebook denies.
But I'm just telling you,
this is out there
and seems to comport
with the reality of my page
and what happened to our page's distribution
after the election.
Since come back a bit,
again, to be fair and get both sides,
which Facebook won't do to us,
with their fake fact checks,
they are not promoting
authoritative news sources.
We are engaged in a war for free speech.
That war is coming to your door soon.
I promise you.
And that war on free speech is going to be led by corporate America.
People in government are going to lag behind.
Oh, you don't want to take a vaccine?
That's your call.
It's a free country.
You're not going to be able to board a plane and something. Look at Qantas. I saw an article
about Qantas. You want to run your business and run your business's Facebook page, yet you have
a Trump sign outside of your business? Watch when your Facebook page gets fact-checked and starts
getting reported for stuff you didn't do. Man. You put on Twitter and some alternative therapy to some disease out there that you think could be legitimate?
Watch Twitter take you down.
The war is happening right in front of your face.
And the war against misinformation is not a war against conservative misinformation.
It's a war against liberal misinformation.
Let me give you this anatomy of a takedown,
because this is what happened to us yesterday.
Here's how it started.
A while ago, we got an email from this life loser and troll,
this basement-dwelling lunatic, piece of human filth and garbage.
Oh my gosh, Dan, that sounds brutal.
Look this guy up and you'll see what I'm talking about.
So here's this guy, William Legate, who's had trouble before, by the way.
He had to make a retraction after lying about Project Veritas.
So he's got a history of doing stuff like this.
So this troll, Legate, emailed our CEO at Parler, and he wanted money.
Hey, dude, how are we going to have our drinks here and go in Vegas?
And curious if you still have the bounty program for liberal influencers to join.
Here's the thing. We put out this $20,000 or something reward liberal influencers to join. Here's the thing.
We put out this $20,000 or something reward
for liberals to join Parler a while ago.
So this guy's interesting.
He admits he trolls on Twitter.
He's on Parler.
He says, I have a Parler account,
but I've just used it to troll,
but happy to use it under my real name
and promote it under my Twitter,
if properly incentivized.
You get it?
So he's winking and nodding at us that we should somehow pay him
off yeah under this bounty program this this this lunatic to promote parlor well we promptly told
him to pound sand well because he's a troll with a history of making retractions for lies
he decided well if i can't get money out of Parler, then I might as
well attack Parler and make stuff up. But you can't just do it by yourself because this guy
doesn't have, nobody takes this guy seriously. So he needed a media enterprise to take him seriously
to run with his fairy tale about Parler in this ridiculous attempt to shake us down for money.
So next thing you know, after the money never came,
this is what appeared on Parler under his Parler account. He says, the Parler administrators
appear to be censoring right in Trump for Georgia hashtag disgraceful. What happened
to the first amendment conveniently from the same guy, William Legate. That sounds bad folks.
Parler, we were censoring your hashtag, write in Trump for Georgia.
Man, we're really terrible. That's awful. What's the problem with that story?
Nobody was ever censoring your hashtag at all. Oh, Dan, you made a mistake. No, no, no, no no no the story's totally made up the guy didn't get his money now the guy's mad so the guy
decides to try to attack parlor with a fake story about us censoring some pro-trump hashtag in
georgia you understand the story's totally made up you could have put the hashtag in yourself
and whatever's on parlor will come up but it requires you ah to actually put the hashtag in
correctly so some people typed it in wrong oh my gosh nothing appeared so of course this story
went viral well why people i thought you said nobody believes this loser um they don't
but when somehow the story gets pitched to mainstream media people
who hate parlor you think joe right i mean you have been the contrarian devil's advocate in
today's show yes you would think if you were a media person writing about parlor censoring a
hashtag that you would actually go into parlor and put in the hashtag and see if it's censored
would you do that if you were a journalist i'm'm just, I'm just. It's worth a look, Dan.
It's just, you know, check it out.
Worth a look-see.
Confirmed by producer Joe.
Worth a look-see, folks.
Paula, would you agree?
Maybe a good idea to put the hashtag in?
Paula agrees.
So there you go.
Two out of three ain't bad.
But no, no, no, none of that actually happened.
So some dipwad at Newsweek named James Crowley decided, hey, I'll just write about this story.
Free speech, air quotes.
Social network parlor allegedly censoring right in Trump for Georgia by James Crowley.
Holy cow.
The story's totally made up.
This is the anatomy of a hit.
Ask for money, don't get money.
Create a viral fake news story. Pitch it to idiots in the media who will then run with it. The story is totally fake. The allegation is totally false. All this idiot Crowley had to do was put the hashtag in himself.
now when I debunked it because I came out and said,
guys,
ladies,
again,
parlor's under attack because liberals,
New York times and elsewhere hate free speech and parlor actually promotes free speech.
We're under attack.
This is just another in the one of what Paula 50 stories I've had at the
bunker.
George Soros owns parlor.
We censor Trump supporters.
Uh,
we steal your social security number.
What else? We're working
with Thanos and the infinity stones to destroy the earth. You understand these are all fake stories
only meant to discredit the company because we support free speech. So when none of that worked
and the Newsweek guy, I had, I discredited him. Then NBC had to jump in. So you can always rely on this dipwad, Ben Collins from NBC, to always promote it.
Here he is, Ben Collins, at one underscore on Twitter.
He says, talking about Parler, quotes the Newsweek story in his tweet.
This is hilarious.
Again, it's a very loose definition of free speech talking about Parler, where he cites
the fake newsweek story
now here's the funny thing look at ben collins's id uh what he puts up on twitter next to his
avatar this is hilarious he's a quote reporter folks for nbc news reporter journalist another
guy joe just checking probably a good idea to check the story first maybe put the hashtag in
yeah yeah yeah man we're just putting
that out there we're just we're just putting that out there so step one again demand money step two
don't get money make a fake story uh try to go viral use idiots in the media who always call for
fact checks everywhere else who don't even fact check the story themselves let newsweek and this moron at nbc ben collins run with the story
but listen it's not enough to have two morons james crowley from newsweek and ben collins from
nbc you need the biggest moron of all who's got still a big microphone. The moron's a drudge report,
sludge report,
which is totally sold out America and the conservative movement.
They'll run with it too.
Here's the story on drudge today.
Free speech parlor,
allegedly censoring posts.
Drudge, the human waste repository.
The guy who would, the human waste repository. The website, seriously, that would sell out their dogs for money to make a buck.
Promoting a totally fake story.
That story's fake.
But again, because Parler is a conservative free speech leaning,
conservative being that I'm there.
And liberals, you can go over there too,
but a free speech app,
Drudge has to attack it.
Folks, it didn't end.
It didn't end.
When that fake story didn't work,
that Parler was censoring trump supporters which was fake
legate comes back again you know the guy whatever here he is again on twitter turns out parlor left
its database credentials unencrypted on a public api i've redacted their server passwords but this
is very very bad for parlor here he is again loser dip wad who's i i can't this is this guy's parents disavowed him yet i would
on twitter again making up another story now that we've been hacked huh totally fake made up
fabricated fairy tale story no truth to it at all yes you're probably asking about the legal
yes we are working on legal options we're not not stupid. That's for another day. We're not dumb. Legate courts
restricted access to his account after that. I think he knows he's in significant trouble now.
So dipwad Legate now posts Parler is hacked. But again, this guy's not smart enough to make a story
go viral on his own because people know he's a fraud so he needs other people to play in who plays in of course our best friends and i mean worst
enemies at twitter who are only more than apt to use dunce liberals to make the story trend
look trending in the united states on twitter number one ssns what does that have to do with
anything ssns keep this up paul well that was trending because liberals who are as dumb as Number one, SSNs. What does that have to do with anything? SSNs.
Keep this up, Paul.
Well, that was trending because liberals who are dumb as mutated toads,
imbecile liberals never fact check anything.
And Twitter, who claims to be a fact checker,
let SSNs for social security numbers go viral because the allegation was,
and why SSNs was trending,
is that Parler was demanding
your social security number and was hacked and your social security number's out there.
Okay, both of those are false.
Parler does not ask for a social security number.
You could have just checked that.
That's not true.
And Parler wasn't hacked, number two.
And look at the bottom.
It's also trending.
Parler hacked.
This is what we deal with all day. But then again, tell me folks how Newsweek,
the New York Times, Ben Collins from NBC, and Twitter are the sources of real news.
They're the legitimate fact checkers. Jack Dorsey needs to put labels on stuff. And yet,
when a totally fake story gets debunked,
they let that trend.
And then when that story gets debunked,
they let another fake story about Parler trend because they're not interested in the facts.
They're interested in political attacks.
Sorry to wear you out with that story.
But the story, although it's about Parler,
is not really about Parler.
Do you understand the umbrella takeaways here?
The people claiming to be these harbingers
of truth and justice twitter facebook newsweek the new york times ben collins at nbc they are
openly lying to you drudge twitter they are making fake stories go viral promoting disinformation
and misinformation everything from parlor was hacked to the PP hoax. The Parler asked for your social security number.
Really?
Just go to Parler.
Maybe you'd sign up and you'll notice
there's no line for social security number.
That's kind of weird how we're asking you for it,
yet it's not there.
These are the disinformation, misinformation specialists.
And yet they flipped the script
and made you believe that we're the ones doing it.
Watch this kid.
Better get a good lawyer.
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today you know we always take a break after that second thing go straight through you don't see any
break at all but paula said to me during this 30 second break we take she's like i think you should
talk about the mike flynn story next and i agree with her because she's smart that's why i married her and a beauty too she says it kind of goes with your theme of
fake news but this story is important because again it this stuff gets into the public psyche
folks there are still people out there people portraying themselves as credible news outlets
who refuse to tell the truth about General Mike Flynn.
They continue to propagate the myth,
which I'm sorry if you've heard it on the show now
four or five times,
that Mike Flynn lied about discussing sanctions
with the Russian ambassador.
Ladies and gentlemen, the story is absolutely false.
The evidence is right in front of your eyes.
Why am I talking about this now?
Well, let's get to the story first and then the sanctions part because there's two pieces to the story first
current news of the day there's some talk out there about president trump finally uh pardoning
general mike flynn the story is up in axios scoop axios jonathan swan trump tells confidants that
he plans to pardon michael flynn let's get to that first before I get to the screenshot from the piece.
Ladies and gentlemen, great.
Listen, I read your emails.
I understand.
I respect and value my audience.
The reason my email, Paula's email, the show email is out there
is because we really like to read your feedback.
I read a lot of your tweets, your parlays, your Facebook posts in return
because the show is for you.
Let me just put
this out there to give you my audience's view, full spectrum. About 50% of you, based on emails,
do not want Flynn pardoned. It's not because they don't like and respect the general. It's that they
think he should see this legal process to the end and have the judge, Judge Sullivan, who's not
acting like a judge at all, be forced to throw the case out. Joe, makes sense? Can you speak for this? Does that make sense? Like half the audience is saying,
no, Dan, a pardon would be kind of a semi-admission of guilt. And we should run this
through to the legal end and make sure a court of law says Mike Flynn did not do this. I get it.
I understand you. I disagree with respect. I, the other 50% are on my side of this and paula's and joe's too which is
like hey ladies and gentlemen this isn't justice what's happening if you're seeking justice with
air quotes in a justice system that is not acting according to the principles of justice,
how do you ever expect to get justice?
Let me, can I give you an analogy quick?
Permission, Paula, to make it a, yeah.
Sometimes on Fox, you always say permission for,
because you never know where that analogy is going to go, right?
Seriously, you ever hear Jesse say that on Fox,
permission to make it a, it's a joke, but you never, this is a good one.
If Joe Armacost, my good friend was accused of robbing a bank. And I know Joe was down here in Florida with me when the bank in Maryland was robbed. I know Joe didn't
rob the bank. Just like I know Mike Flynn did nothing wrong. I know it. I can prove it. It's easy. Why would I allow Joe to go to trial for a charge where the judge hates Joe?
He's a liberal.
He knows Joe works with the Dan Bongino show.
And the judge keeps sticking it to Joe to make his life miserable over a course of years with the hope one day Joe will win.
Why would we allow that to happen when there is a corrective mechanism?
Say I was the governor of Maryland and I had the power to pardon Joe. That is justice.
The pardon power to the governor or the president of the United States is written in the constitution
as a mechanism to correct for when justice isn't done. Justice is not being done. You're relying
on a judge, Judge Sullivan, who is a political hack. He's a discredited, fake judge. He's not
acting as a judge. And you're hoping to get justice from him? I disagree. With respect,
I see your point. You're not crazy. Your points are reasoned and logical, but I just think
they're drawing on a false conclusion, which is that justice is going to be served by a judge
not interested in justice. There is justice in the constitution. The president's ability
to go into the system and pardon people without condition to correct for when justice isn't done.
That is justice.
That's real justice.
Now, what about the misinformation piece?
Ah, let's get to that next.
So down in the piece, again, I don't know Jonathan Swan.
It's not a personal beef.
I saw him in a green room once at this Politicon event.
Sounds like a nice guy.
It's not personal.
But whoever wrote this, John, or I don't know if he's on the byline.
I assume he did it.
Putting his piece, a piece of false information.
Why isn't this fact checked by Facebook or Twitter?
I thought they were the bastions of honesty and truth and goodwill.
This is a knowingly false statement.
From the Axios piece, quote, Flynn then lied about not discussing sanctions
to Vice President Mike Pence, who repeated that denial to the media.
Oh my gosh. Now, you regular listeners to my show are probably clawing at your faces,
pulling your hair out right now, going again with the sanctions thing.
Where did Swan get this, that Flynn lied about sanctions?
Where do you get it? Wikipedia? Jokerpokesopedia?
in an FBI interview and then lied about discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador as as Swann's asserting in the piece then Joe wouldn't you think the FBI documentation of the interview
where they allegedly asked about sanctions would contain the word sanctions and a question about
sanctions Joe I'm just you're very you're an integral part of the show today Joe I'm just
throwing that out there confuse me but yeah I think that would be part of it.
Yeah, yeah.
I know you could.
Was it my cousin Vinny?
Let me unconfuse you.
Let me unconfuse you for a minute.
Here, in fact, because Joe's very confused.
This is very perplexing to poor Joe.
You know, poor guy just robbed the bank and got framed for it.
He's very confused right now.
So in the middle of his stress, I'm going to help you through this.
So here is the FBI 302 with Jonathan Swan could have checked out himself.
Of, in other words, the documentation of their interview with Michael Flynn.
So let's go with, let's help Jonathan Swan out here.
Let's go to page one of the FBI interview.
Joe, do you see the word sanctions?
We've done this now four or five times,
so you get to cheat a little bit.
Do you see the word sanctions on page one anyway?
I see expulsion.
You see that?
I highlighted that.
Expulsion of Russian diplomats.
I'm not seeing it.
I don't see it.
Paula, do you see it?
Okay, Paula's shaking her head no.
Joe, do you see it?
The answer is no for joe no for paul
okay it's clearly on on page two we missed it swan said he lied about sanctions so if the fbi
sure of course if he asked about sanctions in their documentation page two uh reading through
the interview i asked for land of him speed reading here with the expo i see expulsions again
not sanctions for me no not. PNG, persona media.
I don't see it, Joe.
Do you see it?
Quick survey again, Joe.
It's crazy time.
Crazy pills everywhere.
Paula, did you see sanctions in there?
Paula's giving us a no.
That's a no-ski.
So that's true.
Swan put it in his report. So it's definitely on page three of the FBI's own notes where the FBI asked him about sanctions because they said, as Swan said, he lied about sanctions.
So it's definitely on page three.
So let's check out the critical page three arrow hand.
Page three of the document.
Expulsions.
Let me see those expulsions again.
I see expulsions the second time.
I don't see.
I just don't see it anywhere.
Gosh, that's really weird.
The FBI must have forgot.
Man, you know.
It's crazy.
Joe's under stress right now.
Joe is being framed for a bank robbery,
just like Flynn's being framed for talking about sanctions
that were never discussed in the interview,
that the FBI never mentioned in their own report of
the interview about sanctions that never happened. Swan could look that up. Again,
it isn't personal. He's a reporter. Maybe do some reporting or maybe issue a correction on your
story. Fact check, you know, like they do to us. Fake fact checks, maybe a real fact check of your
own enterprise, Axios, where you say fact check of your own enterprise axios where you say
fact check note there is no evidence sanctions were ever discussed in the fbi interview and if
you can produce it i i'd like i'd like to see it this gets worse believe it or not you're saying
the fbi didn't discuss sanctions no no didn't. Let me get to my third sponsor
because I want to explain this.
Believe it or not,
this story gets even worse.
Not only did the FBI
not discuss sanctions, ever,
so Flynn's story is completely wrong,
that they framed him on it
is transparently clear
when you read their own notes.
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folks getting back to this story so now we know Swan didn't fact check his own story because Flynn
there's no evidence anywhere that Flynn was actually asked about sanctions he alleged
trying kind of hard to lie about sanctions weren't asked about no
if Woody would have went straight to the police some of you will get that Trying kind of hard to lie about sanctions you weren't asked about. No.
If Woody would have went straight to the police, some of you will get that.
So surely the FBI has some notes on this interview too, like handwritten notes outside of their typed up notes.
Yeah, yeah.
We have some of those too.
And I want to show you something interesting.
It'll come up again in a second.
This will be wrong.
This is their actual handwritten notes of the interview.
And there's a key part of this I want you to take
a look at. They're notes of what Flynn was telling them in the interview, where again,
he allegedly lied about sanctions he was never asked about. Check this out. This little handwritten
FBI note is just fascinating. It says at the end, boxed us in. You can see that right there. If
you're watching us on Rumble, you can look at it. It's even circled for you.
Boxed us in.
Hold that in your head for a minute.
So someone in the FBI interviewing Flynn during the interviews taking handwritten notes and wrote down boxed us in.
Why would they write that?
Don't you worry.
It'll make sense in just a jiffy.
Let's go to Jim Comey, former disgraced director of the FBI.
Actually, current disgraced former director.
That's kind of a better way to say it, right?
He's not formerly disgraced.
He's currently disgraced former director.
Much better.
Got to word that correctly.
So here's Comey's own notes about the Flynn interview where clearly they say how much he lied
and he was indicating deception lied about sanctions of course they don't say that
he says and the agents this is his testimony about the Flynn interview and the reason I
mentioned their experience is because I talked to them about this these are the agents who
interviewed Flynn they discerned no physical indications of deception they didn't see any
change in posture tone inflection inflection, or eye contact.
They saw nothing indicating to them
that he knew Flynn was lying to them.
Wow, that sounds kind of strange.
And they interviewed him completely,
went through it all,
did not show him the transcript or transcripts,
and then came back and drafted a 302,
the one I just showed you.
Maybe Swan should throw that in his story
with a little fact check.
There is no evidence flynn
was asked about sanctions there's also no evidence he deceived the fbi as per jim comey's own notes
i'm just saying john fact check it all maybe you want to throw that in there joe you think
make a little asterisk footnote probably a good one no yeah this didn't happen what i just wrote yeah or maybe just don't write it here's an idea
probably the better approach joe yeah
fun but you want to be taken seriously as a credible media out where the where the hoaxers
joe me and you we got the ones who nailed this story from the so we're we're all idiot i just
produced to you evidence hard evidence your story's fake
oh we didn't say you didn't talk about something we said you didn't tell flynn about it yeah even
you didn't tell the vp but even vice president pence has taken that back and now believes flynn
was telling him the truth maybe you want to include that in there a full disclaimer about
the whole story you're not going to leave
us hanging with the box that said, of course not. Why is that FBI note relevant? Keep in mind
the assertion here. Paul, if I don't explain this well, I've been beating up Joe as the ombudsman.
You got to shut me down. Here it is in a nutshell. The FBI alleged Mike Flynn lied to them about discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador. There's no evidence sanctions were ever brought up. How could he lie about a question he was never asked? How do we know that? Because we have the FBI's own notes where they never mention the question about sanctions at all.
at all. We have Comey's sworn testimony where he says Flynn wasn't deceiving them.
Flynn was being honest in the interview. And then we have an FBI handwritten note about clearly a Flynn's response to a question where Flynn mentioned the term boxed us in
because we have their handwritten notes, the FBI.
Let's look at the actual transcript the FBI had of the call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.
And let's look at something, this line at the top.
This is the transcript, the FBI summary of the transcript.
This is what the FBI had.
Flynn wants to convey the following to Moscow.
Do not allow this administration to box us in right now.
Kislyak says they have conveyed it very clearly.
So if you're a media person like John Swan and you're looking for an out to your story with this
fake assertion in it, you may say, well, Flynn was discussing the expulsions of the Russian
ambassadors, not the sanctions, but sanctions, expulsions, smulsions, expansions. It's the same thing.
Really? Because that's funny.
When the FBI asked Flynn about the expulsions,
Flynn told the FBI exactly what he told the Russian ambassador.
Don't box us in.
And they wrote it down in their own handwriting.
Weird how he lied about it.
Lied about it, air quotes. And yet he told you about it? He told you the truth about what you had in the transcript? But keep up with this fake news story, please, that Mike Flynn lied
about sanctions that were never discussed. No, no, we mean expulsions. Okay, they're not even the same thing they're not even remotely related but you could keep that myth
up too because when he was asked about the expulsions he told the FBI exactly what was
in the damn transcript you numb nuts but keep it up
because it was out of order.
I have to go back in the book
because the producer, Paula, says,
she's right.
Her instincts are always great on the show.
Folks, seriously, on a very serious note,
the story is very disappointing
because I don't know John Smolik.
It's not personal.
I mean, I'll probably take it that way.
No one wants their name on the show this popular,
but I get talked about all the time. Just put my name in any search engine bongino
there's always some leftist lunatic it happens it's you know i don't have a thick skin i have
a thin skin it bothers me it'll probably bother him i don't mean to hurt the guy's feelings
but i'm in the truth business and i'm sorry you're not. You have no evidence anything you put in there is actually true.
None.
And if you could produce it, send it over to the show,
and we'll put it on the air.
But you can't.
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All right.
Getting back to these stories.
So let's quickly burn through a couple of these.
This is just, again, I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but
facts do matter. And before the holidays, you know, I'm not, I, everybody should take it easy
during the holidays. Just enjoy the holiday. We live in the greatest country on earth still,
despite our failed political class. Just enjoy the holidays. But inevitably, you know, you're
going to run into a lot of people and some liberal you know will come out you would
have said of you know what they believe are facts are totally false so one of them here's this weird
flex by cnn check out this tweet they put up there trying to knock my home state of florida
on their coronavirus response which is pretty bizarre cnn since governor desantis reopened
florida in late september the number of reported-19 cases per week in the state has tripled.
Now, of course, CNN isn't an actual news outlet.
They're a propaganda agitprop outlet for the left.
So CNN, of course, targets Florida.
So you'd believe that, gosh, a tripling in Florida of these infections, right?
That sounds really horrible.
And it is.
these infections, right? That sounds really horrible. And it is. But of course, when you put it in context, they target Florida because Florida has a Republican governor that refuses
to lock down the state. But when you look at actual facts, something CNN never does,
you know, they have a fact check. That guy, Dan Dale, who's a total joke at CNN, he's their fact
checker. So we went to the CDC's website to see how horrible Florida was doing relative to everyone
else, because that's the implication, Is it not by the CNN to Florida?
Oh my gosh.
What a uniquely horrible situation with those terrible Republicans down there in Florida
and Trump on the state too, even worse.
So we went to the CDC site and I pulled up the charts to see clearly Florida is at the
top.
So again, Joe, let's go through this again.
Centers for disease control and prevention.
So, uh, no, no, they're not at the top.
We have North Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana,
Wisconsin, where's Florida?
Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Rhode Island,
Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma, Idaho,
no Florida, Alaska, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio.
I don't see it either.
Okay, Paula, can we go to page two?
We had to go to page two to find Florida because CNN says this is a uniquely terrible situation.
And of course, that's the implication of their article.
Here we go down in Nevada, Arkansas, Tennessee, Connecticut, West Virginia, Arizona, Pennsylvania,
Louisiana, Delaware, Guam, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, Texas, Florida.
There it is, Florida at the bottom.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, weird, weird.
Yeah, crazy how that happens.
Nice job, CNN, of course.
You know what they'll say?
This is what they do.
Again, showing you
how these people are clowns.
Clowns.
Bozos.
Bozos.
Krustys.
Remember Krusty?
They'll say to you,
our tweet is accurate.
The coronavirus infections
have tripled.
Yeah, but why are you focusing on them?
Not other states that have had far greater outbreaks.
The answer is because you don't like
the Republican governor of Florida
because he won't lock down.
That's it.
As I said, weird flex, no?
Another quick one.
What did I tell you about the vaccine story? the, you know, the goons in the media and on the left would never, ever give credit to President Trump for Operation Warp Speed and one of the greatest accomplishments in the healthcare space in modern human history, the development of a vaccine to this deadly virus in record time. They would never give him credit.
in human history.
The development of a vaccine to this deadly virus
in record time.
They would never give him credit.
What did I say to you last week?
That they would have to make
the story not about
the development of the vaccine
because you can't dispute that.
Even hack media outlets
can't say it didn't happen
under Trump because it did.
You can't make
two plus two equals seven.
You can try.
They did with the pee-pee hoax.
But that's even a bridge
too far for them.
So in the Benicio Del Toro usual suspense,
well, flippy, well, flippy for real.
They're going to have to flip the story
and make the story about
the delivery process of the vaccine.
The Biden administration is going to point out
from now until President Trump,
if he doesn't win a second term, leaves office,
they will point out every single flaw
in the vaccine delivery process
to say, look, they might've happened under Trump, but they totally screwed up the delivery.
It's not about, it's not about, listen, listen, it's not about the vaccine, Joe,
because they can't win that argument. It's about the delivery. Did I not say that? Did I not say
that? You should never pat yourself on the back, but'm doing it sorry washington examiner check out
this piece was in the show notes this week bongino.com slash newsletter if you want to access
the show notes biden and his team are lowering expectations for their management of the pandemic
this gets interesting by eddie scary when you go down in the piece of the examiners, there's this interesting line.
Biden insiders.
Here's one of their quotes from Ron Klain, who was announced as Biden if he wins his chief of staff.
Klain said with a straight face, and I quote, vaccines don't save lives.
Vaccinations save lives.
Oh, oh, as predicted. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Kenny Bell time.
I told you. Got to stop the Kenny Bell because it goes on forever. I told you so.
It's not about the vaccine now. It's about vaccinations and the delivery, which, of course, they will now take credit for if, in fact, Joe Biden wins this election.
And they will point out every single little flaw in this massive healthcare achievement
and the delivery of that said vaccine.
And then the media will cover for them and make Joe Biden look like the hero.
Did I not tell you?
You're going to see, it's not about the vaccine now.
It's about vaccinations.
It's not about the development, which is under President Trump.
It's about the process.
Sometimes I wish I was wrong.
Are we not always two weeks ahead of this?
Are we not?
I know.
My Aunt Jane, God rest her soul,
said self-praise stinks, and it does.
But I'm proud to let you know you're not wasting your
time here. I told you that was going to happen
because the media hacks and goons.
They can't just come out and say this is one of the
greatest healthcare achievements that happened under President
Trump in modern history. They won't say it. Not about
vaccines. It's about vaccinations now.
Which is weird, Joe, because last time I
checked, vaccinations can't happen without vaccines. Right? I'm just checking have you ever gone like to a cvs or
walmart and said i want the vaccine for the hantavirus and they come out and say here you
go sir no because i'm not sure if there is a vaccine for the hantavirus or not and i'm pretty
sure cvs doesn't have it so the vaccination for the hantavirus can't happen if they don't actually have the vaccine for the
hantavirus. Just putting that out there.
Funny how that works.
Crazy. Order,
procedure, reason, logic.
Joe's having a tough time today. It's a lot to
digest. We put a lot on Joe today.
Sometimes Joe's heavily involved.
Sometimes I go on and Joe just
lets me do my thing. Joe is overwhelmed today with information. He's heavily involved. Sometimes I go on and Joe just lets me do my thing.
Joe is overwhelmed today with information.
He's totally confused.
All right, this is my favorite story of the day.
And by favorite, I mean worst.
I don't mean worst.
Hold on, I'm laughing at myself.
And I'm crying.
I'm not kidding.
I shouldn't do that.
Never laugh at your own joke.
This is terrible today.
So I saw this story and I'm not kidding. I shouldn't do that. Never laugh at your own joke. This is terrible. So I saw this story and I'm not joking. I thought it was a joke when I first read it.
So I had to look it up and I went to one of my go-tos. I go to the Washington Examiner a lot.
And the story's actually true. Remember Jordan Peterson, noted lecturer,
author, prominent personality, does speeches, just a very popular, famous guy.
Wrote a mega bestselling book.
It was like 12 Rules for Life.
One of Paula's favorites.
It's really, really good.
Forgive me, I don't remember the exact, it's like 12 Rules for Life.
But you can look it up, Jordan Peterson, P-E-T-E-R-S-O-N.
The book did bonkers numbers. It was on the New York Times bestseller list forever.
So he's got a sequel to it coming out. So here's this, this is a real headline. It's not a joke.
Spencer Neal, Washington Examiner. So Penguin Random House is a publishing house publishing
the book. Their Canadian staff reportedly cried after news of Jordan Peterson book.
I'm crying, laughing at these idiots.
Because Jordan Peterson has spoken out for free speech,
something I strongly believe in, in civil liberties,
and Jordan Peterson has refused to use pronouns
that being forced onto him,
Z, Zao, and other things like that. Jordan Peterson says,
no, I will refer to you by your biological sex. Jordan Peterson has become a target
of the totalitarian tyrants who want to shut down anyone with an opposing viewpoint on anything.
So they showed up, the employees, these wuss bags in this company, crying, liquid, eyeballs.
And you're not embarrassed about this?
This is an actual story?
Folks, this goes back and reminds me of an episode I did a long time ago about these dwelling total losers. These pathetic, weak, pitiful, feeble-minded, weak snowflakes who
actually showed up to work and cried because of a book written by a guy that they don't like.
I think back to a story I told often,
but I have a lot of new listeners.
In my prior line of work,
I was out once doing a site
when I was a young agent.
I was like, I don't know, 24.
It was one of my first sites as a poststander,
as a secret service guy.
They just throw you out there and say,
hey, watch this wall or whatever.
I mean, that's what the new guys get,
the crappiest assignments.
You don't get any responsibility
because you're new and you can screw something up.
So I go out there.
It was a SUNY college.
I don't know what it was,
New Paltz or whatever in New York.
And Bill Clinton was doing a site there,
an appearance there.
So I'm a poststander and you know,
you're never given any responsibility,
but I guess I was just in the right spot at the right time. Bill Clinton decides it's a good idea to walk from
the basketball court he was given the speech at into the stanchions, those pull out wooden
bleacher type things. We're like, oh, what do we do? I'm new. I've been on the job like 10 minutes.
I don't know. I just got out of the academy.
And the boss at the time, this guy, Al, who was like the big shot on the Clinton detail.
He's like, hey, you.
I'm not.
He called me.
Whatever.
He didn't even care.
He just said, hey, you or something.
Grabs me and says, get up.
And you know this.
I'm talking about they roll out there like what they have.
No, very little back to them.
You can fall off them.
That day I go up there.
Clinton's shaking hands.
People go, ah, Bill, grabbing him,
trying to pet him or whatever.
Clinton, who knows?
You know, ah, Bill, we love you.
It's chaos.
So this guy, I must not be reacting fast. This guy, Al, like grabs me
and almost throws me off the bleacher,
like 20 feet down. He's like, you get
down there and whatever. Stop those maniacs from petting our guy. Folks, I kind of like crack my
skull open. Did I cry? Was I whining? Am I even mad at Al today? No, because I've got cojones and these people don't because it's a freaking job. Go to work, you total dipwads and losers. No crying in freaking baseball and there's no crying in your job. Go to work, publish the book, take your soup cooler, sew it shut and shut them up.
sew it shut and shut them up.
I'm not even mad at Al.
We had to protect the guy.
I don't even like Bill Clinton.
Who knows who was petting who?
I don't even care.
My job was to protect Bill Clinton.
The guy almost killed me.
And you know what?
I did it.
Did I go in the holding room and start crying?
Al almost threw me down the stairs.
No, because I'm not a wussy.
Let me tell you something.
The most valuable experiences in my life.
I'm not messing with you.
I mentioned this on a show a long time ago.
Some of you remember.
We're mopping floors and cleaning mausoleums.
That sounds very reductionist, Dan.
No, it's not.
I'm not talking about the most intellectual experiences of my life or experiences that developed achievement and aptitude capabilities.
I'm talking about character building exercises.
You know, character, which is at the top of the totem pole.
Wisdom and knowledge come after character.
You don't have character, wisdom and knowledge can be very dangerous.
Just check the history books.
The most informative and learned character experiences in my life
were mopping floors and cleaning mausoleums.
What does this have to do with this Jordan Peterson story?
I can guarantee you
these tier one level gold medal winning wuss bags,
these wusses who broke down in tears about a book,
about a book,
have never had a real job mopping a floor
or cleaning a mausoleum in their life.
Clean mausoleums oh i did that was a
wonderful experience especially the ones that didn't pay why because then you would have to
go in you know they have to pay for the maintenance so some of them you know what a mausoleum is
it's a big concrete like structure where they store bodies
i clean those pretty much every summer in the cemetery.
It was a wonderful experience.
When they didn't pay for five, 10 years,
you'd go in the mausoleum and the stench would be overwhelming.
I mean, obviously it's their dead bodies.
Sometimes they weren't sealed right.
And there'd be spiders and millipedes
and centipedes or whatever.
And as you open the door,
they'd fall down your shirt.
I'd have to wear a hat.
They'd be like this big.
You'd have cobwebs everywhere.
It was a great experience.
And by great, I mean atrocious.
But I got out to Spick and Span.
Remember Spick and Span?
Remember that?
We had the Spick and Span.
And then we had the little polisher and stuff.
And I'd sit there for hours cleaning that damn mausoleum clean that thing till it was you could
eat off them floors i'm not kidding marble was shining when i left because it was my job
and that's what i did And that job mattered to me.
I learned the value of work.
Seeing something through to completion.
A task.
Starts one way.
You work.
That task ends another way.
With value added.
A clean mausoleum.
You learn to find efficiencies. find quicker ways to get things done,
better ways. You learn the value of sweat, spiders down your shirt, centipedes crawling down your
unit when they fall down your drawers. That's always great. Actually happened. Wonderful,
right? What's that? It's a millipede.
Is that a millipede in your pocket?
You're just happy to see me.
No, it's a millipede.
Yeah.
That's what I said.
You learned how to orient yourself to a task.
You learned how to take instructions from people who knew better.
But again, I'll say this again.
You learn most importantly
the value of work and sweat.
I can guarantee you, guarantee you, these snowflake phony fraud wuss bags sitting there crying,
crying in an office about a book have never cleaned the mausoleum or mopped the floor in their lives. You're pathetic. Sad, pathetic,
whiny, pitiful human beings. And I legitimately, I am not kidding. I pity you. I pity your families
and anybody associated with you. Crying over a book. Pathetic. All right, folks, I hope you
enjoyed the show today. a very happy thanksgiving tomorrow
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