The Dan Bongino Show - The Deadly Consequences of the Liberal Misinformation Machine (Ep 1464)

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

In this episode, I discuss some disturbing examples of the liberal/media misinformation machine, and the deadly consequences that have resulted. I also discuss the troubling immigration policies being pushed by the Biden administration.  News Picks: Noted anti-Trump grifter David French steps on a rake, again.  Could the coronavirus be a distant memory soon?  A link to the full report on public perceptions of police use of force. A handy list of mainstream media falsehoods and propaganda. The Biden administration reopens the Trump migrant facility that the media criticized.  Jen Psaki thinks you’re an idiot, We can only ignore the iron laws of economics for so long. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Listen, this immigration debate, it's not complicated. It's not even a debate in many respects. If you were to ask 1,000 just random Americans, hey, do you believe in a border? Should we have a border? I can almost guarantee you without any other associated nonsensical questions, just that one, an overwhelming majority would say, yeah, of course. What kind of dumb question is that?

If you then ask the follow-up question, like, well, if we have a border, should we check on people who come into the country, making sure they're not a national security threat, child trafficking, bringing in illegal narcotics. They would probably say, yeah, that sounds like a good idea, too. Let's do that as well. So why is this immigration argument even a debate? It's not. Liberals are complicating.

I got that today. I've got the three questions you should ask liberals in the immigration debate and a whole bunch more. Today's a loaded show, including an update. I'm getting a lot of questions about my health and stuff. So I will put it out there where everything's okay. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. For peace of mind, get a VPN today. Don't wait. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Thank you for your great listenership. Again,

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All right, Joe, let's go. There you go, the Rush Limbaugh bell. Honor the great Rush Limbaugh. By the way, I'll be telling you a little bit about this later, too. My friend Matt Palumbo's awesome new book, Dumb and Dumber. Stay tuned for that. How Cuomo and de Blasio. The cover's hilarious, isn't it?

How Cuomo and de Blasio Rue, New York. More on this later. We'll get that. Pick that up today. All right. Before we get to the immigration debate, my first story out of the shoot here is this interesting concerted effort by the communist left.

They are communists. Let's not beat around the bush and play games with it all. To push conservative content out of social media, off the air, off of cable news. They've become full-blown anti-free speech activists, the left, and they're labeling it all under misinformation. Joe, you've heard it. You and the audience have heard it a thousand times from the hapless Brian Stelters of the world, the Chuck Todds and others, the Oliver Darcy's at CNN. They say, gosh, we really got to get rid

of people like Dan Bongino and Fox News and Sean Hannity and fill in the blank. Anyone, Ben Shapiro, whatever it may be. New York Times jumps in and says this too. Because they're misinformation, disinformation specialists. We've heard that, right? We've heard that? Well, this is interesting. I saw this article pop up about the deadly consequences of the disinformation, misinformation campaigns. Endless ones promoted by the New York

Times. It's not possible. The New York Times are the ones pointing out the disinformation on the right. They're the good guys in this, right? They're the white knights. They're the beatified saints in this, right? We've heard that. New York Times, they're doing a public service by exposing massive amounts of disinformation on the right. That's really weird. Because when you look at this piece I have in the show notes today at Just Facts Daily, show notes you can access at bongino.com slash newsletter. The newsletter is the show notes.

You'll see the sad, and I do mean sad, not a joke, sarcasm time is over. the sad, and I do mean sad, not a joke, sarcasm time is over, the sad and deadly consequences of disinformation campaigns promoted by the New York Times. This piece has a litany of mistruths, misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda published by the New York Times that I will make the case to you in the next few moments have had deadly consequences. Literally, people have been hurt and died because of disinformation campaigns by left-wing media propagandists. From the piece, you'll see just one section here which cites some New York Times quotes and some information proving that these quotes by the New York Times are, in fact, not accurate.

All right. From the Just the Facts Daily piece. Here's some instances of misinformation and disinformation, quote, spurring violence against police. According to the New York Times, quote, black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality. black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality. The piece says, well, disproven by facts from the academic journal, social, psychological, and personality science, the FBI and left-leaning center for policy equity. Second, many police officers see black men as expendable figures on the urban landscape, not quite human beings. Well, to get off, disproven by me, I was a police officer. I've never heard that ever. That's nonsense. But it says disproven by facts from ProPublica, the Times' own source, and the USDOJ. Third, according to the New York Times, Black Americans, quote, are brutalized or killed by law enforcement officers who rarely, if ever, face consequences for their actions, end quote.

Well, disproven by facts from the academic journal Criminal Justice Policy Review and the FBI. Now, folks, why does this matter? Why do these continued misinformation and disinformation campaigns by left-wing media outlets have absolutely deadly consequences? Why? Because, folks, people believe this stuff. You know, I was watching Tucker last night, and he talked about this story, and I got to tell you, it's one of the few times I was like,

darn, I wanted to talk about this tomorrow and he beat me to the punch. He did. He has a great show. Hat dip to him for picking this out too. Folks, liberals don't know anything. They are constantly misinformed about the state of affairs in the actual real world. And it has deadly consequences. That's not sarcasm. You doubt me?

Look at this tweet by Zach Goldberg on his social media account. Quote, showing how little liberals know, and yet they vote for people who implement policies according to their worldview that's false.

Quote, a recent national survey commissioned by Skeptic magazine asked respondents, follow this folks, to estimate the number of unarmed blacks killed by police in 2019. Fair question. How many unarmed black men or women were killed by police in 2019? many unarmed black men or women were killed by police in 2019 well overall 44 nearly half of liberals guessed 1 000 or more black citizens were killed unarmed black citizens were killed by police as compared to 20 of conservatives who believe this you can see the chart right next to it rumble.com slash bongino if you'd actually like to look at the visuals here.

That's interesting, Joe. Nearly half of liberals questioned, thought that over 1,000 unarmed black men, black citizens, black men or women, were killed by police officers in the United States in 2019, not armed, brutally mowed down, right? According to some of the left-leaning media narratives.

That's fascinating. Why is that fascinating? Because how many unarmed black men were actually killed by police officers in 2019? 27. Oh. You think? You're only off by a factor of, uh,

what, 40? Wow. Now, you may say, all right, Dan, what's the breaking news here? Liberals don't know anything. We already know that. Liber liberals are misinformed about taxes school choice health care communism socialism government regulation just about everything immigration policy so what's the news here well the news here folks is because liberals believe that there is a absolute pandemic of police murdering black men

across the country who are unarmed, a fact not borne out by any statistics or reality at all. Liberals engage in public policy decisions which get you hurt. You. They get you hurt. hurt you. They get you hurt. I'll show you in a minute what I mean. I've got a series of articles showing how public policy decisions to defund the police because there is a misinformation campaign to make you believe that the police are hunting you down if you are black has led to decisions like defunding the police and after defunding the police has had catastrophic consequences and attacks on the police deadly consequences we still have people where is it gaslighting here it is thank you gaslight movie guy who sent me this gaslighting you or lying to you convincingly that's what gaslighting is we still have people gaslighting and joe they're curious as to gosh

why are homicide levels spiking in the united states after these endless attacks on police i don't know i just can't figure it out look here's an article by the intercept unbelievable what drove the historically large murder spike in 2020 now you would think the subject keep this up a second you would think the Unbelievable. What drove the historically large murder spike in 2020? Now, you would think the subtitle of the article would say, attacks on police, defunding the police, crapping on the police, making them feel terrible, and not letting them enforce the law. Right, Joe?

This is a reasonable piece. You would think that, right? But don't get ahead of yourself being reasonable. Come on, guy. We are citing the intercept here. here's the subtitle of it so what drove the historically large murder spike in 2020 uh the pandemic police violence and more guns all contributed to an unprecedented rise in murders across the united states do you Do you see what they do? They just can't tell you. And liberals believe it. I'm really sorry. Not all of you. I don't want to stereotype, but large swaths of liberals live in... I use the example a lot because it's funny and a lot

of people remember it. Remember the Seinfeld episode, right? George Costanza, who is like the loser in the show, you know, George Costanza, just, he's like the guy, you know, he just can't do anything right. George's life is so bad. Excuse me. George decides to do everything backwards and see how his life works out. He yells at his boss.

He tells his dates. He lives with his mom. Remember that episode, Joe? And all of a sudden, what happens? George's luck changed. He tells his dates. He lives with his mom. Remember that episode, Joe? And all of a sudden, what happens? George's luck changed. He gets a promotion. George Steinbrenner makes him like the president of the Yankees. The dates think he's the hottest guy around.

It's a joke, of course, but that's the world liberals live in, where everything is backwards, but the catch is nothing works out. We have to defund the police. They're hunting down black men who are unarmed across the country and killing them. That's not true. You're just making it up as evidenced by your answers to a question

where you were notably misinformed because the New York Times and others, are you seeing how we're laying this out, has been telling you this forever. And you're blaming right-wing media for disinformation and misinformation, for exposing you guys? And even when you're exposed,

people like The Intercept double and triple down. My gosh, what is it, it joe homicide spiking everywhere we've been attacking the police trying to defund them what could it be oh my what could it possibly what i just can't figure this out can somebody help me please can we get the car knack from the johnny carson what he used to put the thing to his head right what is it it must be guns and and americans love affair with guns despite the fact that gun ownership historically over the past few decades has gone up and crime had gone down that's really weird they have no data to back that up it must be the pandemic it has to be no that's really weird because a lot of other crimes, like property crimes,

have gone down in the pandemic. It's just homicides in many places. So you got to throw that out too. But data, data, shmeda, who needs data? We're the New York Times and others. We can lie to liberals

because they're dumb enough to believe it. Here is what sane people, Joe, like you and I would call the law of cause and effect. But irrational liberals will completely miss the... You ever, you know,

remember in math class you had the equal sign and then when things don't equal they put the line through the equal and then when it may equal something you put the squiggly equal. Remember that stuff for you math folks out there. This is one of those conservatives get this, the connection I'll make in a minute. New York Times is going to equal the Star Tribune article we're going to put up in a

minute, right? Equal sign. Liberals, folks, should I diagram this out? Paula, should we diagram this out? We should. Hold on, folks. I'm'm sorry but we need to do a tutorial because there are some liberals listening who won't get this

so conservatives these two equal right for you math folks out there for liberals this won't equal for some persuadable democrats who were smart it may equal after we're done okay Okay. I just a little

diagram, a little help for the listening. That's a lot. I know, but this is important stuff. I know it's a lot. We're getting ahead of us. A very scientific show today. So here you go. Liberal disinformation campaign, um, New York times headline, Minneapolis will dismantle its police force council members pledge why wouldn't they Joe Minneapolis was told the police are hunting down randomly black men to shoot them when they're unarmed folks that's pretty scary if I happen to be black I agree I would be terrified it's a plague of black men and women being shot dead unarmed in the street a plague over a thousand a year except there's not over a thousand 27 so that leads to headlines like this in the new york times now again conservatives get the equals here um that equals this star

tribune in minnesota minneapolis to consider bringing in outside police officers amid shortage where's my can someone grab my thing we need can you grab my equals thingy we got we need i'm sorry i threw the equals thing thank you paula you can just chuck it right back paula really exists some of you don't believe look at that you see it see that was not a ghost it was not casper here we go equal equal equal minnesota defunds his police equals a rise in crime therefore star tribune minneapolis has to consider bringing in outside police officers amid shortage liberals don't get it disconnect don't equal even semi-persuadable Democrats are starting to get this. Well, that might equal. Let me need this again. Do you get now the deadly consequences?

Legitimately. Sorry about the emotional ups and downs and vicissitudes of the show here, but this rollercoaster emotionally matters to me. I was a police officer. It matters. People's safety and security matter. What does tax policy matter if you're dead? Seriously, what does Obamacare versus free market health care matter if you're dead? What does school choice policy matter?

If every day you come home from school, you're subject to being dead and being robbed and murdered or raped or assaulted. What does that even matter? But because liberals believe in deadly misinformation campaigns by people like the New York Times and elsewhere, they believe they're being hunted by police, which is factually entirely, it's false. It's made up, it's a gaslighting narrative. They then enact policies like defunding their police, which leads to people then really dying, which then leads people like Minneapolis and crazy liberals in Minneapolis to say,

hey, maybe we should bring the cops back because Joe, I don't want to die. Just a note for those of you who think i'm a hater out there because you're liberals and you just don't know me or listen to my show i don't want you to die they said well dan that's obvious no it's not to liberals liberals are insane they really don't understand what's in my heart i want you to live and prosper i was a police officer in a largely minority community, and I dedicated my life to it for a couple of years, but it mattered to me. Didn't do it for the money. It mattered. You deserve it. You're American citizens too,

and you should be asking your leaders, why is my neighborhood going under in Minneapolis? Because I have to listen to these liberal idiots. Why do I have to walk to school and worry about getting killed every day? Why? Because the people in charge chose it to be that way. All right. Let me get to my second sponsor on the other side of this. I want to get to a video. Back to Thomas Sowell. Back to thomas soul back to thomas soul because when we need guidance on why liberals simply cannot embrace facts i just gave you facts a poll where liberals don't understand the facts they believe thousands of black men a year being hunted by the police and killed it that is not a fact you understand that that's made up that is

not if that's not the real that that's the George Costanza world. That's not real. It's fake. So Thomas Sowell has this great segment on their Hoover Institution thing with Thomas Sowell where he does stuff

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You're going to hear an open with AOC spewing some nonsense and Thomas Sowell talking about the left's problem with this thing, Joe, called the facts and the real real world it's an ongoing problem they really really should address sometime check out the great thomas soul i think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely factually and semantically correct than about being morally right. We're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. And they're being taught that it's important to have views. And they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about. It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint and more important to learn how to distinguish whether why viewpoint a

and viewpoint b are different and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it they disregard that they hear something and they hear some rhetoric and they run with it get some facts first know what you're talking about before you start spouting out this kind of stuff. I love this guy. How do you not love this guy? Listen, I don't have the gravitas of the presidential office to give out awards, okay? I just run Bongino Inc., not the White House.

But if there was a presidential Medal of Freedom, if there was the Dan Bongino Medal of Freedom, I would have Thomas Sowell on the set. But he would never come and accept it because nobody wants the Dan Bongino Medal of Freedom, I would have Thomas Sowell on the set, but he would never come and accept it because nobody wants the Dan Bongino Medal of Freedom, okay? No, even Dan Bongino, because it's probably worthless. But if I had one and I had the gravitas to do it, to use the dreaded DC buzz term, I would do the ceremony, all official with Thomas Sowell, right around the neck where they give him the old award. We can all clap, give him a proclamation.

I hereby declare today, I would do it in a minute. The man is just one of the greatest minds of our time. That statement there, Joe, it's deeper than it sounds. It sounds like he's making a joke, but he's right. This new generation of leftists, which feels entitled to an opinion without actually having any facts to back it up. And then the beginning of that's great because it's AOC who is seriously one of the, if there were the opposite of intellectual titans, AOC's it. lightens AOC's it. She's like, I don't really have a lot of facts, but precision with facts doesn't really matter because we're morally right. You are, you're morally right. So you get the facts wrong in a disinformation campaign against the police, making people believe they're being hunted in the streets, which is in fact false. That leads to defunding the police

in cities like Minneapolis, which leads to increases in crime where people get hurt and killed, which leads then to a call to refund and bring in more police. Yet precision doesn't matter and you're morally right and we're the idiots.

Explain that again, please. Explain that again, please. What did I miss there? And please explain to me again how the New York Times, Washington Post, Brian Stelter, CNN, Oliver Darcy, and the other disinformation, misinformation specialists, these are propagandists and very specific

tactical misinformation specialists. Explain to me again how they're not leading to the downfall of the United States through silly propaganda efforts like this that turn deadly. Explain, I'd love to hear it. I'd love to hear it. They're all entitled to an opinion

entirely divorced from actual facts. That's their worldview. I'm entitled to an opinion. I am a liberal snowflake. Is your opinion actually based in any reality? Hell no. Who needs that? Get the point if you're watching the video.

All right, moving on. You know, I'm working on another audio podcast product for you, a news product. I'll have more on that in the future but it's interesting i was talking to one of the guys doing it maybe the same guy and uh he was asking me how you transition from stories and how i do it i'm like i don't know i just say let's go to the next story is there i don't know like that's how i do talk radio there are rules for this i don't know if there are i never read. How do you get to the next story?

Joe, you've been in radio a while. Is there like some kind of rule? No. Yeah, you're supposed to. It's very personal. What do we do? We're like, yeah, we're done with this. Yeah, very personal.

Yeah, it is, I guess. We're like, nah, I don't feel like talking about it. Let's just go to the next. That's how I do it. I don't know. If there's some radio textbook I never read, maybe I should. Maybe we'd have even more listeners. Who knows?

All right, moving on. There you go. What a transition. I moved on from that even though it wasn't a story. No debate frustrates me more. None. None than the immigration debate. There are a lot.

The tax debate, the school choice debate, the healthcare debate, the regulations debate, the socialism debate. But I've got to tell you, I'm not kidding. Nothing frustrates me more than the immigration debate because there really is no debate. When you're talking to sane people, again, not the radical left, because it doesn't matter. They're not rational. They're the George Costanzas. They do everything backwards, but nothing works out.

George Steinbrenner fires them. So if there's really no debate, and as I said in the beginning of the show, immigration is largely common sense. We are a country. Therefore, a country delineates borders right or else it's not a country it's a suggestion of a country right i'm just checking if we had a country with no definable borders how is it a country yeah here's the united states and then joe points to mexico and canada um little joe points to what you would traditionally call the United States. Another person points just to the continental United States. Another person points to Florida.

You're like, wait, I thought this was a country, meaning there's some unifying definition as to what is. No, no, we all think it's something different because there's no borders. That's rational, right? Like have the irrational nature of that is rational, like how stupid that would be so we all agree a country should have some definable delineation point in a border saying saying saying people right we all agree secondly right that if a country has a border, that you should probably, if you come into the country,

have a process for enforcing what that border is. Because if you had a border and you sent a message around the world that said, listen, we've got this border on a map of where the United States begins and ends, but here's the hard reality, folks. We don't really care. Do what you want.

Fly in in walk in boat in whatever you have to do jogging running sprinting bear crawling doing a crossfit workout we don't care the border's just a suggestion you'd probably say well that's not a good idea either because you know we have problems with narco, child trafficking, illegal immigration would become a really, really big problem, right? So sane people are probably like, no, a border sounds like a good idea. Checking folks who come in probably sounds like a good idea too. So why is there a debate? You've been watching the show, right? Because the same reason there's a debate about

defunding the police, because liberal disinformation networks, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, the New York Times, and other prominent liberals, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and others have the American people believing that we don't really need a border, that it's unnecessary and there'll be no problems associated. We should just open up the country because, Joe, it's compassionate. So people make really stupid decisions based on misinformation, you doubt me? Showing you how these people are just lying to you and that they don't even believe what they're telling you. Just like people telling you that the police are hunting down black men in mass and shooting them dead unarmed in mass. Just like the people telling you that, you know, the AOCs of the world

and others don't actually believe it. Here is proof, hard proof in this one minute and what, 15 second video clip that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don't believe that their immigration policies are real either because when Donald Trump did the same thing with immigration, in other words, detained people who went through the country illegally in an immigration facility, they called it, and I'm quoting, a human rights abuse when Trump did it.

Human rights abuse. In other words, they were the compassionate ones. You can't let people. The same facility. They put people across the country illegally. That same facility is open right now under Joe Biden. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Time out.

Hold on. Red flag. Red flag. Review. Under the hood for review, folks. My relief band annoyed. So when this facility to detain people who entered the country illegally was opened under Trump,

it was a human rights abuse. But weird, now it's open under Biden and it's totally different, Joe. Play Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki responding to a question about this very specific thing from Peter Doocy, who's like, wait, wait, the media told us this was a massive human rights abuse just a few years ago, but now no problems at all. Peter Doocy, of course, works for Fox because no other media outlet would touch this. Check this out. It's the same facility that was open for a month in the Trump administration, summer 2019. month in the Trump administration, summer 2019. That is when Joe Biden said, under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages.

And Kamala Harris said, basically babies in cages is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. So how is this any different than that? We very much feel that way. And these are facilities, let me be clear here. One, there's a pandemic going on. I'm sure you're not suggesting that we have children right next to each other in ways that are not COVID safe. Are you? I'm suggesting that Kamala Harris said that this facility, putting people in this facility was a human rights abuse committed by the United States government. And Jill Biden said under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes of border at the border of kids being kept in cages. Now it's not under Trump, it's

under Biden. This is not kids being kept in cages. This is kids, this is a facility that was opened that's going to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities. It is not a replication. Certainly not. That is never our intention of replicating the immigration policies of the past administration. That's really weird. That's really, really weird. They're not being kept in cages, Joe. Now they're being kept in shipping containers. Shipping containers.

Much better. Oh, yes, that's much better. Definitely not a human rights abuse. You can actually look, folks. They're shipping containers. You definitely don't want to put them in cages. You definitely want to stick them in shipping containers instead. That's totally not a human rights abuse.

Now you see why we live in this world of left-wing misinformation where left-wing media folks like the new york times the washington post cnn and msnbc are pumping out reams of false information and propaganda with no facts to back it up like thomas soul said they think they're entitled to an opinion with no facts. And then when the facts confront them, where's my guy? They gaslight. Thank you, Captain Gaslight guy, movie guy.

They gaslight you again. This movie's coming in very handy. I got to find the name of the dude who sent that. May have been a woman, sorry. When they're confronted with the painful fact like wait wait guys guys guys guys guys you media folks and everything peter ducy from fox you told us this was a human rights abuse and yet you're putting these kids back in the same human rights abusing quote facility no no coronavirus shipping containers are better

it's all bs and you keep falling for it if you're a liberal. You know, pretty much sum this up. I saw this on Cabot Phillips' social media account yesterday. Cabot Phillips is a Republican activist, I believe. He had this handy chart to understanding liberals' love affair with misinformation and disinformation. This chart is very scientific. Joe, get ready. Throw that up on the screen.

You can check this out at rumble.com slash Bongino. Please subscribe to our video show. We put a lot of work into it. This chart is very scientific and it breaks down how exactly this works. So it starts with box one. It's kind of a binary question. Is Donald Trump president? If your answer is yes, and go up to the uh fork in the

road there then you have three options for these immigration facilities you can call them cages concentration camps or jail cells that's if donald trump is president thank you kevin now he has another handy little fork in the road then is donald trump the president no no when donald trump is not the president these very very same facilities, Joe, are called temporary structures, emergency facilities, and overflow camps. This is a very handy chart. Thank you, Cabot. It explains everything. It explains everything. The exact same facility, but it doesn't really matter because if Joe Biden's in office, it's the same, but it's not really the same. It's to be defined a different way. Again, gaslighting. What is gaslighting? Telling a lie often, which the media does. Black men are being hunted unarmed around the country. Tell it

confidently. Say that it's a lie. It's not based in any objective reality whatsoever, but say it confidently. No, no, I swear. I swear those are concentration camps Donald Trump is putting together on the southern border. I swear black men are being killed and hunted down and masked by the police. Say it confidently. Say the lie. Say it confidently. What is step three of the gaslighting process? Otherwise, I was lying and propagandizing.

You have to isolate people from the truth. And that's what the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC do by their coordinated, coordinated misinformation campaigns. And I don't mean coordinated like there's some central Borg-like figure. I just mean because they're liberals,

they just know what to do. They don't need instructions. But it's coordinated in a more philosophical sense. They know how to lie in tandem, lie, lie confidently, and isolate people from the truth so they never see it. If you didn't see Peter Doocy yesterday, you wouldn't realize that the exact same facility that they called under Trump a human rights abuse, our current vice president, Kamala Harris, is now open under current vice president Kamala Harris.

How do you break out of gaslighting? You don't fall for option three. Don't isolate yourself from the truth. Seek out hard facts and reality, which you get on this show, which liberals laugh at. Ha ha, it's so funny. The damn Bungie no show facts.

Really? We've exposed you repeatedly, the left, repeatedly for your lying all right um let me get to my third sponsor and on the other side of this i've been getting a lot of questions and you were right you were right i've been getting a lot of questions about dan okay we're ready we dust it off we're upset about the last election you should be there should be a supreme court hearing about the disaster in penn You should be. There should be a Supreme Court hearing about the disaster in Pennsylvania and Arizona,

but the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility. But a woman emailed me yesterday. I read your emails. And she said, what do we do? Now, on the what do we do front, not talk about, I have always been hesitant to get into the candidate business. And I'll tell you why. I've run for office myself.

And candidly, folks, I'm consistently disappointed by candidates. I'm sorry, but it's true. They ask me to get involved. I get involved. Right, Paula? And they, she's like shaking her head. They almost always disappoint you later. And it just pisses me off.

Can I say that? Sorry, I just did. Sorry, kids. But I'm going to try to do my best here to venture back into the candidate game because the primary season for 2022 has already started and we have to start getting rid of these disastrous Republican deadweight, you know,

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The disastrous, failed, discredited, disgraced congressman from Illinois. A joke of a politician. Adam Kinzinger, not even a rhino. This guy's not even a rhino. This guy's a full-blown leftist. Adam Kinzinger. If we can beat Adam Kinzinger in a primary, this would be huge. Here's our first entrant, the Dan Bongino candidate sweepstakes.

She looks good, and a lot of people I know are vouching for her. Catalina Laufe, L-A-U-F, and let me just give her a website before you see this little teaser video here at the beginning. this little teaser video here at the beginning. Catalina with a C for F-O-R, congress.com. You got it? Catalina for congress.com. Check this out. I'm a firm believer in the American motto,

united we stand, divided we fall. And we need to be united now more than ever. I never thought I'd primary a fellow Republican, but is Congressman Adam Kinzinger really a Republican anymore? He isn't. And we have the proof. No beating around the bush there. The video is about three minutes.

It's very good. I encourage you to look at it. You can check it out on our social media accounts, but go to Catalina for congress.com. And maybe we should start showing our support. You're asking me, I'm getting this a lot. What can we do? Well, now you can do something. You're in our district. Stop by. She probably has a campaign headquarters that has a contact button on our website. Catalina for Congress dot com. Check it out. Contact her. If you're in Illinois, you don't have to be in her district. I had people when I ran for Congress in Maryland that didn't even live in Maryland. People lived in Virginia were volunteering for my campaign. You want to know what you can do? That's what you can do. Go help her out. Let's get rid of Kinzinger. He's a

total mess. All right, moving on. So just a quick update. I've been getting a lot of questions because I did mention the health situation on Hannity, and I really sincerely do not want to make this show about my health. There are people in far, far worse condition than me. I was watching a movie last night. I'm not going to say which one, but I was watching it with Paul a few minutes at the end. There's one of the actors in the movie. It's based on a real story. That's the only reason I bring it up. It was informed he had a deadly disease and only had about 60 days to live. The scene is pretty traumatic. I said to Paul, can you imagine what it's like to hear that? How devastating, how everything you thought

was you were going to see, thought you were going to live through, your daughter's wedding or whatever it may be has been truncated into a 60-day block of your life. I mean, what do you do? Do you, really? What a horror. There are people in that very real situation.

And I want to make sure you understand that I'm not anybody's victim. And I just feel like because you've lived with me for five, six, seven years of my life, that I say things on other shows and I don't say them here. And people email me. They say, why didn't you say it in your own show? And because it's complicated. I really just don't want to make this show about some kind of weird sob story. You know, I was diagnosed with cancer, which is really kind of sucks. It's still weird saying that. So I thought I was free of it. And I just rang that bell, which felt really good to do because I had finished my radiation

and chemo. And they found some nodules on my lungs, three of them. And we don't know what they are. I should know hopefully by next week or maybe the week after that. But for all you medical pros out there, we don't know what they are. And it's really weird. I'm obviously hoping they're not cancer, but could I have had COVID, coronavirus? Was there some damage on my lungs from chemo? What is it? I don't know. It's just really freaking me out. So just a quick update, but I think I'll be okay. And either way, it's treatable. And I just want you to know, I'm nobody's victim. I haven't even missed the show since we started cancer treatment ever.

And I don't plan on if I can help it because there's just too much going on. But speaking of COVID, because I'm wondering, did I have COVID? Was there some lung damage from COVID? Even the doctor was openly on the phone. We were chatting yesterday. I have great doctors, Dr. Iannotti, local, and his terrific staff, and then MD Anderson. I had some good doctors at Sloan. But I'm wondering. And I saw this article this morning in Town Hall about COVID.

And it cites another article in the Wall Street Journal by Marty McCary, who works works over at fox news i think he's a contributor over there he's a doctor and the question starting to emerge like what are the democrats going to do it's a great piece at red red uh excuse me town halls forgive me if i said red state town hall why the democrats covid lockdown regime could come crashing down by april matt vespa town hall be in the show notes please subscribe to the show notes for almost 500 000 people bongino.com slash news Town Hall. Be in the show notes. Please subscribe to the show notes. We're almost at 500,000 people. Bongino.com slash newsletters, how you access the show notes. The newsletter, again, is the show notes. And it addresses, the reason I'm citing the Wall Street Journal piece in the Town Hall piece is the Town Hall piece is great. And I want you to read that too, because it addresses really two things, folks. How the Democrats have used a very serious

crisis with COVID-19 and coronavirus to do two things, economic lockdowns and school closures. The information, though, now, getting the theme of the show, the information backing that up, that we should keep the economy locked down and schools closed, is almost non-existent, just like the information that police are hunting down thousands of black men and shooting them unarmed is non-existent too. The evidence isn't there, but people still believe it. But that evidence is going to get harder and harder to, one more time, gaslight people with.

Because what's the third component of gaslighting? Lie, lie often. What's number three? Keep them insulated. You have to isolate people. Yes. Yes. And it's going to get harder to insulate people

from a deadly pandemic where everybody should stay in their house, never leave, keep their kids out of school and starve to death first. It's going to get harder to isolate people from the truth as people start to ask around and realize that, you know, everybody had COVID a little while ago i knew friends who had all not many people getting covid i don't see a lot of infections around here so why am i keeping my kid out of school

and my business going bankrupt uh i'm wondering so the core of the town the core premise of the town hall article is this doctor marty mackery saying hey by april this coronavirus pandemic at least not that it's not going to be infections and it's not going to be still it'll always be serious and it will remain a threat forever the coronavirus is here it's never going anywhere but the level of threat will be so low by april it's going to be really hard to isolate people from the truth anymore and gaslight them into believing economic lockdowns and closing the schools are a good idea from the town hall piece and the wall street journal this is marty mackery he says amid the dire covid warnings one crucial fact has been largely ignored cases are down 77 percent not

7.7 77 percent over the past six weeks if a medication slashashed cases by 77%, we call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than the experts, Joe, predicted? Experts. In large part, because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. You see why I threw that in

the beginning of this health update? Was I infected with coronavirus and didn't even know? Is that what's in my lungs? I don't know. I have no idea. Sorry, didn't mean to get off your back to the quote. Testing has been capturing only 10 to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of one in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55 percent of americans already have natural immunity what dr mccurry or mackery forgive me i'm not saying a name wrong intentionally

mackery is saying is depending on when you were infected if you were infected during a really heavy spike joe the chances of you getting a test or whatever may have been minimized because of delays and things like that. So depending on when exactly you got the virus and if you were symptomatic or not, we didn't capture all the cases. Hence, we have this weird statistic called confirmed cases where we know through a test. I say weird because that doesn't mean all the cases. That just means people who were tested. But if a large number of people are asymptomatic, possibly me, and we'll know soon, possibly me,

then it's kind of weird to use a confirmed cases that doesn't give you the total number of cases. But you can extrapolate some data from that. And if the confirmed cases are only a small portion of actual cases, means joe a whole lot of people may now have some natural immunity to this virus meaning that when you combine that with the vaccine if you choose to take it or not of course it's up to you the many vaccines you may have in april a pandemic that's been severely diminished, thank the Lord. And I'm not using his name in vain.

And all of a sudden, you're gaslighting. You're not going to be able to isolate people from the truth anymore. People are going to look around and say, my neighbors are healthy. My family's healthy. I haven't heard anything in my neighborhood about a mass outbreak. Why again are we doing this? Well, the liberals are doing it because, number one, they wanted to soften us up to their tyranny with their lockdowns to get us used to them being in charge.

Remember that piece I played from Naomi Wolf at the end of yesterday's show? If you haven't seen it, it is a must watch. And secondly, they want to keep schools closed so they can cater to the teachers' units. It's really that simple. All right, let me get to my last sponsor. I want to show you this book again because it's units. It's really that simple. All right, let me get to my last sponsor. I want to show you this book again because it's awesome.

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Here's the deal, folks, with Parler, because it's important. I am still an investor in Parler. I will remain such for of questions. Damn, what's going on with Parler? Here's the deal, folks, with Parler, because it's important. I am still an investor in Parler. I will remain such for as long as I want my money and assets tied up in there. I still think it is obviously, or else I wouldn't be an investor, that it is a great alternative to the tech tyrants at Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. Having said that, I'm, as of today, I believe, no longer involved really with the day-to-day. I'm sorry.

I've got a lot going on in my life. It's nothing personal. It's just, I just can't, folks. I've got a lot going on in my life. It's really that simple. I've got too many things to do. So I get a lot of emails about, hey, what's up with Parla? And I understand that.

But candidly, folks, you have to send it to them. I'm not abandoning them or anything like that. I just, I have to get control over my life a little bit. There's a lot going on right now. So I am not involved in the day-to-day. I don't know the new interim CEO at all. I don't have anything personal against him. I told you yesterday, the ridiculous fairy tale that he's involved with George Soros is so funny. I thought it was a joke when I first read it, but I don't know him at all. So I'll leave it at that.

All right. I am going to do this David French story because I just want to prove Guy wrong. Ah, just kidding. I love Guy. He's a good man. So while we're talking about Parler, I'm trying on my show to,

I'm trying, it's not working out really well, but I'm trying on my show to not hit people directly as much. But some people are so worthy of condemnation because of their rank hypocrisy, ignorance, and dangerous stupidity. People who put out rumors like the Russian collusion hoax is real, which caused people to believe the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, was a traitor. People put out rumors like the police are hunting black men and shooting them by the thousands. These are dangerous. They lead people to make really dangerous,

pernicious, stupid decisions. Well, one of those collusion hoaxers was a guy who pretended to be a Republican apparently forever. It was a guy by the name of David French at National Review, who is really an example of the depravity in our modern Trump environment

because we're still in it. May not be in the Trump presidency, but Donald Trump still dominates the media cycle. Donald Trump broke David French, who really has shown he has no principles at all. It only matters in light of what I just discussed with Parler because David French, who pretended to be a Republican forever,

again, a big PP tape hoaxer, apparently wasn't smart enough to figure out that the collusion hoax was a hoax. I guess he's not that bright. But it's interesting. Yesterday, I brought up a story. Was it yesterday? I think it was yesterday about Amazon engaged in book burning. I don't use Amazon anymore because they're a farce. They're in the book burning business and they burned a book by Ryan T. Anderson, a book called When Harry Became Sally,

Responding to the Transgender Moment. So Amazon's in the book burning business and pulled the book off the shelves because it didn't meet the liberal priorities and Amazon's a largely, not largely, it's a liberal company. So David French, we agree that this was unacceptable.

Chimes in, he says, wow, I hope this is a mistake, Amazon. Here's his tweet. If not, then it's absurd and unacceptable. Wow, you said, what are you hitting David French for? We agree. Because David French,

apparently he's friendly with Ryan T. Anderson. I've never met Ryan T. Anderson in my life. I just have principles, and I actually believe in things like book burning probably not being a good idea. But not David French. He loves tech tyranny by Amazon and others. He loves it when they're not his friends and people who support the MAGA movement, like a lot of folks on Parler and me who's an investor in Parler. This is the same David French on his Twitter profile. Again, big free speech, Joe, civil rights activist, David French. I say that laughing, of course. Here's his Twitter account. I'd encourage it when Amazon, by the way, deplatformed Parler and took us off of Amazon Web Services. This is him. I'd encourage everyone who believes that Amazon must host Parler's content to read Amazon's brief.

The power of the state should not be used to force Americans to host and help disseminate mass amounts of death threats and insurrectionary content. He then went on later, by the way, I don't have this tweet up, to say that, yeah, Parler couldn't control that. David French doesn't, number one, doesn't know anything about Parler at all. David French is one of these pseudo-intellectual buffoons who constantly opines on things he has no idea about. He doesn't even understand the Parler moderation process, but he opines about it and supports Amazon's deplatforming of Parler, despite the

fact that Facebook and Twitter actually had a bigger role in the, quote, hosting of violent content because David French and facts never, ever meet. David French is actually the guy, whether Thomas Sowell knows, Thomas Sowell was talking about in that quote, although David French thinks he's Thomas Sowell. Showing you what a character-free buffoon this coward is, because he is. Here's David French again, stomping on Rush Limbaugh's grave. Rush Limbaugh, 10,000 times the man David French will ever be. From his Twitter account, full of stupidity, by the way. Rush Limbaugh shaped and mirrored his generation,

the angriest conservative generation. Ideas took a backseat to opposition. Ideology is malleable. Ideology is malleable from this buffoon who can't even decide if he loves or hates Amazon when they deplatform his friends. He goes on, the confrontation is mandatory. That's the migration Rush made. That's the migration Rush made. That's the migration millions made.

So, you know, David French, zero principles, spineless jellyfish. Dan, you said you wouldn't make it personal. I'm sorry. This guy's the epitome of everything wrong with America today. So it's clear, Joe, from that tweet, he just doesn't like Limbaugh. Yeah. Limbaugh is an angry guy, fostered a non-ideological, dopey, malleable generation.

He said that, right? That's weird because when Limbaugh used to talk about his articles, here's the same David French, same guy, same guy. For those of you who know Mike Bill Clinton, same guy. Here's the same David French on his Twitter account. When Rush is reading this piece, I humbly submit that it's worth your read to. Of course, it's his

article in National Review. He tweeted that back in 2016. He loved Rush when Rush put out his article. Really weird. You know what's really strange? I've actually cited David French, too, because I mistakenly thought at times that he was a principled human being. He's

not. Beware. Beware of people like David French. They're pseudo-intellectuals. They're the same pseudo-intellectual soul as talking about. People who aren't married to facts, whose principles are malleable,

despite the fact that French thinks he's calling out people whose, quote, principles are malleable. Our principles are the same. So much so, I don't even like David French. And when I thought he had something to say, oh, there's another one of these? Oh, I totally forgot about that. When I thought he had something to say, I actually put his work out there, despite the fact that I personally don't like him because I have principles. Now I've come to the conclusion after his latest Amazon episode

and his flip-flopping again, that this is a character-free guy. By the way, here's another tweet, sorry, from David French celebrating Rush Limbabaugh again the same rush limbaugh he was crapping on his grave this is from 2015 david the french you've got to read this you have to that's what rush limbaugh said about this piece during the show today citing of course a national review piece where french works now you know why i barely use national review anymore. Unbelievable. Scam artists, trafficking and misinformation and disinformation. David French was a pee-pee hoaxer. Getting people to believe things that aren't true, altering reality we live in, and really forcing people into boxes where they make stupid decisions like defunding the police, which cost people their lives. David French does stuff like that. Telling you how angry he is at Amazon for deplatforming his friend

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