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Episode Date: December 15, 2021

Pat Gray joins to discuss the pandemic, vaccine propaganda, and the TV show "Yellowstone." Glenn and Stu discuss Elon Musk and his Twitter war with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Glenn’s COVID special was ���fact-checked,” so Glenn goes through the government’s co-ownership of the vaccine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've experienced and we've come a very, we've come a very long way on cringeworthy things that are coming from the government. Also, what the mayor of San Francisco is doing and is this a turning point? We talk a little bit about what Elon Musk did to Elizabeth Warren and John Stossel's attorney

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heading over to Studez America to do the same. There, we play the song. It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela on the program today. You can get that and listen as many times as you like, share it, and subscribe at Studez America on this podcast platform. You're listening to. So Elon Musk yesterday,

he was named Times, the Time Magazine's 21 person of the year. So Elizabeth Warren tweets, let's change the rig tax code so the person of the year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else. Musk followed up saying, stop projecting.

You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend's angry mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason. In another, That is her profile. It is. It is. She's angry.

She's always angry in that, oh, that voice. Yeah, I know. I mean, this is why, of course, she didn't even come close to winning the primary. I think she did better than Kamelo. Oh, well, that's not a standard, though. Is that really a standard you're shooting for? In another tweet, he said, oh, please don't call the manager on me, Senator Karen. I love this.

And I love this guy because he just, he says out loud what a lot of people think. And he is a guy who I have real problems with at times because now he's saying, you know, no subsidies should be available. Well, after he got his subsidy. So is he kicking the door behind him to stop everybody else? Or is he really had a change of heart? Hopefully he's really had a change of heart. But I don't know. but here's what I want to talk to you about.

I'm not sure if the people that we have, quote, unquote, coming over to our side have actually really changed other than they realize their side is really dangerous now. So in other words, are they like Republicans that join the T-Py. party that realized I got to be out of this Republican Party because it doesn't they don't stand for anything and we realized that and while we torch the Republican Party many of us will still vote for the Republican Party do you know you understand what I'm saying so I'm not sure if these guys have had a real awakening to our argument or they're now seeing the people they've been standing in the room with and they're like, I don't want to be with these people.

This is crazy. And so they've revealed themselves as the true more libertarian liberal that they always have been. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I think that's, I mean, the Overton window is a, is, is hard. In effect here, we talked about this with Bob Costas the other day who, you know, he had this call with Jim Garrity, who, who, who had criticized him for some of his monologues about guns and the Washington Redskins team name and said he was, you know, as we did as well, that he was, Bob Kossis seems like a crazy liberal.

And Kossis called up and said, hey, I'm not that guy. I'm not far left. And just the fact that he would want to disagree with being outed as a someone who is far left indicates he probably isn't far left. Because the AOC never comes up and says, no, I'm really not socialist. That's not what these people do anymore. Right. That's an old era of liberal.

And what's weird is they are now separating themselves. They were the ones who would have said, Glenn Beck's crazy, saying that everybody's a Marxist. You know, we're not Marxist. When, you know, Newsweek magazine ran the headline. We're all Marxist now. And they were the ones that would jump on the bandwagon defending the people who were on the Democratic side that were truly Marxist. Now, did they just not believe that?

Or have they had an awakening to Marxism? Were they always part of this kind of Marxist soup? And they've just backed up and said, okay, this is not going to work here. Or were they just truly a blind liberal that were just thought the party is the party and were not Marxists? Yeah, maybe they thought it was just overblown Republicans were saying these things and they're not true.

And to be fair, there were a lot more on the left side that weren't Marxist. I mean, Joe Biden used to very much sound like a normal Democrat. If you go back to the 90s, you can go back to the 90s. We were talking about this with San Francisco a little earlier when it comes to crime. There's a version of Joe Biden that could do very well in this country today. And that's the version that people voted thought they were going to get. And that's why he got elected. And if you go back to 1994, he's.

He's got the crime bill. He's trying to hold people accountable for criminal actions. Now he's saying that was racist and I apologize for it. When that sort of action is needed most, as we're seeing in San Francisco now. So I think it's come a long way. You know, Elon Musk, I don't know exactly where he comes from on the subsidies sort of thing. He's now saying he doesn't want them for anybody. Anybody, which I love.

I mean, that's what I believe as well. However, obviously his company was built on them. I mean, Tesla was built on... That's why I wonder, is he kicking the door closed for everybody else? I don't think so. I don't think that's him. You know, maybe he just, we, he didn't emphasize it a lot back then. Or maybe he just liked the idea that he could get his company started.

I don't know. But you left out, I think, the most important part of this exchange with Elizabeth Warren, when he points out, he will pay more taxes than any American in U.S. history this year. Now, this is, Elizabeth Warren is so dumb. that she's actually criticizing a person for not paying taxes who's paying the most taxes of anyone in history.

Has there ever been a bigger miss of a tweet than Elizabeth Warren's? Think about it. Seriously, I don't think you can. He's paying more taxes than anyone in history. He's paying more than anyone in history and she said he paid nothing. There is literally no way to miss more

than she missed. George Washington never died because he is Satan. I died. And that's questionable. You know, you could still question, maybe. We can't quantify that. We can quantify the Elon Musk situation.

And he, of course, followed it up with, don't spend it all at once. Oh, wait, you did already. That's so great. It's true. So great. Now, so the question is, people are waking up,

but what are they waking up to? Are they waking up and saying, conservatives are right? Or are they just waking up to the things that we've always had in common where conservatives the people like us have said guys

we didn't change you changed you changed the democratic party is no longer fighting for what you say you believe in they're not building for the bill of rights they are fighting for socialism and communism and a fundamental transformation of America

well I hope that they are waking up especially to the Democratic Party thing because do you remember it was racist to say anyone was a Marxist? It was crazy to say somebody in the Democratic Party is a communist.

Well, tell me what you think of this story. Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut, one of the worst people in the world, spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders use the event to recruit potential members into the Communist Party. Now, he's one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, which let's put that aside because actually it's his wife.

I just love a man who never really even created wealth but is living off of his wife. It's so beautiful. Blumenthal appeared, even as Democratic leaders have downplayed allegations that many in the party support socialist or communist policies. So they are still saying, no, we don't support that. But then how do you explain Blumenthal going and speaking at the Communist Party event? Blumenthal was introduced at the event by Lisa Bergman, a communist party member who blamed corporations for the imperialism that exists in our world that is undermining the labor and environment movement. She also had, there was another communist MC, Ben McManus, issued invitations at the ceremony to join the Communist Party.

And I quote, if you're not already part of the Communist Party, we invite you to participate and contribute and join. There's more and more people talking about socialism in this country as it becomes more and more clear that capitalism is not going to work for our future. So tell me what's happening there. Democrats, explain this. Can you imagine if somebody said, I am definitely not part of the clan, but then you're invited to speak at a clan ceremony, award ceremony, and you speak.

And when you're speaking, everybody's like, and by the way, make sure you join the clan on a way out. How would you explain that? Because I think that would be unexplainable. I think anybody who did that, it would be pretty hard to say, oh yeah, he's not, he's not clan friendly. No way.

No way. How is it that the Democrats don't care that they are now having Dick Blumenthal? A guy who's not known in the, you know, in the media circles as the radical. He's kind of the law enforcement kind of guy. I just, you know, I just want to make sure that everything is wrong.

running, you know, and really buttoned up. I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm certainly not a communist. Really? Then why are you speaking at the Communist Party award ceremony? We have to wake our, our friends and family up. And, and this is why I've been saying for a while, our unum has always been the Bill of Rights. When Biden says, freedom.

And we're just talking about you having to get a vaccine. what's the big deal? The big deal is the government doesn't have the right to tell me what to put into my body. That's the big deal. You don't have a right. So stop trying to do it. You don't have a right to force companies to make me do it. You don't have the right to do it.

Today is the day that the founders enshrined the Bill of Rights. They were very important. They still are. And those were the things that brought us together. Not our policies, not who we voted for, not things that we have to tax or not tax. It was the Bill of Rights. And when you have leaders of the Democratic Party speaking at the Communist Party annual awards, you don't have people who believe in the Bill of Rights.

You have people who are working with or standing with people. who are undermining the Bill of Rights. And that's the one thing we should still all have in common. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. This is the Glenn Beck program yesterday. I told you a little bit about Facebook, something that people are not paying attention to.

They should. Facebook is in a court battle with John Stossel. I have his attorney on with us at the top of next hour, so just about 25 minutes away. But they have, John Stossel has sued because of a fact check from Facebook that he says defamed him because they said that his facts were false. And John says, no, I've been in the fact checking business, you know, most of my life.

And I know the difference between fact and false and this isn't false. Well, he fought this and in court now, Facebook has issued something in their defense. They say opinions are not subject to defamation claims, while false assertations of fact can be subject to defamation. So they're saying fact check articles. This is a quote. Fact check articles are not the labels affixed through Facebook platform. the labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory. To the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.

Now, the way I read that is fact check doesn't have to be based in facts. They can, if they have an opinion that says, no, that's not right, then they can claim that our facts are wrong. trumped by their opinion, which is the case we have been making the whole time. Where is the line for your opinion and facts? Because we know what the facts are. You can then go in and say, we disagree. But who are you to say we disagree on our opinion?

We're arguing facts. As John points out, they can pretty much. do what they want on their website. However, it's a terrible way of doing business, especially for somebody who claims they want to be the source of the public square conversation. They don't seem to act that way.

And, you know, Twitter is doing something today where they are penalizing users who claim vaccinated people can spread COVID-19. Now, every study, every study from the literal beginning has said that if you have if you are vaccinated, you have a chance,

a lower chance, but a chance of spreading COVID-19. It has never been a study that has said it's going to prevent every single case of spread. It's never occurred. So how are they? And they're saying that if you say, hey, you know what, I think you can spread it if you have, if you are vaccinated,

which is true by literally every scientific report, including the scientists who work at Pfizer. Okay? That doesn't mean that they are terrible and they're the worst thing in the world. Doesn't mean anything like that, but it does mean that, of course, some facts are the facts.

You know, this is from the CDC website. If you are fully vaccinated and become infected with a delta variant, you can spread the virus to others. Infections happen only in a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with a delta variant as compared to people who are not vaccinated. But that does say, both of those things say, you can get it and you can spread it. It can happen.

So, and it seems to be even worse when it comes to Omicron, if that thing catches on here, which it looks like it may. So to punish the, like you are punishing people for saying things that are on the CDC website. Hurry while they last on the website. Pointer.org has just fact-checked my recent COVID special. More specifically, the question, does the government co-own the vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine? They also questioned my question on whether they,

government may have ulterior motives in mandating the vaccine. And here's their fact check. Is it true the government, and it should be, co-owns the vaccine, but is it true the government owns the vaccine, as Beck said? In short, no. Okay, in short, no. How about we look at the long form then? I mean, why add in short?

It's a yes or no question. Well, this is a topic that requires. wires a short explanation. I guess I would personally say no, as the COVID origin story and the vaccine origin story are the biggest topics in the world right now. It's not even close. But it kind of seems like this fact check agrees because they follow up in their little, in short, no remark with this little tidbit. And I quote, but as the New York Times reported November 9th, there is a long brewing disagreement between Moderna. and the National Institute of Health over who developed a crucial part of the COVID-19 vaccine,

known as the MRNA sequence. And that could have implications for ownership of important patents related to the vaccine. So in other words, no, no, they don't co-own it. No. In fact, to prove it, there's a court battle right now going on between the government and Moderna, and they're battling out in court to see who owns it or not. Well, wait a minute. I showed you the document with the signature and said, what's this all about?

Did you know? Did you know that they co-owned? Did you know this was happening? Don't you think? Because if they're getting money or anyone in the NIH is getting money, we should know about it because that might, you know, an ulterior motive. And by the way, we had conversations

before this special even aired off the air talking about all of the points they bring up here and making sure that we included the nuance that existed. And then they, instead of fact-checking the special, they didn't fact-check the special. They fact-checked TikTok. They fact-checked what part

of the special went viral on TikTok. Which is pretty frustrating. I don't know how we're supposed to control that. Yeah. Pointer also points this out. Quote, a lot of money is it? stake, as well as a big say in the distribution of vaccines worldwide. If the NIH scientists were named as inventors on the sequence patent, that would enable the government to collect royalties on the patent and to license it as it sees fit, including

some have noted, to other vaccine manufacturers besides Moderna. The result could have long-term consequences for global vaccine access. Well, now maybe it's just me, but a lot of money is at stake at stake kind of sounds like maybe we should look for artillery motives. It's interesting how they point out royalties to be paid to the government because if you go down to page 125 on the agreement that we showed you between Moderna and the government, you'll find an interesting appendix called royalties appendix. Now, if there's no co-ownership, why is there a royalties appendix? It says, if any vaccine is produced based off their collaborative research, then Moderna would owe the government an initial sum 60 days after the signing of this agreement, October 2019, and then every year annually.

If you scroll down to page 127, the government instructs how those royalties would be paid. Now, why would Moderna be paying the federal government? In fact, there's even an account number on page 127 that shows that the money should be directed to the Federal Reserve Bank. I don't know. That kind of sounds like money is changing hands or could change hands if they co-owned this, if they developed it and they said, no, we developed this all by ourselves. then no money changes hands. No, we have a co-ownership and we gave you the MRNA mechanics. And you added this, so we're partners on it.

That's what it says. How is Pointer doing this? They found also no suspicion at all that Dr. Barrett was included in the collaboration between Moderna and the NIH. Not even a little suspect that the government and Moderna were working on a coronavirus MRNA vaccine and that they were sending research back and forth with the man, Barrick, who was working with Dr. Xi and Wuhan on coronavirus. There's no interest in that. This is the same Wuhan where the pandemic began. It's not worthy of a question, I guess.

and by the way, I have questions. We all should have questions. The facts are this. The government and Moderna have been collaborating on a coronavirus vaccine since 2015. The contract specifically states co-ownership of vaccine candidates. And on page 24, all data and material produced along the way. Royalties have been negotiated. Royalties are in.

the contract. Dr. Barrick, the man who had been working on coronavirus research with Dr. Shee was included. And now there's a dispute between the government and Moderna on who owns what. That's the fact, pointer. But don't worry, nothing to see here. Pointer's got it. They're smarter than you. You know, just the, it's just the government trying to mandate a vaccine that they're currently fighting on how much of it they were involved with inventing. And then the contract that states in black and white, the royalties that should be paid to the federal bank, if anything is produced based off their collaboration. Nothing to see here. There's no ulterior motive. There's no co-ownership at all. So what the hell does this even mean? That's why I'm asking. There is no precedent for this.

And if the government or government employees are going to benefit even a little off of a federal policy that contributes to that benefit, we should be asking these questions. That's what the media used to do. That's what Pointer says their whole mission is. I fact check Pointer. They're liars. They are liars specifically here. They're liars.

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Hi. Thanks for having me. So I can't wrap my arms around this crazy Facebook defense that their fact checks are protected opinions. And so we can't push back on them while they say we're liars. How's that work? Well, I don't think it works. You know, we've seen this phenomenon now for several years. I've seen it with various clients of my firm where they're respected journalists or writers,

and they put up material on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on other platforms. YouTube is another. And, you know, these companies have been sued many times. I've sued various of these companies many times on different theories. And because of a law called Communications and Decency Act, Section 230, these companies have basically been allowed a government protection from the type of defamation that you or I would be liable for if we said false things about people in other forums. And so in this case, as many of your viewers may know, when you're reading an article and

maybe an article you like and you go to share it or even without going to share it, a label pops up that warns you that, you know, this article that you're reading and you're about to share is false, partly false, you know, fake news, basically. and then sometimes even getting into some details as to what's false about it. That's what happened here with John Stossel, who's a respected journalist with decades of experience, and he's creating independent content now, and on his Facebook page,

he posted a couple of videos about two different climate change topics. And one was about the forest fires that have consumed California over recent years in 2020, and what caused them? And he was interviewing experts. on forced fires. And then in the other one, he's talking about a variety of claims by, you know, climate activists about everything being clothed by climate change, you know, hurricanes, fires, you name it.

And so how these companies try to get around them being called to famers, Facebook, and these other big companies, is they hire, and I imagine my air quotes here, they hire independent fact checkers who are. are really activists themselves, of course. They let loose the hounds of independent fact checkers on helpless users of these platforms who are not allowed to fight back, and they rip them to shreds, as if it's some kind of a blood sport. And there's no appeal process. And so, you know, this climate change group that was tasked with reviewing this one is a French outfit, very biased. A review of their reviews of people's posts shows that in the case of authors who are

perceived as conservative, they routinely rate them as false or mostly false. Lacking context is another nice one that they like to use. But in this case, you know, they really got it wrong here. Factually wrong. You know, they attributed to John a statement that he didn't make, namely that he said that climate played no role in forest fires. And in fact, he actually said that climate very well may play a role in fires, but it certainly doesn't explain California's fires. And there are other explanations that have to do with government behavior and choices. And then in the other one, similarly, they basically smear him with misleading,

lacking context, partially false, contains factors. inaccuracies. So that's the label on the more general video. Now, if you're a journalist who's devoted his whole career to getting it right and elucidating the truth to the public, labeling somebody's post as partly false contains factual inaccuracies is devastating. It would be like telling the world, fixing a label to lawsuits that I filed, that they're, you know, that their sanctioned, that that they've been sanctioned when they haven't. Well, honestly, it is like instead of taking all the news fit to print and changing the subtitle to the New York Times to contains factual inaccuracies.

Right. Or lacking contact. Yeah, you would, the New York Times would never become the New York Times if that had to be printed on the front page of every newspaper. And it's true about the New York Times. It's true about the New York Times. And, you know, so what, so now these guys are playing a shell game. So we sued them.

But we didn't just sue them. We wrote them letters first, the French, you know, climate change outfits. And we, and Facebook now meta, and they changed their name in the middle of this case. And, you know, they wrote back, say, oh, no, this is, this is, you know, infotainment, basically. this is our opinion. It isn't fact-checking at all, although it says fact-checkers and fact-checking on it, and we didn't buy it. I mean, this was devastating to John. It drove his viewership down hugely. And for social media writers, that's revenue. That's credibility. That's your professional reputation. That's, you know, what you're labeled maliciously with in Wikipedia when you die, you know, purveyor of false videos.

Oh, yeah. Why I meant, you know, so that's a stench that doesn't wash off and there's no place to wash it off. So he sued as a last resort over this issue and Facebook responded, you know, this is just, this is just our opinion. This isn't, this isn't meant to be fact. You aren't meant to take it literally when we say fact checkers. So it's kind of an Orwellian, almost ridiculous situation. So where does this go from? Where does this go from here?

Well, there'll be an argument in front of the judge. Interestingly, our case has bounced around so far amongst two judges. The second judge just got appointed to the just got, you know, nominated and confirmed to the Ninth Circuit last week. So we're probably going to be awaiting hearing in front of a third judge to see, you know, what happens with this case. And look, Facebook has, oh, sorry, meta, has overwhelming resources. and, you know, they just brush these claims aside. And I've dealt with their quote, unquote, fact checkers before. And Glenn, your listeners may not know what this industry of fact checkers is.

They're, again, air quotes, nonprofits, they usually employ washed up or, you know, sort of journalists who don't want to work that hard anymore, or activists, or both. Some from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, I've dealt with some very esteemed former journalist who now work for these outfits. And all day long, their job is, you know, slap false labels on as many of your enemies and opponents that people who disagree with you as possible, laugh quietly, and go out for a cocktail. That's the deal. And it's not right. And if you or I did this and called a journalist's work false, partly false, you know, lacking context, that would be harmful and you or I could get sued.

So the same should be true of Facebook. And Communications Decency Act Section 230 is not, as these big tech companies repeatedly claim a license to lie, smear, defame, and devastate users. But that's exactly what it does over and over and over again. We have had fact checks from the same people. we've had fact checks where they claimed that something we said was false because it comes from a study that on page 435 made another claim that we weren't making that was proven false. Right.

But because the part that wasn't false was also in that same study with something that was, we were fact checked as wrong. And it's like, wait. Right. And when you look at the label, I'm just reading from it from our complaint, the label, big, big box, missing context. And then it says from independent fact checkers. And then there's another little label, fact check, science, climate change, et cetera. And then it says about this notice, independent fact checkers say this information is missing context and could mislead people. And then it says, learn more. about how Facebook works with independent fact checkers to stop the spread of false information. So it goes on to say this is false. So, I mean, I don't know how much more clear you can be. So claiming it's now, it's news to me. And by the way, they're asking every user of Facebook to somehow guess that their fact check is simply their opinion commentary.

Right. And on top of it, they not only label you with that, but they also then the algorithm shoves you down. And on top of that, now I've noticed some of them are not even letting you share the story. It won't, you can't, it's there. It'll say it's false. But if you try to share the story because you disagree with their opinion, you can't even share the story. I mean, it's, it's a gulag system at. Facebook. What can the average person do?

Well, you know, the average person can follow this lawsuit, talk about it, mock Facebook, I don't know. And, you know, we have to eventually, hopefully find some platforms that don't lie, defame, steal our information, and play games. But ultimately, Glenn, the only remedy for this, for the citizens, for the users of social media around the world, is our members of Congress and our president, when they are right-thinking people, need to change Communications Decency Act, Section 230, to make it clear that it is no longer appropriate for these companies to use its protections

as a complete carte blanche for doing whatever they want. There have to be some norms and some rules. There should be a user's bill of rights. There needs to be an appeals process for this. and these companies have to face some form of liability because so far, court after court after court has let them out, Scott free. And frankly, even conservative bank tanks, and I'm using those air quotes again, and conservative nonprofits and conservative lawmakers have all bought the big tech lobbyist

propaganda that these types of, quote, unquote, protections for these trillion-dollar corporations are necessary to ensure free speech. No, they are. They're no more necessary to ensure free speech than a taking away defamation liability is necessary for you or I or the New York Times to stop defaming people. It is, in fact, that liability that reigns people in from going too far. So we all know the difference between a fact check and an opinion. And nobody's suing over an opinion here. They're suing over a false accusation of lying in an article.

Exactly right. Thank you so much. Harmi, Dillon. we'll be watching this and our best to John Stossel and everybody on your team. Thank you.