The Young Turks - CNN Smear Campaign

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. They don't know what it's like to be me. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Bega! You're in L.A., Jay Cougar Anna with you guys. So normally I'd say great day to be an American, great day to be alive.

And it is, as long as you make it to the bonus episode, where we're going to do Operation Joy. And we've got tons of updates on the campaign, of course, but we do have to tell you about impending or currently existing war and the U.S. reaction to it. So, having said that, Anna, take it away. Yes, well, we begin with the escalations in Lebanon, so let's take it away. You're watching footage of Lebanese journalist Fadi Badawa getting hit by an IDF bomb while conducting a live broadcast in Balbek Lebanon. Now seconds after he set up his camera, as you can see from the video, this is in his home, setting up his camera and then immediately afterwards, a bomb is detonated just outside of his window, sending shards of glass to his head. Luckily, it appears he survived this attack, but there have been countless stories of journalists both in the Gaza Strip, in Lebanon, also in the West Bank, by the way, who have been hit by bombs, you know, sent by Israel. So at least 116 journalists and media workers have been killed since the beginning of Israel's war in Gaza last year, according to the committee to protect journalists.

And I should also note that Israel decided to raid the Al Jazeera offices in the West Bank. No reason for the raid other than the fact that they continue to report on what's happening with this war, something that Israel seems to have a problem with. But there's also more escalation in Lebanon, which I want to get to in just a moment. But I want to give you a chance to weigh in first, Jing. Yeah. So look, I think that a lot of times Palestinian and now Lebanese lives are deviant. valued. So I was on a TV debate last night where I, you know, pointed out the 12 people

killed by a Hezboa strike in northern Israel was terrible. The anchor agreed it was terrorism, and I asked him about the 35 kids that were killed in the recent bombing raid that Israel did yesterday. And he said, oh, numbers don't mean anything. As long as there, you know, look, I don't like bringing up identity. It's not a pleasant thing. I hate tribalism. But if we're being honest in in America and in Israel, as long as it's a Muslim life, they don't really care. No, Jake, you're not bringing up identity. He's the one bringing up identity. When he says numbers don't matter, okay, then what does matter? If the numbers of dead bodies of civilians doesn't matter, then what does matter? Well, that gets to the hilarious absurdity. But again,

the supporters of Israel actually believe this, which is more amazing. And you know this through American politics because MAGA actually believes that Donald Trump won the election, etc, right? And Blumager actually thought Joe Biden was young and dynamic, right? So we all know that absurdities can be believed. But in their minds, they believe intent is what matters. And Israel accidentally killed over 30,000 civilians in Gaza and accidentally killed those 35 children that when they drop a bomb in the middle of a city, no one could have expected the 35 kids would be killed. Oh, golly, gee, they were, well, there it is, yet another accident. But they believe it with all their hearts that every time Israel kills, and including 30, 40 times more than

Hamas and Hezbollah, they think it's all an accident, it was all done with great intent, but when Hamas or Hezbollah or any Palestinian or any Muslim that kills in Israel, it is done with great evil in their heart. And hence they are evil. And even though Israel kills 40 times as much, they are moral and decent. So that is their genuine belief, even though the rest of Look at him like, are you on this planet? Right, I mean when investigations, including an investigation by CNN of all places, concludes that IDF soldiers, IDF snipers intentionally shot and killed Al Jazeera journalist Abu Ackle, this is even before the current war.

How do they deal with that fact? And how does that work out with their worldview that everything Israel does is an accident? Yeah. And so in that, there is no, there is nothing that Israel can do that's too heinous. Because by definition, they're the moral army, right? And by definition, Muslims are evil. So when Saudi Arabia chops up American journalists, we all condemn it at the top of our lungs, 10 out of 10 condemnation, and Israel joins us.

Can you believe that the Saudis would do this? Now, Israel has assassinated two Muslim American journalists, not just Abakli, but recently one in the West Bank. Right. And sniper shots from hundreds of yards away after any conflict is done, well after the conflict is over, in a secluded area, snipers headshots kill them, murder them. Israeli supporters believe with all their hearts, accident. They must have confused them with a protester, even though Shirin Albuquerl, is one of the most famous journalists in the Middle East. And she was wearing a vest that said press on it. And they knew that she was there. right, et cetera, but no, no, by definition, it doesn't matter how clearly murder it is and how overwhelming the numbers are. And in this case, our former CIA director and defense secretary, Leon Panetta, almost every expert is saying Israel is doing the escalation. They're the

one starting this war with Lebanon. And in fact, then Israel comes out with the most hilarious and I love John Stewart for lampooning this other day. One of the most legendary excuses is of all time, that they were doing de-escalation through escalation. And so that's when you know which side is lying. The guy's saying that they're doing de-escalation through escalation, as Stewart, of course, pointed out, so did we earlier. That's just called war, okay? So Israel has started the war.

They basically confessed to it through that absurdity that they put out there. And that's because they want to protect Netanyahu's career. We all know this. Anything else is just one side being so biased they can't see straight. Yeah, I mean, well, you know, war is peace, which is, of course, an Orwellian thing to think. Let's give you an update on what's currently transpiring in Lebanon. So more than 500 people were killed in Lebanon in what was the deadliest day for the country since 2006. That was the last time there was a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Now 35 children and 58 women were among those killed in the bombing campaign. And Israel plans to continue its intense bombing campaign, which is eerily similar to what the IDF carried out in Gaza. In fact, a lot of the talking points that you hear from Israeli officials is similar. to what they were saying about their military activity in Gaza. Now on Tuesday, meaning today, the Israeli military also carried out an airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. And this is its fourth direct strike on the capital in nearly a year of conflict. And a day earlier on Monday, as was reported here at TYT, women, children and medics were among those killed and wounded. Lebanon's health ministry

said Monday, it is unclear how many of the casualties were civilians or Hezbollah militants, but many of the locations described by Israel as Hezbollah targets are also residential neighborhoods and villages. And I want to just show you the extent to which this bombing campaign took place in Lebanon. If you look at this map that was put together by CNN, it shows you the airstrikes that were conducted on Monday of this week. And it gives you a sense of just how widespread the bombardments were. It wasn't just concentrated in one part of the country. You see it kind of scattered throughout the country, including with the border or near the border

with Israel. Now, later Tuesday, Hezbollah said that it had fired rockets at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona. The Israeli military said it intercepted most of the 50 projectiles, but that some had damaged buildings in the area. Israeli police said the attack caused several fires but no injuries, around 100 projectiles had been fired toward Israel on Tuesday, an Israeli defense forces spokesperson told CNN. Now, I give you those details because it's really important to understand the asymmetrical

nature of this war. Because if you look at the corporate media's reporting of the, you know, tit for tat exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah, you would think that everything is about equal. But let's keep it real, Israel is backed by a military superpower, the military superpower on the global stage, and that's the United States. Their military capabilities, both defensively and offensively, very different from what Hamas has and certainly very different from what Hezbollah has. And you will see that, you know, play out in the number of strikes. So let's take a look at this graph that was put together by the BBC. And it uses data that was compiled by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project.

It shows you the various, you know, strikes that have been taking place from October 7th through June 30th of 2024. And the red bars identify the Israeli strikes, whereas the blue bars represent the Hezbollah strikes. And you can see that the Israeli strikes far outnumbered the Hezbollah strikes. So referring to this as a tit for tat is ridiculous when you can see that most of these strikes and most of them are effective, meaning people are getting killed, are being carried out by the IDF. Yeah, so first on that stat, I wanted to just double down on that. So that's the number of strikes. It's already massively disproportionate in Israel doing more strikes.

But remember, every one of those lands and kills a lot of people. Exactly. Almost none of Hezbollah's land. Israel's the only country in the world with a defense shield, so it's nearly impenetrable. Of course, Lebanon has no defense shield, and why? America paid for Israel's defense shield. Great, did we pay for other people's defense shield? No, there to be murdered at will and with no recourse. So in the old days, war was terrible for both sides.

Now war is only terrible for Israel's neighbors. So Israel thinks it's invincible, it's above the law, it could just kill with impunity, and they will have American anchors and politicians go out and go, Israel is our special ally, and of course they'll use the propaganda like human shields. When Israel or their supporters say the word human shields, everybody run, because that means they're about to kill a ton of innocent civilians and use the excuse of, oh, they were hiding behind my bomb that I put on their head. Oh, look at that.

Oh, a bomb in the middle of a busy city killed 35 children and 58 women. Oh, golly, gee, that was another accident. Those giant number of strikes that Anna just showed you in that graph. Oh, that was also an accident. The number of journalists killed by Israel in this conflict is greater than all other conflicts in the world combined? It was an accident. When the Muslims kill a journalist, it is on purpose. When Israel kills more journalists than every other nation on earth, it was an accident.

Oh, did we eliminate the ability for the rest of the world to find out the heinous, awful war crimes we're doing? Golly, gee, it was an accident. I bet those journalists were hiding behind human shields. No, Darren is the civilians, if you say so, but they seem to be reporting things we don't like, so we killed them. I mean, I mean, yet another accident, by the way, of course, they've also killed more human rights workers than any other conflict in the world. Yes, exactly.

Again, guys, I say it in a mocking way because I have to snap them out of their hypnosis. Like, for the rest of you, you totally get it. Nobody thinks it's this idea of human shields excuses butchering 41,000 people, 25,000 women and children. Nobody in their right mind thinks that. That's why I don't believe them. I don't believe that they actually believe what they're saying. I think they do. The human mind is ability to trick itself is amazing. It's one of the most amazing things in the history of the world so that Israel can be Goliath and actually think that they're David. The Palestinians are literally have slingshots with with stones like David

and and the Israel has nukes yet they think they're David and that the Palestinians with no power at all is Goliath. That's how diluted Israel is. Final thing I want to mention about how Israel is carrying out this war in Lebanon is look, we've seen similar allegations about the use of chemical weapons against Palestinians. Now we're hearing similar things out of Lebanon. So the international campaign group, Human Rights Watch, has verified the use of white phosphorus over several populated areas in southern Lebanon, including al-Bustan. It says Israel's use of white phosphorus is unlawfully indiscriminate in populated areas.

Now I remember the way the international community and the United States reacted to Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people. people in Syria. Apparently, the use of chemical weapons by some world leaders, very naughty, unacceptable. The use of chemical weapons by the Israeli defense forces, totally fine. Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, look, if you say what Hamas, Hezbollah and Assad have done is terrorism, I don't know how many times we have to agree. Yeah, killing innocent civilians using chemical weapons disastrous. But when you say the same exact things, by the way, times 40 done by Israel, is not terrorism.

Again, you look absurd. Maybe in your own mind, what do you mean? I can't be a terrorist. I'm Israeli. I can kill anyone I like because I'm Israeli and by definition moral. No, I got really bad news for you. That isn't how it works. The rest of the world can see it clearly.

You guys, Israel is the aggressors. They've killed so many more people than the so-called terrorists. And I say so-called because terrorism doesn't mean anything anymore. Because when you say it only applies to Muslims but never applies to Israelis, then the word has no meaning at all, okay? So either Israeli is a disastrous, dangerous terrorist state because it is killed and butchered so many more civilians. And done all the other abuses, throwing people off the rooftops now, sexual abuse, rape, starvation, etc. On every abuse, every war crime in the book, and if you say that doesn't count, well, okay, then it's impossible to have a conversation with someone. that deeply irrational, but no matter what you believe, the rest of the world can see the atrocities

that Israel is doing. And it does not help Israel. It is a disastrous idea for Israel. And one last thing, this, and they won't believe it, but I see the right wing in this country turning against Israel. Yeah, of course. I have never seen that before in my lifetime. This is the first time I'm ever seeing it. And the right wing is starting to go, now wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, I don't really much care about Muslims, but why are you spending our money for this? Well, look, when you have a significant faction within the Republican voting base declaring themselves America first, they're not joking around about that. Yeah, the politicians are full of crap.

Every Republican says, politicians says Israel first, America 87th, right? But the good news about MAGA and the Republican electorate, there's plenty of bad news. But the good news is they're not here to take talking points from greasy corporate politicians. They'll take it for Trump, and it drives me crazy that they take it from Trump, and Trump says worse. But if Marco Rubio or Mitch McConnell or these greasy politicians go, oh, now, let me tell you something, okay? America first means we give Israel $26 billion and we give you nothing and you shut up about it. And some of you lose family members or risk your own lives by being deployed to the Middle East as a result of these escalations. Those same Republican senators we reported yesterday on the show are trying to take away

the one decent thing Biden did of lowering drug prices on just 10 drugs. And the Republicans are like, how dare you? America's need to pay more. That is my donor. Big form. I love those guys. How dare you try to pay less for your drugs? You have to pay whatever the drug companies say.

And you have to do what Israel says. You try that one too many times and you're going to awaken a dragon that you can't control, that none of us can control. cut it out before it destroys Israel along with the rest of the Middle East. I want to move on to, well, President Joe Biden and his speech today. So during his final address before the United Nations General Assembly, President Joe Biden, Biden declared that the United States is absolutely committed to preventing a wider regional war in the Middle East, but, you know, he's got a funny way of showing it.

Watch what he had to say. The world must not flinch from the horrors of October 7th. Any country, any country, would have the right and responsibility to ensure that such attack to never happen again. Thousands of armed Hamas terrorists invaded a sovereign state, slaughtering and massacquer. occurring more than 1,200 people, including 46 Americans in their homes and at a music festival. Despicable acts of sexual violence, 250 innocents taken hostage. I've met with the families of those hostages.

I've grieved with them. They're going through hell. Since October 7, we've also been determined to prevent a wider war than engulfs the entire region. Hezbollah, unprovoked, during the October 7th attack, launching rockets in Israel. Almost a year later, too many on each side of the Israeli-Lebanon border remained displaced. Full-scale war is not in anyone's interest. Even if a situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible. In fact, it remains the only path to lasting security to allow the residents from both countries

to return to their homes and the border safely. And that's what we're working, that's what we're working tirelessly to achieve. Well, if that is what the Biden administration is working tirelessly to achieve, they've got a funny way of showing it, considering the fact that the Biden administration continues to heavily arm Israel as its belligerent government continues to carry out bombardments of both Gaza and now Lebanon, its neighbor and a sovereign country. He also has a funny way of showing it, considering the fact that 40,000 American troops who are already stationed in the Middle East is apparently not enough.

And as a result of the escalation that we've seen from Israel in Lebanon, the US is now going to send even more troops to the region. We are involved in this war, whether Americans want to accept it or not, whether our government wants to tell us the truth or not, we are very much involved in this war. with Netanyahu continuing to escalate things, this could break out into an all-out war, not just between Israel and Lebanon or Israel and Hamas, but between the United States and Iran. If things keep going in the direction they're going in. I'm going to give you more details about the troops in just a moment before I do, Jenk, jump in. Yeah, so Joe Biden is a

historic failure. And so if you're new to this and we used to watch mainstream media, you'll say, what do you mean? He said nice words. That's called propaganda. Now, why do I call it propaganda? Because sometimes words matter, right? Well, let's look at what Joe Biden did as opposed to what he said, right? So normally we send Israel $4 billion a year. Why? Special ally? Okay, so that's already outrageous. They have universal health care. They have paid family leave. We have neither one of those things. Apparently they need our money anyway. Okay, are they under threat? Are they occupied? Are they being occupied? No, they're the ones occupying the Palestinians, etc. But in the middle of After they slaughtered at that point, I think, over 30 to 35,000 Palestinians. Biden said, oh, my God, $4 billion is not enough.

I want to send you a congratulations gift, prize. I want to send you a lot more. I'm going to send you $26 billion. Way to kill all those Palestinians. This is a reward. So if you kill more Palestinians, you will hear me say the words that I'm upset by it and that I would like a two-state solution and you stop killing them. But remember, next time, the check's going to be even larger.

Whatever check you need, I'm going to send it to you as a thank you for slaughtering those Palestinians. Those are facts. And if you're a mainstream media reporter and you're still, oh my God, I have to protect Joe Biden. He's so powerful and lovely and decent human being. Okay, while you're doing propaganda on behalf of Joe Biden, riddle me this. So if Joe Biden really wanted to solve this, everyone with two bits of sense knows that he would use his what? leverage. And the leverage he has is the $26 billion. He can cut it off, in which case Israel would be under a lot of pressure to get to a ceasefire deal and stop bombing all of their

neighbors. He has not done that at all. That means he does not want to use his leverage, doesn't care about solving this at all. And we're going to go to war because of him, because he would rather serve his donors than actually care about Palestinian lives at all. We're going to go to a giant war because of Joe Biden. He's a historic failure. state Anthony Blinken, let me remind you, traveled to the UK to essentially pressure them to lift any weapons ban toward Israel, something that they partly did because they were concerned that the UK's weapons were being utilized in war crimes. Anthony Blinking comes in and says, don't worry about the war crimes, okay? You are not to pause any weapons shipments to Israel.

So they lie to our faces. Like, that's the thing that drives me crazy. You'll have press conferences, Featuring Joe Biden, speeches featuring Joe Biden, you'll have press conferences featuring John Kirby and Anthony Blinken. And they all tell us, like, we're working around the clock guys, we want peace. We want peace. We want a ceasefire. But behind the scenes, not even really behind the scenes, just out in the open, they continue funneling the weapons to the belligerent country that refuses to sign a peace deal.

So with that in mind, let's talk a little bit about the troops. So the U.S. is sending more troops to the Middle East as things escalate between Israel and Hezbollah, major general Pat Ryder, who is the Pentagon's press secretary, would not say how many more forces would be deployed or what they would be tasked to do. But here is what we do know. In light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region. But for operational security reasons, I'm not going to comment on or provide specifics. Now again, keep in mind that the U.S. already has 40,000

American troops stationed in the Middle East. And it's also important to keep in mind what the U.S. is willing to do on behalf of Israel, not on behalf of the American people, on behalf of Israel. So here you have the White House National Security Advisor John Kirby explaining exactly what the U.S. is willing to do by risking the men and women in our armed force. We have taken a hard look at our posture in the region, our military posture in the region. We want to make sure that it's properly balanced and capable for a range of contingencies. The Department of Defense talked about some of the contingencies that they're going to need to be prepared for. So I'll let them speak to that with more detail.

But the president wants to make sure that, again, we have a full suite of appropriate military capabilities to take care of our national security interests, those of our allies and partners. And that's what this is really all about. Let me just be clear. The U.S. sending troops to the Middle East has nothing to do with the Americans and their national security interests. Yeah, no, it's the exact opposite. Be very clear about that.

Okay, they're lying to you when they say that. Go ahead, Jake. Yeah, it's the exact opposite. They're putting the troops in harm's way so they can get hit. And then they go, oh, can you believe these dirty, savage terrorist Muslims hit our beloved troops that I put right underneath them in a vulnerable area so that they can get killed. So I could say, oh, there was nothing we could do. We had to help Israel.

We had to send in all of our troops and all of our weapons and all of our money to help Israel against these savages, right? So look, this is as oldest time, imperialism, colonialism, colonialism, and racism. And I see all those U.S. government officials, Biden officials, I'm disgusted by them. They're war criminals and they're probably feted around town. Oh, it's a celebrity, Anthony Blinken. Gross. When I see Anthony Blink is a monster, all of these guys are monsters.

And so what are they doing? They sent, as you saw in the quote there from the Major General, quote, a small number of additional U.S. military personnel. That is how we get dragged into every single war. Now we've been around long enough that we tracked that for you from the Iraq war to this war where they go, we're just sending a small number, limited number of military personnel to the area. Oh my God, they got killed.

Oh, nobody could have seen that coming. Well, I put him right underneath Saddam's foot so that he can stamp on them. And oh, now I got to go kill Saddam and a million other people in Iraq. I put them right under the Aitoules, oh, the American personnel got killed. Oh, nice fodder for the Israeli war machine. I mean, ah, the Muslim savage terrorists, we had to spend a trillion dollars, two trillion dollars, five trillion dollars fighting Israel's war for it. That's the reality, everything else is propaganda.

100%. And to me, if you just, I mean, it doesn't really take much to decode what John Kirby was saying there, we're sending our troops there to get ready for a possible hot war with Iran. Let's keep it real. That is the direction that this is heading in. And there, look, I think that Netanyahu, honestly, is also trying to weight it out with the hope that Donald Trump gets elected? Oh, no, no, no. The war is also partly meant to help Donald Trump.

Look, let me say things here in case you guys aren't clear on this. So is the war at a point where it cannot be reversed? No, but it is awfully close and peace would need like a miracle comeback to get back into this race. Right now, the things that are done are almost, you can't take them back. Because they cross every red line with Hezbollah and Iran. So it has won Iran, every security analyst in the world says has to strike back and has to try to strike back in a way that actually causes damage in Israel. Because all the rest of the strikes were just show. Like they throw up a firecracker, Israel knocks it down.

It's a game they play so they can tell their local population, oh, we hit Israel hard, we got those Zionists good. But now they're going to have to actually attack Israel. And so when that happens, the domino's fall. the war starts. And Nanyahu's objective is not Lebanon. Lebanon is small beings. He wants Iran. He's wanted the war with Iran for the last 20, 25 years. And he's not unclear about it. He's said it publicly so many times. And he has also said publicly that he wants America to fight it. Yes, be precise. Yes. He wants the Americans. He wants the U.S. and our soldiers to fight Iran on his behalf, on Israel's behalf. And right now, if you don't know,

No, Netanyahu, if he were to sign a ceasefire deal, the right-wingers Smotrich and Ben-Gavir would leave his cabinet, he would be forced to go into an election. He is likely to lose that election. So if he signs the ceasefire, his career is finally over. He would never do that. We are going to go into one of the most needless wars, not just in my lifetime, maybe ever. Nobody wants this war other than Netanyahu, Gavir and Smortrich. And Biden will do whatever he's commanded to do.

So if Netanyahu said, I changed my mind, Biden was like, oh, great, thank you. Well, what do I do next, sir? Okay, so that's just a fact. If you, again, corruption, A-PAC money, $11 million. Only the lunatics in Washington go, I bet Biden wasn't affected by the $11 million or the 100 million they spent in this election. All right, last thing, guys. So as Netanyahu tries to drag us into that war with Iran, our guys, when they send

the troops and they send our boats, even as they're going to the United Nations and saying, oh, we are so concerned about what Israel is doing, they're saying out of an abundance of caution, you're going to put our troops right next to theirs? Wait, was Iran going to somehow, or Lebanon was going to somehow put Israel in such existential danger that they needed a U.S. aircraft carrier and a submarine and all these to protect against an imminent attack? The Hezbollah has landed one rocket in 11 months that actually killed people. We gotta send an aircraft carrier? No, we're sending those troops so they can get attacked so that we can say, oh, there was

nothing we can do, we must follow Netanyahu's orders. So if he goes to the election, he loses, that's why he's choosing to start this giant war. And the last part of it, Anna, is if the war starts and it's a disaster, it helps Trump. Yep. And so, and if Trump gets into office, he says, do whatever you want. Miriam Edelson gave me $90 million. I'll let you kill all the Muslims and all. I couldn't care less. And I'll have America pay for it since I got bribed by the Edelson's. All right, let's take a break. When we come back, one of the most disgusting hit jobs, smear jobs in the corporate media that I've seen in a long time. And that is saying something. So stick

around. We've got that story and more. All right back on TYT, Jenk Anna, Susanna Gaffour and Justine Carpenter. Susanna joined through the join button below the video on YouTube and Justine upgraded through there. Thank you both, I really appreciate you guys. Anna. Let's get to our next story. Anti-Semitism is everywhere, and it comes from both ends of the political spectrum. But politicians sometimes sidestep calling it out when it comes from a member of their own party.

We saw two examples on State of the Union yesterday. First, with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, when my co-anchor, Jake Tapper, asked about a Democratic Congresswoman's accusation that the state's Jewish Attorney General was letting her religion influence her job. What you just witnessed was one component of one of the most ridiculous smear campaigns against a sitting United States congresswoman I have ever seen. And that congresswoman is Rashida Talib. Now, Dana Bash and other media talking heads are spreading an absolute lie about Talib

to accuse her of being anti-Semitic, despite never saying what they claim that she said. It is amazing. Now, this all started with an interview that Rashida Talib did with the Detroit Metro Times. Now, during the exchange with the reporter, she criticized Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel for filing charges against pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan. Now, two people were charged with trespassing, which is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail because they refused to leave the encampment after repeated orders to vacate. and then seven more protesters were charged with trespassing and resisting or obstructing

a police order, which is a felony punishable by up to two years in prison. Now, in this article for the Detroit Metro Times, Talib also criticized Nessal, that's the AG, who is the first Jewish person elected attorney general of Michigan for what she believes is a biased approach to the protest. Now, that was the excerpt from the piece that has led to all of this drama because what the smear merchants decided to do was take that, twist it, and make it appear as though Rashida Talib was criticizing the AG because she feels that she carried out these charges because of the fact that she's Jewish. But she never said that. So, the author of the article notes that Nessel is Jewish, but Talib herself made no reference to her religion.

In reality, she said this. We've had the right to dissent, the right to protest, we've done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement for black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But it seems that the Attorney General decided if the issue was Palestinian, She was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs. No mention of the AG being Jewish, nothing, nothing like that. She did in the piece, by the way, mentioned that she feels that the AG was pressured by administrators at the University of Michigan, but she said nothing of the AG's religion.

Now, Nessel accused Talib of anti-Semitism over those comments. she did. Tweeting the following, Rashida's religion should not be used in a cartoon to imply that she's a terrorist. It's Islamophobic and wrong. Just as Rashida should not use my religion to imply I cannot perform my job fairly as attorney general. It's anti-Semitic and wrong. When I call you a liar, are you going to pretend that I said it because you're Jewish? So Jinks, I'm going to go off in a second. Just let me get all the facts out so everyone knows what we're dealing with here. Okay, so with that in mind, the mainstream media just parroted the take of the AG here. And then Jake Tapper lied about what Taleb had said in an interview with

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Let's take a look at that. Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashid al-Talib, who is Palestinian, she called the charges from Nassel, who is Jewish. Shameful. Do you think that Taleb's suggestion that Nessel's office is biased was anti-Semitic? Listen, Jake, you know what? All I can say is that I know that our Jewish community is in pain, as is our Palestinian and Muslim and Arab communities in Michigan. But do you think Attorney General Nassel is not doing her job? Because Congresswoman Talib is suggesting that she shouldn't be prosecuting these individuals that Nessel says broke the law, and that she's only doing it because she's Jewish and the protesters are not. That's quite

an accusation. That was a flat out lie by Jake Tapper. Following the interview, Gretchen Whitmer embarrassingly took to X to write the following. The suggestion that Attorney General Nessel would make charging decisions based on her religion as opposed to the rule of law is anti-Semitic. Attorney General Nessel has always conducted her work with integrity and followed the rule of law. We must all use our platform and voices to call out hateful rhetoric and racist tropes. Now, these lies and these smears were so outrageous that Steve Niveling, who is the reporter, who interviewed Rashida Talib for the peace, came out and clarified everything. He wrote, I'm the reporter who interviewed Rashida Talib.

She never said Nessel did this because she's Jewish. Never, you're spreading lies. He even published a follow-up article, fact-checking them. In it, he writes, Talib never once mentioned Nessal's religion or Judaism. But Metro Times pointed out in the story that Nessel is Jewish, and that appears to be the spark that led to the false claims. Now we're gonna get to whether these journalists corrected their errors, by the way, Jonathan Greenblatt with, you know, anti-defamation league also spread these lies.

Another giant liar. Exactly. So we're going to get to them and whether or not they retracted their statements in just a moment. But, Jank, I mean, this is, this is so obvious. And as someone who's been smeared by the media, including Jake Tapper. Right. So, all right, look, guys, it's, they've taken it to a day. different level. Before it was, if you protest against Israel, we're going to find one or two

people in that crowd of hundreds or thousands, maybe even four out of 800 people, whatever the numbers are, right? And they're going to say something bad, of course, because that, by the way, does that also happen on the pro-Israel side? Yes. In fact, far more so. That happens in every protest. It happens in every protest, right? You could do it, you could do it for a pipeline protest, you could do it for the MAGA protest of the vaccines and the mass, et cetera. Deranged people always show up. Okay, and then, and by the way, in those mass, in those mass protests, you probably could have found just as much anti-Semitism, right, because that's everywhere, right? So that's then used as an excuse of four people, two people, one person says something, whether they're students, not students, what did they say?

It doesn't matter. Shut the whole thing down. All the other terrible things that said in other protests, none of them are shut down. But they really don't see it. And I'm being super kind and fair to Danabash and Jake Tapper. They're like, I'm sure that they think that they're not biased. And if you accuse them of bias, they'll say, oh, you're an anti-Semite. You're an anti-Semite.

Everyone who's opposed to me, even if I'm flat out lying on television, is an anti-Semite, okay? You know why? Because that's super convenient. You get to sleep at night, right? So you shut down all the protests criticizing Israel. Do you shut down the pro-Israel protests, which have things said about my. Muslims that are 10 times worse and said a lot more frequently. And in fact, I did violence at UCLA that ran over a protester at Columbia, et cetera.

Do you shut down those protests? No, no hearings, those shutdowns, no pressure, no nothing, right? They're not even condemned. Okay, but now they've taken it to a second level of not just smearing the protesters and say, don't you dare protest. I mean, I found an anti-Semite. Wow, okay. So, and I say, wow, because I can find you in my Twitter mentions, a thousand people who

hate Muslims, say it openly. Nobody ever does anything, whether it's that, a protest, or anything else. Now the next level is, we'll just pretend that the politicians that are criticizing Israel said anti-Semitic things, even though they didn't even say them. They didn't say, we'll just make it up. We'll just make it up. And then we'll ask other politicians, do you condemn their anti-Semitism? And Gretchen Whitmer goes back home and asks the donors, what should I do? The donors tell her, go condemn her for a thing she didn't do. And then Gretchen Whitmer. And then Jake Tabber, before the kind of retraction, he actually came out and said, he tweeted.

Gretchen Whitmer said it. Grecian Whitmer put out a statement, all confirming the thing that we were pretending that Rashida Taleb is. Yeah, based on the misinformation that you spewed to her while you were interviewing her. Like, that's not the big get that you think it is. That's so ridiculous. Now, I've got to talk about the donors real quick because this is where, again, the Jake Tappers and the Dana Bashes will lie and smear everyone. And we talk about it very clearly on the show every single day.

The other day we talked about how the pharmaceutical company spent $372 million to buy all of our politicians. That has nothing new with religion. It has nothing new with foreign governments. Everybody buys our politicians. If you say APEC spending $100 million in this election, spending $14 million against Jamal Bowman, 8 million or more. against Cory Bush and winning those seats does not affect politicians, that they don't care about that at all. They're not affected by APAC spending and the fact that they just eliminated two politicians.

Well, you're lying, you're not a reporter, you're a propagandist, everyone knows whether it's drug companies or big sugar, any lobbyists, and yes, APEC doesn't have a special exemption like, oh, all other lobbyists lead to corruption, but APEC leads to morality and flowers and unicorns. No, it is obvious corruption. All of these people go back to their donors, whether it's the universities or the politicians, and they go, what are my orders? Oh, you want drug prices higher. Okay, your drug prices are higher. Oh, you want Israel to be able to kill any Palestinian they like, and we send them a thank you note under $26 billion. Well, that's what we'll do. Oh, you need to receive smeared. And so, by the way, Jake and Dana, you guys know

how racist you are against Arabs and Muslims, right? No, 100%. But hold on, I got to jump in on that, I'm chomping at the bit to say this. Why do you think they intentionally lied about Rashida Saleeb? Why do you think? She's the only Palestinian-American congresswoman. So why did you guys target her? Why did you guys decide to pull your little smear merchant trick against the one and only Palestinian-American congresswoman in the country?

To shut her up. Well, but like, but Jake, there are other like progressive members of Congress who are also speaking out against Israel. But they're not doing that with AOC. Interesting that they decided to do that with Rashida Taleb. And in the past, interesting that they decided to do that with Ilhan Omar. Now, one of the best fighters for sanity and decency in this whole conflict is Bernie Sanders. But it's hard to call Bernie Sanders anti-Semitic because he's Jewish and he lived in Israel.

He lived on a kibbutz. His family was victimized by the Holocaust. Yes. So that's very inconvenient because they're one and only trick. is anti-Semite, right? So they says they can't do that to Bernie or Jamie Raskin or all these other wonderful people, Andy Levin, who A-Pack eliminated in Michigan, et cetera. They go, oh, Talib, no one will mind if we lie about a Palestinian.

That's Tuesday. We'll just smear the hell out of her and go, dirty Muslim, obviously hates Jews. And that's why do you think poor Israel has to do all of this? Because everybody's an anti-Semite. That's why we had to let them kill all those people and send them 26. billion dollars. But you see how these Arabs are, Rashida Talib, well, she didn't actually say it. Who cares? Let's just say it. Now, as you can imagine, Tapper and Bash did get a lot of backlash for smearing, a sitting congresswoman, and attributing a statement to her that she

never said. And so they kind of sort of walk back their statements after being pressured to do so. So let's take a look. I should note that I misspoke yesterday when asking a follow-up of Governor Whitmer, who I asked about this. I was trying to characterize your views of Talib's comments. What do you make of those today, noting that Congresswoman Talib never explicitly said that your bias was because of your religion. And so it's unfair for you to make that allegation. That clarification on a story we brought you yesterday concerning Congresswoman Rashida Talib's comments attacking a decision by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to bring charges against pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan.

Talib accused Nessel of, quote, biases. Now, Taleb did not reference Nessel's Jewish identity. Her office has not responded to our request for clarity. Her allies insist, that's not what she meant. But Nessel still says she believes it is anti-Semitic and repeated on CNN yesterday that, quote, clearly she's referencing my religion. Well, then Nessel's a moron. Somehow, she made it all the way up to the role of Attorney General, the major state,

and she's a complete nutter moron because she is continuing to repeat a complete nutter lie. Rashida Saleep never brought up your religion. Why are you continuing to lie about this? Yeah. Because you don't like that there's a sitting congresswoman criticizing your decision. That's why? So you're just going to smear her as an anti-Semite? Yeah.

It's so pathetic, man. This country. And the insane, like, the insane lengths to which our elected. lawmakers and even local politicians will go to provide cover for war crimes committed by Israel, and then rain terror on Americans who might protest our support of those war crimes. Like, it is amazing to me, like the double standard that we're seeing here. Yeah, so first of all, Republicans and Democrats, good moment of unity here. Let's unite to make sure that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel never wins in another election

again, and not just because she's a racist and a liar, but because she thinks apparently, like, smearing a U.S. Congresswoman to cover up the fact that she arrested people exercising their First Amendment rights. So if she can arrest Palestinian protesters or peace protesters, can she arrest right wingers in a protest she doesn't like? It doesn't matter if you did anything wrong. She just call you an anti-Semite and lock you up. I mean, you criticize Israel, you're a goner. That's baked in, right? But once we say yes to that, yes, you can arrest people because at a worst case scenario, or best case scenario for the people doing it, they said something that we don't like and we think it's terrible anti-Semitism, right?

So we lock them up. We put them in prison, right? So bad things are said at every protest. You could use that excuse to arrest anyone who protests the government. It is the most unconstitutional, despicable, un-American thing you can do. And so, look, I will give credit to Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for at least not continuing to lie. Fox News would have doubled down, quadrupled down, they would have never admitted it, etc. I mean, they are lying in that they're claiming they're, they just misspoke.

But okay, fine, they walk back the statements at least. Yeah, but it was, look, you could see it with your own eyes. It was the most Dana Bash looked so half-hearted and still, well, still charges, charges of anti-Semitism. Right, okay. Okay, well, I charge you with racism. I think Dana Bash is a racist who thinks it's no big deal to smear Arabs. And if you get it later, I'll give like a, oh, yeah, clarification. Okay, so you're, look, go ahead, keep protecting Israel and pretending you're doing journalism.

And keep pretending that donors have no effect on politicians. Keep saying all Israel had to do it. They had to slaughter 41,000 people, 25,000 dead women and children, but human shields, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so this is what you get on television, wall-to-wall propaganda. Well, when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about how Secretary of State Anthony Blinken took a detailed report about humanitarian aid being blocked in Gaza and just ripped it up and pretend like it didn't exist. We've got that and more coming up. Don't miss it. And remember, in an hour for our members, we're going to turn this whole thing around and do Operation Joy and tell you the most heartwarming stories you've ever seen. Papa Casparian is going to make an appearance today.

Oh, look at that. Okay, Papa Smurps in the house. You're going to love it. Trust me. Yeah. So good time to become a member, t.com slash team, a team that actually believes in honesty and truth and real reporting and believes in bringing positive change in the world. We love that you're part of that team. Anna. All right, well, let's talk a little bit about the lies being told and the truth being suppressed by Biden administration officials, namely Anthony Blinken. A damning new pro-publica report has revealed that Israel was, in fact, deliberately obstructing the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. But U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ignored those assessments and ignored some of the footage that we're showing you right now, and even declared that it. Israel was not guilty of blocking aid, essentially providing cover for the bad behavior and actions

of Israel. Now, here are the details, as we know them. In late April, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or U.S. aid, for short, sent Blinken a 17-page memo detailing how Israeli, how the Israeli government had essentially interfered with aid deliveries, including killing aid workers, Raising agricultural structures, bombing ambulances and hospitals, sitting on supply depots, and routinely turning away trucks full of food and medicine. The memo also noted that Israel was holding onto a large supply of food, including enough flour to feed about 1.5 million Palestinians for about five months. As you can imagine, that flower was very much necessary, but Israel was holding on to it.

Bazalel Smotrich, one of the far-right lunatics in the Israeli government, blocked the transfer of the flower in February because it was intended to go to UNRWA, a UN agency providing humanitarian aid and relief to Palestinians, which Israel has essentially made a blanket statement about claiming that they're all terrorists, which is unfounded. Now, they weren't alone, by the way, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration within the State Department, meaning a portion of our own government also determined that U.S. humanitarian aid was being restricted by Israel, but the Bureau later back down on that position, I wonder what kind of pressure was going on behind the scenes.

And rather than listen to what top U.S. officials had stated about Israel's conduct, and Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State, of course, chose instead to lie to Congress. On May 10th, Blinken delivered a carefully worded statement to Congress that said, quote, we do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance, end quote. Now, Stacey Gilbert, who's an official who helped write drafts of that report, resigned over its final language. In fact, she stated, there is abundant evidence showing Israel is responsible for blocking aid. To deny this is absurd and shameful. The report and its flagrant untruths

will haunt us. And in response to this story, the State Department claimed that it had successfully pressured Israelis to stop obstructing aid into the Gaza Strip. So like, what are we all complaining about? No big deal. I mean, you just saw the videos and images of starving and dying Palestinian children. But what's the big deal? They wrote that as we made clear in May, when our report was released, the U.S. had deep concerns during the period since October 7th about action and inaction by Israel that contributed to a lack of sustained delivery of needed humanitarian assistance. Israel subsequently took steps to facilitate increased humanitarian access and aid flow into Gaza. But ProPublica says, not really. They report that that's not

really what's happening. According to an anonymous source familiar with the U.S. Embassy in Israel, the State Department was actually displeased whenever U.S. experts in Israel reported information that actually contradicted promises from the Israeli government that they would allow more food to flow into the Gaza Strip. That was especially true when experts reported the small number of aid trucks being allowed in. A lot of times they would not accept it because it was lower than what the Israeli said. A person familiar with the embassy operations told ProPublica, the sentiment from Washington was,

we want to see the aid increasing because Israel told us it would. So we are lying on behalf of Israel. So can you guys like help us out here and allow more food to go in, more aid to go into the Gaza Strip? Yeah. So let's break this down a little bit. Israel often has, every time they have some excuse, right? So they say, for example, we restrict the flow of goods into Gaza because we're so worried that Hamas is going to sneak weapons in. So except for the flour, the flour that could have fed everyone, that clearly

is not a weapon, doesn't have weapons, and they wouldn't allow it in any way. So that's your tell. And then flour is not alone. There's just tons of other food products they don't allow in. Why? Because they are purposely starving the Palestinians. And by the way, they're back to starving them now. They're restricting aid again. The settlers are restricting it. There's military's restricting it, and medicine too, okay? So now, normal people might say, well, if you're going to take historical perspective, people who would starve a whole population or, I don't know, we're doing a genocide or they're fascists or they're terrorists, et cetera.

But no, Israel and America say, no, they are the moral army. What moral people do is starve two and a half million people after they destroyed all of their homes, their sanitation, polio started. All sorts of other diseases have started, and they've absolutely obliterated the place. That's what the good guy's moral army would do. And they say it with a straight face. So Anthony Blinken, now just to, I mean, look, there's different layers of lies, and he's used up every layer there is. First, it was just doing cover for Israel, then it was wordplay.

And now, oh, our own government says that they're starving these people and causing a humanitarian crisis. I'm just going to change those words to, they are not doing that, I'm just going to lie on behalf of my boss. Wait, I thought your boss was the American government. So now when you say, why is Anthony Blinken serving Israel instead of America, people will say, okay, there's a couple of possibilities. One side, the people defending Blinken will be because America must serve Israel because they're a special ally. and all special allies, there are no other special allies, by the way. Every special ally, you have to lie on their behalf, you have to let them starve people, you have to send them a $26 billion thank you note for slaughting 25,000 women and children.

So that's one camp as to why Blinken is lying on behalf of Israel, because that's what moral people would do. We would support this one special ally. Now there's the terrible people on the other side who say, oh, he's just serving his own ethnicity, and he wants to help Israel kill all those Palestinians because of his background. I don't agree with that at all. I don't think that's the answer.

There's tons of, like that, that's crazy talk. Everybody comes from different backgrounds and have different motivations, et cetera, right? I think the answer is a common sense one, but that the media and the politicians still find outrageous. I think he is serving his boss, Joe Biden. And Joe Biden has gotten over $11 million from APEC and is corrupt. I think it goes deeper than that, Jank. One of the issues I had with Biden appointing Blinken as his secretary.

of state was the fact that Anthony Blinken founded a think tank that, like, took all sorts of dark money and had all sorts of clients that they didn't have to disclose because of the way that think tank was structured. So they could very well have foreign clients. And look, and not only that, Anna, defense contract is like. And defense contractors, exactly right, Jenk, exactly right. And so Anthony Blinken isn't thinking about his current career. He's thinking about what am I doing when the Biden administration is over.

And he's going to go back to his think tank. He's going to go back to his clients. He's thinking about his own pockets. Like that's the way our government unfortunately currently works because of the legalized bribery, yes, but also the revolving door. 100%. So like don't get into conspiracy theories. The answer is right in front of you, right?

So both Biden and Blinken got millions of millions and millions of dollars, not just from pro-Israeli forces, but defense contractors. They literally make money by lying on behalf of Israel. So, I mean, the people on TV and New York Times, et cetera, will say, no, politicians are not affected by $11 million. And no, Anthony Blinken and almost everyone else in Washington is not affected by the millions they make from defense contractors, drug companies, et cetera, et cetera. But they're just, they just happen to think these things. And remember, they're angels. They would never do anything wrong.

They have the purest of intent. They just happen to make millions of dollars from supporting Israel and giant wars. And then they'll say, oh, but we are really trying to prevent this war. Says the same liar who lied about that report. Exactly right. All right, we got to take a break. We're going to switch gears entirely in the second hour, including Trump brackets. We're going to be doing that.

And we're also going to give you an update on Trump's second would-be assassin. We're learning some new details about him, according to prosecutors in the latest court filings. He's also now facing some federal charges, so we've got that and more coming up. Don't miss it.