Speaker 1: Native lamplod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with
Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. As we talk about and go into
Speaker 1: our larger conversation of this conversation around US imperialism. There
Speaker 1: was one of the clips I wanted to lead off
Speaker 1: with and talk about, but it was Pete Hegseth who
Speaker 1: criticizes the media's coverage of the Iran War and talked
Speaker 1: about the fact he couldn't wait for Ellison to take
Speaker 1: over CNN. Let's talk about it on the other side.
Speaker 2: With every passing hour, we know, and we know they
Speaker 2: know that the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling.
Speaker 2: They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate. They're confused and
Speaker 2: we know it. Our response, we will keep pressing, We
Speaker 2: will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for
Speaker 2: our enemies. Yet some of this crew in the press
Speaker 2: just can't stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions.
Speaker 2: People look up at the TV and they see banners,
Speaker 2: they see headlines. I used to be in that business,
Speaker 2: and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example,
Speaker 2: a banner or a headline mid East War intensifies splashing
Speaker 2: on the screen. The last couple of days alongside visuals
Speaker 2: of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because
Speaker 2: that's what they do.
Speaker 3: What should the.
Speaker 2: Banner read instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate because they are.
Speaker 2: They know it, and so do you, if it can
Speaker 2: be admitted or more fake news from CNN reports that
Speaker 2: the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the
Speaker 2: Strait of horr moves patently ridiculous. Of course, for decades,
Speaker 2: Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Horror moves.
Speaker 4: This is always what they do.
Speaker 2: Hold the straight hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that.
Speaker 2: It's a fundamentally unserious report. The sooner David Ellison takes
Speaker 2: over that network.
Speaker 4: The better. He's a fundamentally unserious person.
Speaker 3: That's why Liz CAUs him. Pete Kigg's breath the.
Speaker 4: Other thing that should like alarm anybody on the listening
Speaker 4: side of that. There's a lot about it. But as
Speaker 4: the Defense Secretary for the United States of America, his
Speaker 4: use of the phrase no quarter, which we should just
Speaker 4: break down for a moment, refers to the refusal to
Speaker 4: spare the life of an enemy even after surrender. It
Speaker 4: means you will kill the enemy regardless of surrender or
Speaker 4: their inability to fight back, and according to the Geneva Conventions,
Speaker 4: I think of like nineteen oh seven, that is a
Speaker 4: war crime, and it is acknowledged at the Hague and
Speaker 4: through all international definitions of the rules of engagement of
Speaker 4: war that have been agreed to by all civilized nations,
Speaker 4: and practically I don't know if that there is one
Speaker 4: that doesn't agree. Maybe maybe in North Koreina would little
Speaker 4: little Jim Jim Ill Kim Jong Ill, right, But the
Speaker 4: man at a press conference basically asserted an international war
Speaker 4: crime would be the status quo conduct of the United
Speaker 4: States and military. Again, it gets there are obviously worst
Speaker 4: things that that this administration has done and said and
Speaker 4: lied about and so on and so forth. But I
Speaker 4: just find it alarming that a man who was I
Speaker 4: think himself in service and then now lead to the
Speaker 4: service as a civilian leader for the military under the president,
Speaker 4: would would commit a war crime.
Speaker 1: Not a pressure. There was so much to take out
Speaker 1: of that. But for me, it just goes to the
Speaker 1: oligarchy and the fact that they're talking about one of
Speaker 1: their friends, They're talking about one of their colleagues taking
Speaker 1: over the media. We now know, if we can put
Speaker 1: up just the picture of the tweet from Donald Trump
Speaker 1: just quickly, how they want to take away our voices,
Speaker 1: How they want to take away any dissenting voice, which
Speaker 1: is fascism, which is the oligarchy. And if you look
Speaker 1: at this tweet from Donald Trump recently, he talks about
Speaker 1: getting PBS defunded. He talks about getting Joy Read and
Speaker 1: Lester Hode and Jim Acosta and John Dickerson and Chuck
Speaker 1: Todd and Colbert and all the people who had any
Speaker 1: type of just clear eyed view that was diametrically opposed
Speaker 1: to that of the White House out and under reforms.
Speaker 1: He talks about CNN new ownership. He talks about TikTok,
Speaker 1: he talks about X, he talks about Disney, the FCC.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of these things. If we don't wake up,
Speaker 1: Garrison's now an independent media. But if we don't wake up,
Speaker 1: I mean, just think about how the oligarchy's going to
Speaker 1: control our ability to dissent.
Speaker 5: You said something there, Kari that I think is important
Speaker 5: to kind of highlight, which is that it has never
Speaker 5: been more important that you support independent media than this time.
Speaker 1: Right now, we are.
Speaker 5: Living in a time. And when I say independent media,
Speaker 5: I don't just mean like creators and people who are
Speaker 5: disseminating information that way, which I think is important. I'm
Speaker 5: talking about non partisan media, which they are actively trying
Speaker 5: to chip away at. CBS is absolutely partisan these days.
Speaker 5: They have an angle CBS News. I think about CNN
Speaker 5: that they're saying the Ellisons are going to take over.
Speaker 5: I am, you know, when I'm listening to Hegseth, I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about the fact that I try to get as
Speaker 5: much of my Middle East news as possible from Al Jazeera.
Speaker 5: And if you go to Al Jazeera and look at
Speaker 5: their website and they're reporting on what's happening over there,
Speaker 5: it's actually fundamentally different many times than what you see
Speaker 5: on American media because now you have all of these
Speaker 5: speed bumps in the way. You have the bully pulpit
Speaker 5: of the presidency coming down on a New York Times
Speaker 5: or on any of the other news agencies for what
Speaker 5: they're reporting on, and so you kind of got to
Speaker 5: look other places these days. It's incredibly important. The other
Speaker 5: thing that heg Seth said that I want to highlight
Speaker 5: was that every single Chiron banner headline is crafted intentionally.
Speaker 5: And what he didn't say, but what he intended for
Speaker 5: you to understand, is that it's all intentionally crafted to
Speaker 5: steer you in a specific direction. He even goes so
Speaker 5: far as to say, I come from that business, which
Speaker 5: is to say when he was at Fox News, that's
Speaker 5: what they were doing. They were crafting the story to
Speaker 5: kind of steer you in a very very specific direction.
Speaker 5: What they're talking about is propaganda, which is what I
Speaker 5: believe they want for all the American news stations to
Speaker 5: kind of be putting out there on their behalf. It's
Speaker 5: certainly what bart whis is doing for them, and so
Speaker 5: you've got to kind of be aware of where you're
Speaker 5: getting this information from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, also state run news.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean also to your that thank you natural segue, Andrew,
Speaker 1: I mean State run News. Let's put up this tweet
Speaker 1: from SEC Chair Brendan Carr, who threatened to revoke broadcast
Speaker 1: licenses if broadcasters don't operate in the quote unquote public
Speaker 1: interest and give the Iran war more friendly news coverage.
Speaker 1: He said broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions
Speaker 1: are also known as the fake news, have a chance
Speaker 1: now to correct course before their license renewals come up.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a blatant threat. I mean it is
Speaker 1: it is state run news. I mean it's a longer
Speaker 1: tweet that I hope individuals have an opportunity to read.
Speaker 1: At the end, he says, when a political candidate is
Speaker 1: able to win in a landslide election victory, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be a non partisan office. After
Speaker 1: in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something
Speaker 1: very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and
Speaker 1: confidence in the media, and we can't allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: Time for change.
Speaker 3: Who is a landslide election victory are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You know, okay, I just you know what's troubling me
Speaker 3: right now is the many ways in which the deck
Speaker 3: is stacked. And it's not just a deck that is
Speaker 3: stacked in media. It's one that they've tried to stack
Speaker 3: with legal representation. It's one they've tried to stack with,
Speaker 3: you know, false claims against some of the people who
Speaker 3: are our heroes right now and have the courage to
Speaker 3: fight in this moment. Even with the media, they're not
Speaker 3: playing fair. They are buying their followers and their downloads
Speaker 3: and all of the other things. So it's it really
Speaker 3: does put you in a position of feeling helpless. And
Speaker 3: I think that the most important thing we can do
Speaker 3: in this hour is turned towards each other. And I
Speaker 3: think what is so disturbing and alarming to me in
Speaker 3: this moment is that's not what we're doing, like all
Speaker 3: of the things that they're doing to create conflict because
Speaker 3: we feel like we can't win as a people. We
Speaker 3: are turning our fire and ire towards each other instead
Speaker 3: of the actual enemy because the enemy feels too big.
Speaker 3: I don't get it. So I really hope that we
Speaker 3: recenter and take on the actual fight. We're not gonna
Speaker 3: win if we keep fighting one another.
Speaker 1: We're just not Can I add one point to Garrison's
Speaker 1: point he made earlier, just because I become a much
Speaker 1: larger proponent of it. The technological divide is so great
Speaker 1: where I'm from that many times the influencers and cultural
Speaker 1: commentators that we learn to grow and love aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: saturating into where I'm from. But the media that is
Speaker 1: there to consume is local journalism. And so while we're
Speaker 1: also talking about quote unquote independent journalism, think that there
Speaker 1: is an other another pathway referred to as local journalism,
Speaker 1: and that needs our support today as well, because that
Speaker 1: is drying up and dying, and that is where everyday
Speaker 1: average Americans can get their news, can be a part
Speaker 1: of the news and the stories that we want to
Speaker 1: hear or told. And I think that I don't ever
Speaker 1: really talk about King in public. I just hate talking
Speaker 1: about him in public. But that fierce urgency of now
Speaker 1: that he discussed and I have a dream speech is
Speaker 1: something that I think Angela was echoing. But when we
Speaker 1: see these things happen sometimes it just feels like a
Speaker 1: drop in the bucket. I mean, Nick, just a minute ago,
Speaker 1: he was talking about taking over Cuba and nobody blinked
Speaker 1: an eye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whychot went down?
Speaker 4: By the way, this guy is saying, first of all, Republicans,
Speaker 4: the people, these America first people should be pulling their
Speaker 4: hair out if they believed any of what he said
Speaker 4: during the campaign themselves, if that's what they were truly
Speaker 4: advocating for. But the fact that we're spending over a
Speaker 4: billion dollars a day on a war, a conflict that
Speaker 4: the President has yet to explain to the American people.
Speaker 4: He has not held a single address, not a single
Speaker 4: address from the White House, from the podium, from the
Speaker 4: Resolute Desk, to prepare us for what it is we're
Speaker 4: doing over there. Americans have already lost their lives. Others,
Speaker 4: you know, over one hundred and sixty hour or so
Speaker 4: are injured, which they they find it an inconvenience when
Speaker 4: the media asks how did these soldiers die? What region
Speaker 4: were they in? How were these soldiers injured? And the
Speaker 4: President says, is there another question? Anyone have a question
Speaker 4: that's not about dead people?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: This is how it comports himself. And then he uses
Speaker 4: language like, yeah, we'll take over we'll control Cuba. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think we're going to take over Cuba next, and Venezuela. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we don't have a timeline for when we'll when we'll
Speaker 4: we'll hand back over leadership to them, we'll control we'll
Speaker 4: control that. And yeah, we'll take Greenland. You know why
Speaker 4: you add it? And let me think of whatever expansion
Speaker 4: is imperialists designs I have on the world. While the
Speaker 4: rest of the world has spent the last hundred years
Speaker 4: deconstructing empires, right nations, sovereign people deciding that they've always
Speaker 4: been sovereign, despite what royal title or country you think
Speaker 4: you are to have owned us in the first place.
Speaker 4: Everybody else has moved away from that except two Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 4: who is trying to reconstitute the old Soviet Republic, Kim
Speaker 4: Jong un who wants to take over South Korea because
Speaker 4: he declares it's part of one Korea, Shijinping, who wants
Speaker 4: to take over Taiwan because he's never recognized Taiwan as
Speaker 4: being its own country, its own sovereign land. It is
Speaker 4: a part of China, endo China? And then who else
Speaker 4: do we add to that list? The only other person
Speaker 4: we can legitimately add to that list is the goddamn
Speaker 4: leader of the free world, a free world that he
Speaker 4: doesn't believe in, because he's trying to build empires again.
Speaker 4: I just hope, I just hope that this midterm election,
Speaker 4: we're all going to be smart enough that we don't
Speaker 4: have to fall in love with the candidates on the ballot.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to fall in line with the ones
Speaker 4: who are going to help hold off and stave off
Speaker 4: this imperialist, expansionist man who I quite find dangerously delirious
Speaker 4: most days that he's speaking. And I think somebody I'll
Speaker 4: be checking into that.
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