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Brent Bozell
So our guest today is the founder of Media Research center, which recently found a report that came out saying Google has interfered with elections 41 times over the last 16 years. His organization did that. He's the founder of it, prominent conservative writer, media critic and political activist known for his influential contributions to conservative thought and advocacy. He's the nephew of the great founder of I can say first line, I can say national William F. Buckley, junior.

I watch his content many, many times. It's great to have you on. Brent Bozell on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. Of course, it's great to.

So tell me what, how did you guys walk me through the research? Because when I saw this article and I'm going through it, we're talking to it as a crew. Media Research center, your organization reveals that Google has allegedly interfered in us elections 41 times, 16 years, favoring left wing candidates and censoring their opponents as outlined by the MRC free speech America vice president Dan Schneider and editor Gabriela Pressi. All these things that you guys find out, what did you learn from it? Well, you've got a real problem with big tech in that big tech is not playing by the same rules that the rest of the United States is playing by.

Anybody who is an american citizen has a right to participate in the election process, but only so far. You can make a contribution. You can only go so far. Corporations can't be involved in politicians political action at the federal level. Yet you've got big tech that is picking winners and losers in elections.

And when they do it the way they're doing it, it becomes a very serious threat to democracy itself. Let me explain that. There was a study done by the Pew center in 2011. Now, this is a dated study, but the numbers are only going to be bigger than that. Where they found that 7% of adults make their decision on who to vote for based on a Google search.

Wow. 7%, 7%, 7%. So if you look at the 22 Senate races, in the top twelve most contested races you had where the Democrats and the Republicans were concerned, 87% of the Republicans were put at the bottom of the first page. Now, what do you do when you're doing a Google search? When you're looking for something, you have your answer within two or three people.

Now you open it up, you're looking to see what's the price of fried chicken, and you get a couple of races and you're done. What Google did, deliberately was to put the Republicans at the bottom of page one. Or in the case of seven of the twelve republican candidates for the Senate in these most contested races, they put them on page two. Less than 1% of the public ever goes to page two. That's right.

So that's deliberate interference in a Senate campaign where you're keeping information from the public or burying it so far deep, they'll never go looking for it. The 7% that make their decision based on what they look for, Google knows what it's doing. So then Google goes to Capitol Hill. When they're hauled up, like Facebook was hauled up, Jack Dorsey was hauled up to Capitol Hill. And raise your right hand and swear an oath to tell the truth and the whole truth, nothing but the truth, that sort of thing.

And they argue that they are not a publisher, they're a platform. Now, why is that important? Because if you're the Washington Post, or if you're CNN or, I suspect, this podcast, and you say something that's defamatory, you will be held liable. For what? For what you say.

Think about the Covington kid. This was a several years ago, a right to life march, and there was that high school kid standing there, standing in front of an indian person, and they just blasted him all over CNN, the Washington Post, everybody blasted him as somehow doing something that was racist or something or other. Well, it turned out he was doing nothing. This poor kid was just standing there. Well, guess what?

There was a lawsuit against CNN, a lawsuit against the Washington Post. The one with the Washington Post was settled with big smiles on the part of the plaintiffs. However, anything that was on Facebook or Google, they couldn't be touched, because they are officially platforms. They're not publishers. So anything that Google does that puts on there, they just say, it's not us, it's the people who used us.

They're the ones who are responsible. And that's been the protection that they've had, yet they are deliberately participating in the process. So they should be held as accountable as the Washington Post or your podcast. So how do you do that, though? When you say Washington Post or the podcast or anybody?

How do you hold them accountable? You sue them. You sue them. If you defame me and you cause me damage, I have the right for legal redress and I can respond with a lawsuit. Its not very easy to win against the media because you have to prove not just that I was defamed, but that I was deliberately defamed by you.

And it hurt me and it cost me. In the case of the Covington kid, he was able to show all three things very clearly, which is why he won his case.

Again, if you're a big tech company and you've been able to get away with declaring yourself a platform, Wikipedia. Wikipedia says the nastiest things about people, and it allows the nastiest things to be said about people. And I've seen just really scurrilous stuff. Wikipedia can't be touched. They say we're just the platform.

People put their stuff on there. We're not responsible for taking it off. So, so, Brent, so. But for Google, it's a search engine. It's a publicly traded company.

Correct? So their attitude is basically, hey, listen, buy your own. Like, remember, make your own. Just like with the, with X, everybody, I'm sorry, with formerly known as Twitter, everybody that I knew, that's from the left, everybody from California, all the liberals are like, like, hey, if you don't like it, buy your buy, buy your own or make your own. And that's what obviously Elon Musk did.

So what do you say to the people that are just like, you know, start your own? I know. What do we have? Rob? Duck.

Duck, go. There's Bing. There's other search platforms. I could see that. But what do you say to people that are like, well, then start a new one and you do your own searches?

Brent Bozell
Well, theoretically, that's right. But Google is so big and so powerful, you really have to start thinking about monopolies. Bing, as an example. Bing is Microsoft. Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars challenging Google, and they got a whopping 2% of the market.

Google has 92% of the market worldwide, and they're sitting on billions of dollars in cash. YouTube posed a bit of a threat. They gobbled them, just like Facebook gobbled Instagram. They can't compete against these guys. They're just too powerful worldwide.

When these rules are made by big tech, when big tech decides to censor you based on something they don't like, for example, abortion. They have a very, very stern position on abortion. And it ain't pro life when you have that kind of policy. It's not just in the United States of America. It's worldwide where these policies, unless you're China and say, no, I won't let you in, but any country that invites them in is also inviting in that censorship.

And here's the interesting thing. The United States is the only country on the face of this globe where free speech is a right. That is an inherent right. Only in the United States. So the censorship that takes place outside of the United States, I pity those people because there's really nothing they can do about it.

Brenda's 41 times that they interfered in the elections. You have some of the cases, some of the stories, some of the case studies. I saw Tulsa Gabbard was on the list. I saw Hillary Clinton, Obama, McCain. I saw a bunch of lists.

Well, there were two Democrats and 39 Republicans that were the presidential candidates. The 39 Republicans just spanned the gambit. But an example, Rick Santorum. There was a smear bomb put out on Rick Santorum. It was really, really ugly.

It was vicious in the personal attack on him. I mean, I won't repeat it because it doesn't. Does him a personal disservice. He went to Google and he said, this is what's happened to me. They didn't take it down.

They kept it up there. The only time the Democrats have been censored, one was RFK and the other one was Hillary Clinton. Interestingly enough, when she was challenging Barack Obama, they picked winners and losers in that. And they loved Hillary Clinton. In 2016.

They didn't love her when she ran in 2008, I guess it was against Obama. Obama was their guy, and that's who they wanted. So they censored her. Same thing with RFK Junior. They might like him.

They censored junior for the same reason they censored you, because you said something about COVID on your show. Bam. You got, how dare they? How dare they do that? Why can't you have a conversation about COVID My wife and I have great conversations about COVID We don't see eye to eye on it.

You know, half my family doesn't see eye to eye on that. Why can't you have that conversation? Why do you censor somebody for just simply raising questions? It is effective, though. It is very effective, because when you think with the RFK, when did they censor him?

They're censoring him, like recently or how long. They're censoring him now, but they censored, I guess, last year. Was it this? Got it. I'm not entirely sure.

But they did send. And it was over. COVID. It was overcome. Oh, yeah.

Because especially when big pharma's involved, obviously. I mean, still to this day. I got in trouble a month ago. I think I said the v word, which nothing, by the way. And they're not even censoring, just regular people with dialogue.

They're censoring the doctors that basically started the MRN vaccine. They silenced them because they're messing with their money. And Big pharma's obviously in control and they're in the pockets of big pharmacy. Yeah. You know, once upon a time, I used to think those are conspiracy theories, but they're really not.

Brent Bozell
They're really not. Here's the reality of Washington, DC. The Chamber of Commerce really runs things in that town. When you've got a $6 trillion economy, someone's getting that money. It ain't going all to welfare checks.

It's going to someone who's going to a corporation that's going to administer that number. It's going to Defense Department. It's going for, one 7th of it is going for national healthcare today. Well, that's being administered by healthcare companies. So it's there.

It's in their vested interest that you have business as usual in Washington, DC. And they like it very much because they're making billions upon billions of dollars making their pharmaceuticals. So if you question one of their pharmaceuticals, their idea is shut you down. Twitter was shutting people down. Facebook is still shutting people down.

We've got a study. I don't want to give the numbers away yet, but we have a study coming out on Facebook going to show a similar thing with election interference. Yeah. Rob, can you do me a favor? Go on Google real quick.

Go on Google and type in Trump or Biden 2024. Okay. And zoom in a little bit so we can see the titles and keep scrolling down. So we're so far on page one, right. New York Times, 35 3538.

Keep going. New York Times, economists, aP news, all left so far. Hill, left. Keep going left. BBC, left, AP news, left.

Reuters, left. Washington Post, left. Gallup, keep going. 70 political, Pew research, neutral. Keep going.

BBC. So go to more results. Okay, and be. Let's see how long until Fox. Fox comes up.

Reuters, book, Brookings, Newsweek, statista. Keep going. ABC, real clear part, keep going. CNN again. Wall Street Journal.

Okay, so Wall Street Journal, right there. Conservatives are taking over. Yeah, Quinn, one out of 20. Keep going. Us, cB's, Gallup.

Keep going. Politico, Bloomberg, NPR, Wikipedia, PBS, YouTube, Axios. Keep going. I mean, listen, let's do another story. Go to another story.

Go do 2024 election polls. Okay? 2024 election polls. Okay, zoom in and let's go down again and let's see what we see. So again, USA Today, Newsweek, political, National Review, left, left, economists, left, New York Times, left, CNN, left, newsweek, left.

Keep going. AP news, political, NBC News, Washington. This is just, I'm not getting a single poll from the right. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Okay, five of the same one.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Nothing. Keep going, keep going. Yeah, keep going. That's a, we're on page two now.

Nobody makes it to page three. Keep going. By the way, there's not a single link they're showing off Fox at all, by the way. Not a single one from Fox. Still going from nothing.

We're on page five now. Business Insider, Business today, none. One of the top polling firms in the country is McLaughlin, an associate state. Do Trump's polling, but they do all sorts of polling and they've been around for 40 years. I've known John McLaughlin.

He's one of the best pollsters in America. You haven't seen his name yet. I haven't seen him at all. That is wild. We're on page eight now.

Fox has not showed up a single link so far. Al Jazeera made it. Keep going. Al Jazeera. Google made it.

Al Jazeera. Now, by the way, we're about to go to page ten. Forbes. Forbes is not left. Keep going.

Brent Bozell
So now it's all Google and they still haven't shown one link so far from Fox LA Times. By the way, not one in ten pages. And the basic search we just did right now was what? Polls? 2021, 2024 polls.

Look at him after eleven pages, not one link was given by Fox News. So validate some of that now. Why are they worried about Tulsi Gabbard? What was their fear with Tulsi? Is this the Hillary Clinton Tulsi deal?

Yeah, I mean, I mean, Tulsi, you know, had a following and Tulsi posed a threat, maybe minuscule, but it was a threat nonetheless. And they will target anything that gets in the way. How bad was it that Senator Marshall Blackburn had a commercial where she said she was right to life and it got censored? How dare they not allow her to tell her constituents where she stands you'd think that Google would celebrate that. And by the way, you know what is really annoying about that company?

When was the last time you called them and spoke to a person? You can't talk to anybody. There's no way of reaching them. They put out a statement when we came out with that study, they put out a statement where they said, well, these are old numbers that have been debunked. Well, a, they're not old, and b, they've not been debunked.

And so we sent a letter to the president of Google. Just show debunk one. We'll take one debunk. They didn't debunk a single one. They can't because it's factually accurate.

So they're not account. They simply believe they're above the rules that you have to play and I have to play. Rob, the link I sent you for where people advertise where people give their money to left or the right. Can you pull that link up? I gave it to you earlier, and it's the second one, I think it's the Axios yellow link that I sent to you that shows where at the top was Netflix.

What percentage of their executives give the money to the left versus the right? When you pull this up, one of the most interesting things was seeing which company gave more to the right than the left. It was somebody I wouldn't have expected at all. Rob, did you find out? Are you still looking for it?

So check this out. So this article came out, and to be fair, they. Right there. That's the one. There you go.

So this says tech employees are much like, much more liberal than their employers. Employees more than their employers, at least as far as the candidates they support. So now watch this. Go lower. This is what you see.

Keep going. This is from open secrets that they show this data. Employee donation for midterms, candidates by party. Look at Netflix. Wow.

Pretty much 100% is a lot, by the way. That's not. That's like, I want to know who the .4% is, and I want to know how they still have a job. They're hiding. Yeah, look at Twitter.

98.7. Then you got airbnb. Zoom in a little bit. Rob. 97.8.

Then you got Apple, stripe, Lyft, Google, Alphabet, Salesforce. Facebook is 94 and a half, even. Tesla, 93. Nine. EBay, PayPal, Microsoft, Amazon, Uber, Huell Packard, all the way at the bottom.

Oracle. Okay. And intel. See, Larry Ellison's got a little bit of influence on people. Close that up and keep going lower.

Keep going lower to the next one. This one is what company pack donations to midterm candidates. Company Tesla, 20% conservative, 80% left. This is the company. Hul Packard 5742 Salesforce.

Facebook. Facebook is 50 50. Google 5149, go lower. Look all the way at the bottom. Paypal.

Interesting, right? 62%. PayPal was going for conservative, 38% was going for. Were you aware of that? That PayPal is that much on one side and the other?

Well, when it comes to corporate contributions, to me, it doesn't mean much because they're playing, they're playing the middle. Look at, look at, what was it. Which one was Google was 51, 49, 50. That's the game that they're playing. They want to have good relations with both sides, Republicans and Democrats.

So the PAc money will go 50 50 by design. But it's not just big tech. Big oil does the exact same thing. That's the game that's played. Now, in recent years, Democrats have been far more effective than Republicans at getting corporate contributions.

And I think it is because Democrats can promise more. They've got bigger budgets. And they say to Exxon, we can get you bigger subsidies. You know, I've asked the question, why? Why isn't big oil standing up to the Biden administration, who's trying to shut down the whole industry?

Why? Because they're getting massive subsidies for electric vehicles to develop that technology. The last thing they want to do is lose that money. So what do they do? They make contributions to the same administration that is out to destroy their business.

Okay, so now let's talk 2024, 2020. Whatever they did, they won, right? The left won. Whether it was not allowing that story from New York Post on Twitter to go viral, they took it down. Whether it was Twitter files, we haven't seen Google files yet.

We haven't seen YouTube files yet. We haven't seen Facebook files yet. The only files that we know is the Twitter files. Right? Okay.

That was the gamification they use for 2020. What do you think they're gonna do for 2024? Because they're not just gonna let anybody come in and just, hey, hand it over to Trump. They're not going to do that. What are some areas you're looking at that if you were to think about strategy and you think like they are, what do you think they're going to be doing?

Well, let's go back a little bit to 2008. Obama was brilliant as a political strategist. He had a strategy that said, my followers maybe in the minority, and I don't mean black, I mean just numerically in the minority. But if I could mobilize them more effectively than these people on the Republicans, who numerically outnumber me, but they're just bored and stayed at home. If I can do that, I could win the election.

He did it through Facebook, which was something that the Republicans had never even heard of. In 2012, he doubled down. I think he spent $100 million or something in advertising alone. But he doubled down on Facebook on Election day. He was churning out all of his supporters.

Mitt Romney was selling baseball caps for dollar 25 apiece. I mean, he had no understanding of the power of Facebook. In 2016, Trump did it, but he did it through Twitter. He chose the Twitter platform in 2020. It was the consensus, we'll never let this guy do it again.

So they shut him down on Twitter. They shut him down on Facebook. Then they wouldn't allow the issues that were being raised. They shut down the issues that were being raised. Now, as a result of that, there was a bakerfuffle, and along comes Elon Musk, and he uncovers what was going on with the russian collusion story and finds the evidence that, yes, they censored it.

Mark Zuckerberg discredit, came forward, held the press conference and announced, we did it, too. And we did it because the Justice Department came to us. And they said it was all. I mean, it was the Hunter Biden story. That's what we're talking about.

They said it's all russian collusion and that because of the Justice Department, they shut it down, which is just dangerous stuff going on here now, 2024 is in front of us. What's going to happen? I think Elon Musk is absolutely committed to an open forum of ideas. But the problem is his staff isn't. When the shadow banning was uncovered, where they were going to conservative Republicans and shutting them down, that was at the staff level.

That wasn't Jack Dorsey at the corporate level doing that. That was at the staff level where they had that power in recent years. And one of the findings we're going to. I'll tell you one of the findings of our Facebook study on your show. Three times Mark Zuckerberg has made public pronouncements about the intention of Facebook to become, to be an open platform of ideas.

Three times the censorship went up. That was the consequence from his own staff. They increased the censorship. It's this that they're doing to the boss now. So what's going to happen with Google?

Google, I think, is going to double and triple down on this presidential campaign. And Google is the most powerful of them all. So that's a real problem. As to the other ones, I suspect that Mark Zuckerberg does want it. Now Facebook is doing something interesting.

They have pushed out the news business. They don't want the news business on their platforms. They've got, you know, they want trading photographs of your, of your family. And they've done it to the left and they've done it to the right. They've been very fair about pushing all news contents out.

And it's put some companies out of business as a result. Now they're focusing on politics. They're going even further. So I don't know how much they're going to play in this election campaign. But, so, Brett, but I mean, Zuckerberg gave what, $400 million in 2020?

And it was specifically for having people work on the election totally for the left. I mean, we all know where he stands. Where'd he go? Harvard. Harvard as we've seen.

What's up with Harvard? Harvard dropout. But I think, Brent, where Pat is going is more of, I mean, 2020. What a great timing for them for COVID to come out of this place, out of this lab. Do you feel anything like, I mean, with the votes, I think they're playing the long game they already set up their pieces with because Elon Musk, as we're talking about, one of the biggest things he's been talking about for the past six months is the illegal open border coming in.

All these votes. We did a study. How many, how many states PBD don't require id, no photo id. 16, I believe it's 16 out of. All these states, Brett, they don't even need photo id.

Some of these places, I think the major three swing states, all you need is your Social Security number because they made it to where if you're coming and you're working and that's why the left is pushing it. Do you think that that's one of the main things? Cause I mean, Elon, that's one of Elon's main things. Do you think that's one of their bigger tactics? Yeah.

Brent Bozell
Look, look, there's something really nefarious there. Not only has the Biden administration opened the borders, Trump closed it for the most part. And it was almost closed. And by closed it means that you follow the law. That's all it means is you follow the law to come into this country.

So Biden opened them all up and then Mayorkas looked right in the camera to the United States and said theres no problem. And Biden appointed Kamala to be the borders. She never even went. No. And she said everythings fine.

They know whats happening down there and they like it. Look at thelook what the Republicans came up with, with their voting rights bill, which was just vilified by the left. The media said it was all going to restrict elections and it was all to keep people from voting. There were only two things that the Republicans were pushing. How is this for radical signature verification and photo id?

Racist. So racist. Just those two things. And those things have got something like an 89% support. I can't believe 11% of America would be against it.

Brent Bozell
100% support. It's just the simplest thing in the world. They don't want that. They don't want that because they want illegal aliens. You can't even say illegal aliens.

No, you're not allowed to. What was it called, rob? What are they called? Undocumented richers. Was it cultural enrichers?

Cultural enrichers. I love that one. Or undocumented? Right. Undocumented.

Brent Bozell
Undocumented citizens. Nancy Pelosi hates that. And even the word migrant is wrong because they're not migrants. They're immigrants. The difference being a migrant goes from one part of a country to another part of the country.

An immigrant comes from one country and goes to another country. That's a very good point. There's a difference between a migrant crisis or an immigrant crisis. Right. Last but not least before we wrap up.

So at the beginning in 2016, I think you were a Ted Cruz guy. You were not a Trump person. You made some comments about Trump and then you flipped and you supported Trump. What do you stand now with Trump and him being the candidate 2024 and his chances of winning? I think, you know, every year when you're doing your fundraising, you tell your supporters that, by God, this is an existential year.

I think 2024 is an existential year. It's going to be one of two things. You know, it's the first time in modern history where the american people have a choice between two candidates, both of whom have been presidents and both of whom have presidential records. I just looked at, can I, can I go through some numbers? Yeah, for sure.

If I were Donald Trump running today, I would say, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to give you some numbers, and I'm just going to tell you that gasoline prices were $2.42 when I left office. As of March, they're $3.54. They've gone up 46%. Joe Biden has said on national television that prices he's brought prices down from under where they were with Donald Trump. So either Joe Biden is senile or he's lying through his teeth.

Okay, inflation. Just recently, Biden said he had curbed, quote unquote, rampant inflation from Donald Trump. The average inflation for Trump was 1.9%. The average inflation for Biden is 5.5. When he took office, it was 1.4%.

Thanks to Donald Trump, prices have gone up under Trump. In 48 months, they went up 7.8%. Under Biden, in 38 months, they went up 18.9%. Mortgage rates when Donald Trump took office, it was at 4.1. When he left, it was at 2.8.

That's what Biden assumed. Today it's 6.8. It's gone up 146%. On and on the numbers go. If I were Donald Trump, I would say when I was president, there wasn't a single war anywhere on the face of this earth.

There was, could have been all sorts of problems, but nobody was doing anything. Today there are wars and the possibility of wars, of a world war all going on all over the world. When I was president, you could go on the streets of America. Today you can't go in Washington, DC now. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go play golf at my golf courses.

I'll be back on election day. Talk among yourselves and America, you decide who you want to be president. That's right. They're the two records now. So where did I stand?

I was a Cruz guy. I was a Cruz guy because Cruz was a reaganite. Donald Trump had had his whole career, was supporting liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton. That was the facts of life. And so I supported Cruz.

Donald Trump didn't like that. I got one of those patented Donald Trump tweets. That's fine. And I did support him, and I do support him. And I think that, I don't care what you say about his personality.

His record is all that matters. And it was a sterling record. And we need him more than ever to go back to what he did before. He doesn't need to do any more than what he did before. Just do act two.

What I don't want is Obama 4.0. And that's what we're getting, is Obama 4.0. Biden's not controlling anything. It's the Obama team that's controlling everything. It's very obvious, and everybody knows it.

But I still think everybody has to be ready. Right now. It's what, April 16? Today we got how many more months left? Six and a half months.

Give or take 29 weeks. 30 weeks to election. How crazy do you think this year's October surprises are going to be? It's going to be whatever they need it to be. Look what's going on with these trials.

Donald Trump was just convicted in New York of a crime where there was no victim and nobody accusing him. Right now he's being charged, he's in court on a case where they're using federal statutes. Yet both the Justice Department and the SEC said there's no there there. So the federal government has said there's no there there. So you've got a Democrat Da who ran at a campaign platform that said, I'm going to get Donald Trump, and he's the darling of the far left getting Donald Trump.

So they're going to try everything they can, including putting this man in prison if they have to, before the elections. It's an unthinkable proposition what's happening in this country, but, yeah, they're not going to take any prisoners. You saw Brad files motion to hold Trump in contempt for alleged gag order violation, threatens 30 days of jail time. Yeah, yeah. And because Donald Trump wants threatening.

This just happened right now. Yeah, because Donald Trump wants to respond to scurrilous attacks against him coming from the left. He has a right to do that. But I mean, as it's like the average, the average american that's following all this, Brent, is slow because I'm, trust me, I'm in, I'm in this camp not only just fed up and tired, I have lost all faith in any. And because we talk about, you know, once in a while, me and Adam, another co host, we're talking about, the courts are.

And he's like, what do you mean? You mean the institution that I go, listen, if they could do this in New York, imagine what they're gonna do anywhere else to anybody that's lesser than the ex president of the United States. It angers me. At the same time, it's like I don't trust. It makes the trust for the system even lesser than it was the day before.

And it's not getting better because if we're seeing it live, everybody knows, but nobody can really say anything because everybody's like, well, because the left loves it. The left is like, you know, the stormy Daniels, the hush money, the, you know, they actually believe that this place is worth $15 million, 18 million. I'm sorry, they couldn't win. They can't win the war of public opinion. You know, with what I just gave you, if the conversation had to do with the issues, the issues that the american people care about.

Brent Bozell
And I just gave you those issues. They don't care about climate change. They don't care about abortion. They care about these pocketbook issues. If you had a conversation about that, and I can tell you these issues, issues are being completely, we've been talking about big tech, but don't let the media, the news media off the hook on this.

They're doing the kibosh on anything that will give, you know, they did throughout Trump's administration. Think about this for a second. The coverage of Trump was 90.5% negative for four years. It's already started. It's already at 90%.

So what does it do when it's 90.5%? It's 90.5% attacks on you, but it only allows for 9.5% to tell your successes. So his stories were never being told. How many people know that Donald Trump was recommended for three Nobel peace prizes? Yeah.

Not us. Nobody. No. They're just. I want to show you two clips.

Brent Bozell
Can you play this clip? One clip, and we'll wrap up. Go ahead, Rob.

Watch this. 1031. We got some news from inside the courtroom. Apparently, the district attorney's office has filed a written motion, so they have made it official to try and hold Donald Trump in contempt for violating the gag. Order that was put onto him by the judge.

Well, I guess there were three allegations that the state made yesterday. And if he is, if the allegations hold up, Trump would be fined $1,000 for each violation. That's right. 1031. Can you imagine?

$100,000. No problem. I'll pay under kate. So it's all pr, it's all prime. Yeah, but they're doing it.

But they're doing it. And by the way, today Bill Maher put the interview out with him and Katie Couric. And did you hear what she said about MAGA? No. You gotta.

Well, go ahead and watch this. Did you see this already or not? I think this is very interesting. Watch this. Go for it.

Shopify
And I feel like to your point, Bill, the socioeconomic disparities are a lot, and class resentment is a lot. What? And anti intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti establishment, which are Trump voters or anti establishment voters. So I think that is a huge problem that we have to address. I mean, globalization and, you know, the transition from an industrial to a technological society.

I mean, I, and I don't know if you've ever been jealous of some, what someone else has or resentful it is such a corroding and bitter almost aisle. She's stoned. She's definitely stoned. She's in the basement. She's high.

Brent Bozell
You know what she's saying. Anybody that's a Trump voter is anti intellectual. In other words, you are dumb is what she called you, and deplorable. You are deplorable. But look what, you don't get much more elitist than what you do.

That man has. And by the way, the idea of class resentment, that's been a signature of the far left since the beginning of time, that's not been a conservative MAGA position. That's been Katie Couric's position and her side the whole time. So she's somewhere between Uber elitist and downright stupid in that comment. Well, that's where she is and we applaud her for it because that's the position she chooses to take.

And the educational system worked good on her to get her for her entire life. How long have they had her? 50 years? I don't know how old she is. Anyways, Brenda, it's great to have you on.

Thank you so much for giving us insight on this research that you did with the great organization of MRC. Rob, let's put the link below to the article as well as their website, MRC, so the audience can go check them out. Have a great one, gang. We will do this again, I believe, tomorrow. Take care, everybody.

Bye.

Big Tech's Effect on Elections w/ Media Research Center's Brent Bozell | PBD Podcast | Ep. 398

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