Sup you beautiful bastards? Hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday
welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it.
and the first thing I want to talk about today is the insane
firestorm around Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones.
Megyn Kelly has a new show on NBC and she has decided to interview Alex Jones
and Alex Jones is the creator of Infowars he hosts the Alex Jones Show and also by many
he's considered one of the most high-profile conspiracy theorists out there.
And we'll get to that part in a second.
Now the actual interview doesn't air until the 18th but they released a preview,
and it got people heated. Here's some of it.
[in video VO] We talked controversies and conspiracies.
[in video] 9/11
[in video] Now 9/11 was an inside job, and when I say inside job it means criminal elements in our government working
[in video] with Saudi Arabia and others wanted to frame Iraq for it just a fact.
[in video] Sandy Hook
[in video] Well Sandy Hook's complex because I've had debates where with Devil's Advocates said the whole story is true
[in video] then I've had debates where I've said that none of it's true.
[in video] When you say parents faked their children's death people get very angry.
[in video] Yeah well let's- oh I know but they don't get angry about the half million dead Iraqi's from sanctions
[in video] or they don't get angry about all the illegal [inaudible]. That's a dodge.
[in video] No no, it's not dodge the media never covers all the evil wars it's promoted all the big things.
[in video] That doesn't excuse what you did and said about Newtown, you know it
[in video] Here's the difference I looked at all the angles of Newtown
[in video] and I made my statements long before the media even picked up on it.
[in video] We didn't get to any of the really important stuff.
[in video] What do you mean we talked about all the important stuff.
[in video] Well here's the big one they always make fun of me you probably want to throw this in there.
[in video] Thirty years ago they began creating animal-human hybrids.
[in video] Isn't that the big story Megyn Kelly should be doing?
Now today we're not going to be talking about the animal-human hybrids. We're not going to be talking about
9/11. We're going be talking about the reaction around Sandy Hook.
Sandy Hook if you don't remember is where in 2012, 20 children were shot and killed along with six adults and in those numbers
I'm not including the perpetrator of this crime because that person isn't a person to me. And this shooting and Alex Jones
relationship to it was the focal point for most of the people that were screaming at Megyn Kelly.
Many people denouncing her accusing her of normalizing Alex Jones.
And it wasn't just public outrage, it was outrage from family members of the victims some reading: "this piece of actual garbage
encourages people to call my mom's death a hoax and harass other Sandy Hook families. Shame on you, Megyn Kelly".
"It's been five years since we lost our child
while we don't speak of the harassment very often I must tell you it has left us traumatized.
I have never imagined losing a child to gun violence and being involved in something like this by making this choice
you grieve our hearts and the memory of our child you have a powerful platform
I encourage you to shine light on affirming the losses suffered here. Every week five years later still harassed by Truthers. You do not give
crazy a platform you're better than this NBC".
One father saying, "I know that the more garbage that is out there,
the more it ages over time, the more the myth becomes accepted as a disgusting
historical fact that tries to dismiss the existence of my child.
I mean, damn it, his life had value. He existed. He was real. How dare they."
And it goes on and on and on. Now amid this outrage JP
Chase and Morgan has pulled their support and their advertising for Megyn's show temporarily. Megyn
Kelly has been asked to step down as the host of the promise champion gala. And in response to all of this
Megyn Kelly has responded saying, "I find Alex Jones's suggestion that Sandy
Hook was a hoax as personally revolting as every other
rational person does. It left me and many other Americans asking the very question the prompted this interview.
How does Jones who traffics in these outrageous conspiracy theories have the respect of the president of the United States?"
[Trump] I just want to finish by saying your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down. You will be very very impressed I hope.
"and a growing audience of millions. President Trump by praising and citing him, appearing on his show
and giving him White House press credentials has helped elevate Jones to the alarm of many.
Our goal in sitting down with him was to shine a light, as journalists are supposed to do, on this
influential figure and yes to discuss the considerable falsehoods he has promoted with near impunity."
But that's not all there's another person that is angry at Megyn Kelly
and that is Alex Jones himself.
[in video] and Megyn Kelly lied to me several weeks before she came here and she
[in video] said that the interview was not going to be about Sandy Hook
[in video] and the mass shooting there
[in video] and it was not going to be about pizza gate and these other issues that the media always
[in video] obsesses on and misrepresents what I've said and what I've done.
[in video] When I said, I believe children died at Sandy Hook as I've said for years,
[in video] she kept coming back with answers saying you believe nobody died, you believe Anderson Cooper was involved,
[in video] you believe that Robbie Parker was involved on and on and on, I said no.
[in video] I said my listeners questioned it
[in video] I had debates with both sides and I play Devil's advocate saying maybe none of it happened
[in video] or it was all fake just like they lied about WMD's in Iraq
[in video] and had all those fake sanctions that killed over half a million Iraqi children
[in video] but then I said the other side of me believes those parents I've seen on TV and real mass shootings
[in video] do happen so it probably did happen.
[in video] I tend to believe people did die there but they were just using PR teams to go
[in video] in to exacerbate it and hype it up to get the maximum effect to blame the American people and to blame gun owners for what happened.
And he also claims that he is being misrepresented in the interview and has also called for the interview not to air.
What I will say as someone that watched Jones's final statement on this as well as what he was saying beforehand
I- I don't think that he's really telling the truth. He said he was debating it, looking at it from all angles
but there's I mean
there's this video evidence not, not secretly captured but from his show that he aired.
[in video caller] because with other false flags like
[in video caller] 9/11 or Oklahoma City or the Boston bombing at least something happened with Sandy Hook. There's no there there
[in video caller] You've got a bunch of people walking around a parking lot
[in video caller] It's pretty much when it comes down to and none of the-
[in video AJ] -No no I've had the investigators on I've had the state police
[in video] have gone public you name it the whole thing is a giant hoax and the problem is how do you
[in video] deal with a total hoax. I mean, it's just
[in video] How do you even convince the public something's a total hoax?
[in video] But it took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake
[in video] I mean even I couldn't believe it.
[in video] I knew they jumped on it, used the crisis, hyped it up
[in video] but then I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen.
[in video] Unbelievable. Stay with us.
[in video] Sandy, Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors in my view manufactured
[in video] I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there clearly
[in video] But I thought they killed some real kids, and it just shows how bold they are
[in video] that they clearly used actors.
And I mean I don't really know what to say that he has himself not said.
It really just looks like he tried to spin it and even if his
argument is I should only be judged by my final statement
No. That doesn't make any sense.
And on the note where you said you're being misrepresented you also said that you recorded the audio.
So to that I say release the audio. I've done interviews before where I've been misrepresented
I understand that, but prove it. It seems simple enough since you say you have it.
That said, all of this brings us to the end of the story which is should the interview air?
I say personally as long as it's not a softball interview. Yes. That's also just where I stand. I understand
why there is a debate. There are people that dislike Alex Jones and what he has said and what he has done and they say
that by giving in this air time you are validating him.
The more you see something, the more you see someone, the more you normalize it. Whereas others are arguing that we've only seen a preview the whole
point of this seems to be that Megyn Kelly wants to expose all of Alex Jones's flaws and inform an audience that will most likely
be disgusted by Alex Jones and the things he has said in the past having connections to Donald Trump.
And personally whether it be this story or anything else, I usually lean towards shining a light.
I think just acting like something doesn't exist is far more damaging. But I pass the question on to you
What are your thoughts, and what's your takeaway here? Let me know in those comments down below but from that
I want to share some stuff I loved today in 'Today in Awesome' brought to you by the struggle failure success poster.
They're currently available under Defrancoelite.com till the end of July. So if you want to snag one it supports the show link to that down below
The first bits of awesome we have to talk Nintendo. Just less than a week ago
I was saying come on Nintendo
You can't give us a full-fledged real Pokemon game and not that fighting thing which I am also going to buy.
And then well they didn't give a ton of information. They said yes.
We are doing that for the Nintendo Switch. Then we got new looks at Super Mario
Odyssey, Kirby coming to the Switch, Yoshi for the Switch, Breath of the Wild
expansion, Metro Prime 4, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the thing that I'm most excited about except for the fact that this is now going
to drain my life even further, Rocket League is coming to the Nintendo Switch because of course it is that makes so much sense.
Then in Nintendo connected awesome, but it was actually announced yesterday.
I'm including this tentatively Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle. It looks like if the Mario universe and the Rabbids
universe uh had uh non-consensual sex with Xcom.
That said Xcom doesn't technically own the genre and
taking stuff from other people and using it for your own thing that's uh, that's I guess like all arts since the first
original thing ever happened. Then we got a good video from Life Noggin.
What would happen if you never saw the sun. Then there was a very interesting Ted-Ed piece on why people join cults.
And I guess just cause we have a Planet Earth if it was narrated by Snoop Dogg.
And if want to see the full versions to everything
I just shared, the secret link of the day, anything at all, links as always are in the description down below.
And then let's talk about Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois. This week
he introduced his new bill the Covfefe Act. The act which is of course named after Donald Trump's infamous covfefe tweet.
Which he totally meant to do according to Sean Spicer.
[in video] I think that the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.
The goal of this would be to amend the Presidential Records Act.
The Presidential Records Act which took effect in 1981
and it gives legal ownership of the President's records to the public and because this was created in
1981 there was no reference to social media so Quigley's argument is it should. So the Covfefe Act would amend the Presidential Records Act to
include social media so anything Donald Trump tweets, whether it be from his official account or his personal account, they and anything else he posts
on social media should be documented and preserved Quigley saying what the president says matters. "He doesn't have the luxury of deciding
what's his legacy. The president must be held accountable for any post." And effectively what this would do is it would make it illegal for
Donald Trump or his team to delete any of his tweets whether it be the covfefe one
or any of the other ones that he's posted in the past.
And so there are many saying they support this, what this is is updating old law.
Whereas others are arguing that it's not really necessary.
All they're doing here is creating a minefield for Trump, and the reason they say that is White House officials have talked and confirmed
with the national archive, that they say they are saving the president's tweets including those he's deleted.
But at this point I haven't found where they detailed the process publicly, also if you're wondering, yes
Quigley is also the same Representative that made the Mar-a-Largo Act.
The goal there would be to make a public visitor log at the White House and Trump resorts
Including his Mar-A-Largo estate in Florida.
And while it'd be easy for me to make fun of
Quigley for naming it these things because it can make him seem a little bit ridiculous, to his credit
it does seem that the naming of these are the only reason that people are really talking about it. And ultimately what I see here is
with the Covfefe Act, I think it just makes sense
It's updating old law, being specific. In general what I've always found is if you leave things open and vague
that's where you get a lot of problems. That said once again Dear Twitter
Can you please introduce
an edit button within the first 60 seconds, also
maybe don't even have a time restriction. In this day and age of fake stories going out, sometimes by accident.
It would be incredibly beneficial for retractions
and it would also help stop the spread of that previously fake news, or not if you think that makes too much sense.
And then let's talk about the 2017 UK election.
Now I had previously planned for this topic to be our first deep dive over the weekend.
I was waiting for one more thing to happen or not happen
but, uh, just judging by the, the anger, uh, in the, in the YouTube comments
and in the subreddit from the people that, that are in the UK that feel like I'm just shunning them we're going to talk about it now.
So here we go, for those who don't know in the UK the Prime Minister
Theresa May decided to have a snap election. Instead of waiting three years for 2020 which was the next scheduled general election.
Let's just do it now. Now the reason for this is at that time Theresa May
looked like she had massive support in the polls. Theresa May's party, the conservative party, already had a majority in Parliament
but they wanted to consolidate more power
the idea being if the conservatives gets more seats, we strengthen our party and we strengthen ourselves in Brexit negotiations
The problem for Theresa May is from the moment
she announced this snap election there was just bad thing after bad thing that happened and damaged her.
And so the election came and the Conservatives actually lost seats.
13 seats to be exact. Meanwhile the Labour Party which is the main opposition party
led by Jeremy Corbyn at this time had a net gain of 30 seats, and of those 30 seats, 28 came from previously
Conservative areas. So ultimately this was a slap in the face to Theresa May
but it also put the UK in general in a very weird position.
They had a hung parliament.
And that is not to be confused with a parliament you call at two o'clock in the morning, even though you don't really have uh
emotional connections, but you know it really gets the job done in fact it
just it doesn't get the job done. Not a hung in the pants more of a hung around your neck area.
A hung Parliament means that there is no political majority. Now for the conservatives and Theresa May to get a majority in Parliament
they had to start negotiating. The problem for them as many of the other political parties
just weren't interested, but then in walk the DUP, the Democratic Unionist Party, with their 10 seats.
Now this was surprising to a lot of people for different reasons. It was shocking to some because the DUP has been labeled climate change deniers,
Creationists and their stance on same-sex marriage and also just LGBT
people in general. On the other side you have people confused of how this could work because the
Conservatives and Theresa May were saying they want a hard Brexit whereas the DUP want a softer Brexit.
And once again this isn't the deep dive video that
I want to do over the weekend. So if you, if you want to look into the differences between hard and soft Brexit Google it.
I'll also include links down below. It has massive implications to
yes, the UK but also the EU in general.
So how are they going to work together? Well reports have come out that the two parties are not going to make a coalition
but rather what they call a confidence and supply deal,
which is an agreement which sees the smaller party supporting the larger one in key votes.
But as of recording this video, nothing's set in stone, you have
Theresa May meeting the leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster. For this to work, does that mean the DUP is going to have to be ok
with a harder Brexit, is Theresa May going to have to walk it back? And I say that because on the 10th
it was reported that the DUP and the Conservatives they came to an agreement.
We're doing confidence and supply. Theresa May will be able to make a minority government. And then within 12 hours
we saw that that had not happened, but hopefully we all find out
what is actually going to happen soon. Brexit negotiations are supposed to start on the 19th of this month.
And as I stated earlier, how everything moves forward,
I mean, this is this is going to have a huge and complicated impact. Heavily on the citizens of the UK
but also just the EU in general. But ultimately we'll have to wait and see what happens.
And that's actually where I'm going to end today's show. And remember if you liked this video, you like what I do on this channel hit
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