hey everybody this is Deb with Truthification Chronicles and tonight we're
going to talk a little bit about Tucker
Carlson and we're gonna talk about some
things that are going on right now with
Fox News and also with some blasts from
the past we're gonna see how things fit
in with the media matters issue so let's
get into it first of all I was watching
this episode of Dan bungee knows I'm a
little bit behind as you can tell this
is from yesterday actually because I'm
recording this on the 13th and so it was
a really good episode I've been looking
for the original clip of Tucker Carlson
saying this that you're gonna hear in
just a minute but I've been having
trouble finding the original clip now I
don't know sometimes they put things
over in different types of fox news
websites I mean they've got like the
main one and then they have Fox Business
and then they have Fox Insider and and
so maybe I'm not looking in the right
one but I did not see the original clip
however I heard it yesterday on the
radio I can't remember if it was like at
the beginning of Hannity or if it was
the Casey Hendrickson who does the talk
radio here I don't remember where which
one of them started with it but they
started right out with the clip and I'm
like wow that's Tucker what's going on I
thought it was really powerful what he
had to say and I was cheering him on as
he said it now I didn't know at the time
what the situation was but I could kind
of piece things together from what he
said and yeah some clips of Tucker have
come out that were from about a decade
ago and they're not so nice
he didn't say nice things so yeah but I
want you to think for a minute think
back 10 years ago
I mean who of us has never said
something way back 10 15 20 years ago
that we don't regret right now I mean
there were things that I said that were
stupid but no fully I've gotten smarter
over the years and my you know attitudes
have changed a little bit but sometimes
I said stupid stuff back then and I know
I did
and it'd be very easy for people to
bring that out and parade it around and
to make me look bad but you know what
I'm not the same person I was ten years
ago
I hope I have grown you know I feel like
I've grown a lot since then I'm able to
see things in a clearer light and
everything so I want to play this clip
for you and it has not only Tucker
statement but I also wanted to get Dan
bond Geno's reaction here by the way
this entire episode is really good
because the second part of it he gets
into the whole issue of how the story
the Russian hoax how the Russian
collusion narrative is falling apart and
there are some things that he brings out
some documents and things that I think
he's probably right on with and that
they were put out to look like they were
done before the election but I think
they were probably actually done after
the election and the date was put before
it's kind of like that Sally Yates thing
where at the very end she was she put
out that email of you know saying that
they had done these certain things and
yeah it was really a cover your butt
type thing so I think that's probably
what happened with this particular
document that he's talking about and
he's got some other stuff that's really
good in this
so I recommend watching it but anyway
this is the clip and I wanted to share
it with you and then I have some things
I want to tell you about how this all
kind of connects together and it's not
just something recent this has been
going on for a very long time so I'll
talk about that in a minute here's the
clip they dragged this out to get Tucker
Carlson off the air that is the only
reason so instead of taking a knee and
bowing to this phony fake rage mob who
didn't care at all about the comments
they just want speech suppressed an
opposing view suppressed they decided to
attack Tucker here's how he responded
maybe the whole conversation is an
absurd joke maybe we're falling for it
you sometimes hear modern progressives
described as new Puritans that's a slur
on colonial Americans whatever their
flaws the Puritans cared about the fate
of the human soul and the moral
regeneration of their society those are
not topics that interest progressives
they're too busy pushing late term
abortion and cross-dressing and
fifth-graders
these are the people who write our
movies and our sitcoms they are not
shocked by naughty words they just
pretend to be when it's useful it's been
very useful lately
the left's main goal in case you haven't
noticed is controlling what you think in
order to do that they have to control
the information that you receive Google
and Facebook and Twitter are fully on
board with that they're happy to ban
unapproved thoughts and they don't
apologize for it they often do so to the
other cable channels and virtually every
major news outlet in this country one of
the only places left in the United
States where independent thoughts are
allowed is right here the opinion hours
on this network just a few hours in a
sea of television programming it's not
much relatively speaking for the left
it's unacceptable they demand total
conformity since the day we went on the
air they've been working hard to kill
this show even said much about it in
public it seemed to self-referential the
point of this Noah's show has never been
us but now it's obvious to everybody
there's no pretending that it's not
happening it is happening and so going
forward we'll be covering their efforts
to make us be quiet for now though just
two points to leave you with first Fox
News is behind us as they have been
since the very first day toughness is a
rare quality that's evey network and we
are grateful for that second we've
always apologized when we're wrong and
we'll continue to do that that's what
decent people do they apologize but we
will never bow to the mob ever no matter
what
amen brother that is some of the most
powerful minute and 52 minutes of
television you will ever see in your
life you are damn right very rare that
Joe and I see the exact same cut and
pull it at the same time I sent it to
Joe he already had folks Joe and I have
been subjected to this to nowhere near
on the scale that media matters targets
Fox News but for those of you out there
who don't appreciate what happens you
have no idea I didn't mean this in any
way in a derogatory way I don't you have
no idea behind the scenes what goes on
at Fox News every single day to get that
Network and its talent off the air
listen I make again I don't mean this in
a derogatory way why would you know you
have your own lives and your own jobs
you have no idea the relentless assault
this network is under every day to shut
them up you know what the easy call less
and I was now let's just get rid of a
controversy miu don't need that that's
not what they do they realize these were
comments on a shock jock station 10
years ago and that the left doesn't give
a damn about apologies the left doesn't
care about apologies moral Puritans as
Tucker points out shall the party of
late term abortion the party of
socialism and the death destruction and
torture that comes along with it the
party of bankruptcy the party of
economic deprivation the party of
robbing parents of school choice for
their kids stuck in crappy public
schools you're the party of moral purity
on the totem pole of morals you're at
the top give me a damn break you can
fools you're here so yeah it was pretty
powerful and especially Dan's commentary
afterwards that's kind of how I felt too
I mean there is much going on behind the
scenes that most of us don't know and
there's some things going on with you
know YouTube and everything that a lot
of viewers don't know unless you're a
content creator and so you don't really
notice if there's not ads on that
particular
video you don't think anything about it
probably but for us it's like what you
demonetised another one yes they did the
Buddha judge one yeah so anyway we have
that kind of thing going on and it's
getting worse
and I would assume for the people like
Dan and Tucker and Sean Hannity and
those people it's got to be a lot worse
because we know that this has been going
on for a while now I went back in time
I'm going to take you back in time a
little bit this is from 2012 okay and in
2012 now at this time tucker carlson was
really the person who started the Daily
Caller if I remember correctly and so he
was working at the Daily Caller that's
what he was doing it wasn't until just
within the last couple of years that he
actually became a Fox personality I mean
he was a contributor every once in a
while like Dan Mangino is now every once
in a while they would have him on but he
wasn't a regular he didn't have a show
and that only happened I can't remember
exactly when it happened but I do
remember it's within the last couple
years so he now has his own show and so
this was kind of Tucker starting it
wasn't really him starting it but this
is part of the battle that's going on
right now and so if you look at this one
it says inside Media Matters sources
memos reveal erratic behavior close
coordination with White House and news
organizations okay and again this is
from 2012 so this was back with Obama
and yeah I'm not going to play the video
and everything else I'll leave all the
links down below and you can look
through them but David Brock is the guy
who is in charge of I think he created
Media Matters for America this is an
organization and this organization is
definitely left wing and they purposely
have set themselves up as a way to use
media for the liberal purposes okay to
promote liberal
progressivism whichever they want to
call it in our country right now and so
this talks a little bit about how David
Brock was a bit paranoid because he
thought everybody was after him
all the you know right-wing crazies were
after him and so as you go down here you
know it the Daily Caller kind of called
him out here it is oh yeah
founded by Brock in 2004 is a liberal
counterweight to quote conservative
misinformation in the press media
matters has in less than a decade become
a powerful player in democratic politics
now back in oh gosh it's been a few
years ago but three or four years ago
maybe he was named as one of the top 50
power players in Washington DC so yeah
kind of an important guy and so medium
matters is the organization look at what
it says here though the group operates
in regular coordination with the highest
levels of the Obama White House as well
as with members of Congress and
progressive groups around the country
okay now if you've been listening
carefully to some of the accusations
about Fox they said that the DNC said
that they wouldn't have their debates on
Fox because it was too closely connected
to the Trump White House and it's like
okay projection can we say projection
and if you haven't seen that video check
it out because that really is what's
going on projection whatever they accuse
other people of doing they're doing
themselves they're guilty of so yeah
they were guilty of you know
coordination with the Obama White House
but wait it gets better
and so it goes on and donors have every
reason to expect success as the group's
effect on many news organizations has
already been profound we were pretty
much writing their prime time now here I
have to wonder
Q's talked about the four am talking
points
I wonder if Media Matters is the one the
the central hub that sends out those
four am talking points now I'm not
saying I know that or at all but it just
seems as I was reading through this
article it seemed to me like it was like
wow they're the ones and this statement
we were pretty much writing their prime
time a former Media Matters employees
said of the cable channel MSNBC but then
virtually all the mainstream media was
using our stuff again this is from 2012
why did we not know this because it was
being hidden from us and we weren't
reading the Daily Caller evidently back
then and so if you keep going down here
and they talk about the Imus situation
Lou Dobbs they targeted Lou Dobbs and at
the time Lou Dobbs was working for CNN
and what happened and it's possible now
I don't recall because I have never
really watched cable and so I don't know
if CNN back then were they as far left
as they are now or did they actually
still have people like Lou Dobbs which
obviously they did who were giving the
conservative point of view honestly well
I don't know but that's an idea was it
Media Matters that pushed them so far to
the left
who knows anyway what did they do they
didn't a drop Dobbs campaign and they
ended up getting him fired
we got him fired says one staffer flatly
yeah well that's good news for for Fox
News because he's over there now and
Glenn Beck they targeted Glenn Beck and
you know it just is really crazy when
you read through this you're like they
were just targeting anybody who was
saying anything they didn't like but
MSNBC Executives weren't the only ones
talking to regularly to Media Matters
this is the part I want to point out to
you because not only them but they
they said the entire progressive
blogosphere picked up our stuff and if
you go on down here the HuffPo guys were
good and I named several of them and
then it talks about who else they talk
to you and look at what they do here
reporters who weren't cooperative might
feel the sting of a Media Matters
campaign against them if you hit a
reporter say a beat reporter at a new
regional newspaper a Media Matters
source said all of a sudden they'd get a
thousand hostile emails sometimes they'd
melt down it had a real effect on
reporters who weren't used to that kind
of scrutiny can you imagine I mean I
think that's what happened to Ben Swann
and you know they took him on I'm pretty
sure and that was after he did a pizza
gate thing so was very interesting I
mean it wasn't even supporting it he was
saying here are some questions that need
to be asked and he was right those were
questions that needed to be asked anyway
if you look at this a group with ability
to shape news coverage is of an
calculable value to the politicians it
supports so it's no surprise that Media
Matters has been in regular contact with
political operatives in the Obama
administration
according to visitor logs On June 16
2010 brock and then Media Matters
president Eric Byrnes traveled to the
White House for a meeting with Valerie
Jarrett arguably the president's closest
advisor recently departed Obama
communications director Anita Dunn
returned to the White House for the
meeting as well and it goes on and it
says look at this they had a weekly
strategy call with the White House can
you imagine if you did that like if
Trump did that with it wouldn't matter
who on Fox somebody on Fox
if Trump had a weekly strategy call with
them about what they were going to cover
can you imagine the outrage but yeah
here it was it was happening then
so anyway I'm gonna leave this down
below because it is just ridiculous this
is how they were and you know here they
were talking about having this every
Tuesday evening meanwhile a
representative for Media Matters attends
the common purpose project meeting at
the Capitol Hilton on 16th Street in
Washington where dozens of progressive
organizations formulate strategy often
with a representative from the Obama
White House can you imagine I mean just
put the shoe on the other foot
what would the media the left-wing media
be doing how would they be going insane
about this if this had been going on
with Trump oh it's just crazy you know
when Trump does pressors he does it out
in the public for everybody I mean they
all get to see him and talk to him I
don't really remember Obama doing
pressors like that I could be wrong
maybe I'm not if you remember put some
down below if you can find some links or
something because I just don't remember
him doing too many pressors themselves
anyway and there's a pension of course
II down here but something interesting
something to look for
this is definitely an article to read
and again I realize it's from 2012 but
wow it's got so much in it and that was
on February 12th now about the same time
this was the next day on the 13th
there was another Daily Caller article
and it was political reporter withheld
information about liberal media matters
for america and so evidently this
reporter pull it it from Politico Ben
Smith put out a talked about a 2010
planning memo for a profile he was
writing for on the lip on the liberal
advocacy group now I tried to get that
document it says right here but when you
go to the page you get a 404 error but
it was 89 page document and it had like
the marketing strategy it also had if
you read through this it also had
information about their budget and again
if you click on this you still don't get
it you get
404 that's all you keep getting so all
the links are dead on this however if
you go to if you go to this article that
was from BuzzFeed they have the document
right here so you can go through and
read it it's a three-year campaign
that's what they were going to do and
basically they're gonna use it to take
on anybody who was conservative and try
to stop them from putting out their
ideas I mean that's what Media Matters
is all about and that's why it was war
on Fox and again this is from 2012 when
all this was going on and here's you
know more Media Matters battle strategy
and that's what this is I'm not going to
go through this all because it is 89
pages long but there's some stuff in
here you're gonna want to read here's
the overview of it and you can see it
was just a battle plan to try it Fox
SWAT team they were trying to take
people out and fighting back against Fox
News opposition research they had a
budget three-year plan yeah and it's all
in here so I'll leave that link down
below you can see it for yourself I
really hate these kinds of things
because I like to have them as a PDF
because they're easier to see as a PDF
and to download and so anyway but that's
the copy that's there so yeah this
article about from the International
Business Times just basically says the
same thing and calls it guerrilla
warfare I believe this is one I don't
know one of them does so yeah it's just
more on the same topic and this is what
they were trying to do and it was this
shows how they were trying to target
this whole thing and tucker carlson has
been at the heart of it for a long time
he's been on the front lines because
they really want to take him down
because of his articles on the Daily
Caller
and just because he has said a lot of
things so it is clear that in media
matters war against Fox News it has an
enemy in Carlson and
Daily Caller and perhaps an ally in
Politico so that kind of sets things
straight doesn't it it's kind of very
interesting so yeah that's what they've
been trying to do since 2012 that was on
the 14th and then this is another one
this was on the 2011 so this was
actually even before the others oh
here's where it says they called it out
an all-out campaign of guerrilla warfare
and sabotage aimed at Fox News Channel I
mean it's crazy that's they don't even
hide it it's right there that's what
they're doing and they want everybody to
know I guess so I'm also going to
include in the links below this article
by the Washington free beacon because
this took place it came out on January
26 of 2017 because a document came out
again by David Brock and Media Matters
and that is called democracy matters
strategic plan for action this was a
four year agenda to attack Trump and
Republicans using media matters american
bridge citizens responsibility and
ethics in washington which is called
khru and share blue and so here is the
document but I also have here's the
document a little bit better for you to
see if you want to see that so I'll make
sure that links down below too but yeah
I went through this I have a video that
goes through this and it's eye-opening
definitely eye-opening they didn't pull
any punches and they talked about how
they were gonna organize social media
which would be Twitter and Facebook and
even YouTube and Instagram and
everything like that to try to stop
Trump and the if they had to they would
take down anyone who supported him in
any way so they would target them and
that's exactly what they're doing right
now with Tucker and some of the others
they're targeting them they're trying to
build up enough public hatred against
these people so that Fox News will have
to release Tucker and I don't think here
they're going to do that I think Fox
News
is going to stand by him but it's a
battle it's a real battle I mean what do
you do when you start losing advertisers
and Tucker has lost a lot of advertisers
that just won't support his stuff
anymore so it's been tough for him and
you know it's not easy when you're in
that situation because you've got to
have I mean let's face it folks we've
got to make a living and so it's hard
because they do have bills to pay I mean
they really do and they need to stand
for what's true but as a business you
have to think through how are you going
to deal with that I mean you want to
have your personalities be able to say
what they want to say but yet are you
going to be willing to take such a hit
with your advertisers that's the dilemma
you're in and it's the same thing with
us youtubers sometimes we have to decide
whether it's more important to get
information out or it's more important
to make sure our lights stay on so we
can do more and put more information out
so it's a tough line to straddle I guess
and you have to be careful you have to
try to do the best you can if the
advertisers are being lobbied by people
like Media Matters it really is hard for
them to say no to that if they're
getting a ton of emails or whatever
complaining about them supporting
somebody like Tucker so you know if
you're praying person keep them in
prayer because Fox News really is our
last chance to have any body with a
different opinion out there I mean
obviously there's people like me but we
just don't have the audience they are
the only ones who have an audience
that's comparable to something like CNN
or MSNBC you know we can't compete with
them we don't have near the audience so
I just want you to know about this I
think it's kind of eye-opening when you
start looking through everything and I
was a little amazed to know that it's
been going on for so long
this is not anything new Media Matters
has been out there and they've been
putting a plan into practice that's
exactly why we're at the place we are
right now why the media holds such a
stranglehold on things so that anyone
who tells anything different than what
the talking points are and I would be
really interested to find out if they
really are the origins of the talking
points so I don't know but it just seems
like after reading all this stuff they
seem to be the pivotal point you know
where all of it starts coming out so I
don't by any means think that David
Brock is as powerful as he thinks he is
but I do think that whoever's pulling
his strings George Soros it probably
does have a lot of power and so they're
trying desperately to hang on to that
power but their power slipping away and
that's what they don't want to have
happen because the American people are
waking up and we're starting to find out
the truth so anyway that's what I've got
for you tonight I want to thank you for
stopping by and I will see you all later
