The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome. Welcome, welcome! Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. We’ve got a lot to talk about today. We have talked about the narrative machine a lot. I know everybody, my friends and listeners sometimes tease me. They say I talk about the narrative machine a lot. Well, the Pro America Report helps you by putting the narrative machine in perspective so that you know exactly the game they’re playing on us, especially at the US Congress right now. But we got a lot to cover.
We’ll talk in a few moments with Stefano Gennarini, who is a lawyer who watches closely the European Union, excuse me, the UN. And he has a piece up about the European Union and the UN trying to force abortion as a human right. And he said the people who are the most happy about the Dobbs decision other than Americans are nations like Malta and Hungary, Poland, that want to limit abortion and have been told by the European Union and others, you can’t do that. Your sovereignty doesn’t extend to that because it’s a human right. So we’ll talk about that with Stefano Gennarini in a few moments.
And also Ted Malloch. Ted Malloch’s got a couple of pieces out. One about Hunter Biden, which seems prescient because there’s more news about Hunter Biden, but also one about right living. And at this point, Ted Malloch has six or seven decades under his belt and has a great perspective on that. So all that to come.
But first, what you need to know. This is a twofer. This is a twofer for you. I want to tell you in one way that we’re losing as Americans and one way we’re winning. Okay?
So the way we’re losing as Americans is I’ve never seen a more effective use of the narrative machine than what’s happening with the January 6 Select Committee. Every aspect of it has been scripted like a made for TV movie. Not a good movie, but a movie that is meant to tell you a message and you don’t know what you’re missing because you can’t tell. So you have in this made for TV the narrative machine, big tech, big media, and big government. It’s big government because it’s the US Congress with these hallowed halls and with these marble backdrops, and US Congressmen and women, two Republicans are even on there, and Democrats, it’s bipartisan.
Well, it’s not bipartisan in the sense that there’s no one actually contradicting the narrative. But be that as it may, this is the made for TV movie. And the movie is all about the shadowy secrets of the powerful man who was once president and how he tried to hang on to power. That’s the narrative.
Everything about it, including the details, has been positioned in such a way, cherry picked in such a way, managed in such a way, including by a professional TV producer who knows exactly how to make this thing work exactly so, I mean, exactly like they want.
They got videos and videos that are edited carefully and sneakily. All this is happening in front of our eyes, and here we are wondering, what’s the truth?
Most Americans, I’ve been out in St. Louis, where our organization, the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, is based, and I’ve been at our headquarters there, and I was meeting with folks and seeing some friends. Many people aren’t paying much attention.
But what is percolating through is, well, big government, the government, the powerful force of government, have had to investigate this terrible threat. Well, there’s something there, right, after, I mean, we wouldn’t have Congress having any serious hearings if there wasn’t something there, right, or they actually believe it all.
So most people say, I think there’s something going on. There must have been some problem, there must have been some insurrection. Just like back in the day, they said, well, I don’t know what happened with the Russia, Russia, Russia thing, but there must have been something, right? So it’s a hoax, but it’s working. Then there’s another set of people that believe everything they hear, probably a third of the country. So that’s one aspect. I’ve never seen something happen. What you need to know is, I’ve never seen something so effective.
They learned from the Mueller investigation and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax that you cannot leave the hearings to a discussion of the truth or a report because you end up with a dud.
Remember, the Russia hoax was a similar investigation.
Big government, big media, big tech leaks, all kinds of possibilities, all kinds of this and that. When they got to the hearing, Mueller basically said, yeah, there wasn’t anything there. And they were like, wait, you’re not allowed to do that. And they didn’t have a chance because there was an adversarial system where there were real people on the other side who were saying, wait, what are you talking about?
How does this fit together? And the final public facing portion of the Mueller investigation was a dud.
Well, they learned their lesson, and so they’ve used everything they can to build up to the record, build a record, and then put out a pure piece of propaganda using video, using social media, using big tech, big media, big government, and the narrative machine.
And if you don’t think it’s working to brainwash some portion of the public, you’re just not paying attention to how good they’ve gotten at this.
Now, what you also need to know is liars when they lie, and politicians when they spin, and insiders of the narrative machine, whenthey put this together, there are always holes. And the holes, let’s say the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, the whole was Mueller and the investigation. He actually did it, came up with nothing and had to say there was nothing there. And so then after that, everybody from Comey to Strzok, everybody said, well, there was nothing on the Russia part. There was something over here and there, and there was obstruction.And by the time you’re done, you don’t know anything except you think something probably happened.
In this case, what you need to know is they had liars lying, and politicians spin. And so the recent testimony of the young 23 or four year old staffer, within moments, she was sort of debunked as lying. And last week, the testimony of a lawyer Klukowski, I think his name was Ken Klukowski, was instantly made clear that they had cherry picked the quote. They had cherry picked the video. And he said, Wait a second. I did 12 hours of interviews, and I said over and over again, I don’t have this opinion. I have this opinion. You just ran a clip where I said, some people wanted me to do a memo about this bad opinion. I did it, my job. And now you’re claiming I supported that. He’s like, It’s not true. And so that fell apart.
And the young woman, the 23 or four year old staffer who has these stories about Donald Trump’s behavior because she heard from someone who might have heard from someone, let me explain to you what happens. She has some big titles, but titles are about all you get in the White House. You don’t get enough money. For these jobs, they give you titles, and it doesn’t mean much. I mean, sometimes it does. Stephen Miller’s title, I think the whole time he was in government, was a special assistant to the president. Well, he was close to President Trump. That was a real position. But this woman, I think, had the same title. It didn’t mean much. I don’t know for sure, but a lot of times it doesn’t mean much.
So her testimony was all about what she thinks she knew other people said, they told her or whatever, secondhand innuendo. And she’s a kid. And so she got herself where she, she got herself in front, under oath, in front of the world, and Liz Cheney encouraged it. And it looks like she at least was terribly mistaken or perjured herself on the question of a handwritten note. She testified before, and I guess in the deposition, she didn’t know. She wasn’t sure. She didn’t think it was her signature, her handwriting. And then in this testimony, under oath, she said, Yeah, it was my handwriting. And the guy who actually wrote it came out last night and said, Hey, that was mine, not hers.
My point here is there is what you need to know is it is the most effective propaganda effort we’ve ever seen to try to persuade America, damage Donald Trump, damage Republicans, all that. And it’s really effective. What you need to know also is it’s failing. It’s not succeeding in broadening the number of people who care. It’s not succeeding in making more people believe what’s going on. It’s not succeeding in persuading new people. But here’s the last part of what you need to know if the first part of today’s WYNK is that, yes, it’s working, it’s effective. And if the second part is when you’re lying, it falls apart and it doesn’t expand past the base. What I’m really saying there is they’re radicalizing a big chunk of Americans. Whether that chunk is 30 million, 50 million, 70 million, I tend to think it’s 10 million, 20million, MSNBC watchers and all these others. But they’re radicalizing people in a very unhealthy way,because if you believe and this is something Naomi Wolf said In our conversation yesterday, if you believe that what’s happening is so objectionable that it’s a threat to democracy, if that’s what you believe January 6 was, if you believe somehow that when Donald Trump said, don’t use the magnetometers. Let the people come through. I don’t care if they have weapons. And the conclusion drawn on MSNBC last night was he was for the armed insurrection. They were all armed, except not a single person had a gun that we ever found out in DC, on January 6, and most other days, you have to be really dumb to not know not to bring weapons in this District of Columbia. They have really strict laws on guns. But my point here is the effort to propagandize America the narrative machine, it’s very effective, and it’s not succeeding in expanding the number of people who believe them. That’s not happening. It’s not persuading Republicans or anything. It’s only the people that want to believe. But the people that want to believe are becoming radicalized, and that’s horrendous for the country, because it’s mostly a lie. Were there bad actors on January 6? In other words, people that went too far and caused some violence? Yeah, arrest them. But was the thing an armed insurrection? There’s no evidence it was armed. There’s no evidence it was an insurrection. And you’re now just saying something to radicalize people. That’s the worst thing you can do to otherwise good people is to radicalize them like this. So it’s a very dangerous time. It’s a very dangerous thing, and you have to be aware of that. You have to be aware of that, because, again, what you need to know is it is effective. It is working. It’s very good propaganda. What you need to know is also the liars are lying and they’re getting caught. And so that’s probably good. Not sure it’ll be enough to break the narrative, but the last part of it, as I told you, is it’s radicalizing a whole bunch of Americans in ways that are really terrible. Really terrible.
All right, we got to run. We’ll come back. We will talk with two guests today, Stefano Gennarini from C-FAM, as well as our friend Ted Malloch. We’ll be right back.
It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
