The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report.
Great to be back and in a few moments Katie Brown from the American Life League will visit with us about the recent report that the American Life League (all.org) put out on their website as well as published about the CEO compensation of Planned Parenthood. That’s a place to make a lot of money, it looks like. And killing babies making money. They go together to Planned Parenthood. All these 55 or 53 regional Planned Parenthood, each of them is making over half a $1,000,000 to be the CEO there. Others are making 300,000, but it’s lucrative. So, we’ll talk with Katie Brown in a few moments and a lot more.
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So, today’s WYNK, it’s Alito, Justice Alito, Sam Alito is getting beat up a little bit, like what happened to Clarence Thomas. They’re attacking who he spends his vacation with.
Now let us pause and what you need to know is the reality of the power in Washington, so much power, so much power, so much money. So much influence that reality makes it so that people who should be important, a Supreme Court Justice is an important thought leader, somebody smart, a senator, somebody who’s been elected and has some, some record et cetera. Political intelligence, House of Representatives, all those they go down to the line. Washington is full. The capital is full. The swamp is chalked to the limit. The water is way high, and the swamp is high.
And it follows that money is one of your best filters. And so, people that have influence are going to be influential. In a big way. And so for the last 50 years, in my estimation, the Supreme Court has gone far afield from what its role should be. It’s gone into the law, making the law, creating roles and the left has loved it. And you wouldn’t have attacked Ruth Bader Ginsburg about her husband’s dealings or her dealings. You wouldn’t have critiqued, you know, Justice Kennedy. You wouldn’t hear critiques because they didn’t want to embarrass them. They didn’t want to make them feel bad. They didn’t want to put pressure on them because why? Because the court was reliable and liberal, especially on hot button issues, on abortion, on gay marriage, on some of the other issues. Well, as the court has swung more conservative in my mind, it’s going back to its role, its original role and getting us back to the Constitution. I don’t think that the conservatives, I don’t think they’re making up new laws. I think they’re getting back to where we should be now. That’s the difference. The left wants you to think that the Supreme Court is still an activist court like the liberals had it, and now it’s doing something wrong.
And so, they attack.
So, while they didn’t object to Justice Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now they object to Alito, and to Clarence Thomas. You notice they don’t object to Sotomayor. They don’t. Don’t object to Kagan. Are you telling me that these other justices who make about 3 or $400,000 a year and supplement their income and supplement their life? By being feted and being honored and being courted and being able to travel and visit with people that somehow the liberals don’t do that. It’s indefensible.
Now what you need to know though, is that the real problem here is that the left hates Alito especially but hates the conservatives. And so, they are trying to make their life miserable. These are not young men and young women. I guess Kagan and Sotomayor are a little bit younger than Kavanaugh, younger with them. Alito and Thomas are in their 70s. They’ve been around a long time. They have lives and all, and the pressure is to embarrass them and to shame them. I respect very much that Justice Sam Alito jumped into the Wall Street Journal and wrote an op-ed, defending himself from the slur that was coming. And if you watch the objections from the left, they say oh, he shouldn’t have brought that up. He shouldn’t have talked about it. It’s unbecoming that he talked about it or one of the immediate commentators over at Politico, Jack Shafer, says. Oh, he made it worse by talking about it. No, it’s not how it works.
Right now, how it works is if you know you’re going to be slurred, you can’t fall for the old-fashioned model, which says “Oh, just wait for it, it won’t last that long. You can go on and you know with your day.” No, you got to go aggressively and push back. Otherwise, the other side owns the frame completely. At least now the other side must tell a story of Justice Alito. Responding before it came out and they blame him and sound terrible, but at least he’s getting the story out. He’s getting his argument out. He’s trying to change the frame.
By the way, a great example of this. I remember when I was running for Congress in 2010 and I had a situation where we had found that my opponent had an ethics violation campaign using campaign finance for something, I forget now what it was, but it was clear it was family use or personal use. And so, we had a complaint drafted and were getting ready and one of the political guys that knew more than I did was more experienced. He said you should file that right away because he’ll file one right away, too. I said, “What do you mean?” One of the things that you do in these political campaigns is you file an ethics complaint right away at the same time, in the same news cycle, so that they tell the story. The lazy press must tell the story that you know there are ethics complaints about both candidates.
And my point here, that’s kind of what Justice Alito said, I’m not going to let you claim that you have the framing because I know you’re not going to back off. I know if I call you and tell you the truth about it to the reporter, I think it’s from one of these left wing funded, supposedly nonpartisan journalist enhancing think tanks.
All of them are left wing. Hack jobs that are going after people.
And so, Alito said, I’m not going to wait because I’m not going to let you own the whole frame. I’m going to shame you into covering my part of it, even if you mostly ignore it and he did that. Good for him.
Now let me finish by saying no matter what the real role here of this never-ending set of hit jobs, this never-ending burden on Jeff Clark and Professor Eastman for practicing law and then getting dragged before the DC and California bars respectively. The goal of these efforts needs to be understood.
But one of the other realities of this is that this is a deterrence for two good people, a deterrence for good people, who are getting into the fray. If you’re normal and you see what happens to Jeff Clark and Professor Eastman, if you’re normal and you see what happens to Clarence Thomas and Justice Alito. You’re like, “Whoa, that’s no fun!” If you’re normal and you see what they did to Matt Gaetz for a couple of years leaking and smearing him. Saying that he was involved in some kind of trafficking claim and then it all went away. It was not real. Or, for example, the Russia hoax, just would pick one. But if you’re normal, you start to have a normal response, which is to say to yourself, “I don’t want to get involved in that. I I don’t want to be put in that position.”
And over time, the effect of this kind of series of attacks, unrelenting, never stopping is that good people step back. Sometimes good people just quit. They just walk away.
They don’t want to be bothered and they don’t want to deal with it.
But you also look up and you say, hey, wait a second, if I’m on the Trump side of things, I’m going to be punished. If I’m on the conservative side, I’m going to be punished and you go and go. If you have children, you know this and if you don’t go ask someone who has children in the age of sort of growing up right now, which is where I am. Kids are totally impressionable to what’s happening around them and people that they like, that they admire, that they see hurt, damaged, attacked, they’re like, oh. And the impact is partly to say, well, maybe I don’t want to be that, but also maybe I don’t want to, you know, be near that. I don’t want to be associated with that.
Think about if you could go right now to any party and say, even now, I’m a Trump supporter. People would say you deny the election, you’re Russian, etc. You know all that stuff is intentional and what we are seeing now, because of the low cost of the narrative machine, big tech and big media and big government, it’s lower cost for them to promulgate, perpetuate and spread attacks like they’re doing.
What you need to know is it’s a deterrent for future generations to do the right things, and the left knows it, and the narrative machine knows it, and they are reveling in it, reveling in it and we the people better find the ways to push back and we better demand that our government not be assisting it. But it’s a big challenge.
We got to take a break. We’ll be right back. We got Katie Brown and a lot more. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
