The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome. Welcome, welcome! Hope you had a great weekend, an amazing weekend. Lots happening across the world, of course. Lots of coverage of the war in Ukraine. I don’t know what to believe of any of it, but certainly a lot there.
And more importantly than anything, our great Noah Dingley, our producer, got married over the weekend. So when he’s back, which will be another week or two, we will certainly want a blow by blow on that. Congratulations to him and his wife and their families. Great thing.
So we got a couple of things to cover today. Earlier on Monday was the opening of the Supreme Court session. A couple of days ago, on Friday, I mentioned to you that Justice Jackson, who was already seated on the bench, had been sworn in. They had her formal investiture over at the U.S. Supreme Court. And they opened up the court today on October 3, and they started their arguments. We’ll get an update from one of the lawyers who tracks this stuff. His name is Michael O’Neill. Michael O’Neill is over at the Landmark Legal Foundation and we will get an update from him. Michael J. O’Neill, assistant General Counsel over there some key cases on affirmative action. There’s a couple of interesting cases. I guess they won’t be argued. They’ll be argued over the next month or so. Some of the dates haven’t been set. And we’ll get an update, one on election law that will be influential going forward, depending on how it turns out. Either way, it’ll be influential, I suppose, but could really open up the future in terms of not allowing the courts, the state courts to override the will of the elected officials. So we’ll see. Anyway, we’ll talk with him.
We also have an update. It’s been a couple of weeks. I’ve been trying to get Steve Auth. Stephen Auth is a businessman, very successful guy. He started a non profit serving people on the streets of New York City, where he’s from. He’s also now written during the Covid. He sat down and wrote a book about how to go see the Metropolitan Museum of Art and some of the key artworks. He’s a man of faith, also trying to popularize the notion of going to museums, especially after Covid. So we’ll talk with Steve Auth. Good guy, very good guy. One of the good guys who’s spending his time later in his life to do good things. So we’ll talk with him in a few moments.
But first, what do you need to know today? Well, I was going to talk about the war in Ukraine. I was going to talk about Russia. I just don’t know what to believe, so I’m not going to bother now.
What I want to talk to you about is what would become the growing trend of ways to wishfully, wistfully describe what’s happening to the American people.
In other words, there’s going to be a series of essays and articles and news coverage, and big tech will be doing it, where they try the media and others try to tell you how, oh, it’s going to really turn out okay for the Democrats and for the liberals.
The newest version of this, which is classic, it’s perfect, is a piece in Politico where they start out. What I want you to know, what you need to know, is this is how they’re going to do it. They’re going to talk about how the polls are close. They’re going to talk about how some group or other is either motivated for the left or sort of drowsy on the right or the conservatives. So this one is a drowsy on the right. Weak rural turnout could hurt GOP in November. Now, this is a Politico analysis of turnout. You say, oh, wow, they’re going to explain turnout in the fall. How are they going to pull that off? Well, they’re not.
Instead, they’re going to look at special elections, and they’re going to try to extrapolate into the fall. And here’s the only problem with this.
It doesn’t work. Special elections are by definition, special, and special elections are by definition, one generally by the party that can do get out the vote best. And those are usually the party of power. So the Democrats have power. They have the ability to get more money. When you’re in power you can get more money out of people because you’re in power.
And so Pelosi and the gang up in New York in the 19th Congressional District, they won a squeaker. A Democrat want a squeaker in a special election. In other words, the special election happened when no one else was voting and there was no real infrastructure to vote. And in the case of this race, they actually have to read into it, and you find out that actually the Democrats put on the ballot at the same time a contested primary of their own party to turn out to raise the number of people who care to come out in that race.
Here’s the truth again. There is no such thing as a special election that extrapolates to the fall. And when you see essays like this or coverage like this that try to say, oh, wow, it looks like in special elections, some of the rural voters didn’t come out. And then they say those voters didn’t come out because the Dobbs decision in abortion. The conservatives already got what they wanted. They got everything they wanted. They’re not that motivated. They won’t come out to vote.
It’s just not true. People don’t vote in special elections in the same way they vote in general elections, by the way, in regular general elections. They don’t vote in regular general elections like you would think they would. You would wish that more people would vote. You wonder why they haven’t come out to vote.
But this is just a fake. This is just a fake out. It’s meant to do this in such a way as to throw you off the case.
Now, what you need to know is there’s more and more information coming out about 2020 that explains both what happened in 2020 as well as what’s going to happen in the fall.
So in 2020, there’s a piece over at Broad and Liberty, which is based in Philadelphia. Those are streets. Broad street is a street there. This is about Mike Bloomberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars to run for office, President, didn’t win, but then immediately after sending millions, he sent, it looks like $3 million in to Philadelphia to get out the vote. And to get out the vote in what? The way that helps the Democrats. Again, if you target get out the vote into, say, inner city and you remind inner city voters over and over again and find ways to get them focused on the election and increased turnout, that helps Democrats. If you do the same thing to, say, gun owners, that would help them, which is one of the reasons why the NRA being tied up in court and lawsuits a couple of years ago was intentional, because in 2020, they weren’t as effective. I didn’t see the NRA president as much at all. I don’t know. I think I did some.
Here’s my point. What you need to know, you’re going to see over and over coverage of the fact that somehow the elections are tightening, that somehow things are getting closer.
Oh, I’m reminded, by the way, that the way that one of the things about this that I wanted to point out, this coverage, is you’re going to see Democrats feed to the press a story that then will be reported as if it’s real. Then it will be covered again, cited by the politicians. This is a version of what Nancy Pelosi called the wrap up smear. Remember that? She was quoted as saying, all you do is you smear somebody with a falsehood, then you merchandise it. Then you get the press to write about it, and they’ll say, oh, and then you get to say, see, it was reported in the press, so the circle is meant to be self fulfilling.
So in this case, the stories will be written, oh, wow, it looks like turnout’s down. And then that was fed to the press by Democrats who want that to be the storyline. And then, lo and behold, Democrats will say, look the turnout.
And by the way, remember, people are psychological beasts. We all are. And they will feed off what they perceive to be true, but it’s not going to matter. Let me just tell you something right now. I’ve told you before, I told you last week, it’s a red tsunami coming in large part because people are so sick of the direction of the country that they’re going to stop it.
And it’s all about the economy. It’s not about Dobbs or anything else. All right, we’ve got to run.
I got these two great interviews. Let me run. I’ll be right back. It’s Ed Martin here in the Pro America Report.
We’ll be back in a moment.
