The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report great to be with you. Hope you had a great, great weekend.
Well over the weekend. Of course, we had a. We had a coup. Do we have a coup?
I’m not talking about the Russia hoax. I’m not even talking about the 2020 fortified election. Those aren’t coups. What are you crazy? What are you, a conspiracy theorist?
I’m talking about whatever happened in Russia and the Ukraine. The media first said oh my gosh, they are marching on Russia, on Moscow. Who and then, about a day later, they said no, there’s no coup. The main guy fled, Prigozhin his name. He fled. He fled to Belarus and then by midday Monday. Nobody was sure if that was true either. So, at this point we don’t know if there was a coup, but we do know that the mainstream media, always willing to lie, always willing to mislead, always willing to talk when they don’t know anything, and we shouldn’t be surprised.
In a few moments we are going to catch up with our old friend Todd Bensman. Todd Bensman has a piece that ran a day or two ago over at thefederalist.com in that piece. That column, essay, whatever you call it, a few thousand words. He describes how the Biden administration is doing the oldest trick in the book. You do not have to lie directly if you can use statistics. If you can use statistics and basically there is a new way of characterizing it and so that you do not even realize it sounds like there has been a decrease in the border. A decrease in the number of people at the border. Lies damn lies. Statistics is the phrase attributed, I think, to Mark Twain. So, what they are doing at the border, the Biden administration, is saying, oh look, it is down. It is not 200,000, it is 120,000 went down except they carved out about 100,000 from another one and then they carved out another one that they are not doing. The real numbers are somewhere around 300,000. I am just I am getting these numbers ballpark, but we will talk in a few moments with Todd Bensman. And we will talk about exactly what is going on at the border and what it all means. It means that for the last year or so, year and a half, it has been terrible. It has gotten a little bit worse, but it is steadily terrible. They are lying about it, and when they lie about it and the media covers it, that is it. That is the truth.
So, over the weekend, if you were watching Twitter and I did not look at this stuff very much, but I did, and it was on Sunday over the weekend because I was, I did not watch on Saturday night. There were spaces on one of the Twitter services and audio sort of group audio service. I did not listen when they were telling the stories about or describing what was going on in Russia. Turns out they were not. Right at the time people were saying, wow, look at this function for Twitter, it is really giving us up-to-the-minute. It turns out they were not right, but whatever it was, it was a mess. The media was covering it. One way in the middle of that period.
It was on Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted about Paul Ehrlich. Paul Ehrlich is a professor. He is now 91 or two. He was a professor. In the 1960s, it could have been, it could have been that certainly in the 1970s, and he wrote a famous book. And the book was called the Population Bomb. I think about the title of it, and it was the Population Bomb. It was a big hit. And it said the population is growing too fast and therefore we must do something about it. Yes, he is still alive. Population Bomb is the name of the book. He was a professor at various times in various parts of the country ending up at one for a large stretch, at Stanford University, I think. But his book, Population Bomb said it is doomed. We have way too many people. We are going to be overrun. There will be a famine worldwide, famine within a few years. It is going to be bad. It is going to be terrible. We should do something about it. And here is what I want to point out to you.
The book was popular. It was 1968. It got some attention. I sold some copies. But here is what he said. I watched him and he said I had a little bit of national attention because I had a big book and people were paying attention to the book, he said then I was put on Johnny Carson, and I was on Johnny Carson 20 times. And he said by the time I was done; he said I had 60. I had six chapters 66 chapters. And 600 people who are forming these chapters talking about population, overpopulation, and all. And when I was done being on Johnny Carson, I had 600 chapters with 60,000 or some number like that.
But the bottom line is he was able to use it. Hit the platform of Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show. It was the IT, it was the how to say it, you know, the acceleration of that whole movement was because of The Tonight Show.
And my point here is to caution people, you say to each other and to yourselves. Well, we are getting the truth out on Twitter.
That is not how most people get their truth.
They are still getting a lot of it from the mainstream news, and certainly a lot of the voters are young people, on Twitter and social media and all different things. But when it comes to voters who are a little bit old. You have a much different situation.
A situation where people are persuaded by the coverage and the coverage from early Saturday until Monday at noon or Monday at in the middle of day. I guess that it was. There was a coup. The coup was going to be on Saturday. The coup was going to be 100% successful. Moscow was insight of the rebels they were going to overthrow everything as the end of time, end of Putin, end of everything by Sunday at the same time. The coup plotters had left the country and fled to a different place, and they were gone, and it was over, and it was never anything. By Monday, we were told maybe it was all a lie. So, who knows what’s true? And maybe more importantly, who knows what’s true in every other aspect and other aspects of what we’re looking at, what we’re being told.
Which brings me to this question. I was walking down the street one day, I guess it was Monday and lo and behold, coming across the street towards me was a gray-haired gentleman that looked not too old. Actually, his hair is pretty gone gray, but it was he does not look old. He always looks very young. And it was Stephen Moore who is the economist who, for the last 20 years, has been very well known and well regarded for his analysis of the economy, his theories on how taxes impact the economy, his practice, his role in the Trump administration in assisting in tax cuts, and now he’s over at the Heritage Foundation and he’s writing and different doing different things. And I saw him, and I said, hey, Stephen, we’ve had him at some of our Eagle events, he’s a very funny speaker, actually. He’s a very good speaker. He does a very good job of being clear and not too esoteric about the economy and all. But he’s also really funny. Really, really funny. Great, great sense of humor.
And so, we stood, stood on the street and I said, hey, let me ask you a question. Everything I see in the economy makes me nervous. And believe, everything I see in terms of spending in terms of inflation, every time I go to the store and go get food and I realize. By the way, my bacon is back up two more dollars. 2 dollars say it’s a big a massive, a massive slab of bacon, it’s up two dollars. So, it’s up from 11.99. It’s now up to I think 16.99. Over the last three years. But that’s the only not the only thing in terms of inflation. So, I said, Stephen, what’s the deal?
And he said, you know what he said, the fact that unemployment’s low enough it’s holding it’s, you know it’s and that’s good and everything. He said the economy is pretty good right now. He said I take your point. It feels very tenuous. It feels like it’s on the edge. I said so what do you do in that case? And he said you don’t do anything. He said, you know, you have to describe the problems you have to pay attention to what’s going on. But you know, if the economy is moving along OK, you hope that it’s going in the right direction and isn’t going to change. I think that’s about right.
And I said to him when they lie about the border, they just change the numbers, which is what Todd Bensman says in this essay. We’ll talk to him in a moment.
And when they lie about the numbers and they don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to the Russia coup, they basically report one thing, it turns out not to be true. They report another, it turns out not to be true. Then they write think pieces that say oh, this is going to be really bad for everybody. They don’t know they have a media that either lies or is clueless. In turn, they seem to. It’s a very difficult time to figure out what’s what. And where is it? And that’s, I think, the biggest question. Is how do we picture, 15 or 16 months until the next election, in terms of what is true and what people hear again, and I’ll go back to this is sometimes it doesn’t matter what’s really true. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what we know.
Able to be pushed out as the narrative in the case of say, his book was published by a publishing house, right. He was a professor. OK, but then it was amplified by Johnny Carson. Then it became, it’s like Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg, that deep thinker. Or was she a convenient message deliverer for the narrative they wanted? For the narrative that they pushed. And how is that going to go?
What is the narrative going to be in the next. 15/16/17 months. I tell you. That is what you need to know. I’m not sure we know what that answer is, but it is going to be a big one. We are going to be facing it. So, we’ll talk about that in a lot more in a few moments, Todd Bensman and much more.
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