joining me now to discuss is carol
markowitz new york post columnist carol
i'm not going to editorialize i just
want to get your reaction to that
because i have a whole lot to say about
shinsaki well i would say first of all
thank goodness for peter ducey without
him we would get questions about what
biden's favorite ice cream flavor is
every day
and i've messaged peter to say so so i'm
sure the white house is aware of that
because you know they're they're in
touch with all the tech giants and they
have all the information and they can
get whatever they want
so we have a situation where the white
house is very
clearly directing facebook to remove
things that they don't like
and as peter points out in his question
they have been wrong before
facebook has been wrong in censoring
information before
it's very tough to say no to the
president it's very tough to say no to
the president's spokeswoman
so to say that facebook is sort of on
its own and doing whatever it wants to
do without any direction from the white
house
is simply a lie and every fascist has
always had a great reason
for why they want to shut down
information um
you know it's always for your own good
it's always for the common good
and it and i don't see anything really
different here
what jinsaki is essentially saying
we're trampling on the first amendment
but you need to get on board with it the
the indignant
right because people are dying
so she's tried the end justifies
the means it's authoritarianism but she
also
says that she's spreading misinformation
while trying to say they're trying to
stop misinformation she talks about
young people like people are dying
around the country
young people kids children what the hell
is she talking about
kids right okay
then let's get some stats on that kids
and children she said right
children
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yeah she said kids and children are
dying to make it extra poignant um
but yeah you're absolutely right and
look i i am very open about the fact
that i support these vaccines i got i
got the vaccine i urged my family
members to get the vaccines
but look it's a personal decision and if
people don't want to get it that's
really their
issue and look also kamala harris was
one of the early
deniers of the vaccine she was one of
the early people to say oh i'm not
getting this or if trump's involved then
i don't want any part of this
well look how many people listened to
her back then and haven't taken the
vaccine to this day
and you have so many situations like
that governor cuomo is another
example of that where he threw shade on
the vaccine in december
and so you don't know what the
repercussions of that are they're not
being they're not having their speech
shut down on social media platforms
neither should anybody else
but it seems like again politics
making the issue political i think
they're almost a third of migrants are
in custody are refusing the vaccine so
they're refusing it because of
facebook or there were at least two nfl
teams
that were under a 50 percent vaccination
rate
so that's that's because of
of a few literally a few people on
facebook
i just find it i really but again
this is what fascist regimes do
i want to just quickly get your take
though on what biden said earlier today
about well facebook take a listen carol
what's your message to platforms like
facebook
they're killing people i mean it really
they'll look the only pandemic we have
is among them unvaccinated
and that's and they're killing people
there is no they they again he
doesn't even know what he's saying um
there's no
acceptance of people's free will by
leftists including the people in this
white house
yeah it's so creepy and again when the
president urges a private company to
shut down speech
that is a violation of first amendment
rights look we always say you know
facebook can do whatever it wants it's a
private company well sure
facebook could do whatever it wants as a
private company but here's the president
of the united states
urging them to shut down that speech
that seems to me
to be a violation of first amendment
rights the white house should be
countering this speech with more speech
they should be producing data
they can also put up facebook posts if
their problem is 12 facebook posters
they can get 24 facebook posters and
have them spreading the word about how
safe the vaccines are
it shouldn't be shutting down the
information that makes people even
more worried why are they shutting down
the information about these vaccines
if there's nothing to worry about it's
the same problem carol and you've been
one one of the strongest if not the
strongest voice on all of this
particularly the damage done to our
children since the beginning of the
pandemic
but what you see is say out in los
angeles county has
re-implemented a mass mandate
for indoors whether you're vaccinated or
not
so why how does that help get people
vaccinated
but again it goes to the government and
these people in power
are not going to give up this control
they refuse to do it
and you're absolutely right yeah it
absolutely sends the message that the
vaccines don't work because they're
saying
everybody has to wear a mask whether or
not you've gotten the vaccine it doesn't
matter you have to wear the mask
so if the vaccines work why are we still
wearing masks why are
why are we still living like this and
that should be the key message and
that's where really where fauci and the
cdc went so wrong
and they really bungled the whole uh the
whole thing with vaccines they should
have said
get the vaccine go back to your regular
2019 life instead
they for months said well get the
vaccine but then we're going to still
have to keep a social distance we're
still going to have to wear a mask
etc etc the message should be
get the vaccine go live your life again
it should be
and to your point carol i had antibodies
i had coveted in march
i went and got the vaccine and i've had
personal conversations with people
about getting it i say you really don't
want
to catch covet you don't want this but
again to shut down people's ability to
discuss
openly how they feel about it or or to
try and
shame people with misinformation it's
not going to work
all it does is just basically trample on
the constitution frankly
carol final word thank you
yeah i i again i think more speech would
be better than less speech they should
be countering with more speech
the binding administration should stop
being creepy and spying on american
people using facebook
yeah we've got a long way to go on that
carol you just keep doing what you're
doing
carol markowitz