Newsmax decided to feature the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Trade as one of their guests and he proceeded to spew some of
the most disgusting anti LGBTQ rhetoric without any pushback.
Let's watch.
>> Marriage can be made between one man and one woman.
According to constitution, a family consists of father, mother and children,
and according to the constitution, father is a man, mother is a woman.
So this is a kind of traditional way of thinking about family.
And of course we respect, we respect the choice of all adults in our country how
he or she would like to live his or her life.
But we stick to the exclusive right of the Hungarian parents that,
they are the only ones who have the right to conduct the education of their own
children regarding sexual orientation.
So that's why we have band.
We have prohibited the LGBTIQ plus NGOs from going to the schools and
from entering the kindergartens of ours.
>> Now, of course there was no pushback from the host over at Newsmax.
In fact, you shouldn't be surprised by that because why did you think they were
interviewing a Hungarian foreign Minister in the first place?
You think there's this big appetite among Americans to know what's going on
internationally, much less what's going on in Hungary?
Could it be that they're catering to the right wing audience that they've
fostered through their programming.
But what I actually want to use this opportunity to talk about
is how while right wing authoritarians seem to get a pass in media overall.
There's been some critical coverage of this latest leftist wave in
Latin American countries.
So I wanna kind of juxtapose the two, but before I do that, Jake,
I wanted to bring you in and get your thoughts on what we just saw on screen.
>> Yeah, so this is amazing.
So Viktor Orban in Hungary has done basically a slow
motion fascist takeover of the government,
where they slowly suffocate democracy to death.
And he says he believes that democracy should not be a liberal democracy,
meaning the minority is having the rights and
obviously minorities are different in each country.
And it doesn't even have to be racial, but he's basically saying, no,
we're going to change democracy and
he's doing that at the constitutional level through the judges, etc.
And a lot of human rights African people who care about democracy and
if you will western civilization look at that and go, that's really bad.
That's heading in the wrong direction, it's against democracy.
The right wing looks at that and goes [SOUND] Me likey so tucker across and
went and talked to Viktor Orban did a whole week in Hungary.
I mean, what a random thing to do.
I mean like Hungary, we're Americans like hungry for Hungary or
they was there some sort of Budapest takeover in America, I didn't know about.
They're going to get tips from fascists and he did a week doing that,
he's going back again.
And then Trump jumped in and talked about Viktor Orban I strongly endorsed him.
Now all the right wing media has his acolytes side and
now this guy is like yeah this is how we crushed the LGBT community in Hungary and
the right wing cheers.
By the way gay Americans if you still haven't gotten the memo,
the Republican party hates you.
Look at them actively trying to figure out how they can discriminate against you and
take away your rights.
>> No no but Dave Rubin said it's okay.
In fact you can call him gay slurs all day long as long as he's continuing to collect
money from the right wing interests who fund him to make an asset out of himself.
But anyway what's also interesting in terms of like coverage of international
news in our media overall is that yes, of course on the right wing you're
gonna have the just outward promotion of right wing authoritarians.
I remember them really showing their absolute love for Vladimir Putin
starting in 2012 when Russia was passing all sorts of anti gay policies when
they were already starting to go after gay couples, members of the LGBTQ community.
And the right wing media kept talking about like Putin is so strong he's so
awesome we wish we could be more like Putin.
But there's also this issue where the United States government as we know is
allied with all sorts of right wing countries, right wing governments and
seem there's no criticism toward that, whether it be Saudi Arabia,
which of course engages in all sorts of human rights abuses.
Even in the case of Israel, even this new so called coalition government in Israel,
pretty right wing and nothing's really changed in terms of the treatment of
Palestinians, including people Palestinians living in east Jerusalem.
And so there's like this hands off approach on issues like that
involving right wingers.
But when it comes to this left word wave that we're seeing in Latin American
countries, there's criticism and I want to share that criticism with you right now.
So the New York times a few weeks ago had written a piece covering how all these
Latin American countries have decided to vote out right wing leaders and
they've been replaced with left wingers, right.
In the final weeks of 2021, they write Chile and Honduras voted decisively for
leftist presidents to replace leaders on the right,
extending a significant multiyear shift across Latin America.
This year leftist politicians are the favorites to win presidential elections
in Colombia and Brazil, taking over from right wing incumbents, which would
put the left and center left in power in the sixth largest economies in the region.
The left has promised more equitable distribution of wealth,
better public services and vastly expanded social safety nets, and
they give other examples as well.
They talk about the beginning of this wave starting with Andres,
Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico,
Alberto Fernandez in Argentina Luis Arce in Bolivia.
Of course, following the very likely US orchestrated coup that took Evo Morales
out of office, they give the example of Honduras, Gabriel Boric in Chile.
Now, all of this is great, right, this is great.
I mean, think about what these leftist leaders are fighting for
things that we want.
We want equitable distribution of wealth, we want better public services for people.
But that's not how the writers of this piece over at the New York times see it,
they write this.
The left gains could buoy China and undermine the United States as they
compete for regional influence, analysts say.
I love that analysts who are the analysts, can you tell us who the analysts are?
With a new crop of Latin, American leaders who are desperate for economic development
and more open to Beijing's global strategy of offering loans and
infrastructure investment.
The change could also make it harder for the United States to continue
isolating authoritarian leftist regimes in Venezuela,
which we've tried to do cuz in Nicaragua and Cuba.
And it's just like, no, this is really, really bad news guys,
because this could actually hurt economic interests in the United States and
it could actually help out China.
So they don't stop there, there's more.
But it's like the instinct to immediately do negative coverage
of any leftist win on an international level, it's just breathtaking.
>> Yeah, there is such a joke and they and they don't realize it
because in the article it explains why they're heading towards China,
which is that China is basically giving them infrastructure loans that are much
more appealing than what America is offering, which is usually coop, right?
And so now that is a fact New York Times is sharing that fact, but
the context they give it isn't, that's amazing or that's interesting.
I wonder if America should give low interest rate infrastructure loads to
these countries which helps them and then gains their trust and
then they wind up doing business together that's profitable for both sides?
No, they viewed as like China helping these countries bad for America.
I mean look guys, it rains throughout the entire article.
The first picture they have is a giant picture of leftist holding something
that looks like a zombie takeover.
I mean it was like, the left is coming.
And so, and then later in the article, they say that, well, it's gonna be hard,
they're gonna quote,
where they will find it hard to deliver real change on profound problems.
Why did you write that if everybody finds it hard to deliver change.
Look at Joe Biden look at Trump, Trump barely only got a tax cut for
the rich done.
He didn't get anything done but you frame it that way when it's the left because you
wanna go a bunch of leftist they won't get anything done and
then they find another analyst.
>> Yeah. So when they find the quotes you have to
understand how reporting works, they're trying to prove a point and they go and
look for quotes that will support their narrative.
So it's not like I happen to get a quote and the guy just happened to say that.
No, so he found a quote of somebody from Cambridge saying the voters are quote
electing the left simply because it is the opposition at the moment.
[CROSSTALK] In other words.
Yeah, no they're not really disgruntled.
No the right wing didn't screw them over, their life just got lucky but
don't worry they won't accomplish anything.
And everybody at the New York Times reported the editors everybody,
they read it and they don't even see their own bias.
>> No Jake I have to give the best example of a source that they decided to use to
bolster the narrative of the piece.
And remember this isn't a not bad, it's not a column.
This is supposed to be straight news reporting.
This is supposed to be objective.
How objective are you when you use a source who
is a professor with the US Army War College?
I'm not even kidding.
The US Army War College,
Evan Ellis who was a professor with the US Army War College said this
across the region leftist governments will be particularly willing to work
with the Chinese on government to government contracts with respect to
security collaboration as well as technology collaboration.
Ooh the scary Chinese these leftist leaders are gonna work with the Chinese.
I'm with the war collage like why are you in what?
And that's the thing, I mean you have to think about this in the context of
everything we've been hearing about China in the media.
All the fearmongering about China, and
by the way I'm not in any way one of these crazy people who makes excuses for some of
the things that China does including yes they do engage in human rights abuses.
I'm not gonna whitewash that for people but
I also don't wanna go to war with China.
Okay, so like putting it in the context of all the fearmongering about China
overall how it's like this huge threat to the United States,
gets you to understand what they're trying to do here by talking about these
new leftist leaders and their relationship to China.
>> Yeah guys, so China runs concentration camps for US.
Okay my last name is you go but I'm not a hugger but obviously I empathize,
they're Muslims their Turkey.
They're very much like me and
they were put in concentration camps by the Chinese government.
But if you're a random country and America makes you an offer and it sucks and China
makes you an offer and it's pretty good, why wouldn't you work with China like?
But the New York Times assumes China is our enemy.
And if they work with them, they're terrible, right?
Why, they're offering better loans and they're gonna collaborate on technology.
Why is that nefarious?
So why don't we make a better offer, so they'll work with us?
Should they be forced to work with us because we're more humanitarian.
Is that what the humanitarian people would do?
You must work with us otherwise, by the way, we might murder you like we have in
the past and we'll organize a coup against you.
And I say in the past, but we just did it in Venezuela.
>> Tried to do it in Venezuela and succeeded in Bolivia.
>> Yeah, it's succeeded in Bolivia.
So we're still doing those coups gee I wonder who the good guys are here.
Editor's note, neither I know everybody in the New York Times thinks if America
doesn't, it must be great everybody right and that it's great, it's great.
I know every once in a while you write tweaking little articles about how
the people in power might not be great.
And then you buried on on page a 27 but implicit in every article you write
is the status quo is wonderful, corporate rule is wonderful.
And if you do not go left and opposed corporate rule,
those guys are definitely against corporations, ruling us,
all their evil and terrible, and they can't get anything done.
Just get out of your,
snap out of your group, think you're the most biased people in America.