BIDEN PANDEMIC RESPONSE, ANDY
SLAVITT.
GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK, IM
CHRIS HAYES.
THE POINT OF PROPAGAND IS TO
SHAPE REALITY.
IT EXISTS SO THAT WHAT IS
ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
CAN BE IGNORED OR OVER WRITTEN
SO THAT WHEN YOU SEE WHAT YOU
SEE BEFORE YOUR EYES CAN BE
WAVED AWAY AS AN APPARITION.
THE POINT OF JOURNALISM IN A
FREE SOCIETY IS TO REFLECT
REALITY.
WE ALL BRING OUR BIASES TO
STORIES AND CHOOSE WHICH TO TELL
AND WHICH WE DO NOT TELL.
REALITY ITSELF IS COMPLICATED
WITH A MILLION STORIES OUT
THERE.
JUST LIKE HISTORY ITSELF.
THE LINE BETWEEN GOOD FAITH
JOURNALISM AND BAD FAITH
PROPAGANDA CAN BE OBSCURED OR
FAINT BUT IT IS THERE.
WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN THE
COUNTRY IS A SUSTAINED EFFORT OF
CONCERTED PROPAGANDA TO DESTROY
THE CIVIC TERRAIN NECESSARY TO
HOLD UP DEMOCRACY.
HERE IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
IN THE WAKE OF THE JANUARY
INSURRECTION WHEN WE ALL WATCHED
A MOB VIOLENTLY OVER TAKE THE
CAPITOL ERECTING A GALLOWS,
SHOUTING HANG MIKE PENCE AND
ASSAULTING POLICE OFFICERS LEFT
AND RIGHT WITH THE EXPRESS
PURPOSE OF OVERTURNING AN
ELECTION, DOING SO BASED ON A
FALSE BELIEF PUMPED INTO THEIR
HEADS BY PROPAGANDISTS, THE
ELECTION WAS STOLEN.
A VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE
RECOILED AT WHAT THEY SAW
INCLUDING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
THAT DENOUNCED IT LIKE KEVIN
McCARTHY WHO SAID IT WAS THE
SADDEST DAY HE HAD SERVING IN
CONGRESS AND TURLEAGUES AND
VOTED TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
AND GIVE THE MOB WHAT THEY
WANTED.
AT THE VERY LEAST, THERE WAS
SOME SHARED SENSE THAT WHAT
HAPPENED WAS WRONG AND THAT
INDEED IT WAS INTOLERABLE
ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY, AND THEN
WE WATCHED THE PROPAGANDIST GO
TO WORK, FOX NEWS AND NEWSMAX TO
OVERRIDE THAT REALITY AND
REWRITE IT.
AND IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT
THERE IS NOT MUCH LOGICAL
COHERENCE TO IT.
WE WATCHED AS PEOPLE CALLED THE
INSURRECTION NOT A BIG DEAL,
COMICAL CLOWN SHOW.
PEOPLE DRESSED UP IN FUNNY
COSTUMES AND AT THE SAME TIME IT
WAS ANTIFA AND ALSO BRAVE
PATRIOTS WERE MET WITH
UNJUSTIFIABLE FORCE BY THE
STATE.
DESPITE THE FACT THE PEOPLE THAT
STORMED THE CAPITOL HAD TO
CONVINCE THEIR OWN BRETHREN THEY
WERE NOT ANTIFA.
A MARINE VETERAN CHARGED IN THE
ATTACK.
LISTEN UP, I HEAR SO MANY
REPORTS.
KNOW THAT EVERY PERSON THAT
BELIEVES THE NARRATIVE HAS BEEN
DUPED AGAIN.
TOUGH BREAK.
DESPITE ALL OF THAT THE POINT
FROM THE PROPAGANDISTS WAS NEVER
TO TELL A COHERENT STORY.
IT WAS TO DESTROY THE SSE OF
SHARED REALITY THAT WE HAD AND
THIS IS THE TOOL OF
PROPAGANDISTS EVERYWHERE.
IT IS A TOOL THAT I SHOULD KNOW
CLEARLY, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS
USED, OFTEN, PROUDLY AT TIMES.
U.S. PROPAGANDA.
BUT TODAY WE GOT A GLIMPSE OF IT
FROM THE OTHER SIDE.
JOE BIDEN MET WITH VLADIMIR
PUTIN IN GENEVA.
PUTIN IS A FORMER INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER IN THE KGB AND RUNS A
REGIME THAT SHAPES THE SPACE OF
THE NATION THROUGH PROPAGANDA.
PUTIN TALKED ABOUT THE JANUARY
6th INSURRECTION IN TERMS OF
OPPRESSED DISSIDENTS.
>> YOU DID NOT ANSWER MY
QUESTION, SIR.
IF ALL OF YOUR POLITICAL
OPPONENTS ARE DEAD OR IN PRISON
OR POISONED, DOESNT THAT SEND A
MESSAGE YOU DONT WANT A FAIR
POLITICAL FIGHT?
>> ABOUT MY OPPONENTS BEING
JAILED OR IMPRISONED.
PEOPLE WENT INTO U.S. CONGRESS
WITH POLITICAL DEMANDS.
400 PEOPLE ARE NOW FACING
CRIMINAL CHARGES.
THEY ARE FACING PRISON TERMS OF
UP TO 20 TO MAYBE 25 YEARS.
THEY ARE CALLED HOME GROWN
TERRORIST PRESIDENCY.
ONE WOMAN WAS SHOT DEAD ON THE
SPOT.
SHE WAS NOT THREATENING WITH
ARMS OR ANYTHING.
WHY AM I BRINGING THIS UP?
MANY PEOPLE ARE FACING THE SAME
THINGS AS WE DO.
>> SEE, IT IS ALL THE SAME.
THAT IS VLADIMIR PUTIN DOING
WHAT HE DOES.
HE IS ATTEMPTING TO FLIP
AMERICAN SANCTIMONY ABOUT HUMAN
RIGHTS ONES IT HEAD.
SOMETIMES THEY LAND A FEW
PUNCHES.
BUT IT IS NOT LIKE HE IS THE
SOURCE OF THE PROPAGANDA.
THAT COMES FROM RIGHT WING MEDIA
AND PLACES LIKE FOX NEWS.
THEY HAVE BEEN PUMPING PEOPLE
FULL OF THIS STORY THAT THE
BRAVE PATRIOTS, PUNISHED FOR
DESCENT.
DISSENT.
AND THE NARRATIVE ENDED UP IN
THE FINAL RESTING PLACE, THE
FALSE FLAG THEORY.
LAST NIGHT FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER
CARLSON WAS SELLING IN HIS JUST
ASKING QUESTIONS WAY, THE
STORMING THE CAPITOL BY A MOB OF
RIOTERS WAS A FALSE FLAG SET UP
BY THE FBI.
THE CONSPIRACY THEORY IS BASED
ON A REPORT FROM THE FRINGE
PUBLICATION REVOLVER WHICH
DONALD TRUMP LIKES.
CRAZY STUFF.
HUGO CHAVEZS GHOST CHANGING
GHOSTS AND ITALIANS USING
MAGICAL SATELLITES TO GET INTO
VOTING MACHINES.
THE PROPER IS TO BREAK THE
CONSENSUS OF REALITY SO THAT
PEOPLE CAN BE MANIPULATED AND
RADICALIZED AND IT IS INCREDIBLY
DANGEROUS.
AND IT IS WORKING.
A NEW POLL SAYS THAT MORE THAN
HALF OF REPUBLICAN VOTERS THINK
THAT ELECTION REVIEWS WILL
CHANGE THE 2020 OUTCOME.
THEY WONT.
THERE IS NOTHING TO REVIEW.
THE FBI IS WARNING LAWMAKERS
QANON FOLLOWERS MAY BECOME MORE
VIOLENT AND ONE IN THREE U.S.
ELECTION OFFICIALS FEELS UNSAFE
ON THE JOB AND 1 IN 6 BEING
THREATENED BECAUSE OF THEIR
WORK.
1 IN 6.
THE SAME PEOPLE LIKE KEVIN
McCARTHY WHOSE ADRENALINE WAS
RUSHING THROUGH THEIR CHEEKS IN
THE WAKE OF THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT
RESPONSE WHEN THEY HUDDLED INTO
SECRET LOCATIONS OR COULD
RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF WHAT
THEY SAW IN THE MOMENT.