FAN ON THE SHOW.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, GRIFF.
EVERYTHING FROM A GLOBAL
PANDEMIC TO A PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION SETS THE STABLE FOR A
VARIETY OF GAFFES, MISTAKES AND
EVEN SOME LIES.
FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN TO
20.
"NEW YORK POST" COLUMNIST
MIRANDA DEVINE JOINS ME NOW TO
BREAK DOWN A FEW OF HER
FAVORITES AND TO SHARE HER WISH
FOR THE MEDIA IN 2021.
SO MIRANDA, LET ME FIRST HAVE
YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CLIP.
BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT THE HUNTER
BIDEN SCANDAL WHICH, OF COURSE,
YOU ARE SO CLOSE TO THAT STORY.
GO AHEAD.
>> -- JOE BIDEN ON CONSPIRACY.
>> NO EVIDENCE, NO FACTS, JUST
WILD SPECULATION.
>> SOME CRAZY SCI-FI TALE ABOUT,
ARE YOU KNOW, HUNTER BIDEN AND
MARTIANS AND CHINESE AND STUFF
THAT SEEMS TO BE NO REAL
CREDIBLE SOURCE OTHER THAN BOB
BOBULINSKI.
RACHEL: MIRANDA, THAT WAS BEFORE
THE ELECTION.
NOW I WANT YOU TO HEAR THEM
TALKING AFTER THE ELECTION.
>> CNN IS REPORTING TONIGHT THAT
THIS INVESTIGATION WAS LIVE
BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
>> IF THIS WAS WE GUN IN SOME
LEVEL IN 2018 HOW WAS IT KEPT
QUIET PARTICULARLY OVER THE LAST
SEVERAL MONTHS.
THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT LEGAL
DEVELOPMENT.
IN ANY ERA THAT THE FAMILY
MEMBER OF INCOMING PRESIDENT IS
UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION IS A
BIG DEAL.
>> WILL IF LAWS WERE BROKEN,
THERE SHOULD BE JUSTICE.
THERE NEEDS TO BE JUSTICE.
RACHEL: ALL RIGHT.
THAT’S PRETTY REMARKABLE TURN
ABOUT THERE.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS AND IS
THE MEDIA ASHAMED?
HAVE THEY APOLOGIZED?
WHAT’S GOING ON?
>> ARE GOOD MORNING, RACHEL.
OBVIOUSLY THERE IS NO SHAME
THERE.
AND THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES.
THEY JUST SO SMOOTHLY AS YOU SAW
THERE, JUST FLIPPED FROM ONE
SIDE TO THE OTHER.
THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THE
FACT THAT THEY SUPPRESSED AND
ALSO MOCKED OUR COVERAGE OF THE
STORY.
AND THEN AFTER THE ELECTION, OF
COURSE, WHETHER IT DIDN’T
MATTER, WHEN JOE BIDEN HAD BEEN
ELECTED, THEY ARE QUITE HAPPY TO
GO AND RUN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THIS STORY.
NOT EVERYTHING.
BIG TECH, ALSO.
IT’S ONE THING FOR THE MEDIA TO
NOT COVER THE STORY AND THEN TO
PRETEND THAT WHY ON EARTH WASN’T
THIS STORY MADE MORE OF BEFORE
THE ELECTION?
BUT, THE MAIN REASON WAS BECAUSE
BIG TECH DECIDED THAT IT WAS
GOING TO INTERVENE.
AND THAT WAS A HISTORIC MOMENT.
BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE
HAD REALLY SEEN FACEBOOK AND
TWITTER DECIDE THAT THEY WERE
GOING TO EXERT THEIR POWER
NAKEDLY, OBVIOUSLY, TO STORY
LEGITIMATE NEWS STORY IN A
LEGITIMATE NEWSPAPER.
RACHEL: YEAH, IT’S DEFINITELY
FRIGHTENING IN A DEMOCRACY.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR SECOND BIG
MISTAKE THAT YOU THINK THE MEDIA
MADE THIS YEAR.
YOU SAY IT’S THE PEACEFUL, THE
QUOTE PEACEFUL PROTEST COVERAGE.
I THINK ACTUALLY WE HAVE SOME
VIDEO ABOUT THAT.
LET ME SHOW YOU THIS AND WE WILL
COME OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
>> WHAT YOU ARE SEEING BEHIND ME
IS ONE OF MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
THAT HAVE BEEN BURNING IN
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN OVER THE
COURSE OF THE NIGHT.
>> I WANT TO BE CLEAR IN HOW I
CHARACTERIZE THIS.
THIS IS A MOSTLY A PROTEST.
IT IS NOT -- IT IS NOT GENERALLY
SPEAKING UNRULY BUT FIRES HAVE
BEEN STARTED.
>> PROTEST IN LATE SPRING WERE
MOSTLY PEACEFUL BUT DAMAGE FROM
LOOTING AND ARSON WILL COST
1 BILLION TO $2 BILLION IN
CLAIMS.
RACHEL: MIRANDA, WE STILL CAN’T
GET OVER THEM SAY PEACEFUL
PROTESTS AS THE FLAMES WERE
GOING OFF BEHIND THEM.
>> IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW -- IF YOU
HADN’T LIVED THROUGH IT, YOU
WOULD THINK THAT YOU HAD JUST
PLAYED US THREE COMEDY CLIPS
BECAUSE IT WAS SO SO ABSURD.
SO SURREAL.
BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020.
THE MEDIA DECIDED THAT WHATEVER
THEY DECIDED WAS REALITY WAS
REALITY.
AND IF THEY DECIDED IT WASN’T,
IT’S LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF A TREE
FALLS IN A FOREST AND NO ONE
HEARS IT FALL, DID IT ACTUALLY
FALL?
AND THAT WAS THE MEDIA’S
DECISION LAST YEAR.
IT WAS THAT WHATEVER THAT WAS
INCONVENIENT, PARTICULARLY IF IT
WAS INCONVENIENT TO JOE BIDEN’S
CAMPAIGN, OR JUST DIDN’T HAPPEN,
LOOK THE OTHER WAY, LET’S MOVE
RIGHT ALONG.
RACHEL: THAT’S RIGHT.
ANOTHER INCONVENIENT STORY YOU
BRING UP IS ERIC SWALWELL.
ERIC SWALWELL.
ISN’T THAT INTERESTING?
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
CHINESE SPY FACT FANG WAS FANG F
NEWS STORY.
YOU HAVEN’T HEARD IT ON CNN.
THEY STILL HAVEN’T REPORTED ON
IT ON MSNBC.
THIS IS A STORY, AGAIN,
INCONVENIENT TO THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
AND THE NARRATIVE THAT THEY ARE
TRYING TO RUN.
AND THE FACT IS THAT CHINA IS AS
JOHN RATCLIFFE AND ARE
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ARE NOW
ADMITTING IS OUR BIGGEST
NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.
AND TO HAVE THIS REVELATION THAT
THE -- DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN WHO
IS ON THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE, WILL READS HIGHLY
SENSITIVE CONFIDENTIAL BRIEFINGS
IS COMPROMISED BY A LONG TIME
RELATIONSHIP WITH A CHINESE SPY
WHO WAS SENT HERE SPECIFICALLY
TO INFILTRATE THE HIGHEST LEVELS
OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, AND THAT
GOES WITHOUT MUCH REPORTING AT
ALL, IS INCREDIBLE.
THE FACT THAT HE IS STILL ON
THAT COMMITTEE.
RACHEL: YEAH.
THAT IS ASTOUNDING.
WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS
MORNING HE STILL SITS ON THE
POWERFUL INTEL COMMITTEE DESPITE
HAVING BEEN COMPROMISED BY A
CHINESE SPY.
ALL RIGHT.
MIRANDA, YOU BRING UP GREAT
MISTAKES FROM IT 2020.
WE ARE HOPING THAT 2021 IS A
BETTER YEAR ARE TO THE MEDIA.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU
BACK AGAIN IN 2021, AND EVERYONE
READ HER ARTICLE IN THE "NEW
YORK POST."
AND ALL OF HER INVESTIGATIONS
YOU HAVE BEEN VIPSD INDICATED
QUITE A BIT THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU, MIRANDA, FOR JOINING