We've barely had time to come to grips with the ongoing conversation.
Rapidly developing throughout the week of the biological research laboratories in
Ukraine, but the conspiracy theories are already, way beyond that.
They can't even see the laboratories from where they're at, and
they involve birds, actually.
The Kremlin's latest claim, we're gonna give you specific quotes,
is that the US has trained an army of migratory birds.
To carry bio weapons developed by the Ukrainian army, and
that said birds are preparing to fly into Russia and deploy those bio weapons.
This message was boosted by Major General Igor Konashenkov,
the chief spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Just to be clear outside of cartoons, and some video games, I can remember
birds generally are not trained for warfare, nor do they carry bioweapons.
But he had more on this, again Chief spokesperson for
the Ministry of Defense of the country invading Ukraine says.
According to the documents in Ukraine in 2022,
the American side plan to conduct works on bird, bat and reptile pathogens.
Then subsequently proceeding to researching the possibility of
them transmitting African swine flu, and anthrax.
So you take these horrible things swine flu anthrax, you put it into the birds,
you put it into the reptiles, you put it into the bats.
And then you have at them, like Jurassic world or something and
we're supposed to take this seriously.
Bearing in mind that a spokesperson for Russia in the last day or so said,
we didn't attack Ukraine?
That makes about as much sense as the birds stuff, I think, what do y'all think?
>> Yeah, these guys are reminding me of Baghdad Bob more and more every day,
I don't know if you guys remember him.
We've referenced him a couple times in our coverage, when we invaded Iraq.
There was a spokesperson for Saddam Hussein, and
he would constantly say that Americans are not here.
And you see the American tanks behind him, he would say they are not pens,
they're dropping pens, but they are not pens, they are bombs.
No, we were actually dropping bombs, we weren't dropping pens at all, I don't,
what a bizarre needless lie, right.
>> [LAUGH].
>> So and this is one of those, and where does it come from, what a weird weird lie.
I mean, only a right winger in America would believe that, by the way they have,
of course, I mean, it's made for idiots in America, IE the right wing, right?
So they're like, it doesn't matter what you say, dumbasses in the right wing in
America will believe anything we say, say that it's the butterflies.
[LAUGH] okay, what difference does it make?
So they went back to this old school tale from the world wars, right,
I don't even know if it's world war one or two.
And so it's so lazy on their part, the reason why they tried pigeons in a bomb,
in a missile or whatever back then.
Was because they didn't have smart bombs, cuz it was the 19,
either 1918 or 1939, right [LAUGH].
And so why would they go back to pigeons, there are smart bombs.
It's like, and then you wanna distribute like pathogens,
drones [LAUGH] just like a million ways to do it.
>> Yeah, but they can't trace that, random pigeon.
>> No, they couldn't [INAUDIBLE].
>> They can possibly trace that.
>> Trace the pigeon too [LAUGH] okay it doesn't even make sense.
>> What I love about this is that, I work in Hollywood, I live in Hollywood and
I engage in, I've been trying to write these like Hollywood scripts to sell.
And it's like, the story lines are so
ridiculous that nobody in Hollywood would buy this script.
Like no one, they will never make a movie about like killer pigeons,
carrying swine flu and then fly.
And then distributing into, and people are suddenly get, now,
if it's too stupid to make a movie about, it's probably not true.
>> Yeah.
>> If it's too dumb that people watching this in a movie,
they're gonna be like, that's dumb, probably, not true.
>> Like I disagree, I think you could do a farce, a workplace comedy.
>> [LAUGH].
>> At a lab trying to weaponize birds,
I could see that actually being pretty funny.
>> Okay [LAUGH]. >> You should work on that,
I think you could make it work.
>> Writing it down. >> Except the right wing wouldn't think
that it's a comedy, they'd be like ha ha ha we have evidence,
okay, Michael scott is training the pigeons, we have evidence.
>> We do anyway, I wanna make sure we're running low on time.
I wanna make sure that you know about
some of the other misinformation that's coming out.
I'm sure that you've seen this, so
throughout the week there have been more and more health facilities in Ukraine.
That have been bombed, so much so
that it almost seems like it's not a coincidence that's happening.
Something like at least 26 have been attacked, including full on hospitals,
maternity wards, those sorts of things.
Now, earlier this week, the official Twitter account for
the UK is Russian embassy, accused of pregnant.
Ukrainian woman seen in photos of maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on
Wednesday.
Of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists to in support of Ukraine.
So the idea being, she's a crisis actor, she wasn't actually there,
nobody was there, turns out what do you know not to be the case.
Although they say, they tried to claim that the hospital itself,
I don't know what their ideas.
She is an actress,
it turns out that was the element of truth to the conspiracy theory.
Here's the thing about actresses, they sometimes get pregnant, and
after a certain period like three months to a year or so, they need to give birth.
>> [LAUGH].
>> And they do that in maternity wards, so that I get the idea of crisis actors,
it's very seductive.
But have you considered actors, they have sex too sometimes.
Well anyway, in the theory, they said well it's not just that she's a crisis actor,
they used her in multiple places.
They had two, and like in hybrids photos of the second woman,
it didn't look anything like her.
And again to your point, the conspiracy theories are not just ridiculous, but
they're lazy.
>> Yeah, but to my other point, if I will, [LAUGH] it doesn't matter Q and
on right wingers, they love these theories.
So it's like growing in popularity here in America, and
once you say crisis actors that triggers every Alex jones fan to be like.
Everything's always crisis actors, it doesn't matter what the reality is,
everything is crisis actors, right?
So they started instantly believing, and now you of course have
Tucker Carlson spreading conspiracy theories, on Fox News.
About how the they're weaponizing the Ukrainian labs, and
I don't know if the pigeons have gotten on Fox News yet.
But I mean Tucker Carlson has become Baghdad Bob, and, but
it doesn't matter his audience will believe it.
Hook line and sinker, you cannot come up with something stupid enough,
that a Fox News audience wouldn't believe.
So in fact if you, there's some chance they will bring back literal eyes
from Baghdad Bob, so I'm gonna have fun and read just to to you.
>> Okay, he said, they have started to commit suicide under the walls of
Baghdad referring to the American troops.
We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Okay, so watch for the suicide conspiracy theory, okay and then,
[LAUGH] I love this one, we have those surrounded in their tanks.
>> [LAUGH].
>> So, what are you gonna do, it's the same propaganda, but for
some reason in this case, it has a welcome audience in the right wing in America.
>> As an actual actor, I can tell you there is no acting gig
that other actors don't hear about.
Because, [LAUGH] it's a very small community, and actors always tryna get,
like how did you get that?
Where'd you get that, how did you get that, how can I sign up for that?
And, I wanna know how much crisis acting pays, and
if there's residuals in crisis acting, and like do you post in like actors access?
Haven't the only people that have actually been caught,
posting tryna get actors be the Trump campaign.
>> Thats true. >> To hire like actors of color,
to be at their rallies, [LAUGH] so
it doesn't just look like a sea of white faces, I've seen those ads.
I don't know where I've seen any ads for like, hiring Ukrainian crisis actors,
to pretend like they're pregnant, in a pretend bombed maternity hospital,
its not.
>> No, but Helen Helen's point is very literal, so the reason why people
found out, that Trump hired actors on his very first announcement.
Remember when he went down the escalator,
he hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be his fans.
Because otherwise, who the hell was gonna show up to at that point, sideshow Bob,
declaring he was gonna be president?
They didn't, we all didn't know of course at the time that he was going to come out
and be over the top racist.
And republican voters were gonna love it, and they were like, my God,
he just called Mexicans rapists and criminals, yes, right.
And that's how sideshow Bob, one and we know that history, but that on that day
before, any of that had started, he hired actors, how do we find out?
Cuz actors talk actors, I feel were like, that's a good job, he's paying 50 bucks.
>> [LAUGH] also, I think some of the ads were on craigslist.
>> Yeah.
>> If you're seeing an ad on craigslist, not a great gig.
>> And by the way, that's the last thing,
all the right wing ever does is projection.
So whatever insane thing that, they're thinking, they're like,
I bet the democrats are gonna hire actors [LAUGH].
>> Massive projection