Sep 3, 2024
Olivia Nuzzi PUNISHED Over Criticism Of Biden
New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi criticized President Joe Biden and his deteriorating condition became apparent to the American people.
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The idea that parties vote the same
despite representing districts or states
that are all across the country.
That's just insane.
And so if I could wave the magic wand,
I'd get rid of the two parties.
We ended up having kind
of a friendly conversation.
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- With a gun pointed at you.
- Washington, D.C.
Has become a punchline
to a never ending joke.
How come that clap doesn't work?
No it does.
I think the term we use
is it's wicked old.
That was the trailer
for New York Magazine's
Olivia Nuzzi as New Bloomberg show.
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It's about, well, it's basically about
to get crushed because of the PR that was
supposed to be carried out to promote it.
Now that PR has been erased
thanks to a small group of loud liberals
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who are upset at her for reporting
the truth about how the Democratic Party
was covering up Biden's mental decline.
So back in July, Nutsy was announced to
lead a six episode interview series titled
Working Capital on Bloomberg's TV network,
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and according to variety,
it focuses on candid exchanges
with political and business leaders.
And there was supposed to be
a big PR push for this series.
Okay, lots of press around it.
A lot of commercials around it,
but it was scrapped after he wrote
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an article, an op ed, if you will,
criticizing President Joe Biden
and the Democratic Party's attempts
to cover up his mental decline.
It was titled The Conspiracy of Silence
to Protect Joe Biden.
The president's mental decline
was like a dark family secret
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for many elite supporters.
Now, before I get to some of
the takeaways, Jake, you and I know
from personal experience what it was
like to tell the truth about Joe Biden.
We dealt with a lot of backlash
from our own audience about it,
but we continued to tell the truth
because that's the right thing to do.
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And we love you for it. Yeah.
And it's not just backlash
you get in public.
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It's stuff that's underhanded like this
that happens behind the scenes.
So I would get booked at a university.
I would get unbooked in a couple of days.
I'd get booked on cable news.
I would get unbooked
halfway through the day, wherever I was
going to give a speech, etc.
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Because the thugs that run the Democratic
Party think, oh, a debate where you
find out who's the better candidate.
Oh that's terrible.
Well, what if you guys picked the
candidate that won't service the donors?
Well, we can't have that.
No, it doesn't matter if he can't walk,
talk or anything like that.
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Everybody bowed their heads to Joe Biden.
So I can tell you a thousand stories
of this kind of thuggish behavior.
And now let's get to their foot soldiers
who help their
authoritarian rule at the DNC.
Yeah.
And look, before I get into more details,
I just want to say,
if if you happen to be someone who runs
a media organization or a company and you
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immediately cave to an online mob, you
have absolutely no right to lead anything.
Okay?
You're weak, you're pathetic, and you are
susceptible to a group of anonymous people
online throwing a hissy fit over someone
actually telling the truth.
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It's pathetic.
And yes, but that's only
a part of the story, right?
They're also worried about losing access.
And they're worried that these guys,
that's basically the Biden team saying
or the Democrats saying, you better
not do anything that criticizes us.
You remember Mika Brzezinski
admitting after 2016 that the Hillary team
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would call them all the time and tell them
what to say and not say on air.
Yeah, right. Okay.
So what do you want to be?
You want to be a dog?
Like you want to be walked on a leash
by the Democratic Party?
Or do you want to do journalism?
Well, for an enormous part
of the mainstream media.
The answer is clear.
Please walk me like a dog.
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Okay, then don't pretend
like you're a journalist.
But Olivia Nuzzi did the right thing.
She publishes this piece.
I'm going to give you a few excerpts
so you can understand why the elite
would be so upset about it, she wrote.
In January, I began hearing
similar stories from Democratic officials,
activists and donors,
all people who supported the president
and were working to help reelect him
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to a second term in office
following encounters with the president.
They had arrived at the same concern.
Could he really do this
for another four years?
Could he even make it to Election Day?
These were the actual concerns
that were being aired behind the scenes,
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while publicly, probably the very
same people were like, rah rah, Biden,
second term, second term,
things were bad and they knew
things were bad and they knew others
must also know things were bad,
and yet they would need to pretend
outwardly that things were fine.
The president was fine.
The election would be fine.
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They would be fine.
To admit otherwise would mean jeopardizing
the future of the country.
And well, nobody wanted to be responsible
personally or socially for that.
Nazi also made the point that there
were good days and bad days for Biden
going all the way back to 2020,
something that we're all so familiar with.
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But Biden had deteriorated so much
that she questioned, like,
who's actually in charge here?
Who was actually in charge? Nobody knew.
But surely someone was in charge.
And surely there must be a plan, since
surely this situation could not endure.
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I heard these questions posed
at cocktail parties on the coast, but also
at MAGA rallies in Middle America.
Resistance or QAnon.
They shared a grand theory
of America in 2024.
There has to be a secret group
of high level government leaders
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who control Biden, and who will soon set
into motion their plan to replace Biden
as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Nothing else made sense.
They were in full agreement.
Now, her July 4th piece was met with
mass criticism, especially from a group
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of Democrats online who weren't
happy with the article because she,
you know, did the unthinkable
in the field of journalism.
She did journalism.
So they began tweeting at Bloomberg,
demanding that Nuzi be fired.
Okay. But that's not all.
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They also began to call her racist.
A Democratic Party favorite.
Right.
Smear the person you don't like
as a racist or one of the other isms.
And what they did is they went
all the way back to her Twitter feed
to pick out literal jokes
that are obvious jokes to make it seem
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like she was tweeting those things.
Not in jest, not not sarcastically,
but she actually meant it.
So I'm going to give you a few examples.
Okay.
She went all the way back.
They went all the way back
to the Obama years.
They gave this example Kenyan
anti-colonial, shows teeth to small child.
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Okay. So it's a picture of Obama.
His mouth is open.
And so she's making fun of people
who referred to Obama not as an
American citizen, not as an American was
born in America, but as a Kenyan.
You guys really think
that Olivia Nuzzi believes
that Obama is Kenyan and not an American?
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Yeah.
Come on. Okay.
So look, these the people
who do Those smears
are some of the worst people in America,
and I know that it's been done to me.
And so they will take jokes that I said
and then pretend they weren't jokes.
And so that's happened to me
thousands of times.
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And it happened pretty spectacularly
during when I ran for Congress.
All of a sudden, these Democratic trolls
and bots appear out of nowhere,
and they find videos from 13 years ago,
a blog from 19 years ago,
something from seven years ago.
And they take a joke
and they go, he meant it.
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He's anti-Semitic, he's anti-Muslim,
he's racist, he's sexist, etc.
They do it every time.
And you make the country hate Democrats
every time you do that, because any
reasonable person goes out and goes,
well, obviously Nazi was joking.
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She doesn't think
she's making fun of the people
who thought Obama was actually Kenyan.
Now you're going to lie and pretend
she was being a racist right winger.
Oh, I hate all these Democrats
who say everything is racist
and everything is sexist.
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Here's another example
that they picked out.
This is a tweet.
You know,
again about Obama dating back to 2016.
Do you think Obama ever gets tired
of being a secret Kenyan Muslim
lizard person who plots terror attacks
from the white House?
Like, you know, look,
let me just say this.
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Not only is it disgusting when people
who aren't racist are smeared as racists
specifically to try to destroy their
careers over political disagreements,
then picking out these tweets
to paint her as a racist
is insulting to all of our intelligence.
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Yes.
And by the way, if you work at Bloomberg
and you panicked over that, pathetic.
Your intelligence should be insulted.
Seriously?
It should be greatly insulted.
You can't tell those are jokes
and you panicked over that.
But, you know, like I said earlier, guys,
they're not panicking over two randos.
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No, those, because they're not randos.
There's some people who really mean it,
like the Hal Sparks of the world,
who are like, oh my God, Democratic
leaders are the greatest people on earth.
They've never done anything Wrong.
It's all 100 and zero.
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All the Republicans are monsters
and the Democrats are the most beautiful.
And if you ever criticize the Democrat,
you sexist,
racist bigot bigot sexist racist racist.
Okay, yeah, we got it. We got it.
We got it. So goddamn annoying.
Actually hurts the Democratic Party
greatly to have like, people like that
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on theoretically on our side,
just embarrassing and humiliating
the party over and over again
with their ass kissing 24 over seven.
So yes, there are some genuine people
who do it, but there are tons of people
who are sent out as from the party
to do these disingenuous attacks.
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And when they do that, basically what the
bloombergs of the world are deciding is,
oh, the the party is upset with us and we
have to go back to kissing their ass.
Yeah.
- So so.
- They canceled.
Bloomberg decided, after caving to this
mob to cancel the high profile rollout
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of her show, and Nazi was critical
of the network's decision to do so.
She spoke to Ben Smith over at semaphore
and said the following.
When I write something
that agitates the right,
I am accused of being a liberal activist.
When I write something
that agitates the left, I am accused
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of being a conservative activist.
Olivia.
Totally agree.
Know exactly what that's like.
The difference is that mainstream
media organizations
tend to ignore bad faith campaigns
against reporters led by the right.
I have no illusions about
massive corporate media entities
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and their tolerance for even the faintest
murmurs of a PR crisis, so I can't say I
was surprised, but I was disappointed.
And then she says the following, which I
think is the most important point here.
She says, I really believe that if you
want to live in a world that is forgiving
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and where people hold
even those they disagree with to the
same standards they wish to be held,
you can't cave to mob pressures
as a means to protect yourself, even
when it would be a lot easier to do so.
That's how this type of culture is formed
and maintained, and as individuals, we get
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to decide if we think it's worth enduring
a little pain to fight against it.
Yeah.
So look, if you don't think that there's
Democratic bullies who try to make sure
that no criticism of the Democratic Party
or its leaders get out in the press,
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you just are literally ignorant.
You're ignorant of how media works.
So. So if you want to live in,
bask in that ignorance.
That's up to you,
as if you're a normal citizen, okay?
And believe in a fairyland
where one side is 100% right
and filled with angels, right?
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But if you're in the media
and you keep caving to those bullies,
are you really a nurse or are you just
a low level marketing executive?
Exactly, exactly.
And by the way, to that mob of Democrats
who are attacking Olivia Nuzzi like,
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what exactly did they think was going to
happen if all of the reporters played ball
and provided cover for the Democratic
Party and pretended as if there was
nothing wrong with Biden's mental health.
What do you think would have happened?
Now, all of a sudden,
there's all this excitement among the
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Democratic electorate now that Biden has
been replaced with Kamala Harris.
Is that not a better situation?
If you love the Democratic Party so much,
and you want to ensure
that the Democrat wins over Donald Trump?
Yeah.
This is the thing
about these people, Jake.
They want to sleepwalk toward their
own destruction, like, viciously.
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So. Yeah.
No. So I want to comment on that.
Two important things here at the end.
So number one, so for the people
who helped push Biden out,
some of us have never been forgiven
and will never be forgiven, even though we
helped to get to a much better place.
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I don't want your forgiveness, bitches.
Okay.
No, no, I know, I know, I know, but like.
But so a lot.
But in my experience, the great majority
of Democratic voters have now gone.
Oh, you guys are right, thank God.
Oh, my God, we're winning. We were losing.
We're now we're winning That's amazing.
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And I like Kamala Harris
better than I like Joe Biden.
I like Tim Walz a lot better than,
you know, what we had before.
ET cetera. So. Oh, thank.
Great great, great.
Okay, now, no matter how we got here.
Terrific.
Right.
But there is a significant percentage
of Democrats who are like,
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I will always do what leadership says.
I am the bower,
I bow, I bow, I bow, right.
And those guys, they're still livid at
all of us, me, whoever else was involved,
even Nancy Pelosi.
But okay, so if you're just admitting
you have no mind at all,
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you just will just will do kiss the ass
of any leader put in front of you.
And that's just pathetic.
And then finally, guys,
why do you think another reason not to do
this stupid ass kissing is that it leads
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to an enormous distrust of the system.
Why do you think people are so upset?
Why do you think
the right wing is so upset?
A lot of progressives are so upset
because we know that there is something
else going on behind the scenes
instead of what the media is reporting.
So why do you think a lot of Democrats
were like, oh my God, Nancy
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Pelosi all of a sudden hates Joe Biden
and is trying to take him down?
No, no, it's that she knew
what all the professionals knew,
which is that he was going to lose and he
was going to drag Congress down with him.
But she knew that for a long, long time.
That's why it was a surprise to you,
but not a surprise to her.
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So but you never got told that story.
So what happens when you know
the media is lying to you?
It leads to conspiracy theories.
What else don't we know behind the scenes?
And by the way, Nancy Pelosi was right.
The Democrats were losing Congress to
generic Republican versus Democrat by two
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points before when Biden was in the race.
Now they're winning by five points, so
they're much more likely to win Congress.
But they never told you that
while they had Biden in the race.
Right.
Because they because they, the media
and Democratic establishment
lie to you on purpose in mass to get you
to vote for any Democratic leader,
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no matter who it is
and no matter what their mental state is.
Yeah, look, I'm just real sick and tired
of people who are motivated not by logic,
not by what's best for the country,
but by their desire to constantly
get spanked by the elites.
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And like the idea
that journalistic institutions should cave
to their demands infuriates me.
But what infuriates me more is more often
than not, they do cave to those demands.
Because you're right Jank.
They are obsessed with access.
They are obsessed with ingratiating
themselves with the Democratic Party,
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and they will do so to your detriment.
And I'll add one last thing here.
Remember the Democratic Party now,
even more so than the Republican Party.
The Republican Party
used to have the lead,
but they both of them are the top clients
for a lot of these media companies.
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They buy an enormous amount of ads during
election season, last election season,
when there wasn't even
a presidential election they spent $17
Billion dollars, almost all
of which went to mainstream media.
And so those mainstream media outlets.
That's where their bread is buttered.
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So they're going to kiss the Republican
and Democratic Party's asses
from here to eternity,
and they're going to lie to you from here
to eternity and cover up their faults
and pretend that Biden isn't too old,
which was insanity.
And and the minute anyone points it out,
whether it's us or Olivia Nuzzi,
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they're like shame heritage
telling the American people the truth.
What if they find out?
Right. And they're supposed to be a nurse?
I don't think so at all.
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