I am so thoroughly disgusted with this line of quote unquote reporting. It's unbelievable to me that people put this stuff out and think that this makes Israel look good. A key tenet of Holocaust denial is trying to claim that many of the initial victims [00:00:18] or purported victims had other preconditions, and that's part of the reason why they died. Soccer and jetty and crystal ball over at Breaking Points are rightly furious at some of the denialism that's been published over at the Free Press, [00:00:34] particularly as it pertains to the starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza. And so last week, the Free Press published this article attempting to deny that children are being starved to death in Gaza, even though, there's now evidence of a full blown famine. [00:00:51] Obviously there have been reports of now dozens of people dying from starvation. When you have a three month blockade on humanitarian aid. People are going to have a shortage of food that's necessary to survive. [00:01:06] And then when you replace Unwra with, you know, three humanitarian aid sites when Unwra had hundreds of them, and the humanitarian aid sites are intentionally placed in, like battle zones [00:01:21] where people get shot at and killed. Well, it's going to maybe deter people from trying to get the humanitarian aid, supposed humanitarian aid that, Israel and the United States are trying to, disperse through this Gaza humanitarian foundation. [00:01:37] So with that in mind, you know, Crystal ball and other independent media people have been critical of the reporting over at the Free Press, the ironically named Free Press, and now the Free Press is trying to slam them. [00:01:52] Okay. So independent media figures, the Free Press argues, should also shut up and just let Israel commit the genocide with no pushback. Okay, I'm embellishing a little bit. They didn't actually write that, but that's the implication here. So main thrust of the original Free Press piece says that the media has failed [00:02:10] to do its journalistic duty by not reporting that some of the children suffering from this famine, some of the children dying of starvation, might have also had some preexisting conditions. I mean, honestly, the people over at the Free Press, they might be great insurance underwriters, you know, [00:02:27] under the insurance policies we had prior to the Affordable Care Act, just loathsome, loathsome stuff. One particularly grotesque excerpt from that piece, was something that was covered actually by, Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes on Pod Save the World. [00:02:45] And I really appreciated that they drew attention to this. Let's take a quick look. The free press, the argument they make in this article is that the images don't prove there's a famine, because the kids featured have other health problems too. They have like 12 different examples they use, and one is a photo of a 14 [00:03:01] year old boy named Musab Al Debs. He's described by CNN as suffering from malnourishment. But the big gotcha from the free press is that the story didn't mention that the kid suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was hit in the head by shrapnel from an IDF airstrike. [00:03:18] So they think that is making their point. Who do you think dies first in a famine? Right. It's people with preexisting conditions not mentioned. Is the fact that the IDF has blown up all the medical facilities in Gaza. So these kids can't get treatment. They might need to look less emaciated or be healthier. The Free Press story is so condescending. [00:03:34] It's like you don't need in-depth reporting or to be on the ground. You just need Google. It's like, that is you. - You and your obnoxious scolding tone. - Sanctimonious. And again, you're looking at people who are objectively starving. Your reaction had to quote cover that story is to try to poke holes. [00:03:51] - Try to weaponize. - It. Yeah. I mean, it's it's gross. It's grotesque. It is grotesque. Absolutely. But according to the Free Press, the people criticizing the reporting, they're the grotesque ones. And they say so in a new piece called Journalists Against Journalists. [00:04:09] Journalism. Journalism. Journalism? Yeah. Journalism is providing cover for a genocide because the founder of your publication is Jewish and will do anything and everything to protect Israel, regardless of what Israel does. It's so disgusting. It's like the most. [00:04:27] Anyway. Wow. Go ahead. Was way, way in. Before I get to what the free press is arguing. It's just kind of in Spain. The I. Because if you really look at what they're saying in there, [00:04:44] they're not even saying that the kids aren't starving to death. They're saying, well, they had other problems. It's like, what are you like? Oh, yeah, that's the point. That's why you shouldn't be doing this. [00:04:59] This is a population of human beings, many of whom are innocent, have nothing to do with the conflict. They're young people. They're babies. They didn't do anything to anybody. So the idea that some of them are sick already [00:05:16] doesn't mean that they deserve to die. It's it's just nuts. And they're like, oh, like you're being used. They're trying to get you to feel bad for. They don't. Again, they're not denying that the kids are dying. They're telling you you shouldn't feel bad for them and think that Israel should stop [00:05:34] what it's doing because of them. Okay, let's turn this around. Should we not feel bad for the innocent civilians that were killed on October 7th by Hamas? I mean, just think about this for a second, right? [00:05:50] Because just the mere attempt to explain how the situation got to where it was on October 7th really offended the sensitivity sensibilities of Barry Weiss. And that was just the explanation that I think is important to understand. [00:06:09] It's not a justification for what Hamas did. I'm vehemently against targeting and killing civilians, whether they're Israeli or Palestinian. I have no freaking dog in the fight. Human beings are human beings and they should be protected. That's my view of it. But again, the mere explanation [00:06:27] of why Hamas would do what it did was so offensive to people like Barry Weiss that she and others effectively silenced. So let's get to what the Free Press has to say about the critics. CNN updated its piece after our reporting, noting at the top of the story, noting [00:06:47] at the top of the story had been updated to reflect new information regarding the condition of some of the subjects. So did The Washington Post issuing a correction to say that it had incorrectly used a year old photo in its current coverage of mass starvation in Gaza. [00:07:06] Oh. So did the Washington Post. Okay. The Guardian issued no correction, but stealthily added one important detail to its coverage that a previous, previously featured child had cerebral palsy. What are this? [00:07:21] Israel is starving the Palestinian population in Gaza to death. They didn't allow humanitarian aid in at all for three months. Take your reporting and shove it up your ass. This is garbage. [00:07:37] This is denialism. This is providing cover for a genocide. Apparently, the piece also continues in a normal time. This is the kind of work that would be praised by our peers for getting to ground truth. But we don't live in a norm. We don't live in normal times. [00:07:54] And that is not what that is not how some of our colleagues in the news media saw things, and then they start naming names of people who actually do a good job reporting on what's happening in Gaza. To Crystal ball, host of Breaking Points. Our journalism was just so disgusting. [00:08:11] I agree with her, balls co-host Saagar Enjeti chimed in to compare our reporters to Holocaust deniers based. He's correct, saying that a key tenet of Holocaust denial is trying to claim that many of the initial victims or purported victims had other preconditions, [00:08:29] and that's part of the reason why they died. This is why Breaking Points does well as an independent media source, because they're grounded in reality and don't provide cover for genocide. There's more. Free press also writes those who care about the truth will note [00:08:47] that these children were not presented as the initial victims of anything. They were deceptively promoted to reflect the average Gazan. How about you guys take a little trip to the Gaza Strip and see how the average Gazan is doing? [00:09:04] Living in tents displaced multiple times. Their homes are leveled, their mosques are leveled, their universities, their schools, their hospitals leveled, hundreds of unwra humanitarian aid sites taken away [00:09:22] and replaced by 3 or 4 aid sites run by, you know, an Israeli backed, American backed organization that literally shoots at desperate, starving people trying to get humanitarian aid from the 3 or 4 hubs. [00:09:38] Like, what is this? And this is the kind of genocide denial All that CBS looks at and thinks, oh, I'd pay $250 million for it. Pathetic, pathetic. Balin and Jerry are not alone. [00:09:54] Glenn Greenwald, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, argued, not just for our censorship. I don't believe that for a second. Okay. But for our trial at The Hague. I do believe that, and I. I back it entirely. [00:10:11] Barack Obama's former deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, whose name, incidentally, in that administration was Hamas. What is this, Hamas? His name was Hamas. No, this is the nickname was given to him by guess who, AIPAC. [00:10:29] Oh, okay. Then it must be true. Yeah, okay. Like that they would put that in that article and not again, just be like, well, this is what AIPAC, the, you know, Israel's propaganda and arm twisting arm here in America does to congressmen, [00:10:48] and different administrations. Yeah. No, they just put it out there unattributed. - It's amazing journalism. - I mean. Journalists attack journalism was am I right? Okay, so apparently Ben Rhodes calls them, sociopathic, [00:11:04] and they have a problem with the truth. Ryan Grim, co-founder of drop site news, predicts reporter Olivia Reingold's name will become notorious for a generation. I totally agree with that. These are the modern day Nazis. Guys like you think history is going to look favorably at people like this, [00:11:22] and we don't even know the full. We know very little of the atrocities that have been committed in the Gaza Strip. Once we get like a once, the international community can really take inventory [00:11:39] of what has been done in Gaza. It is much, much worse. - Yeah. - It's worse. - Day of reckoning is coming. - It's going to happen. And I think that the thing that's different now is that basically for Iraq, which was a total crock of, you know what? [00:11:56] From the beginning and many people were beating the drum like, this is garbage. This is terrible. This is going to be a disaster. We shouldn't be doing this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All these people that lied us into that war and all of that stuff. The only person that kind of paid the price was Maggie Haberman. [00:12:14] And that's because the, the, the, the sort of superstructure of corporate media allowed for like the club to sort of protect itself, like y'all not going to be protected by that club. Like corporate media is becoming less relevant now. [00:12:32] And the independent types who all have their own audiences are all going to remember and they're it's going to be open season on these people. - Like badly. - Yeah. [00:12:47] Right now the Israel lobby is so powerful in America, and I get it, they feel invincible. And especially because they're in their own little, you know, elitist bubble of corporate Dems, corporate Republicans, [00:13:04] you know, people who live high off the, you know, relationship they have with the Israel lobby and all of that. But those days are numbered. They really are, because you look at younger generations look young. Left wing people have always been in the know when it comes to Israel, and the left [00:13:23] deserves a lot of credit for that. But young right wingers also have caught on and they deserve credit and I love it. I love that they see what's happening for what it is. I love that they don't trust the corporate media, they don't buy the lies. And so you have this new generation of Americans coming up. [00:13:42] They're little by little going to start taking positions of power. I think the first example is, you know, Zoran Mamdani in New York City, and he's unapologetic about his criticism toward Israel, and it's not hurting him at all in the race. - In fact. - I think it's helping him. [00:13:57] Yeah. 8% support amongst Democratic Party voters, 8% amongst the, you know, the Hawk Jeffries, the Chuck Schumer's is at like 95. Yeah. Like in terms of the important people in the party, it's like Bernie, you know, like can you even call Ilhan Omar important? [00:14:17] She's not influential in any way. It's like literally 5% of its inverse. Right. In terms of percent of Democratic. - Voters support Israel at this. - Point. - Exactly. - Yeah. - It's it's. - Crazy. Whereas like the the party establishment is still going with this. [00:14:36] - It's nuts. - It really is. Now, what's amazing is, one person who really does appreciate, the pro-Israel pro genocide propaganda is, the leader of the genocide himself, Benjamin Netanyahu, where he, [00:14:51] he writes on Twitter or X facts matter. - But he used. - That. Greater. Than know, like he was supposed to just put facts and the greater than sign like facts matter greater than he he messed that up. [00:15:07] Well, if he doesn't mess things up, would he really be Benjamin Netanyahu? Oh my God, that was just such an easy propaganda opportunity. He just flubbed it. Facts matter. Facts matter is greater than what? Like, I don't understand that. [00:15:24] I know, but look, to be fair to him, he's never really had to try. - Before in any true. - Right. So. And have you have you seen this recent interview, You. - Man. - Oh, I covered it on the show. - Yeah, I did. - Where? He's like Biden. [00:15:39] He had my back in the beginning, and then towards the end, he didn't let me go in the raffle and I would have finished off the. I'm like, yo, this guy is throwing you guys under the bus. I love it. No, no, I love it. Oh, I hope I hope Biden was lucid enough [00:15:58] to absorb what Netanyahu said. Crazy. Revel in it, Biden. Revel in it. This is your legacy, bitch. This is your legacy. - Enjoy it. - Enjoy it. You good? Good. - It's amazing. - Oh, I love it, I love it. [00:16:16] Biden deserves it. Biden. Let Netanyahu do anything and everything he wanted. He deserves it. Okay. And this is his legacy. Revel in it. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.