The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together. As always, important things happening all across America. We’ve got to cover them here today. And remember this segment of the radio program and the podcast, we call it the WYNK. What you need to know WYNK, what you need to know. It’s modeled on or the name is used in our daily e-mail, which goes out if you go to phyllisschlafly.com, you can sign up for a daily e-mail and also go to excuse me, proamericareport.com. And you can sign up there. I have a substack that I am going to, I promise, be writing more long form There I’m trying to get to something today to post there on January 6th and the anniversary three years since January 6. But I’m going to talk about that later on in the program.
Right now, what you need to know on here on the Pro America Report, what I want to talk about is the growing fraud, the growing journalistic fraud and watching it happen. And I just I think it’s important to keep coming back to this. I call it the narrative machine, right?
The narrative machine is actually 4 components now. I’ve clarified it’s big government right? Working with Big Media, working with big Tech. And working with big business.
The four have an interest in what’s called the narrative and what they put out there as the narrative in order to what, increase their power, increase their profits, increase their access to power and profits.
So one of the Great ways to watch this. I really recommend this. Is the use of Politico. politico.com is a website. It was started as an online journal. It’s been around for about a decade, maybe 14 years, something like that and and they cover lots of politics and they’ve been purchased. I think they were purchased by a big German, a businessman, A conglomerate, media conglomerate. I forget the name of it doesn’t matter.
It’s dominated by what I would call the educated Left. The educated left, the professionally elite left. Educated at all the right places. All the highbrow places and and, and coming up through an in and out they go from Politico, the Washington Post back from Washington Post to Politico, they go out to the New York Times, they come back and forth. But if you if you sign up for a couple of things, one, I sign up for an e-mail. That I get from Politico dot. Politico dot EU is the European version of Politico, owned by them, controlled by them, overlapping with them, and they’ll send an e-mail out a daily e-mail that goes out at about 4:00 in the morning, East Coast Time, American time. And so it’s probably what, 9:00 in the morning in in Brussels or wherever they’re launching this from, but it gives you their it gives you their kind of rundown. It’s kind of like. Their version of the WYNK. Like I my WYNK every morning at 8:00 AM, the e-mail goes out Monday through. Friday and you Get a message. You know, a couple of links, couple of key points. Usually one driving message what you need to know. So anyway, so Politico sends this out and and today’s message. So the the message that’s going out late in the week, the first week of 2024 is all this.
Ohh my gosh, democracy is in peril in the world’s bonanza year for elections. And when you read this essay, it’s my guy named Nicholas. I think it’s Nicholas. Nicholas might not be yeah. Nicholas Vinocur. He writes in Europe. Goes through this litany and he’s talking all about Putin, and then talks about Trump, but he talks about this and that what he doesn’t talk about is the people who are in power. He doesn’t talk about any. If you’re worried about democracy, don’t you think it’s important that, say, Zelinsky cancelled the elections that Zelinsky eliminated parties, I’m talking about Ukraine, or doesn’t it? Don’t you think it matters that the the conduct of the the if democracy is at A tipping point? Does it matter that in America we have a A Presidency, an executive branch that has decided to unilaterally open the border. using, I’m not saying that they’re it’s completely lawless. I think it is lawless, but I think I’m not saying they used the the guys they use the the sheen of of. A process to say that they’re doing something legal. They’re not, and and my my point on this is that the talking the, the, the, the rhetoric around this idea of democracy is on the ballot. It’s just a talking point of the left.
In Europe. They’re using it. Why? Because in Europe. They’re seeing a rise in people, democracy, wanting their nation and wanting quote unquote nationalism, meaning they don’t want to see France become northern Africa in terms of their culture. They don’t want to see Italy become, you know, dominated by ah foreign visitors. Or foreign invaders, if you like the term but. And so the the rise in the polls of people in Europe who are concerned about their culture, their nation, their community. Is considered far right and the threat is that these people who have opinions and I thought under democracy have a right to express them that they might express them in the polls and that the polling right now shows that the European elections which take place in three or four months, maybe it’s five months, early May maybe, that those elections will be dominated. By more success, not complete Success not, not majorities, but more success from so-called far right nationalist groups. And somehow, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, who’s not in office, who talks about putting America first. They they write in these sentences in this Vinocur guy it’s it’s, it’s the excuse me in these paragraphs. It’s the 5th paragraph. Maybe it’s the 6th. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to weaponize democrat institutions against his political rivals. What does that mean? What’s the example? There’s no examples, they just said they don’t like him and and they think that maybe he won’t like NATO. He won’t like America pumping billions and billions of dollars, ceasing Donald Trump saying, hey, we’re not gonna pump billions and billions of dollars into Europe, NATO and the EU without having some sort of relationship to our benefit.
And then they do the old trick. Daniel Kellerman, professor of public policy at Georgetown University, is quoted repeatedly about his deep concerns, his threats, his, I mean, his, his ideas of threats, his worries. As if he’s someone authoritative, he’s a professor at Georgetown. He he he’s on the I’m sure he’s on the speed dial. For Vinocur, this this journalist, they’re probably all pals. They probably went to school together and they’re, but they’re talking as if he’s authoritative, as if his opinion one opinion, and his opinion, of course is. Trump is bad. European Union voters getting conservative.
So here’s another one. Yesterday they, the campaign manager for for Joe Biden in the run up to the anniversary of January 6th, she wrote this. Not even during the Civil War did insurrectionists breach our capitol, said Julie Rodriguez, manager of Trump Biden’s reelection campaign. But at the urging of Donald Trump, insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021 did. Now that’s just a lie. That’s a lie in multiple levels.
There’s not a there was not an insurrection. It’s never been proven, alleged. It’s a legal term, and even the the one of the I saw this post on Twitter as I had, zolani, I think I’m putting his name right is the one who he’s written all over the place. And he says this rhetoric is getting over the top. People have been arrested for disorderly conduct in the US capitol for decades. There was more than one bombing in Capitol buildings back in the day. This was this meaning, January 6 was not worse than the Civil war in any way.
Here’s my point. The rhetoric is Going through the roof, but the the effort to build out the support for the Rhetoric you can see it now. Go check out. Go read Mike Benz and hear about how he. He’ll show you how they lay this out. Another essay. Politico again watching Politico
A report – historians meet with Biden for a White House lunch. OK, Every President has this really cool thing. You call them up people up and say, hey, come to lunch and you get everybody to come, really Cool, right? I. Mean it’s you can meet really interesting people. You can learn a lot. You can have experts in. It’s really cool. I remember I I had a small taste of this when I was chief of staff to the governor. In Missouri and one time I was talking about whether there was some way that we could help farmers who were transitioning their farms into different things. Sometimes they were changing from crops to to animals and and and I said, is there something we Could do with Farm buildings, you know, some way that you could help because they’re expensive to fix. And they were. Run, run down a lot of times and low and behold like 2 weeks later there was a guy in my office and he was a professor of architecture at Mizzou and one of the guys on our staff had called up to Mizzou and said, is there anybody that knows any, has any expertise on farm buildings? This guy was an expert on that. And I had this great two hour conversation that was Anything to do. There was no program that could be implemented, but you learn a lot.
So Joe Biden, he gets a meeting with these historians, and now the historians are a couple from Princeton, somebody from Harvard. You know at Yale. And then here we go. Boston College’s Heather Cox Richardson, who, as I’ve told you, over and over. Again, she is the main Person that they trot out, she’s very popular on substack. She teaches at Boston College. I don’t I my close read of her. She’s like every a lot of other professors impressive enough in the sense that she gets to spend her time reading all day but not particularly groundbreaking insights. But what her big insight is is she’s totally wrapped. In Trump Derangement syndrome, and that the biggest threat that she’s ever seen in American history is Donald Trump, who lost an election and left office, who is running for election playing the game according to the the rules of Democracy. And yet he’s the great threat. Here’s my point. What you need to know.
We’re watching this incredible effort to lie about what’s going on, but in such a sophisticated way with such a narrative machine with big government, that’s Biden and his team, big media. That’s Politico and others, and all the cable news, big tech. You can see it everywhere, whether it’s from sub stack and Heather Cox Richardson or any of the other ones you see this messaging and then big corporations who I just wanna know who to have to who they have to play power to.
What you need to know is this effort to lie to us is happening systematically, and we’re gonna keep pointing out more and more of the problems with it. So we gotta take a break. Ed Martin here in the Pro America Report. Be right back.
