 This is pure a PELCA with Michael PELCA only on the blaze radio network So this is your own book I'm filling in for Mike for PELCA over the next I guess yesterday and today and One more day to go tomorrow and then a PELCA will be back on Friday So he told me you guys would all treat me well. So so far so good. We had some weird callers yesterday Everything else went went great. So You know, I don't know if you guys watched Donald Trump last night. I hope you didn't I hope you're not watching Donald Trump every night and television I mean, it's it's it's depressing. You should all get a life. I mean, I guess us in us in the talk show business and in the Commentary business need to watch this stuff But really for for for you guys just just put on a good TV show listen to some music do something else It's just too depressing to do politics and in Trump 24-7 as it is we have too way too much news way too much commentary. Although you should always listen to me There I was You know arguing against against what I do for a living But you know, I have to admit Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for Talks your hosts for commentators for anybody in this business. I mean, it's it doesn't stop every day There's something every day. There's something to comment on. I mean he put on Quite a show last night in Phoenix, Arizona in front of you know, thousands of his supporters So he really knows how to play it up a very different president Trump Then the previous night the night we spoke to to the military about Afghanistan There he was clearly reading from a teleprompter. It was all prepared statements very calm cool Not very emotional yesterday. He was just playing the crowd and you can tell he that's what he enjoyed He loves that and I think I think ultimately that's why he ran for president. He loves Standing in front of a crowd and just playing it, you know, and you know He's good at it. He's he's an entertainer. There is no question not very presidential, but he is an entertainer and Did it very well very well last night got that got the crowd wild up Chanting supportive of him Repeatedly, you know, it sounded like a campaign rally like like many of these kind of rallies where he returns to campaign mode But I wanted to focus on on one part of of of what Trump had to say last night where he really Went after the media and and basically what he did was he he brought with him in writing everything that he had said about Charlottesville and Then kind of showed how the media Only reported parts of it and distorted what he said and Was being completely non-objective about his response to Charlottesville and he and he you know, he had this line again very entertaining Very effective with that audience that you know the media Continues to complain about how late he was as if that was what it was important rather than what he actually said And he's right and he's right the media the media The media was unbelievably Distortive of what a Trump said and only focused on certain things didn't focus on other things It it gave antifa and it gave you know, the son of the violent protesters on the left a free pass There was no real condemnation of the whole event and you know, we can talk about that when we talk about free speech There was really the media was was terrible when it came to this there. There was no They completely treated this in in a one-sided distorted perverted kind of way and So Trump was was right, I mean there he was talking about that and to some extent You know everything he said was reflective of the media and we'll talk more about the media because they but because they think Trump is Onto something right? He really is onto something the media the leftist bias in the media is Offensive and it's there and it is no question. It's there You just have to look at it in New York Times or Washington Post or on any newspaper even the Wall Street Journal any given day and the slant of the news is So outrageous That it you know, it's For somebody like me who consumes huge amount quantity of news and has to talk about the news and has to talk about we You know, what's going on in the world? It's really really difficult to figure out. Well, what is right and what is not? What is true and what is bogus? You know, they miss quote people So you have to actually go find the quote you have to watch the video to even know what people say you can't even trust the media to do that and This is on all sides the so-called mainstream media Which who are supposed to be professional and who are generally more professional than what I would call the fringe media? You know so unprofessional it's under you know an example that just came up because I did a show a Couple of weeks ago on the Google memo I don't know if you remember this but this guy wrote this memo at Google About diversity and about why there weren't as many women in at Google and he wrote a ten page memo About this and I disagree with much of what was in the memo. I thought it was badly Constructed and badly written and some of these claims are just I just I think pseudoscience and false but It was a very reasonably written memo. It was that it was a very reasonable tone He didn't come out. He didn't he was an outrageous. He didn't come out against women. He Emphasized that you should judge people As individuals not as groups and he and you know, he came up for diversity explicitly he just thought that the way go-go was going about it was all wrong and there were ways in which to do it right again a lot of that I disagree with but It was a ten-page memo. There was somewhat silly but not crazy not nutty not offensive And yet they had lines in the newspapers one believable Here's just one, but there were the worst ones is one that I picked up this morning with Google employees Antidiversity manifesto on women's neuroticism goes viral. Yes. He didn't mention Women being more neurotic than men and again, you could argue with that fact or not He didn't play it up particularly the manifesto was not on women's neuroticism and it wasn't an anti-diversity memo But that's the headline and and that's one of the better headlines And it's not just the headline if you actually read the story the story is filled with just Relatant misrepresentations now. I actually read all ten pages of the memo But when I read these articles and I looked at the headline it became obvious to me that either these Journalists didn't read the memo, which I think is the most likely I think they just scanned it and and just read other people Other journalists comments on the memo Or they're just lying Which I think in some cases is probably true But but I I still far more lean towards the they are just incompetent so You know Donald Trump is onto something, you know, I listen to a lot of you who listen to me frequently, you know, I listen to NPR a lot and I like NPR. I find it interesting and I Find it particularly intellectual. I find that they cover stories. Nobody else covers But man are they biased It's unbelievable to me how biased they are, you know, I now I'm an economist or a finance guy, really so I know something about finance and I was something about economics and And and so it jumps out to me in those areas because actually know those fields pretty well and Their coverage of those areas is so bogus it's so nonsensical and You know, they have a panel on economics and they have a Radical Keynesian and a moderate Keynesian and they presented as if That is the entire spectrum of possibilities when it comes to economic analysis You can either be a somewhat Keynesian or dedicated Keynesian and put aside what Keynesian is I mean pro government intervention pro the idea of government stimulus that government really creates jobs stuff like that, right? That's the spectrum When there are many outside of that spectrum both way to the left and I won't say way to the right way to the free market side and way to the most data side But it's not just that they say, okay, we're Keynesian and we're just gonna present Keynesian views They actually think they're giving you a diversity because these people might disagree about whether the stimulus package should be 250 billion or 1 trillion and nobody on there is representing the idea that there shouldn't be a A a stimulus package at all and nobody on there is representing kind of the socialist viewers We shouldn't stimulate we should just nationalize But they presented as if we're being fair. This is the spectrum This is everything that you have So when I listen and PR I have to constantly filter. Okay, this is biased. This is by so when I hear stuff on a topic I don't know so they don't know the specific ways in which they are biasing the coverage I have to constantly work at reminding myself not to really believe anything they say to Create mental markers for what they say that might be interesting and then when I get home to check it out and To do some more research and even that research is hard Because all the other new sources are biased as well all right, so You know Trump is right now The joke about Trump is There while he slams the me the leftist media and I think justifiably He then goes ahead and praises Fox Now when I come back, we're gonna talk about Fox's bias and what's it gonna talk about all the things that Trump Distorted and misrepresented yesterday Talk about false news how he was reading from his quotes selectively and how he was misrepresenting himself Pretty stunning creating false news about himself all in the name of the truth all right, you're listening to your run to your unbroke filling in for Mike Apelka and We are on the blaze radio network We'll be back and we'll talk to Julie when we get back right after You're listening to pure Apelka with Mike Apelka on the blaze radio network alright, this is your own book filling in for Apelka and We're talking about the media biased media untrue media false news And I want to I want to join the show today get to the root of this. Where does this come from? Where did all this false news come from now? we've evaluated some of this on on on the left media and what I want to get to in a little bit is Evaluating Trump what actually Trump said yesterday and then his endorsement as president of the United States are Fox news and Why I think that's such a bad idea for many reasons All right, but before that we have Julie on the line who wants to catch up on Something I said yesterday hi Julie Hi, you're on it. It's such a pleasure to talk to you Oh, thank you It's just you and me and not all the other listeners. Okay, so I won't be nervous Okay Okay, nobody else listens to my show anyway. It's just We'll pretend that's happening. Okay, it's just you and I all right Yesterday I listened I listened to you on Sunday my husband and I listened to you and yesterday when you were on your bio your bio touched me and it really brought home a lot of things because I hadn't heard that before and To hear you talk was really really meant a lot and then you had a couple knuckleheads call in And they were so disrespectful to you and it was towards the end of the show and I couldn't get through and It it brought tears of I probably was upset. You know angry and hurt because of what they said and I'm not gonna repeat what they said it would just give them credence but The disrespect you handled it so well. I want you to know that It just seems that no matter how many of us understand history because I Was as a child was compelled to understand history and I was able to being in the army I Made it my business when I was in Germany to go to Dachau and to Amsterdam to Anne Frank And and those those in the sub camps and and to see all this stuff it gives me the chills These are memorials to the dead and to look through the window that and look through And I'm shaking because this this changed my life. Yeah. No, it's it's it's an incredibly emotional experience. Yes. Yes, and no one who's ever done that can say This this is a very We're it seems like no matter what people learn They're it's like we're all condemned to repeat history and those of us who understand history are being drugged along Well, I think you're absolutely right and it relates to a big part of the topic I'm gonna talk about today because I think that people don't learn history don't study history I also think that today People accept the fact because they don't accept facts and we'll talk about that. They don't accept that there is one true reality They don't accept the idea of truth that they're willing They're much more open today in our culture to accept conspiracy theories to accept revisionist histories To just be completely detached From what is happening in the rest of the world because none of it is real to people in some deep sense They don't think history is real. They don't think they don't think, you know, there is a Truth out there to be learned from and to be studied In and they can they can go on and they can talk about I don't know Hitler and it's it's it's completely detached from them It's like it's a completely floating abstraction. They have no Conception of what that means and you can't convince them because they live in the own reality and that has become I Think that's so prevalent Across the entire political spectrum people who are not attached to reality people who are not attached to truth and You know, it's those callers yesterday, but it's I see it everywhere. I see it across the entire spectrum Yeah, and I have to tell you my husband is an immigrant from Canada and he immigrated here when he was nine years old and His story is a little different except for the fact. He was he fought During the desert storm has a Canadian citizen because his father was worked for a company an American company out of Massachusetts and He couldn't make it to his immigration appointments because he's always getting deployed When he got finally to his we got back from Desert Storm the 90, you know, the first Gulf War He made it to the Nash. He was in the 101st when he made it to His the citizenship appointment and took the oath. They had a special guest. It was Senator Al Gore. Oh God We'll talk about no later today. Yeah, you know, you have to When he my husband You have less than a minute Julie because we have a hard stop. Okay, Senator Gore refused to shake my husband's hand Yes, yeah, I mean, I know he's a disgusting human being and why anybody takes him seriously and why Why anybody? Listen to him or goes to watch his movies unless you're like Alex and you have to because it's your job. I Don't understand. But but yeah, I mean These are horrible people go ahead. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you, Julie. All right, so You know, yes yesterday, we had some nasty callers trolls is the modern term for them But you know, we are not gonna be silenced We are gonna go out there and seek the truth. There is such a thing as truth There are such things as facts. They is Objective reality for all right, you're listening to your own book on the Michael Pellke show. We'll be right back On the blaze radio network All right, we're talking today about fake news media bias Donald Trump's defending himself yesterday at the demonstration in Arizona and and endorsing endorsing the president of the United States endorsing one particular media outlet Fox News, I think that generally is is scary But there we are President Trump president of the did it, you know, he he endorsed one channel All right, if you want in on this conversation if you have a an opinion about The New York Times the Wall Street Journal the Fox News CNN Call it 888 9 0 0 3 3 9 3 8 8 8 9 0 0 3 3 9 3 if you want to talk about media truth speech any of those topics You know call in or if you want to talk about something else call in just don't call in just for the sake of harassing me all right So The media most of the media most of what is considered the mainstream media is no question Solidly on Kind of the left side of the political non-spectrum right because it is it is for a bigger state it is generally Buying into much of kind of the leftist agenda as as reflected in the in at our universities They love government action. They hate capitalism They and they clearly hate Donald Trump and You know granted it's easy to hate Donald Trump, but but they distort Everything in terms of how they presented and really I can't defend I mean, I wish I could defend the New York Times or the Washington Post or any of these guys now I think They are still Marginally better than the non-mainstream media Now that's really a scary thought I think that the mainstream media is still Marginally better than the non-mainstream media on in if you look at the headlines in salon comm They're far worse in terms of their bias in terms of their absurdity in terms of their lack of any kind of affiliation with truth Than the New York Times so You know at the margin that slightly better, so I'm much more likely to read the New York Times Washington Post I can still get something out of reading the New York Times Washington Post whereas most of the media On the internet it is completely You know absurd and and and nutty and crazy and meaningless Now, you know, that's kind of the media on on the left if you will kind of the conventional Democratic-aligned Democratic party-aligned part of the media. What about what about the right? Well, Fox is ridiculous Fox is so pro-trump. It's it's not even funny anymore Right, they have been since before the election There's no objectivity at Fox anymore. There's no seeking the truth at Fox anymore. There is the party line It's almost become like the party platform Russia today That's you know the The outlet for Putin's propaganda. Well, that's Fox now I mean, which is disturbing particularly given That basically Trump said that last night Fox are good guys. Why are Fox good guys? Because they support me because they You know when I say stuff they they don't criticize They don't question They are selective in what they report about what I say. He didn't say this, of course In a light that shows me as part of positive Now I don't think Fox has ever been particularly objective But it's gotten worse and this election this election If nothing else this election brought out the worst in the media The worst they're very worst Across the spectrum. There was a district guard for truth for objectivity for facts for reality and On Fox aside an adoration Just an adoration for Donald Trump whether it was a wily or whether it's I mean Hannity is basically Trump's right-hand man. There is no Separation anymore now. They've probably been people like that in the media always and by the way The same is true of other left media treated Obama Obama could do no wrong as far as the mainstream media. I mean, there was some real Bad stuff objectively bad stuff put aside Posit ship put aside your particular philosophical point of view on things really objectively bad stuff that happened under Obama His phone policy was a disaster You remember his resetting relations with Russia. Well Russian relationship got worse. Did the media ever report that? No You remember the bombing of Libya, which turned out to be a complete another Disaster in terms of what it left over in terms of what we got at the end Now put aside that he said we'll leave from behind and all that that you know, okay So the media the media supportive of America taking a diminished role, but they they Embraced this bombing of Libya and then when it didn't turn out Did they turn against it? No, they didn't criticize him at all New York Times watched and posed I do remember the Remember the what I consider maybe the worst thing that happened under under Obama Which you know very few people even talked about very few people even discussed never mind, you know criticized I think the worst thing on Obama was the IRS scandal You know where the IRS was not giving You know non-profit status to organizations that they didn't like politically I Mean Wow That is real censorship. That is the government getting into the realm of ideas and telling people how they should think Opinializing people because of the way they think Media didn't think it was a big deal. It I mean nobody did it turns out a few hearings in Congress And it's all disappeared a few people in the fringe talked about it, but nobody took it seriously so The the much of the mainstream media whitewashed President Obama's presidency remember his response to the cop killings Almost not quite as bad as Trump's response to Charlottesville, but almost as bad Never criticized Black Lives Matter At least in the end Trump criticized You know the the KKK and the and the Nazis, but Obama never criticized Black Lives Matter Never saw the relationship which in the clearly was between Black Lives Matter And and and what they were saying and how they were saying it and how they were acting and the killing of cops Nothing from Obama and the media stayed silent completely no criticism of Obama so the the media is Political it's biased It's unprofessional It doesn't really read it. It misquotes on so many levels The media we have today You know just as a disaster now. I haven't even gone to the fringe media To the which is particularly on the right to the so-called alt media And we'll do that. We'll talk about that after this break You're listening to your own book on the apelka Mike Apelka show and we'll be back after this break This is your own book filling in for Mike and and We talked about the mainstream media and we talked about how biased they were and how not just biased but but distorted and They don't read like in the Google memo You gave the gut impression. They don't even read so they're not as professional as one would expect them to be These are people who have journalists degrees. We'll talk about the fact that to some extent at least Journalism degrees or degrees or education generally is a disadvantage not necessarily an advantage at least as as Taught in many universities today, maybe not all but but in many Generally the problems we have today all emanate out of a universities and we'll get we'll get to that in a little while But but what about kind of the more the alt news? What about the alt news is is it better is is there an alternative to the mainstream media? I mean suddenly I Like to look at a wide variety of media sources to get a sense of of a story I try to look at an original source to try to look for quotes when when talking about or actually read stuff like reading the memo but But what about what about? You know bright barred and and stuff like that or even even worse. What about Alex Jones? I mean Alex Jones complete fantasy and people take him seriously. It's complete and utter garbage fantasy made up stuff which has no relevance To the actual real world no relevance to facts no relevance to actually what's going on And yet he has millions of viewers Millions of people watch his stuff Now I don't know maybe they're watching it for entertainment, but I doubt it. They watch it as if it's news They buy into the conspiracy theories. We'll talk about conspiracy theories after the next break They buy into the whole agenda And they pretend They're getting news When it's just fantasy This is true and on the equivalent on the left you got all this Stuff out there and the internet has made this possible Anybody can open up a news channel Anybody can present what he does as so-called news now, of course Alex Jones Hosted Donald Trump on his show Alex Jones is part of the so-called right corrective to the media But what about brightbot brightbot is is considered respectable. This is where Bannon was, right? I mean this is I mean this is nuts. I just opened up brightbot just to see what we get well First story big story right at the top is an attack on Jared Kushner Kushner now Clearly there's a personal thing going on here between Bannon and Kushner Also philosophical because Bannon is this economic nationalist and Kushner might not be so there's an attack on him Related to something about Egypt that nobody really cares about but but everybody's reading it because they're just eating up stuff Then there's uh, if you scroll down you find Paul Ryan endorses Antifa Really? I mean, I know they don't like Paul Ryan. I'm critical of Paul Ryan But Paul Ryan is not endorsed Antifa That's just didn't happen And if he said something that might suggested that then he made a mistake But Paul Ryan is not a supporter of Antifa So but that's a headline. This is a news Agency supposedly giving you facts being objective No concept of what those terms mean. Of course, they don't pretend I guess This is Bannon. This is Bannon pushing his political Ideological agenda if you buy into that agenda, you're eating up brightbot If you don't buy into that agenda, then we may be looking skeptically at this But news it isn't reporting it isn't You can't read a headline or story here, right? And and know whether you're reading anything true or not It's it's some of its fantasy some of it's true some of it's somewhat true, but you know spun in a negative way Just like the left but in many ways worse Without the even the pretense of professionalism You know, you know, what do you do? What do you do? I mean, where do you find? actual news You go to you go to I don't know. What is it daily? Daily wire a bench of pyros thing and and again, it's it's it's headlines It's it's trying to it's sound bites It's trying to get seven things of this and seven things of that As if you can boil down everything in life to lists Where is actually objective reporting about what actually happens in the news on on a regular basis? you know And and the closest you get to actual reporting Is actually in the mainstream media? It's actually in the no-times in the Washington Post But then you can't then you have to have so many filters on to figure out what's real and what's not Because they're presenting it so reasonably But yet they lie Or they distort or they don't read their sources or whatever There's no respect today for truth There's no respect today for fact There's no respect today for objectivity Why Why Why is it this bad and of course the president was that you know, that was his shtick That was his shtick Yesterday one minute, you know, he was presenting what he said but he left out Huge amounts of what he said He selectively quoted himself I mean all in the name of now i'm going to tell you the truth because the media distorts He then went on to distort what happened On saturday and then on monday and then on tuesday in his own statements He chose the sentences to reach us and neglected the ones that weren't convenient for him He did exactly what he accuses others of doing. He presented false news All right All right, if you want in on this conversation call 888-900-3393 when we come back I want to talk about why this is happening Why americans are tolerating this why this is across the political spectrum And and and across the political cultural life of america today. What are the sources of this? You're listening to you to run book on the helker show four. We'll be back three two