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- For those of you who don't follow it,

or may not remember it,

one of these really evil people

in the online world,

out of whole cloth make up this story

that John Podesta and I are running

a child trafficking ring

in the basement of the Comet Pizza Parlor.

- By the way, there is no basement.

- Yeah, there is no basement.

But if you migrate that crazy story to Facebook posts,

there are people who will believe that,

including this very unfortunate young man

in North Carolina,

believing that he was on a mission

because he saw it on Facebook.

He saw it in other places online.

He saw it in quote news outlets,

and so he was there on a mission of rescue.

People could have gotten killed.

- Tonight, a terrifying moment.

Authorities say a man with an AR-15, opening fire,

after police say he showed up at a family pizza joint.

- Welsh drove six hours from Salisbury, North Carolina,

to self investigate.

- A conspiracy theory called "Pizzagate."

- Viciously phony rumors that the pizza joint

was the base for a child abuse ring,

using underground tunnels led by Hillary Clinton

and her campaign chief John Podesta.

- This is insane.

- No one was hurt,

but this became an alarming consequence

of the growing online phenomena, fake news.

- The police say there is

no sex trafficking conspiracy,

but millions read about it on dozens of websites,

including one called "Danger in Play."

"Danger in Play" is written by Michael Cernovich.

- All media is narrative.

And we are in a war of narratives.

There is a story about me.

There is a story that I'm just a very mean,

awful, nasty troll.

Is that the totality of who I am?

No, have I been mean before in the past?

Yes.

Here's Hillary's handler, and here's Hillary collapsing.

That's the narrative about me.

I view it more in terms of sort of pro-wrestling.

Bill Clinton is a rapist!

Bill Clinton is a rapist!

And the people are gonna view you

as the heel or the bad guy,

you just have to play up into that role.

Assault, they're assaulting me!

They're attacking me!

And that's what I've done

is I've recognized that people

are gonna misinterpret me,

completely twist my words out of context.

And in many cases, fabricate things,

and I can either spend all of my day

explaining why that isn't true,

or I can just embrace that heel role

that you would as a pro wrestler.

My name is Mike Cernovitch,

and I'm a journalist, author, and filmmaker.

That's amazing.

Alright so yeah I just texted Scott Adams,

which says, you know,

hey Scott, my latest film was on fake news.

And one area we wanted to cover

was the role cutting and bias is playing fake news,

as well as your two movies theory.

Would you be in for an interview to discuss this?

So I think Scott will do it.

But that would be what we would want

to talk to him about.

- He's in the bay area, right?

- Yeah he's in the bay area.

- I am Scott Adams.

I'm the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.

I'm a trained hypnotist and have studied

persuasion for decades.

In persuasion, there's a thing called framing.

It's how you think about a situation.

People can frame things very differently.

And skilled persuaders are especially good at it.

And so it's something I'm trained to do.

Whoever gets there first,

it's tough to get that into your head.

So going first makes a big difference.

I've started doing a lot of live streaming on Periscope,

and when there's a big story,

I can be live to the world within minutes.

I just pick up my phone and I'm live to the world.

And the framing that I put on things,

I'm quite aware of the fact

that because I'm both persuasive by training,

and I'm first, that my framing is exceptionally sticky.

A lot of what we see as fake news

is two movies playing on one screen.

So if you took a bunch of the people on the right,

and a bunch of the people on the left,

and put 'em in the same theater,

and said, "Watch this movie."

And when they left, they would come out

with completely different ideas

of what they had just watched.

Even though they had watched

exactly the same thing.

- The director of controversial

documentary "The Red Pill"

is in Australia to promote her film,

which has sparked protests.

- It's really quite an experience

to have fake news written about you personally.

It's happened to me a number of times.

Usually in the form of somebody's imagining

what's in my dark soul,

and they imagine I hate something almost always.

That's completely off-base.

Until it happens to you,

and you see it repeatedly,

you can't really understand

how powerful the fake news is,

how much it changes real people's lives.

And how widespread it is.

- Oh, fake news.

Yes.

- And I think people who have been

printed in the media a lot

can start to identify who is fake news,

because they know their true story more than anyone.

And they can see who's not telling the truth.

When I was 21, I enlisted my mother

as my producer and camera woman,

and we hit the road filming,

and made our first film, "Daddy I Do,"

which looked at women's rights.

And that film was really embraced

and supported by Planned Parenthood.

They funded a northwestern screening tour of the film,

and flew us out, and we did a bunch of the screenings

and had dinner parties, and it was wonderful,

and it was really supported in feminist circles.

So we had a lot of success.

And you know, everyone was saying that we had,

or that I had a bright future as a filmmaker

because of that film.

And then my second big feature film

was about LGBT rights.

And then I made a slough of short films about,

mostly about women's issues.

And that was kind of my brand.

That was my reputation.

And I had a lot of support in that.

- Okay.

- A controversial documentary

on the men's rights movement

has had screenings in Melbourne canceled

after a petition claimed the film

was misogynistic propaganda.

- Misogynist propaganda, anti-women.

- It is absolutely a propaganda film.

It has tied up its moment.

- Her name is Cassie Jaye,

and she made a lot of people very very angered.

- You don't really question their views in the film.

- Did you see the film?

- But why didn't you ask him about that?

- I did ask them about that.

- Aren't generalizations like that dangerous?

- Because your publicist wouldn't

send us the full thing.

- I sent you the screener link actually to the full film.

- She doesn't actually do the research.

- Though many of the films backers are MRAs.

- This is just a conversation

where we want to talk about men and boys problems

for just five minutes.

- Cassie, we're out of time.

We'll have to leave it there.

But thank you very much.

- Initially, I thought I was gonna be making a film

exposing men's rights activists

as misogynist, rape apologists, women-haters,

trying to turn back the clock on women's rights.

And after that year of filming 44 people,

I realized that the film I thought I was gonna make

was not the truth of the story I got.

I didn't change my views on gender equality.

I actually expanded my views on gender equality

that we should consider men in the equation.

But they wanted to make it seem like

I was against women's rights.

I mean, even some of the interviews I did

on Australian news, the lower third

where they would say the title of the episode they're doing,

one of the titles was, "Filmmaker Changes Her Views

On Gender Equality."

To inference that I'm now against women's rights,

which couldn't be further from the truth.

But the project in Australia,

they put together a video package,

setting me up as a monster.

And in their graphics they said

the Red Pill movie was funded

by men's rights activists.

- Though many of the films backers are MRAs.

- And it's just this little soundbite

in an effort to discredit my entire

last four years work.

I did a Kickstarter campaign.

Everyone knows no one has creative control

if you're a Kickstarter backer.

They're a minority of men's rights activists.

A minority of feminists.

And mostly people who didn't identify as either.

And you know, moving forward with my career

as a filmmaker, I don't know how

this smear campaign will have

impacted my future opportunities.

When I started to see the media going after me, personally,

like on the direct attack,

trying to take down my credibility and my reputation,

I felt cheated and lied to

for my entire previous life before

I became this public figure with the smear campaign.

I feel like how can I have trusted

anything they've ever said about

all these other people who I've seen

smeared in the media before,

and I believed what the mainstream media said about them.

- First tonight,

our report on the incendiary radio host, Alex Jones.

- He's known for promoting wild conspiracy theories.

- Over the years, his YouTube channel

has racked up 1.3 billion views.

He has millions of listeners.

And the ear of our current president.

- Your reputation's amazing.

I will not let you down.

You will be impressed I hope.

- According to his own counsel,

he is playing a character.

- But the idea that Jones

doesn't necessarily believe everything he says

may take some of his fans by surprise.

- He produces the show from his basement.

- Broadcasting worldwide.

I'm your host Alex Jones.

So what is the state of our world today?

The quickening, the intensification,

the insanity, the wars.

Why is Alex Jones in a movie about fake news?

In fact, I bet when this film comes out,

they're going to have reviews saying,

"Ha ha, look at the filmmakers.

"To cover fake news, they talk to the king of fake news."

Wait a minute.

Even if that was true,

you'd want to talk to the king of fake news.

Mike Cernovich is here with some amazing

established filmmakers, putting on this big film, "Hoaxed."

Dealing with mainstream media and fraud.

And they asked me the question, are you an actor.

When I engage in satire or acting,

it's a joke when I say those things.

I'm gonna go say some horrible things on air right now,

to illustrate how the globalists are sick freaks.

It doesn't mean I actually believe

the things I'm about to say.

Thing's really tight on the eyes.

So get ready, this is Alex Jones.

This is Alex Jones being an actor, let's go.

You'll never defeat the human spirit!

I'm liberal, huh, oh oh.

I apologize, I apologize.

Jesus forgive me.

1776 will commence again

if you try to take our firearms.

We're such self-centered crap,

that we don't even notice hell itself rising up.

I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water

that turn the freaking frogs gay.

I've got the fire of human liberty.

I'm setting fires everywhere.

And kids, Magellan's a lot cooler than Justin Bieber!

It doesn't bother me, once you do it, whatever.

I just, if you guys want to put it out,

just make sure if you do do put it out,

make sure people don't have a pulled muscle.

Just don't say I'm a crazy person.

Which I am kinda crazy already.

But let me just start over, here we go.

I wear many hats.

But 99% of the time, I'm a father,

I'm a patriot who wants to simply

research the facts

so we can live in a better world.

And that's why since the time I was 21 years old,

I've been on air,

because I've known there's been a war on for our minds.

- The victory will be an endorsement of a philosophy.

- Sir, shouldn't we abolish the CFR?

That's the real reality that

none of you will talk about

and most of you remembers.

And I'm being drugged out, laugh at it.

- We need whistle blowers,

and we need whistle blowers

who aren't afraid of being smeared.

Courageous people that are willing

to step into the limelight,

and take the tomatoes being thrown at them.

- My entire career it's been about

putting myself out there

to take the hit first, to draw the enemy out,

so that more people wake up to the larger picture.

I knew Megyn Kelly was coming here to destroy me.

I knew she was coming here to do the ultimate hit piece.

And so I understood that I had to basically

take her attack on so that I could use it as a way

to educate my listeners and viewers

on the anatomy of a hit piece.

- I think why smear campaigns happen to people like me

is to send a warning to other people

to not go off the reservation

and do something like what I did.

A warning to don't do that,

or we're gonna do to you what we did to her.

- Because when you're one of the main subjects

that's been chosen to be destroyed,

because they know that what I promote

really does symbolize basic American values,

if they can destroy that,

they think they can really hurt their real enemy.

That's the American people.

- We gotta take this guy out.

Why you gotta take me out?

Because I'm not part of the permanent political class.

You gotta take me out 'cause I'm a business executive,

and I can smell the rotting cadaver of Washington

that sits in the basement of the American public

and the American community.

And I'm ready to help the American people

remove the cadaver from the basement.

You see, the way I was getting hit,

one of my buddies said to me,

you're getting hit like that

because you can articulate the President's strategy.

I'm on BBC Newswatch,

and I'm being interviewed by Emily,

and it's a live presentation.

I've got the White House behind me.

And we're talking.

It's over, I shake her hand.

I'm walking to my office in the West Wing.

My cell phone's ringing.

I pick up the cell phone.

I'm not gonna tell you who it was.

But it was a person in Republican opposition

research for 30 years.

They said, "Ant, you're in a lot of trouble."

He had great verbal dexterity on BBC Newswatch,

and they're now saying, my God,

this guy might be able to have tea with the queen.

And I've gotten four or five calls on you

since you finished that interview,

saying what do you got on this guy?

They gotta find something on me.

I sort of feel bad for them

because they figured I'm Italian,

and I got 28 years on Wall Street.

I had to do something dishonest.

So they spent seven months ripping through

my financial records and background.

Couldn't find anything,

so they got me on three curse words.

Leak the thing and see if I can

block these people

the way I can Scaramucci for six months.

They treated it like it was,

I poured hot water on a newborn baby.

- We had had hundreds of TV networks and newspapers call us

in the month before Megyn Kelly called.

And I refused all the interviews,

because I knew that there was basically

a bounty out to do a huge deceptive hit piece on myself.

And so when I heard that Megyn Kelly

was calling up my producer,

being thickly sweet, saying,

"Oh here's my cell phone number.

"Please call me personally.

"I'm really into Alex, he's really cool."

That right there was a giant red flag.

And as soon as I call her, boom.

She wants to go out to dinner with me.

She's obsessed with me.

She things I'm really handsome.

But she thinks men that have

a little pot belly like me are sexy.

That the best men look like me.

These are exact things she said.

So I got my other phone,

and started recording it on speakerphone.

- You know, you just became

very fascinating to me.

I just sort of thought you were this maybe

one-dimensional guy, like, this is your thing.

- She promised me that it wasn't a hit piece.

That she didn't even want to get into the subjects

like Sandy Hook.

- It's not gonna be some gotcha hit piece.

I promise you that.

- But of course, once she got here,

she uncloaked herself.

- Sandy Hook.

9-11.

That's a dodge.

- And she would take pieces where

I'd said one thing 20 minutes before, I love Satan.

And edit that into something

that was a completely other subject

to make it sound like I was a stark raving

babbling stuttering volleyball or something.

It's just--

- So the media, and especially the fake news,

can ruin lives fairly easily.

I've had quite a bit of fake news lobbed at me.

- Well the fake news was that I had said

negative things about women,

which if you saw them in context,

you would understand that they weren't.

But out of context, whoa, they sounded terrible.

If I thought somebody actually thought

the things that people said I thought,

I would not like that person.

And if you think somebody's evil,

whatever comes out of their mouth

is gonna sound pretty evil.

And if you think that person is on your side,

even if they say something

that sounds a little bit evil,

you're gonna say, ah, that's Bob.

He doesn't mean that.

So we imagine we can see

what's in the soul of other people.

It's the most classic mistake you could make.

You're not good at peering into souls.

You just think you are.

Everybody thinks they're good at it.

Everybody's wrong.

We're all terrible at it.

And weirdly, we imagine that these normal people

who would be our friends in any other context

are actually like monsters on the inside.

And it's pretty rare that anybody's

actually a monster on the inside.

- This is the spot where it was first seen.

Where did it come from?

What is it?

- They're bringing crime, they're rapists.

You know, I know nothing about David Duke.

- It's the end of the world every day.

24 hour Trump horror fest.

He tweeted again, you know.

Civilization is collapsing.

Never in the history

of the United States,

a monster of such horrifying hatred of man.

- They claim that they can hear dog whistles.

Secret messages embedded in the text.

They have a special power for hearing what you said

without you actually saying it.

We can disagree with some or several

of Trump's policies.

I'm not here to talk about politics.

I'm talking about what he said,

and how it compares to what the media

literally portrayed him as saying.

When Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign

at Trump Tower, he goes down the escalator

and he gives a speech in which he says,

"All Mexicans are rapists."

This isn't just a general impression.

I mean, this is something that was said repeatedly.

On CNN, Time Magazine, CBS,

Washington Post, Politico, Huffington Post.

Repeatedly time and again,

we find them literally saying that

Donald Trump said Mexican immigrants are rapists.

A horrifyingly disturbing, and grotesque thing to say.

If Donald Trump said that,

then absolutely he should drop out.

The fact of course is that's not quite what he says.

What he says is, "When Mexico sends people,

"they're not sending their best.

"They're sending people that have lots of problems.

"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crimes,

"they're rapists, and some I assume are good people."

And what he did say, you know, was graceless.

It was inappropriate.

But gosh, it wasn't, he didn't say

that all Mexicans are rapists.

That's just not what he said.

He's complaining that somehow he thinks

the Mexican government is sending

people that have lots of problems.

But the media fixated on two or three words.

They are rapists.

And decided that the noun there must be

the worst possible interpretation, meaning all Mexicans.

Every single Mexican, children, nuns, old people,

all of them are rapists,

and what a shame that Donald Trump said that.

And he explained himself repeatedly.

He went around, praising Mexicans, in multiple states,

again and again, saying they're good people,

they're wonderful people.

I want them to come in legally.

The media never cared.

What they cared about was this cartoon

to not echo a stereotype.

Create a stereotype that I had never even heard of

that all Mexicans are rapists.

What's stunning about these stories, these memes,

is that even despite they're being so incoherent,

the media is able to just keep them going endlessly

by systematically neglecting

every shred of evidence against the story.

And reading between the lines with everything

that seems a little off color.

So here's another meme.

During the campaign,

Donald Trump called for the creation

of a national database, a registry,

that would track all Muslims in America.

Every Muslim-American would have to be

registered in this thing,

carry a special ID, perhaps wear a badge.

This was echoed in countless many media.

It's totally false.

It just didn't happen.

The proposal wasn't created by Donald Trump.

It was made by a Yahoo reporter.

- Do you think we might need

to register Muslims in some type of database

or note their religion on their ID?

- This is Hunter Walker, Yahoo News,

asking this to Trump.

And what did Trump do?

He didn't answer the question directly.

You know, he's just interested in sticking

to his message and saying the things he wants to say.

It's known as the artful dodge.

I mean, this is something politicians

have been doing since for decades.

- Well, we're gonna have to look

at a lot of things very closely.

We're gonna have to look at the mosques.

We're gonna have to look very, very carefully.

- He said look, he said carefully.

Now when Walker reports this,

what he says that Trump says,

he says, "He wouldn't rule it out."

Then it becomes, "He calls for the creation

"of a national database."

And this expression shows up on CNN.

It shows up on the cover of New York Times.

The fascinating thing is how they seem

to play a game of telephone.

Of taking not just what Trump says and twisting it,

but they'll take what each other of them say

that Trump said and they'll add details,

and Donald Trump again and again

says I didn't say that, that's false.

This is ridiculous.

I didn't start it, a reporter suggested it.

Did they apologize?

Did they at any point say, "You know what?

"We want to go back over some of these stories we said,

"whether they're about religion or Mexicans, or you know."

Let's do a tally of how many of these things

we kind of twisted out of proportion.

No, they're more interested in

people tripping up on words rather than events.

All kinds of things happen in the world.

Alarming important urgent things.

People die, people are dying.

Serious things are happening and instead,

the sad state of the media is

what are they obsessed with?

What is their number one concern?

It's Twitter.

- I'm fascinated that the media is obsessed

with whatever little white lie

they think that I told on Twitter.

How many people are dying because of

whatever they view as being untrue,

as being said by me?

Now let's compare body counts.

I'll gladly compare.

They would have to frame me for body counts and shootings.

As they did with the Pizzagate thing.

I don't have to frame them.

I just have to talk about what they've done.

- I measure things in terms of head count.

The biggest head count of fake news is communism as a whole.

Reasonable estimates are close to 100 million dead

just in the 20th Century from Communism alone.

There are a brutal number of fake news stories

covering up the hideous nature of Communism,

and given that the facts are so easily available,

given that the data is so easily available,

I really do more than question.

I have nothing but bottomless contempt

for the people who covered this stuff up.

Because they are aiding abetting

some of the greatest genocides in human history.

And we know that Walter Duranty of the New York Times,

well he got a Pulitzer

for his reporting on the Potemkin villages under Stalin.

When he was toured around, and oh,

look at these fat happy workers.

And they were just taken out of the gulags,

stuffed full of chicken,

and thrown in front of his eyeballs.

- At the Holodomor.

One of the unbelievable brutal and overlooked

genocides in many ways.

So, this is typically the way that it works.

In a free market,

resources tend to accrue

to the people who are the most competent.

And that's better for everyone.

Because you want to have enough to eat.

So you want the land to end up

under the control of the most productive people.

But the Communists come along and say,

okay, you're working for this guy,

not 'cause he's smarter or works harder

or takes more risks or studies more,

but because he's exploited you.

He has stolen from you,

and we're gonna get back what is yours.

We're gonna get back that land,

and we're gonna split it up among you.

So what they did was they went into the Ukraine,

which was formerly called the bread basket of Europe.

The soil is so rich.

I mean, it's just astonishing.

And what they did was they took the land

from the most productive people called the bourgeois.

the cu lacks, the most productive farmers,

and then they shot or imprisoned

or drove off those farmers.

The starvation that resulted,

I mean, unbelievably horrifying stuff.

This was all covered up.

The reports were coming out.

Just the reports were coming out

about the Holocaust.

The reports were coming out,

but they did not examine it

as much as they should have,

and millions of millions of people

starved to death as a result.

And that helped stretch out the Communist regime

for another couple of decades,

and it helped to spread the Communist regime

to other places in the world.

North Korea, Cambodia, China.

You know, there was a time when

a third of the planet was under Communist dictatorship.

That had a lot to do with the intellectuals

who came across and spewed the propaganda they were fed.

And they were happy to do it because

they wanted to save the system,

not deal with the facts.

There are still people out there

with Karl Marx buttons.

You know, you try wearing a Hitler button.

Hitler's head count was far lower than Communism.

You go out there with a Karl Marx button,

and people are like, oh that's edgy.

Or you know, Che Guevara T shirt.

And this proselytizing and pumping up of Communism

that happens, and we've seen this recently.

Women had better sex lives in Soviet Russia.

I mean, like okay, so sure.

It's 100 million death count,

but at least I get a toe-clenching orgasm out of it.

It's like, that's horrifying, and horrible.

Kind of weighing in the balance.

The fact that North Korea started as Communist state

is very much overlooked.

They had put these Potemkin villages out there

in North Korea as well,

where you've got these happy peasants

who you see smiling and so on

because they get shot if the don't.

- We traveled about four hours east of Pyongyang

to visit a ski resort.

We were also invited here, I would suspect,

because it is not what people expect to see

in North Korea.

A modern ski resort.

It's got patriotic music and videos

playing from a screen here,

and a lot of families out enjoying themselves.

- And the reason why it's so sinister,

which you've talked about before, Mike,

is that they want us dead.

If you openly cover up for a regime,

that the first people targeted

are people like you and me.

I can't view this as a merely ideological dispute.

This is not an academic difference in opinion,

because if the system that they want gets in power,

myself, my friends, my family, everything,

will be the first to go.

- Read all about it.

Latest football scores.

Morning paper, morning star.

Paper, mister?

- Your daily newspaper.

Well, this is familiar.

Most of us read a paper every day.

- The golden age of American journalism in the 50s

is sort of a myth.

Perpetuated by Hollywood and maybe journalists themselves,

but it was golden in some ways.

They were hard hitting reporters out investigating,

trying to break big stories.

And that image of a disheveled reporter

who wants to get the story no matter what,

in some way, is representative of reality.

They did publish hard hitting stories.

And print was king 'cause TV was just baby stages.

And there was a norm of objectivity then.

Editorial stayed on the editorial pages, very much.

And the news tended to be very balanced,

and very fact-driven.

- The editorial writer must be able

to write on many subjects.

But instead of merely reporting news,

he analyzes it and explains its meaning,

often expressing his personal opinions.

He must reason accurately and fairly,

and write in an interesting manner.

- There was also a different culture at the time

which was that objective truth does exist.

And that there are consequences for lying

and doing this in the afterlife.

Journalists, whether they were practicing Christians or not,

brought in this American ethic,

which included God, absolute truth,

also this idea that yes, there are objective facts

that we can find and report.

- To be successful today,

a newspaper must contain all the elements

of the best journalism to fill the needs

of modern newspaper readers.

But beyond that, it must inspire complete confidence

in its integrity.

- One of the key bits of information

is a study that I did

that fits right into the golden age of journalism

that looks at American newspaper editorials

from 1958 to 1970.

And so starting in 58,

I found that all of these papers

leaned a little bit to the right.

Surprise.

But between 58 and 70,

there was a dramatic shift to the left, much more so.

And I mean, it is almost a straight line

and showed no signs of changing.

And informally, I looked at some contemporary

editorials the same way

from some of those major papers.

And found them up there.

And so we see this shift during that time in the 60s

to a much more liberal orientation.

Additionally, the way the editorials were crafted changed,

which I think reflects a change

in the news culture and the culture of the country.

In the late 50s, we found,

even if they leaned one way,

or supported one policy,

they still offered a healthy clash of those issues.

And so you kind of got both sides.

And you had room to disagree.

As we progress further to 1970, that stops,

and it becomes more polemic and less an argument.

I think one of the main considerations for that change

was the cultural revolution.

We start to see a new generation

coming into power.

And we now have the creation of a liberal environment.

And let's not forget some of the formative documents

that came out of Students for a Democratic Society

in the early 60s.

And they quite clearly stated that

student progressives needed to move in

to the major institutions of this country

to affect change.

- We're gonna be in the streets

and in every institution in this country from now on.

- The media, the news media,

was one of those institutions that was targeted.

- We're gonna replace capitalism with socialism.

- There was also some dissatisfaction

with the federal government in terms of

its forthrightness with what was

going on in Vietnam.

As trust was lost,

there was more willingness to oppose.

So it was many factors engaging.

And now it's gone all the way now.

- For we are opposed around the world

by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy

that relies primarily on covet means.

For expanding its sphere of influence.

- We have been compelled to create a permanent

ominous industry of vast proportions.

- It is a system which has conscripted

vast human and material resources

into the building of a tightly knit,

highly efficient machine

that combines military, diplomatic,

intelligence, economic, scientific,

and political operations.

- We must guard against the acquisition

of unwarranted influence,

whether sought or unsought,

by the military industrial complex.

- Its preparations are concealed, not published.

Its mistakes are buried, not headlined.

Its dissenters are silenced, not praised.

- Only an alert and knowledgeable citizen

can compel the proper meshing

of the huge industrial and military

machinery of defense,

with our peaceful methods and goals.

- And so it is to the printing press,

to the recorder of man's deeds,

that we look for strength and assistance.

Confident that with your help,

man will be what he was born to be,

free and independent.

- I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns.

They took the babies out of the incubators.

Took the incubators, and left the children

to die on the cold floor.

- Babies pulled from incubators

and scattered like firewood across the floor.

And they were thrown out of the incubators

so that Kuwait could be systematically dismantled.

- It was horrifying.

- This war may be beginning right now.

- Two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack

on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait.

- The inevitable has happened.

- A woman testified before Congress

that Iraqi soldiers had gone into the nursery

of a Kuwaiti hospital,

and they were taking babies,

and lifting them out of the incubators,

and throwing them onto the ground and smashing them.

This is a horrific visual.

And public sentiment was against

the first war in Iraq,

until that very important testimony

was spread far and wide.

Well as it turns out,

she was actually the daughter

of one of the crown prince's of Kuwait.

It's a completely fabricated story

that had been orchestrated by a major PR firm.

They had spent millions of dollars on it,

and it was completely fake.

But the media would incredulously spread that.

They give amplification to a message that they like.

And then if that message turns out to be false,

they say, well all we do is report the news.

Even though you chose to report that, though.

You chose to amplify that.

You chose to splice that clip and air it non-stop.

- Fool me once, shame on,

shame on you.

- Every statement I make today

is backed up by sources.

Solid sources.

- Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

- So the second war in Iraq was also based on a lie

propagated by the New York Times.

- Iraq has made several attempts

to buy high strength aluminum tubes

used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon.

- The kinds of tubes that are necessary

to build a centrifuge.

- First of all, the New York Times was not alone.

Almost every paper in the country

was reporting this, and network.

There was a consensus.

- I think what I did wrong was

I wasn't permitted by my paper to go back

and look at those stories when we had more information.

- One person might say, Cernovich, you're wrong.

All the media did was report on information

given to them by the government.

And I would say, well that's fascinating.

You must think that I don't have a very good memory,

because when I read Twitter today,

and I read a paper today,

they say you can't trust Trump.

He's such a liar.

You can't trust the government.

Our job as journalists is to fight against the government.

I see that every day.

But if there's a war,

we just accept everything as true.

- And it is our duty as loyal Americans

to shut up once the fighting begins.

- We entered the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war.

- My fellow Americans.

- The Gulf of Tonkin incident

was the basis for the War in Vietnam,

which cost between 50 and 75,000 American lives.

Many peoples lives were ruined.

Mental illnesses, PTSD.

Well that was another lie.

Let's look at, we got three big wars in America.

You see a lot of lies.

So where is the soul searching

by these large mainstream outlets?

I would like to see that.

- If you look at the mainstream media,

they are in lock stead with either

the Pentagon or the State Department.

Or officials that clearly do have an agenda.

It's a self sustaining relationship.

Any empire, any corporation,

any person knows that the only thing

that could ever take them down is the truth.

- Do you have any people being paid

by the CIA who are contributing

to a major circulation, American Journal?

- We do have people who submit pieces

to American Journal.

- Fake corporate news media is nothing new.

It's just more financed today.

A lot bigger, a lot slicker.

Back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s,

there was Project Mockingbird

that Senator Frank Church's committee exposed.

Where the CIA and other agencies

had key people throughout positions

in the mainstream media to put out fake news,

or to kill stories when they needed it done.

- They infiltrated high ranking media organizations

all around the United States.

And were working not only with them,

but reporting as if they were neutral journalists.

When they were pushing an agenda.

- The planted story is intended

to serve a national purpose abroad,

came home and were circulated here,

and believed here.

- Operation Mockingbird should make everyone

think twice about the news and information

and where it comes from,

and how it could be weaponized against you,

which I think is happening right now

at a very severe level.

- And now, we have Jeff Bezos,

one of the richest men in the world,

close to 100 billion dollars in wealth,

with his oligopoly Amazon,

getting 600 million dollar contract from the CIA

to house their servers while he uses

the Washington Post that he owns

as a warfare machine against President Trump

and the American people.

- I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency,

by the CIA.

- This one great German journalist came out and said,

yeah, the CIA wrote headlines for me.

They told me what to say.

- There's many countries where this happens.

Where you find people to claim

they are respected journalists,

but if you look behind them,

you'll find they are puppets on a string

of the Central Intelligence Agency.

- Obama signed a Ministry of Truth into action

before he left, to use US intelligence agencies

against the American people.

- Now critics argue the act allows

the US government to censor some news as propaganda,

and push government agenda, in other words,

government propaganda, on the US citizens,

usually by way of labeling inconvenient

stories as fake news.

- Propaganda is now legal.

Yes, legal, not illegal.

It used to be illegal,

according to a 1940 law, Smith, Month, Act,

something like that.

- Because three years ago,

wrapped inside the 2013 NDAA

was an amendment that removed the ban

on the US government,

creating propaganda, and then showing it to US citizens.

- A lot of people who claim that they're journalists,

they're just repeaters.

They get a press release,

and they just rewrite the press release.

- I was actually able to uncover something

that really made me feel defrauded as a journalist.

Not only our sources, we found out that Bahrain

is a paying customer at CNN.

They've also produced similar content for Georgia,

Kazakhstan, and other nations as well, Lebanon.

- Look, if CNN's corporate bosses

want to worship dictatorships, that's their right.

But when they're getting paid by the dictatorships to do it,

in my view, that's criminal,

and it's downright anti-American.

- I was accused of leaking secrets of states.

Six times, house searched.

Well, they hoped that I wouldn't do that ever again.

I don't mind what will happen.

I've had three heart attacks, I have no children.

So if they want to bring me to court or to prison,

so it's worth for the truth.

The truth won't die.

- Decades ago, it used to be the case

that news divisions did their investigative reporting,

operating in a loss.

They did so in the public interest.

That's gone by the wayside.

These days, news organizations do specifically

what behooves their bottom line.

Hi, my name is James O'Keefe.

I'm from Project Veritas.

Project Veritas started with the mission

of investigating, exposing waste, fraud,

abuse, corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing,

in order to make a more ethical and transparent society.

In order to do that, we have to go undercover

because a lot of these people are not gonna tell us

on the record what's happening.

- One story has monopolized

President Trump's time in office like no other.

Especially on CNN.

Russia.

In fact, since the inauguration,

CNN has mentioned Russia on their air

nearly 16,000 times.

So we sent our undercover reporters inside CNN

to understand why.

- Then why is CNN constantly like,

Russia this, Russia that?

- Because it's ratings.

- If it's all just because of ratings,

if it's all just for money,

if his own staff, more than one person thinks that it's BS.

- The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- It's mostly bullshit right now.

Like, we don't have any big giant proof.

- And they're doing it in order to make money only.

- All the nice cutesy little ethics

that used to get talked about in journalism school,

you're just like, that's adorable.

That's adorable.

Yeah, this is a business.

- That's something the American people need to see.

I'm not making a value judgment about it.

But that's information that people need to see.

And that's the real, the heart of the matter is

journalism is about exposing things

for what they really are.

And there's a lot of powerful interests

that do not want things exposed

for how they actually are.

- People go in the media.

Journalists, would be journalists, would say,

Cernovich, you just want clicks.

All you care about is page views.

These are the people who live and die by ratings.

These are the people who the minute the show's over,

they're waiting for the ratings to be uploaded.

If there's a way to start a war,

and get America involved in another major massive war,

all the media companies stand to make a lot of money.

Nobody talks about that.

For example, when there was a major

terrorist attack in France,

the images of dead babies were blurred,

and we were told by the media

never show, never show dead children on television.

This is too horrific.

This is not what we're about.

You can't do it.

This is what we're told, right?

But then suddenly we have a story

about Assad gassing his people,

and a lot of people want war in Syria.

Well not only do they accept the conclusion

that Assad gassed his own people

without any real evidence.

But now they post images of dead babies on television.

And in the newspapers, and post those pictures.

- Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike.

The President again

citing the disturbing video of Tuesday's horrific

chemical attack as a major influence on his decision.

A dizzying turnaround for an administration

that just days ago declared that their priority

was not to oust Syrian President Bashar Al Assad from power.

- Donald Trump became President of the United States.

I think this was actually a big moment.

- The media makes a massive amount of money with wars,

because then you have nonstop coverage,

embedded journalists, hot new footage.

Watch this latest bombing drop.

Watch this latest fire fight.

- We see these beautiful pictures at night

from the decks of these two US Navy vessels

in the Eastern Mediterranean.

I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen.

I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons.

And they are beautiful pictures.

- They make a ton of money doing that.

Not only that, but their parent corporations

and these media holding companies

and their shareholders make a ton of money off of war.

Boeing makes a ton of money.

Its contractors make a ton of money.

The lobbyists make a ton of money.

Because now you have contracts to dole out.

Nobody talks about this though.

How does the media make its money?

- War is never coming from itself.

There is always people behind it to push for war,

and this is not only politicians,

this is journalists too.

- 'Cause you know there's a lot of job at stake,

certainly if a lot of these defense contractors

stop selling war planes,

other sophisticated equipment,

there's gonna be a significant loss of jobs.

- So what they're doing

is completely dishonest.

- This is beyond hoax.

This is a giant organized fraud.

- The news is not the news.

The news is propaganda.

- Nothing has captured this crisis

like the picture that we began with last night.

- His family says his name was Islan,

and that he and his brother and his mother

drowned trying to reach Greece by boat.

- All photographs are rhetoric.

All photographs are accurate.

None of them are the truth.

Let's face it, we don't see the world in a still frame.

We don't see the world in black and white.

We don't see the world frozen.

All photographs are kind of self portraits.

They're really a reflection of the photographer

and the editor.

There's a lot of journalists who get angry when I say that.

- And tonight, we're gonna spend the program

looking at the power of that image,

which has shocked the world, shaken politicians,

and transformed the debate about refugees

fleeing from war.

- If you're listening to a song,

you have to listen to the song.

You have to at least get to the hook

before you decide that you think it's a good song.

Still images don't work that way.

Still images happen immediately.

- I just can't look at that without being so upset.

Like, it just makes me think how lucky,

lucky I am that I live in Australia,

that my children live in Australia.

That's what it means.

- Yeah.

- The most persuasive thing is visual,

our visual sense overpowers everything else.

So what they choose to show as an image

is the message no matter what the words on the screen say.

What you remember is what you saw.

- The salacious or the shock value of images

can be used in order to kind of manipulate

peoples behavior.

- Dead children are normally taboo,

especially on the front page.

But next morning, almost every UK newspaper

broke the rule and ran an image on the front cover.

- And if you compare that

to the bodies in Europe from terrorist attacks,

some of which committed by

these migrants or their descendants.

Those bodies you can't see.

Showing those bodies can get you censored

on social media.

- People still have fears.

Fears that migrants might have

an ISIS member lurking among them,

which there has been no credible example of.

News broke that one of the attackers may have posed

as a refugee and entered Europe

through Greece with a fake Syrian passport.

- Knowing that you're not seeing those photographs

should be a tip, right?

It should be a clue.

- So I had always sensed that the news,

there was a lot of fake news.

I'd always sensed it,

but I lived it, and I was completely behind the scenes.

What happened, what brought me into journalism,

is there was a big thing going on

in Budapest Hungary with migrants.

The media was saying the Hungarian people

are just beating up these migrants,

and they're abusing them.

This is so terrible.

So I happened to be over in Budapest.

So I just said I was going to be in Hungary through my blog.

And I started getting emails from people.

I see you're gonna be in Hungary.

I actually live here.

And then I decided to have a meet-up through my blog.

Because they said, oh yeah,

the media's like totally lying about this.

We'll show you what's really going on.

And then I thought, wait a minute.

I don't have blog readers.

I don't have book readers.

I have a human intelligence network.

And then I thought about "Fight Club."

They said we're the ones serving your food.

We're the ones watching your car.

We're the parking lot attendants.

We're the baristas.

And I kind of had that moment where I go,

yeah I don't have readers.

I now have sources.

- Do not fuck with us.

- So I went to Hungary and I reported on

the refugee hoax that was going on.

They were actually being very well taken care of.

There was charity everywhere you looked.

Everybody there is very well fed.

Multiple meals, cleaning areas,

tent cities everywhere.

The men are playing soccer.

People are goofing off.

Completely different than what was being reported.

There was one woman in a wheelchair.

So you know what?

All the media people lined up to talk

to the one woman in the wheelchair.

No camera was on anything else happening there.

So as I'm there witnessing it,

then I would read the New York Times,

and you see an image of a child,

or a person in a wheelchair or something.

No, there were like 10 or 15 kids there.

The rest of them were men of prime fighting age.

What happened for me personally

at the Colletti Train Station

is I had never had something go viral.

I uploaded pictures on Facebook,

and I got over a million people reach on Facebook.

And I go, wow, okay, I'm on to something.

And then I started to say,

well I'm gonna take people behind the news.

I'm gonna put the camera on the media.

- Could have undermined the messaging so much

that he can actually control

exactly what people think.

And that it our job.

- The old guard is gone.

The new guard is here.

Journalism on the web,

and created specifically for the web,

is disrupting traditional models

and creating new ones.

- You're credited with pretty much

digitally revolutionizing this whole new media movement.

- My name is Tim Pool.

I'm a journalist and technologist.

I cover conflict and crisis stories all over the world.

I was in Egypt during the revolution.

I was in Ukraine at the start of the civil war.

I was in the Venezuelan student uprising a few years ago.

Among many other stories.

I think the new media is finding faster,

better, and more efficient ways to cover the story

than old media ever can.

When I go out on the ground to report,

I have a GoPro that's about this big, and my phone.

I can strap the phone to my chest,

which does a high definition live broadcast.

I can interact with my audience.

And then I look over to my side,

and I see a big satellite truck

that costs 10 times, 100 times as much

as my cell phone plan.

- TV-31 wants you to meet our newest addition.

- I'm filming two things at once.

I'm reporting, I'm filming,

I'm interacting with the audience.

I'm also filming a separate segment.

The jobs of four people in one person.

And they still can't get the speed

and content that I can.

- Yeah, I took that mindset of,

going behind the scenes to Trump events.

Not to rallies, which I found quite boring.

But to what was happening outside.

And it was carnage.

- Fucking disgrace!

- People were taking over the streets,

were tearing down signs,

sucker punching people, screaming at people.

It was pandemonium, and I just live streamed.

I didn't know what was going on.

I just live streamed the whole thing.

And my phone went dead.

'Cause at the time, I didn't know

to have a battery pack.

You're like a rookie, right?

So I'm running to charge my battery.

Get like three, four, 5%.

Sprint back, live streaming, sprinting back, live streaming.

And it was fun.

It was a major adrenaline rush.

- The biggest difference between

independent journalist and a mainstream reporter

first is the entrepreneurial attitude.

It's a huge risk to go off on your own.

And so immediately, there's going to be

a different perspective on the world.

A lot of the traditional journalists,

they get out of school, they look for a job.

A lot of independent journalists

know what they want to do,

and oftentimes will fly themselves

to some dangerous part of the world,

'cause they want the story.

- Yeah, but we live for this, you know?

We live to tell the truth.

Nobody else is gonna do it, we have to do it.

So, here's another great example of fake news.

If you watch the news of the RNC,

you would be told total chaos, division.

Oh there's protests everywhere.

Protests everywhere at the RNC.

You go to these protests, it's 20 people.

I kid you not.

20 people.

And 100 media people, taking pictures.

And they would stage 'em.

And they would crop the shot

so you couldn't really tell how many people were there.

- So disappointed by these protests.

- Yeah I know.

I'm gonna have to go to DNC.

- So I go,

and I was in a real protest march.

- Burn that fucking white capitalist shit the fuck down.

- Oh shit, oh shit.

Someone got burned!

- If you turn on the news, you're not seeing this.

Day one of the DNC, I'm out there, Periscope-ing,

live streaming videos.

There are 5,000 people at least

at FDR Park across from the DNC.

Alright, 360.

Right?

That's everywhere, okay, everywhere.

You know how many mainstream journalists I saw there?

Zero.

There's not even one journalist here.

Except for me.

They're all on Twitter,

talking about the future of the Democratic Party

and the future of the election.

They're unbelievably lazy.

You know, being a right winger in New York City,

I'm drowned in the opposition,

and you learn to enjoy conflict.

You learn to enjoy arguing,

and I think it makes you a more complete person.

And we wonder why the the media

has become mentally obese.

These people don't leave their desks.

And this is true of the right and the left.

They'll sit there and they'll Google,

and they'll talk about a backlash,

and you'll go check the evidence of this backlash

and you realize it's just tweets.

There's no more Watergate from the beat reporter,

talking to people on the street,

'cause he just uses Google.

These kids now are turning to themselves for information.

They're their own journalists.

And that's what's so exciting about this time,

is someone like James O'Keefe can come along

with an undercover camera and totally blow up

the New York Times, fake voting,

all of this stuff by going out there

and just doing it themselves.

- So the biggest rub on me

is that I'm not a journalist.

That's what they will say.

James O'Keefe is not a journalist.

Whatever they want to call us, it doesn't matter.

What matters is the thing that you are producing.

I'd like to get comments as soon as possible.

- Oh okay.

From name?

- James O'Keefe.

- Can I put you on hold really quick?

- Yeah thanks.

This is the oh shit moment.

Journalism is not just an identity, it's an activity.

It is what you do.

And you judge people based on what they produce.

Basically, everyone is a journalist.

- But here you have actual grassroots activism,

and there's no media.

So you go to the DNC,

you see this massive protest, real protest.

Not like this bullshit at the RNC.

Which the media hyped up.

Real protestors, and they're democrats,

and they're being kept out by this big cage.

- It's like we're the criminals, but not her.

- Let us go!

- And they're all talking about how they hate Hillary.

They're not gonna vote for her.

They're not gonna do anything for Hillary Clinton,

'cause they thought the primary was rigged.

And there's no mainstream coverage of this at all.

They're chanting Wikileaks.

What do you think about the Wikileaks?

- Yeah, that's the last straw.

That is the proof of what we've all expected

that they've been doing.

- Wikileaks released thousands of emails from the DNC,

appearing to show favoritism towards Hillary Clinton.

- CNN can't verify the authenticity of those emails,

but they suggest that--

- Bernie Sanders may have been right.

The primary system was rigged against him.

- Wikileaks offered a window into the world

that most people would have never had,

and that's the real reason the media lied about Wikileaks.

When Chris Cuomo said on CNN--

- It's illegal to possess these stolen documents.

It's different for the media.

So everything you learn about this,

you're learning from us.

It's different for the media.

It's different for the media.

- Wikileaks showed, though,

the extent of the collusion.

There were, I believe, 52 reporters who

had had various off the record,

very homey dinners with John Podesta.

So they're all great friends.

Glenn Throsh, who was then at Politico

and now at the New York Times,

emails John Podesta and said,

"I'm such a hack that I'm gonna send you

"the part of the article that pertains to you

"before it's released."

What they were doing is they're giving

the other side a head start.

Hey, we're about to drop this hit piece on you tomorrow.

Get your talking points locked and loaded tonight.

It's amazingly valuable.

Not only did he not get punished,

he is now the White House correspondent

at the New York Times.

Maggie Haberman, who I also believe is at Politico,

was referred to as a friendly reporter

that the Clinton campaign would use to tee up stories.

Maggie Haberman now works at the New York Times.

- I have an uphill climb,

and I'm gonna climb as high and hard as I can.

- Donna Brazile was a CNN contributor,

and she obtained some questions from the town hall

which was competitive between

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders,

and she gave the questions to Hillary Clinton.

She confirmed that the primary was rigged against Bernie,

and it was rigged for Hillary.

She revealed that based on the fundraising agreement

between Hillary Clinton's campaign

and between the DNC that all the messaging from the DNC

had to be cleared by what she called Brooklyn.

That was the Hillary Clinton office.

Every press release had to be pre-approved.

Well that's a nice advantage.

I would like every article about me

to have to be pre-approved by me.

That would be amazing.

Wikileaks confirmed what people already knew,

but couldn't prove, which is that the media

and the democrats are one in the same.

There is no difference.

They're all buddy buddy.

And whatever you read in the mainstream news

is gonna be the democrat talking points.

- One of the things I don't think

you need to convince anybody anymore

is that the media is biased.

I think there used to be a day, you know,

maybe when I was a kid when people said,

well, the news is at least trying not to be biased.

They're at least trying.

But now nobody believes that.

What they do believe, which is weirder and maybe worse,

is that they believe that only the other side is biased.

And that's a tough one to crack.

- You know, a lot of people will look at me

and they'll say, "Lauren, you've obviously got a bias."

Yeah, everyone has a bias.

I'm just honest about it.

I will tell you, yeah,

I'm coming from a right wing point of view.

That's why my feelings inside, I am right wing.

So I'm gonna explain that to you,

and tell you to go look and read other journalism as well.

- It doesn't matter if you are

one political side or the other.

It matters are you gonna tell the truth

about what happened.

And so, with a lot of these journalists,

they're more interested in winning.

They're more interested in the political agenda.

They're more interested in fitting in than being honest.

- If I was the CEO of the New York Times, I would say,

I would bring all my reporters in the room and say,

"Here's the deal.

"If you have an opinion,

"and it gets injected into your article,

"then state that to the public."

- The issue with the mainstream media

is they tell you I'm neutral,

I'm coming from a position that's totally impartial.

- President Obama is the most noble man who has ever lived

in the White House.

- The Manchurian candidate couldn't destroy us

faster than Barack Obama.

- It's illegal to possess these stolen documents.

- The most trusted name in news.

- It's ridiculous.

You have media that's literally colluding,

and during the debates, they're leaking questions.

And still pretending to be impartial media.

Everyone has a bias.

It's just some people are gonna be honest about it,

and some people aren't.

And new media, independent media, are honest about it.

- What I learned at the DNC,

not only about the media being fake

and how they would construct a fake narrative in real time,

but I did see how the democrats and the media

were covering up the whole Bernie Sanders thing.

And I said, but there's no way in the world

Hillary Clinton is going to win.

So people of course call me all year.

You're an idiot, you're a conspiracy theorist,

you don't know anything.

You're not an expert, blah.

And I was like, well,

that's because you're watching the news.

- Could he actually win?

- No freaking way!

- And which republican candidate

has the best chance of winning the general election?

- Of the declared ones, right now, Donald Trump.

- We have Hillary as about 75 or an 80% favorite.

We have a different person to forecast.

- 89% for Hillary Clinton.

- Hillary Clinton has a 100% chance of winning.

- The Presidential race is over.

- The state of the race at the presidential level

is virtually over.

- Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina.

- Pretty dramatic change in the forecast.

- They were in a weird, weird situation right now.

- And CNN projects Donald Trump will carry

the state of Florida.

- Ohio will go to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has won

the state of Pennsylvania.

- That is the race.

- Donald Trump wins the presidency.

- America is crying tonight.

- Everybody is crying.

- How do we explain how this is possible.

- How did this happen?

- I think election day questions have been raised

about the role that false news stories

distributed online played in the final result.

- There's been a lot of talk lately about--

- Fake news. - Fake news.

- Fake news.

- Hoax sites and hyper-partisan blogs.

- That are spread further

on social media platforms.

- As long as it's on social media,

people start believing it.

- Real world political implications.

- Real world consequences.

- A threat to democracy.

- Journalists are over-playing the fake news stories

to demonize people you don't agree with.

- In this last election,

the nation was assaulted by imposters

masquerading as reporters.

Michael Cernovich, a southern California lawyer,

has become a magnet for readers,

with a taste for stories with no basis in fact.

- Yeah, 60 Minutes wanted to do an interview with me

because they were doing a big segment on fake news.

And they wanted to make me out to be fake news.

It was a complete setup, God bless 'em.

- Cernovich's website is just one of hundreds

publishing nonsense on the right and on the left.

- So intelligent people who are familiar

with my body of work understand what I do

and why I do it, and it's very meta.

- The first thing that Machiavelli would tell

a prince to do would be to write a book,

denouncing the prince.

And so I think it's interesting, you know,

to have someone like Mike doing a documentary

about fake news, because it's owning a term

that has been directed at him and people like him.

- These news stories are fakes.

- They're definitely not fake.

- They're lies.

- Not lie at all.

- One of the reasons that someone like Mike

I think aggravates journalists so much

is that he's sort of like a carnival mirror.

- Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's

Disease, physician confirms.

You don't think that's misleading?

- No.

- He's projecting back at them what they do

in almost all their, but to an absurd

and almost offensive lever.

- Hillary is a zombie.

What do you guys think?

You want to do a hashtag?

What do you think of zombie Hillary?

So what I am doing is am being a fun house mirror,

where you think that we're the monsters,

but really all we're doing is changing the wording

on things that you would actually say.

Hillary, all I know is that she is sick.

- This is a very sick man.

He is truly very sick.

- This is why we need Hillary's medical records.

- How recently has he had a colonoscopy,

or other cancer tests?

- John McCain's health was a big issue.

The media was all covering it, is John McCain healthy.

Everybody's been talking about Donald Trump's health.

- Is this president of sound mind?

- Whether it's a personality disorder,

or borderline personality.

- He's not in control of himself.

- Some people said he had mental health problems.

The New Republic said Donald Trump had syphilis.

- "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump."

27 psychiatrists and mental health experts

assess a president.

- So if you're a bunch of psychologists,

and you want to write a book

about a patient you've never seen,

the media will cover it and you'll be a best seller.

- The book includes and validates

some of the general news media's speculation

about Donald Trump's mental capacity.

- With Hillary's health,

I had a doctor who had never seen her,

and they remind me of that.

Well he never treated her.

That story was sourced

to an anesthesiologist who never met Clinton.

- What is your take of all the doctors

and clinicians all across the country

who have said that in this president,

they see symptoms of this, that, and the other?

- The duty to warn of ways

that the consideration that would normally apply,

which is I'm not gonna offer a public diagnosis

of a person I have not met.

- But when it's a democrat,

there's now a new higher evidentiary standard

and we can't just talk about speculation and gossip.

- The conspiracy du jour,

Hillary Clinton is harboring a secret medical condition.

The President of the United States

genuinely appears to be losing his grip on reality.

- And that would be the fun house aspect.

It's get real.

They did it to McCain.

They did it to Trump.

We did it to Hillary.

They're just gonna have to get over that.

- It's the exact same playbook

that these other journalists are doing,

and I think that sort of mimicry is very upsetting.

- Which ties into the Scott Adams theory on two movies.

If you're Scott Peli,

you're watching a movie where

anybody who claims that Hillary Clinton had Parkinson's

is a complete and total conspiracy theorist.

If you're anybody else in America,

you're watching the movie where you see

a very sick person having coughing fits,

having so called allergies,

falling down multiple times,

and then having a major seizure on 9-11.

And you're thinking,

they're calling Cernovich out for the Hillary's heath thing?

She had a seizure and froze up

walking into her motorcade.

- Well, she had pneumonia, I mean...

- How do you know?

Who told you that?

- Well the campaign told us that.

- Why would you trust a campaign?

- The point is--

- The camera didn't show there,

but he actually dropped his glasses.

He was so freaked out because

they're not used to somebody coming after them.

The whole power dynamic of I'm the media,

and I'm Scott Pely, and I'm 60 Minutes,

and we're just gonna interrogate you

and you're gonna give us what you want.

That doesn't even enter my mind.

I'm thinking how is this gonna look

when they edit that clip, and make memes,

and make viral videos.

- Disingenuous sort of online posturing.

It might feel harmless,

and this might feel no different than

creating lolcat memes.

But these memes have real consequences

in the real world for real people.

This idea of fake news is sort of a misnomer,

because fake news creates real opinions,

which creates real actions.

And then we live with the real consequences of that, right?

No amount of reporting makes Pizzagate real.

But the bullet that goes through

that pizza shop is very real

and could've killed someone.

- Pizzagate actually comes from

the Wikileaks release of hacked emails

from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

And it was from those emails

that the claims that John Podesta

may be part of a child sex trafficking ring come from.

- Whenever the media talks about Pizzagate,

don't just look at what they bring up.

Look at what they don't bring up.

The Pizzagate, as it's now called a conspiracy theory,

actually originated in a Podesta email that's quite weird

and to this day is perplexing.

Where somebody told John Podesta,

you left a handkerchief on the counter.

There's a map on there.

Something pizza-related.

Who cares, a handkerchief?

Throw a handkerchief away.

You're gonna FedEx somebody a handkerchief?

That's so bizarre.

And then who writes a map on a handkerchief?

And then the map is something pizza-related.

That's bizarre.

That's code word for something.

Could be codes for drugs.

I don't know, but nobody in the media ever said,

hey dude, why would you have a handkerchief

with a map on it that's pizza-related,

and why would anybody think it's important enough

to send it to you?

- Users of the anonymous online message board 4chan,

known for rogue political discussion,

suggested without any proof whatsoever

that the word pizza was code for child sex trafficking

at the restaurant.

The conspiracy theory quickly spread to Reddit,

and YouTube, feeding fake online news stories,

then jumping to Facebook and Twitter.

- People on 4chan and 8chan,

they just post and they say, guys,

look at this, what the hell is this?

And then they just start connecting the dots.

And it's all public record.

It's all out there in the public domain.

And all they're doing is connecting the dots,

that the media wouldn't touch.

And the media wants you to believe

that you can't look at the stuff and say,

yeah, this is really weird.

This is really fucking weird.

- The amazing thing about Pizzagate

is that if you start looking into the evidence for it,

it's really compelling.

Meaning that it's hard to imagine

that all of that evidence doesn't mean

what the Pizzagate conspiracy thought it meant.

But, it's also classic confirmation bias.

Yeah, there's another piece of evidence for my side.

Yeah, there's another one.

Even though other people could look at it and just say,

what the hell are you talking about?

I don't see it.

- The Pizzagate narrative,

as least as concerning Mr. Alefantis at Comet Ping Pong,

we have subsequently determined was based upon

what we now believe was an incorrect narrative.

We apologize.

To the extent our commentaries

could be considered as negative statements

about Mr. Alefantis or Comet Ping Pong.

We encourage you to hold us accountable,

because we improve when you do.

- These, they call themselves Pizzagate researchers,

which I never was.

They have video after video, analyzing everything.

And somehow, it became about a pizza parlor.

The Comet Pizza shooting, by the way,

is a very sad thing,

and the shooter had no connection to me,

he had never read my stuff.

The fake news media has claimed

that I propagated it and spread it and everything,

but they can never find me blaming

that pizza parlor for anything.

They can never find me blaming

the owner of that pizza parlor for anything.

But I was always focused on things that were real,

and that are bizarre.

- You tweeted the Clintons were running a pedophilia ring.

It's been in emails all the time.

We just weren't able to see the code.

- Yeah, I don't agree with that.

- You don't agree with that?

- I definitely don't think the Clintons

are personally running a pedophilia ring.

- So why did you write it?

- That was worded imprecisely.

That was more-- - Why did you write it then?

- You can go back to 2004,

where there was a puff piece

written about Tony Podesta.

Washington Post and The Guardian had both

written pieces about what a great

avant-garde art collector he is.

- And they say, oh, it's just art.

It's just modern art.

It's just art, don't worry about it.

It's kind of like, that's kind of a cop-out.

If it's art or not, it's screwed up.

- For the vast majority of Americans,

they're gonna look into that and say,

that's weird stuff.

Now, maybe Cernovich over-plays it.

Maybe he sensationalizes a little bit.

But the sentiment of it is,

these are very creepy people.

There's an email from the Wikileaks where

the Podestas talk about having

stayed in touch a Dennis Hastert.

Dennis Hastert was a long time family friend.

Dennis Hastert went to prison

for money laundering offenses

related to paying off his pedophile victims.

People that he had victimized

when they were young, underage.

Why are you still friends with Dennis Hastert?

He is a pedophile, he did go to prison.

The media didn't want to ask those questions.

And in a way, that's probably why,

Pizzagate probably got out of control

because the media actually refused to ask the questions.

- The shooting incident shows how a fake news story

can lead to a real life threatening situation.

Devastating consequences.

- Real world consequences.

- I mean, it seemed to me as if

the media had been giving us marching orders.

Fake news, they insisted,

was an imminent threat to American democracy.

- A threat to democracy.

- The dangers to democracy are obvious.

- Who invented the phrase fake news

in its modern context?

Who wanted to control the information

we were receiving on the internet and on the news and why?

- Fake news is a phrase

I had never ever ever heard in my life,

and I don't think any American had heard in their lives

until a month after the election.

And if you look, you can go on Google trends or something,

and you can type in fake news.

And you can see a chart for how many times

that phrase was mentioned on the internet.

But the chart has, you know, zero mentions ever.

And then all at once.

It skyrockets.

- On September 13th, 2016,

a nonprofit called First Draft announced a partnership

to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports.

If you follow the money,

you often get a lot of answers to questions.

So I want to know who is behind the funding

for that nonprofit First Draft.

And its anti-fake news campaign.

It turns out the funding came from Google.

Google's parent company Alphabet

was headed at the time by a man name Eric Schmidt,

who happens to have devoted himself

to Hillary Clinton's election campaign,

offered himself up as a strategist to her campaign,

and is listed as her number one campaign donor

through his company, Alphabet.

So his company funded this nonprofit First Draft

around the start of the election cycle.

- Why is that the case?

'Cause Google is a search engine.

It's a tech company.

What's Google doing palling around with Hillary Clinton

and the state department and the government

and all these deep state people?

- Was the whole anti-fake news campaign

an attempt to shape our views,

and limit our access to certain information

by labeling selected website and stories as fake

and controversial-izing them.

- And it's totally a sign-up.

It's totally a sign-up.

Since the fake news meme got going,

Facebook started labeling certain news stories

from alternative media outlets fake news,

and so you know, if they can't ban the First Amendment

straight out right away,

they go for plan B, which is discredit anybody

that isn't themselves,

and to get them banned semi-legally

with stuff like Facebook.

Which is basically a monopoly at this point.

There are no real competitors to Facebook in this country,

or Twitter, or Google.

If you get kicked off these big Silicon Valley platforms,

you're basically fucked.

- Facebook and other social media sites

are being criticized for not doing enough

to stop bogus stories.

- This week, social media giants

Facebook and Google

said they will go after hoax websites

by restricting ad revenue.

- Almost 100% of our videos

are demonetized as a punishment

for what we are politically doing.

So simultaneously, the corporate media demonizes us

for direct selling products,

so we can fund our operation,

while Google had us banned off Google ads,

and while they have demonetized us 95%

for our political views.

So they want me to just go to the gulag, shut up,

go bankrupt, shut down, and stop having my speech.

And I'm not gonna do it.

- I think the end game in America

is European-style hate speech laws.

A lot of people in America don't know this,

but in Germany and Sweden and the UK and in France,

you've had ordinary people go to prison

for making anti-immigration or anti-Islam

posts on Facebook.

- Sweden should be a canary in the coal mine

for the rest of us.

The police have just warned us that if we don't leave now

and take this escort,

it's gonna get really bad really fast.

They said 50 people could be here in minutes,

and they recognize us.

They're masking up.

We have to leave.

And when I go to Stockholm,

and actually get escorted out by the police,

the media in Sweden claimed I wasn't

escorted out by the police.

Well, no, I have GoPro footage as I was walking out.

I took my Gimble and started filming the police behind me.

Yet the mainstream media, the Swedish media,

reported the police perspective

that I was wrong, that I was lying.

And then immediately started attacking me.

I started getting phone calls.

My phone would not stop ringing.

They started sharing my phone number with each other.

I kid you not.

And so I actually went on a national television program.

- So welcome to Opinion Live.

- They had scheduled me on this program

before I went to Rinkeby.

But when I went on,

they asked me to explain what happened in Rinkeby.

They first said that the police

have disputed my claims that I was escorted out,

and asked me to clarify,

to which I responded basically how I just did,

and she responded in Swedish,

instead of saying what I said,

she said, "He's talking about Rinkeby,

"but the police have disputed what he is saying,

"and say that he is lying."

They didn't even tell the audience what I said.

They just said I was a liar.

I have talked with people

who have visited Sweden on vacation,

and you know what they tell me?

They tell me it's the North Korea of the North.

One of the largest newspapers, Expressin,

hacked a comment system to find anonymous posters.

They find their names and addresses.

They go to the homes of private individuals,

film their faces, and accuse them

of being white supremacists.

Sure enough, these people lose their jobs.

They lose all their friends.

People are scared to interact with them.

Many people, it's not so much about being scared

to interact with them because

they don't like their opinions.

It's because they'll also get blacklisted.

- They're gonna come after you,

and they're gonna try and whip up a hate mob

and get you fired from your job,

ostracized from your community.

They're gonna smear you.

They're gonna call you a neo-Nazi white supremacist.

They're gonna call you a conspiracy theorist.

They're gonna call you a Russian agent.

They're gonna do everything they can to shut you down.

- And in the face of this unprecedented censorship,

we've only seen support grow.

That's why they lie worse than ever.

That's why they're so hysterical.

It's why they're so angry, so hateful.

- Then along came Donald Trump.

The wild card.

Probably the only politician that could have

or would have been able to change this dynamic

and kind of turn the campaign on its head.

Each time advocates cried fake news,

Donald Trump called them fake news.

- We were able to turn fake news

back on them almost instantly.

Of course with the help of

President Doctor Donald J. Trump, PhD,

which is what I call him now.

Because he started calling the mainstream media fake news.

- Since you are attacking

our news organization. - No, not you, not you.

- Can you give us a chance?

- Your organization is terrible.

- You're attacking, President elect,

can you give us a question? - Don't be rude.

- You're attacking us.

Can you give us a question? - Don't be rude.

- Can you give us a question? - No I'm not gonna

give you a question.

I'm not gonna give you a question.

- Can you state categorically--

- You are fake news.

The news is fake.

Fake media, the failing New York Times.

Fake news.

Very fake news.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Watch how the crowd.

Donald Trump is--

- You know I've been hearing more and more

about a thing called fake news.

But I will tell you, some of the media outlets

that I deal with are fake news.

Look at this!

President Trump--

- And so as soon as they introduced the idea

that news can be fake,

it was turned against them almost immediately.

The ring just imploded!

- The official presidential tweet

is an old wrestling video takedown

with businessman Trump,

doctored with the CNN logo

covering the face of his victim.

- When Trump posted the CNN of wrestling meme,

it was absolutely hilarious.

It was great.

Memes are funny.

There's really no other way to put it.

Memes are fucking hilarious.

Anonymous internet memes are for a lot of people

the only way to get exposed to what's the truth.

And the reason people are anonymous

and why it's so powerful is because

if you're not anonymous,

and you don't have fuck you money basically,

the media is gonna come after you,

like they came after the guy who posted

the CNN wrestling meme that Donald Trump tweeted.

- Did you just see this Trump thing, the CNN thing?

- CNN tracked down the dude

who posted the Trump wrestling video.

- They threatened to dox this kid.

- CNN said they wouldn't publish the guy's name

'cause he had already apologized,

and also because he promised he wouldn't do it again.

But then CNN adds, they reserve the right

to publish his identity

should any of that change.

Apparently the guy posted some pretty

bad stuff in the past, but come on CNN.

You're starting to creep us out.

- I don't think they have a choice,

except to step it up.

Because we're really in an existential battle

for the meaning of free speech

and for the meaning of truth.

- People have gotten a very very skewed

line of free speech today.

The skewed definition.

They think that free speech and hate speech

are two different things.

Which it's absolutely not.

Hate speech is free speech.

It's the ability to express yourself,

whether someone finds it hateful or not.

- My position is very simple.

There are just three genders.

There's man.

Woman.

And retarded.

- You should be allowed to say

the most offensive things on Earth in free speech.

- This young man is retarded.

America's first first man.

- One self-proclaimed internet troll,

Milo Yiannopolis, tells us he's unapologetic and proud,

even after being banned from Twitter

for his infamous online taunting

of "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones.

- In the Twitter storm that happened.

- Sure, I was mean. - You called her a dude.

- I said it was a good job

there was a hot black dude in the movie.

She looks like a man.

I am entitled to say that I think a celebrity looks weird.

- I feel like things are going even more and more

to each extreme.

- Join us in protest!

And shut down Milo Yiannopolis.

- Milo was touring the country for a bit,

and every place he went,

there was period blood being thrown.

There was girls screaming outside,

smashing garbage cans on the ground.

There were people trying to punch him on stage.

And then eventually,

liberals just took it to a whole new extreme.

And that was at Berkeley.

- I was here this evening to speak at UC Berkeley.

I'm just sitting in a hotel room, stunned,

that hundreds of people were throwing rocks,

throwing goodness knows what else

at the building, throwing fireworks at the police.

Because they're so threatened by the idea

that a conservative speaker might be

persuasive and interesting and funny.

They just have to shut it down at all costs.

- I'm a gay Trump supporter.

I wanted to go watch a gay Trump supporter.

I think Milo is absolutely hilarious.

We met up at a coffee shop across the street from Berkeley,

and I was just waiting for my friends to trickle in,

and it was just all these antifa people were already there.

So they're already kind of flirting

with the idea of violence.

- So antifa was a group that was started

in the early 1900s in Germany, obviously,

as an anti-fascist group,

but they were the violent militant wing

of the Communist party in Germany.

And as they continued on,

they still have the same message.

They're communists that believe in

destroying anything they deem to be fascism

through any means possible.

- They're screaming hey fascists, hey Nazi.

I forget the particular slogans

that they're all chanting in unison.

The irony of it is because I was so naive,

I kind of,

I kind of thought that I could connect with these people

and say look, I don't support those things either,

and they would just immediately

understand and believe me.

But you know, symbols are more

powerful than words sometimes.

And you're wearing the wrong piece of clothing,

and it's just not gonna do.

I mean, props to them for the ones

who are doing it nonviolently,

but I think that's a very rare thing indeed.

So thank you.

Are you surprised?

Ma'am?

- And then two minutes after that,

bare maced again.

Beat with flag poles.

My friend got put in the hospital.

And that actually didn't air anywhere.

- That's wild.

- Never reported in the media.

- I have been wanting to have this conversation

because this has been a big issue

about free speech on campus

and conservative voices being heard.

Mr. Rice, my first question to you is,

is the violence that we saw,

this violence we saw at Berkeley.

We had it live here on CNN last night.

It ultimately, does it,

it plays right into the hands

of a right wing, white supremacist,

someone like Milo Yiannopolis.

- Like I told the news woman over there that like

specifically it was their narrative.

They were a part of this.

It was their narrative that was causing

the violence on the left.

This is not to remove personal responsibility

from the actual people that do the violence,

but they pretend to be objective.

And that's the part.

And they implant these ideas in your head,

and they'll say things like,

well some people call these people white nationalists.

Do they ask any of the people there?

No, because that would actually be real journalism.

- The real problem is this name calling

because you know, as grateful as I am to be on the show

and I like the attention,

the real people that I want to hear from

are the guys who run CNN

who are legitimizing ordinary conservatives

being called white supremacists, anti-Semites,

racist, sexist, when they're not.

There's an inevitable obvious consequence.

- The things that had been said about Donald Trump

led to extreme violence.

- In Donald Trump's America,

everyone is speculating as to who

should be the most afraid.

Black people, Latinos.

- We gravel every day with that it means

to have a president stained by racism.

- You voted Trump!

You voted Trump!

- I'm just gonna be honest.

We think there might be a Nazi in the White House.

- He is a bigot, he is a racist,

he is a misogynist.

- The president's crude and arguably racist remarks.

- The president has racist views.

- I'm a Bernie supporter, but they attacked me.

- Who did?

- They did, they thought I was a Trump support, I wasn't.

- Tens of millions of people voted for him

after he showed his cards, for years.

- Are you suggesting that they're racist?

- Absolutely, yes.

- That is pure racism.

And the president is cynically using

that racism to appeal to his base.

- If everyone is a white supremacist,

what does that even mean anymore, you know?

Are you just gonna accuse anyone who disagrees with you?

I have people who tell me that I'm a Nazi sympathizer

for being friends with Trump supporters,

or that I'm a racist.

And I'm actually a mixed race person.

It's like nuance has gone out the window,

and none of it matters anymore.

- Say you worked in a loony bin,

and there was this one guy going,

the Khmer Rouge are coming!

The Khmer Rouge are coming!

Polpot is upstairs.

The Khmer Rouge are gonna invade here.

We gotta stop the communists in Cambodia.

And you go, alright, Mr. McGuillocuddy, it's okay.

And you'd lead him to his room.

And you go, he was bitching about the Khmer Rouge again.

That's the way the media is with Nazis.

They see Nazis in their soup, they're everywhere.

- Now we have Nazi panic,

where even if you're a girl, they'll hit you.

It doesn't really matter.

That's what the media does.

There has been far more violence by antifa

against people they don't agree with,

especially Trump supporters,

than there has been violence by Trump supporters.

But the media covers up violence by antifa.

I've reported from the White House several times,

and on one visit, after the White House press

briefing had concluded, I looked over at

the assembled journalists and I said,

why will nobody here cover the violence

against Trump supporters?

And why won't you demand that leaders

of the democrats disavow the violence of antifa

the way you demanded Trump disavow

violence from his supporters?

This has been completely covered up.

They laughed at me.

They thought that I would care,

but their laughter actually proved

what I wanted to prove.

I wanted them to laugh at me.

Because then I could show people,

hey, this is what the media is all about.

They laugh at violence against people

if they don't like you.

- It's also not surprising that the right,

in a sense, retaliated, came back out,

held more events, to counter this use of violence by antifa.

We saw the rise of the base stick man.

You know, there's a video of him cracking a stick

over this antifa member's head.

And right then I'm like,

antifa is going to double down,

and they're gonna go nuts.

And that's where we saw antifa

throwing explosives into the crowd.

M80, M80!

Somebody from the antifa side

just threw an M80 into the crowd.

We heard a guy got stabbed in the chest.

The bike lock basher Eric Clampton

hit seven people over the head with a bike lock.

- Mother fucker!

- If you were asking me,

I'd say that was an attempt to murder.

I guess, you know, it's sadly predictable.

That's the scary thing, you know.

And it looks like things are gonna escalate,

'cause nobody's gonna back down.

- And this is just the beginning.

Just the beginning, dude.

We're gonna come to every liberal stronghold,

every city, fucking Portland, Detroit.

All you cock suckers in fucking Boston, watch out.

We're coming for you.

- The area for rational discussion,

as that disappears more,

I think more people are going to be radicalized

to both extremes and think violence

is an acceptable way of protesting

their distaste for other peoples opinions.

- Imagine that your belief systems

are essentially maps of the world

that you use to orient yourself with.

News informs you.

If it's real news, it updates your map.

It brings you into alignment better.

There should be an alignment

between you and the world.

If you're properly informed.

- Handed almost unlimited power

to a fascist wannabe.

- Arrogant people, resentful people,

believe that deception works.

That's just not the case.

When you act out a falsehood,

then something terrible happens.

That's the definition of a falsehood fundamentally.

Falsehoods have consequences.

That's what makes them false.

And you can not believe that, it's fine.

You can even get away with it for some period of time.

But you're not gonna get away with it for very long.

- The latest developments

in the shooting of a Republican congressman and others

at a baseball practice outside of Washington.

- Congressman Steve Scalise has been shot.

- Apparently deliberately targeting the GOP.

- There was a shooting by a Bernie Sanders supporter

and pro-antifa person

at a congressional baseball practice

called the Scalise shooting now.

- He cursed President Trump,

labeled the president a traitor,

and called for his destruction in several Facebook posts.

- And then the mainstream media,

they acted like they really cared.

Oh, they really cared.

- The shooter died from his injuries

after the shootout with capital police.

News that we first were told by President Trump himself

who had a somber and reflective

message for the nation.

- No, the people know.

The people watch them laughed

when they were asked about violence.

They know that the media wants more shootings.

- Obviously everybody is wishing the congressman well

and hoping that he recovers. - Sure, sure.

- But Steve Scalise has a history

that we've all been forced to sort of ignore on race.

He did come to leadership after some controversy

over attending a white nationalist event.

- They want people to get shot,

because they act as a propaganda arm for antifa,

which is a domestic terrorist group,

under investigation by the FBI,

and they laugh at violence against people

they don't agree with politically.

- The New York Times interviewed

the suspect's brother, who said the 66 year old

was upset over the election of President Trump.

And went to Washington within the last few weeks to protest.

- Our axiomatic systems orient us in the world

and regulate our emotions.

Donald J. Trump is now

President of the United States.

- No!

- So when something axiomatically impossible happens,

people are going to scramble to find reasons

that don't require retooling of their world view.

And it's no wonder 'cause they're avoiding,

in archetypal terms,

they're avoiding an involuntary dissent to the underworld.

And even to hell.

That's also why people fight so hard

to protect not only their belief systems,

but their social systems.

Often, that means accusing someone else.

- Trump is a Nazi!

Trump is a Nazi!

- Because then they have to change in our view.

- Trump's a racist!

Trump's a racist!

- A world view adjustment is a major revolution,

and you may not recover from it.

It just might do you in.

Or maybe you're chronically depressed.

And so when you dig down and you have to

restructure those axioms,

not only do you have to encounter

the unknown as such, which is no joke,

but you may also have to discover

your own malevolence.

Well, it's no wonder people turn away from that.

It's not surprising at all.

And everyone is like that.

And this is why I'm no fan of ideologies,

generally speaking, because they place a mask of virtue

over a dark set of motivations.

And then you can tolerate

looking at yourself in the mirror.

Well there's plenty of motivation to falsify,

but it's a bad idea.

You live out the falsifications,

and the world hit you.

- We begin with breaking news

from Charlottesville, Virginia,

where two people have been injured

in an altercation with protestors

who were out in force

over the planned removal of a Confederate statue.

Watch this.

- So my opinion of the race-baiting that's going on,

and my opinion of the portrayal of the social strife

and the neo-Nazis and et cetera

is another example of a business model

by the mainstream cable news networks and media

to try to create an environment of discontent.

- What happened over the weekend

in Charlottesville, Virginia was just disgusting.

I was watching the news like everyone else.

And you see Nazi flags and torches

and white supremacists.

- Hate no longer hides behind hoods.

- I was sick to my stomach.

- And by the way, I have nothing but disdain for Nazis.

- Is this guy wearing a Hitler shirt?

Yes he is.

- I think the whole Charlottesville thing,

I don't think, you have to have a zero tolerance

policy on Nazis.

But I think that they're a very very small

portion of the population,

and if this was the 1960s, 70s, or 80s,

objectively they wouldn't be worthy enough

of the news standing that they're getting right now.

I think that the media will gin up controversy,

take things and blow them out of proportion

to gin up ratings.

It glues people, it's addictive.

- Of course everyone today

is talking about the latest events

that just unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Today we have a very special guest

who was there on the ground.

- Basically there was all of the Unite the Right

type people in the area that they were sort of

designated to be in.

And police mostly had a hands-off approach.

They had set up barricades

between that and then the outside protestors

who were basically supposed to stay

outside of the park.

The problem is that of course,

the ring wingers have to walk through those protestors

in order to get into the park.

And so most of the violence occurred

kind of at that peripheral.

- As we've seen from other events like in Berkeley,

where there was police,

and they left the scene,

and let these two sides fight each other.

- Hey, how come you guys are hanging back?

- That would be a good question for the chief of police.

- What did you see on the ground,

and how do you think the police

conducted themselves today?

- Mostly, the police stayed uninvolved

for the first couple of hours.

Eventually, the barricades that they had

originally set up were taken down by the antifa.

- Virginia Governor Terry McCauliffe

declares a state of emergency.

Then, that terrible moment.

When the driver of this gray Dodge

mows down a group of marchers

who were protesting the rally.

19 people were injured.

32 year old Heather Heyer was killed.

Heather's mother told us her daughter

was there protesting white supremacy.

The driver was caught by our ABC cameras,

chanting a message of white power.

- And we're back.

Mike Cernovich, gorillamindset.com,

with a dimly lit Periscope,

and I think I need to fix my hair.

We now have in America neo-Nazi terrorists.

I wish it weren't otherwise,

but when you're driving a car into a crowd of people

after attending a neo-Nazi event,

then you have to call it on both ways, right?

- In a press conference this afternoon,

when asked about the events in Charlottesville,

Trump had this to say.

- I think there's blame on both sides.

- Alright, it's just like D-Day.

Remember, D-Day, two sides, allies and the Nazis.

There was a lot of violence on both sides, okay?

- But how can you talk about

the terrorism of the neo-Nazis on the right,

but then look the other way

when the alt-left is committing terrorism.

- One is a Nazi white supremacist group.

The other is a protest group,

protesting a political and a racist movement.

Maybe their tactics weren't exactly right.

- Don Lemon goes, well, you know,

the alt-left, antifa, maybe they have some bad tactics.

And they're white-washing it.

- What about the alt-left

that came charging at, as you say, the alt-right?

Do they have any semblance of guilt?

- First of all, sir,

the opposite of alt-right isn't the alt-left.

It's the not-Nazis.

That's just me.

- I think you got it. - No I don't know.

- I think you got it. - Let's be fair, John.

- I think you got it. - You gotta be fair, John.

- No that's pretty fair.

- It's time for the left to actually take a stand.

99.999% of the right is against the neo-Nazis.

99.999% of the left is against

the alt-left terrorism, but,

but if you're a liberal,

if you're a liberal,

it's time to start calling this stuff out.

Thanks for watching.

Mike Cernovitch.

I'll be back soon.

We'll talk more.

My life is in danger every day

because the media has falsely claimed that I'm alt-right,

when I'm clearly not.

- Red rover, red rover,

send Cernovich over.

- I'm not part of that.

- You want a red pill.

How about a leg pill?

- The alt-right may have started out

as something different a year ago or two years ago.

It may have been about just an alternative

to mainstream republicans,

but it has clearly morphed into ultimately

an anti-Jewish, anti-everybody hate filled movement.

So I've said, hey, you guys have free speech rights.

I've said the alt-right has free speech rights

to go give their talks and public rallies.

But I've said if your movement is based on hate,

I completely want nothing to do with it.

And I said if you want to throw Nazi salutes,

I don't want anything to do with you.

Don't come to my event.

Stay far far away from me.

The media, though, they call me alt-right to this day.

- For people who vote for Donald Trump

to get lumped in with white supremacists and extremists,

it's true in a lot of regards

'cause you have the KKK,

who are marching the morning after Trump won the election.

You have alt-right groups and groups

that call themselves hate groups

that are holding up Trump signs at their rallies.

There were Trump signs in Charlottesville, right?

Living in America as a black man,

I'm constantly traumatized.

I'm traumatized by the statistics that I see,

I'm traumatized by what I watch on the news

when black people are choked to death,

I'm traumatized by what I see on social media.

Black men being show in front of their families

by the police and nothing happening.

Black men with full carry weapons permits.

I'm traumatized.

Where's the help for my trauma?

Who's addressing my needs psychologically?

These are things we don't look at.

- I'm a freedom fighter, I'm a revolutionary,

I'm a Christian, I'm a proud American.

Although people won't admit to it,

America is a very racist place.

It was founded on racial practices.

And these practices still exist today.

Maybe to the extent today,

not to the extent today where before,

but these racist practices still exist.

And if you are a Christian,

if you are American,

you could look at the facts and say, yes, this is true.

- Black lives matter.

Black lives matter.

- That's the mantra

and the message of protests around the country.

- Saying only black lives matter,

then we do not have to say it.

- Black lives matter is mean.

- A black person gets killed by the police

under questionable circumstances.

Black people rally.

The cop goes to court,

and no matter how questionable,

it always seems as though the cop walks away.

Does this always happen?

No, sometimes the cops get convicted,

but it just seems to be a reoccurring theme.

- There's an aspect of Black Lives Matter

which is well-needed, very well-needed,

and that is police misconduct,

militarization of police force.

- The average person, what do they know about us?

They know what the media tells them.

They say BLM is anti-cop.

- Boy do we have an atrocious case

of the media twisting things

in order to lead people in the wrong direction.

It happens to be a Fox affiliate in Baltimore.

- At this rally in Washington, DC,

participants chanted, "We won't stop, we can't stop,

"so kill a cop."

- We won't stop!

- We won't stop!

- We can't stop!

- We can't stop!

- So kill a cop!

- So kill a cop!

- And that is not at all what they said.

So the actual chant was,

we can't stop, we won't stop,

'til killer cops are in cell blocks.

- We won't stop.

- We won't stop!

- We can't stop!

- We can't stop!

- 'Til killer cops.

- 'Til killer cops.

- Are in cell blocks.

- Are in cell blocks.

- I'm not anti-cop.

There are members of my group who are.

Because I know,

I know cops who are, as people, decent human beings.

- Black Lives Matter has been subject to fake news

in the sense that the media does want

to sensationalize what is happening.

So if there's a big major protest,

then the media isn't gonna cover that.

They want to cover the 20 people

lighting cars on fires,

flipping things over,

committing violence and other things.

- There's a difference between a protest and a riot.

- Burn that motherfucker down.

- Burn this motherfucker down!

Burn this bitch down!

- So in that regard,

a lot of people associate Black Lives Matter

being discredited, but on the other hand,

there was a journalist, a Korean-American journalist,

Tim Pool, who went to cover the protest,

which then turned out to be riots,

in I believe Milwaukee.

- One of the first things we hear

is the crowd getting angry and saying,

"What are these white people doing here?

"Fuck white people.

"White people suck."

And it culminated with an 18 year old white kid

being shot in the neck yesterday.

- That's a problem and that's a conversation

that needs to be had.

- For those that are perceivable-y white,

it is just not safe to be here.

And that's why I'm deciding to leave.

- They interviewed a girl there

who was yelling about how they need

to stop the violence in Milwaukee.

- Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done.

- With his sister calling for peace.

- Helped bring the violence here

and the ignorance here.

- But the other half of that clip

was her screaming they need to bring

the violence to white neighborhoods.

- Y'all burning down shit we need in our community.

Take that shit to the suburbs.

Burn that shit down.

- That is fake news right there,

and it's happening every day on your TV screen,

but it's hard to point out because

there are bits of truth within it.

- I ask people, I go,

can you name a high profile,

a black person who had been shot by police?

And people can, they can name a few people, right?

And then I say, can you think of a white person

who was shot by police?

No.

I go, well did you know that

twice as many white people

as black people are shot by police every year.

And they go, well yeah,

but white people are a majority of the population.

It's like, I get the statistics.

But if twice as many white people

are shot as black people,

and you can't name a single white person shot by police,

what does that say about the media's coverage, right?

- The first thing you hear when a cop

kills someone of color is their criminal history,

if they're an alcoholic,

they were a woman-beater,

they were, who knows?

When a black person is killed, they're villain-ized.

And when a white person is killed,

they are victimized.

Villain-ized, victimized.

And that's no one else but the media.

- I've never heard about that.

- Shit is crazy.

This is crazy.

I don't understand why I haven't heard of this.

Like, that's unbelievable.

This is what's funny about the media.

All the victims in Nashville were white,

but it is not clear whether Samson

specifically targeted them based on their race.

That's bullshit, right?

It's bullshit.

And this is me talking about a black person

who killed white people at church.

I don't understand why I never heard that story.

And what's more amazing to me is

I have over three, I don't know,

three or 4000 friends on Facebook.

I've never seen that story published.

It's interesting to me.

- Now in my view,

the media doesn't want to give attention

to white people who are shot,

because then white people might say, oh,

it could happen to me too.

Maybe I ought to talk to these Black Lives Matter people.

Maybe we can find common cause.

The media does not care about black lives.

They don't care about white lives.

They care about the show.

And a Black Lives Matter leader,

who was reasonable and nuanced,

and wanted to talk both about rights and responsibilities,

would resonate with the people.

And that would be very frustrating for the media.

They don't want people to resonate.

- The way this rally is different,

this is one where it's family-oriented.

The message is positive.

We're here to relax.

We're here to have a good time.

- Washington DC, we're standing to the right of the stage

at the mother of all rallies.

And we had just stepped up,

and people just started booing us, heckling us.

We stood there defiantly with our fists in the air.

Chanting, "Black lives matter."

So they're chanting back, "All lives matter."

They're making comments.

And you know, we saw a few people who were

in Charlottesville, and who we had butted heads with

a few weeks prior.

And out of nowhere, one of the guys said--

- So what we are gonna do

is something you're not used to,

and we're gonna give you two minutes of our platform

to put your message out.

- When I got on the stage,

my mind state changed.

It wasn't fear, it was God.

And something said tell them who you are.

I am an American.

Secondly, I am a Christian.

The reason why we fight is to draw attention to issues

and to fix it.

We are not anti-cop.

We are anti-bad cop.

We don't want handouts.

We don't want anything that's yours.

We want our God-given right to freedom,

liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- USA, USA, USA, USA.

- I think we really made some substantial steps

without either side yielding anything.

Here I went from being their enemy

to someone they want to take pictures with their children.

That's the power of communication.

Why doesn't the media tell us this story?

Why?

Because people like you and I will sit down,

and say, let's figure this out.

And guess what, it disrupts the establishment.

- No no no, the media's never gonna

give that guy a platform.

They want to give a platform to people

that look monstrous,

because then you keep everybody divided.

You keep everybody paranoid.

You keep everybody hysterical.

- That is the problem right now with America is the bubble.

You click away and you unfollow.

You separate yourself from people

with contradicting views,

and then you end up with this sort of snowball

of your own narrative.

- Your narrative should be something like,

I'm constantly trying to go beyond the truth

that I already hold.

Because the truth that you already hold is not enough.

You need to know more than you know.

- If you think about what the news is,

what you see in a newspaper or on TV,

it's a small fraction of reality, right?

There's all the things that have happened.

There's all the things that they know about.

There's all the things that they decided to write about.

There's the things that they decided to write about

that you saw.

And it goes down and down,

until you're at that individual article.

And so you think that when you're reading the news,

that you're being informed.

That you're educating yourself.

That you're seeing how the world is.

But you're seeing such a tiny fraction of the world,

and so you could argue that in a way,

the media is designed not to inform you,

but to keep you uninformed.

And that's really scary that the bubble

that we all live in,

that has no real higher obligation anymore

to this sort of philosophical idea of truth

is a scary thing.

We can't even agree on reality anymore.

- It's always a question to some degree.

Which of our partial realities is true,

and which of them is false?

There's a world that exists beyond our comprehension of it,

and so you have to lay a structure on it

in order to simplify it.

The role of a journalist is to lay out

an unbiased simplification of the situation,

and to let the viewers, readers,

make up their own minds.

But, if you introduce an act of deception into the world,

it stays and it manifests itself.

When you do that, you corrupt the structure of the world,

and you corrupt your own soul.

And God help you.

It's not good.

It's seriously not good.

And we know this.

If you read who I would regard

as the most profound analysts

of the totalitarian societies of the 20th Century,

they come to the same conclusion,

which is that the totalitarian states

would not have been possible without

the moral corruption of the individuals

within that society.

And if you think that through,

then it should make you quake in your boots.

We have to restructure our value systems,

and so that means going back into the past.

- If ye continue in my word,

then are ye my disciples indeed.

And ye shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you free.

Amen.

- There is no search for truth.

The government writes the text books,

and the children are taught to accept communism

and their fate without question.

- We're at a point where Judaeo-Christian ethics can't die,

because if it does,

then our civilization is done.

Because it's foundation blocks are of that ethic.

In the story of Genesis, right at the beginning,

is the idea that the essential creative element

of divinity is the logos, the word, the truth.

And that consciousness calls a world

into being through language.

That's the image of God in man, as far as I can tell.

And so the words you choose

determine the structure of the world

that you bring into being.

So we better get our acts together.

- We need truth.

We need truth in media.

We need to open up our eyes.

- The fundamental question people are gonna have,

which I have, is how do you know what's true

or what's not true?

- I wonder sometimes if there is a truth

that is accessible to us.

Like I don't know if we can ever know what's truth.

- Plato's allegory of the cave

is one of philosophy's oldest stories,

and one of its best.

In the story, there are people who have lived

their whole lives chained in a cave.

And they're forced to look at the wall.

Now behind them is a fire.

And in front of the fire are various shapes.

People, animals, trees.

And they see against the flickering

firelight of the cave wall these shapes,

and they think that they're looking at reality.

But one day, one of the men breaks his chains,

and he turns his head for the first time in his life,

and he looks, and he sees the shapes,

and he sees the fire itself.

And it's startling, and he thinks that is real.

Now I have seen what is real.

Before, I only saw the flickering shadows.

Now I see what is real.

But then, he sees on the far side of the fire,

a passageway leading out.

Curious, he decides to go up the stairs.

And he climbs the stairs one by one,

and he begins to see the light.

Not of the flickering shadows,

not of the fire, not of the shapes,

but of the world itself.

And he sees the world for what it is.

He sees the actual trees.

Not the shadows of trees, not the models of trees,

the actual trees.

He sees the sky, he sees the sun.

It all becomes blindingly clear to him,

and he realizes that he has spent his life

imprisoned into a false reality.

We are told by the media what the world is.

We are told by the media what is right,

what is wrong, what to believe,

who to love, who to hate.

These are just shadows on the wall of the cave.

And then the thought comes to his mind

as he regards this beauty and he says,

"I must share this!"

With the people below, with my friends,

my companions, my compatriots chained in the cave.

So he takes a last look to drink in the glory

of everything that he sees.

And then with excitement, with joy, with anticipation,

he turns back down into the cave,

and he starts to tell everyone chained to the wall,

this is not real, this is not real, these are illusions.

And he reaches down and he tries to break their chains.

And they do not thank him.

They do not praise him, they do not admire his wisdom

and his courage.

They fight him.

And they call him mad, they call him deranged,

delusional, disruptive, seditious, dangerous.

And he faces the choice,

the choice that we all face when we learn the truth.

Do we stay where we are hated,

down in the dungeons,

among the enslaved, mentally.

Do we stay among those fixated on their screens,

who will not tear their eyes away

from a manufactured reality to look at the world itself.

Or do we go and climb those stairs again

to imbibe all the glory and beauty of the natural world,

leaving behind those who fight us

for bringing them the truth.

I say stand and fight.

What is the glory of the world

if we must drink it in solitude?

What is the beauty of the planet

if we must view it alone?

We have an obligation, if we have seen the truth,

to wrestle the lies from the minds

of those stuck in the cave.

The cave is the manufactured reality

of those who would control us

by controlling what we think.

But fundamentally, you can't control what someone thinks.

Because once they think, they are beyond your control.

♪ Look at the hell that's been brewing ♪

♪ So you cry and you cheat and you steal ♪

♪ Preaching from one of your limos ♪

♪ They struggle just paying their bills ♪

♪ I know you're high and you're mighty ♪

♪ Is it best if we all whittle down ♪

♪ For fortune and power and devious deeds ♪

♪ Winners are chosen, you still won't concede ♪

♪ Final fight for what you believe ♪

♪ If it's anything

♪ Well there's proof in the battlefields ♪

♪ You suck profits that all that I kill ♪

♪ But we've got our faith back

♪ And we're tired of messing around ♪

♪ We're tired of losing our feet on the ground ♪

♪ So tired with taking you down ♪

♪ And strip you away from the media crown ♪

♪ I know you'll keep selling us fear ♪

♪ Don't you forget that your ending is near ♪

♪ And you know no matter what you say ♪

♪ Your hoax is on display

♪ We're lighting your darkest cave ♪

♪ And the fire won't go away

♪ If what's right was on your mind ♪

♪ Why is the truth so hard to find ♪

♪ Might be poor but we're not blind ♪

♪ What you've given is stuck inside ♪

♪ Look at your tiny retraction

♪ You've already gotten the views ♪

♪ Those methods that keep us divided ♪

♪ How else would you spread your fake news ♪

♪ Chilling your way through a story ♪

♪ While calling up scoops on the air ♪

♪ We pray for our youth, but why would you care ♪

♪ Searching for honor in all our despair ♪

♪ Rather be famous, pretend like you're there ♪

♪ And it's never fair

♪ So we've leveled the playing fields ♪

♪ You'll keep pushing 'til someone gets killed ♪

♪ But we've got our strength back ♪

♪ We're tired of messing around ♪

♪ We're tired of losing our men to the ground ♪

♪ We're tired of screaming out loud ♪

♪ We're tired of living our lives in the cloud ♪

♪ Go on and sell us your fears

♪ But look how we've basked in our enemy's tears ♪

♪ As we're told to shut up and let you play ♪

♪ With our hearts in a twisted game ♪

♪ While your lies all stay the same ♪

♪ And we call you by your name

♪ As your hoax is on the run

♪ And you're like the sinking sun ♪

♪ Don't be sore, just take the plunge ♪

♪ And let thy will be done

♪ Sing let thy will be done

♪ Before the war is won

♪ And when the war is won

♪ Only then the end will come