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Allen Jackson: BBC Scandal | Allen Jackson Now

November 11, 2025 | 21:57

Allen Jackson: BBC Scandal | Allen Jackson Now
Tim Graham joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: BBC Scandal | Allen Jackson Now | November 11, 2025
  • Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • Fake news has never been just an american problem.
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  • But president trump
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  • Can certainly claim ownership rights of the naming rights.
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  • In fact,
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  • British newspapers are well known for their big headlines,
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  • Curious stories that sell papers with tabloid sensibilities.
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  • They call them red tops, the mirror, the sun,
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  • The daily star, to name a few.
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  • And while a lot of people are drawn
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  • To the deliberately heightened emotional stories
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  • They publish, true or mostly not.
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  • Readers and viewers know the difference,
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  • Because those attention grabbing headlines
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  • And the more staid, left leaning journalism of the bbc
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  • Until now, because suddenly the bbc's
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  • Director general and ceo of news have resigned.
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  • It appears that trump derangement
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  • Syndrome, as the white house calls it, has jumped the pond
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  • After it was discovered that the bbc edited a speech
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  • By president trump to make it appear
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  • That he said something he never meant.
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  • They deliberately edited not just any speech,
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  • But the one that preceded the riot at the us capitol,
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  • Trying to make it
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  • Sound as though trump was calling for the protesters
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  • To take direct, violent action at the capitol,
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  • Which he never did.
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  • In fact,
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  • The comments from the speech
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  • They edited together were 50 minutes apart in real time.
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  • So now it seems that even british journalist couldn't
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  • Resist trying to take a shot at president trump.
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  • And like so many others, by misrepresenting
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  • What he says and does so fake news is spreading.
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  • And here's the kicker.
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  • One of them two bbc executives who resigned.
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  • They originally came from nbc,
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  • Where she was president of their news operation.
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  • With that, i want to bring in our guest tonight.
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  • He's the executive editor of newsbusters.
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  • Tim graham, welcome to the show, tim.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Newsbusters was built on exposing the liars
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  • And finding the truth in media.
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  • We've known for years
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  • At the bbc produces a very left leaning product.
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  • But did you have any idea that they'd edit together
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  • Something this bad and this dishonest
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  • And think they wouldn't get caught?
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  • It's always a surprise when they think
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  • They won't get caught.
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  • I mean, there is more recent examples.
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  • You know, they had this documentary recently,
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  • On a palestinian child,
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  • Victimized palestinian child.
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  • Oops.
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  • Call son of a hamas commander.
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  • You know, and like, where we weren't going to be found out.
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  • So, i guess the trump news wasn't quite as surprising
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  • As it might have been a year or two ago.
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  • But it is just simply irresponsible to edit
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  • Two pieces of film together and try to convince people,
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  • That something was said that wasn't really sad.
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  • You know, the president's been talking
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  • About this problem for a long time.
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  • Listen to
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  • When we first heard him
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  • Say fake news during his first
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  • Press conference after getting elected.
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  • He was calling out
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  • Cnn's jim acosta during a rather chaotic scene.
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  • You know, organizations who are attacking our news
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  • Organizations, organizations should give us a chance.
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  • Good question sir. go ahead sir.
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  • Can you stay quiet, mr. president elect?
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  • Go ahead. you say.
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  • Can you ask any question? no. personal life.
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  • Can you give us a. don't be rude asking us.
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  • Can you give us a question?
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  • Don't be a question.
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  • I'm not going to give you.
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  • Can you can you state you are fake news?
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  • Well, cnn eventually offered acosta
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  • A nearly invisible overnight slot, and he resigned.
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  • Meanwhile, the president is now
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  • Going to sue the bbc for misrepresenting his speech.
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  • He's won other lawsuits.
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  • But do you think these people will ever learn
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  • That telling the truth really does matter?
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  • I think
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  • If they believe in winning, that's what they believe in.
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  • So, you know, we just had an election
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  • And they can say, well, maybe our media bias works.
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  • The democrats, you know, had a good day.
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  • The republicans had a bad day.
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  • And they think mission accomplished.
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  • And i really think that's the mission.
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  • They're after is victory
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  • And not telling the truth or offering people news.
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  • I mean, to some degree, the term fake news means
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  • What you're producing isn't objective.
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  • It's not organized to just give people facts.
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  • It's organized like a campaign advertisement.
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  • We see a lot of that.
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  • You certainly did on cnn.
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  • Everything they wanted to do
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  • Was attacking trump, and that's what he was talking about.
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  • As i mentioned, the bbc's head of news,
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  • Deborah ternus, was running nbc news for four years.
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  • Do you think she took some of
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  • What she did at msnbc over to the bbc,
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  • Only to have it backfire?
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  • Well, i don't think she was responsible
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  • For the fake dateline gm truck debacle.
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  • I mean, clearly american media
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  • Outlets have made these mistakes as well.
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  • But, you know, i again, i think the whole system
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  • Of the bbc comes from an arrogance
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  • That they really are the government funded broadcaster,
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  • But also they like to think of themselves as the
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  • The very gold standard of news media in the western world.
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  • And certainly pbs and npr here in the united states.
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  • Think of the bbc as that's what they want to be like.
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  • And that's exactly
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  • The problem is they are all a group of arrogant leftists
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  • Who think that they are the guardians of democracy
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  • And the facts.
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  • But again,
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  • They're more interested in marshaling the facts
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  • In such a way that democrats win, which isn't always factual.
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  • And a lot of times it's not democratic in that
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  • It allows more than one point of view.
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  • You know, what we're describing rather casually,
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  • Really is a complete corruption of what journalism
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  • Existed as for many, many decades.
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  • I mean, there was a standard of
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  • At least a sense of objectivity,
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  • And you're describing something completely different.
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  • Is there any course correction
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  • Or any regret over what's happened?
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  • I mean, there's certainly a different way to do it.
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  • You know,
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  • We are looking now at this cable channel, news nation,
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  • Which is trying to go back to sort of that old fashion.
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  • Let's make sure both sides get a get a soundbite.
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  • It's not hard to do.
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  • It's not hard to make.
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  • It's not something that's too antiquated to practice.
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  • It's just i think that in america,
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  • We have a place now where people are like,
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  • Well, i want my news
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  • Cooked up this way, or i want my news cooked up that way.
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  • And they serve different audiences, republican audiences,
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  • Democrat audiences.
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  • But certainly you can still make a product
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  • Where both sides get a shot and that you can acknowledge
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  • Facts that might not be helpful to one side or another.
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  • I think there's still room for that, i think,
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  • And i think there's still an audience for that.
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  • Well, the
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  • Lawsuits seem to be playing a role in all of this.
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  • Are they going to eventually force news editors
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  • And journalists to aim for more of a centrist truth,
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  • Rather than see their reputations good, soiled?
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  • Well, again, you can be biased
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  • And yet not find yourself liable for defamation.
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  • You know, i think the thing
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  • That was, for example, that was so funny about the cbs
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  • Suit was
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  • What they really needed to do,
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  • Was just put out a transcript and a video.
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  • The fcc ultimately succeeded in getting cbs
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  • To put a transcript and a video months later,
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  • Donald trump just gave an interview to 60 minutes,
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  • And it was donald trump that put the recording out right away.
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  • And then cbs felt like they could do the same.
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  • And that's the way it should be.
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  • But, you know,
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  • When cbs interviewed joe biden for 60 minutes,
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  • They weren't going to put out an entire video.
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  • They weren't going to put out
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  • A whole transcript of what biden was, asked him what he said,
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  • Because it probably would have been embarrassing to biden.
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  • So, yeah, i mean, you can be a
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  • Tilted news source and yet not be liable to be sued.
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  • They can't seem to find where the line is.
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  • Well, there's another component that's a part of this.
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  • Now, more of the big media
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  • Is being taken over by people with really deep pockets.
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  • Bezos with the washington post, cbs by paramount,
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  • Abc and disney.
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  • Do you think that any of them will eventually see
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  • A financial reason to report the truth,
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  • Rather than have to face the lawsuits
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  • And the bad publicity that comes with being forced into court?
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  • I think that's part of the reason why paramount
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  • Wants to do something different.
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  • And they've done this
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  • Wildly controversial thing of naming an editor in chief
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  • Who has a record of wanting to hear from both sides.
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  • This is, of course,
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  • Deeply disturbing to the veterans inside cbs news.
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  • We're very scared that their network might try.
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  • Fair and balanced.
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  • That's frightening.
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  • They see that.
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  • They see fair and balanced as a surrender to trump.
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  • I mean, that's really the mindset they have.
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  • So again, their idea of cbs is a crown
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  • Jewel when it's absolutely subservient
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  • To the bidens or the obamas or the clintons.
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  • That's that ideal.
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  • But i think, yeah,
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  • Cbs, to some extent, what they might be saying is
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  • We're tired of cbs being in third place.
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  • Let's try something different
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  • To see if we can be in first place.
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  • Well, tim, we need to take a short break.
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  • Can you stay for another segment?
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  • Sure.
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  • If you've got an opinion about the american media,
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  • I'd like to ask you to share it with me at aj now.com.
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  • The link is at the top of the home page.
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  • What's easy to do? you take a moment.
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  • I'll be right back with more from tim graham.
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  • I'll be right back with more from tim graham.
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  • Well, i'm back now with the executive
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  • Editor of newsbusters, tim graham.
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  • Tim, i'd like to ask you to help us out by giving us
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  • A couple of more examples of what the media has done
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  • Or tried to do
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  • To distort the real world so we can know what to look for
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  • If we think we're spotting fake news.
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  • Well, one of the other suits, of course, was the abc suit
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  • Where george stephanopoulos insisted that donald trump
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  • Had been found liable for rape, which was not accurate.
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  • And of course, one of the reasons
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  • That disney gave in to trump on that was they didn't
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  • Want his lawyers getting into the stephanopoulos emails.
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  • You know,
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  • This is, again, the danger for them is they don't want
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  • Us to know how they cook up the news product.
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  • You know, we did see that when fox news
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  • Was sued, over the 2020 election.
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  • And you could see
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  • There was a lot of debate and dispute going on inside fox
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  • About how they were covering the aftermath of the 2020 race.
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  • They thought that was fantastic to have all of that data
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  • When it was fox data.
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  • The rest of the media doesn't really want everybody to know
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  • What's going on inside the liberal networks.
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  • But look, all the time they are they are collating
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  • And very carefully organizing the news.
  • 00:11:03.545 --> 00:11:05.714
  • And it's not just what they put on the air,
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  • But there's so much, so many stories that they refuse
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  • To put on the air.
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  • And we like drawing attention
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  • To that, to say, here's stories they don't want to tell you.
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  • For example, we you know, the only way we learned that
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  • There were slaughter of christians
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  • In nigeria is because trump brought it up.
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  • And then they had the audacity to try to suggest
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  • This wasn't
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  • Really happening in nigeria, which was completely mind
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  • Boggling.
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  • Anybody who looks
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  • Into the actual data from human rights groups knows
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  • There's slaughter of christians in nigeria.
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  • What is most of the distortion
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  • About chasing traffic for profit,
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  • Or is it more about the liberal
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  • And progressive agenda that's on display?
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  • Yeah, i think the agenda comes number one.
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  • I think most of the arrogant journalists here
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  • Don't care about profits.
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  • You know, the people at the washington
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  • Post really don't care whether jeff bezos makes a profit.
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  • I think they're more concerned about
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  • Maybe they'll earn a few prizes, they'll get a pulitzer prize.
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  • You usually win those for being on the right topic.
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  • Whether it's actually accurate or not is not as important.
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  • Like, you know, the washington post won an award
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  • For reporting on so-called russian collusion with trump
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  • When that wasn't true.
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  • It's like, well, but you your heart was in the right place.
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  • You're you were on the right subject.
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  • So maybe there's a little people wanting prizes, but i think
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  • There most journalists might care
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  • About their own pay package, but they're not really concerned
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  • About the bottom line in their own company.
  • 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:40.809
  • Well, how much does all the distortion in the news
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  • Make things worse just overall for the country?
  • 00:12:43.979 --> 00:12:48.884
  • Well, i think yeah.
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  • Here's one example for me.
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  • We're getting near thanksgiving.
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  • And when people sit down at thanksgiving,
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  • If they have political
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  • Conversations over the turkey, i try not to do that.
  • 00:12:56.959 --> 00:13:00.729
  • But a lot of times your your liberal family members
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  • Will have no idea what you're talking about
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  • Because again, they're watching news that is very one sided
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  • And keeps a lot of things out of the news.
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  • So they they feel like you've got a second head
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  • When you start explaining some of these things.
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  • You know, who is hunter biden and what was on his laptop?
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  • And they're like, why do i have to care about that?
  • 00:13:20.549 --> 00:13:23.719
  • So i always tell everybody, you want to get a balanced diet.
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  • You know, obviously we spend a lot of our day
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  • Watching the networks we disagree with
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  • So we can explain them to people.
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  • But also it's helpful to just see raw news events and see
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  • Speeches that, that political, political leaders make
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  • So you can understand how it gets sliced and diced.
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  • You know, looking back,
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  • I can think of the american tabloids
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  • That existed decades ago,
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  • Followed by a period
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  • Where good journalism seems to have won the day.
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  • Whoever got the story first
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  • And got it right had the most traffic.
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  • Do you have any idea of why things changed?
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  • Do you think they'll ever be a return to the truth?
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  • In that sense?
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  • Well, i mean, again, i always try to say i
  • 00:14:07.296 --> 00:14:10.165
  • If i pick up a newspaper like the washington post
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  • And i've read the washington post for for decades,
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  • You know, i wouldn't tell you
  • 00:14:16.972 --> 00:14:18.106
  • Most of the stories in they are full of lies.
  • 00:14:18.106 --> 00:14:20.642
  • It's just a matter of part of the problem we have now
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  • Is that there's so much opinion in our news,
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  • Is that they can't just give you that old fashioned thing.
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  • The president gave a speech today.
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  • Here's how it was received by the democrats.
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  • Now it's more like the story begins with donald trump
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  • Lied again today, you know, and destroyed democracy.
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  • The end.
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  • I mean, there it would be nice again
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  • If we could find that pattern of just trying to not treat
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  • The reader like they're stupid.
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  • Just explain.
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  • Here's what happens.
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  • Here's how people thought about what happened.
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  • That would be nice.
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  • And i think we could all benefit from it.
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  • Amen.
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  • Well, tim graham, thank you for your time today.
  • 00:15:02.884 --> 00:15:05.354
  • Remind our viewers where they ca
  • 00:15:05.354 --> 00:15:08.991
  • Where we're at newsbusters.org, where we're constantly
  • 00:15:10.025 --> 00:15:12.961
  • Putting up videos and transcripts
  • 00:15:12.961 --> 00:15:14.863
  • And kind of exposing what we see. and.
  • 00:15:14.863 --> 00:15:16.865
  • And i also host the newsbusters podcast where we talk
  • 00:15:16.865 --> 00:15:19.901
  • About these issues.
  • 00:15:19.901 --> 00:15:21.470
  • Well, thank you for joining us tonight.
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  • Stay in touch so we can have you back again.
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  • Thank you sir.
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  • In a moment, given that it's a veteran's day,
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  • I'll have something to say
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  • To all who have served our country
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  • Or are serving in the military right now.
  • 00:15:32.914 --> 00:15:35.350
  • Millions of men and women standing watch on our behalf.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • We are living
  • 00:15:50.735 --> 00:15:51.903
  • In a time of unprecedented manipulation and deception.
  • 00:15:51.903 --> 00:15:54.606
  • The lies coming from the legacy media and influential voices.
  • 00:15:54.606 --> 00:15:58.543
  • Sometimes they just seem astonishing.
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  • But i want to remind you that truth cannot be defeated.
  • 00:16:00.745 --> 00:16:04.149
  • There's a moral and spiritual authority in god's truth
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  • If you suppress the truth.
  • 00:16:07.552 --> 00:16:08.953
  • It's like holding a ball underwater.
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  • Eventually, it'll come up again.
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  • Well, the good news is we as christ
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  • Followers, have a tremendous opportunity.
  • 00:16:14.826 --> 00:16:17.328
  • We live in a country
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  • That affords us the freedom to speak the freedom to worship.
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  • And on this veteran's day,
  • 00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:23.635
  • I want to remember the brave men and women
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  • Who have made sacrifices for our freedoms.
  • 00:16:25.637 --> 00:16:28.640
  • Freedom is not cheap, and it certainly isn't free.
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  • If you're a veteran, we salute you.
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  • We offer you our heartfelt gratitude
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  • For defending our freedoms and liberties.
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  • Your discipline and obedience.
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  • They change the destinies of other people's lives.
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  • And for that reason, i call you a hero.
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  • Veterans are our friends, relatives, neighbors,
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  • Coworkers, and church members.
  • 00:16:48.993 --> 00:16:50.962
  • Many of our veterans
  • 00:16:50.962 --> 00:16:52.030
  • Are rightfully proud of their service,
  • 00:16:52.030 --> 00:16:54.699
  • While others have been told that their service for
  • 00:16:54.699 --> 00:16:56.367
  • Our nation was not given in an honorable cause.
  • 00:16:56.367 --> 00:16:59.737
  • And that's left them conflicted.
  • 00:16:59.737 --> 00:17:01.706
  • Some of them were wounded physically and bear the scars.
  • 00:17:01.706 --> 00:17:04.943
  • Others bear psychological scars that aren't as visible,
  • 00:17:04.943 --> 00:17:07.679
  • But they're very real nonetheless.
  • 00:17:07.679 --> 00:17:10.115
  • Well, my plea to all christ followers is to think
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  • About others and not just about yourself.
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  • Be aware. listen to those around you.
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  • See if they need help.
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  • And if you meet a veteran, say thank you.
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  • I also want to remind us all
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  • To use the freedoms that we're so blessed with.
  • 00:17:23.128 --> 00:17:25.663
  • Our future depends more on the vitality of the church
  • 00:17:25.663 --> 00:17:29.000
  • Than it does on conservatism or progressives.
  • 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.870
  • The voice of the church is so important.
  • 00:17:31.870 --> 00:17:34.139
  • You know, i know it's often hated or at least diminished.
  • 00:17:34.139 --> 00:17:36.741
  • I know there's a temper.
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  • Attempts to try to squelch that.
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  • But it isn't about us.
  • 00:17:39.744 --> 00:17:41.379
  • It's about the one that we serve.
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  • We're going to need the courage
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  • And the willingness to say, god bless america again.
  • 00:17:44.782 --> 00:17:48.153
  • In the public squares, in our workplaces,
  • 00:17:48.153 --> 00:17:50.355
  • Hospitals, courtrooms and our classrooms.
  • 00:17:50.355 --> 00:17:53.391
  • And that is a reason for hope.
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  • We'll be back with your emails.
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  • Joe from rhode island wrote i'm concerned
  • 00:18:24.520 --> 00:18:26.956
  • That charlie kirk's murder was a loss
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  • For its being used in a way
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  • That will turn his memory into an idol.
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  • We can't let that happen.
  • 00:18:32.562 --> 00:18:34.697
  • Well, joe, i think there's a couple
  • 00:18:34.697 --> 00:18:35.865
  • Of things we have to remember. charlie left us a legacy.
  • 00:18:35.865 --> 00:18:37.967
  • He led his life.
  • 00:18:37.967 --> 00:18:39.268
  • He lived it. we won't change that.
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  • I share some concerns around the frenzy after charlie's
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  • Assassination as well.
  • 00:18:45.174 --> 00:18:46.842
  • But we could take the principles he stood for
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  • And live those forward, using our own voices for truth.
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  • Don't let the media or other people's opinions,
  • 00:18:52.148 --> 00:18:54.083
  • Or even their motives,
  • 00:18:54.083 --> 00:18:55.184
  • Stop us from doing what we know to be the right thing.
  • 00:18:55.184 --> 00:18:57.687
  • I believe that's the way we honor charlie
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  • And more importantly, the principles for which he stood.
  • 00:18:59.288 --> 00:19:01.958
  • A viewer commented on youtube.
  • 00:19:02.558 --> 00:19:04.460
  • You made a good point, pastor al.
  • 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:06.062
  • The islamic people in islam is not a peaceful people
  • 00:19:06.062 --> 00:19:09.732
  • Because if they were with so many of them in that region,
  • 00:19:09.732 --> 00:19:12.702
  • There would have been peace long ago.
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  • Thank you so much for having the courage to say that.
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  • Well thank you.
  • 00:19:19.175 --> 00:19:19.909
  • Sometimes the simple truth
  • 00:19:19.909 --> 00:19:21.344
  • That we see gets clouded by all the language around it.
  • 00:19:21.344 --> 00:19:25.314
  • It helps to pay attention and think about what you're seeing.
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  • Jimmy from alabama wrote i'm watching your show with mr.
  • 00:19:28.417 --> 00:19:31.387
  • Blue.
  • 00:19:31.387 --> 00:19:32.321
  • I'm old enough to remember that years ago,
  • 00:19:32.321 --> 00:19:34.490
  • When the news channels made a mistake,
  • 00:19:34.490 --> 00:19:36.592
  • They would apologize and correct themselves a day or two later.
  • 00:19:36.592 --> 00:19:40.696
  • My mother always said, always tell the truth,
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  • And you won't have to remember what you said.
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  • Well, i
  • 00:19:46.502 --> 00:19:47.370
  • Can remember that as well, jimmy. and
  • 00:19:47.370 --> 00:19:48.571
  • I can remember some other things that my mother had to say.
  • 00:19:48.571 --> 00:19:50.740
  • That'd be an interesting program.
  • 00:19:50.740 --> 00:19:52.875
  • Lessons from our moms.
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  • I'll have to think about that one a little bit.
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  • Only your emails.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Don't miss that. don't get confused.
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  • And certainly don't be overcome by despair at the darkness.
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  • God has not abandoned us.
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  • Thank you for spending a few minutes with us,
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  • And i pray you have a good evening.
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