Could it be that the media's portrayal of political figures is creating more division than unity in the United States? Once again, we dive deep into the mainstream media’s depiction of politicians, showcasing the perceived hypocrisy and double standards in their coverage. We critically examine the rhetoric from both Democrats and Republicans, offering a balanced look at how figures like Donald Trump and JD Vance are portrayed versus their counterparts on the left, such as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Join us as we discuss the broader implications of this partisan bias and stress the vital need for Americans to recognize and combat the divisive tactics used by political leaders and the media, advocating for a shift towards genuine unity and fair discourse.
00:00:01.306 --> 00:00:06.491 It's a fabulous day to wake up and enjoy your cup of coffee.
00:00:06.491 --> 00:00:22.731 You know, david and I have been doing this now for three and a half years and you know we struggle sometimes to try and break out ideas that are being left out of the mainstream media, which is pretty much what we've tried to do for the last three and a half years.
00:00:22.731 --> 00:00:28.172 Though a lot of you believe that it's more rhetoric on the right, it really isn't.
00:00:28.172 --> 00:00:30.987 It rules for me, not for thee.
00:00:30.987 --> 00:00:32.145 I have the cliches.
00:00:32.145 --> 00:00:34.046 I've been touting them for three and a half years.
00:00:34.046 --> 00:00:37.107 It makes David almost want to sour his stomach.
00:00:37.107 --> 00:00:46.612 I use them so much, but let's be honest, it seems to be what's good for me isn't good for you, because you don't deserve it.
00:00:46.612 --> 00:00:49.185 Hi everybody, my name's Stuart Braskell.
00:00:49.185 --> 00:00:56.664 That's David, my co-host, who lifts his eye like Leonard Nimoy and Spock Kind of a combination today.
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00:01:42.887 --> 00:02:01.987 Whether I miscommunicate or not, david, we have watched from the 2016 election and even before, from little Debbie Wasserman Schultz wanting to step on the necks of the Republicans to the deplorables, to Maxine Waters.
00:02:01.987 --> 00:02:09.295 You know, rise up and fight, fight, fight to Pelosi, fight, take a knee.
00:02:09.295 --> 00:02:20.650 I mean, these people have no moral fortitude because what they do, it's acceptable, but what anyone else does is not acceptable.
00:02:20.650 --> 00:02:29.306 We all went to school and I think the best memory that we all have is high school the kids that would do it and then cry about it later.
00:02:29.306 --> 00:02:32.120 David, there are a bunch of crybabies out there.
00:02:33.302 --> 00:02:35.045 What are you going to say?
00:02:35.045 --> 00:02:42.346 Well, listen, okay, this is an interesting way of starting it, but the truth of the matter is that it is once again.
00:02:42.346 --> 00:02:47.423 I don't know how else to start, but by saying wake up, people.
00:02:47.423 --> 00:02:59.281 The United States needs to wake up, and the wake up call is you know, when you hear rhetoric of the threat to democracy and they say it's Donald Trump is the threat to democracy.
00:02:59.281 --> 00:03:06.634 It isn't Donald Trump, it's the accusers of people yelling that he is the threat to democracy.
00:03:06.634 --> 00:03:13.133 This rhetoric nearly got him killed twice and people are saying, no, no, you can't blame the Democrats for that.
00:03:13.133 --> 00:03:26.756 I don't know about that, but when you put, when you equate Donald Trump to Hitler and an autocrat and you make these kinds of remarks and you create this kind of chaos, yeah, you are creating a divisive country.
00:03:26.756 --> 00:03:32.812 I've said this before, and on January of 2021, joe Biden said he was going to unify the country.
00:03:32.812 --> 00:03:34.443 Enough with the rhetoric.
00:03:34.443 --> 00:03:36.189 We're going to unify the country.
00:03:36.189 --> 00:03:38.301 It's said on numerous occasions.
00:03:38.301 --> 00:03:50.286 Both he and his vice president, kamala Harris, have both spewed hate the vice of rhetoric and have encouraged the media to continue to do so.
00:03:50.286 --> 00:04:01.402 When you have upbeat ladies on the View and I'm being respectful, because you know I don't like to, you know, to denigrate anybody, but the ladies on the View are a perfect example.
00:04:01.402 --> 00:04:17.033 When Donald Trump was a Democrat and wasn't running for politics, was welcomed with open arms by Barbara Walters and the rest of the crew into that studio in the moment in 2016, he wanted to run for Republican.
00:04:17.033 --> 00:04:18.504 He was enemy number one.
00:04:18.504 --> 00:04:25.365 Amazing, if you're not on my side, you are my enemy, and I'll tell you how far this has gone.
00:04:25.365 --> 00:04:27.009 Think about it.
00:04:27.009 --> 00:04:33.093 A few years ago, two African-Americans were denied using the toilet at a Starbucks.
00:04:33.093 --> 00:04:43.415 Starbucks shut down all of their stores across the United States for a day of understanding training, sensitivity training.
00:04:43.415 --> 00:04:49.632 Well, gd Vance tried to go to the same restaurant that Kamala Harris went to and two things occurred.
00:04:49.632 --> 00:04:51.988 One JD Vance and his crew were denied.
00:04:51.988 --> 00:04:53.526 Now they said it was a mistake.
00:04:53.526 --> 00:04:58.771 One of the waitresses freaked out over the cameras and wouldn't let him in.
00:04:58.771 --> 00:05:01.767 People walked out offended.
00:05:01.767 --> 00:05:05.365 What do you mean in 2024?
00:05:05.365 --> 00:05:09.531 That you're not going to serve anyone?
00:05:09.531 --> 00:05:11.401 Why would you deny them?
00:05:11.401 --> 00:05:20.625 Had that person been gay, transgender, we would have had liberal media freaking out cameras by the thousands at that restaurant.
00:05:20.625 --> 00:05:25.411 The owner would be nuts, but it's a Republican, it's okay.
00:05:25.411 --> 00:05:37.343 Now, kamala Harris' staff found it interesting because they got served and they were okay to go in and they trolled JD just to show you to the extent of how low can you go.
00:05:37.343 --> 00:05:47.060 But the thought that we are denying a service to anyone in 2024, oh, it's a Republican.
00:05:49.627 --> 00:05:52.615 This is the divided mentality that is now in the United States.
00:05:52.615 --> 00:06:06.920 You're with me or excluding you and me.
00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:10.875 As a Jew, I'm not welcome to the Democratic Party, no matter what they say.
00:06:10.875 --> 00:06:14.992 Even African-Americans and Hispanics are going.
00:06:14.992 --> 00:06:16.156 This isn't right.
00:06:16.156 --> 00:06:24.456 People are waking up to the realization that the Democratic Party has been doing doublespeak Right Back to 1984.
00:06:24.456 --> 00:06:29.170 Doublespeak Say one thing, do another.
00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:31.516 And here you are as a great example of that.
00:06:31.516 --> 00:06:39.000 Now I don't understand if this is supposed to be the party of welcoming.
00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.651 Welcoming me by telling me I'm a terrorist, welcoming, or that's what you're calling welcoming me.
00:06:44.651 --> 00:06:51.761 Criticizing is one thing, denigrating is another, and that seems to be the rhetoric of the party.
00:06:51.761 --> 00:06:58.447 Now I know what you're going to say.
00:06:59.048 --> 00:07:01.333 Donald Trump called Kamala Harris mentally ill.
00:07:01.333 --> 00:07:03.197 That is considered hate speech.
00:07:03.197 --> 00:07:07.848 Boys and girls, that is considered unacceptable.
00:07:07.848 --> 00:07:20.199 But to call Donald Trump Hitler number two, to call him a threat to democracy, that's okay.
00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:21.182 The words matter.
00:07:21.182 --> 00:07:23.785 We've said it many times here, but it's incredible, stuart, I want to punt this back to you.
00:07:23.785 --> 00:07:30.377 In what way can Donald Trump not do right?
00:07:30.377 --> 00:07:34.507 In what way he can't say anything without getting criticized?
00:07:34.507 --> 00:07:35.630 But the Democratic Party?
00:07:35.630 --> 00:07:36.454 How dare you?
00:07:36.454 --> 00:07:44.413 How dare you and I know where you're going to go with Hillary and her deplorables remark but, ladies and gentlemen, I am trying to understand.
00:07:44.413 --> 00:07:47.379 At what point are the Democrats going to be called out for their shit?
00:07:48.245 --> 00:07:51.355 They're not, and that's the way you simply have to do it.
00:07:51.355 --> 00:07:56.016 You see, donald Trump and Whoopi Goldberg go back to the 80s and 90s.
00:07:56.016 --> 00:07:58.732 Right, they were good bosom buddies.
00:07:58.732 --> 00:08:00.055 They were bagel buddies.
00:08:00.055 --> 00:08:01.836 They had breakfast together.
00:08:01.836 --> 00:08:03.084 They had coffee together.
00:08:03.084 --> 00:08:05.550 Buddies, they were bagel buddies, they had breakfast together, they had coffee together.
00:08:05.550 --> 00:08:10.619 You know, when he was on the fifth, you know, on NBC, it was a great time, it was awesome.
00:08:10.619 --> 00:08:18.237 Right, the world loved Donald Trump, from the Jeffersons to the nanny to Howard Stern.
00:08:18.237 --> 00:08:23.416 I mean, they all couldn't get enough of Donald Trump.
00:08:23.416 --> 00:08:32.519 And for over a decade you had the Apprentice, one of the higher grossing shows on NBC at its time.
00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:37.758 In fact, I think it rivaled Days of Our Lives as far as watching.
00:08:38.605 --> 00:08:47.245 I got to tell you the hatred towards their competitors is something that is unbelievable.
00:08:47.245 --> 00:08:56.679 You know, every four years the United States divides into two camps, democrats and Republicans, as do many countries.
00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:04.756 But the changes of literalness, that's acceptable by one but not acceptable by another.
00:09:04.756 --> 00:09:09.053 Like I started the rant, david rules for me and not for me.
00:09:09.053 --> 00:09:11.139 What's good for me isn't good for you.
00:09:11.139 --> 00:09:23.094 I'm privileged and we all revert back to thinking back to our early years, and for most people it's high school or college and again the workplace.
00:09:23.094 --> 00:09:31.096 I mean, things run rampant all the time and I can't tell you enough about what this feels like.
00:09:31.096 --> 00:09:37.554 What it looks like Trying to assassinate a member of the government not once, but twice, and it's his fault.
00:09:37.554 --> 00:09:39.586 It's insanity at best.
00:09:39.586 --> 00:09:42.552 There's no other way to describe insanity.
00:09:43.335 --> 00:09:47.876 That's what I got to tell you it's not just an insanity, I think it's just unacceptable.
00:09:47.876 --> 00:09:49.082 And you know what?
00:09:49.082 --> 00:09:56.854 If you're going to tell me that that's what you call leadership and I think that this is the funny thing, we are the leaders we know best blah, blah, blah.
00:09:56.854 --> 00:09:59.546 All these kinds of statements again and again, and again.
00:09:59.546 --> 00:10:02.828 And then you go and you do elementary school antics.
00:10:02.828 --> 00:10:12.859 Come on, you know, I've seen numerous reporters trying to ask these politicians since the second assassination attempt.
00:10:12.859 --> 00:10:14.980 Don't you think you should amp it down?
00:10:14.980 --> 00:10:28.638 No, saturday Night Live mocks the assassination and I know Saturday Night Live is about rhetoric and joking, but but did we joke when Ronald Reagan was assassinated, almost assassinated?
00:10:28.638 --> 00:10:30.630 Okay, not a chance.
00:10:30.630 --> 00:10:37.538 Would we have made that kind of mockery of Obama or of Biden or God forbid, kamala Harris?
00:10:37.538 --> 00:10:40.754 If someone tried to assassinate Kamala Harris, what would happen?
00:10:40.754 --> 00:10:46.254 But instead, it's Donald Trump.
00:10:46.254 --> 00:10:47.498 It's a Republican.
00:10:47.498 --> 00:10:49.489 It's JD Vance denied going to a Trump.
00:10:49.489 --> 00:10:49.850 It's a Republican.
00:10:49.850 --> 00:10:51.234 It's JD Vance denied to go into a restaurant.
00:10:51.234 --> 00:10:53.787 It's a Republican Anytime.
00:10:53.787 --> 00:10:56.092 It's a conservative, it's okay.
00:10:57.115 --> 00:10:57.657 And you know what?
00:10:57.657 --> 00:10:59.485 People are waking up to this realization, stuart.
00:10:59.485 --> 00:11:05.349 I was in Atlanta, georgia, a few weeks ago and I want to tell you something In talking to the people there.
00:11:05.349 --> 00:11:07.955 The media is going to lambaste you.
00:11:07.955 --> 00:11:10.910 If you try to support Donald Trump, they're trying to intimidate you.
00:11:10.910 --> 00:11:13.649 If you're trying to support Donald Trump, they're trying to go after you.
00:11:13.649 --> 00:11:18.450 If you support JD Vance, that you're some sort of something must be wrong with you, that if you're doing that.
00:11:19.171 --> 00:11:21.197 But the people are saying enough is enough.
00:11:21.197 --> 00:11:32.972 They're reading the tea leaves, that they see what's going on here, that the promises made by the Democratic Party are not being delivered and you started with Debbie Wasserman Schultz and you know what.
00:11:32.972 --> 00:11:35.966 People are really sick and tired of this.
00:11:35.966 --> 00:11:36.990 Now listen.
00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:38.914 They don't love the Donald Trump statements.
00:11:38.914 --> 00:11:39.777 They don't care for that.
00:11:39.777 --> 00:11:45.888 They want food on the table, they want to lower their cost of living, they want to get rid of crime.
00:11:45.888 --> 00:11:48.714 They're sick and tired of the immigration problem, the border, etc.
00:11:48.714 --> 00:11:48.995 Etc.
00:11:48.995 --> 00:11:49.216 Etc.
00:11:50.586 --> 00:11:56.524 The name-calling that you hear from a Nancy Pelosi who, god forbid, you should even question.
00:11:56.524 --> 00:12:04.333 I don't know if you saw her interview with Jake Tapper Stuart, but Nancy Pelosi, well, god forbid you should criticize the Democratic Party.
00:12:04.333 --> 00:12:07.494 Not the only people being criticized.
00:12:07.494 --> 00:12:09.639 The Republicans and Democrats are Teflon.
00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:10.745 How dare you?
00:12:10.745 --> 00:12:11.769 You have no right.
00:12:11.769 --> 00:12:13.875 We are the party.
00:12:13.875 --> 00:12:15.740 That's what I'm paraphrasing here.
00:12:16.442 --> 00:12:28.461 This is the mindset, the arrogance, the absolute, sheer arrogance by the Democrats, and voters are picking up on that problem.
00:12:28.461 --> 00:12:32.926 They're picking up on all that crap.
00:12:32.926 --> 00:12:41.495 It is fascinating to me how many times you can hear the same shit, the same statements, over and over again by the Democrats.
00:12:41.495 --> 00:12:46.301 And we'll see tomorrow, stuart, tomorrow is the VP debate.
00:12:46.301 --> 00:12:56.097 Let's see if CBS does what ABC did Bullshit and lie, sway and pull, insult and denigrate.
00:12:56.097 --> 00:13:02.710 Let's see if they do that, because Vance Waltz is not the same thing as Trump and Harris.
00:13:02.710 --> 00:13:11.831 I don't think Vance is going to fall for the same thing that Donald Trump did, and I don't think Waltz is going to survive tomorrow, and so to me, this is going to be proof positive.
00:13:11.831 --> 00:13:20.437 How many more name calling are we going to hear from Waltz and Harris, and how much more are they going to insult Republican voters?
00:13:22.485 --> 00:13:33.846 David, I don't think there is literally going to be a fair and balanced debate, and you know it's not possible at this point.
00:13:33.846 --> 00:13:45.652 But I think JD Vance, a skilled attorney, is going to be able to make mincemeat of the coach just off his military record, because he's a yellow belly.
00:13:45.652 --> 00:13:48.576 That's what you call this guy.
00:13:48.576 --> 00:13:52.273 There's a title, it's a name, not calling you a name like a jerk.
00:13:52.273 --> 00:14:01.172 Someone that doesn't show for when they get called is a yellow belly and he's a chicken and he's going to get called out being a chicken.
00:14:01.408 --> 00:14:02.465 I'm going to enjoy it.
00:14:02.465 --> 00:14:04.292 But you know what?
00:14:04.292 --> 00:14:06.373 Think about the comments made at JD Vance?
00:14:06.373 --> 00:14:12.277 You know he's in a mixed marriage and they insulted him about white children.
00:14:12.277 --> 00:14:21.037 They insulted him about like there is no limit, so do I think that Waltz is not going to go after JD Vance in some way?
00:14:21.037 --> 00:14:22.865 Let's be prepared for tomorrow.
00:14:24.230 --> 00:14:24.852 You know what?
00:14:24.852 --> 00:14:28.174 I will not be surprised when there are racists on air.
00:14:28.174 --> 00:14:31.393 David, we've got to wrap this up, because you know what I did.
00:14:31.894 --> 00:14:32.296 We're done.
00:14:32.904 --> 00:14:35.913 My wife's car is blocked in and I need to get her an Uber to get her to work.
00:14:35.913 --> 00:14:37.697 Wow, all right guys.
00:14:37.697 --> 00:14:38.749 Any last words?
00:14:38.788 --> 00:14:41.812 David Not after that remark let's go, I know.
00:14:42.274 --> 00:14:43.504 I know, and that's a wrap.
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