Media Uncuriosity Bias

the newspaper, just exactly there. If one more thing had happened, they'd have to print another page. Which makes the point the media selects what they're going to talk about. Local newspapers, local television stations, national newspapers, national television news, cable news, et cetera. They all have a kind of selection, and there is that This is part of the job of editors and folks who work in newspapers is to assign reporters to work on stories. How hard are you going

to dig? And I think the bias that infects these people because it's pervasive, it's all up and down the chain of command within newspapers, media outlets, et cetera. I think we're now finally getting to the point where some of the people who own some of the newspapers, some of the media outlets, are realizing, Hey, this hard left anti Trump posture doesn't make sense. He got way more votes than he got more votes than Kamala Harris did.

He beat her in the popular vote. Clearly we are out of step with much of the country here, almost a majority of the country. Now, let me give you a tale of two media stories to show you the lack of interest, the lack of interest that the media has in some things, and the extreme degree of interest the media has in other things. Pete hag Seth versus the young man who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh. So

some of you may recall barely. Maybe I don't know if you actually do recall, because it just got buried as a story. Nobody talked about it. In the spring of twenty twenty two, the draft opinion, a draft opinion of the US Supreme Court got leaked to the press. It was a leaked draft opinion of what looked like was going to be the majority opinion in the dis

versus Jackson Women's Health Organization case. This was the case that was going to overturn Robie Wade Dobbs is going to go down as one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American history. Its draft decision got leaked to the press, which immediately ramped up public scrutiny, focus and anger on the political left against the conservative justices on the Supreme Court, who it was assumed were supporting it.

Between the release of the draft document and the actual issuing of the final Supreme Court decision, which I believe happened on June twenty fourth of twenty twenty two, a man was arrested at the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He had a gun, he had zip ties, he had rope, and after he was arrested, he told the cops straight up, my goal was to murder Brett Kavanaugh and then kill myself, maybe to kill two other conservative justices. But this guy wasn't a dummy. He did

the math. He knew how this would work if Brett Kavanaugh had been murdered before the final issuing of the Dobs ruling, which is where we That was temporarily where we were. It was before the June twenty fourth release of the document. After the release of the draft. If Brett Kavanaugh had been murdered, the Conservatives wouldn't have had

five justices supporting that what became the majority decision. You would have only had four, and then Justice Roberts's mealy mouthed middle of the road concurrence would have been the controlling ruling if Kavanaugh had died. So this guy that you had the leak of the Supreme Court majority decision, protesters were protesting outside of Supreme Court Justices houses, this which President Biden and his Attorney General refused to enforce the law that says people can't do that outside of

Supreme Court Justices houses. The draft decision was out there. A guy was motivated by that draft decision to murder a Supreme Court justice to alter the outcome of what everyone saw was going to be one of the most monumentally important cases in the Supreme Court history. How much have you heard about that story about that individual person who tried to kill Brett Cavan. I honestly still don't

know his name. I have to like look up his name in order to I have to like look up his name in order to do a story about it. We haven't heard anything about it for two years. We're now starting to hear some stuff about it. There's some stuff happening in the criminal trial. They're trying to his attorneys. He's got federal public defenders representing him because I believe it happened in the District of Columbia, or maybe the FEDS are prosecuting Actually, I'm not sure if it happened

in DC or in either Virginia or Maryland. The Feds are prosecuting it because he's trying to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. They're trying to determine if his admissions to the cops should be entered into evidence against him. They're trying to determine if he is mentally competent to stand trial.

But you've heard nothing about it. Let me just guarantee you if everything were reversed, If the Supreme Court, if a draft decision from the Court had been issued indicating that Rob Wade was going to be affirmed barely, and some nutjob pro lifer had been arrested at the home of Sonya Soda Mayor with the idea that he was going to murder her, it would have been the trial of the Center and the certainly the trial of the decade.

Everyone would know that guy's name, and it would have become a universal referendum on the whole pro life movement. Does the pro life movement of a violence problem? Every pro lifer I would have been called that, do you condemn the actions of this man who wanted to assassinate Sonya Soda mayor every pro lifer would have been called on to condemn this person's actions with this sort of tone of like, hey, so when did you start beating your wife? Assuming that we all like violence. It would

have been the trial of the century. But the media is just not interested in it because it was from their side. It was from the liberal side. It was someone obviously motivated by liberal politics wanting to assassinate a

Supreme Court justice, and they just don't care. We got basically no coverage of this guy who tried to assassinate Breck Kavanaugh, and no further focus on the person who leaked that draft in the Dobbs case back in the spring of twenty twenty two, which obviously put the justices of the Supreme Court at risk. I think the leaking of that decision was deliberately done to try to intimidate the justices in the majority to not rule as they

were planning to. It was a clearly politically calculated move. Kui bono, who benefited? Who would have benefited from it? Clearly the left would have benefited. The whole point of it was to try to threaten, intimidate, put pressure on the Conservatives in the majority of that decision, and it put a target on their back because people realized, Hey, if we murder a couple of these Supreme Court justices, it can flip the outcome of the decision. And that's

precisely what almost happened to Brett Kavanaugh. A guy was found right outside of his house with a gun in zip ties. Now no focus on the Supreme Court draft document leaker. They didn't identify the person. The Supreme Court had their the Marshal of the Supreme Court, who's like in charge of like security security guard work at the Supreme Court building. Oh, she's in charge of it. No, have the whole FBI investigated. It's amazing to me in

a town. One of the things I kind of picked up on lately is how small of a town DC is in some ways, Like I says, some reporter saying something, this female reporter talking about a news anchor, this conservative female reporter, and it was this really sort of mean girl's ish comment about this one prominent news anchor and how vain he is because he goes to her gym and she sees and oh, he's always doing that. He's everyone. He's notorious at our gym for doing blah blah blah

bla blah. So like this prominent national figure that everyone knows about because they go to the same gym or something. DC in the politics and media world is really a pretty darn small town people know people. The idea that the Meatia couldn't find the Supreme Court leaker find it hard to believe. I really find it hard to believe. I think they didn't want to find the leaker. That's what I think. I think if the media had real

interest in it, they would have found the leaker. And I say this because of the other story that I want to contrast this with, where the media is very interested. Pete hag Seth, now Pete hag Seth, as you know, is Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Defense. His initial hearings for his initial confirmation hearings actually started today the Senate has taken up the Senate now that it

is under Republican control following January third. On January third, new members of the Senate which worn in the new Republican majority, was sworn in. So they're having their initial confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth. As some of you may may know, I think it was in twenty nineteen, Pete Hegseth spoke for an event in Monterey. It was a California Republican Women event, and the story is that he met a woman at a bar. He slept with her. She later tried to claim that it was sexual assault.

The Monterey police investigated it. They did not arrest mister Hegseth. They did not charge mister Hegseath. They did not find any evidence. They decided not to pursue any criminal action against mister Hegseth. Now, I'll admit the story does not make me like Pete Hegseth. He's got a sketchy personal life. I like his attitude towards the military. I think it's an interesting it's an interesting pick. I don't think it's

a bad pick. My caveat is his personal life is kind of a train wreck, and frankly, I think that can become a national security issue when you're talking about, you know, the guy cheated on like two or three wives, When you're talking about someone who's gonna be entrusted with highly sensitive classified military information, I don't know, some pretty young Russian thing in a skirt goes by, and you know, it's not like our adversaries would be above doing something

like that. It's been known to happen in world history. Nonetheless, I if you would, if we could completely put Hexas's personal life to the side, I think he's an interesting pick. Let me tell you how interested the media has been in that Monterey twenty nineteen event. Reporters from The Washington Post, New York Times, et cetera have been crawling over that story. Diane Pearce, who's a Clovis City council member, posted something to her Facebook page to say, I have been contacted

multiple multiple times by reporters from various outlets. So I'm just going to state here for the record what I know. Because I was at that twenty nineteen Republican Women thing. I didn't see Pete Haggseeth do anything. I didn't see him do anything bad all. He gave a talk for our event, and that was it. My own now, Diane Pierce said that my own. I know other people who were at this event, people who got contacted by national reporters,

people who are not prominent people. Somehow the national media was able to get the guest list for this twenty nineteen Republicans Women shindig. They were able to crawl through that list and find all of the names of all the individual attendees, whom clearly they called every single person, crawling all over this twenty nineteen story about Pete hag Seth and his this alleged sexual assault that the Monterey Police thoroughly investigated and decided not to pursue, or as

thoroughly as one can, I suppose. They are clearly so interested in this story they desperately want to make it into a story, desperately, so desperately that they're calling up random ladies from Fresno, California to try it. Hey, you were at this event in twenty nineteen, five years ago, six years ago, do you recall? You know? But we're not covering at all the story of the guy who almost assassinated Brett Kavanaugh. It takes us two full years

to confirm the authenticity of Hunter Biden's laptop. The bias that the media has I think is most often being exercised at this level of what are we interested in? What are we going to cover? Because I think the and sometimes I think it's honest. I think they honestly think, well, no one wants to hear about that because they're liberals and they don't want to hear about it. I think sometimes it's honest, it's honest. I don't even know. Sometimes

that it's some sinister motive. I think somepot, some crackpot thing a whole laptop allegedly full of Hunter Biden's emails that Rudy Giuliani got to a well whatever, no one's going to want to hear about that, and all these intelligence operatives say it's probably Russian disinformation anyway, so they're not interested in it. It just the compare and contrast between how swarmingly interested the media is over this twenty nineteen story about pig Pete hegseeth versus nobody cares about

the Supreme Court leaker. Nobody cares about the guy who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh no one cares that they just don't cover it. When we return a local story where maybe lack of interest led to a lack of coverage bit Wise and the Fresno be next on the John Girardi Show. My basic thesis is that media bias is most often exercised in the form of what do we actually cover? What stories do we actually cover or

not cover? And I think very often liberals just aren't interested in covering Maybe it's a combo of genuine disinterests versus sort of political motivations, et cetera. They're just not really interested in covering stories that might be helpful to conservatives. Helpful to conservatives are harmful to liberals. And I was trying to think of a good example of this locally, and I don't even know how much this cuts one

way or another conservative versus liberal. Although bit Wise did kind of try to code itself as a liberal leaning entity. They made a big deal about the fact that one of their co CEOs, Irma Olgwin, was a lesbian woman, and that she was the first lesbian CEO, one of the first lesbian Latina CEOs, blah blah blah blah blah, and that's the bit Wise story, the rise and fall bit Wise as a prominent local company that got way more press attention, way more press, adulation and love than

seemed fitting. And then it all came crashing down when they all of a sudden they announced they were firing a bunch of their employees, and all of a sudden was like, Oh, they have no more money left, They're going out of business. And then oh, they've builked investors out of millions and millions, millions and millions of bit Wise, and never I warned people don't invest in them millions

and millions of dollars. As Donald Trump would say, they bilked their investors out of millions and millions of dollars, and they might have given them false financials in order to encourage them to invest those millions and millions of dollars and to get loans and things like that. Kiddies, let me give you some criminal law one on one. There's a thing. There's a word we use for lying to get money. Lying to get money is another way of saying fraud. When you read the word fraud, just

think lying for money. And it's pretty good shorthand so. And by the way, in retrospect, I'll admit, you know, and it's not like I predicted it. I was not on the radio here talking about how the other the other shoes gonna drop on bit Wise. I'm not gonna claim that I predicted it or anything because I didn't. I do recall though, one time having a private conversation, I gonna how much can I take credit for private

conversations with my buddy producer Colton A producer. Colton works for me at Right to Life and he helps produce Right to Life Radio, which you can listen to Saturday mornings at nine. And he had started work for us and he does kind of a lot of techy things for us at Right to Life. And we were driving doing some work stuff and we were driving by downtown President we saw the sign for one of the Bitwise buildings in downtown and I knew Colton was kind of

techie and he, you know, went to Presno State. I said, hey, Colton, what does Bitwise do exactly? And he said, you know, I applied for a job there and they were really big like that, had a lot of presents for us at Fresno State when I was there. I don't know what they do, and that was that was always sort of a sign to me of like, hmm, how solid is this company that neither one of us actually knows what

they do? Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this bit Wise and the Fresno b literally shared the same building, literally the same building, and the Fresno Bee never found out anything bad about bit Wise until after they announced they were firing all their staff, they were laying off all the staff. So what is that? Is that incompetence? Is that a lack of interest? Is it? You know, there's bit Wise, this kind of liberal coded

kind of entity. Oh, we want to bring Silicon Valley to the San Joaquin Valley, you know, oh tech jobs and getting away from ag or. You know, they were this sort of liberal coded sort of entity. So did they just not want to look at bad things that they knew about it? I mean, they're very eager to go after you know, community Hospital or the asseemes or

whatever allegis shenanigans are happening. And with Clovis Community, you know, I guess the asseemes are not as lib coded, but we don't want to go after bit Why is this company that's getting millions and millions of dollars in investment. That's literally right here in your building, this building you share. It's an interesting dynamic. Again. I just think the media exercises its bias chiefly in the form of what they

are and aren't interested in. When we return the rise of dumb online influencers on the right and ways they are misleading young men next on the John Girardi Show. One thing that's been kind of encouraging is to see that Gen Z males shifting. They are shifting to the right. And I've even noticed this kind of anecdotally, just I do a lot of stuff with Right to Life of

talking to teenagers. I talk for a lot of church confirmation programs and youth groups and things like that, all up and down, all up and down the San Joaquin Valley where it's usually some churches youth group or confirmation group, and they have me come in as a guest speaker, and I've seen more and more how open and accepting young men are to some of our pro life messages.

Sort of anecdotally, but it's been sort of impressive how the left has so often banked on younger people voting for them and then those young people over time get smarter and start actually paying taxes and realize, hey, maybe it's dumb to keep voting for Democrats, wasn't. It's a quote assigned to Winston Churchill that if you're not a communist when you're twenty, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative when you're fifty, you have no brain,

or something like that. So for young men to already be kind of conservative leaning is sort of a head start. And now it's contrasted with the overwhelming liberalism of young women, which is kind of disturbing. It's sort of disturbing to see this dichotomy between boys and girls in their or

young men and young women in their twenties to teens. Nonetheless, one of the things I've seen with this sort of right word shift among young men, which is not altogether positive, and I think any of these kind of political and social shifts and movements we have to be clear eyed about and not just uncritically accept them as either great

or terrible. Is the rise of the right wing media influencer. Now, one of the interesting things about the right wing media influencer is that they get sort of labeled as right wing by the media and young men on the right tend to like them, even though most of these people were not very conservative to begin with. Like, people are referring to Joe Rogan as a right wing podcaster or a right wing media influencer or something like that because

he endorsed he ultimately wound up endorsing Donald Trump. Joe Rogan was a Bernie Sanders supporter, like five minutes ago. Okay, Joe Rogan was not a conservative. He's not He's not very conservative on a lot of things. A lot of these alleged right wing influencers are not even really all that political some of them, and if they are political, they're not even really necessarily that right wing. They have. They were sort of disenchanted with Kamala Harris and he's

sort of fascinated by Donald Trump, but I wouldn't. I mean, like, you have comedians who have podcasts like Theo Von. This was like a kind of a significant moment in the campaign. Theo Von, who's a comedian from Louisiana who's really funny.

He had Donald Trump on his podcast and it was kind of a fascinating interview where he talked about his prior addiction to cocaine and Trump was talking with him about it because Trump Trump famously is something of a teetootler and doesn't touch alcohol, in part because Trump's own brother sort of destroyed his life through alcoholism, and so Trump has it was actually this really almost kind of a moving conversation that you would have never expected from

these two people. But theo Von's not like a political guy at all. He's a comedian. And more and more you're seeing conservatives going to these platforms that are not necessarily very right wing or very left wing, just because that's where a lot of young men are. And you

saw Kamala Harris not go to them. Why because she was surrounded by dumb, stupid moron millennial staffers who remember that one time in two thousand and nine, Joe Rogan said the N word, not because he was calling someone an N word, but like saying it to discuss it or something, And therefore Joe Rogan is a bad or. Theovaughn said a bad word about in a comedy special

one time. So oh, we can't go on there. Because Kamala Harris's campaign was full of the stupidest human beings imaginable, who are so convinced that this and this is oh my god, this is such a millennial versus Zoomer cultural difference. Okay, Millennials being people born more or less from I don't know, nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety five, I don't know, nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety five ish, and then

Zoomers being people born after nineteen ninety five. Basically, the difference between these two groups is, you've got Zoomers are just so much less hung up over people being canceled. Millennials here that one person, one time said one thing bad, and that person is verboten bad. Because Millennials have this extreme angst of being judged negatively by their more liberal leaning peers or by the more liberal leaning culture and

themselves being canceled. They want to be sure that they have the right opinions about the right kinds of things, and if you say a wrong word, then oh, you're a bad person. Meanwhile, Zoomers are just like willing to laugh, I don't know, less hung up on these things. Seemingly, now, these are positive. I find some of these things to be positive. However, other aspects of this are not positive. Where this attitude that basically, anyone coming from the right

must therefore be a friend. Anyone on the left is bad, but anyone coming who is vaguely right coded, who is quote anti woke coded, is therefore automatically a friend. And this brings me to someone like Andrew Tait. So let's talk about him. Andrew Tait was a professional kickboxer. He then got into business interests where basically he promoted women as OnlyFans models. By OnlyFans model, what we mean is he by only fans model, what I mean is pornography. Okay.

So women who go on to OnlyFans men pay for subscriptions to watch view their erotic content videos where they take the clothes off. That's what only fans is, okay. So Tate would help promote them to get them more views, et cetera, and would take a cut of their earnings. There's a word for that. It's called being a pimp.

That's what he is, Okay. There are more and more unsavory allegations, including audio clips of him talking on the phone with some of these women that he was their allegations that he raped some of these women, that he physically abused these women. He has been accused of sex trafficking in Romania, where he basically his background. I think he's like half British and he sort of seems to have been splitting his time between Great Britain and Romania.

In Romania, he and his brother were arrested in charge with sex trafficking and he sort of wound up making a name for himself, appearing on lots of podcasts and doing his own podcasts and things like that, talking about like being successful and how to be successful and how to work hard and how to exercise. That you've got to exercise. You gotta work hard, you gotta That's how he leads you to success. He promoted what's called an MLM, a pyramid scheme for young men to subscribe to his

Top G academy. He refers to himself as a top G a top gangster. I guess is what that means, which I guess is appealing to some people. Sign up for this and you can be as successful as me. And he got a bunch of stupid young men to give him a bunch of money with the idea of you give me a bunch of money, and I teach you about how to promote OnlyFans models yourselves. And the problem is that he's received because he's sort of now

he's said a bunch of non PC things. By the way, he also converted to Islam specifically for the misogyny that that was the specific reason why. Basically he liked the idea of in Islam that you can have polygamy and women had to shut up, and that that or at least the interpretations of Islam common in certain countries in the Middle East. He's specifically converted to his for that reason. So that's lovely. So this is not a good person,

all right. This is not a Christian person. This is not like someone we should be promoting as a positive role model. And yet people on the right keep putting him on their platforms to talk to him because it gets clicks. They keep platforming him, promoting him as if he's some kind of acceptable person and not you know,

a pimp and a sex trafficker. Tucker Carlson even had him on, which you know, I've liked Tucker Carlson a lot, but clearly Tucker is feeling the sting of not having a show on Fox News, and it's leading him to talk to literally anybody I guess that will generate him eyeballs and views, and it leads me to you know, I hear people anecdotally talking about this problem that all kinds of young even Christian men, are like watching Andrew Tate stuff and think Andrew Tate is cool, and think,

you know, putting Andrew Tate quotes in their yearbooks, even in like Christian schools and things like that. And why is that? Well, I think, in large part, is there a lack of cool Christian men out there who can serve as role models for people? I don't know. I mean, we've always had kind of the Tim Tebow types of the world. I was reading this from this woman named Helen Roy who writes for a lot of different conservative publications.

But one of the things she so her comment on this that I thought was smart was it's not a lack of positive role models like the Tim Tebow types. That We've always had good Christian male role models, and even right now there are better role models than Andrew Tait. Joe Rogan's a cool guy. Who ever did sex trafficking? I don't know, nor is the problem like that's an overly feminized society. We have women in the workplace. Well, that's not the reason. That's a cheap scapegoat, she writes.

I think part of it is his approach to women makes sense for a culture where ninety nine percent of boys by the time they're twelve have been exposed to real hardcore pornography. Pornography is so pervasive among teenagers and teenage boys especially, and it's this massive problem that I think anyone as a Christian has to combat, has to grapple with that. It's warping our perception of among our young men, of what it actually means to be a man.

I think you're seeing more young men correctly identifying that sort of theft. The lefty vision of what it needs to be a young man is wrong. But pornography has so warped their perceptions that they're finding this meaning in the wrong places too. When we return, Gavin Newsom's still chugging on with his special anti trumping Session of the

Legislature next on The John Girardi Show. Since he is an incredibly vain man, Newsom can't admit that he's wrong, but kind of has to admit there are bigger priorities right now than stopping Donald Trump at all. Costs, especially when he needs federal money to help with the wildfires. So the Republicans in the legislature said, hey, why are we still going forward with this special legislative session for Trump proofing California giving the Attorney general a bunch more

money to sue Donald Trump or to sue the Trump administration. Rather, so we should be having a special session on combating wildfires. And so Newsom said, it's a special session for stopping Trump and combating wildfires. Great job, gav Yes, that'll preserve your ability to run for president. I'm sure that'll do it. John J already shows see you next time on Power Talk.