Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down in episode 28...

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Pluto, of course. And the much-maligned Eris! But who else made the cut?

Elites “view free speech as a threat” because of its power, a top Federal Communications Commission official stated. FCC commissioner Brendan Carr called out government and social media censorship efforts and praised free speech. “Established gatekeepers are engaged in an intentional and coordinated effort to silence political speech they don’t like by slapping the label ‘misinformation’ on it,” Carr warned Sunday on X. Carr’s remarks come amid mounting concerns that the left is weaponizing the label of “misinformation” to censor the constitutionally-protected speech of political opponents. “‘Misinformation’ is the new misinformation,” he commented, highlighting the paradox. The censors, Carr continued, are not concerned about ensuring that online users “will be misled by the words they’ve chosen to read,” but rather “they’re worried that those words will be effective.” He insisted that both media and government leaders “view free speech as a threat.  It undermines their ability to control the narrative and to ensure their continued positions in an established hierarchy.” Hence, Carr wrote, the “extreme” response to online speech from the powers-that-be. “Free speech is a democratizing force; it is the antidote to control.” Censors aim to control both thoughts and words, Carr insisted, forcing others into their own personal worldview.  “Their goal is to lobotomize free thinking and pour in the cement of official orthodoxy,” he added. “Censorship, after all, is about sweeping away all opposition.  It seeks to replace free thinking with political tribalism.” Carr continued that free speech is both “necessary for our political freedom” and for innovation. “Only through a robust, uninhibited, and wide-open debate will we solve our most pressing and complex problems. It is imperative that free speech win out over censorship,” he concluded. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment and provide an equal platform for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using MRC Free Speech America’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Censorship-obsessed Google seems to be buying off California news outlets with a bombshell deal to fund and influence the state’s journalism enterprise in the middle of an election year. California was reportedly considering a bill to force Big Tech platforms to pay certain media outlets for the right to share news, and a second bill to tax digital ads. But California Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, are declaring victory after getting Google to commit to a $250 million bargain with the state.  Some groups are criticizing the deal, which will provide hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, taxpayers and possibly other sources to shape the future of journalism, according to National Review. And if Google’s and California’s sordid records are any indication, that future is undoubtedly marked by another radical lurch leftward.  Google has already spent years interfering in elections on behalf of radical Democrats, as multiple MRC Free Speech America studiesrevealed, but now it could have an even more direct effect on the news citizens read at the state level. Indeed, Google’s search has suppressed Independent and Republican presidential candidates and boosted Democrat nominee Kamala Harris. MRC VP for Free Speech Dan Schneider sounded the alarm, “Gavin Newsom and Google have come up with a seditious plan to pre-write the future. Through this Berkeley-based initiative, they will infect every reporter with an invisible prejudice through the power of AI. They are using Google’s resources to dictate tomorrow’s history today.” Schneider continued, “This is beyond Orwellian. With a tiny portion of its annual revenue, Google is going to use every reporter and news outlet to remake society in its own warped image.”  National Review reported that the deal, supported both by Google (maker of Gemini) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, particularly focuses on providing artificial intelligence (AI) to journalists for experimentation. National Review noted that “[s]ome journalist groups” are concerned AI could replace journalists rather than assisting them. But Google’s checkered history with AI makes this development even worse. The leftist bias of Google’s Gemini AI chatbot is nothing short of extreme. Between March and July, MRC researchers prompted Gemini and received ten responses clearly illustrating the AI’s anti-American bias. For instance, the chatbot asserted the Star-Spangled Banner is a source of “potential offensiveness” and cited a report from the tyrannical Chinese Communist government to argue America’s constitutional republic might not be the best system. Gemini has also been slammed for its anti-white bias in its image generation feature, depicting Africans and Asians even when prompted for Vikings. Besides the $62.5 million for the AI accelerator, the University of California, Berkeley and its Graduate School of Journalism will be in charge of distributing more funding to California news organizations through the News Transformation Fund, according to National Review. Unions including Pacific Media Workers Guild, Media Guild of the West and the NewsGuild-CWA, reportedly slammed the “disastrous” deal with Google, “The future of journalism should not be decided in backroom deals.” State senator Steve Glazer (D) also criticized the deal. National Review further reported that a number of factors, including declining credibility and a struggling economy, have caused some news outlets in California to cut staff or shut down. While Google will be able to provide the needed money in California, its history of censorship and election interference in favor of the radical left make its objectivity in this new deal highly questionable. Conservatives are under attack. Contact Googleand demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment and provide an equal platform for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using MRC Free Speech America’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

As they have all week (click the links for recaps on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), ABC’s Good Morning America had the best (or worst?) body of work gleefully devouring propaganda from the Democratic National Convention like drunk college kids hankering for late-night pizza.  On Friday, they drooled over “what a night” for Vice President Kamala Harris, giving a “Morning in America” speech that could have been given “at a Republican convention...before Trump” and doubled as “a call to action” for “moderates, middle class, and Middle America” in the mold of “Maggie Thatcher or Ronald Reagan.”     The worst part came at the end of their DNC coverage in the first half-hour as co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos beamed this doozy to chief Washington correspondent and three-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl: “[A]s I look at who this speech was aimed at last night, I think of a lot of m-words: moderates, middle class, middle America.” Karl dutifully uncorked this cockamamie assertion that, “if you take out the section on abortion rights, much of this speech could have been delivered at a Republican convention, a Republican convention before Trump” and a fact-check to Republicans describing her “as a San Francisco liberal, as a radical, they call her comrade Kamala.” “She talks tough on Iran. She promised that, as commander in chief, America would have the most lethal and strongest fighting force in the world. She talked tough on Russia, on China. She talked about border security. She really gave a speech that was designed to go at independents, moderates, disaffected Republicans, the vast majority of undecided voters in the country,” Karl added. After making an esoteric allusion to Harris targeting “moderates” was “quite a contrast from the way she ran for president the first time” (but making no mention of the policies she held), Karl dropped this instant Notable Quotable: “This is a Kamala Harris that sounded a little bit more like Maggie Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, especially on national security, than like Bernie Sanders.” Stephanopoulos doubled down: “Well, and it’s interesting you mention that. There was more talk about Ronald Reagan at the Democratic convention than Republican convention and the Democrats making a play to claim patriotism on their side.” Karl obviously agreed by claiming Trump’s doom and gloom was fear-mongering and that it’s Harris who embodies Reagan. He even touted the so-called Republicans voting blue in November as “patriot[s]”: Donald Trump has used words like American carnage to talk about America, has portrayed a more isolationist, protectionist view that is at odds with what Ronald Reagan was all about. So, this was Kamala Harris. I mean, she didn’t say the word city on a hill like Ronald Reagan did, but full embrace of patriotism. The American flags waving here. The chants of USA, USA, USA. This is a party under Kamala Harris that is saying that — appealing to patriotism. You also heard the message, George, from Republican speakers every night, saying voting for Kamala Harris is not about being a Republican or Democrat, it’s about being a patriot. Stephanopoulos got things going in the teases, passing along Harris’s characterizations of Trump as fact: “Overnight Kamala Harris makes her case and makes history...catapulted from running mate to top of the ticket, making her case to be commander in chief...[S]he hones in on Donald Trump, calling him an unserious man and vows to take the country forward.” “What a night at the Democratic National Convention,” he exclaimed moments later. Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce was eager to weigh in, boasting of Harris “stepping...into history” to “argu[e] Doanld Trump presents a danger to democracy” (click “expand”): BRUCE: Well, Kamala Harris told the crowd she is no stranger to unlikely journeys. And, last night, she shared hers with the nation, reintroducing herself to voters, taking shots at Donald Trump and, yes, making history, too. Overnight, Kamala Harris stepping on to the convention stage and into history. HARRIS: On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth, I accept your nomination to be the president of the United States of America. BRUCE: The first black woman and first Asian-American to accept the nomination of a major party, sharing her American story, the daughter of immigrants, her world view shaped by the strength of her mother. (....) BRUCE: With her family watching proudly on, Harris speaking to the urgency of the moment. HARRIS: Our nation, with this election, has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past. A chance to chart a new way forward. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Not — not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans. And let me say, I know there are people of various political views watching tonight. I want you to know: I promise to be a president for all Americans. BRUCE: Harris arguing Donald Trump presents a danger to democracy. HARRIS: In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences — but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. [SCREEN WIPE] Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails. “The former prosecutor, point by point, laying out her case against Trump, saying he would put wealthy Americans ahead of the middle class, and continue to endanger reproductive freedoms,” she giddily added. Following a portion recapping her foreign policy passage, Bruce cheered Harris giving marching orders with “with a call to action...vowing to take the country forward.” Bruce got in one more swooning: “Women, especially black women, in their white suffragettes, overcome by emotion. This was a convention like we have never seen before, from the many celebrity appearances to those barn-burner speeches by political heavyweights.” To see the relevant ABC transcript from August 23 (including part of an interview with Kerry Washington when she was asked about being a DNC emcee), click here.

Comedian and podcaster Theo Von has been on fire with his interviews lately — and his sit-down with Bernie Sanders is no exception. Which is why Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shared a timely clip from “This Past Weekend” during which Sanders admits that the Democratic Party robbed him of winning the Democratic Party's nomination after he won the first few primaries. “I felt like you didn’t get treated fairly, to be honest,” Von tells Sanders of his run for Democratic presidential nominee. “That’s what happens when you take on the establishments. What happened is we won the first three primaries, and then the establishment got very, very nervous,” Sanders explains. “There were a whole lot of candidates in the Democratic primary, and they said, ‘Hey, it’d be a good idea if you all dropped out, let Joe Biden be the one candidate.’” “Do they call? Is there a call that you get and it’s like you’re not going to move forward?” Von asks, adding, “How does the establishment work?” “What happened is I won the popular vote in Iowa. I won the New Hampshire primary. I won the Nevada primary. And those were the first three, and then the front page of the New York Times: ‘Democratic Establishment very nervous Bernie Sanders could win the whole thing.’” Sanders said pressure was applied to the other candidates to drop out in order for Biden to win, and once they did, everyone rallied around the current president. “Do you think that our election process is still Democratic?” Von asks. “Yes and no,” Sanders responds. “If you’re going to win, and I have 10 times more money than you do, I will beat you 95% of the time. I mean, that’s a fact.” “In terms of who has the real power, money people do. And I use the term oligarchy, and oligarchy is a society where small numbers of very wealthy people control the economic and political life of the country. I think we are moving rapidly in that direction,” he adds. “It feels like an almost privatized communism in a way,” Von responds. “That’s a very good point,” Sanders says, pleasantly surprised. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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