By the way most of the media is covering it, you would think Donald Trump himself was personally involved with the disappearance of journalist Jamaal Khashoggi. Bestselling author and Daily Wire podcast host Andrew Klavan examined why the media feels they can do this, and how it ends up hurting the entire country.
“Put your petty bias [to the side] — if you want to sit around at dinner and say ‘it’s all Trump’s fault,’ but don’t go on TV, don’t go in front of a camera and take your petty, stupid, biased point of view and blame the American president for killing a man, which is essentially what they did,” he said.
“That is the news turning to crap,” he continued. “There’s nothing wrong with taking a stand and saying something must be done, there’s nothing wrong with bringing pressure — that’s what the press should do, it should bring moral pressure on the government because the government wants to act always in terms of realpolitik, but the press should be there as a moral voice.”
Klavan continued: “Donald Trump didn’t do this, they keep saying ‘well all he cares about is the money’ — it’s not all he cares about, he didn’t do this, he didn’t kill anybody. They are the enemy of the people because they do this garbage. This is an actual serious situation, a delicate foreign policy incident and it has to be dealt with. Then just to make sure that they hadn’t quite destroyed every vestige of responsibility, every vestige of trust we have ever had in them, they have to make it about their little game that they play identity politics, it has to be about race.”
Video and transcript below.
Andrew Klavan: First of all, we have the detectives of the press, the Sherlock Holmes of the press, they found the murderer of Jamaal Khashoggi – they have found out who is responsible for this crime:
Joe Scarborough: “Did Donald Trump, who has always been critical of the Washington Post, always been critical of his ownership, did anybody in the administration – Jared Kushner – did they give MBS sort of a nod and a wink to say it’s okay?”
Brian Stelter: “I wonder if you look at what’s happened in the last 12 days, and you wonder if ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric, not just from President Trump but also then from other world leaders, has anything to do with this – anything at all.”
Klavan: Brian Stelter and Joe Scarborough – they should put their heads in a bucket just to wash the crap out of their brains. Put your petty bias [to the side] – if you want to sit around at dinner and say “it’s all Trump’s fault”, but don’t go on TV, don’t go in front of a camera and take your petty, stupid, biased point of view and blame the American president for killing a man, which is essentially what they did. That is the news turning to crap. There’s nothing wrong with taking a stand and saying something must be done, there’s nothing wrong with bringing pressure – that’s what the press should do, it should bring moral pressure on the government because the government wants to act always in terms of realpolitik, but the press should be there as a moral voice.
Donald Trump didn’t do this, they keep saying “well all he cares about is the money” – it’s not all he cares about, he didn’t do this, he didn’t kill anybody. They are the enemy of the people because they do this garbage. This is an actual serious situation, a delicate foreign policy incident and it has to be dealt with. Then just to make sure that they hadn’t quite destroyed every vestige of responsibility, every vestige of trust we have ever had in them, they have to make it about their little game that they play – identity politics, it has to be about race. So Jason Johnson is on MSNBC, I don’t usually pick on MSNBC because I know they’re just leftist clowns, and they announce it, it’s not like they lie about it like the New York Times, but you just have to listen to this:
Jason Johnson: “[Trump] basically said ‘I don’t care, it was a brown journalist, he’s not an American and I’m perfectly happy with our relationship with Turkey, and I’m perfectly happy with our relationship with Saudi Arabia.’… I’m not going to name any particular news networks, but I suspect that if this was someone who was an American who was born here of a different color, and perhaps representing a news outlet that the president was more happy with, he may have a very different opinion about how serious this is, and whether or not Saudi Arabia should be held accountable.”
Klavan: There is a video going around, you may have seen it because it’s practically gone viral, a video going around of this guy tearing up signs in Texas for Ted Cruz. What makes this guy think that his point of view is so precious that he has the right to commit these acts of vandalism? But he’s tearing up signs and the guy who put the signs there goes after him with the video cam and gets him on tape, and this is how you get this guy, it’s this constant barrage of bias and stupidity, twisting every story to their left-wing purposes, every single story creating this cloud, this atmosphere that something is terribly wrong when nothing is wrong except in Saudi Arabia.