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Biden’s Team Says He’s Having A “BIG BOY” Press Conference!

2024/7/10
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吉米·多尔认为白宫发言人将总统新闻发布会称为“大男孩新闻发布会”是不合适的,这反映了他们对总统精神状态的担忧,并暗示了白宫内部对总统能力的质疑。他认为这种说法既愚蠢又贬低总统,并质疑白宫是否试图掩盖总统日益衰退的精神状态,甚至可能故意让他处于困境。 白宫发言人则在新闻发布会上对拜登总统的健康状况问题闪烁其词,回避直接回答记者的提问,这引发了记者的强烈不满和质疑,进一步加剧了人们对总统健康状况的担忧。

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So they did a press conference today at the White House and they wanted to let you know that Joe Biden has a rigorous schedule. In fact, he's going to even do a press conference. He's going to do a press conference. They announced that he's going to do one, like he's going to go have an MMA fight or something.

Watch how they say it. You're not going to believe this. Watch how they say it. So this is Kirby, right? I think that's what that guy's name is. Watch how they say it. After that, the president will hold a press conference. I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. He calls it a big boy press conference. He turned to Karine, Karine, Karine, Karine, Karine. He turned to her, this woman, he turned to her and she confirmed, yes, it's a big boy press conference.

You want to hear that again? Because I do. I'm going to play it again. Here we go. This is real. This really happened. After that, the president will hold a press conference. I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. And take some questions from y'all. Are you sure you're supposed to say that part out loud? Isn't that like the code? It's like we're doing the big boy press conference. Isn't that like saying Forrest Dump has flooded the valley again? Repeat. Forrest Dump has flooded the valley. Are you... Can...

Can Joe Biden still recognize basic shapes? Again, this is how you talk about a toddler. Is he supposed to come out there with Gerber baby food all over his face? Oh, it's not disgusting when it's a little baby, even if it's just mentally a little baby. Is he going to come on stage in a giant baby walker on wheels so he can familiarize himself with the environment? Just picture that. You're welcome. This doesn't help him.

What do you call this press conference a big boy press conference? You're not helping. It takes everybody down when you talk like that. You want to hear her say it? Watch it. She says it. We'll speak to national labor leaders of AFL-CIO, host the NATO summit to show the unprecedented strength of our alliance, hold a press conference, a big boy press conference, according to Justin Sink from Bloomberg. So what were all the other press conferences?

Was it just like a grade school press conference for kids 8 through 12? What were the other, aren't they all big boy press? What does that mean? You make it sound like he knows how to go to the bathroom by himself. Oh, you're a big boy. And anybody who's watched him on video knows he knows how to do that. He does it all day long. I really don't get why they're using that phrase. It sounds very much like this. Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question.

Yay, you answered all the questions. Yay, you answered all the questions. After that, the president will hold a press conference. I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. And take some questions from y'all. This is, these are the, first of all, they're the dumbest people in the world that they would say that. And his wife, who is evil. Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You answered every question.

So Jennifer, Jennifer Jacobs, who works for Bloomberg, she she tweeted this out. She says Biden's schedule the next 10 days per press secretary, Kareem Jean, who was trying to indicate that he has a rigorous schedule. This is he'll speak to the national labor leaders this week. He's going to host a NATO summit. He's going to do a press conference on Thursday.

He's going to travel to Michigan on Friday and then travel to Texas and Nevada next week. So she's saying that like, this is them saying, look how rigorous his schedule is. He's got one, two, three, four. He's got five things to do in the next two weeks. I'm sorry, 10 days. He's got five things to do in 10 days, you guys. That's like a thing every other day. Yeah.

This is hilarious. I just thought I'd throw this in there. This is hilarious. After years of calling Trump orange man, they spray paint Joe Biden orange. Democrats are... Did you see that? I heard a lot of people talking about that. Is that just... Is that like some kind of... Is that a cheap fake? Is someone cheap faking? Are they just making him look orange? The establishment has turned... The donor class, which is the establishment, has turned on Joe Biden.

And that's why CNN is allowed to say he gave the questions to the radio host who interviewed him. That's why they're painting him orange. That's why I swear to God. So, well, you know, my theory is that they set him up with these debates, meaning that they wanted to get him through the primary because then the donor class basically gets to pick all those delegates. So all the delegates that go to Joe Biden are just, you know, completely disqualified.

establishment delegates and so when they get rid of them they're going to have the donor classes hand-picked delegates to pick the next donor class approved person there's going to be uh half the delegates are bernie sanders type vet or rfk junior delegates or people who want to change things it's going to be no no it's going to be and so that's why they did the debate why would they do a debate this early why would you do that you're supposed to wait till after the convention

There's big point pants. There's big point pants. You think I'm kidding? That's what they're called. This is where it is. Big. After that, the president will hold a press conference. I guess a big boy press conference is what we're calling it. And take some questions from y'all. Jeez. A big boy. A big boy. Doesn't look good. Well, we'll see how the press conference goes Thursday. Now, here's my prediction for the press conference. They will have pre-selected reporters to ask the questions.

That's not new. So, Ducey's not going to get a question? So, I wonder. I wonder if Ducey does. I hope he asks him about it, if he took a Ducey in his pants when he was with McCrone. So, there you go. That's that. Okay. Big boy. Big boy press conference. So, I think the press conference is going to be as scripted as possible.

But we'll see. Maybe his team is just throwing him under the bus. That's why they're going to have him do a press conference. That's why they're going to have him. That's why the New York Times printed that thing where he said, oh, no, my body's fine. It's my brain. The New York Times printed him saying that. The establishment has turned on Joe Biden. The day of their elections, their second round of voting in France, and the left party went.

Everybody was afraid that the far right party, the Le Pen party, was going to win. I think they call themselves the National Front, but they switched it to National Front. Anyway, political paralysis looms in France after a shock election result. With Parliament roughly split into three different blocs, it could take weeks for MPs and typically conflicted systems to build coalitions. So here's how it works in France. So they have the first round of voting.

Right. This is this isn't for it wasn't for the president. This is for their their version of parliament. Right. So they do a first round of voting. And if somebody gets over 50 percent, then they go right into the parliament. But nobody did. Right. So they have three major parties. They have the Macron party, which is the center centrist party.

They had the Marie Le Pen party, which is the right-wing party. And then they have this lefty party. What's the name of the lefty party? Can you look it up? And so what happened was nobody did. So then the center party, Macron and the lefties decided that

That wherever there was a third person on the ballot, they would get rid of so so they could go head to head with the right wing Le Pen party. And so that's how the lefties where it won the plurality. Right. So they got the most votes.

So here we'll go through this. For more than 50 years, whenever France held a parliament election, voters would know the next morning which party would be in government and what political agenda. This time it's different. After Emmanuel Macron called a surprise snap election and after the shortest campaign in modern history, French people delivered a spectacular rush of tactical voting to hold back a surge of far-right support.

So everybody was afraid that the far right was going to take over France. The resulting political landscape is divided and the outcome is complicated. Macron will take time to let the dust settle, his entourage has said. An alliance of parties on the left, the new popular front, that's what it's called, popular front, surprise pollsters by coming in first. So the lefty party no longer came in first with 182 seats.

But it fell significantly short of the absolute majority of 289. So you need there's like 517 seats, I think, or whatever is whatever is to double that 290, 290, whatever that is. So maybe 580. I don't know. I'm not I'm not a math surgeon.

So that would allow it to instantly form a government. So nobody got a clear majority. So it's split up between the three parties. The lefty party has the most. Macron's party, the centrist party, has the second. And then it's Le Pen's, the right-wing party, has the third most. This means the Eurozone's second largest economy, which is also the European Union's biggest military power, is entering a period of uncertainty with no clear roadmap. Less than three weeks before the host...

Before it hosts the Olympic Games. Oh, I didn't even know that. It could take weeks of dialogue and potential coalition building to come up with a government and a prime minister. So do you see what? OK, so what's going to happen is the center party and the lefty party are going to figure out a power sharing agreement. And then the prime minister is going to be probably from the lefty party.

But France, and so there's the prime minister and the president. Macron's the president. So those are different things. But France, with a powerful president and conflictual political system where parties reach vicious standoffs, does not have a recent tradition of building coalitions. The French parliament is now roughly split into three blocks. In the lead is the new popular front, that's the lefty party, which blindsided Macron and the opposition when it managed to swiftly and efficiently unite four weeks ago to counter the far right.

It is a rainbow grouping that in Parliament will run from the firmly left-wing France unbowed LFI, which has the greatest number of seats at 74, to the Greens, which increased their seats to 28, to the more centrist Socialist Party, which significantly increased its seat to 59. The

The broad left alliance's deliberately strident policy manifesto includes capping prices on essential goods, such as fuel and food, raising the minimum wage, reversing Macron's increase in the pension age to 64, and imposing a wealth tax. So the lefties are swinging their power around.

They're not bowing to the centrists. They're making demands. It took care not to push forward one leader during the campaign. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the veteran left-winger and firebrand orator who founded LFI, regularly made TV appearances during the campaign.

But each time he did, other parties in the alliance would carefully state that he was not in charge and was not necessarily their choice for prime minister. I bet he's going to be the guy. Macron centrist grouping finished in second place with 168 seats, only 14 seats behind the new popular front. That's the new lefty party. The centrist previously in government lost 80 seats.

amid voters' clear anger and rejection of Macron. So the voters are rejecting Macron and the centrists, but the president's entourage immediately pointed out that although they were reduced in number, they were still standing. Okay. Beaten back into third place came Marine Le Pen's far-right anti-immigrant National Rally Party and its allies with an unprecedented 140. So they still got a lot of seats. They still grew.

The key takeaway of the election's final round is the renewed strength of the French tradition known as the Republican Front, in which voters from all backgrounds group together in tactical voting to hold back the far right.

In the space of one week, the far-right party and its allies went from a first round in which it topped the vote in more than half of the constituencies in France and was within reach of forming a government to being knocked back into third position in the second. So the first round, they were in first place. Second round, the lefties got together. They coalesced. They made a deal with the centrists, and they were able to push back the far right. Beaten back into third place came Marie-Pierre Pommel. The Keith already did this, right? Same one.

Le Pen said victory had simply been deferred. She will now focus on the presidential campaign of 2027. The party leadership will face a reckoning over its strategy and haphazard vetting of candidates, one of whom dropped out after photos circulated of her wearing a Nazi cap.

The Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure recognized the fractured and bruised nature of French society after a divisive campaign. For many on the left, the immediate priority is to address key issues for Le Pen's millions of voters, including the cost of living and poor access to public services in rural and peripheral areas.

This is essential if the left is to present a credible alternative and continue to hold the back back the far right's slow but steady rise. Constitutionally, it is possible for a group in parliament to govern without an absolute majority. Really? But to do this, that group would have to ensure that opposition forces do not club together to form a majority of two. Yeah, of course. Okay.

The first session of the new parliament is going to be on July 18th. It may be that only then will possibilities for coalitions become fully clear. So there's this guy, Melenchon, the leader of the coalition of new popular front who won the legislative elections in France, drop some truth bombs. This sounds like the real left here, not the fake one, like in the United States and the UK. So here's what he said. Since October 7th, they have tried to use international law. So this guy wants to,

recognize Palestine as a state. So that's a big, big deal. So let's hear what he says. Since October 7th, they have tried to use international law to construe what is legitimate self-defense. But it is not legitimate self-defense to indiscriminately murder an entire population as a means of collective punishment. He's talking about what Israel's doing to Palestine right now.

Something the world has rejected a long time ago. So this is a big deal. What kind of international law do we have that permits the bombing of schools, hospitals, murdering people en masse inside their apartments and homes? Those are called war crimes. And they must stop. Cutting off phone lines, water, electricity, hospitals...

subjecting an entire population to illness and disease, to death and suffering with no recourse. Do you know what that's called under international law? A crime against humanity. So this is a big deal. It's time for this to stop. So this is what happens. We are a witness to all this, and our presence is the only recourse for the people being killed.

Global public opinion must be heard at the time of this 20th century. What is he saying? That never under any circumstances, regardless of skin color, religion, nationality, we will not differentiate between human beings who are trapped and defenseless. The law must be applied. The International Criminal Court must stop

and arrest the war criminals, Gallant and Netanyahu. Wow. Wow, this is big. That's a big deal. So that's a big deal. So that's what happened with these elections, that this guy is probably going to be the prime minister. If I'm elected, not only would I grant asylum to Assange and Snowden, but I would also decorate them both because they helped France by denouncing the espionage to which it was subjected. You see, this is what a real lefty party does.

Not the bullshit lefties we have here in America. Jeremy Corbyn says France's extraordinary election results provide an urgent, valuable lesson. Don't concede ground to those who sow division and fear. Build a bold left movement that offers an alternative of inclusion and hope. This is how you defeat the far right. Got a boy. All right. So that's a big deal that happened in France.

And now we'll see how they, if they can put together a ruling coalition. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week. And it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to JimmyDoreComedy.com, clicking on Join Premium.

It's the most affordable premium program in the business, and it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member, and if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. We have Max Blumenthal with us. He's the award-winning journalist as well as the editor-in-chief and founder of the independent investigative news website, The Gray Zone, which I gave a nice shout-out to on Joe Rogan, the number one show in the world.

And I had to really twist Aaron Maté's arm to thank me for that, which really hurt me. He's also the best-selling author of several books, including Goliath, The 51 Day War, and The Management of Savagery. It's Max Blumenthal. Hey, Max. Hey, Jimmy. Good to see you. So here's why I have you on.

So you reported this on October 27th, 2023. You said October 7th testimonies reveal Israel's military shelling Israel's citizens with tanks and missiles. So on October 7th, you reported that it was the Israeli military that attacked their own people and their own soldiers, right? Okay. Yes. And, you know, followed up on this with several other reports that were way ahead of

the israeli media on the israeli military killing israeli citizens in large numbers on october 7th and doing so deliberately and so when you reported that at the at your website the gray zone you got smeared by haretz which is the israeli newspaper

And it says, Masterclass in Manipulation, Exposing Max Blumenthal's Lies About Israel on October 7th. The Gray Zone editor has a history of denying war crimes, so it's no surprise he provided a piece that very selectively uses facts, includes purposely edited quotes to change their meaning, and grossly plays down their atrocities. Now, why is this important? Why do I bring this up?

Well, here's one more. I'll show you why. Also, you got smeared by the Washington Post. The Washington Post published not one, but two live-filled smears of us for helping expose the Hannibal Directive scandal. First, by the anti-Palestinian neocon, what is it? Her name, Liz Dwoskin? Liza. Oh, Liza Dwoskin. I can't believe she would lie. Look how pretty she is. Pretty means innocence.

I bet she just works with the security agencies teaching them breathing techniques and yoga. Come on. Nothing about deceiving her own people, right? Along with everyone else. You go, then by the mendacious CIA stenographer Joseph Mann, who falsely insinuated Iran and Russia were directing our factual reporting while clamoring for the criminal prosecution of our editor, Wyatt Reed.

Wow. Where's the accountability for these journalists? Well, there isn't going to be any. But why? So why do I bring all this up, this old reporting of yours and the fact that you were smeared for being accurate? Because now Haaretz is also echoing what your reporting said back in October. Now, after smearing you for months and months now, IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7th to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive.

There was crazy hysteria and decisions started being made without verified information. Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal Operational Order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well. So what they did was...

By the way, the best way to prevent your own soldiers from being captured is to kill them, obviously. So that's what the Hannibal Directive is. And it got invented in like 1986 after Hamas had captured some Israeli soldiers and the soldiers didn't shoot at them because they didn't want to kill their own people. Well, then the Israelis, they were like, hey, hey, hey, go ahead, kill our own people.

That's called the Hannibal Directive. And not only did they kill their own soldiers, Max, they also killed their own civilians, correct? Deliberately, because one civilian, one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was captured in 2006, was exchanged five years later for 1,200 Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian captives. So for the Israelis, that's just politically devastating.

So, yeah, so they would rather slaughter their own soldiers and civilians. So here is a colonel from the IDF, and it's translated, this is what he says happened on October 7th. So this is... So this guy's name is Naf Erez? Yeah. He's an Israeli colonel. And he said it was a mass Hannibal, meaning the Hannibal directive. It was a mass Hannibal.

It wasn't just they just killed a few. They killed mass of people. That's how I'm interpreting it. Is that how you interpret that? Absolutely. And that's what was corroborated in this new Haaretz report, which I basically already reported back in October. So here, I'll play this for you. This is an Israeli colonel. Here we go.

What we saw here on October 7th was mass Hannibal. There were many openings in the fence, thousands of people in many different vehicles, thousands of people in many different vehicles with hostages and without. So this woman who survived the attacks has also accused the Israeli army of invoking the directive. They killed hostages. Hang on, let me back it up. He says, understand, they killed hostages.

They were killed in the crossfire. Understand, there was very, very heavy crossfire. So our forces, the Israeli army, may have shot them? Undoubtedly, she says. Yes, undoubtedly. That's a survivor. When they tried to eliminate the abductors, Hamas, yes, they eliminated everyone, including the hostages. So the Israeli army just came in and wiped out everybody.

Thousands of people in cars. That's why they buried all those cars. Remember we did that story? They buried them. Because what they're doing is they're covering up the evidence of a mass atrocity that was committed by the Israeli army. Here, I'll play a little bit more. Because there was very... Okay. Okay.

Their claims were reiterated by a British author and journalist, Jonathan Cook. The Hannibal Directive enacted at the Kibbutz was likely to have been applied as policy towards Israeli civilians captured by Hamas and held hostages in their own homes inside Israel. The debate around whether Israel used the Hannibal Directive comes after accounts from witnesses indicated that

The armies roll in the high death toll. So maybe that's why there was such a high death toll, because it wasn't Hamas that killed all those people. It was Israelis using Apache helicopters supplied by the United States. And reports emerged of Israeli military helicopters using artillery against civilians. Hello?

at the Nova Music Festival. These revelations counter the army's claims that Hamas was responsible. See, there's the cars. Hamas didn't have the ability to do that. That Hamas was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1,200 Israelis. Now we know that it was the Israeli army that was responsible for a large number of those people's deaths. Is there an estimate on how many people...

were killed by the Israeli army that day? How many of their own civilians and own members of their army? Is there an estimate? There isn't. And I've been saying many. Haaretz falsely accused me of saying most. But based on Haaretz's latest report, which relies on army documents, interviews with officers who were active on that day, who were involved in the killing of their fellow Israelis,

I would say it numbers in the hundreds, which means that the Israeli army has been confirmed as a leading participant in what the Biden administration, what Vice President Kamala Harris called the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. And Israel's whole mission, its reason to exist is supposed to be to keep Jews safe

And here they are killing more Jews than anti more than any other anti-Semite in recent history and doing it deliberately for political reasons. I mean, they created according to this. I mean, there was some new stuff in this Haaretz piece that I didn't know about that, you know, was fairly clear to me, although a lot of it just overlapped with what I'd already pulled out of, you know, Hebrew language reports that were on the public record. One of them was that the Israelis created, uh,

a free fire zone where nothing was allowed to pass by blanketing this area in the frontier between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip with artillery. I didn't know they were using massive amounts of artillery, but you can assume that those cars that got roasted that you see there, many of them were hit with artillery. I mean, 155 millimeter howitzer shells, that can kill a lot of people.

So I don't think it was just in the tens. We do know, I mean, they killed 12 Israeli citizens with one tank shell who were huddled in a house who were being held captive by Hamas militants who were trying to negotiate their way out rather than negotiate their

one of the top generals in the Israeli army, Brigadier General Barak Hiram, someone who's being put up for a promotion to lead the Gaza division, he ordered the tank to fire into the house to kill everyone, including children, including Jewish-Israeli children. And as we reported at the Gray Zone, Israeli propagandists and officials went out and said, oh, these cute twins are

The Hetzroni twins, who are 12 years old, were murdered by Hamas, but it turned out they were deliberately killed by the Israeli army so they wouldn't have to cut a deal with their Hamas captors. So now, do the people in Israel care about this? I don't think it's at the top of their priority list right now because they're focused, you know, they're divided on whether the hostages should be saved or whether Israel should just continue committing genocide forever.

This does relate to the issue of the Hannibal Directive because actually the niece of one of the hostages who's being held in Gaza, I think his name is Ofer Calderon.

She went on Israeli national TV and said that the Israeli government is applying the Hannibal Directive now, after October 7th, to kill the hostages that are being held in Gaza so they don't have to negotiate for their release. Because once they're gone, Hamas has no political leverage, then Israel just, you know, can call it a day.

And there are hostages in Gaza and captives, you know, prisoners of war who were soldiers who were captured, who are American citizens. So my colleague Sam Husseini went to the State Department, journalist Sam Husseini, and he asked Tony Blinken's flack, Matthew Miller, popularly known as Smercula, asked him,

What do you think about Israel applying the Hannibal directive? Do you think it's possible they could actually kill American captives in Gaza? You know, this should be something the State Department should answer for. This was just over a week ago. Matthew Miller's response, I haven't heard of the Hannibal directive. I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, here, I think I have that. Let me play that. Yeah, this is it.

You talk about the hostages. Israel has a Hannibal directive in which it has orders in place to kill at least its own soldiers lest they fall into the hands of Palestinian groups. And there's substantial reporting that that, in fact, was utilized on October 7th, not just against Israeli soldiers, but against civilians. Are we not now in a situation where Israel may be...

using the Hannibal Directive, not just on Israelis, civilians and military, but on U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals. So I am not familiar in any way with either that supposed directive or those reports. You've never heard of the Hannibal? Certainly would not want to comment on it. You've never heard of the Hannibal Directive? I thought you wanted to go out of the region. Sure. And, you know, I guess...

I guess Goebbels never heard of propaganda either. And I mean, that guy Miller is the Hannibal directive in human form. He listens to the question, but all he hears is what's for dinner. Go ahead. Go ahead, Max. You want to say something? No. Okay.

They say they love Israel. All these U.S. officials say they love Israel, but they don't know anything about that, which makes sense, actually. I guess just knowing people who've been in the State Department or had any proximity to Miller, they say he and the whole staff, they know nothing about this subject.

And they just do what they're told because they're all hoping for big jobs after the administration's over. But I mean, this is one of the biggest scandals

This is one of the biggest scandals of this heinous, almost nine-month-old war. And the mainstream US media, the only time they've touched it is to attack us at the gray zone or to attack Electronic Intifada and others who brought up this reality, which is now just completely corroborated. So here's a tweet from you. Who's Kenneth Roth?

Ken Roth was the longtime leader of Human Rights Watch, the leading arm of the human rights industrial complex and a major humanitarian interventionist who has advanced war and regime change against everywhere from Russia to Bolivia to Venezuela to Syria. Now he's independent. Ken Roth is somewhat critical of Israel.

He's trying to criticize Israel here. He's linking to the Haaretz report in the tweet that I'm responding to. He's linking to the report about the Hannibal directive. I'm bringing up the fact that when that Haaretz smear came out against me back in November, when it wasn't popular to talk about this, he smeared me. You can read what he said there. Here's what he says.

He says, "The far left makes a big mistake to deny or downplay Hamas's atrocities. Israel's bombardment and besiegement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are awful on their own terms. Whitewashing Hamas's war crimes is wrong, unnecessary, and unhelpful." So he was accusing you of doing that, of whitewashing Hamas's crimes, right? And so you tweeted out, you go, "Great job acknowledging that what I reported eight months ago was true."

Any plans to delete this tweet smearing me for my factual reporting on October 7th and to apologize for it? No. No. Is the answer no?

He's never responded to me, but I'm getting more engagement on that tweet than his original tweet got because people realize who these frauds are. The timing here is so important because what Israel was trying to do by inflating the death toll on October 7 was to give itself more political space to destroy all of Gaza and

kill a large percentage of the population and commit genocide. It was so important to counter their bogus narrative about October 7th right away. When I did so and when others did so, we came under massive attack, not only from the usual suspects in the corporate media, but from people like former Human Rights Watch director Ken Roth. Now they need to be called out for it. There needs to be accountability because they were complicit.

in helping Israel make the case for genocide. So let me just read a little bit of the Haaretz report. Communication networks could not keep up with the flow of information, as was the, this is on October 7th, as was the case for soldiers sending these reports. However, the message conveyed at 1122 a.m. across the Gaza division network was understood by everyone. Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza, was the order. That means wipe out all those civilians, right? And

Documents obtained by Haaretz, as well as testimonies of soldiers, mid-level and senior IDF officers, reveal a host of orders and procedures laid down by the Gaza Division, Southern Command, and the IDF general staff up to the afternoon hours of that day, showing how widespread this procedure was from the first hours following the attack

and at various points along the border. So they were just slaughtering people all over the place and everywhere they went. Their own people. Gaza division operations and airstrikes in the first hours of October 7th were based on limited information. The first long moments after the Hamas attack was launched were chaotic. Reports were coming in with their significance not always clear. When their meaning was understood...

It was realized that something horrific had taken place. Now, that refers to what the IDF did, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So the thing that's horrific there is the Israeli army slaughtering their own soldiers and their own citizens, right? No, what that's speaking to is the chaos that enveloped the extremely overhyped, overrated Israeli military, which was suffering possibly the worst defeat in its history, getting overrun by a band of besieged militants on Chinese motorbikes.

And so their reaction was completely out of proportion. And they had no idea how to hold anything off. They didn't wind up pulling themselves together till later that afternoon. And the Hamas attack began at six in the morning. Israel's intelligence failed. Its military failed. But on purpose.

I mean, you know, we've covered this on this show that, well, and you know, you've covered it too, that they had the plans that Hamas used. They had them a year ahead of time. And Hamas followed those plans almost to the letter. And so Israel was where they took away, they should have never okayed that festival because the security people on the ground were,

didn't. They denied it and then they got overruled. Said, yeah, let them have that festival, even though they knew there was an attack coming, all this stuff. And they took away their soldiers from where they should have been to protect them. So this was a setup. I'll say it. A lot of people won't. This was a setup by Netanyahu and the Israeli army. So Tadal almost encouraged this to happen.

by putting that festival there, and then by slaughtering the people after the attack started. So this was so they could use this as a reason to go in and carpet bomb Gaza and everywhere else in Palestine. That's what it seems very clear to me. So I don't want to put words in your mouth. What do you think?

Yeah, I don't agree with the theory that Israel deliberately made a decision at high levels to allow this to take place. I think that they're just extremely – their intelligence –

A military intelligence apparatus is extremely overrated, overhyped. They're kind of a paper tiger. What they're doing to Gaza is completely dependent on air power and 2,000-pound, 500-pound bombs supplied by the US as well as tech. But if that stopped coming, Israel would have to evacuate its entire population tomorrow. It's not the military it's cracked up to be, is what I'm saying. It's intelligence

was extremely shoddy. There were reports, of course, that we know about now. I also think that Israel's military leadership and its political leadership has not achieved their objectives in Gaza. They've failed. Israel is in a very dangerous situation.

existential crisis right now, not just militarily or politically, but economically. Foreign investment is not coming in for its tech sector, which sustains its whole middle class. So I don't think that this was something that they would allow

I'm also not a 9/11 truther, but the 9/11 attacks did work out better for the neoconservatives and the US security state than October 7th has worked out. The response to October 7th has worked out for the Israelis. I also think it underestimates the capacity of Hamas to stage an attack like this. I don't think anyone would have expected it to have succeeded.

For Hamas, they killed close to 400 Israeli soldiers. And that was staggering for the Israeli military. So yeah, I mean, and since then, we've witnessed so many deceptions, so many lies. I mean, basically, when an Israeli propagandist is talking, you can assume they're lying. And so who's to believe that anything they say is real about October 7th? Like, I understand why people are developing these theories.

If I was privy to Ben Swan, so we featured on the show, Ben Swan did some great reporting, investigative reporting, using all reports from Jewish newspapers, Israeli newspapers and and sources. And it's very clear that this was at the very least allowed to happen by Israel's army and troops.

And Netanyahu. And so it's very, very cool. I don't know if maybe you haven't seen that reporting, but it is fantastic. There's a video up on our channel covering it. You go to Ben Swan's website. Anyway, yeah, it's very cool. But this is... So you've been vindicated, right? And... But Haaretz is not going to ever... Again. Oh, you always are, right? But so... Haaretz is not going to...

apologize to you, nor is that other guy who now works for the Human Rights Watch. Yeah, the Washington Post. I mean, Washington Post ran a full-page feature attacking the gray zone, accusing us of spreading misinformation, not just that, of violating Iran sanctions, trying to get our editor, Wyatt Reid, jailed, literally thrown in prison.

Because as he publicly stated at the time, he was doing producing for press TV. So they went to that level because of the reporting we've been doing since October 7th. And all the sources quoted in that piece are basically U.S. intelligence cutouts reporting.

or Israeli intelligence cutouts. They're not going to apologize because this is their agenda to spread misinformation, to muddy the waters, and to prevent us from having a clear understanding of some of the biggest scandals of our time. It's like one of the biggest scandals of our time that we talked about for years on your show, Jimmy, was Russiagate. Yeah. Yeah.

Not that there was a Trump-Russia connection, but that this connection was concocted in order to take us to war. The United States is now directly involved in war with Russia. That's partly a result of the manufacturing of a consensus that Russia needed to be attacked because they were destroying our democracy.

It's the same thing with these lies that Israel spun out after October 7th. And one of those first lies was they inflated the October 7th death toll. Now, I'm not saying that Hamas or Palestinian militants didn't commit atrocities on October 7th, like shooting civilians, for example, or kidnapping people. That's all confirmed. And it was a military attack, a special forces style attack, mostly on military bases, which

So people get killed. But Israel couldn't sell what it wanted to do in Gaza, full-on genocide, ethnic cleansing, with just the facts that were clearly established with video. So they concocted mass rape, beheaded babies, fetuses cut from women. But it all started with first exaggerating the death toll. And they first said it was 1,400. And I think I was one of the first people

people, at least with a platform in the English language, to say that many of those that they initially counted were actually Palestinians. They were disseminating photos of people who looked burned and they looked like they had been charred and burned alive. In fact, those were Palestinians

who had infiltrated from Gaza, who were hit by Israeli Apache helicopters or Israeli artillery fire, and they were trying to pass them off as Jewish Israelis. Israel, months later, lowered its death toll to 1,200.

But if we consider that 400 at least of those were Israeli soldiers who are combatants in uniform enforcing the siege of Gaza, not innocent civilians, and now we consider that hundreds were Israeli citizens killed by the Israeli army, it doesn't look like

this second Holocaust that they tried to sell it as. And so they have to constantly muddy the waters and attack anyone who dares to talk about the Hannibal Directive. And now it's like nine months later, Gaza's destroyed. It's too late. So now Israeli media can really talk about it. And I bet you, you know, US media will start to, the New York Times will have some discussion about it, like in the fog of war. Yeah. And they'll use the passive voice.

And then they'll say, we did it. We finally covered it. By the time they do it, the damage is done. That's right. So they they wanted to inflate all the numbers. They wanted to make it more horrific. They wanted to spread the propaganda so they could have the political capital to go in and do this mass slaughter that they're doing.

And yeah, and they and now now I guess that they've done most of it. I guess it's OK for her to start reporting the truth. Is that is that what it looks like to you?

Obviously. Why didn't they do it before? It's just the way that the Western mainstream media works. I mean, you can look at any major issue today, like Joe Biden's dementia. Now it's okay for the New York Times to do real reporting because no one can deny the dementia and Joe Biden is a threat.

to anyone who believes that the most important thing in the world is to stop the new Hitler, Donald Trump, from taking office. So the New York Times can report that the Biden White House has been feeding questions to journalists who want to interview Biden, that they...

The journalists have to agree to ask the questions the White House wants. Now they can report a Parkinson's doctor has been visiting the White House. But if Biden had performed well in the debate, they wouldn't have done that real reporting because their whole agenda is to back up the political consensus, the transatlantic political consensus. And part of that is that Israel has a quote unquote right to defend itself as it occupies independence.

indigenous people, tortures them and slaughters them. So they slaughtered them. They got away with it. Now it's okay. We can talk about this scandal. Max Blumenthal from the Gray Zone. Great job. I'm glad to see you vindicated once again. And

You know, I mean, this is the life you've chosen, Max. I mean, let's be honest. Well, I'm sure you know the feeling, too. Yes, of course. Of course. Again and again and again. Yes. Everybody should check out the Gray Zone. They do great reporting. Grayzone.com. Max, thanks for coming on. It's great to talk to you. Thanks a lot, Jimmy. I really appreciate it. All right, buddy. I could see any. Things are very heated at the White House briefing. So they're asking her...

Is Joe Biden being treated for Parkinson's? And who's the doctor that visited him? Now, I'll play it for you. Well, that he gets every year that we provide to all. Hold on, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a second. Eight times or at least once in regards to the president. So he's like, I'm asking you a direct question. Did this doctor come to the White House eight times or at least once?

and to treat them and who is this guy who is the doctor hold on a second you should be able to answer by this point wait no no no no no wait a minute ed please a little respect here please so every year

around the president's physical examination, he sees a neurologist. That's three times, right? So I am telling you that he has seen a neurologist three times while he has been in this presidency. That's what I'm saying. I am telling you that he has seen them three times.

That is what I'm sharing with you, right? So every time he has a physical, he has had to see a neurologist. So that is answering that question. No, it's not. No, it is. It is. You're asking me. I also said to you, Ed, I also said to you, for security reasons, we cannot share names.

We cannot share names. We have to... Others he would have met with. We cannot share names in regards to... No, no, no. We cannot share names of specialists broadly. From a dermatologist to a neurologist. We cannot share names. There are security reasons. We have to... I understand that. I hear you. So what he's saying, I'm pretty sure, is...

There's a White House visitors list that you have to sign in. I'm pretty sure that's what he's saying. It's public record. And she's saying, I can't tell you what that is. The only thing I don't get, like he said, I just looked it up. Well, you would know who the name is. So the names are on there, but he doesn't know which one is the doctor. That's the only thing I'm confused about. By the way, this was a ruckus. This wasn't just this interaction. It was ruckus the whole way through.

And at points, she looked like she was about to cry. I cannot from here confirm any of that because we have to keep their privacy. I think they would appreciate that, too. We have to give them the doctor. We have to keep their privacy. I hear you. I agree.

Guys, guys, guys, hold on a second. There's no reason to get back and go back and forth and be in this aggressive way. We're a little miffed around here about how information's been shared with the press corps around here. What are you miffed about? Everything he just asked about. And then every time I come back and I answer the question that you guys asked. I never answered the question incorrectly. That is not true. I was asked about a medical exam. I was asked about a physical. That was in the line of question that I answered.

So even this is Sager and Jetty. He says the White House cannot publicly confirm the name of a Parkinson's expert who they released on their own visitor logs. That's see, that's what I let alone confirm or deny whether it was for a visit for Biden's health. This might be one of the most bullshit answers in the history of Washington. I thought it was Donald Trump's press secretary. They were all big liars. Sager taking the gloves off.

I guess they really are done protecting Joe Biden over at this show. The White House cannot publicly confirm the name of the Parkinson's expert who they released on their own visitor log. That's what this guy's saying. You got the visitor's logs. So I don't know why they need her to say the name then. Except maybe they got the visitor's logs and they have to now go back and check out every one of those. And I'm sure there's hundreds of visitors to the White House every day. So they have to go check which one is a Parkinson's expert.

Figure out who that is. I think that's what's happening. I think that's what's happening there. And all the while, they're saying Donald Trump is the big liar. All the while, while they're in the middle of telling the biggest lies of their political career that Joe Biden isn't demented, all the while, they're telling the biggest lie of their political career. The only thing they have is Donald Trump's a big liar. So things got heated.

You should go watch the whole thing. It's kind of crazy. Oh, there's Ducey, and he was doing everything except light off fireworks to try to get called on, and she would not call on him. And I got that from Jonathan Turley. He's there, I guess. And he tweeted that. He said something similar to what I just said. Hey, become a premium member. Go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. Freak out. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

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