Ben Shapiro: “The media are doing their damndest just to help [Kamala Harris] steal this election”
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From the August 14, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): There was an amazing clip that was making the rounds yesterday. It was from Stephen Colbert's show. This would have been actually on Monday night. Stephen Colbert had on Kaitlan Collins from CNN. And Kaitlan Collins was obviously talking about how terrible Trump is and what a terrible job he's doing and how Kamala Harris has all the momentum and all of that sort of thing. But that's not the interesting part of the clip. The interesting part of the clip is that Stephen Colbert says, in all seriousness, in perfect seriousness, with a straight face that the legacy media are objective, that CNN is objective, and listen to the reaction of the crowd. Again, this is a crowd who opts into viewing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which means that they are all on the left. Nary a right-winger in this crowd. No right-winger goes to New York and is like, you know what I'd love to do? Go watch Stephen Colbert tonight. That is not a thing. Everyone in that crowd is voting for Kamala Harris, but even the crowd voting for Kamala Harris listens to this, and they go, no. No way.
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OK. That is an incredible admission, number one by Stephen Colbert. That is not supposed to be a laugh line. But more importantly, listen to the natural reaction of the crowd. He says, I know you guys are supposed to be objective. They just cover the news. That's an amazing thing for people to laugh at. But the media have become such a laughing stock that every normal American looks at CNN and what they see is a left-wing outlet, which is correct. Which is why in the end, maybe, maybe, Kamala Harris can't get away with this.
The media are doing their damndest just to help her steal this election. When I say steal the election, I don't mean like she's gonna change the votes, or that she's gonna rig the ballot boxes or anything like that. But to steal the election means to completely obscure the record and positions of one of the candidates to completely hide every piece of relevant information about that candidate in favor of attacking the other candidate so that the candidate you prefer ends up in the White House. And that's what the media are doing right now.
What they did with Hunter Biden in the last month of the 2020 election when they went out and they said it was all disinformation, it was all fake, it was all phony, and then nobody reported on it. They shut it down. Social media wouldn't disseminate any of that information. The entire media are now engaged in the same thing except not about one story, Hunter Biden and his laptop — they're engaged in that about an entire candidate, an entire candidate, and everything surrounding her.