Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Same goes for the internet. If they can shut down political speech on the grounds that its hateful, you have to ask does this end. If you want to see hate, check out some of the comments on my twitter feed after the show tonight. Hes a casual racist, of course, and an antisemimite who called white People Potential humans, praised hitler. He has a million followers. And what about those who traffic in violence. If facebook really cares about standards or safety, i dont think they would be granting Antifa Chapters from coast to coast with their black hoods and all. And by the way, if theres so much concern over Conspiracy Theories like the one alex jones
peddles, well, do moments like this give social media kings pause . The fact of the matter is, hes not only bad because hes a liar, hes bad because he doesnt know how to inspire people or invoke that emotion in them. What about his rallies . People are paid. You know that. He pays people to show up at those rallies. Trump pays people to go to his rallies. That would be a lot of money. She still has a youtube channel. The truth is we conservatives always want more political speech, not less of it, even when its offensive to us. Our only point usually about speech is limiting it if theres a direct incitement to violence. But political speech in general, we want more. Now, while facebook and apple are private companies and thus
arent actors for First Amendment companies, they be really careful because voters in the future might just demand that facebook, twitter, youtube be treated more like public utility, Public Utilities that much to operate in the public interest. But since a utility cant refuse to give electricity to a family because they disagree with their views or heaven forbid because theyre of a different race, they act in the public interest. Ted cruz in response to the alex jones purge said Tech Companies have a degree of power and an ability to censor that we could never have imagined. They have the ability if there is a speaker that is disfavored simply to silence the speaker. As abhorrent as some of this content can be, it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice. So why did he end up caving here . Well continue to demand answers for you. Remember when disgraced fbi agent strzok texted lisa page about an Insurance Policy to keep trump from getting elected . Well, maybe just maybe these latest moves are the beginning of big techs own version of an Insurance Policy to see that someone with trumps views never reaches a position of authority again. And thats the angle. Joining us now, monica crowley, attorney dan, and elizabeth, who had one of her campaign ads temporarily blocked on facebook. Its great to see all of you. Elizabeth, lets start with you because i watched your campaign ads. And you had some images from your parents country of birth, cambodia, and the brutality of cambodia, the cambodian purge, and facebook blocked it. They said what to you when you brought this up . This is some of the images from the ad. What did they say to you when you brought this up . They said that my the ad was shocking, disrespectful, and too sensational to be on facebook. And that was absolutely maddening in so many ways for me. When i decided to run for congress, i got into the race because i and part of my message was that great things can come from great adversity. My parents lived through the Genocide In Cambodia and came to
the United States as refugees. And so for some reason, facebook found that offensive and removed my ability to advertise the campaign message. Dan, this is kind of problematic. I think our civil libertarians. This is democrats, aclus amazingly quiet on this. I dont see them on any television shows. Theyre too busy representing Illegal Immigrants. Where the the libertarians on this issues . Those are historical photos. And the holocaust. Are we not able to talk about that . I want to restate something that you said earlier which is really important, that none of these companies youring talking about, theyre not state actors, theyre not the government. This First Amendment thing is out the window. What youre
talking about here are decisions by companies on their content, something that fox news does, something that every single media outlet does. And i think for you to go and say, listen, this is all about because were republicans or conservatives where is the discrimination or the similar actions against a myriad of leftists . Left me give you an example. Well, no, why isnt antifa blocked from facebook . Why are they on youtube . Theyre smashing windows. Let me answer the question. Back in 2015, being liberal was knocked right off of facebook. I have a lot more liberal friends on my facebook feed than a lot of your viewers do, around i see them griping time and time again every night about facebook knocking them off for stupid things they say. Facebook has made a decision, and it seems like its not that hard to understand given the history and the 16 billion
mr. Zuckerberg took a hit on, that he made a decision that his company is going to start making different decisions on content than he did before. But infowars is still out there on instagram. Its still there on instagram. You see no difference between a Cable Channel theres how many Cable Channels out there . I dont know. But theres a lot. Between a Cable Channel and youtube or facebook or the entire apple platform worth a trillion dollars . Do you see no difference as far as their control of information . Really . Whats the equivalent of youtube . Im not really sure where youre going. Name it. Its about controlling information. What is the equivalent of youtube . I dont know. There isnt one. Thats my point. Instagram. No, no, no. You dont know social media. It does not compete. Youtube and instagram do not compete with each other. Monica, you see my point. My point is when you have an overwhelmingly leftwing, 100 of all twitter employees, for instance, contributed to thats a factual determination. Twitter admitted it. Come on, common sense points to the truth about this. Look, these internet companies, theyre giants. Theyre behemoths. They are incredibly influential and dominant. And thats the point. To your point about twitter, the guy who used to run tech for twitter is now running tech for the Democratic National committee, just in time for the midterm election. Thats just one example. Were not talking about particular content about
infowars, et cetera. What we are talking about is that a few select companies that have near monopolies in the digital sphere are now having control over the information that is available to you. And its only going to get worse. So we are now on this slippery slope, laura, where theyre controlling the infowars website and so on. But go a couple of years down the road or maybe a shorter time period and they those leftist overlords in the digital sphere will be able to deem anything that they consider unacceptable, and thats a subjective standard, inappropriate for consumption, whether thats statements about islamic fundamentalism. Abortion, prolife. Support for the police. They will be able to use a sliding scale based on what they
think is appropriate rather than a First Amendment standard. And that is a very dark and dangerous place for this country to be. Mark zuckerberg was questioned about this by ted cruz back in april and he said, look, theres no bias, but were going to have standards in place. Lets watch. To a great many americans, that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias. Do you agree with that . I understand where that concern is coming from. Facebook and the Tech Industry is located in the silicon valley, which is an extremely leftleaning place. I try to make sure that we dont have any bias in the work that we do. And i think it is a fair concern that people would wonder about. That was a moment of candor from zuckerberg. Anyone who has spent anytime in
silicon valley, its a political monolith. I know there are conservatives there, but they probably hide their views. They literally do not want to say theyre a conservative when they work there or they probably will lose their jobs. Ive literally heard those xaents. Comments. Its undeniable that facebook has algorithms that lean towards and incentivize those that have more liberal tendencies and their algorithms will promote those such as chuck schumer, nancy pelosi. Why did it take five days and the whole National Movement for facebook to respond to my ad here . This is my story. This is the story in which i told that they i am assuming had concerns with in the beginning of it, where it showed glimpses of genocide. Those were just photos. You think youre being targeted as an asian conservative candidate in liberal california because you represent a dangerous possibility for the left . Is that what youre saying . Yeah. We constantly see this time and time again with conservatives, that from these tech giants that the algorithms that are in place do not support conservative ideologies. The important part about all of this is is it so important to have diverse political thoughts on there. We see this is not the case. More speech is better for everybody. Dan, go ahead. Polls today, 43 of republicans support trumps idea
of shutting down Media Outlets that dont behave. This goes both ways and this is not a republican versus a democrat issue. You mentioned the aclu. I know they do not like any infringement on anything speech related. Theyre nowhere. Theyre focusing on illegal immigration and partisan issues. Monica, real quick. Weve got 30 seconds. I really feel for elizabeth because shes trying to tell the story of her family, the american dream. But as she points out, theyve got these algorithms. Theyre clearly set in a certain direction. But then theres a next barrier of actual human beings who are trying to review these and Artificial Intelligence decisions. So those people are on the left. And by the way, jack dorsey
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in, the democrat won the early vote by about 2,000 votes. So that has everybody here very nervous and watching Delaware County very closely. The unofficial results on the ohios secretary of state website, we have 95 in Delaware County and hes ahead 5445. So well see if that holds. The only county, Franklin County, this is where the Democrat Danny Oconnor is from. Its also what the republican had alluded to last night. He made a little bit of a flub when he said, you dont want to see someone from Franklin County representing us. And now oconnor is ahead there 6535. Not a huge surprise there, but this is so close. Laura, the other thing im hearing a lot from people in the
room, the possibility of an automatic recount. If the difference is. 5 or less, that triggers an automatic recount. It is close but still outside of that automatic recount margin. It is very exciting in here but everybody is still very nervous and cautiously optimistic. Thats a phrase i keep hearing over and over. Certainly loud there. Great reporting. Well continue to monitor this race and others and bring you the results as they come in. Very exciting. Even if he wins, the other networks will say its really a loss for trump. So just make sure you get that right. Well, as we touched on earlier in the angle, one of your favorites and i know youve missed her on television
rosie odonnell led a singalong protest in front of the white house with some of her fellow hollywood and broadway stars, even though no one told them the president wasnt home. We are so thrilled to finally be here on night 22. How many have been here every night . Lets hear it. [cheers applause] and were going to keep coming back until hes out. Let the president know in no Uncertain Terms that we are alive, awake, and we are woke. We are not going away. Raise your hand if youre sick of woke. I am. Formaler Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee joins us with a reaction. On my radio show, i played all the really bad singing. These are great broadway stars, a lot of talent, but the
chanting, it was very disappointing. What do you make of her resurgence on the scene . These people are still out there i guess until they feel like they can drive the president from office. Well, i think its important that you noted he wasnt there. I think they thought it was halloween and they were there to do some early trickortreating. The other thing that i believe that may perhaps solve this mystery, where did that noise come from that damaged the hearing of the people who were working for the State Department down in the Cuban Embassy . I think we now know rosie and her team caused that physical damage. One other observation, i thought she moved to canada. She promised if trump got
elected she would go. After all, shes canadian now, isnt she . Did i miss something . Shes a woman on a mission. She actually said to Chris Last Night that donald trump and his organization pays people to attend his rallies. And chris was like, what . Well, maybe but he had Tens Of Thousands of people. And then she said, no, he doesnt. I guess she didnt remember the mobile, alabama rally in 2015 in august. I guess those were all Cardboard Cutouts. Those Cardboard Cutouts are sure making a lot of noise. Its absurd to say those people are paid. They just happen to love that you are country. Let me be fair. She has as much right to protest. This is america. Were all fine with that. But i think we all find a little
bit disingenuous is that her attitude is that rather than accept the Election Results from 2016, their idea is lets invalidate the Election Results because we dont like how they turned out. This is the rantings of a sevenyearold who got defeated playing baseball and decided that were just going to overturn the game rather than learn how to play the game a little better next time. Governor, not just that but now the Entertainment Industry on the left coast and the West Hollywood crowd has voted. Im sure the president is devasta devastated, to remove the president s star on the hollywood walk of fame. So no longer will they have to guard the star. People wont pick ax. This is what its come to. This is how petty and pathetic they have become. Theyre going after some what is that, marble. I dont know what it is. But i guess that makes them feel better. Thats their idea of victory. Well, if theyre going to chop up everybodys star who has done something they dont like, they might as well rent a bunch of jackhammers because theres a lot of people on that sidewalk who represent some pretty crazy views and some things that have gotten them landed with the me too movement. So will we see a goodbye from kevin spacey . How many of the hollywood elites are going to have their stars chopped up because they didnt exactly do the right thing, to be charitable about it . And its such a double standard. If youre a star like james gunn and director of Guardians Of The Galaxy and you had bad tweets, they make an excuse for you. If youre anyone thats a conservative, they never forgive you. The forgiveness only ever goes
one way. Thank you so much. And by the way, the showdown between the Trump Legal Team and mueller over that president ial interview is about to take a dramatic turn. Details, reaction, Alan Dershowitz and wisenberg next. So i can buy from Enterprise Car Sales and youll take any tradein . Thats right great here you go. Well, it does need to be a vehicle. But i need this out of my house. vo with fair,