Rigged How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

Your book Rigged, how the how the media, big tech and the Democrats seized our elections. It's been flying off the shelves. It's a big issue.

Your book Rigged, how the media, big tech and the Democrats seized our elections.

Molly, you know, listen, there are two people out there who I think are the biggest narrative busters on the right. You, Sean and Tucker, you go throw a hit with an S in front of a grenade in the tent in a heartbeat.

Molly Hemingway, author of Rigged and the Media, Big Tech and our Democrats seized our elections.

I want everyone to go pick up Molly's book, Rigged. Rigged. Don't miss it. Learn about Zucker Bucks and all the scams and schemes the media is desperately trying to hide about the 2020 election because they don't want to talk about it.

She was great.

The media is the biggest cancer in our society right now. Not all the media, but the corrupt lying media

It just is a sign of how incompetent this prosecution was.

They were describing getting your getting beat up with a skateboard, having guns pointed at you being chased as just a tussle that everybody should expect or this idea that if you take steps to protect yourself, that you lose the right to self-defense. None of this makes any sense.

It is as Dinesh was saying, as if they took some of the media claims that were made and treated them as if they were real when they weren't.

In my new book, Rigged, I tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, who's one of the world's most powerful and wealthy men, funded the takeover of government election offices that are in charge of voter registration, voting and vote counting.

He spent nearly half a billion dollars giving it to two left-wing groups that gave the money to governmental election offices, predominantly in Democrat cities in key swing states.

And with those funds, they did targeted Democrat voter outreach, designing ballots, translating ballots and staffing the operations that handled ballot harvesting, the curing of ballots and the counting of ballots.

And to be clear, this is not campaign spending. This was a concierge level get out the vote operation on behalf of Joe Biden and other Democrats in key Democrat areas in swing states.

This is something that had never happened before. And this was done inside the election administration, not outside where billionaires normally spend their money.

OK, we read Molly Hemingway's book 'Rigged' in 2020. What are they going to do this time?

Joining us to talk about the future of free speech in big tech is Mollie Hemingway, editorinchief of The Federalist and bestselling author of RIGGED, a look at the role of the media in big tech in recent elections.

But in your book, rigged, you present the case that there's a pattern of collusion between big tech and big government.

Well, Molly, thank you so much for your time. That was Molly Hemingway, EditorinChief of The Federalist and Author of Rigged.

Actually my boss, my having way wrote a great book about this called Rigged which a lot of people would look at be like on the left they'll look at them be like this is crazy like blah blah you read the book.

the roughly 400 million dollars that he had put into boosting quote electoral infrastructure

This is the language of the time magazine story

Zuckerberg in this letter, Joe Jim Jordan said he doesn't agree with those analyses but he won't be contributing nonetheless

in the context of all of the concerns about what happened that is a response I think probably most prominently to my former boss Molly Hemingway who wrote a book basically about what happened after Zuckerberg made those contributions called rigged

Trust me, Molly Hemingway is a friend I've read Rigged.

Trust me. I know Molly Hemingway is a friend I've read rigged.

She was making phenomenal points and she wrote a very good book on this rigged.

about the 2020 election and what really went on there.

Heavily researched and footnoted and fact checked

If you want to understand better exactly what went on in 2020, get outside of just the big headlines and get into the nitty gritty.

She wrote a really good book and she also did Buck, a fabulous book on the Kavanaugh hearings.

She wrote a very good book on this rigged about the 2020 election and what really went on there.

And that book rigged is a phenomenal book.

If you want to understand better exactly what went on in 2020, outside of just the big headlines and get into the nitty gritty, she wrote a really good book.

It's sort of like, here's a bank. They've called off the guards. They turned on the surveillance. They told the tellers, don't be too fastidious to match signatures. But then Molly stops because she's like, so it was very easy to pull off a heist.

What I reveal in my book Rigged is that there's a vast history of covert operations to interfere in elections from Soviet and American operations during the Cold War to Russian operations around the world today to 2016 in its aftermath.

I interviewed more than 130 people for this book including many former CIA officers eight former CIA directors and they emphasized to me as well we should learn from our own history from Soviet history and then really study and get into the weeds of 2016 because then and only then can what happened to America make sense in my opinion a totally nonpartisan way as it should be and can we actually think about how to defend ourselves in a comprehensive real way that escapes the toxicity of our current moment.

I wanted to make sure to incorporate his views into my book and I mean it was fascinating because he was able to bring to life I've been reviewing KGB archives but he really was able to bring to life the KGB perspective in terms of how they would manipulate the politics of democracies.

The book is called Rigged we'll link to it in the show notes

The book is called Rigged and links to that and everything else we mentioned here on the show will be in the show notes

When in fact what I reveal in my book rigged is that there's a vast history of covert operations to interfere in elections from Soviet and American operations during the Cold War to Russian operations around the world today to 2016 in its aftermath.

What he told me about were his operations to interfere in elections against Richard Nixon or Republican and then Ronald Reagan or Republican.

From the perspective of a non-democratic regime, open democratic elections are just a right target.

They're an irresistible opportunity to manipulate the direction of either Western democracies or even the United States itself because they're so penetrable they're so manipulatable.

The book is called rigged, we'll link to it in the show notes.

When in fact what I reveal in my book rigged is that there's a vast history of covert operations to interfere in elections from Soviet and American operations during the Cold War to Russian operations around the world today to 2016 in its aftermath.

What he told me about were his operations to interfere in elections against Richard Nixon or Republican and then Ronald Reagan or Republican.

from the perspective of a non-democratic regime, open democratic elections are just a right target. They're an irresistible opportunity to manipulate the direction of either Western democracies or even the United States itself because they're so penetrable they're so manipulatable.

The second thing he really emphasized to me was he talked to me about how America's diversity from the Soviet perspective is an enormous vulnerability that whereas I think it's in the American tradition as I believe that our diversity is a core strength of our nation. From their perspective it's right for subversion you can take divisions along race or religion or otherwise and pit Americans against each other through propaganda, through staged hate crimes or otherwise in order to both divide Americans from one another and to do great America's image and eyes of the world and he would execute operations to do so in the cold war and as we saw in 2016 Russia predominantly sought to target black Americans and so racial discord in our own electorate.

the book is called rigged we'll link to it in the show notes

Molly Hemingway wrote a great book called rigged.