Conservative Media Groups Hit Biden Admin With Free Speech Lawsuit

Several conservative media outlets have filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s State Department, alleging that they are actively trying to censor them by having the government label them “misinformation.” Whether you like these websites or not is irrelevant – We have a Constitution that protects media outlets from government interference. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Several conservative media outlets have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration state department alleging that they're actively trying to censor 'em for having government label them with information. Whether you like these websites or not, it's irrelevant. We have a constitution. The government can't decide what we see and what we don't see. We're not a bunch of brain, well, there are some brainless children out there. Part of our American public right now really believes that, oh, I can't look at that. I want the government to tell me that this is bad. I want the government to think for me. Let the government decide whether this is information I should read. Almost like they can't get around to critical thinking and understand, well, I can decide this myself. Can't I?

Well, and on that note, by the way, I saw a study that came out yesterday, I think it's one in five school kids, school age kids, don't know that the Holocaust actually happened.

Oh, wow.

So we're talking about 20% of our kids don't even know that that's actually a real thing. But this lawsuit, listen, I don't like any of the outlets that filed this.

No. I don't either.

And I hope they win.

Oh, of course.

They have to win.

It's the Federalist Society. I mean, we talk about their craziness all the time.

But what's happening here and this is horrifying, and people need to understand this. Take off your blinders, because this will kill media if the government is allowed to do this. So the state department has this new power that was enacted, I think it was like 2017 officially.

Yes. It was.

In that first Defense Authorization Act or whatever. They put together this office that's job is to monitor foreign propaganda. But as part of monitoring foreign propaganda, they've started slapping labels on.

Domestic.

American media outlets. Saying this is misinformation. So the government is literally telling these outlets, you are misinformation. And that is not allowed.

We did a story on this. There was a woman that was making this circle all over the United States preaching about our show. You know that.

Oh, yeah.

Attacking me that we're destroying democracy by talking about corrupt corporations. I mean, giving speeches. I got a call, she was in California. She was talking, of all things, she's talking to a room full of lawyers of organization that I'm in. I know most of the folks. She puts my picture up there and they, I guess she doesn't know the connection, puts my picture up there and starts talking about how we're destroying democracy by talking about corporations. And we should be censored. I mean, what the hell? How have we gotten here to where you have part of the American public saying, oh, that's okay? There's some things you shouldn't say. No, you ought to be able to say what you wanna say. And then we ought to be intelligent enough to say, well, that's nonsense. Or it's not nonsense. Maybe it's the truth.

Well see and that's the problem, is the government thinks at this point, like, well, we have to baby everybody. Everybody's so dumb that if we're not watching them every second of the day, they're all gonna walk off the bridge.

Yeah. Or they're gonna go to their safe space. You know, I can't hear this. It's too bad. Or I can't process it.

But all of these websites, they have a right to exist. They have a right to report on what they wanna report on.

And there's not one thing you and I would agree with them on, I mean, these are right wing websites.

Right.

There's not much we would say, yeah, that's, we're with you on that.