Rick Manning – President, Americans for Limited Government Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven, twenty two. Now here on the Houston's Morning News
recommandings with this President of Americans for Limited Government, we're
going to talk about election interference. It goes back a ways.
Obviously it's going on right now. We're going to talk
about how it's still going on. It's going on right now.
You've got the Hairs campaign, which is basically taking headlines
from news organizations and rewriting them and redirecting them to

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stories that are even more faable for Kamila Harris. That's
election interference, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's election interference that the Googles and the like are
allowing it to occur. It's certainly unethical, you know. But Google,
I'll just use Google as an example. For the lass
two or three election cycles. Google has been pretty aggressive
at redirecting searches to make it so people who are
looking for positive information about conservative candidates really have a

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harder time finding it. And you know, that's a simple,
simple thing that they do. It's through their suggestions and
the like. And we saw it most recently where Google
admitted that their algorithm deliberately did not suggest when you
put in assassination attempts, did not push them to the
one people were looking for, which was the Donald Trump

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assassination attempt, but rather shoved them down rabbit holes that
they weren't interested in and a hope of diverting people
away from the subject that they were actually interested in.
So the social media companies have a lot of ways
of manipulating the elections, but the most significant thing is

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when we see that the federal government is involved in
that manipulation. And that's the scary part. And unfortunately to
Congress in twenty eighteen pushed and passed through legislation that
allows the Department Homeland Security to direct social media companies
communicate with them about disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation. And the

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social media companies have used that to basically monitor and
censor political political speech that isn't government approved.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And push forward government propaganda.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Correct, And that's why we saw.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm seeing now, you know, all of a sudden, you're
not seeing it in mainstream media, but that whole nord
Stream two pipeline explosion. You know, they blamed it on Russia, Russia, Russia.
Turns out it was Ukrainian nationals who blew the thing up.
I mean, it's hard to find that kind of information
on the Internet.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, then that's absolutely true. It is things that get
buried down the page ten, page twenty, and as a result,
you get the fluff that people want you to see.
I use the example on global warming, and this is
not even the Internet. This is the La Times. They
announced it five years ago that they would not publish

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any any op eds that did not conform to the
the international global warming kind of dic taught and as
because it was proved, the science was settled, and so consequently,
if you were looking into La Times and think that's
a legitimate place to get your news, well no it isn't,

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because they have made a determination that you can't have
a conversation about whether or not you destroy should destroy
the electrical grid in search of some kind of net
zero that is unattainable and would be disastrous for this country. Well,
young people, this is pervasive.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, young people are certainly not getting their news from
the La Times or the Houston Chronicle or the New
York Times or the Washington Post. They're getting it on
the internet media. Yeah, so that makes social media a
very potentially dangerous place, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, it's one of the rationality. The answer h It's
one of the rationalities for trying to dislodge TikTok from
Chinese control in order for it to exist in the
United States because survey of TikTok, the political stuff that's
been shoved through TikTok was overwhelmingly far left and was

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designed is designed to manipulate and essentially put a set
of facts into people's minds that aren't factual but that
they believe or true that they believe are true because
they've seen it multiple times through social media channels. How much.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
How much of a game changer is something like Elon
Musk and x and even true social Now, I.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Think Elon Musks must change the game. He gave hope
that this system could be rained in at least there
could be a place on the Internet where a lot
of where masses of people to gather, that there can
be an honest discussion in a fight a battle over ideas,
which is what a democracy, what our country is supposed
to be about, as a battle over ideas. True socialism

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is a great thing. It hasn't reached the numbers. It's
got huge numbers that follow it that are on it,
but it hasn't reached the same numbers that an X
or Twitter have where they have, it's kind of ubiquitous. Yeah,
and it's too still too small.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, but that's why they tried so hard to shut
that interview down on XT.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
They knew whatever said denial service, the denial service attack
on X, it was so massive that it had to
come from either from it had to come from a
either foreign government or or so over intelligence agencies. There's

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absolutely the amount of data that was shoved in to
into X to block it to effect would break the
system was beyond comprehension enormous.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, well, there's plenty of people who would want to
shut that information up. Rick, We got to run, but
thank you so much for your time. That's President of
Americans for Limited Government Brick Banning. It's seven twenty seven