Transcripts. Bannon’s War Room. Dr. Wolf: Joe Biden Demonized Almost Half of the American Nation with Speech Meant for Unity. Sept 2, 2022
Topic: Biden’s Speech. Guest Dr. Naomi Wolf. September 2, 2022.
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: Dr. Wolf: Joe Biden Demonized Almost Half of the American Nation with Speech Meant for Unity
Published September 2, 2022.
Steve Bannon:
Let me bring it namely Wolf Naomi. Naomi you are at the forefront of exposing this from a research point of view but you've also an expert in political stagecraft and I understand you're nonpartisan. Your group’s nonpartisan as it should be, but just last night since I think you were the first voice you and Doctor Malone back in the spring of 2020 that came out and even in the fall 2020 spring of 2021 and the winter that talked about this concept of medical tyranny right, taking your freedom. If they can take your freedom away from your own control of your health, they can take your freedom away from anything. Give us your assessment your professional assessment of the stagecraft in the messaging of last ma’am.
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
The messaging was, it's probably the most disturbing presidential speech I've heard in decades of listening to and in some cases influencing speeches from that kind of context. What was really shocking about it is that never before have I heard an American president give a speech demonizing and turning into an enemy almost half of the American people.
It is a completely standard almost sacred convention of White House speech writing, presidential speech writing and vice-presidential speech writing that you include everyone, you're speaking to everyone. The president is not supposed to be the president of Democrats, or the president of Democrats, Independents or Republicans. The president's is supposed to be serving, and he took an oath to serve the constitutional rights of every American.
So, this is really a kind of Banana Republic or Stalinist rhetorical tactic to create a kind of dissident group a fifth column, a group of subversives within the borders of our nation or a nation whether Soviet Union or China or whatever you know Banana Republic type or totalitarian regime you want to invoke and encourage everyone to hate those people. It is absolutely standard for dictatorships, have never happened before in American democracy. I mean even in the incredibly emotionally violent and end rhetorically inflamed atmosphere of the early republic, Jefferson Madison, they did not ever like single out their political opponent in speeches and say go after these people, these people are not America.
I mean even during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was trying to speak to the nation as a united nation. Even when we actually had sworn enemies at arms within our own national borders. So, it's thoroughly unprecedented extremely disturbing because who's it going to be next. Now it's MAGA and throughout the speech I kept saying to my husband what is MAGA according to this speech? What do these people believe? Where is their little red book? Where's their declaration? Where’s their kind of credo?
I mean they’re invoking out of thin air an enemy that they claim, or the speech writer claims is racist, sexist, misogynist, violent, extremist. I've heard that language for months and months and months if not years now about MAGA and it's really based on almost no evidence, so they tried as I predicted yesterday. They tried to conjure up evidence, but they don't define extremism they don't, the president didn't say why MAGA was a threat to democracy just made a bunch of assertions that you guys all want to violently overthrow the republic and that is..
Steve Bannon:
How do you extrapolate, for you have been at the forefront of saying hey this about medical freedom and medical tyranny in this pandemic and remember you're the one that keeps pointing out he still does not back off those emergency powers. How do you extrapolate for people that are most concerned about their medical freedom how do you extrapolate out?
What Doctor Malone just said hey, look I think they're coming with additional vaccines with very little evidence, additional boosters, The New York Times, everyone is going to put the pompoms out. He believes it could actually lead to other mandates. In your line of work as you look at the medical freedom the fight for medical freedom and basically self-reliance where do you see this going off of that speech last night?
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
Well, this is what's so horribly twisted about what we're witnessing I think Doctor Malone and his completely right. I mean that's what the language is gearing up toward with all the news platforms that are paid by pharma or as we saw behind the scenes with the FOIA in which I was named.
The CDC is actually colluding with Big Tech, colluding with media to target people so you know we're seeing this collusion leading to this drum beat of boosters boosters, but I see something you can scarier. I think the next two months are going to be really dangerous. I mean really dangerous.
I don't think they want to have an election and I think they're going to be using and they set this up in the speech right, using the premise that there's an underground waiting to overthrow the government or to dissolve democracy as a pretext for forcing people to submit to medical and other invasions of their privacy and autonomy and they're going to use it.
Look we're still under emergency law, this guy, this president extended emergency law in April. We're still under emergency law they can declare a public health emergency based on rising flu or COVID cases in the Fall and mandate anything and say it's not safe to go to voting booth or that you have to get injected in order to vote and I think Doctor Malone is right to be scared but honestly there are other things that really scare me as much as the language.
And I think people don't spend enough time looking at the imagery and imagery was a big part of what I did in the when I advised vice president not what I was accused of but I actually gave him good advice that imagery. And imagery is a really important part as you know of any White House messaging.
This imagery is not American imagery. These colors are not the United States red and blue. I see this deep saturated red whenever there is branding about COVID actually or about the injections. This is the deep saturated red that major news outlets especially in Britain where using and this was all focus grouped right and this was all branded behind the scenes to show all the diseases rampant disease is rampant and then when people got injected New York Times showed it with a cool medicinal green. But this is, look closely at this image. This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer. They’ve illuminated I swear I see this. They've illuminated Independence Hall to look in such a way that it is foregrounded to look like a pagoda. I'm not kidding and then look at this, in the New York Times these wings, Independence Hall is illuminated. What does that look like right?
What famous image does that look like? those horizontal wings essentially that is a, I mean I'm not going to I'm not going to say it if it's not obvious to you. Take a look at Lenny Riefenstahl imagery. Take a look at imagery of Nazi Germany in the 30s with these gigantic rallies behind the leader’s head would be these massive wings of a national socialist eagle.
This is not American imagery. And the last thing I want to say is usually when they're when there's a White House speech the American flag is displayed horizontally, and I know that vertically the way they displayed it last night is a way to display the American flag that's considered legitimate. But the way that there were these massive vertical flags behind the president it is and this kind of very rigid, flanked on two sides by members of the military facing each other, the long like white carpet, this is imperial like, dictatorial imagery this is not American imagery.
Steve Bannon:
Naomi Wolf How do people get to Daily Clout.io real quickly before I get you back on?
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
Yes, it's Daily Clout.io. I'm so sorry this is happening, and I can't believe it.
Steve Bannon:
Don't be sorry, don’t be sorry this is, it's like I said, it couldn't be clearer after last night, you laid out the imagery. What they’re doing last night was a primal scream from a dying illegitimate regime. We understand that, so don't be sorry. Save your prayers and your tears for our enemies. Save the prayers and tears for the enemies. How do people get to you on Daily Clout?
Dr. Naomi Wolf:
Alright it's a Daily Clout.io. The book is “The Bodies of Others” on Amazon or Barnes and Noble and on GETTR it's Doctor Naomi R Wolf. And thank you I hope for better days ahead for all of us leading journalists.
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