White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre is very upset about all the "edited videos," "cheapfakes," and "deepfakes" going around of President Biden. These deceptive videos are making people think that President Biden is old and senile, instead of the mentally agile symbol of leadership that he is! And the mainstream media is helping her push this narrative! Well, Glenn and Pat discuss the truth: There are plenty of examples of Joe Biden looking old that are NOT taken out of context. As Glenn has warned, there will come a time when your eyes will deceive you. It may be because of AI deepfakes...or, it could be the fault of government propagandists.
TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Okay. So Jean-Pierre said yesterday she's very upset about the unedited video. I'm sorry. The edited videos that -- the cheap fakes and the deepfakes that are going out.
And confusing Americans about how Joe Biden is handing things mentally. He's as strong as a horse. And probably as much awareness of what he is, as a horse, but that's a different story.
Here she is yesterday, from the White House. Cut two.
VOICE: There's a bunch of videos, that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail, or thinly confused.
I'm wondering if the White House is especially aware of the fact that it appears to be a pattern.
VOICE: Yeah.
GLENN: Okay. Stop. Stop for a second. Listen to that question. Listen to that question.
That question is shaped, that the president is fine, there's no problem with the president.
But are you concerned that there's all of these videos coming out, that make him appear to be incapable of getting off a stage by himself.
Here's their answer.
VOICE: Appears to be a pattern.
VOICE: Yeah. And I think you all have called this. The cheap fakes video.
That's exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video.
They are done in bad faith. And some of your news organization.
GLENN: She's reading, by the way.
VOICE: Have been very clear. Have stressed that these right-wing -- the white-wing (sic) critics of the president have a credibility problem. Because of the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation and disinformation. And so we see this. And this is something coming from your part of the world. Calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.
And I'll quote the Washington Post, what they wrote. They wrote about this.
And they said, how Republicans used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period. I think that it tells you everything that we need to know, about how -- how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here.
We're seeing these fakes. These manipulated videos. And it is, again, done in bad faith.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: Deep fakes. Deep fakes.
PAT: You know, all I could think of during her spiel here, is you saying, there will come a time when your eyes will deceive you. And this is that time.
They're telling us, we can't believe our very eyes right now. That these aren't real. That they've been edited or manipulated in some way. No!
I mean, taking something out of context means that you've changed what is actually about. Like you're lying about what they're saying. You're lying about what happened.
GLENN: Well, they're saying that this take, that you don't understand. That there was another parachuter, off behind Joe Biden.
We saw that. They showed that.
PAT: We talked about that.
GLENN: Correct.
PAT: And he did warned off. And he did say something to the guy.
He did.
GLENN: Right. Right. But still...
Everyone else was looking the other way.
PAT: Yes. Right.
GLENN: And it was so uncomfortable for the people there. You saw Macron look at him, like, oh, jeez.
Here he goes, and then Maloney saw it. And she walked across all of the world leaders to grab him and turn him around.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: So, I mean, were they part of this -- this Deepfake? Were they part of it, saying, we were trying to make him look really old and decrepit? And not carry on a single thought at a time.
No. No.
There's no fake there. That -- he might have had his own intention of, you know -- I need my pudding.
And maybe that soldier is bringing that to me.
I don't know what his intention was. But everybody there. Viewed it the same way, the rest of the country did.
PAT: Yep.
GLENN: It's incredible.
From the people who brought us the video of George Bush, trying to open that door and not be able to do it.