Ep. 2017 - J.D. Vance Gets Smeared For This Viral Joe Rogan Interview

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
AI executives face mounting death threats as one AI company suggests that their product might kill us all. So is it time to go full Luddite? Let's ask Rock. Then Vice President JD Vance goes on Joe Rogan and gets slandered, totally smeared for the dumbest reason. We will get into the viral clip in question. And finally, Senator Rand Paul comes on the show to discuss the massive fraud hearing yesterday that the Democrats boycotted. Michael Knowles is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show. Apple and Google News caught red handed suppressing all sorts of negative stories about the erstwhile Democrat Senate candidate, Graham Plattner.
This was pretty obvious to those of us who were paying attention, but we will see how the machine is operating, because now they totally turned on Plattner, basically have given up in Maine. Okay, before we get into anything, there is one story I haven't even mentioned yet, and it's probably the most important story of the day.
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Okay, before we get to the vice president, before we get to AI companies saying the product is going to kill us all, before we get to Senator Rand Paul, a story that is really spiking people's cortisol, especially men's cortisol. The European Athletics Associations have just released new guidelines saying that broadcasters can't focus on female athletes' assets anymore. Do you know what I'm talking about? They released this massive, look at this massive tome, with all sorts of really lurid illustrations about how broadcasters need to stop putting the cameras on the female athletes' derriere and, you know, general chest area. And they want to stop female sports from being so sexy. That's what, that is what the European broadcasters are saying. And they've released these pictures, which are really, really funny, because it's, you know, the camera angles zooming in on women as they're bending over, you know, oopsie, I dropped a pencil or something like that. And they say, this is really, really bad, cannot do it. Where do we have? I'll go just to the top of this report. EBU Sport, Raising the Bar, Guidelines for Respectful Media Coverage in Women's Athletics. The sexualization of women athletes through selective camera angles and editing choices continues to be a significant concern across many sports broadcasts. Lingering shots on bodies, low-angle cameras that capture revealing views, and excessive slow-motion replays that serve no technical or storytelling purpose are among the issues observed in the media coverage of women's athletics competitions today. And these choices carry profound implications. They shape audience perception by diverting attention from the remarkable achievements and technical skills of women athletes and risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes. First of all, let's just, okay, let's take them in reverse order. Harmful stereotypes, what's the harmful stereotype? The harmful stereotype that women are hot. What do you mean by that? We're just so used to these cliches, these silly, politically correct phrases. What harmful stereotype is being perpetuated by sports broadcasters showing women's bodies looking good? The harmful stereotype that women are pretty, they are pretty, they generally are. Not all the time, but generally they are. And furthermore, keep going back, it diverts attention away from the remarkable achievements and technical skills of women. The argument that is being advanced here by the European Athletics Associations is that the broadcasters are diverting audiences' attention away from the remarkable athletic achievements of women toward women's bodies. That's the first line there, lingering shots on bodies. We need to stop folk, in women's sports, we need to stop focusing on women's bodies and start focusing on their athletic achievements. What do you think an athletic achievement is? What do you think an athletic achievement entails? It entails the body.