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December 17, 2022
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1. "Huckabee" Preview

By Mike Huckabee

I have an early Christmas gift for you: a great new holiday episode of “Huckabee” tonight on TBN! I’ll talk current events with very special guest, former Vice President Mike Pence. Congresswoman Nancy Mace also joins us to discuss her epic takedown of liberal hypocrites who advocate violence on social media. But there’s also plenty of entertainment, including the funny side of the news on “In Case You Missed It.” Dog lovers like me will go crazy for Sara Carter and her Super Collies! And I’ll welcome back the terrific country harmony group Rockland Road.

I’ll unwrap it for you starting at 8 and 11 EST, 7 and 10 CST, or Sunday at 9 EST/8 CST on TBN. To find out how to watch TBN, from local cable and broadcast channels to streaming, visit https://www.huckabee.tv and click on “Channel Finder” on the top menu. You can stream previous episodes, highlights and online-only “Digital Exclusives,” including extended interviews, “In Case You Missed It” and “Facts of the Matter” segments, plus extra performances by our great musical and comedy guests and links to all their sites, at https://www.huckabee.tv. You can also find past shows, highlights and digital exclusives on YouTube and my Facebook page.

2. Title 42 order set to expire

By Mike Huckabee

With the pandemic-era Title 42 order requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico set to expire in a few days, we’re already seeing thousands of illegal immigrants surging into the US and overwhelming border cities like El Paso. But Texas just scored a last minute court victory with a federal judge ordering Biden to keep the policy in place temporarily. The Supreme Court already ruled that Biden has the power to end the order, but the lower court judge found that he did so illegally because he failed to consider the benefits of the policy, including reducing illegal immigration and “unmeritorious asylum claims.” More details here:

https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-judge-hands-biden-big-loss-blocks-ending-trump-era-policy/

It’s unclear how much effect this will have, considering the huge mass of illegal entrants already streaming over the border, the way Biden has undercut and hamstrung enforcement, and the fact that he wasn’t doing much to enforce Title 42 in the first place. He’s fine with citing the pandemic as an excuse to use strong arm tactics on American citizens, but seems unconcerned with millions of unvetted and unvaccinated illegal immigrants pouring in.

In fact, when you look at everything he’s done to incentivize illegal immigration, eliminate border security, dismantle the border wall and sue border states for even trying to stop the invasion themselves, I half expect that the next lawsuit he’ll face will be the Mexican coyotes who smuggle illegal immigrants into the US suing him for undercutting their business model by making it too easy.


3. Griner speaks

By Mike Huckabee

WNBA player Brittney Griner made her first public statement since being sprung from a Russian prison in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-brittney-griner-says-play-basketball/

In most ways, it’s a very good statement. She says she’s “grateful” to be back in the US, thanks President Biden and all the officials who got her free and all the people who supported her, mentions Marine veteran Paul Whelan who is still being held in Russia and vows to use her platform to help efforts to bring home all Americans who are being unjustly detained in other nations.

It would have been nice, though, if she’d added, “Remember all that badmouthing and disrespect of America that I expressed before? I was wrong, and I’m sorry.”

 

4. Trump lives inside their heads rent-free

By Mike Huckabee

I don’t know why I keep hearing that former President Trump lives at Mar-A-Lago. Clearly, he resides 24/7 in the heads of certain Congressional Democrats.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/15/41-house-democrats-file-bill-to-bar-donald-trump-from-2024-eligibility/

5. "Twitter Files" are revealing WHAT THE 'DEEP STATE' IS

By Mike Huckabee

Earlier this week, we speculated that Twitter might have existed not just as a social media platform but also as an intelligence-gathering and propaganda arm of the federal government (and maybe other governments). Debating about which one it primarily was seems like the old Certs “candy mint/breath mint” controversy. There is incontrovertible proof now that Twitter has been BOTH a social platform AND an intelligence-gathering and propaganda arm of the federal government.

And, legally, it can’t be both.

Elon Musk’s latest info-drop of internal communications from the “Twitter Files,” delivered Friday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi, is perhaps the most damning yet, revealing that the FBI engaged in regular, ongoing contact with Twitter and had them censor accounts, in a direct attack on the First Amendment. J. D. Rucker at LIBERTY DAILY has posted the whole thing, which he says shows that the FBI and Twitter were “practically family.”

Taibbi himself calls this a “unique, one-big-happy-family vibe between Twitter and the FBI,” saying that “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.” He concludes what we already have, citing this as the takeaway: “What most people think of as the ‘deep state’ is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded NGO [non-government organizations]. The lines have become so blurred as to be meaningless.”

We'd say Exhibit A is the large number of ex-FBI and CIA agents who've gone to work at Twitter. Read Taibbi’s latest installment, and you’ll understand, if you didn’t already, why the FBI absolutely cannot be allowed to exist in its current form.

https://thelibertydaily.com/latest-twitter-files-bombshell-the-deep-state-is-really-a-tangled-collaboration-of-state-agencies-private-contractors-and-ngos/

Former head of Twitter Trust and Safety Yoel Roth was in the thick of this effort. Between January 2020 and November 2022, more than 150 emails were exchanged between him and the FBI. Some were just chatty and mundane, but others, as Taibbi describes, were requests for information on Twitter users related to active investigations. And “a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.”

That’s right, they weren’t just going after high-profile accounts. Your Aunt Sadie in Des Moines who re-tweeted some pointedly hilarious meme about obvious ballot-stuffers wearing gloves in the heat of summer in Atlanta was being monitored, too. (Too bad they weren’t watching those drop-boxes, ha.) They’re watching EVERYBODY –- this is really no different from the level of control exercised by China.

And, yes, the FBI was calling on Twitter to ban accounts that were obviously satirical. Elvis Chan, senior FBI agent at the San Francisco field office, even put together a helpful list of satirical sites for Twitter, to get those sites banned. He included one of my favorites, and I’ll bet yours, too: the BABYLON BEE.

My writing/creative team have worked in comedy and parody for years and are aghast to see satire being attacked by our own government. This is the hill they will die on. The FBI’s attempt to control humor speaks to its power to cut to the heart of an issue. The power of mockery is precisely why our communication gatekeepers don’t like it and have been trying to shut it down. Plus, as I found out firsthand, they have no sense of humor and don’t even recognize an obvious joke!

In the wake of the 2016 election, the FBI’s task force for social media, known as FITF, or Foreign Influence Task Force, “swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds,” Taibbi writes. Here they are...

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-influence

“Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content,” Taibbi says. He’s probably including the Election Integrity Project, a partisan consortium of four different groups that worked with both the FBI and Twitter to help get messages flagged ahead of Election Day.

One Twitter email from March 2021 has to do with DHS bulletins being circulated among the executives at Twitter “stressing the need for greater collaboration between law enforcement and ‘private sector partners.’

Taibbi's latest installment shows, for the first time, that the FBI and DHS were regularly sending large amounts of social media content to Twitter, PRE-FLAGGED FOR MODERATION. That’s right, the FBI were going through masses of messages and telling Twitter how it was to be handled. This is not just using the Constitution for toilet paper --- it’s spitting on it, stomping on it, setting it on fire and burying the ashes.

One question Taibbi has is whether the FBI did all this monitoring themselves or farmed it out. He has found that some requests even came from state governments. Given what we know, it seems likely that intel people were using “private sector partners” to help with the monitoring and flagging.

“The ubiquity of the 2016 Russian interference story as a stated pretext for building out the censorship machine can’t be understated,” Taibbi says. “It’s analogous to how 9/11 inspired the expansion of the security state.” I would add that January 6 has since been used the same way, to focus the FBI almost exclusively on what they like to call “domestic terrorism.”

Charlie Hurt of the WASHINGTON TIMES made a good point Friday evening on Tucker Carlson’s show: “If we woke up today and there was this level of collusion between FOX NEWS and the federal government, in the middle of an election, to determine what we would or would not report, there would rightly be an outcry like we’ve never seen before. And yet it happens here. And an alarming number of the supposedly mainstream media –- they’re just like, ‘whatever,’” even though this is really no different from what the secret police do in totalitarian countries.

Hurt also pointed out that the same ‘journalists’ who are “squealing like stuck pigs" over being suspended (for a week!) at Twitter for doxxing Elon Musk and putting him and his family in danger never said a word when Twitter silenced doctors and scientists at the height of a pandemic. “These people are not protecting the First Amendment for anyone but themselves, and for the most powerful government on the planet.” he said.

Tammy Bruce, subbing for Sean Hannity Friday night, spoke with Kentucky Rep. James Comer, soon-to-be chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who insisted this issue would be a top priority. It had better be. “My concern was that this was a rogue FBI employee or two,” he said, “...we knew the FBI was the one communicating with the three Twitter employees [Roth, Gadde, Baker]...that this was ‘Russian disinformation’ pertaining to the Hunter Biden laptop...but what we found today is that the FBI had its own ‘ministry of propaganda’ --- 80 FBI agents [at a cost to taxpayers of $12 million] dedicated to nothing but censoring free speech on the internet.”

And what we’re hearing about is just Twitter. What about Google, Facebook, mainstream media? “Anyone that cares about free speech should be outraged, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat,” Comer said. “This has to stop.” He’s all for involving numerous committees, and for dismantling the FBI and starting over.

The FBI has released a statement saying, “The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities...[which] independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for the customers after the FBI has notified them.”

Law professor Jonathan Turley found this statement “disturbing” because it shows “absolutely no self-awareness of what has already been disclosed.” It shows “utter contempt for the American people.” The Twitter Files reveal much more than what they admit to in their statement, indicating “censorship by surrogate, by proxy,” which is unconstitutional. “There’s very little runway left for the FBI to continue to [say] that there isn’t a serious problem here.”

First Amendment protections not only apply to the government, but to agents of the government, he said.

Turley didn’t think most people were talking about dismantling the entire FBI, just “these troublesome components.” (Editorial aside: no, a lot of people ARE talking about starting over with the whole FBI, and it’s sounding more and more like what needs to happen.) It will take some time for the case to be made, he said. He also pointed out, correctly, that this is also an indictment of Congress, because they’ve “shown a steadfast refusal to dig into the censorship allegations...in fact, Democratic members have pushed social media companies to expand censorship,” and now we have blacklisting and shadow-banning, which the media are now finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to embrace.

“I can’t tell you how long overdue this is,” he said. “In some ways, Musk has forced people to choose sides.”

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317378776112

6. Basses and Guitars: The Huckabee Collection

If you haven’t already finished shopping for Christmas, I have a great last minute gift idea—the just released book “Basses and Guitars” written by Willie G. Moseley, veteran writer and editor of Vintage Guitar Magazine and all about the guitars in my personal collection and the stories behind them.  Even if you’re not a guitar owner or player, you’ll enjoy the stories of these musical instruments and how many of them shaped my life.  The folks in our studio audience will receive one as a Christmas gift for being here tonight, but you can order one for yourself or gifts for family and friends at mikehuckabee.com.  It’s filled with full-color photos that help tell the stories behind the instruments.  There are quite a few stories about Tre Corley and the Music City Connection and how the show has factored into my musical life.  If you order before Christmas, shipping is included.  Get it now at:  The Huckabee Guitar Collection - Mike Huckabee

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  • Jerry

    12/18/2022 12:13 PM

    I wonder when the MSM is going to blame the American Taxpayer for Obama allowing 3.7 million dollars to the Wuhan Institute for research of "Bat Viruses"? I wonder why when the Congress had a chance to help with keeping free speech alive when allowing FB, Twitter to do what ever it pleased by not monitoring its action the Congress has failed this country miserably along with the Presidents DOJ FBI CIA IRS every one of these people held important positions and have failed the taxpayer to the highest degree for the last 20 years with the exemption of a few years of the Trump Administration. It had to use 2 years to clean up the Obama years then the Obama virus hit and the destruction of America was under way all it took was 3,7 million dollars 4 times less than it took get wornack elected in Georgia. All America has left is The Divine Intervention, the Deep State has America in its grip that is why Trump will not become President again if not for Devine Intervention. Why else would this biden led Presidency continue to throw SHittf in the face of the taxpayer????/

  • Shona Stewart-Christy

    12/18/2022 10:50 AM

    Thank you for all of your articles. Such Great reads with point blank facts and humor. Absolute perfection.

  • Jerry

    12/18/2022 10:45 AM

    Having trump make Americans great again the leftists know they can’t buy him or bring Donald into the horror lifestyle the leftists live in Oh the leftists have a lot of money thru all the dealings they have however everyday the leftists have to keep everyone silent on all the dealings they have done for the last 25 years or more. Good liquor and great food and services make for luxurious living are the products of the congressional membership to keep that intact donal trump has become enemy number 1 The last president election has exposed the tip of the iceberg to how protective the leftists and the GOP members are of keeping the truth of how corrupt the members of the DC Swamp are

  • Jerry

    12/18/2022 08:48 AM

    Biden is meddling in countries business around the world while ignoring this country the US, every major problems he has created has gone without a fix. Biden has used the Oval Office and it’s power to destroy the country itself. Most conservatives knew Biden is a crackpot with a background of lunacy his visions are delusional without merit or reasonable. Corruption is what makes Biden what he is A simple self serving president without any cares about this country anti American is just a side effect

  • Jerry

    12/17/2022 04:21 PM

    Americans were hopeful the FBI and the CIA were on the side of America. The JFK murder had given bad vibes while still a teenager I wondered I felt our Government had something to do with the murder I could not prove it to did I want to the 9/11 had taken me to serious doubts of the two Agencies to the point of total distrust. Having biden as President is a rub the election in your face and laugh at you and penalized the American taxpayer beyond repair I am very much in a state of disbelief and so disappointed that Americans fund its own demise.