Bringing Light Into Darkness - The Federalist
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Guest is Mark Hemingway, editor at The Federalist, to discuss the rise of new media as a counterinsurgency to biased news organizations and the rise of censorship.
Classic movie review of "Adam's Rib," the 1947 film about married lawyers who end up opposing each other in court.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.7 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Hans von Spakowski, and this is Pace and Point. |
| 0:11.0 | The title of our episode today is Bringing Light Into Darkness, the Federalist. |
| 0:16.4 | For years, the only place the public could get news was from the three major networks and the major |
| 0:21.4 | newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post. As Rush Limbaugh used to call |
| 0:27.0 | them, they were the left stream media, not the mainstream media. They slanted the news, inserted |
| 0:33.1 | liberal bias and all their stories, and did the rest to manipulate public opinion to favor |
| 0:38.8 | their liberal candidates, blast out their progressive opinions, attack conservatives, |
| 0:44.4 | and achieve their biased partisan political goals and objectives. |
| 0:50.0 | It was the Internet with the ability to post blogs and opinions and the development of electronic |
| 0:57.3 | newspapers that has provided a counterinsurgency to the dominance of the left in the news |
| 1:04.2 | and opinion business. |
| 1:06.0 | The left stream media has lost control of the flow of information, something very important |
| 1:10.4 | to them, |
| 1:10.8 | and are those of us who want to maintain and protect our Democratic Republic. |
| 1:16.8 | Now, one of those innovative news and opinion websites is the Federalist. |
| 1:22.6 | I go to their webpage every day as part of my job. And I have to tell you, they are one of the |
| 1:29.1 | best publications that has emerged from the conservative blog news and opinion world. |
| 1:36.4 | There are reporters and columnists have broken numerous stories on corruption and government, |
| 1:41.0 | on wrongdoing by government and other officials, and on the bias, partiality, |
| 1:47.2 | and frankly prejudice of the partisans who are in the news business, who masquerade as reporters. |
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