Sean Spicer: Most Reporters Just Want To Be 'YouTube Stars' — Transcript

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1. 0:01White House press secretary Sean Spicer
2. 0:02says that most of the fake news
3. 0:04journalists just want to be YouTube
4. 0:07stars. Here he is talking with Laura
5. 0:09Ingram about how the liberal media are
6. 0:10furious that he sometimes holds what are
7. 0:13called press gaggles which are just
8. 0:15press conferences in his office instead
9. 0:17of the traditional version in the White
10. 0:19House press briefing room where the
11. 0:21reporters then can't grandstand in front
12. 0:23of the cameras. Well, first of all, it's
13. 0:26not fewer briefings. And again, this is
14. 0:27this is part of the problem, I think,
15. 0:28for people who don't take the time to
16. 0:30listen to your show or others uh that
17. 0:32inform them entirely, they they get this
18. 0:34false impression. Uh the reality is is
19. 0:36that we follow the same practice as u as
20. 0:39past administrations. Uh despite some of
21. 0:42the bias that a a press a free press is
22. 0:45part of a healthy democracy, uh but that
23. 0:48we would be doing it in in in some ways
24. 0:50that were different and better. uh we've
25. 0:52allowed more access to a lot of folks
26. 0:54who haven't had it. The bottom line is I
27. 0:55think that the mainstream media that had
28. 0:57a strangle hold on deciding what
29. 0:59information the American people got to
30. 1:00see uh in some ways are upset that more
31. 1:03people more voices are getting an
32. 1:06opportunity uh to get involved in in
33. 1:09having their questions answered to
34. 1:10participate in our democracy. Um but the
35. 1:13fact is is that they've had we are here
36. 1:15as I mentioned yesterday at the
37. 1:16briefing. I get in just usually around
38. 1:186:00 a.m. We leave fairly late at night.
39. 1:20Um, and so we are we have an entire
40. 1:22press staff that is totally accessible
41. 1:24um during those hours and on the
42. 1:26weekends to the press. I think there's a
43. 1:28big difference. What what you see a lot
44. 1:29of the sniping is there's a lot of them
45. 1:30that want to become YouTube stars and
46. 1:32ask some snarky question that's been
47. 1:33asked eight times. Uh and that's that's
48. 1:36right. That's their that's their right
49. 1:38to do it. But our job is to make sure
50. 1:39that we're providing updates and
51. 1:41readouts of what the president's doing
52. 1:42and the advances that he's making on his
53. 1:43agenda. Here's CNN's White House press
54. 1:45correspondent Jim Acasta complaining
55. 1:46about how President Trump just doesn't
56. 1:48want to talk to him anymore. And he
57. 1:50actually admits that the mainstream
58. 1:52media is the liberal media. I don't know
59. 1:55why everybody is going along with this.
60. 1:57It just doesn't make any sense to me.
61. 1:59And it just feels like we're we're sort
62. 2:01of slowly but surely being dragged into
63. 2:04what is a new normal in this country
64. 2:05where the president of the United States
65. 2:07is allowed to insulate himself from
66. 2:09answering hard questions. He hasn't had
67. 2:11had a full-blown press conference since
68. 2:13February. He has these two plus two
69. 2:16press conferences with a foreign head of
70. 2:18state where, you know, maybe he'll take
71. 2:19a question from a conservative news
72. 2:20media reporter and then somebody from
73. 2:22the mainstream media. It just this isn't
74. 2:25how we do things in this country, but
75. 2:26for whatever reason, we're all going
76. 2:28along with it. Well, that's probably the
77. 2:30first truthful thing to come out of Jim
78. 2:31Costa's mouth all year, that the
79. 2:33mainstream media is the liberal media.
80. 2:35Of course, the mainstream media just
81. 2:37can't stand the fact that the
82. 2:38independent and alternative press is
83. 2:40gaining popularity by the day. And while
84. 2:43they claim that the president is cutting
85. 2:45off press access, he's actually
86. 2:48expanding it by giving out more press
87. 2:50passes to smaller and independent media
88. 2:53outlets, even
89. 2:55infowars.com, which Jimmy Kimmel now has
90. 2:57a problem with. White House press
91. 2:59secretary Sean Spicer is u might soon be
92. 3:03moving to another job in the
93. 3:04administration. He's reportedly in the
94. 3:06process of interviewing his own
95. 3:08replacements. They're looking for
96. 3:10someone who's cool under pressure, well
97. 3:12briefed on policy, and can keep a
98. 3:14straight face when saying yes, the
99. 3:16gentleman from
100. 3:18Infowars. The corporate media are in
101. 3:20panic mode because of the rise of
102. 3:22popularity of well, people like me who
103. 3:24has over a million subscribers now.
104. 3:26Thank you very much everybody for
105. 3:27watching my back. And look at this
106. 3:29garbage from BuzzFeed. Far-right
107. 3:31activists are stealing tricks from
108. 3:33YouTubers and it's going to get people
109. 3:35hurt. A small group of far-right
110. 3:37activists have figured out how to
111. 3:39manipulate the media with new viral
112. 3:42stunts and it's getting more and more
113. 3:44dangerous. Oh no, YouTubers are becoming
114. 3:47more popular. Like this beautiful blonde
115. 3:49Lauren Southern. We got to shut her
116. 3:51down. Here's another article from
117. 3:52BuzzFeed. how YouTube serves as the
118. 3:55content engine of the internet's dark
119. 3:57side. Everyone knows that Twitter and
120. 3:59Facebook spread bad information and hate
121. 4:01speech, but YouTube, which pays for
122. 4:04conspiracy theories seen by millions,
123. 4:07may be even worse. Here's a conspiracy
124. 4:10theory for you. Why am I never mentioned
125. 4:12in any of these articles attacking
126. 4:14conservative YouTubers? I'm the biggest
127. 4:17one. Instead, most articles that I've
128. 4:19seen attacking conservatives on social
129. 4:20media, they just focus on people who
130. 4:22have Twitter accounts or smaller YouTube
131. 4:25channels, they're never mentioning me at
132. 4:27all. I really think they're just trying
133. 4:28to ignore me, hoping that I'll somehow
134. 4:30go away. But sorry, it's not going to
135. 4:31work. This channel's growing by about
136. 4:33800 subscribers a day. Even Vice News,
137. 4:36which was just given
138. 4:37$450 million in venture capital to try
139. 4:41to build up their media company, admits
140. 4:43that there is a battle between YouTube
141. 4:45and the mainstream media. They really
142. 4:47don't know what to do with us, which is
143. 4:48why they've basically just demonetized
144. 4:50the entire platform or anyone who has
145. 4:52objectionable or sensitive content,
146. 4:55which translates to anybody that has a
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