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50 Things They Don't Want You to Know
Breitbart.com editor Jerome Hudson delivers the red pills his readers know him for, showing you the facts, statistics, and analysis that the mainstream media have worked so hard to hide
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia’s election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.Once you’re done reading 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, you’ll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
If you heard that one president deported more people than any other president, started the program of family separation, and did nothing to stop Russia’s election meddling, how many of them would guess it was Obama?
In 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know Jerome Hudson dives deeply into the things Americans are not supposed to realize. Many of our most hotly debate topics are shaped by Davos power brokers, woke college professors, TV talking heads, social media activists and feckless Washington swamp monsters who want you to only follow their narrative.
Your teachers, your politicians, and your local paper are not likely to ever tell
Racial minorities fare far better in the absence of race-based affirmative action policies.Latinos make up a little more than 50% of the Border Patrol, according to 2016 data.The U.S. settled more refugees in 2017 than any other nation.Between 2011 and 2016, the IRS documented 1.3 million identity thefts by Illegal aliens.Half of federal arrests are immigration-related.Welfare recipients in 34 states earn more than a person making minimum wage.Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people in less than two years.1,700 private jets flew to Davos to discuss the impact of global warming.Google could swing an election by secretly adjusting its search algorithm, and we would have no way of knowing.Once you’re done reading 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, you’ll never trust the powers that be to give you the whole truth again.
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July 2, 2019
The conservative outlook is always an education. They look at the world very differently, and given the same data, come up with completely different conclusions than most would. So it was with great interest that I read 50 Things They Don’t Want You To Know, by Jerome Hudson. Hudson is the Entertainment Editor at Breitbart News. While you might think that lessens his credentials, at Breitbart they believe that culture drives politics. The founder said so. That this is disprovable in an instant is of no matter. Entertainment is key to politics when seen from the far right. So Hudson is the man in the to read.
His 50 points are definitely real. There are valid figures that don’t make it much into mainstream media reporting. However, in reading the book it was easy to see the reason: most of them don’t have anything to do with the arguments.
For example, his first two of the 50 things concern abortion, giving it prominence and importance as a hidden issue. Apparently what they’re hiding are the numbers, and Hudson provides them. Blacks have the most abortions, whites and hispanics have fewer. But what this has to do with whether abortion should be permitted at all – no word. The argument the mainstream media treats is whether this medical procedure should be the only one prescribed or proscribed by laws as opposed to doctor-patient consulting. Or they might write about how conservative states do everything in their power to protect the unborn fetus, but completely abandon it once it is born. What difference abortion rates by race make to the argument is not explained.
In the next chapter, Hudson reveals the ethics of employing fetal cells in research, quoting Kristan Hawkins in what Hudson hopes is a dramatic finish to the chapter: “A civil society does not traffic in human remains.” But of course it does, as millions of organ transplants, blood transfusions, skin grafts, and gums recipients will attest. Hudson never shows that the use of fetal cells is some sort of horror in a society that depends on deceased donors. There is nothing here “they don’t want you to know” – just as in most of the chapters.
In the chapter on accepting refugees, the open and generous USA somehow comes first in the world with 27,000 (in 2017). Germany trails pathetically with just 3000. But numerous easily-found sources cite 76,000 for Germany. Germany expects 800,000 in 2019 (1.4 million since the Mediterranean refugee crisis began). It will likely accept ¾ of the 800,000, while the US reduces its acceptance to about 20,000 under Trump. So revealing true figures is not necessarily Hudson’s strong point. He says the US takes in about as many refugees as Canada, but Canada has just 10% of the US population, so 27,000 is a very significant number there, while 27,000 in the US is a rounding error. Plus, it turns out the 27,000 for Canada refers only to Syrian refugees in 2017. Regardless, the USA is NOT leading the world in accepting refugees (Most media describe it as “plummeting”). So you can’t trust Hudson’s claims any more than the media he slams for lies, fake news and hiding data. He is the they in his title.
One last example: the chapter complaining there are more deaths from opioids than from guns is totally pointless. True, conflating gun violence with opioid deaths is a firmly established conservative argument. But one has nothing to do with the other and both need attending to. Hudson compounds this stance in the next chapter, conflating flu deaths and deaths from falls with gun deaths. For whatever reason, he doesn’t go as far as cancer and cardio deaths compared to gun deaths, but he might as well have for all the sense it makes.
This is not journalism. It is clearly propaganda. The chapters are speckled with words like amazingly and incredibly that clearly bias the sentences. Sometimes, he appeals directly to the reader to see what he sees, calling us “folks”. Not to put too fine a point on it, he even stoops to: “Even a Democrat can do the math.”
Hudson seems to have no knowledge of the concept that correlation does not imply causation. In his world, a decline in SNAP (food stamps) participants is because some states began requiring recipients to work, not because unemployment has dropped to 3.4%. The breakdown of the family unit, which actually began after World War II, is the result of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 War on Poverty in Hudson’s telling. Similarly, he proudly points to record low unemployment rates for minorities under Trump, as if there were some new program Trump implemented to promote them.
Hudson absolutely adores Donald Trump. Thanks to Donald Trump, he says, “The Dow hit five 1000-point milestones in one year. It had never been done in the 120-year history of the exchange.” First of all, the exchange was founded in 1792, making it nearly 230 years old, nearly twice as old as Hudson’s “fact”. Second, for most of that time, until the last 40 years or so, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was below 2000, so of course there were never any 1000-point gains, (an absurd and empty measure of nothing). It is only because of rejiggering the formula’s divisor into a multiplier that the DJIA has become volatile on a daily basis. It has soared as the index drops poorer performers so that it is no longer a proxy for the economy. And none of it was at the behest of Donald Trump and his economic policy that Hudson claims “borders on the miraculous.” This is the kind of wild inaccuracy, exaggeration and bias that makes 50 Things They Don’t Want You To Know suspect.
There are chapters on Amazon paying no federal tax, Netflix employees giving more to Democrats than to Republicans, and other such shocking events Hudson claims “they don’t want you to know.” There really is nothing being hidden that Hudson reveals.
For all its many faults, 50 Things pretty clearly represents the extreme right’s inaccurate, self-serving and obscurative take on everything. To that extent it is a valuable book, no better and no worse than the propaganda coming from what remains of the left. But also, not helpful to truthseekers.
David Wineberg
His 50 points are definitely real. There are valid figures that don’t make it much into mainstream media reporting. However, in reading the book it was easy to see the reason: most of them don’t have anything to do with the arguments.
For example, his first two of the 50 things concern abortion, giving it prominence and importance as a hidden issue. Apparently what they’re hiding are the numbers, and Hudson provides them. Blacks have the most abortions, whites and hispanics have fewer. But what this has to do with whether abortion should be permitted at all – no word. The argument the mainstream media treats is whether this medical procedure should be the only one prescribed or proscribed by laws as opposed to doctor-patient consulting. Or they might write about how conservative states do everything in their power to protect the unborn fetus, but completely abandon it once it is born. What difference abortion rates by race make to the argument is not explained.
In the next chapter, Hudson reveals the ethics of employing fetal cells in research, quoting Kristan Hawkins in what Hudson hopes is a dramatic finish to the chapter: “A civil society does not traffic in human remains.” But of course it does, as millions of organ transplants, blood transfusions, skin grafts, and gums recipients will attest. Hudson never shows that the use of fetal cells is some sort of horror in a society that depends on deceased donors. There is nothing here “they don’t want you to know” – just as in most of the chapters.
In the chapter on accepting refugees, the open and generous USA somehow comes first in the world with 27,000 (in 2017). Germany trails pathetically with just 3000. But numerous easily-found sources cite 76,000 for Germany. Germany expects 800,000 in 2019 (1.4 million since the Mediterranean refugee crisis began). It will likely accept ¾ of the 800,000, while the US reduces its acceptance to about 20,000 under Trump. So revealing true figures is not necessarily Hudson’s strong point. He says the US takes in about as many refugees as Canada, but Canada has just 10% of the US population, so 27,000 is a very significant number there, while 27,000 in the US is a rounding error. Plus, it turns out the 27,000 for Canada refers only to Syrian refugees in 2017. Regardless, the USA is NOT leading the world in accepting refugees (Most media describe it as “plummeting”). So you can’t trust Hudson’s claims any more than the media he slams for lies, fake news and hiding data. He is the they in his title.
One last example: the chapter complaining there are more deaths from opioids than from guns is totally pointless. True, conflating gun violence with opioid deaths is a firmly established conservative argument. But one has nothing to do with the other and both need attending to. Hudson compounds this stance in the next chapter, conflating flu deaths and deaths from falls with gun deaths. For whatever reason, he doesn’t go as far as cancer and cardio deaths compared to gun deaths, but he might as well have for all the sense it makes.
This is not journalism. It is clearly propaganda. The chapters are speckled with words like amazingly and incredibly that clearly bias the sentences. Sometimes, he appeals directly to the reader to see what he sees, calling us “folks”. Not to put too fine a point on it, he even stoops to: “Even a Democrat can do the math.”
Hudson seems to have no knowledge of the concept that correlation does not imply causation. In his world, a decline in SNAP (food stamps) participants is because some states began requiring recipients to work, not because unemployment has dropped to 3.4%. The breakdown of the family unit, which actually began after World War II, is the result of Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 War on Poverty in Hudson’s telling. Similarly, he proudly points to record low unemployment rates for minorities under Trump, as if there were some new program Trump implemented to promote them.
Hudson absolutely adores Donald Trump. Thanks to Donald Trump, he says, “The Dow hit five 1000-point milestones in one year. It had never been done in the 120-year history of the exchange.” First of all, the exchange was founded in 1792, making it nearly 230 years old, nearly twice as old as Hudson’s “fact”. Second, for most of that time, until the last 40 years or so, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was below 2000, so of course there were never any 1000-point gains, (an absurd and empty measure of nothing). It is only because of rejiggering the formula’s divisor into a multiplier that the DJIA has become volatile on a daily basis. It has soared as the index drops poorer performers so that it is no longer a proxy for the economy. And none of it was at the behest of Donald Trump and his economic policy that Hudson claims “borders on the miraculous.” This is the kind of wild inaccuracy, exaggeration and bias that makes 50 Things They Don’t Want You To Know suspect.
There are chapters on Amazon paying no federal tax, Netflix employees giving more to Democrats than to Republicans, and other such shocking events Hudson claims “they don’t want you to know.” There really is nothing being hidden that Hudson reveals.
For all its many faults, 50 Things pretty clearly represents the extreme right’s inaccurate, self-serving and obscurative take on everything. To that extent it is a valuable book, no better and no worse than the propaganda coming from what remains of the left. But also, not helpful to truthseekers.
David Wineberg
October 22, 2019
I found Jerome Hudson's book to be informative and very interesting. Many, in the News Media today are prejudiced for the Left. I don't believe they really check if their sources and information are accurate. Author Jerome Hudson, gives facts about various topics ,that many in the Mainstream Media will not tell you. Some of the topics include Climate Change, improvement of the economy, the physical violence of the left towards those who disagree with them etc. Today, to get accurate information, one has to use various sources. "50 Things They Don't Want You to Know", is well worth reading!
December 20, 2019
Excellent Book Some of the things I already knew and some I didn't. Very enlightening and very well written.
December 27, 2019
An awesome informative read. Couldn't put it down. Lots of information for those who wants the truth.
January 9, 2020
I enjoyed this book. Gave a lot of insight and information not always widely known.
October 29, 2020
For an author who claims “They” don’t want you to know 50 things, and who allegedly has discovered “startling, hidden truths”—Hudson relies heavily on liberal and even progressive sources which report on these supposedly “hidden truths.” It’s important to stress that when Hudson quotes liberal sources, it is not to point out their mistakes or lies, but to support the validity of his arguments by showing these liberal sources are reporting on those same subjects. He also relies on information that is publicly available on government and liberal university websites. I’ll review 5 chapters, pointing out the sources, misinformation, and omissions. To determine where on the political spectrum (Left or Right) a source falls, I’ve relied on Ad Fontes Media.
CHAPTER 1: FROM 2012 TO 2016, MORE BLACK WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY HAD ABORTIONS THAN GAVE BIRTH.
Publicly available government sources: 4
Liberal Sources: 3—The Boston Globe, Slate, The Washington Post (quoted twice). According to AFM, Slate is “hyper-partisan left”, and “mixed reliability”. Yet, Hudson is happy to quote Slate when it agrees with him, in spite of accusing it in the Introduction as part of the “Establishment media” which has “conditioned us to choose emotion over logic, feelings over facts.”
NYU: liberal
Planned Parenthood
Conservative sources: 3
Here are some New York Time’s articles that belie Hudson's argument about Liberal sources not addressing both sides of an argument: The Case for Accepting Defeat in Roe v. Wade (Sept 20, 2020), and Why RBG Wasn’t All that Fond of Roe v. Wade (Sept. 21, 2020). Here's an NPR article: Poll: Majority wants to keep abortions, but they also want restrictions (June 7, 2019).
Hudson mentions that in “December 2016, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI and the Justice Department for investigation and possible prosecution”, and in 2017 the DOJ begun investigating “Planned Parenthood’s practices related to human fetal issue.” Hudson keeps quiet about the fact that House Republicans formed an investigative panel in December of 2016, and after 15 months issued a 471-page report that contained no charges. He doesn’t mention that the NYT published an article titled “Justice Department Investigating Fetal Tissue Transfers by Planned Parenthood and Others (Dec 8, 2017).” He doesn’t mention the NPR article: “In Wake of Videos, Planned Parenthood Investigations Find no Fetal Tissue Sales” (01/28/2016). He doesn’t mention that a federal jury in San Francisco awarded PP $2 million for the videos recorded by David R. Daleiden.
Hudson doesn’t mention that in 2015, Republican governors, state representatives, senators, attorney generals, state legislators, and one Democratic attorney general prompted investigations into Planned Parenthood for sales of fetal tissues or organs in Florida, Georgia, Indiana (then Governor Mike Pence requested the investigation), Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington, and the investigations found no wrong-doing. For example, Georgia’s Department of Public Health found “proper procedures in place for burial or internment of [fetal] remains”, and in Indiana the Department of Health found “no evidence of this type of activity.”
Hudson’s book was published in 2019, so there’s no excuse for someone who claims to be better informed than the average American not to be cognizant of this information.
CHAPTER 2: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AWARDED 100 MILLION IN TAX DOLLARS FOR CONTRACTS TO THE ABORTED-BABY-TISSUE INDUSTRY
Publicly available government sources: 3
Conservative sources: 3
Liberal: 1 Science Mag (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Hudson, of course, couldn’t have known that in 2020, Donald Trump would contract COVID 19 and would receive a treatment which had been developed using cells from fetal tissue.
NYT: “Trump’s Covid treatments were tested in cells derived from fetal tissue” (October 8, 2020). “The cells used by most of the companies now trying to find a Covid-19 treatment, called the 293T line, were derived from the kidney tissue of a fetus aborted in the 1970s”. The NYT’s article quotes David Prentice, vice president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life organization which Hudson also cites and sides with: “One concern regarding the ethical assessment of viral vaccine candidates is the potential use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development, production or TESTING (caps mine)”. Prentice wrote this in September of 2020. Dr. James Sherley, a scholar at Lozier, said that such research is “not morally responsible.” Trump tested positive early October.
USA Today (rated by AFM as “neutral/balanced”, and “most reliable”) called news about the treatment being MADE with fetal stem cells as “FALSE”, because the treatment was in fact TESTED with fetal stem cells. RedState.com reported on the USA Today article. As we have seen, Prentice and Sherley oppose TESTING. I assume Hudson does too.
Fox News is completely silent on the aborted kidney tissue used to test the treatment Trump received.
CHAPTER 3: BLACK AND HISPANIC STUDENTS ARE MORE UNDERREPRESENTED AT AMERICA’S TOP COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THAN BEFORE AFIRMATIVE ACTION.
Liberal sources: 4; NYT (quoted 3 times), The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Brookings Institution.
Right-of-Center: RealClearPolitics.
Hudson quotes from the book Mismatch, by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. Taylor Jr. has written for The Baltimore Sun (left-center), NYT, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, all left-leaning. So again, who are these “They” that are silencing conservative voices and hiding the truth? Hudson also quotes Thomas Sowell, another conservative, who is covered in the NYT—“Please stop helping us” and “Shame”. March 2, 2015, Book review, and “What Americans Bring to America,” NYT Book review of Ethnic America, by Thomas Sowell, Aug 2, 1981. The Washington Post also covers Sowell: “Here’s Why Poor People are Poor, says a Conservative Black Academic”, Sept 4, 2015. The Atlantic article Anti-racist Arguments are Tearing People Apart (August 20, 2020) suggests reading Thomas Sowell, among other conservatives.
The argument of whether liberal policies have helped or hurt Black and Hispanic students is a valid one, and one which has proponents on both sides. I’ll just point out something that stood out to me on page 17 of Hudson’s book. He quotes Sowell: “Some students at the M Street School [an all African-American high school] began going to some of the leading colleges in the country in the late nineteenth century. The first of its graduates to go to Harvard did so in 1903. Over the years from 1892 to 1954, thirty-four of the graduates from the M Street School and Dunbar went on to Amherst. Of these, 74 percent graduated from Amherst…” This is presented as a great achievement, but 74% of 34 is 25.16 graduates in 62 years. That’s .40 graduates per year. Are Sowell and Hudson really claiming point forty graduates per year was a great achievement?
CHAPTER 11: OBAMA DEPORTED MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT.
Hudson quotes the Washington Post, says these deportations “angered left-wing activists”, “protests [sic] against Obama’s mass deportations agenda ramped up around the country in 2014. As late as June 2016, immigration advocates were being arrested while protesting” Obama’s policies, “in May of that year, House Democrats were railing against the Obama’s administration proposal” for more deportations, and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders “slammed the Obama administration’s mass-deportation plans.” So, again, it seems Hudson has not uncovered any new information that “They” don’t want you to know about.
CHAPTER 12: THE IRS DOCUMENTED 1.2 MILLION IDENTITY THEFTS COMMITTED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS IN 2017.
This is very misleading. The “identity theft” Hudson describes here refers to cases when illegal aliens use someone else’s social security number to work. Hudson also brings up the ITIN program, a program whereby the IRS issued numbers to illegal workers so they could file taxes, even if they legally couldn’t work. Hudson doesn’t mention a 2014 IRS report that estimates that undocumented immigrants paid over $9 billion in withheld taxes annually, or a 2013 SSA report that found that $12 billion more were collected than paid out in benefits in 2010 thanks to these workers. Go to the following link, scroll down to HOW MUCH DO UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS PAY IN TAXES, and then click on ESTIMATES and WAS COLLECTED, and you can confirm these numbers in the IRS and SSA websites.
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how...
I will leave it to Readers to evaluate the rest of the chapters. I approached this book with an open mind. What I did not find was any sort of objective, responsible, reliable, rigorous content. The blatantly biased and amateurish tone of this book does nothing but reaffirm my poor opinion of Breitbart.
CHAPTER 1: FROM 2012 TO 2016, MORE BLACK WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY HAD ABORTIONS THAN GAVE BIRTH.
Publicly available government sources: 4
Liberal Sources: 3—The Boston Globe, Slate, The Washington Post (quoted twice). According to AFM, Slate is “hyper-partisan left”, and “mixed reliability”. Yet, Hudson is happy to quote Slate when it agrees with him, in spite of accusing it in the Introduction as part of the “Establishment media” which has “conditioned us to choose emotion over logic, feelings over facts.”
NYU: liberal
Planned Parenthood
Conservative sources: 3
Here are some New York Time’s articles that belie Hudson's argument about Liberal sources not addressing both sides of an argument: The Case for Accepting Defeat in Roe v. Wade (Sept 20, 2020), and Why RBG Wasn’t All that Fond of Roe v. Wade (Sept. 21, 2020). Here's an NPR article: Poll: Majority wants to keep abortions, but they also want restrictions (June 7, 2019).
Hudson mentions that in “December 2016, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI and the Justice Department for investigation and possible prosecution”, and in 2017 the DOJ begun investigating “Planned Parenthood’s practices related to human fetal issue.” Hudson keeps quiet about the fact that House Republicans formed an investigative panel in December of 2016, and after 15 months issued a 471-page report that contained no charges. He doesn’t mention that the NYT published an article titled “Justice Department Investigating Fetal Tissue Transfers by Planned Parenthood and Others (Dec 8, 2017).” He doesn’t mention the NPR article: “In Wake of Videos, Planned Parenthood Investigations Find no Fetal Tissue Sales” (01/28/2016). He doesn’t mention that a federal jury in San Francisco awarded PP $2 million for the videos recorded by David R. Daleiden.
Hudson doesn’t mention that in 2015, Republican governors, state representatives, senators, attorney generals, state legislators, and one Democratic attorney general prompted investigations into Planned Parenthood for sales of fetal tissues or organs in Florida, Georgia, Indiana (then Governor Mike Pence requested the investigation), Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington, and the investigations found no wrong-doing. For example, Georgia’s Department of Public Health found “proper procedures in place for burial or internment of [fetal] remains”, and in Indiana the Department of Health found “no evidence of this type of activity.”
Hudson’s book was published in 2019, so there’s no excuse for someone who claims to be better informed than the average American not to be cognizant of this information.
CHAPTER 2: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AWARDED 100 MILLION IN TAX DOLLARS FOR CONTRACTS TO THE ABORTED-BABY-TISSUE INDUSTRY
Publicly available government sources: 3
Conservative sources: 3
Liberal: 1 Science Mag (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Hudson, of course, couldn’t have known that in 2020, Donald Trump would contract COVID 19 and would receive a treatment which had been developed using cells from fetal tissue.
NYT: “Trump’s Covid treatments were tested in cells derived from fetal tissue” (October 8, 2020). “The cells used by most of the companies now trying to find a Covid-19 treatment, called the 293T line, were derived from the kidney tissue of a fetus aborted in the 1970s”. The NYT’s article quotes David Prentice, vice president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a pro-life organization which Hudson also cites and sides with: “One concern regarding the ethical assessment of viral vaccine candidates is the potential use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development, production or TESTING (caps mine)”. Prentice wrote this in September of 2020. Dr. James Sherley, a scholar at Lozier, said that such research is “not morally responsible.” Trump tested positive early October.
USA Today (rated by AFM as “neutral/balanced”, and “most reliable”) called news about the treatment being MADE with fetal stem cells as “FALSE”, because the treatment was in fact TESTED with fetal stem cells. RedState.com reported on the USA Today article. As we have seen, Prentice and Sherley oppose TESTING. I assume Hudson does too.
Fox News is completely silent on the aborted kidney tissue used to test the treatment Trump received.
CHAPTER 3: BLACK AND HISPANIC STUDENTS ARE MORE UNDERREPRESENTED AT AMERICA’S TOP COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THAN BEFORE AFIRMATIVE ACTION.
Liberal sources: 4; NYT (quoted 3 times), The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Brookings Institution.
Right-of-Center: RealClearPolitics.
Hudson quotes from the book Mismatch, by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. Taylor Jr. has written for The Baltimore Sun (left-center), NYT, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, all left-leaning. So again, who are these “They” that are silencing conservative voices and hiding the truth? Hudson also quotes Thomas Sowell, another conservative, who is covered in the NYT—“Please stop helping us” and “Shame”. March 2, 2015, Book review, and “What Americans Bring to America,” NYT Book review of Ethnic America, by Thomas Sowell, Aug 2, 1981. The Washington Post also covers Sowell: “Here’s Why Poor People are Poor, says a Conservative Black Academic”, Sept 4, 2015. The Atlantic article Anti-racist Arguments are Tearing People Apart (August 20, 2020) suggests reading Thomas Sowell, among other conservatives.
The argument of whether liberal policies have helped or hurt Black and Hispanic students is a valid one, and one which has proponents on both sides. I’ll just point out something that stood out to me on page 17 of Hudson’s book. He quotes Sowell: “Some students at the M Street School [an all African-American high school] began going to some of the leading colleges in the country in the late nineteenth century. The first of its graduates to go to Harvard did so in 1903. Over the years from 1892 to 1954, thirty-four of the graduates from the M Street School and Dunbar went on to Amherst. Of these, 74 percent graduated from Amherst…” This is presented as a great achievement, but 74% of 34 is 25.16 graduates in 62 years. That’s .40 graduates per year. Are Sowell and Hudson really claiming point forty graduates per year was a great achievement?
CHAPTER 11: OBAMA DEPORTED MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT.
Hudson quotes the Washington Post, says these deportations “angered left-wing activists”, “protests [sic] against Obama’s mass deportations agenda ramped up around the country in 2014. As late as June 2016, immigration advocates were being arrested while protesting” Obama’s policies, “in May of that year, House Democrats were railing against the Obama’s administration proposal” for more deportations, and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders “slammed the Obama administration’s mass-deportation plans.” So, again, it seems Hudson has not uncovered any new information that “They” don’t want you to know about.
CHAPTER 12: THE IRS DOCUMENTED 1.2 MILLION IDENTITY THEFTS COMMITTED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS IN 2017.
This is very misleading. The “identity theft” Hudson describes here refers to cases when illegal aliens use someone else’s social security number to work. Hudson also brings up the ITIN program, a program whereby the IRS issued numbers to illegal workers so they could file taxes, even if they legally couldn’t work. Hudson doesn’t mention a 2014 IRS report that estimates that undocumented immigrants paid over $9 billion in withheld taxes annually, or a 2013 SSA report that found that $12 billion more were collected than paid out in benefits in 2010 thanks to these workers. Go to the following link, scroll down to HOW MUCH DO UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS PAY IN TAXES, and then click on ESTIMATES and WAS COLLECTED, and you can confirm these numbers in the IRS and SSA websites.
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how...
I will leave it to Readers to evaluate the rest of the chapters. I approached this book with an open mind. What I did not find was any sort of objective, responsible, reliable, rigorous content. The blatantly biased and amateurish tone of this book does nothing but reaffirm my poor opinion of Breitbart.
February 18, 2020
Wow. This book blows the lid off the twisted, one-sided lies told by the "Mainstream Media". Hudson takes you through 50 fallacies spread by the Mainstream Media and the Left in general. Hudson, a black male, is critical about many things specifically around the black community however he does not limit himself to the African-American plight. He goes head on. You can tell of his Thomas Sowell influences. Sowell is one of my favorite authors, ever.
Hudson covers, abortion, affirmative action, gun violence and mass shootings, substance abuse, sex trade and human trafficking, immigration, deporter in chief, jobs, corporate tax breaks, welfare, climate change, Socialism, tech companies, and of so much more.
This book is well written and literally, I could not put it down once I started reading it. I wish everyone would read this book. Although you can tell he is a conservative, you still can learn a lot. I often ask my liberal friends about the hypocrisy. For the most part, they know it but they won't call it out because the perception is that they would then like Trump. If all parties held their own accountable, we would be in a better place. However we let our side screw up and we even defend them because we have lost the dignity to disagree with someone without losing our minds.
Hudson covers, abortion, affirmative action, gun violence and mass shootings, substance abuse, sex trade and human trafficking, immigration, deporter in chief, jobs, corporate tax breaks, welfare, climate change, Socialism, tech companies, and of so much more.
This book is well written and literally, I could not put it down once I started reading it. I wish everyone would read this book. Although you can tell he is a conservative, you still can learn a lot. I often ask my liberal friends about the hypocrisy. For the most part, they know it but they won't call it out because the perception is that they would then like Trump. If all parties held their own accountable, we would be in a better place. However we let our side screw up and we even defend them because we have lost the dignity to disagree with someone without losing our minds.
June 9, 2021
Eye-opening, shocking and anger-inducing, this book will make you question everything the mass media is telling you. I didn't think I could trust the media any less, but this book provides documented evidence of the misleading messages we are been fed on a regular basis. If you believe the media simply presents unbiased facts, think again. Very interesting read for those who like to question prevailing narratives. Warning, it will upset you no matter which side of the political spectrum you lean toward.
October 12, 2019
Eye-opening to say the very least. Impeccably researched!
December 27, 2020
Kay, informative but really there is no message this book trying to convey at all
March 22, 2022
Good read, notwithstanding the somewhat absurd title. Most of the “50 Things” are basically en vogue conservative talking points. As far as what “They Don’t Want You to Know”, I do agree that some of the issues brought to light by Mr. Hudson are worth understanding and have generally been ignored or even obfuscated by the mainstream media and social media. Some of the topics covered: who is hurt and helped by illegal immigration, and under which administration there was the most familial separation and deportations; Second Amendment rights, police presence, and a breakdown of states and cities in terms of violence and shooting deaths; minimum wage laws and unintended consequences of such; and Big Tech, Big Media, and the influence and power they have over politics and most Americans. One certainly does not need to agree with everything Mr. Hudson claims here to enjoy his book.
January 5, 2021
It was a good book overall, though admittedly my rating mainly comes from the fact that there was little in the book I did not already know. So maybe the rating isn't entirely fair, as the information was still presented well and was easy to understand.
My other complaint was not related to the book itself in any way, just the way I experienced it. I listened to the book on Audible, and was decidedly unimpressed with the narrator. He was just so BORING, almost completely monotone with very little inflection. At least try to sound a little conversational. The content is interesting, it doesn't have to be presented in such a dry manner.
My other complaint was not related to the book itself in any way, just the way I experienced it. I listened to the book on Audible, and was decidedly unimpressed with the narrator. He was just so BORING, almost completely monotone with very little inflection. At least try to sound a little conversational. The content is interesting, it doesn't have to be presented in such a dry manner.
January 1, 2020
Okay. I kinda cheated here in regards to my 2020 Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I usually have 5-6 books going at once and I had this one and about two others down to the last couple pages. I wasn't gonna make my 2019 goal ( I finished at 40 out of 50) So, instead of finishing any of these books, I held them back 'til this year. : )
Ooooh, the book ? It was great. A lot, well 50, great points most people probably don't already know.
5 *****
Ooooh, the book ? It was great. A lot, well 50, great points most people probably don't already know.
5 *****
November 2, 2020
Not to argue that the facts are incorrect or inaccurate, but I bet for any reasonable human being, you can find 50 things he / she did that end up being "the best" in a very specific and narrow domain and timeframe. Then the question is, how significant are these facts comparing to everything else that has happened? It's definitely interesting to hear what happened, but it was also very not useful.
May 10, 2020
Fifty quick easy chapters of fascinating facts about current events. Just reading through the chapter titles can shock a reader! The book is well researched and footnoted. Chapter 17: America has spent $22 Trillion fighting the War on Poverty. Chapter 40: Venezuela was the wealthiest country in Latin America before Socialism. -Lisa
October 18, 2020
2 stars only because some of the book was educational.
I tend to lean more towards republican, and this book was so annoying. It sound like it was written by a republican trying to talk about just how bad all democrats are. I only finished the book for the sake of saying I finished it, but it's my least favorite book I've read this year.,
I tend to lean more towards republican, and this book was so annoying. It sound like it was written by a republican trying to talk about just how bad all democrats are. I only finished the book for the sake of saying I finished it, but it's my least favorite book I've read this year.,
June 17, 2021
“They don’t want you to know these things that everyone knows.”
Who the hell is “they?”
This is supposed to come off as an attack against Conservative, Inc. but instead makes all of their same arguments. I really wish I could’ve liked this book, since I agree with the vast majority, but it comes off as a book for the dumb.
Who the hell is “they?”
This is supposed to come off as an attack against Conservative, Inc. but instead makes all of their same arguments. I really wish I could’ve liked this book, since I agree with the vast majority, but it comes off as a book for the dumb.
June 9, 2022
Short chapters and surface level information make up the book. There are some good nuggets of info in there but it's kind of all over the place. There are much, much better Current Affairs books out there.
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August 18, 2020
Eye opening
April 8, 2021
Some things I did know, most I didn't, some quite remarkable. Pairs well with Jerome's second book, 50 Things They Don't Want You To Know About Trump.
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July 31, 2022Some interesting numbers but they do not relate to each other or any central idea. Tries to hide its biases but they’re very clearly conservatively structured
February 24, 2023
Prepare to leave everything you thought you knew, behind. Well documented and sourced. Disheartened that things which do not fit an agenda, are not reported without bias.
July 9, 2023
I learned a lot thinks for sharing
December 29, 2020
This book is full of statistical evidence of 50 topics that the mainstream media doesn’t want us to know.
Topics such as:
“Google works with the oppressive Chinese Government to build a censorial search engine but refused to work with the U.S Government”
“Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people”
“World leaders flew to Davos in a fleet of 1,700 private jets to discuss the impact of global warming”
“America protects and foots the Bill for border walls around the world”
This is a must read.... the more you know 😳
Topics such as:
“Google works with the oppressive Chinese Government to build a censorial search engine but refused to work with the U.S Government”
“Taxpayers doled out $2.6 billion in food stamps to dead people”
“World leaders flew to Davos in a fleet of 1,700 private jets to discuss the impact of global warming”
“America protects and foots the Bill for border walls around the world”
This is a must read.... the more you know 😳
January 2, 2025
Interesting book with interesting facts. It proves one more time that many things are hidden and remain unknown by wider public, people are manipulated by media and, unfortunately, trusts it.
August 18, 2020
A little dry, but very informative. I like that he gives you all the statistics.
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