1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Michael, I don't think Christopher Ray went after the piotmommer. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: I have to think that this was an inside job. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: They planted it. They had some blah blah blah to 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: make people be afraid. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: That they thought it was a. 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: Republican psycho right winger. I think it was just a 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: scare tactic. They knew who it was from the beginning. 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: And you know this is Christopher Ray was in on it. 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 3: Well, do you hear it? 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 4: Takes me about that talkback? Republican right wing weirdo. You 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 4: don't need all three of those, just either Republican right 12 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 4: wing or a weirdo. I mean, we all know that 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 4: we're Republican right wing weirdos, so we don't need it's 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 4: it's redundant. You could you could have had uh, three 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 4: or four more seconds to say something else, but no, 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 4: you had you had to throw all that in there. 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: Oh. 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 4: Sometimes you just you you you know, it's kind of 19 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 4: like children. You hope they, you know, do better than you, 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 4: that they grow up well, and then no, you train 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 4: the goobers and they just do something in the idiotic 22 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 4: thing like that. 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 2: And just for a quick frame of reference, that talkback 24 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: was left during the weekend show to which I am 25 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: not a part of. 26 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 4: So there are no talk packs that I'm interesting because 27 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 4: I was good there, So they're none for today. You 28 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 4: had to find one from me. 29 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: There are there are several for today, but I just 30 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: wanted to throw. I wanted to try and promote your 31 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: weekend show, which I'm not going to do now since 32 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 2: she has no No, that's. 33 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 4: Fine because actually, actually I was going to promote the 34 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 4: weekend program because of something that you you know, every 35 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 4: Monday through Friday, I wake up. Now, Saturday, I don't 36 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: wake up to this. But Monday through Friday I wake up, 37 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 4: and you know, my routine is, you know, I get 38 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 4: dressed and I walk the dogs, and I come back 39 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 4: and I sit down and I open the laptop and 40 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 4: I start reading my email. 41 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 3: And there's always this email this morning. 42 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 4: It come it comes from Dragon red Beard, and the 43 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 4: subject matter is the same every time. Headlines you won't 44 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 4: read and by the way, won't as an apostrophe in it. 45 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 4: If not w O n T, it's w apostrophe T. 46 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: So you might want to correct that not gonna happen. 47 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 2: And now that you told me about it, it's never 48 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 2: gonna It's never gonna happen, but I don't get it 49 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 2: on Saturday. But seriously, won't has an apostrophe in it. Yeah, 50 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: oh that's good to know. You really are a loudy speller. 51 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: I really, no, that's the Have you heard of the 52 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: word contraction? Yeah? 53 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 4: You want a contraction? Is don't, won't, couldn't, wood, and shouldn't. 54 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 4: It's a contraction. Yeah, those are called contractions. 55 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, you can learn something every day. 56 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: See, but I don't get this email on a Saturday, 57 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 4: So Saturday I'm completely lost and I have to do 58 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 4: a real show prep on Saturday. It's it's so painful. 59 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 4: But he doesn't think I read them, But I read 60 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 4: them every single day. I may not use them, but 61 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 4: I read them. 62 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: Then what was the very first link in today's You 63 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: won't read this. 64 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 4: Well, let me go to the story itself because it's 65 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 4: National Brownie Day. So you don't think I read them, 66 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 4: I actually do read them. Again, I look, I don't 67 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 4: always click on every hyperlink, but there are several in 68 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 4: todays that are actually pretty good stories, like methane gas 69 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 4: out of the Denver dump or something. 70 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 3: I mean, that's a pretty good story. 71 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 2: And yeah, I thought you because when we passed by 72 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 2: each other in the halls, did a really really quick 73 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: show prep about this, and you not reading the headlines 74 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 2: will send you. I thought you were referring to the 75 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 2: RTD story. No, no, okay, well that's a good one too. Yeah, yeah, 76 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: that's a good one too. But of course I focus 77 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 2: on National Brownie Day only because of the way. Here's 78 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 2: the dramatic reading of the story. Uh, this comes to 79 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: us by the nationaltoday dot com National Brownie Day, December 80 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: eighty five. 81 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 4: And there's baking. There's a link to baking, dessert and food. 82 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 4: And here's a history of timeline the facts importance, of course, 83 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 4: it's important. It's about me celebrate related stats. And then 84 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 4: here's the story itself. National Brownie Day is on December eighth. 85 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 4: Every year, brownie lovers come from far and wide to 86 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,119 Speaker 4: celebrate National Brownie Day. I'm just checking out the window 87 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 4: to see if they're coming from far and wide, don't 88 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 4: I don't. I don't see anybody anywhere. Then it continues 89 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 4: this warm. Of course, that's me right, warm, very very warm. 90 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 2: The first thing you did this morning was coming and 91 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 2: complain about something or other. Warm and fuzzy. 92 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 4: You are warm, chewie. I just leave that to your 93 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 4: own imagination and rich, well they got at least, you know, 94 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 4: everybody makes a mistake once in a while. A nice 95 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 4: chalk lit or blondie is the perfect dessert to end 96 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 4: your night with. That's what everybody says. Oh, brownie's perfect 97 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 4: to end your night with. Yes, indulge in gooey goodness 98 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 4: and let the real world melt away with you for 99 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 4: a delectable moment. Dragon, I didn't know you cared. I 100 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 4: didn't know you really thought about me like that. 101 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 3: I don't. 102 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 4: Well, you're the one sent the story, and you're the 103 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 4: one that claims I never read the headline. 104 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 2: Like the headline, like the subject of the email. You headlines, 105 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: you won't read, so I'd expected you not to read it. 106 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: And that's crappy. 107 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 4: But the thing is you never actually read the stories either. 108 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 4: All you do is you just find the headline and 109 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 4: you just cut and paste that you are l into 110 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 4: the email and you find four or five of them, 111 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 4: You find them all and you never look at them either. True, 112 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 4: because I think if you had read that story, you 113 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: would have never said it because you thought, oh my god, 114 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 4: he'll think it's all about him. Which of course it is, 115 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 4: but I want to get this story that I really 116 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 4: wanted to start off with this morning. Yesterday was both 117 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 4: my deceased father's birthday, and it was Pearl Harbor Day. 118 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 4: And it was also today for the New York Times, 119 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 4: of all places to go back in history, yes, no, no, no, 120 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 4: to not to Pearl Harbor Day, but to the Biden administration. 121 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 4: They go back to the Biden administration and on December seventh, 122 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 4: What time was this published? That didn't really matter, but 123 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: it was on December seventh, And the headline and it's 124 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 4: one of the stories where online it's a what you 125 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 4: would call it spread, it's a big spread. It's got, 126 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,559 Speaker 4: you know, photos, and it's you know, it's got the 127 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 4: headline and the subhead over on one side and photos 128 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 4: on the other side. Because they want to make sure 129 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 4: that in the print edition or the online edition, whichever 130 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 4: one you're reading, which I know you're not reading either 131 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 4: one of them, that you get that this is a 132 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 4: really important story and you've got to pay attention to it. 133 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 4: So I did. The headline, is this how Biden? Now 134 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 4: Biden's been out of office for what almost a year now, 135 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 4: and he was in office for well, not in office, 136 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 4: but he was president for four years. He was in 137 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 4: office for one hundred and forty years, but he was 138 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 4: in president for only four years. How Biden ignored warnings 139 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 4: and lost Americans faith in immigration. The subheit the Democratic 140 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 4: president and his top advisors rejected recommendations that could have 141 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 4: eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to 142 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 4: the White House. 143 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 3: Now, before I read one word of. 144 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 4: The story, I thought, why on December seventh, almost a 145 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 4: year after he's left office with The New York Times. 146 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: In this case, it's Christopher Flavelle, who in the intro says, 147 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 4: or in the in the bio of him says that 148 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 4: Christopher Flavell interviewed more than thirty former Biden administration officials 149 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 4: who worked on immigration and border policy, as well as 150 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 4: members of Congress, state and local officials, lawyers, and migrants. 151 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 4: So he interviewed a lot of people for this story. 152 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 4: Why didn't you do this story back? 153 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 3: I don't know. 154 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 4: You didn't have to do it in twenty twenty one. 155 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 4: You could have done in twenty twenty two. You could 156 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 4: have done it then, you know, give him a few 157 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 4: months in office, wait until the border started. You know 158 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 4: when we started getting wait until Bill Mallusion of Fox 159 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 4: News started going down to the border and actually reporting 160 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,599 Speaker 4: on everything going on down there. And this would have 161 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 4: been a great time for The New York Times to 162 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 4: write this story first paragraph. In the weeks after Joe 163 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 4: Biden was elected president, advisers delivered a warning. 164 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 3: So in the weeks after, so, you. 165 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 4: Know, from somewhere between January twenty one and let's just 166 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 4: give them until February twenty one of twenty twenty one, 167 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 4: they actually warned the president this his approach to immigration 168 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 4: could prove disastrous. You know, I can't use the S 169 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 4: word on air, but this is where I really want 170 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 4: to say. 171 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 3: No, Feasi Sherlock. Really, huh, I'm a man. 172 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 4: I'm shocked that The New York Times finally woke up 173 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 4: on December seventh of twenty twenty five and said, Hey, 174 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 4: your thing about immigration is going to destroy the country. 175 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 4: But mister Piden was now president elect and his positions 176 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 4: threatened to drastically increase border crossings. Experts advising his transition 177 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 4: team even before he went to office, Experts advising his 178 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 4: transition team warned in a zoom briefing in the final 179 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 4: weeks to twenty twenty. According to people with direct knowledge 180 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 4: of that briefing, that jump, they said, could provoke a 181 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 4: political CRISI chaos. 182 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 3: Chaos was the. 183 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 4: Word the advisors had used in a memo during the campaign. 184 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 4: So this guy's going back even before he took office 185 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 4: and reporting on things that took place even before he 186 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 4: took office. Now the question then becomes, hmmm, why would 187 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 4: you Why would you wait until December seventh, almost a 188 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 4: year after Biden has left office and probably can't even 189 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 4: read The New York Times anymore? Write this story now 190 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 4: before I give you my analysis of this story? Why 191 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 4: do I think this is important? Why do I give 192 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 4: her rats? Ask what the New York Times says? Because 193 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 4: number one, the Old Gray Lady is indeed the paper 194 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 4: of record. Now, I know you don't read the New 195 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 4: York Times, which is why I do it for you. 196 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 4: And I know you think that whatever the New York 197 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 4: Times says doesn't matter. Oh but it does, because when 198 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 4: I say it's the newspaper of record, I from personal experience, 199 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 4: I can guarantee you this, And then it's a few 200 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 4: other things I can't guarantee you. But well, actually I 201 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 4: can probably guarantee you some of the things too, But 202 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 4: first and foremost, I can guarantee you this every member 203 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 4: of Congress, House and Senate, every member of the White 204 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 4: House staff, with maybe the exception of some interns, but 205 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:29,359 Speaker 4: anybody that's anybody on a White House staff, everybody in 206 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 4: an administration, from the secretary, deputy secretaries, undersecretary like I was, 207 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 4: we all get what are called the clips, and the 208 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 4: clips have in it all of the headlines that deal 209 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 4: with the administration, so you whether it has anything to 210 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 4: do with you or not. So my clips would come 211 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 4: in both a printed form, usually in a three ring binder, 212 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 4: and an electronic form. I think now they don't. They 213 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 4: only get them electronically. But there are pages and pages 214 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 4: and pages of they'll have on the stories that are designed, 215 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 4: and there's a company in DC that does this. For 216 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 4: the stories that are designed to say, for my particular department, 217 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 4: Homeland Security, those stories will be in a separate section 218 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 4: just about Homeland Security. There will also be a section 219 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 4: that is for the White House, but that's included in 220 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 4: my clips. Also because I'm reading the same thing that 221 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 4: the people in the White House are reading, and the 222 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 4: same people the things that I'm reading in my office 223 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 4: as undersecretary. That's being read in the President's office, the 224 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 4: Vice President's office, the Chief of Staff's office, the Political Office, 225 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 4: the Comm's office, every the Legislative Affairs office, every office 226 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 4: in the West Wing Office of Management budget is being 227 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 4: read by by every secret Cabinet secretary, and is being 228 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 4: read by five hundred and thirty five members of Congress. 229 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 3: And their staffs. 230 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 4: So that's first and foremost why it's important, because that 231 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 4: is how places like the New York Times or the 232 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 4: Washington Post of the Wall Street Journal set the agenda. 233 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 4: They set the narrative, they set the talking points. I 234 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 4: know you don't like it, but I'm miss telling the truth. 235 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 4: That's the way it is. Then, if you take Wall 236 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 4: Street for example, they all read the New York Times. 237 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 4: If you're a Democrat in New York, or you're a 238 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 4: Democrat in California, a Democrat anywhere, you read the New 239 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 4: York Times, and then it even filters into what you get. 240 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 4: Eventually that gets into your local news because the New 241 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 4: York Times will be picked up stories like this will 242 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 4: get picked up by the Associated Press, it will go 243 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 4: out on the AP wire services, and then that story 244 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: will reach everywhere, and then a place like the Denver 245 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 4: Compost may indeed reprint the entire story. So that's how narratives, 246 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 4: talking points, and agendas get set. And I can guarantee 247 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 4: this is why. And I'm not asking you to go 248 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 4: read the New York Times. Don't get me wrong. I'm 249 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 4: not asking you to subscribe to it, read it or 250 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 4: anything else. I'm telling you, though, that when I talk 251 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 4: about what's in the New York Times, I'm not doing 252 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 4: it because I just it's interesting to me. Yes, But 253 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 4: I'm doing it because this is how agendas get sept. 254 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 4: So the New York Times, now after he's left office, 255 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 4: frames Joe Biden's presidency as a story of coming in 256 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 4: during because they also mentioned they quote a few people 257 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 4: like Ron Klam, his former chief of staff, who cited that, 258 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 4: you know, we were so busy because you know, there 259 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 4: was an economic collapse going on and there were three 260 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 4: thousand Americans dying every day from COVID. 261 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 3: That's a natural quote something too. Let's see, let me 262 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 3: find the quote. 263 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 4: Quote coming in during an economic collapse and three thousand 264 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 4: Americans dying each day from COVID. So the New York 265 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 4: Times frames his presidency as that story of crisis, highlighting 266 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 4: his claim success in turning both around quickly, while belatedly 267 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 4: scrutinizing his failures on immigration in the border. Now that timing, 268 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 4: here's what's important. That timing exemplifies a larger pattern. The 269 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 4: paper suppresses, it downplays stories that Mike Damm he's a 270 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 4: sitting Democrat president when it matters most, only to discover 271 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 4: years later when they are politically safe to acknowledge, Oh, 272 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 4: there was a problem, but we never admit the problem 273 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 4: when there is something going on and the problem is 274 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 4: sitting in the Oval office, or he's upstairs and the 275 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 4: residents having putting for his breakfast that morning or for 276 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 4: his afternoon snack before he takes a nap. The key quote, 277 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 4: we came in during an economic collapse in three thousand 278 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 4: Americans dying each day from COVID is presented by The 279 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 4: Times as Biden's own retrospective justification for his priorities early 280 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 4: into the administration. Yet the Times publishes that framing at 281 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 4: the end of his term, long after you and I 282 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 4: have voters, and in particularly even Democrat voters, have judged 283 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 4: whether those values matched reality, and after years in which 284 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 4: it aggressively emphasized the Trump eraic COVID failures, while at 285 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 4: the same time they would soft pedal Biden's so by 286 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 4: treating this quote as uncontested narrative rather than subjecting it 287 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 4: to contemporaneous fact checking or some sort of rigorous comparison 288 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 4: with the actual trajectory of deaths and the pre existing 289 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 4: vaccine rollout, the Time helps launder a political talking point 290 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 4: into historical memory, and then the same outlet that ran 291 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 4: daily dashboards, remember this, daily dashboards and front page graphics 292 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 4: during the Trump years, now folds the worst months of 293 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 4: the pandemic into a convenient backstory that just portrays Biden 294 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 4: as well. He was the sober statesman who inherited an 295 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 4: unmitigated disaster and then swiftly restored order. Why Joe Biden 296 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 4: was the savior of civilization. This is using timing as 297 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 4: a political tool. What is revealing is not that the 298 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: Time reports on border chaos and immigration policy failures, is 299 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:22,479 Speaker 4: that the most detailed narrative rich autopsy arrives after Biden 300 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 4: has left office and after his party no longer faces 301 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 4: immediate presidential accountability. So the article walks through all the 302 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 4: ignored warnings the surging encounters the overwhelmed cities, just like 303 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 4: Denver or New York or LA. It ignores all the 304 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: staggering costs to local systems, all of which were unfolding 305 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 4: in real time for years. And yet the New York 306 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 4: Times had their blinders on and they couldn't see that 307 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 4: happening in real time. But they did, but they were 308 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 4: using timing as a political tool. So while the New 309 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 4: York Times, you think that this dumbass reporter didn't know 310 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 4: what was going on when it was going on, of 311 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 4: course he did, but he's not about to present this 312 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 4: story to his editor. He's going to wait and present 313 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 4: the story to the editor after the fact. And sometimes 314 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 4: the reporter knew wouldn't take a break. This reporter didn't. 315 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 4: But again, the timing was used as the political tool. 316 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 4: And I'll explain further. 317 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 3: Why what is this I hear about National Brownie Day? 318 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 4: Brownie I'm coming from far and I'm coming wide. I 319 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,959 Speaker 4: heard I don't know what it was, dragon, but I 320 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 4: heard something over the weekend. I don't whether it's a 321 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 4: commercial or it was a TV show. I don't know 322 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 4: what it was, but that laugh, something similar to that laugh, 323 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 4: and I thought I was going to have to go, 324 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 4: you know, see my doctor because or called capitalists, you know, 325 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 4: because I had, you know, whiplash of some sort caused 326 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 4: by that laugh. 327 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 2: Well, how scary is that that that particular goober is 328 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: haunting you. 329 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 4: Haunting me, haunting me, you know. And every time I 330 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 4: see an eighteen whether I think is that him? And 331 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 4: so I, you know, I go way around, I go 332 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 4: away because if he recognizes me, I know, he's just 333 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 4: gonna run over me. 334 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 2: He's just gonna run run me down. He just runs 335 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 2: over every beamer. 336 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 4: That's true, that's right, because you know the story the 337 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 4: difference between a porcupine and a and a BMW driver 338 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 4: or a BMW right, yeah, do you know what do 339 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 4: you know what is on the inside of the BMW 340 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 4: now on. 341 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: The use. 342 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 4: Those things on porcupines are called pricks quills, quills, pricks quills, Yeah, yeah, 343 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 4: that's what they're called. Yep, you got it back to 344 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 4: the New York Times, because there there are a bunch 345 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 4: of quills too. During during those years of the Biden 346 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 4: administration that the paper's coverage often emphasized all of the 347 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 4: immigration issue framed in terms of humanitarian problems. Republicans were 348 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 4: cruel and the Trump error roots of the problem, that 349 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 4: was the real problem, and they kept minimizing the scale 350 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 4: of the breakdown despite what we were seeing before our 351 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 4: very eyes. And of course they would also emphasize the 352 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 4: administration's conscious political calculations. Only now, in what a year 353 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 4: four or year five retrospective does the Times now give 354 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 4: readers some sort of sweeping narrative about how Biden hit 355 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 4: a wall and how the humanitarian crisis and all the 356 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 4: municipal budgets were pushed to the breaking point when those 357 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 4: facts were previously fueling demands for policy changes and we 358 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 4: knew there would be electoral consequences. Trump was smart enough 359 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 4: to know that's the number one issue, and Biden was 360 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 4: too stupid or his advisors were too I don't I 361 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 4: think they buy I think Biden was too stupid, and 362 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 4: I honestly believe that the advisors were deliberate, absolute deliberate. 363 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 4: They wanted the chaos. They it's it's Cloward Pivet's strategy. 364 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 4: They wanted the chaos. They wanted us. They wanted all 365 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 4: of those people to overwhelm the system. They wanted to 366 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 4: give them drivers' licenses. They wanted to go wrect to 367 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: wreak havoc. They wanted them to become Democrat voters. It 368 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 4: was all fine, and that's why the New York Times 369 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 4: remained silent until now. And now we get this retrospective 370 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 4: that says, oh, they knew it was a political problem. 371 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 4: I can't help but keep thinking about of all people, 372 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 4: Alandra may Orcus, remember how time, how many times he 373 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 4: would tell us the border was secure. 374 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 3: I mean it was it was like you wanted. 375 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 4: To bash your head against the brick wall because we 376 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 4: would see what say Fox News or Bill malusion in reporting. 377 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 4: I mean with the drums just showing you know, people 378 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 4: just by the thousands coming across. We knew about the 379 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 4: airline flights, we knew about the bus tripps, we knew 380 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 4: about everything. We knew what was happening in Denver, we 381 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 4: knew what was happening all across the country. Yet they 382 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 4: just kept lying to us and nothing happened. But think 383 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 4: about the selective intensity of this scrutiny. This pattern is 384 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 4: the pattern is really sharp when we compare with how 385 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 4: the same outlets of New York Times treated republic administrations 386 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 4: during Trump's term. The Times devoted relentless real time attention 387 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 4: to internal memos, worst case projections, and of course the 388 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 4: bureaucratic infighting over COVID and often turning preliminary forecasts such 389 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 4: as three thousand daily deaths into front page evidence of 390 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 4: some sort of failure or absolute mouth easans on the 391 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 4: part of the Trump administration. But uter Biden, similar internal 392 00:22:55,200 --> 00:23:01,479 Speaker 4: warnings on immigration policy are now recounted as just colorful backstory, 393 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 4: not as the basis for sustained daily reporting of the 394 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 4: president's judgment or the president's lack of judgment. The Times 395 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 4: also ran highly emotional treatment, you know, treatments of COVID 396 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 4: casualties when the death code could be used to indict Trump, 397 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 4: including front pages dominated by victims' names and graphics dramatics, 398 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 4: you know, just dramatizing unemployment, shocking, incalculable loss. And then 399 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 4: when Biden presided over another wave of death and a 400 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 4: confused messaging campaign about vaccines mandates and the so called 401 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 4: pandemic is over, then the intensity in the moralizing tone 402 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 4: started to dramatically recede, even though the underlying metric Americans 403 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 4: dying every day, remained central to the earlier coverage, And 404 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 4: I would I would. I would add this parathetically that 405 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 4: even if they were to report truthfully on the numbers, 406 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 4: that would have forced them to talk about is it 407 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 4: really COVID. I know that they were killed in a 408 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 4: twenty car pile up, but they had COVID, so it 409 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 4: must have been the COVID that killed them. None of this, 410 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 4: none of this requires a literal state run press for 411 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 4: the effect to resemble state run media. It's one and 412 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 4: the same. And that's why you've got to be such 413 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 4: a discerning consumer of the news, because this is how 414 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 4: this is how they maintain power, This is how they 415 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 4: maintain control of the narrative. Editors and reporters live in 416 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 4: a world of shared partisan and cultural assumptions in which 417 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 4: Democrat administrations are are viewed as fundamentally legitimate guardians of institutions, 418 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 4: while Republican administrations are treated as looming threats to those institutions. 419 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 4: And when you've got that environment, stories that might seriously 420 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 4: damage the Democrat president's public standing. For example, a sustained 421 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 4: narrative that Biden ignored all the explicit warnings on the 422 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 4: border and created a rolling crisis that crushed blue cities. 423 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 4: That's risky to elevate when they could alter policy fights 424 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 4: or the mid term election dynamics or re election processes. 425 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 4: Once those fights are over and Biden is in the 426 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 4: you know, kind of in the rearview mirror, then the 427 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 4: incentive flips and the New York Times can finally tell 428 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 4: a more candid story. They can showcase, oh, look how 429 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 4: tough we are, and then they can reassure all of 430 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 4: those people I told you about to read the New 431 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 4: York Times, oh we're independent. And they do all of 432 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 4: that without jeopardizing the presidency that it tacitly was protecting 433 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 4: all those years. And of course it's not just Bidens, 434 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 4: any Democrat president. The late arriving candor functions as a 435 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 4: reputational insurance policy for the Times, not as accountability for 436 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 4: the officeholder who made the decisions and question. In other words, 437 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 4: we're going to protect, We're going to protect the people. 438 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 4: And the way we report, or the way we don't report, 439 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 4: is our reputational insurance policy for the people that we support. 440 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 4: That's not journalism, that's partisanship, and that is indeed, that 441 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 4: is a media or state run media. And so the 442 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 4: result is that if you're a reader, if you're just 443 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 4: any consumer of news, you get two different kinds of 444 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 4: journalism depending on who holds power and when. During Republican presidency, 445 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 4: the New York Times offers contemporaneous day of prosecutorial coverage 446 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 4: that aims to define events as they happen and to 447 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 4: mobilize all the elite opinion against the sitting president. And 448 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 4: during a Democrat presidency, the most damaging stories then get postponed, diffused, 449 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 4: or framed as systemic tragedies rather than personal or party 450 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 4: level failures. Only then would they fully explore once they 451 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 4: no longer threaten the incumbent, So by publishing as they 452 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 4: did on Pearl Harbor Day, a very richly it is. 453 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 4: It's a richly detailed, quasi historical critique of Biden's immigration record, 454 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 4: alongside a flattering story about inheriting some economic collapse in 455 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 4: three thousand deaths a day. The Times is not finally 456 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 4: holding him to account. It is truly curating how history 457 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 4: may remember him in a way that minimizes the political 458 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 4: cost to the Democrats. That's not journalism. It's certainly not 459 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 4: neutral journalism. It is narrative management. And it's narrative management 460 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 4: put on a time delay, and that proves the very 461 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 4: point that you instinctively we understand, which is that the 462 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 4: most powerful outlets often sit on politically inconvenient truths until 463 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,679 Speaker 4: those truths are safe to print, and then they print 464 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 4: those truths because then they have to ensure their reputation. 465 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 4: So you can never claim that, well we didn't report 466 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 4: on it. 467 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 3: We did. 468 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 4: Look, look, we just we ripped the entire Biden administration 469 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 4: the part yes on December seventh, twenty twenty five, almost 470 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,719 Speaker 4: a year after he was out of office. 471 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 2: Hey there, Michael, I heard Dragon talking about the Weekend 472 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 2: Show and all that. 473 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 3: When are you going to bring Dragon over to the 474 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 3: Weekend Show? Staffing for a friend? 475 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael, when are they going to bring me over 476 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: the Weekend Show? 477 00:28:53,920 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 4: The The operative word in that question is uh, when 478 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 4: are they going to? 479 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 3: Yeah? I had no. 480 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 4: Control over it, and it's all up to Premiere Radio 481 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 4: Networks out of Sherman Oaks, California, Los Angeles, And we've tried, 482 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 4: We've tried very diligently and considering. 483 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not doing it for free, so they'd have 484 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 2: to pay me, right. 485 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 4: Right, there's a there's a cost involved. Well, what are 486 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 4: we getting for our Christmas bonus this year. 487 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 2: You're funny. 488 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 3: Remember those Remember those days. 489 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,719 Speaker 2: The fifty dollars gift card we got the King supers. 490 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 3: It was it was a it was a gesture. It 491 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 3: was a great gesture. 492 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 4: I love this text message just comes from goober number 493 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 4: thirty four to sixty six. Michael, who do you think 494 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 4: you're foolly? You participate in narrative management every single day. 495 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 4: Call a spatu spating. Give your listeners more credit. I 496 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 4: don't participate in narrative management because what I just described 497 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 4: the New York Times doing is the very essence of 498 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 4: narrative management. 499 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 3: So you know. 500 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 4: Factually at the time that all of the record breaking 501 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 4: immigrant illegal immigration is going on. You know that it's happening, 502 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 4: and you know that the havoc that it, that it's 503 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 4: wreaking on the state and local governments, and you know 504 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 4: how dangerous it is. And you know that we're getting 505 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 4: people we got all the godaways whom we have no fingerprint, 506 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 4: ID record or anything. We know that they're infiltrating the 507 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 4: voter database. We know they're being hired to work illegally. 508 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 4: We know all of that, and yet the New York 509 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 4: Times manage they're the ones that manage the narrative by 510 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 4: not pointing it out, because I did point it out 511 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 4: throughout the Biden presidency. So I wasn't engaged in narrative management. 512 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 4: I was engaged in truth telling. And The New York 513 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 4: Times is engaged in journalism by omission, and that is 514 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 4: narrative management. If if you don't, for example, if you 515 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 4: think that what I'm doing today is narrative management, then 516 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 4: you clearly have been infected by the New York Times 517 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 4: and you look at it and say, oh, that's just 518 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 4: really good journalism without recognizing it all that you're being 519 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 4: played for a fool, Absolutely played for a fool. Now, 520 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 4: if you're tune in here and you think I'm going 521 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 4: to just spew say GOP talking points within, you're wrong. 522 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 4: But if you think I'm going to spew a conservative 523 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 4: point of view on issues of the day, then damn 524 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 4: right I am, because I'm going to tell you exactly 525 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 4: what I think. And I am a conservative, if not 526 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 4: libertarian conservative slash slash libertarian. I don't really if you've 527 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 4: and I know that maybe you particularly thirty four sixty six, 528 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 4: I don't know how long, if ever, you've listened to 529 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 4: me before. But if you listened to me before I 530 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 4: moved over to Kowa from Khow you know that I 531 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 4: regularly berated the Republicans for their stupidity because I find 532 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 4: Republicans oftentimes to be just absolutely stupid. So don't accuse 533 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 4: me of narrative management. You can accuse me of truth telling.