WEBVTT - On The Heels Of The Kerfuffle 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.880 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:17.599 and Dat enough He Armstrong and Eddy. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.080 Marcus is just sleep. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.240 Biden may be keeping a strong face. The headline from 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.000 Axios Harris stiff arms Biden in the final stretch. Days 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.440 he's kept open to hit the trail have come and gone, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.000 the campaign reportedly saying we'll get back to you. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.360 I've done a lot of sorts. If we talk all 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.199 the time, I'm they're asking me where they think I 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.360 should be to help them. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.800 Most Evidently those calls aren't coming from Harris. The New 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.519 York Times reports she is gingerly peppered people who are 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.000 close to mister Biden. How do you think he's doing? 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:55.760 She will ask. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.680 Biden's allies say he's concerned the campaign is underestimating his 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.600 appeace among working class voters in the rust Bell. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.360 That's a non story in my opinion. It's just, you know, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.560 it's an old man whose feelings might be hurt. That 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:15.560 he no longer is relevant to the question. But George W. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:22.560 Bush didn't campaign with McCain back in two thousand and 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.160 eight because he wasn't popular at the time, and he said, yeah, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:26.800 that's fine. I realized I'd be more of a drag 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.679 than a help. Maybe Biden's hurt by this, I don't know, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.520 but Biden would be a drag. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.360 Characterized it quite accurately as a sad old man who 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.960 can't accept that he's now worse than irrelevant. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.360 Which has got to be tough when you've been relevant 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:46.360 for fifty some years. But you know it happens to 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.320 all of us. Trump is over an hour into a 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.600 press conference. Over an hour. Can you imagine Kamala Harris 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.320 standing there with major press taking questions for over an hour? No, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.760 neither can I. It'd be the end of her campaign 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:04.520 probably if she right. Yeah, so, uh. Trump doesn't get 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:10.919 enough credit for that. He takes on adversarial press more 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.840 than anybody I can remember in modern presidential history, and 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:18.160 has the whole time. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.360 Part of the reason is because virtually all of the 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.040 press is adversarial. I saw it actually claimed the other 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.880 day by CNN or somebody. The Trump has done a 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.160 number of interviews almost entirely with friendly outlets, which is 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.960 just given the context of Kamala that is just shame 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:35.639 shamelessness is kind. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.960 Of their their way of doing business. So here's an 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.560 interesting thing I saw develop yesterday. And Katie, you can 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.240 weigh on this as the only woman or I'm sorry, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.560 a chest feeding person, vagina owning person. I don't know 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.040 what I'm supposed to call you. I don't want to 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.760 get on the wrong side of history. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.720 That wasmit worthy. Bonus hole, that's right. I forgot that 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.480 was the actual term. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:05.000 Ei the woke, that's right. Oh, I forgot for a 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.280 cup of coffee. They seriously were saying that this emerged yesterday. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:17.320 I heard it a bunch of times, the hesitant Harris 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.520 voter around abortion. So there's the hesidant Trump voter, which 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.919 seems to be true several cycles in a roll where 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.320 Trump does better than the polling, with the idea being 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.079 their Trump voters are afraid to say it to pollsters 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.480 or something. I don't know. I've never quite understood. It 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.600 doesn't make sense to me that why you'd be afraid 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.080 to say anything to a polster. But anyway, he has 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.800 performed better than the polls. There's belief that there's a 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:52.040 hesitant Harris voter. Women in specific. They now have ads 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.000 mentioning this. It's getting mentioned in all kinds of surrogate speeches. Women, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.480 Michelle Obama. We should have the clip of this Obama 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.160 saying this the other night. Women, we know your husbands 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.760 might get really angry if you go and vote for Harris, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.160 but remember you need to stand up for your you know, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.600 protecting your body and women's rights and your daughter's rights 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.839 and all this different sort of crap. It's basically saying, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.600 there are a whole bunch of women who are so 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.000 afraid of their husbands that they're claiming they'll vote for Trump, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.680 but in secret they're Harris voters. But I guess they 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.360 feel like their husband's gonna beat them. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.000 Up or something. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.760 I don't even need to stand it. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.160 We need to get the Michelle Obama clip. But what 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.479 she said was, your husband isn't going to be in 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.880 the booths with you, right, boyfriend won't be in the 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.760 booth with you. You can tell them you voted for Trump, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.880 but you should vote for Harris to protect yourself. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:43.160 Right. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:44.880 She said this Friday night. And now I've seen a 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.520 whole bunch of different Sarah Goods and Kamala herself and 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.680 all kinds of pundits saying Yeah, there are a bunch 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.720 of women out there who, you know, if they were 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.880 allowed to, they would have vote for Harris, but they're 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.239 not allowed to in their household. What are you trying 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.800 to say that there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.440 of thousands, of millions of Harris voters who live in 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.279 households that are so oppressive. I mean, I have never 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.520 had a relationship like that. I don't know if you have, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.320 where you would be scared to say your opinion out 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.400 loud or how your vote. I don't even get it. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.760 Yeah, I think it's a specific poke at the Trump voter, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.960 not just their their relationships, but that you know, these 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.080 women are married to these Trumpers, and you know, I 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.080 don't know, they've been trying to paint men that are 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.880 for Trump like monsters this whole time. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.480 True, That's very, very true. It might be a they 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.000 might actually have this view because they have such a distorted, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.040 hateful view of anybody who would vote for Donald Trump, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.400 which has more to do with inflation and the variety 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.160 of other immigration than it does any of the stuff 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.560 you think racism and misogyny. But so their evil view 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.760 of Trump voters as yeah, women just go along with 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.040 it because they they live in a Trump household, where 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.919 you have to do with the been once. Have you 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.160 ever know anybody within one hundred miles of that portrayal? 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.280 Have you guys seen one of these ads that they're 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.240 talking about. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:08.320 I don't know. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:08.760 I don't know. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.000 As Yeah, I just I just saw one on YouTube 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.040 a second ago, actually before you guys started talking about it. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.279 We'll play it at this hour. It's it's really visual. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.200 Yeah, I'll get the last clip, but it's it's it's 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.400 definitely showing like the woman would be in some deep 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.400 s if she didn't vote for Trump. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.039 Yeah, I agree with you that it's a fairly repugnant idea, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.960 but I don't I'm not sure I can go as 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.279 far as you and saying there's nothing there. I think, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.880 given the closeness of the Swing States, if you could 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.760 reach a few suburban women and convince them, hey, say 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.560 you voted for Trump, just vote for hers. It's it's 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.719 it's perverse and sick, but I don't think it's totally crazy. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.320 But out of fear, like they're physically afraid of their husbands, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:06:59.400 or they. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.120 Just don't want to get to hear the guff they 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:07.400 don't want to hear it. Strategically speaking, it's not insane. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.560 I think they believe it. I think they think that 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:15.280 Trump households are like that Handsmaid's tailed, all that crap 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.760 that they've been talking about for a decade now. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:23.560 Mm hmm, craziness. You're just looking for a dozen votes 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.640 wherever you can get them. At this point, it's scaring 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.880 people into voting, and you know, well, I think powering 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.720 them to defy their oppressive husbands. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.680 I guess I would say. I think it's another example 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.560 of you're doing more harm than good. You're making me 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.840 think and a lot of people who could I would 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.280 never vote for Kamala Harris, but people that can't quite 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.520 handle Trump, who would think? A few people and know 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.160 that's what I'm like as a Trump voter. My wife 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.960 doesn't have the right juice what she wants to screw you? Yes, 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.400 a pattern of never ending condescension, Yes, never ending condescension. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.320 The Armstrong and Getty show. It used to be one 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.320 of our liners. No, never worked for us. No, people 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:04.920 didn't like it. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:06.400 Eh. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.920 So ah, what a heck of a croosing argument. You 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.080 women who are so scared of your husband's vote. This way. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.560 The drumbeat of that idiot comedian's idiot joke is the 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.640 most important issue in America. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.560 Continues five five stories in The New York Times Today 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:29.360 about it. Five that seems like plenty Byron york Is 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.520 taking a look at Playbook DC from Politico, which is 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.720 kind of their inside the belt Way every morning. You 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.800 got to check it if you're a Politico thing, And 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.880 virtually the entire thing is about that stupid joke or 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.880 too by that ill advised comedian who took the stage 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:50.400 an hour and a quarter before Trump. That's that's crazy 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.080 ore exit polls. Do people believe in exit polls? I 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.840 don't remember eh much lately. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:08:59.840 No. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.480 I would love to know if it goes Trump way, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.880 either direction it goes, I would like to know what 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.600 actually what stuff actually mattered and what didn't. I find 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.360 it very hard to believe that this comedian from Sunday 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.400 Night is going to be a deciding factor for anyone. Yeah, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:16.839 I got this. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.480 Note from Bob that I thought was pretty good. You 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.480 act as though the comment about Puerto Rico was the 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.760 catalyst of something in an outrage that wouldn't have happened 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.400 if they weren't set his point is the left was 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.280 going to be outraged about something and this is just 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.840 what they chose. But it's unquestionable, Bob, that we're just 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.880 reporting on what the lefties are trying to get going. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.120 But he does point out that, you know, if you 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:46.040 combine the two worst jokes three, there's maybe forty seconds 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.040 of a six and a half hour event. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.960 It was long before Trump took the stage. It was 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.000 six and a half hours long. Were you expected to 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.760 be there the whole time? I don't know. Wow. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.240 Uh, the media is all in for Harris. They'll spend 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.480 things no matter what media creation. The worst part is 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.440 that the people from Puerto Rico agree they have a 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.920 massive garbage problem, as I was describing the other day. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.640 I don't know. I guess Trump was asked about the 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.199 rally during his press conference today. If he said anything interesting, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.920 we will we'll pass that along to you. So Joe 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:26.600 Rogan apparently on his podcast today talked about why Kamala Harris, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.640 why that interview fell apart. He was going to interview 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.360 both candidates. Remember there was like a week there where 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.160 the talk was she was going to do Joe Rogan. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.240 Trump ended up doing Joe Rogan for two hours. The 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.200 only headline I've seen out of this is he said 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.319 she wanted to limit to an hour, and he said. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:47.560 No, and that he had to come to her well, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.240 and she would laime an hour, but then she'd show 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.199 up twenty minutes. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.720 Late, right like she did with Barbara. Ask Brett Berringer, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.080 she wouldn't travel to Austin to be on the show. Nope, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:57.240 what is that? 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.520 Well, then she wanted it to not happen, and right, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.400 that's what. Get an hour and you got to bring 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.000 your crew with you? Yeah, no's that's a poison pill. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.200 I think that the hour thing, I think could have 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.360 just been a we can't have her out there for more. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.440 For that long, we're doomed, but you have to come 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.440 to us. Sounds like a poison pill, Like he won't 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:16.960 agree to that, so then we won't have to do it. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.120 I would agree. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.679 Yeah, to do Rogan as Rogan does all his guests 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.120 would have been a disastrous idea. They were smart to 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:24.800 find an excuse not to do it. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.920 Absolutely, that would have been a terrible idea with a 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.640 with a ten days left at the time, No, that 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.920 would have been yeah, and they didn't let her. Smart 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.080 strategy by David Bloof or whoever pulls the strings. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.040 And as Trump is doing an hour and a half 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.800 press conference in front of the hostile media as we speak, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.600 there will be no backlash to her chickening out on 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:46.800 Joe Rogan, not a bit. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.080 No, absolutely not so. Jeff Bezos, second richest man in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.640 the world, owns the Washington Post. Kids, Jeff, that's the 0:11:54.720 --> 0:12:00.280 fellow was born in nineteen sixty four. He gives me hope, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.480 gives me hope that we might get some dominant, dominant 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.719 media that tries to restore our faith in journalism. And 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.719 a piece he wrote in his own paper today, we'll 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.439 share that with you this hour. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:15.120 Now. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.920 One of the few advantages of age is a little 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.640 bit of wisdom, you'd like to think, including recognizing, Hey, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:22.800 I'm an outlier on this. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.280 Okay, I can live with that. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.160 But that's why, you know, the world doesn't go quite 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.559 the way I think it should. For instance, the Wall 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.360 Street Journal with a very good piece about where all 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.280 the places where childcare is on the ballot in America, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.199 subsidies for childcare, taxpayer funded childcare, that sort of thing. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.400 And it's just interesting because it is, as usual with 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.400 the journal, very well written and researched in a bunch 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.600 of quotes from a bunch of different people, but they 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.640 never ever mention that. I think every single woman who 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:59.240 is quoted in this piece as unable to afford daycare 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.559 for their children is a single mom. Is raising their 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.520 kid without a partner, without a man, or a one 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.360 or I don't know, a talking dog or whatever. It 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:15.880 doesn't matter. And the fundamental question which is unspoken, And 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.080 this is not a value judgment on my part, This 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.960 is me looking at it almost from a political scientists 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.840 point of view, and this is one of the failings 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.400 of democracy. You can't hurt people's feelings and like give 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.960 them the facts. But we've gone from a society that 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:33.800 was vastly, vastly two parents raising a child with all 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.920 the benefits thereof, to a society that sends the message 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.959 quite consistently. It's perfectly fine if you, as a single 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.560 mom or single dad, want to have a child, and 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.160 I'm not talking about a situation of divorce or being widowed. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.920 You never intended to have a partner that puts you 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.080 in the situation where you cannot afford care for your 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.200 child and work in many cases because you don't make 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.760 enough money. Therefore tax payers should pay for that child's care. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.880 It's an interesting way to describe how society should work. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.239 Maybe it's a good idea, maybe it's not a good idea. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.760 The interesting part to me is that the questions never asked. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.040 We pretend that that's not the question that we're trying 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:17.640 to answer. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.880 Well, how many of the journalists who would ever write 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.720 a story are in the camp of not having two 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.760 partners raising a kid? A lot right, right? 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.960 And it reminds me of that big study that was 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:38.240 done to ascertain whether the hormone blockers and puberty blockers 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.800 helped kids, and the answer was a resounding no. So 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.760 they didn't publish the study because they didn't want their 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.120 enemies to quote unquote weaponize it. And I think the 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.000 journalists would say, well, I don't want to see you 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.520 weaponize that against single parents. I'm not weaponizing anything. I 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.840 just think when a democracy isn't even asking the questions, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.520 that the policy is addressed much less answering. Though, Well, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.200 all right, you're gonna get bad policy anyway. Moving along 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:09.160 unless you have more on that topic. Hunger crisis, food 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.440 banks and key swing states reporting increase in demand all 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:17.560 over the country. They're featuring swing states in particular Pennsylvania, Michigan, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.400 Wisconsin reporting an increase in demand from people waiting in 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.800 lines for food and also being forced out of their 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.160 homes because they can't afford them anymore. It's all inflation related. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.240 Because I got anything to do with the credit card 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.560 limit thingy. People have maxed out their credit cards because 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.680 those numbers are astounding. There's got to be some birds 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.800 that come home to roost on that one. I would think, sure, yeah, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 it doesn't mention that, but that makes sense. Yeah. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.640 Oh, and then just a semi related topic to that, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.440 I was reading and I couldn't find it for some reason, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.640 it escaped me. In the Reno area, where the Armstrong 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.840 e Getty Show has enjoyed a great deal of support 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.480 for years and years, and we're more and pleased to 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:06.480 be on Reno sparks, they mentioned that it's now very purple. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.760 It's a fifty to fifty metro area politically speaking, and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.480 the primary reason for that, which amuses the hell out 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:18.040 of me, is that so many Californians have moved to Reno. Wow, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:23.680 now let's go through this. You left California for a 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:29.480 reason right. It was part of it affordability. Now you're 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:34.160 in Reno, prices are skyrocketing there, but you're voting for 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.400 the same people you did in California, which you left. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.200 Yeah, I don't get it. Happens over and over and 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.200 over again. Speaking of things, you just have to accept. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:49.880 People don't understand that elections bring policies, and policies bring results. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.960 Is mainstream media about to make a comeback, possibly. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:54.840 Armstrong and Getty. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.840 So the Nazi rally the other night Madison Square Garden, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.840 two thirds of Israelis in the latest poll are in 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.080 favor of Trump winning. It's not a very good Nazi 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:12.200 rally if two thirds of Israelis are for Trump over. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:17.000 Hairis in which side has been rife with anti semitism 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.720 line Okay. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.960 Also speaking of the Nazi rally, I was in the 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:27.520 arena in Milwaukee when Hulk Hogan gave his speech and 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.399 ripped his shirt off to show his Trump T shirt 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.800 tanked up and the crowd went wild. It was a 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.720 funny moment to be you know. Therefore, But anyway, he 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.760 struggled somewhat that day. Well, I didn't see him Friday 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.359 night at Madison Square Garden. But he did the same thing. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.000 When he went to rip off his shirt, he like, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.600 couldn't rip it. Dude, you're seventy one. I think you 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.360 got to give up the whole ripping the shirt apart thing, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.240 unless they're gonna make it a crepe paper or something. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.840 Because he can't stand up. There's an old man trying 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.440 to tear apart your little shirt. Look, you got to 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.840 get a new tear away t shirt company. Yeah, that's 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.640 not a good look. It's just too long to struggle 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:10.520 to rip your shirt open. Uh. You probably know if 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.159 you're into talk radio and all that sort of stuff. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.800 That the La Times decided not to endorse Kamala Harris. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.680 They didn't endorse Trump, they just failed to endorse anyone. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.960 The daughter of the owner says it's because of Harris's 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.399 stance on Israel. Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. I 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.880 don't know now. Then later that day, the Washington Post 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.600 announced that they were not going to endorse Kamala Harris 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:42.120 or anyone, and that caused a huge backlash among readers 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.800 and people that work for the Washington Post. A bunch 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.240 of people in like the uh in the editorial room 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:54.560 quit and according to NPR today, two hundred thousand people 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.359 have canceled their subscriptions of the Washington Post. That's eight 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.680 percent of their subscribers have canceled over. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.399 That for just saying we don't endorse candidates anymore. We 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.359 didn't used to. We did for a while, We're not 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.960 going to anymore. So that's one of the reasons that 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.560 there's an op ed in his own newspaper today from 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.919 the owner Jeff Bezos, the world's second richest man. It 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.200 says the hard truth, Americans don't trust the news media. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.040 A note from our owner, and it says underneath Jeff 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:27.800 Bezos is the owner of the Washington Post. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:33.480 So this comes out on the heels of the Kerfluffel 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.560 on Friday, but it sure sounds like he's been thinking 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.000 about this for a while. Jeff Bezos writes in the 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.119 annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists in the 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.760 media have regularly fallen near the bottom, often just above Congress. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.119 But in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.199 fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.280 of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working. Man. 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.120 When you're below Congress in terms of trust, you are 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:03.600 at the bottom. Let me give under how I wonder. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:08.639 How the newsroom would react to that simple assertion, that 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.439 simple indisputable assertion. Well, that's because Americans are stupid and 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:13.360 they're Nazis. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.200 Yeah, we need to we need to be leaders. Maybe 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.280 we're not on popped, maybe we're not popular now, but 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.240 we'll be leaders and convince people or something. That's a 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.000 principled stand. Anyway, back to Jeff Bezos, he right impressed. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.040 Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.200 They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.919 they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.800 from and just as important as the first. Likewise, with newspapers, 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.560 we must be accurate and we must be believed to 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.439 be accurate. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.600 are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.240 media is biased. Anyone who doesn't see this as paying 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.840 scant attention to reality and those who fight reality lose reality, 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.560 is an undefeated champion. Love that line. It would be 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.080 easy to blame others for our long and continued fall 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:08.000 and credibility and therefore decline and impact. But a victim 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.760 mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.000 must work harder to control what we can control to 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.720 increase our credibility. By the way, he doesn't mention it 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.600 in this piece, but The New York Times reports that 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:23.400 Bezos is saying they're going to hire more Republican conservative 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:28.160 reporters and opinion writers, which obviously has to happen. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.800 Hey, I'm interested in becoming a Wall Post subscriber already 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.200 am for professional reasons, but that sounds great. 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.359 To the specific about the non endorsement, here, writes, presidential 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.800 endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.640 No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, I'm 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.320 going with newspaper a's endorsement. None. What presidential endorsements actually 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.919 do is create a perception of bias, a perception of 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.000 non independents. Ending them is a principal decision, and it's 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.200 the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Wappo from 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.200 thirty three to forty six, the same, and he was 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:05.320 right by itself. Declining to endorse presidential candidates is not 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.000 enough to move us very far up the trust scale, 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:10.280