Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Diet fifteen and twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, or much of
Speaker 3: the months, I think it was, Yeah, that's rights suppressing.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, bumbuy, whispery croaky, Joe Biden trying to remember when
Speaker 1: his son passed away. I remember that was part of
Speaker 1: the one of the headlines when her report was released,
Speaker 1: in writing the White House sighting I can't remember national
Speaker 1: security reasons or something why we couldn't or the transcript,
Speaker 1: And now I think I know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It just revealed him confused and rambling and weak. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And as.
Speaker 5: The New York Times reported over the weekend on the
Speaker 5: her tapes coming out, uh, hearing him in her interview
Speaker 5: is revealing the former president's halting responses to questions by
Speaker 5: a special counsel show him exactly. I thought this was
Speaker 5: an interesting thing for the New York Times to rite,
Speaker 5: but true, the president's responses show him exactly as a
Speaker 5: majority of Americans believed him to be, and as Democrats
Speaker 5: repeatedly insisted he was not so. New York Times even
Speaker 5: in their seb headline saying at the time, a majority
Speaker 5: of Americans believed his brain didn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, long before the debate.
Speaker 5: It's kind of funny that you weren't like talking about
Speaker 5: that on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: But okay, you're right now. You're correct now.
Speaker 1: As we've said a thousand times, given the enormity of
Speaker 1: the story and how it's exactly what a free press
Speaker 1: is designed to cover, I mean to pass on that
Speaker 1: is just yea inexcusable, and it's it illustrates the point
Speaker 1: so completely. They are fully partisan hacks.
Speaker 5: I was actually thinking about this over the weekend, before
Speaker 5: we get into more of the hurt tapes and all
Speaker 5: that sort of stuff. You listening right now, ask yourself
Speaker 5: this question. Would you have been twisting your mind into
Speaker 5: not if this were a Republican or Trump, same situation,
Speaker 5: but it was Trump, would you have been twisting yourself
Speaker 5: into knots trying to pretend that he was still okay
Speaker 5: and could still run again and be president again? Jeez,
Speaker 5: I sure hope not from I'm talking about myself. I
Speaker 5: sure hope I wouldn't have been. But no, he's always
Speaker 5: had a stutter. Come on, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 5: Partisan hacks?
Speaker 2: Wo, I've been doing that?
Speaker 1: God, I hope not. Oh no, I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you are really a cult of personality cultist.
Speaker 1: Because the gripe from you know, a lot of Democrats
Speaker 1: is that.
Speaker 2: Hey pretending otherwise screwed the pooch.
Speaker 5: M m.
Speaker 2: That's what loss is the election.
Speaker 1: Dean Phillips was yelling about it, the only guy with
Speaker 1: the guts to run in the primary against him, And
Speaker 1: I was just reminded of the you remember the great
Speaker 1: girations to get South Carolina to be the first Democratic
Speaker 1: primary state.
Speaker 2: Because it's more diverse and looks more like America. Blah
Speaker 2: blah blah.
Speaker 1: Well, no, it is because they knew if there was
Speaker 1: any contest whatsoever in New Hampshire and Iowa, Biden would
Speaker 1: lose and he would be exposed as a terribly weak candidate.
Speaker 1: But they knew the fix was into South Carolina and
Speaker 1: they could get him over the edge.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that's kind of.
Speaker 1: An unnecessary detail. Back to the rambling old Man.
Speaker 5: More from the New York Times analysis of the tapes
Speaker 5: that came out on Friday, in the audio recording. Mister
Speaker 5: Hurst's conclusion that a jury would see mister Biden as
Speaker 5: a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor.
Speaker 2: Memory is not merely valid, it is irrefutable. That's the
Speaker 2: New York Times. No, no, it's not.
Speaker 5: I like the way they're getting around to it now,
Speaker 5: but at least they're getting around to it.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: Dan Ball's in the Washington Post.
Speaker 5: The truth is the public was on to Biden's decline
Speaker 5: long before the debate. Yeah, as he prepared for a
Speaker 5: re election campaign, few obstacles loomed larger than perceptions at
Speaker 5: his age and acuity made him unfit to serve a
Speaker 5: second term. It was there in black and white. A
Speaker 5: Washington Post ABC News poll in February of twenty three,
Speaker 5: that's what, five months before the debate, found that six
Speaker 5: and ten Democrats wanted someone other than other than Biden
Speaker 5: to be their nominee, which is an astonishing number for
Speaker 5: a sitting president and an electioneer. And it's difficult to
Speaker 5: believe that his age wasn't the motivating factor then all So,
Speaker 5: in February of twenty four, before the debate, found that
Speaker 5: two thirds of Americans said he did not have the
Speaker 5: mental fitness to be president again?
Speaker 2: Two thirds. That was in February.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would love to ask the bigfoot media guys,
Speaker 1: hey see if you can this the riddles, See if
Speaker 1: you can puzzle this went out? There is only one
Speaker 1: class of Americans who didn't recognize Biden's mental decline, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about it openly.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a hint. It's a particular profession. Well, right,
Speaker 2: there's only one tiny, narrow segment. Can you name it?
Speaker 5: I really like Dan Balls with the Washington Post, but
Speaker 5: lovely Man the fact that he didn't bring it down
Speaker 5: to a paragraph where he kind of deals with the fact.
Speaker 2: How did two thirds of Americans know this months before
Speaker 2: the debate and we man missed it? I mean, how
Speaker 2: do you not?
Speaker 1: I don't get it right. All right, well, let's play
Speaker 1: some audio. Then we've got a bunch of follow ups
Speaker 1: in waiting. Why all of all of this matters? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm torn. Let's let's do fifty one Michael, nice and
Speaker 1: loud because it's kind of mumbly and quiet.
Speaker 2: But what's happened in the meantime is that.
Speaker 1: Has and.
Speaker 6: Trump gets elected in November of twenty seventeen, sixteen, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 6: All right, so have twenty seventeen here.
Speaker 2: That's when we left office in January.
Speaker 6: Okay, now, but that's when Trump gets sworn in.
Speaker 2: Bye, kid, happened.
Speaker 6: And in twenty seventeen, Oh, it passed. And this person.
Speaker 1: The whole not remembering when was the election? When's the inauguration?
Speaker 1: Why do I have twenty seventeen here?
Speaker 2: More from the analysis in the New York Times. Listen
Speaker 2: to this.
Speaker 5: A simple question about the documents that were stored at
Speaker 5: the Naval Observatory elicits an eleven minute response. It begins
Speaker 5: with a young mister Biden winning an international tourqu competition
Speaker 5: in law school, winds through an early legal case involving
Speaker 5: a twenty three year old man who lost part of
Speaker 5: his penis in an ore oil refinery accident, and concludes
Speaker 5: with mister Biden winning a seat on the New York
Speaker 5: on the Newcastle, Delaware City Council in nineteen seventy. Again
Speaker 5: and again, mister Biden's answers the prosecutor not as someone
Speaker 5: under federal investigation, but as an aging politician recounties a
Speaker 5: life story for posterity.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, it's a question, and he goes through an eleven
Speaker 5: minute this is my life, old man ramble. According to
Speaker 5: the New York Times, I haven't listened to the whole thing,
Speaker 5: but yeah, that's not normal.
Speaker 2: Fifty two Michael, the library has.
Speaker 6: A filing cabage in it, and it has built into
Speaker 6: the walls. I've built that home, built into the walls
Speaker 6: a space for a copy machine.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're calling this finish the stacks a fax machine.
Speaker 2: I have shells, perfect example right there.
Speaker 5: So you get to ask a question, and he goes
Speaker 5: into how he built a shelf for a fax machine,
Speaker 5: and he can't remember what a fax machine is, but
Speaker 5: they remind him, sir, it's called a fax machine.
Speaker 2: Next clip top, Ope.
Speaker 6: It's a shelby and the bottom open is a file.
Speaker 2: So the bottom so.
Speaker 6: When you open this up, first the door on.
Speaker 2: The first that we're there on the left, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: You see where there's a printer and there is a m.
Speaker 2: I call it the machine investing, the fact machine.
Speaker 6: And then I guess again the thing below I just
Speaker 6: I don't use anymore.
Speaker 2: Never sure this is a Wendy's.
Speaker 1: So John Fund, writing in the National Review on the
Speaker 1: other side of the Aisle from The New York Times says,
Speaker 1: we need congressional hearings to learn the full story about
Speaker 1: the great cover up. Uh and and why he is
Speaker 1: addressing isn't this just rear view mirror kicking of a guy.
Speaker 1: And then he goes into the transcript of her interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would, I would agree, and you know, reveal some
Speaker 1: just devastating quotes from various folks, which we'll skip.
Speaker 2: For now just in the interest of time.
Speaker 1: But there are other good reasons why the House Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee's investigation is useful and necessary. Number One, there was
Speaker 1: indeed a massive cover up inside the White House, and
Speaker 1: they mentioned that The Atlantic had reported bluntly this week.
Speaker 1: Dozens of people in Biden's orbit suspected he was not
Speaker 1: physically or mentally equipped to be the President of the US.
Speaker 2: Then that's a good word, suspected.
Speaker 1: Yet they helped him seek that office and keep it
Speaker 1: when he couldn't reliably perform its duties, and then sickeningly
Speaker 1: try to return office. Biden to that office for four
Speaker 1: more years, even though they did not think that he
Speaker 1: could serve during the first term.
Speaker 5: Jock Armstrong suspected Joe Getty liked whiskey number two. Biden's
Speaker 5: condition began to deteriorate as early as a decade ago.
Speaker 5: Tapper and Thompson in the new book report those close
Speaker 5: to him say the first signs he was deteriorating emerged
Speaker 5: after the death of his beloved son bo.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen. Biden was really struggling. In twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: his cognitive capacity seemed to have been failing him. The
Speaker 1: authors of the book make it clear that previous cover
Speaker 1: ups of the health problems of presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy
Speaker 1: pale by comparison with the Biden cover up. Absolutely, if
Speaker 1: we had won, people in the Biden world believed there
Speaker 1: would have been a constitutional crisis, Thompson told The New Yorker,
Speaker 1: because clearly the people in his inner circle were not
Speaker 1: willing to seed power.
Speaker 2: How they knew that he would have to be removed
Speaker 2: from office.
Speaker 5: How about a national crisis if there had been an
Speaker 5: emergency that required a decision. During one of his moments
Speaker 5: where he's rambling on about the shelfy built for the
Speaker 5: fax machine.
Speaker 2: And then what do you call it machine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fund also points out that there is an unhealthy
Speaker 1: confluence of interest between the White House and the reporters
Speaker 1: who most frequently cover it, And he goes into a
Speaker 1: great deal of detail why this is unholy and unacceptable,
Speaker 1: and then he quotes like guys like Chris Solissa, former
Speaker 1: reporter for The Post and CNN, this was a cover up,
Speaker 1: plain and simple. For at least two years or close
Speaker 1: to its senior people in the White House knew that
Speaker 1: Biden's condition was bad enough that it needed to be
Speaker 1: concealed from people working the administration.
Speaker 2: He leaves out how compliant he was.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, come on, then you got to get back
Speaker 5: to that poll that Dan Balls was quoting. Two thirds
Speaker 5: of Americans knew Ee's brain didn't work in early twenty four.
Speaker 1: You know what, There's a little more to be said,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to rush through it. One an
Speaker 1: account from someone who is covering him on the campaign
Speaker 1: trail in twenty twenty and said he was clearly losing
Speaker 1: it in twenty twenty, and one more list of names.
Speaker 1: Why this is important to talk about even though it's
Speaker 1: in the rearview mirror.
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely, mostly because the media. We have to have
Speaker 5: a working media. We have to or we're doomed. The
Speaker 5: founding fathers knew that. It's always been true. We're just
Speaker 5: gonna give a minus.
Speaker 1: And you might want to not put in power the
Speaker 1: people who have lied about Biden's condition the most egregiously.
Speaker 5: And there's a list. Okay, we got lots of stuff
Speaker 5: to do today. Trump's gonna talk to Putin on the phone.
Speaker 5: This could be an historic phone call, among other things.
Speaker 5: On the way, stay here.
Speaker 4: A driver for Amazon was fired after she was caught
Speaker 4: on a ring camera defecating on a porch, said the homeowner.
Speaker 2: But that's what I ordered, he now, so will it's
Speaker 2: an awful joke.
Speaker 5: We'll be talking about Joe Biden's cancer they got diagnosed with,
Speaker 5: and more about all the kind of things around the
Speaker 5: diagnosis of it, what that might mean or not, and
Speaker 5: his brain, so his brain and his finility cover up.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: So Saturday Night Live, it was their season finale on
Speaker 5: Saturday Night. That was Colin Jost there. He is the
Speaker 5: head writer and hosts the news and is married to
Speaker 5: Scarlett Johansson, the famous actress, and she was the host
Speaker 5: and that was all fun. But they've started this tradition
Speaker 5: on Saturday Night Live several years back, where Colin Jost
Speaker 5: White guy and Michael Jay Black Guy. This matters write
Speaker 5: jokes for each other for the final episode that they
Speaker 5: have not seen ahead of time, and it has become
Speaker 5: a thing where they write jokes that will make each
Speaker 5: other look really, really bad and particularly racially. Michael Jay
Speaker 5: writes jokes that are really racist for Colin Jos to say,
Speaker 5: And it's a really interesting premise that has seemed to work,
Speaker 5: where then Colin Jos makes jokes you could never make
Speaker 5: under any other circumstances.
Speaker 2: People laugh at.
Speaker 5: Them, but nobody gets angry about it, because the point is,
Speaker 5: I don't even it's almost too complicated.
Speaker 2: Well, it's everybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, the basic premise of the thing is clear enough.
Speaker 1: Why that makes it entirely okay? It's the really interesting part.
Speaker 5: I guess, Well, I guess I'm more interested in the reverse.
Speaker 5: If you can make it okay with that little thing,
Speaker 5: then why can't it be okay, like just in general,
Speaker 5: to make that kind of joke.
Speaker 2: Of course, I don't mean that it's a joke, right, or.
Speaker 1: If Colin Jost were to do the joke, then let
Speaker 1: everybody go nuts. The lynch mob come from for him, then,
Speaker 1: say Michael Jay, wrote that, then would that be okay
Speaker 1: if you didn't know in advance, or look, let's examine this.
Speaker 5: So we've played them in the past and they're uncomfortable
Speaker 5: and funny. This year they were so over the top.
Speaker 5: I'm not comfortable playing them. I really am not. I
Speaker 5: was watch I was watching it thinking, we can't air that,
Speaker 5: we can't air that, we can't air that. This is
Speaker 5: the only one I thought we could air. So it
Speaker 5: goes to Colin jo joke written by Michael Jay. They
Speaker 5: put up on the screen a picture of some sort
Speaker 5: of monkey gorilla thingies, and then here is Colin Joe's joke.
Speaker 4: A new study finds that the hoops and grunts of
Speaker 4: Bonobo's shows signs of complex thoughts similar.
Speaker 2: To human language.
Speaker 4: Oh so like that awful halftime show.
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 5: Wow wow, Yeah, as a racist joke, we'll have to
Speaker 5: the whole jiu jitsu of because the crowd laughs, and
Speaker 5: I assume people at home are laughing, then why can
Speaker 5: we not if you're laughing, which is an enjoyable thing
Speaker 5: to do. I like laughing, You like laughing, People like comedy.
Speaker 5: If we can laugh at it, if we do the
Speaker 5: Judo of twisting this around.
Speaker 2: Why can't it exist otherwise?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's great topic. I happen to just
Speaker 1: become aware that black fatigue quote unquote went viral like
Speaker 1: last week on social media. I don't know that term,
Speaker 1: people complaining about aberrant behavior by black people. A number
Speaker 1: of people making the comment that will there's aparate behavior
Speaker 1: from every group of people on earth, which is unquestionably true.
Speaker 1: But there are plenty of black people posting it about it,
Speaker 1: which made it okay. The truth of it doesn't change,
Speaker 1: but the source matters in the.
Speaker 2: Modern world, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8: Doesn't it take some time for prostate cancer to develop
Speaker 8: to point where it would spread to the bones?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's had.
Speaker 7: This for many years, maybe even a decade, growing there
Speaker 7: and spreading.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: So this is the leads story on the New York Post.
Speaker 5: The Scarborough interview with their doctor about Biden's cancer on
Speaker 5: MSNBC this morning.
Speaker 2: It goes on, he's.
Speaker 8: Most certainly you were saying, had it when he was
Speaker 8: president of the United States.
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, he did not develop it in the last
Speaker 7: one hundred two hundred days.
Speaker 2: He had it while he was president. He probably had
Speaker 2: it at the start of his.
Speaker 7: Presidency in twenty one. Yes, that, I don't think there's
Speaker 7: any disagreement about that.
Speaker 2: So what is being implied or asked here?
Speaker 5: Josh Scarborough clearly had talked to somebody or just knows
Speaker 5: from his own cancer experienced him and his family that
Speaker 5: this was probably around a long time, So he wanted
Speaker 5: to make that.
Speaker 2: Obvious to people. Joe's not a.
Speaker 1: Very long time, and not because he wants people to
Speaker 1: understand how slow prostate cancer advances.
Speaker 2: He's hinting at something.
Speaker 5: Right, And I thought it was mostly just so, were
Speaker 5: they like not getting stuff tested that you should, that
Speaker 5: you would normally get tested when you're older because they
Speaker 5: didn't want to know? Or is this one of many
Speaker 5: things that they did know and hid. Brian Delter of
Speaker 5: CNN took it a step further, so we were playing
Speaker 5: the her tapes a little bit earlier. Those are the
Speaker 5: audio tapes Joe Biden when he was grilled years ago.
Speaker 5: We had read about them, but we hadn't heard them.
Speaker 5: They came out on Friday. The New York Times analysis was, well,
Speaker 5: here's proof that his brain didn't work a long long
Speaker 5: time ago. I mean, there's no getting around it. Guy
Speaker 5: was in no position to be president or running for president.
Speaker 5: That's what the New York Times took from the her tapes.
Speaker 5: Brian Stelter of CNN says he's questioning the timing of
Speaker 5: Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis announcement, insisting that it was extraordinary
Speaker 5: that the news broke just as the former president was
Speaker 5: battling an onslaught of criticism on the cover up of
Speaker 5: his cognitive decline.
Speaker 2: While in the White House.
Speaker 5: This timing is too much, Stelter said during an appearance
Speaker 5: on CNN yesterday. We know from the statement from his
Speaker 5: personal spokesman, Biden learned I'm using finger quotes on that
Speaker 5: one of the diagnosis on Friday.
Speaker 2: What was the biggest story.
Speaker 5: On Friday, Stelter says on CNN, it was the release
Speaker 5: of those audio excerpts from his conversations.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just too much to have, Brian Stelter,
Speaker 1: you know, leap from the side of the criminals to
Speaker 1: the cops and saying it's time we did something about
Speaker 1: these criminals. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I can eat and that is
Speaker 5: an excellent story that I'm all over, But I know
Speaker 5: if I can get there, He might be right.
Speaker 2: He might absolutely be right. So did the Biden people
Speaker 2: hang on to this? Have they known he had this
Speaker 2: cancer for years?
Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me, given the quality of his medical care.
Speaker 5: If you listen to the show, you know, I'm always
Speaker 5: shooting down the hole the timing sususpicious conspiracy because there's
Speaker 5: a story every day that a White House would like
Speaker 5: to cover up. I mean, there's always a negative story
Speaker 5: out there. So people if something comes out it's, oh,
Speaker 5: suspicious timing with oil prices going up or whatever it is,
Speaker 5: and I always say, think, whatever this will though, this
Speaker 5: is something they had to have had they had to There's.
Speaker 2: No way they just found out he's got prostate cancer.
Speaker 1: And I think the takeaways pretty obvious because a prostate
Speaker 1: cancer is in most cases extremely slow moving. You can
Speaker 1: live with it, you can deal with it, keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it, that sort of thing in many many
Speaker 1: cases anyway, And he would absolutely have Biden would have
Speaker 1: been doing a favor to say, hey, fellas, it's important
Speaker 1: you get the exam, talk to your doctor, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Men's health right. We got a bointh of it right,
Speaker 2: and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And the reason they didn't was because there was a
Speaker 1: perceipe a perception based on well everything, that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was unfit for another term in office.
Speaker 2: I would argue he wasn't fit for the first term
Speaker 2: in office. But yeah, so it all fits together.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know, it seems fairly obvious to me
Speaker 1: with the book coming out.
Speaker 2: And the herd tapes and everything like that.
Speaker 5: So Megan McCain tweeted this out John McCain's daughter, maybe
Speaker 5: remember she tweeted this out over the weekend. And she's
Speaker 5: a political I mean, she's on talk shows all the time.
Speaker 5: She's a regular on Halprin's podcast and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's just my being biased or
Speaker 5: my background, but I don't want to hear anything else
Speaker 5: about Biden's health cover up, tell All's interviews with staff, etc.
Speaker 5: Let the Biden family be in peace right now. This
Speaker 5: is all just so sad and imprudent. Cancer is the
Speaker 5: absolute worst.
Speaker 2: It's hell.
Speaker 5: It is incredibly difficult for any family wishing nothing but healing.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's appropriate in these times for politics.
Speaker 5: So there's Megan McCain saying we shouldn't be talking about
Speaker 5: the her tapes or the tell all books or any
Speaker 5: of this stuff with the announcement coming out. I think
Speaker 5: the announcement came out just so people would react the
Speaker 5: way you just reacted, Meghan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I'm sold. I'm through.
Speaker 5: Do you feel any need to pull back on talking
Speaker 5: about his broken brain in the media coverage because he's
Speaker 5: got cancer? I think he knew he either knew he
Speaker 5: had cancer or doctor Jill hid it from him for
Speaker 5: like ten years.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent you think she'd be better at that
Speaker 1: as a doctor. Yeah, I'm one hundred, one hundred percent
Speaker 1: rejecting Meghan McCain's idea. That's that's ridiculous, especially for the
Speaker 1: following reasons.
Speaker 2: Uh number one.
Speaker 1: As Barton swamwrites for the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages,
Speaker 1: he says, what's amusing is that the only people deceived
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty through twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: We're talking about starting.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty now, folks, the only people deceived were
Speaker 1: the deceivers. The argument in the press about when it
Speaker 1: became clear that mister Biden wasn't up to the job,
Speaker 1: was it twenty twenty three, as early as twenty twenty one, also.
Speaker 2: Makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: I witnessed Biden's frailty during the twenty twenty primary and
Speaker 1: wrote about it. I was covering the dueling campaigns of
Speaker 1: Tom Steyer and mister very Few people thought mister Biden
Speaker 1: would win anything but South Carolina, precisely because he appeared
Speaker 1: too old to govern. Former Vice President come in fourth
Speaker 1: and I won fifth in New Hampshire. A win for
Speaker 1: him in South Carolina seemed likely, but he was losing
Speaker 1: everywhere else. And then he goes through some of the
Speaker 1: details of the campaign and how it was Pete Buddha,
Speaker 1: Judge Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren who were beating him
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party said oh my god, what are
Speaker 1: we going to do? And James Clyburn took over and
Speaker 1: he said, I'll fix South Carolina for you, essentially, and
Speaker 1: we'll get old man Biden. At least he's a mainstream Democrat.
Speaker 1: But back to the piece from Barton Swain, the first
Speaker 1: time I saw him in North Charleston, I thought he
Speaker 1: might be having a stroke or a heart attack when
Speaker 1: he spoke, we're more familiar with the gravelly whisper now
Speaker 1: than we were then. He was barely audible. His words
Speaker 1: slurred together and made no sense. I noted in my
Speaker 1: report that he several times said North Carolina when he
Speaker 1: meant North Charleston. An important thing to get right when
Speaker 1: trying to win over South Carolina voters. He was ostensibly
Speaker 1: there to talk about his campaign's housing plan, but it
Speaker 1: was obvious he had no idea what the plan was.
Speaker 1: Also unknown to him were the names of any of
Speaker 1: the state lawmakers standing with them. Then he was to
Speaker 1: appear at a rally at the College of Charleston. He
Speaker 1: was two hours late, even though his campaign bus was
Speaker 1: parked right next door two thousand people waiting for him.
Speaker 1: No explanation why, he said, I think he was a sleeper.
Speaker 1: Just couldn't He wasn't up to it, and then late
Speaker 1: still Later that night, he spoke briefly at the state
Speaker 1: parties first in the South dinner. Mister Biden concluded his
Speaker 1: remarks in a way that should have but evidently didn't
Speaker 1: make everyone in the room squirm. And I quote, and
Speaker 1: we played this at the time. My name is Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. Look
Speaker 1: me over. If you like what you see, help out.
Speaker 1: If not, vote for the other Biden. This is in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And then the final note from some of
Speaker 1: the folks at the Free Press. I think it was
Speaker 1: Elly Bulls. I'm not sure, but she says, looking forward,
Speaker 1: the Democratic parties in trouble of Ben Rhoades, the failed
Speaker 1: novelist and Iran apologist who represent the Obama administration at
Speaker 1: Castro's funeral, has become the voice of reason, because Rhodes said,
Speaker 1: and I quote, Democrats need not understand that being able
Speaker 1: to say Biden shouldn't have run again is not just
Speaker 1: about the past. It's about having any credibility with voters
Speaker 1: in the future, which is similar to comments made from
Speaker 1: Roe Kanna possible twenty twenty eight primary contestant. Kana, by
Speaker 1: the way, praise Biden is completely mentally sharp in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Other Democrats are who are definitely running in
Speaker 1: twenty eight are content to embrace the Schumer method of
Speaker 1: changing the subject to avoid explaining why they defended Biden
Speaker 1: so passionately in twenty twenty four. But we won't let
Speaker 1: them forget jab Pritzker in twenty four. He's on the ball.
Speaker 1: The man knows more than most of us have forgotten
Speaker 1: Pritzker in twenty five. Look all this stuff about his
Speaker 1: health er, you know, commentary that people are making in books. Uh, frankly,
Speaker 1: that's very backward looking. Chris Murphy, Democratic Connecticut in twenty four.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden is incredibly competent and he's incredibly effective. Incredible
Speaker 1: Murphy Murphy this year. Yeah, literally, not credibly Murphy this year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in retrospect, we should have done something different to keep
Speaker 1: Boodha Judge last year. The president the boss I work for,
Speaker 1: is a focused and disciplined leader Bootah Judge. This year,
Speaker 1: right now, with the benefit of hinde and sight, I
Speaker 1: think most people would agree Biden should have run. We're
Speaker 1: also not in a position to wallow in hindsight.
Speaker 2: So well.
Speaker 5: Again, I asked the question I asked earlier of would
Speaker 5: you have covered up for Trump in the same situation
Speaker 5: if you're a big Trump fan, or make it an
Speaker 5: anonymous Republican president.
Speaker 2: God, I hope I wouldn't know. I should hope I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: It was so obvious. I'll prove it right now.
Speaker 1: Trump yelling at Walmart and threatening them not to raise
Speaker 1: their prices. Kamala Harris had done that, I'd be going berserk.
Speaker 1: I'd be red faced. So I'm calling him out for
Speaker 1: it right now. It's crazy. You sound like Hugo Chavez. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about that later.
Speaker 5: But so what do you make of like Stelter on
Speaker 5: CNN saying he gets a diagnosis Friday, the day that her.
Speaker 1: Tape comes out. Come on, I make the same thing
Speaker 1: of him I've always made. He's a gutless lion weasel.
Speaker 1: No no, no, not of Stelter himself. But oh sorry,
Speaker 1: Just do you think that is what's happening? Do you
Speaker 1: think the Biden people put out a cancer diagnosis all
Speaker 1: that part to try to get the heat off of them.
Speaker 1: That's that would be very much in character for doctor Jill. Yes,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. She is effing unhinged man.
Speaker 5: And you're really going a long way to Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: imagine doing this in your life. You got a doctor,
Speaker 5: you fine, you got cancer. I'm not gonna use this
Speaker 5: until I need to with my wife, my boss, my kids.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna hang on to this until it's you know,
Speaker 5: got some more. I can get some more out of it.
Speaker 5: I mean, that is weird, Michael.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're doing over there working on
Speaker 1: a fan letter to Scarlett Johansson or something like that.
Speaker 1: But where's our favorite doctor, Jill clip Come on, you
Speaker 1: did great, Joe.
Speaker 2: Come on, you answered all the questions.
Speaker 5: I mean, that is some serious conniving when you hold
Speaker 5: on to a cancer diagnosis until it's got the most
Speaker 5: political use.
Speaker 2: Tell me if this strikes you.
Speaker 1: As blanking unhinged. As soon as Michael can find it,
Speaker 1: here it is here. It comes the wonders of the
Speaker 1: search function. Not to bear fruit, juicy ripe fruit.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 5: Take a bitee how our computer works that it takes
Speaker 5: this long to search for Jill Biden.
Speaker 2: Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question.
Speaker 3: You know, all it is.
Speaker 1: That blanking unhinged or not? Yeah, but I gotta turn
Speaker 1: it to the crowd that cheered. Are they lying or
Speaker 1: deceiving themselves?
Speaker 2: That too? I mean, if that was like two hours
Speaker 2: after the debate.
Speaker 5: The crowd cheering yeah he did hell yeah?
Speaker 1: What Look if you're a hack, you hack and the
Speaker 1: power the word went out from the powers that be,
Speaker 1: all right, we need some real cheering like it. Like
Speaker 1: that debate that you know has rocked the world. We
Speaker 1: got to act like it. Didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Who's are you ready? Let me let me hear good? Right, yeauty.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming.
Speaker 5: I'm assuming Joe Biden's made very few decisions about anything
Speaker 5: to any of this. I don't think he's capable. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's Jill or somebody. She finds out her husband might
Speaker 5: have cancer in his bones. This might be the end
Speaker 5: of him. I'm gonna hold onto this to just the
Speaker 5: right moment. The her taper coming come coming out. That's
Speaker 5: the day we're gonna release. That is some serious, heavy
Speaker 5: duty manipulation of a storyline.
Speaker 2: And absolutely in character for the Good doctor. Wow, what
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 5: Text line four one, five, two, nine five KFTC show
Speaker 5: You did such.
Speaker 2: A great job. You answered every question? Are strong? Hettie?
Speaker 2: Too strong?
Speaker 9: On a three and look out Kamlei Clark pursus Angel Reese,
Speaker 9: and Angel Reese gets right up here to kick Clark afterwards,
Speaker 9: has something to say as Park walks away.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna talk WNBA, believe it or not. So
Speaker 5: I just noticed looking up at the television. Both Good
Speaker 5: Morning America and CBS Early Show did a long segment
Speaker 5: on that play, in which Caitlin Clark with a flagrant
Speaker 5: foul knocked down her nemesis Angel Reese in the opening
Speaker 5: matchup between them in the WNBA. Me, wow, is it
Speaker 5: kind of interesting just as a basketball fan. So, Caitlin
Speaker 5: Cork plays for the Indiana Fever, who are among the
Speaker 5: teams expected to win the whole thing this year. They
Speaker 5: did a smart thing there the ownership and realize, oh,
Speaker 5: we got the best player in the world, let's get
Speaker 5: somebody around her and we can win it all.
Speaker 2: And they did.
Speaker 5: But I have watched this many times with players throughout
Speaker 5: my life who come into the league from college is
Speaker 5: like really popular and hot. They get pushed around a lot,
Speaker 5: and she kind of did last year. She clearly this
Speaker 5: year has decided we ain't getting pushed around this year.
Speaker 5: And I remember watching She's all kinds of magic. Johnson,
Speaker 5: Larry Bird, lebron Knew, Michael Jordan, you name it. Who
Speaker 5: had to come into the league and show this. And
Speaker 5: if you watch that whole play under the basket, one
Speaker 5: of her players gets shoved.
Speaker 2: She points at the ref like, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: No call?
Speaker 5: She immediately flagrant fouls her nemesis, like, we ain't doing
Speaker 5: this this year. You're not gonna man handle us this year,
Speaker 5: We're not doing and they won by like thirty, by
Speaker 5: the way, but hockey rules. Yeah, gonna be the tough guy,
Speaker 5: all right, Yeah, exactly. It was a pretty cool play,
Speaker 5: and I like the way they both handled the two.
Speaker 5: In the postgame, Caitlin Clark says, a regular play. Move on,
Speaker 5: it's no big deal. And even Angel Reese, who could
Speaker 5: have made a big deal out of it and turned
Speaker 5: it racial like a lot of people want to do,
Speaker 5: she said it was an NBA.
Speaker 2: It was a basketball play, no big deal. So I
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 5: But New York Times with an article put every Caitlan
Speaker 5: Clark game on national television and making the argument for
Speaker 5: it on how first of all, last year they had
Speaker 5: the first game with more than a million viewers in decades.
Speaker 5: They actually had twenty four games with more than a
Speaker 5: million viewers, twenty two of them featuring Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 2: As Charles Barkley said last year.
Speaker 5: The WNBA's insane if they don't just try to ride
Speaker 5: this Caitlan Clark thing as far as they can.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's easy for him to say, as a white guy, waited,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the control room is talking to me. Is
Speaker 1: that right, Charles Brown.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason, people are interested cash in on it.
Speaker 2: And that's what the New York Times is saying. Put
Speaker 2: every game on national TV.
Speaker 5: This is clearly something people are interested and not the
Speaker 5: other stuff.
Speaker 1: Nice and look, look, you're in the entertainment business. Don't
Speaker 1: don't question why, don't worry about why, just do it right?
Speaker 1: Interested in all the great you know, even if there
Speaker 1: is a racial component, and I think it's mostly that
Speaker 1: she's one of the best shooters ever and we'll shoot
Speaker 1: from anywhere inside the stadium and sometimes from the parking lot.
Speaker 1: But you know that'll highlight all the great black players
Speaker 1: in the league. If people are tuning in, quit worrying
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 5: She scored more points than anybody in college basketball history,
Speaker 5: male or female, and the ball didn't go in more
Speaker 5: because she was white.
Speaker 1: Well that's what you think. Those hoops, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they're orange. They have a certain kinship with white people.
Speaker 1: If you know what, I have a Trump white orange
Speaker 1: white supremacy, racism, good people on both sides.
Speaker 5: I think you know where I'm going with this. People
Speaker 5: are clowns. You brought up what Trump said about Wall.
Speaker 5: We should touch on that he had some good posts
Speaker 5: over the weekend. He took on Bruce Springsteen. He took
Speaker 5: on Walmart. He took on Taylor Swift. He's on the
Speaker 5: phone with Putin as we speak.
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