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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show Podcast. Friday edition of The Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show happens now. I'm Buck, He's a Clay

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Speaker 1: and Mayomana. There's a lot today. We've got people realizing

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Speaker 1: that the whole treatment of Biden by the media with

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Speaker 1: his COVID diagnosis is it almost seems like it's a

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Speaker 1: little slanted, like like maybe they treat Biden very differently

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Speaker 1: with regard to this than they did Trump. We'll discuss

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Speaker 1: that also. Got I want you to think about what

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Speaker 1: you would guess. Japan is the most mass compliant country

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Speaker 1: in the world, perhaps certainly at the very top of

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Speaker 1: the list. For the first year of COVID. Every elitist

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Speaker 1: smug writer for The Atlantic and The New York Times

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Speaker 1: was always why can't we just be like Japan when

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Speaker 1: it comes to mass comply. I want you to guess

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Speaker 1: how many COVID cases they officially logged yesterday. Now that

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Speaker 1: doesn't even include how many actual cases there are. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to the number. What's the population of Japan compared

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Speaker 1: to America. It's about one hundred and twenty hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty million. I think I'm doing that for memory though,

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Speaker 1: so team check me on that one. I think it's

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Speaker 1: about a Japan has one hundred ny a third of

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Speaker 1: our size, basically something one hundred and twenty five. Yeah, cup,

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Speaker 1: this is when you know you spend you spend some

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Speaker 1: time at the CIA. You learn some cool things when

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Speaker 1: you're board in your cubicle all day long. The point

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Speaker 1: on that that I was going to make is as

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Speaker 1: man monstrous as that number is, triple it and it

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Speaker 1: would be the United States number, right, and its summertime.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get we'll get to where that is. And

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Speaker 1: I'm masks work. We know that they work, really really

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Speaker 1: that's interesting because they don't. Also, I love this Dave Chappelle,

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Speaker 1: uh taking a swipe back at the people who did

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Speaker 1: you see this one? They got him, They got him

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Speaker 1: can and sold from a venue because of his transphobic

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Speaker 1: jokes or whatever. Dave Chappelle has some thoughts. It kind

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Speaker 1: of sounds like something you might hear actually on the

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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck show about who is shutting down this

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Speaker 1: incredibly popular and successful comedian, this African American comedian, who's

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Speaker 1: shutting him down from this venue? Hints the same people

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Speaker 1: that have five Ukraine flags in their bio, their preferred

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Speaker 1: pronouns listed, and tend to live in not particularly diverse

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Speaker 1: neighborhoods of places like New York and San Francisco and

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Speaker 1: whatever the Ritzia suburbs of Minneapolis are. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: all of that here in just a moment, But first,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the big news from yesterday was that Lee Zeldon,

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Speaker 1: who we had recently on the show, was attacked on

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Speaker 1: stage by a belligerent drunk who had a blade in

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Speaker 1: his hand. Ends it's kind of a strange looking edged weapon,

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Speaker 1: but he had a blade in his hand and he

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Speaker 1: grabbed Lee Zelden's all on video. Sure many of you

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Speaker 1: have seen it. In fact, we'll put the video up

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Speaker 1: so people can see for reference at Clay and Buck

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Speaker 1: dot com. Just in case you haven't seen it. You

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Speaker 1: can understand what went on here. This guy walks up

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Speaker 1: then grabs his arm, and then you know, he's got

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Speaker 1: a blade in his hand, but he kind of falls

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Speaker 1: Now it's clearly assault. It's felony assault of a gubernatorial

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Speaker 1: candidate in the state of New York. People are saying

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Speaker 1: it's an attempted assassination. Look, I don't think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get this. Guy's not gonna get charged with attempted murder

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Speaker 1: for this, but he was. It is assault. It is assault,

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Speaker 1: probably with a deadly weapon. It is felony assault, and

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Speaker 1: that means that this should be I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: a very serious event and I think should be treated

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Speaker 1: with extreme seriousness by the by the courts. Clay he

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Speaker 1: was out on bail. Leeze Elvin was giving a talk

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Speaker 1: His attacker was out on bail in less than two hours. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a perfect distillation of the argument that he's trying

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Speaker 1: to make of why violent crime is skyrocketing in the

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Speaker 1: state of New York and why so many people out

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Speaker 1: there are listening to us right now who may in

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Speaker 1: past years have said, man, I would never listen to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two presidential twenty twenty two midterms, in twenty

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Speaker 1: and in particular Buck. When I saw this news break

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Speaker 1: last night about Leezelden, I thought about the Brett Kavanaugh

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Speaker 1: attempted assassination and however you want to classify this, to

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Speaker 1: your point, assault with the deadly weapon assassination attempt, however

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Speaker 1: you want to classify it. In the space of what

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Speaker 1: six weeks, we have had an attempted assassination of sitting

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice by a left wing lunatic who wanted

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Speaker 1: know exactly what the motivations, to my knowledge are of

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Speaker 1: this crazy left wing wound who attacked Lee Zelden. But

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Speaker 1: I just want everyone out there to think for a

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Speaker 1: moment if a gubernatorial candidate had been Democrat attacked on

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Speaker 1: shown up outside Sonia said at my your's house with

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Speaker 1: an intent to kill her, or an intend to kill

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Speaker 1: Elena Kagan or certainly Katangi Brown Jackson, how would the

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Speaker 1: media be handling these two incidents. And I think all

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Speaker 1: of you know exactly where I'm going. They would be saying,

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Speaker 1: this is what white supremacy causes, These are what right

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Speaker 1: wing extremist lead to. They would tie it all into

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Speaker 1: January sixth. I just want to point out that, to

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Speaker 1: my knowledge, Buck, maybe I've missed it. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: CNN connecting these stories. I haven't seen MSNBC connecting these stories.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't seen any demand from left wing media

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Speaker 1: we have to talk about left wing political violence and

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Speaker 1: how dangerous it is and how much of an existential

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Speaker 1: threat it is to our democracy. And this ties in also, Buck,

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Speaker 1: with what we just saw happen in Maryland. How much

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Speaker 1: discussion are you seeing of democrats? We saw it happened

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Speaker 1: in all of these primaries. I haven't seen Republicans really

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Speaker 1: doing this. Isn't that a direct attack on democracy? Trying

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Speaker 1: January sixth is the greatest threat that's ever existed in

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Speaker 1: human history. I just think the timing on all this

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Speaker 1: and the crickets from many parts of our media are

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Speaker 1: illustrative of a bigger picture here. I also think that

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Speaker 1: the bail reform, and remember it's not just New York,

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Speaker 1: other places have done, most cities in America. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this became this was a central component of and you

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Speaker 1: have to think of this as these multiple pieces of

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Speaker 1: the soft on crime left wing agenda, which we've seen

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Speaker 1: the you know, the five thousand dollars about now other people,

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Speaker 1: bail bondsman put up the belt. Whatever. The story was,

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Speaker 1: The truth is that lunatics with a knife in their

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Speaker 1: they're out in a couple of hours. That's what bail

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Speaker 1: reform has actually meant. Just like defund the police was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be clay. We just need more social workers

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Speaker 1: And certainly if Leezelden's people are listening right now, we'd

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Speaker 1: I think the left has gone crazier on more things,

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Speaker 1: just telling you the truth. No, I mean that's reality, right,

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Speaker 1: You know, tenured PhDs in economics, Look, teaching is a

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Speaker 1: very valuable thing in itself. But this notion that somebody

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Speaker 1: it's also us. Yeah, well, yeah, that's true too, but

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Speaker 1: so what, By the way, it's not just so. There's

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Speaker 1: a whole list here, and the hat tip the New

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Speaker 1: York Post for compiling this, but it's it's all starting

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Speaker 1: to happen. I don't think this is happening because of

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Speaker 1: any inherent honesty or sense of honor that these individuals have.

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Speaker 1: I think they've just realized that the game is up

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Speaker 1: go to New York Times, has admitted that effectively he

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Speaker 1: were feeling about how the apparatus and the elites thought

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Speaker 1: preventing the global shortage of grain is a big deal,

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Speaker 1: and it's one that you know, there's rare good news

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Speaker 1: the region, but the fact that they're able to at

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Speaker 1: Far away from the Ukrainian Russian battlefield you mentioned, there

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Speaker 1: were a couple of other Yeah, we got things wrong

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Speaker 1: from the New York Times where they're trying to I

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Speaker 1: think what they have eight of them, eight different calumnists

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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, total yes, and they're still rolling

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Speaker 1: them out as we continue through some of them. I

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Speaker 1: mean the Brett Stevens one. I think he's realized that

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Speaker 1: he made a faustian bargain. He left the I don't

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Speaker 1: know him. I just know his seethed with disdain of

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Speaker 1: all Trump voters and then thought that, you know, getting

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Speaker 1: a pad on the head from the New York Times

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Speaker 1: was gonna No, it's not a good idea. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: have disdained for him, that's when he's probably figured out

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Speaker 1: to be a conservative. So that's what happened there on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Paul Krugman is a joke. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you invest based on Paul Krugman pronouncements, you're going to

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Speaker 1: lose all your money. I mean, so you know, Paul

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Speaker 1: Krugman is not somebody that anybody who cares about being

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Speaker 1: right listens to. He's also a loom and he hates guns,

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Speaker 1: and he knows nothing. Michelle Goldberg, though this one was interesting,

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Speaker 1: something now that that's a rule that we could extend

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Speaker 1: to Republicans as well, or is it just man, we

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Speaker 1: the many things that he lost his job over me too.

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Speaker 1: And now there's an irony because certainly Democrats were all

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Speaker 1: think that Johnny Depp has just basically ended me too

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Speaker 1: not I'm not claiming that al Franken was an incredible guy,

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Speaker 1: ineligible to ever be a politician. I think it's kind

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Speaker 1: What do they really represent on a day to day

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Speaker 1: basis for their readers. This is true at CNN, this

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Speaker 1: is true at the New York Times. They have to pivot,

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Speaker 1: New York Times. Right if you hate Trump, you're already

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Speaker 1: a Washington Post subscriber. And now they're looking around and

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Speaker 1: into this midterm just say, oh, look at those stupid

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Speaker 1: Red states, look at Florida with its super high death

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Speaker 1: rate and everyone fleeting. I think they believed that, and

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Speaker 1: now the reality has sunk in that that is the

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Speaker 1: opposite of reality. That the Red states are putting out

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Speaker 1: no vacancy signs because they're so full, because they've handled

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Speaker 1: the economy better, they handled COVID better, They're pushing back

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Speaker 1: on vaccine mandates. Was the right move. I mean all

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Speaker 1: of it, so basically, I mean the left is in

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Speaker 1: free fall right now, Clay. They got everything wrong. They

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Speaker 1: got every and the more it mattered, the more egregiously

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Speaker 1: wrong they were. And I don't know how they pull

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Speaker 1: themselves out. And I think you're right. I think this

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Speaker 1: is why The New York Times is trying to have

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Speaker 1: all these mea culpa, is saying, hey, we got all

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Speaker 1: these things wrong, because no one trusts them at all anymore.

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Speaker 1: They should have a new columnist called Captain Obvious. We

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Speaker 1: got everything wrong. Cleat Travis and Buck Sexton on the

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Speaker 1: front lines of truth fie