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More Proof Unbiased Journalism Is Dead · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty
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eighth day of March. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Inchin our
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way towards the weekend. Inching our way towards April second quarter will be here
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Monday. By the way, that's what we're looking at, So brace yourself.
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Here we go. I want to talk a little bit about ron McDaniel
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and NBC. She was hired by NBC News slash MSNBC whatever. She was
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going to be a paid contributor where she was paid to be a contributor for
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one day. She was interviewed on Meet the Press. Of course, McDaniel
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is the former head of the RNC and that was her job for a while
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she ran the RNC. What a perspective Ronald McDaniel, a female running the
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RNC could bring to a very slanted news organization in NBC slash MSNBC. Not
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to even get into the conversation about when you start talking about the differences between
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the broadcast networks in what their role is supposed to be in society. When
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you talk about CBSABC, NBC and Fox. Just the networks, not the
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news agencies. The TV networks, the broadcast TV networks that are of course
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supposed to be providing a number of things to our public. They're supposed to
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provide certain things that are available to the general public, new slant and opinion
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and election influence aside. Okay, there's certain things that they're supposed to provide.
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As a broadcast network. Sure they're privately owned. Sure they have individual
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stations. It is owned by various owners. In some cases, we've got
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a situation here in the Chattooche Valley where three of the stations are owned by
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the same company. I got mixed feelings on that. I worked for a
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long time for a group of radio stations that had a lot of stations that
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were all amassed into one building. There were times when that was great as
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an employee there, and suddenly it wasn't anymore. And I worry about my
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friends on the TV side that seem to think, oh, this is great.
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They're keeping everything set up, and then they're not keeping everything separate,
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as they're broadcasting one station's news on another station and all those sorts of things.
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But hey, that's their business. The company that owns those three stations
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are able to do whatever it is that they want to do with it.
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I don't think it's in the best interest of actually providing the services that they're
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supposed to provide. I don't There was a time when all of those stations
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had their own separate news teams, and I understand for the purposes of trying
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to consolidate and keep costs down and run those things. This is a weird
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time to own any sort of broadcast company. I can attest a lot more
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to radio than to TV, just based on my experiences. And again,
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I'm not cutting those TV stations for doing what it is that they do.
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I'm not bashing them. They're doing what has to be done to survive because
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many mediums, mass marketing mediums aren't able to do that. We know the
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suffering that's happened with local newspapers all around the country. We feel it here
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in this area, certainly, as the paid local staff in those buildings down
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to nothing. It's true of radio stations. We have a couple of different
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ownerships here for different radio stations, and the staffing is down to almost nothing
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and has been for four years. Some a little more than others. Some
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say, oh, we have folks in house, we have live, local
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people, But it's the same four or five people spread across multiple stations.
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It's just the nature of how the business has become. It may be more
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than four or five at full disclosure. But if one person is pre recording
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a show on another station, that doesn't really count as live and local.
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You can count it as local, but it's not really live and local.
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When was the last time you called into a radio station and someone answered the
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phone. Do they even have phones anymore? I don't know. I know
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that the ability to communicate is limited, so there's a certain service that's expected
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of all of those. And again, this isn't me doing a bashing local
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media, local ownership. That's not what I'm doing. It may sound that
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way. You may be trying to read between the lines with me, but
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that's not the purpose of this. I'm just pointing out the fact that they're
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doing what they have to do to survive. But something that they can do
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right on limited budgets in any capacity is when you get to the national content,
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when they're supposed to be providing certain services at the national level and then
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at the local level, that should be getting provided. And when we talk
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about at the national level, we can talk about should a news organization within
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a broadcast company be providing some sort of unbiased news. It's part of the
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responsibility of journalism, and we know journalism has taken hit after hit after hit.
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It has failed. I would like to commend, by the way,
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on the other side of this local news when it comes to TV news,
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when content is they're actually producing content relevant to the local markets. Again,
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we got two kind of two news teams. I guess we've got one station
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that's on its own. We got three that's on their own, but they
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do a great job. I got friends that work at these stations. I've
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got friends that work in the weather departments there. I've got friends that work
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in sports there. And again, everybody's doing the best they can with what
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they've got. That's what they are doing. But when it comes to actually
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providing unbiased news from a journalistic standpoint on a national level. On the broadcast
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side, the free broadcast over the air coming through they're private owned, I
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understand that, but there should be some sort of unbiased, actual journalistic integrity
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involved in it. It's just not there. We know it's not there.
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It hasn't been there for a while. Then you jump over to the paid
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programming, which is when you get MSNBC, when you get Fox News,
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when you get CNN. Then you start talking about the fact that, sure
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they're going to have a lean to their content, should they know, how
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do they determine what level of lean that they have, how far are they
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push and how they market it and try to convince people that no, no,
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no, we're we're a little biased, We're not as biased as them.
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It's no shock that the public perception of MSNBC is that they're the most
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biased of all of them. I know, you take all the people who
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watch CNN and MSNBC, which doesn't even equal, I don't think totally combined,
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doesn't equal the number of people who watch Fox and Newsmax. But those
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people on the left, they look at Fox and they say, well,
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it's the most biased. When Newsmax is, they do the old Fox is
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the devil and the worst thing ever in a Newsmax is worse, same kind
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of garbage that they did with Trump and Ronda Santis. Trump is the worst,
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Desanta is even worse. And I don't know that they understand words sometimes
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because those that doesn't even make sense, it doesn't make sense at all.
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So we know the biases there, We know that the inability to even pretend
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to have any sort of integrity is challenging. Keep in mind that Fox News
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has hired a number of people that have worked with the d n C,
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Donna Brazil, They've hired people that have worked on the other side of the
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aisle, if you will, from what's perceived as a conservative network. They've
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hired people to work there. Some of them have been punching bags. Think
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back to the Hannity in Comb's days. I mean, we knew one of
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those guys was going to come out as Tom Hanks, the other was going
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to be Peter Scalari. One of them was going to be Paul's the other
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was going to be Art Garfunkel. We knew that, and one of them
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did emerge and become the big megastar. The other one has since passed.
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Rest in peace comes. But my point is they have hired them various levels
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of it. I mean, think about Brazil coming in, Donna Brazil coming
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in and working at Fox, and there were a lot of people that at
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Fox that said viewers How can you do this? How can you hire Donna
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Brazil to come in as a staunch Democrat, someone who was perceived as orchestrating
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a lot of horrible things against Republican candidates. How can you hire her to
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come in and work as a commentator of any kind, somebody to come in
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and give opinions and thoughts on everything politics. How can you do this?
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And they were mad, they were angry, But you know, it didn't
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happen. The anchors that worked on the shows on Fox News didn't revolt,
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they didn't protest, they didn't bully her off the air, not at least
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on day one. That's what happened. At MSNBC. As Ron McDaniel got
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hired, she appeared on Meet the Press. They expected her to defend her
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positions on being a Republican right out of the gate. It's you're on trial
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now. We expect you to defend yourself and everything that you've ever said or
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done on behalf of the Republican Party. Instead of accepting the fact that,
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yes, she was the head of the RNC, Yes she had positions that
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were in line with Republican positions. There's a lot of Republicans who said she
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wasn't conservative enough. So it's basically very much this we're going to figure out
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how conservative we're going to allow somebody to be. Did she stand next to
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or in support of Donald Trump? Yes, well we got to get rid
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of her. She must go. How dare this network, this company we
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work for, allow her to breathe the same air in this building that we
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breathe, this sacred, hallowed, staunch liberal air. How dare this woman
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who had anything to do with Donald Trump as president running the RNC? How
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dare she come into our sacred chambers? They bullied her, They plain and
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simple. They bullied her. Now they weren't the only ones. There were
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a few other places where there were folks that had a lot of criticis now
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keep in mind one of the main criticisms, and Chuck Todd was one of
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them who said, this is a woman I think the word that I don't
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know if it was him, someone used the word chameleon and basically saying that
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she was a chameleon, she was someone who would change her opinions and views
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based on who she was talking to. Might have been Joy Reid who said
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that, could have been Rachel Mattow, could have been any of these people.
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It all kind of ran together. It was all one giant pile of
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them dogging and bullying somebody out of a job. Ultimately, that's what it
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was. But they said she was a chameleon. She changes her viewpoint and
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says what is expected to be said of her depending on who she's talking to.
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So they said that they couldn't believe she went on Meet the Press and
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said some of the things that she said. The women of the View had
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a lot to say about it. Every one of them went down the line
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and gave their thoughts and opinions on it. And it is interesting to me
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that the women of the View could be involved in bashing someone accused of being
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a chameleon because they get on that show and they say what's being expected of
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them. They say what the expectation is, the words that are supposed to
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come out of their mouths. Based on the fact that they're on that show,
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you think that they're comfortable speaking their mind and their opinion. Fully.
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You think that they're because otherwise if you do, you know you're in for
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a fight every single day. Think about some of the past hosts that were
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on there and said I just couldn't do it anymore. I just couldn't come
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on this show anymore and represent conservatives. The one lone voice that comes on
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and again, it's got to be one that they approve of. It's got
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to be one that doesn't like Trump. It's got to be one that speaks
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to their language and deserves to breathe their sacred air. But this isn't about
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the view This is about the people at MSNBC and NBC News who basically said,
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we have to get rid of somebody that we don't agree with. We
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have to get rid of somebody who is supportive has been supportive of Trump,
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rather than letting her come on, give her commentary, give her perspective,
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and keep in mind, is there anybody that's not currently serving somewhere that has
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a better perspective on Republicans and Republican strategy than Ronal McDaniel. What were they
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afraid of that their very liberal audience was going to say, oh, she's
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making some good points. They called her a liar. They said that you
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can't believe anything she says because she has lied and repeated and regurgitated the lies
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from the left, I mean from the right, from the Trump administration,
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and they were, I guess concerned. This is like the old We don't
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let Trump speak live on our network. We don't let Trump have any airtime
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unless we've already seen what he says so that we can clean it up.
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We don't want our audience to hear what his message is until we have sifted
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through it. You gotta make sure he doesn't say something that's going to trigger
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any of their audience. Got to make sure he doesn't say something that they
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decide is untrue. Have to make sure he doesn't say something that endangers their
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overall message that they're trying to spread. They say it's all about lies.
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They say it's all about protecting their viewers and the citizens of the country.
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That's what they say it's about. But it's really about controlling the message and
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not bringing Ronald McDaniel on is about controlling the message. They're worried that she
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might have some perspective that people might go, well, she was high up,
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she was a woman running the RNC, so let's hear what she has
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to say. That's the sign that they're afraid. Why not let her come
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on and pick her apart? Let her come on the shows and pick her
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apart. So now it looks like she's gonna end up she's considering suing.
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I don't know if she's made a decision on that yet or not. Apparently
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they're gonna have to pay her out her salary six hundred thousand dollars or whatever
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it was gonna be, so in that regard, I mean, that's one
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of the best gigs you can get if you're gonna it's like the old coaching
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thing. There's no better job on the planet than a terminated SEC football coach,
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right, I mean, that's a good gig. You get that,
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that's a good gig. But for most people getting millions and millions of dollars
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to not have to show up for work and not have to do anything now,
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of course, they'd rather be doing the job that they were hired to
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do. And I'm sure she would be two. But it's another example of
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how bullying works. This is the whole nature of this. You can't beat
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them in a sparring match on your network where you're in control. It's your
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show. Bring her on, let her give her perspective, and then of
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course pound on her, tell her why she's wrong, take advantage of the
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fact that she'd start the job and not really be good at it. She's
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been on shows before, but let's be honest, she's going to come in
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in this role and do a ten minute segment with one of these hosts,
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they probably, you would think, have a real good time talking to her
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and putting her in her place, or maybe trying to conform her to their
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views. They've certainly done that with past Or in Sea Chairs, They've certainly
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done that with other people. So why wouldn't you at least make the attempt.
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Why wouldn't you try to do it? Because they're just afraid of anyone
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who has been breathing the same air as Donald Trump. They're terrified, and
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after the break yesterday, we talked about how eating an apple was good for
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the probiotics in your gut, trying to get all the enzymes and all the
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gurgles in the right places and all that. Well, Now experts say that
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certainly, you know you've got the benefits of wrinkle creams and treatments and things.
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However, doctors are saying, you know, you can save a lot
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of money just by eating a little bit better, and there's some other benefits
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to it as well. But by eating whole plant based foods, you're able
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to add some skin supporting vitamins and antioxidants. So things they say you should
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be eating for better skin. Red bell peppers, noth's wrong with that.
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Watermelon, Yes, broccoli, you actually really like broccoli. Almonds, yes,
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carrots, yes, dark chocolate yes. Wild caught salmon. I mean
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it's not exactly fresh wild caught salmon in these parts, but you know you
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can get something. All those things would certainly be beneficial to add to your
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diet, especially if you're trying to protect your skin. Speaking of other ways
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you can protect your skin, maybe changing your underwear after one use. Apparently,
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according to the Laundry Care Report twenty twenty four done by LG Electronics,
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it seems that gen Z confess to giving their underwear a second wear before tossing
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them in the wash. Nearly half of gen Z respondents reportedly own a not
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quite ready for wash chair of clothing that's in limbo. I get the clothing
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to some degree. Maybe it's a shirt that you wore for twenty minutes when
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you drove to the store and back and you go, I didn't really get
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it dirty. Put it over there, wear it again. I'll put it
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on tomorrow. Those kinds of things underwear, they say things even stinkier.
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According to the study, gym goers nearly forty percent rewar their workout clothes at
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least twice. All right. The only thing I'll say to defend that is
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that maybe you have one pair of workout clothes, okay, and then it
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may not be advantageous to try to wash them every single time. Maybe you've
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got two pair of workout clothes and you're just trying to, you know,
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stretch it out over that wash cycle. I don't know, but underwear.
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Pretty sure you've got more than one pair of underwear. I would hope if
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you don't, you should think about investing in another pair of underwear. I
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would say, dare I say, maybe a week's worth. I shouldn't underwear
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at least come in a seven pack. I think at least a seven pack
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not a bad idea. I think they as ten I don't even know what
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they come in. I don't know. The point is don't be gross.
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I guess that's the point on either account. According to a new survey,
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eighty four percent of respondent say that they believe in karma and that their actions
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will come back around and that's why they say they pay it forward whenever possible.
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And how do people pay it forward? Acts often include treating loved ones
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to something special, giving generous tips, helping a neighbor. But these acts
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do more than help others. The person that they help, sorry, the
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person that's doing the help also helps them. According to the survey, paying
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it forward means that they can feel better about themselves and proves overall well being
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and makes them more confident. This goes back to something I was talking about
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yesterday, and I say this, and I mean this. When someone takes
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the place of your ability to be generous with people by taking your money away
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in the form of taxes and then giving it to other people in need,
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they're taking those things away from you, all right. This just proves my
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point from yesterday. That's exactly what's happening. They take away your better ability
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to feel better about yourself. They take away your improved overall well being.
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They take away your feelings of more confidence because they're the government and they want
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to take those things from you, apparently. And while most of us are
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putting in some kind of effort to give our homes a deep cleaning this time
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of year, it is spring, after all, people in some states like
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to go a little further than others. Idaho and Maine are those states.
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A new survey found that, on average, respondents in Idaho and Maine spend
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the most time per session cleaning their homes a full hour. People in New
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York spend the least time on average for cleaning sessions, about forty five minutes.
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People spend the most time cleaning the kitchen, and their least favorite room
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to clean is the bathroom. Could it be that so many apartments in New
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York City, that specific part, you know, a large chunk of population
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there, they have tiny little apartments, tiny little apartments, so they would
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probably have less time to clean because the apartments are I don't know, just
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a thought on that. That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the show.
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