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Episode One Hundred Seventy Nine: Meet Tampon Tim · The Death Of Journalism

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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number one hundred and seventy nine of
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Speaker 1: the Death of Journalism podcast. My name is John Zigler.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host on today's show. Kamala Harris shockingly and
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Speaker 1: tellingly selects Tim Walls as her vice presidential nominee, and
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Speaker 1: the media coverage is probably even worse than you expected.
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Speaker 1: More evidence that the media business is in huge financial trouble,
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Speaker 1: and some more Olympics analysis you simply.
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Speaker 2: Won't hear anywhere else.
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Speaker 1: In the last episode of the podcast, I began by
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Speaker 1: guessing who Kamala Harris would select as her vice presidential nominee.
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Speaker 2: And I did so for a couple of reasons.
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Speaker 1: One because I knew that by the time that episode
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Speaker 1: was out, she would have made her selection, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't want it to linger for a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: especially if that pick was Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania, because
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Speaker 1: of his very important and I believe disgraceful role in
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Speaker 1: the entire penn State Joe Paterno Jerrysondusky scandal, with which
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Speaker 1: I'm obviously very much associated. So I decided to kill
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Speaker 1: a couple of birds with one stone. It's always an
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Speaker 1: interesting story to tell about the real Josh Shapiro and
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Speaker 1: his role in the fraud and fiasco that was the
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Speaker 1: whole Penn State Joe Paterno Jerry Sandusky story, specifically with
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Speaker 1: regard to Graham's Spaniard. I mean, it's an amazing story
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Speaker 1: and one of the media has never even come close
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Speaker 1: to telling properly, and in two because I did think
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Speaker 1: that that was the most likely scenario, I wasn't sure
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Speaker 1: at all and made that very very clear. It was
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Speaker 1: obvious from the betting markets that Shapiro was the favorite,
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Speaker 1: but that he was not the favorite by nearly the
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Speaker 1: margins that he had been in previous days for a
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Speaker 1: variety of reasons. So I decided, Okay, I'll talk about
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Speaker 1: Shapiro with the chances.
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Speaker 2: Being at least fifty to fifty that he'll be.
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Speaker 1: The pick, and if he's not the pick, we have
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Speaker 1: another episode that will come out in a couple of
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Speaker 1: days and I can talk about whoever it really is,
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Speaker 1: which at that point the only other option was Tim
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Speaker 1: Walls from Minnesota, which is where she ended up going.
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Speaker 2: Before we get to Tim Walls, and there's a lot
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Speaker 2: to talk about there.
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Speaker 1: I do want to clean up the whole Josh Shapiro
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Speaker 1: situation because to me, in a rational world, the world
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Speaker 1: we no longer live in we ever did, the fact
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Speaker 1: that Harris decided not to pick Shapiro is more significant
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Speaker 1: than the fact that she did pick Walls, and that's
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Speaker 1: because of why she didn't pick Shapiro. There is absolutely
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Speaker 1: no logical explanation for why she decided not to pick
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Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro based upon what we currently know, other than
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Speaker 1: the fact that Shapiro is Jewish. It could not be
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Speaker 1: more obvious. Now. The media is trying its best to
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Speaker 1: ignore this, with some exceptions, and there was a kind
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Speaker 1: of a smoking gun moment on CNN where Jake Tapper,
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Speaker 1: who is I believe he's Jewish. I know he's a
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Speaker 1: big fan of Josh Shapiro. He's also from the Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: area like Shapiro, so you know, Tapper and Shapiro have
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Speaker 1: a lot in common. And Jake Tapper was hosting coverage
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Speaker 1: of the Waltz Rollout event with a couple of other panelists,
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Speaker 1: one of whom was Abby Phillip, who's an African American analyst.
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Speaker 1: On CNN, there was another African American lady whose voice
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Speaker 1: you're going to hear on this clip, but this is
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Speaker 1: really amazing.
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Speaker 2: This is if you listen carefully.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's too strong to say this is
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Speaker 1: a smoking gun moment where the two African American female
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Speaker 1: analysts are basically letting the cat out of the bag
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Speaker 1: using very subtle language as to why Shapiro was not picked,
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Speaker 1: and then Jake Tapper comes in and says, later, can
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Speaker 1: we just be clear about this? And for anybody with
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Speaker 1: a functioning brain, it becomes very very obvious that the
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Speaker 1: reason why Shapiro was not picked was out of.
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Speaker 2: Clear anti Semitism.
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Speaker 1: Not necessarily they're going to give the benefit of that,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily by Harris, but by fear of the anti
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Speaker 1: Semites within her own party. The people would be too outraged, upset, angered,
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Speaker 1: frightened whatever to have a Jewish vice presidential nominee. By
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Speaker 1: the way, they don't mention this part, but she happens
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Speaker 1: to be married to a Jewish man as well. I
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Speaker 1: think that may have played an important role in this,
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Speaker 1: because to have Kamala Harris have a Jewish vice presidential nominee.
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Speaker 2: And be married to a Jewish man who's.
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Speaker 1: Embroiled in a bit of a scandal involving his first marriage,
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Speaker 1: that the media is doing their best to ignore that
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Speaker 1: might have been too much, That might have been too
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Speaker 1: much of a narrative for the far left, the Prohamas
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Speaker 1: anti Israel wing of the Democratic Party to be able
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Speaker 1: to stomach. But here is the clip on CNN, which
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Speaker 1: I think is extremely telling.
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Speaker 3: And I think ultimately Shapiro, I think fit is important.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I also think that when you look
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Speaker 3: at the principle of do no harm, maybe they did
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Speaker 3: say in a state like Minnesota, do we want to
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Speaker 3: those one hundred thousand uncommitted voters who came out about
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Speaker 3: the Gaza war? Do we want to antagonize those voters?
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Speaker 3: Those are all parts of part of the questions as well.
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Speaker 4: But I just say Tim Walls also spoke conciliatorily towards
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Speaker 4: those people. He said, look, that uncommitted vote is significant
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Speaker 4: and those people should be heard. So having that kind
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Speaker 4: of response, I think is probably more of an open
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Speaker 4: door to the parts of the party that have been
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Speaker 4: very frustrated with the Democrats.
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Speaker 5: So but just to just to one point on the
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Speaker 5: on the on the God's War, Shapiro has the same
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Speaker 5: position on Israel that Governor Walls that the Senator Kelly
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Speaker 5: has He's actually been more critical of Netanyahu than the
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Speaker 5: other two, but he is Jewish.
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Speaker 4: And also the face of the crackdown on the protests. Right,
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Speaker 4: he spoke very vehemently about those campus protests as being
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Speaker 4: anti semitic.
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Speaker 5: Not all of them, the ones that were anti semitic
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Speaker 5: he criticizes being anti semitic.
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Speaker 2: He was out front on the issue.
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Speaker 4: So I'm wondering if that's the kind of thing that
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Speaker 4: again for the activist wing of the party.
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Speaker 2: Absolute was a slap in the face. Yeah. So there
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Speaker 2: you have it, folks.
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Speaker 1: When CNN is almost blatantly admitting that the vice presidential
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Speaker 1: nominee for the Democratic Party was selected at least in part,
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Speaker 1: in large part because of anti Semitism, anti Israel sentiment
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Speaker 1: at best, that is really extraordinary and.
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Speaker 2: That ought to be a major narrative.
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Speaker 1: Now, of course, in the mainstream media, it's not going
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Speaker 1: to be a major narrative. And unfortunately, I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: that the conservative media the Trump campaign has the focus
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Speaker 1: and the wherewithal to make this into an effective narrative
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Speaker 1: going forward. I do not believe that this should be dropped,
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Speaker 1: especially in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: Strategically.
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Speaker 1: If I'm the Trump campaign, I am making sure that
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Speaker 1: every single voter in Pennsylvania, especially every Jewish voter in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: knows exactly why their governor was not selected to be
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee, because I gotta believe that
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Speaker 1: this is an impact. There's an issue that could have
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Speaker 1: an impact, not with a huge number of voters, but
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Speaker 1: you don't need a huge number of voters this. You
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Speaker 1: only need a slice of voters to flip to your side.
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Speaker 1: And I think that there's a lot of material here
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Speaker 1: for the Trump campaign, whether or not they're going to
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Speaker 1: be capable of using it. I have my doubts because
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Speaker 1: I've been extremely unimpressed so far with the Trump campaign,
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Speaker 1: and there's more reason to be concerned about Trump and
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Speaker 1: his campaign, which I'm going to get to later on
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Speaker 1: in this episode of the podcast. But it cannot be forgotten,
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Speaker 1: or should not be forgotten, how and why this decision
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Speaker 1: was made.
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Speaker 2: Now, look, I hate Joshapiro. I'm looking at this at.
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Speaker 1: This purely from a political perspective. There's no way to
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Speaker 1: justify not picking the popular governor of the most important
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Speaker 1: state and instead choosing a guy from me Minnesota, a
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Speaker 1: state that was competitive for about fifteen minutes when Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden was the Democratic presidential nominee, but is no longer
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Speaker 1: really going to be in play and was never a
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Speaker 1: significant part of any path for Donald Trump to win
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Speaker 1: the presidency. So you pick the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walls,
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Speaker 1: you don't do anything electorally at all. I question whether
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Speaker 1: or not he really helps in the Midwest. I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's gonna help in Pennsylvania because of obviously the
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Speaker 1: flip from Shapiro. I don't think he has any pull
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Speaker 1: in Michigan. Wisconsin obviously as a neighboring state of Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: I question whether or not that's even going to be helpful.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I get that that culturally there's some similarities,
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Speaker 1: and obviously geographically demographically there's similarities between Minnesota and Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: but in a weird way. I also think Wisconsinites are
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Speaker 1: more aware of some the insanity that's been going on
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Speaker 1: in the state right next to them, Minnesota under Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz's governorship. So I'm not at all convinced that he
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Speaker 1: will help even in Wisconsin even a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he helps anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Except for the fact that he is extremely progressive. Now
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Speaker 1: the news media is doing their best to pretend that's
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Speaker 1: not the case, because he may be the ultimate example
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Speaker 1: of a guy who gives off the persona, and he
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Speaker 1: gives off the persona of being a moderate guy, or
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Speaker 1: they love the term folksy or a centsrist or you know,
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Speaker 1: an everyday guy. Frankly, by the way, part of this
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Speaker 1: everyday guy is he's not particularly well educated. Then the
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Speaker 1: news media is never going to tell you this, but
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Speaker 1: the Harris Waltz team is the least educated, at least
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Speaker 1: based upon traditional ways of looking at this, they've gone
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Speaker 1: to the least prestigious schools of any presidential and vice
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Speaker 1: presidential team, certainly in modern history, probably in the history
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Speaker 1: of the country. Now that, of course, I've actually seen
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Speaker 1: some people, including Mark Cuban on Twitter, use this as
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Speaker 1: a positive. We've now reached the point where the fact
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Speaker 1: that you did not go to prestigious schools is a
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Speaker 1: positive when it comes to being a presidential and a
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Speaker 1: vice presidential pick I mean, but I mean at least
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Speaker 1: Trump he's not a brilliant guy, but he went to
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Speaker 1: Penn and obviously, you know, Jade Vance went to Yale
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Speaker 1: Law School.
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Speaker 2: I mean, so.
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Speaker 1: Liberals like to tell you that they're the smart ones,
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Speaker 1: but from an educational perspective, this is an extremely, extremely
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Speaker 1: dubious team of Harris and Walls. But that's not even
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Speaker 1: even the top ten concerns that I have about Walls
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Speaker 1: or that should be out there.
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Speaker 2: But this persona video.
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Speaker 1: He's a football coach and public school teacher and a hunter.
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Speaker 2: This is an everyday guy and every man.
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Speaker 1: It's just complete bullshit based upon his actual history. There's
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Speaker 1: actually an embarrassment of riches. And I think this is
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Speaker 1: problematic for the conservative side because we live in a
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Speaker 1: world with such a short attention span, and you know,
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Speaker 1: if you hit people with five, six, or seven or
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Speaker 1: eight things, they're much less likely to hang on to
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Speaker 1: any of them. It's much more effective to be able
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Speaker 1: to hit people with this one thing that is at
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Speaker 1: least concerning, if not disqualifying. And I actually think that
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Speaker 1: there may be too many things about Tim Waltz to
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Speaker 1: attack from a political perspective. Let's just go through some
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Speaker 1: of them. We've got His Iraq war story is a
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Speaker 1: disqualifier based upon any sense of traditional norms in our politics,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is being incredibly accused of stolen
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Speaker 1: valor of quitting on his fellow military members. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a terrible story that's been well documented. I
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Speaker 1: saw a very long piece out about how the Minnesota
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Speaker 1: news media systematically censored this story about Waltz previously during
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Speaker 1: his political career. Now, one of the things that the
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Speaker 1: Waltz candidacy does, which I think is a potential benefit
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Speaker 1: to the Trump team, is that it revives JD.
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Speaker 2: Vance. The JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance vice presidential nomination was pretty much dead in the water,
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Speaker 1: especially if Josh Shapiro had been the pick, because to me,
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Speaker 1: the only appeal that Vance has electorally here is in
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Speaker 1: the middle of Pennsylvania because of his having been brought
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Speaker 1: up in Appalachia, the whole hill billy elegy thing, growing
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Speaker 1: up in Kentucky, living in Ohio.
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Speaker 2: I think he can make a connection there. But that
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Speaker 2: would be completely.
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Speaker 1: Wiped out if Jos Shapiro effectively handed the state to
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. But now we got Waltz being picked, and
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Speaker 1: it's the best thing that ever happened, at least so
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Speaker 1: far to the JD. Vance candidacy. Partially because of JD.
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Speaker 1: Vance's service in I Rock. And here was JD. Vance
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Speaker 1: taking advantage of this contrast when asked at a press conference.
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Speaker 1: Here's what he said about his service versus Waltz's service.
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Speaker 6: What really bothers me about Tim Waltz as a Marine
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Speaker 6: who served his country in uniform when the United States
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Speaker 6: Marine Corps, when the United States of America asked me
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Speaker 6: to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it.
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Speaker 6: I did what they asked me to do it, and
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Speaker 6: I did.
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Speaker 2: It honorably, and I'm very proud of that service.
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Speaker 6: When Tim Waltz was asked by his country to go
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Speaker 6: to Iraq, you know what he did. He dropped out
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Speaker 6: of the army and allowed his unit to go without him,
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Speaker 6: a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a
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Speaker 6: lot of the people that he served with. I think
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Speaker 6: it's shameful to prepare your unit to go to Iraq,
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Speaker 6: to make a promise that you're going to follow through,
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Speaker 6: and then to drop out right before you actually have.
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Speaker 1: Now in the olden days like twenty fifteen, before Trump
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Speaker 1: changed the world, that's game, set match. I mean that
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Speaker 1: is a major scandal for a vice presidential nominee. And
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Speaker 1: it's by the way, I think, based upon what I
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Speaker 1: have seen so far in my research into this topic,
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Speaker 1: it's even worse than Vance is making it sound. And
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Speaker 1: you could make a strong argument that that, as well
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Speaker 1: as many of the other.
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Speaker 2: Things I'm going to talk about in the coming moments.
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Speaker 1: Here, are going to be great fodder for JD. Vance
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Speaker 1: in a debate with Tim Walls. I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: Vance is going to do extremely well against Walls in
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Speaker 1: a debate. And I'm somebody who doesn't even think that
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Speaker 1: we're living in a remotely conservative country anymore. I think
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Speaker 1: we're as enter left country. But Walts is way out there,
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Speaker 1: and there are plenty of things to attack him on,
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Speaker 1: one of which is now, this happened a long time ago,
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Speaker 1: but I still think it's relevant. And again, based upon
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Speaker 1: the traditional rules of politics, this would have been probably
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Speaker 1: a deal breaker when it came to vetting Walls. But
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Speaker 1: he was arrested for a dui where he was speeding
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Speaker 1: way above the speed limit, and then he has lied
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Speaker 1: constantly about that event. I mean, that is to me
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Speaker 1: a very significant situation that the media should be talking about,
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Speaker 1: at least mentioning, but of course they won't. Then we
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Speaker 1: have things that have happened under his governorship, most dramatically
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Speaker 1: the George Floyd riots, which were completely disastrous in Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: which were absolutely positively not only under his watch, but
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Speaker 1: he was at fault for them getting completely out of
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Speaker 1: control because he clearly bent a knee to the far
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Speaker 1: left to blm to the progressives and was afraid to
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Speaker 1: crack down on any of that insanity. And this is
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Speaker 1: where the news media really does still have power. Can
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Speaker 1: you imagine if the truth of the George Floyd situation.
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Speaker 2: Was even known a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit that it's far at best, far more complex and
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Speaker 1: in fact, probably against the narrative that the left created
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Speaker 1: during the George Floyd situation, that if the truth of
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Speaker 1: that matter was widely known, I think that the riot
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Speaker 1: situation would be far more of a problem for Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz because it's more difficult to destroy Waltz over the
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Speaker 1: riots if you still think they were somehow justified.
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Speaker 2: But they were not justified, and they were particularly.
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Speaker 1: Not justified because they happened in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: COVID panic. I mean, you cannot separate those two things.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were never rioting like that is almost
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Speaker 1: never justified. They were certainly not justified those riots by
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Speaker 1: what happened with George Floyd, but they were particularly absurd
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Speaker 1: given the fact that we were in the middle of
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Speaker 1: massive COVID panic lockdowns and on the COVID panic. Waltz
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Speaker 1: was one of the worst governors, one of the very worst.
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Speaker 2: He was horrendous.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get to that in just a little
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Speaker 1: bit about how bad he was during the COVID panic
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Speaker 1: and the COVID tyranny that he invoked in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: He changed the Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: Flag for clearly bizarre and woke reasons. He promoted transgender
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Speaker 1: child mutilation in Minnesota, signed and a law requiring that
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Speaker 1: there be tampons and all of the boys' bathrooms in
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Speaker 1: public schools in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: I mean right there.
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Speaker 1: I mean there's all sorts of stuff that the news
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Speaker 1: media should be all over exposing who Tim Waltz is,
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Speaker 1: because this is a guy who's known by anybody nationally
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Speaker 1: outside of Minnesota. So this is all fair game, this
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Speaker 1: is all fresh meat.
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Speaker 2: But the news media is.
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Speaker 1: At best ignoring everything I've just told you, and at
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Speaker 1: worst they are doing their best to spin it in
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Speaker 1: Waltz's favor. The tampon situation is probably the most absurd
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Speaker 1: and the most dramatic. Here's the New York Times their
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Speaker 1: headline on this subject.
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Speaker 2: I mean you should put this one. This one belongs
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Speaker 2: in the.
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Speaker 1: Media Bias Hall of Fame because not necessarily because it's
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Speaker 1: so dramatically biased, although it is is it's because of
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Speaker 1: the methodology that the Times uses, which is so classic,
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Speaker 1: to try to fool their readers into not understanding what
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Speaker 1: it was that Waltz did. The key claim here, which
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Speaker 1: is true, is that under Waltz's governorship in Minnesota, tampons
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Speaker 1: were required in the boys' bathrooms.
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Speaker 2: By the way, it's not just crazy.
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Speaker 1: And an indication that you just don't accept basic biology.
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Speaker 1: It's also and I know this from my wife's own
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Speaker 1: experience of public schools here in California. This doesn't take
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Speaker 1: a genius to figure out this is what is going
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Speaker 1: to happen. But it's also a complete disaster because what
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Speaker 1: happens when you put tampons in the boys' bathrooms. There's
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Speaker 1: gonna be vandalism, There's gonna be a lot of ways
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Speaker 1: people throwing stuff around. It's they're gonna make a joke
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Speaker 1: out of it. It is a complete waste of money
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Speaker 1: and resources and its up.
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Speaker 2: It takes cleaning time and everything else I mean.
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Speaker 1: And obviously, no boy is actually in need of a
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Speaker 1: tampon unless you're living in a crazy world, which is
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Speaker 1: the world that Tim Waltz apparently lives in. But here's
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Speaker 1: the New York Times in how they reported on this headline,
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Speaker 1: trump campaign criticizes walls for state law providing tampons and schools.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's that's extraordinary.
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Speaker 1: Reminds me very much of the headline we talked about
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Speaker 1: a couple episodes regarding fracking, and the Trump campaign criticizes
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Speaker 1: Harris or accuses Harris of being in favor of banning fracking,
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Speaker 1: when no, she was quoted as saying she's strongly in
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Speaker 1: favor of banning fracking.
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Speaker 2: It's not a Trump campaign accusation.
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Speaker 1: But they can credit the story immediately by simply saying
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Speaker 1: this is a Trump campaign issue, and it's actually of
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Speaker 1: the guys that they're being fair.
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Speaker 2: We're telling you what the Trump campaign says.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you're taking a fact, and you're
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Speaker 1: greatly diminishing the value of that fact by claiming that
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Speaker 1: its source is the Trump campaign. It's not the Trump campaign.
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Speaker 1: It's reality, But they say the Trump campaign criticizes Waltz
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Speaker 1: for state law, as if somehow he's not responsible for
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Speaker 1: state law. I guess providing tampons and schools, as if
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Speaker 1: that's the issue, as if the Trump campaign is against
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Speaker 1: women or girls females having tampons in schools.
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Speaker 2: That's what a normal reader might surmise from.
22:50
Speaker 1: That, but that's not the issue. And then the subheadline.
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Speaker 1: The law, which was passed in Minnesota last year includes
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Speaker 1: language requiring menstrual products to be available in bathrooms of
23:05
Speaker 1: all schools for grades four to twelve as a way
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Speaker 1: to accommodate transgender students.
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Speaker 2: Now, isn't that a tricky way to say it? Now?
23:19
Speaker 1: Technically, I guess you could say that's true, but that's
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Speaker 1: not really stating what's happened.
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Speaker 2: Await.
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Speaker 1: The phrase a way to accommodate transgender students is carrying
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Speaker 1: a lot.
23:33
Speaker 2: Of weight there.
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Speaker 1: Why don't they just say force schools are forced to
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Speaker 1: put tampons in the boys' bathrooms.
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Speaker 2: It's not that difficult. That's the reality of it now.
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Speaker 1: But if you say it, well, it's to accommodate transgender students,
23:53
Speaker 1: it muddies the waters, Like, what the hell does that mean? No,
23:57
Speaker 1: the reality here is he's find a law walstd requiring
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Speaker 1: all the boys' bathrooms in public schools in Minnesota to
24:08
Speaker 1: have tampods.
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Speaker 2: And it's not an issue.
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Speaker 1: Of women for girls having access to tampods. It's a
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Speaker 1: matter of placating the far far wacky progressive love on
24:23
Speaker 1: this transgender issue. See see how in favor of transgender
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Speaker 1: students we are.
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Speaker 2: We're willing to spend.
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Speaker 1: State money and resources and custodial resources cleaning up the
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Speaker 1: inevitable vandalism, all to show you, to signal our virtue
24:41
Speaker 1: that we are we're going out of our way and
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Speaker 1: spending your money to make sure that boys, biological boys
24:49
Speaker 1: have access to tampods that obviously, biologically they have.
24:53
Speaker 2: No need for that.
24:56
Speaker 1: Again, in a remotely rational world, that should be disqualifier
25:01
Speaker 1: for Waltz to be the vice presidential nominee, because that
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Speaker 1: is way outside of the mainstream of American thought.
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Speaker 2: And I'm somebody who.
25:09
Speaker 1: Again is very pessimistic about the state of American thought
25:13
Speaker 1: the average American voter. I think we're a left center
25:16
Speaker 1: country now becoming more and more left every day. But
25:19
Speaker 1: even I believe that that is outside the mainstream. Now,
25:23
Speaker 1: to the Trump campaign's credit, they understand this and have
25:28
Speaker 1: been doing their best, especially online, to promote the nickname
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Speaker 1: tampon Tim, which is of this tapic is still trending
25:37
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Now how much impact that has when it
25:40
Speaker 1: trends on Twitter with real voters, I don't know, but
25:43
Speaker 1: I do think that this is a topic to the
25:46
Speaker 1: average person actually does have some impact. And yet the
25:52
Speaker 1: news media, of course, well I'm sure never confront Waltz
25:55
Speaker 1: about this, and Waltz still feels free to say, oh,
26:00
Speaker 1: all sorts of crazy things that if he feared the
26:05
Speaker 1: voters would know about his true history, he would never
26:09
Speaker 1: have the audacity to say, like, for instance, claiming that
26:15
Speaker 1: it's Republicans who are just really weird.
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Speaker 2: This has been a constant theme over the last few weeks.
26:22
Speaker 1: I don't even know where it came from, but the
26:24
Speaker 1: media has really picked up on this. There's been montage
26:28
Speaker 1: videos that have gone viral online of media members and
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Speaker 1: Democratic operatives constantly saying.
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Speaker 2: Weird, weird, weird, weird, weird.
26:37
Speaker 1: Well, Waltz in his address accepting the nomination from Kamala
26:44
Speaker 1: Harris to be the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
26:48
Speaker 1: He took great applause once again made the charge that
26:52
Speaker 1: it's Republicans.
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Speaker 2: Who are really weird. And here's what that sounded like.
26:56
Speaker 2: You know it, you feel it. These guys are creepy
26:59
Speaker 2: and yes, just weird as hell, that's what you say.
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Speaker 1: Imagine having the audacity to call the other side weird,
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Speaker 1: not using any specific example as to why you believe
27:13
Speaker 1: they're weird. And let's be clear, I mean Trump's a
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Speaker 1: weird guy. I have no problem acknowledging that. But Kamala
27:19
Speaker 1: Harris is weird. Tim Waltz is weird, and I'm sure
27:22
Speaker 1: there's weirdness about Frankly, I think jd Vance is probably
27:25
Speaker 1: the least weird of the four of them. It's probably
27:27
Speaker 1: not even close. But imagine having the audacity to say
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Speaker 1: that when you're the guy that forced every public school
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Speaker 1: in your state to put tampons in the boys' bathroom.
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Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, this is where we are now.
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Speaker 1: That's the guy who could claim the other side is
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Speaker 1: weird and not only not get criticized for at least
27:52
Speaker 1: in the mainstream news media.
27:53
Speaker 2: Get praised for it.
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Speaker 1: This is an actual associated press headline how Tim Waltz
28:01
Speaker 1: became beloved by young voters with a message that the
28:05
Speaker 1: GOP is quote unquote weird. That's an actual Associated Press headline,
28:13
Speaker 1: how Tim Waltz became beloved by young voters with a
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Speaker 1: message that the GOP is weird.
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Speaker 2: First of all, he just gave that message.
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Speaker 1: No, young voters didn't know who Tim Waltz was five
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Speaker 1: minutes ago. And now the Associated Press is already declaring
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Speaker 1: that he is beloved because of this message that the
28:36
Speaker 1: GOP is weird, while he's actually forcing young people in
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Speaker 1: his own state to have tampos in the boy's bathroom,
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Speaker 1: among many other things.
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Speaker 2: You just can't make this shit up. Now, speaking of making.
28:52
Speaker 1: Shit up, it is absolutely astonishing, even to me, even
28:57
Speaker 1: in somebody who documented the two thousand and eight election
29:01
Speaker 1: with my documentary Medium Malpractice, Alabama got elected and Palalin
29:04
Speaker 1: was targeted and the destruction of Sarah Palin, and there
29:08
Speaker 1: are a lot of parallels to what they did to
29:10
Speaker 1: Sarah Palin, what they've been trying to do to jd Vance.
29:14
Speaker 1: And you know, with regard to Palin, there were things
29:17
Speaker 1: that they made up based upon the entertainment media, most
29:21
Speaker 1: dramatically was I can see Russia from my house, which
29:25
Speaker 1: is something that Tina Fey said well playing Sarah Palin
29:29
Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live, that Sarah Palin never ever, ever said.
29:35
Speaker 1: She made a point in an ABC interview that was
29:39
Speaker 1: both relevant and true. When talking about her experience as
29:44
Speaker 1: the governor of Alaska. She said accurately that you can
29:49
Speaker 1: see Russia from land here in Alaska, not her home,
29:55
Speaker 1: but in Alaska, which is actually factually true. It's an
30:01
Speaker 1: interesting geographical note that I guarantee you the vast majority
30:05
Speaker 1: of Americans didn't know, and that's why she was sharing it.
30:09
Speaker 1: And Tina Fey turned that into I can see Russia
30:12
Speaker 1: from my house, and we did a scientific poll as
30:16
Speaker 1: part of the documentary that indicated that the vast majority
30:21
Speaker 1: of voters thought that she had actually said that, and
30:26
Speaker 1: she did not.
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Speaker 2: That was Tina Fay, and that.
30:28
Speaker 1: Was one of many, many, many examples of similar things
30:31
Speaker 1: that happened in the two thousand and eight election. Well,
30:34
Speaker 1: with regard to Jade Vance, there's this whole couch story
30:37
Speaker 1: which I don't even fully understand. It supposedly comes out
30:41
Speaker 1: of the whole Hillbilly Elgy book and movie that is
30:46
Speaker 1: completely and totally made up. It was a joke on
30:50
Speaker 1: Twitter that went viral on the left, and now it
30:54
Speaker 1: has become an article of faith. It's become like legend,
31:00
Speaker 1: legend that people are accepting as fact on the left,
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Speaker 1: to the point where the vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas
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Speaker 1: is gonna have to apparently debate jd Vance is now
31:14
Speaker 1: making jokes about a completely fake couch story and using
31:20
Speaker 1: that to great applause, enormous applause at his announcement address.
31:26
Speaker 2: And here's what that sounded like what Middle America is.
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Speaker 7: And I gotta tell you, I can't wait to debate
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Speaker 7: the guy that is, if he's willing to get off
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Speaker 7: the couch and show up.
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Speaker 2: You see what I did there.
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Speaker 1: Now, to be clear, the couch story is fake, it's
32:11
Speaker 1: made up.
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Speaker 2: It didn't happen.
32:14
Speaker 1: But now it's become a huge narrative point in this
32:18
Speaker 1: entire campaign.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I hope that jd Vance will correct this once the
32:25
Speaker 1: debate comes around. But the media just stands by and
32:30
Speaker 1: collapse like seals, because you know, on the left, this
32:35
Speaker 1: somehow is funny and works and demeans Jade Vance. And
32:40
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be the party that's against misinformation.
32:43
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party, of.
32:44
Speaker 1: Course, they're also the party that's pro democracy. And they
32:47
Speaker 1: have a presidential nominee that's never received even one vote
32:51
Speaker 1: in a primary ever for president in her entire life.
32:56
Speaker 1: And now you know she's been hand selected without even
32:58
Speaker 1: a fake process, forget about an open convention, and then
33:03
Speaker 1: she gets to select her vice presidential nominee that nobody's.
33:06
Speaker 2: Ever heard of before.
33:08
Speaker 1: Now I want to play one other clip from Waltz
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Speaker 1: in his announcement address, because this one is really rich.
33:14
Speaker 1: But this is him playing the folksy midwesterner from Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: where we respect our neighbors and we respect their choices.
33:25
Speaker 1: Now he's talking about abortion here, by the way, what
33:30
Speaker 1: about respecting the business of the unborn child? That doesn't
33:37
Speaker 1: seem to be a factor here. Are they not part
33:39
Speaker 1: of the neighbors? They do they no one gets you know,
33:44
Speaker 1: they don't get any choice in the matter when it
33:47
Speaker 1: comes to abortion. So I guess we don't really care
33:49
Speaker 1: about their business, the business of the unborn child. But
33:53
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this in the context
33:55
Speaker 1: of the COVID tyranny, which has always there's been so
33:59
Speaker 1: many things about the COVID tyranny that boggle my mind.
34:03
Speaker 1: But especially when it comes to the vaccine mandates and
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Speaker 1: the mask mandates. How it is that the same party
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Speaker 1: that will go to the mac when it comes to
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Speaker 1: abortion rights and pro choice and the ability of women
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Speaker 1: to make what they refer to as their own medical decisions,
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Speaker 1: even though those medical decisions clearly impact the life of
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Speaker 1: an unborn fetus, that can simultaneously say yeah, you don't
34:31
Speaker 1: get to make your own choices when it comes to
34:33
Speaker 1: a vaccine or a mask for you know, a situation
34:38
Speaker 1: where the vaccines don't stop transmission and the masks certainly
34:41
Speaker 1: don't do anything at all. It's just absolutely astonishing, especially
34:45
Speaker 1: supposedly for the Party of Science. We've got the Party
34:48
Speaker 1: of misinformation telling the couch story. We've got the party
34:52
Speaker 1: that's pro democracy, you know, putting up a candidate that
34:56
Speaker 1: no one's ever voted for, and we've got the Party
34:58
Speaker 1: of Science that's that is completely hypocritical when it comes
35:03
Speaker 1: to their view of government's role in all this. But this,
35:06
Speaker 1: to me was maybe the key clip with her card
35:10
Speaker 1: to Waltz's philosophy and how he's portraying to be something
35:15
Speaker 1: that he clearly is not, and again, this is supposed
35:18
Speaker 1: to do with the issue of abortion.
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Speaker 8: Some of us, some of us in here are old
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Speaker 8: enough to remember. I see you down there, I see
35:29
Speaker 8: those old white guys.
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Speaker 2: Some of us are old enough to remember.
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Speaker 8: When it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It
35:39
Speaker 8: turns out now what they meant was the government should
35:42
Speaker 8: be free to invade your doctor's office. In Minnesota, we
35:49
Speaker 8: respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make,
35:57
Speaker 8: even if.
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Speaker 2: We wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves. There's a
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Speaker 2: golden rule. Mind your own damn business.
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Speaker 1: Now, as I've already said, there are problems with that
36:11
Speaker 1: whole philosophy with regard to abortion, because once again, what
36:14
Speaker 1: about the business of the unborn child. But this is
36:17
Speaker 1: the same guy who, when it came to COVID tyranny,
36:21
Speaker 1: created a tattletale line.
36:24
Speaker 2: And that's what it was. We had one of these
36:26
Speaker 2: in California.
36:27
Speaker 1: I remember I called it early off to fake tattletale
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Speaker 1: on people or and that I think they stopped.
36:34
Speaker 2: I think they stop having.
36:36
Speaker 1: People answer the line, not because of me, because I
36:38
Speaker 1: think they had a lot of the people doing similar
36:40
Speaker 1: things where you just ended up leaving a message. But
36:42
Speaker 1: these tattletale lines were just the absolute worst of humanity.
36:47
Speaker 2: I mean, we're literally pitting neighbor against neighbor.
36:52
Speaker 1: Since you know Waltz likes to talk about how we
36:54
Speaker 1: respect our neighbors. This is the guy who literally, during
36:58
Speaker 1: COVID set up a tattletale line for neighbor to tell
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Speaker 1: on neighbor with possible criminal penalties attached. And he has
37:06
Speaker 1: the audacity to claim in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors
37:10
Speaker 1: and their choices. No, only if it's the choice we
37:15
Speaker 1: as liberal progressives like. That's what it's really all about.
37:20
Speaker 1: And it's absolutely outrageous that he gets away with this
37:23
Speaker 1: kind of stuff because the news media has no interest
37:26
Speaker 1: at all in taking him out none.
37:30
Speaker 2: Instead, they want to prop him up.
37:33
Speaker 1: And the portrayal of Tim Waltz has been almost one
37:37
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty degrees from the reality. Here's how the
37:41
Speaker 1: New York Times described him in their morning newsletter.
37:47
Speaker 2: Waltz is a former small town high school football coach
37:52
Speaker 2: who spends his free time hunting and fish.
37:57
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good. That sounds like a I could
38:01
Speaker 1: theoretically get bhed. But that's not who Tim Waltz really is.
38:06
Speaker 1: He wears a camouflage hat while campaigning and speaks with
38:11
Speaker 1: the nasal accent native to the Upper Midwest. I grew
38:16
Speaker 1: up in central Illinois and spent years living and working
38:19
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. Hearing walt speak reminds me of what it
38:23
Speaker 1: sounds like to hear another English speaker while traveling abroad,
38:28
Speaker 1: a familiar, comforting sound.
38:31
Speaker 2: He quote.
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Speaker 1: He brings with him a vast understanding of the Midwest.
38:36
Speaker 1: Senator Amy Klochabar Minnesota told me yesterday, this will be
38:42
Speaker 1: a vice president who has stood in deer stands in
38:45
Speaker 1: the middle of ten degree weather, and has fished across
38:49
Speaker 1: Minnesota's ten thousand laths.
38:51
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Wow, isn't that beautiful now? Even The
38:56
Speaker 2: New York.
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Speaker 1: Times, though, does acknowledge that wall Elt has changed over
39:01
Speaker 1: the years, at least in persona Walts has had a
39:04
Speaker 1: bit of a journey on the ideological spectrum. He was
39:09
Speaker 1: first elected to Congress as a moderate who represented a
39:13
Speaker 1: rural district. While he was a reliable vote for the
39:16
Speaker 1: House Democrats' agenda, Waltz received a ratings from the National
39:21
Speaker 1: Rifle Association and didn't present himself as a cultural progressive.
39:27
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, he won reelection in his rural district.
39:31
Speaker 2: By less than one point.
39:33
Speaker 1: At the same time, Donald Trump won there by almost
39:36
Speaker 1: fifteen points. When he ran for governor in twenty eighteen,
39:40
Speaker 1: Waltz embraced gun control measures and disavowed his past NRA support.
39:48
Speaker 1: In his first term, he presided over a divided state
39:52
Speaker 1: legislature and had a productive working relationship with Republicans. Then
39:56
Speaker 1: came twenty twenty three, Democrats had won full control of
40:01
Speaker 1: Minnesota's state House for the first time in a decade.
40:05
Speaker 1: Walsh pushed through a raft of progressive laws. His state
40:10
Speaker 1: codified abortion rights, enacted new gun control laws, provided free
40:15
Speaker 1: lunch to public school students, no mention of the tampons,
40:19
Speaker 1: of course, and implemented a child tax credit that cemented
40:24
Speaker 1: his reputation as a progressive populist, a winning label in
40:29
Speaker 1: a party that has spent years anointing centrist candidates for
40:33
Speaker 1: president and vice president.
40:36
Speaker 2: I don't even.
40:36
Speaker 1: Know what what so Barack Obaba and Hillary Clinton were centrist.
40:44
Speaker 1: I think the definition of centrist here is a big
40:47
Speaker 1: part of this problem.
40:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, centrist in the newsroom of the New York.
40:51
Speaker 1: Times, maybe, which is way way left of center. But
40:56
Speaker 1: in no way, shape or form is this centrist to
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Speaker 1: the average American voter. And again, to be clear, I'm
41:03
Speaker 1: someone even though I'm a hardcore conservative and a libertarian,
41:07
Speaker 1: I fully acknowledge It's not just because I live here
41:10
Speaker 1: in California. It's because i have my eyes wide open
41:12
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at what's happened to the rest of
41:14
Speaker 1: the country. We are not a center right country. We
41:18
Speaker 1: are center left. But even if you consider center left
41:21
Speaker 1: to be now centrist, Waltz is way way outside of
41:25
Speaker 1: that realm for all the reasons that I've already stated
41:29
Speaker 1: in this episode of the podcast. But that, of course
41:31
Speaker 1: has not stop the mainstream news media and Democrats from
41:35
Speaker 1: claiming that Waltz is a centrist. Because we now live
41:38
Speaker 1: in a world where you can just claim the reality
41:40
Speaker 1: to be whatever you want it to be.
41:42
Speaker 2: Truth does not matter.
41:43
Speaker 1: We are in a post truth world, and the last
41:47
Speaker 1: few weeks of this campaign have proven that beyond any
41:52
Speaker 1: doubt whatsoever, whether it's eliminating Harris's past or pretending that
41:57
Speaker 1: Waltz is a centrist because he kind of looks like
42:00
Speaker 1: one and he was a former high school football coach
42:03
Speaker 1: and he hunts and fishes and he's got that folks
42:07
Speaker 1: he matter. Well, it doesn't make it true. The reality
42:10
Speaker 1: is completely different than the perception. But here is a
42:15
Speaker 1: media montage put together by NewsBusters that's a pretty good
42:20
Speaker 1: a pretty good depiction of how the media is working
42:24
Speaker 1: in Unison to try to promote this centrist narrative about
42:28
Speaker 1: Tim Walls.
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Speaker 7: The idea that Tim Walls is Celesti is just not
42:33
Speaker 7: true in reality.
42:34
Speaker 8: He got elected in a district that was very moderate.
42:37
Speaker 4: Walls, of course, was very moderate in Congress.
42:41
Speaker 2: Establishing himself as a moderate Democrat.
42:43
Speaker 1: He had a pretty moderate record, rather moderate Democrat.
42:48
Speaker 2: Viewed as a moderate Democrat, he is a centrist. To
42:51
Speaker 2: say that he's more liberal than Vice President Harris or
42:55
Speaker 2: the most liberal Congressman, which I'm sure we're going to
42:57
Speaker 2: hear of, just not true.
42:59
Speaker 1: And congres whereas he was certainly a centrist, but a
43:01
Speaker 1: more centrist deal making candidate.
43:03
Speaker 2: Kind of a centrist Midwesterner in persona.
43:06
Speaker 1: A more centrist type who can appeal to suburban voters.
43:10
Speaker 6: We have heard from Democrats who know whom, who describe
43:12
Speaker 6: him as folksy, as somebody who can reach out to independence.
43:15
Speaker 8: He will be able to pull over some of those
43:18
Speaker 8: more moderate voters.
43:20
Speaker 1: He has a history of appealing to the more rural
43:22
Speaker 1: moderate voter out there, Moderates, even moderate Republicans.
43:25
Speaker 4: Absolutely more moderate than people are giving him credit for.
43:28
Speaker 7: Right now, I would like someone to point out a
43:30
Speaker 7: place that he is different on an issue than Josh Shapiro.
43:35
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I think that Montage is pretty much representative of
43:40
Speaker 1: the mainstream and certainly the liberal.
43:42
Speaker 2: Media as a whole.
43:44
Speaker 1: And this has gotten so pervasive that even I was
43:51
Speaker 1: a bit disturbed when I went to the Drudge Report,
43:53
Speaker 1: because I'm you know, look, the Drudge Report is nowhere
43:56
Speaker 1: near as powerful as it used to be. But as
43:59
Speaker 1: someone who has at one time been pretty close to
44:01
Speaker 1: the Matt Drudge world through my friendship with Andrew Breitbart,
44:04
Speaker 1: his right hand man, and I used to fill in
44:06
Speaker 1: for Matt on his old Sunday night national radio show,
44:10
Speaker 1: and I've had some communication with Matt. I've always been
44:13
Speaker 1: fascinated by Matt's influence within the right wing media sphere
44:19
Speaker 1: and also the mainstream news media. That influence is nowhere
44:23
Speaker 1: near what it used to be. However, it should be
44:25
Speaker 1: pointed out that there's only one election in the Matt
44:28
Speaker 1: Drudge era. I would say that was twenty twelve, where
44:32
Speaker 1: Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report did not side with
44:36
Speaker 1: the eventual winner. I could make a very strong argument
44:40
Speaker 1: that Drudge, you know, could be coincidental. You know, correlation
44:45
Speaker 1: is not necessarily causation. But you can't argue with that.
44:49
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, except for twenty twelve, where I
44:52
Speaker 1: do think he was pretty much on Romney's side and
44:55
Speaker 1: Romney lost to Obama. Other than that, I think you
45:00
Speaker 1: could argue strongly that whichever side Drudge has been on
45:04
Speaker 1: has ended up winning the presidential election. And it's been
45:08
Speaker 1: clear for a long time that he has it out
45:11
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. He is excited about the Kamala Harris candidacy,
45:18
Speaker 1: and it is extremely pro Democrat at this point.
45:22
Speaker 2: But I was curious, okay, what about Tim Wallas.
45:24
Speaker 1: Because there's all sorts of fodder here, and part of
45:28
Speaker 1: why I went to the Drudge Report, which I don't
45:29
Speaker 1: do nearly as often as I used to. Like a
45:31
Speaker 1: lot of people, I've stopped going there, but occasionally, you know,
45:35
Speaker 1: when something big happens, I am curious to see how
45:39
Speaker 1: he's portraying it. Now, the old Drudge would have been
45:43
Speaker 1: highlighting all the things that I have talked about, the
45:47
Speaker 1: Iraq War, stolen valor, the Dui speeding and lying, the
45:52
Speaker 1: George Floyd riots, the COVID tyranny, the changing the Minnesota flag,
45:57
Speaker 1: the transgender child mutilation, the Tampa in the bathrooms and
46:01
Speaker 1: public schools.
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Speaker 2: All of that.
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Speaker 1: Instead, the Drudge Report yesterday after this announcement basically looked
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Speaker 1: like the Harris Waltz homepage.
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Speaker 2: And that's not an exaggeration.
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Speaker 1: Visually, the photographs he chose, the headlines he used.
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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I mean, for people who have been watching the Drudge
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Speaker 1: Report as closely as I have for the last twenty
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Speaker 1: five years, it is astonishing how far left the Drudge
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Speaker 1: Report has become. Now when I mentioned this publicly, I
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Speaker 1: get the same reaction from Trumpers all the time. Well,
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Speaker 1: Drudge doesn't own the Drudge Report anymore, it's some liberals
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Speaker 1: are running it. There's no evidence for that at all,
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Speaker 1: and there would be massive amounts of evidence if that
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Speaker 1: was actually true. So that is just the delusions of
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Speaker 1: Trumpers who don't want to accept the fact that they
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Speaker 1: were duped by Matt Drudge, who clearly never was philosophically conservative.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I have as a theory is that
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Speaker 1: when Rush Limbaugh died that that kind of changed everything,
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Speaker 1: because he and Rush were very, very close. And I
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Speaker 1: think also, I frankly think that Elon Musk usurping him
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Speaker 1: as the major voice in the conservative media in a
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Speaker 1: huge way. I mean, Elon Musk is basically now the
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Speaker 1: new Matt Drudge and probably has more power than Matt
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Speaker 1: Drudge ever really had, certainly when it comes to views.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Elon Musk can hand anybody that he wants
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Speaker 1: tens of millions of views, whatever the hell that means
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, I'm never quite sure, but a lot of
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Speaker 1: legitimate views simply by reposting or quote tweeting or sharing
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Speaker 1: their work that used.
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Speaker 2: To be Matt Judge Brudge's job.
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Speaker 1: So I think there's probably some personal animosity. I don't
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Speaker 1: think he was ever philosophically a philosophically a conservative. I've
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Speaker 1: always said that Matt Drudge like chaos over anything, and
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Speaker 1: there's certainly been a ton of chaos in this particular campaign.
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Speaker 1: But I'm sorry even I even I am stunned that
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Speaker 1: Drudge is now openly full on progressive liberal and totally
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Speaker 1: shilling for.
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Speaker 2: The Democratic ticket.
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Speaker 1: And it worries me because again I don't think Drudge
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Speaker 1: has that much power, but I do think Drudge is
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Speaker 1: both pretty good at telling the future as well as
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Speaker 1: he does still have some influence on the fringes, because
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Speaker 1: let's face it, there's still a lot of media members
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Speaker 1: who do go to the Drudge Report, and if even
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Speaker 1: Matt Drudge is promoting all these positive Tim Walt's narratives,
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Speaker 1: then it becomes much easier for them to do the
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Speaker 1: same thing. But the bottom line is that with it's
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Speaker 1: the Trench Report or the mainstream news media or the
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Speaker 1: full on left wing media, there is no doubt that
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Speaker 1: the narrative is trying is being set here that Tim
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Speaker 1: Waltz he is a centrist, a moderate, folksy, a nice
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Speaker 1: guy and every man, and somehow Midwesterners are going to
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Speaker 1: find him appealing and that because he's a white guy,
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Speaker 1: this gives the Harris ticket some balance and some appeal
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Speaker 1: in the key states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and I guess
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Speaker 1: most prominently Wisconsin. Unfortunately, you know what, I realized, I'm
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Speaker 1: a pessimist. I think it's quite possible.
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Speaker 2: This narrative is going to hold.
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Speaker 1: I do not believe, especially with you know, for instance,
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Speaker 1: the Drudge Report no longer in the game. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure that in this media environment and with the Trump
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Speaker 1: teams so incompetent, that they're going to be able to
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Speaker 1: make Tim Waltz the issue that he should be in
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Speaker 1: a negative fashion.
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Speaker 2: I think they're going to get away with this. I
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Speaker 2: hope I'm wrong.
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Speaker 1: I mean I was, as somebody who's rooting hard against
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Speaker 1: Harris becoming the next president, I was relieved that they
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Speaker 1: didn't pick Shapiro because I think Shapiro would have been
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Speaker 1: a state through the heart of Trump having any certainly
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Speaker 1: any path to dominating the election that would have ended it,
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Speaker 1: and I think it would would have put the Harris
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Speaker 1: team in a very good position to win.
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Speaker 2: They still may be in a very good position to win.
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Speaker 2: But the fact that they decided not to do.
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Speaker 1: This to take what was it would be an easy
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Speaker 1: victory in the key state of Pennsylvania and instead pick
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Speaker 1: a guy with all sorts of baggage, way more progressive
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Speaker 1: baggage than Shapiro even has for a state that has
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Speaker 1: no electoral college, meaning what's whoever in Minnesota, I thought
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Speaker 1: was a break for the Trump team. However, I just
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Speaker 1: don't see any evidence that they're going to be able
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Speaker 1: to take advantage of this, and a large part of
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Speaker 1: it is because of.
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Speaker 2: The media environment.
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Speaker 1: The media environment is just so horrendous. It may be
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Speaker 1: worse than two thousand and eight. And I think what's
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Speaker 1: happened here is that the media realizes that they can
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Speaker 1: no longer.
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Speaker 2: Police the right.
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Speaker 1: The media is supposed to be the policeman right, or
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Speaker 1: the referee in a sporting event, but I think they've
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Speaker 1: realized that because of Balkanization and fragmentation and the fact
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Speaker 1: that you conservatives really only consume conservative media, now.
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Speaker 2: They have no power to police the right anymore.
51:46
Speaker 1: Their only power is when it comes to policing the left,
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Speaker 1: and they're never going to do that because it's against
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Speaker 1: their own self interest, their own political agenda.
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Speaker 2: The only time they're going to do that is if
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Speaker 2: they that the left is going to.
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Speaker 1: Lose an election if they don't step in, which is
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Speaker 1: clearly what happened with regard to Joe Biden, that the
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Speaker 1: mainstream news media, the left wing media, became the campaign manager.
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Speaker 2: For the Democratic Party and.
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Speaker 1: Said no, no, no, no, no, sorry, sorry, Joe.
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Speaker 2: We saw the debate.
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Speaker 1: Everybody else apparently already realized you were senile, but well,
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Speaker 1: now we have to acknowledge it, and you're not going
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Speaker 1: to win this race, so you gotta go. They became
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Speaker 1: the campaign manager, so they only now have power on
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Speaker 1: the left, which they're only going to use to the
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Speaker 1: benefit politically of the left. Now that they have their
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Speaker 1: team Harrison Waltz, two super progressive candidates who you know,
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Speaker 1: are seemingly have a very good chance of winning this
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Speaker 1: thing currently are winning in the polls.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to do anything to harm them.
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Speaker 1: And they actually think that it's it would be wrong
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Speaker 1: to do anything to harm them, because they've convinced themselves
53:07
Speaker 1: that doing anything to allow Trump to win would be
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Speaker 1: a threat to democracy and a threat to the nation
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Speaker 1: as a whole, not to mention against what their own
53:18
Speaker 1: personal political beliefs.
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Speaker 2: Song.
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Speaker 1: So things are actually, in my view, worse in twenty
53:27
Speaker 1: twenty four from media perspective than they were in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, partially because in two thousand and eight
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Speaker 1: this was new Right. They were just kind of getting
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Speaker 1: their bearings about what they could get away with, and
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Speaker 1: they still were pretending that they.
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Speaker 2: You know, are were supposed to be remotely fair. That's
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Speaker 2: all gone. Now.
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Speaker 1: I talk about institutional memory all the time, that institutional
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Speaker 1: memory in the news media is God. And now it's
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Speaker 1: just do whatever the hell you want to do, whatever
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Speaker 1: the hell you can get away with. And that's what
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Speaker 1: the mainstream and left wing media has become the campaign
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