Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway
and David Harsani. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the
show, please do so at radio at the Federalist dot com. Molly,
we haven't spoken in a week, and in that week, two hundred and
fifty years of events have transpired in American politics. We spoke Wednesday last week.
I believe maybe Thursday morning we had a bonus episode and Donald Trump hadn't
even spoken yet. That seems like it's a million years ago, right,
Yeah. I think we did the bonus on Tuesday and then we did it
on Wednesday, so it has been a full week. Yeah, I know.
I remember when I used to have weekend without world altering events taking place.
Those were fun. I texted you, I think make weekends great again.
Like I think this is the third weekend in a row where where And
I'm not even home. I'm on a hiking trip this weekend, and you
know, I can't really write anything, and just all our staff was amazing.
At the Federalist, I just banging out pieces. But yeah, it's
just incredible, so amazing. I do want to say I had just arrived,
I have Mark, and I got invited to go out on a lake
with this wonderful legal scholar and some other people. And just as we arrived
at the lake house, the news broke and you know, quickly made some
assignments and did that, and then I was like, I'm gonna go ahead
and go out on this boat, like I just need time to process what's
happening. Even four days later, whenever we're at I am still having trouble
processing all that we have gone through as a country. Here, well,
let's try to do this chronologically. I guess the RNC had its big night
with Donald Trump. I have to say, you know, I'm not a
big fan, as I said last time of conventions, but watching Hull Cogan
speak was kind of a highlight for me, you know, being a person
of that generation where he sort of came about in WrestleMania. I don't like
how silly things have become, but I did. I enjoyed myself tremendously.
Did you what was the other guy's named? Dana White? Introduced him very
wwf UFC lost a testosterone, very manly, I would say, But what'd
you think of that night? You would that I had. I was on
Fox, like right before the main events, so it was first of all,
just kind of fun to be in the stadium, even doing TV at
that hour. It's just constantly interesting people coming in right before you or right
after you, and that was fun. But I decided I wanted to stay
in the convention hall for that night because that was the big night for Trump,
and unlike previous nights where you could kind of slip in right at the
end, you had to get your seat early. So found a seat and
it was just really fun to watch everything, beginning with Tucker, who gave
it a fantastic speech, absolutely fantastic, and the crowd was so vibing with
the moment. It was unlike any convention I'd been to, except perhaps that
sort of two thousand and eight Barack Obama one. It reminded me a bit
of that, both in terms of the excitement and optimism and stagecraft, sorry,
all those things. It just had. That's the closest I could say
it came to. I lost it when Hulkgan came out, and I'm not
even a big wrestling person, but it was so fun, so exciting,
just ridiculous. And ditto on the kid rock like it's weird because I don't
I definitely don't like kid rock, but there was something very fun about that
too. Well, the Hull Kogan thing when you ripped it. First of
all, I'm like, he's going to do it. He's going to do
the Hull Cogan character was so excited when he ripped his shirt. I was
like, yeah, I thought kid rock. I don't know how it was
in the venue, but on TV it came off terrible. I was the
one love moment from my perspective, just watching these like old old white people
like dancing along to kid rock on the floor. It just was like a
weird It just seemed out of place to me. Maybe I'm just alone in
this. We should do a compilation of every bad musical interlude at every convention
like that. Meaning remember when I can't remember was I think it was the
Democrat one they did the Macharina. I just want to quickly say, I
don't even think the song was bad or it very you know, it was
fine, like it was how kid rock is. I just the crowd just
seemed like the wrong crowd for that sort of music. Maybe in the venue
it came off better, and maybe I was up in the note bleed section,
so I'm only looking down on everybody, and so I'm kind of seeing
it from above, and everyone just seemed to be having a great time.
Actually, the music that they really liked was the band that played during commercial
breaks. It was a cover band, but it was like the best cover
band I'd ever heard, really good guitars. Crowd was totally into that.
It was definitely more sort of appropriate for the different types of people that were
there. Wow, why are you in the nosebleed section? Your Molly Hemingway
like, why are you? Where am I going to be? Where?
Were close? I have to say I watched Fox that that whole afternoon and
night and I saw you and I almost never watched TV, and I was
like, Molly's so good at this. I was very impressed. People here
write some friends over and they were very impressed. Everyone was impressed. You're
like, that's my friend. Yeah, Like, that's my friend, Molly
Hemingway. No one believes me, no, I've as I've said many times,
my family are big fans of yours more than they are of me.
So anyway, then let's get to Trump's speech again. From home, I
thought the beginning was great. It was just weird. I was like,
he's not actually going to talk about it in this kind of detail, and
he did, and I was just transfixed by it. I thought I wouldn't
like it. I thought it would be too self serving or come off too
self serving, but it was just really compelling to hear him talk about the
assassination attempt. Yeah. So the crowd was totally into that speech as well.
And it was interesting because the first thirty minutes were some of the best
political speak speaking I've heard. Then we went into like the forty five minute
rally speech, which I've heard before, and so I was less interested in
it, and it was also just long. And then it wrapped up at
the end with maybe another fifteen or so minutes of optimism and hope and all
that. I kept joking about like the third hour of the Trump speech.
I don't know. I actually don't know how long it was, but at
some point I kind of lost interest and then I was like, Oh,
we're just going to be here for a while. And I did that thing
where you just accept it and then you get back into it. Does that
settle in? Yeah? Absolutely. I thought it was way too long.
I got so bored. I thought some of it was funny. It's interesting
when he said, like he mentioned Biden and he's like, I know,
I basically said, I know, I wasn't supposed to mention Biden, but
you know, this will be the one time he's terrible and whatever. It
was, so anyway, I thought the speech was way too long. He
should have left people wanting more. But the first I think twenty thirty minutes
probably really captivated you know a lot of people and was very well done.
And overall I think the convention was from a TV perspective, was you know,
really well produced, moved quickly, you know, had you know,
an array of people. I thought the Afghanistan Parent the parents of the Afghan
soldiers, was incredibly powerful and really would have heard by I don't know what
happens now, but anyway, that's how I thought. And you seemed to
think it was one of the better ones you've attended. Oh it's I mean
kind of everybody thought that way. Every reporter I spoke with, every delegate,
I spoke with every you know, outside activist or lobbyist. They all
were just talking about what a great convention it was. The mood was very
weird for a Republican convention. Just excitement, happiness, elation, unity.
Maybe I'm also remembering that twenty sixteen was the last in person convention I attended,
and it was not that way. You know. It's just a lot
of sour faces, and there was the attempt by the Conservatives to do a
floor fight that failed, and so then there was just a lot of animosity
between different people at that convention that you would pick up, you know,
even like these people know each other and their friends, but they were mocking
each other or fighting. You know. They're these big concerts they do at
the convention, like the one on Thursday night was Jason al Dean in twenty
sixteen. I was a really good uh oh my gosh, really good pat
Green country artist, and then Kid Rock and I just remember being at that
venue in twenty sixteen with people not fighting with each other but more like busting
each other's chops in a slightly antagonistic way. There was none of that this
time. It was just kind of pure happiness. In part. It was
incredible. I'm sir, sorry, go on now. I was just gonna
say it's incredible. How I remember being at Sea Pack I guess twenty fifteen
whatever, and there was just or maybe I don't know whenever it was,
and just so much anger as a lot of people like me. You know,
I remember being at the bar and getting yelled at by someone for not
being you know, for not on how many times have I apologized to you,
David, Well, you're probably being yelled at as well at that point.
But someone told me, you know, basically I didn't know what time
it was and so forth. So and now I mean, there's seems like
there's no oh my gosh, actually so ed Cepac twenty fifteen. I remember
I had a Fox hit and I was being driven back with Mark in the
car, and I said, Mark, we are we are experiencing a massive
realignment in the Republican Party and he was like, I don't know, I
don't think so. So the other like last week, someone extremely high up
in in politics, let's say, says to me on the night of the
JD Vance speech, which I think was that Wednesday night. Yeah, oh,
I'm not sure I remember. Anyway, he says to me, I
know you've been talking about this for many years, but I don't think I
understood that you were until this week. I think it's more. I think
there is a party alignment, and we'll see long term if that's going to
be a real alignment. I don't buy it, but I don't want to
argue about that today. We have other things and don't make that face.
I do wish people could see the face, but if you just make it
to me, it loses all its effect. Where do we go next?
So that's Thursday night. Republicans are on a high. Friday, they're on
a high. Even though I saw some MSNBC people saying that's Peach probably ruined
it for a Trump it was too long, so forth Oh, I love
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the day Biden no step down or Sunday. Yeah, it was Sunday.
I was at hiking. So I have to be honest with you. I
was surprised by it somewhat. I thought you would stick it out in the
end. You know. So he disappeared. When did he get sick?
I think it was maybe Thursday or whenever. He disappeared for days. He
was disappeared for a week actually later. So anyway, he stepped down.
What was your reaction to that? Did you expect it? Like? What
were you thinking? No, I agree with you. I was I'm not
saying that. I didn't think they were necessarily going to be successful at removing
him. I didn't think it would happen on Sunday, and I didn't think
it would happen in the weird and mysterious way it did happen. I in
part because all the stories on Thursday were about you know, anonymous sources say
that it's going to happen very soon, and that so and so's writing a
speech and you know, John Meechim and John Meacham was like, no,
I'm not writing a speech. And so I just thought there was a lot
of disinformation being spread around, and so to have it happen that way in
particular was overwhelmingly shocking to me. And then also everything that happened since then,
so it was quite clear that the powers that be in the Democrat Party
just orchestrated a complete, you know, coup and replacement for political gain and
the and they just did it. It's kind of impressive. Yeah, I
don't I don't know what else they could really do here. I guess have
some kind of blitz primary or something, but that still is not Listen,
here's the thing. I get why they have to do what they're doing.
I don't even really blame them one hundred percent, other than that they all
gaslit us and covered up for Biden this whole time. If Biden was really
a hero, he would have stepped down months ago. They all knew about
it. We now hear stories about how the whole congressional delegation knew in twenty
twenty one that Biden was just not there. Nancy Pelosi had to come in
and explain the things that Biden was saying at the time. So I get
that. I think it's very difficult for them because no good candidate's going to
step in at this point take over this mess. So Kamala is really the
only choice they have. Okay, the reason why it's Kamala has nothing to
do with what the propaganda press has been saying since it became Kamala. So
their claim is Joe Biden was previously the best candidate in the history of the
country, eighty one million votes of excitement because he's that much better than Barack
Obama as a candidate and the excitement machine. And now they're saying, oh,
that was true, but now we have an even better candidate, Kamala
Harris, the most competent and politically engaged candidate in history. So that's their
claim. In reality, Kamala Harris was chosen because she's the absolute only person
who they could even plausibly transfer the fundraising assets and campaign to. That's the
only reason nobody thinks she's a good candidate. They're going to lie and claim
that everybody does, and they're going to like fake it till they make it,
and people should be very worried about that. They've got the full court
press of the propaganda press. But it's only because her name was also on
the committee for raising money, and it was the easiest way to transfer the
campaign, to say, if I could quickly. Even if that wasn't the
case, there's no way that a governor of a state like Pennsylvania, for
instance, a white male whatever, is going to elbow out a black woman
vice president to take over. I mean the idea that they would they would
that kind of identity politics. Wouldn't just simply undermine that candidacy is crazy and
why would they do it. Then they'd have to defend Biden's record. Then
they'd have to step in take Biden's campaign staff basically and deal with this.
They wouldn't be able to build up their credentials, et cetera. It's just
there was no it was never going to be anyone but Harris, right,
Yes, can we be a little arcane here and talk about campaign finance law.
I know that's the listeners want. Yes, everyone's clamoring for this go.
But I was talking to a ton of different election lawyers in the last
couple of days, and what I learned was kind of interesting to me.
So you actually, the campaign finance law is one of those areas where you're
not even allowed to look in the wrong direction without having a ton of bricks
come down on you. So it's kind of crazy that you can't. You
know, you have to file everything in just the right manner and be very
careful, and this is restricted, and this is allowed on all sorts of
things for a low level congressional race. But if you want to transfer one
hundred million dollars and all the assets of a campaign to someone brand new,
that's okay. Like it's a weird thing. And you kind of knew it
was weird in part because top Democrat attorneys like Mark Olias came out and said,
there's nothing to see here. Everything is fine, no problems, So
only a crazy person would say there are problems. But then you also had
the FEC commissioner come out and say, oh, I anticipate we're going to
get a lot of challenges and maybe even court cases coming out of this,
which indicated that, in fact, it's not so clean and easy. So
the last time there was an analogous situation was nineteen sixty eight when LBJ drops
out of the race. Interestingly enough, LBJ drops out of the race for
two reasons. Grassroots are upset with him. The anti war grassroots are upset,
but also it was the first time you had like big billionaire style funding
of an opposition campaign and it surprised him in New Hampshire, and he just
decides to drop out. Okay. So in like nineteen seventy one, I
think the Congress passes the It's FECA what is that Federal Election Commission Act or
something like that, which sets up some which sets up the FEC and sets
up all sorts of guidelines and rules on how you can handle things. It
gets revised in seventy four and then it starts becoming this really important piece of
legislation that gets challenged at the Supreme Court level. There was the Buckley b.
Vallejo about I think that was that the one that was about. It's
kind of an admin law case dealing with who gets to appoint people to the
Federal Election Commission. I think originally it was two by the President, two
people appointed by the President, two by the Speaker of the House, and
two by the Senate Leader. And all the interest in that law kind of
gets focused on administrative law relating to appointments. A little fun fact, when
Eileen Cannon dismissed the case against Trump, the classified documents case, it was
built around this issue about how you have to have constitutional appointments and Jack Smith
was not appointed in a constitutional manner. Okay. So the argument from Democrats
is that there are no legal problems to transferring one hundred million dollars in other
assets to Kamala Harris because her name was already on the fundraising information and that's
I don't want to get like way too arkane, but you are actually only
allowed to have one candidate per campaign committee. That's pretty basic concept. Under
the FEC statute. You have a clearly identified candidate, you know, Biden
for president or Smith for Congress. There are these forms you file and anytime
you raise money you have to say you're raising money for that candidate. The
only exception to that in the law is that there's a regulation that says that
if you are the nominees of your party for president and vice president, then
you can share a campaign account. But that means you have to actually be
nominated by your party to get access to that and before that, it just
doesn't work because you're not the actual nominees. And the reason why this is
kind of interesting is imagine a situation where Biden and Harris are running for reelection
and then I know, Biden has a horrible debate and the entire Democrat elite
say he has to get out of the race, but he doesn't, and
so Kamala decides to break away and also run for president. At the convention,
do a convention challenge? Does she get access to that to half of
that money or to all of that money that was raised for Biden Harris?
Nobody would say that, right. Alternatively, Let's say that Biden goes to
convention and he realizes that Kamala has been sabotaging him and he wants to stay
in, and he decides to replace her with like Josh Shapiro. Would she
be able to sue for that money that he raised under the Biden for President
thing just because her name was mentioned in the filing? Absolutely not. And
so if those things aren't allowed, you start to say, well, how
is this allowed? That Biden steps down, Kamala is coronated through no like
official process, sort of, she's not the nominee. How is she getting
access to this stuff right now? So there will be absolutely legal challenges and
FEC challenges. And the thing about it is Democrats know, and they have
built into their cost of doing business that you can lose something and get a
fine, but it's just not a big deal. For example, Hillary Clinton
ran this secret operation to falsely accuse Donald Trump of being a Russian asset.
She ran it through her law firm. They cooked up the scheme and they
distributed it and they were eventually fined for it. But it's like, well,
we were able to destroy three years of a presidency over it and to
almost win election over it, so it's kind of like we're willing to take
the fine. Similarly, this might be very illegal, but it could take
years to have it litigated or handled through the regulatory process of the Federal Election
Commission. Okay, I hadn't thought of it. I hadn't thought I hadn't
thought about that scenario. What if Kamala breaks off. Kamala breaks off,
wants to run on her own, she wouldn't get the money. So why
does she get it in this way? Now? I assume the answer would
be Will Biden has stepped down and handed her the keys in some sense,
I don't know, but there's no official process for that, right, Oh
yeah, And that's what I was trying to say, that the law was
created after the last time we dealt with a similar situation, and so it's
never been tested. So if you hear someone saying, oh, it's no
big deal and there's no legal issue here, they're just lying because they're always
legal issues with campaign finance, and you know, and probably Republicans aren't super
The Republican Party at least is probably not super keen to challenge it because they
know that their candidate was nearly assassinated and that presumably assassination attempts will continue,
and that they could be dealing with some issues of having to transfer campaign chests
if those efforts are successful against one or both of you know, yeah,
or they might find them in a similar situation in the future. They don't
know, you know. Can we talk about her campaign though, so she
takes over, if you're okay to move on, so her she comes in
there. There's this fake, bogus excitement created by the press, but I
should say I think there is probably some real excitement among grassroots Democrats that they
don't have this candidate who can't even speak right, who is weighed down by
this terrible record. I don't think it's huge, but i'd be I know,
i'd be happy that. I would. You know that that Biden's gone
and someone else at least isn't it gives them renewed hope. Now there's hope
there. I'm sure there's gonna be some better fundraising numbers. Probably. I
do think they overestimate her appeal and chances, though I do think some Republicans
underestimate her chances a bit as well. I think it's gonna be like I
said, I think it's gonna be closer. How do you see her campaign?
I mean, do you think she's a better candidate that Biden? Do
you think she has a better chance? How do you see your candidacy?
Okay, yes and no to being a better candidate. Definitely see her having
better chance. So you know, I'm so cynical that I don't believe that
elections are won or lost based on the quality of the candidate or the issues
that they put forth. It's all about ballot trafficking operations. The crisis that
Democrats were in was that they couldn't run the same ballot trafficking operation and again
tell people that it was a legitimate election with Biden at the helm. So
what they're doing now is not just replacing Biden, but also manufacturing a like
a completely delusional claim that everyone in the world is happy to have Tamala buses
they're the best, and diagrams Harris as the nominee. They're just manufacturing it
in part because then they can say, when they traffic all the ballots to
get her over the finish line, that it was legitimate. That's perhaps very
cynical, but that's my view, and if Republicans want to win, they
cannot rest on the fact that the Biden administration has been an abject failure,
that Kamala Harris has been extremely incompetent and unimpressive. Because you've got everybody in
Hollywood, everybody in the propaganda press, everybody in the establishment just willing to
engage in complete deception and fabulousm to create this alternate universe where those things aren't
real. We should point out that she hasn't done anything as VP. In
fact, the one thing she was given the border, she failed that she
didn't really try to help that situation. She's also an authoritarian, right.
I mean this in the realist sense, like she is a person who believes
that citizens individual rights should come, you know, second to authority of the
state. She's done it when when she was ag when she was a prosecutor
in San Francisco. I'm not even talking about jailing criminals. Jailing criminals is
good. I'm talking about her using law to like go after, you know,
parents of kids who don't show up at school and arresting them, like
trying to implement social policy through through her office, which was not her job
anyway. I don't want to get too into that too much, but there
was this ad yesterday by a candidate in Pennsylvania McCormick McCormick running for Senate in
Pennsylvania, that has her on video taking positions like she doesn't believe illegal immigrant
or illegal alien crossing should be criminal, there should be civil matter that she
believes that all private health insurance should be eliminated. I forgot what else.
You know, there's a whole slew of things that she sell. She wants
to basically eliminate our fossil fuel economy. I mean she she is a proponent
of the Green New Deal, not the she endorsed at the day it came
out during the campaign. I think in twenty nineteen that she's not like endorsing
some water down version of it. She's endorsing the one that says there'll be
no air travel, there'll be no meat, there'll be no combustible engshits right,
like she is one hundred percent in. I don't believe she actually believes
that stuff. Then there is a whole her personality which no one seems to
like. But then how she acted in the Senate, what she did to
Brett Kavanaugh, she was one of the just She simply disregarded due process.
She smeared her political opponents. I mean, she's just a terrible person from
start to finish. As a politician, she just a terrible, terrible person.
Thank you, welcome to what I said. I would like to add
to all of that because I completely agree, and I'm so glad you brought
up the Dave McCormick ad. I thought it was brilliantly done. It was
a model for what other people should do, and that is a you know,
it's a heavy hitters working on that campaign. They did a really good
job with that ad. And also it's important to kind of define someone quickly.
Absolutely, yeah, particularly so when you've got when you're battling against the
entire regime and all of their powers. By showing her very clear and extremely
clear positions that are bat guano insane, it was devastating and it just kept
going. It was brutal. It was on everything, like you pointed out,
not just destroying the energy sector of the US economy, but being so
callous about it and also wanting people to stop eating meat, like from big
things to other big things. It just was really bad. When she said
she wanted to decriminalize crossing a border and make sure that illegal border crossers have
you fund their healthcare, I mean, really radical positions. On that note,
Elizabeth Warren said that when she was asked for like a single accomplishment Harris
had done, she said, well, she's the first vice president to go
witness and abortion or something like that. It was like, only Molly,
is that crazy. She's right, that is her biggest achievements vice president.
So yeah, So on that note, one of the interesting things about the
propaganda that came out that rolled out with this thing was an immediate claim that,
contrary to what had been written about for years, Kamala Harris was never
tasked with fixing the border. Okay, so you had all these propaganda people
say Republicans say that Kamala Harris had was in charge of fixing the border.
But that's not true. They're lying. Cut to all of the corporate media
articles, the propaganda articles with headlines like Kamala Harris has been tasked with fixing
the border, Kamala Harris is the new borders are, Kamala Harris is in
charge of diplomatic relations to fix the border. I mean, all of these
headlines from a Politico, Axios, La Times, and now they're saying she
was not the borders are now. I think the Democrat line that the propaganda
press is repeating is that, yes, she was tasked with fixing the border,
but it was never an official office called the borders are. It wasn't
an official title of czar, so she was just in charge of it.
She wasn't technically she was like the president of fixing the border, not the
czar or the director in charge of fixing the border, not the czar.
I mean, it is it is sick and disgusting what corporate media will do.
But I also think it's a really good indication of the vulnerability that Kamala
Harris has on this. If she had fixed the border, they would be
calling her the borders are. If the border weren't a huge vulnerability for the
Biden Harris administration, they'd be celebrating that she was in charge of the border.
By the way, old SNL S gets making fun of the fact that
Biden made her borders are, and what a difficult job that would be to
fix, Like the idea that you can rewrite history here is insane. But
it also speaks to this huge vulnerability that Republicans, if they want to win,
should capitalize on. And it's not just about the border. It's about
how Kamala exudes incompetence across many levels. And they will probably go to town
on that. Well, you're right, I just wanted to go back to
something you said earlier. All her the things that were in the McCormick ad
Now, either she needs to come out and say, well it changed my
mind, it didn't mean it. Then she's just this person who can't be
trusted, who's a flip flopper, who has no principles, you know,
all that or she's a radical. Either way, that's not good for her.
So they that ad, they should just take it and run it,
like Trump should just take that ad and run it as is, just put
his name on it. Seriously, I mean, it's perfect agreed. Okay,
Now, I'd also like to follow up on what you said about Kavanaugh.
Yeah, I was talking to my co author, the brilliant and talented
Carrie Severino yesterday because we wrote quite a bit about Kamala Harris in our book
Justice on Trial, the Kavanaugh Confirmation, and the Future of the Supreme Court,
but I had forgotten certain parts about it. So a lot of people
like to pretend like this was a totally orderly, decent, and civilized process
until the Washington Post ran their hoax, falsely accusing Brett Kavanaugh being a serial
gang rapist. In fact, that's not true. Day one of the hearings,
as Chuck Grassley is introducing Brett Kavanaugh's children. You know, it's very
common for the family of the nominee to be there on the first day,
and as he's introducing the children, Kamala Harris objects and demands that the preceding
stop. She was the first person to turn it into a complete joke.
There was this orchestrated Democrat senator campaign to ship in protesters who were paid by
third party groups and had their bail money taken care of as they were arrested.
Have them create an absolute disaster in the Senate judiciary here, run a
little insurrection against a constitutional process. And Kamala Harris was the first senator to
participate in that. And then you get to the part where she tried to
lay down a perjury trap, something that would have potentially gotten her disbarred if
it was outside of the Senate but inside of a courtroom. She was praised
for this by the corrupt propaganda press, particularly the Washington Post and Politico.
But she said, you know, there's this one law firm. Have you
ever spoken to anyone at that law firm? And it's like a law firm
with like fifteen hundred people. And so Kavanaugh kind of having been warned by
Ted Cruz, I think it was that someone like Kamala might try to lay
down a perjury trap, and it's very important to take it seriously. It's
like, well, that's a large law firm. I would you know,
I'd have to know, and she immediately starts says, Oh, it looks
like you're trying to hide something Brett Cavanaugh. He's like, well, I'm
just what are you getting at, Like, do you have a particular person
you want to ask me about or anything like that. She's like, Oh,
I think you know exactly who I'm talking about, Brett Cavanaugh, and
you're covering it up because you're you know. She just kind of goes crazy.
Well, the war room for Brett Kavanaugh was like the best Supreme Court
nomination process war room in history. He just was kind of like connected to
every big time lawyer in DC and they were all staffing it. They quickly
figure out that she's trying to catch him in something about like he has a
buddy who worked there, and whether he talked about the molar investigation with this
guy. Oh yeah, They call the guy. He's like, we never
talked about it, And so then he comes back and he's like, yeah,
I never talk to him about it. You just wanted to like kind
of make sure And it completely blew up in her face, but only after
corporate media ran slagh Queen, You're the best ever come of you destroyed Brett
Kavanaugh. Even though it was a comp like it was a complete nothing.
I think it's interesting and instructive because I do think she'll, by the way,
be very good in a debate for exactly this kind of reason. She
does not care about lying, like horrifically lying to score points, and you
will have the propaganda press there cheerleading her the entire way. I mean,
they make a lot of assumption about assumptions about her popularity with young people and
so forth. The polls bear none of their praise out right. So let's
talk about so they I just quickly want to say, so there was the
borders are stuff just quickly mentioned Axios had the same reporter say she wasn't the
borders are who culled her borders are like two years ago, same writer,
same writer. But you know how they take out their pedantic, microscopic check
machines, like anything you say that's not completely literal will be fact checked.
But yet they can report in a different way. I think we actually need
to put a pin on this what we've witnessed from the corrupt propaganda press in
recent days, in recent in the last month. Let's say so, actually,
let's just get me throughout the Biden administration. So we had tons of
people in twenty twenty making jokes about how senile Joe Biden was, and you
had the media attacking people who made those jokes, and you had the media
defending Joe Biden's many verbal gafs, calling them a stutter and saying that you
were a bad person if you pointed out the verbal gafs because they were a
stutter. They created a scenario where Biden could campaign from his basement and restrict
Trump from campaigning in front of crowds, which is kind of his strength.
Something by the way, that the Secret Service has told him he can't do
now, which's huge election interference from the Biden Harris administration. But we get
to the debate, he metaphorically defecates in the bed, and they realize that
their ability to drag him across the finish line is making them look or even
horrifically worse than they're willing to look, and so they immediately switch to pushing
him out and replacing him with someone who can win. And they achieve this
because our corporate media are incredibly powerful. They use anonymous sources and they run
an info op to get Biden out replace him with Harris, And the moment
they replace him with Harris, they start praising Harris in ways that they actually
hadn't been when they were trying to sort of like do a soft challenge on
Biden. She's actually competent, she's brilliant, she's beautiful, the kid's lover.
Everything is just so great. But I want to point out how our
propaganda press operates. The other day, CNN has this anti speech activist named
Oliver Darcy. I think he's like, truly, he's kind of messed up
in the head kind of person. Every single day he sends out newsletters trying
to get people fired for speaking freely or for saying things he disagrees with.
It's an obsession and CNN loves it, which is why they give him lots
of money to do this. Well. A couple days ago, he says
that you can't say the media are biased on behalf of Democrats because they just
criticize Joe Biden and this guy, Paul Farhey. Do you know who he
is? I can read the tweet. If you like that you're talking about,
have it in front of me. Good and obvious point by Oliver Darcy.
Here if the media was truly in the tank for Biden, as conservatives
of a long insisted. How to explain the avalanche of negative coverage and commentary
after June twenty seventh that helped drive him from the race. This is the
dumb by the way, this is the dumbest point I've ever heard in my
life. But go on, you tell me why. Well, and it
is the dumbest point. I'd like to dunk on it. But I also
want to point out that there are people who should know better who are also
falling for this. There is a listener to this podcast who is like,
basically was like really happy that the media we're writing negative stories on Biden.
So I'm going to read this tweet from or text from him. Imagine if
the press got bitten by the bug to do this more often to both sides.
What if they just hammered both parties constantly and for real stories, not
just one sided hoaxes. And I'm like, but he says another thing,
Hold on, there are many interesting journalistic angles to the past few weeks.
What we are now observing is what happens when the press does even the barest
modicum of reporting on a democratic White House. Yes, yes, I know
that what about or complaining about the media is for losers, but this is
breathtaking. It is not as though Woodward and Bernstein were needed to break the
story that the president is obviously demented, something three quarters of the country has
told pollsters for years. So we're just kind of going back and he wants
to praise the media for writing that Biden was senile, and it's like,
you gotta get this. They weren't doing journalism there. Everybody knew he was
senile, and they were attacking people who said it for years. The only
reason they pretended to report accurately about Biden was because they viewed him as a
threat to their continued power. Contrary to what idiots like Oliver Darcy and Paul
Farrh have to say, the complaint of conservatives is not that the media are
in the tank for Joe Biden. It's that the media are in the tank
for whatever advances Democrat power. And that explains why they can spend a week
or two going after Biden to replace with someone that they feel more comfortable doing
propaganda on behalf of nothing about them has changed. And anyone who thinks that's
an interesting or like insightful comment from Darcy or Farhee. It should not be
around sharp objects like you just it's you got it. It's not the nineteen
eighties, everybody. You've got to be aware of how corrupt the propaganda press
is. And if you were in any way confused, just watch what they
did in the last couple of days to recreate Kamala Harris from who she is
into this completely fake, alternate universe of competency and like brilliance, I agree
with all that. In fact, this episode of reporting, which was real
reporting, by the way, just shows us that they don't do their jobs
most of the time. All it did was accentuate the fact that they're in
the tank because they protected Biden until now when they decided that they wanted to
have something new Canada because their cover got blown. They then they just released
all this information on Bidenham and by the way, as soon as he dropped
out, they're back to calling him an accomplished, decent man and a great
president. So they're back to the propaganda because they want to sort of secure
his legacy and help Democrats again. And if they were real reporters, they'd
be talking about what was the package deal that got Biden to do what he
kept saying he didn't want to do. What were the sticks? What were
the carrots? Did they threaten twenty fifth Amendment? Did they threaten that they
would finally start to get the information out about Hunter Biden or the Biden family
business. Did they say, we will give Jill Biden all the money she
needs, and here's the means by which we'll do it. This board position,
in that board position, and someone will buy up all of Hunter's art,
Like what was the package? If they were real journalists, they wouldn't
be saying Joe Biden is the most wonderful president in American history. And you
know, on that note, Joe Biden has horrifically low favorability ratings and horrifically
low job approval ratings. When they say, actually he's the best president in
the history of the country, what they're saying is that like ninety percent of
America doesn't know anything. I mean, by every objective standard, he's been
a bad president. His popularity, but just looking at the economy, inflation
in the world, I mean, I think he's going to be considered one
of the worst presidents. How he bowed out and you're right. Let me
ask you if Donald Trump disappeared. First of all, Joe Biden broke up
with America over at text, as someone said, that's what he did.
He did not show his face, He sent a letter, and then he
disappeared for a week and we don't even know where he was or what was
going on. I'm not being sane here. What is your evidence that Joe
Biden did that? Like, well, I'm sorry, so no, yeah,
I mean, I'm going to trust that he wrote that letter. He's
out why I don't know, I mean, because I have no reason to
believe that he's not really stepping down or didn't know he's going to give a
speech tonight. We'll see, right, I mean, I think he probably,
I should say, I don't think he wrote that letter. I think
someone wrote that letter for him. I think he wrote it. Someone posted
it where we have not heard from him at all except I think he he
had that weird phone call when Kamala illegally took over the campaign operation where he
was like, gotcha, Jack, you got it, you got it.
Disturt, I have to say it's a d The American President's out of commission.
We don't know who's running the country for a week because he got you
know, he has a cold or whatever, and the world doesn't stop.
You know, the Prime Minister of Israel is coming to town. No one's
there to greet the guy. This is not a normal way to conduct business
for an administration. It's just insanity, and no one cares. I just
if Donald Trump disappeared for a week, it would be the just a massive
story, and rightly so. So anyway, he was a terrible president.
Another thing at the media that the media lie about. Last week, stories
came out saying that various Democrat actvists who claimed to be media wanted the media
to stop using the iconic picture of Donald Trump surviving the assassination attempt. You
also have noticed a lot of people referring to the assassination attempt in the media
as a shooting or even a fatal shooting, but not an assassination attempt.
They are so ready to move on from the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
And I just want to say, I don't think I've ever been less ready
to move on from anything than I am to move on from that. And
even the way they're hiding the picture and they are like that's a picture that
you would normally assume you would start seeing everywhere on news stands, everywhere.
Yesterday, when I went to my liberal neighborhood, like liberal grocery store,
I got confronted with Jill Biden, you know magazine covers. Yeah, I
mean, we haven't even gotten into this, but the how the Secret Services
acted and what's happened, you know, just the information that keeps coming out
is just mind boggling. Either you're in on it or you are the most
incompetent agency that has ever existed, right, I mean, those are the
two choices we're left with. And that's basically that's basically the two choices we're
left with with almost every agency in American governance. Now. It is a
very bad place to be if I'm Donald Trump, I'm not sure I go
and do outdoor events with the Secret Service guarding me right now, because either
they are terrible at their jobs. And did you who was it a Costa
forgot what his first name is? Ns Jim Acosta saying that it's wrong to
say that the Secret Service didn't protect the president. He was telling someone which
is trying to find a way to say this president Trump said the Secret Service
had not protected him. He said this after he was shot in the head
at a Secret Service protected rally. Okay, so it's not really in dispute.
And Jim Acosta was like, what a horrible thing to say that the
Secret Service didn't protect him. He was shot in the head and only by
the grace of God a slight head tilt and a'm moving forward that is only
explained by providence. You know, he survived. And Jim Acosta is mad
and wants to defend the Secret Service. Also, by the way, Joe
Biden, or the person who writes Joe Biden's letters, praised the Secret Service
director following her allowance of a shot to the head of his party's opponent.
Yeah, she had one job. She sucked at her job. Everyone sucks
at their job these days in the government. Depends on what you think her
job was. I know, I am less inclined to just give in to
my worst fears, but on this, I actually don't blame people. I
don't blame people for wondering. It's such such incompetence. I mean, it's
I don't blame people for wondering. I don't. Oh my lord, so
let's talk a little bit more if you'd like about the media and the turnaround.
So I just wanted to mention this story. I wish I had the
name in front of me. There was a reporter. I think it's the
next or incoming head of the Washington Jane Daniels. Yeah, so he accused
this morning on Fox and Friends, Brian Killmead just a really nice guy.
He said something like, what do you say college fraternity or something like that,
and this reporter tweeted out that he had said colored fraternity, that it
was racist. He was pointing out that Kamala Harris is boycotting the net and
Yahu speech to speak at her college sorority. And Eugene Daniels lied and falsely
claimed that Brian Killmead he just basically creates this like race hoax and says Brian
kill Mead said this other word, it's a complete lie. Only someone delusional
and filled with hate would come up with it. But this guy is the
head, the president of the absolutely ridiculous White House Correspondence Association, and he's
also with Politico Playbook, and he gets to lie and create race hoaxes and
just be like a complete and utter fraud. Then he you know, he
does. After everyone's like, wow, you're an idiot and a liar,
he deletes it and he's like, Fox tells me that's not what he said.
And so I'll take them at their word. Oh bleep, you bleeper,
bleeper, Like you'll take them at their word. How about just stop
lying and admit you lied and just like, also quit journalism because you're all
a bunch of frauds. Is that great? Sorry? No, no,
I would give an alternative theory to this, though I believe you're probably right.
The theory is this, the American left right now is so obsessed with
race that they hear these sorts of things because it's projection. They're obsessed with
race, and he thinks everyone he disagrees with is a racist, so he
hears these kinds of things. Then he says, afterwards, I spoke to
Fox News like you mentioned this, and then he says, and I plan
on speaking with Brian off the air. They made it clear to me,
Hughes College not colored, and you know, I'll believe them, which,
of course insinuates that there was ever any question about it in the first place,
or that there is any question about it now. But let me ask
you this. Don't you think that the head of the White House Press Association,
whatever it's called, should have first reached out to Fox News, should
have first talked to Brian off the air before smearing him and potentially destroying his
career. That's what a real journalist would have done. But these people are
not journalists. Not journalists. That's why when people say, oh, you
waste your time, you know, critiquing the media. I'm not critiquing the
media. I'm critiquing left wing propagandasts. These are not journalists. Not in
my view. It's one our listener who was praising the media for doing journalism
to think about things like this and whether they should ever be praised. Yes,
you would hope that the head of the White House Correspondence Association would know
that journalism is about finding out if what you're thinking is true before you publish
it to an audience of millions. And then my job is not journalism,
it's propaganda. But if you're wrong, you don't say it. Take them
at their word. You say I made a terrible mistake. Smearing this person
as a raceis something that is very hard to disprove. You know what I
mean. So it's just this is going to happen over and over again,
now, you know. It's just for sure. I saw politicians others repeating
this claim already, so it is just now embedded in the in the discourse.
You know. I was thinking that it does seem like this election is
about whether you want to go down or go back to like the glory days
of riots in the summer of twenty twenty. Like the media immediately said,
if if you criticize Kamala Harris for any reason, you are a racist.
They're doing it at the New York Times, They're doing it at Politico,
They're doing it at all these major outlets. You are not allowed to criticize
this incompetent person. Even calling her incompetent is supposedly race tinged, or maybe
it's sexist. Do people really want to live in that world? Like I
am so sick to death of the identity focused world. I cannot stand it.
But do I think maybe some voter, I mean, it works.
Democrats wouldn't do it if it doesn't work. And clearly there are a lot
of people, whether they are white women who want to be allies or other
people who really want to be focused on identity. It clearly works, right.
I think people are sick of it. I think normal people are sick
of it. I have no proof of that. I think people are scared
to say they're sick of it. I'm happy brought this up. By the
way, I wrote a column about this just now. It's if you point
out that Kamala was affirmative action high or diversity higher, they get so mad
at you. Morning. Joe says, what is this nineteen fifty one?
Why is d e I stuff? Why is it a negative? It's like
a it's a tacit admission that the accus that it is racist policy to begin
with that it degrades your accomplishments, you know what I'm saying? Like it
said, why are they upset that anyone's just pointing out? Joe Biden said,
I am going to pick a vice president whos a black woman. That's
what he said. Not the best thing candidate technically, He said he was
going to be sexist in his approach, but not necessarily racist. He said
he would be sexist, and then when he when it came down to like
the final four they were all black women, he said he would be both
sexist and racist in his selection of a Supreme Court nominee. By the way,
this is something that not just Democrats do, and I find it really
as a woman. Just kidding, but I find it really annoying to be
like we are, we're going to be discriminatory in our selection here and thereby
possibly not get the best candidate. It's really annoying to me. But also,
is DEI a good thing or a bad thing? Because the Left claims
that it's the most wonderful thing ever. But if you say it's a thing,
then they go, you're mean for saying the thing that we said is
great is happening? Yeah, if it's in ABC, said Kamaliras faces racial
di attacks amid campaign. So they say this because it is racial. It
is racist. This kind of policy. And imagine now a person who's just
trying to a minority woman trying to make her way in the world, doesn't
DEI degrade her accomplishments as well? And yet you know we're not allowed to
say this about the vice president. Is really confusing. It's not confusing because
they know it's racist policy. They keep being counting people. Now, listen,
people are candidates even JD. Bans's picked because he appeals to a certain
population. I get that. But Donald Trump didn't go around saying I'm going
to pick a white male you for this position, or even a mail for
this position. He picked someone, you know, for other reasons. And
you know, there's no way anyone's going to tell me that Harris was the
best person available to be vice president for Joe Biden. Just there's just no
way you're going to tell me that she did. She didn't make it to
Iowas, she couldn't keep together a campaign. She is just ridiculous or policy
positions. I just think there are a lot better choices than her. Okay,
and I've read your piece that is about this, which everyone's welcome to
read at the Federalist dot com, But I'm not sure I actually think of
in a sea of bad choices, Kamala was maybe one of the better ones.
I mean, she is she has charisma, something that Joe Biden used
to have but had completely lost by twenty twenty. And he's kind of like
writing on the fumes of that. She has extremely powerful allies. You know,
Barack Obama is her person. He helped orchestrate a coup to replace Biden
with her, but her incompetence actually kept Biden as president for longer than I
think the plan was because nobody could see her being bad. But then when
it was so bad, you know, the media can use her and her
I don't know, I'm not really making a great case for her, but
she did win elected office in California, which is not the most difficult thing
in the world, and she had an interesting way of getting there and all
that, but she made it. What whatever do you mean. I'm just
saying California Democrat politics can be difficult. You know, it's basically an entirely
Democrat state now, and so the challenge there is to win Democrat primaries as
opposed to general elections. I'll say it. I mean, she had the
right boyfriend for a while, and that boyfriend helped her. So, first
of all, the claim that she is charismatic, I think is false.
I think most people find her very arismatic. It's just going to say,
I get your get your inclination to push back on what I'm saying, But
I don't think that's true. Can I mention one last thing? By the
way, you keep saying Coop and stuff like that. Here's an important thing
to remember about that primary. She was not voted on by the Everyone's always
saying, you know, you know, big money to people have this power
over politics, and people never you know, and the normal voter doesn't.
I have never seen a case of that being more true than with Kamala Harris.
Big donors pushed by now they stop giving him money so they could get
their candidate in. That candidate is Harris. Harris owes everything if she becomes
president. She owes everything to the kingmakers of the and queen makers of the
Democratic Party, not the voters. So you know, she owes her career
to them. She was appointed basically to be Senator of California. She was
appointed to be vice president, though I don't think she you know, the
voters didn't really want her, and now you know, if she wins,
she wins. It's true. But she was appointed basically by to be the
you know, Democratic Party president candidate, not by voters. So it's something
to remember, especially coming from people who love democracy so much, who claim
that big money should be taken out of politics and all of that. You
know, thank you again for listening to me. No, that's a really
good point. By the way, yesterday Chuck Schumer said this was a real
triumph of the grassroots. You know, they picked Kamalots. It's a raisin
lie, and yet I saw it on news shows with no pushback. Al
Sharpton said the same thing, that she was the grassroots candidate. Man,
maybe she would. I suspect if there was an open primery, she would
not win. I don't think she would be. I think there are many
governors who probably have more appeal than she does. But I don't know for
sure. She is the vice she was the vice president. All that she
may very well win, but we don't know that that's for sure. It's
certainly not a grassroots effort. It's the opposite. I think we've covered almost
everything we needed to cover for now. So that was I'm impressed by us.
Good job, thank you. Okay, yes, that's it. So
let's talk about something different called culture. And I don't have much to say
here right now because I didn't watch much to do. I've been busier in
the last month than I have in my entire life. But I do want
to share the story of how I got home from the convention. Oh yeah,
please do so We were supposed to fly out from Chicago on Friday afternoon,
and we had to take a train from Milwaukee to Chicago. The whole
reason why we were flying out from Chicago is because by the time we arranged
flights, there was nothing out of Wisconsin for cheaper than like nine hundred dollars,
So this was our plan. I wake up that morning, I'm getting
a ton of text from people who are like, the airports are insaying you
might not get out, you know that kind of thing. So I immediately
try to rent a car online. Every single rental car agency, big,
small, nobody has any cars. And I'm like, wow, they sold
out of cars right away, and so I'm like, well, I guess
we just had to O'Hare to beautiful O'Hare. On the way down in the
train, the guy behind us asks a guy who's waiting to get off at
the stop before the downtown Chicago stop, I forget what the name of the
town is. He says, you look like a guy that would know is
you know, is Pisano's the best pizza? And he says I might look
like a guy who knows, but I just am flying out of O'Hare and
that's why I'm getting off here. And I realized that that's a better stop
to get off to go to O'Hare. It's like a shorter distance. So
we get off. We scramble off, and we're taking an uber to the
airport. And I'm like, what if we just walked into one of these
local non airport rental car places and just tried to get a car. So
we reroute the uber to the local enterprise, and to make a very long
story short, we figured out a way to get a rental car. The
issue was they were banning one way rentals. We worked our way around it.
I think I should say no more. And we drove home and every
hour we picked up Nate Cavanaugh of the Federalist who was waiting, who was
supposed to be on our flight. Every hour they just kept allaying our flight,
and by the time we hit Pennsylvania, they had canceled our flight.
So we made the right call. I just want to say, a two
am to four a m drive from Chicago to Virginia, I've had better rides.
I've done more exciting things. I mean, it was just brutal.
We were sorry. This isn't very exciting now. It is just reat we
had. You know. It took us hours to get through Chicago because of
traffic. There was a slowdown in Gary because an RV caught on fire.
There was a complete and utter shutdown of the Pennsylvania Turnpike shocker, because of
another vehicle fire. Every time like we're in the clear, another disaster would
happen. How long was the ride? I think it was about thirteen hours.
You did it in one shot? Heck, yeah, okay, so
overnight drove. You didn't stop at any to take a nap or anything.
We stopped like three times for gas. The last one was like right before
home, but we couldn't make it. I had a rental recently in San
Antonio, Texas, and I decided that I was going to take it one
way to Virginia without telling anyone. And I just did it and dropped it
off at the local I'm not going to name the company, and waited to
see what would happen. And they didn't charge me anything. Hum. Yeah,
I got away with it. It was a long drive. That's exciting.
I don't have anything. I watched some old movies. I watched my
favorite romance comedy of all time, Nodding Hill my relative of mine had never
seen it. And then I watched a movie called The Intern with Robert de
Niro. Have you ever seen this? Second? No? Yeah, you
know, it's fine. Oh I did watch a movie. My husband keeps
making me watch like violent male movies. Acent which one the Fighter the Fighter
with? Is that with the guy who played Batman or whatever? My confusing
movies? Okay, wait, no, sorry, Oh my gosh. You
know Clark Wahlberg and the other guy. Yeah, yeah, Christian Bale.
Christian Bale, who's awesome, and Amy Adams, who's very good, my
old junior high and high school chum, Amy Adams. It was a really
good movie, but it was very violent, and I don't do well watching
movies about drug use, which it also had a lot of that. That
was hard for me, But I have to admit it was very very good.
Yeah, it's like working class people, like in Pennsylvania or something or
Massachusetts and maybe ever again. All right, yeah, that's a good movie.
Well that was our culture. We got up our culture game a bit.
Oh you know what I watched on HBO Max a pottery competition which was
kind of like The Great British Baking Show, kind of thing. But they
do pottery in Briton. You can mock me, but that looks like a
lot of fun. People with the you know, the spinning wheel and the
clay. Okay, my favorite thing in the Federalist chat is how Nathan anytime
someone mentions something old timey, Nathan's like, David understands. I got sick
of it. Did you see that? David gets it? Oh. Mark's
brothers, Dave gets that, Monty Python, Dave gets it. Dave gets
that. I do get Yeah. Well, I want to say again,
you said it at the beginning, but we had forgotten for like six weeks
to tell people to email us at radio. At the Federalist dot com,
everyone keeps We've gotten a lot of good email, which we read Mark inwardly
digest, but we it's just really great to get it, so keep it
coming. Yeah. I figure if I say it at the end, then
you know people more people will email because no one wants to go. Also,
I think you're supposed to say rate us. People always telling me how
much they like you, David, but they're supposed to rate us. Somewhere
there's a separate stars Mark here. I don't even know how it goes out.
Yes, please, I hear this on other podcasts. Please give us
a good review on whatever platform you use to listen to your podcasts. We
enjoy the feedback. You can mail us at radio at the Federalist dot com.
We'd love to hear from you. Is that some professional trying to be
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Actually, you know, we mentioned one today. We dunked on one email
our today. So write us and we may dunk on you as well.
But until then, loads of freedom. I'm anxious