Speaker 1: Do you all remember when Hillary Clinton picked Tim Kine
Speaker 1: to be her running mate. That was something It was
Speaker 1: something pretty boring, It was something pretty ineffective. Cain was
Speaker 1: kind of an obscure member of the Senate. He was
Speaker 1: not particularly well known or noteworthy on the national stage.
Speaker 1: I think the pick of Cain was kind of a
Speaker 1: surprise to people in twenty sixteen. Virginia was not really
Speaker 1: viewed as a battleground state. Trump wound up surprisingly making
Speaker 1: it competitive, but nobody, you know, thought of Virginia as
Speaker 1: a swing state. He was portrayed as a moderate, but
Speaker 1: was you know, still able to have Republicans kind of
Speaker 1: ding him for voting for Democrats with Democrats most of
Speaker 1: the time. He was kind of milk toast. He was
Speaker 1: kind of boring. There wasn't really a whole heck of
Speaker 1: a lot to say about him, and I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone really thought of that as an inspired pick by
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. But it was also, I think a thing
Speaker 1: where this is not someone who is going to be
Speaker 1: threatening to Hillary. I think Tim Waltz, the governor of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: is the next Tim Kane, only I think possibly worse.
Speaker 1: I think he's he can very easily be painted as
Speaker 1: a much more radically left wing figure than Kine. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be very hard to portray Waltz
Speaker 1: as moderate. The only reason I think Democrats will be
Speaker 1: able to portray Waltz as a moderate Democrat is because
Speaker 1: he is an old, overweight white guy from the Midwest.
Speaker 1: They're kind of banking on you looking at him and saying, well,
Speaker 1: he's an old, fat white guy from the Midwest. Old
Speaker 1: fat white guys from the Midwest generally are not radical liberals.
Speaker 1: An old fat white guy from the Midwest who's wearing
Speaker 1: a suit in every photo of him, I guess Michael
Speaker 1: Moore was an old fat is an old fat white
Speaker 1: guy from the Midwest, but he never wears a suit.
Speaker 1: So I think people assume that, well, here's this old
Speaker 1: fat white guy from the Midwest. He wears a suit. Like,
Speaker 1: what percentage of that demographic is a radical liberal? But
Speaker 1: Waltz is radically liberal. He's radically pro transgenderism, he's radically
Speaker 1: pro abortion, he's radically oversaw. He was governor during the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty George Floyd riots. So if you don't like
Speaker 1: how the George Floyd post George Floyd riots went in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: He's the guy to blame. Gosh. I just think it's
Speaker 1: such a weak selection, and I think what's happening here, though,
Speaker 1: is a couple of different things. One is, I think
Speaker 1: this is the Democrats really not wanting to deal with
Speaker 1: the question of Israel and Palestine and how that issue
Speaker 1: is going to be sorted out within the Democrat electorate.
Speaker 1: Harris has I think, very deliberately signaled a kind of ambiguity.
Speaker 1: Democrats realized with Biden was too old. He was perceived
Speaker 1: as two pro Israel. All these young Democrats were fleeing
Speaker 1: from him. They brought in Harris. Harris immediately did a
Speaker 1: couple of strategic things to sort of signal she might
Speaker 1: be more pro Palestinian than Biden. There were reports that
Speaker 1: went out saying that she wasn't going to bring back
Speaker 1: Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blincoln and the Biden foreign policy crew.
Speaker 1: Some report that she she refused to show up for
Speaker 1: Benjamin Netna Who's address before the Joint Session of Congress,
Speaker 1: even though she's President of the Senate and that would
Speaker 1: have been appropriate for her to go. She deliberately did
Speaker 1: not go. She clearly made that choice, but still she
Speaker 1: hasn't actually really openly signaled any big break from the
Speaker 1: Biden administration's policy. So I think she's threaded the needle perfectly.
Speaker 1: Older white Democrats still like her, but she is sort
Speaker 1: of reeled back the younger, more pro Palestinian Democrats who
Speaker 1: were sick and tired and fed up with genocide Joe
Speaker 1: Biden picking Waltz rather than the much more obvious choice
Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who I was hoping
Speaker 1: against Hope. I was desperately hoping she would not pick Shapiro.
Speaker 1: I was desperately hoping she wasn't going to pick Shapiro.
Speaker 1: Why because I think if she picked Shapiro, she'd win
Speaker 1: the election. I think it would guarantee that she's gonna
Speaker 1: win Pennsylvania because he's actually been a fairly popular governor.
Speaker 1: After the shooting in Butler, after President Trump's near assassination,
Speaker 1: Shapiro actually gave a press conference. He's the governor of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: The attempted presidential assassination happened in his state, and he
Speaker 1: gave a great press conference heralding the heroism of Corey Comparatore,
Speaker 1: the Trump's supporter in the crowd or fire chief who
Speaker 1: died in the shooting protecting his family. He gave a
Speaker 1: great press conference honoring the guy, said that the flags
Speaker 1: need to be flown at half staff in his honor.
Speaker 1: Uh talked about a horrible thing. This what he was
Speaker 1: great and he's a great speaker. He's relatively young. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people were looking at him as like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you know when when it was clear that
Speaker 1: Biden was going to drop out, a lot of people
Speaker 1: were saying, well, why not have an open Democrat convention
Speaker 1: process and maybe see if this guy wants to be
Speaker 1: the presidential nominee? What why why just coronate? Why just
Speaker 1: have this be a coronation for Kamala Harris? Why not
Speaker 1: have this guy do it? A lot of people were saying,
Speaker 1: I feel like Trump when I say a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying it. Very many people,
Speaker 1: the best people are saying that. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are saying, so why do they not pick Josh Shapiro
Speaker 1: cause he's Jewish and he supports Israel And that's kind
Speaker 1: of sort of an issue for a lot of people
Speaker 1: on the left.
Speaker 2: They're not very happy with that.
Speaker 1: And there was that story that he had volunteered for
Speaker 1: the IDF when he was like twenty or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, like.
Speaker 1: Not the There is this undercurrent of where support for
Speaker 1: the support for Palestinian statehood and opposition to quote, the
Speaker 1: Israeli state.
Speaker 2: And its colonial activity.
Speaker 1: It's a very fine line where you go from anti Zionism.
Speaker 2: I e.
Speaker 1: The idea of a Jewish state in Palestine to flat
Speaker 1: out anti Semitism. I feel like it's very easy to
Speaker 1: cross the line from one to the other. And frankly,
Speaker 1: Democrats have a problem with that that there is a
Speaker 1: enough of a group of voters for whom that's a
Speaker 1: big deal, and specifically there's some voters in Michigan and
Speaker 1: some voters in Minnesota for whom that's an issue. Dearborn Michigan,
Speaker 1: very heavy Muslim population, various quarters of Minnesota, big Somali population,
Speaker 1: very pro Palestine, not very pro Israel. It's frankly, it's
Speaker 1: a very awkward situation for Democrats because I think if
Speaker 1: you take away the whole Israel Jewish connection and you're
Speaker 1: just looking at Waltz on the one hand and Shapiro
Speaker 1: on the other hand, it's clear whom you would have chosen.
Speaker 1: Shapiro is younger, he's a better speaker, he's more charismatic.
Speaker 1: His state is a much more critical swing state that
Speaker 1: is much more decisive for the outcome of the election.
Speaker 1: He's got much more of a future in American politics
Speaker 1: than Waltz does. And maybe that last point is the
Speaker 1: other dynamic. So I do think the Jewish thing is
Speaker 1: a real thing. I do wonder also, though, if Waltz
Speaker 1: being older and being non threatening could be a thing. Look,
Speaker 1: Harris just showed that a vice president can upset a
Speaker 1: president and become the nominee over the president. Now, in fairness,
Speaker 1: that was a kind of an extraordinary circumstance where it
Speaker 1: only happened because the president was so senile, obviously senile
Speaker 1: and old, and so obviously unable to win, that the
Speaker 1: donors had an intervention. But we've now demonstrated that this
Speaker 1: is a thing. And I think, much like Hillary, Harris
Speaker 1: picks someone who wasn't threatening, I mean, Shapiro. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna put Harris and Shapiro's side by side, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Harris is not that bright, or at the very least,
Speaker 1: she certainly doesn't come off that way when she doesn't
Speaker 1: have a teleprompter in front of her, and the two
Speaker 1: of them sitting side by side, it kind of becomes
Speaker 1: obvious which of the two is the more impressive person
Speaker 1: with Waltz. Look, this is that's what Walls is. Minnesota
Speaker 1: is a pretty darn liberal state. It's kind of closer
Speaker 1: to being a swing state this time around, maybe, but
Speaker 1: Democrats should win Minnesota. They should win Minnesota every year.
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan didn't even win Minnesota in a state where
Speaker 1: he won forty nine out of fifty state in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four election, when Ronald Reagan won forty nine
Speaker 1: out of fifty states, the one state he didn't win
Speaker 1: was Minnesota. Democrats should win Minnesota. And it's basically this.
Speaker 1: If you run a cardboard box with the letter D
Speaker 1: on it in the governor's race for governor of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: nine times out of ten that cardboard box is going
Speaker 1: to win. Tim Waltz is that cardboard box. Basically, he
Speaker 1: is just the general manifestation of Democratic Party policies, all
Speaker 1: of the run of the mill Democrat Party policies. He's
Speaker 1: super pro trans, super pro abortion, super pro this bro
Speaker 1: that he does what Planned Parenthood wants.
Speaker 2: He does what.
Speaker 1: He's just pretty darn average. He is an average, unremarkable liberal.
Speaker 1: He's a big, big, fat guy in a suit. He's
Speaker 1: just not anything to write home about. He's not the
Speaker 1: most charismatic guy in the world. He's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy who can win governor of Minnesota and probably can't
Speaker 1: ever become president. He's just one of those guys, like
Speaker 1: kind of like Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: There's a time when every conservative America was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: Scott Walker, he's so amazing. Oh, this guy is gonna
Speaker 1: be the next president. Oh, he's so amazing as governor
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Then he gets on the debate stage in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Everyone's like, this guy's pretty boring.
Speaker 2: That's Tim Walls.
Speaker 1: Okay, He's just nothing to write home about. So I
Speaker 1: think this is really a pick from a position of
Speaker 1: weakness on Harris's part. Harris is trying to avoid problems
Speaker 1: rather than hit home runs. She's trying to draw a
Speaker 1: walk rather than hit a home run. She wants a
Speaker 1: pick who's not going to do anything that detracts from
Speaker 1: her campaign.
Speaker 2: She's playing it safe. Waltz has not much to.
Speaker 1: Ding him for, although he does have the George Floyd riots,
Speaker 1: but maybe she just figures, Look, the media is not
Speaker 1: going to talk about that at all. There's not much
Speaker 1: hay Republicans are going to be able to make. It
Speaker 1: was too long ago. No one's going to care. Waltz
Speaker 1: was re elected governor of Minnesota after the George Floyd riots,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be really hard to ding him for, Oh,
Speaker 1: look how terribly you handled the George floy You let
Speaker 1: Minneapolis burn. He can say, well, apparently the people in
Speaker 1: Manyapolis thought I did a find job, you know, a
Speaker 1: good enough job that it wasn't my fault, because they
Speaker 1: immediately re elected me in twenty twenty two, after all
Speaker 1: the George Floyd riots in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: So, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I find it to be a this is a
Speaker 1: play it safe pick on Harris's part. It's not a
Speaker 1: home run swing. And I guess I just wonder. I
Speaker 1: wonder about the inevitability fact. Maybe I'm giving into despair.
Speaker 1: But when we return, how I fear this is just
Speaker 1: becoming another twenty twenty Next on the John Girardi Show,
Speaker 1: I just want to express my fear.
Speaker 2: And before you say, stop talking light there. You're playing
Speaker 2: into their hits.
Speaker 1: Guys, I'm a local radio host in president California. Pretty
Speaker 1: sure my fear is not going to lead to the
Speaker 1: outcome of the election changing. Okay, So don't conflate my
Speaker 1: expressing these views on the radio with something that's actually.
Speaker 2: Having a national impact.
Speaker 1: All Right, this is my fear, and it could be
Speaker 1: just I'm a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 2: It could just be.
Speaker 1: Democrats are excited for the first time in months because
Speaker 1: they were able to ditch their obviously senile candidate for
Speaker 1: someone younger, and she's getting a bump in the polls
Speaker 1: because of that. And we're in the bump. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: at the bump. Things will regulate after the Democrat convention
Speaker 1: in August. Things will regulate and course correct in September,
Speaker 1: and Trump will kind of come back up in the polls,
Speaker 1: and that's where the election will be. Harris will still
Speaker 1: not be able to shake the reality that this is
Speaker 1: not a great presidency for her to run on. She
Speaker 1: is the incumbent, she is the vice president of this administration.
Speaker 1: In this administration has overseen a pretty cruddy economy that
Speaker 1: the fundamentals of this election are still pretty strongly in
Speaker 1: Trump's favor. Biden did not do a great job. Harris
Speaker 1: inherits the blame for Biden. The economy is bad, all
Speaker 1: this stuff is happening, okay, And yet, and yet I
Speaker 1: still kind of fear a couple of things. I fear
Speaker 1: the way that Harris is just not being asked any
Speaker 1: questions whatsoever. She's just cruising. No media has asked her
Speaker 1: any questions about all the issues she's flip flopped on.
Speaker 1: No media has asked her any questions about anything dodgy
Speaker 1: in her past. She's just kind of of running what
Speaker 1: a lot of people are identifying. This is a rerun
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty campaign strategy. Joe Biden was sitting
Speaker 1: in his basement in Delaware, campaigning via zoom, not being
Speaker 1: interviewed by a bunch of reporters, not having to ask
Speaker 1: a bunch of tough questions. He pops in for a
Speaker 1: couple debate performances where he did okay, not great, but okay.
Speaker 1: Trump was a little too aggressive, yelled, came off bad,
Speaker 1: and Biden wins. It's close enough that you know, if
Speaker 1: there is Democrat vote, Shenanigans.
Speaker 2: Close enough that they could win.
Speaker 1: I'm just afraid that that's kind of the trajectory we're on.
Speaker 1: That's my fear that Harris has brought back enough Democrats
Speaker 1: who are like abandoning the Biden Ship that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have enough of a critical mass of votes to keep
Speaker 1: it close enough that they could use their sort of advantages,
Speaker 1: not even the flat out cheating, but like, you know,
Speaker 1: the kind of the zuck Bucks stuff where they put
Speaker 1: all kinds of Zuckerberg funded election volunteer people to sort
Speaker 1: of just purely there to get out the vote in
Speaker 1: you know, Democrat heavy urban centers and swing states.
Speaker 2: I just have this.
Speaker 1: Strong sense that we're heading towards a similar conclusion. And
Speaker 1: the big wild card.
Speaker 2: That I just.
Speaker 1: It's still looming is Trump is going to get sentenced
Speaker 1: in September for the prosecution in Manhattan his conviction. He
Speaker 1: was found guilty by the jury in Manhattan for falsification
Speaker 1: of business records.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about this a number of times
Speaker 1: on the show. I think that the whole charge was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I think the conviction was ridiculous. I think the jury
Speaker 1: instructions by the judge the whole time were ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: think the judge should have recused himself. This is a
Speaker 1: judge who was a Biden donor, small dollar donor whose
Speaker 1: daughter had worked for various Democrat campaign causes the whole
Speaker 1: thing stank to high heaven. But Trump's gonna.
Speaker 2: Get sentenced, and what if he sentenced to go to jail.
Speaker 2: It's not like Biden is gonna pardon him. Biden can't
Speaker 2: pardon him. It's a New York state crime.
Speaker 1: It's not Kathy Hockcule is gonna pardon him. And I
Speaker 1: think the media has already effectively memory hold the assassin,
Speaker 1: the assassination attempt. It's like it never happened, Like like
Speaker 1: the media has moved on. Nobody talks about it. Nobody
Speaker 1: talks about the fact that one of the two major
Speaker 1: presidential candidates almost got assassinated, was like two centimeters away
Speaker 1: from getting his brains blown out. It's like it it
Speaker 1: never happened. It's not the biggest story. It was not
Speaker 1: the biggest story of July.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't.
Speaker 1: As far as the amount of press coverage, Biden dropping
Speaker 1: became the bigger story. And basically the media just decided
Speaker 1: showing pictures from the Butler shooting. They couldn't do its
Speaker 1: disinformation basically purely on the basis that Trump looked so
Speaker 1: cool and reacted in such an awesome way that it's
Speaker 1: basically a Trump campaign ad just to show the pictures.
Speaker 1: That's basically in the media's reasoning for why they don't
Speaker 1: want to keep showing pictures from the camp from the assassination.
Speaker 1: Like the AP had one of their leading photo editors
Speaker 1: say that this is basically propagandizing to show this photo.
Speaker 2: What do you mean if propaganda?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, that he reacted in such a totally badass way. Now,
Speaker 1: that's my fear is that the media is so all in.
Speaker 1: They've basically hugely weakened all of them. All of the
Speaker 1: Republican critiques against Biden as being too old, which were
Speaker 1: enormously successful, they've taken those all off the table for
Speaker 1: some reason. Even still right now, it's almost like Republicans arguing, hey,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris should be held responsible for the fact that
Speaker 1: Biden is still president, like is he even competent to
Speaker 1: be president? And she's still covering up how senile he is,
Speaker 1: And it's like nobody cares all those stories that were
Speaker 1: being leaked about how senile Biden was all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: those none of those stories are coming out anymore. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna pretend like there's nothing wrong with the president,
Speaker 1: that he didn't drop out because he was senile. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just feel like there's this sense
Speaker 1: of inevitability that the media so firmly controls the narratives,
Speaker 1: is so firmly influencing people. And plus I mean, just
Speaker 1: anecdotally I'm hearing from it. Just Harris got so much
Speaker 1: money in the immediate aftermath of Biden dropping out, and
Speaker 1: she's running ad after ad after ad after ad all
Speaker 1: over the country, and I'm not seeing any Trump ads.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing people complaining about this in Pennsylvania, like where
Speaker 1: are the Trump ads. I don't know, I'm just not
Speaker 1: confident in the Trump team's strategy. I think the whole
Speaker 1: idea of trying to nitpick whether Harris is authentically black
Speaker 1: or she's presenting herself as more Asian, Like even if
Speaker 1: that's true, it was so stupid, like there was no
Speaker 1: way you were gonna win that there was just no way,
Speaker 1: Like I guess I really get the sense that Republicans
Speaker 1: have no idea how they're supposed to attack Harris, which
Speaker 1: it boggles my mind given that she seems so eminently attackable.
Speaker 1: She's flip flopped every position she's had. She was one
Speaker 1: of the most liberal members of the US Senate. She
Speaker 1: was an aggressively left wing California Attorney general. Like there
Speaker 1: are so many things to dinger for, just say she
Speaker 1: wanted to ban fracking. She wanted to ban fracking. She's
Speaker 1: only flip flopping because she's trying to win Pennsylvania, like
Speaker 1: it's easy.
Speaker 2: And I just feel like Republicans are gonna lose it.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Trump's going to turn to his
Speaker 1: more destructive tendencies of saying unhelpful things because he's never
Speaker 1: really been able to control himself. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just I feel like there's this inevitable trend. All right,
Speaker 1: when we return, I want to talk about Kamala Harris's husband,
Speaker 1: Doug m Hoff, and that story, Yes, the story with
Speaker 1: the nanny next on the John Girardi Show. Doug m Hoff,
Speaker 1: the husband of Kamala Harris, has had quite the news
Speaker 1: cycle just over the last weeks. Amazingly that this news
Speaker 1: cycle didn't happen when Harris was picked as Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: vice presidential nominee back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: But you know, the media was too busy.
Speaker 1: Not covering anything negative about the Biden's or the Harrises
Speaker 1: or Harris slash m Hoff. So. M Hoff was married
Speaker 1: previously and got divorced, and he got divorced in part
Speaker 1: because he cheated on his wife. He had an affair
Speaker 1: with the couple's nanny, nanny who was babysitting their kids.
Speaker 1: Less talked about in the whole thing is that the
Speaker 1: nanny got pregnant and did not keep the baby. That
Speaker 1: is a euphemism for saying that the baby was aborted.
Speaker 1: Em Hoff has a long track record as the second
Speaker 1: dude or the second gentleman. I guess, as you know,
Speaker 1: first lady and second lady when you're the wife of
Speaker 1: the president or vice president, and I guess first or
Speaker 1: second gentleman will be the title for the husband of
Speaker 1: the president or vice president should the president and vice
Speaker 1: president be a woman. So his technical name is the
Speaker 1: second gentleman. M Hoff is sort of a public figure,
Speaker 1: not as dominant as Jill Biden, but somewhat you know
Speaker 1: one click below, and was very vocal, among other things,
Speaker 1: in supportive abortion Rights has tweets and things like that
Speaker 1: to crying the overturning of Robi Wade, very supportive of
Speaker 1: his wife's pro abortion efforts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: This sort of combined with a recent statement by Pete Boodhagige,
Speaker 1: the Transportation Secretary. So there was a recent zoom call
Speaker 1: White Guys for Kamala Harris where a bunch of white
Speaker 1: guys talked about how horrible their white privilege was and
Speaker 1: says how say talked about how important it was to
Speaker 1: support Kamala Harrisy at all these prominent white liberal democrats
Speaker 1: talking about how wonderful Kamala Harris was and raising money
Speaker 1: on a big zoom call, and Pete Bootage spoke during
Speaker 1: it and talked about how abortion rights help men to
Speaker 1: be more or free legal abortion helps men to be
Speaker 1: more free. A curious comment. More free? How more free?
Speaker 2: Why? More free? For what?
Speaker 1: And it gets to an ugly part of the abortion
Speaker 1: debate that I think is not talked about enough and
Speaker 1: needs comment, and that is.
Speaker 2: How often.
Speaker 1: Abortion is not a tool for women's freedom or women's choice.
Speaker 1: In fact, most of the research indicates that the vast
Speaker 1: majority of women who choose abortion are not doing so
Speaker 1: from a position of great freedom or choice. In fact,
Speaker 1: about sixty to seventy percent depending on the survey. The
Speaker 1: most recent survey indicates it's about seventy percent. Seventy percent
Speaker 1: of women report that their abortions were against their preference,
Speaker 1: that the abortion was against the preference of the woman
Speaker 1: having the abortion, meaning I would rather keep this baby,
Speaker 1: but I feel constrained by my financial situation. I would
Speaker 1: rather keep this baby, but my partner does not want
Speaker 1: me to keep the baby. I would rather keep this baby,
Speaker 1: but my family does not want me to keep the baby.
Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. We a Right to
Speaker 1: Life of Central California have encountered this directly. You know,
Speaker 1: we have our sidewalk ministry where we're interacting with couples
Speaker 1: going in and out of playing PARENTID and we have
Speaker 1: not infrequently seen situations where this says, well, my boyfriend
Speaker 1: really wants me to have this abortion. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but my boyfriend's really pushing me to have this abortion,
Speaker 1: and the boyfriend's like, she's having this abortion. Is that choice?
Speaker 1: Is that freedom? And it's not necessarily outright coercion, but
Speaker 1: there's pressure, there's implicit threat, especially in a non marital situation,
Speaker 1: of I really don't want you to have this baby,
Speaker 1: and if you do, I'm out of here. The fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is that abortion is very often a tool,
Speaker 1: more so for men's freedom than women's. It's a tool
Speaker 1: for men to have the freedom not to take responsibility
Speaker 1: for their actions. It's a tool for men to have
Speaker 1: the freedom to avoid the natural outcome of their own
Speaker 1: irresponsible behavior. And there are other prominent examples of this
Speaker 1: in American public life. The journalist Jeffrey Tubin, before he
Speaker 1: was caught trying to pleasure himself during a zoom call
Speaker 1: with his colleagues from The New Yorker, had a whole
Speaker 1: incredibly messy affair where he had a relationship with the
Speaker 1: daughter of one of his work colleagues and then tried
Speaker 1: to pressure her to have an abortion. And for all
Speaker 1: the rhetoric about women's choice and all the rhetoric about
Speaker 1: female autonomy and autonomy over our bodies and my body,
Speaker 1: my choice, choice, choice, choice, choice, choice, we overlooked seventy
Speaker 1: percent of women who have abortions.
Speaker 2: It's not their first choice.
Speaker 1: It's not the choice they will they want to make,
Speaker 1: and we somehow allow men like Doug m Hoff, like
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tubin to exist in society and to exist as
Speaker 1: people offering their opinions on this topic without laughing or
Speaker 1: far worse, laughing or shaming or running them out of
Speaker 1: polite public society. This is like we talk about cancel
Speaker 1: culture and how much I despise that term. I think
Speaker 1: the term cancel culture is stupid. All cultures cancel. It's
Speaker 1: actually correct to cancel things that are really really bad.
Speaker 1: That there are all kinds of things in our culture
Speaker 1: and society that rightly are not allowed within polite society. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, being a neo Nazi cancelable activity. That's a
Speaker 1: good standard. Being a neo Nazi, or even an old
Speaker 1: school not a paleo Nazi, whatever, any form of Nazism
Speaker 1: bad cancelable. If I come on this radio show and
Speaker 1: talk about how wonderful Adolf Hitler was and how I keep,
Speaker 1: you know, a copy of mindcom by my bedside, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to have this radio show very long. And
Speaker 1: that's probably the best thing. That's a very good, wise
Speaker 1: decision on the part of iHeartMedia. They make that decision. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we should cancel certain kinds of behavior. How is
Speaker 1: it in our society that men, powerful men who behave
Speaker 1: irresponsibly cheat on their wife, gets some other woman pregnant
Speaker 1: and then she has an abortion, conveniently getting rid of
Speaker 1: a responsibility for this man who behaved in such an
Speaker 1: irresponsible way, And then that man later on has the
Speaker 1: gall to talk about how important abortion rights are for freedom.
Speaker 1: What a self interested piece of.
Speaker 2: Word. I can't say on the radio. It is so revolting.
Speaker 1: And yet conservative men are the ones who aren't allowed
Speaker 1: to talk about abortion. Oh, conservative men are the ones
Speaker 1: who want to quote control women's bodies, not the men
Speaker 1: who pressure women to get abortions because they don't want
Speaker 1: to be responsible. But no, it's the conservative men who say,
Speaker 1: I believe that every single human life, mom and baby
Speaker 1: has infinite value, That we cannot directly kill, that we
Speaker 1: cannot put enmity between babies and society, That we cannot
Speaker 1: look at the direct, active killing of another human being
Speaker 1: as the solution to societal problems like poverty or lack
Speaker 1: of health care access, or a difficult relationship or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. That killing cannot be the solution in this
Speaker 1: case that I have nothing but love and care and
Speaker 1: affection and a desire to help both the mom and
Speaker 1: the baby. But no, I want to control women's bodies.
Speaker 1: I conservative, pro life man. I want to control women's bodies.
Speaker 1: No uterus, no opinion, Get your rosary off my ovaries.
Speaker 1: But a piece of you know what, like Doug Emhoff
Speaker 1: who knocks up the babysitter, recks his marriage, and then
Speaker 1: the babysitter has an abortion.
Speaker 2: Oh, his opinion on abortion.
Speaker 1: This rich, powerful white guy who is benefiting tremendously from
Speaker 1: the avoidance of responsibility that abortion represents. Oh, he gets
Speaker 1: to talk about abortion because he's the one who really
Speaker 1: cares about women, Right, he's the one who really cares.
Speaker 1: I realize this won't be a big electoral issue. I
Speaker 1: don't think Republicans are going to be able to make
Speaker 1: much hay out of this, because God knows, the minute
Speaker 1: Republicans start talking about abortion, they screw it up. God
Speaker 1: knows they won't be able to actually articulate this well.
Speaker 1: But someone like Doug Emhoff should be more than laughed
Speaker 1: out of polite society. He should be driven out of
Speaker 1: polite society on a rail he should be tarred and
Speaker 1: feathered and put on a rail out. It's so revolting,
Speaker 1: it's so disgusting. It shows how the pro choice left
Speaker 1: is just a complete fraud. It's so fraudulent in its
Speaker 1: claims of caring for women when they allow that that's
Speaker 1: what abortions about. When men like Doug m Hoff benefit
Speaker 1: from abortion in this way, it's disgusting. All right, calm
Speaker 1: down and we'll lend the show on. We're gonna add
Speaker 1: to a hard transition in the next segment. All right,
Speaker 1: when we return some lighter fare, I'll talk about my
Speaker 1: pet peeves while watching the Olympics.
Speaker 2: That is next on the John Girardi Show. All right,
Speaker 2: just do it, a big palette.
Speaker 1: Cleanse after that segment about Doug em Hooff, jesuise, what
Speaker 1: a revolting person he is.
Speaker 2: All right, I want to talk about the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So a pole vaulter, a Swedish pole vaulter, just set
Speaker 1: the world record. This guy named Mondo Duplantis set the
Speaker 1: world record in the pole vault, wins gold medal, sense
Speaker 1: sets a world record. He is representing the nation of Sweden.
Speaker 1: NBC then proceeds to do like they do their their
Speaker 1: sort of primetime you know, Olympics coverage, and they have
Speaker 1: interspersed with you know, it's all pre recorded stuff from
Speaker 1: earlier in the day, and they're sort of showing, oh,
Speaker 1: here's the gymnastics, here's of this, and in between some
Speaker 1: of the actual sports, they have these sort of little
Speaker 1: puff pieces about like, oh, this is you know, this
Speaker 1: is so and so, so and so she's from you know,
Speaker 1: she's from Manhattan, Kansas and she grew up always dreaming
Speaker 1: that she would be a pole vaulter and blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and she went to Kansas State and
Speaker 1: here's her family. And they do a lot of these
Speaker 1: sort of puff pieces about the athletes and talking about
Speaker 1: their backgrounds and their family and interviewing people and it's
Speaker 1: very nice. So they do this about this Swedish Swedish
Speaker 1: pole vaulter. This kid was born and raised in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: He went to LSU. He was born in Louisiana. Not
Speaker 1: only did he go to LSU, both of his parents
Speaker 1: were athletes at LSU. I guess his mom is Swedish,
Speaker 1: so he allegedly has dual citizenship. He decided to pull
Speaker 1: vault for Sweden because apparently the US Olympic Committee wouldn't
Speaker 1: let his parents be his coach, so he abandons the
Speaker 1: US of A. And this kid was like name like
Speaker 1: the Louisiana Gatorade Boys Track and Field Athlete Superstar of
Speaker 1: the Year. If you're from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and you're
Speaker 1: pole vaulting over alligators, you are not allowed to pull
Speaker 1: vault for Sweden.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: And there are a bunch of these Olympic athletes who
Speaker 1: are all born in America and for some reason or other,
Speaker 1: maybe get in a fight with the US Olympic Committee
Speaker 1: or this or that they're representing other countries during the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I am sick of this. I'm sick of these Benedict Arnolds.
Speaker 1: Like, look, if they want to go do that, fine,
Speaker 1: but NBC stop doing puff pieces on these Benedict Arnold
Speaker 1: traders going and pull vaulting for Sweden. I guess he
Speaker 1: does have dual citizenship, but the kid was born in Louisiana,
Speaker 1: went to LSU. That medal should count for the United States.
Speaker 1: Sick and tired of this jingoistic John Girardi coming out
Speaker 1: during the Olympics. That'll do it for the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 1: See you next time on Power Talk