Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
Speaker 2: and Jim Garritty of National Review.
Speaker 1: Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 3: Very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of
Speaker 3: the three teeny Lunch. So much to get to. There
Speaker 3: was another ice involved shooting, this one out in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 3: We'll get into some of the details of that, but
Speaker 3: we'll also be looking at the reaction, the political reaction
Speaker 3: to it, and Jim's contention that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: politicians out there and others who don't actually want people
Speaker 3: to calm down in these situations. They want to fan
Speaker 3: the flames, which is an incredibly disturbing development and happening
Speaker 3: all too frequently these days. We'll also be taking a
Speaker 3: look at what seems to be better and better news
Speaker 3: in Iran. The protests are not abating, They are growing,
Speaker 3: if anything, and they're pretty much all over the country now,
Speaker 3: and we'll be taking a look at Megan Kelly's defense
Speaker 3: of herself and Tucker and to some extent, Nick Fuente
Speaker 3: and so Jim. It has been a full week. I
Speaker 3: know this happens all the time, but doesn't feel like
Speaker 3: the mission to get Maduro was about a month and
Speaker 3: a half ago. I mean, it's less than a week ago.
Speaker 1: I was just about to say, Greg, this week has
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Speaker 1: we say that because it's really the first full week
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Speaker 1: least a year's worth of news, and so I'm sure
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Speaker 3: the latest in the protest there, and maybe some signs
Speaker 3: that this protest might end in a different way than
Speaker 3: so many other major protests have over the last fifteen
Speaker 3: years or so. Over there. We talked about this on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: the massive devaluation of the Iranian rial compared to the
Speaker 3: US dollar and so many other currencies. So basically people's
Speaker 3: life savings, what they're working for borderline useless, and so
Speaker 3: they're pouring out into the streets. Why go back to
Speaker 3: work when it's not going to earn you anything. And
Speaker 3: there's some efforts to repress it. There's certainly been some deaths,
Speaker 3: but in some cases, Jim, I've seen that local police
Speaker 3: have actually joined the protests. There's been some reports suggesting
Speaker 3: elements of the IRGC have done that. I'm not ready
Speaker 3: to believe that quite yet. They're going to be the
Speaker 3: last hardline line of defense for this regime. But these
Speaker 3: protests are in every province, millions of peace people into
Speaker 3: the streets day after day after day. They've lit some
Speaker 3: government buildings on fire. They've replaced the current Iranian flag
Speaker 3: with the old Iranian flag, and so this appears to
Speaker 3: still be growing and one of the telltale signs that
Speaker 3: the Iranian leadership doesn't feel good about the way things
Speaker 3: are going. This is from USA Today. Net Blocks at
Speaker 3: Internet watchdog said that its data showed that Iran's authorities
Speaker 3: had imposed a nationwide internet blackout and other forms of
Speaker 3: strict digital censorship amid the turmoil, which makes it difficult
Speaker 3: to draw definitive conclusions about the scale and severity of
Speaker 3: the demonstrations and the government's response. And so that tells
Speaker 3: me Jim cringing a little bit here, that they want
Speaker 3: to shut off all access to images as they perhaps
Speaker 3: engage in a more brutal crackdown. But right now it
Speaker 3: seems like the Iranian people aren't going anywhere, which is great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are getting some video coming out in snippets.
Speaker 1: I assume these are taken out across the border or
Speaker 1: maybe somebody's figured out some way past the firewall. But
Speaker 1: one of the videos that has come out, he's Uranian
Speaker 1: protesters burning the tomb of the Ayatolo Komane, founder of
Speaker 1: the Islamic revolution that overtook the country in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: First of all, Greg, this is the worst thing to
Speaker 1: happen to Comane's body since his funeral, which listeners and
Speaker 1: viewers with very long memories will remember. The coffin fell
Speaker 1: apart and the corpse of Komany was torn apart by mourners.
Speaker 1: You hate to see it happen to somebody with such
Speaker 1: a bright future ahead of them. Let's also point out
Speaker 1: that between this and Hugo Chavez, twenty twenty six has
Speaker 1: been a really brutal year for the tombs of ruthless
Speaker 1: dictators for both Iran into Venezuela. In the Dictator Tomb League.
Speaker 1: It's been characterized as a rebuilding year, but they will
Speaker 1: get first round draft picks earlier. So I say this
Speaker 1: somewhat tungue in chic the other news that just jumped
Speaker 1: out at me. As soon as I saw this, I
Speaker 1: felt like a need to do some digging into this.
Speaker 1: There was a British lawmaker, a member of the Conservative Party,
Speaker 1: who was in the parliament over there, formerly their security minister,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like their national security advisor, counter
Speaker 1: terrorism type. He's speaking before a parliament and he says, quote,
Speaker 1: we're also seeing Russian cargo aircraft coming and landing in Tehran,
Speaker 1: presumably carrying weapons and ammunition, and we're hearing reports of
Speaker 1: large amounts of gold leaving Iran. He did not specify
Speaker 1: which reports he was referencing. You figure this guy might
Speaker 1: be in a position to hear things from six to
Speaker 1: the British Foreign Intelligence Agency. So absolutely fine. We keep
Speaker 1: hearing reports about Iranian officials preparing to leave the country
Speaker 1: in case they're getting overthrown. This you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that you're trying to remove all the gold out there
Speaker 1: certainly we seem as another sign that the regime is
Speaker 1: hedging its bets and preparing to get out of dodge. Greg,
Speaker 1: what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 3: Watching football for the most part.
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Speaker 1: to steal one of those planes. I want to oceans eleven.
Speaker 1: I want to get away with a playload of Iranian gold.
Speaker 1: Because you know, first of all, they're not gonna be
Speaker 1: in a position to prosecute us pretty soon, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: So that's that's what I got. I got up to
Speaker 1: have some plans for this. The other thing I thought
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Speaker 1: god knows they have coins or something, probably kugarans, you know,
Speaker 1: probably got them from South African consulate drug dealers. That
Speaker 1: that probably like what happens if one of those planes crashes, right,
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Speaker 1: that's just alone a circumstance which is just a ton
Speaker 1: of money out there. So look, I find reports like
Speaker 1: this encouraging. I think this says that this may well
Speaker 1: be different, that the regime is not confident that they're
Speaker 1: going to be able to crack down and suppress this.
Speaker 1: And as we've discussed earlier, you know, this was all
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Speaker 3: But all right, let's get on to more domestic affairs here.
Speaker 3: And we've been talking about the ice involved shooting in
Speaker 3: Minneapolis the past couple of days here, and now there's
Speaker 3: another one out in Portland, Oregon. And one of the
Speaker 3: things we talked about yesterday was the reckless responses immediately
Speaker 3: calling Ice murders, ice evil, Ice illegitimate and get out
Speaker 3: of town and all this stuff. And so Tim Walls,
Speaker 3: the governor of Minnesota, had said yesterday, I haven't said
Speaker 3: anything inflammatory about this. As you pointed out in her
Speaker 3: notes today, he called Ice the Gestapo. That's I would
Speaker 3: call him.
Speaker 1: It seems kind of inflammatory, that's yes.
Speaker 3: And then yesterday we're saying he was calling out the
Speaker 3: National Guard, and is this to confront Ice? Is this
Speaker 3: to keep the protesters under control? Well, yesterday he decided
Speaker 3: that Minnesota was just like the people standing up to
Speaker 3: pickets charge at Gettysburg back in eighteen six sixty three.
Speaker 3: So you tell me what he means by this.
Speaker 4: When things look really bleak. It was Minnesota's first that
Speaker 4: held that line for the nation on that July third,
Speaker 4: eighteen sixty three. And I think now we may be
Speaker 4: in that moment that the nation's looking to us to
Speaker 4: hold the line on democracy.
Speaker 3: Slightly impressed he actually knows the dates of the Battle
Speaker 3: of Gettysburg. But nonetheless, Jim, that's a reference to the
Speaker 3: Civil War. I would say that is not calming things down.
Speaker 3: And then in today's Morning Jolt, you also go through
Speaker 3: the details of yesterday's shooting out in Portland, where a
Speaker 3: couple of people were injured. Ice pulled over a vehicle
Speaker 3: with two figures related to trend de Aragua, including one
Speaker 3: sex trafficker that they wanted to port out of the country.
Speaker 3: Same type of situation. This person tried to get away.
Speaker 3: Officer felt like his life was in danger, a couple
Speaker 3: of shots rang out, a couple of people injured. No
Speaker 3: one killed in this situation. Thankfully, you point out that
Speaker 3: the police chief in Portland was very direct about, hey,
Speaker 3: everybody needs to just chill, let this play out. We
Speaker 3: don't need things to escalate and inspire a lot of control. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: everyone that came after him, as you point out at
Speaker 3: the press conference, did not follow that advice, including Oregon
Speaker 3: Democratic Governor Tina Kotech.
Speaker 5: We are standing here today, united as a state, wanting
Speaker 5: peace and safety in our communities. We are all shaken
Speaker 5: and outraged by another terrible, unnecessary, violent event instigated by
Speaker 5: the reckless agenda of the Trump administration, this time in
Speaker 5: our own state, in our largest city, coming just one
Speaker 5: day after the tragedy of Minnesota.
Speaker 3: And then there was the mayor and a bunch of
Speaker 3: other local officials pretty much throwing gas on the fire
Speaker 3: as well. Here, Jim, So, what's your big takeaway from
Speaker 3: how the Democrats keep lighting this on fire?
Speaker 1: So it's fun. First, well, you mentioned ice earlier. There
Speaker 1: are actually US Border Patrol agents according to dhl okay okay,
Speaker 1: So they see a vehicle, they suspect the person of
Speaker 1: the vehicle is this trendy Aragua individual that they are tracking.
Speaker 1: They stop the vehicle, they identify themselves. The driver weaponized
Speaker 1: his vehicle in their words, right assume he's tried to
Speaker 1: run them down, and then you know, the agent fires
Speaker 1: defensive shots. The driver drove off, with the passenger fleeing
Speaker 1: the scene. This is a circumstance where it would be
Speaker 1: nice to have cooperation between federal law enforcement agents and
Speaker 1: state and law enforcement agents. Remember, in Portland, Oregon, a
Speaker 1: sanctuary city, there is no cooperation with federal law enforce
Speaker 1: so the Feds could not call local police and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we have an individual who tried to run down one
Speaker 1: of our guys. We shot at the vehicle. We may
Speaker 1: have hit someone inside the vehicle. Please be on the
Speaker 1: lookout for this. This is a wanted trend to rug weapons.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do that, right, So police, apparently the person
Speaker 1: does call nine one one, right and according to the
Speaker 1: police Chief Bob Day, they respond to the ten thousand
Speaker 1: block of Southeast Main Street. Came into a nine to
Speaker 1: one call. Confirmed federal agents that have been involved in
Speaker 1: a shooting. Found a male and a female with a
Speaker 1: parent gunshot. Officers apply to Tornicue and Southern Emergency Medical personnel.
Speaker 1: The patients were transported to local hospital. Their conditions at
Speaker 1: this time as of the press conference yesterday, are unknown.
Speaker 1: I'd like to know who these people are. I'd like
Speaker 1: to know what condition they're in. I'd like to know
Speaker 1: if they are, you know, attached to an incubator in
Speaker 1: a hospital, or if they've left the hospital and they
Speaker 1: are continue to be at large. Nonetheless, Bob Day, the
Speaker 1: police chief of Portland, is doing his job and pretty
Speaker 1: much his a report is very Joe Friday, here are
Speaker 1: the facts, and he concludes by saying, I want to
Speaker 1: thank Portland has continued to show up in that space
Speaker 1: as well, meaning in terms ofpro we've done everything our
Speaker 1: part of the maintainance level of peace and calm and safety.
Speaker 1: I want to express their you know. It also has
Speaker 1: a separate saying where he says, I am asking the
Speaker 1: community to remain calm as we work to learn more.
Speaker 1: Remain calm he is saying, and not in an impression
Speaker 1: of Kevin Bacon in Animal House right, he genuinely wants
Speaker 1: people to remain called. Every speaker afterwards, the Portland mayor,
Speaker 1: the governor of Oregon, the state Senate majority leader, and
Speaker 1: the county chair all go on to demonize federal agents
Speaker 1: in the most incendiary way possible. Right, these are reckless,
Speaker 1: militized agents bringing violence to the streets all across America, lawless, reckless,
Speaker 1: hurting people and destroying day by day what we hold
Speaker 1: dear right, State Senate majority leader says, we're going to
Speaker 1: legislatively impede the federal agents. No, you're not. States don't
Speaker 1: have any authority over federal immigration laws. You don't have
Speaker 1: any you don't have any veto power over that. The
Speaker 1: county chair accused federal agents of shooting people but no reason,
Speaker 1: causing terror and violence, a threat that is growing every day,
Speaker 1: and they are cruel and authoritarian. Gee, how could anyone
Speaker 1: get the idea that they should start taking shots at
Speaker 1: federal agents who are enforcing immigration laws. Now you mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier Tim Walls compare you know, actually the commencement address
Speaker 1: for the University of in a little law school in
Speaker 1: which he said the ice were quote Donald Trump's modern
Speaker 1: day Gestapo, scooping folks up off the streets. I'll skip
Speaker 1: over the standard issue Gestapo, but I just want to ask,
Speaker 1: you know, listeners and viewers, what how did the US
Speaker 1: respond to the Gestapo? You know, with a few exceptions,
Speaker 1: we killed them, right There was no we're going to
Speaker 1: ask you to stop doing what you're doing. There was
Speaker 1: no negotiation right now, when I say mostly, we did
Speaker 1: accept a whole bunch of them to work with us
Speaker 1: against the Communists and then, but generally the US was
Speaker 1: very anti Nazi, unless you'd be useful in our space program.
Speaker 1: But other than that, we were really really hard on
Speaker 1: the Nazis, and we basically we put them on trial.
Speaker 1: The Nuremberg trials found both the Gestapo as a whole
Speaker 1: committing guilty of crimes against humanity, and we also decided,
Speaker 1: you know, individual leaders were convicted of war crimes and
Speaker 1: they were basically wipe from the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: If you are saying Ice is the modern day Gestapo,
Speaker 1: not merely that they're misguided, not merely that you object
Speaker 1: to some of their mess you're saying that they're evil.
Speaker 1: You are saying that they are about as clear and
Speaker 1: evil as they possibly can be, and that the only
Speaker 1: proper response is to effectively wipe them from the face
Speaker 1: of the earth. I don't here's the Tim Walls being
Speaker 1: the idiot that he is. I actually don't think he
Speaker 1: actually believes what he was saying there. I think he
Speaker 1: was just going for a rhetorical flourish that's going to go,
Speaker 1: you know, play well with the audiences he was trying
Speaker 1: to court at that time. But I think that this
Speaker 1: is you know, like, if you constantly insist if federal
Speaker 1: agents are Nazis, why are you surprised that certain citizens
Speaker 1: treat them like their Nazis. If you say that they
Speaker 1: are a threat to the community, people are going to
Speaker 1: start treating them like they're a threat to the community.
Speaker 1: If you say to that they are recklessly killing people,
Speaker 1: They're going to act like they have a bunch of
Speaker 1: reckless killers in the middle of their community. So this
Speaker 1: is almost inevitable.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where people ask, why didn't
Speaker 1: you write about what Trump or what Christino I talked
Speaker 1: about Chris Trump and Christino in the day before. Their
Speaker 1: statements are not pouring water on the fire either. But
Speaker 1: I just thought it was really ironic that the police chief, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, his men and women in uniform, are
Speaker 1: the ones who are going to be dealing with the
Speaker 1: angry crowds in Portland today. You don't see people saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm really mad over federal authorities, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: go after the state Senate majority of leader. They don't
Speaker 1: say I'm going to riot in front of the office
Speaker 1: of the county chair. No, it's the cops who have
Speaker 1: to deal with that. So he's the guy who's acting
Speaker 1: most responsible and saying, please, let's remain calm. And right
Speaker 1: after he says remain calm, everybody afterwards forgets that memo
Speaker 1: and comes out and denounces Ice and denounces the federal
Speaker 1: government in the demonizes them in the most incendiary rhetoric possible.
Speaker 1: They don't really want peace or call. If they did,
Speaker 1: they would be saying different things, they would be acting differently.
Speaker 1: No one would be encouraging anyone to do anything like
Speaker 1: that woman in Minnesota and get in the way of
Speaker 1: federal agents who are trying to do their job. Pay
Speaker 1: attention to their actions, do not pay attention to their
Speaker 1: pro form of statements of wanting peace. It was absolutely
Speaker 1: ridiculous yesterday, and it was just, yeah, it's I'm both
Speaker 1: surprised and not surprised. But as long as we have
Speaker 1: lawmakers who are going to be encouraging people to do this,
Speaker 1: we're probably going to have more cases like the ones
Speaker 1: in Minnesota yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good points that you just made there, and
Speaker 3: the one about referring to the Gestapo and Nazis and
Speaker 3: that sort of thing goes right back to the discussion
Speaker 3: we had right after Charlie Kirk was murdered, where you know,
Speaker 3: it's like, well, if you call them the Nazi, can
Speaker 3: you really wait till the next election. It's got to
Speaker 3: be dealt with right now, and you've got to do
Speaker 3: whatever it takes to allegedly stop them if they really
Speaker 3: are supposedly that evil. And then you've also got Pritzker
Speaker 3: in particular. But i'm I'm I think Bass and Newsome
Speaker 3: and others have been like this too. Yeah, getting their way, Yeah,
Speaker 3: confront them, yeah exactly, and then when you get too close.
Speaker 1: We bring a gun. As the Obama said in a
Speaker 1: previous discussion of a political fight, and that is you know,
Speaker 1: we should not be a surprised if we keep saying,
Speaker 1: if we can comparing political politics to warfare, we should
Speaker 1: not be respised. We should not be surprised if people
Speaker 1: respond with.
Speaker 3: Violence, exactly. And I think some people on the left,
Speaker 3: I don't know if they want it or dead, but
Speaker 3: they want the incident. They want the imagery of ice,
Speaker 3: you know, being violent towards someone that makes ice look evil.
Speaker 3: So they want these confrontations to happen in order to
Speaker 3: have images and so forth. That will derail the policy
Speaker 3: of removing violent criminal illegals. And I don't think that's
Speaker 3: going to stop anytime soon, but it needs to very
Speaker 3: irresponsible on all of their parts.
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Speaker 3: she does have some criticism for Front Days, but the
Speaker 3: overall commentary here not encouraging.
Speaker 2: And then came the Tucker's interviewed Nick and you must
Speaker 2: as have him. Now you really need to break up
Speaker 2: with Tucker. As if my entire career rises or falls
Speaker 2: based on who my friends are and whose interview I
Speaker 2: decide to weigh in on, well, it's ridiculous. So first
Speaker 2: of all, I had no problem with the fact that
Speaker 2: you interviewed Nick One does and you did it your way,
Speaker 2: and I happen to know, because I know you and
Speaker 2: I know some other things about that interview, that you
Speaker 2: did it with a pure heart. It wasn't because you
Speaker 2: were in love with all of Nick one says his
Speaker 2: messages at all. But I know you and I understood
Speaker 2: this is what you don't have to confirm or deny.
Speaker 2: But I thought you were very much trying to reach
Speaker 2: him with your main message that you say all the time,
Speaker 2: which is in the in the conservative sphere on the right,
Speaker 2: we don't judge people by identity. We don't. You didn't
Speaker 2: say it this way, but we don't. We're not big
Speaker 2: on the N word and the other words that he's
Speaker 2: been calling people like Oosha Vance or even thinking about
Speaker 2: people that way, because that's what crazy leftists do with identity.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 2: As Christians do. Okay, that you tried. It didn't really work,
Speaker 2: but you tried, and I know your heart was in
Speaker 2: the right place and it was a worthwhile exercise. Because
Speaker 2: he's a very interesting guy. Let's face it, he's obviously
Speaker 2: got some very extreme views, but he's very interesting and
Speaker 2: he's very smart, and on a lot of things, there
Speaker 2: is value to be derived from that guy's messaging. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but he actually has a lot of things he talks
Speaker 2: about that you're like, huh, this is not a bad
Speaker 2: point about our country.
Speaker 3: I don't ever watch Nick flood Dice, but I've never
Speaker 3: seen a clip of anything where I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 3: a really good point that Nick flood Diaste made. And
Speaker 3: so it feels like she's drifting further and further into
Speaker 3: this area. She was also talking about how she can't
Speaker 3: trust any news coming from the Middle East because it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's propagandized from one side or the other
Speaker 3: and so forth, and so Jim, I don't know why
Speaker 3: she's headed in this direction. Tucker's clearly full steam ahead
Speaker 3: in this direction. But I mean, she made it pretty
Speaker 3: clear where she stands yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people in my circles are watching this.
Speaker 1: Who have I've been on Megan Kelly's program a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Other people I know, like people well used
Speaker 1: to be pretty big Megan Kelly fans feel like they're
Speaker 1: watching somebody come discombobulated before their very eyes. I believe
Speaker 1: this is the first time we've talked about Mgan Kelly
Speaker 1: on this podcast. And she insisted that Jeffrey Epstein was
Speaker 1: not a pedophile because he was into fourteen and fifteen
Speaker 1: year old girls. He was the father of two daughters.
Speaker 1: Took strong exception of that, and I probably not as
Speaker 1: esteemed as I've seen you in a long time. I
Speaker 1: thought of that, and I thought of this, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of struck by. We all choose our hills to
Speaker 1: die on. We choose what we want to prioritize. Listeners
Speaker 1: to this podcast know preserving Ukrainian independence and standing up
Speaker 1: against Russian aggression is a really important issue to me.
Speaker 1: That's one of my hills to die on. Preventing or
Speaker 1: doing everything we can to deter a Chinese invasion of
Speaker 1: Taiwan is very important to me. You and I fight
Speaker 1: a lonely fight reminding people of the deficit and the debt.
Speaker 1: We are like sissph Some days you're Sissyphis, some days
Speaker 1: you're Indiana Jones One way or do that? That Boulgers not
Speaker 1: going the way you want it to. So we all
Speaker 1: have what we choose to prioritize. One of the things
Speaker 1: you wanted to prioritize that day was like, hey, Epstein's
Speaker 1: being unfairly tarred as a pedophile because he only wanted
Speaker 1: girls in their mid teeth. And I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I do not feel a need to rush to the
Speaker 1: ramparts to defend Jeffrey Epstein. It's good, good name and
Speaker 1: good reputation. In the disclosure of the DOJ documents, somebody said, Jim,
Speaker 1: aren't you upset that rich guys who just hung around
Speaker 1: with Epstein but who didn't sleep with underage women are
Speaker 1: going to have their reputations hurt? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: not really. If you're hanging around like, you know, apparently
Speaker 1: this was like a giant open secret, and you're like, look,
Speaker 1: this guy is a walking slime ball, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to hang around with him, but I'm not going to
Speaker 1: bang any underage girls around him. I'm sorry, Are you
Speaker 1: a moral hero in that circumstance? Was? I don't? I
Speaker 1: just I have a note this is not. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson would say I'm being a bad Christian. But
Speaker 1: Tucker car I have a fine amount of sympathy and
Speaker 1: pity in my heart. There's all the world is a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people who are getting screwed over. There's
Speaker 1: only so many I could stand up for. And the
Speaker 1: rich guys who hung around Epstein was not in this category.
Speaker 1: You know who else? I don't have any sympathy before
Speaker 1: Nick fuent Is. Sorry, no, I don't you know. I
Speaker 1: do not watch his podcast or listen to his podcast
Speaker 1: and just to find well, there's a lot of really hateful,
Speaker 1: abominable stuff there, but there might be a nugget of something.
Speaker 1: I don't care. If he's got the formula for cold
Speaker 1: fusion in there, right, I don't care if he's got
Speaker 1: the discussion the location of the amber room. This is
Speaker 1: the sort of thing I throw I think about. This
Speaker 1: is the lost valuable room of Russia that disappeared during
Speaker 1: World War Two. I don't care. I don't care because
Speaker 1: once you run around being a little twirpy neo Nazi,
Speaker 1: I don't care what you have to say. And I
Speaker 1: don't feel any need to say whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's
Speaker 1: listen to the valuable things the twirpy light in the
Speaker 1: loafers neo nazi has to say, right, why was it
Speaker 1: so different? She's like, they all wanted me to denounce
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. Was it really unreasonable to say, yeah, Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson should have asked some tougher questions or boy, that
Speaker 1: was really a generous softball interviewed, Quentz deserved to get
Speaker 1: challenged on some of his more odious comments, and car like,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's being unreasonable there. And I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that Megan Kelly feels like she's being victimized. That's, you know,
Speaker 1: But like, I don't think anyone's being unreasonable in all this,
Speaker 1: and I think we're now well beyond I just want
Speaker 1: to stand up for people's First Amendment rights. This will
Speaker 1: well beyond. I'm standing up again because people keep emphasizing
Speaker 1: there's cancel culture in that you've said something controversial and
Speaker 1: we're going to try to get you fired for it,
Speaker 1: versus cancel culture, as in, Nick Fuendes is a neo
Speaker 1: Nazi twerp? Why are you having him on your program?
Speaker 1: Why are you giving him a platform? Why are you
Speaker 1: putting the spotlight on him? And then when you have
Speaker 1: him on your program, why are you tossing softballs instead
Speaker 1: of pushing him and challenging him and all the terrible
Speaker 1: things he said? And you know this, She's decided that
Speaker 1: Nick Fuentes is a wronged figure and he's not getting
Speaker 1: the credit that he deserves. And I'm sorry, I'm not
Speaker 1: with you, Megan. I can't. And I think a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people who used to be, you know, big
Speaker 1: Megan Kelly fans are like, what's going on with you?
Speaker 1: Put her in the concussion protocol? Like why are you,
Speaker 1: you know, making these stances and oh the other things
Speaker 1: that she kind of insinuated once again that Candice Owens
Speaker 1: was making reasonable questions about whether Israel was tied to
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's assassination, and at that point I want you
Speaker 1: to take a drug test. At that point, I just
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you are going down this road
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So it is sad to see.
Speaker 1: It's funny that she's doing this on Tucker Carlson's program,
Speaker 1: because I think she's every question about what's going on
Speaker 1: with Megan Kelly asked now was asked a year or
Speaker 1: two or three years ago about Tucker Carlson. And I
Speaker 1: don't understand if this is a side effect of fame.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if this is a side effect of
Speaker 1: going down internet rabbit holes. I don't know. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: Like I am you know, I'm going to say, Greg,
Speaker 1: I am thankful for having you, and I'm thankful for
Speaker 1: having all the listeners and viewers we have. Or if
Speaker 1: I started saying these sorts of things, I think they
Speaker 1: would start to say, Jim, what the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: What happened? Why are you saying these sorts of things?
Speaker 1: And certain figures just grow detached and they are now
Speaker 1: spinning out into the outer orbit of the solar system.
Speaker 1: They are not retrievable. And I think, but the moment
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, Nick Fuentis is getting a raw deal. No,
Speaker 1: he's not, and you have chosen which hill you want
Speaker 1: to die on.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Yeah, continuing to cheer for the Jets is far, far,
Speaker 3: less concerning than what we're hearing from.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a little concerning, but I explain to
Speaker 1: people it's a genetic condition. It's passed from father to son.
Speaker 1: So God bless my kids.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Well, what a week Jim, have a good weekend.
Speaker 3: I'll see you on Monday.
Speaker 1: See you on Monday, Greg, Jim.
Speaker 3: Garretty National Review. I'm Greg Corumbus of Radio America. Thanks
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