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last hour I gave you the highlights of the New
York Times huge story telling us what we kind of
already knew, which was that the Biden administration broke the border,
created the chaos, then tried to patch it over in
the last like four months before the election. You know,
now it can be told. Daniel McCarthy, writing at RealClearPolitics
dot com, says The New York Times has invented a
new genre of reporting, which is covering big stories showing
Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.
Speaker 1: That's the This is the genre now.
Speaker 2: It's is like we had no idea this thing was
so bad when it was happening, Like really, Joe Biden
was in mental decline.
Speaker 1: That's just I was.
Speaker 2: I sat front row for all of his three news conferences.
I couldn't tell, which is really an indictment on them,
as well as Joe Biden when he was in his prime.
Speaker 1: Look all you have to do.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I can see the same difference
in Donald Trump. If you go back, go to the
Google machine, go pull up Donald Trump's appearance on the
Oprah Winfrey Show back in like the nineties, and he
speaks much more quickly and less with the sort of
flights of ideas, like the bouncing around booooo, with different.
Speaker 1: Ideas, and.
Speaker 2: You know, he is able to stay focused on topic
in a way that he doesn't do now. The guy
is in his mid to late seventies, I think at
this point. So yeah, like I get it. And that's
what they always would say, Oh, it's about his age.
Not about the age. It's not about the person's age,
it's about their mental acuity.
Speaker 1: And that's different.
Speaker 2: I do a lot of work for the Alzheimer's Association,
and you know, we do the walks every year and
raise money for them. I've been a supporter of the
Alzheimers Association for thirty years. My grandfather died with Alzheimer's,
And so when you have a personal experience and you
see people behaving in a certain way, that's what I
saw with Joe Biden. And that wasn't to be mean.
That was to point out that guys like I don't
know if he's understanding what he's saying or doing or
where he is. So nearly four thousand words in that
New York Times article, front page story, fourteen people contributing
to the reporting and research on it, and according to
Daniel McCarthy, he says immigration isn't suddenly an issue today.
It's been the biggest domestic story since COVID ended, and
even before COVID, going all the way back to twenty sixteen.
Remember Donald Trump put the immigration issue at the forefront
of presidential politics. No one was even talking about it
before me. Right in private, Democrats close to Biden were
discussing the crisis all along and knew that his agenda
would only make it worse. Democrats were fully aware of
what they were getting the country into, but they did
it anyway. That's the takeaway, well, one of the takeaways,
because the headline on this piece Democrats Border debacle is
the media's two. So if you have not listened to
my program before, again, very hurtful.
Speaker 1: But also I used to be a reporter for WBT.
Speaker 2: I studied mass communication broadcast journalism in college. This has
been I've been doing this for a long time, and
I focus a lot on the way media covers stories
and the stories they ignore. Right, That's that's the most
when people talk about bias in media. That's the biggest bias.
When you sit around in the news department and you're
discussing what stories to go devote, you know your limited
assets to cover that day. You can't cover all the news.
Every news operation is an aggregator. They curate, They decide
what stories to cover, and then where to place those
stories in the newscast or in the paper.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Nobody reads the paper anymore, but.
Speaker 2: They make those decisions. I make the same decision here.
I can't cover every single piece of news that's moving
on the wires. They don't even have wires anymore. But
like on the Internet, there's so many stories, so I
have to curate, right, I have to pick and choose,
and all news operations do that, and therein lies the bias. Okay,
even if you attain what I would say is probably
an impossible standard of complete objectivity and covering a story.
The subjectivity exists in the fact that you covered that
story versus some other one, okay, And the fact that
you have audiences that watch you know, CNN only or
MSNBS sorry miss now the new rebrand over there, or
Fox or whatever. If that's where you are getting your
news from exclusively, you will not know certain stories. You
will literally not know them. It's one of the things
about the talk radio audience is that they are exposed
to stories that the legacy media outlets don't cover, and
if they do cover, it's in just like sort of
a passing way. And the immigration issue was one of
those stories until the governor of Texas and the Florida
Governor brond de Santis, when they started busting and flying
illegal aliens into blue cities and blue states, into sanctuary cities,
then all of a sudden it became a story for them.
Back to the McCarthy piece here at It's Daniel McCarthy
at Real Clear Politics. A friend who was a lonely
conservative columnist at another of the nation's major metropolitan newspapers
told me that the one subject that he was explicitly
forbidden to write about was Biden's age and infirmity. He
was told that by his editors, You're not to write
about this, this thing that we were talking about, because
we could see we would cover the press conferences and
we're like, what did he just say? Why does he
have a card with reporters questions already written out on them?
That's weird. Why is he wandering off into a corner.
Why is he seeing dead people in an audience giving
him shout outs?
Speaker 1: Things like that? The code of.
Speaker 2: Silence has backfired spectacularly, though, he says, saddling the Democrats
with not one but two unelectable candidates at the top
of their presidential ticket last year and leaving the left
in a state of shock. That Americans really did figure
out what was happening with immigration, and Americans were pretty
mad about it too. But better late than never, write
for The New York Times, and that piece also showcased
the success of the governor's strategy of busting the border
crisis straight into the blue zones. Democrats throughout the country
could ignore the consequences of mass migration as long as
the brunt of its impact was taken by Texas and
other border states, didn't affect them, didn't have to care.
He goes on to say that the journalistic profession has
to ask whether it can recover from post game coverage
that should have been deeper reporting on these events while
they were actually happening. That's the bias what stories don't
get covered. Also, Victor Davis Hansen has a piece on
this topic as well over at American Greatness am greatness
dot com.
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Wire publishing some update here from this actually occurred at
the House Homeland Security Committee yesterday. The director of the
US National counter Terrorism Center, Joe Kent, testified yesterday. He
revealed that there were roughly eighteen thousand known or suspected
terrorists who were admitted into the country under the previous administration.
He revealed that two thousand of the eighteen thousand were
let into the country as part of the Biden's administration
program to bring Afghans not the Blankets, to the United
States following the botched troop withdrawal from the war torn country.
He also said that the eighteen thousand number does not
include the unknown number of terrorists that the Biden administration
allowed in after they crossed the border, so these are.
The eighteen thousand are just the ones we know about.
He says, we're working right now hand in hand with
DHS and the FBI to run down these tw or
the two thousand the Afghans that came here under Operation
Allies Welcome who have ties to terrorist organizations, and additionally,
the other sixteen thousand individuals with ties to terrorist organizations
that Biden led into the country. That is probably the
top terrorist threat that we face right now, and that
does not include the individuals that came here illegally through
the open border. That number remains unknown at this time.
We're trying to figure out who those individuals are as well.
Over at American Greatness amgreatness dot com victor Davis Hansen,
he writes that it's hard now even for Democrats to
defend I legal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed
in more than ten million entrants, among them were an
estimated five hundred thousand criminals. No one believes that was
wise or should ever be repeated. Worse, the message went
out that there would be few, if any deportations and
no real ICE activity beyond the border. The world's poor, sick,
both law abiding and criminal, young and old, everybody understood
that anyone could now enter the US at will. Deterrence
and legality were lost in its place. The message went
out that if it was permissible to cross the border unlawfully,
then by extension, it would be seen as equally fine
to reside illegally as well, and perhaps to ignore other laws,
on the theory that the host country had sanctioned all
such exemptions. Between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five,
in one of the most bizarre episodes in US immigration history,
the border basically disappeared. There were to be no background checks,
no health audits, and no identification of the greatest influx
in any four year period in US history. No one
knew why, I mean, people had various ideas and theories.
Was the Biden Handler's plan for more poor to grow
the welfare state and expand the leftist project? Was it
misplaced idealism to welcome in millions of the world's poorest,
who would soon make it even more difficult for the
nation's citizen poor to find affordable housing and healthcare, Because
that's what happens when you import people that are now
competing with your American poor population for the same services
and benefits was the agenda to create future dependencies and
constituencies for the Democrat Party. Right, that's another theory. You
bring people in and then you eventually give them amnesty
and then they reward you with their votes in perpetuity.
Was that the idea or was it an effort to
ensure that the oppressed would outgrow the oppressors? Right?
Speaker 1: This was called the.
Speaker 2: Well it's been referred to as the Great Replacement theory,
and it's now ascribed to those evil right wing fascists
and such like, Oh my gosh, they're worried about America.
I'm being a white country anymore. But I'm old enough
to remember when. This was actually a theory that was
put forward by a guy named Rui Ta Sea, and
he wrote a book about it. And this is why
Democrats adopted this mantra of demographics destiny. This goes back
twenty five years ago, and he talked about how the
importation of people from other countries would redound to the
benefit of the Democrat Party. And everybody talked about this
at the time, and it was like Democrats his destiny,
we have a blue wall and we're gonna win forever,
you know. And then of course they lost, but but
that was the that was the working theory for a
lot of Democrat strategists and consultants and advisors, this idea
that you just bring in enough people and they'll vote
Democrat and that will that will secure the Democrats' majority
and rule for you know, another century. And when the
right when Republicans noticed what was being discussed in all
the papers and magazines and online and all that, when
the Republicans sort of noticed, well, wait are you what
are you talking about. You're wanting to bring people in
illegally and then turn them into citizens so they'll vote
for you. It's like you're trying to replace the native
population with foreign born populations for your own political benefit.
And they're like, you're racist. You're racist for for listening to.
Speaker 1: What we're saying.
Speaker 2: Hanson goes on to say, given that it's much easier
to destroy the border and allow millions to enter than
it is to restore it and find the millions who
entered illegally, the Democrats' response has been pretty orwellian. After
assuming that the law did not apply to illegal aliens,
they now insist its full force must apply to every
single one of the ten million aliens before they can
be sent on. This is what's most galling to me
when you hear the Democrats talk about due process, Like
where was all of this, you know, tribute to be paid,
this elevation of due process, the rule of law and
all of this. Where was all of this during the
Biden administration when they blew open the border, allowed everybody
to come over in violation of law. Where was this
you know, sanctification of due process? No, no, no, it's
only now when the government is like, Okay, that was
a mistake.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 2: The previous administration shouldn't have done that, So we're going
to try to fix this. Now it's like, oh no,
you've got to go through these twelve steps. Okay, probably
not like a twelve step program, but like, you got
to go through these these steps before you deport every
single one of the people that we let in illegally.
There were no protests when the Biden Ice regime became
dysfunctional due to massive illegality, but now there's outrage when
it tries to restore legality and follow the law. This is,
as I've mentioned before, this is nullification, right, and it
has been a massive nullification of our immigration law. Outrage
over illegal immigration has now extended to legal immigration as
well as a backlash. This is what Hanson writes about
that now you've got people, because of what we have
just seen, now they're like, no immigrants at all. I'm
not of that belief. I want I still want the
best and brightest in the world to come here. I
want to brain drain every other country, bring them all here,
as long as they are willing to accept the proposition
of what America is right. So I'm not in that camp,
but I see it. I see it, Hanson sees it.
But now there is this backlash, and the polling shows this.
Now you've got people that are like, I don't care.
I don't want any immigrant to come into the country right,
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in a great experiment. Never has the US foreign born
resident population approached sixteen percent of the total population. That's
what it is now, Where at like fifteen almost sixteen
percent foreign born population. That is about fifty to fifty
five million people foreign born. Now that's not that includes
legal and illegal immigrants, right, so it's just foreign born population. Also, Never, once, sorry,
never has the once time tried melting pot creed of assimilation, integration, acculturation.
Never has that idea been under greater assault and ridicule
just when it is needed the most. I saw an
exchange that Scott Jennings had on CNN and he mentioned assimilation,
and it prompted outrage from the I think they bring
in about seventy seventy five leftists to oppose Scott and
at the panel discussion, and they're all just they all
went apoplectic at this idea of assimilation a culturation. But
that is required, that it has always been required, and
that's part of the problem. They were talking about all
of the fraud up in Minnesota with the Somali within
the Somali community, and we talked about this a couple
of days ago when I went into the when I
went into this story, the amount of fraud. You're talking
billions of dollars in fraud. And what happens when you have,
you know, a tight knit, closed community that is able
to never, never have to sort of assimilate into the
wider culture. Right, They then keep some of the characteristics
or beliefs or norms that they had in their old country.
And some of them are not great, right, some of
them are not great. There's a Democrat from Mecklenburg County,
Carla Cunningham, and she got into all sorts of trouble
after she made a comment on the floor of the
North Carolina House a couple of weeks back where she
said not all cultures are equal, and she's correct, they're not.
There are different things in different cultures that we would
find to be abhorrent. For example, an accusation that you had, say,
converted away from your religion and that means we can
kill you. I would submit that's not a great cultural
norm that we would want to import into America, and
we would not want, you know, things like female genital mutilation.
Don't want that as a norm, right, first cousin marriages
probably not a great idea.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: So there are certain things that we in America that
we have rejected as a society. And so when you
import people and you allow them to just live in
a cloistered area, you know, outside of any of these
influences from the larger culture that they've migrated into, they
then keep those norms from their home country. And that's
part of the story with the Somali fraud up in Minneapolis,
that's part of that story. And that's uncomfortable for a
lot of people. You know, people just hear this and
they're like, that's racist, and that's what the Somalis say.
They use that as a weapon in order to deflect
attention away from what they may have done. You know,
some of the people who I mean, there's now like
I think they're up to like almost eighty people who
have been charged in connection with this widespread fraud. Like
some of the numbers we went over it was like
one out of every four Somali children are diagnosed with autism.
Is that true? No, they don't have autism. They got
fake diagnoses because that was part of the scam. Then
you could have these clinics that would you know, help
them help the autistic kids, and then the clinics would
pay off the parents, and then some of the parents
were like, well, you need to be paying me more,
and so the parents started shaking down the uh, the clinics,
and a lot of these were just you know, set
up in a strip mall storefront. You know, that's why,
that's why you you don't take in mass numbers. You
take in some numbers, and you give enough time for
them to acculturate, to become accustomed to the customs. Right,
that's the idea. And no, that's not racist, that's not Nazi,
none of those things, unless, of course, you're trying to completely,
you know, fundamentally transform the nation and make it into
a different kind of a thing, which I'm unaware that
we had a referendum on that.
Speaker 1: I must have missed it.
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And every Friday, for the final segment, we do a
little thing we like to call pregaming with Brett. It
is Brett Winterbal from the Brett Winterbles Show. It is
airing three till six every day on one O seven
point nine FM WBT.
Speaker 1: Brett. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3: I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 1: I am great as well? Great as well? So question
for you?
Speaker 2: Sure do you do a lot of the Christmas lights
thing every year. Are you a big Christmas lights thing
on the outside of the house.
Speaker 4: I think, I, yeah, we have the lights in front
of the house.
Speaker 3: We've got the blow ups in front of the house.
We've got a couple of those things. Uh. I wouldn't
say it's like a lot.
Speaker 4: I wish, I wish I had the vision to put
a lot of lights up.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't like hiring people to do stuff
like that. I would say it myself.
Speaker 4: Yea, but yeah, I I we We've got some really
great displays just down our block. But mine is I
would say mine is probably just a slightly above average.
Speaker 2: Oh it's respectable, right, It's not like I guess you've
seen those houses where people just take like a strand
and they throw it across a couple of bushes, and
you're like, why even try, like why do it like that?
Speaker 1: It's look, I mean, you got the inflatables going.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I got I got, I got three inflatables.
Speaker 1: Out in front of him.
Speaker 2: Three inflatables, yes, sir, Oh that's definitely yeah. You're you're
you're you're bringing it, I would say, with three inflatables.
So the reason I asked, have you heard the story
out of Waxaw?
Speaker 3: What's going on in wax Saw.
Speaker 2: There's a guy there. His name is Neil hue Air
Hue Air. I don't know how he pronounced it, but
he has spent thousands or sorry, he has spent countless hours,
tens of thousands of dollars to create an extravaganza.
Speaker 1: On his house.
Speaker 2: And this is this is a this is as the
kids would say, extra. Okay, he's gone extra on this, right.
He has a website. He has a low power FM
that broadcasts music that is synced up to the light show.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I think I think I saw that on TV,
but I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize what it was. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: He's got a website called high Flying Lights. He has
a Facebook page, and so every night when he puts
up all the lights every night, starting at sundown, there's
a musical program that runs for an hour sync to
the music, and the lights and music are sink together,
so an hour sort of show, and then it resets
and does another until like I think ten o'clock at
night or something like that. Yeah, this has caused well,
but it's caused some problems.
Speaker 3: Car backups with the h o A.
Speaker 1: Oh go ahead, see I knew it.
Speaker 2: No, I know what buttons to push it?
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 4: So the hoa is the worst. Okay, the ho ruins everything. Oh,
you've got some You've got a little bit of mold
on the side of the siding.
Speaker 3: You're going to have to clean the whole place.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: So this so he lives in a in a neighborhood.
They got private roads but no gate, so it's not
a gated community.
Speaker 1: And h why not just put the gate up?
Speaker 2: That's that was what I suggested. I was like, they
should just put a gate up if they're going to
be this upset about it. And they and so they're
like the cars that are coming into the neighborhood, Uh,
you know, we don't like the cars that are coming in.
But like some of the neighbors are like there really
aren't even that many cars. But this year he got
listed on some lists of like free light shows to
go see. Oh and so like the hoah apparently has
been asking the list creators to take him off their
list because they don't want to publicize.
Speaker 1: This light show.
Speaker 2: Now, this neighborhood is called Arrow Plantation. This neighborhood. This neighborhood,
I know, the plantation thing is a bit problematic. No, no, no, no,
The first part of it was a e r oh.
It has a landing strip. This neighborhood. It's got a
hundred homes. They also it's like million dollar homes.
Speaker 3: Plus can fly a plane into the.
Speaker 2: Place, Brett, listen, Not only can you fly your plane there, yeah,
but planes have the right of way on the private streets.
Stop for real?
Speaker 1: Are you? I am not kidding?
Speaker 2: You can so you can drive your plane down the
street and everybody has to get out of the road
for you. And there were about cars coming in to
look at these lights. They also have a lake that
they stock with fish for the residents to go fish
in their little lake.
Speaker 3: Is it catch and release or no?
Speaker 1: No, eat them? No, you can eat them, I guess,
because that's the whole point.
Speaker 2: And and so they've had problems with you know, interlopers
coming in.
Speaker 3: So get it.
Speaker 1: Then you definitely need a gate. Why put the gate
up for real? Right?
Speaker 2: And it's not like these people can't afford the I mean,
if you like, if you're in a neighborhood that has
its own landing strip, as an amenity and all the
homes are million dollar plus. I'm thinking, yeah, raise the assessments,
you know, fifty bucks and put in a gate and
then you.
Speaker 3: Problems have to you have what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Somali people are gonna come in and all sorts of things.
That's a big thing right now, right people in Somalia
and all that, and you just.
Speaker 3: Got to be careful.
Speaker 1: You never know. See, I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: Also problem is with the sign on their lake, and
the sign says fishing for residents only.
Speaker 3: No, no, I.
Speaker 2: Think there's a misinterpretation going on there. I think people
may be thinking that in the lake you're only supposed
to be fishing for residents. Okay, And so you can
go take the fish, just don't catch any you know,
I guess you know. No, you're not supposed toake the fish.
You're only supposed to catch the people.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: What is the name of the community again, Arrow Plantation,
Aero Plantation. Okay, I can I just steal ten seconds
of time?
Speaker 1: That's about how much time we've got, So go for it.
Speaker 4: If you listen, if you are listening and you live there,
defend yourself. In this next segment, I will I will
take you right on the line with Pete. Pete will
interrogate you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and there was one other, Oh the streisand
effect here because guess what now they've got way more
publicity to this, to this light show.
Speaker 3: Kiss me in the morning.
Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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