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maybe your life in the case of Cecil Brockman a light,
let us turn our attention westward. Do you know who
Katie Porter is? She of the famous steak lineage. I'm kidding,
no relationship to stake, although I do think she likes
to eat them, but I'm not sure. We'll have to
confirm that Katie Porter is this what should I say here?
Trying to trying not to be mean, but she's kind
of this gross congresswoman from uh California, and uh she
has had any number of pr problems, let's say, over
her career, but I think she has torched her attempted
run now for governor, Okay of California because Gavin Newsom,
you know, running for president obviously, So he's been m
i a for a while when he's not standing in
front of me a burning home, blaming climate change for
the Palisades fire, which, by the way, turned out not
to be climate change. I'm as shocked as you are.
That wasn't climate change that burned down the Palisades. No, No,
it was an arsonist. Yeah, some whack job looks like
a firebug. That's you know, I know it's kind of
antiquated now to think in those terms, but there are
people who are pyromaniacs and they like to light fires,
and they like to see stuff burn, and that like
when I was growing up, that was really like if
anything caught fire, these wildfires, if it wasn't like a
lightning strike or something, it was a pyro you know.
And that's what it seems like this guy was. That
they just arrested, I think, but yesterday or day before
federally charged him. So not climate change anyway. So she's
running for governor. There are a bunch of people running
for governor of California. It's a very big state. It's
like basically the whole Left coast, which is to me ridiculous.
You need to break that state up into multiple states
because you can't even travel to your state capital in
like less than half a day or something from some
parts of the state. It's just ridiculous. So anyway, that's
a side side story. Katie Porter, she sat for an
interview with a local CBS affiliate news reporter. I believe
her name is Julie Watts Uh. It's in here somebody, Yeah,
Julie watts Uh, CBS News California based correspondent, and Julie
Watts was doing a series of interviews with all of
the candidates, asking them basically the same questions, and then
she was going to put it all together into you know,
longer form stories on the candidates and their positions on
the various issues. So she sits for this interview. I'm
gonna play for you the audio of this interview. It
doesn't run very long, Okay, it's like three minutes. It
doesn't it. It does not go well. And when I
say that, I mean like it goes as bad as
the late Kay Hagan's re election announcement in North Carolina
for the US Senate when she was facing all of
these questions about why she wasn't attending the Armed Services
Committee meetings where they heard about the rise of ISIS
in Iraq, and she was, you know, blowing off all
these committee meetings and going to fundraise and such, and
so she was at the center of this swirl and
she decides to go to the Board of Elections and
announce her reelection intent and thinks that she can just
make the announcement and then walk out the back door
without taking any questions. And yeah, no, it did not
go well because the reporters that were there that were
wanting to get answers to the questions about why she
didn't attend all of these committee meetings about the rise
of ISIS, which, if you recall at the time, this
was when ISIS was was surging and they were murdering
people all over the place with these you know, live
streamed beheadings and such. They were taking over large pieces
of Iraq, and on the Armed Services Committee they were
getting briefs and she wasn't participating until people wanted to know,
why weren't you there, And so she goes to make
her announcement, I'm running again for reelection, yeay me, And
then she tries to duck out the back well. The
reporters then follow her out and they basically chase her
through the parking lot where she's like walking away from them,
not wanting to answer these questions. And I said at
the time, like, I don't know if that could go
any worse unless she like took a baby bunny rabbit
and like lit it on fire for the cameras, you know,
don't I don't know how that goes any any worse.
You look like you're doing a purp walk, like you've
been arrested, like this guy, Cecil Brockman was right. Anyway,
Katie Porter's performance in this interview this is as bad
of a performance as Kay Haagen's. I think it's actually
worse when you actually see the video. And I know
this is radio so you can't see it, but you're
gonna hear it. And just the contempt that she displays
for what for being asked a question? For being asked
a follow up question? What have I been saying? Democrats,
because of the kid glove treatment that they receive from
the media on the regular they are not prepared to
answer questions on the rare occasion when they are confronted
by an actual journalist that asks them actual questions that
might be a little difficult for them to answer, particularly
a journalist who asks follow up questions. Right. It's one
thing to go in there and ask them a question
and the politician then tapped answers away from the answer,
doesn't address the question, and then the journalist just moves on.
But when you keep trying to drag that politician back
to answer your question, right, they eventually have to answer
it if you, as the reporter, keep dragging them back,
and that's on you as the reporter. And look, I've
done it. Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable because you
know they don't want to answer the question, and then
they get frustrated, and then you risk burning a bridge
and all of this. So this reporter sits down for
this interview, and the first sign that something is amiss
to me, this is just me, is that somehow, some reason,
I don't know who, decided they were going to do
this interview in master control. Now master control at all
TV stations, right, Master control is this dark room. It's
got a bunch of tables all looking like sort of
like the mission control at NASA. You know, you're all
looking up at the wall, and they're all these TV
monitors on the wall and stuff from all these different
you know, live feeds coming in and such, and so
it's a very dark room. And so they they sit
there and then they do this interview with the two
seats facing each other. So you get it's these are
so the camera angle is a profile of both of them.
And let me just say it this way. Katie Porter
in profile not her most flattering angle. Okay, it's not
a flattering angle for her. And I've seen people say
that this is indicative that her staff hates her. And
by the way, that would actually track because up in Washington,
d C. There is this sort of the worst bosses
kind of list that is known among the people on
Capitol Hill, and she's on that list. She's an awful
person to work for. Stories abound, okay, and I actually
have another clip that I will play you to prove
that point. But this is indicative of like, her staff
not liking her, and so they put her in the
most unflattering profile situation and stuck her in master control
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Katie Porter. She's being interviewed by Julie Watts of the
CBS affiliate, and right out of the gate, it did
not start.
Speaker 2: Well, what do you say to the forty percent of
California voters who you'll need in order to win, who
voted for Trump?
Speaker 3: How would I need them in order to win?
Speaker 2: A man, Well, unless you think you're going to get
sixty percent of the vote, you think you'll get all
everybody who did not vote for Trump will vote for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So hang on a second. So when she says that,
why do I need the forty percent to win? Ma'am?
She does this thing where she leans over and they're
sitting very close together. She leans forward, says that to her,
and then turns to the camera and starts mugging for
the camera. Yuk, yuck, yuck ha ha, Like, oh, why
do I need the forty percent? Uh ah? Check me out, singer.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So it's just kind of a weird start. Now I
think that the question was It wasn't exactly, So let
me just read. This is from Jeffrey Blair at National Review.
He says the interview began with Watts asking porter about
the recent move by Gavin Newsom and state Democrat lawmakers
to redistrict Republican congressmen out of their seats in retaliation
for the redrawing of other red state legislative maps. Right,
So that's been the issue that's taking up a lot
of the politic gal oxygen in this election. Is this
independent redistricting Commission to be temporarily suspended so then they
can jerrymander all of the Republicans out of their seats.
Watts misspoke on her very first question, ensuring there would
not be a second, because the question was what do
you say to the forty percent of California voters who
you'll need in order to win who voted for Trump?
Jeffrey Blair says, that's tautologically false that you need the
support of the losing parties voters to win. But candidates
are not supposed to say things like, ha, we live
in a one party state, so it doesn't matter what
Trump voters think. You're not supposed to say that. Watts
was actually attempting to pose a simple challenge to the
would be governor, as she later made clear many times,
what do you say to the forty percent of the
Californians you're seeking to federally disenfranchise right of California voters
are Republicans, and you guys want to jerrymander the maps.
I want to suspend state law for your independent redistricting
commission that you've had for like twenty years now. You
want to get rid of that temporarily so you can
disenfranchise all the Republican voters. Yet you want to be
the governor of those forty percent? What do you say
to them? That's the question, and you should have an
answer for that. My goodness, it's like the top issue
in this election cycle. Okay, and it gets worse.
Speaker 4: You're in a general election.
Speaker 3: Yes, if it is me versus a Republican, I think
that I will win the people who did not vote.
Speaker 4: For Try what if it's you versus another Democrat?
Speaker 3: I don't intend that to be the case.
Speaker 4: So how do you not intend that to be the case?
Do you? Are you going to ask them not to run? No?
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I
have the support already in terms of name recognition, and
so I'm going to do the very best I can
to make sure that we get through this primary in
a really strong position. But let me be clear with you.
I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I
have stood on my own two feet and one Republican
votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race
can say. If you're from a deep blue area, if
you're from LA or you're from Oakland, you.
Speaker 4: Don't have an experience, is that you don't need those
Trump voters.
Speaker 3: So you asked me if I need them to win?
So you don't think like this is unnecessarily argumentative.
Speaker 4: What is your question?
Speaker 2: The question is the same thing I asked everybody that
this is being called.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me stop there for a moment. She says
she doesn't intend it to be the case that she
will have to run against the Democrat in the general election.
I don't know how she thinks she gets to determine
that because California has what they call a jungle primary.
Jeffrey Blair described this well here it is the divide.
So right now the divided primary field. Also because they
have a primary, and then the top votainers, not vote getters,
people votainers, they move on to the general. Okay, So
the field right now has HHS Secretary Xavier Bessera, Lieutenant
Governor Ellenie Cunilakis, former Los Angeles mayor, Tony Viagarosa and
Fox News commentator Steve Hilton, a Republican, and then six
other guys you've never heard of. Okay, So, California has
used a jungle primary system since twenty twelve, meaning the
top two votainers advanced to the November ballot regardless of party. Now,
her lead right now is not commanding, and it's primarily
due to name recognition as a former congresswoman from one
of the LA suburbs, although now her name recognition is
probably going to be a little bit greater. Yeah, So
I don't know how she thinks that she's not going
to face a Democrat in the election, because the jungle
primary system allows for two Democrats to assent, right, So
I don't understand her response there where like, oh, I
don't intend that to be the case. And then she
says I can pull votes from the Republicans.
Speaker 2: The empowering voters to stop Trump's power grab. Every other
candidate has answered this, all.
Speaker 1: Right, this is the redistricting question to suspend the Independent
Redistricting Commission and Jerrymander in order to disenfranchise all of
the Republicans in California, or as many as you can
in order to preserve the House of Representatives numbers for
Democrats in Congress.
Speaker 4: Right, question, this is not I said, I support it.
Speaker 2: So and the question is what do you say to
the forty percent of voters who voted for Trump?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you
need them to win part that I don't understand. I'm
happy to answer the question aswer the question as you
haven't written and all answer.
Speaker 2: And we've also asked the other candidates do you think
you need any of those forty percent of California voters
to win?
Speaker 4: And you're saying no, you don't.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying I'm gonna try to win every vote
I can. And what I'm saying to you is that,
well to those voters, Okay, so you I don't want
to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: About her answer there was perfectly fine. But this is
this is just a tiny bit of pushback. That's what
I said earlier. The kid glove treatment that the media
gives Democrats has made them intellectually flabby. She can't even
handle a couple of follow ups that aren't even hard.
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Katie Porter from California. If you didn't know of her
before this week, you may have seen some of these
clips circulating on the interweb, and the California voters, well,
they're going to see a lot of these clips. This
is a very bad week. Or actually it's just been
like forty eight hours. It hasn't even been a week
for Katie Porter. She sits for this interview with the
local CBS correspondent who's doing a story with interviews with
all of the candidates for governor, talking about the race,
but also talking about the referendum where California voters are
being asked to suspend their independent Redistricting Commission, which is
in their constitution, which they put there by a referendum vote.
They are being asked by Democrats to suspend it so
Democrats can jerrymander and draw new districts, new congressional lines
to remove all Republicans from any congressional seat in California.
That's what they're doing okay, and so like the question
is what do you tell these voters forty percent of
the state voters or Republicans, What do you tell them
that you're out here lobbying to disenfranchise them. You don't
want them to have any congressional representation in Congress, but
you want them to get your vote for governor. Like
how are you making that message? Why would a Republican
vote for you when you're actively telling people to disenfranchise them, Right,
that's the question. That's what this reporter is focusing on.
And Katie Porter is not happy. She says it, She'll
tell you not happy. And then she says, I'm gonna
call it, claps her hands together like I'm gonna call it,
puts her palms, you know, towards the reporter like I'm done,
and she starts to like fiddle with her microphone. But
the reporter just presses on to her credit like this
is a good move by her tactically, Like just keep
pressing on to try to keep the subject seated in
the chair and not abandon the interview. So this is
what's trying to save the interview.
Speaker 4: You're not going to do the interview with them. Nope,
not like this.
Speaker 3: I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single.
Speaker 4: Question you ask every other candidate has.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 3: I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation which you
asked me about every issue on this list. And if
every question you're going to make up a follow up question,
then we're never going to get there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's her job. You're sitting for an interview
with a member of the media. And I mean, just
think about the mindset of this woman, Katie Porter, this
congress member. The idea that a reporter would ask her
a series of follow ups to a question on the list.
This is outrageous to her. I'm not going to sit
for an interview where you get to ask me just
anything right like by comparison, I will tell you when
Congressman Tim Moore, former Speaker of the North Carolina House,
happened to be in West Charlotte the other day. His
people called us up and said, Hey, he's down on
the street. Do you want him on the show? He'll
drop in, And I said, sure, he dropped in. I'd
done no prep for the interview, and I had. When
he came, I said, he sat down I said, is
there anything that you want to like hit on? Is
there any topic or whatever that like you're in town
for or whatever? And he says, no, just ask me anything.
That is usually the case in my career. That is
usually the case with every Republican member of Congress I
have ever interviewed. If I call them and say, I
want to ask you about this topic, because that's standard,
you ask you tell the subject I want to interview
you about, you know, this topic, so they have an
idea when they go into the interview. They have an
idea of what the topic is going to be. They
don't know the questions. I have had people ask me, Hey,
can you send among the questions for the congress member,
And I say no, I will not send you questions.
You don't get the questions ahead of time. This isn't
an open book test, right, We're just gonna have a
conversation and if I think up a question while we're chatting,
I'm gonna ask it. So that's the deal, and they
all take the deal. But for some reason, Katie Porter
has made it to the wholes of Congress and has
never had follow ups to questions. This is what I
mean intellectually flabby. I'm not making any comments about her
appearance that is not a reference to her appearance that
I have been saying that phrase for a long time.
And yes, I do recognize that she does have a
bit of an eight head. It's like twice the size
of a normal forehead. But I'm not focusing on her
personal appearance.
Speaker 4: Okay, and we're just going to circle around. And I
had to do this before ever You've never had had
a conversation to Okay, but every other candidate has done this.
Speaker 3: What part of I'm me? I'm running for governor because
I'm a leader, so I am going to make.
Speaker 4: So you're not going to answer questions from reporters. Okay,
why don't we go through.
Speaker 2: I will continue to ask follow up questions because that's
my job as a journalist. But I will go through
and ask this, and if you don't want to answer,
don't want to answer, so nearly every legislative.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you,
and I don't want this all on camera.
Speaker 4: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
Speaker 2: To continue to ask these questions so that we can
show our viewers, what every candidate feels about every one
of these issues that they care about, and redistrit taking.
Speaker 4: It's a massive issue.
Speaker 2: We're going to do an entire story just on the
responses to that question and have asked everybody the same
follow up questions.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you, ma'am.
You're running for governor. This is a journalist asking you questions.
Think about the Democrat privilege here. That's what we're looking at.
That's what you're hearing. Democrat privilege that you can have
a career in politics and never face These aren't even
tough questions. These are like, this is sort of the
equivalent of why are you running?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Tell us your origin story? How awesome of a candidate
are you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: These aren't difficult questions. But she thought she was just
going to be able to say whatever she wanted to
say and move on, because that's what Democrat privilege allows
you when you are dealing with legacy media outlets. And
for some reason, poor Katie Porter happened to cross paths
with Julie Watts, who happens to be an actual reporter
and asked follow up questions. It really is remarkable, but
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on the text line says she needs an emotional support
puppy in a safe room, grow up and run a campaign,
an actual campaign. John from New Jersey says Porter's total
lack of self awareness is astounding. Seth says, could you
imagine doing a job interview and telling the interview or
after the first question that you're not answering any more
questions because it's not leading to a happy place. Yeah,
I've never I've never seen anything like this before from
a candidate. Well, with the exception of Alvin Green who
ran for US Senate in South Carolina, who literally put
his hands over his ears and started going when he
didn't want to hear any more of the questions. But
he was a little off, you know, And the only
reason he won that race was because his name was
Al Green. He won the Democrat prime and then he
got just demolished by I think it was Jim Demnt anyway. Yeah,
his campaign shirt was the Green family Reunion T shirt
that they hand out at his family reunion every year.
So that was his campaign shirt. Jeffrey Blair at National
Review says, the first thing that that must be said
about this implosion is that it is perfectly in keeping
with everything else we know about Katie Porter, a woman
who once poured scalding hot mashed potatoes on her husband's
head in a fit of peak. They're now divorced. Surprisingly,
Porter's petulance, lack of preparation, and sense of entitlement were staggering.
She was genuinely offended to have to answer a mildly
difficult question. She acted like it was an insult not
only to her intelligence, but her personal dignity. Also, her
beastly reputation has long preceded her. You don't become an
inner circle member of Washington's informal bad Bosses Hall of
Fame any other way. But this interview is an amazing
display of who she really is, the ugliness inside her
heart that voters will find impossible to ignore. Okay, so
this video comes out. Then within twenty four hours another
video is published, this one over at Politico where this
is from twenty twenty one. She's sitting for this sort
of fake interview with the Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholme, and
they're talking about the awesomeness of electric vehicles. And so
she's doing this over a zoom call and you don't
see grand home. You just see Katie Porter, you know,
like way too close to the laptop camera for my taste,
at least way too close. But in the background, she's
doing it from like her apartment or something. And in
the background you see a staffer moving around a little bit.
There's a woman in the background far in the background,
and you could just see your head kind of moving
around a little bit. And this is what happens. You're
ready for stat number two?
Speaker 5: I am all right, six hundred and thirty two dollars
and thirty two, which is how much you save in
fuel and maintenance costs when you replace your traditional car
with an EV with an electric vehicle. So I drive,
I lease a Chevy Bolt.
Speaker 1: It is the best car that.
Speaker 4: I have ever owned.
Speaker 5: I just plug it into the garage three hole prong
plug and I never.
Speaker 1: Have to go Who calls it a three hole prong plug? Nobody, nobody,
Who watches this crap? Who is going to sit there
and like, you know, what I need to do is
I need to sit down and watch like a webinar interview,
a zoom call between these two talking about how they
save six hundred and thirty two dollars by switching over
to an EV golf.
Speaker 5: Go to the gas station.
Speaker 6: That's awesome, And six hundred and thirty two dollars is
real money. And I know here at UCI, we have
a National Fuel Center research center, and they're also doing
work how to make electric vehicles affordable, including for low
and modern income people, working moms, single moms like me,
people who really could benefit from an extra six hundred
and thirty two dollars in their pocket.
Speaker 1: By the way, she's a single mom now because her
husband divorced her after she you know, dumped a bunch
of scalding hot mashed potatoes on its head.
Speaker 6: And it's also not just the individual savings, but it's
also the total savings for our economy. So I'm on
the oversight committee, you might know, and that is where
we did a study recently this fall in September, and
what it showed is if we don't electrify our transportation sector,
that we're going to lose more than half a million
Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, and
the state could lose for you're out of my shot.
I actually correct.
Speaker 4: It's not that vehicles.
Speaker 2: It's that you don't need the commitments pars climate.
Speaker 3: Okay, it does.
Speaker 6: Okay, you also were in my shot before that. Stay
out of my shot.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I'm going to start again with electric vehicle sabingus money.
Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, Okay, So do you understand what you just heard.
She's reading through her bullet points about how awesome the
evs are, and she's quoting these things and stats and
the work they're doing and all of this, and she
says something wrong, and so her staffer, who is like
at one point you see her kind of come into
the frame in the background a little bit. I mean,
she's behind like a shelf, like an open shelf kind
of thing with some plants on it, So you don't
really see. You just know there's somebody back there moving around.
But she's obviously back there monitoring the zoom call here, right,
And so when Katie Porter says something incorrect, the staffer
comes out from behind this wall, from behind that shelf
comes out behind her, and that's when Porter loses her
mind on her.
Speaker 6: Get out of my shot.
Speaker 1: Get out of my bleeping shot. She screams this at
her staffer right behind her, like without even breaking cadence.
She's like, out of my shot. And Jennifer Grahholm is
on the other side of this and her staffers are
on the other side of this call, like they all
see this happen once again. Privilege that you could behave
this way in front of people, right, Like I'm smart
enough to know that when I say this kind of
stuff to my producers, it's off air. Nobody hears me
saying this and being abusive to Nick and Bernie, and
I am abusive to them. I like, I don't get it. Now,
here's the key. This video drops. This thing is four
years old. Somebody has been sitting on this video for
four years, and it drops within twenty four hours after
her meltdown in the CBS interview. Within twenty four hours,
Politico is handed this video and they make a point
to say that the staffer that Politico is not identifying
out of privacy concerns, and who is not the source
of the video, declined to comment, So they know who
that staffer was that got yelled at. But she's not talking.
She wasn't the source of the video. Somebody else gave
it to her. So I'm thinking the knives are out
for Katie Porter inside the Democrat Party, That's what I'm thinking.
Like they saw their opportunity to like make this into
a thing and to introduce Katie Porter to more California voters. Now,
Katie Porter put out a statement saying, quote, it's no
secret I hold myself and my staff to a high standard,
and that was especially true as a member of Congress.
I have sought to be more intentional in showing gratitude
to my staff for their important work. Which is not
an apology, in case you missed it, There not an apology.
She's just like, you're damn right, I ordered the code
read like that's what Her response is like, I try
to show gratitude more, but I'm still gonna cuss people out.
I guess that's I guess that's what she's saying. This
woman is a monster. All right. That'll do it for
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