WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.680 So I was very confused by two things happening in 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:08.839 fairly quick succession. First was a couple days ago, learning 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.080 that the Los Angeles Times decided not to endorse anyone 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:20.480 for president, and I thought, that's a curious move. 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:22.399 Why would that be. 6 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.120 There are some people saying, well, there's this new owner 7 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:31.359 for the LA Times and that maybe he had wanted 8 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:35.479 to work for Trump at some point, and okay, whatever. 9 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:41.200 Then I hear that the Washington Post decided they're not 10 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.840 going to endorse anybody for president. Then I hear that 11 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.799 USA Today is not going to endorse anybody for president. 12 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.359 And newspapers do this, I mean, newspapers have editorial boards 13 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:04.400 that are opinion givers. That's what newspapers do. They have 14 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.680 editorial boards who give opinions, and they try to have 15 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:13.239 their editorializing section be different from the news reporting section, 16 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:18.200 hopefully near the towyin shell meet. But I think in 17 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.519 practice that's not necessarily true. People go from straight news 18 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:31.760 reporting to editorializing. And I've sort of left scratching my head. 19 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.519 Why are all of these major newspapers deciding to not 20 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:42.599 endorse anybody for president, especially the Washington Post. I think 21 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.000 the Post was the one that I really kind of 22 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.040 scratched my head with. I have, I think, a better 23 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.480 sense of it when in the wake of saying they 24 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.599 weren't going to endorse someone for president, the Washington Posts 25 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:03.920 readership is, I think we have to understand d C 26 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:10.280 is so liberal, the greater DC area, Washington, d C itself, 27 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:16.479 northern Virginia, southern Maryland. 28 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.319 Is so liberal. 29 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:24.159 That their readership were furiously mad that this newspaper didn't 30 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.240 affirm their beliefs that Kamala Harris should be president and 31 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:32.840 Donald Trump should. I've seen reports of like large numbers 32 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.400 of people unsubscribing from the Washington Post blah blah blah 33 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.840 blah blah, like, oh, this is terrible, this is outrageous 34 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.560 to not take a moral stint when I think most 35 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:49.599 people would agree with me. I don't think newspapers endorsements 36 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:54.800 have much of an impact at all. In fact, I 37 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.599 would say our local experience here in Fresno is that 38 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:04.800 the Fresno b endorsement is could be a negative for 39 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:09.639 someone I've I've genuinely seen with a race here in Fresno, 40 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.960 George Rodanovitch running against David Tanjipa. Even though I like 41 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.319 Tanjipa a little bit better myself. I think they're both 42 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:27.680 pretty conservative. I've gotten to know Tanjipa a little better 43 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:34.840 than Radanovic. Radanovic has used the B's endorsement of Tanjapa 44 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:40.199 against him, actually sent out electioneering mailers against Toni with 45 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:42.439 oh see, he's the choice of the Fresno B. 46 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:44.719 I'm the choices like that. 47 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:51.080 That's how little people regard newspaper endorsements. Now that's in 48 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.840 a super conservative election, but you get the hint. I mean, 49 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.000 I don't think newspaper endorsements do that much. 50 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:03.080 So. 51 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:09.879 Jeff Bezos, who is the owner of The Washington Post, 52 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.360 one of the wealthiest men in the world, the founder 53 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:18.800 of Amazon. He published an op ed in his newspaper, 54 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.639 The Washington Post, in which he explained a little bit 55 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.279 the decision by The Washington Post not to endorse a 56 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:32.920 presidential candidate, and honestly, it was pretty darn andsightful. 57 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.519 Here's what he has to say. In the annual public. 58 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:41.160 Surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have 59 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:45.879 regularly fallen near the bottom, often just above Congress. But 60 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.759 in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to fall 61 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.160 below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. 62 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:57.360 Something we are doing is clearly not working. Let me 63 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:02.680 give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They 64 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.360 must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count. 65 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:08.040 The vote accurately. 66 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.240 The second requirement is distinct from and just as important 67 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.319 as the first. Likewise, with newspapers, we must be accurate 68 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.720 and we must be believed to be accurate. It's a 69 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:20.759 bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the 70 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.000 second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone 71 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.920 who doesn't see this is paying scant attention to reality, 72 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:32.800 and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. 73 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.279 It would be easy to blame others for our long 74 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.839 and continuing fall and credibility and therefore decline an impact, 75 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:43.040 but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not 76 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.560 a strategy. We must work harder to control what we 77 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.439 can control and increase to increase our credibility. See this 78 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.480 is why I'm sure everyone who works at the Washington 79 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.560 Post is freaking out. Everyone who works at the Washington 80 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:06.079 Post is a coddled millennial lefty or most of the 81 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:15.360 people at the Washington Post are coddled millennial lefties. They 82 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:23.680 immediately do go to victim blaming, to a victim mentality. Basically, 83 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.199 these coddled millennial liberals who work at the Washington Post, 84 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:33.680 they have lived in this echo chamber of liberal ideology 85 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.160 for so long, ever since they were in college. Now 86 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.160 into their professional lives as reporters for the Washington Post, 87 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.759 staffers for the Washington Post, where all of their peers 88 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:50.360 are liberals, all of their neighbors are liberals, everyone surrounding 89 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.639 them as a liberal. They are so suffused with liberalism 90 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.240 that they don't see how bad it is. And when 91 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:03.959 they see nationwide opinion polling that journalists are just not trusted, 92 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.839 that the media is not trusted, they are going to 93 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:12.720 just blame everyone other than themselves. Bezos is coming at 94 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:18.639 this from a tech computer science slash business perspective where 95 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.279 he says, no, this is a problem. We need to 96 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.040 solve the problem. What are the variables under our control 97 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.160 that we can solve. It doesn't matter just pointing that 98 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:33.839 you're not going to fix anything by just pointing the 99 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.720 finger and blaming other people. We have to control what 100 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.279 we can control, and if there are things we're not 101 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:45.199 doing well, then we need to fix it. We are 102 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:49.120 getting these outcomes from our current inputs. Clearly we need 103 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:57.199 to change our inputs. I think you know, I'm not 104 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.639 here to sing the praises of Jeff Bezos that he's 105 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.879 some one wonderful human being. He's clearly very left wing. 106 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:09.319 But he's clearly intelligent enough to realize that this isn't working. 107 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.040 I'll get to why I think he's realized that in 108 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.399 a bit. Let's continue with the piece he writes. Presidential 109 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.439 endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. 110 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.439 No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, I'm 111 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.279 going with newspaper aise endorsement. 112 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:24.199 None. 113 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:29.040 What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias, 114 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:34.559 a perception of non independence. Ending them is a principal decision, 115 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.399 and it's the right one. Eugene Meyer, the publisher of 116 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.679 the Washington Post from nineteen thirty three to nineteen forty six, 117 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.480 thought the same, and he was right. He goes on 118 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.200 and then he talks about that that I want to 119 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.320 make it clear there was no quid pro quo of 120 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.200 any kind is at work here. Neither campaign, nor candidate 121 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.120 was consulted or informed at any level or in any 122 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.039 way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. 123 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:59.120 Da da da Da. 124 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.639 He goes on talks about how Amazon is sort of 125 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:06.679 a complifier, a complexifier for the Post, because Jeff Bezos 126 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.360 has so many business interests that it's hard for the 127 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.679 Post to do things or report on things without people 128 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:20.000 thinking there's some connection to bezos businesses. But he continues 129 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.679 to go on. He talks about the lack of credibility 130 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.879 that media has. Lack of credibility isn't unique to the Post. 131 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.879 Our brethren newspapers have the same issue, and it's a 132 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.919 problem not only for media, but also for the nation. 133 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:37.759 Many people are turning to off the cuff podcasts, inaccurate 134 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:42.039 social media posts, and other unverified news sources, which can 135 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.200 quickly spread misinformation and deepened divisions. The Washington Post and 136 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.799 the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk 137 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.799 only to a certain elite. More and more we talk 138 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.600 to ourselves. It wasn't always this way. In the nineteen nineties, 139 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:59.440 we achieved eighty percent household penetration in the DC metro area. 140 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.240 While I do not and will not push my personal interest. 141 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:05.360 I will also not allow this paper to stay on 142 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:10.240 autopilot and fade into irrelevance, overtaken by unresearched podcasts and 143 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:13.600 social media barbs. Not without a fight. It's too important. 144 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:15.519 The stakes are too high now more than ever. The 145 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:19.440 world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice. And where better 146 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.320 for that voice to originate than the capital city of 147 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.440 the most important country in the world. To win this fight, 148 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.759 we will have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will 149 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:28.399 be a return to the past, and some will be 150 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.799 new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new. 151 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.879 Of course, this is the way of the world. None 152 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.600 of this will be easy, but it will be worth it. 153 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.480 I'm so grateful to be part of this endeavor. 154 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:42.720 Blah blah blah blah blah. All right, why is Bezos 155 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.559 doing this? Why is he doing this all of a 156 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.759 sudden a week before the election, announcing this like big, 157 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.960 like sort of shift in the tone and focus and 158 00:10:52.960 --> 00:11:03.519 in character of this newspaper, this media endeavor. Well, I'd 159 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:11.200 like to think here's my best guess. The Washington Post 160 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.960 went all in on. 161 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:25.559 Being anti Trump, that Trump was hitler, Trump was terrible, 162 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.480 that January sixth was the worst thing that ever happened, 163 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.720 the pursuit of Trump going after him. 164 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:38.960 This theme of preserving democracy democracy dies in darkness was 165 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:45.000 their logo they very over dramatically adopted for themselves. They 166 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:49.399 went all in on it. The Post perhaps. 167 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:55.519 More so than almost any other newspaper, and Washington in particular. 168 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.799 Washington in particular despises Trump in a way that I 169 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:02.440 don't think any other area of the country does, because 170 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.679 I think so many people in Washington, d C. Work 171 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:13.679 in politics, work for the federal government, work for federal contractors, 172 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:20.360 work in the intelligence community, work in the Department of Defense. 173 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.360 And Trump has alienated basically everyone in all of those groups. 174 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.039 I'm not saying Trump is alienated military rank and file personnel, 175 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.559 but clearly Trump doesn't think the same way about foreign 176 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.120 policy as a lot of our military top brass do. 177 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.879 He doesn't think about you know, he doesn't think about 178 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.320 foreign policy the way they do. He clearly has divergent 179 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.080 ways of thinking on all kinds of things. There is 180 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:52.120 universal Trump hatred in DC, even among conservative leaning people 181 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:53.480 and Republican leaning people. 182 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:54.600 They hate Trump. 183 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.759 January sixth had a different feel for people in DC 184 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.200 than it did for people anywhere else. There was a 185 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:06.879 moment on January six where things felt really scary and 186 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:12.360 people blamed Trump for it. So people in DC are 187 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.360 much more alarmed by January sixth than people the entire 188 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:17.279 rest of the country are. 189 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:25.159 The Washington Post, as a result, went all in on 190 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.720 anti trumpetude, and for the last four years, no one 191 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:35.480 was more aggressive on this. No one was more aggressively. 192 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.919 Anti Trump over the last nine years and especially the 193 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:42.120 last four years than the Washington Post. Reflective of the 194 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:48.679 mood of the Washington the Washington, DC area and what happened. 195 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:56.279 Nothing they did succeed it. Trump is at worst fifty 196 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:02.000 to fifty chants going to get re elected president. If 197 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.000 he loses, it's going to be by you know, a 198 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:11.159 hair's breadth. So I think Bezos is looking at this 199 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.519 and saying, well, clearly, we're not reflective of the country. 200 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.159 If we think that this guy is Adolf Hitler and 201 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:23.679 this guy is possibly about to win, and I think 202 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:27.919 most of the betting money is on Trump winning at 203 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:33.200 worst it's a fifty to fifty proposition, then I think 204 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.960 Bezos is stepping back and saying, well, look, if we 205 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.320 are if we posture ourselves in Washington, d c. At 206 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:44.240 The Washington Post as this national newspaper, as one of 207 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:50.639 the you know, two or three national newspaper brands that yes, 208 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.039 we're a local paper, but also we have we are 209 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.440 something that has an impact on the country as a whole, 210 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:00.320 like the New York Times. That the list of nationwide 211 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.840 newspapers that matter, it's basically the New York Times in 212 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:04.720 the Washington Post. 213 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:05.440 That's it. 214 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:10.759 I don't know that there's any other newspaper that has 215 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:14.559 that kind of national branding and national importance. 216 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.039 It's the New York Times and the Washington Post. That's it. 217 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.399 So if we're going to have these, you know, pretensions 218 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:26.600 of being this nationally relevant thing, why is it that 219 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:32.639 this guy that we said was completely unacceptable? How is 220 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.279 he a fifty to fifty shot to be president? Are 221 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:40.159 we just ignoring this whole half of the country. And 222 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.919 now they are these rumblings that Bezos is wanting to 223 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:49.039 hire actually conservative columnists, which the Post doesn't have very 224 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:53.600 many of, even Jennifer Rubin, They're one former conservative columnist 225 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.960 who completely got radicalized by Trump and has just become 226 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.919 a very solid liberal. I think Bezos is just sort 227 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.720 of realizing, like, we don't have credibility to half the country. 228 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:12.720 We're just talking to one half of the country. How 229 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:16.480 can we change that. We're losing to podcasts, we're losing 230 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.799 to other forms of media. And I think he thinks 231 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.320 the long term business direction of the Washington Post. 232 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:29.840 Is south south, is in going down, not going well, 233 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:30.559 not going up. 234 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.320 So I thought this was fairly insightful when we return 235 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:40.200 the stuff that I think Bezos is overlooking, which is 236 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.039 that it's not just that people perceive the media to 237 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.039 be untrustworthy, they genuinely are untrustworthy. That's next on the 238 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.960 John Girardi Show. I'm reading this op ed by Jeff 239 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.360 Bezos in the newspaper he owns the Washington Post, in 240 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.279 which he's laying out his reason and why he was 241 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:05.000 going to have the Washington Post not endorse somebody for president, 242 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:10.039 which I thought was pretty insightful with one kind of glaring, 243 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:21.440 non insightful bit. Basically, all he's talking about is that media, 244 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:28.119 mainstream media outlests journalists are not trusted. And he makes 245 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:30.640 his comparison with voting machines. He said, the two things 246 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.920 that you need for a voting machine are one it 247 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:38.079 needs to count votes accurately. To people need to think 248 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.920 that it counts the votes accurately. People need to trust it. 249 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.200 And he's sort of ascribing the media's problems. Why are 250 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.720 journalists not trust The second thing is the only thing 251 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.440 that's the problem. 252 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.079 Eh, But that's the thing is. 253 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.279 Media in the United States over the last ten years 254 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:04.839 have done a lot of things that it's not just 255 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:06.759 a question of people not trusting them. 256 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:11.519 People have good reason not to trust them. They have 257 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.640 been inaccurate, They have. 258 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:22.440 Engaged in highly biased attitudes towards reporting, narratives that they drive, 259 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:30.240 et cetera. I mean, you know, do we have you know, 260 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.359 twenty hours for a you know, radio show about this 261 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.279 topic where I could talk about all of the different 262 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.920 ways in which media reports things in a slanted, biased way. 263 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.240 How many things during COVID were reported as confident in 264 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.400 fact it turned out not really to be true. How 265 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:48.720 many things were called, you know, conspiracy theories during COVID 266 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:51.759 or otherwise it turned out to be true. You know, 267 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:56.039 all of the reporting around the Hunter Biden laptop, the 268 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.400 reporting that was not done around the Hunter Biden laptop. Oh, 269 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.880 we can't share that story because it's unverified information. They 270 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:04.480 could have verified it very easily. 271 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.559 They just absolutely did not want to verify it because 272 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:10.400 they knew it would be harmful to Joe Biden in 273 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:14.000 the middle of a presidential election, so they didn't. And 274 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:18.000 then well after the presidential election, it was, oh, yeah, verified, 275 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.480 this is very clearly Hunter Biden's laptop. 276 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:25.400 But we will credulously rush to publish an opinion piece 277 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:30.119 by all these members of the intelligence community saying that 278 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.039 we think this is Russian disinformation. They had no earthly 279 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:41.480 evidence whatsoever to think it was Russian disinformation. All of 280 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:47.200 the millions and gazillions of Trump stories that turned out 281 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.559 to be not true, That all of the reporting around 282 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:56.559 Brett Kavanaugh that they were rush they were sprinting to 283 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:03.599 report every single un verified Yahoo who wanted to claim 284 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.200 that Brett Kavanaugh one time looked at that gave them 285 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.000 the Google eyes at a bar in nineteen ninety two 286 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.359 in a way that was inappropriate. Like all the reporting 287 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:20.519 around Brett Kavanaugh was was complete and utter nonsense. We 288 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:22.960 could go on and on and on and on and 289 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:25.960 on and on and on all the ways in which 290 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:28.640 even their coverage of January sixth, after the fact that 291 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:34.960 were deceptive, the dishonest, The fact that nobody reported on 292 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:38.559 Joe Biden being senile, that that very few people were 293 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:43.119 willing to actually do the hard nos journalistic work to 294 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.000 reveal that the president of the United. 295 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:45.279 States has seen. 296 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:47.599 Now, the fact that we still aren't getting a ton 297 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:50.920 of that stuff. We had a window of stories about 298 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:55.200 Biden being senile for about two months when Democrats realized 299 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.000 that this guy would lose them the election, and we 300 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.599 haven't heard anything since. What's Biden up to the these days? 301 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.039 Has he had any cabinet meetings? What does the Vice 302 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:07.880 President of the United States think about him? 303 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:08.519 Does? 304 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.119 Does she think he's still fit to do his job? 305 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:19.240 She's been super dodgy about that question. And I think 306 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:21.519 this is the limitation for Bezos, and maybe he just 307 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:25.599 can't say it because you know, he's already got I mean, 308 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:29.240 it sounds like the Washington Post, all of the little 309 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:35.759 millennial snowflakes who work for the Washington Post are like 310 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.880 ready to absolutely pitch a fit because they're so angry 311 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.000 that Jeff Bezos decided to not have the paper endorse 312 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.160 anybody for president, Like this is the worst thing that 313 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.160 has ever happened to them, because you know, these are 314 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.839 coddled millennial little snowflakes who have never had anything bad 315 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.839 happen to them. I speaking as a codd old millennial, 316 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.920 a codd old millennial snow myself, just not a coddled 317 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:08.720 liberal millennial snowflake anyway. For these people like they they've 318 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:11.079 never had anything bad happen to them. They're like up 319 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:13.920 in arms, They're so angry, they're so upset that this 320 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.759 man who owns this newspaper decided to step in and say, Hey, 321 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.240 I don't like the direction we're going here, and I 322 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:21.880 think us endorsing a president is actually counterproductive in a 323 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:25.960 lot of ways. Now, dear, oh, this interference by this 324 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.000 man who invested, you know, for you know, tens of 325 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:30.920 billions of dollars into this enterprise. 326 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.400 And who signs all of our checks. 327 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.200 So maybe he couldn't just come out and say, yeah, 328 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:43.480 the media has been super inaccurate on a bunch of 329 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:46.799 stories because of our liberal bias, and that's part of 330 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:48.960 why people don't trust it. Maybe he just can't say that, 331 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:52.039 otherwise he'd have literally everyone at the Washington Post quit. 332 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.000 Maybe that's the case, but I do think that's the 333 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:59.480 one problem with his analysis is, it's not like people 334 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:04.359 don't try the media for no reason. People don't trust 335 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:08.720 the media because they aren't trustworthy, because they are inaccurate, 336 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:11.720 because they don't pursue stories that are harmful to Democrats, 337 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:17.160 because they aggressively pursue stories in ways that are flimsy 338 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:22.559 to say something bad about Republicans, because they have obvious 339 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:24.680 ideologues who work for them, and then the minute they 340 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:27.480 leave their mainstream media job, they go on to become 341 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.680 the wild left wing ideologus we always thought they were, 342 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.200 you know, so called journalists like Taylor Lawrence, who were 343 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:40.680 obviously left wing activists. When we return commercials about wives 344 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:46.079 voting differently from their husbands and drop boxes being lit 345 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:49.240 on fire, more stuff about voting next on The John 346 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:53.680 Girardi Show. All right, I've got a couple of stories 347 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:58.880 about voting that piqued my interest. As we are all 348 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:01.880 were one week out from election day, a bunch of 349 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:06.319 you have started voting early. My wife went and voted 350 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.839 on Saturday or Saturday Sunday, and I think I'll probably 351 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:12.880 mosey on over to vote probably this weekend or something. 352 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:18.759 And one of the So I've got these two things 353 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:20.559 I want to talk about two things unpiqued my interest. 354 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:26.440 One is this Kamala Harris ad that is following up 355 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:31.440 with other Kamala Harris messaging. So in this ad, it's 356 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:36.839 a bunch of a couple of women going into vote 357 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.480 and everything around that it seems to be very coded 358 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:41.440 that they are in Republican country. 359 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:44.680 Everyone's wearing patriotic flags and stuff. 360 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.359 Apparently that's the way that you know that you're around 361 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:51.079 Republicans is if people look patriotic. And these two women 362 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:53.839 are about to vote at their and let's note where 363 00:24:53.839 --> 00:25:01.359 they are voting in their secret ballot cubicles. They are 364 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:08.480 voting in person in their little secret ballot cubicles. Okay, 365 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.559 the small little, you know, little standing desk, you know, 366 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:17.559 about two feet wide with the little plastic partitions on 367 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.920 either side where you vote privately in secret. They look 368 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:24.359 over the top of it at each other, they smile, 369 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:29.839 and the messaging is basically, hey, women, Kamala Harris supports 370 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:32.680 women's rights, meaning abortion. 371 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:36.880 You don't have to do what your husband thinks. Vote 372 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:40.680 for Kamala Harris. Nobody will know. It'll be our little secret. 373 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:46.599 And it's basically encouraging women don't vote for who your 374 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.960 husband wants to vote for. Vote for Kamala Harris, sista, 375 00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:54.839 you know, like like like there's this invisible liberal sisterhood 376 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:57.240 that binds all women in America, and that it all 377 00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:59.920 surrounds abortion rights, the desire to have abortion. 378 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:05.200 All right, let's talk about a number. 379 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:07.400 Of ways in which this is silly, and it kind 380 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:14.240 of ticks me off, and it takes my wife off 381 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:20.160 as well, mostly because it's coming from different kinds of 382 00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:25.759 polling data. So, yes, there's a male female divide in 383 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:28.319 the country. If only men voted, Donald Trump would win 384 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:31.680 in a landslide. If only women voted, I almost said 385 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:37.480 Hillary Clinton, good lord, Kamala Harris would win in a landslide. 386 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:43.200 And the one demographic of women, though that aren't as 387 00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:48.319 much in the tank for Kamala Harris is married women. 388 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:51.359 That married women are still pro Haerris, but not nearly 389 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.319 as much as single women. Single women are enormous majority 390 00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:00.599 Kamala Harris voters, and I think I think the same 391 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.079 was true in twenty twenty with Biden, and you know, 392 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:10.880 prior elections. The conclusion that liberals have drawn from this 393 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.880 information that married women tend to vote more conservative than 394 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:21.480 single women. This is the messed up way that liberals 395 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:31.519 apparently view conservative conservatives, Red states, and marriage in general. 396 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:39.519 They assume what must be happening is that liberal women 397 00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:45.599 get married and then become intimidated into voting Republican, pressured 398 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:51.799 into voting Republican by their evil Republican spouses who don't 399 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.079 care about women's rights, by which they only mean abortion, 400 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:58.519 who don't care about women's health care, by which they 401 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:06.039