1 00:00:04,839 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,599 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,439 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,519 --> 00:00:16,679 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:19,199 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,559 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,120 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,640 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:32,359 your support. Last hour went over the indictment of Jim Comey, 10 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:36,640 talked a little bit about Andrew McCabe's role in that 11 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:39,840 as well. But there's another angle to this, allow me 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,799 to elaborate. This is from the National Review piece by 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:54,840 Britney Bernstein or Stein Bernstein, probably Bernstein. The charges because 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,000 Jim Comey was indicted on an obstruction of justice charge 15 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:03,119 as well as a percharge for lying to Congress back 16 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:07,879 in twenty twenty. The charges also center in part on 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,519 in October twenty sixteen New York Times story, the headline 18 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:18,840 was investigating Donald Trump, FBI sees no clear link to Russia. 19 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,400 The Times article was a response to reporting in Slate, 20 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:32,359 a leftist publication that had said Trump established a communications 21 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,879 back channel with the Kremlin involving servers at Trump Tower 22 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:42,040 in Manhattan and Alpha Bank, one of Russia's largest financial institutions. 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,959 You remember this story. This was a hoax from the 24 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,680 very beginning. This was Democrat Party oppo smears that was 25 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,840 laundered through the intelligence community by allies in the IC. 26 00:01:56,079 --> 00:02:01,599 Slate runs the article Hours after the the article is published, 27 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:05,599 The New York Times report related to the FBI conclusion 28 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,639 that the back channel claim was unfounded. The report also 29 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,479 detailed that the bureau's counter intelligence investigation of Russia's malign 30 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:19,199 activities in connection with the twenty sixteen campaign were not 31 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,800 linked to Trump and his campaign. Special Council John Durham 32 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,240 probed the leaks to The New York Times in connection 33 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:36,599 with this story. They investigated as unauthorized public disclosure or UPD, 34 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,639 or as I call it UPED, the yuped of classified 35 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:49,039 information unauthorized public disclosure of classified information. The February twenty 36 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,879 twenty closing memo for the probe by John Durham that 37 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:59,800 was obtained by Catherine Herridge, national security correspondent veteran journalist, 38 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:06,120 and the memo found there were two major government sources 39 00:03:06,159 --> 00:03:10,919 for the New York Times story. They were James Baker, 40 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,159 who was the FBI's general counsel and a close advisor 41 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,360 to Comy, as well as the FBI's chief of Staff, 42 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:28,319 James Rybicki. Baker told the investigators at the time that 43 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,879 he was quote under the belief that he was ultimately 44 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,400 instructed and authorized to provide information to The New York 45 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:43,080 Times by then FBI Director James Comy Okay, so he 46 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,039 was under the belief that he was instructed and authorized. 47 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,599 Baker did not claim that Comy ever, gave him a 48 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,159 direct order though. See, because these guys are smart, they're 49 00:03:57,159 --> 00:04:00,319 not going to directly say this. They're not going to 50 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:06,680 instruct you verbatim explicitly, but the message gets communicated and 51 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,520 is received. As Baker said to the investigators, that he 52 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,199 was under the belief that he was instructed and authorized 53 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,399 to provide the leak, hence why he did it. So 54 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:24,079 that's part of it too. So when Comy goes in 55 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,879 and says to Congress, I never authorized any leaks, I 56 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,480 never say anything like, is he trying to kind of 57 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:34,160 walk this line by saying I didn't explicitly say it 58 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:41,720 that way, but everybody knew what I meant. This is 59 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:48,439 from David Strom at hotair dot com. He says, first 60 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:52,759 things first, James Comy is a lying, disgusting, unethical, terrible, horrible, 61 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,920 no good, very bad man. Even worse, he violated his 62 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,959 oath and his ethical obligations to the constant and the 63 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,399 country out of political spite, helping orchestrate a hoax that 64 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,079 tore the country apart, and personally directing the destruction of 65 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:12,199 a good man, General Mike Flynn in a way that 66 00:05:12,319 --> 00:05:18,120 even he knew was unprecedented, unethical, and over the objections 67 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,560 of the very agents he had assigned to investigate Flynn. 68 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,480 He broke countless laws to further his efforts, and as 69 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:30,480 profited handsomely in doing so. By the way, all you 70 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:36,600 Democrats that blamed Jim Comey for Hillary's loss in twenty sixteen, 71 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,759 which is not true, by the way, But and by 72 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:44,680 the way, he also went around protocol and did a 73 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,720 bunch of shifting stuff with that investigation too. But remember 74 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,439 he laid out all the evidence against Hillary Clinton, and 75 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,600 everybody's like, oh my gosh, they're going to indict Hillary Clinton. 76 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:57,120 And then he said, no reasonable prosecutor would indict which 77 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,279 was not true because the evidence was clear as to 78 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:03,800 what she had done and it was a violation of 79 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:07,680 the law. What she had done was moving classified material 80 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:14,879 through an unprotected, illegal private server. And again I always 81 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:17,879 say this whenever I mentioned Hillary Clinton's server. It's not 82 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,920 her emails. The emails lived on the server. The smoking 83 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:26,519 gun was the server. There isn't any other reason why 84 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:32,360 you would create a server except so you could delete 85 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,279 all the information off of it and have no record 86 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,920 of it after you do so. Otherwise, you would just 87 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,079 use a Gmail account or a Yahoo account or whatever, 88 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:46,439 probably AOL for her, but yeah, that's what you would use. 89 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,480 You would just use a regular email account. But the 90 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:52,720 problem there is that if anybody were to find out 91 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:55,079 that you have this email account, they would be able 92 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,680 to get an fo A Freedom of Information Act of 93 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,759 FOIA request and they would be able to get that. 94 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:04,959 And you know, Congress could subpoena Google or Yahoo or 95 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:09,519 whoever and get the data get your stuff off of 96 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,560 their servers, because they own those servers. But if you 97 00:07:12,759 --> 00:07:15,680 own the server and you set up your own email 98 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,560 accounts through your own server, now you can use programs 99 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,879 like bleach bit like to wipe it like with a cloth, famously, right, 100 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:26,920 you can wipe that server and you can get rid 101 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,600 of all of the incriminating information that's on it, which 102 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:33,879 is precisely what she did. And then for good measure, 103 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,600 broke all of her cell phones with a hammer, just 104 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:40,800 to make sure that there wasn't any information that they 105 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,399 could retrieve. That was always the smoking gun, the existence 106 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:50,040 of the server itself. So all you folks that thought 107 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,399 Jim Comey was responsible for Hillary's loss, why wouldn't like, 108 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,480 why wouldn't you want Jim Comey indicted for lying to Congress? 109 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:02,279 Now all of a sudden, you love you some Jim Comey, 110 00:08:04,079 --> 00:08:06,079 which is not true, by the way. And they're going 111 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,240 to try to say that they're occupying a moral high 112 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:10,279 ground by saying, well, we don't like Jim Comey, but 113 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,879 this is unprecedented. But again that's not true, because it 114 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,040 is it is precedented. Is that a word precedented? There 115 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:23,160 is precedent. It's over the last five years, like we've 116 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,480 seen all sorts of indictments against all these people inside 117 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:33,200 of Trump's orbit, and we know this to be true. 118 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,480 So like you guys don't get to say it's unprecedented 119 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,840 now you may object to your own rules and standards 120 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,879 being applied to you because you expect Republicans to be 121 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:46,759 better than you, which is quite the admission. Really, if 122 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:49,840 you think about it, like we know we suck, you 123 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:54,120 should be better than us. But this is what is 124 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:57,000 it from the book Doune I believe, and I forget 125 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,679 who said it. But when I live under your rules, 126 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,519 I demand mercy because those are your standards, right, But 127 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:12,879 when I have the power, then I demand vengeance because 128 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:18,039 those are my standards. Something like that. It's a it is, 129 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:21,360 you know, an inherent or dare I say, an institutional 130 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,559 or systemic double standard. I'm going to hold you to 131 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,840 a higher standard than I hold myself. And this is 132 00:09:27,879 --> 00:09:32,639 why Republicans are done playing this game. They're just done. 133 00:09:32,879 --> 00:09:37,720 Mega people, just done, specially maga folks. After you tried 134 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:40,639 to kill Donald Trump, after you tried to imprison him 135 00:09:40,639 --> 00:09:42,720 for the rest of his life and bankrupt his companies 136 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:47,320 and his family, They're just done. So now they are. 137 00:09:47,919 --> 00:09:50,600 You know, you brought the weapon to the fight. You've 138 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:54,120 been disarmed. The weapon lies on the ground, and now 139 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:55,840 you're begging them not to pick it up and use 140 00:09:55,879 --> 00:10:00,600 it against you, and your cry for mercy is falling 141 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:03,759 on deaf fears. I don't know any of I don't 142 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:05,720 know anyway back. This is what has been alarming to me, 143 00:10:05,759 --> 00:10:07,480 And this is what I've been saying for five years, 144 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,039 actually going back into the first Trump administration. 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Tom Elliott, founder of Grabian News, points 181 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,679 out that Jim Comey indicted Martha Stewart and General Mike 182 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,720 Flynn for far less than what he's accused of, and 183 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,679 Comy's behavior is far worse since he was lying in 184 00:12:21,759 --> 00:12:25,360 service of wiretapping the Trump campaign, the results of which 185 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:28,320 would be used to try to sway the twenty sixteen 186 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,840 election and later sabotage the first Trump administration. Hatching a 187 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:37,559 fake narrative to set the national security state against the 188 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:45,480 duly elected president is as scandalous as it gets. On 189 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:49,919 the text line, I do not know why a grown 190 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,080 man would be would be a swiftye saying about yeah, 191 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,159 bad breakups and stuff. I don't know. And then there's 192 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,519 this from a nonymous in South Carolina. What you just 193 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,639 told every independent voter is that conservatives don't have the 194 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:11,600 high moral standard that we have. First off, I'm not 195 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,200 sure I believe this person is in fact a conservative, 196 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,519 but whatever these are one of the tells that seminar 197 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,000 callers give, you know, lifelong Republican here, But now I'm 198 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:23,559 going to sound like a Democrat. I'm going to attack 199 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,879 Republicans and everything else. So maybe this person's never Trump. 200 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,039 I don't know what you've told independent voters is that 201 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,039 is that Conservatives don't have the moral or have the 202 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:38,840 high moral standard that we have bragged about for decades. 203 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,799 In fact, we are so easily defeated that we are 204 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,799 bound to follow the rules established by Democrats. We will 205 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:50,279 follow their lead without hesitation, even though we claim to 206 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,279 know better. We are incapable of leadership with integrity, and 207 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:58,440 it's the democrat's fault, all right, So let's go over this, 208 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:04,919 shall we. Conservatives don't have the high moral standard that 209 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:09,000 we have bragged about for decades. Yet this may come 210 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,720 as a shock, but politicians claim to have higher moral 211 00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:18,840 standards than their political opponents all the time, all the time, 212 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,120 and some of them may and some of them may not. 213 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:26,240 And that has nothing to do with the D or 214 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:29,480 the R next to their name. That's an individual thing. 215 00:14:29,679 --> 00:14:32,840 You either exhibit the moral standards or you do not. 216 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,120 Me recognizing where we are in America right now, doesn't 217 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,879 mean this is the standard that I would like to 218 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,960 see applied. I recognize, though, why people who have been 219 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,639 abused by their political opponents with law fare, with the deplatforming, 220 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:54,879 with the weaponization of the intelligence agencies, with the weaponization 221 00:14:55,039 --> 00:14:58,399 of the courts and judicial system against them, I understand 222 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:01,279 why they seek justice because that is in fact what 223 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,600 the justice system is supposed to be there for. And 224 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:08,639 so you'll notice Jim Comey being indicted for lying to 225 00:15:08,759 --> 00:15:13,679 Congress and obstruction. Those are not things that he's been 226 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:16,879 indicted for. I mean, those are not related to or 227 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:18,840 those are there are no direct charges. I'll say it 228 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:22,559 like that. There are no direct charges here for all 229 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,600 of his other behavior. It's just the line to Congress. 230 00:15:27,279 --> 00:15:31,240 And that seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable 231 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:34,879 thing to indict somebody, because here's the deal. If you 232 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,240 lie to Congress, I want there to be a standard 233 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,360 that you will in fact be held to account for that, 234 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,679 because you should not lie to Congress. You should not 235 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:48,159 lie under oath, and you damn sure shouldn't be lying 236 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,039 if you're the head of the FBI under oath. So 237 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:55,559 you either set a standard here that if you're in 238 00:15:55,559 --> 00:15:57,960 the intelligence community. If you're the leader of one of 239 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,480 these agencies that you can lie to Congress and suffer 240 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:03,399 no ramifications. If you would like that standard to obtain, 241 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:06,159 then that's fine. You could make that argument, anonymous, so 242 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,159 called conservative, you can make that argument. I'm not Now. 243 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,960 Maybe the evidence comes out that Jim Comey did not 244 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,679 lie to Congress and he gets acquitted. Okay, we'll see, 245 00:16:18,039 --> 00:16:21,440 but right now seems like he did. We'll find out. 246 00:16:21,679 --> 00:16:24,639 That's the point of the trial. He welcomes the trial too, 247 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:27,440 if he doesn't cut a deal, but we'll see, we 248 00:16:27,559 --> 00:16:31,120 shall see. They then say, in fact, we are so 249 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,759 easily defeated that we are bound to follow the rules 250 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,759 established by Democrats. Well, here's the thing. I would argue 251 00:16:36,799 --> 00:16:42,399 that conservatives are not quote so easily defeated. In fact, 252 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,799 I would submit that this has been a process that 253 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:51,240 has occurred over decades, decades of people not being held 254 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:57,679 responsible for lying to Congress for these kinds of machinations, 255 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,320 and if you allow it to persist, you will get 256 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,240 more of it. Do you want people in elected office 257 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,599 and people working in the bureaucracy to feel like they 258 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,839 can break the law with impunity. I do not, so 259 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:14,680 I would like to see people face the repercussions of 260 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,720 their decisions like this, And then the last line, we 261 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:21,839 will follow their lead without hesitation, even though we claim 262 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,599 to know better. I'm not sure nobody's claiming to know better. Again, 263 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,680 there was a precedent that was set under the last 264 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,440 administration that you can, in fact go and charge former presidents, 265 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,960 you can go after campaign workers, you can go after 266 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,079 government officials. That you can do all of that. And 267 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,400 that's not a moral play. That was sort of like 268 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,599 a gentleman's agreement kind of a thing that was abused. 269 00:17:50,519 --> 00:17:54,720 It's been abused. And if you believe that the government 270 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:58,160 is well within its rights to go after the Trump 271 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,960 folks like they did, then you should believe that the 272 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,200 same standard should apply here. That's all because if the 273 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,240 government believes that these people in Trump's orbit violated the law, 274 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:14,279 that's why they went after them. Then Okay, there's ample 275 00:18:14,319 --> 00:18:18,559 evidence that Jim Camy lied under oath, so you should 276 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,279 apply that same standard. This is why I suspect that 277 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,319 this is a seminar caller kind of a text. So 278 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,359 when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's 279 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,599 and before he died, my mom and my dad took 280 00:18:29,599 --> 00:18:31,799 care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago, 281 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,039 there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers 282 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:37,599 and family. But things are different today because of the 283 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,799 work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of 284 00:18:40,839 --> 00:18:44,440 Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with 285 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,400 huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years. 286 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,759 This cause means a lot to me. I participate in 287 00:18:50,799 --> 00:18:53,640 the annual Walk to End Alzheimer's and I'm leading a 288 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,799 Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again 289 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,279 Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join 290 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:02,119 the team and walk with us. It's on October eighteenth, 291 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,240 that truest field. Sign up at alz dot org slash 292 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:08,680 walk and then you could search for my team name 293 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:12,240 Pete's Peck. There's also a link at thepetepod dot com. 294 00:19:12,279 --> 00:19:14,960 There's also a link in the description of this podcast. Also, 295 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:18,680 I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, 296 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,519 and so you can make a team and join that 297 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:22,880 one too, or make a donation and help me hit 298 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,160 my goal of five thousand dollars. If you do, I 299 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,599 really appreciate it. There are a bunch of other walks 300 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,319 all over the Carolinas. You can go to alz dot 301 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,400 org slash walk for all the dates and locations. We're 302 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,279 closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us 303 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:38,640 get there? Will you walk with me? For a different future, 304 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:42,480 for families, for more time for treatments. This is why 305 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:45,640 we walk. A couple more messages from the text line. 306 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,160 I think this is Anne Yes who says, despite the 307 00:19:49,279 --> 00:19:52,960 base wanting Trump to prosecute Hillary Clinton for having government 308 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,359 emails and classified information on our private server, he practiced restraint. 309 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:00,720 But after what happened under Mereck Garland against him, the 310 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:04,079 gloves are off right. See here's the thing for you 311 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:10,240 never trumpers, or for you, you know, people of the left, Democrats, media. 312 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:14,920 But I repeat myself, if you are trying to actually understand, 313 00:20:16,079 --> 00:20:18,519 this is what you have to understand, if you need to, 314 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,000 if you're trying to actually understand the way Republicans are 315 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:25,359 reacting and the way MAGA is reacting, and why the 316 00:20:25,519 --> 00:20:30,720 indictment on Cominalist, and why there is this animosity. There 317 00:20:30,799 --> 00:20:37,440 is a long list, a long list of grievances the right, 318 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:44,559 particularly MAGA has been collecting grievances against you for a 319 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,000 very long time, and it predates MAGA, but it just 320 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:52,759 got it got ratcheted up under Trump. You're gonna hear 321 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:55,480 from Larry O'Connor in a in a minute, and he 322 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:57,799 goes over some of this stuff because it ties into 323 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:03,079 the violence that has been directed against Republicans and MAGA. 324 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:13,400 Let me see here, do uh fast and furious. Nobody 325 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,640 even showed up to lie. That's true, Pat quoting me, 326 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:25,359 says Pete. It's different when Democrats do it. This from Bill, 327 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,759 who says the people suggesting two wrongs don't don't make 328 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:31,759 a right falsely assume that the left will not engage 329 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:34,680 in law fare the moment that they can again, they 330 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,720 have already admitted that if they win back the House, 331 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,799 impeachment begins the next morning. Yeah. So MAGA is responding 332 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:43,359 to the signals you guys have been sending as well. 333 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,200 Why do we have to tell Congress the truth and testimony, 334 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,119 but Congress doesn't have to tell the American people the truth. 335 00:21:51,759 --> 00:21:54,920 Two way streets always have better traffic than a one 336 00:21:54,960 --> 00:22:01,720 way in a construction zone. This is all after the fact. 337 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:03,920 Who was call me serving when he got involved with 338 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,119 all this. I don't follow that under the belief my 339 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,599 butt did the manlight to Congress or not? Yes or no? Right, 340 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,440 That's what the point of the trial will be. John 341 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,039 from New Jersey says, we'll quoting Henry the Second Well. 342 00:22:17,079 --> 00:22:19,480 No one ridden me of this meddlesome priest, one of 343 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:26,519 the earliest documented cases of plausible deniability. Glenn says Trump 344 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:29,160 should say this is the beginning of the revenge tour 345 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:39,119 expose the House of cards. As a loyal listener of 346 00:22:39,279 --> 00:22:41,400 WBT Radio over a decade, I have now started to 347 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,319 communicate my opinions via text. Be prepared. My opinions will 348 00:22:45,319 --> 00:22:50,240 be random, but will make WBT and your listeners laugh. Okay, now, Glenn, 349 00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:52,720 let's not make any promises that we cannot deliver on. 350 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,559 I suggest Podesco full tilt on his political enemies and 351 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:03,240 double down. My son is six years old. He's an 352 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,759 awesome kid like me. He only responds and corrects his 353 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:11,920 behavior based on harsh consequences. Scott in Charlotte says the 354 00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:14,720 whole plan in Trump's first term was to bankrupt members 355 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,559 of his administration with legal fees. A broke person is 356 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:20,000 easier to flip. At some point, they will say anything 357 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,759 to save their own hide with all the censorship going on. 358 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:26,279 This is from anonymous. Nobody ever mentions what happened to 359 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:28,960 Parlor and how it was put out of existence, though 360 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,960 it eventually did come back. Well, yeah, I mean they 361 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,000 literally put companies out of business, they debanked, they deplatformed, 362 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,640 right Google. Well here, let me just do this because 363 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,720 this comes up on Next Up with Mark Halpern on 364 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:48,640 his YouTube show, and he's got Larry O'Connor, who is 365 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:54,960 the morning host at WMAL Washington, and O'Connor says that 366 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:57,799 he now recognizes that people on the left truly do 367 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,720 not understand him and concernervatives and why people like him 368 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:09,720 believe they what they believe. And here's Larry O'Connor. 369 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,519 Speaker 2: I'm seeing so much in the rearview mirror now that 370 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,759 it sort of all makes sense. I remember during the 371 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:19,559 fights over abortion in this country, whereas a pro life conservative, 372 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,880 I truly did care for the lives of those unborn children. 373 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,759 I really did care for the emotional and mental well 374 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,960 being of the mothers who were faced with a horrible decision, 375 00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:32,480 and sadly they only heard one side of the equation 376 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,920 and moved toward extinguishing the life of that unborn baby, 377 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,519 their child, and I had compassion for them, and I 378 00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:40,920 wanted them to know that there was another choice. At 379 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,680 the time, on the left, all I heard from Democrats 380 00:24:44,039 --> 00:24:46,599 was that I was just trying to control women's bodies, 381 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:50,599 that I was misogynist, and it wasn't really about the baby. 382 00:24:50,759 --> 00:24:53,480 I just wanted to control women's bodies because I hated women. 383 00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:55,920 It was the war on women, remember, And now that 384 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,920 I look at it, I realized they really don't understand us. 385 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,119 They really don't get and somehow we got to bridge that. 386 00:25:02,319 --> 00:25:04,920 We're going to a dark place mark if we can't 387 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,119 figure out how to take each other on face value 388 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,440 and actually listen to where we're coming from so that 389 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,359 my political opponents can understand me, because if they don't 390 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,680 understand me, it makes it that much easier to put 391 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:17,640 a bullet in my head. 392 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: He said, well, I'm not going to have time to 393 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,319 play this clip forty two and a half forty three, Okay, 394 00:25:25,319 --> 00:25:27,319 I do have time, He said. The assassin didn't kill 395 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,839 Kirk Charlie Kirk because of what Kirk was saying. He 396 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,160 was killed because people were listening to Kirk. He was effective, 397 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,720 and they tried to stop that conversation from happening. And 398 00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:38,640 the purpose is to silence conservative's ideas. 399 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: Whether it's this violent act that was meant to marginalize 400 00:25:43,799 --> 00:25:47,960 our ideas and make them worthy of murder, or the 401 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,279 more subtle actions that are taken by the media and 402 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,960 by academia. By saying that voicing our opinions is equivalent 403 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,920 to violence. You know, words are violence. They say that 404 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,680 so that when we use words, it's okay to use 405 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:04,359 violence against us. Trump is a Nazi, Trump is a fascist. 406 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,200 Ice ICE law enforcement officers are just like the Gestapo. 407 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,039 These words dehumanize us, They marginalize us. The fact that 408 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,039 we're not booked to be on the Sunday shows as 409 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,640 members of the Roundtable. We can go on there as 410 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,000 a guest so that we can get attacked by the 411 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,079 journalist who runs that Sunday show, but we're not invited 412 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,400 to the roundtable to participate on an equal footing with 413 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,519 all the other voices in Washington, DC, because our voices 414 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:35,240 and our opinions are not worthy of polite discussion. This 415 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:40,759 all builds into this dehumanizing effect. I believe in this 416 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,440 country that marginalizes those of us, who, by the way, 417 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:47,839 are in the majority politically right now based on the 418 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:53,440 last election. So it's like I said at the beginning, 419 00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:55,640 and I think that you're right to say that the 420 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,599 left and people on the political left are not trying 421 00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:00,960 to understand us. But I think it's because they have 422 00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:03,400 been told for over a decade now that we are 423 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,039 not worthy of their empathy. Right, our voices and our 424 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,519 opinions are so toxic that they don't even need to 425 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,759 bother to listen to us. They should ignore us. And 426 00:27:13,799 --> 00:27:16,279 if we continue to speak and we get too loud, 427 00:27:16,319 --> 00:27:17,359 we should be silenced. 428 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: Right, shut up, eriy. This is what Andrew Claven talked 429 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,240 about twenty five years ago. This is the strategy. It 430 00:27:23,319 --> 00:27:27,000 is shut up to shut up. We don't want to 431 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,720 hear what you have to say, and we control all 432 00:27:28,759 --> 00:27:32,559 of the institutions. We are the gatekeepers. Shut up. You know. 433 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,119 Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 434 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,640 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 435 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,000 our past while transcending generations. 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But first here's 455 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,119 what he said he was talking about. They started talking 456 00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:55,799 about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and coming back and all that, 457 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,759 and he noted that there has been a power in 458 00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:08,839 balance in media against Republicans and against conservatives for decades. Now. 459 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,119 Speaker 2: I can only do my best to say what we 460 00:29:13,319 --> 00:29:16,359 on the right have been trying to say for decades now, 461 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,039 which is it's not an even playing field. It's not 462 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,240 fair in any way whatsoever. We very rarely see our 463 00:29:22,359 --> 00:29:26,839 perspectives voiced. That's how Fox News came about, That's how 464 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,279 Rush Limbaugh came about, and the rise of talk radio 465 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:33,200 came about, because we've had gone for so long without 466 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,680 any fair representation for our ideas and our policies, which, 467 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,720 by the way, at any given time, the majority of 468 00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:43,000 Americans hold and agree with. And so you know, listen, 469 00:29:43,079 --> 00:29:45,559 I am with you. I don't like the government leaning 470 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,039 on corporations and trying to move this along. As far 471 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,240 as we know, all we have is Brendan Carr statement 472 00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:54,319 on the Benny Johnson Show. If that was it, it 473 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,359 pales in comparison to what the Biden administration. 474 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: The president, we also the president on social media. 475 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:02,799 Speaker 2: Well again on social media, that pales in comparison to 476 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:05,319 what we know occurred with the FBI and with the 477 00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:09,200 Biden White undred percent Twitter and Google under in fact, 478 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,279 with YouTube, we learned this week, they came back to 479 00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,359 the White House and said, listen, these guys have not 480 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:15,880 violated our terms of service, and the White House says, 481 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,079 we don't care you get rid of them. Are you 482 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:19,960 going to answer us. That's major pressure right there. One 483 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,960 hundred percent agreed, number one. But that said, listen, you're 484 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,319 worried about people losing their jobs or losing advertisers, or 485 00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:32,160 losing revenue because of their content because people have risen 486 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,200 up and try to put pressure on these corporations to 487 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,519 do something, criming a river that take a look at 488 00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:40,160 what conservative talk radio hosts have been dealing with since 489 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,039 the mid nineties. You want to talk about a president 490 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,400 applying pressure at an emotional time to a network. I'm 491 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,160 old enough to remember Bill Clinton blaming Rush Limbaugh for 492 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,480 the Oklahoma City bombing, all right, and the exodus of 493 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:56,480 advertisers after that happened. I remember when they blamed Glenn 494 00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:59,599 Beck and Sarah Palin for Gabby Gifford shooting in Tucson, 495 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,480 which had nothing to do with politics. This is something 496 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:04,880 that we on the right in media, whether it's talk 497 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,920 radio or podcasts or on Fox News or other cable 498 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,480 news stations, have been living with for decades. We constantly 499 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:14,200 have to be watching how we say, what we say, 500 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,960 and how we present it, lest we run a foul 501 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,039 of the people who are watching every syllable to boycott 502 00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:22,880 our advertisers or try to put pressure on our companies 503 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,079 to take us off the air. Thankfully, there's still a 504 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,640 huge audience for what we do. That's the only thing 505 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,359 that's kept us on the air. But I have friends 506 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,519 who have lost their jobs mark in the same way 507 00:31:31,559 --> 00:31:34,200 Jimmy Kimmel lost his job, and they didn't get the 508 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,759 kind of support that Jimmy gott. 509 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,559 Speaker 1: He is exactly right. I know people who have lost 510 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,640 their jobs in radio for stuff they said. It is 511 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,839 a constant sort of damocles hanging over the head of 512 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,200 everybody who does what I am doing right now. And 513 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:56,359 this has been the case for, as he says, for decades. 514 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:03,720 So yeah, cry me a river too. I'm not. I 515 00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:07,160 am not the softest shoulder to cry on. And I 516 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,319 said that when Jimmy Kimmel got indefinitely suspended, which lasted 517 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:15,319 half a Scaramucci, and he's back on the air. So 518 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,319 now that being said, the larger point he was making 519 00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:22,200 there was that, you know, the rise of Limbaugh and 520 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,480 Fox News. These were market responses to the fact that 521 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,680 the left had captured all of the other institutions and 522 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:37,000 there was no conservative viewpoint being expressed. That's why talk 523 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:39,920 radio exists in the way it does still, It's why 524 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,279 Fox exists. It's why you see all of these other 525 00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:47,480 competitors that have emerged. So for example, the right. Ever 526 00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:52,720 since January sixth, the right MAGA has been asking and demanding, 527 00:32:53,119 --> 00:32:58,319 like the FBI tell us how many agents they had 528 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:04,200 on the ground at January sixth at the Capitol, And 529 00:33:04,359 --> 00:33:07,880 the FBI has never said, And the J six Committee 530 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,319 withheld the information for five years, and now we know, 531 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,680 now we know the Blaze reporting that the FBI has 532 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,920 now acknowledged that it had two hundred seventy five plane 533 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,440 clothes agents in the crowds on j six. A senior 534 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,440 Congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, 535 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,960 since the FBI often embeds counter surveillance personnel at large events, 536 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,200 but given the fbis until now steadfast refusal to disclose 537 00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:38,640 the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure 538 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,480 might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters. They 539 00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:47,359 also had twenty six informants, four of whom entered the 540 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,799 Capitol during the rioting. According to the Office of the 541 00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:54,880 Inspector General, none was actually authorized by the FBI to 542 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,440 break the law or enter any restricted areas, and they 543 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,440 were not direct to encourage others to commit illegal activity. 544 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:09,360 So nice to finally get that information out. All right, 545 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,719 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 546 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,800 for listening. I could not do the show without your 547 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,599 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 548 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:19,440 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 549 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,159 and tell them you heard it here. You can also 550 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,800 become a patron at my Patreon page or go to 551 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,639 thepetecleanershow dot com. 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