Detecting a vibe in the coverage of the Democrat vibevention (08-23-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So what happens when Pete runs on like five hours of sleep for four or five straight days, I get a little punchy, all right? So I apologize ahead of time. If I come off that way, it's because I am.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so the phone number is 704-570-1110. The email is pete at thepetekalendershow.com. And it is Friday.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And thank goodness the Democrat National Convention is over. A sampling of the headlines. I do this from time to time. I go to a website called Memorandum. It's like Memorandum, except it's Memorandum.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's actually an aggregator with a left-leaning bias.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But it is a good place to see, not to say that conservative media never pops up into these feeds, but it shows you the volume of stories and who's quoting those stories and reacting to those stories from a website perspective.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: So, for example, if you have a story that's published at the Washington Post, then underneath that, it'll tell you what other websites are discussing that Washington Post article.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's tracking links and that sort of stuff. But there is obviously a bias here built in.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who runs it or to what extent the bias exists. I just have been following this now for like 10 or 15 years now.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And I tell you that there is a bias, but it is a good way to track what's moving.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Memorandum. I shouldn't tell people that because now people are going to take it and they're going to be like,

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_01]: like, I know, Pete, I already read the website. I said, okay, so here's, here is, see if you can detect any bit of a pattern in the news coverage.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_01]: All right. And I'm looking at it in real time right now.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is subject to change because stuff just moves all the time, right?

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Top item on the site.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that, is that optimism we feel?

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Written by William Crystal, former allegedly Republican, writing over at the Bulwark, which was a, that's a haven now for disaffected anti-Trump Republicans that are, you know, funded by some deep pockets on the left.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, that is being discussed by a bunch of different sites like Hollywood Life, Washington Examiner.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Washington Post.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris has put Trump in a box and he's struggling to break out.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Discussed by PBS, NBC News.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_01]: A piece by Public Notice.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Why we're not going back is the perfect theme for 2024.

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: That's being discussed also at CNN.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Over at Politico, Democratic pollsters have a warning about Kamala Harris's lead because they were burned by numbers that were too rosy in 2016 and in 2020.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: That's being discussed by a whole slew of outlets.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: The Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller, LA Times, The Atlantic, Town Hall, Gateway Pundit.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Next up, Trump's spectacle is no match for Harris's substance.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to give you headlines now.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris just revealed her formula for taking down Trump.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Jitsu, Democrats turned Trump into the incumbent.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Politico, it's a new race.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris's acceptance speech showed why.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: New York Times.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's just the full transcript of the speech.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Washington Post.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump deflects, misleads in real-time reaction to Harris' speech.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: New York Magazine.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris gave the best acceptance speech I've ever seen.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: That's Jonathan Chait, because of course it is.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris turns the page on the Trump era.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: New York Post.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris gave us no idea what she'd do as president.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: The Daily Beast.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Fox cuts off ranting Trump and then mocks he's still talking.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_01]: NBC News.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris lets her potential to make history speak for itself.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no speaking there, okay?

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing to be...

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Every president we've had so far has had a penis.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And she will not.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That I know of.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So, like, that's...

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, okay, that's the extent of the history here.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: There...

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: What else is there to speak of?

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, I don't mean to be crass or anything.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying that, like, that's...

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're saying.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Free Beacon.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris' Obama makeover.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: New York Times.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris wants America to see itself in her.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And the Associated Press.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris' racial and cultural firsts were on stage throughout the convention.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_01]: So, do you see a similar kind of theme running through the vast majority of these pieces?

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you should.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I said it yesterday.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Elections are about what media make them.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And by golly, the media is going to drag this nag across the finish line.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to make sure that Obama gets his fourth term.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_01]: There is so much support for this woman.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody loves her.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: She's such a trailblazer that they had to teach the convention delegates how to pronounce their own candidate's name last night.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Literally.

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_01]: They brought out her nieces that led the chance.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: These two little kids.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And what's her name?

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: What's her name?

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: The actress, Kerry Washington.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_01]: So, one little girl would say, comma, like a comma in a sentence.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And then the other one would say, la.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And they go, comma, la, comma, la.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So, like, far be it for me to suggest that this might be an issue.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But when you spend four days constantly rehashing this woman's biography, who is the sitting vice president, who ran for president, who has been a U.S. senator, the attorney general for the state of California.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And no one knows in the convention space how to pronounce her name, that they need to have a tutorial by some toddlers.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Really?

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Really?

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Also, Jesse Walker over at Reason.com pointed out that one of the musical acts, the Chicks, you can't call them the Dixie Chicks anymore.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: They changed their name.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_01]: They dropped the Dixie part.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And he points out, it remains hilarious that Dixie was deemed too regressive to keep as a band name, but Chicks was not.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: That's totally, you can, you can, so we can use Chicks, I guess.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: So we can still say Chicks, but we can't say Dixie, which was actually named after Dixon, right?

[00:08:02] Yeah.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Also, give it up for my good friend Ray Cooper, hype man, extraordinaire, right?

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Because when I need to get a crowd really fired up and ready to go, I bust out Roy Cooper, the dynamo.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So America got to hear Governor Roy Cooper from North Carolina in all of his rhetorical stylings.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_01]: One slight, yeah, there was one slight hitch last night in his speech.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Are we gonna win?

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Are we gonna win?

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, Roy.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I am not sure.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But that's the guy you want getting your crowd pumped up.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_01]: He actually spoke right before Kamala Harris.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Who was the surprise guest?

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: They made a big deal last night about there being a surprise guest.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrat operatives, officials, campaign people, they put it out there, White House people,

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_01]: they put it out there that there was gonna be a special guest.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And then one of them even tweeted out a picture of a bee.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: That's Beyonce.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody know Queen Bee, all that.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And so everybody was ecstatic.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was freaking out.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And like the delegates were too.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I was just talking about the media.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_01]: They were like, oh my God, we got Beyonce.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Beyonce.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And they were so excited.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she didn't show.

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And I heard on NPR today as I was driving in that some idiot from the Huffington Post,

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: which is, yeah, I mean, well, obviously, but at the Huffington Post, and he's like,

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: of course she was gonna come.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_01]: She probably was just running late.

[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Even though the Beyonce people said she had never been scheduled to attend the DNC.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: There was no plans for her to be there.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But that didn't matter to the reporters, to the journalismers that we trust to give us the truth.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Because the other explanation making the rounds is that the Democrats put that out there in order to drive up the ratings

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and keep people interested.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: So they would stick around and see Kamala's speech.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And, well, Roy's too.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_01]: So they floated the rumor there'd be a special guest, and then they trotted out Leon Panetta.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna get Beyonce.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Taylor Swift, maybe.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Can I interest you instead in, sorry, best I can do is Adam Kinzinger.

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[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Sam Stein, MSNBC and Bulwark.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Because there isn't a difference any longer.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Bulwark is where Bill Kristol went and all of these other disaffected never-Trumpers.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: So Sam Stein, he tweeted out this piece, Kamala Jitsu, Democrats Turn Trump Into the Incumbent.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrats spent four days in Chicago castigating, belittling, and demonizing Donald Trump.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they did something even more vicious.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: They turned him into the incumbent.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Note the use of the word they.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: There is no they here.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_01]: It is we.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The folks who turned Donald Trump into the incumbent includes media.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That is the only way.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you were an honest reporter, when you see the Democrats doing this thing, attempting to gaslight the entire country into thinking that Donald Trump somehow is responsible for the last three and a half years of policy, that's a we thing.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: If you're an honest reporter, you would be putting that in your stories and headlines.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Allow me to offer a suggestion.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_01]: One that I know you know how to write, which is something along the lines of without evidence.

[00:12:50] Right?

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Anytime Donald Trump says stuff that is not true, fabricated, lies, whatever.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: However, the media stick this little thing in front of it and they say Donald Trump alleged without evidence.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They always want to point that out, that he offers no evidence for these things.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You can use that for Democrats, too.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure you're aware of that.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_01]: But those letters can be typed in a string to create words.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And you can put those words into your stories about Democrats as well.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: The gaslighting doesn't work unless the media plays along with this.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And they are.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_01]: They absolutely are.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Jim Garrity at National Review.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: He points out that Republicans should not count on Kamala Harris to flame out like she did in 2020.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: We all know, well, at least in conservative media, we are aware of how she flamed out because we've been talking about it for a while.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how Joe Biden picked her, even though she had called him a segregationist and a racist.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she says yes when he asks her to be his vice president.

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember this when she appeared on Stephen Colbert's show?

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Because in those debates, you landed haymakers on Joe Biden.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they were his teeth were like chicklets all over the stage.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And now I believe you that you're fully supportive of him.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: How does that transition happen?

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: How do you go from being such a passionate opponent on such bedrock principles for you?

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And now you guys seem to be pals.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_07]: It was a debate.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Not everybody landed punches like you did, though.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_07]: It was a debate.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So you don't mean it.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_07]: It was a debate.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_07]: Correct.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_07]: The whole reason.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_07]: Literally, it was a debate.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_07]: It was called a debate.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_07]: I understand.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Everyone traveled to the debate.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_07]: There were journalists there covering the debate where there would be a debate.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_01]: That makes sense then.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_01]: What the problem here is that Stephen Colbert is operating with a false assumption.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: The false assumption is that she had bedrock issues or beliefs.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: That was his mistake.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_01]: He thought that when she said those things, that these were fundamentally core issues for her.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And so when she now endorses Biden and then becomes his vice presidential pick, he's confused.

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And as I always say, if you are confused by the results, reassess your assumption.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And he obviously does not.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Because the assumption is that she actually believes in something.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And you don't do what she did if those beliefs are, in fact, core to who you are.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Which, of course, is what everybody recognized about Kamala Harris very early on.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Particularly after the very first debate when Tulsi Gabbard knifed her in front, rhetorically speaking, in front of the entire country.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And she very soon after had to drop out before Iowa, before any vote was ever cast.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_01]: To this day, she still does not have a single vote for her in a primary setting.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And she is now the nominee.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And again, this only works if you have a media that plays along.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: But this is not 2020 any longer.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrats, Garrity says, Democrats and like-minded media had a long menu of options in 2020.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Right now, Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, have no other options.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Either Harris wins or they lose everything that they hold dear.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Very few Democrats are operating on the assumption that they can vote for Jill Stein or Cornel West and things are going to still turn out okay.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So they have to get on board.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_01]: They have to believe that this is Obama 4.0.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you get more hyped than Roy Cooper walking out to.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_01]: It had to be you.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I have the audio.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Hang on.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Please welcome North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_08]: Hit it!

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like the Tonight Show or something.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_01]: It was almost as late as the Tonight Show usually comes on.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So it was pretty late at night.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That is the most Roy Cooper walk-up music I've ever heard.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But Roy Cooper, on the other hand, yes, he is the best hype man.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm Roy Cooper, the last guy standing between you and the moment we're all waiting for.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to get right to it.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, please do.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_03]: All week, you've heard stories about my friend Kamala.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to take you behind the scenes of one of them.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_03]: 2011 was a rough time for American homeowners.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, all right.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Hundreds of thousands were losing their homes to illegal foreclosure.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I was attorney general in North Carolina while Kamala had just become Californians.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_03]: All the AGs were close to a settlement with the big banks.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_03]: And it was a pretty good deal.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Would have meant $4 billion for California families who'd been ripped off.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_03]: I know that sounds like a lot.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_03]: But Kamala said, hang on a minute.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I've met these families.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I know what they've been through.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And they deserve more.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_03]: She went toe-to-toe with some of the world's most powerful executives.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And she refused to give in.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell you, this was a huge risk.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_03]: But she knew it was a risk worth taking.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_03]: That's Kamala.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_03]: And we all know what happened.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_03]: The banks caved.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_03]: That $4 billion for California families became $20 billion.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Compelling and rich.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't feel like that was a behind-the-scenes kind of a tale.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Did you?

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: That's just, it sounds to me like a bunch of the attorneys general from all across the country

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: had hammered out some sort of a deal.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And she rolls in and says, no.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: We need to, we need to get a better deal.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And so she risked the deal that all these other states had done.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And she risked the deal in order to try to get more money.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But Pete, she was successful.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she was successful.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But she still put at risk all of the rest of the deal.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: She went, she thought she knew better than all of the other attorneys general.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But she did, Pete.

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: But there's no background information.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, he said he was going to give us like this, this inside story.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not an inside story.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody already knows that.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, maybe, hey, he says he, maybe there's different stuff here.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, um, oh, that was the first time that he witnessed Kamala in action.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_03]: And what I saw was a leader who does exactly what she says she's going to do.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is one of the things about Roy Cooper.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I got to say this.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: My good friend, Ray Cooper.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, he oftentimes sounds like he is in a life and death struggle with his own tongue.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why that is.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure if it's a denture related thing or maybe dry mouth from medication.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not trying to be ugly about it.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I just, it's one of these things after watching his COVID, uh, authoritarian lockdown press briefings for, you know, the better part of two years.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_01]: It just, it started to get on my nerves that and the way he talks to people like they are children.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_01]: But apparently a lot of people like to be spoken to like their children.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: We call them media.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm kidding.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Not really.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, all right.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: So let me re-rack this.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll start it again.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala's ready.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_03]: The question is, are we?

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wait a minute.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a different clip.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, hang on.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a different clip altogether.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: What am I doing here?

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I got to go back to clip two.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_03]: And what I saw.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: What he saw.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Was a leader who does exactly what she says she's going to do.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what I mean?

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Who never will settle for less.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_03]: America, we got a lot of big fights ahead of us.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And we've got one hell of a fighter ready to take them on.

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_03]: I know that.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I know that.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Because I know her.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_03]: And tonight, I want the American people to know.

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Even if you don't agree with her on everything, Kamala Harris will fight for you to the very

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_03]: end.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Wait.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_03]: For families who need better health care or a safer place to live, Kamala will fight for

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_03]: you.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: For parents who want better schools for their kids, for workers worried about a secure

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_03]: retirement for themselves, Kamala will fight for you.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_03]: For any one of our allies, anywhere in the world, wondering if America still has your

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_03]: back.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Remember this.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me guess.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala will fight for you.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And when she fights, we win.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So even if I don't agree with her, she's going to fight for me.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But what if I don't agree with her and how she's fighting and what she's fighting for?

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_01]: No, stop.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to fight for higher inflation for me.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want that.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Stop.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Stop fighting for that.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Please stop spending.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to keep fighting.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_01]: It's for you.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: It's for you, Pete.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't like this idea at all.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Also, the delivery there is just a little fight for you.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what it reminded me of was, remember Al Gore?

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember his fighting?

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Fighting.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: People would do montages of him because that's all he ever said.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Fight for you.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Go to fight for you.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_01]: All the time.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_01]: He was just fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And they don't actually mean fight.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_01]: They just mean talk.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no fighting, actually.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's duking it out in the Capitol parking deck or behind the bridge after class.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Next up.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: She's going to fight for us.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if we don't want her to fight for us, she's still going to go fight for us.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala's ready.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_03]: The question is, are we?

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Are we going to stand up and fight for Kamala like she'll stand up and fight for us?

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_03]: If you're ready, my home state of North Carolina, stand up.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait a minute.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Shouldn't he have said raise up?

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_01]: What's up with that, dude?

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Shouldn't have been a raise up North Carolina?

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought we were about the vibes here, Ray.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wait.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Stand up, Wisconsin.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, thank God.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was going to go through every freaking state.

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So what he was, you know, the states that he identified there, he had them stand up.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: These are the swing states, right?

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_01]: These are the ones that they have to do well in these five states.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, North Carolina being one of them because Democrats believe they can flip

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_01]: the state.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, hype, hype, hype, vibe, vibe, vibe.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Man.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if that just doesn't get the old heart pumping, I don't know what does, people.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I also think it's a very smart move to have Ray as your hype man.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Because everybody is going to sound more enthusiastic and more polished after a Ray Cooper hype speech.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So it makes sense.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Very wise move.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_01]: My email is Pete at the Pete Calendar show dot com or hit me up on the Twitter machine at Pete Calendar.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go to the phones.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, welcome to the program.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jeff.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Pete.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Hey.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Happy Friday to you.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, sir.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_05]: To you as well.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and thanks for taking my call.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_05]: On the subject of our friend Ray at the convention last night, I'm glad to see him finally come

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_05]: out of the closet.

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_05]: Now he can fully identify as a Marxist.

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, we can give a round of applause for that.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_05]: But the other comment I had was that if the deal that Kamala did with the banks was so

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_05]: good, then does that mean that the deal that Ray had signed off on for $4 billion was bad?

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_01]: It would seem to be the case.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a very fair question.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_01]: If all of these attorneys general around the country all signed off on some deal and

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_01]: then she alone comes in and says, no, no, no, I'm going to risk it all.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to bet it all on red or black or whatever.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't want to, you know, choose any color preference there.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But like you just you say, no, I'm going to blow up the whole deal.

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to push for even more.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you get five times the amount that seems like you're indicting every other attorney

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_01]: general for doing a bad deal.

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_05]: So what's the explanation of that?

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_05]: Were they were they in bed with the corporations or were they just that incompetent?

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So, well, let's hold out.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there is a third possibility here, and that would be that both.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They're both.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_05]: And one doesn't work.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Use the other.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it doesn't have to be either or.

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's let you know, let's be more inclusive.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_01]: It could be corrupt and incompetent.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Jeff, I appreciate the call.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Sir, have a great weekend.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a very fair, very fair question.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Carol, welcome to the show.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Carol.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_08]: Hi, Pete.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_08]: Hey.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_08]: I'm a first time caller and I'm kind of like really discouraged because I was tuning into

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_08]: the rally and I could handle so much for five minutes and shut it up for 20 minutes and

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_08]: go back.

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_08]: And I got some ideas in my mind as I was watching this.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, all the people that are in that was in that part of that convention, if

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_08]: they knew when it really settled into their mind, what this election is about and the lies

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_08]: that they're telling to telling us, we need to focus in, I think, more on consequences because

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_08]: choices do have consequences.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Carol, Carol, we're Americans.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't think of consequences.

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like geography.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_01]: It's our birthright.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to think of these things.

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_08]: Well, it's just frustrating.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_08]: I wanted to just make another point is they say, thank you, Joe.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, Joe.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_08]: Couldn't we make a response or some kind of a video to that?

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_08]: What are we thanking Joe for?

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_08]: For inflation, for 20 million illegals coming into our country, for Americans putting $6,000

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_08]: on their credit account to pay their food?

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, we need to, to me, I think we need to get, what do I want to say, centered, centered

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_08]: on something and stick with it from today to the end of the election.

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_08]: And every time your show comes on or anything, they hear this recording because maybe it's

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_08]: just a matter of brainwashing, like the Dems do to their constituents.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_08]: They brainwash them with lies constantly.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: So, well, that is one of the things, if you are going to brainwash somebody, you know,

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_01]: repetition is key.

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And as I always say, if you're going to brainwash people, repetition is key.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_01]: So, Carol, I do appreciate the call.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And look, that is a fair point to make that the Republicans need to focus on the issues that

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: actually matter to the people.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And the number one issue is the economy.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I just came across this clip.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_01]: This is Ben Dominich from, he was one of the founders of the federalist.com.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And along the lines of what Carol was saying, well, here's his analysis of the convention.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_00]: When I look at this convention, the big problem with it is most of the focus has been about

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_00]: things that Democrats very much want to talk about versus the things that American voters

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_00]: actually care about.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Democrats would like this election to be about vibes.

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They would like it to be about culture war.

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_00]: They would like it to be about race and not going backward and all those things.

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They would like it to be about abortion, particularly.

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_00]: They would like it to be about all these different things that they believe should matter more to

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: voters, more to voters than the economy, immigration, and security, both foreign and domestic,

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_00]: which if you look at the consistent polling pattern, those are top two, top three consistently.

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And in terms of Pew in particular, they found that immigration has mattered more to voters

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_00]: over the past year than it ever has at any point in the history of their polling question.

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And so from my perspective, it's like, what are you taking away from this if you are watching

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_00]: this and you are one of those voters who cares about the economy, who cares about immigration?

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's very nice to say that, you know, Tim Waltz's son loves him.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's great.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Does it make anything cost cheaper at the grocery?

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Does it make me feel more confident about immigrants coming over and reducing my wages?

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Does it make me feel more confident about my economic future?

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And the simple answer is it doesn't.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that basically this has been a perfect invention for the kind of election that Democrats

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_00]: would like to see, but not the kind of election that I believe has actually been happening in

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: front of them if you look at the data.

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_01]: So let's take right.

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the and that's the key for me is after watching.

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Watching all of the convention, virtually every speech that was given over the last four

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_01]: days and then watching Kamala Harris's speech.

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Everything she went over in her speech, I had already heard from all of the other convention

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_01]: speakers.

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_01]: They spoke.

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_01]: She like talked about her biography, which I was now well acquainted with.

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_01]: She's introducing herself to America.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they use four days, right, to reinforce all this messaging.

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_01]: But it seemed like most of her speech was biographical, which is fine, but it doesn't tell you how you're

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_01]: going to do anything different.

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why I joke that their campaign slogan should be same, but different.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_01]: In that they are Kamala Harris is the vice president.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_01]: She and Joe Biden have been in control of the White House and the executive branch, and

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_01]: they have enacted policies over the last three and a half years that they are now pretending

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_01]: they had nothing to do with.

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And the only way that works is if you have a media that goes along with them.

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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