RFK Jr. is sounding the alarm - will Democrats & media hear it? (08-26-2024--Hour2)

[00:00:04] [SPEAKER_01]: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content, like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepetekalendershow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support.

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, thanks again Congressman Dan Bishop, appreciate it.

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_01]: News Talk 1110 993 WBT 704 570 1110 and the email is pete at thepetekalendershow.com.

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Just as an aside, if you didn't catch the last segment there with Congressman, yeah, I keep wanting to call him Commissioner.

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_01]: He was a county commissioner when I met him. Congressman Dan Bishop.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_01]: That, have you heard another politician or an elected official that is interested in discussing philosophy?

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, just think about that.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I've had philosophical discussions with Dan for years and, you know, in interviews and such.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's always interested, I have found him to always be interested in the underlying philosophy, which to me, and I've said this before, I am a why guy.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I go to the why, all the, no, I'm kidding. I, I want to know the why, and that gets to philosophy.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And so Dan is one of those rare guys that I actually can ask questions like that.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And he, and he knows what he's talking about, which is super beneficial.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So if you, if you didn't catch it, go back on the podcast and listen to it.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about RFK Jr. and his withdrawal from the race.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I did get a Pete tweet here from Karen, uh, who says, I can't do a Pete tweet because I'm not verified.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You can do a Pete tweet. Just tag me in it, at Pete Callender, and then I will read it.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And I will brand it as a Pete tweet.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And there you go. That's it. That's all it takes.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to pay me to do it.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I do it for free, as long as I get a paycheck from WBT.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, anyway, so I found his speech to be very genuine and honest, Karen says.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I also felt like he was very driven by his beliefs.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Whether you agree or disagree with him, at least he is being sincere.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_01]: He did strike me as that.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And he has always struck me as that.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I've never, like, I, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't ascribe to them nefarious motives without any evidence.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm one of these people where you don't have to earn my trust.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But the flip side of that equation is that once you lose it, it's pretty much gone forever.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry. That's how that works.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, like, I'm not going to make you earn it with me, but God help you if you lose it.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Ray, welcome to the program. Hello, Ray.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Pete. How are you doing?

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm well, sir. How are you?

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Pretty good. I had a question about RFK.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I kind of have an answer to this question, but I wanted to get your opinion on it when I ask it to you.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_03]: As far as RFK, in my opinion, sort of seeing the error of his ways in the Democrats, supporting the Democrats most of his life.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you think in the future this will cause other people of his status and stature to see their error of their ways sooner than he did?

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Because, you know, a lot of the damage is already done by the time he's seen the error of his ways.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_03]: What do you, my answer to that is I think it will.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Just wanted to get your answer.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't believe that he has seen the error of his ways for being a lifelong Democrat.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe that to be the case.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I think what he was saying was that the Democrat Party has changed.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: It is no longer the party that he pledged allegiance to before he could even vote.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he said.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He he he was a loyal Democrat before he was even registered to vote, much like, you know, illegal immigrants.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_01]: But but so I don't think it was an error.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he saw, quote, the error of his ways.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I think he recognized however late that might be.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: He recognized that now that the party has shifted and he also and he speaks about this, too, that he's 70 years old.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And if Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party is not going to help him achieve the things he's trying to achieve because they now are in opposition to these things,

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: then he's he's only got a small window to try to affect those changes.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And so he's making a logical choice.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And it is a very logical choice to put your faith, put his faith in Donald Trump.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And he made that clear, too.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: He said, like, I'm choosing to believe that Donald Trump will stand by what he told me.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, whether or not Trump does or I don't know, we're going to find out if he wins and then if he follows through.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_03]: When I said the error of his ways, I guess you put it better is seeing his party changing.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_03]: What I guess what I could rephrase that is, as is, do you think future people of his stature and status in the Democrat Party or any other party or as that goes,

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_03]: will see their party changing sooner than RFP did in correct course earlier?

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I will.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, I hope so.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I definitely hope so.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But but but I don't know, because when you're talking about power, you know, power corrupts.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And so I don't know if people will do that.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, people who don't have power, they may be more likely to be persuaded along those lines.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: But there is I've talked about this in many different ways.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's called the preference cascade.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the you need somebody to stand up and say no or this is the way forward or I have a new invention or whatever it might be.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And once that person says it, then you get a follower or two and then it starts replicating.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And then it becomes this this cascade effect where now more and more people feel comfortable signing on, more and more comfortable agreeing,

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_01]: more and more comfortable coming out and saying, I agree with all these other people.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: There's, you know, safety in numbers kind of thing.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's possible.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Ray, I appreciate the call and happy National Dog Day to to your dog.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And I guess to you.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate the call, Ray.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So RFK Jr. does a press conference.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't take any questions, actually.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So I shouldn't call it a press conference.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He does this.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_01]: He issues a statement.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: His speech ran like 45 minutes or so.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I went back.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: So I listened to it on Friday live and I went back and recorded it.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I pulled the audio.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_01]: So I've listened to this thing now three times.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, so I've now gone kind of audio blind to his speech, the way he speaks, like the problem that he has with his vocal cords.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And I just see if see if you experience the same sort of thing, where the more you hear, the less you hear it.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: The more you hear him speaking, the less you hear or the less annoyed or bothered you are by the way he is speaking.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, so first he started by explaining why he had been a lifelong Democrat and why he left.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: This is to Ray's point.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_02]: As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It'll become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag and big money.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_02]: When an abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Conventional wisdom said that it would be impossible even to get on the ballot as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I would need over a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had ever achieved.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I'd need a team of attorneys and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges from the DNC.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's exactly what happened.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_01]: He got sued in like every state, every battleground state, including North Carolina.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: They sued and they used every machination to try to block his ballot access, try to get him kicked off.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_01]: They redid their whole primary system in order to keep him from running against Joe Biden.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: But he and his supporters, right, they got the signatures.

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: They got on the ballots.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So at that speech, he thanked his hundred thousand volunteers for all of their work to make that happen, to do the impossible thing.

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_01]: He told them that he would not allow their tremendous accomplishments to go to waste.

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to leverage their success now to try to achieve the ideals that they share.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: All righty.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_01]: News Talk 1110 99.3 WBT going over some of the audio from RFK Jr.'s speech appearance statement.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_01]: His statement.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's call it that his statement on Friday where he announced he was suspending his campaign.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He said he is going to leverage the successes of his campaign, his supporters, his donors to achieve the ideals that they share.

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Which he identified as peace, prosperity, freedom and health.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_02]: In an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_02]: In a system of a kind that my father and my uncles thrived in.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_02]: A system with open debates with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates with fair primaries.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_02]: In a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards.

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Everything would be different.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_02]: After all, the polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Both in favorability and also in head to head matchups.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media and for our government.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And most sadly at all for me, the Democratic Party.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: The democracy.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I call it that.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I say it like that.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I am mocking all of those institutions and the people that populate them for using that word as if it is an argument.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And it is not.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just fear mongering.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: It's reducing arguments down to an emotional slogan.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: The DNC wage continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_02]: It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_02]: It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden,

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_02]: the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: My uncle and my father both relished debate.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_02]: They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_02]: They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_02]: This is profoundly undemocratic.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing?

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Precisely.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: How do you expect people to make a decision?

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want you to be informed.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_01]: They want you to just vote against the orange man.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That's all this is.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_01]: It's about the vibes.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, it was about August 4th or 5th, if I recall, that Kamala Harris said that she was looking to schedule her interviews with media,

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: hopefully by the end of the month.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you got four and a half days.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_01]: You got four and a half days.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and now we're hearing that they want the debate rules changed.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: After arguing that Trump should debate her on the days and in the places and in the manner that the Biden campaign had agreed to with Trump,

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: and then Trump agrees to that, now she wants different rules.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Have you heard this?

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: She wants different rules.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Why does she want different rules?

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, she wants the mics to be unmuted, which was one of the requirements that the Biden campaign put onto Trump.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's got people saying now that this demand is so she can have another one of these moments like she had against Mike Pence.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm speaking.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It would be important if you said the truth.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Biden has said twice in the debate.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Vice President.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's it.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm speaking.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm speaking.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So she wants to have another one of those moments.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And here's the sad part.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: She thought that that moment helped her.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They want Donald Trump to act as a bully and a boor and to just, you know, just roughhouse against her.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she'll come out looking good or she'll come out looking like the victim.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Hero or victim.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Never the villain.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So now they're trying to redo the redo the rules to make Trump have a hot mic and to be seated, not to be standing or something.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're trying to redo the rules.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And now the Trump campaign is like we agreed to these rules under the Biden thing.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody said we should do it.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Now you want to rewrite them like we're not going to rewrite these rules yet again.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And now the Democrats are like, oh, see, he's afraid to debate as if he's been the obstacle all this time.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Not her and Biden and the same freaking people running her campaign that ran his.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_01]: RFK Jr., the canary in the coal mine.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_01]: He is sounding the alarm.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Will will Democrats hear it?

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Will media hear it?

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_01]: But I repeat myself.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So will they hear it?

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Do they understand what he is telling them?

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And I suspect the answer is no.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Because, again, power corrupts and you have a lot of people that are invested in the current system being what it is.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_01]: But as we were talking with Dan Bishop, Congressman Bishop, about an hour ago, the parties are in a political realignment.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I have been saying this for years.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how it's going to look after it all shakes out, but I can't see RFK Jr.'s statement as being.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Not insignificant.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: In that process, he talked about how during the DNC.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: That they had mentioned Donald Trump.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And I had seen some of these numbers earlier during the DNC week that they had mentioned Donald Trump like one hundred forty seven times or some ridiculous number on the first night.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: That was just one night.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Whereas during the entire Republican National Convention, they mentioned Joe Biden twice.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_02]: In an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election in a system that my father and my uncles thrived in.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_02]: In a system with open debates, with fair primaries, with regularly scheduled debates, with fair primaries and with a truly independent media untainted by government propaganda and censorship.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: In a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything would be different.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Everything would be different.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, I would have won.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Had he had he been able to run in the Democrat primary, he believes he would have won.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_01]: So what are you voting for as a Democrat for Kamala Harris?

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's when he says, all it is, is.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Just bash Donald Trump.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Anti-Trump.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not Trump.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: That's where are their policies?

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, well, who needs policies when you have Donald Trump to hate?

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_02]: How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_02]: We know the answers.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_02]: They did it by weaponizing the government agencies.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_02]: They did it by abandoning democracy.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_02]: They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters.

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_02]: What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_02]: What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_02]: When a U.S. president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech,

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_02]: it's an attack on our most sacred right of free expression.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Weaponization of government agencies and the party colludes with the media to censor.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: He noted how Joe Biden mocked Vladimir Putin, who was touting, you know, 88 percent support in his election.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And Joe Biden at the time observed that Vladimir Putin controlled the Russian press and prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot against him.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_02]: But here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And our television networks exposed themselves as Democratic Party organs.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Over the course of more than a year, in a campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the high 20s,

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_02]: the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks maintain a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_02]: During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_02]: In contrast, during the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave only two live interviews from me.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Those networks instead ran a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile perjuratives and defamatory smears.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Some of those same networks and colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Listen to what he is telling you, Democrats.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Listen to what he is telling you.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: The party did not want there to be a challenge to Joe Biden.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They kept him out of the debates.

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_01]: They kept him off the ballots.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And they knew, right?

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_01]: They knew that Biden was in cognitive decline.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Were they hoping to keep that hidden from everybody?

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that why they moved the debate up before the conventions?

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: That's usually not the case at all.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You wait till after the conventions.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Did they expect something else or did they think that Joe Biden wouldn't make it and then they wanted to pull a switch?

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Was that a plan?

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Does it matter to you?

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Shouldn't that matter?

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if you're a Democrat voter and it doesn't matter to you, shouldn't it matter to you, media?

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Unless, of course, RFK Jr. is right.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And you are just an organ, a house organ for the Democrat Party.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: You're just playing the tune, right?

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: They just give you the sheet music and you just play the tune.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: He then spoke to the representatives of the media companies who were present in the room.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this really sacred responsibility,

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_02]: the duty of a free press to safeguard democracy and to challenge always the party in power.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Instead of maintaining that posture of fear, skepticism toward authority,

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_02]: your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You didn't alone cause the devolution of American democracy, but you could have prevented it.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's quite the scathing indictment.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: You media people, you reporters, journalismers, you guys, you may not have caused it, but you could have prevented it.

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You could be doing better and you're not.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned this last week.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: This is why I'm so critical of reporters.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I used to be one.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I got into that line of work because of its role in preserving our republic, in keeping government accountable, informing the citizens about what is going on.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And somewhere along the line, that has been lost.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_01]: It's now about throne sniffing and cocktail party invites.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_01]: They're part of the problem.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And part of it, if I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, is paranoia and fear that the orange man is bad and he's going to destroy everything.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Another part of it is, I think, similar to what happened in the music business with the rise of file sharing.

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, load and rip different CDs and audio files and then transfer them and save them.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody was sharing all the music and stealing all of the music.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And the recording industry, in my opinion, spent so much time fighting these upstarts and this new technology that the tech went right past them.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: The world moved by.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's how you end up with Apple selling music.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody buying a tune here, a tune there, an album here or there.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And the whole model got disrupted.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what's happening in media as well.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're still trying to protect their fiefdoms.

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's part of it as well.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Going over some of the highlights of the RFK's.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Suspension of his campaign announcement.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And he talked about how about 37 hours after being sworn in Joe Biden's administration, what he says, opened a portal between government agencies to censor opponents on social media platforms.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_02]: This week, a federal judge, Terry Doty, upheld my injunction against President Biden, owing the White House's censorship project, quote, the most egregious violation of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Doty's previous 155 page decision details how just 37 hours after he took the oath of office swearing to uphold the Constitution, President Biden and his White House opened up a portal and then invited the CIA, the FBI, CISA, which is a censorship agency.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the center of the censorship industrial complex.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: DHS, the IRS and other agencies to censor me and other political dissidents on social media.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos to Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_02]: DHS, two days after Judge Doty rendered his decision this week, Facebook was still attaching warning labels to an online petition calling on ABC to include me in the upcoming debate.

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_02]: They said that violates community standards, their community standards.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_02]: The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_02]: and has joined this systemic attack on democracy.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It also, the media justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_02]: But governments and oppressors don't censor lies.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_02]: They don't fear lies. They fear the truth.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what they censor.

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, except for the one about Xi Jinping being Winnie the Pooh.

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_01]: They do censor that over in China.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And as far as I know, he is not actually Winnie the Pooh, but he does look like it.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I guess that does...

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so, alright, that does prove his point then, because they censor the truth.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Because the truth is he does look like Winnie the Pooh.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Craig, welcome to the program. Hello, Craig.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, how are you doing, man?

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Good.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_04]: I love the show.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Just wanted to let you know that you had a great analogy with Robert Jr.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_04]: With the Napster and the whole music industry.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I was in the music business for 24 years.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_04]: It was a great run.

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I enjoyed it tremendously.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_04]: I've got more gold records than Elvis, but all that and $1.50 would give me a cup of coffee at Petro Express.

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_04]: So, anyway, I just had to let you know, my company spent $27 million trying to put Napster out of business.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And guess what?

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_04]: It never worked.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I just can't imagine how we're looking at things now with the race, with the Democrats and the Republicans.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_04]: It just amazes me.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I think the race should be held within 60 days because America has amnesia.

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_04]: We just can't remember past yesterday.

[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Well...

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_04]: With everything that's going on.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_04]: So, when you came out with that analogy with Napster, I got to call in and tell him.

[00:29:49] Yeah.

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I...

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's why the model has changed now, right?

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, now artists are touring to make more money because the model got blown up.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_04]: You cannot break an artist now.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and that's what the music business did.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_04]: They spent, you know, $400,000 or a million bucks out of the gate to break an artist.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And sometimes it took, sometimes it didn't.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_04]: And then the artists come back and complain, oh, the music business is taking advantage

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_04]: of me.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_04]: They just had to recoup their money.

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_04]: That's how it worked.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_04]: They just couldn't see that.

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I hear you, Craig.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate the call, buddy.

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for making it.

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's, it is a, I find that parallel in so many different industries that are getting

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_01]: disrupted and the news media is one of them.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And we all know this, right?

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_01]: We, what is the Charlotte Observer publishing like what?

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Two days, three days a week or something at this point.

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And that means that the people who are in that line of work, think about it.

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They've, you know, gone to school.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_01]: They get these degrees.

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_01]: They think they're going to have a decent job in an industry.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And now it's all drying up.

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, maybe they should learn to code.

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that the, I don't mean that in a pejorative way.

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just a good skill to have, but tell me, they've been saying it about AM radio

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_01]: forever.

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Here I am.

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and look at that.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Podcasting came around.

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I embrace it.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_01]: You know why?

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Cause it's basically AM radio.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It's talk radio.

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_01]: So you can't break me because you didn't build me.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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