The misinformation campaign is in high gear (11-01-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] Maybe you have heard the phrase, something along the lines of, no matter how much you hate the media, it is not enough. The misinformation campaign or disinformation campaign, whichever you prefer, it is in high gear right now. It is full throttle. And I'm going to throw in another metaphor, like drinking from a fire hose.

[00:00:59] There's just so much being thrown at us in the last 24 hours, it's pretty hard to keep up. J.D. Vance, vice presidential candidate, right, running mate for Donald Trump, senator from Ohio, author of the bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy. He went on the Joe Rogan podcast.

[00:01:23] I have not got a chance to watch it yet, but I've seen a whole bunch of clips over the last 24 hours. And one of the clips that I saw, he talks about lying.

[00:01:41] And he talks about how, I did not know this about J.D. Vance, but apparently he likes to bake. He bakes cakes and cookies, I guess. I'm not a baker.

[00:01:51] So he was saying how he was making an Oreo cake with his, I think, four-year-old son. And he left the kitchen to go to the restroom. And when he comes back, like half of the Oreos that were supposed to be used for the Oreo cake, I guess for like the filling or on top of it or whatever, but half of the pack of Oreos had been, they were gone.

[00:02:18] Okay. Half of the Oreos are gone. And he asks his son, where did the Oreos go? And his son says, I didn't eat the Oreos. You ate the Oreos.

[00:02:36] Those are the kinds of lies that a child tells.

[00:02:41] And these are the kinds of lies that we are now being subjected to. It's a form of psychological abuse. It's a form of gaslighting.

[00:02:52] Just lies and then trying to make you think that you're insane for thinking the thing that is quite obviously so, that your child ate all of the Oreos.

[00:03:04] You did not. Like, I know I didn't just eat all of the Oreos.

[00:03:08] But you recognize that the child doesn't have sort of a refined sense of how to lie with a level of believability, you know?

[00:03:19] And so in that regard, it seems like media folks are children.

[00:03:28] They're like four years old.

[00:03:30] And if you listen to Jordan B. Peterson, the clinical psychiatrist, YouTuber extraordinaire, author, lecturer.

[00:03:43] And Jordan Peterson talks about how people, they get stunted at this level of growth as a child.

[00:03:50] And they never are able to take into account other people's feelings and that sort of thing.

[00:03:56] They'll get stunted at a very young age.

[00:03:59] And I wonder if that's what we are seeing sort of writ large on this.

[00:04:06] Case in point.

[00:04:07] Case in point.

[00:04:08] Let's see.

[00:04:09] Well, I mean, I've got several examples and these are all just in the last 24 hours.

[00:04:14] So Donald Trump.

[00:04:16] Depending on who you believe, Donald Trump.

[00:04:20] Called for the assassination of Liz Cheney.

[00:04:24] Or not.

[00:04:27] Now, you can believe media folks who say and Democrats, but I repeat myself.

[00:04:33] You can believe them.

[00:04:36] Or you can listen to the clip of Donald Trump's comments.

[00:04:41] And decide for yourself.

[00:04:43] So what I always try to do is go to the source material, the original source.

[00:04:47] And this is part of the problem with a Trump presidency.

[00:04:52] Is that everything that he says on camera, anything he does.

[00:04:57] Is you always have to go to the original source to verify because you cannot trust the media to tell you what actually occurred.

[00:05:07] Because they only give you, dare I call it a selectively edited clip.

[00:05:14] And so how they are editing this clip that I'm about to play, how they are editing this clip is by just stopping it halfway through.

[00:05:23] Rather than allowing it to play all the way out.

[00:05:27] Donald Trump is, I don't know where, well, I guess it's not really that important.

[00:05:32] But he's doing an interview.

[00:05:33] I think Tucker Carlson is interviewing him at some event.

[00:05:36] And he's talking about not going to war.

[00:05:44] Donald Trump has positioned himself as sort of the anti-war candidate.

[00:05:49] And Liz Cheney, with her endorsement of Harris.

[00:05:54] Oh, and by the way, like this general acknowledgement among neocon Republicans that all the neocons are all going over to the Democrats.

[00:06:02] And shh, don't tell anybody.

[00:06:03] There's a clip on that, too.

[00:06:07] This is widely understood inside the Beltway.

[00:06:11] What's going on with the neocons?

[00:06:14] They're migrating over to Harris walls.

[00:06:19] And so Donald Trump is a threat to that group and their taskmasters.

[00:06:27] And so Donald Trump is up there talking about not going to war and how Liz Cheney is the war sort of candidate.

[00:06:35] Right.

[00:06:35] She's espousing forever wars.

[00:06:39] And here's what he says.

[00:06:40] And I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter.

[00:06:44] But his daughter is a very dumb individual.

[00:06:47] Very dumb.

[00:06:49] She's a radical war hawk.

[00:06:51] Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.

[00:06:55] OK, let's see how she feels about it.

[00:06:57] You know, when the guns are trained on her face.

[00:07:01] You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, well, let's send let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.

[00:07:11] But she's a stupid person.

[00:07:14] Do I do I do I do I support the or like the the name calling?

[00:07:20] I do not.

[00:07:21] I don't think it's necessary.

[00:07:23] I don't think the presidential candidate should be doing it.

[00:07:25] But this is where we are in America.

[00:07:27] I live in realville, as Rush Limbaugh always advised us to do.

[00:07:32] And this is where our political discourse is.

[00:07:36] And by the way, it has been just as bad, if not worse, throughout American history.

[00:07:43] It kind of goes in cycles, you know, maybe we we go too far.

[00:07:46] And it's like, well, let's let's be a little bit more civil now and they'll they'll roll it back a little bit.

[00:07:52] But what's he talking about there?

[00:07:54] He's talking about Liz Cheney wanting to send other people's kids into war and how.

[00:08:04] He would not support that, that she's very she feels very free to to want to send everybody to go fight all these other wars.

[00:08:11] But let's see how she feels if she's looking at her own mortality.

[00:08:16] So that then gets twisted into somehow that he is calling for her assassination.

[00:08:23] For her murder.

[00:08:26] Is that what that sounded like to you?

[00:08:29] Look, I understand.

[00:08:30] And I said this.

[00:08:31] I've been saying it for now almost eight years.

[00:08:34] And apparently I may end up saying it for another for that Donald Trump also speaks in word salads.

[00:08:38] I said that about Trump before I ever said it about Harris.

[00:08:40] She does, too.

[00:08:42] She does, too.

[00:08:43] And I know Donald Trump supporters don't like it when I say that.

[00:08:46] But you already got my vote, people.

[00:08:48] I already voted for the guy.

[00:08:49] So I can say whatever I want about it because I voted for him.

[00:08:55] But I voted for him.

[00:08:57] As a protest vote against the media and the way that they allow Harris and Biden, who, by the way, did you see this?

[00:09:05] He was like trying to nibble on a kid.

[00:09:08] Did you see this?

[00:09:09] Like biting a child, a baby, like trying to gnaw on the kid's leg.

[00:09:15] Very, he's just creepy.

[00:09:16] It's just very, I get it.

[00:09:20] It's like, oh, look at the little baby.

[00:09:21] And you're kind of, you know, goofing around with the, I mean, it's a very young baby.

[00:09:25] Very young.

[00:09:26] And the kid seemed to enjoy it because the kid is like, I don't know, nine months old.

[00:09:33] But it's just weird.

[00:09:35] He's like, let me gum your leg.

[00:09:39] Um, well, no, he does have his teeth.

[00:09:41] Never mind.

[00:09:43] But this is what I'm talking about for the next.

[00:09:45] If Trump wins for the next four years, this is what I'm going to have to do is every single time.

[00:09:50] Like, oh, my God, did you hear what Trump said?

[00:09:52] No, I did.

[00:09:53] I did not.

[00:09:54] So now I got to go and listen.

[00:09:55] OK, what do you think he said?

[00:09:56] OK, you're showing me a four second clip.

[00:09:58] OK, let me go and get the full minute clip.

[00:10:00] And oh, he said something that's actually not what you said.

[00:10:03] He said context, nuance, the thing that the left has always told us that they are super,

[00:10:09] super adept at identifying and fleshing out for us.

[00:10:14] But when it comes to Trump, it's just.

[00:10:16] This is why they call it TDS Trump derangement syndrome, like something breaks inside the brain.

[00:10:22] So there's that.

[00:10:25] And then there was what happened with Hugh Hewitt, who is a morning guy out in California.

[00:10:31] And he was on, I guess, The Washington Post has some sort of a like a like a YouTube morning show or something.

[00:10:38] And so Hugh, I think he also writes a column every now and again for The Washington Post.

[00:10:43] And so he appears on this morning program with this guy, Jonathan Capehart, who's a leftist with a byline.

[00:10:49] And.

[00:10:50] Well, I'll play the clip in a minute.

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[00:11:58] Yes, I am aware that one of the babies that Joe Biden was biting was dressed like a turkey.

[00:12:04] So it is possible that Joe Biden thought he was trying to eat a turkey.

[00:12:08] That is possible.

[00:12:09] My bad.

[00:12:10] I should have provided that context for you so you would have all the information.

[00:12:15] Also, apparently he tried to he tried to chow down on like two other babies or something.

[00:12:21] So, yeah, now you have the full context of the story.

[00:12:25] So let's head on over to the Washington Post where Jonathan Capehart is hosting and they're talking about, you know, how the orange man who is bad is trying to lay the groundwork for stolen election rhetoric after he loses.

[00:12:44] And that they are focusing on Pennsylvania, Bucks County specifically, and some of the irregularities and such that have been reported there.

[00:12:52] Is it me or does it seem like this week Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities?

[00:13:06] And this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it's because of cheating.

[00:13:14] This is Ruth Marcus.

[00:13:16] Yeah, that's what he's been laying the groundwork for this.

[00:13:18] Just not in the last week, but in the last umpty ump months.

[00:13:22] No election.

[00:13:23] I do not know how long of a time period umpty umpt is.

[00:13:27] I would assume it's more than three months, but it could be any number of months.

[00:13:32] This is, again, Ruth Marcus, the associate editor of The Washington Post, who apparently did not resign her job after the mean, evil Jeff Bezos said, we're not going to endorse a candidate.

[00:13:44] Can be fair unless Donald, in Donald Trump's mind, unless Donald Trump wins it.

[00:13:50] Uh, and I think we are going to see him both rev up his supporters to contest elections outside of courtrooms and go to every courtroom he can in America where it's relevant to make whatever arguments he can, no matter how far-fetched.

[00:14:09] We saw.

[00:14:09] Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

[00:14:11] Hang on a second.

[00:14:11] Hang on.

[00:14:12] You just hear Hugh Hewitt.

[00:14:13] He's going to try to jump in here.

[00:14:14] But, like, you're telling me that a candidate who loses in an election would go to a courtroom and try to find some sort of a legal mechanism to count some additional votes or to not count some other votes in order to get enough votes or non-votes in a way that makes them the victor in the election?

[00:14:41] Really?

[00:14:43] Really?

[00:15:13] Because she was the sitting Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed to that post by Roy Cooper, who passed over Paul Newby, who was the one.

[00:15:22] He had the most seniority.

[00:15:23] He was a Republican, though, so Cooper didn't appoint him.

[00:15:25] But Newby should have been the appointee because he was the most senior member.

[00:15:30] So Newby got pretty ticked off about that and ran against Sherry Beasley and then beat her.

[00:15:35] And then Beasley, along with her lawyers, went to court to try to get votes counted in, like, absentee trays, tried to get certain votes counted that had been rejected.

[00:15:50] But she only wanted the Democrat ones counted.

[00:15:55] That's the chief justice of the state Supreme Court trying to pick which votes get counted in a way that favors her so she could win the race.

[00:16:06] This is the thing.

[00:16:07] You guys do not occupy a morally superior position in any of this stuff, OK?

[00:16:13] You don't have the high ground.

[00:16:15] And just because you think you do because democracy or something doesn't make it so.

[00:16:21] So here's here's how this this interview appearance concludes with Ruth.

[00:16:26] Ruth Marcus is talking.

[00:16:27] Hugh Hewitt attempts to interrupt.

[00:16:29] Right.

[00:16:30] I've got it last time, but it didn't work out.

[00:16:33] It may not work.

[00:16:34] It may not.

[00:16:34] That may not happen this time.

[00:16:36] And now I'll let you go here.

[00:16:38] Well, I've just got to say we're news people, even though we're the opinion section.

[00:16:42] It's got to be reported.

[00:16:43] Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home.

[00:16:51] So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee and it was successful.

[00:16:56] The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful.

[00:16:59] We are news people, even though we have opinions and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story.

[00:17:04] So, yes, he's upset about Bucks County, but he was right and he won in court.

[00:17:10] That's the story.

[00:17:14] So right now, Capehart has this like disgusted, detestable look on his face, like this sneer.

[00:17:20] And he's looking down at something and he's drawing lines or I don't know what he's doing on like a touch screen or something.

[00:17:27] And then he says this.

[00:17:29] I'll let you keep going, Jonathan.

[00:17:30] No, I'm just I don't appreciate being lectured about reporting when you many times you come here saying lots of things that are.

[00:17:41] I won't come back.

[00:17:42] But I'm done.

[00:17:45] This is the most unfair election I've ever been a part of.

[00:17:48] You guys are working.

[00:17:49] That's fine.

[00:17:50] I'm done.

[00:17:52] And he walks off.

[00:17:54] He pulls out the ear plug, the IFB pulls it out, throws it down.

[00:17:58] And he's like, I am done.

[00:18:00] And he just walks off.

[00:18:02] Good for him.

[00:18:04] This is the Washington Post.

[00:18:07] And he is exactly right.

[00:18:08] You want to frame what Trump did and the Republicans did as some sort of attempt at laying the groundwork for allegations of cheating and stolen election stuff.

[00:18:20] They were right.

[00:18:22] They went to court and the court agreed with them.

[00:18:26] That's the standard.

[00:18:27] And I've said that from 2020 on.

[00:18:30] When people call in today and they talk about, oh, the 2020 election was stolen, the standard is produce the evidence in court.

[00:18:38] And I understand that there are problems with that.

[00:18:41] I get that.

[00:18:42] But in this case, they won.

[00:18:44] That's the standard.

[00:18:45] They passed it.

[00:18:46] You don't get to use that as some sort of evidence that their allegations of cheating are are unfounded.

[00:18:52] They were founded.

[00:18:53] Early voting still underway, by the way.

[00:18:57] It'll go through tomorrow.

[00:18:58] So, oh, yeah.

[00:19:01] OK.

[00:19:01] Just want to make sure because.

[00:19:03] If you don't if you get that wrong and you tell people the wrong hours to vote, remember that guy?

[00:19:09] What was his face?

[00:19:10] Ricky Vaughn.

[00:19:11] He went by under the.

[00:19:13] The Twitter handle.

[00:19:15] Ricky Vaughn.

[00:19:17] He was like some.

[00:19:20] Groiper, I want to say, one of those guys, one of the alt right guys, and they banned him.

[00:19:25] He actually they charged him.

[00:19:26] I think they actually prosecuted him because he told people to go vote on like the wrong day.

[00:19:33] He sent out some message and it went viral and it was a troll.

[00:19:37] Right.

[00:19:37] He was trolling, telling people, telling Democrats to go vote on the wrong day.

[00:19:42] This was in 2020.

[00:19:43] And he was prosecuted for it.

[00:19:48] And so now I'm very worried about Jimmy Kimmel.

[00:19:51] Give him a call.

[00:19:53] Wrestle that mock bucket out of his hands.

[00:19:54] I don't know if you guys know about this, but we have an election coming up on.

[00:20:00] I feel pretty relaxed about it.

[00:20:02] I've really been enjoying the week.

[00:20:04] It's in times like these.

[00:20:05] It's important to remember that cannabis is legal in our state.

[00:20:08] If you can vote early, vote early.

[00:20:15] If you can't vote early, vote on time.

[00:20:17] If you want to vote for Trump, vote late.

[00:20:19] Vote very late.

[00:20:21] Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.

[00:20:23] This will be my third time voting against Donald Trump.

[00:20:26] Fifth, if you count the two times he was nominated for an Emmy for a reality show host.

[00:20:32] All right, so Jimmy Kimmel just violated the same law that they prosecuted some random guy on Twitter for.

[00:20:42] And I'm wondering if the DOJ is going to drop the hammer on him, which people were pointing out to the DOJ.

[00:20:48] Because the DOJ sent out a tweet yesterday advising people, hey, it's against the law to spread that kind of misinformation.

[00:21:00] You can't be telling people to vote on days that aren't Election Day.

[00:21:05] And we will prosecute you.

[00:21:08] And Jimmy Kimmel just went out.

[00:21:12] So people were posting this video to the DOJ telling them, hey, you might want to go check into this.

[00:21:18] Also, I am old enough to remember when it was a very big deal that you had political appointees and partisans and political hacks inside of an administration that were trying to pressure civil servants, bureaucrats, to alter documents and such.

[00:21:46] I remember when this was a very big deal that you couldn't have political people trying to force.

[00:21:53] Well, in fact, I think if I recall correctly, I've heard some of these fears espoused just recently with the whole Project 2025 stuff.

[00:22:01] Right.

[00:22:04] Be very afraid.

[00:22:07] They're going to fire people.

[00:22:10] Well, we have a story now from the Associated Press that White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, creating lots and lots of easy Halloween costumes for a great many of Trump supporters yesterday.

[00:22:29] Yeah, I don't believe this for a second.

[00:22:31] Hello, Hulk.

[00:22:32] How are you?

[00:22:33] Hello.

[00:22:34] How are you doing?

[00:22:35] Yeah, I'm OK.

[00:22:35] I don't believe Bill Bixby is your real name.

[00:22:38] I knew Bill Bixby.

[00:22:40] Bill Bixby, yes, sir.

[00:22:41] Bill Bixby.

[00:22:42] Yeah, I believe that.

[00:22:43] Uh-huh.

[00:22:44] Just like I'm going to believe this is a good faith call.

[00:22:46] So go ahead and make your assertion.

[00:22:48] That's a good faith call, man.

[00:22:49] I just want you to know why you think Trump might be lying about things.

[00:22:54] Why do I think Trump might be lying about things?

[00:22:57] Yeah, yeah.

[00:22:58] I heard you say he might tell Phibs there down there.

[00:23:02] You heard me say that?

[00:23:03] And our Trump does not lie.

[00:23:05] You heard me say that Donald Trump might Phib about things?

[00:23:08] That's what you heard me say?

[00:23:10] Yeah, yeah.

[00:23:10] See, this is why I said you're not a good faith call, because I've talked with you before.

[00:23:14] You call in on different names.

[00:23:17] So you could drop the pretend I'm a Trumper act, because I don't believe that.

[00:23:22] I believe you're trolling and you're attempting to play the role of a Trump supporter.

[00:23:28] No, I am a Trump supporter, brother.

[00:23:30] Uh-huh.

[00:23:31] I am.

[00:23:32] Uh-huh.

[00:23:34] And I just don't like for you to say that Trump might be telling Phibs or what he's saying.

[00:23:39] Trump tells the truth.

[00:23:39] I don't use...

[00:23:40] Yeah, I haven't used the word Phib, and it's got to be at least, I don't know, 70 or 80 years.

[00:23:47] Well, Trump never lies.

[00:23:49] Never lies.

[00:23:50] Just put it like that.

[00:23:50] Right.

[00:23:52] Trump never lies, but he's going to be our president of the United States of America.

[00:23:56] Mm-hmm.

[00:23:58] And we're going to take America back.

[00:23:59] Okay.

[00:24:00] Thank you, Bill.

[00:24:03] That's...

[00:24:04] He...

[00:24:04] So, Bill there, that's not his real name.

[00:24:06] He calls under different names, and he pretends to be a Trump supporter.

[00:24:11] He pretends to be a MAGA, a Trumper, and he affects what...

[00:24:18] So, he is what the left perceives Trump supporters to be.

[00:24:23] So, what you just heard was that bit.

[00:24:26] In his mind, this is...

[00:24:29] He's playing the role of a Trumper.

[00:24:33] That's how they perceive you.

[00:24:35] But they would never call you garbage.

[00:24:36] They don't think you're a bitter clinger to your guns or Bibles or anything like that.

[00:24:42] You're not a deplorable.

[00:24:43] No, no, no.

[00:24:44] We would never say that.

[00:24:45] But that's what they think of you.

[00:24:52] I wonder if he gets any roles, like any paying actual roles.

[00:24:56] Or if this is just a part-time thing that he's just...

[00:25:00] Oh, maybe it's...

[00:25:01] They do say, keep your day job until the night job pays.

[00:25:04] So, whatever your name is, you should totally get a podcast.

[00:25:08] You should do a podcast and pretend to be a Trump supporter and just really, like, perfect that persona, that character.

[00:25:19] I'm serious.

[00:25:20] You'll probably make a lot of money at it.

[00:25:22] Because there's a good chunk of the country that will just lap it up.

[00:25:29] Because you'll be giving them what they want.

[00:25:32] Which is the belief that they are superior.

[00:25:35] Because that's where that comes from.

[00:25:38] I'm just trying to imagine...

[00:25:39] Like, think about that.

[00:25:41] To pretend to be somebody, but actually have no idea what motivates them.

[00:25:50] That's how you know he's a...

[00:25:51] And you can tell he's a bad actor.

[00:25:53] Because good actors, they get into the mind of their character.

[00:25:59] Right?

[00:25:59] Bad actors don't.

[00:26:04] So, Bill doesn't understand what actually motivates people to vote for Trump.

[00:26:11] That's what he thinks people vote for Trump for.

[00:26:13] So, Joe Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Voto Latino on the Zoom call interview that he scheduled for some reason, just as Kamala Harris is doing her closing argument speech on the site of the Nazi rally.

[00:26:36] And they had the White House, what is it called?

[00:26:42] Not the stenographers, but there's an office in the White House that does the official transcripts.

[00:26:48] And the press office, like, went around them and published a doctored version of the transcript in order to do the damage control after Biden called Trump supporters garbage.

[00:27:04] Which he totally didn't say, because there was an apostrophe, you just didn't hear it.

[00:27:07] Message from Jason, who said,

[00:27:10] Hugh Hewitt, in my opinion, is a middle-of-the-road, if-not-establishment Republican-leaning reporter slash radio guy.

[00:27:16] I have listened to his morning show for years.

[00:27:18] To have him storm off the set during the live hit actually surprised me.

[00:27:24] I guess he has had enough.

[00:27:26] Indeed, he has.

[00:27:28] Yeah, I would not have pegged Hugh Hewitt to have done that either.

[00:27:34] Russ says, Dave Chappelle's Clayton Bigsby did it so much better than Caller Bill.

[00:27:40] That's true.

[00:27:41] That's so true.

[00:27:42] Good actors get into character, bad actors don't.

[00:27:45] But bad faith actors miss it totally.

[00:27:50] It's a rare double rim shot for Russ.

[00:27:55] Yeah, I'm going to guess this is also seminar.

[00:27:58] Hello, Lamont.

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

[00:28:01] I am okay.

[00:28:02] How are you?

[00:28:03] I'm doing fine.

[00:28:04] Good.

[00:28:04] I just heard the guy, Bill Bigsby, I mean, man, he's hilarious, man.

[00:28:09] Yeah.

[00:28:09] You have to give it to him, man.

[00:28:11] Give what to him?

[00:28:12] I have to give what to him?

[00:28:15] If he's an actor or whatever, man, he sounds like a real Trump supporter.

[00:28:19] I know that's what a real Trump supporter sounds like to you.

[00:28:22] Yeah, it does to me, yeah.

[00:28:24] Yeah, I know.

[00:28:24] And so that's your own bias.

[00:28:28] Yeah, I mean, I guess.

[00:28:29] No, there's no guessing about it.

[00:28:31] That's absolutely the case.

[00:28:33] Yeah.

[00:28:33] But it sure sounds like one, man.

[00:28:35] Right, to you.

[00:28:35] No, no, to you, Lamont, to you, that's what it sounds like, because you have a bias.

[00:28:42] Okay, good.

[00:28:42] I'm glad we could get to that point.

[00:28:44] All right, awesome.

[00:28:45] Let me get back to the Associated Press story here.

[00:28:48] The White House.

[00:28:49] Oh, and by the way, I was correct.

[00:28:51] I'm as surprised as you.

[00:28:53] I was correct.

[00:28:55] There is actually an office of stenography.

[00:28:58] That's what it's called at the White House.

[00:29:00] And so this was a fight between the stenography and press offices.

[00:29:05] Okay.

[00:29:06] About what did Joe Biden say?

[00:29:09] This is the Associated Press.

[00:29:11] Here it is.

[00:29:11] Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding

[00:29:19] to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred

[00:29:26] to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage.

[00:29:31] Why is that racist?

[00:29:33] Are you aware of the problems Puerto Rico has had with its garbage, with its landfills?

[00:29:40] It's an island, people.

[00:29:43] What?

[00:29:44] Like, it's had problems disposing of its garbage.

[00:29:49] This is well known.

[00:29:51] This is well known in Puerto Rico.

[00:29:52] Puerto Ricans know this.

[00:29:54] There are parts of Puerto Rico that are bespoiled by the stench of the landfill.

[00:30:03] Areas that are beautiful, because Puerto Rico is beautiful, but it's an island.

[00:30:09] I don't know.

[00:30:10] Like, do you put all of the garbage on, like, a big boat and then just, like, sail it to

[00:30:18] the mainland and then offload the trash?

[00:30:21] I mean, that seems like it would be pretty expensive, you know?

[00:30:23] Because you would be running these boats of trash just constantly.

[00:30:30] I suggested just dumping it all into the ocean.

[00:30:33] That's...

[00:30:35] I did not.

[00:30:36] I'm not saying do that.

[00:30:38] No.

[00:30:40] But the insult comic, and that's what he does, Tony Hinchcliffe.

[00:30:45] He's an insult comic.

[00:30:46] He's a roast comic.

[00:30:47] You bring this guy to the roasts where he makes fun of the people that are participating at

[00:30:52] the roast.

[00:30:54] Again, I went over this the other day.

[00:30:56] I'm not a huge fan of the roast genre in comedy, but a lot of people do like it.

[00:31:01] And that's what this guy does.

[00:31:03] He's got a very popular, I think, YouTube channel or something.

[00:31:06] And that's why they brought him on the stage.

[00:31:09] And he makes a joke about a floating island of garbage.

[00:31:14] And then he says, I think it's called Puerto Rico.

[00:31:16] And that was the joke.

[00:31:18] Now, you can be offended if you choose your choice.

[00:31:21] But that's not a racist comment.

[00:31:25] Because of what I just mentioned, the landfill issue.

[00:31:28] Now, that's another part of the problem with the joke is that it's so esoteric.

[00:31:33] Like, I am aware of this stuff, but I don't know if everybody going to this event would

[00:31:37] be aware of the landfill problems that Puerto Rico has.

[00:31:40] So it was a little bit in the weeds, you know, a little bit too esoteric.

[00:31:44] Anyway, Biden, according to the transcript that was prepared by the official White House

[00:31:50] stenographers, told the Latino group on Tuesday evening in that video call, the only garbage

[00:31:55] I see floating out there is his supporters.

[00:31:57] His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's un-American.

[00:32:01] That is the transcript prepared by the stenographers.

[00:32:06] The transcript released by the White House press office stuck in the apostrophe in the word

[00:32:14] supporters.

[00:32:14] So now it's supposedly about Tony Hinchcliffe.

[00:32:19] But that doesn't make sense about, because he didn't demonize Latinos.

[00:32:24] He didn't do that.

[00:32:26] So who are you talking about?

[00:32:27] Well, that would be about Trump.

[00:32:29] Well, that means that the apostrophe S on supporters is talking about somebody other than Trump,

[00:32:33] which means the second part of your sentence doesn't make any sense at all, which is why

[00:32:37] we don't believe your BS about the apostrophe.

[00:32:42] And the media people carrying the water for this narrative is proof that the media is garbage.

[00:32:49] Sorry, is that racist?

[00:32:51] I didn't.

[00:32:52] It's a floating island of garbage.

[00:32:54] The media.

[00:32:55] OK.

[00:32:55] The change was made after the press office conferred with the president, according to an internal

[00:33:00] email from the head of the stenographer's office that was obtained by the AP.

[00:33:04] The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition

[00:33:09] of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

[00:33:11] The supervisor of the stenography office called the press office's handling of the matter,

[00:33:18] quote, a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity.

[00:33:26] Spoliation just means like spoiling.

[00:33:29] It's almost the same word.

[00:33:30] I don't know why they flip the eye and the the A in that, but they do.

[00:33:35] It's also like spoliation of evidence.

[00:33:37] Same thing like the evidence gets expired.

[00:33:39] It spoils.

[00:33:40] Harris distanced herself from Biden's comments, making the clearest break from the president

[00:33:47] since she took over for him at the top of the Democratic ticket just over three months ago.

[00:33:51] Quote, let me be clear because we always want her to be clear.

[00:33:56] I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for, especially Nazis.

[00:34:05] I'm just kidding.

[00:34:06] I added that last part in there.

[00:34:07] Yeah.

[00:34:08] But yeah.

[00:34:10] She didn't say it.

[00:34:11] She said especially fascists, which are different.

[00:34:13] I'm just kidding.

[00:34:14] She didn't say that either.

[00:34:15] According to the email, the press office has asked the stenographers to quit.

[00:34:18] They had asked the stenographers to quickly produce a transcript of the call amid the firestorm.

[00:34:24] There were two people on duty.

[00:34:25] There was a typer and a proofer, but the supervisor wasn't available.

[00:34:29] So the press office just said, screw it.

[00:34:31] We'll do it live.

[00:34:32] And they just changed it.

[00:34:39] A.K.A. the media and the press office, A.K.A. the media.

[00:34:42] So their mommy and daddy are fighting inside the White House.

[00:34:45] All right.

[00:34:46] That'll do it for this episode.

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