What is the news value of the latest hit piece on Robinson? (09-04-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] Alrighty, so let's talk about pornography. Well, this is apparently going to be an issue in our North Carolina governor's race. And I would imagine all political contests now. I guess we have to ask all candidates for North Carolina elected office what their pornography predilections might be.

[00:00:55] What kind of porn do they consume? What kind of porn have they ever looked at? When was the last time they viewed pornography? I'm assuming this is the standard now because the journalismers over at the assembly, NC.com, the assembly, it's basically a web-based publication where retired or former, otherwise former print people,

[00:01:27] have gone to work. And I'm not sure of the business model, I'm not sure who funds it. I'm sure they have some subscriber base. Don't know if they get any kind of money.

[00:01:38] Because it is, by the way, in case you were unaware, Democrats and Democrat-aligned super PACs and such, nonprofits and whatnot, they have been funneling millions and millions of dollars into fake news organizations for years now.

[00:01:52] In fact, one of the writers in this article has made a long career working for news organizations, ostensibly news organizations funded by leftists.

[00:02:10] I do something when I read articles, especially political ones.

[00:02:20] One of the questions I ask, because I did go also to a college and got a degree in journalism, one of the things that they taught me was to ask yourself on any story that you're getting ready to do, who cares?

[00:02:35] Who cares? Why should they care? Why does this matter to people?

[00:02:43] And if you cannot answer that question, then the news value disappears.

[00:02:50] Now, yes, there are, you know, kicker stories.

[00:02:53] We call them, you know, like the story about the Russian spy whale, for example.

[00:02:59] It's weird. It's an odd kind of a story. It's a water cooler type of a story.

[00:03:03] Kicker stories. That's a different kind of thing.

[00:03:06] This is not a kicker story. This is a big, let's see here.

[00:03:09] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight page report.

[00:03:17] Put together by four different people, three of whom are either registered Democrats or have only voted in Democrat primaries.

[00:03:31] And yes, I pull people's voter cards.

[00:03:34] I pull and some of them I don't need to, but just to confirm, I went through and I pulled the voter cards of the reporters.

[00:03:40] I pulled the voter cards of the quote sources in the story.

[00:03:44] And the story.

[00:03:46] Is that.

[00:03:48] Ex porn shop employees say Mark Robinson was a regular.

[00:03:54] He denies it.

[00:03:56] OK, that's the headline.

[00:04:00] Now, is it possible that these lifelong Democrat journalismers relied on an unreliable or maybe.

[00:04:10] Biased or, you know, some sort of motivated.

[00:04:14] Liar or as a source, is it possible that these journalismers might have.

[00:04:23] Been used to tell a story.

[00:04:27] Because the people telling the story, they do have something to gain financially.

[00:04:32] Now, that's not really mentioned.

[00:04:34] It's not explored in this eight page piece.

[00:04:38] But the people who are especially the the main character here, Lewis Money is his name with guy with the rap sheet.

[00:04:46] Worked in the porn business for, you know, 15 years or so.

[00:04:49] He's got himself a garage band.

[00:04:52] And.

[00:04:54] Put out a song.

[00:04:55] About this story.

[00:04:58] And then so and then shop the story around, obviously, and got the story published.

[00:05:02] And so now guess what's happening to his YouTube video about this thing?

[00:05:07] It's getting lots and lots of clicks.

[00:05:10] Lots of views.

[00:05:11] Making money on the YouTube for the people who are watching the videos.

[00:05:17] So, yes, there's a financial interest in telling this story, whether it's true or not.

[00:05:22] OK.

[00:05:22] And so, again, this is how I approach these stories.

[00:05:26] When I read a story like this, I ask, why should I care first?

[00:05:30] Right.

[00:05:31] Then I ask what might be the motivations of the people that are telling the story?

[00:05:36] Why is it coming out now?

[00:05:38] By the way, they don't ever address this in the story.

[00:05:40] Why now?

[00:05:41] Because apparently if this is to be believed, then Mark Robinson, this was running for lieutenant

[00:05:48] governor.

[00:05:49] And this story could have come out when he was running for lieutenant governor, could have

[00:05:51] come out at any point.

[00:05:52] But it never did.

[00:05:54] It's only now that they wrote a song.

[00:05:56] Then they have a YouTube video that got posted in August.

[00:05:59] Only now do we know about this story.

[00:06:02] So they waited until his run for governor.

[00:06:05] Which is interesting.

[00:06:06] All right.

[00:06:07] So first, let's let's get run through a thought experiment on this.

[00:06:15] Again, this is what I try to do on these types of stories is I ask myself, OK, what if this

[00:06:20] is true?

[00:06:21] Right.

[00:06:21] So let's assume that the story is completely and accurately told in this piece and it is

[00:06:26] true.

[00:06:27] And the denial by the Robinson campaign is a lie.

[00:06:31] All right.

[00:06:32] All right.

[00:06:33] So what is the purpose in telling me this true story?

[00:06:37] Why should I care?

[00:06:39] Why should I care that the lieutenant governor running for governor there 20 and between 20

[00:06:46] and 30 years ago when he was 20 years old, like 20 and 21 years old, whatever.

[00:06:51] Like, why should I care now about this activity that he did back in the late 90s?

[00:07:03] Is it because he's a hypocrite?

[00:07:05] Is that the point?

[00:07:07] You want me to think he's a hypocrite?

[00:07:09] Well, you've heard my take on hypocrisy that the charge of hypocrisy carries no purchase

[00:07:14] any longer in politics.

[00:07:16] It doesn't matter.

[00:07:17] You know why?

[00:07:17] A hundred percent of us are hypocrites in some way.

[00:07:21] And.

[00:07:22] Fifty percent of the voting population is not going to be voting for Mark Robinson anyway.

[00:07:28] They don't care if he's a hypocrite.

[00:07:30] They already hate him.

[00:07:31] Right.

[00:07:32] OK, maybe forty five percent.

[00:07:34] Right.

[00:07:34] They already hate him.

[00:07:35] OK, so who is the target audience for this?

[00:07:38] Aside from giving leftists, you know, the ability to make crude crude and lewd jokes about

[00:07:45] Mark Robinson on social media, what's the point?

[00:07:48] Who who is the target for the hypocrisy charge?

[00:07:54] Christians, right?

[00:07:56] Republicans, conservatives.

[00:07:59] So the idea here is that that population that would otherwise vote for Mark Robinson.

[00:08:06] That they are now to be shamed and embarrassed so they don't vote for Mark Robinson or at least

[00:08:12] don't publicly come out and defend him because they don't want to get any of that on them.

[00:08:16] You know, they don't want to be associated with this guy went to the porn shops.

[00:08:20] It's a very similar thing as the reporting on the abortion that Robinson and his then

[00:08:27] girlfriend who later became his wife.

[00:08:29] When they were before they were married, they had an abortion, but the story was a story of

[00:08:38] redemption.

[00:08:39] It's a story of changing one's ways, the road to Damascus moment, if you will.

[00:08:45] And Robinson doesn't celebrate that.

[00:08:48] He laments it.

[00:08:49] And if you know anything about Christianity, you would recognize that that's basically the

[00:08:54] core of the religion there.

[00:08:57] Right.

[00:08:57] Like.

[00:08:58] People who have been bad can become good if they accept Jesus, which he did, which he

[00:09:05] says changed his life.

[00:09:07] That's the point of the entire deal.

[00:09:11] So.

[00:09:13] The abortion story never really got a lot of traction because it's not disqualifying.

[00:09:18] In fact, it supports the same thing in much the same way.

[00:09:22] This story does the same.

[00:09:24] If true.

[00:09:26] OK.

[00:09:27] Is it so what?

[00:09:28] Maybe it's this.

[00:09:29] It's morally wrong to go to that porn shop when he was 21 years old.

[00:09:34] That was morally wrong.

[00:09:35] He shouldn't have done it.

[00:09:36] OK.

[00:09:37] Do you really believe that, though, leftists?

[00:09:40] Am I to believe that you have an ethical problem with a person going to a porn store?

[00:09:48] Oh, you don't.

[00:09:50] OK.

[00:09:51] So.

[00:09:53] You don't believe there's any problem, but you want me to believe there's a problem.

[00:09:56] Would that make you a bit of a hypocrite then?

[00:09:58] See, you're only using it to weaponize against him.

[00:10:01] That's all.

[00:10:02] That's the whole point of this.

[00:10:04] That's the why.

[00:10:05] That's the why of this story.

[00:10:07] And that's how you know in proof that these reporters are biased because the point of the

[00:10:14] story is, yes, to let the lefties make jokes about masturbation and pornography about the

[00:10:19] lieutenant governor.

[00:10:21] But they also hope to influence the election and get clicks for the website because, as you

[00:10:26] might imagine, this story has been spread far and wide.

[00:10:30] That is all if the story is true.

[00:10:35] Now, what if the story isn't?

[00:10:39] What if the story is not true?

[00:10:42] Well, you have smeared a man in a very nasty way.

[00:10:49] Right?

[00:10:51] And you've taken the word of a guy with a rap sheet.

[00:10:55] A 15 year career in porn, in the porn industry, who's trying to hawk YouTube videos.

[00:11:05] That's what you've done to your publication.

[00:11:07] If this story is not true.

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[00:12:00] All right.

[00:12:00] Why should I care about whether or not Mark Robinson went to a porn shop a little, a lot, once, a million times, whatever, back in the 90s?

[00:12:12] Like, why should I care?

[00:12:14] Does that mean something?

[00:12:16] Well, you know, Pete, he has argued against these books.

[00:12:21] He wants these books removed from the schools, you know, because he calls them filth and porn.

[00:12:28] Okay.

[00:12:28] Well, wouldn't he actually then be kind of an expert in the subject matter?

[00:12:33] Like, wouldn't he be a guy to know what porn looks like in the books?

[00:12:38] Right.

[00:12:40] Again, you're not really making an argument because that's the only reason you print this piece is to have an impact on the election.

[00:12:46] That's it.

[00:12:48] Otherwise, there's no there's no reason to run it.

[00:12:50] Why would anybody care?

[00:12:52] It's just purion.

[00:12:53] Right.

[00:12:54] Unless, of course, that's the kind of publication you want to be.

[00:12:57] You want to be sort of a tabloid kind of publication.

[00:13:01] And look, I guess that's fine.

[00:13:02] You have the ability to determine your own course.

[00:13:07] Jeffrey Billman and Joe Killian are the two reporters, the journalismers, I should say, with the bylines here.

[00:13:14] Joe Killian, a Democrat, has voted religiously in all the Democrat primaries going back years and years and years, maybe a couple decades.

[00:13:24] Used to work for was it the Progressive Pulse?

[00:13:27] I think it was, you know, these these shops that are funded by left wing organizations, the same, you know, lefty Democrat donors that give to candidates, but also fund this this these nonprofits that then create these, you know, quote, news organizations.

[00:13:45] Jeffrey Billman, I believe he was formerly of Indie Week also while registered on affiliated long history of voting in Democrat primaries.

[00:13:54] So we know where their politics are.

[00:13:57] And so when you start looking at journalism as journalismers as Democrats with bylines, a lot more of this stuff makes sense.

[00:14:05] So here's how the story their story begins.

[00:14:07] And by the way, this narrative is then picked up over at WRAL because, of course, by Brian Murphy and Paul Specht and Will Duran.

[00:14:17] So they start with a clip from Robinson's autobiography called We Are the Majority.

[00:14:25] And this came out in 2022.

[00:14:27] And he wrote that he committed his life to Jesus in the late 1980s.

[00:14:31] He said, quote, I did not, however, experience a drastic conversion like some do.

[00:14:38] My behavior did not immediately reform.

[00:14:40] They say sin is fun for a season.

[00:14:43] And I was in that season.

[00:14:46] OK, so what is so what am I supposed to take from this?

[00:14:50] Like you're juxtaposing this line, which if again, if your story is true and if the shady character that you interviewed as your reliable source on this is to be believed,

[00:15:00] despite his obvious financial self-interest in in getting the story a lot of traction.

[00:15:08] How how does that undermine?

[00:15:11] What you accuse him of doing, what the accusation is, right?

[00:15:16] He says my behavior did not immediately reform.

[00:15:19] That's not a new story in Christianity.

[00:15:21] Guys, have you ever met a Christian?

[00:15:23] You ever talk to a Christian?

[00:15:24] I mean, this is pretty standard stuff.

[00:15:29] Because Christians recognize that we are all failed.

[00:15:32] We are all fallen.

[00:15:33] We're not perfect.

[00:15:34] We're going to sin.

[00:15:36] And that's the redemption of Christ's blood that forgives us.

[00:15:42] And we recognize that we can change our ways.

[00:15:44] That's the whole point.

[00:15:46] So him saying that, yes, you know, I became Christian in the 80s, but I still kept sinning a lot.

[00:15:55] So it wasn't like this switch went off and all of a sudden I was a good person.

[00:15:59] No, he continued to sin as people do, even after even after they get saved.

[00:16:07] It's true.

[00:16:08] That happens all the time.

[00:16:10] I knew many of them in college.

[00:16:14] The Catholic kid from New York, my first interactions with Southern Baptists.

[00:16:19] We had many, many conversations in the dorm rooms about this stuff.

[00:16:24] Robinson didn't specify how long that season lasted or what sins it entailed.

[00:16:29] But according to Lewis Money, who worked in several of Greensboro's windowless 24-hour video pornography stores,

[00:16:35] Robinson was a frequent customer in the 1990s and then into the early 2000s.

[00:16:41] He told the assembly that Robinson came in as often as five nights a week to watch porn videos in a private booth.

[00:16:48] And then five other men said they were former employees or customers during the period.

[00:16:54] And they told the assembly that Robinson visited two stores, one called Gents Video and the other called I-40 Video and News.

[00:17:05] Oh, and by the way, these guys are also Democrats.

[00:17:08] The ones that were named, pulled their voter cards, also Democrat voters.

[00:17:12] I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

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[00:17:44] The official statement from the Mark Robinson campaign.

[00:17:47] I'll get to that in a second.

[00:17:49] 7 0 4 5 7 0 11 10.

[00:17:52] Let's go over to Mark here.

[00:17:54] Hello, Mark.

[00:17:55] Welcome to the program.

[00:17:57] Hello, Pete.

[00:17:58] Hey, you got my attention.

[00:17:59] You got my attention on this with with Mark Robinson.

[00:18:03] You I'm going to get to the I'm going to get to right to the point here.

[00:18:08] Very good.

[00:18:08] Good call.

[00:18:10] All right.

[00:18:10] I went to a secular university and it came up also with some rec involvement to recognize student organizations that you frequent a customer.

[00:18:25] An adult oriented business is a byproduct of our entrepreneurial capitalism that we enjoy in the United States.

[00:18:35] In other countries, these businesses are prohibited, especially in Muslim countries.

[00:18:41] So pornography is an addiction just as designer party drugs.

[00:18:50] What's on the government list of controlled substances, alcohol for some reason, alcohol for some people, caffeine for the Mormons, and anything that gives you that shot of dopamine.

[00:19:08] Okay.

[00:19:09] Okay.

[00:19:09] And if Mark Robinson has recovered from this, that's great.

[00:19:15] His marriage is all the well better for it.

[00:19:17] More reference, George Gilder, men in marriage.

[00:19:22] Okay.

[00:19:23] And I've dated divorced women whose families were ravaged by pornography.

[00:19:29] So it's not the unpardonable sin.

[00:19:33] No, I got you, Mark.

[00:19:34] I appreciate the call.

[00:19:35] No, it is an addiction.

[00:19:36] I do agree with that.

[00:19:39] So here is the statement from the Robinson campaign and something similar appears in the WRAL story.

[00:19:47] This is a complete and total Democrat activist fan fiction.

[00:19:51] It's a category.

[00:19:52] Oh, it's a categorical.

[00:19:54] No to all the ridiculous allegations made by the assembly based on the word of a man with a long history of drug dealing and criminal charges who will do anything for free publicity and free pizza.

[00:20:05] The person making the false and completely unsubstantiated allegations used to loiter at Papa John's and ask for free pizza.

[00:20:13] And that's the extent of it.

[00:20:15] The story is authored by a Democrat donor and the partisan crap everyone expected when the assembly merged with the longtime left wing rag, the Indy Weekly.

[00:20:24] I didn't know.

[00:20:25] I did not know they merged, but that would explain it.

[00:20:28] The demo or this Democrat authored story has zero credibility.

[00:20:32] So that's from Mike Lonergan, the campaign manager for Mark Robinson's campaign.

[00:20:40] There is a me to do.

[00:20:44] Do you let me go over to there is a here it is.

[00:20:46] This is from the the accuser Lewis money.

[00:20:49] That is his name that Lonergan also referred to in the assembly story as a freak show grifter with a long history of criminal charges.

[00:20:59] Court records show that money has faced nine criminal charges in Guilford County since 2011.

[00:21:04] So more recently than the porn shop visits.

[00:21:10] Interesting.

[00:21:11] Money pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug charges in 2018 and in 2021.

[00:21:16] And prosecutors dropped felony marijuana charges in 2018 as part of a plea deal.

[00:21:21] The other cases were dismissed for somebody who this is his quote now for somebody who doesn't know who I am.

[00:21:28] They looked me up really quick.

[00:21:32] OK, so.

[00:21:33] A couple of things with that statement.

[00:21:35] Number one.

[00:21:38] Nobody said that Robinson did not know who you were.

[00:21:41] OK, so that's a lie you just told for somebody who doesn't know who I am.

[00:21:45] They didn't say he didn't know who you were.

[00:21:47] And number two, you say they looked me up really quick.

[00:21:52] Well, yeah, that's that's kind of the point that the campaigns are for is to find, you know, is to find people, identify individuals, especially if you're doing damage control.

[00:22:01] Right.

[00:22:02] Right.

[00:22:03] Somebody makes an accusation against the candidate.

[00:22:05] Yeah.

[00:22:05] There are people on staff that will go find out who you are making the accusation.

[00:22:09] By the way, them doing that has nothing to do with whether or not the first part of your sentence was a lie or not.

[00:22:19] They are separate things.

[00:22:22] It's a non sequitur.

[00:22:24] It doesn't follow.

[00:22:26] I cannot know who you are and then still look you up really quick.

[00:22:31] If I know how to look up people pretty quickly, which I do.

[00:22:36] I don't have to know who you are.

[00:22:38] In fact.

[00:22:40] That's usually who I look up really quickly are the people that I don't know, because if I knew who you were, I wouldn't have to look you up.

[00:22:46] You raging idiot.

[00:22:48] Right.

[00:22:49] So right out of the gate, like your your attempt to dismiss this.

[00:22:52] This is a this is a deflection.

[00:22:54] And maybe the the motivated reasoning is to blame for the reporters not understanding that you're getting rolled by this quote to actually put that quote in the article as if it is substantive and is not actually a peek into the mindset of the guy that's feeding you the story.

[00:23:12] I mean, that is that is saying something for you journalism.

[00:23:16] Or.

[00:23:17] For somebody who doesn't know who I am, again, a lie.

[00:23:20] They looked me up really quickly.

[00:23:22] Yeah.

[00:23:23] It doesn't matter if they know who you are or not.

[00:23:25] They can look you up really quickly.

[00:23:28] Money admitted that he sold marijuana for two decades, though never to Robinson.

[00:23:31] He also admitted that he had asked Robinson for a free pizza here and there.

[00:23:35] So he does acknowledge that he did ask for free pizza.

[00:23:38] He said, but the rest of Robinson's version is not true at all.

[00:23:42] He said, I think I went into that Papa John's one time the whole time I knew him.

[00:23:47] He pointed out that Papa John's only had takeout and delivery.

[00:23:50] Quote.

[00:23:50] Quote, this is how you know that's BS because Papa John's aren't sit down restaurants.

[00:23:55] There's no place to hang out in there.

[00:23:59] OK.

[00:24:00] Have you ever been inside a Papa John's, buddy?

[00:24:03] You don't need.

[00:24:05] To have a table for dine in service to loiter in the Papa John's.

[00:24:10] If you are friends with the people in the Papa John's, and I know this from personal experience,

[00:24:15] you can hang out there for a very long time if you're willing to stand.

[00:24:19] If you're willing to just kind of lean on a wall, hang out in the parking lot for a little bit,

[00:24:23] maybe go back to your porn shop every now and again, come back over.

[00:24:27] Yeah.

[00:24:27] This is pretty common.

[00:24:28] It's a common occurrence.

[00:24:31] I'm sure corporate Papa John's isn't happy about that.

[00:24:33] But again, another false choice.

[00:24:37] Why do the journalists not understand that?

[00:24:40] Did you push back on that?

[00:24:42] There's no place to hang out in there.

[00:24:44] Of course there is.

[00:24:45] It's shelter.

[00:24:46] It's a room.

[00:24:46] You can hang out in there.

[00:24:48] Shoot the breeze with everybody that's in there.

[00:24:53] As far as denials go or attempts at refutation, this is not convincing.

[00:24:58] Not to me at least.

[00:25:00] Look, it is not that the two reporters here,

[00:25:05] I think there were some others that contributed to the article as well,

[00:25:09] but it's not that these journalismers object to pornography.

[00:25:19] They don't object to porn.

[00:25:21] They hope you do.

[00:25:24] Right?

[00:25:27] To quote Rick and Morty, right?

[00:25:30] It's the don't, you know, save your booze.

[00:25:34] Your booze mean nothing to me.

[00:25:36] I've heard what you cheer for.

[00:25:38] Right?

[00:25:39] The target here is Christian voters, Christian Republican voters,

[00:25:43] that now should distance themselves from Mark Robinson,

[00:25:47] should not help his campaign because he went to porn shops 30 years ago.

[00:25:51] That's the point of the article.

[00:25:53] Whether it's true or not, I don't know.

[00:25:55] Right?

[00:25:55] I have serious doubts about the veracity of this story.

[00:26:00] But the point is that you need to now, if you are a Republican Christian,

[00:26:04] you need to now be ashamed, be embarrassed,

[00:26:08] don't support him, don't vote for him,

[00:26:10] and instead cast your vote for Josh Stein,

[00:26:13] the Democrat who is okay with the late-term abortion of babies.

[00:26:18] See?

[00:26:18] Those are your options there, Christians.

[00:26:20] You should do that.

[00:26:22] That's the purpose of the article.

[00:26:24] Because there is no news value.

[00:26:26] Half, roughly, half of the voting population in North Carolina

[00:26:31] already doesn't like Mark Robinson.

[00:26:33] This doesn't convince them of anything that they didn't already believe.

[00:26:37] They hate him.

[00:26:38] He's a hypocrite.

[00:26:39] He's a holy roller, Bible thumper, whatever.

[00:26:42] He's a white supremacist.

[00:26:44] He's a member of the Klan,

[00:26:45] even though he's the first black governor of North Carolina.

[00:26:50] I mentioned the WRAL story.

[00:26:54] And they say that Mark Robinson,

[00:27:00] whose political rise has been fueled in part by strong denunciations

[00:27:03] of what he considers immoral behavior,

[00:27:05] again, not at odds with this story, if true.

[00:27:10] Right?

[00:27:11] Recognizing the error of your ways and then repenting

[00:27:14] and trying to warn others about those errors

[00:27:17] is central to Christianity.

[00:27:22] I mentioned the Road to Damascus moment for a reason.

[00:27:27] He's now facing allegations that he was a regular

[00:27:29] at multiple Greensboro-area pornographic video stores two decades ago.

[00:27:34] Online magazine The Assembly first reported the claims,

[00:27:37] citing six men who, by the way,

[00:27:39] all of the ones that were named,

[00:27:41] I pulled, as I said, I pulled their voter cards

[00:27:43] and they made nasty comments against Robinson.

[00:27:47] One of them did.

[00:27:48] And then the others are Democrat voters.

[00:27:51] So I'm sure there's nothing going on there.

[00:27:53] Oh, and some of them were coworkers and bandmates

[00:27:56] of the guy who features most prominently,

[00:28:00] this Lewis Money guy.

[00:28:05] Robinson's campaign acknowledged that the men do know each other,

[00:28:08] but indicated it's from Robinson's former job

[00:28:11] at a local Papa John's restaurant and nothing more.

[00:28:14] He's not accused, Robinson's not accused of doing anything illegal,

[00:28:17] but it's facing increased political pressure,

[00:28:21] particularly from the Christian right.

[00:28:23] There you go.

[00:28:24] W-R-A-L, letting the mask slip.

[00:28:27] Robinson has long espoused conservative Christian values

[00:28:30] and has been speaking at churches,

[00:28:31] a key part of his campaign for governor.

[00:28:34] By the way, they use the same sentence

[00:28:40] that the assembly piece uses.

[00:28:44] The quote from his book.

[00:28:46] They say,

[00:28:46] sin is fun for a season,

[00:28:48] and I was in that season.

[00:28:51] Internally, I didn't want to give up that lifestyle,

[00:28:53] and internally, I fought not to.

[00:28:59] Funny how they just kind of,

[00:29:01] they frame it the same way,

[00:29:02] using the same quote from the book

[00:29:04] that the assembly used.

[00:29:08] Lewis Money,

[00:29:09] or Louis Money,

[00:29:10] I don't know,

[00:29:11] the lead vocalist of his little band,

[00:29:15] said,

[00:29:15] I'm promoting my band.

[00:29:17] I'll be the first to admit,

[00:29:18] because people are asking me,

[00:29:20] well, did you come up with the song

[00:29:21] just to make money?

[00:29:22] And yes, yes I did,

[00:29:24] but it is a true story.

[00:29:27] Well, that's an indication of motive, no.

[00:29:30] At least W-R-A-L asked him about it.

[00:29:32] The assembly doesn't.

[00:29:34] The two leftists writing at the assembly,

[00:29:36] they don't.

[00:29:38] They want to,

[00:29:39] they would have us believe

[00:29:41] that Lewis Money is coming forward

[00:29:43] for some altruistic purpose or something,

[00:29:45] but no.

[00:29:47] He wrote this song about Mark Robinson,

[00:29:50] and now he wants play.

[00:29:52] He wants traction.

[00:29:53] See, in radio,

[00:29:55] if somebody were to do something like this,

[00:29:57] it would be illegal.

[00:29:58] It's called payola,

[00:30:00] or plugola.

[00:30:01] And I'm curious,

[00:30:02] how did the assembly get the story

[00:30:05] in the first place?

[00:30:06] I think that might be an important piece

[00:30:08] of information, no?

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