Wrighster or Wrong - Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap

George Wrighster wants to address everyone that said the Biden administration should have freed Paul Whelan instead of Brittney Griner. #fsrweekends

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're ready to check your feelings at the door. This
is am I Rice Stir or am I Row. We're
bringing you facts and only the truth Now, am I
Rice Ster or am I Rock. Brittney Grinder is free.
I would love to talk about one of the greatest
women's basketball players of all time returning home from being

(00:23):
held as a political prisoner over a bait pen. But
enough of you have made today's events about you, your morals,
your preferences, and your politics that I'm not even sure
it's possible to talk about Britney Grinder. So let's talk
about you. You don't think that the Biden administration should
have traded a convicted arms dealer for a female basketball player,

(00:44):
especially with former Marie reservist and Iraq War veteran Paul
Wheeling going on four years behind bars for what may
or may not be false charges of espionage. That's sensible,
I guess. But my question for you is we did
you first learn Paul Wheeland's name? And when was the
first time that you appealed directly to the Biden administration

(01:06):
for his release or the Trump administration for that matter,
or at the very least publicly posted on any social
media platform to alert your followers of a cause that
today's events revealed that you have apparently cared so much about,
enter so deep and near and dear to your heart.
Go ahead, pause the video and look it up for me,

(01:28):
and then send it to me. If you find it lessen,
send you a gift card. Was it before Brittney Grinder's attention,
And if not, are you prepared to keep that same
energy from here forward to pressure our leaders to negotiate
the release of political prisoners from vindictive, undemocratic countries. Maybe
you're completely committed to fighting injustice of Brittany Grinder's release

(01:51):
in the face of Paul Wheeland's continued the attention on
behalf of the Wheeland family. Surely the Wheeland family must
be furious at this inexplicable injustice, and you're just doing
your part on their behalf with their blessing. It's not
like Paul Wheeland has a twin brother out there saying
something to the effect of I'm so glad that Brittney

(02:12):
Grinder is on her way home, or the Biden administration
made the right decision to bring Ms Grinder home and
make the deal that was possible rather than waiting for
one that wasn't going to happen. Can you imagine if
Paul Wheland had a twin brother named David that said
those exact same things today. That would mean that your

(02:33):
outrage wasn't about the family at all. Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
Or maybe you just wanted to make sure that a
member of the United States Arms Forces is treated with
the same dignity and has its needs prioritized. Your pro military, right,
you're so pro military that you have the same rules
as the USA. You don't just care about the truths,

(02:54):
you care about their families. So what if former Marine
Paul Wheeland, hypothetic lead had a daughter imprisoned in Russia,
you probably rather have her home in Brittany Grinder, right,
Wouldn't it be crazy? Though? If there was somebody out
there named Raymond Grinder that served two tours in Vietnam
and spent thirty years as a cop hoping for somebody

(03:17):
as pro military as yourself to come along and reward
the sacrifice that he made and advocate on your behalf
to get his daughter home. I'd imagine that that would
motivate somebody as pro military as yourself into action. Or
maybe you just spent too much time on ESPNS trade
machine and you don't want to war criminal back on

(03:38):
the St. Petersburg streets because it's an objectively unfair price
for the country to pay. Certainly, you've known about Victor
Bout's imprisonment since the Bush Justice Department pursued him and
the Obama administration extradited and imprisoned him. And I know
that you can provide lots of public receipts that you've

(03:58):
posted about how in important and asset he is to
the American government in hostage negotiations, post that you definitely
made before Brittney Griner's arrest. You can show me all that, right,
Maybe you just want the Secretary of State to publicly
acknowledge how lopsided and I'm popular this is. I'll do
you a favor. Let me read this direct quote from

(04:21):
the Secretary of State. We acknowledge that the release of
these prisoners is unpopular, but this is a difficult action
that will lead to an important result. Oh wait, my mistake.
That was Donald Trump's Secretary of State talking about the
release they negotiated of five thousand imprisoned members of Ices

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and the Taliban. Four hundred of which were saying about
the Afghan government to be convicted of serious crimes, including
the killing of Afghans and the citizens of the international community.
Oh that that's that's my bad, guys. I'm positive that
you will be able to provide me with several examples
of the outrage you publicly expressed when Donald Trump's treaty

(05:04):
to get us out of Afghanistan called for the release
of nearly five thousand Taliban and i SIS soldiers. Of course,
I didn't mean to make more work for you, but
I know you're consistent, so I'll wait here while you
gather that information up. But hey, there's always a few
of you that don't just think that the United States
should be doing anything to negotiate the foreign punishment of

(05:26):
a spoiled athlete that hates America. After all, Brittany Grinder
called for the end of the playing of the national
anthem before w NBA games. It doesn't matter, though, that
Brittany Grinder was specifically protesting the unjust killing of Brianna
Taylor and the lack of accountability for the Louisville, Kentucky
Police Department. It doesn't matter that Grinder repeatedly said that

(05:51):
she loved the police and grew up wanting to be
a police officer like her father. It also doesn't matter
that she repeatedly said that she supports the idea of
a new national anthem rather than stand Ford one that
includes the unsung third verse about hunting down rebel slaves.
It's the principle of the matter. This is America. You

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can't just go around protesting are hollowed institutions because a
woman got shot by law enforcement and you you're consistent.
It's not like you're out here calling for justice for
Ashley Babbitt, are you. Certainly you've thought this through. You've
been consistent. You cared about the executive branches role in

(06:32):
political prisoner and negotiations long before Brittany Grinder was detained,
and you're gonna keep caring long after she's been freed.
I'm definitely gonna see you at the rallies to release
Paul Wheeland, and I'm definitely not gonna see you doing
anything but deferring to the statements and wishes of loved ones.

(06:52):
You certainly, I know you condemned Trump's prisoner release and
you're not partisan at all, so you'll do the same
when the next Republican president is faced with a similar decision,
And every time somebody brings up January six, I'm going
to hear you talking about how the police have a
hard job, and how everyone and anyone that protects the

(07:15):
convictions that came out in the events that day that
they hate America and are criminals that deserve to be
punished to the full ex extent of the law. Because
today's energy has always been your energy, right, let that
sink in