December 3, 2025 • 41 mins
This hour Dan asked listeners if they believe the media is fair to the current President compared to the previous administration. What can they do to improve reporting?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, Welcome back everybody. Thank you very much, Dan Watkins,
as we move into our fourth and final hour here
on a Wednesday night, and can buck get the heavy
mittens and the scarfs and the stocky gaps out. It's
going to get chilly later this week. I'm not going
to talk about that. Now. Here's what I want to
talk about. I want to talk about the national news media.
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I have watched the national news media my entire life, well,
not my entire life when I was you know, before
I sort of came of age at some point during
high school. You know, I like most kids who did
other other things. But the way in which the national
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media has covered Donald Trump, particularly in the last couple
of weeks, has been to me astounding. The reason I
say that is the President Donald Trump has expended I
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don't know how his energy level keeps up. Now again,
I'm not a huge fan of Donald Trump per se.
As a matter of fact, I don't think that it
does he does himself any good by making remarks to
members of the media, the White House Press Corps calling
someone a little piggy or some of the other comments
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that he has made. However, However, yesterday there was a
three hour cabinet meeting, and there were some moments when
Donald Trump closed his eyes and youa Today photo show
President Trump appearing to doze off again at work. I
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think they're accurate. It looks as if yesterday he did
doze off. White House denies Trump dozed off during cabinet meetings.
That's Yahoo dot Com on CNN. In a Navarro, former
Republican who just can't Stan Trump says about Trump dozing off,
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quote having your butt he did, she did, was the
word about kissed for ours can be exhausting, high level
of political analysis from her. Then we have USA Today
photo show President Trump appearing to doze off CNN during
cabinet meeting. Trump appears to doze off at the start
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of a cabinet meeting just afternoon on Tuesday. President Donald
Trump made his seemingly obligatory reference to sleepy Joe Biden snoops.
Do videos show Trump falling asleep during cabinet meetings. I
don't know you would say he fell asleep, but certainly
could say he dozed off. Donald Trump appears to fight
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sleep during afternoon seventy nine year old president seemingly struggled
to stay awake. This is People magazine, another great political analyst.
At some points during the three hour meeting, President Trump
appeared to be dozing off at some points New York Times,
New York Times. President Trump began the meeting by criticizing
media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month,
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he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the
Oval Office, So they're reaching back to last month. Bottom
line is this is the same media, the same media,
individuals and institutions that for four years did not tell
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the American people what Joe Biden's cognitive abilities were. We
saw the pictures of the of the Biden administration that
forever etched in my mind is him dragging a little
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beach chair across a beach in Delaware, uh, and then
flopping down in that beach chair.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
H And.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You saw that, seeing him standing at a White House
event where everybody is sort of moving and grooving to
the music around him, and Joe is looking looking there
he is, He's he's appearing to be a statue. He's
not moving at all. You saw him drifting away from
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meetings with NATO members in Europe, apparently fascinated by the
fact that some military guy that lived in a parachute
not too far away. The point that I'm trying to
make here is that the media was so unfair in
its cover up courage of Joe Biden and his diminished capacities,
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that now they turn around and criticize Donald Trump. Criticize
him on policies, Criticize him on whether or not we
should be displaying such military force in the Caribbean, Criticize
him on immigration, criticize him on comments that he's made.
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But for you who are in the national news media,
you know CNN is a network, NBC, CBS, ABC, their networks,
you have no standing at this point my opinion, to
treat Donald Trump differently than you treated Joe Biden. And
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if you do on questions of this, you know, Joe
Biden stumbling up the stairs at Air Force one, Donald
Trump stepping out of a golf cart and all of
a sudden taking a picture of his ankle. Is his
ankle swollen? People do get a swollen ankle. I mean,
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this is it's hypocritical. It is beneath how the major
media should conduct themselves. We should be confident that our
major news media will treat any president the same way.
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My standard is simply, if they do something that is good,
give them credit for that. If they do something that
is bad, call them to task. But to focus on
this president closing his eyes and appearing to doze off.
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After the media gave Joe Biden a four year pass
and Joe Biden would be unavailable for days at a time,
Donald Trump is probably too available and for the truth
be known, but I want the president to be available
every president, and we should be appreciative of a president
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make themselves available to answer questions. Donald Trumps answered I
don't know how many questions in the first eleven months
of this administration, but I'm telling you it has to
be in the thousands, if not tens of thousands of questions.
Joe Biden, you could see him for a handful and
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the media never pointed that out. Now you can say
to me, well, it was so obvious. They didn't have
to point that out. No, the media, and I'm talking
about the national media now has finally finally shown their
frustration with the policies. They're upset with Trump's policies. They're
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not upset with his brash and braggadaccio commentary, which I
think is inappropriate for the office, then they're not upset
about anything that Donald Trump is doing because frankly, most
of the things that he's been doing I think have
been pretty positive. Taking a nuclear player off the world
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stage in Iran, I think that was a good thing,
helping I don't know that he brought peace, but helping
to lay a foundation for a potential peace in the
Middle East. You got to go back to the Abraham
Accords to understand how that happened. But the national news media,
I don't think they're smart enough to even understand that.
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So if you agree with me six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty,
if you disagree with me six one, seven to five,
four to ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty, I think that the amount of coverage that
was given to Donald Trump President Donald Trump appears to
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fight sleep or dozing off because the headlines are very
similar based upon what they witnessed in during a three
hour cabinet meeting yesterday, compared to how they treated truly
Joe Biden. It is outrageous. It's outrageous, and it's hypocritical,
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and it provides every piece of evidence that any fair
minded person would conclude that the media not only dislikes
Donald Trump personally, but they dislike the policies that he
has implemented and the policies that he has articulated. And
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they have every right to do that, but deal with
those policies and don't treat this president differently from the
president immediately before him. The it is, it is just,
it is jaw dropping. How obviously they make it subtlety
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is not in their tools, in their tool chest, the
national media tool chest they have. They have thrown away
any any even hope, any hope that the American public
would think that they have made any effort whatsoever to
be fair. Uh, and they have disgraced themselves. In my opinion,
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it's a strong opinion, but it's one I believe in it,
one that I'll defend six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Join me. We'll have some fun between now and midnight.
Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Go to the Phone's gonna go to Michelle in Minsfield. First,
Michelle and Mansfield welcome first this hour on Nightside. Am
I being unfair to the national news media? Hi?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, I'm Misel from Mansterel. I called you last week
and you told me to call again.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You bet you, I'm calling you again.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I like your call last week, and I think I'm
probably gonna like it tonight. Go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Well it's kind of funny because I thought last week
I think I was on agreement with you, and tonight
I'm like, oh, I don't agree. I'm gonna call Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Oh good, tell me why?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, Okay. So I totally miss the American media that
I grew up.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
With as well.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I used to love Natalie Jacobson and check Curtis Yep,
and I grew up watching Mary Tyler Moore and you
know that's a comedy. But just about how intentionally the
media was balanced, as balanced as they could be. You know,
probably did have some dirty things going on sometimes or
paid off or whatever, but no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
No no no no no no no no no no.
Look I worked at Channel four for thirty one years. Yes,
and our best competitor, our our rival, was Channel five,
and of course, and Natalie had worked at Channel four
as an intern early in her career, and she went
over to Channel five, and I think Channel four rude
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the day that Natalie left w PC.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, they were amazing, right, they were great.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yep, So we were great too. We had we had
Jack and Liz and Jack and Tony. We had we
had argue our you know, I always thought that we
had a pretty strong team, but they were our major competition.
But so tell me, what do you disagree with me
about here?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, about the fact that today's media, I understand your
point that they should You were saying they should treat
the current president in their coverage the way they treated
the last guy.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right if if if they went after Joe Biden and said, look,
this guy hasn't made himself available, he's not answering questions.
He was hidden, he was hidden for most of his
full years. And and it just is like it's it's
it's not journalism, it's it's it's a bias. I mean,
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I there are things Trump does I agree with her,
are things he does with I think are nuts. Okay,
but I'll call him as I see him, and the
media they just look, you know, remember when he when
he bombed, when he authorized the bombing of Iran, which
was a great vic tree to to take Iran run
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by a bunch of theologians, insane theologians, off the world
nuclear stage. And he used the word that we obliterated it.
And immediately, well, no, they could have obliterated it because
it was in a mountain. And you know, I think
they were rooting for Iran a couple of days later
to come up and launch some sort of a weapon.
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And then finally Iran said, yeah, we're we got we
got blown up.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Something your point, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But I just think that the game has changed. And
right now, if you remember obviously that this this last presidents,
the last I can't say his name, the current president's
last presidency, when he made fun of a reporter, right,
a disabled reporter, and he did some things that were
completely unorthodox and now still nary and I'm tyed, I'm
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unkind right and currently calling a reporter piggy. And then
today or yesterday something about I aced my neural exam. My,
you know, neurological exams. You wouldn't be able to I
wondered why these two female reporters that he looked at
and called stupid well in not so many words, could
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not respond. So the game has changed where this president
talks to the media insult people completely. We're all just
cringing at what it's doing, modeling for kids, right, for
children to see that what. I cannot believe he's using
these words right, But why couldn't the reporters turn around
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and actually say, excuse me, sir, why are you attacking
me personally? But the reason is they're sent by that
big network. They don't want to get kicked off the plane.
They want the story. But this president is playing with
them like little mice and saying, oh, yeah, you want
the story, I'm going to bully you, and I'm not.
And let's go back to this Dan. This guy does
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not clearly answer questions. So you can say, just focus
on the reporting and focus on the issues. But I
believe we've seen in the past nine months he has
said I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
what my MRI was for. His word is too hard
to take because it's such obviously lies. In some cases,
I think I think.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You're arguing on both sides of the coin here. I
think that it's very clear. We know what he thinks
about people coming into this country illegally. We know that
he shut down the border. Okay, that's something that I
think was a good thing. Okay, Now they are trying
to find and I think they've made I talked with
someone yesterday. I think they made terrible mistakes. They should
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focus on criminals. And if they grab some eighteen year
old high school kid who came here when he was
three years old, ye to scoop that kid and move
him somewhere, that's that's a huge tactical mistake. Now, that's
that's legitimate what I would consider being legitimate criticism. All
I'm saying is, if you're going to go after Donald
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Trump because he seemed to doze off in a cabinet meeting,
what when did you? When did you tell the American
people that Joe Biden was cognitively in problems?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
But I think it's partly that the Americans palette right
now is for this. We're playing below the belt. This
guy's been playing below the belt. And I'm not saying
it's right or wrong, but they are playing below the
belt too, right, is the Americans? We all it's it's
very like sensationalized and get you riled up. I've been
gotten riled up.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, I understand, I understand your argument. I disagree with it.
I think that he makes huge mistakes, and I think
that that is what you to the best of my knowledge,
you know, you know, Biden had a few of these
things where he would call a reporter a dog faced
pony boy. I don't know if you remember that. I
have no idea what you're talking about. Okay, your dogs dace,
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pony boy. I don't know. When Biden said to the
guy in Iowa, let's do some push ups on the floor,
I thought that's.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Beneath the uh yeah, the office.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Look, if we counted the number of crazy things that
they each said, I wonder who would come out higher.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, I think Trump has said more crazy things and
said more things that are inappropriate, And certainly there were moments,
but I do think when you look back at what
his motives are here, you know, gasoline is now down
three dollars a gallon. It was never near three dollars
a gallon when Joe Biden was president. You don't see
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stories like that on the network.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yes, and and that's good for you and me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Whether we're Democrats Republicans are unenrolled. Yes, all right, true, Michelle.
I love your calls, whether you agree with me or love.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You really Okay, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Thank you to let me go to Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you're next on NIGHTSAC right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Ahead, Hey Dan, thank you for taking my call. You know,
I just I can't agree with you more than everything
your examples, you know, with the you know, dozing off.
The guy's seventy nine years old. If and he's president,
if he wants to take a napp, let him take
a nap. I can care less. You know, there are
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people running the country and he is running the country.
The Irian attack where he got rid of the nukes,
you know, that was a big deal because if they
had developed a nuclear weapon. I'm not sure what Israel
would do, but I think they probably would have done
a preemptive nuclear attack on him and it would have
started a big war. You know, that was a that
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was a very big deal, very big deal. And whenever
I'm watching the news, I mean they were using examples
of you know, the local news media. I don't really
see as much of a problem with them. I have
a problem when I'm watching like Good Morning America. Oh
yeahs hates Trump to to and was it Terry Morinne
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and some of the others there.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, Aby's so fired, fired Terry morn. I'm not happy
to see anyone fired. And I think what they should
have done with Terry Moriane was said, look, you are
no longer a reporter. You clearly want to be a commentator,
and will make you a commentator. They had the guy
Jim Acosta, who you know, used to they they literally
had to pry the microphone out of his hand, and
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there was a young White House kid press injury trying
to recover the microphone. And I mean, he's a big
tough guy. He's going to hold the microphone while the
young woman is trying to steal the microphone. Acosta tried
to basically use White House news conferences for his own publicity.
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And that's not what your role is as a reporter.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And in the morning, you know, I'm sitting there, you know,
you know, like Mary Bruce, Rachel's God, you can just
listen to them. They report the news, but it's a
slant against Trump. Everything every single thing he does wrong,
you know, war crimes, you know. For you know, you
and I both agree. If you're taking you know, drugs
up here and killing Americans, these people deserve to die.
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I have no problem with them bombing those boats. And
you know, no matter who you are, if you're bringing
drugs into this country that are killing Americans, you know,
and they're on the high seas.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, And I mean and the other thing is that these,
as I said all along, these are not Venezuelan families
out in the power of five uh, you know, five
horse power. They have five engines with with maximum horsepower
out for a Sunday afternoon, you know, little tour in
the harbor, in the inner harbor. And look they were looking,
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they're looking. They are some of these reporters are salivating
at the possibility that somehow Haig Seth might have had
order to kill strike. What are you going to do?
I mean, what are you going to do in that situation?
I don't know, to be really honest with you, if
there is a what I would have done, I don't
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think I would have had it in me to kill
two people in cold blood. But I don't know that
that was beyond the rules of engagement. Uh. And there
was some suggestion late today that these guys were trying
to communicate with other drug runners. I don't know. Let's
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let's let's find out the facts. Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, when you brow up the boat and all
the drugs are floating around the wreckage, you know, you
have to wonder. And also the eyes of the sky,
we can we see them bloading those boats. They know
they're floating with drugs. There's no mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, there's no question about that. And I'm sure that
we have the IA people on the ground, we have
people within the Maduro government on the ground. They're not
doing this just on a lok okay. But you could
see that all of a sudden. Look, when Obama took
out the the the the cleric in Yemen, there was
no one, no one in the media was saying, well,
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he killed the Erica, the American, the cleric in Yemen,
but also the cleric's ten year old son who was
in the car. And they I think we're both American citizens.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, you and I both remember, you know, going all
the way back to you know, the Huntley Brinkley report,
and you know, you know John Chancellor and Peter Jennings.
You know, all these people well respected, even Tom Broke.
I met Tom Broke. He's a really nice guy. All
these people are you know, they had their own opinions,
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but they kept them to themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Here's what I think, here's what I think is going on.
You have CNN and you have Fox out there, who
obviously are not news organizations in the classic sense. They
are news and commentary organizations. And and Fox is getting
a lot of clicks.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
CNN gets their share of clicks. Uh. And I think
the news organizations see the ABC, NBCCBS, see their their
numbers dropping, and now they're saying, we got to get
a little edgy. That's the word that the consultants would use.
Let's get edgy. Okay, that's the word that the consultants
will use. And the reporters, if you say to reporter,
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get a little edgy out there, they don't know what
that means. Okay, stay within the facts. Stay within the
facts of the story, and don't tell me who you
voted for. I don't care who you voted for. I
just want you to tell.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
As a former reporter and I used to watch you
way back when you know, you know, what goes on
behind the scenes, and you know how to do it
the right way. You know. I always remember when you
did your reporting. You did the reporting.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I don't want to hear an editorial. I want to
I just want to see the news.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You got it, You got it. Hey, Steve, I'm now
way over my time here, so I'm going to let
you run. But thanks, we call it in. I really
was a great call.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Appreciated.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Have a great night you too, Steve. Talks soon. Okay,
only one line open, six one, seven thirty. We got
the news. We're coming right back. We'll get to Tim
and Michigan, Linda and Weymouth, Laurie and Idaho, and John
in New York. I promise coming back on nights Side.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Here we go, Let's go to Tim and Michigan. Hey Tim,
welcome back. How are you tonight?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And I'm doing quite well. I think it bears a
little perspective concerning the day day work schedule of President Trump,
which sees him up at seven am and he works
through today till two way. He survives on about five
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hours of rest or sleep per day. And Cameron day
after day after day. You know that that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I will tell you this, you know, putting us out
his politics, putting aside whether he's right in this issue
or wrong in that issue. I couldn't do it. I'm
in pretty good shape. I'm a few years younger than him.
I work out. Uh. He's like the energizer Bunny. Uh.
And obviously he dozed off yesterday, there's no question about that.
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But but but how why did we not have hear
the media talking about uh, you know, Joe Biden's until
we watched by the way him melt down in the
debate with Trump in late June. We were we weren't
talking about his mental capacity, his acuity or anything like that.
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It was like they gave him a pass. And and
they basically, if they had been fair in their coverage
of Joe Biden, he would have been out of the
race a year before and the Democratic Party could have
run a legitimate primary content test to find the best
possible candidate, and it wouldn't have been Vice President Harris.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
In my opinion, you've got to understand that there is
some fashion of media bias towards a more liberal perspective
from the media media at large. Now, as I said previously,
you've got Trump basically on the job nineteen hours out
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of twenty four. When President Biden was in office, his
routine day on a heavy flow day would have him
up at nine am and then done at eight pm.
And you got to know that the majority of the
work was actually being conducted in the executive office was
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done by Biden's hanfers Ron Plain, whole inner circle. Sure,
President Biden. President Biden was not personally tending to the
details of the presidency in a fashion that could even be,
you know, remotely compared to the way Trump is doing.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, he was. He was a figurehead for most much
of his presidency. Now, in his defense, he was very
much concerned during much of his presidency about his soul's
surviving son, Hunter trumpt have not caused that problem. And
as a parent, I can't imagine what Joe Biden was
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going through realizing that what his what his son had done.
But you know again that that also was covered up
by the media. You didn't see a lot of stories
about Hunter Biden and all of that, and it was
like so it just it is, and.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You heard you heard scant mention of any where the
president Biden was making an appearance, speaking appearance whatever. That Essentially,
Joe Biden killed his wife, uh, grasped him by the
elbow and shoveled him and guided him off the stage,
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et cetera, et cetera. Oh no, we're gonna gold stage last.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yep, right, you're right. But again Fox played that big time.
They might have even overplayed it, but they played a
big time. CNN ignored it and the major media ignored it.
And what happened was Joe Biden had the debate with
Trump in June of twenty four where he dissembled, and
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at that point the Democratic Party said, oh my god,
what do we can what do we have to do?
And it became a nominee was chosen without one delegate,
without one vote. Was the backroom meeting.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Something had to give. It was at a point of
the utter collapse, and the Democrat Party saw the writing
on the wall.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And the media actually helped by by not reporting on
you know, Biden's cognitive decline. Yeah, they in effect helped
pave the way for Trump's selection.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Ironically, but he had one president who was working on
a heavy load day we're working eleven hours a day,
and most of that work was being tended to by
President Biden's handlers. Then you have Trump, and I'm sure
he assigns things off to various people, but he's down Trump.
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He wants to head. He wants to be sterned by
himself nineteen hours a day, so eleven hours versus nineteen
and I'm in a complete agreement with you. President Trump
has a decade on me.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't know how long I could hold up a
nineteen hour a day schedule.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That would be I'm not even interested in trying that. Hey, Tim,
thank you much. I got to run here because I
got my break coming up, and I got a couple
of more calls we got to get you.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Come buy more often, will you? You PLoP up too infrequently?
Come by more often. Thanks to appreciate it? All right,
let me keep rolling here. I'm gonna get Laurie from Idaho.
In Laurie, you are, you're at that, Go right ahead, Laurie.
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
First of all, I defy anybody to stay fully at
wake for a three hour cabinet meeting. I can't imagine.
So I give him a pretty specific question because we
were talking about the three majors other than the CNN
and Fox. So for what the last two two and
a half weeks, NBC has been running these spots about
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you know, and they run all these sound bites. I
don't know if they're legit or if there's someone who's
voiced them for them, but I thought they can't trust
the news. I feel like I can't trust anybody. I
feel like it's rage bat. I feel like if we
all had the sacks, we might be able to do better.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
And then it's very calm voice says, you know, let's
meet at the facts and go from there. Has their
broadcast improved in your in your mind? Or have you
not seen enough of it? Enough of it?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I haven't seen enough of it? And uh, all that
is put together by a marketing firm.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Right, are they actually going to follow through in the
broadcast exactly?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Don't don't tell me what you'd like us to think
you're going to do. Show us what you're going to do.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
That's what I'm thinking. I just want to know if
they've shown it yet.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But obviously no.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. And
I don't know. I just look. I watched the nightly
news and most and I watch it on Channel five.
I watch ABC. Uh, David Muher worked here in the
Boston market, so I have you know, I don't know
him well, but I'll watch that. But all it is
(32:51):
is the first is tease, tease, big storm somewhere in
the Midwest, many people might be killed. You know, a
war has broken out in Asia. I mean, you know,
And the same way the Bruins. The Bruins make a
huge announcement. What they're doing is they're sending some guy
back to Providence. It's like, okay, you know, it's not
(33:12):
a huge announcement, it's the but.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
That's that's the local news, right, not the national court.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
But but what they're all the same because the same
TV consultants come in and they say, well, what you
gotta do is you got a hold of you You
got to tease them. You know, I'll listen to ABC
at night. You got to watch this videotape. We'll get that.
And then at the end, it's some you know, cute
little kid somewhere open with a lemonade stand and it's like, okay,
(33:42):
but just show it.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
They're not even covering really national news or so they
don't cover the Trump thing. And I still think that
the media has all the left wing media is still
so in this tantruming Democrat camp that they don't dare
say anything postive about Trump right now. So I don't know,
we'll see it comes with it. I think the meeting meeting,
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no way.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, no, I know, but I think the media actually
plays into Trump's hands. And I think I think that Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is well, he does right back, he does, oh he does.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
But but I I think that Trump is living in
their heads rent free.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Yeah, well they need to grow up then.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
They Thanks Laurie, I appreciate you call. Talk to you.
So we'll be back on Night's Ide. More phone calls.
I got John, Linda, John and New York John, and
Boston Linda and North Weymouth, all of you getting in
and if you want to give it a shot, I
can't promise, but I'm taking John, John and Linda for sure,
coming back on night Side. You're on Night Side with
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Dan Ray on Boston's Radio. Okay, we got a few
minutes left, Gonna give everybody a couple of minutes, starting
with Linda in North Weymouth. Linda next on Nice, I
go ahead, oh.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
He he, and thanks to take my call. I won't
keep you on. But everything that everyone said is what
I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I totally agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
They they just don't like Trump, and they're going to
do everything they can to try to nitpick and to
make a big deal out of something so silly as that.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I mean, I don't even know what the guy does sleep, yeah,
I mean he's constantly going, going, going, and he makes
himself available to everybody, and all they do is just
to pick on them.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I mean, even their coverage of this race down in Tennessee,
this congressional race, Uh oh, the Democrat might might pick
up a win there. The tone of it is they
were rooting for the Democrat down there in a in
a red district. Trump carried it by twenty two points.
This guy carried it by nine points. The Republicans better
(35:50):
smartened up and uh and realized that could be the
canary of the goal in the coal mine. But it
was like they were rooting the tone of the piece.
They're almost rooting for the Democrat, hoping that they could say, well,
this was a seat that was flipped. It's just they
lose credibility once they lose credibility as reporters a commentator. Okay,
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you're supposed to want to know what I think, and
I'm telling you the truth what I think. I'm not
a Trump guy, per se. I will support him on
things he does that are right, and I'll criticize him
on things that I believe are wrong.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Exactly exactly right.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Thanks Linda, Yes, all right, thank you, Dan, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
All right, let me get John in New York. John
and New York. We're tight on time. I want to
save room for John and Boston to go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
John, Yeah, I'm gonna hurry up. Good evening, Dan.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
I just want to say I agree with you one
hundred percent and that the man from Michigan beat me.
But I wanted to mention to people that on the
other side of the world, you know, it's twelve thirteen
hours different time you're talking about, and he's going to
be on their phone talking important leaders, maybe agate in
an embassy or maybe a sea captain in the naming
(37:05):
with an air draft carry off something important that are
going on. So what's the matter with these people used
their heads?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, John, you read my mind. I just think what
they're doing is they're going to stir up people who
are on the fence, who are gonna say he's being
treated unfairly. Compared to their coverage of Joe Biden, there
were no stories about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities. You know,
I on the major networks, find me one in twenty
(37:35):
twenty three or twenty twenty two or twenty twenty four. No,
and they would interview him with an ice cream cone,
mister president, is that chocolate or chocolate chip? Uh? Vanilla?
Yeh oh, that's breaking news. Joe Biden has had a vans.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
One of the things quick, and I'm not gonna say
good night. And the thing is I want to say
is that let's talk about why was the subject and
who is the person that was talking at the time
he dozed off. Maybe they was talking boring stuff and
they just tired his mind and he goes off a minute.
Let's talk what was being discussed.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
All of us have dozed off occasionally, but he's not
someone who dozed us off a lot. And uh, you
know whatever, Hey, John, as always Thank you, my friend.
We will talk soon. How did you How much snow
did you? How much snow did you get up there
in western New York real quickly.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
I'm in uh.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Harry, New York, about forty miles west of alved in
the and we got about four inches where I live.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay, not as bad as people thought. Thanks John, I
got to get one more in Okay. Thank you, buddy.
Appreciated John and Boston. John, you were always a late caller.
We're tight on time.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Go ahead, Thank Dan.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
CNN in January twenty twenty called the virus COVID virus
the China virus, and the next couple of months later
they were calling Donald Trump a racist is called the chinavirus.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
The same people Dan, who were forcing people to get
backs to keep their job then allowed ten million illegal
immigrants here who were unbacked and unemployed. And then we
would never know about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker 10 (39:16):
If Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter. And then it was
because he bought Twitter that whole story became available. And
the media has been covering up. They covered up the
fifty one Intel agents Dan that brought up the hoax.
They kept it covered in cohoots with guys like Facebook
and Zuckerberg. So after what they put Trump through the
(39:38):
past four years, and he's been working his butt off.
We've lost four hundred thousand people to overdose in the
past four years. And what's the media talking about. They're
talking about that boat that was hit with a second shot. Dan.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Do they think they're bringing potatoes. It's full not drugs, poison,
drugs that are killing our youth. And the media is
taught about media's credibility is gone. It's been gone for years.
Yet that's why people despise the media.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Well, some people do some Look, John, let's not overstate it.
Some people despise the mainstream, meaning some people. I don't
despise him. Some people love them. I don't love them.
I'm calling him out for being on fair and blatantly
on fair and hypocritical. John, you got to call early.
We'll have a better conversation. But I'm flat out of time.
(40:26):
Thank you, my friend. Good night, good night everyone. I'll
end as always, All dogs, all cats, all pets go
to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie Ray is, who
passed fifteen years ago in February. That's all your pets
are who have passed. Thanks so much for listening. I
want to thank I do believe, by the way, you'll
see them again, and I certainly hope I'm going to
see Charlie again at some point. I want to thank Rob,
(40:49):
I want to thank Marita, want to thank all the
callers and all the listeners. I will be on Facebook
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, Welcome back everybody. Thank you very much, Dan Watkins,
as we move into our fourth and final hour here
on a Wednesday night, and can buck get the heavy
mittens and the scarfs and the stocky gaps out. It's
going to get chilly later this week. I'm not going
to talk about that. Now. Here's what I want to
talk about. I want to talk about the national news media.
(00:34):
I have watched the national news media my entire life, well,
not my entire life when I was you know, before
I sort of came of age at some point during
high school. You know, I like most kids who did
other other things. But the way in which the national
(00:57):
media has covered Donald Trump, particularly in the last couple
of weeks, has been to me astounding. The reason I
say that is the President Donald Trump has expended I
(01:18):
don't know how his energy level keeps up. Now again,
I'm not a huge fan of Donald Trump per se.
As a matter of fact, I don't think that it
does he does himself any good by making remarks to
members of the media, the White House Press Corps calling
someone a little piggy or some of the other comments
(01:42):
that he has made. However, However, yesterday there was a
three hour cabinet meeting, and there were some moments when
Donald Trump closed his eyes and youa Today photo show
President Trump appearing to doze off again at work. I
(02:04):
think they're accurate. It looks as if yesterday he did
doze off. White House denies Trump dozed off during cabinet meetings.
That's Yahoo dot Com on CNN. In a Navarro, former
Republican who just can't Stan Trump says about Trump dozing off,
(02:29):
quote having your butt he did, she did, was the
word about kissed for ours can be exhausting, high level
of political analysis from her. Then we have USA Today
photo show President Trump appearing to doze off CNN during
cabinet meeting. Trump appears to doze off at the start
(02:52):
of a cabinet meeting just afternoon on Tuesday. President Donald
Trump made his seemingly obligatory reference to sleepy Joe Biden snoops.
Do videos show Trump falling asleep during cabinet meetings. I
don't know you would say he fell asleep, but certainly
could say he dozed off. Donald Trump appears to fight
(03:14):
sleep during afternoon seventy nine year old president seemingly struggled
to stay awake. This is People magazine, another great political analyst.
At some points during the three hour meeting, President Trump
appeared to be dozing off at some points New York Times,
New York Times. President Trump began the meeting by criticizing
media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month,
(03:38):
he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the
Oval Office, So they're reaching back to last month. Bottom
line is this is the same media, the same media,
individuals and institutions that for four years did not tell
(04:00):
the American people what Joe Biden's cognitive abilities were. We
saw the pictures of the of the Biden administration that
forever etched in my mind is him dragging a little
(04:21):
beach chair across a beach in Delaware, uh, and then
flopping down in that beach chair.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
H And.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
You saw that, seeing him standing at a White House
event where everybody is sort of moving and grooving to
the music around him, and Joe is looking looking there
he is, He's he's appearing to be a statue. He's
not moving at all. You saw him drifting away from
(04:53):
meetings with NATO members in Europe, apparently fascinated by the
fact that some military guy that lived in a parachute
not too far away. The point that I'm trying to
make here is that the media was so unfair in
its cover up courage of Joe Biden and his diminished capacities,
(05:21):
that now they turn around and criticize Donald Trump. Criticize
him on policies, Criticize him on whether or not we
should be displaying such military force in the Caribbean, Criticize
him on immigration, criticize him on comments that he's made.
(05:43):
But for you who are in the national news media,
you know CNN is a network, NBC, CBS, ABC, their networks,
you have no standing at this point my opinion, to
treat Donald Trump differently than you treated Joe Biden. And
(06:09):
if you do on questions of this, you know, Joe
Biden stumbling up the stairs at Air Force one, Donald
Trump stepping out of a golf cart and all of
a sudden taking a picture of his ankle. Is his
ankle swollen? People do get a swollen ankle. I mean,
(06:33):
this is it's hypocritical. It is beneath how the major
media should conduct themselves. We should be confident that our
major news media will treat any president the same way.
(06:54):
My standard is simply, if they do something that is good,
give them credit for that. If they do something that
is bad, call them to task. But to focus on
this president closing his eyes and appearing to doze off.
(07:15):
After the media gave Joe Biden a four year pass
and Joe Biden would be unavailable for days at a time,
Donald Trump is probably too available and for the truth
be known, but I want the president to be available
every president, and we should be appreciative of a president
(07:40):
make themselves available to answer questions. Donald Trumps answered I
don't know how many questions in the first eleven months
of this administration, but I'm telling you it has to
be in the thousands, if not tens of thousands of questions.
Joe Biden, you could see him for a handful and
(08:02):
the media never pointed that out. Now you can say
to me, well, it was so obvious. They didn't have
to point that out. No, the media, and I'm talking
about the national media now has finally finally shown their
frustration with the policies. They're upset with Trump's policies. They're
(08:26):
not upset with his brash and braggadaccio commentary, which I
think is inappropriate for the office, then they're not upset
about anything that Donald Trump is doing because frankly, most
of the things that he's been doing I think have
been pretty positive. Taking a nuclear player off the world
(08:50):
stage in Iran, I think that was a good thing,
helping I don't know that he brought peace, but helping
to lay a foundation for a potential peace in the
Middle East. You got to go back to the Abraham
Accords to understand how that happened. But the national news media,
I don't think they're smart enough to even understand that.
(09:12):
So if you agree with me six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty,
if you disagree with me six one, seven to five,
four to ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
ten thirty, I think that the amount of coverage that
was given to Donald Trump President Donald Trump appears to
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fight sleep or dozing off because the headlines are very
similar based upon what they witnessed in during a three
hour cabinet meeting yesterday, compared to how they treated truly
Joe Biden. It is outrageous. It's outrageous, and it's hypocritical,
(10:00):
and it provides every piece of evidence that any fair
minded person would conclude that the media not only dislikes
Donald Trump personally, but they dislike the policies that he
has implemented and the policies that he has articulated. And
(10:20):
they have every right to do that, but deal with
those policies and don't treat this president differently from the
president immediately before him. The it is, it is just,
it is jaw dropping. How obviously they make it subtlety
(10:40):
is not in their tools, in their tool chest, the
national media tool chest they have. They have thrown away
any any even hope, any hope that the American public
would think that they have made any effort whatsoever to
be fair. Uh, and they have disgraced themselves. In my opinion,
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it's a strong opinion, but it's one I believe in it,
one that I'll defend six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Join me. We'll have some fun between now and midnight.
Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Go to the Phone's gonna go to Michelle in Minsfield. First,
Michelle and Mansfield welcome first this hour on Nightside. Am
I being unfair to the national news media? Hi?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, I'm Misel from Mansterel. I called you last week
and you told me to call again.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
You bet you, I'm calling you again.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I like your call last week, and I think I'm
probably gonna like it tonight. Go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Well it's kind of funny because I thought last week
I think I was on agreement with you, and tonight
I'm like, oh, I don't agree. I'm gonna call Dan.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Oh good, tell me why?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, Okay. So I totally miss the American media that
I grew up.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
With as well.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I used to love Natalie Jacobson and check Curtis Yep,
and I grew up watching Mary Tyler Moore and you
know that's a comedy. But just about how intentionally the
media was balanced, as balanced as they could be. You know,
probably did have some dirty things going on sometimes or
paid off or whatever, but no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
No no no no no no no no no no.
Look I worked at Channel four for thirty one years. Yes,
and our best competitor, our our rival, was Channel five,
and of course, and Natalie had worked at Channel four
as an intern early in her career, and she went
over to Channel five, and I think Channel four rude
(12:48):
the day that Natalie left w PC.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, they were amazing, right, they were great.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yep, So we were great too. We had we had
Jack and Liz and Jack and Tony. We had we
had argue our you know, I always thought that we
had a pretty strong team, but they were our major competition.
But so tell me, what do you disagree with me
about here?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, about the fact that today's media, I understand your
point that they should You were saying they should treat
the current president in their coverage the way they treated
the last guy.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Right if if if they went after Joe Biden and said, look,
this guy hasn't made himself available, he's not answering questions.
He was hidden, he was hidden for most of his
full years. And and it just is like it's it's
it's not journalism, it's it's it's a bias. I mean,
(13:40):
I there are things Trump does I agree with her,
are things he does with I think are nuts. Okay,
but I'll call him as I see him, and the
media they just look, you know, remember when he when
he bombed, when he authorized the bombing of Iran, which
was a great vic tree to to take Iran run
(14:02):
by a bunch of theologians, insane theologians, off the world
nuclear stage. And he used the word that we obliterated it.
And immediately, well, no, they could have obliterated it because
it was in a mountain. And you know, I think
they were rooting for Iran a couple of days later
to come up and launch some sort of a weapon.
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And then finally Iran said, yeah, we're we got we
got blown up.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Something your point, but it's okay.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But I just think that the game has changed. And
right now, if you remember obviously that this this last presidents,
the last I can't say his name, the current president's
last presidency, when he made fun of a reporter, right,
a disabled reporter, and he did some things that were
completely unorthodox and now still nary and I'm tyed, I'm
(15:00):
unkind right and currently calling a reporter piggy. And then
today or yesterday something about I aced my neural exam. My,
you know, neurological exams. You wouldn't be able to I
wondered why these two female reporters that he looked at
and called stupid well in not so many words, could
(15:21):
not respond. So the game has changed where this president
talks to the media insult people completely. We're all just
cringing at what it's doing, modeling for kids, right, for
children to see that what. I cannot believe he's using
these words right, But why couldn't the reporters turn around
(15:41):
and actually say, excuse me, sir, why are you attacking
me personally? But the reason is they're sent by that
big network. They don't want to get kicked off the plane.
They want the story. But this president is playing with
them like little mice and saying, oh, yeah, you want
the story, I'm going to bully you, and I'm not.
And let's go back to this Dan. This guy does
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not clearly answer questions. So you can say, just focus
on the reporting and focus on the issues. But I
believe we've seen in the past nine months he has
said I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
what my MRI was for. His word is too hard
to take because it's such obviously lies. In some cases,
I think I think.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You're arguing on both sides of the coin here. I
think that it's very clear. We know what he thinks
about people coming into this country illegally. We know that
he shut down the border. Okay, that's something that I
think was a good thing. Okay, Now they are trying
to find and I think they've made I talked with
someone yesterday. I think they made terrible mistakes. They should
(16:46):
focus on criminals. And if they grab some eighteen year
old high school kid who came here when he was
three years old, ye to scoop that kid and move
him somewhere, that's that's a huge tactical mistake. Now, that's
that's legitimate what I would consider being legitimate criticism. All
I'm saying is, if you're going to go after Donald
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Trump because he seemed to doze off in a cabinet meeting,
what when did you? When did you tell the American
people that Joe Biden was cognitively in problems?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
But I think it's partly that the Americans palette right
now is for this. We're playing below the belt. This
guy's been playing below the belt. And I'm not saying
it's right or wrong, but they are playing below the
belt too, right, is the Americans? We all it's it's
very like sensationalized and get you riled up. I've been
gotten riled up.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, I understand, I understand your argument. I disagree with it.
I think that he makes huge mistakes, and I think
that that is what you to the best of my knowledge,
you know, you know, Biden had a few of these
things where he would call a reporter a dog faced
pony boy. I don't know if you remember that. I
have no idea what you're talking about. Okay, your dogs dace,
(18:00):
pony boy. I don't know. When Biden said to the
guy in Iowa, let's do some push ups on the floor,
I thought that's.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Beneath the uh yeah, the office.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Look, if we counted the number of crazy things that
they each said, I wonder who would come out higher.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, I think Trump has said more crazy things and
said more things that are inappropriate, And certainly there were moments,
but I do think when you look back at what
his motives are here, you know, gasoline is now down
three dollars a gallon. It was never near three dollars
a gallon when Joe Biden was president. You don't see
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stories like that on the network.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yes, and and that's good for you and me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Whether we're Democrats Republicans are unenrolled. Yes, all right, true, Michelle.
I love your calls, whether you agree with me or love.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
You really Okay, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Thank you to let me go to Steven Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you're next on NIGHTSAC right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Ahead, Hey Dan, thank you for taking my call. You know,
I just I can't agree with you more than everything
your examples, you know, with the you know, dozing off.
The guy's seventy nine years old. If and he's president,
if he wants to take a napp, let him take
a nap. I can care less. You know, there are
(19:24):
people running the country and he is running the country.
The Irian attack where he got rid of the nukes,
you know, that was a big deal because if they
had developed a nuclear weapon. I'm not sure what Israel
would do, but I think they probably would have done
a preemptive nuclear attack on him and it would have
started a big war. You know, that was a that
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was a very big deal, very big deal. And whenever
I'm watching the news, I mean they were using examples
of you know, the local news media. I don't really
see as much of a problem with them. I have
a problem when I'm watching like Good Morning America. Oh
yeahs hates Trump to to and was it Terry Morinne
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and some of the others there.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, Aby's so fired, fired Terry morn. I'm not happy
to see anyone fired. And I think what they should
have done with Terry Moriane was said, look, you are
no longer a reporter. You clearly want to be a commentator,
and will make you a commentator. They had the guy
Jim Acosta, who you know, used to they they literally
had to pry the microphone out of his hand, and
(20:32):
there was a young White House kid press injury trying
to recover the microphone. And I mean, he's a big
tough guy. He's going to hold the microphone while the
young woman is trying to steal the microphone. Acosta tried
to basically use White House news conferences for his own publicity.
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And that's not what your role is as a reporter.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And in the morning, you know, I'm sitting there, you know,
you know, like Mary Bruce, Rachel's God, you can just
listen to them. They report the news, but it's a
slant against Trump. Everything every single thing he does wrong,
you know, war crimes, you know. For you know, you
and I both agree. If you're taking you know, drugs
up here and killing Americans, these people deserve to die.
(21:17):
I have no problem with them bombing those boats. And
you know, no matter who you are, if you're bringing
drugs into this country that are killing Americans, you know,
and they're on the high seas.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, And I mean and the other thing is that these,
as I said all along, these are not Venezuelan families
out in the power of five uh, you know, five
horse power. They have five engines with with maximum horsepower
out for a Sunday afternoon, you know, little tour in
the harbor, in the inner harbor. And look they were looking,
(21:53):
they're looking. They are some of these reporters are salivating
at the possibility that somehow Haig Seth might have had
order to kill strike. What are you going to do?
I mean, what are you going to do in that situation?
I don't know, to be really honest with you, if
there is a what I would have done, I don't
(22:15):
think I would have had it in me to kill
two people in cold blood. But I don't know that
that was beyond the rules of engagement. Uh. And there
was some suggestion late today that these guys were trying
to communicate with other drug runners. I don't know. Let's
(22:35):
let's let's find out the facts. Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, when you brow up the boat and all
the drugs are floating around the wreckage, you know, you
have to wonder. And also the eyes of the sky,
we can we see them bloading those boats. They know
they're floating with drugs. There's no mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well, there's no question about that. And I'm sure that
we have the IA people on the ground, we have
people within the Maduro government on the ground. They're not
doing this just on a lok okay. But you could
see that all of a sudden. Look, when Obama took
out the the the the cleric in Yemen, there was
no one, no one in the media was saying, well,
(23:12):
he killed the Erica, the American, the cleric in Yemen,
but also the cleric's ten year old son who was
in the car. And they I think we're both American citizens.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, you and I both remember, you know, going all
the way back to you know, the Huntley Brinkley report,
and you know, you know John Chancellor and Peter Jennings.
You know, all these people well respected, even Tom Broke.
I met Tom Broke. He's a really nice guy. All
these people are you know, they had their own opinions,
(23:43):
but they kept them to themselves.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Here's what I think, here's what I think is going on.
You have CNN and you have Fox out there, who
obviously are not news organizations in the classic sense. They
are news and commentary organizations. And and Fox is getting
a lot of clicks.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
CNN gets their share of clicks. Uh. And I think
the news organizations see the ABC, NBCCBS, see their their
numbers dropping, and now they're saying, we got to get
a little edgy. That's the word that the consultants would use.
Let's get edgy. Okay, that's the word that the consultants
will use. And the reporters, if you say to reporter,
(24:24):
get a little edgy out there, they don't know what
that means. Okay, stay within the facts. Stay within the
facts of the story, and don't tell me who you
voted for. I don't care who you voted for. I
just want you to tell.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
As a former reporter and I used to watch you
way back when you know, you know, what goes on
behind the scenes, and you know how to do it
the right way. You know. I always remember when you
did your reporting. You did the reporting.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I don't want to hear an editorial. I want to
I just want to see the news.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You got it, You got it. Hey, Steve, I'm now
way over my time here, so I'm going to let
you run. But thanks, we call it in. I really
was a great call.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Appreciated.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Have a great night you too, Steve. Talks soon. Okay,
only one line open, six one, seven thirty. We got
the news. We're coming right back. We'll get to Tim
and Michigan, Linda and Weymouth, Laurie and Idaho, and John
in New York. I promise coming back on nights Side.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Here we go, Let's go to Tim and Michigan. Hey Tim,
welcome back. How are you tonight?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
And I'm doing quite well. I think it bears a
little perspective concerning the day day work schedule of President Trump,
which sees him up at seven am and he works
through today till two way. He survives on about five
(25:49):
hours of rest or sleep per day. And Cameron day
after day after day. You know that that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I will tell you this, you know, putting us out
his politics, putting aside whether he's right in this issue
or wrong in that issue. I couldn't do it. I'm
in pretty good shape. I'm a few years younger than him.
I work out. Uh. He's like the energizer Bunny. Uh.
And obviously he dozed off yesterday, there's no question about that.
(26:20):
But but but how why did we not have hear
the media talking about uh, you know, Joe Biden's until
we watched by the way him melt down in the
debate with Trump in late June. We were we weren't
talking about his mental capacity, his acuity or anything like that.
(26:43):
It was like they gave him a pass. And and
they basically, if they had been fair in their coverage
of Joe Biden, he would have been out of the
race a year before and the Democratic Party could have
run a legitimate primary content test to find the best
possible candidate, and it wouldn't have been Vice President Harris.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
In my opinion, you've got to understand that there is
some fashion of media bias towards a more liberal perspective
from the media media at large. Now, as I said previously,
you've got Trump basically on the job nineteen hours out
(27:32):
of twenty four. When President Biden was in office, his
routine day on a heavy flow day would have him
up at nine am and then done at eight pm.
And you got to know that the majority of the
work was actually being conducted in the executive office was
(27:55):
done by Biden's hanfers Ron Plain, whole inner circle. Sure,
President Biden. President Biden was not personally tending to the
details of the presidency in a fashion that could even be,
you know, remotely compared to the way Trump is doing.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, he was. He was a figurehead for most much
of his presidency. Now, in his defense, he was very
much concerned during much of his presidency about his soul's
surviving son, Hunter trumpt have not caused that problem. And
as a parent, I can't imagine what Joe Biden was
(28:39):
going through realizing that what his what his son had done.
But you know again that that also was covered up
by the media. You didn't see a lot of stories
about Hunter Biden and all of that, and it was
like so it just it is, and.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You heard you heard scant mention of any where the
president Biden was making an appearance, speaking appearance whatever. That Essentially,
Joe Biden killed his wife, uh, grasped him by the
elbow and shoveled him and guided him off the stage,
(29:18):
et cetera, et cetera. Oh no, we're gonna gold stage last.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yep, right, you're right. But again Fox played that big time.
They might have even overplayed it, but they played a
big time. CNN ignored it and the major media ignored it.
And what happened was Joe Biden had the debate with
Trump in June of twenty four where he dissembled, and
(29:43):
at that point the Democratic Party said, oh my god,
what do we can what do we have to do?
And it became a nominee was chosen without one delegate,
without one vote. Was the backroom meeting.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Something had to give. It was at a point of
the utter collapse, and the Democrat Party saw the writing
on the wall.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And the media actually helped by by not reporting on
you know, Biden's cognitive decline. Yeah, they in effect helped
pave the way for Trump's selection.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Ironically, but he had one president who was working on
a heavy load day we're working eleven hours a day,
and most of that work was being tended to by
President Biden's handlers. Then you have Trump, and I'm sure
he assigns things off to various people, but he's down Trump.
(30:41):
He wants to head. He wants to be sterned by
himself nineteen hours a day, so eleven hours versus nineteen
and I'm in a complete agreement with you. President Trump
has a decade on me.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't know how long I could hold up a
nineteen hour a day schedule.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
That would be I'm not even interested in trying that. Hey, Tim,
thank you much. I got to run here because I
got my break coming up, and I got a couple
of more calls we got to get you.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Come buy more often, will you? You PLoP up too infrequently?
Come by more often. Thanks to appreciate it? All right,
let me keep rolling here. I'm gonna get Laurie from Idaho.
In Laurie, you are, you're at that, Go right ahead, Laurie.
What are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
First of all, I defy anybody to stay fully at
wake for a three hour cabinet meeting. I can't imagine.
So I give him a pretty specific question because we
were talking about the three majors other than the CNN
and Fox. So for what the last two two and
a half weeks, NBC has been running these spots about
(31:47):
you know, and they run all these sound bites. I
don't know if they're legit or if there's someone who's
voiced them for them, but I thought they can't trust
the news. I feel like I can't trust anybody. I
feel like it's rage bat. I feel like if we
all had the sacks, we might be able to do better.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
And then it's very calm voice says, you know, let's
meet at the facts and go from there. Has their
broadcast improved in your in your mind? Or have you
not seen enough of it? Enough of it?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I haven't seen enough of it? And uh, all that
is put together by a marketing firm.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Right, are they actually going to follow through in the
broadcast exactly?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Don't don't tell me what you'd like us to think
you're going to do. Show us what you're going to do.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
That's what I'm thinking. I just want to know if
they've shown it yet.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
But obviously no.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. And
I don't know. I just look. I watched the nightly
news and most and I watch it on Channel five.
I watch ABC. Uh, David Muher worked here in the
Boston market, so I have you know, I don't know
him well, but I'll watch that. But all it is
(32:51):
is the first is tease, tease, big storm somewhere in
the Midwest, many people might be killed. You know, a
war has broken out in Asia. I mean, you know,
And the same way the Bruins. The Bruins make a
huge announcement. What they're doing is they're sending some guy
back to Providence. It's like, okay, you know, it's not
(33:12):
a huge announcement, it's the but.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
That's that's the local news, right, not the national court.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
But but what they're all the same because the same
TV consultants come in and they say, well, what you
gotta do is you got a hold of you You
got to tease them. You know, I'll listen to ABC
at night. You got to watch this videotape. We'll get that.
And then at the end, it's some you know, cute
little kid somewhere open with a lemonade stand and it's like, okay,
(33:42):
but just show it.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
They're not even covering really national news or so they
don't cover the Trump thing. And I still think that
the media has all the left wing media is still
so in this tantruming Democrat camp that they don't dare
say anything postive about Trump right now. So I don't know,
we'll see it comes with it. I think the meeting meeting,
(34:04):
no way.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, no, I know, but I think the media actually
plays into Trump's hands. And I think I think that Trump.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is well, he does right back, he does, oh he does.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
But but I I think that Trump is living in
their heads rent free.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Yeah, well they need to grow up then.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
They Thanks Laurie, I appreciate you call. Talk to you.
So we'll be back on Night's Ide. More phone calls.
I got John, Linda, John and New York John, and
Boston Linda and North Weymouth, all of you getting in
and if you want to give it a shot, I
can't promise, but I'm taking John, John and Linda for sure,
coming back on night Side. You're on Night Side with
(34:39):
Dan Ray on Boston's Radio. Okay, we got a few
minutes left, Gonna give everybody a couple of minutes, starting
with Linda in North Weymouth. Linda next on Nice, I
go ahead, oh.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
He he, and thanks to take my call. I won't
keep you on. But everything that everyone said is what
I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
I totally agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
They they just don't like Trump, and they're going to
do everything they can to try to nitpick and to
make a big deal out of something so silly as that.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I mean, I don't even know what the guy does sleep, yeah,
I mean he's constantly going, going, going, and he makes
himself available to everybody, and all they do is just
to pick on them.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I mean, even their coverage of this race down in Tennessee,
this congressional race, Uh oh, the Democrat might might pick
up a win there. The tone of it is they
were rooting for the Democrat down there in a in
a red district. Trump carried it by twenty two points.
This guy carried it by nine points. The Republicans better
(35:50):
smartened up and uh and realized that could be the
canary of the goal in the coal mine. But it
was like they were rooting the tone of the piece.
They're almost rooting for the Democrat, hoping that they could say, well,
this was a seat that was flipped. It's just they
lose credibility once they lose credibility as reporters a commentator. Okay,
(36:12):
you're supposed to want to know what I think, and
I'm telling you the truth what I think. I'm not
a Trump guy, per se. I will support him on
things he does that are right, and I'll criticize him
on things that I believe are wrong.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Exactly exactly right.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Thanks Linda, Yes, all right, thank you, Dan, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
All right, let me get John in New York. John
and New York. We're tight on time. I want to
save room for John and Boston to go ahead.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
John, Yeah, I'm gonna hurry up. Good evening, Dan.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
I just want to say I agree with you one
hundred percent and that the man from Michigan beat me.
But I wanted to mention to people that on the
other side of the world, you know, it's twelve thirteen
hours different time you're talking about, and he's going to
be on their phone talking important leaders, maybe agate in
an embassy or maybe a sea captain in the naming
(37:05):
with an air draft carry off something important that are
going on. So what's the matter with these people used
their heads?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh, John, you read my mind. I just think what
they're doing is they're going to stir up people who
are on the fence, who are gonna say he's being
treated unfairly. Compared to their coverage of Joe Biden, there
were no stories about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities. You know,
I on the major networks, find me one in twenty
(37:35):
twenty three or twenty twenty two or twenty twenty four. No,
and they would interview him with an ice cream cone,
mister president, is that chocolate or chocolate chip? Uh? Vanilla?
Yeh oh, that's breaking news. Joe Biden has had a vans.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
One of the things quick, and I'm not gonna say
good night. And the thing is I want to say
is that let's talk about why was the subject and
who is the person that was talking at the time
he dozed off. Maybe they was talking boring stuff and
they just tired his mind and he goes off a minute.
Let's talk what was being discussed.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
All of us have dozed off occasionally, but he's not
someone who dozed us off a lot. And uh, you
know whatever, Hey, John, as always Thank you, my friend.
We will talk soon. How did you How much snow
did you? How much snow did you get up there
in western New York real quickly.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
I'm in uh.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Harry, New York, about forty miles west of alved in
the and we got about four inches where I live.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay, not as bad as people thought. Thanks John, I
got to get one more in Okay. Thank you, buddy.
Appreciated John and Boston. John, you were always a late caller.
We're tight on time.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Go ahead, Thank Dan.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
CNN in January twenty twenty called the virus COVID virus
the China virus, and the next couple of months later
they were calling Donald Trump a racist is called the chinavirus.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
The same people Dan, who were forcing people to get
backs to keep their job then allowed ten million illegal
immigrants here who were unbacked and unemployed. And then we
would never know about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker 10 (39:16):
If Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter. And then it was
because he bought Twitter that whole story became available. And
the media has been covering up. They covered up the
fifty one Intel agents Dan that brought up the hoax.
They kept it covered in cohoots with guys like Facebook
and Zuckerberg. So after what they put Trump through the
(39:38):
past four years, and he's been working his butt off.
We've lost four hundred thousand people to overdose in the
past four years. And what's the media talking about. They're
talking about that boat that was hit with a second shot. Dan.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Do they think they're bringing potatoes. It's full not drugs, poison,
drugs that are killing our youth. And the media is
taught about media's credibility is gone. It's been gone for years.
Yet that's why people despise the media.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Well, some people do some Look, John, let's not overstate it.
Some people despise the mainstream, meaning some people. I don't
despise him. Some people love them. I don't love them.
I'm calling him out for being on fair and blatantly
on fair and hypocritical. John, you got to call early.
We'll have a better conversation. But I'm flat out of time.
(40:26):
Thank you, my friend. Good night, good night everyone. I'll
end as always, All dogs, all cats, all pets go
to heaven. That's what my pal Charlie Ray is, who
passed fifteen years ago in February. That's all your pets
are who have passed. Thanks so much for listening. I
want to thank I do believe, by the way, you'll
see them again, and I certainly hope I'm going to
see Charlie again at some point. I want to thank Rob,
(40:49):
I want to thank Marita, want to thank all the
callers and all the listeners. I will be on Facebook
quickly at about two minutes on Facebook Night Side with
Dan Ray. Join me there.
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