May 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with Clay Travis solo-hosting as Buck Sexton recovers from the flu. Clay reflects on Memorial Day, honoring the sacrifices of American service members, and shares highlights from his visit to the Indy 500, emphasizing the strong presence of Clay and Buck listeners. The hour dives into major political and cultural topics, starting with breaking news: the CDC has officially removed the COVID-19 vaccine from its recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women. Clay highlights this as a significant reversal of previous federal health mandates and criticizes the Biden administration and legacy media for their role in promoting what he calls “COVID shot propaganda.” He underscores the personal and professional consequences many Americans faced for refusing the vaccine, including job loss and social ostracization. Clay also revisits a 2022 Rasmussen poll showing that a majority of Democrats supported punitive measures against the unvaccinated, including fines, quarantine camps, and even child removal. He uses this data to argue that the public was misled and manipulated during the pandemic, and that the media is now attempting to “memory-hole” their role in the misinformation. The conversation shifts to President Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline, with Clay reacting to CNN’s Jake Tapper calling the media’s cover-up of Biden’s health “worse than Watergate.” Clay criticizes mainstream outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times for failing to report on Biden’s condition, accusing them of prioritizing political loyalty and pharmaceutical advertising dollars over journalistic integrity. Clay draws parallels between legacy media and sports fan message boards, arguing that outlets like CNN and MSNBC now serve as echo chambers for partisan subscribers rather than objective news sources. He calls for congressional hearings into the Biden administration’s alleged cover-up and urges accountability for those who enabled it. The hour concludes with listener calls supporting Clay’s stance and calling for further investigation into the administration’s failure to invoke the 25th Amendment. Clay teases an upcoming interview with women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines in Hour 2, where they’ll discuss Donald Trump’s comments on transgender athletes and California’s controversial policies.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. I appreciate all of you hanging out with
us as we are rolling through the post Memorial Day
weekend festivities. We want to again, as I said on Friday,
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reiterate to everyone out there who's family friends have made
the ultimate sacrifice that the reason we all have the
freedoms we do every single day is because of the
sacrifices so many have made throughout the course of nearly
two hundred and fifty years of American history. We will
talk some about that. I had a spectacular weekend trip
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to the Indy five hundred. I had never been before.
Thanks to the Good Ranchers crew for taking me there,
Ben and his wife Corley. We had a phenomenal time
running all around with them. I think there are videos
up at clayanbuck dot com you can see the incredible
time that we all had. I met a lot of
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you in the Indianapolis area, and there's three hundred and
fifty thousand people there, so quite a bit of you
had to be Clay and Buck listeners OutKick readers, Fox
news viewers. Not a surprise that there would be a
lot of you that we would run into during the
course of that weekend. It was awesome. Hospitality was fabulous
in Indianapolis, and so I appreciate everybody who said hi,
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and the Good Ranchers Crew, Good Ranchers dot Com code Clay.
Those guys are doing amazing work. You get forty dollars
off if you go there. But they have a fabulous
business and they are awesome people. So I think you
guys will be hearing more and more from them coming forward.
But we had just a spectacular time. Want to tell
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you Buck is out by the way, has the flu
and he's hoping to be back tomorrow. So he will
be back tomorrow. I will be out. I'm going to
go to this new Universal Studios park with my kids.
We're going to be on the road for a few days.
School is finally out, so I'm going to be on
the road with my kids taking him to that amusement park,
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which my wife's probably not happy that I just announced,
but that is where we will be for the next
several days. So they have opened a brand new Universal
Studios park, and my kids were excited for the roller coaster.
So that is where Dad and Mom are going to
be here. But Buck should be back tomorrow, says he
should be back healthy. But that is where he is today.
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So I want to dive into There's so many different
stories that are out there. Riley Gaines, by the way,
is going to join us midway through today's program, and
she is going to do that because Trump has really
taken a two by four to the state of California
over men being allowed to participate in women's sports. And
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we will talk about talking about that with her in
the next hour, as that has turned into a major
issue in Gavin Newsom, who still has an open invite
to come on this program but has somehow not found
the time, said it was very unfair, completely unfair, I
think was his phrase, to allow men to compete in
women's sports. Well, it's happening and at the state championship
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level of California, and the President has called it out.
We got a lot to talk about during the course
of the program, but I want to dive into a
couple of stories that I thought happening over the weekend
and earlier today were representative of the lies that so
many of us have had to deal with over the
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last four or five years. And I want to start
with good news. It's good news if you didn't get
the shot. Those of you who had to get the
COVID shot are still furious, those of you whose kids
had to get the COVID shot to go to college
or wherever it was. The Health and Human Services Secretary
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Robert Kennedy, I believe the CDC Director Marty McCarey, who
we need to get on the program. We had him
on a lot during the COVID era. On this program.
They announced this morning that they are removing the COVID
shot from the recommended vaccine quotation marks. For those of
you watching on video, the recommended vaccine shot lineup, and
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we have that audio. This just happened in the last
hour or so. Listen to that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today,
the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women
has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Last year,
the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another
COVID shot, despite the lack of any political data to
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support the repeat booster strategy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
In children. That ends today. It's common sense, that's good science.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
There's no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most
countries have stopped recommending it for children.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Or now one step close to realizing President Trump's promise
to make America healthy again.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, that's an extraordinary part of our national story. Now
that this shot which they told you would prevent COVID
from spreading, which they told you that you had to
get or you were going to be fired from your job,
think the Lord the Supreme Court stood up against it,
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Joe Biden. Remember, maybe we can grab this audio because
I know a lot of it gets memory. Hold said
that his patience was running short for those of you
out there that had not gotten the COVID shot, like me,
that we were going to experience a winter of death.
I remember seeing that comment while I was chilling on
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a beach in Florida and thinking, Yeah, the wins or
death's not that bad done here in Florida right now.
I think I set out a tweet about it, and
you had to joke about it because it was so
infuriating that anybody was being forced to get this COVID shot.
Buck was forced to get the COVID shot. To go
to his brother's wedding in New York. You couldn't go
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to McDonald's some parts of places like New York and
la I never got the shot. I feel fortunate that
I did not. I feel fortunate that my young kids
did not because it was never mandated for them. But
I know a lot of you felt that you were
obligated to get it. And it is just completely indefensible
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that this entire era has been allowed to happen, and
that many of the people that wagged their finger and
lectured you about the COVID shot are now just pretending
they never said any of the things that they did.
And I want to hit you because I do think
it's important with the data here, and I would say
that many of you are listening to me today and
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listen to us on this program on a regular basis
because you are still angry about what they said to
you during COVID and what they tried to do to you.
Remember this poll, This was from the rasmuscin and it
broke down percentages of people twenty percent, sorry, nearly sixty
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percent of Democrats in January of twenty twenty two. This
is January of twenty twenty two believed that the unvaccinated
people like me and many of you listening right now
and UNCOVID shotted because not really a vaccine. Sixty percent
of Democrats believe that you should have been fined if
you refuse to get the COVID shot. This is crazy.
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Nearly sixty percent of Democrats believed that those of us
who didn't get the COVID shot should be locked at home.
This is nearly over. Forty percent of Democrats believed that
those who didn't get the COVID shot should be sent
to quarantine camps. Should your children be taken from you
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if you are not getting them the COVID shot? Thirty
percent of Democrats said yes. And for people like me
and buck Over, about fifty percent of Democrats said that
people who criticize the COVID shot should be fined and imprisoned.
I shared that audio, that clip from that poll yesterday
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because it says if people want to pretend all of
this never happened, and I see it. In conjunction with Jake,
Tapper went on with Piers Morgan, and Piers Morgan asked
him about the Biden cognitive and physical decline cover up
and Tapper now, who had a show on CNN for
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the entire Biden administration. He now says, you know, in
many ways, the cover up of Biden's health, physical and
mental was worse than Watergate. Listen to this. It is
a scandal.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes, it is, it is, it is. It is without question,
and maybe even worse than Watergate in some way because
Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he
wasn't drinking. We quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator,
talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents
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get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in
keeping that president propped up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, worse than Watergate, and by the way, I think
it was worse than Watergate. The decision for the media
to not cover Biden's mental and physical decline, and now
the COVID shot being pulled for kids. Let me ask
you a question, how can anyone trust anyone in legacy
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media at this point if they told you at CNN, MSNBC, AB, NBCCBS,
Fox did not buy and large, but the Washington Post
and the New York Times, all of those major legacy
media outlets that I just ran through, if they all
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told you that your kids needed to get the COVID
shot or they were in danger of death. And if
they all told you that Biden was the best mental
and physical version of himself, and that anybody criticizing him
was spreading disinformation and misinformation, how can anyone trust these people?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Again?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
How can you if you worked at all those places
and you got the two biggest stories maybe of your
career COVID And I'm not just talking, by the way,
about the shot, but now that the SHOT's being pulled
for kids, I do think it's important to point out
that they tried to force kids to get this shot
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in order to be able to go to school in
many parts of the country. Now that they're pulling this shot,
and now that everybody suddenly says, hey, you know what, yeah,
Biden mentally and physically he wasn't up for the job,
how can anyone Those are the two I would argue,
those are the two biggest stories in the last certainly
twenty years. If you go back to nine to eleven,
what has mattered more than those two things? COVID and
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Biden's mental and physical decline. They got all of that wrong.
How do they stop jobs? How do they still have
any audience at all? How in the world do these
people still have the ability to make a living. We
get things wrong as part of being human. All of
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us are imperfect. But if you listen to this program,
many of you did what I did and didn't get
your kids the COVID chat. I didn't get it myself.
Many of you knew early on that Biden didn't have
the mental and physical capacity to be president. Both of
those things we've now been proven right on on this program.
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In an honest, transparent, fully cognizant media universe, this show
would do as it has continue to grow, and the
legacy media buy and large would collapse. And you know
what's happened that over time, all that matters in media
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is trust. Do you trust people to be honest with
you and analyze complex situations and give you, to the
best of their ability, good advice to discuss complex issues
in an intelligent fashion. That is the goal to me
of anyone that sits behind this mic, of anyone that
talks to a large audience. Every single day, we passed
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that test here. Now, make no mistake. What they are
attempting to do is memory hold the entire COVID era
and pretend that they never could have known better because
the experts got it wrong, not them. And then the
thing that they're actually experts in, which is theoretically politics
and analyzing presidents. They're claiming that they just couldn't see
past the incredible cover up that the Biden administration has
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put in place. I would submit to you that you
should not let them off the hook. You should remember
this failure for the rest of their career. And I
would also submit to you, you know who the biggest
advertisers are on CNN and MSNBC buy large drug companies.
Do you think it was coincidental that they whiffed on
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the value of the COVID shot when all of these
drug companies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars billions
of dollars to advertise on their programs. I don't think so.
And this is one where I think RFK Junior, who's
a lifelong Democrat, is actually right. Why in the world
are they accepting all of this money for prescription drug
advertisements on programs where they regularly have to cover prescription drugs,
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and whether or not they're necessary, I would submit to
you it's not a coincidence that the prescription drug companies
got beneficial coverage while spending hundreds of millions, if not
billions of dollars. And then we all know that it
wasn't that they got fooled, it was that they aren't
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actual journalists. They are propaganda's stooges for Democrats, and they
weren't willing to tell their audience the truth about Joe
Biden until it became clear Biden was never going to
be in power. Again. We'll talk about all this, but
I think the conjunction of these two stories coming together
is actually a moment of reckoning for the legacy media,
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which is leading to many of them being destroyed. And
I think this is such a huge story that I
think it needs to be hammered home, and we'll have
some fun doing that today, among many other things. But
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eight eight if CJ. Now that they have pulled the
COVID shot off the recommended list for kids and pregnant women,
I don't think we should forget pregnant women either. I
know Alison Williams, who worked at ESPN at the time
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when Disney required all of their employees to get the
COVID shot. She left her reporting job in sports and said,
I'm trying to get pregnant. I have a doctor's exemption.
I don't want to worry about getting this COVID shot.
I'm gonna be fine. And Disney wouldn't let her continue
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to work for them unless she got the COVID shot.
She refused left. Thankfully Fox has now hired her. But
their real consequences for the lies that we were all told,
and I want to play for you so they can't
memory hold this. This is Joe Biden September ninth, twenty
twenty one, threatening those of us who had not gotten
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the COVID shot.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
My message to unvaccinated Americans is this What more is
there to wait for? What more do you need to say? See?
We've made vaccinations free, safe, and convenient. The vaccine is
FDA approval. Over two hundred million Americans have gotten at
least one shot. We've been patient, but our patience is
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wearing thin.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, that was in September of twenty twenty one, after
we knew the COVID shot didn't stop anyone from getting
or spreading COVID. That data was quite clear. Here's cut
twenty six, Biden still being dramatic about the COVID shot
that now is not recommended for kids or pregnant with it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Please do the right thing, but just don't take it
from lee me. Listen to the voices of unvaccinated Americans
who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breath, saying,
if only I'd gotten vaccinated, if only it's a tragedy.
Please don't let it become yours.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
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worse than Watergate? Again, this is what he said with
Piers Morgan. We can cut it off right after he
says worse than Watergate. But I actually think it's super
emblematic of why we have arrived in the era that
we have. Can we play that one more time? Guys?
This is what it is a scandal. Yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergaden's.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Maybe even worse than Watergate. I want you to think
about this for a minute. The Washington Post last week
published an editorial saying, boy, somebody should have told all
of the American voters that Joe Biden wasn't mentally or
physically fit to be president. The Washington Post is the
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paper that broke all the Watergate stories Woodward and Bernstein.
For those of you back in the day, the Washington
Post when Trump was elected. Emblazoned at the time of
their masthead, democracy dies in darkness. You were the darkness,
Washington Post. You died in the darkness. Your job, Your
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only reason for existence, Washington Post is to tell us
if the president has putting for brains, if the president
is unable to be president, does not have the mental
or physical capability to be president. The only reason the
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Washington Post exists is to speak truth to power and
let everyone know the truth. They did that in their
opinion with Watergate. Now Jake Tapper is coming out and saying, well,
in many ways this was worse than Watergate. Of course
it was. And some of you out there are saying, well,
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Democrats should be blamed.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Me.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yes, of course they should. But also it doesn't surprise
me that Democrats didn't come out and say, hey, it
turns out Joe Biden is basically a dementia pation and
we got to get him out of here. It doesn't
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surprise me that the party in power covered up for
the incompetence of the party in power, because everybody in
power owes their power to the president. This is not
a rare story. For those of you who study history.
The king and sometimes the queen was often still in
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power when the king and or the queen did not
have the mental or physical capacity to still be president,
still be president, still be king or queen or president
or prime minister or whatever it might be, and the
people that surround the person in a position of power
covered that up. This is a story as old as
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the stories of power itself. So this is not some
unbelievable narrative that none of us have ever confronted before.
This is actually incredibly common. And so the fact that
the party in power covered up there mentally and physically
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incapable leader in order to preserve their own proximity to
power and ensure that they could still run the country
effectively with a regency A cabal of individuals who, again
I will reiterate, should be investigated fully, and the Republican
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Party should have hearings about Biden's mental and physical cognitive state,
and those should be prime time and they should be
covered widely, and everybody should be put under oath and
brought in and asked who was actually running the country
and what did you see in the wake of everybody
trying to cover up. But I actually think the media
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is more to blame than the Democrat Party, because it
shouldn't surprise anyone that people in positions of power will
lie to preserve their power. The only reason media exists,
especially media covering the president, is to speak truth to power,
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to actually tell us what's really going on, not what
they're telling us is going on, to keep democracy from
dying in darkness. The Washington Post was able to cover
Watergate and they were able to cover the Clinton impeachment,
two stories that were far more complicated, far more complicated
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than Biden's inability to be president. Yet now the Washington
Post is coming out and saying, well, well, boy, somebody
really should have told us that the president couldn't do
the job. That's your job. That's the only job you
have is to speak truth to power and let us
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know what is actually going on. Now, we did that
here on this program. But I don't think we can
give a pass. I think this is a major issue
that isn't going to go away because sadly, Biden is
symptomatic of the collapse of the legacy media. And I've
told you this, and I wrote a lot about it,
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and I think this is one thing that I got
one hundred percent right that still a lot of people
haven't gotten around on. This is about business imperatives. This
was not a flaw of the Washington Post in the
New York Times. Think about it. How hard you had
to work to break Watergate. I don't know how many
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man hours Woodward and Bernstein worked. I don't know how
many hours they worked on the Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky fallout,
Biden's mental and physical capacity. Legitimately, all you had to
do was turn on the television and watch the guy
walk to try to get on Air Force one, watch
him stand in front of the rosterum. And I set
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it for years, and I've argued it for a long time,
also understanding that was the absolute best version of Biden
that existed. They hit him for ninety five percent of
his day. You got the best five percent of Biden.
They shot him up, They prepared him the best they could.
He would hold those note cards with all those reporters'
names on it. It was clear and evident to anyone
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with a functional brain that Biden's brain was not functional
and that he did not have the physical capacity to
be president. So they were able to cover Watergate, they
were able to cover Clinton Why did the newspaper that
writes democracy dies in darkness? The Washington Post and the
New York Times all the news that fit to print,
Probably the New York Times in the Washington Post probably
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employ hundreds of people who will live in Washington, DC
and are focused on covering politics. So we're talking about
hundreds of people. How did they miss this? They didn't
miss it. They intentionally didn't cover it because the business
imperatives of their brands have changed. The Washington Post and
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the New York Times are subscriber based businesses now, and
their subscribers overwhelmingly are far left wing partisans. Great example,
what happened when Jeff Bezos made the decision the Washington
Post is not going to endorse presidential candidates anymore. Hundreds
of thousands of subscribers canceled their newspaper subscriptions. That shouldn't
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happen if you just cover the news. They don't just
cover the news. They cover the news for far left
wing ideologues that want to be told that their site
is right and that they are the heroes of history.
And I'm telling you maybe it's because of what I
do for a living. This is what sports message boards do.
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I don't know how many of you listen, how many
of you out there are diehard sports fans. I am
one that subscribe to a rival site, or an on
three site or a twenty four to seven site. You
know what, sites never break bad news about the coaching staff.
Nobody ever gets caught cheating by a message board. Do
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you know why? Because the subscribers want to be told
good news about their favorite program. And it's only when
a coach gets fired that suddenly all the truth comes
out about the coach's failures. That's exactly what's happened with Biden.
The Washington Post in the New York Times are not
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new sites. They are fan subscription sites now. They exist
to make their subscribers happy and convince them that they
are on the right side. They are fan based journalism,
which isn't really necessarily journalism at all. It's just fan
fiction awesome often times. And really, I mean, I think
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Jeff Bezos has finally realized this, and I think he's embarrassed.
They just announced voluntary buyouts for anybody basically at the
Washington Post in the opinion universe who's been there for
ten or more years. I think he's realized that he's
created a toxic echo chamber of left wing message board
subscription idiocy, and I think frankly, he's embarrassed by what
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that paper has become. But this is not a flaw.
They didn't somehow cover Watergate and miss on Biden. If
Trump had been in office and all all of the
things that Biden was doing mentally and physically were instead
done by Trump, they would not have missed that story.
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At the Washington Post. They tried the twenty fifth amendment
Trump in his first term. Now you've heard that's kind
of vanished that discussion. Now, but this is a larger
flaw in the legacy media, and I think you can
connect it to COVID. But I think when you hear
suddenly someone like Jake Tapper say, boy, this is bigger
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than Watergate in many ways, Well, yeah, of course it is,
and somehow you missed it. So either you're a moron
or telling the truth had a cost based on who
your audience was. I don't think that all these people
are morons. I think that telling the truth had a
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cost based on their audiences, and they did not tell
the truth. Now, the interesting thing here is a lot
of reasonable people out there you're watching or listening to
us now, because we got things right with COVID and
we got things right with Biden. And you may not
agree with everything I say, You may not agree with
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everything that Buck says on a day to day basis.
You shouldn't agree with anybody one hundred percent on anything,
would be my suggestion. But if you miss the two
biggest stories of your career, and don't just miss it,
but are diametrically wrong, and you're lecturing me along the
way about how important it is, as you just heard Biden,
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our patience is wearing thin. Your patience is wearing thin
that I have a brain and I'm not going to
get a shot that is worthless for me or my family.
We were right, and Democrats now are trying to avoid
the reckoning legacy. Media now are trying to avoid the reckoning.
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That's really what the story of the original Sin Book is.
It's shifting the blame entirely onto the Biden team and
pretending that this cover up was so diabolical and so
well done that nobody could have ever seen through it.
The problem is actually millions and millions of people did
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see through it, and you guys listening right now all
solve through it. The question I have is why do
these legacy media outlets still exist? Because if you're missing
on the biggest, most important stories that most of you
will ever cover in your career, what actual value are
you providing? That's a question I think Jeff Bezos and
many other people who are in positions of power and
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own these companies are starting to ask. I think you're
starting to see it at Paramount with Sherry Redstone CBS.
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by the way, we are scheduled to talk with Riley
Gain's Top of the Next Hour about a battle going
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on in California involving a male athlete trying to win
women's state championships. Trump has weighed in. We'll talk about
that and more with Riley in a moment, But first,
Dan in Arizona, what you got for us?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Hey, good morning, sir. I am very happy to be
speaking with you today.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Thank you. I'm happy you're listening. And Colin, what you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yes, sir, I just wanted to put it out there
that I think Jake Tapper needs to donate one hundred
percent of his profits off of this book he wrote
to a charity that supports dimentia patients or dementia research
or something like that, if he is truly a repentant man.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's a great idea. Thank you for the call. I
don't think it's a bad idea at all. Look, Jake
Tapper has made millions and millions of dollars for a
long time. He has the ability to make substantial donations
to charitable organizations. And if you really feel bad about
the way you behaved in some situation, why should you
profit off of it? I've said this. Tapper is in
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a unique spot here where he was able to make
lots of money claiming to Democrats that Joe Biden did
not have mental and physical cognition related issues, and now
he's making millions of dollars from Democrats, but also from
some of us that are out there listening right now
who want to have a historical record of exactly what
went on writing a book telling the truths awfully convenient
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that he was not willing to tell the truth and
made money, and then as soon as Biden's gone, he
tells the truth and he makes too. I don't think
that's a bad idea at all. Dan in Arizona add
in North Carolina, what you got for us.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Hey, I want to make it quick.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
I wanted to bring up the fact that I think
the Republican Party should make a point of the fact
that those in the administration, that Biden's administration had the
responsibility to use the twenty fifth Amendment to remove him, and.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
That they should take this and focus on those members
if they're going to try and run for the President
of the United States, if they had the responsibility, the
duty to the Constitution, to the American people, to the
world to remove him from office. But they wouldn't do it.
Yet they would always constantly scream about President Trump, we
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need to remove.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
It, we need to use the twice of Amendment. This
is this is just the pot calling, is the tenal plaque.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's just thanks for the call. Look, I mean what
I would say is this is why we need hearing.
I want everyone that was close to Joe Biden brought in. If,
as Jake Tapper is arguing, I think it's correct, this
is way bigger than Watergate. I think that all of
the people that surrounded Biden and protected him should be
brought in, put under oath, and we should have primetime
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hearings into the cover up. Now, look, they did this
for jan six which do you think is more significant
a one day riot of January sixth than our nation's capital,
which Democrats compared to the Civil War, and did primetime
hearings about four years. They talked about this or having
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a president for four years, not without the cognitive ability
to actually be president. No contest. This is way worse.
Up next Riley Game.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. I appreciate all of you hanging out with
us as we are rolling through the post Memorial Day
weekend festivities. We want to again, as I said on Friday,
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reiterate to everyone out there who's family friends have made
the ultimate sacrifice that the reason we all have the
freedoms we do every single day is because of the
sacrifices so many have made throughout the course of nearly
two hundred and fifty years of American history. We will
talk some about that. I had a spectacular weekend trip
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to the Indy five hundred. I had never been before.
Thanks to the Good Ranchers crew for taking me there,
Ben and his wife Corley. We had a phenomenal time
running all around with them. I think there are videos
up at clayanbuck dot com you can see the incredible
time that we all had. I met a lot of
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you in the Indianapolis area, and there's three hundred and
fifty thousand people there, so quite a bit of you
had to be Clay and Buck listeners OutKick readers, Fox
news viewers. Not a surprise that there would be a
lot of you that we would run into during the
course of that weekend. It was awesome. Hospitality was fabulous
in Indianapolis, and so I appreciate everybody who said hi,
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and the Good Ranchers Crew, Good Ranchers dot Com code Clay.
Those guys are doing amazing work. You get forty dollars
off if you go there. But they have a fabulous
business and they are awesome people. So I think you
guys will be hearing more and more from them coming forward.
But we had just a spectacular time. Want to tell
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you Buck is out by the way, has the flu
and he's hoping to be back tomorrow. So he will
be back tomorrow. I will be out. I'm going to
go to this new Universal Studios park with my kids.
We're going to be on the road for a few days.
School is finally out, so I'm going to be on
the road with my kids taking him to that amusement park,
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which my wife's probably not happy that I just announced,
but that is where we will be for the next
several days. So they have opened a brand new Universal
Studios park, and my kids were excited for the roller coaster.
So that is where Dad and Mom are going to
be here. But Buck should be back tomorrow, says he
should be back healthy. But that is where he is today.
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So I want to dive into There's so many different
stories that are out there. Riley Gaines, by the way,
is going to join us midway through today's program, and
she is going to do that because Trump has really
taken a two by four to the state of California
over men being allowed to participate in women's sports. And
(02:53):
we will talk about talking about that with her in
the next hour, as that has turned into a major
issue in Gavin Newsom, who still has an open invite
to come on this program but has somehow not found
the time, said it was very unfair, completely unfair, I
think was his phrase, to allow men to compete in
women's sports. Well, it's happening and at the state championship
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level of California, and the President has called it out.
We got a lot to talk about during the course
of the program, but I want to dive into a
couple of stories that I thought happening over the weekend
and earlier today were representative of the lies that so
many of us have had to deal with over the
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last four or five years. And I want to start
with good news. It's good news if you didn't get
the shot. Those of you who had to get the
COVID shot are still furious, those of you whose kids
had to get the COVID shot to go to college
or wherever it was. The Health and Human Services Secretary
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Robert Kennedy, I believe the CDC Director Marty McCarey, who
we need to get on the program. We had him
on a lot during the COVID era. On this program.
They announced this morning that they are removing the COVID
shot from the recommended vaccine quotation marks. For those of
you watching on video, the recommended vaccine shot lineup, and
(04:19):
we have that audio. This just happened in the last
hour or so. Listen to that.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today,
the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women
has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Last year,
the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another
COVID shot, despite the lack of any political data to
(04:45):
support the repeat booster strategy.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
In children. That ends today. It's common sense, that's good science.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
There's no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most
countries have stopped recommending it for children.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Or now one step close to realizing President Trump's promise
to make America healthy again.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, that's an extraordinary part of our national story. Now
that this shot which they told you would prevent COVID
from spreading, which they told you that you had to
get or you were going to be fired from your job,
think the Lord the Supreme Court stood up against it,
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Joe Biden. Remember, maybe we can grab this audio because
I know a lot of it gets memory. Hold said
that his patience was running short for those of you
out there that had not gotten the COVID shot, like me,
that we were going to experience a winter of death.
I remember seeing that comment while I was chilling on
(05:46):
a beach in Florida and thinking, Yeah, the wins or
death's not that bad done here in Florida right now.
I think I set out a tweet about it, and
you had to joke about it because it was so
infuriating that anybody was being forced to get this COVID shot.
Buck was forced to get the COVID shot. To go
to his brother's wedding in New York. You couldn't go
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to McDonald's some parts of places like New York and
la I never got the shot. I feel fortunate that
I did not. I feel fortunate that my young kids
did not because it was never mandated for them. But
I know a lot of you felt that you were
obligated to get it. And it is just completely indefensible
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that this entire era has been allowed to happen, and
that many of the people that wagged their finger and
lectured you about the COVID shot are now just pretending
they never said any of the things that they did.
And I want to hit you because I do think
it's important with the data here, and I would say
that many of you are listening to me today and
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listen to us on this program on a regular basis
because you are still angry about what they said to
you during COVID and what they tried to do to you.
Remember this poll, This was from the rasmuscin and it
broke down percentages of people twenty percent, sorry, nearly sixty
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percent of Democrats in January of twenty twenty two. This
is January of twenty twenty two believed that the unvaccinated
people like me and many of you listening right now
and UNCOVID shotted because not really a vaccine. Sixty percent
of Democrats believe that you should have been fined if
you refuse to get the COVID shot. This is crazy.
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Nearly sixty percent of Democrats believed that those of us
who didn't get the COVID shot should be locked at home.
This is nearly over. Forty percent of Democrats believed that
those who didn't get the COVID shot should be sent
to quarantine camps. Should your children be taken from you
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if you are not getting them the COVID shot? Thirty
percent of Democrats said yes. And for people like me
and buck Over, about fifty percent of Democrats said that
people who criticize the COVID shot should be fined and imprisoned.
I shared that audio, that clip from that poll yesterday
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because it says if people want to pretend all of
this never happened, and I see it. In conjunction with Jake,
Tapper went on with Piers Morgan, and Piers Morgan asked
him about the Biden cognitive and physical decline cover up
and Tapper now, who had a show on CNN for
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the entire Biden administration. He now says, you know, in
many ways, the cover up of Biden's health, physical and
mental was worse than Watergate. Listen to this. It is
a scandal.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes, it is, it is, it is. It is without question,
and maybe even worse than Watergate in some way because
Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he
wasn't drinking. We quote Archibald Cox, who was a Watergate investigator,
talking about how powerful the presidency is and how presidents
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get surrounded by people who have a vested interest in
keeping that president propped up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, worse than Watergate, and by the way, I think
it was worse than Watergate. The decision for the media
to not cover Biden's mental and physical decline, and now
the COVID shot being pulled for kids. Let me ask
you a question, how can anyone trust anyone in legacy
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media at this point if they told you at CNN, MSNBC, AB, NBCCBS,
Fox did not buy and large, but the Washington Post
and the New York Times, all of those major legacy
media outlets that I just ran through, if they all
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told you that your kids needed to get the COVID
shot or they were in danger of death. And if
they all told you that Biden was the best mental
and physical version of himself, and that anybody criticizing him
was spreading disinformation and misinformation, how can anyone trust these people?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Again?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
How can you if you worked at all those places
and you got the two biggest stories maybe of your
career COVID And I'm not just talking, by the way,
about the shot, but now that the SHOT's being pulled
for kids, I do think it's important to point out
that they tried to force kids to get this shot
(10:54):
in order to be able to go to school in
many parts of the country. Now that they're pulling this shot,
and now that everybody suddenly says, hey, you know what, yeah,
Biden mentally and physically he wasn't up for the job,
how can anyone Those are the two I would argue,
those are the two biggest stories in the last certainly
twenty years. If you go back to nine to eleven,
what has mattered more than those two things? COVID and
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Biden's mental and physical decline. They got all of that wrong.
How do they stop jobs? How do they still have
any audience at all? How in the world do these
people still have the ability to make a living. We
get things wrong as part of being human. All of
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us are imperfect. But if you listen to this program,
many of you did what I did and didn't get
your kids the COVID chat. I didn't get it myself.
Many of you knew early on that Biden didn't have
the mental and physical capacity to be president. Both of
those things we've now been proven right on on this program.
(12:02):
In an honest, transparent, fully cognizant media universe, this show
would do as it has continue to grow, and the
legacy media buy and large would collapse. And you know
what's happened that over time, all that matters in media
(12:25):
is trust. Do you trust people to be honest with
you and analyze complex situations and give you, to the
best of their ability, good advice to discuss complex issues
in an intelligent fashion. That is the goal to me
of anyone that sits behind this mic, of anyone that
talks to a large audience. Every single day, we passed
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that test here. Now, make no mistake. What they are
attempting to do is memory hold the entire COVID era
and pretend that they never could have known better because
the experts got it wrong, not them. And then the
thing that they're actually experts in, which is theoretically politics
and analyzing presidents. They're claiming that they just couldn't see
past the incredible cover up that the Biden administration has
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put in place. I would submit to you that you
should not let them off the hook. You should remember
this failure for the rest of their career. And I
would also submit to you, you know who the biggest
advertisers are on CNN and MSNBC buy large drug companies.
Do you think it was coincidental that they whiffed on
(13:34):
the value of the COVID shot when all of these
drug companies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars billions
of dollars to advertise on their programs. I don't think so.
And this is one where I think RFK Junior, who's
a lifelong Democrat, is actually right. Why in the world
are they accepting all of this money for prescription drug
advertisements on programs where they regularly have to cover prescription drugs,
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and whether or not they're necessary, I would submit to
you it's not a coincidence that the prescription drug companies
got beneficial coverage while spending hundreds of millions, if not
billions of dollars. And then we all know that it
wasn't that they got fooled, it was that they aren't
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actual journalists. They are propaganda's stooges for Democrats, and they
weren't willing to tell their audience the truth about Joe
Biden until it became clear Biden was never going to
be in power. Again. We'll talk about all this, but
I think the conjunction of these two stories coming together
is actually a moment of reckoning for the legacy media,
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which is leading to many of them being destroyed. And
I think this is such a huge story that I
think it needs to be hammered home, and we'll have
some fun doing that today, among many other things. But
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eight eight if CJ. Now that they have pulled the
COVID shot off the recommended list for kids and pregnant women,
I don't think we should forget pregnant women either. I
know Alison Williams, who worked at ESPN at the time
(16:09):
when Disney required all of their employees to get the
COVID shot. She left her reporting job in sports and said,
I'm trying to get pregnant. I have a doctor's exemption.
I don't want to worry about getting this COVID shot.
I'm gonna be fine. And Disney wouldn't let her continue
(16:30):
to work for them unless she got the COVID shot.
She refused left. Thankfully Fox has now hired her. But
their real consequences for the lies that we were all told,
and I want to play for you so they can't
memory hold this. This is Joe Biden September ninth, twenty
twenty one, threatening those of us who had not gotten
(16:51):
the COVID shot.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
My message to unvaccinated Americans is this What more is
there to wait for? What more do you need to say? See?
We've made vaccinations free, safe, and convenient. The vaccine is
FDA approval. Over two hundred million Americans have gotten at
least one shot. We've been patient, but our patience is
(17:15):
wearing thin.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, that was in September of twenty twenty one, after
we knew the COVID shot didn't stop anyone from getting
or spreading COVID. That data was quite clear. Here's cut
twenty six, Biden still being dramatic about the COVID shot
that now is not recommended for kids or pregnant with it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Please do the right thing, but just don't take it
from lee me. Listen to the voices of unvaccinated Americans
who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breath, saying,
if only I'd gotten vaccinated, if only it's a tragedy.
Please don't let it become yours.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I mean, it is inexcusable what they tried to do.
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Pure talk. Can we play saying Biden's health situation was
(19:03):
worse than Watergate? Again, this is what he said with
Piers Morgan. We can cut it off right after he
says worse than Watergate. But I actually think it's super
emblematic of why we have arrived in the era that
we have. Can we play that one more time? Guys?
This is what it is a scandal. Yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
It is.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It is without question, and maybe even worse than Watergaden's.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Maybe even worse than Watergate. I want you to think
about this for a minute. The Washington Post last week
published an editorial saying, boy, somebody should have told all
of the American voters that Joe Biden wasn't mentally or
physically fit to be president. The Washington Post is the
(19:50):
paper that broke all the Watergate stories Woodward and Bernstein.
For those of you back in the day, the Washington
Post when Trump was elected. Emblazoned at the time of
their masthead, democracy dies in darkness. You were the darkness,
Washington Post. You died in the darkness. Your job, Your
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only reason for existence, Washington Post is to tell us
if the president has putting for brains, if the president
is unable to be president, does not have the mental
or physical capability to be president. The only reason the
(20:37):
Washington Post exists is to speak truth to power and
let everyone know the truth. They did that in their
opinion with Watergate. Now Jake Tapper is coming out and saying, well,
in many ways this was worse than Watergate. Of course
it was. And some of you out there are saying, well,
(21:00):
Democrats should be blamed.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Me.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yes, of course they should. But also it doesn't surprise
me that Democrats didn't come out and say, hey, it
turns out Joe Biden is basically a dementia pation and
we got to get him out of here. It doesn't
(21:23):
surprise me that the party in power covered up for
the incompetence of the party in power, because everybody in
power owes their power to the president. This is not
a rare story. For those of you who study history.
The king and sometimes the queen was often still in
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power when the king and or the queen did not
have the mental or physical capacity to still be president,
still be president, still be king or queen or president
or prime minister or whatever it might be, and the
people that surround the person in a position of power
covered that up. This is a story as old as
(22:06):
the stories of power itself. So this is not some
unbelievable narrative that none of us have ever confronted before.
This is actually incredibly common. And so the fact that
the party in power covered up there mentally and physically
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incapable leader in order to preserve their own proximity to
power and ensure that they could still run the country
effectively with a regency A cabal of individuals who, again
I will reiterate, should be investigated fully, and the Republican
(22:46):
Party should have hearings about Biden's mental and physical cognitive state,
and those should be prime time and they should be
covered widely, and everybody should be put under oath and
brought in and asked who was actually running the country
and what did you see in the wake of everybody
trying to cover up. But I actually think the media
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is more to blame than the Democrat Party, because it
shouldn't surprise anyone that people in positions of power will
lie to preserve their power. The only reason media exists,
especially media covering the president, is to speak truth to power,
(23:30):
to actually tell us what's really going on, not what
they're telling us is going on, to keep democracy from
dying in darkness. The Washington Post was able to cover
Watergate and they were able to cover the Clinton impeachment,
two stories that were far more complicated, far more complicated
(23:53):
than Biden's inability to be president. Yet now the Washington
Post is coming out and saying, well, well, boy, somebody
really should have told us that the president couldn't do
the job. That's your job. That's the only job you
have is to speak truth to power and let us
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know what is actually going on. Now, we did that
here on this program. But I don't think we can
give a pass. I think this is a major issue
that isn't going to go away because sadly, Biden is
symptomatic of the collapse of the legacy media. And I've
told you this, and I wrote a lot about it,
(24:35):
and I think this is one thing that I got
one hundred percent right that still a lot of people
haven't gotten around on. This is about business imperatives. This
was not a flaw of the Washington Post in the
New York Times. Think about it. How hard you had
to work to break Watergate. I don't know how many
(24:56):
man hours Woodward and Bernstein worked. I don't know how
many hours they worked on the Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky fallout,
Biden's mental and physical capacity. Legitimately, all you had to
do was turn on the television and watch the guy
walk to try to get on Air Force one, watch
him stand in front of the rosterum. And I set
(25:16):
it for years, and I've argued it for a long time,
also understanding that was the absolute best version of Biden
that existed. They hit him for ninety five percent of
his day. You got the best five percent of Biden.
They shot him up, They prepared him the best they could.
He would hold those note cards with all those reporters'
names on it. It was clear and evident to anyone
(25:39):
with a functional brain that Biden's brain was not functional
and that he did not have the physical capacity to
be president. So they were able to cover Watergate, they
were able to cover Clinton Why did the newspaper that
writes democracy dies in darkness? The Washington Post and the
New York Times all the news that fit to print,
Probably the New York Times in the Washington Post probably
(26:02):
employ hundreds of people who will live in Washington, DC
and are focused on covering politics. So we're talking about
hundreds of people. How did they miss this? They didn't
miss it. They intentionally didn't cover it because the business
imperatives of their brands have changed. The Washington Post and
(26:23):
the New York Times are subscriber based businesses now, and
their subscribers overwhelmingly are far left wing partisans. Great example,
what happened when Jeff Bezos made the decision the Washington
Post is not going to endorse presidential candidates anymore. Hundreds
of thousands of subscribers canceled their newspaper subscriptions. That shouldn't
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happen if you just cover the news. They don't just
cover the news. They cover the news for far left
wing ideologues that want to be told that their site
is right and that they are the heroes of history.
And I'm telling you maybe it's because of what I
do for a living. This is what sports message boards do.
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I don't know how many of you listen, how many
of you out there are diehard sports fans. I am
one that subscribe to a rival site, or an on
three site or a twenty four to seven site. You
know what, sites never break bad news about the coaching staff.
Nobody ever gets caught cheating by a message board. Do
(27:37):
you know why? Because the subscribers want to be told
good news about their favorite program. And it's only when
a coach gets fired that suddenly all the truth comes
out about the coach's failures. That's exactly what's happened with Biden.
The Washington Post in the New York Times are not
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new sites. They are fan subscription sites now. They exist
to make their subscribers happy and convince them that they
are on the right side. They are fan based journalism,
which isn't really necessarily journalism at all. It's just fan
fiction awesome often times. And really, I mean, I think
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Jeff Bezos has finally realized this, and I think he's embarrassed.
They just announced voluntary buyouts for anybody basically at the
Washington Post in the opinion universe who's been there for
ten or more years. I think he's realized that he's
created a toxic echo chamber of left wing message board
subscription idiocy, and I think frankly, he's embarrassed by what
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that paper has become. But this is not a flaw.
They didn't somehow cover Watergate and miss on Biden. If
Trump had been in office and all all of the
things that Biden was doing mentally and physically were instead
done by Trump, they would not have missed that story.
(29:07):
At the Washington Post. They tried the twenty fifth amendment
Trump in his first term. Now you've heard that's kind
of vanished that discussion. Now, but this is a larger
flaw in the legacy media, and I think you can
connect it to COVID. But I think when you hear
suddenly someone like Jake Tapper say, boy, this is bigger
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than Watergate in many ways, Well, yeah, of course it is,
and somehow you missed it. So either you're a moron
or telling the truth had a cost based on who
your audience was. I don't think that all these people
are morons. I think that telling the truth had a
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cost based on their audiences, and they did not tell
the truth. Now, the interesting thing here is a lot
of reasonable people out there you're watching or listening to
us now, because we got things right with COVID and
we got things right with Biden. And you may not
agree with everything I say, You may not agree with
(30:10):
everything that Buck says on a day to day basis.
You shouldn't agree with anybody one hundred percent on anything,
would be my suggestion. But if you miss the two
biggest stories of your career, and don't just miss it,
but are diametrically wrong, and you're lecturing me along the
way about how important it is, as you just heard Biden,
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our patience is wearing thin. Your patience is wearing thin
that I have a brain and I'm not going to
get a shot that is worthless for me or my family.
We were right, and Democrats now are trying to avoid
the reckoning legacy. Media now are trying to avoid the reckoning.
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That's really what the story of the original Sin Book is.
It's shifting the blame entirely onto the Biden team and
pretending that this cover up was so diabolical and so
well done that nobody could have ever seen through it.
The problem is actually millions and millions of people did
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see through it, and you guys listening right now all
solve through it. The question I have is why do
these legacy media outlets still exist? Because if you're missing
on the biggest, most important stories that most of you
will ever cover in your career, what actual value are
you providing? That's a question I think Jeff Bezos and
many other people who are in positions of power and
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own these companies are starting to ask. I think you're
starting to see it at Paramount with Sherry Redstone CBS.
I think you're seeing it with Comcast at NBC. I
think they're looking around and saying, what the world are
we doing here? This is broken? And I think Trump
winning the popular vote has given some of these people
cover to address large systemic issues that they've seen but
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have been afraid for their own job status to be
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on in California involving a male athlete trying to win
women's state championships. Trump has weighed in. We'll talk about
that and more with Riley in a moment, But first,
Dan in Arizona, what you got for us?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Hey, good morning, sir. I am very happy to be
speaking with you today.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Thank you. I'm happy you're listening. And Colin, what you
got for us?
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yes, sir, I just wanted to put it out there
that I think Jake Tapper needs to donate one hundred
percent of his profits off of this book he wrote
to a charity that supports dimentia patients or dementia research
or something like that, if he is truly a repentant man.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's a great idea. Thank you for the call. I
don't think it's a bad idea at all. Look, Jake
Tapper has made millions and millions of dollars for a
long time. He has the ability to make substantial donations
to charitable organizations. And if you really feel bad about
the way you behaved in some situation, why should you
profit off of it? I've said this. Tapper is in
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a unique spot here where he was able to make
lots of money claiming to Democrats that Joe Biden did
not have mental and physical cognition related issues, and now
he's making millions of dollars from Democrats, but also from
some of us that are out there listening right now
who want to have a historical record of exactly what
went on writing a book telling the truths awfully convenient
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that he was not willing to tell the truth and
made money, and then as soon as Biden's gone, he
tells the truth and he makes too. I don't think
that's a bad idea at all. Dan in Arizona add
in North Carolina, what you got for us.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Hey, I want to make it quick.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
I wanted to bring up the fact that I think
the Republican Party should make a point of the fact
that those in the administration, that Biden's administration had the
responsibility to use the twenty fifth Amendment to remove him, and.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
That they should take this and focus on those members
if they're going to try and run for the President
of the United States, if they had the responsibility, the
duty to the Constitution, to the American people, to the
world to remove him from office. But they wouldn't do it.
Yet they would always constantly scream about President Trump, we
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need to remove.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
It, we need to use the twice of Amendment. This
is this is just the pot calling, is the tenal plaque.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
It's just thanks for the call. Look, I mean what
I would say is this is why we need hearing.
I want everyone that was close to Joe Biden brought in. If,
as Jake Tapper is arguing, I think it's correct, this
is way bigger than Watergate. I think that all of
the people that surrounded Biden and protected him should be
brought in, put under oath, and we should have primetime
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hearings into the cover up. Now, look, they did this
for jan six which do you think is more significant
a one day riot of January sixth than our nation's capital,
which Democrats compared to the Civil War, and did primetime
hearings about four years. They talked about this or having
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a president for four years, not without the cognitive ability
to actually be president. No contest. This is way worse.
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