April 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a discussion on the Trump Administration 2.0, marking its 99th day. Truth bomb: the media was drunk with power and lied about Biden's mental decline. Now they're giving themselves awards at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where the media's self-congratulatory nature is critiqued, particularly regarding their coverage of President Biden's mental and physical decline. Clay and Buck emphasize their long-standing commentary on Biden's cognitive issues, contrasting it with the mainstream media's delayed acknowledgment.
The hosts dissect the media's role in covering up Biden's incompetence, referencing specific incidents and quotes, such as Biden's disastrous debate performance and the subsequent media reaction. They criticize the White House Correspondents Association for awarding journalists who belatedly recognized Biden's issues, highlighting the intentionality behind the media's actions rather than mere errors. The discussion includes references to NBC News and Fox News, illustrating the media's bias and the consequences of their actions on public trust.
Karoline Leavitt's press conference is mentioned, where she addresses the media's coverup and the impact on American trust in journalism. The hosts also touch on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the broader implications of media dishonesty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Saquon Barkley's interaction with Trump and the Philadelphia Eagles' visit to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory.
The hour concludes with lighter topics, including Clay's personal anecdotes and a humorous exchange about Crockett Coffee.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I
believe it is day ninety nine of the Trump administration,
two point zero day one hundred. Tomorrow, we got some
special guests scheduled to come your way Tomorrow. Should be
a lot of fun as we break down all of that.
But there are a ton of stories out there that
(00:21):
I think you guys are going to enjoy. Buck's favorite
football player, Sequan also known as Saquon Barkley, hanging out
with Trump. There's some good quotes from that, and I
believe during the course of today's program, the Philadelphia Eagles,
of whom Saquon is a star player four, will be
(00:43):
visiting the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl championship.
We'll see if there's any fireworks that come out of that.
The White House one hundred different images of violent criminals
who have been arrested. Tom Homan and Caroline Levitt had
a pre conference already this morning in the White House
to start off Monday and hit the ground running, and
(01:07):
over the weekend was the White House Correspondent's Dinner. All
of the festivities where people in Washington pat each other
on the back over what an amazing situation that they
have created based on their coverage of the past year,
and I wanted to make sure that we covered the
(01:29):
fact that this show Buck when needs be a good, actual,
honest media analysis. We talked on this program about Biden's
clear mental and physical decline for years with this audience,
such that you and I were both attacked by the
people celebrating at the White House Correspondence Association for being
(01:52):
unfair and dishonest and being engaged in cheap fakery for
those comments and discussions beginning of when you and I
teamed up together, I think coming up on four years
ago this June, we were talking about the Weekend at
Bernie's and in fact, I believe you kept saying Weekend
at Bernie's two. I didn't even realize there was a sequel.
(02:15):
For those who don't know, that is a movie that
is absurd from the eighties but kind of a cult
classic in its absurdity, where a guy is dead and
they carry the dead body around to pretend he's alive
and shenanigans ensue. So how is it that you're saying
Weekend at Bernie's two starting in twenty twenty two, and
they didn't figure this Outclay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
How is that possible?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Not only did they not figure at out, Buck, they
claim it was impossible for them to have known, even
though every single one of you out there listening four
years has heard on this program us playing a variety
of different clips which demonstrated quite clearly that Biden didn't
have the mental or physical cognition in order to do
the job of president of the United States. On June
(03:00):
twenty seventh, when Biden came out for that disastrous debate performance,
all arguments to the contrary ceased, and overnight everyone suddenly said,
oh wow, Biden can't be president, and they actually awarded
This is unbelievable. But I think it's important for all
of you to understand they didn't award.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Have you ever gotten an award for this? Buck?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Has anybody ever said, hey, Buck, you know you were
so great for pointing out Biden didn't have the mental
or physical capability to be president.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Just making sure you have not received any award for that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I just always assumed in this business, Clay, that we
would never get awards.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
If you are a right of center, you don't even
consider that there's an award you're going to get. I
have never gotten an award for anything in my entire
media career, but certainly not for honestly pointing out that
Biden did not have the capability to be president. The
reason why I bring that up, Buck and I somehow
were miss missed our award. They just this is amazing.
(04:01):
The White House Correspondence Association decided to give an award
to a guy who started saying in twenty twenty three,
very minimally, hey, maybe Joe Biden isn't on top of
his game. And he showed up. This guy Alex Thompson,
and Alex Thompson showed up and addressed the assembled press
(04:22):
and took applause for being a truth teller. Now again,
Fox News, for years, to be fair, has tons of
people on air who have been saying Biden isn't mentally
or physically able to be president. NBC News wrote an
entire article calling me a disinformation and misiinformation expert for
(04:44):
saying Biden didn't have the physical or mental capability to
be president.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
In June of twenty twenty four, somebody pulled that article up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You'd be a purveyor of disinformation though, right, Like an
expert in disinformation would be the person lying about Joe
as part of the disinformation campaign. Right, They'd say, I'm
a disinformation expert and Clay is lying about it. This
is people, forget. One of the original great moments of
Trump Jitsu, if you will jiu jitsu via Trump was
(05:15):
when they used fake news against Trump and he just
turned it around. He's like, you guys are fake news
and they had a total meltdown. The same thing has
happened with the disinformation experts Clay about Biden's mental acuity
because they were doing exactly what they did to you.
They put people out there whose expertise was spotting intentional lies,
(05:35):
and they were intentionally lying about Biden's mental capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In their role as disinformation experts.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I just found it buck.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
June thirteenth, twenty twenty four, two weeks in advance of
Biden falling on his face NBC News, a post on
x from Clay Travis, a conservative talk radio host, said
Biden just goes wondering off and that other national leaders
are quote babysitting our president in Italy. His post received
(06:06):
one point one million million views and a follow up
post Friday, Travis said he stood by his view Biden
is not mentally fit to be president. The RNCs and
Travis's post didn't have community notes, though they had been proposed.
This was June thirteenth, NBC News attacking me for saying
(06:27):
Biden didn't have the mental or physical capacity to be president.
All right, Here is Alex Thompson taking his bow as
everyone cheers the fact that he minimally suggested that Biden
might not be able to be president. Here is I
believe it's cut one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
We myself included, missed a lot of this story, and
some people trust us less because of it. We bear
some responsibility for faith in the media being.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
At such lows.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I say this because acknowledging errors builds trust, and being
defensive about them further erodes it. We should have done better.
I believe our mission is vital in a world where
people are struggling to figure out what's true, and people
with power are not telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They are clay.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They are systematically lying about lying about Biden's mental health. Now,
meaning this game of we missed it. We didn't do
the greatest job. Oh, we should have looked a little
more closely. That is not what happened. They knew, and
they shut their mouths about it and actually went to
(07:49):
the active side of lying, and they pretended like Joe
Biden was fine.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's why Why.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Else would you know Joe Scarborough's making millions of dollars
a year to be a jacket on television? Why else
would he go on TV and say months before the
debate that Biden is not sharp, not okay, the sharpest
version he has ever been in his life, in his
eighty years of life. This is the best Biden has
ever been. That is what one of their biggest hosts said.
(08:17):
You only say that when you have the marching orders
from the top and across the board that this is
the guy. Everybody shut up, everybody go along with this,
So you know they can't even be honest about their dishonesty.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is really where we are.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They all were in on it, and now they're trotting
out some kind of you know, low tease.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know, soy drinking journals.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
From inside the bell let had gone, Oh, we didn't
really live up to our journal, live up to it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You were part of the con. You were one of
the absolute you know, accomplices in this.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think that's important.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I jotted down as that speech was being made,
as we were playing the audio for you, and I
watched it over the weekend. An error, that's what they
call this, an error, and we missed a lot of
the story. And error is unintentional. And I think you're
hammering on this, but it's very important. If you are
(09:16):
playing shortstop and you intend to fill the ground ball
and you have it go off your knee instead, or
it goes between your legs, it's assigned as an error,
but it's unintentional. We don't presume that on the baseball
field somebody is trying not to make an out. This
was intentional. It was not a miss. It was not
(09:37):
an error. These journalists in quotation marks were propagandists of
the party in power, and they refused to hold accountable
the party in power because overwhelmingly they agree with the
politics of the party in power. Now Trump has an
adversarial relationship with the majority of the press. I actually
(10:00):
don't mind that, because if there was a consistent adversarial
relationship with the press, I would actually think that would
be somewhat encouraging, because the job of the press should
be to speak truth. To power, regardless of who is
in power. When you are claiming that you're an unbiased journalist,
call balls and strikes. Sometimes it's a strike, sometimes it's
(10:22):
a ball. But the attempt now to rewrite history and
try and say, oh, it was just an error, we
missed a lot of the story. No, you actively lied
to cover up the truth. And I will say this,
he was right that the media basically destroyed themselves in
the process. And you know what also has happened, Buck,
(10:44):
there's a graphic out from Axios. Coverage of misinformation and
disinformation has almost vanished.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They basically have just acknowledged that given COVID and now
the Biden cover up, they have no ability to do
it anymore. You have to also put this this White
House correspondence dinner, this pseudo meya culpel, but not even really,
you know, it's really just, oh gosh, guys, we need
to rally and do a little better next time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's like they were in the big game and they
lost by a touchdown. No, they were trying to pay
off all the refs and they got caught their scumbacks. Okay,
that's what happened. The people in that room who are
trying to pretend like, hm, we should have done better. No,
they were propagandas they were liars, and it didn't work.
But I think the context that must always be remembered
here is that this didn't just happen Clay. They because
(11:35):
of COVID and because of the unholy alliance between the
left wing social media companies, the dominance still of the
Democrat a line, corporate media and corporate America working all
together here, they got drunk with power. They managed to
do this in twenty twenty the Hunter Byden laptop, which
(11:56):
came after all the lives about COVID, which came after
all the lies about the.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, COVID is part of this.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But as I said, the Wuhan lab and the leak,
and then all the stuff about Lockdown's play, they basically
got steps away from an authoritarian information control, authoritarian information
control that they could wield at will. And they thought
they think they could do it one more time. They
thought they could pull it off again. They got caught
with their hand in.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
A cookie jar.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
This wasn't a close but no, this wasn't a close
but no cigar get you know, old school try kind
of thing. This was their liars, their scum. They didn't
manage to pull it off. Thank you Trump for beating
all this nonsense. And now they want us to pretend
like they have any integrity or any honor. They don't
and I won't. And that's where we are. It's not
gonna change, Amen, and we will come back and continue
(12:47):
to break this down.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I can't wait to hear his reaction to his boy
Sequon and their new found friendship between Sequon obviously Saquon,
because somebody's gonna correct me on pronunciation. I mean, as
I've said, oh, bet On Sequan, and it was he
playing golf with Trump, I would say that he'd probably
beat Trump, just because you always got a bet On Sequan.
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Speaker 1 (14:24):
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck eight hundred
and two A two two eight a two on the
phone lines, and we're talking about the situation at the well,
we don't really care about the White House Correspondence Dinner
as a general matter.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is boring, it is laying.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I have been.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I went when no person in America had any idea
who it was in the media, and somehow I got invited.
And now Clay, I don't know. We do a kind
of big show. Where was our invite this year, or
it's not invited, or I've never been invited. I don't
think I get invited to anything. This is my wife,
by the way, has been teeing off on on some
of this for years, primarily relating to Super Bowl, where
(15:03):
I do an awful job of knowing what parties are
going on, where to go. I don't know any of
this stuff. And then there's the red carpet and all
these people that nobody has any idea who they are posing.
I saw this in the White House Correspondence Dinner. All
they didn't even have that many famous people there, like
they had the guy from White to these it used
to be a thing where they would bring the biggest
(15:23):
Hollywood celebrities that they could convince to come, usually Hollywood
celebrities who are dumb but would like to weigh in
on politics on occasion. I'm going back now to twenty twelve.
So it's been a while and now it has faded,
I think, and you get a kind of a lesser
degree of celebrity there. I would tell you if I
were invited, I would not go. So I have no
(15:45):
interest in ever going back because it is not fun
and the people there are not people that I want
to spend time around. But if you've never been Clay so,
Clay also likes to party more than I do. This
is not a surprise to any of you. I am
much more of a homebody. Clay is like, let's go.
Let's let's give those nerds wedgies, like let's show up
at the There was a little bit of a line
(16:05):
and you were ready to go. Three minutes into the line,
you were like, let's just go back home. Yeah, he
is not lying. I was like, it is called. The
line is long. I am unhappy. Clay's like, no, it's
gonna be fun. We're gonna get in there.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We see some people. I think I saw hul Cogan
like let's do this, you know. I was like, ah,
I don't know. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But I am getting to the point where lines really
annoy me. But but no, I wasn't invited. It did
sound like again, I thought we should play that clip
because the cover up that they're attempting.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Here is even for them, is pretty huge.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like at least with COVID, they could say, well, we
weren't experts on science. We listened to them, right, this
is on them, this is the they're supposed to be
the experts that This is the point. With COVID, it
was we did what we were told, and I knew
that was going to be their slimy after the fact.
In the beginning, it was we're smarter than you, and
the experts all know this one hundred percent. Don't ask
(17:02):
any questions. But then it became, oh, we did what
the experts told us, and we're just Oh, I couldn't
stand up to the experts, even though I'm a journalist,
so I thought I was supposed to do that. And
now it's you are the experts. Supposedly they're not, but
they're supposed to be the experts in what's happening in
the government in the White House that the public needs
to know about, and they're going to say they missed.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This, Clay. Let's take a step. Let's assume for a
second they aren't lying.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
If the Press Corps, if the White House Correspondence Association
can't figure out that Biden has dementia, Okay, that essentially
the American people were about to be passengers in a
car with a clearly drunk, out of his mind driver.
What purpose does it serve if they can't catch that?
What can they catch? I actually think that their argument
(17:48):
makes it worse for them in a sense.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
They're basically saying, we're total morons and are workless, but
that's better than being liars. But they're actually liars, you know, Yeah, yeah,
fired off about this? Remember the White House correspondens those us.
We're still cool.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No, you're not the nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of
you hanging out with us. We're rolling through the Monday
edition of the program we played for you. The White
House Press Corps saying, man, we missed a lot of
(19:08):
the story.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
There were errors.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How could we have ever managed to not correctly do
the story? And Caroline Levitt eight thirty am Eastern they
had a press conference credit to them right and early
to set the agenda of the week and Caroline Levitt
was asked about that happening over the weekend, and this
(19:30):
was her response.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Cut to you, I do you agree with that assessment
from Alex Thompson, who I understand won an award for
writing a story months and perhaps years after the American
people already knew that story to be true. Millions of
Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle with his day
to day duties of this office. We watched our country
be ran into the ground as a result, and nobody
in the media wanted to write about that.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Talk about it.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
There were many many reporters, I will say, write leaning
reporters who did talk about that, who didn't get a war,
didn't get coverage. In fact, they were lamb masted for
their coverage. And I remember being on President Trump's campaign
talking about Joe Biden's clear mental incompetence and being accused
by people in this room of manufacturing deep fake videos
trying to persuade the public into not believing what they
(20:16):
saw with their own eyes for many years, and I
think it's about time the legacy media finally admits that
was one of the greatest cover ups and scandals that
ever took place in American history, and certainly it did
contribute to the decline and the trust that Americans have
for the legacy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Media well said by Caroline Levitt bright And early this
morning when she was asked about the comments made by
Alex Thompson.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Now, have we had Alex on the show? I think
we might have. I don't know. Ali.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He has the book with Jake Tapper, right, yes, but
he's been to his credit as media outlet figures go,
he's been fairer, which is why they gave him the
award than the average one was. And if he had
written the book on Biden's deterioration, I would have said, Okay,
(21:06):
I can see at least he's been willing to write
that on some level, I wouldn't. I know. I give
zero credit, Clay, I give zero credit. I think that
this is we should not even fall into. He's the
least bad of horrible, horrible lying journals. That's not a
good thing still, right. I mean, I hear you in
that he is. He did it early enough that there
(21:30):
was some pushback. There could have been some pushback from
his side. Clay, you and I have been making jokes
about dragging a Bernie.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You know, Weekend at.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Bernie's Weekend at Bernie's two is a good test when
did we first reference or when did I first reference
the Weekend at Bernie's two. That would be a good
sense for when we've been hammering it. Find out when
I made a reference to El Sid, which also the
Charlton Heston movie which you will all recall. There's a
scene where El Sid the Spanish you know, raycon Quista
(22:03):
hero is like riding riding out on a horse at
the end when he's dead.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean, these are things we're talking about. How Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We're openly mocking this with no fear of anyone saying.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Hey, he's actually really smart and fine.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Like for years, yes, for years we're saying this, and
obviously if it weren't true. I never said this about Obama.
You never said this about Obama. This wasn't like something
we say. You know, they say every Republican is dumb,
every republic it's so childish, but that's what they do.
We don't say every Democrat has dementia.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It was just this guy.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
In fact, I've never said Bernie Sanders, who's even older
than Biden, I think, or maybe they're the same age,
they're close, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think he's older. Is he older?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But Bernie's eighty three, he's older than Biden.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He's older.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I've never said Bernie Sanders clearly has dementia. I've said
he's probably too old for the job, which I think
everyone knows, but it was, you know, he doesn't have
scrambled eggs moments.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We've been saying this for years. How can you get credit.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
For saying something that has been obvious to everybody who
is not a Democrat trying to advance their partisan agenda
the whole time, and you know, I just I get
so I feel like we give no credit on this.
I give no Okay, we have to. Maybe we should
have them on. They can try to argue their case,
but I'm I am not snack. Tapper gets no credit.
That's what I was gonna say. If Alex Thompson had
(23:19):
written the book by himself, I would say, Okay, he
at least back in twenty twenty three did write a
story saying Biden's mental and physical and he got Remember
the Wall Street Journal wrote it to and everybody lined
up and said it's so untrue. I think that was
when the Joe Scarborough infamous this is the best version
(23:41):
of Biden there's ever been, which I think ended his career, honestly,
because I think even for the the diehard MSNBC viewers.
And then he begged to go meet with Trump and
he went down to mar A Lago and kissed the ring.
I mean, his career, I think is over. Can I
tell you my I never thought he's a talented guy.
By the way, I don't understand what the appeal of
(24:02):
the interest is other than a former Republican who trash
as Republicans all day for the amusement of stupid Democrats.
But I would say, Clay, as you look at the
way that this story unfolded, it was more and more
obvious all along, and yet there weren't more and more
Democrats coming forward to say it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, think about the This is like cult of
Mao or cult.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Of Stalin level obedience when you have something that we
would all have to agree is utterly reckless. I mean,
to have a commander in chief, to have the President
of the United States, the most powerful man in the world,
have a brain that does not function properly and is
obvious to everybody who is paying attention. To have been
a part of that is a disgrace that you can
(24:50):
never come back from. Right and What I think is
I would actually respect these guys more if they came
forward and they said, you know what, sometimes you got
to tell a lot I in order to support a bigger,
better agenda. I thought that Donald Trump was hitler and
going to destroy the country. So I lied to your
faces about Biden's dementia because I thought that was the
(25:12):
lesser evil. Pretending they were too stupid to notice is
insulting to me, and I rejected. Would have they ever
admitted remember when Biden would call on them and he
was given a list and he would just go through
the list. Have they ever explained that in any way
(25:33):
of meaning? The White House Correspondence Association, because they're supposedly
hold speaking truth to power. And again, I think the
idea that Jake Tapper wrote a book about the cover
up is one of the craziest, most arrogant, most dishonest
things that we have ever seen someone on television do.
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Because he had a platform on CNN where he could
have clearly called into question Joe Biden in his mental
and physical acuity, and he never did it, never did
it on the air until June twenty seventh happened. And
then suddenly, oh my goodness, he's not very good. And
do you know how we know he never did it.
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If it had happened, it would have caused a stir.
We would have played exactly it would you would have
heard it on this show because we would have said, look,
we call balls and strikes. We've done it with Fetterman
with some of the Israel stuff, right. We said, look,
Fetterman still votes with Chuck Schumer on everything. Can't trust Fetterman.
(26:34):
But when he says something smart, we're not gonna lie
to you and say he hasn't, or you said something
that's honest and moral, We're gonna say, look, he said
something honest and moral. Anyone in the Democrat side who
had come forward and said, who was the reporter?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Was it Dasha Burns? Who it was?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, that was the one who, to her credit, NBC
did the interview with Fetterman, and everybody was furious at
her for saying, yeah, he couldn't basically do the job right.
But that just showed you the level of cult like
obedience demanded of people whose entire presentation of themselves is
speaking truth to power, and we won't they play. It's
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like if you were at a hospital and the doctors
and nurses poisoned all the patients, like they completely violated
the core tenant supposedly of their profession.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And now they're giving us a meek you know, we
could have done a better job. No, No, they did
the job.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's just like I said, Clay about the fifty one
intelligence officers. Everyone says, oh, but you know they got
it wrong. They didn't get it wrong. The job was
to lie, and they knew the job was to lie,
and the job worked because Biden got the pass on
the you know, on the Hunter Biden laptop in part
with all the help from the social media because of it. Right,
(27:57):
when your job is to lie and you do it,
you don't then get to turn around and say, oh,
I just made a good faith a good faith error, right.
I mean it's like I said about sports stuff. If
you've paid off the refs and you got caught, don't
tell me that you did your best. Okay, That's that's
not the same thing. An error is unintentional, and I
(28:18):
think to your point, all of this was directly intentional.
When does the book come out from Tapper, I'll find out, guys,
do you I'm gonna put this to you. I'm gonna
put this to you because I don't like generally, I
don't like to use the term platform. I don't like
platforming democrats who I think are just gonna come on
(28:38):
here and be deeply dishonest. So I'm I'm open to
the Alex guy because he did and Clay Clay's a
little I'm even more, you know, just the whole White
House Correspondent, the whole thing like just sets me off
because people are all such frauds. Clay's a little more
willing to tolerate or or I should say to give
some credit to Alex. My standard is so whoe that
(29:00):
if you are something other than a crazy left wing propagandist,
I will give you credit for being anything a little
bit to towards the center from left wing propagandist like
Joe Scarborough is the worst. And then I think we
should have Jake Tapper on because I don't think he
can defend him.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is a this is amazing, by the way, we're
gonna play this. We're gonna play this for him. Okay,
we're gonna play this.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We're gonna have I think we're gonna have you guys
call in emailing are you okay with us having on
these people that are supposed to represent this new book
that's gonna tell us about how they missed this. They're
gonna tell that, you know, I want to hear from you.
Really give us a sense if you want them to
come on. I've already told Clay there are you know. Look,
it's radio. If you invite someone into your house, you
(29:44):
have to maintain de quorum and be respectful. But I'm
not gonna have them on and then say, you know, you, guys,
congrats on the you're really you know, speaking, No, I'm
gonna say, I think your frauds. Explain to me why
you're not. I'm just gonna be very transparent and straightforward
about that because I do, and again more so on
the Tapper side than on the other one.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But Clay to.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Our point about this, because I remembered this. I remember
it so much that I actually went to see like
I think I watched the trailer Weekend at Bernie's two,
and I was like, can I sit through this? Wee
get at Bernie. It's not a good movie. Just to
tell you guys, it's not. It's a funny premise for
five minutes and then it's just preposterous. In August of
twenty twenty one, Okay, we had been on the air
(30:27):
together two months. The quote here, we should pull this,
pull the audio on this. But Buck, that's me. Who
do you think the most powerful person is. We talk
about this a lot. Clay refers to this as the
weekend at Bernie's presidency. Clay, Yes, Buck, I've called it
that and many others. It's obviously a trojan horse presidency
(30:47):
for the last which is I think playing out in
a way that we anticipated.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Clay.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That's in twenty twenty one, we're saying it's a presidency
where they're carrying around the dead body pretending it's alive.
Obviously metaphorical. But the point is, who didn't see that?
A lot of people on the left, because there were
people like Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Who refused to speak the truth.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And I think we should have him on because I
think he should have to explain to all of you
why suddenly he can write a book about Biden's decrepitude.
But he never talked about it on his show during
the entire Biden presidency until June twenty seventh. Happened when
everybody suddenly had the ability to acknowledge what all of
us could see with their plain eyes. I mean, I'm
(31:34):
familiar with some of Tapper's work. I was at CNN.
I will keep this out of the personal level. I'll
keep this away from the personal to purely the sort
of professional presentation of someone's.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Of their work.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
His whole thing is he's a guy who will even
though he's a Democrat, which he will argue and say
he's not, and all of you and we will laugh,
but he will say he's not. He will say that
he's an independent journalist. Trust me, he's a Democrat that
he occasionally, occasionally, you know, five percent of the time,
will break with his own side on something so that
he has more gravitas to push the other stuff for
(32:09):
the Democrats. Right, that's the whole game. This is the
annihilation of that as a brand for anyone. If you
went along with the Biden hoax, you're done. Okay, you're done.
Nobody should believe anything that you say, which is why
I think there's this effort to rehabilitate. This book comes
out next month. If you and the audience are okay
with it, we will have them on and it will
be and I will let them know beforehand. Ali, we
(32:30):
don't do what they do with places like CNN. Be like, Look,
the guys are very skeptical. They think they are frauds,
and they're willing to hear you out on this. I
shouldn't say they, because Alex Clay points out that guy
did try. I don't think he tried very hard, but
he wrote one story in four years and he did
get some heat for it, and it was a real story. Okay,
But Tapper, coming on here, we're going to have to
address this in a very straightforward way, and we'll tell
(32:53):
them ahead of time too. Tell us the days where
you were talking about Biden's dementia. We'll pull those clips
and have them ready because I don't want someone coming
on the show and saying I talked about.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
This a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was, you know, in this vague Oh I was.
I was, you know, just following the fact. So uh yeah,
we'll see, all right, onto something happy. If you might
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Speaker 1 (34:41):
We'll continue with this discussion about the media with its
a fake accountability moment here at the White House Correspondence dinner.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
We'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We'll take some of your calls and get more into
what you think is going on with the border too.
We'll dive into some of that next. Some interesting moves
from the administration on that, and of course the counter
narrative we will dive into a Clay is wearing his
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You can get them at Crockett Coffee dot com. But
I was out with my ten year old. It was
(35:51):
a busy weekend, and you know, he's actually dressing up
as Davy Crockett at his school because they have like
fourth grade storybook and you have historical correcter characters that
you dress up as. And I said, well, I've actually
got my Krocket Coffee shirt on right now. It's kind
of a flex, you know, because I've got a coffee
company and I'm wearing the shirt. And he said, Dad,
(36:14):
that's not a flex. That's actually a loser thing too.
This is my ten year old to me, he said,
He said, Elon Musk doesn't walk around in a Tessela
T shirt, so I don't know, is he right?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Am?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I I thought, I was like, hey, this is pretty cool.
I'm wearing a Crocket Coffee T shirt. The boys wear
the gear, they like it, but they don't actually own
the company. And my ten year old just off the
top rope WrestleMania style kind of flattened me.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Your boys are very astute.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's like he's calling you unk on this one. Again.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I very astute, But I think the tea, I think
if it's the company you own, has Elon never worn
a Tesla T shirt in public?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I think he probably had.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
According to my ten year old, no, so he came
off the top of rope on dat
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I
believe it is day ninety nine of the Trump administration,
two point zero day one hundred. Tomorrow, we got some
special guests scheduled to come your way Tomorrow. Should be
a lot of fun as we break down all of that.
But there are a ton of stories out there that
(00:21):
I think you guys are going to enjoy. Buck's favorite
football player, Sequan also known as Saquon Barkley, hanging out
with Trump. There's some good quotes from that, and I
believe during the course of today's program, the Philadelphia Eagles,
of whom Saquon is a star player four, will be
(00:43):
visiting the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl championship.
We'll see if there's any fireworks that come out of that.
The White House one hundred different images of violent criminals
who have been arrested. Tom Homan and Caroline Levitt had
a pre conference already this morning in the White House
to start off Monday and hit the ground running, and
(01:07):
over the weekend was the White House Correspondent's Dinner. All
of the festivities where people in Washington pat each other
on the back over what an amazing situation that they
have created based on their coverage of the past year,
and I wanted to make sure that we covered the
(01:29):
fact that this show Buck when needs be a good, actual,
honest media analysis. We talked on this program about Biden's
clear mental and physical decline for years with this audience,
such that you and I were both attacked by the
people celebrating at the White House Correspondence Association for being
(01:52):
unfair and dishonest and being engaged in cheap fakery for
those comments and discussions beginning of when you and I
teamed up together, I think coming up on four years
ago this June, we were talking about the Weekend at
Bernie's and in fact, I believe you kept saying Weekend
at Bernie's two. I didn't even realize there was a sequel.
(02:15):
For those who don't know, that is a movie that
is absurd from the eighties but kind of a cult
classic in its absurdity, where a guy is dead and
they carry the dead body around to pretend he's alive
and shenanigans ensue. So how is it that you're saying
Weekend at Bernie's two starting in twenty twenty two, and
they didn't figure this Outclay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
How is that possible?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Not only did they not figure at out, Buck, they
claim it was impossible for them to have known, even
though every single one of you out there listening four
years has heard on this program us playing a variety
of different clips which demonstrated quite clearly that Biden didn't
have the mental or physical cognition in order to do
the job of president of the United States. On June
(03:00):
twenty seventh, when Biden came out for that disastrous debate performance,
all arguments to the contrary ceased, and overnight everyone suddenly said,
oh wow, Biden can't be president, and they actually awarded
This is unbelievable. But I think it's important for all
of you to understand they didn't award.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Have you ever gotten an award for this? Buck?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Has anybody ever said, hey, Buck, you know you were
so great for pointing out Biden didn't have the mental
or physical capability to be president.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Just making sure you have not received any award for that.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I just always assumed in this business, Clay, that we
would never get awards.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
If you are a right of center, you don't even
consider that there's an award you're going to get. I
have never gotten an award for anything in my entire
media career, but certainly not for honestly pointing out that
Biden did not have the capability to be president. The
reason why I bring that up, Buck and I somehow
were miss missed our award. They just this is amazing.
(04:01):
The White House Correspondence Association decided to give an award
to a guy who started saying in twenty twenty three,
very minimally, hey, maybe Joe Biden isn't on top of
his game. And he showed up. This guy Alex Thompson,
and Alex Thompson showed up and addressed the assembled press
(04:22):
and took applause for being a truth teller. Now again,
Fox News, for years, to be fair, has tons of
people on air who have been saying Biden isn't mentally
or physically able to be president. NBC News wrote an
entire article calling me a disinformation and misiinformation expert for
(04:44):
saying Biden didn't have the physical or mental capability to
be president.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
In June of twenty twenty four, somebody pulled that article up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You'd be a purveyor of disinformation though, right, Like an
expert in disinformation would be the person lying about Joe
as part of the disinformation campaign. Right, They'd say, I'm
a disinformation expert and Clay is lying about it. This
is people, forget. One of the original great moments of
Trump Jitsu, if you will jiu jitsu via Trump was
(05:15):
when they used fake news against Trump and he just
turned it around. He's like, you guys are fake news
and they had a total meltdown. The same thing has
happened with the disinformation experts Clay about Biden's mental acuity
because they were doing exactly what they did to you.
They put people out there whose expertise was spotting intentional lies,
(05:35):
and they were intentionally lying about Biden's mental capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In their role as disinformation experts.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I just found it buck.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
June thirteenth, twenty twenty four, two weeks in advance of
Biden falling on his face NBC News, a post on
x from Clay Travis, a conservative talk radio host, said
Biden just goes wondering off and that other national leaders
are quote babysitting our president in Italy. His post received
(06:06):
one point one million million views and a follow up
post Friday, Travis said he stood by his view Biden
is not mentally fit to be president. The RNCs and
Travis's post didn't have community notes, though they had been proposed.
This was June thirteenth, NBC News attacking me for saying
(06:27):
Biden didn't have the mental or physical capacity to be president.
All right, Here is Alex Thompson taking his bow as
everyone cheers the fact that he minimally suggested that Biden
might not be able to be president. Here is I
believe it's cut one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
We myself included, missed a lot of this story, and
some people trust us less because of it. We bear
some responsibility for faith in the media being.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
At such lows.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I say this because acknowledging errors builds trust, and being
defensive about them further erodes it. We should have done better.
I believe our mission is vital in a world where
people are struggling to figure out what's true, and people
with power are not telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They are clay.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
They are systematically lying about lying about Biden's mental health. Now,
meaning this game of we missed it. We didn't do
the greatest job. Oh, we should have looked a little
more closely. That is not what happened. They knew, and
they shut their mouths about it and actually went to
(07:49):
the active side of lying, and they pretended like Joe
Biden was fine.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
That's why Why.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Else would you know Joe Scarborough's making millions of dollars
a year to be a jacket on television? Why else
would he go on TV and say months before the
debate that Biden is not sharp, not okay, the sharpest
version he has ever been in his life, in his
eighty years of life. This is the best Biden has
ever been. That is what one of their biggest hosts said.
(08:17):
You only say that when you have the marching orders
from the top and across the board that this is
the guy. Everybody shut up, everybody go along with this,
So you know they can't even be honest about their dishonesty.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is really where we are.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They all were in on it, and now they're trotting
out some kind of you know, low tease.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know, soy drinking journals.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
From inside the bell let had gone, Oh, we didn't
really live up to our journal, live up to it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You were part of the con. You were one of
the absolute you know, accomplices in this.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think that's important.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And I jotted down as that speech was being made,
as we were playing the audio for you, and I
watched it over the weekend. An error, that's what they
call this, an error, and we missed a lot of
the story. And error is unintentional. And I think you're
hammering on this, but it's very important. If you are
(09:16):
playing shortstop and you intend to fill the ground ball
and you have it go off your knee instead, or
it goes between your legs, it's assigned as an error,
but it's unintentional. We don't presume that on the baseball
field somebody is trying not to make an out. This
was intentional. It was not a miss. It was not
(09:37):
an error. These journalists in quotation marks were propagandists of
the party in power, and they refused to hold accountable
the party in power because overwhelmingly they agree with the
politics of the party in power. Now Trump has an
adversarial relationship with the majority of the press. I actually
(10:00):
don't mind that, because if there was a consistent adversarial
relationship with the press, I would actually think that would
be somewhat encouraging, because the job of the press should
be to speak truth. To power, regardless of who is
in power. When you are claiming that you're an unbiased journalist,
call balls and strikes. Sometimes it's a strike, sometimes it's
(10:22):
a ball. But the attempt now to rewrite history and
try and say, oh, it was just an error, we
missed a lot of the story. No, you actively lied
to cover up the truth. And I will say this,
he was right that the media basically destroyed themselves in
the process. And you know what also has happened, Buck,
(10:44):
there's a graphic out from Axios. Coverage of misinformation and
disinformation has almost vanished.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They basically have just acknowledged that given COVID and now
the Biden cover up, they have no ability to do
it anymore. You have to also put this this White
House correspondence dinner, this pseudo meya culpel, but not even really,
you know, it's really just, oh gosh, guys, we need
to rally and do a little better next time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's like they were in the big game and they
lost by a touchdown. No, they were trying to pay
off all the refs and they got caught their scumbacks. Okay,
that's what happened. The people in that room who are
trying to pretend like, hm, we should have done better. No,
they were propagandas they were liars, and it didn't work.
But I think the context that must always be remembered
here is that this didn't just happen Clay. They because
(11:35):
of COVID and because of the unholy alliance between the
left wing social media companies, the dominance still of the
Democrat a line, corporate media and corporate America working all
together here, they got drunk with power. They managed to
do this in twenty twenty the Hunter Byden laptop, which
(11:56):
came after all the lives about COVID, which came after
all the lies about the.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Well, COVID is part of this.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But as I said, the Wuhan lab and the leak,
and then all the stuff about Lockdown's play, they basically
got steps away from an authoritarian information control, authoritarian information
control that they could wield at will. And they thought
they think they could do it one more time. They
thought they could pull it off again. They got caught
with their hand in.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
A cookie jar.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
This wasn't a close but no, this wasn't a close
but no cigar get you know, old school try kind
of thing. This was their liars, their scum. They didn't
manage to pull it off. Thank you Trump for beating
all this nonsense. And now they want us to pretend
like they have any integrity or any honor. They don't
and I won't. And that's where we are. It's not
gonna change, Amen, and we will come back and continue
(12:47):
to break this down.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I can't wait to hear his reaction to his boy
Sequon and their new found friendship between Sequon obviously Saquon,
because somebody's gonna correct me on pronunciation. I mean, as
I've said, oh, bet On Sequan, and it was he
playing golf with Trump, I would say that he'd probably
beat Trump, just because you always got a bet On Sequan.
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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck eight hundred
and two A two two eight a two on the
phone lines, and we're talking about the situation at the well,
we don't really care about the White House Correspondence Dinner
as a general matter.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is boring, it is laying.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I have been.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I went when no person in America had any idea
who it was in the media, and somehow I got invited.
And now Clay, I don't know. We do a kind
of big show. Where was our invite this year, or
it's not invited, or I've never been invited. I don't
think I get invited to anything. This is my wife,
by the way, has been teeing off on on some
of this for years, primarily relating to Super Bowl, where
(15:03):
I do an awful job of knowing what parties are
going on, where to go. I don't know any of
this stuff. And then there's the red carpet and all
these people that nobody has any idea who they are posing.
I saw this in the White House Correspondence Dinner. All
they didn't even have that many famous people there, like
they had the guy from White to these it used
to be a thing where they would bring the biggest
(15:23):
Hollywood celebrities that they could convince to come, usually Hollywood
celebrities who are dumb but would like to weigh in
on politics on occasion. I'm going back now to twenty twelve.
So it's been a while and now it has faded,
I think, and you get a kind of a lesser
degree of celebrity there. I would tell you if I
were invited, I would not go. So I have no
(15:45):
interest in ever going back because it is not fun
and the people there are not people that I want
to spend time around. But if you've never been Clay so,
Clay also likes to party more than I do. This
is not a surprise to any of you. I am
much more of a homebody. Clay is like, let's go.
Let's let's give those nerds wedgies, like let's show up
at the There was a little bit of a line
(16:05):
and you were ready to go. Three minutes into the line,
you were like, let's just go back home. Yeah, he
is not lying. I was like, it is called. The
line is long. I am unhappy. Clay's like, no, it's
gonna be fun. We're gonna get in there.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We see some people. I think I saw hul Cogan
like let's do this, you know. I was like, ah,
I don't know. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But I am getting to the point where lines really
annoy me. But but no, I wasn't invited. It did
sound like again, I thought we should play that clip
because the cover up that they're attempting.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Here is even for them, is pretty huge.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Like at least with COVID, they could say, well, we
weren't experts on science. We listened to them, right, this
is on them, this is the they're supposed to be
the experts that This is the point. With COVID, it
was we did what we were told, and I knew
that was going to be their slimy after the fact.
In the beginning, it was we're smarter than you, and
the experts all know this one hundred percent. Don't ask
(17:02):
any questions. But then it became, oh, we did what
the experts told us, and we're just Oh, I couldn't
stand up to the experts, even though I'm a journalist,
so I thought I was supposed to do that. And
now it's you are the experts. Supposedly they're not, but
they're supposed to be the experts in what's happening in
the government in the White House that the public needs
to know about, and they're going to say they missed.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
This, Clay. Let's take a step. Let's assume for a
second they aren't lying.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
If the Press Corps, if the White House Correspondence Association
can't figure out that Biden has dementia, Okay, that essentially
the American people were about to be passengers in a
car with a clearly drunk, out of his mind driver.
What purpose does it serve if they can't catch that?
What can they catch? I actually think that their argument
(17:48):
makes it worse for them in a sense.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
They're basically saying, we're total morons and are workless, but
that's better than being liars. But they're actually liars, you know, Yeah, yeah,
fired off about this? Remember the White House correspondens those us.
We're still cool.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
No, you're not the nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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you hanging out with us. We're rolling through the Monday
edition of the program we played for you. The White
House Press Corps saying, man, we missed a lot of
(19:08):
the story.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
There were errors.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
How could we have ever managed to not correctly do
the story? And Caroline Levitt eight thirty am Eastern they
had a press conference credit to them right and early
to set the agenda of the week and Caroline Levitt
was asked about that happening over the weekend, and this
(19:30):
was her response.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Cut to you, I do you agree with that assessment
from Alex Thompson, who I understand won an award for
writing a story months and perhaps years after the American
people already knew that story to be true. Millions of
Americans watched our mentally incompetent president struggle with his day
to day duties of this office. We watched our country
be ran into the ground as a result, and nobody
in the media wanted to write about that.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Talk about it.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
There were many many reporters, I will say, write leaning
reporters who did talk about that, who didn't get a war,
didn't get coverage. In fact, they were lamb masted for
their coverage. And I remember being on President Trump's campaign
talking about Joe Biden's clear mental incompetence and being accused
by people in this room of manufacturing deep fake videos
trying to persuade the public into not believing what they
(20:16):
saw with their own eyes for many years, and I
think it's about time the legacy media finally admits that
was one of the greatest cover ups and scandals that
ever took place in American history, and certainly it did
contribute to the decline and the trust that Americans have
for the legacy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Media well said by Caroline Levitt bright And early this
morning when she was asked about the comments made by
Alex Thompson.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Now, have we had Alex on the show? I think
we might have. I don't know. Ali.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He has the book with Jake Tapper, right, yes, but
he's been to his credit as media outlet figures go,
he's been fairer, which is why they gave him the
award than the average one was. And if he had
written the book on Biden's deterioration, I would have said, Okay,
(21:06):
I can see at least he's been willing to write
that on some level, I wouldn't. I know. I give
zero credit, Clay, I give zero credit. I think that
this is we should not even fall into. He's the
least bad of horrible, horrible lying journals. That's not a
good thing still, right. I mean, I hear you in
that he is. He did it early enough that there
(21:30):
was some pushback. There could have been some pushback from
his side. Clay, you and I have been making jokes
about dragging a Bernie.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You know, Weekend at.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Bernie's Weekend at Bernie's two is a good test when
did we first reference or when did I first reference
the Weekend at Bernie's two. That would be a good
sense for when we've been hammering it. Find out when
I made a reference to El Sid, which also the
Charlton Heston movie which you will all recall. There's a
scene where El Sid the Spanish you know, raycon Quista
(22:03):
hero is like riding riding out on a horse at
the end when he's dead.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I mean, these are things we're talking about. How Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We're openly mocking this with no fear of anyone saying.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Hey, he's actually really smart and fine.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Like for years, yes, for years we're saying this, and
obviously if it weren't true. I never said this about Obama.
You never said this about Obama. This wasn't like something
we say. You know, they say every Republican is dumb,
every republic it's so childish, but that's what they do.
We don't say every Democrat has dementia.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It was just this guy.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
In fact, I've never said Bernie Sanders, who's even older
than Biden, I think, or maybe they're the same age,
they're close, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think he's older. Is he older?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But Bernie's eighty three, he's older than Biden.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He's older.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I've never said Bernie Sanders clearly has dementia. I've said
he's probably too old for the job, which I think
everyone knows, but it was, you know, he doesn't have
scrambled eggs moments.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We've been saying this for years. How can you get credit.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
For saying something that has been obvious to everybody who
is not a Democrat trying to advance their partisan agenda
the whole time, and you know, I just I get
so I feel like we give no credit on this.
I give no Okay, we have to. Maybe we should
have them on. They can try to argue their case,
but I'm I am not snack. Tapper gets no credit.
That's what I was gonna say. If Alex Thompson had
(23:19):
written the book by himself, I would say, Okay, he
at least back in twenty twenty three did write a
story saying Biden's mental and physical and he got Remember
the Wall Street Journal wrote it to and everybody lined
up and said it's so untrue. I think that was
when the Joe Scarborough infamous this is the best version
(23:41):
of Biden there's ever been, which I think ended his career, honestly,
because I think even for the the diehard MSNBC viewers.
And then he begged to go meet with Trump and
he went down to mar A Lago and kissed the ring.
I mean, his career, I think is over. Can I
tell you my I never thought he's a talented guy.
By the way, I don't understand what the appeal of
(24:02):
the interest is other than a former Republican who trash
as Republicans all day for the amusement of stupid Democrats.
But I would say, Clay, as you look at the
way that this story unfolded, it was more and more
obvious all along, and yet there weren't more and more
Democrats coming forward to say it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, think about the This is like cult of
Mao or cult.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Of Stalin level obedience when you have something that we
would all have to agree is utterly reckless. I mean,
to have a commander in chief, to have the President
of the United States, the most powerful man in the world,
have a brain that does not function properly and is
obvious to everybody who is paying attention. To have been
a part of that is a disgrace that you can
(24:50):
never come back from. Right and What I think is
I would actually respect these guys more if they came
forward and they said, you know what, sometimes you got
to tell a lot I in order to support a bigger,
better agenda. I thought that Donald Trump was hitler and
going to destroy the country. So I lied to your
faces about Biden's dementia because I thought that was the
(25:12):
lesser evil. Pretending they were too stupid to notice is
insulting to me, and I rejected. Would have they ever
admitted remember when Biden would call on them and he
was given a list and he would just go through
the list. Have they ever explained that in any way
(25:33):
of meaning? The White House Correspondence Association, because they're supposedly
hold speaking truth to power. And again, I think the
idea that Jake Tapper wrote a book about the cover
up is one of the craziest, most arrogant, most dishonest
things that we have ever seen someone on television do.
(25:53):
Because he had a platform on CNN where he could
have clearly called into question Joe Biden in his mental
and physical acuity, and he never did it, never did
it on the air until June twenty seventh happened. And
then suddenly, oh my goodness, he's not very good. And
do you know how we know he never did it.
(26:13):
If it had happened, it would have caused a stir.
We would have played exactly it would you would have
heard it on this show because we would have said, look,
we call balls and strikes. We've done it with Fetterman
with some of the Israel stuff, right. We said, look,
Fetterman still votes with Chuck Schumer on everything. Can't trust Fetterman.
(26:34):
But when he says something smart, we're not gonna lie
to you and say he hasn't, or you said something
that's honest and moral, We're gonna say, look, he said
something honest and moral. Anyone in the Democrat side who
had come forward and said, who was the reporter?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Was it Dasha Burns? Who it was?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, that was the one who, to her credit, NBC
did the interview with Fetterman, and everybody was furious at
her for saying, yeah, he couldn't basically do the job right.
But that just showed you the level of cult like
obedience demanded of people whose entire presentation of themselves is
speaking truth to power, and we won't they play. It's
(27:16):
like if you were at a hospital and the doctors
and nurses poisoned all the patients, like they completely violated
the core tenant supposedly of their profession.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And now they're giving us a meek you know, we
could have done a better job. No, No, they did
the job.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's just like I said, Clay about the fifty one
intelligence officers. Everyone says, oh, but you know they got
it wrong. They didn't get it wrong. The job was
to lie, and they knew the job was to lie,
and the job worked because Biden got the pass on
the you know, on the Hunter Biden laptop in part
with all the help from the social media because of it. Right,
(27:57):
when your job is to lie and you do it,
you don't then get to turn around and say, oh,
I just made a good faith a good faith error, right.
I mean it's like I said about sports stuff. If
you've paid off the refs and you got caught, don't
tell me that you did your best. Okay, That's that's
not the same thing. An error is unintentional, and I
(28:18):
think to your point, all of this was directly intentional.
When does the book come out from Tapper, I'll find out, guys,
do you I'm gonna put this to you. I'm gonna
put this to you because I don't like generally, I
don't like to use the term platform. I don't like
platforming democrats who I think are just gonna come on
(28:38):
here and be deeply dishonest. So I'm I'm open to
the Alex guy because he did and Clay Clay's a
little I'm even more, you know, just the whole White
House Correspondent, the whole thing like just sets me off
because people are all such frauds. Clay's a little more
willing to tolerate or or I should say to give
some credit to Alex. My standard is so whoe that
(29:00):
if you are something other than a crazy left wing propagandist,
I will give you credit for being anything a little
bit to towards the center from left wing propagandist like
Joe Scarborough is the worst. And then I think we
should have Jake Tapper on because I don't think he
can defend him.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is a this is amazing, by the way, we're
gonna play this. We're gonna play this for him. Okay,
we're gonna play this.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We're gonna have I think we're gonna have you guys
call in emailing are you okay with us having on
these people that are supposed to represent this new book
that's gonna tell us about how they missed this. They're
gonna tell that, you know, I want to hear from you.
Really give us a sense if you want them to
come on. I've already told Clay there are you know. Look,
it's radio. If you invite someone into your house, you
(29:44):
have to maintain de quorum and be respectful. But I'm
not gonna have them on and then say, you know, you, guys,
congrats on the you're really you know, speaking, No, I'm
gonna say, I think your frauds. Explain to me why
you're not. I'm just gonna be very transparent and straightforward
about that because I do, and again more so on
the Tapper side than on the other one.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But Clay to.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Our point about this, because I remembered this. I remember
it so much that I actually went to see like
I think I watched the trailer Weekend at Bernie's two,
and I was like, can I sit through this? Wee
get at Bernie. It's not a good movie. Just to
tell you guys, it's not. It's a funny premise for
five minutes and then it's just preposterous. In August of
twenty twenty one, Okay, we had been on the air
(30:27):
together two months. The quote here, we should pull this,
pull the audio on this. But Buck, that's me. Who
do you think the most powerful person is. We talk
about this a lot. Clay refers to this as the
weekend at Bernie's presidency. Clay, Yes, Buck, I've called it
that and many others. It's obviously a trojan horse presidency
(30:47):
for the last which is I think playing out in
a way that we anticipated.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Clay.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That's in twenty twenty one, we're saying it's a presidency
where they're carrying around the dead body pretending it's alive.
Obviously metaphorical. But the point is, who didn't see that?
A lot of people on the left, because there were
people like Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Who refused to speak the truth.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And I think we should have him on because I
think he should have to explain to all of you
why suddenly he can write a book about Biden's decrepitude.
But he never talked about it on his show during
the entire Biden presidency until June twenty seventh. Happened when
everybody suddenly had the ability to acknowledge what all of
us could see with their plain eyes. I mean, I'm
(31:34):
familiar with some of Tapper's work. I was at CNN.
I will keep this out of the personal level. I'll
keep this away from the personal to purely the sort
of professional presentation of someone's.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Of their work.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
His whole thing is he's a guy who will even
though he's a Democrat, which he will argue and say
he's not, and all of you and we will laugh,
but he will say he's not. He will say that
he's an independent journalist. Trust me, he's a Democrat that
he occasionally, occasionally, you know, five percent of the time,
will break with his own side on something so that
he has more gravitas to push the other stuff for
(32:09):
the Democrats. Right, that's the whole game. This is the
annihilation of that as a brand for anyone. If you
went along with the Biden hoax, you're done. Okay, you're done.
Nobody should believe anything that you say, which is why
I think there's this effort to rehabilitate. This book comes
out next month. If you and the audience are okay
with it, we will have them on and it will
be and I will let them know beforehand. Ali, we
(32:30):
don't do what they do with places like CNN. Be like, Look,
the guys are very skeptical. They think they are frauds,
and they're willing to hear you out on this. I
shouldn't say they, because Alex Clay points out that guy
did try. I don't think he tried very hard, but
he wrote one story in four years and he did
get some heat for it, and it was a real story. Okay,
But Tapper, coming on here, we're going to have to
address this in a very straightforward way, and we'll tell
(32:53):
them ahead of time too. Tell us the days where
you were talking about Biden's dementia. We'll pull those clips
and have them ready because I don't want someone coming
on the show and saying I talked about.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
This a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I was, you know, in this vague Oh I was.
I was, you know, just following the fact. So uh yeah,
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Speaker 1 (34:41):
We'll continue with this discussion about the media with its
a fake accountability moment here at the White House Correspondence dinner.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
We'll get into it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We'll take some of your calls and get more into
what you think is going on with the border too.
We'll dive into some of that next. Some interesting moves
from the administration on that, and of course the counter
narrative we will dive into a Clay is wearing his
Crocket Coffee T shirt, which is exciting. I'm drinking Crockett
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I just think this is funny. I had a Crockett
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You can get them at Crockett Coffee dot com. But
I was out with my ten year old. It was
(35:51):
a busy weekend, and you know, he's actually dressing up
as Davy Crockett at his school because they have like
fourth grade storybook and you have historical correcter characters that
you dress up as. And I said, well, I've actually
got my Krocket Coffee shirt on right now. It's kind
of a flex, you know, because I've got a coffee
company and I'm wearing the shirt. And he said, Dad,
(36:14):
that's not a flex. That's actually a loser thing too.
This is my ten year old to me, he said,
He said, Elon Musk doesn't walk around in a Tessela
T shirt, so I don't know, is he right?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Am?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I I thought, I was like, hey, this is pretty cool.
I'm wearing a Crocket Coffee T shirt. The boys wear
the gear, they like it, but they don't actually own
the company. And my ten year old just off the
top rope WrestleMania style kind of flattened me.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Your boys are very astute.
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It's like he's calling you unk on this one. Again.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I very astute, But I think the tea, I think
if it's the company you own, has Elon never worn
a Tesla T shirt in public?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I think he probably had.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
According to my ten year old, no, so he came
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