March 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Trump has taken significantly more questions from the media than Biden. Buck versus Clay's feelings about the WH correspondents' dinner. Beast mode Bezos and F-you money. Babylon Bee or real life: Jake Tapper's new book. What really happened during the Biden administration and the downfall of the campaign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Wednesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show wins, wins, wins.
We just keep stacking wins. As I am speaking with you,
and as Bucket speaking with you, Elon Musk and Donald
Trump are having a joint news conference in the White House.
We have been rolling on that. We will have several
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different clips of newsworthy commentary from that media availability. We've
got a loaded show for you. Let me give you
a little bit of a roadmap of where we are
headed during the course of the program. Next hour, Byron
Donald's will join US Congressman from the Naples area of Florida.
He announced last night on our friend Sean Hannity's show
(00:45):
that he is going to be running for governor of Florida.
Donald Trump has endorsed him. He will be speaking with
all of you at the top of the next hour,
and I will rest assured, in addition to talking about
him being potentially the next governor of Florida, hold him
accountable for the Florida State seminole collapse in football last season,
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because Buck, you'll remember one of the last times Congress
McDonald's was on the program, he just wanted to debate
me about whether Florida State should have been in the
college football playoff, and then since that debate, basically Florida
State's wheels have come off, and so we'll have some
fun with that as well. Then a guy who is
doing an incredible job. He's been on with us before,
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but he has not been on with us since he
became borderz are Tom Homan is going to be on
with us next hour as well. So that is where
we are sitting on the guest front. But I wanted
to start buck with the newest angle of attack on Trump,
which I think is going to be one of the
least effective attacks on Trump ever. It is Trump is
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a dictator and he is trying to control the media
too much around him. Now, I have some stats for
you that were shared this morning on Fox News because
I think it basically ends this argument to a large
extent when you look at the number of questions this
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is prior to today, when Trump has been up there
answering questions like crazy. In his first month in office.
This is January twentieth to February nineteenth, Donald Trump Buck,
according to Fox News, took one thousand and nine questions
from the media one thousand and nine Joe Biden in
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the same timeframe. His first month in office took one
hundred and forty one questions from the media and buck
Those numbers declined precipitously for Biden as he stayed in
office longer. You can criticize Trump for a lot. Not
being willing to talk to the media and tell you
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exactly what he thinks is maybe the lowest level of
criticism for Trump. But this is the latest desperation because
the White House is remaking the credentialing process in real
time for who is allowed to be at many different events.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love watching the White House Correspondence Association get publicly dismembered.
I drink their tears. I joyride in the wreckage of
their souls. I can't get enough of this. And let
me tell you. Why have you ever been to a
White House Correspondence Association dinner?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Clay?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I went once, never been invited. I don't think I'm
cool enough to even get invited. I would. I'm not
going to pretend that I'm cool enough to say no,
I have legitimately never been invited to the White House
Correspondence dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm going to tell you something, Clay. The White House
Correspondence Association dinner is worse than being forced to watch
the new Beverly Hills cop movie on netwilk.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, it is, it means, it would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It is absolutely brutal because you have all of these
incredibly self important people. We're the ones holding up democracy,
We're the ones speaking truth to power, all lies, by
the way, which everyone knows now more than ever. But
the whole thing was a preposterous joke and I absolutely
(04:20):
loathed it. There were some fun other like after parties,
I'm not gonna lie about that, but the actual event
itself was just one giant self congratulation for what's effectively
a lib journal cartel. Why should this continue? Why should
some establishment media outlet, or rather media collective that's really
(04:43):
what it is, a bunch of commies. Why should they
get to determine who gets access to the West Wing?
Why shouldn't the administration determine who gets access? And what
you've noticed is that the expectation is Republican presidents have
to have enemy regime media meeting democrat aligned media full
access all the time. And that's just the way it is.
But you know, if a Barack Obama wants to wants
(05:05):
to just trash Fox News and say that it's an
enemy of democracy and block them from interviews and everything else.
Finally we've woken up. I will tell you it took
our side. Look, it took Donald Trump coming along and
metaphorically punching the other side in the face over and
over again for us to see, hey, we don't have
to put up with this anymore. And it's such a
(05:27):
breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
My only complaint would be I still think that we
give too much to the legacy media when it comes
to the debates, and we did even in this last cycle.
But it was one debate with Trump, and you know,
he did great, and obviously we saw what the result was.
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get too aggravated
over that. But the point is this shift that Caroline
(05:49):
Levitt as the White House Press Secretary and obviously on
behalf of Trump, This shift that's happening right now is
long overdue. And also from Jeff Bezos saying, you know, Clay,
on the one hand, I like that Bezos is just
talking about the Washington Post having to be be pro
(06:09):
capitalism and pro individual liberty, as a mission statement.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Did he not know what he was buying?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's so rich.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I know that sounds crazy, but he's so rich that
he may have just written the check for The Washington
Post based on its reputation without actually knowing what the
heck did he He bought a communist rag of lunatics.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Gonna try to defend Bezos on this, just like you're.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Defending Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I am gonna defend Bezos here. I'm gonna attempt to.
I think that how old is Jeff Bezos? Fifty two
or fifty three? Something like that, I mean before or
after the stack, if you know how well, yeah he is.
Now you know he's gonna I was texting with some
friends and they were saying that Bezos has gone full
(06:58):
Latimer in the pro For those of you out there
who remember the great college football movie The Program, one
of the guys just gets loaded up on on steroids,
is a great player, but can't pass a drug test
at all, and just starts behaving like crazy, beating up
people left and right. Bezos is the Latimer of media.
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Right now, he has suddenly gotten loaded up on testosterone.
He's moved to Buckstown. In Miami, there's hot chicks walking
around to everywhere. Miami is the best looking city in America.
I'm so insane. Number One, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If you're just a normal person walking around here, you
feel like you're in the worst shape of any human
being on the planet.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't The percentage of women that just wear span
Dex every day in Miami is it's off the charts,
Like I would walk to Bucks Bucks Studio.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Including the moms that have like anders.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's what I'm saying. Even the moms are just walking
around in span dex. Nobody's got any clothes on. Everybody's
incredibly good looking. Bezos moved to Miami, he got a
hot girlfriend, he gets loaded up suddenly on testosterone. He
now can binge press more than two hundred and twenty
five pounds, which buck If I had to tell you
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one thing that you could point to to guess how
someone would vote for men who can bench press two
hundred and twenty five pounds. How many of them do
you think vote Democrat ten If I tend to one
Republican to Democrat ten to one, or you know, they
just don't care about about doing anything political. But I
agree if they actually vote, it's got to be ten
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to one Republican to Democrat if you're a man and
you can binge press two hundred and twenty five pounds.
So I think what happened, Buck is Bezos read the
Washington Post historically, and I've talked about this on the
program because I went to college in DC. The Washington
Post was left of center, there was no doubt. But
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Republicans in the nineties and the early two thousands respected
the Washington Post. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They carried the just just just to point out, they
carried crowd Haammer, you know his column, George, and they
didn't carry it with disdain. I mean, he was one
of their featured columnists. And Charles was a great columnist.
I grew up reading Crowdhammer, among many other columnists, also
George will who unfortunately he could probably use some of
the Bezos treatment these days, but put that aside, you
(09:20):
could use some chalk, you know. They there wasn't It
wasn't that they were right of center, to your point,
but there also wasn't an outright undermining disdain and hatred
of anybody.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Who was Democracy dies. And at the top of the newspaper.
It was gotten crazy for sure. Uh you could read
Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon. They would make you laugh.
You know. They weren't obsessed with toxic masculinity. They didn't
employ people like Taylor Lorenz and that crazy Jennifer Rubinstein
or whatever her name is. It was left of center,
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but normal, like much of the country was. And one
of the things that I think Trump is doing is
we're returning to the days of the eighties, nineties and
early two thousands. Slowly. The revolution that is occurring is
just a revolution of common sense. And so Buck, I
think what happened was Bezos is super busy turning Amazon
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into one of the most successful businesses in the history
of the world, and he recognizes that he wants to
have an influence on something other than lowering the price
of diapers and managing to get flip flops to you
in six hours, which is something that's happened. Like I
ordered flip flops from Amberia the other day.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's pretty awesome. Let's respect, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I mean, the business that he built is incredible, and
I think he thought this is a part of giving back.
It's a small fraction of his overall net worth, and
then he started to read the paper. When he retired,
he moved to Miami, he got a hot girlfriend, probably
went from benching one hundred pounds to suddenly be in.
(11:00):
Jeff Bezos right, he's throwing up wade everywhere, and I.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Believe, I believe they call him beast Mode Bezos or
beast most Bezos has shown up, and I think he
finally decided that he was willing to stand up to
the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He started to hire people. He hired a former Wall
Street journal editor. He started to fire people. And I've
said this for a long time. There's no point in
having fu money if occasionally you don't say f you.
And if you're one of the richest men in the
world and you own a media outlet and you think
that media outlet is producing really poor journalism, which it was,
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and far left wing biased journalism, some of which Buck
actually would cover Amazon and him. So I think the
coverage of the newspaper of him personally, he looked at
it and said this is not very good. And I
think he finally stood up and said, I'm going to
try to drag this paper back towards some measure of decency.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A couple things to throw into the mix here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
One is, the winds are blowing really hard in this
direction right now. So I'm not about to give somebody
a big old high five for their love of the
Constitution and patriotism because they realize the Trump certainly the
Trump juggernaut is going where it's going, and you might
as well get out of the way or hop on
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the hop on the train.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So that's part one, part two. And I think we've
seen this from a number of the Silicon Valley barons,
which Bezos, yes, Amazon, but he's in a little bit
of a different category than some of those other guys.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Would I would argue he's.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Been in the game a very long time, but they
didn't realize how crazy their side really was. There has
been some of that. There certainly has been that with
Elon he's admitted that, and there have been others as
well who were so folk on what they were doing
building these online companies and these global b a myths
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that were worth hundreds of billions of dollars that they
didn't recognize that the party that they had become, that
they had long been used to voting as a part
of had just basically gone insane on a whole range
of issues. I do think it was a surprise to Elon.
I don't think he was the only one. I don't
think naval Ravakan would have considered himself right wing. I
don't think he is right wing even now. I just
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think he's a sound thinker. And it became impossible to
be a sound and logical thinker and still be in
the good graces of the Democrat Party. So for some
of these guys, that's been a big break with the
left wing consensus. Oh look, I'm about five or six
years ahead of some of these guys, so I tend
to in terms of my political evolution. So I tend
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to be more lenient than you do. I get it
because you and like frankly me have been dealing with
these guys putting up roadblocks to us being able to
just argue what we believe. The Washington Post has not
been very kind to me when they've written articles about me.
Facebook censored both of us. So Bezos and Zuckerberg are
not my bros. Like I'm not like, Hey, I want
(14:08):
to go grab a beer with these guys. I don't
think I've I mean, I don't really check it on face.
I don't think I've gained like a person on Facebook
in years. Yeah, how is that possible?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's because because I'm in the back end, there's somehow,
you know, I get slapped by the way conservatives, a
lot of them who have done really well on Facebook.
There's something going on there. I don't know what it is,
but they've got some hookup or they've got some because
if you've been speaking the truth for years, you have
been shut down on Facebook, no question about it. And
a lot of good conservatives have just stopped using it
because of that. But the people that are still like
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has spent years. If you made it through the pandemic
and you still had millions of followers on Facebook and
you consider self conservative.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You sold out somewhere. I don't know how that's possible.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is such a big point in general on so
much of the media evolving in real time. Evolution is
very kind. I think that the cost of saying hey,
I'm a Trump guy has got has vanished. That is
the social cost you mentioned it buck, Like, we're hearing
from people, Hey, you go to the gym in New
(15:10):
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would bail on me because they were like I cannot
believe the things that you publicly say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That happened a few times. You know you're at a party,
I don't know what someone's politics. Aren't necessarily you get
the phone number. I'm a single guy, bailed on the
date because I like Trump, So I paid my dues.
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in this. We can get into it more, but I
want to just give you a quick overview. Extending tax cuts,
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the salt cap deduction, no taxes on tips. I think
I said that, lower corporate rate. So some big things
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Speaker 1 (18:52):
Welcome back in Clay Travis fuck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through
the Wednesday edition of the program. We're talking about the
major cultural vibe shift and all the wins frankly that
we are stacking across the entirety of the culture right now.
And I saw this story this morning, and I thought,
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there are so many stories that I see now, Buck,
because the pivot is so extreme where I think, for
a minute, wait, is this a Babylon B headline or
is this real life? And this is real life, so
this is not an April Fool's joke. This is not Babylon.
B Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, announced this morning that he
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has a new book out. The book is called Original Sin,
and the subtext is subheadline President Biden's decline, its cover up,
and his disastrous choice to run again. It is out
in May. Buck, I cannot imagine how you could have
(20:02):
a CNN show like Jake Tapper does, and in fact, team,
if you'll go scroll through my twitter feed, we.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
We have cut two of him in twenty twenty talking.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We do have that already included. Let's play.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We've got to get to this, my friends. This the
guy who's writing the book about the Biden cognitive decline
at dementia cover up was also the guy who would
mock and ridicule people on TV for bringing it up
when it mattered.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Play cut two.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
First and foremost. I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
You are, I think it's so amazing, it's so amazing
to me.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That try and figure out an answer.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
A cognitive decline, trying to tell.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Me that what I was suggesting was I think.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
That you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you
were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely
no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think
that somebody in the Prump family would be more sensitive
to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians
from afar shameful?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Can I just not only is he covering up himself?
There We all knew Clay I thought, I said on
radio before we teamed up. I'm like, there's no way
Biden's going to be the nominee. The guy has dementia.
Everybody knew this. The guy, you know, he's it's scrambled
eggs up top.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
He's too old.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
We all know this, and he was part of the lie.
But notice he even goes, you're mocking someone stutter. He
went with that, Yeah, that is just slander. I mean,
that is just garbage, and he knew it was garbage.
And I was going to write a book. Well, the
problem is he was one of these journals who spent
years and he would occasionally say something and people in.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
The right would go, oh, look, he's honest.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No he's not. He's a propaganda's who's playing you like
a fiddle. And now he has no credibility at all
because he went along with the big lie. He's going
to write a book about the big leg Get out
of here, Get out of it. This is crazy one.
I will say a little bit of fairness. There is
a co author, Alex Thompson, who was actually ripped to
shreds for reporting to some degree on Biden's mental cognition issues.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So his co author, he.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Can write this book, or he can have a say
in this book, but you don't get to tag along
when you were part of the propaganda machinery, as Tapper
and all of CNN was.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's not just that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They disagreed Clay. They tried to destroy the credit.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We just heard it. That was Laura Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
They tried to destroy the credibility and the decency, at
least in the eyes of the audience of people who
tried to tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I just I can't believe. Again, this goes with the
vibe shift, But I also think maybe the most undercovered
story of the start of twenty twenty five is more
Democrats Now watch Fox News, then watch CNN or MSNBC.
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I don't know. I mean some of you out there
are you just kind of had a record scratch moment
because it hasn't been discussed that much. They lit their
credibility on fire. CNN and MSNBC did to such an extent,
arguing that anybody who said that Biden wasn't up to
the job was guilty of cheap fakes. Remember that phrase
(23:27):
that Kreem Jean Pierre tried to come out with, cheap fake.
Oh it's no lasted like like a week. Yeah, well,
because then the debate happened on June twenty seventh, I mean,
NBC News wrote an entire article ripping me to shreds.
They asked for comment for saying that Biden didn't have
the mental or physical ability to be president.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
This it all makes sense, though, when you take a
step back. The whole reason it was Biden and they
moved him into this position. And remember Clive Burne and
the Democrat machine. Biden was getting smoked in the prime
and then all of a sudden, and then all of
a sudden, and it's because the Democrat Party fundamentally had
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to hide from the voters in twenty twenty what the
party had become. And Biden was around long enough and
you know, had the old grandpa thing down enough that
he could be the trojan horse for this. He could
be the guy that they say, oh, the Democrats aren't radical,
it's old Joe. He's been in politics for forty years.
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You can trust Joe. But the whole thing was a lie, yea,
because he wasn't representative of where the Democrat base was.
He wasn't representative, and then he was just a puppet,
a puppet of the lunatic communist machine that was actually
running the Democrat Party. And that now Clays, we can
see random off a cliff and we're watching as the
flames engulf the wreckage after it crashed off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And what also this represents is it's now fair game
to walk over and put an extra bullet into the
dead Biden body right suddenly? Is that too much of
a graphic analogy metaphorically speaking, metaphorically speaking, of course, but
you know how they do this, like when they kill somebody,
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metaphorically speaking, we can.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Say they and net the survivors. You know, let's get
a historical reference, or oh.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We'll do like Caesar. The reason why everybody had to
take out Caesar back in the day was they all
wanted to be equally complicit in taking him down. Now,
in this era that we're in, suddenly you can say
Biden wasn't up to the job. Beforehand, their phone would
have blown up. They would have been nervous. What happens
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if Biden finds a way to win. We're gonna be
persona note granta non grata in the White House. We're
not gonna be able to do our job. Jake freaking Tapper,
who had a show and could have told all of
America for years, Biden's not up to the job.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But here's why he's doing a book about it. Here's
why he's here's why he's doing this. He's doing it
because I think he has occupied, with a couple of others,
but maybe him more so than any other, the space
of establishment journalists for years now. And I mean journalists
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in the sense of, you know, the all the nonsense.
I speak truth to power. I don't have a point
of view. I just report the facts. And what we
saw in this election cycle, and the Biden lie was
the big part of it, was a huge part of
this realization was that established the most establishment journals were
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leading the charge and every bit is involved in the
in the lie about Biden as anybody else, because they
thought they had no choice. The machine had said this
is what must happen. So now, Clay, they have to rebuild.
And they haven't done this ever in their careers. Really,
they've always been able to tack left or tack right
(26:56):
a little bit to play this game still as Democrat operatives.
Don't make no mistake, they've always been Democrat operatives, but
they were a little better at, you know, throwing a
little dust up into the air and make people think. Oh,
sometimes sometimes he'll speak the truthful thing. Sometimes he'll actually
tell his own side, the hard truths, never when it matters,
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but just enough to play this game of I'm an
objective truth teller, because that's more powerful as a propagandist
than speaking the truth about I'm actually.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Biased and I have a point of view.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Not only that, I would point out this is the
other big part of this story. The business doesn't work anymore.
I think there are a lot of guys out there,
mostly men, women too, who run MSNBC, or they run CNN,
or they run the Washington Post or the New York Times,
and they may think sometimes, man, this is we're putting
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out some garbage. But then they go look at the
ratings and they're like, well, this is what people want.
And you just follow the ratings train and you keep
feeding that and ultimately if ratings go up, advertiser dollars
come in, there's more money. The anti Trump universe of
media doesn't work in twenty twenty five. You can't run
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the same playbook that you ran in twenty seventeen. And
so when they lose money suddenly they think, oh, maybe
this is the wrong move. It's all directly tied to
audience collapse.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
This was the ultimate test, though, this election, of everything
that the Democrat media ecosystem had promised their audience for years,
and they failed. The implicit promise or maybe explicit promise
of Joy Read Show and Rachel Maddow Show and that
lunatic Olberman if you know, you don't have to just
(28:48):
do a wellness check on him occasionally he does a podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Like some of these crazies out there.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
They made it very clear that what they were doing
was rallying people to defeat Trump and defeat trump Ism
because it was going to destroy the country. Well he won.
It didn't destroy the country. The country's actually doing just fine,
doing great, really cleaning up things that everybody should agree
need to be cleaned up. Hello, Doge.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And so all of the promises made for years by
the meat and clay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's special Council investigations, federal prosecutions. But there were two
assassination attempts against this guy. They they threw the left,
the machine, the forces of darkness through everything against him,
and he came through. And now what do they have?
You know, what, what can they offer the audience at
this point? Why would you watch Joy Reid's show, Not
(29:41):
that you can anymore wompomp, but you know what, you know,
why would did you see Greta van Sustern, who is
not somebody to you know, mix it up and get
in get into kind of the you know, the the
nasty back and forth zone on line. She just pointed out,
She's like, I remember when you were liking tweets when
I I got fired from MSNBC and I had been
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your colleague.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's just like, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She just said that, But I think that's all not
a nice person. Joy Reig is not a nice person
either as somebody that really want to destroy other people's careers.
My sympathy for her is zero. She has earned this
ignominious end to her garbage career.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, I have no sympathy. I actually have a great
deal of joy. And also it's ironically enough also Bobby
Barack has a good piece up at out Kick that
I just shared on this buck. Isn't it sort of
emblematic of the era we went through that MSNBC, which,
via Joy Reid, spent years falsely accusing many different people
(30:40):
out there being racist, is now itself being accused of
racism for firing Joy Reid. In fact, maybe a little
bit later in the show, I believe we have audio
of one of her former colleagues calling on black people
to boycott MSNBC for being racist, Which is you want
to talk about a plot twist? Uh, They're now being
(31:01):
hoisted on their own petard, so to speak, or guillotined
as the revolutionaries of France ended up being a.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Historical reference, right, everyone knows no one's pulling out a
guillotine here, So we're good.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
A little bit of interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Why why isn't it the case?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Have they fired a single I mean not that I
not that I'm agreeing with Rachel maddles assessment here, but
have they fired a single white primetime host from MSNBC's lineup.
They fired a couple of minorities, but I don't think
have they fired a white host?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Isn't it right?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Maybe they are, well they are. We know, actually the
real racist are left wingers because.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
They know which is an argument.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know, this has been a thing that we just
because we've been saying it for so long, it's so true.
Justice Clarence Thomas makes this case in his autobiography where
he just says, conservatives don't even think in these terms,
and they just like people who are good people of
all colors and races and creeds. And and it is
always Democrats that have this obsession because so many of them,
deep down actually have what would be considered, you know,
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racial beliefs or racist beliefs, and so they have to
comp they have to overcompensate conservatives on field.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
They need to compensate because we just look at people
as people. We just look at.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
People as human beings equal in dignity, worth and under
the eyes of God and the law, at least in
this country.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
By the way, Rachel Maddow huge portion of her staff fired.
This also ties in with what we said yesterday. This,
according to the New York Post, a lot of the
Rachel Maddow staf's been fired. She makes twenty five million
a year. I said this, she could pay, could take
it all of them. She could keep all of them,
no problem.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
She could keep them on staff for the next year
or two while thing they ride this period out. But
libs just look at libs when it comes to charity
too in Actually this is they all need to do
so much work on themselves as human beings.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
This is why their politics are so toxic.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, we talked. I mean our friend Frank Siller said
he tried look with tunnel to towers. He said, I
tried to advertise on left wing programming. No one would donate.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, their version of charity is taking money from all
of you and getting it to do transgender operas in Mongolia.
We actually believe in helping heroes and good people in
this country and people who are in need in this country.
The left believes in seizing your money by force and
redistributing it to transsurgery for you know, people in Guatemala,
who use they them pronouns?
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Welcome in Wednesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show wins, wins, wins.
We just keep stacking wins. As I am speaking with you,
and as Bucket speaking with you, Elon Musk and Donald
Trump are having a joint news conference in the White House.
We have been rolling on that. We will have several
(00:22):
different clips of newsworthy commentary from that media availability. We've
got a loaded show for you. Let me give you
a little bit of a roadmap of where we are
headed during the course of the program. Next hour, Byron
Donald's will join US Congressman from the Naples area of Florida.
He announced last night on our friend Sean Hannity's show
(00:45):
that he is going to be running for governor of Florida.
Donald Trump has endorsed him. He will be speaking with
all of you at the top of the next hour,
and I will rest assured, in addition to talking about
him being potentially the next governor of Florida, hold him
accountable for the Florida State seminole collapse in football last season,
(01:07):
because Buck, you'll remember one of the last times Congress
McDonald's was on the program, he just wanted to debate
me about whether Florida State should have been in the
college football playoff, and then since that debate, basically Florida
State's wheels have come off, and so we'll have some
fun with that as well. Then a guy who is
doing an incredible job. He's been on with us before,
(01:28):
but he has not been on with us since he
became borderz are Tom Homan is going to be on
with us next hour as well. So that is where
we are sitting on the guest front. But I wanted
to start buck with the newest angle of attack on Trump,
which I think is going to be one of the
least effective attacks on Trump ever. It is Trump is
(01:50):
a dictator and he is trying to control the media
too much around him. Now, I have some stats for
you that were shared this morning on Fox News because
I think it basically ends this argument to a large
extent when you look at the number of questions this
(02:13):
is prior to today, when Trump has been up there
answering questions like crazy. In his first month in office.
This is January twentieth to February nineteenth, Donald Trump Buck,
according to Fox News, took one thousand and nine questions
from the media one thousand and nine Joe Biden in
(02:37):
the same timeframe. His first month in office took one
hundred and forty one questions from the media and buck
Those numbers declined precipitously for Biden as he stayed in
office longer. You can criticize Trump for a lot. Not
being willing to talk to the media and tell you
(02:59):
exactly what he thinks is maybe the lowest level of
criticism for Trump. But this is the latest desperation because
the White House is remaking the credentialing process in real
time for who is allowed to be at many different events.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love watching the White House Correspondence Association get publicly dismembered.
I drink their tears. I joyride in the wreckage of
their souls. I can't get enough of this. And let
me tell you. Why have you ever been to a
White House Correspondence Association dinner?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Clay?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I went once, never been invited. I don't think I'm
cool enough to even get invited. I would. I'm not
going to pretend that I'm cool enough to say no,
I have legitimately never been invited to the White House
Correspondence dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm going to tell you something, Clay. The White House
Correspondence Association dinner is worse than being forced to watch
the new Beverly Hills cop movie on netwilk.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, it is, it means, it would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It is absolutely brutal because you have all of these
incredibly self important people. We're the ones holding up democracy,
We're the ones speaking truth to power, all lies, by
the way, which everyone knows now more than ever. But
the whole thing was a preposterous joke and I absolutely
(04:20):
loathed it. There were some fun other like after parties,
I'm not gonna lie about that, but the actual event
itself was just one giant self congratulation for what's effectively
a lib journal cartel. Why should this continue? Why should
some establishment media outlet, or rather media collective that's really
(04:43):
what it is, a bunch of commies. Why should they
get to determine who gets access to the West Wing?
Why shouldn't the administration determine who gets access? And what
you've noticed is that the expectation is Republican presidents have
to have enemy regime media meeting democrat aligned media full
access all the time. And that's just the way it is.
But you know, if a Barack Obama wants to wants
(05:05):
to just trash Fox News and say that it's an
enemy of democracy and block them from interviews and everything else.
Finally we've woken up. I will tell you it took
our side. Look, it took Donald Trump coming along and
metaphorically punching the other side in the face over and
over again for us to see, hey, we don't have
to put up with this anymore. And it's such a
(05:27):
breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
My only complaint would be I still think that we
give too much to the legacy media when it comes
to the debates, and we did even in this last cycle.
But it was one debate with Trump, and you know,
he did great, and obviously we saw what the result was.
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get too aggravated
over that. But the point is this shift that Caroline
(05:49):
Levitt as the White House Press Secretary and obviously on
behalf of Trump, This shift that's happening right now is
long overdue. And also from Jeff Bezos saying, you know, Clay,
on the one hand, I like that Bezos is just
talking about the Washington Post having to be be pro
(06:09):
capitalism and pro individual liberty, as a mission statement.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Did he not know what he was buying?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
He's so rich.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I know that sounds crazy, but he's so rich that
he may have just written the check for The Washington
Post based on its reputation without actually knowing what the
heck did he He bought a communist rag of lunatics.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Gonna try to defend Bezos on this, just like you're.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Defending Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I am gonna defend Bezos here. I'm gonna attempt to.
I think that how old is Jeff Bezos? Fifty two
or fifty three? Something like that, I mean before or
after the stack, if you know how well, yeah he is.
Now you know he's gonna I was texting with some
friends and they were saying that Bezos has gone full
(06:58):
Latimer in the pro For those of you out there
who remember the great college football movie The Program, one
of the guys just gets loaded up on on steroids,
is a great player, but can't pass a drug test
at all, and just starts behaving like crazy, beating up
people left and right. Bezos is the Latimer of media.
(07:18):
Right now, he has suddenly gotten loaded up on testosterone.
He's moved to Buckstown. In Miami, there's hot chicks walking
around to everywhere. Miami is the best looking city in America.
I'm so insane. Number One, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
If you're just a normal person walking around here, you
feel like you're in the worst shape of any human
being on the planet.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I don't The percentage of women that just wear span
Dex every day in Miami is it's off the charts,
Like I would walk to Bucks Bucks Studio.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Including the moms that have like anders.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's what I'm saying. Even the moms are just walking
around in span dex. Nobody's got any clothes on. Everybody's
incredibly good looking. Bezos moved to Miami, he got a
hot girlfriend, he gets loaded up suddenly on testosterone. He
now can binge press more than two hundred and twenty
five pounds, which buck If I had to tell you
(08:11):
one thing that you could point to to guess how
someone would vote for men who can bench press two
hundred and twenty five pounds. How many of them do
you think vote Democrat ten If I tend to one
Republican to Democrat ten to one, or you know, they
just don't care about about doing anything political. But I
agree if they actually vote, it's got to be ten
(08:31):
to one Republican to Democrat if you're a man and
you can binge press two hundred and twenty five pounds.
So I think what happened, Buck is Bezos read the
Washington Post historically, and I've talked about this on the
program because I went to college in DC. The Washington
Post was left of center, there was no doubt. But
(08:53):
Republicans in the nineties and the early two thousands respected
the Washington Post. Well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
They carried the just just just to point out, they
carried crowd Haammer, you know his column, George, and they
didn't carry it with disdain. I mean, he was one
of their featured columnists. And Charles was a great columnist.
I grew up reading Crowdhammer, among many other columnists, also
George will who unfortunately he could probably use some of
the Bezos treatment these days, but put that aside, you
(09:20):
could use some chalk, you know. They there wasn't It
wasn't that they were right of center, to your point,
but there also wasn't an outright undermining disdain and hatred
of anybody.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Who was Democracy dies. And at the top of the newspaper.
It was gotten crazy for sure. Uh you could read
Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon. They would make you laugh.
You know. They weren't obsessed with toxic masculinity. They didn't
employ people like Taylor Lorenz and that crazy Jennifer Rubinstein
or whatever her name is. It was left of center,
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but normal, like much of the country was. And one
of the things that I think Trump is doing is
we're returning to the days of the eighties, nineties and
early two thousands. Slowly. The revolution that is occurring is
just a revolution of common sense. And so Buck, I
think what happened was Bezos is super busy turning Amazon
(10:18):
into one of the most successful businesses in the history
of the world, and he recognizes that he wants to
have an influence on something other than lowering the price
of diapers and managing to get flip flops to you
in six hours, which is something that's happened. Like I
ordered flip flops from Amberia the other day.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's pretty awesome. Let's respect, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I mean, the business that he built is incredible, and
I think he thought this is a part of giving back.
It's a small fraction of his overall net worth, and
then he started to read the paper. When he retired,
he moved to Miami, he got a hot girlfriend, probably
went from benching one hundred pounds to suddenly be in.
(11:00):
Jeff Bezos right, he's throwing up wade everywhere, and I.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Believe, I believe they call him beast Mode Bezos or
beast most Bezos has shown up, and I think he
finally decided that he was willing to stand up to
the newspaper.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
He started to hire people. He hired a former Wall
Street journal editor. He started to fire people. And I've
said this for a long time. There's no point in
having fu money if occasionally you don't say f you.
And if you're one of the richest men in the
world and you own a media outlet and you think
that media outlet is producing really poor journalism, which it was,
(11:43):
and far left wing biased journalism, some of which Buck
actually would cover Amazon and him. So I think the
coverage of the newspaper of him personally, he looked at
it and said this is not very good. And I
think he finally stood up and said, I'm going to
try to drag this paper back towards some measure of decency.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A couple things to throw into the mix here.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
One is, the winds are blowing really hard in this
direction right now. So I'm not about to give somebody
a big old high five for their love of the
Constitution and patriotism because they realize the Trump certainly the
Trump juggernaut is going where it's going, and you might
as well get out of the way or hop on
(12:27):
the hop on the train.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So that's part one, part two. And I think we've
seen this from a number of the Silicon Valley barons,
which Bezos, yes, Amazon, but he's in a little bit
of a different category than some of those other guys.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Would I would argue he's.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Been in the game a very long time, but they
didn't realize how crazy their side really was. There has
been some of that. There certainly has been that with
Elon he's admitted that, and there have been others as
well who were so folk on what they were doing
building these online companies and these global b a myths
(13:05):
that were worth hundreds of billions of dollars that they
didn't recognize that the party that they had become, that
they had long been used to voting as a part
of had just basically gone insane on a whole range
of issues. I do think it was a surprise to Elon.
I don't think he was the only one. I don't
think naval Ravakan would have considered himself right wing. I
don't think he is right wing even now. I just
(13:26):
think he's a sound thinker. And it became impossible to
be a sound and logical thinker and still be in
the good graces of the Democrat Party. So for some
of these guys, that's been a big break with the
left wing consensus. Oh look, I'm about five or six
years ahead of some of these guys, so I tend
to in terms of my political evolution. So I tend
(13:47):
to be more lenient than you do. I get it
because you and like frankly me have been dealing with
these guys putting up roadblocks to us being able to
just argue what we believe. The Washington Post has not
been very kind to me when they've written articles about me.
Facebook censored both of us. So Bezos and Zuckerberg are
not my bros. Like I'm not like, Hey, I want
(14:08):
to go grab a beer with these guys. I don't
think I've I mean, I don't really check it on face.
I don't think I've gained like a person on Facebook
in years. Yeah, how is that possible?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
It's because because I'm in the back end, there's somehow,
you know, I get slapped by the way conservatives, a
lot of them who have done really well on Facebook.
There's something going on there. I don't know what it is,
but they've got some hookup or they've got some because
if you've been speaking the truth for years, you have
been shut down on Facebook, no question about it. And
a lot of good conservatives have just stopped using it
because of that. But the people that are still like
(14:40):
has spent years. If you made it through the pandemic
and you still had millions of followers on Facebook and
you consider self conservative.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You sold out somewhere. I don't know how that's possible.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This is such a big point in general on so
much of the media evolving in real time. Evolution is
very kind. I think that the cost of saying hey,
I'm a Trump guy has got has vanished. That is
the social cost you mentioned it buck, Like, we're hearing
from people, Hey, you go to the gym in New
(15:10):
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New York City, you would have never seen somebody yet
like Equinox Joy. Before I met my amazing wife, I
had people who who broke I would meet them in person,
and if I asked them out on a date, they
would bail on me because they were like I cannot
believe the things that you publicly say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That happened a few times. You know you're at a party,
I don't know what someone's politics. Aren't necessarily you get
the phone number. I'm a single guy, bailed on the
date because I like Trump, So I paid my dues.
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Speaker 2 (17:12):
A big beautiful bill on its way pass through the
House two seventeen to two fifteen, kind of a close
one house Republicans put it through. We talked to Jim
Jordan about this yesterday extend There are some big things
in this. We can get into it more, but I
want to just give you a quick overview. Extending tax cuts,
(17:33):
no taxes on overtime, no taxes on social Security, raising
the salt cap deduction, no taxes on tips. I think
I said that, lower corporate rate. So some big things
Clay making their way through on the legislative side, at
least through the House and now goes to the Senate.
They got to reconcile it. But we'll be looking at
these priorities and more wins getting stacked up for Trump.
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Speaker 1 (18:52):
Welcome back in Clay Travis fuck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through
the Wednesday edition of the program. We're talking about the
major cultural vibe shift and all the wins frankly that
we are stacking across the entirety of the culture right now.
And I saw this story this morning, and I thought,
(19:14):
there are so many stories that I see now, Buck,
because the pivot is so extreme where I think, for
a minute, wait, is this a Babylon B headline or
is this real life? And this is real life, so
this is not an April Fool's joke. This is not Babylon.
B Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, announced this morning that he
(19:39):
has a new book out. The book is called Original Sin,
and the subtext is subheadline President Biden's decline, its cover up,
and his disastrous choice to run again. It is out
in May. Buck, I cannot imagine how you could have
(20:02):
a CNN show like Jake Tapper does, and in fact, team,
if you'll go scroll through my twitter feed, we.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
We have cut two of him in twenty twenty talking.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
We do have that already included. Let's play.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We've got to get to this, my friends. This the
guy who's writing the book about the Biden cognitive decline
at dementia cover up was also the guy who would
mock and ridicule people on TV for bringing it up
when it mattered.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Play cut two.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
First and foremost. I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
You are, I think it's so amazing, it's so amazing
to me.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That try and figure out an answer.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
A cognitive decline, trying to tell.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Me that what I was suggesting was I think.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
That you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you
were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely
no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think
that somebody in the Prump family would be more sensitive
to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians
from afar shameful?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Can I just not only is he covering up himself?
There We all knew Clay I thought, I said on
radio before we teamed up. I'm like, there's no way
Biden's going to be the nominee. The guy has dementia.
Everybody knew this. The guy, you know, he's it's scrambled
eggs up top.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
He's too old.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
We all know this, and he was part of the lie.
But notice he even goes, you're mocking someone stutter. He
went with that, Yeah, that is just slander. I mean,
that is just garbage, and he knew it was garbage.
And I was going to write a book. Well, the
problem is he was one of these journals who spent
years and he would occasionally say something and people in.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
The right would go, oh, look, he's honest.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No he's not. He's a propaganda's who's playing you like
a fiddle. And now he has no credibility at all
because he went along with the big lie. He's going
to write a book about the big leg Get out
of here, Get out of it. This is crazy one.
I will say a little bit of fairness. There is
a co author, Alex Thompson, who was actually ripped to
shreds for reporting to some degree on Biden's mental cognition issues.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So his co author, he.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Can write this book, or he can have a say
in this book, but you don't get to tag along
when you were part of the propaganda machinery, as Tapper
and all of CNN was.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's not just that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They disagreed Clay. They tried to destroy the credit.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We just heard it. That was Laura Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
They tried to destroy the credibility and the decency, at
least in the eyes of the audience of people who
tried to tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I just I can't believe. Again, this goes with the
vibe shift, But I also think maybe the most undercovered
story of the start of twenty twenty five is more
Democrats Now watch Fox News, then watch CNN or MSNBC.
(23:06):
I don't know. I mean some of you out there
are you just kind of had a record scratch moment
because it hasn't been discussed that much. They lit their
credibility on fire. CNN and MSNBC did to such an extent,
arguing that anybody who said that Biden wasn't up to
the job was guilty of cheap fakes. Remember that phrase
(23:27):
that Kreem Jean Pierre tried to come out with, cheap fake.
Oh it's no lasted like like a week. Yeah, well,
because then the debate happened on June twenty seventh, I mean,
NBC News wrote an entire article ripping me to shreds.
They asked for comment for saying that Biden didn't have
the mental or physical ability to be president.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
This it all makes sense, though, when you take a
step back. The whole reason it was Biden and they
moved him into this position. And remember Clive Burne and
the Democrat machine. Biden was getting smoked in the prime
and then all of a sudden, and then all of
a sudden, and it's because the Democrat Party fundamentally had
(24:07):
to hide from the voters in twenty twenty what the
party had become. And Biden was around long enough and
you know, had the old grandpa thing down enough that
he could be the trojan horse for this. He could
be the guy that they say, oh, the Democrats aren't radical,
it's old Joe. He's been in politics for forty years.
(24:29):
You can trust Joe. But the whole thing was a lie, yea,
because he wasn't representative of where the Democrat base was.
He wasn't representative, and then he was just a puppet,
a puppet of the lunatic communist machine that was actually
running the Democrat Party. And that now Clays, we can
see random off a cliff and we're watching as the
flames engulf the wreckage after it crashed off the cliff.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And what also this represents is it's now fair game
to walk over and put an extra bullet into the
dead Biden body right suddenly? Is that too much of
a graphic analogy metaphorically speaking, metaphorically speaking, of course, but
you know how they do this, like when they kill somebody,
(25:14):
metaphorically speaking, we can.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Say they and net the survivors. You know, let's get
a historical reference, or oh.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We'll do like Caesar. The reason why everybody had to
take out Caesar back in the day was they all
wanted to be equally complicit in taking him down. Now,
in this era that we're in, suddenly you can say
Biden wasn't up to the job. Beforehand, their phone would
have blown up. They would have been nervous. What happens
(25:40):
if Biden finds a way to win. We're gonna be
persona note granta non grata in the White House. We're
not gonna be able to do our job. Jake freaking Tapper,
who had a show and could have told all of
America for years, Biden's not up to the job.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
But here's why he's doing a book about it. Here's
why he's here's why he's doing this. He's doing it
because I think he has occupied, with a couple of others,
but maybe him more so than any other, the space
of establishment journalists for years now. And I mean journalists
(26:13):
in the sense of, you know, the all the nonsense.
I speak truth to power. I don't have a point
of view. I just report the facts. And what we
saw in this election cycle, and the Biden lie was
the big part of it, was a huge part of
this realization was that established the most establishment journals were
(26:36):
leading the charge and every bit is involved in the
in the lie about Biden as anybody else, because they
thought they had no choice. The machine had said this
is what must happen. So now, Clay, they have to rebuild.
And they haven't done this ever in their careers. Really,
they've always been able to tack left or tack right
(26:56):
a little bit to play this game still as Democrat operatives.
Don't make no mistake, they've always been Democrat operatives, but
they were a little better at, you know, throwing a
little dust up into the air and make people think. Oh,
sometimes sometimes he'll speak the truthful thing. Sometimes he'll actually
tell his own side, the hard truths, never when it matters,
(27:17):
but just enough to play this game of I'm an
objective truth teller, because that's more powerful as a propagandist
than speaking the truth about I'm actually.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Biased and I have a point of view.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Not only that, I would point out this is the
other big part of this story. The business doesn't work anymore.
I think there are a lot of guys out there,
mostly men, women too, who run MSNBC, or they run CNN,
or they run the Washington Post or the New York Times,
and they may think sometimes, man, this is we're putting
(27:53):
out some garbage. But then they go look at the
ratings and they're like, well, this is what people want.
And you just follow the ratings train and you keep
feeding that and ultimately if ratings go up, advertiser dollars
come in, there's more money. The anti Trump universe of
media doesn't work in twenty twenty five. You can't run
(28:14):
the same playbook that you ran in twenty seventeen. And
so when they lose money suddenly they think, oh, maybe
this is the wrong move. It's all directly tied to
audience collapse.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
This was the ultimate test, though, this election, of everything
that the Democrat media ecosystem had promised their audience for years,
and they failed. The implicit promise or maybe explicit promise
of Joy Read Show and Rachel Maddow Show and that
lunatic Olberman if you know, you don't have to just
(28:48):
do a wellness check on him occasionally he does a podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Like some of these crazies out there.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
They made it very clear that what they were doing
was rallying people to defeat Trump and defeat trump Ism
because it was going to destroy the country. Well he won.
It didn't destroy the country. The country's actually doing just fine,
doing great, really cleaning up things that everybody should agree
need to be cleaned up. Hello, Doge.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And so all of the promises made for years by
the meat and clay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It's special Council investigations, federal prosecutions. But there were two
assassination attempts against this guy. They they threw the left,
the machine, the forces of darkness through everything against him,
and he came through. And now what do they have?
You know, what, what can they offer the audience at
this point? Why would you watch Joy Reid's show, Not
(29:41):
that you can anymore wompomp, but you know what, you know,
why would did you see Greta van Sustern, who is
not somebody to you know, mix it up and get
in get into kind of the you know, the the
nasty back and forth zone on line. She just pointed out,
She's like, I remember when you were liking tweets when
I I got fired from MSNBC and I had been
(30:02):
your colleague.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
There's just like, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
She just said that, But I think that's all not
a nice person. Joy Reig is not a nice person
either as somebody that really want to destroy other people's careers.
My sympathy for her is zero. She has earned this
ignominious end to her garbage career.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, I have no sympathy. I actually have a great
deal of joy. And also it's ironically enough also Bobby
Barack has a good piece up at out Kick that
I just shared on this buck. Isn't it sort of
emblematic of the era we went through that MSNBC, which,
via Joy Reid, spent years falsely accusing many different people
(30:40):
out there being racist, is now itself being accused of
racism for firing Joy Reid. In fact, maybe a little
bit later in the show, I believe we have audio
of one of her former colleagues calling on black people
to boycott MSNBC for being racist, Which is you want
to talk about a plot twist? Uh, They're now being
(31:01):
hoisted on their own petard, so to speak, or guillotined
as the revolutionaries of France ended up being a.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Historical reference, right, everyone knows no one's pulling out a
guillotine here, So we're good.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
A little bit of interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Why why isn't it the case?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Have they fired a single I mean not that I
not that I'm agreeing with Rachel maddles assessment here, but
have they fired a single white primetime host from MSNBC's lineup.
They fired a couple of minorities, but I don't think
have they fired a white host?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Isn't it right?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Maybe they are, well they are. We know, actually the
real racist are left wingers because.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
They know which is an argument.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
You know, this has been a thing that we just
because we've been saying it for so long, it's so true.
Justice Clarence Thomas makes this case in his autobiography where
he just says, conservatives don't even think in these terms,
and they just like people who are good people of
all colors and races and creeds. And and it is
always Democrats that have this obsession because so many of them,
deep down actually have what would be considered, you know,
(32:03):
racial beliefs or racist beliefs, and so they have to
comp they have to overcompensate conservatives on field.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
They need to compensate because we just look at people
as people. We just look at.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
People as human beings equal in dignity, worth and under
the eyes of God and the law, at least in
this country.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
By the way, Rachel Maddow huge portion of her staff fired.
This also ties in with what we said yesterday. This,
according to the New York Post, a lot of the
Rachel Maddow staf's been fired. She makes twenty five million
a year. I said this, she could pay, could take
it all of them. She could keep all of them,
no problem.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
She could keep them on staff for the next year
or two while thing they ride this period out. But
libs just look at libs when it comes to charity
too in Actually this is they all need to do
so much work on themselves as human beings.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
This is why their politics are so toxic.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah, we talked. I mean our friend Frank Siller said
he tried look with tunnel to towers. He said, I
tried to advertise on left wing programming. No one would donate.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, their version of charity is taking money from all
of you and getting it to do transgender operas in Mongolia.
We actually believe in helping heroes and good people in
this country and people who are in need in this country.
The left believes in seizing your money by force and
redistributing it to transsurgery for you know, people in Guatemala,
who use they them pronouns?
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We're going head to head on a bracket clay. I'm
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Going to have Honestly, the people who win bracket challenge
is also often, as many of you know, have no
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what's going to happen in the brackets. But Major League
Baseball back soon, NBA playoffs not very far away. I
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watched the little NBA. I was watching college basketball last night.
(34:16):
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