The Best Weekend Talk Show in American 3.1

We call it The Best Weekend Talk Show in America (aka, the A&G Replay).  In this episode, Biden Sings Happy Birthday & more on The Twitter Files!

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enjoy the best weekend talk show in America. Well, look,
my wife has a rule our found way on somebody's birthdays,
saying happy birthday, ready, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday
to you, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you, well fifteen

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times today and it still makes me laugh because I've
done that so many times. I don't know this person's
I'm not sure the name. I've been it up, bellow
it out loud, Yeah, but I find it an. I
don't want to say that. If no, and it's maryan.
But if you've got the mike. Unless you're a senile
old man, you're gonna realize, Man, I don't know the name,

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I'll step away from the mic and like pretend to
conduct that's there's a dozen ways to cover it. Happy
blower into the mic is not one of them. I
don't know. I find that to be the funniest but
least egregious old man moment that he's had. I mean,

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he's had some really consequential old man moments, you know,
changing policy and that sort of thing. That that's a
big deal for getting somebody's name for the happy birthday.
Well hilarious. Yeah, well, okay, you sounded like a liberal
to me, speaking of which, Speaking of which that was
I was kidding to introduce the word liberal, which I

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will now echo u. Matt Taiebi is unquestionably a liberal.
He is a man of the left. He is a
Hillary supporter. He wanted John Carry, not George W. Bushy
is a big Broco Bama fan, et cetera. He's a
Bernie guy. Matt Taiebe is a liberal, that's right, and
a very smart guy too, and a guy of of

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clear conscience. The whole Twitter files thing, you maybe have
heard about. Some people have dug into it with more
enthusiasm than others. But I think the great mistake that's
being made by a lot of people is thinking this
story is about Twitter. It's not. And the left is
ignoring this story because as an organ of left politics,

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mostly Twitter, in disgorging its documents is showing a lot
of us what has been happening for the last several
years in terms of social media media in general and politics.
And I'll explain what they all. I'm rambling about Matt
Tybee's latest piece blew me away. Our topic here being

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how incredibly dishonest so many people are willing to be
for political reasons. And he's talking about the Russia Gate
lies as he calls them, and part one, the fake
tale of Russian bots and the hashtag released the memo.
Hashtag don't know if you're a member that remember this

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when he writes Russian bots and trolls were blamed for
virtually every major news organization, by virtually every news organization
in the country for amplifying the hashtag released the memo.
The files contain a massive emails from executives blowing up
this ridiculous story. Once and for all. The hashtag released
the Memo scandal was one of the more shameful episodes
in the recent history of our media, but taken seriously

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by all but one or two mainstream editors at the time.
His point in the title of this article, by the way,
as America needs truth and reconciliation on Russia Gate, that
the media will never heal unless they're honest about this stuff.
So yeah, you're right. Uh So the release the hashtag

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released the Memo scandal one of the most shameful episodes, etcetera.
All citing the same dubious source, the Hamilton's six eight dashboard,
which was trumpeted by former FBI counter intelligence of officials
and current MSNBC contributor Clint Watts. All of these publications
insisted Russians deplied Twitter bought armies to whip up cyber

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support for Republican Congressman Devin Nuniaz. Nunia's had just released
a classified memo alleging Democrats and the FBI used the
infamous paid oppositional research dossier of xPy Christopher Steele to
obtain secret FISA surveillance authority on Trump connected figures like
Carter Page among other improprieties. Slightly less convoluted sentence, Devon

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Nunias was saying the only reason the FISA court gave
these warrants was because they trumped up the steal dossier,
and he released a memo saying this was outrageous. We
now know, writes Taiebi, that Twitter internally found no evidence,

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as in zero that Russians were anywhere near this story.
There were no Russian bots promoting this. Now, let's do
a little review of what was claimed. UH Trust and
Safety chief Yoel Roth said, I just reviewed the accounts
that posted the first fifty tweets with hashtag released the memo.
None of them showed any signs of affiliation to Russia.

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These hashtags are organics. At a second UH executive, a
third said, I'm not seeing any relationship. This is a
constant theme in the files. In addition to revelations about
FBI censorship, shadow banning, Pentagon, use of fake accounts which
is a thing, and suppression of true information about issues
like COVID nineteen, the Twitter emails regularly exposed the wide

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delta between what we were told about foreign threats and
what a major platform seeing the raw data, new UH
even within the heavily partisan culture at Twitter, the regular Russia, Russia,
Russia claims by politicians and media in self serving pursuit
of headlines caused eyes to roll. Members, said one Twitter executive,

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look foolish if they cry Russia every time something happens
on social media. Now Taibi goes into details on how
if you on the left, they're saying, are attempted to
shout but Trump stops to steal Q and on DIRP,
don't do it. Don't be the Japanese soldiers still clutching

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a bayonet to defend the forgotten a toll in nineteen sixty.
Forget Trump, you need to clean your house first, and
and that stuff is persuasive, But it's a little long issue,
and I want to get to the review of everything
we heard based on this hashtag release the memo. In
the case of both hashtag Schumer shutdown and hash and

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especially hashtag released the memo, it's undeniable thanks to the
Twitter finals emailed that Twitter's executives were aghast at the
Russian bots story and struggle to convince both media and
members of Congress not to repeat assertions of Russian influence.
Yet three influential Democrats, Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal,

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and the House is tireless still yapping Russia Gate mascot
Adam Schiff were determined to go there. Twitter execs scrambled
anyway to try to stop each After a lot of pleading,
one staffer for di f I finally agreed it would
be helpful to know how their main source, Hamilton's six,
which was etcetera, came to decide an account as a
Russian influencer. It apparently didn't occur to the why di

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FI staffer, Diane Feinstein yourself to ask this critical question
of how is this web purse, this website identifying Russians
before the senator published an open letter with Schiff citing
it as proof of Russian dishonesty absolutely blind. In other words,
they declared hashtag released the memo to be Russian propaganda,

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saying it benefited from the quote assistance of social media
accounts linked to Russian influence operations. And he goes into
great detail and since cites several more people and dozens
of articles MSNBC, NBC, ABC, Associated Press, PBS, Washington Post,
New York Times, Slate, Voice of America, CBC, Salon, Bloomberg,

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Rolling Stone, and countless others citing this one website suggesting
that the hashtag released the memo and the Schumer shutdown
and stuff were Russian bots at Twitter. They were saying
internally and telling these people, there's no evidence of that.
None the included pieces where noonez memo is slide toward

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abuse of power. Every word of the Neones memo was true.
Highly debated Noones memo on alleged fise abuses, furthest conspiracy theories.
Every word of it was true. The News memo proves
one thing, and it's the opposite of what it wants
to prove. It proved exactly what it wanted to remember
when a story was big and I was watching MSNBC

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about it noon as memo reveals Congressman's pension for conspiracy theories,
nail in the coffin for the news memo, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
A typical editorial take on the New nes memo back
then sounded like Eugene Robinson's at the Washington Post quote,
It's simply not possible on any level to take seriously
the history on its from Trump and his true believer

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allies over the New NES memo except as evidence of
how far the GOP has plunged into cynicism and madness again.
The madness of the New NES memo was verified as
true just under two years later with the release of
the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report. Yeah, I
I jeez, I'm surprised there aren't more, uh serious journalists

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who are willing to say, yeah, we were wrong about that,
and this is important because someday it's gonna come back
on our side, you know, this sort of thing. We
need to make sure we don't make these mistakes in
the future. But if that's happening, I wonder if they
just think their sins were so terrible they're better off
sweeping them under the rug. There's just too much to

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reckon with. It's two. I mean, it shows how completely
riddled with dishonesty they are. And the fact that Matt Taiebee,
who had pretty good um has pretty good credentials and
had pretty good credentials with the Left up until now,

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is not making a dent. I mean, nobody's nobody's in
New York Times. I mean, no, nobody's having him on
talk about this sort of stuff. No shows are having
him on to talk about this other than Tucker Um
on Fox. You know, if if if Fox was breaking
the stereo. Okay, I'm not surprised they're ignoring it. They shouldn't,
but they are. But the fact that one of your
leading liberal voices is saying, hey, we need to recognize

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this is this was all crap. Twitter knew it was crap.
Shift should have known it was crap. If he didn't,
and he probably did, it's it's troubling, man, it is
really troubling. Well in Matt Tybee is dryly hilarious when
he's talking about how as of whenever he started writing
about this sort of thing, like in twenty nineteen, all
of a sudden he was a right wing journalist, and

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how hilarious that he hates Trump. I mean, you can't
hardly find anybody who hates Trump as much Matt Tiebe does.
He's not trying to boost her Trump, but he's honest,
you know, back to the whole what he's saying that
we really need a truth and reconciliation, uh, you know,
movement to get beyond this incredible you know period of

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our nation's so called legacy media. I just getting back
to my previous thought. I just if you I'm picturing,
you know, some sort of you know, prison counseling meeting
or something. I lost my temper as a young man
and I killed a guy in a in a controversy
of bar fight or something like that. I can bear
my soul and talk about what a terrible mistake it

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was and and what I've learned and how I'm moving
beyond it and the rest of it, and I'll bet
I could find some forgiveness or some some redemption there.
But if I killed you know, eleven people one at
a time, I mean, the the behavior of all of
those publications and at noon Is and Feinstein and their

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staffers and the rest of it. It was long term, repeated,
deliberate activity of that sort. I don't think. I think
they don't think there's any redemption. They went too far,
they did too much. I think they think it was
justifiable because Trump was so bad, and they we won't
do it again. We'll have the balls to admit that. Then.

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I mean, if you're so convinced of your own rightness
that you're willing to do what you did, including what
we've been talking about. If the times were so dire
that you were justified in doing all that, then say
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