July 28, 2025 • 32 mins
Tulsi unmasks Obama and the deep state, Hunter Biden vomits ont he Democrats and everyone else, and Stephen Colbert flips President Trump the bird. Tempers are flaring in this week's "did they really just say that" moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Telsea Gabbard calls out Obama and the deep state, Hunter
Biden spews on the Democrats and everyone else, and Stephen
Colbert flips the president the bird. Tempers are flaring in
this week's Did they really just say that?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Moment?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
So, I'm Ben Parker, I'm Jeff Brown. This is news bite.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We had a sitting president of the United States and
his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly, who were not
happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election,
that the American people had chosen Donald J. Trump, and
so they decided that they would do everything possible to
try to undermine his ability to do what voters task
President Trump to.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Do him Kim Kim and everybody around him. On Friday,
Donald Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
His talent was even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
How dare you serve a lot of F bombs this week?
Work out on the beep button? There?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's great stuff, Stephen Colbert dropping the F bomb on
the president and then you heard that whole stretch of
beeps that was in between the beeps barely Hunter Biden,
how can we miss you if you won't go away?
Got about that he had a little bit of a meltdown.
Of course, Look, we're doing this because we have the
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cuts of it. By the way, I've Ben Parker, Jeff
Brown is with me because Nancy Shack is off resting
her finger after having to push the beat button so
many times from all the f bombs. So anyway, Hunter
Biden is upset at a number of people.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I think he's mad at everybody. Actually, I mean some
of it is justified. I think a lot of it
is not. But you know, you know who he's really
mad at.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And by the way, he was on the the Andrew
Callahan Channel five podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But so he's mad at one famous actor who nobody
ever seems.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
To be mad at. Really.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I know he has a political activism going on,
but yeah, I mean he looks like the guy that,
like you could disagree with him. And by the way,
his name is George Clooney. He looks like the type
of guy even though I know he politically you know,
leans way to the left that you could probably have
a beer with and not necessarily want to kill him.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But Hunter Biden is Yeah, you know, I gotta tell you,
I really didn't pay much attention. I mean, you you
said it. How can we miss you if you're not
going away? But I've already moved on, and so when
this came up again this week, I was like, oh God,
but you know, so, it's just it doesn't surprise me.
But he's got an axt to grind right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And with not only George Clooney, but James Carville, David Axelrod,
I think everyone. I think the only one he might
not be mad at is his dad, and even then
he could be pissed at Joe Biden. But this is
try to find what Hunter Biden is actually saying between
all of the the F bombs that were beeped out.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Jim Kim Kim and everybody around him. I don't have
to be nice. Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
George Clooney is not an actor. He is a like
I don't know what he is. He's a brand. And
by the way, and God bless him, you know what.
He supsedly treats his friends really well, you know what
I mean, buys them things, and he's got a really
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great place in Lake Como, and he's great friends with
Barack Obama.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What do you have to do with anything? Why do
I have to listen to you? What right do you
have to step on a man who's given fifty two
years of his life to the services of this country
and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take
out basically a full page ad in New York Times
to me and James Carville, who hasn't run a race
in forty years, and David Axelrod, who had one success
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in his political life, and that was Barack Obama, and
that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David
Axelrod and David pluff In all of these guys.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It just it's so worthy of not cutting that off
in the middle, just because he dropped so many, so
many names, f bombs end names which you could pick
out there. Well, he's not at Clooney because and he's
obviously been holding this grudge for a while now. Because
of the whole Clooney kind of pushed his dad, Joe
off the cliff to get out of the way for
Kamala Harris, which didn't work out. By the way, I wonder,
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and there's no way to know, obviously, but if if
Kamala wins and pushing Joe Biden out of the way
was the right decision. I wonder if Hunter gives a.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Crap, Well, he certainly doesn't have the platform to argue anymore.
I wouldn't think or that if he did come up
for this interview, it would be he would not he
would respond to you know, whatever questions more appropriately, right,
you know what I mean, because he's like, this is
not the only reason this is an issue is because
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you know, the wounds are still deep.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I guess, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And and of course there's a lot of wounds with
Hunter Biden, which we won't get into because that is
as long and winding road as someone famous once said.
But he's he's very angry about a lot of things.
And of course he's taken a big beating over the
years between his you know, he had his drug abuse
and the affair and the prostitute and this and that, and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let me just let me just say this.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I mean, I think the whole Hunter Biden saga is
a sad story. It's a sad story that you know,
were he anyone else's son, probably would have been in
prison a long time ago. But you know, I mean,
you know, He's born in a life of privilege, and
that has its advantages. And the fact that you know,
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the president of the United States is out for revenge
means that this is creating a lot of hostility in
a lot of people, and a lot of hope high
profile people like you know, for instance, George Clooney and
everybody else in that he mentions there. So you know,
he's just one in a long line, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
One of the reasons. And I don't let's listen. I'm
not in the inner inner circles of Hollywood and George
Clooney and.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Not even You're not even on the outside circle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, I'm just more like a square and I'm more
in the top corner getting ready to fall off.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But here's the thing. And obviously we're.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Talking about Hunter Biden, and he got his fifteen minutes
of fame for the podcast and all the ranting and raving.
But I would think, and maybe I'm wrong, but if
if Hunter Biden's opinion mattered, really one ioted to George Clooney,
we would have heard from Clooney by now, I think
probably crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I mean, you know, I mean, here's my opinion in
my humble opinion, I M h O. For the Texters,
I he did, he said what needed to be said.
George Cliney did. He said it either to the president
or to the people in his circle, but certainly to
you know, didn't back away to the American public. He
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said what needed to be said. Joe Biden was not
fit to run for president last year, you know. Unfortunately
the Democrats, you know, even though they said they had
a plan, they didn't have a plan. And it's impossible
to win the White House on just a few weeks. Notice,
I don't care who you are now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And now Hunter's grinding the acts down as far as
he can. I guess, stay on the spotlight as long
as you can, right hold on to the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well while the but it almost sounds like he went
off on a tangent and didn't really plan to say
anything of that nature. But something ticked him off. And
that again I didn't hear it, but it seems to
me that something pushed him over the edge of that
inter probably.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And well he was also asked, and I don't know
if this was before or after, but as I said,
he's taken a lot of heat. Certainly when his father
was in office, and about a lot of different things.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Including that Barisma deal.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Remember, he was on the board of Barisma and a
lot of people said he wasn't qualified, So he was
asked about that in the podcast too, Well were you qualified?
Do you on the Barisma board?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
The question that I have is that how do you
move forward in this world if every discussion you began
is a defense of you know, I know I went
on the board of a Ukrainian national gas company. A
lot of it had to do with money one hundred percent,
you know, I had an organization that was willing to
pay me for a service that I was one hundred
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percent qualified to do. I went to Yale Law School.
I served on dozens of boards before this. I was
an expert in corporate governance. I have a encyclopedia pee
acknowledge of the region. I had served on a major
infrastructure company, and had done work in global aid relief
throughout the entire world, and had an enormous list of
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connections of my own. And I was qualified to be
on that board. And it gave me the freedom at
a time when I really needed the freedom to be
with my family, to focus on my brother's health, and
I chose to do it, and I was transparent about it,
and I did it.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, but you're on the board of a Ukrainian gas
company who had, whether they wanted to know it at
the time, ties to Russia, who, whether they wanted to
admit it at the time, had something to do with
the twenty sixteen presidential election. You see where I'm going
with this. There's a smoking direc Yeah, there's a reason
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why we're asking you to defend yourself. We don't want
anybody to start off with a defense. We're asking you
to defend yourself on a bunch of extreme coincidences that
make this look that make this deal look highly suspect.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
People a lot of people, a lot of people, a
lot of people think he's was unqualified.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
For that job.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And here, but here's here, here's another thing. And you
just mentioned it right, it's it's got this cloud over.
Let's assume for one second, suspend your beliefs.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
But by the way, back back in those days, we
still referred to it as the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And it was still Chicken Kiev.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
That that's correct.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So but let's assume for a second suspend all your
thoughts and assume that that Hunter Biden was indeed not
only qualified to be on the Barisma board, but uber qualified,
Like there was nobody more qualified in the world than
Hunter Biden. Right, Even if that's true, as you were
pointing out, look, there's a lot of stuff. There's a
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lot of there there, right, It's it's the whole thing
of Like, look, the the appearance of impropriety is just
as bad as impropriety itself. So even if you were
a boy genius Barisma board member, yeah, they're gonna look
at you funny.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
But and I will give him credit for this. He
comes right out and says the reason why he did it,
it's because of the money, money, money, money, And that's
you know, listen, I mean, I give him credit for that.
But there's too many But that's politics, right, I mean,
this is you know, you unfortunately you get dirty money
from a lot of questionable sources, and then you you
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always worry about, you know, talking it away or covering
it up later. And that's what that seems to me,
Why what he's doing, and why everybody's still pissed at.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
We got to, uh, we gotta push Hunter off to
the side.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I was gonna say, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But but but since we opened Pandora's box, they just
had to ask, Yeah, Hunter, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
About the illegal immigrants and the whole thing with that
going on?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
People are really upset about illegal immigration. You how do
you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you
think you got food on your table? Who do you
think washes your dish?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He wasn't other best bombs.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
You know what, he's not qualified to be president of
the United States, or maybe he is actually, come to
think of it, maybe he is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hold on then now I was going to move on,
But now I can't move on because you mentioned the
whole president of the United States state. So a Hunter, also,
by the way, was asked if he were president, would
he invade L Salvador if they didn't send their own
citizens from prison back to the US.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in order for us to lead. I say you,
how are we getting those people back from El Salvador?
Because I'll tell you what. If I became president in
two years from now, or four years from now or
three years from now, I would pick up the phone
and call the president of El Salvador and say you
either send them back or I'm going to invade. It's
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a crime what they're doing. He's a dictator thug with
Kelly or drump both.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Did he know he was being recorded?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did he know it was the part on the podcast
hear all that? I guess, which, by the way, opens
then we've got to move on. But it does open
the question of would a Hunter Biden administration be fun
to listen to? I mean, oh my god, could you
imagine that the State of the Union address? Maybe, just
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for for humor's sake, we should have to stick to
the script Hunter. All right, they got enough of I
got enough of Hunters saying F you'd everybody sorry, mister president,
you know you know who else was dropping a few
F bombs this week?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And and at the President of the United States, among others. Uh,
everybody's friend, including himself. Stephen Colbert the Late Show got
got the acts that put to sleep?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well not yet though.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
See that's the thing too that makes me write everybody
on the show, everybody associated with and of course Colbert
has been making tons of money anyway, so it's not
like he's standing in a in a soup line. But
but it's not like they came in and said everybody
out of the pool parties over.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They gave them a long notice. No.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
But and you know, this is really what's going to
be the next domino to fall at CBS is because
he's now got a several months long platform to speak
his mind. At some point, CBS, I believe will say
enough's enough and will pull the plug on that show
ahead of the May deadline.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And it's just that's what I fear is going to happen.
And it's also what I believe is going to happen. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I haven't watched late night television of any sort right
regularly in I don't even know how long. And yes,
look we could sit here in pontificate about oh the
old David Letterman and boy, when Johnny Carson was the host,
it was fantastic. And Jayle, I mean, look, things change,
They change everywhere, and late night television is one of them,
and so do people's viewing habits.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I guess he had his.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Fan base, but they weren't making money. And listen you
talk about money and Hunter Biden mentioning money.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Money's the deal. Money makes the world go around.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Someone once said, so, I mean, if they're not making money,
and let's assume they're not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know everybody's got their.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Opinion, but why wouldn't you pull the plug on the
damn thing? And by the way, not happy, uh at
the president because the president was giddy about Stephen Colbert
getting getting the acts. Stephen Colbert not giddy about the president.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
In a completely unrelated story, on Friday, Donald Trump posted,
I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was
even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
How how how dare you, sir?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Would an untalented man be able to compose the following
satirical witticism?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, by the way, I give credit to credit
that was. It was funny. That was that was a
funny one. Yeah, and thankfully he had Hunter Biden around
to write it.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Now. So you know the thing when you when you
look at you know where these people these this is
a fraternity. The late night TV landscape is a fraternity.
All of the hosts came up in the business together.
They know one another, They've worked with one another on
many occasions. And you know what I do watch on
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a regular basis is The Daily Show when John Stewart's
hosting it. I watched his weekly appearance and he jumped
on the F bomb bandwagon. But it's very funny, it's
very witty, very entertaining, and it really gets right to
the heart of what's going on. So you know, this
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is going to be a torrent over the next several months.
Whether or not Colbert is part of it, it's coming.
And you know, Comedy Central is also owned by CBS.
I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed the envelope one
too many times that they say it's over.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, I mean yeah, I mean you can be the
dead horse too much, and they may do that with
some of these attacks or whatever you want to call them. Uh,
speaking of attacks, Tulsa Gabbard, who, by the way, I
really like and I don't mean I agree with everything
she said. I know she ran for president, she was
wance a Democrat now she's not, and blah blah blah,
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but I like her and in terms of first of all,
she's not hard of the eyes. But second of all,
I just feel like when I'm watching her speak, I
don't even need the volume up and I do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Means she's not hard on these what does.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
She gets always come down to this with you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It never does. I like a lot of people who
are hard on the eyes, like you. But the fact is,
I like Telci Gabbard for a thousand reasons. I just
wanted to throw that out there for no real reason.
Uh but what plus, she's a babe. But that's where
you're going. She's really you don't think people judge people
based on how they look? Well, I'm I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Okay, Well listen, I'll give it to you. Fine, go ahead,
move on. You want the F bombs to come down
on you, just move all right? So tell us see
your little point, Telsey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Anyway, it takes aim at Barack Obama. She's the director
of National Intelligence now. And look, there have been rumors
and bubblings for what a decade now, right that the
Democrats and Barack Obama and maybe Hillary Clinton and all
these other people were behind the Russian disinformation scandal and
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the Steele dossier and all of that. And Telsey Gabbard
was on with Maria Bariomo and talks about Barack Obama
was not happy that Donald Trump won in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
The implications of this are, frankly nothing short of historic.
Over one hundred documents that we released on Friday really
detail and provide evidence of how this treason is conspiracy
was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was
due to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected.
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This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is
an issue that is so serious it should concern every
single American because it has to do with the integrity
of our democratic republic.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And the Justice Department is launching a strike force, as
they call it, to investigate Obamba administration officials about that dossier.
So it's some things just never go away, do they.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You know what this is. This is politics, That's what
it is. It's politics. The difference is this time is
you have a president of the United States that is
out for revenge for something that happened almost a decade ago. Okay,
he won the election. Somebody tried to say that it
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was not legitimate. Hmm does that ring a bell? You
know the problem right now? If I may, may I
oh shar, please go ahead. You have a right wing
administration that follows an extreme left wing administration, and there's
nobody really occupying the middle that has a voice these days,
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and as we all know about vacuums, nature abhors them. Right.
So I have long said that we cannot function as
a society over the long term at polar opposites, much
like you can't have that in any other form of
nature or science in the world. Right, So, at some point,
somebody's going to drive this bus back into the middle.
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I believe we know who this person is, we just
haven't identified them yet. And one of the people who
comes closest to getting a little bit back towards the
center so far that I've seen is if you can
imagine Elon musk By, you know, threatening to create a
third party, which by the way, historically won't work. What
you need is common sense from somebody from the right,
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from the left. And I don't know what the catalyst
is going to be to get this country back, to
galvanize the rest of the electorate and say people, enough's enough.
We got to get back on the straight and narrow
because we're better than this. And it's coming. I don't
know when, and I don't know where, but it's coming.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So so you mentioned we need someone to drive the
bus back to the center. Will that be an electric
bus if it's Elon Muss probably, I mean, here's the thing,
and it may not. Maybe it doesn't happen with either.
Maybe it doesn't happen this year, next year, the year after.
Who knows when it will happen. Right, we could just
be at odds for for for a while, but eventually,
and you mentioned, you know, the cliche of driving the
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bus back to the middle. I think what's gonna need
to happen in some way, shape or form, is that
bus is gonna need to run over a bunch of
people on both sides of the aisle to get it done.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean, but again, politics is a backstab and game,
and you know people are gonna be left with knives
in their back to get what, you know, where this
country ultimately would like to be. And I believe everybody
thinks that we should be having we we should we
should have more common ground, and right now we don't.
You can't get beyond the p if you're focused on
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the past, you know what I mean. And you know
you can call it a distraction to the Epstein Gate
or whatever, but you know, President Trump is still fixated
on not only the twenty twenty election, but the twenty
sixteen election. I mean, it's twenty twenty five. He's got
three more years, three years plus in office.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And they're still talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He's still talking about it, you know, I'm I said
a while back on this show. And of course, look,
the ship has sailed, the horses out of the barn,
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
To say about it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But look, for those who hate Donald Trump, and there
are a lot of people, it almost would have been
better for them in a way, in a weird, twisted way,
if he had just got reelected in twenty twenty because
guess what, he'd be gone. He'd be gone now and
someone else would be in there.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well you know, I mean, would he I mean this
talk of a third term. You know, I'm not putting
it past the administration to say there's a way to
do this, mister.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
President and JD Vance and then I don't know how
there's a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And those talks, if they haven't already happened, are going
to happen. I mean, because you know, here's again, the
thing is is when you know, if everybody thinks the JD.
Vance is going to be the heir apparent, Okay, you
do not want to be the guy who replaces the legend.
You want to be the guy after replaces the guy
who replaced the legend. You know, for starters. JD Vance
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does not stoke the fear into foreign governments, into people
in general that Donald Trump does. And there's the possibility
that the United States gets steamrolled with a JD Vance
in office.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Maybe I don't know. I mean, we'll we'll have to
wait and see you. Obviously, by the way, the Democrats
are in disarray, as everyone is pretty much aware they're
kind of going their own way in all kinds of directions.
And President Obama actually stepped up to the plate at
a fundraiser at the home of New Jersey's Governor Phil
Murphy and basically told him to stop being woozee. He said,
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it's going to require a little bit less naval gazing
and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,
and it's going to require Democrats to just toughen.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, he's right, So Obama wants to right to tough enough.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
They don't have a plan.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
By the way, So Shanikua McLendon was on MSNBC, and
I think this is is kind of funny, but I
don't know. I get maybe it would help the Democrats,
or at least the base and fuel them up. Here's
what she says about Barack Obama and when Donald Trump
messes up.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I think what he said is true. Democrats should tough enough.
I don't think it's fair to say that. You know,
all of them have not been. There have been a
lot of Democrats who have been being really vocal and
really trying to take it to Donald Trump. I know
he's done being president, and many will say he doesn't
owe us anything else, But I think if we are
in a moment of crisis and you've ever led this country,
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you should still care about this country enough to be
out there. I've had this crazy thought that if every
time Donald Trump did something crazy or said something crazy,
Barack Obama should have like a press conference or something.
And that's like the far end of the spectrum. But
he is someone who can command attention, and so part
of where I don't think it's fair is most Democrats
are not Barack Obama. They can't command attention the way
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he can. And we're in a media environment that even
if you are fighting, if no one hears you, it's
not worth anything. People listen to him. So I do
think it's fair. Just again, if you care about this country,
and if you're a president, I assume you do, you
should you be doing a little bit more if you
are calling on others to do.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
By the way, I think she's right that a lot
of people do listen to Barack Obama. I think she
is crazy as she mentioned that we should have Barack
Obama out there every time they perceive, because that's what
it is. I mean, if you think Donald Trump screwed up,
it's your opinion that he screwed up, generally speaking, and
all the Democrats think he screws up the first thing
in the morning and to last look at night. But yeah,
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Barack Obama, you would just have to have like a
live channel on YouTube that case.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Well, but again, what she's talking about is a presidential campaign,
because that's what you do in a presidential campaign. So
but again run no. But again beyond before that, the
problem is is you can't. The Democrats cannot have Barack
Obama carrying the torch. They can't. They have to move.
They don't because they don't have a plan. They have to.
They have to anoint somebody to be the heir apparent
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to get people back to where they believe this country
should go. And they and if if they want to
have somebody, you know, offer retorts that person the look,
the new person, the future king or I'm sorry, the
future you know, I don't want to say king. Standard bearer. Yes, right,
should be the for or queen, should be the person
that comes out and representative of the party every single
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time and hammer it home. That's how you get back
in the picture.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
To paraphrase the once legendary coach of the Boston Celtics,
Rick Patino, Barack Obama's not walking through that door. Bill
Clinton's not walking through that door. Remember Bill Clinton used
to be the carrier for the Dems. They don't mention
him much anymore because he's of course slipped sliding away.
And now Barack Obama is that that standard bearer. But yeah,
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you're right, the torch has to go to someone else
because it isn't Barack Obama. Well for a couple of reasons.
Of course he's going to start to become older and
older and less and less relevant, I'm guessing. But also
he can't run. Can you find someone? And I don't
want to I don't like give it advice to anybody,
let alone the Democrats, but you've got to find someone
who A can run and B can win.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And I don't see my point any of them yet.
That's my point. That person is there. The Democrats just
haven't found it because because they haven't focused on it,
and quite frankly, they're still busy knee jerking and going through. Well,
we centure this person who we don't you know, we
don't agree with. You know, that's not how politics is
run anymore. Politics is now a boxing match and you've
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been knocked down three times in the first round, and
it's time to move forward. That's my point is is
that you got and he's right, you got a tough
enough but he's not the guy to be saying this anymore.
And you got to move forward.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And by the way, the Republicans, well all of us
lost a whole bunch of people this past week. Celebrities
he had Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan, who was a
big cheerleader for the Republicans, died at the age of
seventy one. You might remember, just in recent history, at
the last Republican National Convention, Hulk Hogan did the I
(28:29):
Love Donald Trump speech.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
So with the power of Donald J. Trump in all
the Trump heights running wild, America, it's gonna get back
on track. And like Donald J. Trump said, America is
gonna be great again.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, Soul, it's been a terrible week for pop culture
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Certainly has We always end the show as fans of
the show would know that one guy in the corner
who listens all the time with a with a Trump
is a truth or troll kind of thing with Is
Donald Trump just trying to get people's goat or is
he serious? And last week we talked about the President
saying that he was not going to allow funding for
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a new stadium for the Washington football team if they
did not change their name back to Redskins. Now, I
thought to a degree that he was serious, but I
wasn't sure if he could hold up the money. I mean,
they're going to build I mean this again, it's all
about money, right, and so are you really going to
not build it because they don't do what you do?
I think Donald Trump was serious about it. I don't
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know if he seriously could really stop it with enough backing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But so we don't have a Trump cut.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
This week, we have Carolyn Levitt who talked about withholding
federal funding for the for the Redskins. Well, if the
Redskins were to come back, was the.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
President serious or was he joking as we said he
might block a Washington commander's stadium deal and they don't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
The President was serious and as part of the art
of the the deal, part of his negotiating skills. As
you know, sports is one of the many passions of
this president, and he wants to see the name of
that team change.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Why is he getting it alived in that?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Why does succeed?
Speaker 9 (30:09):
It look part of his proviw I think you've seen
the President gets involved in a lot of things that
most presidents have not. He's a non traditional president. He
likes to see results on behalf of the American people.
And if you actually pull this issue with sports fans
across the country and even in this city, people actually
do support the president's position on this and the name change.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I think a lot of people really didn't think the
Redskins should have changed the name in the first place.
So I'll ask you this, and now you heard it
from Levitt, he was serious, a is he serious? And
B if he's serious, do you think they'll be a
Washington Redskins again.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I think it's a matter of time, and I don't
It doesn't matter whether he's serious or not in that
particular statement. But the message has been received not only
for the Washington Football Club but also for Baseball's Cleveland
as well.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
The Guardians.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I mean you can yeah, I mean you can't. I
find it very difficult to allow a team like the
Atlanta Braves to continue down its path with without even
a whisper let alone the Saugus High School's logo of
a giant Indian chief plastered on the giant wall overlooking
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Root One in Saugus while all of this else, all
else is going on. So I think it's the message received.
It's a matter of time, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
So if the Redskins come back, let's let's let's let's
put on our crystal ball heads and say, if the
Redskins come back, then the Indians come back and all
these high school teams, do they end up coming back
to the towns. I mean, towns will have their own
decisions to make. But does this open up a flood
gate of Indian names coming back into play.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I don't think it's necessarily necessarily a floodgate, but there
are a lot of local communities that when these changes
were made, they weren't happy about it. So the issue
will reverberate and the president won't need to He did
get involved with one on Long Island, but I don't
think he's going to go that granular. I think that.
I think that once the seed has been planted, I
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think that the garden is either going to bloom or
with her.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
All right, well we'll see here you go. Time will tell.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Of course, I didn't make a note this week because
last time we hosted together, I didn't remember the address.
If you wanted to get in touch with the US,
A multa show exits Newsbyite three Facebook, it's at Newsbite,
So there go. All right, we thank Jeffrey Brown for
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or X.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
He's married.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
He's married, So I assume the band will be back
together at some point in the not too distant future.
Until then, have yourself an enjoyable time. You've been listening
to Newsbite. I'm Ben Parker, I'm Jeff Brown,
Telsea Gabbard calls out Obama and the deep state, Hunter
Biden spews on the Democrats and everyone else, and Stephen
Colbert flips the president the bird. Tempers are flaring in
this week's Did they really just say that?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Moment?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
So, I'm Ben Parker, I'm Jeff Brown. This is news bite.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
We had a sitting president of the United States and
his cabinet and leadership team, quite frankly, who were not
happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election,
that the American people had chosen Donald J. Trump, and
so they decided that they would do everything possible to
try to undermine his ability to do what voters task
President Trump to.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Do him Kim Kim and everybody around him. On Friday,
Donald Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
His talent was even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
How dare you serve a lot of F bombs this week?
Work out on the beep button? There?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's great stuff, Stephen Colbert dropping the F bomb on
the president and then you heard that whole stretch of
beeps that was in between the beeps barely Hunter Biden,
how can we miss you if you won't go away?
Got about that he had a little bit of a meltdown.
Of course, Look, we're doing this because we have the
(01:40):
cuts of it. By the way, I've Ben Parker, Jeff
Brown is with me because Nancy Shack is off resting
her finger after having to push the beat button so
many times from all the f bombs. So anyway, Hunter
Biden is upset at a number of people.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I think he's mad at everybody. Actually, I mean some
of it is justified. I think a lot of it
is not. But you know, you know who he's really
mad at.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And by the way, he was on the the Andrew
Callahan Channel five podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But so he's mad at one famous actor who nobody
ever seems.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
To be mad at. Really.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean, I know he has a political activism going on,
but yeah, I mean he looks like the guy that,
like you could disagree with him. And by the way,
his name is George Clooney. He looks like the type
of guy even though I know he politically you know,
leans way to the left that you could probably have
a beer with and not necessarily want to kill him.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
But Hunter Biden is Yeah, you know, I gotta tell you,
I really didn't pay much attention. I mean, you you
said it. How can we miss you if you're not
going away? But I've already moved on, and so when
this came up again this week, I was like, oh God,
but you know, so, it's just it doesn't surprise me.
But he's got an axt to grind right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And with not only George Clooney, but James Carville, David Axelrod,
I think everyone. I think the only one he might
not be mad at is his dad, and even then
he could be pissed at Joe Biden. But this is
try to find what Hunter Biden is actually saying between
all of the the F bombs that were beeped out.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Jim Kim Kim and everybody around him. I don't have
to be nice. Number one. I agree with Quentin Tarantino.
George Clooney is not an actor. He is a like
I don't know what he is. He's a brand. And
by the way, and God bless him, you know what.
He supsedly treats his friends really well, you know what
I mean, buys them things, and he's got a really
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great place in Lake Como, and he's great friends with
Barack Obama.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
What do you have to do with anything? Why do
I have to listen to you? What right do you
have to step on a man who's given fifty two
years of his life to the services of this country
and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take
out basically a full page ad in New York Times
to me and James Carville, who hasn't run a race
in forty years, and David Axelrod, who had one success
(04:08):
in his political life, and that was Barack Obama, and
that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David
Axelrod and David pluff In all of these guys.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It just it's so worthy of not cutting that off
in the middle, just because he dropped so many, so
many names, f bombs end names which you could pick
out there. Well, he's not at Clooney because and he's
obviously been holding this grudge for a while now. Because
of the whole Clooney kind of pushed his dad, Joe
off the cliff to get out of the way for
Kamala Harris, which didn't work out. By the way, I wonder,
(04:41):
and there's no way to know, obviously, but if if
Kamala wins and pushing Joe Biden out of the way
was the right decision. I wonder if Hunter gives a.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Crap, Well, he certainly doesn't have the platform to argue anymore.
I wouldn't think or that if he did come up
for this interview, it would be he would not he
would respond to you know, whatever questions more appropriately, right,
you know what I mean, because he's like, this is
not the only reason this is an issue is because
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you know, the wounds are still deep.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I guess, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And and of course there's a lot of wounds with
Hunter Biden, which we won't get into because that is
as long and winding road as someone famous once said.
But he's he's very angry about a lot of things.
And of course he's taken a big beating over the
years between his you know, he had his drug abuse
and the affair and the prostitute and this and that, and.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Let me just let me just say this.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I mean, I think the whole Hunter Biden saga is
a sad story. It's a sad story that you know,
were he anyone else's son, probably would have been in
prison a long time ago. But you know, I mean,
you know, He's born in a life of privilege, and
that has its advantages. And the fact that you know,
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the president of the United States is out for revenge
means that this is creating a lot of hostility in
a lot of people, and a lot of hope high
profile people like you know, for instance, George Clooney and
everybody else in that he mentions there. So you know,
he's just one in a long line, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
One of the reasons. And I don't let's listen. I'm
not in the inner inner circles of Hollywood and George
Clooney and.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Not even You're not even on the outside circle.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
No, I'm just more like a square and I'm more
in the top corner getting ready to fall off.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But here's the thing. And obviously we're.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Talking about Hunter Biden, and he got his fifteen minutes
of fame for the podcast and all the ranting and raving.
But I would think, and maybe I'm wrong, but if
if Hunter Biden's opinion mattered, really one ioted to George Clooney,
we would have heard from Clooney by now, I think
probably crazy.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I mean, you know, I mean, here's my opinion in
my humble opinion, I M h O. For the Texters,
I he did, he said what needed to be said.
George Cliney did. He said it either to the president
or to the people in his circle, but certainly to
you know, didn't back away to the American public. He
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said what needed to be said. Joe Biden was not
fit to run for president last year, you know. Unfortunately
the Democrats, you know, even though they said they had
a plan, they didn't have a plan. And it's impossible
to win the White House on just a few weeks. Notice,
I don't care who you are now.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And now Hunter's grinding the acts down as far as
he can. I guess, stay on the spotlight as long
as you can, right hold on to the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well while the but it almost sounds like he went
off on a tangent and didn't really plan to say
anything of that nature. But something ticked him off. And
that again I didn't hear it, but it seems to
me that something pushed him over the edge of that
inter probably.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And well he was also asked, and I don't know
if this was before or after, but as I said,
he's taken a lot of heat. Certainly when his father
was in office, and about a lot of different things.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Including that Barisma deal.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Remember, he was on the board of Barisma and a
lot of people said he wasn't qualified, So he was
asked about that in the podcast too, Well were you qualified?
Do you on the Barisma board?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
The question that I have is that how do you
move forward in this world if every discussion you began
is a defense of you know, I know I went
on the board of a Ukrainian national gas company. A
lot of it had to do with money one hundred percent,
you know, I had an organization that was willing to
pay me for a service that I was one hundred
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percent qualified to do. I went to Yale Law School.
I served on dozens of boards before this. I was
an expert in corporate governance. I have a encyclopedia pee
acknowledge of the region. I had served on a major
infrastructure company, and had done work in global aid relief
throughout the entire world, and had an enormous list of
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connections of my own. And I was qualified to be
on that board. And it gave me the freedom at
a time when I really needed the freedom to be
with my family, to focus on my brother's health, and
I chose to do it, and I was transparent about it,
and I did it.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, but you're on the board of a Ukrainian gas
company who had, whether they wanted to know it at
the time, ties to Russia, who, whether they wanted to
admit it at the time, had something to do with
the twenty sixteen presidential election. You see where I'm going
with this. There's a smoking direc Yeah, there's a reason
(09:43):
why we're asking you to defend yourself. We don't want
anybody to start off with a defense. We're asking you
to defend yourself on a bunch of extreme coincidences that
make this look that make this deal look highly suspect.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
People a lot of people, a lot of people, a
lot of people think he's was unqualified.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
For that job.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And here, but here's here, here's another thing. And you
just mentioned it right, it's it's got this cloud over.
Let's assume for one second, suspend your beliefs.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
But by the way, back back in those days, we
still referred to it as the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And it was still Chicken Kiev.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
That that's correct.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
So but let's assume for a second suspend all your
thoughts and assume that that Hunter Biden was indeed not
only qualified to be on the Barisma board, but uber qualified,
Like there was nobody more qualified in the world than
Hunter Biden. Right, Even if that's true, as you were
pointing out, look, there's a lot of stuff. There's a
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lot of there there, right, It's it's the whole thing
of Like, look, the the appearance of impropriety is just
as bad as impropriety itself. So even if you were
a boy genius Barisma board member, yeah, they're gonna look
at you funny.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
But and I will give him credit for this. He
comes right out and says the reason why he did it,
it's because of the money, money, money, money, And that's
you know, listen, I mean, I give him credit for that.
But there's too many But that's politics, right, I mean,
this is you know, you unfortunately you get dirty money
from a lot of questionable sources, and then you you
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always worry about, you know, talking it away or covering
it up later. And that's what that seems to me,
Why what he's doing, and why everybody's still pissed at.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
We got to, uh, we gotta push Hunter off to
the side.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I was gonna say, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But but but since we opened Pandora's box, they just
had to ask, Yeah, Hunter, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
About the illegal immigrants and the whole thing with that
going on?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
People are really upset about illegal immigration. You how do
you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you
think you got food on your table? Who do you
think washes your dish?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He wasn't other best bombs.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
You know what, he's not qualified to be president of
the United States, or maybe he is actually, come to
think of it, maybe he is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hold on then now I was going to move on,
But now I can't move on because you mentioned the
whole president of the United States state. So a Hunter, also,
by the way, was asked if he were president, would
he invade L Salvador if they didn't send their own
citizens from prison back to the US.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
These guys think that we need to run away from
all values in order for us to lead. I say you,
how are we getting those people back from El Salvador?
Because I'll tell you what. If I became president in
two years from now, or four years from now or
three years from now, I would pick up the phone
and call the president of El Salvador and say you
either send them back or I'm going to invade. It's
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a crime what they're doing. He's a dictator thug with
Kelly or drump both.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Did he know he was being recorded?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Did he know it was the part on the podcast
hear all that? I guess, which, by the way, opens
then we've got to move on. But it does open
the question of would a Hunter Biden administration be fun
to listen to? I mean, oh my god, could you
imagine that the State of the Union address? Maybe, just
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for for humor's sake, we should have to stick to
the script Hunter. All right, they got enough of I
got enough of Hunters saying F you'd everybody sorry, mister president,
you know you know who else was dropping a few
F bombs this week?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And and at the President of the United States, among others. Uh,
everybody's friend, including himself. Stephen Colbert the Late Show got
got the acts that put to sleep?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well not yet though.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
See that's the thing too that makes me write everybody
on the show, everybody associated with and of course Colbert
has been making tons of money anyway, so it's not
like he's standing in a in a soup line. But
but it's not like they came in and said everybody
out of the pool parties over.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They gave them a long notice. No.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
But and you know, this is really what's going to
be the next domino to fall at CBS is because
he's now got a several months long platform to speak
his mind. At some point, CBS, I believe will say
enough's enough and will pull the plug on that show
ahead of the May deadline.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And it's just that's what I fear is going to happen.
And it's also what I believe is going to happen. Now.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I haven't watched late night television of any sort right
regularly in I don't even know how long. And yes,
look we could sit here in pontificate about oh the
old David Letterman and boy, when Johnny Carson was the host,
it was fantastic. And Jayle, I mean, look, things change,
They change everywhere, and late night television is one of them,
and so do people's viewing habits.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And I guess he had his.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Fan base, but they weren't making money. And listen you
talk about money and Hunter Biden mentioning money.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Money's the deal. Money makes the world go around.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Someone once said, so, I mean, if they're not making money,
and let's assume they're not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know everybody's got their.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Opinion, but why wouldn't you pull the plug on the
damn thing? And by the way, not happy, uh at
the president because the president was giddy about Stephen Colbert
getting getting the acts. Stephen Colbert not giddy about the president.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
In a completely unrelated story, on Friday, Donald Trump posted,
I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was
even less than his ratings.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
How how how dare you, sir?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Would an untalented man be able to compose the following
satirical witticism?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know, by the way, I give credit to credit
that was. It was funny. That was that was a
funny one. Yeah, and thankfully he had Hunter Biden around
to write it.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Now. So you know the thing when you when you
look at you know where these people these this is
a fraternity. The late night TV landscape is a fraternity.
All of the hosts came up in the business together.
They know one another, They've worked with one another on
many occasions. And you know what I do watch on
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a regular basis is The Daily Show when John Stewart's
hosting it. I watched his weekly appearance and he jumped
on the F bomb bandwagon. But it's very funny, it's
very witty, very entertaining, and it really gets right to
the heart of what's going on. So you know, this
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is going to be a torrent over the next several months.
Whether or not Colbert is part of it, it's coming.
And you know, Comedy Central is also owned by CBS.
I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed the envelope one
too many times that they say it's over.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, I mean yeah, I mean you can be the
dead horse too much, and they may do that with
some of these attacks or whatever you want to call them. Uh,
speaking of attacks, Tulsa Gabbard, who, by the way, I
really like and I don't mean I agree with everything
she said. I know she ran for president, she was
wance a Democrat now she's not, and blah blah blah,
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but I like her and in terms of first of all,
she's not hard of the eyes. But second of all,
I just feel like when I'm watching her speak, I
don't even need the volume up and I do.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Means she's not hard on these what does.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
She gets always come down to this with you.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It never does. I like a lot of people who
are hard on the eyes, like you. But the fact is,
I like Telci Gabbard for a thousand reasons. I just
wanted to throw that out there for no real reason.
Uh but what plus, she's a babe. But that's where
you're going. She's really you don't think people judge people
based on how they look? Well, I'm I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Okay, Well listen, I'll give it to you. Fine, go ahead,
move on. You want the F bombs to come down
on you, just move all right? So tell us see
your little point, Telsey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Anyway, it takes aim at Barack Obama. She's the director
of National Intelligence now. And look, there have been rumors
and bubblings for what a decade now, right that the
Democrats and Barack Obama and maybe Hillary Clinton and all
these other people were behind the Russian disinformation scandal and
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the Steele dossier and all of that. And Telsey Gabbard
was on with Maria Bariomo and talks about Barack Obama
was not happy that Donald Trump won in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
The implications of this are, frankly nothing short of historic.
Over one hundred documents that we released on Friday really
detail and provide evidence of how this treason is conspiracy
was directed by President Obama just weeks before he was
due to leave office, after President Trump had already gotten elected.
(19:02):
This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is
an issue that is so serious it should concern every
single American because it has to do with the integrity
of our democratic republic.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And the Justice Department is launching a strike force, as
they call it, to investigate Obamba administration officials about that dossier.
So it's some things just never go away, do they.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You know what this is. This is politics, That's what
it is. It's politics. The difference is this time is
you have a president of the United States that is
out for revenge for something that happened almost a decade ago. Okay,
he won the election. Somebody tried to say that it
(19:44):
was not legitimate. Hmm does that ring a bell? You
know the problem right now? If I may, may I
oh shar, please go ahead. You have a right wing
administration that follows an extreme left wing administration, and there's
nobody really occupying the middle that has a voice these days,
(20:06):
and as we all know about vacuums, nature abhors them. Right.
So I have long said that we cannot function as
a society over the long term at polar opposites, much
like you can't have that in any other form of
nature or science in the world. Right, So, at some point,
somebody's going to drive this bus back into the middle.
(20:28):
I believe we know who this person is, we just
haven't identified them yet. And one of the people who
comes closest to getting a little bit back towards the
center so far that I've seen is if you can
imagine Elon musk By, you know, threatening to create a
third party, which by the way, historically won't work. What
you need is common sense from somebody from the right,
(20:50):
from the left. And I don't know what the catalyst
is going to be to get this country back, to
galvanize the rest of the electorate and say people, enough's enough.
We got to get back on the straight and narrow
because we're better than this. And it's coming. I don't
know when, and I don't know where, but it's coming.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So so you mentioned we need someone to drive the
bus back to the center. Will that be an electric
bus if it's Elon Muss probably, I mean, here's the thing,
and it may not. Maybe it doesn't happen with either.
Maybe it doesn't happen this year, next year, the year after.
Who knows when it will happen. Right, we could just
be at odds for for for a while, but eventually,
and you mentioned, you know, the cliche of driving the
(21:26):
bus back to the middle. I think what's gonna need
to happen in some way, shape or form, is that
bus is gonna need to run over a bunch of
people on both sides of the aisle to get it done.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Yeah, I mean, but again, politics is a backstab and game,
and you know people are gonna be left with knives
in their back to get what, you know, where this
country ultimately would like to be. And I believe everybody
thinks that we should be having we we should we
should have more common ground, and right now we don't.
You can't get beyond the p if you're focused on
(22:01):
the past, you know what I mean. And you know
you can call it a distraction to the Epstein Gate
or whatever, but you know, President Trump is still fixated
on not only the twenty twenty election, but the twenty
sixteen election. I mean, it's twenty twenty five. He's got
three more years, three years plus in office.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And they're still talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He's still talking about it, you know, I'm I said
a while back on this show. And of course, look,
the ship has sailed, the horses out of the barn,
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
To say about it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
But look, for those who hate Donald Trump, and there
are a lot of people, it almost would have been
better for them in a way, in a weird, twisted way,
if he had just got reelected in twenty twenty because
guess what, he'd be gone. He'd be gone now and
someone else would be in there.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well you know, I mean, would he I mean this
talk of a third term. You know, I'm not putting
it past the administration to say there's a way to
do this, mister.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
President and JD Vance and then I don't know how
there's a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And those talks, if they haven't already happened, are going
to happen. I mean, because you know, here's again, the
thing is is when you know, if everybody thinks the JD.
Vance is going to be the heir apparent, Okay, you
do not want to be the guy who replaces the legend.
You want to be the guy after replaces the guy
who replaced the legend. You know, for starters. JD Vance
(23:28):
does not stoke the fear into foreign governments, into people
in general that Donald Trump does. And there's the possibility
that the United States gets steamrolled with a JD Vance
in office.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Maybe I don't know. I mean, we'll we'll have to
wait and see you. Obviously, by the way, the Democrats
are in disarray, as everyone is pretty much aware they're
kind of going their own way in all kinds of directions.
And President Obama actually stepped up to the plate at
a fundraiser at the home of New Jersey's Governor Phil
Murphy and basically told him to stop being woozee. He said,
(24:01):
it's going to require a little bit less naval gazing
and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,
and it's going to require Democrats to just toughen.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, he's right, So Obama wants to right to tough enough.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
They don't have a plan.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
By the way, So Shanikua McLendon was on MSNBC, and
I think this is is kind of funny, but I
don't know. I get maybe it would help the Democrats,
or at least the base and fuel them up. Here's
what she says about Barack Obama and when Donald Trump
messes up.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
I think what he said is true. Democrats should tough enough.
I don't think it's fair to say that. You know,
all of them have not been. There have been a
lot of Democrats who have been being really vocal and
really trying to take it to Donald Trump. I know
he's done being president, and many will say he doesn't
owe us anything else, But I think if we are
in a moment of crisis and you've ever led this country,
(24:56):
you should still care about this country enough to be
out there. I've had this crazy thought that if every
time Donald Trump did something crazy or said something crazy,
Barack Obama should have like a press conference or something.
And that's like the far end of the spectrum. But
he is someone who can command attention, and so part
of where I don't think it's fair is most Democrats
are not Barack Obama. They can't command attention the way
(25:18):
he can. And we're in a media environment that even
if you are fighting, if no one hears you, it's
not worth anything. People listen to him. So I do
think it's fair. Just again, if you care about this country,
and if you're a president, I assume you do, you
should you be doing a little bit more if you
are calling on others to do.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
By the way, I think she's right that a lot
of people do listen to Barack Obama. I think she
is crazy as she mentioned that we should have Barack
Obama out there every time they perceive, because that's what
it is. I mean, if you think Donald Trump screwed up,
it's your opinion that he screwed up, generally speaking, and
all the Democrats think he screws up the first thing
in the morning and to last look at night. But yeah,
(25:55):
Barack Obama, you would just have to have like a
live channel on YouTube that case.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Well, but again, what she's talking about is a presidential campaign,
because that's what you do in a presidential campaign. So
but again run no. But again beyond before that, the
problem is is you can't. The Democrats cannot have Barack
Obama carrying the torch. They can't. They have to move.
They don't because they don't have a plan. They have to.
They have to anoint somebody to be the heir apparent
(26:21):
to get people back to where they believe this country
should go. And they and if if they want to
have somebody, you know, offer retorts that person the look,
the new person, the future king or I'm sorry, the
future you know, I don't want to say king. Standard bearer. Yes, right,
should be the for or queen, should be the person
that comes out and representative of the party every single
(26:46):
time and hammer it home. That's how you get back
in the picture.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
To paraphrase the once legendary coach of the Boston Celtics,
Rick Patino, Barack Obama's not walking through that door. Bill
Clinton's not walking through that door. Remember Bill Clinton used
to be the carrier for the Dems. They don't mention
him much anymore because he's of course slipped sliding away.
And now Barack Obama is that that standard bearer. But yeah,
(27:11):
you're right, the torch has to go to someone else
because it isn't Barack Obama. Well for a couple of reasons.
Of course he's going to start to become older and
older and less and less relevant, I'm guessing. But also
he can't run. Can you find someone? And I don't
want to I don't like give it advice to anybody,
let alone the Democrats, but you've got to find someone
who A can run and B can win.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
And I don't see my point any of them yet.
That's my point. That person is there. The Democrats just
haven't found it because because they haven't focused on it,
and quite frankly, they're still busy knee jerking and going through. Well,
we centure this person who we don't you know, we
don't agree with. You know, that's not how politics is
run anymore. Politics is now a boxing match and you've
(27:57):
been knocked down three times in the first round, and
it's time to move forward. That's my point is is
that you got and he's right, you got a tough
enough but he's not the guy to be saying this anymore.
And you got to move forward.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And by the way, the Republicans, well all of us
lost a whole bunch of people this past week. Celebrities
he had Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan, who was a
big cheerleader for the Republicans, died at the age of
seventy one. You might remember, just in recent history, at
the last Republican National Convention, Hulk Hogan did the I
(28:29):
Love Donald Trump speech.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
So with the power of Donald J. Trump in all
the Trump heights running wild, America, it's gonna get back
on track. And like Donald J. Trump said, America is
gonna be great again.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, Soul, it's been a terrible week for pop culture
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Certainly has We always end the show as fans of
the show would know that one guy in the corner
who listens all the time with a with a Trump
is a truth or troll kind of thing with Is
Donald Trump just trying to get people's goat or is
he serious? And last week we talked about the President
saying that he was not going to allow funding for
(29:09):
a new stadium for the Washington football team if they
did not change their name back to Redskins. Now, I
thought to a degree that he was serious, but I
wasn't sure if he could hold up the money. I mean,
they're going to build I mean this again, it's all
about money, right, and so are you really going to
not build it because they don't do what you do?
I think Donald Trump was serious about it. I don't
(29:31):
know if he seriously could really stop it with enough backing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But so we don't have a Trump cut.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
This week, we have Carolyn Levitt who talked about withholding
federal funding for the for the Redskins. Well, if the
Redskins were to come back, was the.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
President serious or was he joking as we said he
might block a Washington commander's stadium deal and they don't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
The President was serious and as part of the art
of the the deal, part of his negotiating skills. As
you know, sports is one of the many passions of
this president, and he wants to see the name of
that team change.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Why is he getting it alived in that?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Why does succeed?
Speaker 9 (30:09):
It look part of his proviw I think you've seen
the President gets involved in a lot of things that
most presidents have not. He's a non traditional president. He
likes to see results on behalf of the American people.
And if you actually pull this issue with sports fans
across the country and even in this city, people actually
do support the president's position on this and the name change.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I think a lot of people really didn't think the
Redskins should have changed the name in the first place.
So I'll ask you this, and now you heard it
from Levitt, he was serious, a is he serious? And
B if he's serious, do you think they'll be a
Washington Redskins again.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I think it's a matter of time, and I don't
It doesn't matter whether he's serious or not in that
particular statement. But the message has been received not only
for the Washington Football Club but also for Baseball's Cleveland
as well.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
The Guardians.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I mean you can yeah, I mean you can't. I
find it very difficult to allow a team like the
Atlanta Braves to continue down its path with without even
a whisper let alone the Saugus High School's logo of
a giant Indian chief plastered on the giant wall overlooking
(31:25):
Root One in Saugus while all of this else, all
else is going on. So I think it's the message received.
It's a matter of time, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
So if the Redskins come back, let's let's let's let's
put on our crystal ball heads and say, if the
Redskins come back, then the Indians come back and all
these high school teams, do they end up coming back
to the towns. I mean, towns will have their own
decisions to make. But does this open up a flood
gate of Indian names coming back into play.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I don't think it's necessarily necessarily a floodgate, but there
are a lot of local communities that when these changes
were made, they weren't happy about it. So the issue
will reverberate and the president won't need to He did
get involved with one on Long Island, but I don't
think he's going to go that granular. I think that.
I think that once the seed has been planted, I
(32:12):
think that the garden is either going to bloom or
with her.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
All right, well we'll see here you go. Time will tell.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Of course, I didn't make a note this week because
last time we hosted together, I didn't remember the address.
If you wanted to get in touch with the US,
A multa show exits Newsbyite three Facebook, it's at Newsbite,
So there go. All right, we thank Jeffrey Brown for
filling in today. He's not hard on the eyes. By
the way, ladies, you should look him up on Facebook
(32:39):
or X.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
He's married.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
He's married, So I assume the band will be back
together at some point in the not too distant future.
Until then, have yourself an enjoyable time. You've been listening
to Newsbite. I'm Ben Parker, I'm Jeff Brown,
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