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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine for a minute, you're a nonprofit entity and you're
sustained like a third of all of your revenue comes
to you from the government.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And let's also pretend that what you do is.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Also pretty politically volatile, that you come close to you're
not really breaking even your operations actually kind of lose
money or losing money not doing so hot. You depend
on the goodwill of the American taxpayer to sustain yourself,
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and that you engage in all kinds your business, engage in,
engages in all kinds of luxury activities, trying to influence
Hollywood to make television shows about how wonderful you are.
That is what Planned Parenthood is, and that is what
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Planned Parenthood does. I've been reading more and thinking more,
and researching more about Planned Parenthood as an organization. And
as I've mentioned on this show before, I've talked about
a lot on Right to Life Radio or show on
Saturday Mornings nine AM. I think Planned Parenthood is going
to be pretty significantly impacted by their federal defunding. They're
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going to have one year of federal defunding. It was
actually court ruling earlier today from I guess the news
came out today that Planned parento's California clinics are going
to continue to be defunded while they're ongoing litigation.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
To challenge their defunding goes on.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And by the way, all the litigation over the obbb's
defunding of Planned Parenthood, I think is going to be
silly and will end with Planned Parenthood being defunded. It's
just Congress is allowed to spend money, and Congress is
allowed to make a decision not to spend money on
a thing it was spending money on before. Like the
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idea that there's any solid legal grounding for Planned Parenthoods
objections to them losing money, I think is ridiculous. But
and in my I've done all this research on Planned
parentode over the last couple of weeks. I'd put together
this massive spreadsheet showing all Planned parenthoods revenues, expenses, profit
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and loss, their program services revenue, which is revenue they
get for providing services. I'm starting to put together how
much money they actually get from Medicaid. Specifically, you can't
get that for every Planned Parenthood, you can get it
for more than half of them. And we're working on
all this, thinking about all this and a story pops
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up something I knew before about Planned Parenthood. How Planned
parenthoods Karen Sprook works with Lena Dunham and other creatives
to sensitively portray abortion on screen. This is a whole
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story from Variety magazine, This glowing, gushing story about this
woman who's an executive with Planned Parenthood Action, which is
I believe that's their five oh one C four arm
A five O one C three is a nonprofit organization
that can't endorse politicians. It can do only a limited
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amount of grassroots political campaigning against legislation, whereas five O
one C four can do unlimited campaigning on legislation and
can do some endorsing of politicians. A five one C
four is tax exempt, but donations to it are not
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tax deductible. So Planned Parenthood Action, which, by the way,
is another one of these luxuries that Planned Parenthood can afford.
Here's Planned Parenthood that has clinic operations that cost about
one point seven billion dollars to run every year. They're
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losing about sixty million dollars fifty or sixty million dollars
or so per year on their clinic operations. At least
a third of that money. More than a third of
that money comes from the federal taxpayer to Planned parentod's
participation in the federal Medicaid program. And yet Planned Parenthood
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feels they have the wherewithal to dump forty million dollars
into the twenty twenty four presidential the twenty twenty four
election cycle.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And then to do.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To have all of these affiliated pack and five to'
one c four entities. There's a million different Plan Parenthood
pack and five oh one c four entities for Planned
PARENTOD at the national level and then at individual state levels.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One of those things that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Planned Parenthood has time for, one of these luxury things
that Planned PARENTOT has time for is this woman Karen Sprook,
who works for Planned Parenthood Action, and she is the
National Director of Arts and Entertainment at Planned Parenthood.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What does this mean?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This woman who works for Planned Parenthood. Basically, her whole job,
and she's been in this role since like twenty fourteen,
her whole job is to work with Hollywood to get
abortion related storylines into popular American television shows and movies.
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That's it, that's her job. She's a propagandist. I mean
that this is straight up. She is a propagandist. She
is a propagandist in fa Who she's not.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Is she a.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Screenwriter who's writing screenplays and selling them to people to
make movies. No, she is purely an issue advocacy hack
who works for a five to one C four who's
whose only job is interfacing with Hollywood to get movies
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and TV shows made that have plan parenthood friendly, abortion
friendly storylines. So much so, this woman has an IMDb page,
the Internet Movie Database.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
She's got a page on there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Like most people with the IMDb page, are you know actors, actresses, producers, directors,
you know people who work in the film industry who
have credits and movies My sister, for example, as an
IMDb page. If you look up Christine Girardi, you can
find her. She's a she's a computer scientist and engineer
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with Disney Animation.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So she's in the credits.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For Frozen two, Wreck at Ralph two, and Canto a
bunch of a bunch of Disney animation movies. You look
in the credits, so you can find Christine Girardi. She's
she's a technical director. That's the title she has in
most of these. Karen Sprook this Planned Parenthood gal. She's
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got an IMDb page and basically her she she has
I guess she must have done some stuff in the
film industry.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, she She contributed some things.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
As a producer for a couple of different productions. One
was a little film, an immersive virtual reality experience called
Across the Line, produced in twenty sixteen. It places viewers
in the shoes of a patient entering a health center
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for a safe and legal abortion. But most of what
she has three credits to her name as a producer,
a short, and a couple of the sort of shorter things.
But her main thing is that she consults on these
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movies and then gets named in the credits as special
thanks to or thanks to Special thanks to, where she
gets some acknowledgment because she's working with a director to
put in abortion aligned pro abortion aligned, planned parenthood aligned storylines, themes,
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et cetera. She contributed to such movies documentaries as Battleground
from twenty twenty two. Three women lead the charge in
their single minded quest to overturn movie Wade as they
face down forces equally determined to safeguard women's access to
safe and legal abortions. So she's the pro abortion advisor
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to that Julia A documentary thing about Julia Child, who was,
By the way, I don't want to burst anyone's bubble,
Julia Child was kind of a piece of crap. She
abandoned like two elderly sick husbands, or one husband she
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abandoned because he got elderly and sick, and then like
the guy she shacked up with next, abandoned him because
he got elderly and sick and was also a huge
left winger. Not to completely ruin your perception of Julia Child,
but my wife read her by biography and was like
completely appalled by the end of it. So Julia Child
good cook, not like not exactly a good person. A
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documentary about rita moreno abortion stories women tell trapped this
long list of television shows and movies that she's consulted
on that we know about where she's explicitly thanked in
the credits, and I'm gonna guess there's a lot more
where she isn't this story. And Variety magazine goes on
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about Karen Sprook again, this executive from Planned Parenthood whose
only job is to interface with Hollywood to get abortion
related storylines and messaging into popular television shows and movies.
Her chief collaborator, that the main person in Hollywood that
with whom she has collaborated the most is of course
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Lena Dunham. Now I don't know how many of you
know about Lena da on him.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Some of you may have heard about her.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Lena Dunham is like the greatest example of failing up
anyone's ever seen. She wrote one film that people kind
of liked, and then she HBO gave her a deal
and she made a TV series that people kind of
liked called Girls. It was sort of a drama, sort
of a comedy. The biggest star who came out of Girls,
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ironically enough, was a guy, Adam Driver, the actor Adam Driver,
who is now a massive, massive movie star. That was
Girls was sort of the TV series where he sort
of got introduced to the world.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And Lena Dunham is nuts. I say that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I say that specifically like she's well documented bizarre mental
health issues, the perfect embodiment of the crazy millennial liber snowflake.
She's pretty much exactly my age, and she is aggressively
left wing, aggressively kind of crazily left wing. And I
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think it's because of that bizarre political, aggressive political stances
she takes that I feel like she keeps getting opportunity
after opportunity after opportunity.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Even though nothing she's made since Girls.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Which I think ended like in I don't know twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, nothing she's made has been very
successful since then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She has a TV series on Netflix right now, that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Is it's just coming out on Netflix, and of course
in the first season they have a whole abortion related
scene that this woman, Karen Spruk, helped to write. But
this is the kind of stuff off that apparently Planned Parenthood,
the Planned Parenthood recipient of seven hundred million dollars in
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taxpayer funding every year. This is these are the kinds
of luxuries that Planned Parenthood can afford to fritter away,
to fritter away with political agitation and getting Hollywood to
craft movies and TV shows.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And storylines for itself.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's insane, Like, I find the whole thing gross that
they act in this bizarrely entitled way. That so much
so that they filed lawsuits against the very idea of
Congress not continuing to let them participate in the Medicaid program,
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which I should say they can participate in the Medicaid program.
They would just have to stop doing abortions, and they're
not gonna do that because abortion is.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The distinctive thing for them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
When we return, I want to talk more about this
theme of people the liberal complex that feels completely entitled
to your money next on the John Girardi Show. It's
been a bizarre year for liberals being entitled liberals feeling
entitled to your money. Planned Parenthood is really just the
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most recent example of this. So I might do a
broader thing on this. I don't know, maybe there's an
examination of the liberal psyche that needs to be explored.
But here you have Planned Parenthood, again, a entity that
has I think something like two point one billion dollars
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in assets just for its nonprofit clinics. Far more than
that if you add in it's planned parented Federation of
America and what assets they have, plus all of their
packs and five allen C fours. The whole operation can
only exist due to Planned Parenthood participating in federally funded
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healthcare programs.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
The only reason Planned Parenthood has ever been able to exist,
has ever been able to stay afloat in the modern
era has been through their participation in federally funded healthcare programs,
specifically Medicaid. No Medicaid, no Planned parenthood, or at the
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very least, they have to massively downsize. They don't have
the donor funding to sustain the operations they have. Okay,
you look atty much any planned paranoid affiliate. About a
third in some cases, much more than a third of
their operator of their revenue comes just from the federal
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Medicaid program.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So planned parenthood only can exist because of your taxpayer dollars.
So effectively, what it means is the American taxpayer a
large percentage of whom think abortion is evil. Not a majority,
but a plurality, a plurality very well, not a plurality.
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A very significant minority of Americans think abortion itself is evil,
think that entities that do abortions are evil, think that
planned parenthood is evil because that is its foundation, that
is who they are and what they are. And yeah,
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and beyond just people who think abortion is evil, there's
plenty of people, more people than that. I'm certainly a
majority of the country who doesn't want their taxpayer dollars
to pay for abortion. Now, the federal taxes we're paying
for Planned Parentod right now are reimbursements for services, and
specifically for non abortion services they provide. Currently, federal law
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says no federal dollars may not directly reimburse Planned Parenthood
for abortions themselves. However, the money is going to abortion providers.
It is propping up an abortion provider so that they
can continue to do abortion. That's the thing with you know,
as much as Planned Parenthood wants to talk up, oh
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you do all these other services, who will go anywhere
for cancer? Where will anyone go for cancer screenings? If
we're going, okay, if cancer screenings and you know, birth
control and STD treatment. If that's what you guys are
all about, why don't you stop doing abortions? Then if
you just stop doing abortions, you can be back in
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the Medicaid program.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
They won't do that. Why because abortion is the whole
reason they exist.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Abortion is the whole reason that anyone donates a buck
to Planned Parenthood.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
If you want to donate to someone because they.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do great cancer screenings, you'd donate to the Mayo Clinic,
or you donate to Saint Jude.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Abortion is the reason they exist. It's the reason why
Mackenzie Scott drops a one time nine figure donation on
Planned Parenthood. It's not because of their cancer screenings. It's
because they do abortion. So they are so reliant on
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the federal taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yet they have the goal to have their affiliated organizations,
so their nonprofit organizations completely dependent on the federal tax payer.
They then set up affiliated five h one c fours
in PAWSS to expend forty million dollars during election cycles
to get Democrats elected to keep them, to keep their
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money flowing. Chiefly, they pay people to get Hollywood executives
to make television shows and movies that promote them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They are living off of the federal bosom.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They are nursing at the like squealing pigs, suckling on
their mother. They only exist off of federal largesse. And
yet they have the goal to be this level of
harshly partisan. They have this the goal to be this
level of doing these luxury things like getting Hollywood to
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do stuff for them. And when the federal taxpayer says, no,
we don't want to fund you anymore, and they're duly
elected representatives and Congress past legislation to say entities constructed
like this are not eligible for the federal Medicaid program
for a year. They take them to court. They act
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as if God on High.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Owes it to them that the money is owed to them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Like so many other organizations, NPR, PBS, we're able to be.
They just acted as though, well, of course we should
be federally funded for forever. And no, we will never
have a conservative on NPR, and no, we will never
present a conservative viewpoint fairly, and yes we will talk
about you know, lesbian thrupples who are protesting against ice
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like and yet and then when all of a sudden
the federal taxpayer says, hey, we don't want to fund this,
they act as if you are stomping on Washington's get
your your You're bulldozing Lincoln's, the Lincoln Memorial, and stomping
on George Washington's grave. You're not owed this. To receive
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federal funding is a privilege. It is a a trust
from the American people. Frankly, planned Parenthood gets more federal
fund I think Planned Parenthood gets more federal funding than
NPR and PBS do, or a greater percentage of their funding.
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And yet this attitude that no, we are you must
pay all this huge percentage of American taxpayers who don't
want to pay for it must pay for it through
a coercive taxation service.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's amazing, this kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Entire aude, and we've seen it so much from USAID,
all the variety of ridiculous, stupid, wasteful nonprofits that were
getting all kinds of enormous grants through USAID. Who then
you get it cut off and that hoow dare you
take this funding away? Like that they are entitled to it.
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Federal workers who act entitled to their jobs, even though
while simultaneously leaking stories to the media about how they're
going to actively undermine the Trump administration, like out of
one side of their mouth, out of the other side
of the mouth, they're like, oh, how dare you fire us? Well,
if you want to undermine the Trump administration from your
federal government job, you clearly shouldn't have your job. The
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Trump Administration's in power because of a political decision by
the American people to give them political power.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So I'm it. I feel like, so how many of
these stories are of a feather?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So many of these stories that we've seen since January
USAID losing their money, federal employees getting fired while promising
that they were gonna undermine the Trump administration, PBS losing
their funding, Planned Parenthood losing its funding, Stephen Colbert losing
his television show because it loses forty million dollars per year,
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in liberals acting, how dare CBS make this decision?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Stephen? You want Stephen Colbert on that wall.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You need Stephen Colbert on that wall, even though the
American people are saying, no, we don't care for Stephen
Colbert on that wall, but he has the best ratings
in Late Night. Okay, well, it's like too more people
watch Greg Gudfeld than watch than watch Stephen Colbert. Get
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out of here. All right, That's enough of all that.
When we return, I want to talk more about this
entitlement concept and kind of how destructive and universal it
is throughout the left. That's next on The John Jardy Show.
I think a lot of the news from the last
six months, ever since Trump took office, has been about fundamentally,
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has been about liberals feeling entitled to certain things, having
those things chopped away, wailing and gnashing their teeth. Story
after story after story has been that dynamic. Liberals feel
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entitled to NPR, that they feel entitled to it. NPR exists.
NPR is a playground for liberals. That's what it is.
It is NPR and PBS, especially NPR. I will say
NPR is the domain of old or gen X and
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Boomer affluent white millennials, white listeners rather not millennials, mostly
Gen X and Boom, but some millennials. But the audience
is old, it is very white, it is very liberal,
and that's the listener base of NPR. It's the niche
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that NPR realized they can lean into and did. I
don't know, maybe it's a chicken and egg thing. I
don't know who what came first?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The left wing.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Boomer audience birthed NPR being the way it was, or
NPR was the way it was, and the Boomer audience
flocked to it.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know who can say, but that's who it's for.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's not really a value neutral thing. It's not perceived
as a value neutral thing. It isn't a value neutral thing.
I mean, I've there's this writer at National Review named
Charlie Cook, who I wouldn't even say is their most
conservative writer. He's a bit more of a libertarian, I
would say. But one of the things he noted was is,
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you know, he's a somewhat prominent guy. He's a writer, columnist,
writes on the editorial board for National Review, which is
a pretty big conservative publication. And he said he had
gotten invitations to be on NPR programming several times, and
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he realized after about two or three times, the only
reason they would ever have him on was when he
would write something that was critical of either Donald Trump
or of Republicans, and so they were gonna have it.
They were inviting him to come on again, and it
was again in the same context, and eventually he said
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to them, hey, listen, you need to have me on
for something other than this, Like I don't you need
to have me on sometime to present the viewpoint that
I think, actually the Republicans are right, or I think
the Conservatives are right, or I think the.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Liberals are wrong. You're only having me on to criticize
my own side. And then they stopped inviting him.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The way that the woman who's the CEO of the
director CEO of NPR, what's her name, Maher, I believe
it's her last name. Basically, yeah, Catherine Maher. Catherine Maher
was an aggressively left wing person who there was this
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remarkable exchange in Congress where she was testifying in front
of the House and this younger member of the House
of Representatives had all of these old tweets of hers
from twenty twenty and twenty twenty one talking about systemic
racism and how America is inherently racist and how she
read this book on anti racism that during her congressional testimony,
he was asking her, like, hey, do you think white
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people are inherently racist? And she said, no, well you
tweeted that they were. Here's your tweet from twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
One, and he just totally got her, foisted.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Her upon her own petard with all of these insane
left wing things they do, and liberals genuinely don't think
there's anything wrong with this person being in charge of NPR,
the federally funded radio station, the government radio program. They
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don't think there's anything wrong with it. They don't think
there's anything wrong with extremely left wing nonprofits that do
stuff we don't like that at least an enormous minority,
a very significant minority of the country doesn't like all
of these NGOs doing NDI this that or the other,
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that we're getting federal money. Liberals are so kind of
within their own worlds like that they have developed these
sort of echo chambers where basically they think every opinion
they have is right and correct and not in like
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a partisan we realize we're partisans of one side and
other people disagree with us. They view their whole worldview
as being confirmed by the experts.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That's how they think.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They think that it's not just that I have an
opinion and I recognize you have an opposite opinion, and
maybe we duke it out in the court of public opinion.
They think my opinion is correct, it is confirmed to
be correct, and it is so obviously confirmed to be
correct on all manner of things that I feel no
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compunction about you being forced with your taxes to fund it.
You would imagine the way that someone who's in charge
of NPR or PBS or some nonprofit that's getting tons
of federal funding. You would imagine that they would recognize, hey,
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we're getting federal funding.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We got to kind of play it down the middle
of the road here.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
We can't be so partisan that we tick off half
of the country and many nonprofits do that. By the way,
I don't like a lot of things that federally qualified
health clinics do, but that's because I am a sort
of radically socially conservative person. Federally qualified health clinics which
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are clinics that are sort of designed they get extra
sort of federal subsidization. They're designed that to kind of
help lower income persons. They provide kind of a broad
range of primary care services. Federally qualified health clinics operate
in a way that's clearly designed to ingratiate themselves with
the left and the right. They want to ingratiate themselves
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with Republicans and Democrats. They get a ton of their
funding from the federal government. They behave in a way
that is basically not very part is encoded, or well,
they pretend, at least they give that front that they
don't act in a very part is encoded way. It
makes sense that's how they should act. It's actually in
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their best interest to do so. But liberals feel like, no,
we don't have to. Why would we we should be
doing what the experts say. The experts you know, of course,
we're going to have news stories talking about the importance
of transgender care for miners, because the American Academy of
Pediatrics says so ignoring the fact that eighty percent of
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the country thinks transgender interventions for miners is horrifically evil
and bad. It's an eighty twenty issue in favor of Republicans.
But I feel like these the NPR types have never
like met a concer or have they only read about conservatives.
They've never seen a conservative in the wild interacted with them,
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that they have constructed this sort of bubble of opinion
within a certain kind of professional managerial, nonprofit government class
of people, where their ideas and opinions, the rightness of
what they're doing, the propriety, the rectitude of how they behave,
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how they do things, whether that's NPR and PBS, whether
that's nonprofits doing extremely left wing things, and just banking
on the fact that the federal government's going to fund
their operations in perpetuum. There's just the attitude is not
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I recognize I am a partisan of one side, and
I recognize that the other side does not agree with me,
and that I'm getting this federal funding, and you know,
I'm completely reliant on the Democrats to get it. There's
none of that. It's this sense of why are you
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stupid Republicans not going to keep funding NPR and they
have nothing to fall back on. That's the thing I
think the NPR types realized because they were I'm sure
they were using your time, you know, doing focus groups
and things like that for Okay, what's our messaging going
to be to keep Congress from cutting off our federal funding?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They couldn't with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Really the main big public arguments they were making towards
the end, we're not, Oh we're not actually that liberal.
Here's all the conservative things we've done. They didn't really
anything to point to. So what did they bank to, Oh,
we provide such critical information during storms and natural disasters,
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and so many rural Americans and depend on us for information,
which is like laughable, Like no, no one is turning
on PB Valley Valley. PBS does a lot of very
nice has a lot of very nice programming.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All the stuff jeff Iello does is great.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
They don't have a local news as far as I'm aware,
Like there's not a single person in the San Joaquin
Valley who if there was some kind of storm, natural disaster,
and was going to turn on a TV to get
information about it. I guarantee you ninety nine point nine
percent of everyone in Fresno is going to turn on
what MPH or ABC thirty or KC twenty four or
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CBS forty seven. That's what they're going to turn on.
And that's true all over the country. If you wanted
radio information about it, I guarantee you're more likely to
turn on power talk than you are to turn on
And yet they just feel as though, because they have
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captured the so many aspects of the quote expert class, academia,
public policy, nonprofit, world, medical establishment, that it's not a
question of we are partisans of one side. We recognize
that we are only supported by half the country. You
are partisans of the other side. Is there some way
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we can kind of coexist here? No, it's we are right,
you are just wrong. Give us your money, and again
and again and again. That is the attitude you see
when were returned a curious little story that didn't go
too reported. The White House released a memo about Donald
Trump having some slight health problems last week, and I
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want to talk about it. I think it was kind
of interesting the nature of what was reported that's next
on the John Girardi Show. There was a little new
story that didn't get much comment last week. Last week,
on julyzed seventeenth, the White House released a memo from
the President's physician, Sean Barbarella, as a US Navy captain
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and the physician to the President in recent weeks. The
memo says, in recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling
in his lower legs and keeping with routine medical care
and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was
thoroughly evaluated by the White House Medical Unit. The President
underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies. Bilateral lower
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extremely venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency,
a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age
of seventy. Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein
thrombosis or arterial disease. Lab testing included a complete blood count,
comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, d dimer B type, netriuretic peptide,
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and cardiac by markers. Blah blah blah blah blah. Goes
on no, no, no, no, no, Okay. Recent photos of the President
of showen minor bruising on the back of his hand.
This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent
handshaking in the use of aspirin, which has taken as
part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Now I read this and I thought it was really weird.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
It reminds me of the Vatican who the Vatican was
trying to pretend like John Paul the second was doing
just fine until like the day he died. Basically, uh,
and this was so laughable that it kind of got
reversed for Pope Francis, where they were like almost too
clear about the exact very unpleasant things he was experiencing
(37:42):
at the end of his life. I wonder if there
was such obfiscation about Biden's health that now the Trump
administration is going to be like tripping over itself to
be as completely transparent as humanly possible about President Trump's health.
(38:03):
I wonder if that's what's gonna happen, I mean Trump's
But if Trump completes this term, he'll be the oldest
president in American history. So anyway, it's something to watch for.
How transparent will they be about the president's health, How
open will they be that'll do it? John j already
show see you next time on Power Talk.
Imagine for a minute, you're a nonprofit entity and you're
sustained like a third of all of your revenue comes
to you from the government.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And let's also pretend that what you do is.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Also pretty politically volatile, that you come close to you're
not really breaking even your operations actually kind of lose
money or losing money not doing so hot. You depend
on the goodwill of the American taxpayer to sustain yourself,
(00:36):
and that you engage in all kinds your business, engage in,
engages in all kinds of luxury activities, trying to influence
Hollywood to make television shows about how wonderful you are.
That is what Planned Parenthood is, and that is what
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Planned Parenthood does. I've been reading more and thinking more,
and researching more about Planned Parenthood as an organization. And
as I've mentioned on this show before, I've talked about
a lot on Right to Life Radio or show on
Saturday Mornings nine AM. I think Planned Parenthood is going
to be pretty significantly impacted by their federal defunding. They're
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going to have one year of federal defunding. It was
actually court ruling earlier today from I guess the news
came out today that Planned parento's California clinics are going
to continue to be defunded while they're ongoing litigation.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
To challenge their defunding goes on.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And by the way, all the litigation over the obbb's
defunding of Planned Parenthood, I think is going to be
silly and will end with Planned Parenthood being defunded. It's
just Congress is allowed to spend money, and Congress is
allowed to make a decision not to spend money on
a thing it was spending money on before. Like the
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idea that there's any solid legal grounding for Planned Parenthoods
objections to them losing money, I think is ridiculous. But
and in my I've done all this research on Planned
parentode over the last couple of weeks. I'd put together
this massive spreadsheet showing all Planned parenthoods revenues, expenses, profit
(02:19):
and loss, their program services revenue, which is revenue they
get for providing services. I'm starting to put together how
much money they actually get from Medicaid. Specifically, you can't
get that for every Planned Parenthood, you can get it
for more than half of them. And we're working on
all this, thinking about all this and a story pops
(02:43):
up something I knew before about Planned Parenthood. How Planned
parenthoods Karen Sprook works with Lena Dunham and other creatives
to sensitively portray abortion on screen. This is a whole
(03:08):
story from Variety magazine, This glowing, gushing story about this
woman who's an executive with Planned Parenthood Action, which is
I believe that's their five oh one C four arm
A five O one C three is a nonprofit organization
that can't endorse politicians. It can do only a limited
(03:34):
amount of grassroots political campaigning against legislation, whereas five O
one C four can do unlimited campaigning on legislation and
can do some endorsing of politicians. A five one C
four is tax exempt, but donations to it are not
(03:54):
tax deductible. So Planned Parenthood Action, which, by the way,
is another one of these luxuries that Planned Parenthood can afford.
Here's Planned Parenthood that has clinic operations that cost about
one point seven billion dollars to run every year. They're
(04:17):
losing about sixty million dollars fifty or sixty million dollars
or so per year on their clinic operations. At least
a third of that money. More than a third of
that money comes from the federal taxpayer to Planned parentod's
participation in the federal Medicaid program. And yet Planned Parenthood
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feels they have the wherewithal to dump forty million dollars
into the twenty twenty four presidential the twenty twenty four
election cycle.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And then to do.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To have all of these affiliated pack and five to'
one c four entities. There's a million different Plan Parenthood
pack and five oh one c four entities for Planned
PARENTOD at the national level and then at individual state levels.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One of those things that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Planned Parenthood has time for, one of these luxury things
that Planned PARENTOT has time for is this woman Karen Sprook,
who works for Planned Parenthood Action, and she is the
National Director of Arts and Entertainment at Planned Parenthood.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
What does this mean?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
This woman who works for Planned Parenthood. Basically, her whole job,
and she's been in this role since like twenty fourteen,
her whole job is to work with Hollywood to get
abortion related storylines into popular American television shows and movies.
(05:58):
That's it, that's her job. She's a propagandist. I mean
that this is straight up. She is a propagandist. She
is a propagandist in fa Who she's not.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Is she a.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Screenwriter who's writing screenplays and selling them to people to
make movies. No, she is purely an issue advocacy hack
who works for a five to one C four who's
whose only job is interfacing with Hollywood to get movies
(06:34):
and TV shows made that have plan parenthood friendly, abortion
friendly storylines. So much so, this woman has an IMDb page,
the Internet Movie Database.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
She's got a page on there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Like most people with the IMDb page, are you know actors, actresses, producers, directors,
you know people who work in the film industry who
have credits and movies My sister, for example, as an
IMDb page. If you look up Christine Girardi, you can
find her. She's a she's a computer scientist and engineer
(07:14):
with Disney Animation.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So she's in the credits.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
For Frozen two, Wreck at Ralph two, and Canto a
bunch of a bunch of Disney animation movies. You look
in the credits, so you can find Christine Girardi. She's
she's a technical director. That's the title she has in
most of these. Karen Sprook this Planned Parenthood gal. She's
(07:38):
got an IMDb page and basically her she she has
I guess she must have done some stuff in the
film industry.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, she She contributed some things.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
As a producer for a couple of different productions. One
was a little film, an immersive virtual reality experience called
Across the Line, produced in twenty sixteen. It places viewers
in the shoes of a patient entering a health center
(08:19):
for a safe and legal abortion. But most of what
she has three credits to her name as a producer,
a short, and a couple of the sort of shorter things.
But her main thing is that she consults on these
(08:39):
movies and then gets named in the credits as special
thanks to or thanks to Special thanks to, where she
gets some acknowledgment because she's working with a director to
put in abortion aligned pro abortion aligned, planned parenthood aligned storylines, themes,
(08:59):
et cetera. She contributed to such movies documentaries as Battleground
from twenty twenty two. Three women lead the charge in
their single minded quest to overturn movie Wade as they
face down forces equally determined to safeguard women's access to
safe and legal abortions. So she's the pro abortion advisor
(09:23):
to that Julia A documentary thing about Julia Child, who was,
By the way, I don't want to burst anyone's bubble,
Julia Child was kind of a piece of crap. She
abandoned like two elderly sick husbands, or one husband she
(09:46):
abandoned because he got elderly and sick, and then like
the guy she shacked up with next, abandoned him because
he got elderly and sick and was also a huge
left winger. Not to completely ruin your perception of Julia Child,
but my wife read her by biography and was like
completely appalled by the end of it. So Julia Child
good cook, not like not exactly a good person. A
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documentary about rita moreno abortion stories women tell trapped this
long list of television shows and movies that she's consulted
on that we know about where she's explicitly thanked in
the credits, and I'm gonna guess there's a lot more
where she isn't this story. And Variety magazine goes on
(10:34):
about Karen Sprook again, this executive from Planned Parenthood whose
only job is to interface with Hollywood to get abortion
related storylines and messaging into popular television shows and movies.
Her chief collaborator, that the main person in Hollywood that
with whom she has collaborated the most is of course
(10:56):
Lena Dunham. Now I don't know how many of you
know about Lena da on him.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Some of you may have heard about her.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Lena Dunham is like the greatest example of failing up
anyone's ever seen. She wrote one film that people kind
of liked, and then she HBO gave her a deal
and she made a TV series that people kind of
liked called Girls. It was sort of a drama, sort
of a comedy. The biggest star who came out of Girls,
(11:27):
ironically enough, was a guy, Adam Driver, the actor Adam Driver,
who is now a massive, massive movie star. That was
Girls was sort of the TV series where he sort
of got introduced to the world.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
And Lena Dunham is nuts. I say that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I say that specifically like she's well documented bizarre mental
health issues, the perfect embodiment of the crazy millennial liber snowflake.
She's pretty much exactly my age, and she is aggressively
left wing, aggressively kind of crazily left wing. And I
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think it's because of that bizarre political, aggressive political stances
she takes that I feel like she keeps getting opportunity
after opportunity after opportunity.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Even though nothing she's made since Girls.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Which I think ended like in I don't know twenty fourteen,
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, nothing she's made has been very
successful since then.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She has a TV series on Netflix right now, that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Is it's just coming out on Netflix, and of course
in the first season they have a whole abortion related
scene that this woman, Karen Spruk, helped to write. But
this is the kind of stuff off that apparently Planned Parenthood,
the Planned Parenthood recipient of seven hundred million dollars in
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taxpayer funding every year. This is these are the kinds
of luxuries that Planned Parenthood can afford to fritter away,
to fritter away with political agitation and getting Hollywood to
craft movies and TV shows.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And storylines for itself.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's insane, Like, I find the whole thing gross that
they act in this bizarrely entitled way. That so much
so that they filed lawsuits against the very idea of
Congress not continuing to let them participate in the Medicaid program,
(13:54):
which I should say they can participate in the Medicaid program.
They would just have to stop doing abortions, and they're
not gonna do that because abortion is.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The distinctive thing for them.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
When we return, I want to talk more about this
theme of people the liberal complex that feels completely entitled
to your money next on the John Girardi Show. It's
been a bizarre year for liberals being entitled liberals feeling
entitled to your money. Planned Parenthood is really just the
(14:31):
most recent example of this. So I might do a
broader thing on this. I don't know, maybe there's an
examination of the liberal psyche that needs to be explored.
But here you have Planned Parenthood, again, a entity that
has I think something like two point one billion dollars
(14:54):
in assets just for its nonprofit clinics. Far more than
that if you add in it's planned parented Federation of
America and what assets they have, plus all of their
packs and five allen C fours. The whole operation can
only exist due to Planned Parenthood participating in federally funded
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healthcare programs.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
The only reason Planned Parenthood has ever been able to exist,
has ever been able to stay afloat in the modern
era has been through their participation in federally funded healthcare programs,
specifically Medicaid. No Medicaid, no Planned parenthood, or at the
(15:48):
very least, they have to massively downsize. They don't have
the donor funding to sustain the operations they have. Okay,
you look atty much any planned paranoid affiliate. About a
third in some cases, much more than a third of
their operator of their revenue comes just from the federal
(16:11):
Medicaid program.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So planned parenthood only can exist because of your taxpayer dollars.
So effectively, what it means is the American taxpayer a
large percentage of whom think abortion is evil. Not a majority,
but a plurality, a plurality very well, not a plurality.
(16:38):
A very significant minority of Americans think abortion itself is evil,
think that entities that do abortions are evil, think that
planned parenthood is evil because that is its foundation, that
is who they are and what they are. And yeah,
(17:01):
and beyond just people who think abortion is evil, there's
plenty of people, more people than that. I'm certainly a
majority of the country who doesn't want their taxpayer dollars
to pay for abortion. Now, the federal taxes we're paying
for Planned Parentod right now are reimbursements for services, and
specifically for non abortion services they provide. Currently, federal law
(17:24):
says no federal dollars may not directly reimburse Planned Parenthood
for abortions themselves. However, the money is going to abortion providers.
It is propping up an abortion provider so that they
can continue to do abortion. That's the thing with you know,
as much as Planned Parenthood wants to talk up, oh
(17:45):
you do all these other services, who will go anywhere
for cancer? Where will anyone go for cancer screenings? If
we're going, okay, if cancer screenings and you know, birth
control and STD treatment. If that's what you guys are
all about, why don't you stop doing abortions? Then if
you just stop doing abortions, you can be back in
(18:06):
the Medicaid program.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
They won't do that. Why because abortion is the whole
reason they exist.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Abortion is the whole reason that anyone donates a buck
to Planned Parenthood.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
If you want to donate to someone because they.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do great cancer screenings, you'd donate to the Mayo Clinic,
or you donate to Saint Jude.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Abortion is the reason they exist. It's the reason why
Mackenzie Scott drops a one time nine figure donation on
Planned Parenthood. It's not because of their cancer screenings. It's
because they do abortion. So they are so reliant on
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the federal taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yet they have the goal to have their affiliated organizations,
so their nonprofit organizations completely dependent on the federal tax payer.
They then set up affiliated five h one c fours
in PAWSS to expend forty million dollars during election cycles
to get Democrats elected to keep them, to keep their
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money flowing. Chiefly, they pay people to get Hollywood executives
to make television shows and movies that promote them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
They are living off of the federal bosom.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
They are nursing at the like squealing pigs, suckling on
their mother. They only exist off of federal largesse. And
yet they have the goal to be this level of
harshly partisan. They have this the goal to be this
level of doing these luxury things like getting Hollywood to
(19:49):
do stuff for them. And when the federal taxpayer says, no,
we don't want to fund you anymore, and they're duly
elected representatives and Congress past legislation to say entities constructed
like this are not eligible for the federal Medicaid program
for a year. They take them to court. They act
(20:11):
as if God on High.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Owes it to them that the money is owed to them.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Like so many other organizations, NPR, PBS, we're able to be.
They just acted as though, well, of course we should
be federally funded for forever. And no, we will never
have a conservative on NPR, and no, we will never
present a conservative viewpoint fairly, and yes we will talk
about you know, lesbian thrupples who are protesting against ice
(20:47):
like and yet and then when all of a sudden
the federal taxpayer says, hey, we don't want to fund this,
they act as if you are stomping on Washington's get
your your You're bulldozing Lincoln's, the Lincoln Memorial, and stomping
on George Washington's grave. You're not owed this. To receive
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federal funding is a privilege. It is a a trust
from the American people. Frankly, planned Parenthood gets more federal
fund I think Planned Parenthood gets more federal funding than
NPR and PBS do, or a greater percentage of their funding.
(21:37):
And yet this attitude that no, we are you must
pay all this huge percentage of American taxpayers who don't
want to pay for it must pay for it through
a coercive taxation service.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's amazing, this kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Entire aude, and we've seen it so much from USAID,
all the variety of ridiculous, stupid, wasteful nonprofits that were
getting all kinds of enormous grants through USAID. Who then
you get it cut off and that hoow dare you
take this funding away? Like that they are entitled to it.
(22:22):
Federal workers who act entitled to their jobs, even though
while simultaneously leaking stories to the media about how they're
going to actively undermine the Trump administration, like out of
one side of their mouth, out of the other side
of the mouth, they're like, oh, how dare you fire us? Well,
if you want to undermine the Trump administration from your
federal government job, you clearly shouldn't have your job. The
(22:45):
Trump Administration's in power because of a political decision by
the American people to give them political power.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So I'm it. I feel like, so how many of
these stories are of a feather?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So many of these stories that we've seen since January
USAID losing their money, federal employees getting fired while promising
that they were gonna undermine the Trump administration, PBS losing
their funding, Planned Parenthood losing its funding, Stephen Colbert losing
his television show because it loses forty million dollars per year,
(23:22):
in liberals acting, how dare CBS make this decision?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Stephen? You want Stephen Colbert on that wall.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You need Stephen Colbert on that wall, even though the
American people are saying, no, we don't care for Stephen
Colbert on that wall, but he has the best ratings
in Late Night. Okay, well, it's like too more people
watch Greg Gudfeld than watch than watch Stephen Colbert. Get
(23:52):
out of here. All right, That's enough of all that.
When we return, I want to talk more about this
entitlement concept and kind of how destructive and universal it
is throughout the left. That's next on The John Jardy Show.
I think a lot of the news from the last
six months, ever since Trump took office, has been about fundamentally,
(24:16):
has been about liberals feeling entitled to certain things, having
those things chopped away, wailing and gnashing their teeth. Story
after story after story has been that dynamic. Liberals feel
(24:38):
entitled to NPR, that they feel entitled to it. NPR exists.
NPR is a playground for liberals. That's what it is.
It is NPR and PBS, especially NPR. I will say
NPR is the domain of old or gen X and
(25:03):
Boomer affluent white millennials, white listeners rather not millennials, mostly
Gen X and Boom, but some millennials. But the audience
is old, it is very white, it is very liberal,
and that's the listener base of NPR. It's the niche
(25:26):
that NPR realized they can lean into and did. I
don't know, maybe it's a chicken and egg thing. I
don't know who what came first?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
The left wing.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Boomer audience birthed NPR being the way it was, or
NPR was the way it was, and the Boomer audience
flocked to it.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know who can say, but that's who it's for.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's not really a value neutral thing. It's not perceived
as a value neutral thing. It isn't a value neutral thing.
I mean, I've there's this writer at National Review named
Charlie Cook, who I wouldn't even say is their most
conservative writer. He's a bit more of a libertarian, I
would say. But one of the things he noted was is,
(26:16):
you know, he's a somewhat prominent guy. He's a writer, columnist,
writes on the editorial board for National Review, which is
a pretty big conservative publication. And he said he had
gotten invitations to be on NPR programming several times, and
(26:37):
he realized after about two or three times, the only
reason they would ever have him on was when he
would write something that was critical of either Donald Trump
or of Republicans, and so they were gonna have it.
They were inviting him to come on again, and it
was again in the same context, and eventually he said
(26:59):
to them, hey, listen, you need to have me on
for something other than this, Like I don't you need
to have me on sometime to present the viewpoint that
I think, actually the Republicans are right, or I think
the Conservatives are right, or I think the.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Liberals are wrong. You're only having me on to criticize
my own side. And then they stopped inviting him.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
The way that the woman who's the CEO of the
director CEO of NPR, what's her name, Maher, I believe
it's her last name. Basically, yeah, Catherine Maher. Catherine Maher
was an aggressively left wing person who there was this
(27:43):
remarkable exchange in Congress where she was testifying in front
of the House and this younger member of the House
of Representatives had all of these old tweets of hers
from twenty twenty and twenty twenty one talking about systemic
racism and how America is inherently racist and how she
read this book on anti racism that during her congressional testimony,
he was asking her, like, hey, do you think white
(28:08):
people are inherently racist? And she said, no, well you
tweeted that they were. Here's your tweet from twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
One, and he just totally got her, foisted.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Her upon her own petard with all of these insane
left wing things they do, and liberals genuinely don't think
there's anything wrong with this person being in charge of NPR,
the federally funded radio station, the government radio program. They
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don't think there's anything wrong with it. They don't think
there's anything wrong with extremely left wing nonprofits that do
stuff we don't like that at least an enormous minority,
a very significant minority of the country doesn't like all
of these NGOs doing NDI this that or the other,
(29:00):
that we're getting federal money. Liberals are so kind of
within their own worlds like that they have developed these
sort of echo chambers where basically they think every opinion
they have is right and correct and not in like
(29:21):
a partisan we realize we're partisans of one side and
other people disagree with us. They view their whole worldview
as being confirmed by the experts.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That's how they think.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They think that it's not just that I have an
opinion and I recognize you have an opposite opinion, and
maybe we duke it out in the court of public opinion.
They think my opinion is correct, it is confirmed to
be correct, and it is so obviously confirmed to be
correct on all manner of things that I feel no
(29:58):
compunction about you being forced with your taxes to fund it.
You would imagine the way that someone who's in charge
of NPR or PBS or some nonprofit that's getting tons
of federal funding. You would imagine that they would recognize, hey,
(30:20):
we're getting federal funding.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We got to kind of play it down the middle
of the road here.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
We can't be so partisan that we tick off half
of the country and many nonprofits do that. By the way,
I don't like a lot of things that federally qualified
health clinics do, but that's because I am a sort
of radically socially conservative person. Federally qualified health clinics which
(30:47):
are clinics that are sort of designed they get extra
sort of federal subsidization. They're designed that to kind of
help lower income persons. They provide kind of a broad
range of primary care services. Federally qualified health clinics operate
in a way that's clearly designed to ingratiate themselves with
the left and the right. They want to ingratiate themselves
(31:10):
with Republicans and Democrats. They get a ton of their
funding from the federal government. They behave in a way
that is basically not very part is encoded, or well,
they pretend, at least they give that front that they
don't act in a very part is encoded way. It
makes sense that's how they should act. It's actually in
(31:32):
their best interest to do so. But liberals feel like, no,
we don't have to. Why would we we should be
doing what the experts say. The experts you know, of course,
we're going to have news stories talking about the importance
of transgender care for miners, because the American Academy of
Pediatrics says so ignoring the fact that eighty percent of
(31:53):
the country thinks transgender interventions for miners is horrifically evil
and bad. It's an eighty twenty issue in favor of Republicans.
But I feel like these the NPR types have never
like met a concer or have they only read about conservatives.
They've never seen a conservative in the wild interacted with them,
(32:16):
that they have constructed this sort of bubble of opinion
within a certain kind of professional managerial, nonprofit government class
of people, where their ideas and opinions, the rightness of
what they're doing, the propriety, the rectitude of how they behave,
(32:39):
how they do things, whether that's NPR and PBS, whether
that's nonprofits doing extremely left wing things, and just banking
on the fact that the federal government's going to fund
their operations in perpetuum. There's just the attitude is not
(33:01):
I recognize I am a partisan of one side, and
I recognize that the other side does not agree with me,
and that I'm getting this federal funding, and you know,
I'm completely reliant on the Democrats to get it. There's
none of that. It's this sense of why are you
(33:22):
stupid Republicans not going to keep funding NPR and they
have nothing to fall back on. That's the thing I
think the NPR types realized because they were I'm sure
they were using your time, you know, doing focus groups
and things like that for Okay, what's our messaging going
to be to keep Congress from cutting off our federal funding?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They couldn't with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Really the main big public arguments they were making towards
the end, we're not, Oh we're not actually that liberal.
Here's all the conservative things we've done. They didn't really
anything to point to. So what did they bank to, Oh,
we provide such critical information during storms and natural disasters,
(34:09):
and so many rural Americans and depend on us for information,
which is like laughable, Like no, no one is turning
on PB Valley Valley. PBS does a lot of very
nice has a lot of very nice programming.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All the stuff jeff Iello does is great.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
They don't have a local news as far as I'm aware,
Like there's not a single person in the San Joaquin
Valley who if there was some kind of storm, natural disaster,
and was going to turn on a TV to get
information about it. I guarantee you ninety nine point nine
percent of everyone in Fresno is going to turn on
what MPH or ABC thirty or KC twenty four or
(34:46):
CBS forty seven. That's what they're going to turn on.
And that's true all over the country. If you wanted
radio information about it, I guarantee you're more likely to
turn on power talk than you are to turn on
And yet they just feel as though, because they have
(35:09):
captured the so many aspects of the quote expert class, academia,
public policy, nonprofit, world, medical establishment, that it's not a
question of we are partisans of one side. We recognize
that we are only supported by half the country. You
are partisans of the other side. Is there some way
(35:29):
we can kind of coexist here? No, it's we are right,
you are just wrong. Give us your money, and again
and again and again. That is the attitude you see
when were returned a curious little story that didn't go
too reported. The White House released a memo about Donald
Trump having some slight health problems last week, and I
(35:51):
want to talk about it. I think it was kind
of interesting the nature of what was reported that's next
on the John Girardi Show. There was a little new
story that didn't get much comment last week. Last week,
on julyzed seventeenth, the White House released a memo from
the President's physician, Sean Barbarella, as a US Navy captain
(36:12):
and the physician to the President in recent weeks. The
memo says, in recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling
in his lower legs and keeping with routine medical care
and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was
thoroughly evaluated by the White House Medical Unit. The President
underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies. Bilateral lower
(36:34):
extremely venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency,
a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age
of seventy. Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein
thrombosis or arterial disease. Lab testing included a complete blood count,
comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, d dimer B type, netriuretic peptide,
(36:59):
and cardiac by markers. Blah blah blah blah blah. Goes
on no, no, no, no, no, Okay. Recent photos of the President
of showen minor bruising on the back of his hand.
This is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent
handshaking in the use of aspirin, which has taken as
part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Now I read this and I thought it was really weird.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
It reminds me of the Vatican who the Vatican was
trying to pretend like John Paul the second was doing
just fine until like the day he died. Basically, uh,
and this was so laughable that it kind of got
reversed for Pope Francis, where they were like almost too
clear about the exact very unpleasant things he was experiencing
(37:42):
at the end of his life. I wonder if there
was such obfiscation about Biden's health that now the Trump
administration is going to be like tripping over itself to
be as completely transparent as humanly possible about President Trump's health.
(38:03):
I wonder if that's what's gonna happen, I mean Trump's
But if Trump completes this term, he'll be the oldest
president in American history. So anyway, it's something to watch for.
How transparent will they be about the president's health, How
open will they be that'll do it? John j already
show see you next time on Power Talk.
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