Ep. 5154: Columbia Cancels Commencement

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Five minutes past the hour of theMorning Show with Drusting Stack. Good morning,
great to be with you. I'mPreston, he's Grant. Just wow.
Let's first, let's let's do this, because if I don't, I
will I will let myself down.We gotta start with scripture. Walk in

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wisdom toward outsiders, making the bestuse of the time. Let your speech
always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you
ought to answer each person. That'sa very interesting pair of verses. Walk

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in wisdom toward outsiders. I'm gonnaI'm gonna pull and and kind of reorient
to help you out here. Walkin wisdom toward outsiders, so that you
may know how to answer answer eachof them, each person. I think

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we lose what the connecting point iswith what's in the middle. Making the
best use of the time. Letyour speech always be gracious, seasoned with
salt. Salt is a seasoning,salt is a preservative. I think salt

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is used here as as both.I think the meaning of the word salt
here is to imply both a seasoningand a preservative. Let your speech always
be gracious. That's one of thebig challenges isn't it. When we're talking

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one on one with people, isto make certain that we're representing Christ the
best way possible. It's a challenge, it really is. I know that
I likely on this show fail thatadmonition if you apply it as you would

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a regular conversation. My job here, as I see it, is to
present the stories, the news,the events, the things that are happening
that I think and it's strictly myopinion on what I think is most important

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for us to consider, to ruminateover freely admitting I may get it wrong
and pick wrong stories sometimes. Iwas having this conversation with somebody the other
day. When you do what Ido for a living, if you don't

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pick things that you're interested in,that you think are important, you're making
a mistake because you're gonna end uptalking about stuff you don't care about.
And then you are a literal exampleof that person that talks to somebody in
a room and they're not making anyeye contact, They're looking around. They're

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just looking around. They're not focusedon anything that that person's saying, or
even what they're saying to that person. They're busy looking around for the next
thing or they're thinking about, youknow something else. We've all been there,
and that's just like, that's horrible. So I try my best to
not go there. But those versesand Colossians four Walking Wisdom, that's where

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I think the root of this wholething, that those two verses are rooted
in the concept of wisdom. Well, who's wisdom? Not the world's,
and candidly oftentimes not ours, unlesswe derive our wisdom from our accumulated time
with God and his word, andwe then apply that wisdom that we've acquired

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over our life to whatever the situation, the person that the issue might be.
Ten past the hour. The AmericanPatriots Almanac is next. Get started
here Wednesday in the Morning Show withPreston Scott. The Morning Show with Preston

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Scott on News Radio one hundred pointseven w FLA. Say you about the
show in a few minutes. Onthis date, May eighth, fifteen forty
one, Spanish explorer and then thisthough reaches the Mississippi River. Eighteen forty

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six, General Zachary Taylor wins thefirst major battle of the Mexican War at
Palo Alto, Texas. We arePalo Alto, and then California. Eighteen
eighty four Harry S. Truman,thirty third US President, born in Lamar,
Missouri. They probably said it thatway. Eighteen eighty six, Druggist

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John S. Pemberton sells the firstCoca Cola at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta,
Georgia. I still believe it isone of the better museums, sort of
kind of places to visit, theCoca Cola Museum in Atlanta. It is

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very cool. In nineteen fourteen,Congress establishes the second Sunday in May as
Mother's Day. Let's do a littlebackup here. The credit goes to a
schoolteacher named Anna Jarvis. Her campaignto organize a holiday began his way to

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honor the memory of her own mom, Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis. The elder
Jarvis had devoted much of her lifeto the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton,
West Virginia. In May nineteen oheight, at Anna Jarvis's urging,
the church held a service honoring moms. Anna Jarvis, who lived in Philadelphia,

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also convinced Merchant and John Wannamaker tojoin her cause an establishing Mother's Day,
and he held an afternoon service inhis store. Within just a couple
of years, the custom has spreadto other states. At one of the
first Mother's Day services, Jarvis distributedwhite carnations, her mother's favorite flower.

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That's where the tradition comes from.It is a tradition that is held to
this day. White carnations oftentimes givenout on Mother's Day, white flowers in
memory of deceased moms, brightly coloredones for living moms. What a cool
idea that was, huh. Jarvisand her supporters convinced ministers, politicians,
businessmen to support the goal of startinga national observance, and so on May

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eighth, nineteen fourteen, Congress passeda joint resolution designating the second Sunday in
May as Mother's Day. The nextday, President Woodrow Wilson issued the first
Mother's Day Presidential Proclamation, calling forquote a public expression of our love and
reverence for the mothers of our country. Well done, missus Jarvis. And

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that's a reminder to all of yousons and husbands daughters to remember mom this
weekend. If your mom has passed, take a moment and think about and
reflect kindly upon your mom. Aswe know, not all moms. Well,

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never mind. Lastly, I thoughtit was V Day, would be
yesterday. It actually officially is today. Even though Germany surrendered to Ally forces
in France yesterday in nineteen forty five, today was declared officially victory in Europe
over Nazi Germany. So today isofficially V Day. I was mistaken.

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I thought it was yesterday. Itwas, in fact today, sixteen minutes
after the hour. If you arean educator in a public school, listen
closely, next man. It's goodto see FSU baseball doing things. Baseball

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is a funny game. It isa battle of attrition. You gotta have
a deep bench, you gotta havea deep bullpen. You've got to And
what link Jared is showing the reasonwhy FSU brought him back to the fold

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after he was successful everywhere else he'dbeen, including Notre Dame most recently.
Do you realize the knowles are fourteenand zero against in state schools this year,
and Florida schools are pretty good baseballschools. We're talking, you know,

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Jacksonville, Florida, Miami, FloridaCoast, Florida Gulf Coast. Did
you say if they played, Yeah? I did. I don't know if
they played Central Florida, but mygoodness, Gracious or Extetson's usually pretty yes
the hatters, Yeah, fourteen andzero. I mean, baseball is one

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of those sports you lose games.You'd think they had lost one of them.
No, they came back and won. Last night. I went to
sleep as they were trailing and wokeup to find out that they had won.
And so congratulations to Florida State Baseballsoftball having another very good year.

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The expectations for softball are pretty high, though, aren't they World Series or
bust. They don't quite have thepitching this year they have had in years
past. They can smack the ballaround, and I for one, am
very very happy to see that women'ssoft ball has has gone the route of

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power. I remember the days whenwhen it was all slap and run,
get a running start in the batter'sbox, slap the thing, and god,
I did not particularly enjoy that game. I just I just didn't find
it fun the second they started hittingthe ball, and that was a notable

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shift in the game at large.I mean, look, doctor Joey and
Graff. I'd like to think thatwhen I was doing sports, I was
a friend as much as you canbe a friend of a coach that you're
covering. She was an amazing coachin an era when the game was the
way it was. Latne Alameda camein and the game transitioned right along with

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her coming to Florida State. Iwouldn't say necessarily that she was the reason
it transitioned, because the transition happenednationally. Girls are swinging the bats and
it's fun. It's a fun gameto watch, enjoy it, fast moving,
they get after it, and Imean, you gotta love the cheers

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that the girls do in the bench. Those are awesome and actually it's kind
of it's it's spilled over a littlebit to the guys game. But anyway,
so go Nole's there for the sixyear in a row. The ANA,
the National Education Association, is hemorrhagingmembers, and so I gave you

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a hello. Educators, teachers,specially public school teachers. Listen up.
If you're still a member of thethe FAA, the Florida's Education Association,
which is an affiliate of the NEA, you're on the wrong side. You're
on the wrong team. You maythink they're representing you. Listen to this

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in the twenty twenty three recently endedschool year. The NEA fumbled, fumbled
one hundred and seventy six million ofyour union due dollars to political candidates and

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ideological causes, as opposed to lobbyingall lawmakers about the needs of public education,
which we don't need a federal Departmentof Education. You don't need in
any a. What you need islegal protection and advice counsel. You don't

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need someone politicking, because, forexample, I've repeatedly said, and a
piece here written by Aaron With whois CEO of Freedom Foundation, he has
said in here exactly what I've beensaying for twenty years. The Teachers' union
picks fights with the people that setthe budget for education in the state of

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Florida, and you've lost for twentyyears. More stop it. I have
a solution for you, at leastin Florida pennfl dot Org. I'm not
compensated by them. I wouldn't acceptit. They're better, they represent you,

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they provide the same protections, butthey first, it's cheaper, and
they don't waste your money on politicalcampaigns and ridiculous salaries to leadership, which
is what these unions always do numberof people making six figures in the FAA
would stagger your brain. So getout twenty seven minutes after the hour,

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back with the big stories in thepress box. Next in the Morning Show
with Preston Scott. This is theMorning Show with Preston Scott. Looking like
he's ready to hit the golf course, Great Allen over there at Studio one
A, although he's probably not lookingto hit the golf course. I'm always

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looking to hit the golf course,though I'm not right now. I'm dealing
with some drainage issues in the overflowof my swimming pool. Yeah, I
learned the hard way that we've gotassault system in our swimming pool and this

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modest little pool, and we loveour little home. And so I learned
the hard way that the drain pipethat the previous owners had put in by
whoever built the pool was not necessarilydone with with a lot of forethought.

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And so as the salt water beganto overflow from the pool at different times
when rainwater would come and so forth, it killed part of my lawn in
a small little area there. SoI am I am now trenching and redirecting,
and yeah, that's just so muchfun anyway, great to be with

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you this morning, like you careabout my woes with my lawn, my
patch of grass in that area.Big Stories in the press Box though,
brought to you by Grove Creative Marketingand digital Expertise. Average credit card debt
now over sixty five hundred dollars.It's growing. What does that tell you?

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I'm just going to let that hangthere. Social Security, the trust
fund is released its annual report.They now think they have an extra year
before it goes bankrupt, twenty thirtyfive versus twenty thirty four. At that
point, the combined funds run dry, social Security will only be able to

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pay out eighty three percent. Whatthat means is their stockpile that makes up
the difference is going away too fastand it can be replenished, and so
the money that's coming in reduces benefitsto eighty three percent. The money that
you save and have saved and oursaving is gone. Everything you pay in

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Social Security is going to someone who'salready retired. Your money. You know,
we thought it was saved up andgetting maybe a little interested. Oh
no, no, no, no, no, no, it's gone.
Congress can eliminate the shortfall by eitherincreasing revenue or taxes or reducing benefits or

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combo of the two. Now,there is a third way that this could
be done, and it is bynot spending money where we spend money and
honoring the promise made to those peoplein the money they set aside that they
are allowed to they should absolutely expectto get back, though not legally entitled

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to it, none of us are. But it's interesting how that option just
never gets discussed. Why why aren'twe fixing Social Security by merely eliminating areas
of expense that we that are duplicatusI mean I multiple agencies do the same

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thing. Eliminate one of them,shrink their responsibilities, save that money.
Anyway. Another big story, theTrump classified document case here in Florida has
been suspended indefinitely. The judge,Eileen Cannon, US district judge, she's

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the one that has been unredacting things. She is not going to allow the
trial to begin May twenty. Boththe prosecution and defense acknowledged that date wasn't
going to work, so she said, okay, we're not starting May twentieth,
and she has not set another date. There's a lot being made of
why that might be. I willtell you that I believe the comment,

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the concern the issue raised last weekon the program that the special investigator in
this case, Jack Smith, isnot legal. Therefore the case isn't legal.
That may be an issue that needsto be fleshed out. And then

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lastly, and I don't know whatto tell you if you're in the Boy
Scouts, if you're a troop leaderor whatever, I believe you needed to
get out years ago. Boy Scoutsin America will change its name February eighth,

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next year. Official decision has beenmade. The name change seeks to
quote foster a more inclusive organization andso it will be called Scouting America.
Might be worth noting it has agreedto pay out two point four to six

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billion dollars in claims of former BoyScouts who claimed they were sexually abused by
Boy Scout officials and volunteers. Howdoes an organization have the resources to pay
two zero point four to six billiondollars in claims of eighty two thousand former
Boy Scouts? Yeah, never mind? The Morning Show Preston Scott. Interesting

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survey out from lending Tree survey morethan two thousand US consumers that are raising
kids under eighteen. You're a newparent. Have you been surprised by any

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affiliated costs that come with having achild? Not really? Pretty expected.
Yeah, yeah, as as childrenage, the costs become a little greater.

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Right now. Parents of kids youngerthan eighteen spend on average eleven five
hundred and five dollars a year ontheir child. Some of the key findings
inside this survey are interesting. Parentingis hard. It's a it's a challenge

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being a parent, but it's aworthwhile challenge. But inside the survey,
it says most degree it would beeasier if they had more money. Okay,
yeah, that's always true. Parentsof kids younger than eighteen estimate they
spend over eleven than five hundred dollarsper child. Ninety percent acknowledged parenting would

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be easier if they had more money. Among all, parents three and four
say having and raising children has beenfar more expensive than expected. Three out
of four some admit to overspending overhalf fifty five percent have gone into debt
to pay for child related expenses,but seventy two percent say they don't regret

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it. Those with young children saychild related expenses that are the biggest financial
burdens are food twenty one percent,childcare nineteen percent, clothing thirteen percent.
Overall, forty five percent of parents, regardless of age, admit they felt
the need to overspend on their childto keep up with other parents or their

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children's peers. Really, third findingthat was interesting, and it's like,
to me, this is oh,really, this is this is a shock.
Seventy seven percent of parents said they'vehad to make financial sacrifices for their

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children, most commonly by reducing personalspending. Eighty one percent say that delaying
investments or retirement, thirty seven percentlist that sacrificing their own education or career
twenty five percent for both of those. And then there's this almost a third,

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thirty one percent say they have fewerchildren because of the financial challenges.
However, knowing they know now aboutthe cost of having and raising a child,
seventy eight percent say they're happy withthe number of kids they have,
and it's especially true of older parents, eighty six percent of baby boomers saying

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so. So, the takeaways hereare it's not easy right now being a
parent because we're living in the Bideneconomy my words, not theirs, and
the societal pressures of the day,which are just different. They've always existed.

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There's always been this idea of keepingup with the Joneses sort of mantra
that's always existed. It's just differenttoday because of social media. But when
it's all said and done, yousacrifice for your kids, always the truth.

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If you're a parent worth your salt, you sacrifice for your kids.
And lastly, when it's all saidand done, you're really grateful for your
children. That's the big takeaway.Back with more The Morning Show with Preston
Scott on News Radio one hundred pointseven double USLA or on newsradiou WFLA Panama

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City dot Com. Let's go backfor just a second as we think about
what's happening right this moment, stillat college campuses across the country. How'd

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we get here? Oh? Thisisn't this really isn't about October seventh.
Yeah, that was a nudge.But if you back up and just kind

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of I don't know, I'm asimple thinker. There are a lot of
people that are a lot smarter thanI am in this world. Absolutely,
but I'm pretty good at just kindof stepping back and breaking things down kind

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of the way a coach does.You've got outside forces that have been allowed
into this country that are terrorists orthey're terrorist sympathizers. They enable, they
fund, they raise money for,I mean, the council, what is

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it, Islamic Relations Arab Islamic RelationsCare has been here for years, and
we've talked about that group off andon for years, how they are just
they are a funding tool for terrorism. Then you've got the college and university

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campuses that are at best incubators forsocialism, at worst factories producing socialist Marxists,
actual fascists. And then you've gotthis little flashpoint that just sort of

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brings it all together. You realizethat right now at George Washington University,
not only have they clothed George Washingtonstatue on campus as an Islamic terrorist,
which to me, that's immediate dismissalfrom school. I'm sorry, that's not

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Nope, you're gone. We're gonnapull the surveillance tape and whoever was involved
in that, you're gone. Butnow they're calling for the beheading of university
leadership that doesn't fall in line withwhat they demand, folks. They're calling

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for guillotine. Guillotine guillotine. Guillotine. On the plus side, thirteen federal
judges, including judges from the FifthCircuit Court of Appeals and the US Court
of Federal Claims, addressed a letterto the President of Columbia University informing them

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that they will no longer hire lawclerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School.
And in the letter it's not justlisten to this, They would no
longer hire anyone who joins the ColumbiaUniversity community, whether it's undergraduates or as

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law students, beginning with the enteringclass of twenty twenty four. Yeah,
play adult games, win adult prizes. It's funny to me the things that

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drive people crazy. Some people arejust well, let me back up.
One person is annoyed at my beginningof the Hour of Music. The poor
soul writes me from time to timetelling me how much he hates the opening

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of the show, sucking Grant Allen, Ladies and gentleman over there running the
radio program, I'm merely Preston Scott, Welcome, When's second hour, South
Georgia. Those listeners throughout Georgia oniHeartRadio, we have listeners on the broadcast

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pattern that are in South Georgia,and of course the rest of the state,
as well as country and world canlisten on iHeartRadio. What is your
former Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan thinking?He seems like he was at one point
a very sharp, smart guy.What is he thinking? I don't know

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if you've seen the story, butit is. It is music to the
ears of the Democrats and the liberalsout there, and that alone should cause
Duncan to pause, but it doesn't. Quoting from his op ed in the
Atlanta Journal Constitution, it's disappointing towatch an increasing number of Republicans fall in
line behind former President Donald Trump.This mentality is dead wrong. Yes,

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serious questions linger about President Biden's abilityto serve until the age of eighty six.
His progressive policies aren't to conservatives liking, but the GOP will never rebuild
until we move on from the Trumpera, leaving conservative but not angry Republicans
like me no choice but to pullthe lever for Biden. Unlike Trump,

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I belong to the GOP my entirelife, Sir, You're a kid.
With all due respect, this November, I'm voting for a decent person.
I disagree with on policy over acriminal defendant without a moral compass. Okay,
just sell your soul. Then tosell us all out, actually to

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illegal aliens, us losing our jobs. All right, but you want to
be nice. Quit the virtue signaling? Nonsense, you little Oh, I
can't stand that nose in the air, you know, hold on though,
though first completely agree with you,you know that. But let's take a

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part of his commentary about Joe adecent person. What the crap are you
talking about? Yeah? No,seriously, have you had a lobotomy?
Are you incapable of understanding the corruptionhe's been engaged in since he was at

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least vice president, if not prioras a US senator? Where have you
been as this country has fallen intocomplete disrepair? Look and see and oh,
by the way, what about adefendant guilty of what bad judgment in

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his personal relationships? Yes, certainlyseems that way at one time, several
times over the years, because he'swritten about it. It's not like,
oh, my god, did youknow? Yeah, I knew. I
guess Bill Crystal has a brother,My gosh, But you're calling Joe Biden
a decent person who what affects memore and listen. This is consider this

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a lecture to any of you whothink this way. What affects your life,
your pocketbook, the way of lifein this country. More questionable character
that has solid policies that lower taxes, bring up the economy, secure our
border, make us better in termsof our national security, or someone that

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you think is decent but is causingthe country to go to hell in a
handbasket, which affects me more,which has affected me more. It doesn't
stop there. There's more to share, because this is really getting creepy.

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Sound coming from Morning Joe next andthis is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I am quite certain that somebody listeninghas a connection to the former lieutenant
governor. He is welcome to comeon this program and to discuss, not

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debate, discuss the absurdity of hisposition. I remember reading a study one
time. This is a quick sidebarthat traditionally conservative states produced some of the
weakest conservative politicians. And I knowGeorge's purple now didn't used to be right,

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used to be part of that conservativeof southern you know, but that's
where you get some of the weakestand and it was a phenomenon that they
were they were studying there were thetrack records of so called conservative politicians from
arguably the most conservative states, andthey had the worst conservative track records.
That is a study I got tobring back up because that there's a there's

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a real phenomenon that goes on ina lot of these states where we have
the majority right and we rest onour laurels, and you look what happens.
I would equate Biden and Trump asmoral equivalents in totally different arenas.
I know Donald Trump is who heis. I know he wrote about it,

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he bragged about it. But guesswhat, that crap doesn't affect you
and me day to day. Itdoesn't you know what does Joe Biden's moral
deficiencies. Biden's moral deficiencies cause usharm because they've affected policy, They've affected

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relationships with China, Ukraine. We'restill paying as a result of them.
So I can take issue with allof this. He went on further in
his op ed to say that theproblems in the election are not in the
op ed. He went on tosay that he said that he testified before
the grand Jury that the twenty twentyelection was very fair, It was fair,

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it was legitimate. Remember what JustinHaskins said on this show. He
broke the news on this show,on this show that the polling showed that
seventeen percent of mail in voters admittedto voting fraud, voter fraud in twenty
twenty. Now, they didn't knowthey were committing vote fraud at all times,

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but they were committing it. Youknow what that is in every state
where Biden won by thin margins,that's more than the margin of victory the
voting fraud. But I promised MorningJoe, this is where this is going.

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Listen to Jen Pesaki on Morning Joeyesterday. I think many of them
want to be close to power.They also assume or have this thought in
their mind that maybe Donald Trump willgo away, maybe he'll go to jail,
maybe he will die. Not tobe too morbid, but maybe.
I mean, he's not a youngman. She was directly referring to Jeff

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Duncan. There's an effort to siphonoff Republican votes from Trump. That's what
all these trials are about. Pickingoff a few thousand voters here, a
few thousand voters there. That's whatall of this is about they can't let

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him get into office. She's talkingabout, well maybe he'll die. You
know, he's not a young man. Have you looked at your guy?
If there's a man who's on theprecipice of eternity between the two of them.
Granted, anything canna happen to anybodyany day. I get it,
even you and me. But ifyou just look at the two of them

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and their relative health, if there'sone standing on the precipice, on the
cliff, on the chasm's edge,it's Joe. Man, That's what I
mean. This is getting creepy.Sixteen minutes after the hour more in the
Morning Show with Preston's put him Up, Put him Up? One of the

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last two segments will fired me ufMan. I don't mind. I'm not
a fan of Trump. I'm nota fan of him personally, But when

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you compare the two most likely candidatesthat have the chance of occupying the White
House, there is zero excuse tovote for for Joe Biden. There just
isn't any none. Now what aboutRobert F. Kennedy Jr. He is

(41:58):
arguing to Trump. Look, we'reboth going to be at the Libertarian Convention
later this month. You're invited tospeak there. You've accepted. I'm invited
to speak there. I've accepted.Let's have a debate. Biden was invited

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to speak there. He will notcome. He said, So look,
let's I'm polling with enough numbers.You said if I was polling, well
that you'd do it. Let's doit. If you're advising Trump, do
you do that debate? Do nodebates until it's Biden. Because Kennedy is

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a smart guy. He's hard tolisten to, by the way, but
Kennedy's not dumb. I agree withyou wholeheartedly on all of that. I
think that I think it would bea mistake for Trump. And I'm just
talking to here for him to geton the stage, because honestly, I

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don't think Donald Trump is very goodat debate. I think he gets into
name calling and I think he justalthough the comedy part of it is what
is like that's when you get laughing. Yeah. But here's the thing I'm
gonna ask you, and I'm goingto ask you to be objective here.
Remove the fact where you and Iare and that is Trump's getting our vote.

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Okay, let's just set that asideand be objective. If you're in
the middle and you're trying to decidenot so much Biden Trump, but you're
thinking about RFK because as you say, he is smart, he's and he's
very articulate. He has a terriblevoice and it hurts him. His voice

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hurts him because it's it's so difficultto listen to. But if you're in
the middle of this and you're tryingto figure out where your vote's gonna go,
does Trump style win you over?I actually think for a lot of
middle of the road maybe blue collarpeople, say, like a construction worker,

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right, who's not really politically inclined. You know, some of the
rough edges work, Yeah, Iactually do. I do. Don't You
think he has to be disciplined andthat's something he hasn't shown himself able to
do. In other words, berough around the edges, but be disciplined.
Stay honed in on the discussion,on the topic, whatever it might
be, depends on what it is. Stay on your talking point. If

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there's like a Lester Holt that's tryingto corner Trump into something and then Trump
just fires off of who do youwork for? NBC? And he does
like one of those things where it'sjust like, you're irrelevant, Just stop
talking to me, you're cornering me. I'm not buying it that Actually,
that's where you know, that's whereit's like, oh yeah, now,
but that's not really the debate withthe other guy that's responding the media.

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Everybody hates the media, so I'mwith you there. But I think he
has a vulnerability on stage in hislack of discipline. It's not the same
as going off prompter with Joe,where he's literally reading everything on the prompter
four more years, four more yearspause, where he's literally saying what's written

(45:22):
down there, he's a stupid ohsorry. With Trump, it's it's that
weird kind of thing he gets goingwhere he starts bragging. If he could
stay disciplined and just say, look, this is what was going on economically

(45:44):
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera when Iwas in office. Here's what's happened since
wins. Everywhere you go, youremind people of where their dollars were being
spent before. You remind people ofwhat was happening at the border. Yet
you didn't get everything done that youwanted to get done at the border.
But look at what he had todo with executive orders versus congressional help.
You could make all of those arguments. Golly, I wish I could sit

(46:07):
with him on his handlers and saythis is how you win. The only
thing that and I think I thinkyou know, I would say you'd probably
recognize this too, is that fora large segment of the population. Uh,
they they really don't care about facts, right, They're like, they're
unswayed by the truth over facts.Well, they like they when they hear

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a politician rattle off all these stats, they're like, I don't care what
the think tanks, you know,or the COT but they're wallet remembers.
I understand that. But people aremoved by like these. I hate to
say it. The historian Thomas Carlylerefer to it as the great Man of
history theory. And when you've gota guy up there that's just zinging it

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and he's just loving it, andhe's just going off the cuff, you
start to see like like people's likewant to see that, like this great
man of and and when you getreal sterile with facts in numbers, it
only appeals to a certain kind ofreally high IQ voter that does you know,

(47:13):
follow facts and numbers. But forthe layman, for the for the
average American, they're like driven Trump'sway. I suppose so sure you know
what I mean. I mean,he can just simply say four years with
me, every group in America wasdoing better, every minority group, every
ethnic group, we highest, lowest. I mean, just drop it out

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there. This guy who wants whowants to come back as the president,
he can't even find his coke closet. I mean, you can drop all
that stuff. You can pile theline. I mean, did you see
the video he looks like a roombut walking around. I mean, you
can say all that stuff, butI just I think it's I think it
would be a mistake to go debateKennedy by himself. That's what I'm getting

(48:01):
at. So the invitation's out there. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
We're a little late twenty eight passed. Welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott Rob Blue, who isthe executive editor with The Daily Signal.
We'll talk about media bias. Yeah, we'll do that next hour. Big

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If you pay attention, the bigstories can change. We will add
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this year. Now, a lotof us, including me I, theorize
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evidence to the contrary that they're goingto do it to try to win some
votes for Joe Biden. The caveatwas they're gonna have to do it against

(49:15):
the prevailing wins of what the economy'stelling us. Remember that period of time
recently where you had everybody out therethat was on the left in the media,
which is basically everybody saying you're juststupid. And I mean that this

(49:36):
is what they were saying, You'rejust stupid. You don't know how good
the economy is. Well. Oneof the Fed Reserve presidents of the Minneapolis
Federal Reserve, Neil Kashkari, ifyou just put a pause in there cash
carry, you could change it tocash carry, perfect for a Fed Reserve

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president. He said, rates aren'tlikely to come in twenty twenty four rate
cuts. Why because we still haveinflation, which still have all of the
ingredients that are required to keep interestrates elevated to try to suppress buying.

(50:23):
You do realize the whole point ofraising interest rates is to keep you from
buying stuff. In theory, whenyou don't buy stuff, the prices for
those goods and services drop. Butpeople are spending money on their credit cards.

(50:45):
Enter big story number two. Theaverage credit card debt right now is
at six thousand, five hundred andfifty five dollars. Third big story,
social Security will go bankrupt one yearlater then, was originally thought by the

(51:07):
Social Security Board of Trustees. Theytalk about, well, the only way
you can deal with it is eitherincrease revenue or taxes payroll taxes, or
reducing benefits, or a combo ofthe two. No, there's a third
option. You cut government and youtake the money allocated to those areas and

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you send it into Social Security.Meanwhile, if you're really smart, you're
forward thinking, and you're creating offramps for people to get out of it,
and you no longer create a retirementsystem funded by the government because they
don't have the ability to not raidthe saving. It's like if you have

(51:50):
a drug addicted kid and you givethat kid twenty thousand dollars and you say,
okay, now this is for youfor later in life, after I'm
gone to help you with by thehouse, or whatever the case might be.

(52:12):
If they're a drug addict, thatmoney's gone. It doesn't matter that
it was for this, it's designatedfor that. It's gone. Forty minutes
after the hour some bills Governor deSantas just signed, and this is the

(52:32):
President Scott ship minutes away from Florida. Man factor fiction plus the significance of
five thousand, six hundred and sixtytwo five thousand, six hundred and sixty

(52:55):
two, a couple of more billsthe governors in that season where he's signing
stuff. When bills are presented tohim, he as x amount of days
to either sign or veto House bills. Seventy seventy three, sponsored by Stan

(53:19):
McClain of o'calla is tax relief,tax holidays. Putting some math to this,
the total relief in this now issuch a crystal clear example when you

(53:39):
have think about this for a second. Florida is a consumption tax, state.
Yes, there are property taxes inschool taxes, and we lament that.
But Florida is proof that a consumptiontax in lieu of a per personal

(54:00):
income tax at a state level worksand works better when combined with a balanced
budget amendment and a part time legislature. Three legs of a stool. It
works. How do I know?Because we're putting one point five billion dollars

(54:22):
back into the economy in the formof tax breaks. At checkout there are
three holidays or four three or fourback to school sales tax holiday. It's
going to run July twenty ninth throughAugust eleventh, two different disaster preparedness tax

(54:44):
holidays. We mentioned that yesterday.June first through the fourteenth, August twenty
fourth through September sixth, Freedom MonthSummer tax holiday the entire month of July.
Admission to music, sporting culture events, tickets to movies, museums,
tickets to theater and dance performances,state park passes, use of fitness facilities,

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water boating equipment, supplies, campingproducts, fishing products, electric scooters,
outdoor supplies like sunglasses, sunscreen,grills, pool chemicals supplies and parts
tax free. The entire month ofJuly, and then a tool time sales

(55:27):
tax holiday which runs September first throughseventh, hand tools, power tools,
work boots, safety equipment, shoplights, toolboxes, belts, plumbing,
electrical equipment. You can only affordto do these things when you have an
economy that has surplus. We're payingdown the little bit of debt that Florida

(55:49):
has. We've built up our rainyday fund and that avoids special assessments and
so forth that you would have ifyou had zero rainy day funds. It's
just it's so abundantly clear. It'sa better way to govern. And this

(56:10):
you know, DeSantis deserves credit forbeing a good leader and having a north
on his compass legislatively speaking, butthe framework for this he inherited Florida became
this a no income tax state,a state with a balanced budget amendment,

(56:34):
a state with a part time legislature. These are smart, good things that
every state and in fact the nationcould learn from. Back with more here
in the morning Show The Morning Shoeat Preston Scott on news radio one hundred
point seven WFLA. Still getting suggestionsfor vice presidential picks for Donald Trump from

(57:08):
our discussion yesterday, got them allday, all night, still coming in
this morning, and different names.It's crazy how many people think, you
know, this person would be agood choice, this person would be a
good choice. Need to pick someonefrom one of the states that's a quote

(57:29):
battleground state that'll win some votes,key state type pick. Anyway, we'll
certainly have plenty of time to discussthat. All right, I said the
number five, six and sixty two. This is one of the most incredibly

(57:50):
bizarre stories I think I've ever done. Now to put some context to that,
there are there are all on average, roughly fifteen to seventeen stories I
do a day, sometimes far morethan that, sometimes less than that.

(58:10):
But if we use that as theaverage, if the average is seventeen stories
a day times five thousand, onehundred and fifty four, I've done eighty
seven thousand, six hundred and eighteenstories over the years, this is one
of the single most bizarre ever.And I'm just gonna throw it out there

(58:37):
and see if Grant comes to thesame conclusion that I did when I saw
this short little story. North CarolinaEducation Lottery had five thousand, six hundred
and sixty two top prize winning ticketsMonday for the Pick three drawing. It's

(59:00):
a low level drawing that costs youa buck. They have a fifty cent
pick three that carries a top prizeof two hundred and fifty dollars. The
one dollar top prize is five hundreddollars. So the three digit combination was
drawn Monday, leading to five thousand, six hundred and sixty two winners.

(59:27):
They all picked the same number.Are you ready for the winning number?
Six? Six six? What didI tell you? That's hilarious? Isn't
that awesome? Sort of? Isay, okay, it's awesome from my

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perspective as a radio show host.From the perspective of a Christian, that
means there are at least fifty sixhundred sixty two quasi sort of may be
likely Satanists out there playing this lotterygame in North Carolina. They they all
picked six sixty six and one.Boy, did you have the same thought?

(01:00:21):
I did? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, Like that's hilarious,
but it's like, wow, fiftysix hundred winners away. They all picked
the same number in the numbers.Oh oh, number sixty sixty six.
Alrighty, then alright, it's timeFlorida man fact or fiction three headlines one

(01:00:47):
guess headline number one Florida man convictedof murder blames sleepwalking as defense. Headline.
Two. Florida couple arrested for attemptingto sneak into theme park as cast
members. Florida man headlined. ThreeFlorida man arrested for trying to get alligator

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drunk. All right, that hasa lot of potential. Yeah, yeah,
which headline are you going for?One? Two or three? I'm
gonna go see again. I'm fallingfor the one that I hope is true,
not the one that I think istrue. Oh but okay, okay,
fair enough at your guests. Three? Yes, sadly no, it's

(01:01:30):
Florida couple arrested for attempting to sneakinto theme park as cast members. That
was the most realistic guess I hadin my head. But man, just
the thought of right, Florida man, here, little gayor gator, here's
some Jack Daniels kind of thing thatmakes me laugh. I gator's got his

(01:01:51):
mouth open, he's shooting shooters inthere, Yeah, shaking up a beer
and I can see it. Ican like it's always the case with these
headlines. Every one of them ispossible, and I would say almost in
the spirit of Babylon b likely atsome point in the future. All Right,

(01:02:15):
we come back the history of mediabias with Rob blue of Daily Signal
on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All Right, it's the third hour

(01:02:40):
of the Morning Show with Prestin ScottShow five thousand, one hundred and fifty
four crazy right, anyway, Goodto be with you, Grant Allen running
the radio program as always, Iam here Preston Scott located in Studio one
B. I got an email backin the middle of April from Rick who

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wrote, for those of us whotruly don't understand, could you do a
segment sometime that explains why the mainstreammedia are so in the pocket of the
Democrats. I assume these people canthink for themselves and see where the Democrat
policies are not good for this country. What are they gaining for their support

(01:03:24):
and are there gains worth what we'relosing? Rick, my friend, I've
held onto your email and I havereached out to my friends at Heritage Foundation.
I said, I need somebody totalk about this, and joining us
is Rob Bluie Rob is the executiveeditor for the news outlet for the Heritage

(01:03:45):
Foundation, the Daily Signal, andRob, thanks for carving out some time
for me. How are you?Good morning, Preston great, good to
be with you today. All Right, so you get let's say you got
that email. What's your first spotsbefore we dig a little bit into the
weeds? What's your response to thatgeneral question? Well, I mean,

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there are so many different directions wecould go with it. But you know,
frankly, the Democratic Party of todayis nothing like the Democratic Party of
yesteryear. And there are folks inthe news media, the legacy news media,
if you will, who are intenton portraying them as the modern,
more progressive and in tune with theAmerican people party. But the reality is

(01:04:32):
that what we've seen under Joe Biden'stenure for the last three and a half
years is nothing that provides the Americanpeople with the prosperity and direction that this
country needs to be going where whenlook, I know that I'm your senior
by a little bit, and Iobserved this starting to drift. But in

(01:04:55):
fairness, the media has never reallybeen unbuya since we founded this nation.
There have always been little biases insidethe media, right. Oh, absolutely.
You could go back to the Nixonadministration and heuro agnew famously, you
know, talkering, talking about thenattering, nabobs, the megatism. You

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know. So there is a longhistory of conservative frustration with the media.
I think that when Donald Trump cameon the scene in twenty fifteen, things
took a turn for the worst,though. I mean, there is a
hatred of Trump from so many journaliststhat I think has probably contributed to some
of the changes that have we've seenin our culture. I mean, you

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have, obviously the proliferation of socialmedia, where now everybody has a voice,
and so much of what you readin outlets like the New York Times
of the Washington Post or see ontelevision is really reflective of this animosity toward
this you know, successful businessman whoall of the sudden came in shook up
our politics nobody else in their lifetime. I don't disagree that Trump brought out

(01:06:03):
the bias on steroids, but Rob, I've you know, I've been doing
this show for now, I'm inmy twenty third year, and part of
this entire program has been based onroutinely picking out segments in the media every
single day that reflect overt bias.I'm curious. You were the editor in

(01:06:27):
chief of your college newspaper, theIthaken. If I'm not mistaken, what
was your what was your direction toreporters? I mean, I found that
there's been a divide between reporting andop ed that is now totally blurred.
That op eds now are used asreports and articles, and we blurred that

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line when you ran the news departmentat your college. Were you dealing with
that? Certainly? Impression I mindthat was that was at a time when
I think things were less divided.That was that was before the pushcore election.
You know, it's really set usdown this path of a red and
blue America. So you know,you it was also pre prior to social

(01:07:12):
media, and so you didn't haveall these things. I would I agree
with you on the whether you callit an op ed or whether they now
label an analysis. Yet you're definitelyseeing reporters' opinions leak into what have historically
been or fact based news stories.But even beyond that, now you have
social media platforms where I think reportersfeel free to state, you know,

(01:07:35):
their their personal beliefs out in theopen. And they try to have it
both ways. They try to benot only objective, which I don't think
really exists, or they are ona X and they are more than happy
to comment on the latest legal proceedingsin the Trump trial or what have you.
And so in the case of thenewsroom, I mean, what you

(01:07:56):
try to do is you try toget reporters to focus on the act providing
fair and straightforward news reporting, evenat the Daily Signal, which does not
hide it. It's conservative perspective onthe news. You know, when we're
reporting a story, we're going tocontact the people who may be in conflict
with each other, whether that's Republicansand Democrats, because I you know,

(01:08:19):
truly believe that it's important to giveeverybody an opportunity to talk. Now,
sometimes they choose not to, butat least you can make the effort.
Absolutely. Rob Bluie with us,he's executive editor at the Daily Signal and
our guests. We're talking about biasin the media. Will continue next on
the Morning Show with Preston Scott.Preston Scott, do or do not There

(01:08:42):
is no try on News Radio onehundred point seven Double UFLA. You know
this could be like trying to figureout who is the first person on the
sideline of a football game to scoreone in the player's mouth because the player
didn't want to do it themselves,or maybe they were worried about spreading sickness.

(01:09:06):
Where did that all start? Tryingto figure out where the bias and
media started. Rob Bluie with mefrom the Daily Signal. Rob. I
have a theory, and one ofmy theories is that news reporters oftentimes want
to be friends with the people thatthey're covering, and it compromises their ability

(01:09:27):
to write objectively because they want tobe liked, They want to be you
know, get in on the innercircle. And so I feel as though
a lot of the legacy media outletscan can look no further than they just
tried to be friends with all thewrong people. Is there any truth to
that? I do agree with that, President, you have pinpointed one of

(01:09:53):
the pieces of journalism that perhaps listenersdon't really you know about or hear about
all that often. Now, that'show the sausage is made. So the
relationship between a reporter and a source, and that source could be a politician
or a staffer who works for thatparticular politician. You know, they have
an incentive to obviously get good coveragefor themselves or their boss, and they

(01:10:16):
dangle these nuggets exclusives or scoops oror you know, tidbits of information that
reporters obviously need to impress their bossand get readership or viewership if you're on
television. So maintaining a friendly relationshipis important. However, the thing that
you've pinpointed is that it only seemsto go on one side of the aisle.
It seems to be those friendships areon the left, are with the

(01:10:40):
Democratic Party and less so with Republicans. That's not to say that there are
on any Republicans who who are havea positive relationship with the news media,
but it just seems to be soskewed in the other direction. Well,
I mean, it's borne out bydonations to political parties that are in newsrooms
across the country and in the legacyoutlets in particular, be again Neet,
the New York Times, the WashingtonPost, whatever it might be that they

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they these are college graduates. Okay, therein lies a partial problem in that
they're they're coming out of indoctrination camps. But then they're they're all leaning a
particular direction, but they they've losttheir journalistic integrity. Why why is the
marketplace not bringing it back? Rob? What's your best guess on why?

(01:11:25):
Gannett, for example, they areshuttering papers across the country because they're circulations
dwindled to nothing because people don't trustthem. That's right. Trust and media
has been historically low, but it'sit's you know, currently one of the
least trusted institutions in America today,maybe Congress only outranks it, right,
So you know, there are thereare a number of factors. I think

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you pinpointed one of them, andthat's the college graduates. So historically,
if you go back to even likeone hundred years, when you look at
at the composition of the media,newspaper men, I mean, there are
a lot of people were working classAmericans who didn't necessarily have a prestigious Ivy
League degree. And as we've seenfrom places like the New York Times,
they tend to hire people that thinkand we kind of rotate into that same

(01:12:11):
circle of friends. And so ifyou have a newsroom that's made up of
people who have graduated from Harvard andYale and Columbia and the places where we're
seeing these anti Semitic, anti Israelprotests take place. Right now, that's
the type of that's the type ofteam that you're building. I mean,
you are pulling from the very radicalleft that inhibits many of these college campuses
and particularly journalism programs. But Ithink there's another factor here that you touched

(01:12:35):
on, and that is the dwindlingcirculation. I think that as more Americans
get their news from social media platformsand turn directly to the source of information,
whether that be a lawmaker, whetherthat be somebody locally in their community
who's a particularly intilential voice, theydon't need to subscribe to newspapers anymore,
and they're looking for alternative sources ofinformation. I want to pick up right

(01:12:57):
there when we come back. RobBlue with us, he's executing editor with
The Daily Signal, and our guestswere talking about the media, what's kind
of gone wrong and why? Andwe'll keep talking next on the Morning Show
with Preston's Guy twenty two minutes pastthe hour with Season News Guy Rob Bluie,

(01:13:20):
executive editor with The Daily Signal.Rob tell me we were just talking
about the impact that online news sourceshave had. You know, there was
a good while that a lot ofconservatives would lean on the Drudge Report.
Then Matt Drudge seemingly lost his mind, and virtually no one seems to go

(01:13:41):
there anymore. How do you Howdo you find good sources online for objective
news, not opinion, but news. It's increasingly tough for resident I'll tell
you I started in the news businessin conservative media back in around two thousand
and two, at a time whenthere was probably you could count on one

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hand the number of conservative outlets thatexisted, and there's just been a proliferation
of them, not just at thenational level, but it's the state level.
So you know, it's it's definitelysomething that you need to be discerning
and somewhat skeptical of as you're lookingat your sources of information and news,
particularly if you're getting it through socialmedia, because you know, so often

(01:14:23):
things can spread virally even before youknow the truth or the facts you know
are known. And so my evaluationis, you know, look for names,
reputable names of individuals that you knowthat you can trust and have proven
to be reliable in the past.There are a lot of new sites that
pop up each and every day,and well, I think some of them,

(01:14:45):
you know, aspired to do goodwork. Look and see on their
about page, you know what,what's their background? You know? Do
they have experience in journalism? Dothey have a commitment to the truth and
making corrections and doing all those?And are things that we have experienced,
you know, newspeople would deal becauseeven as conservative, let's face it,
you know, we in many casesare under more scrutiny to get the facts

(01:15:10):
right because of the watchdogs that areout there that will come after us if
we don't. Are there tells outthere? For example, when you,
as a guy who does this fora living, read an article from somebody
out there, are there things thatgive it away. I'm going to give
you an example of something I've pickedup on of late. And some may
call this petty. I do notwhen talking about transgender issues and a specific

(01:15:33):
person and they refer to that personas their trying transgender pronoun as opposed to
their biological pronoun. I consider thatbad reporting. Now some might say I'm
parsing over small things, but Ithink words matter, especially in your industry,
And if we're going to refer toa biological mail as a her,

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I find that reporting immediately suspect.I'm so glad you brought this up.
So there is what what the journalistscall the reporter's bible is the Associated Pressed
style Book, and the style bookis what I was taught in college let
so many others learn, and thethe AP style Book unfortunately has adopted a
lot of the woke language of theleft, including on that issue. And

(01:16:15):
so it takes organizations and news outletslike the Daily Signals and others and others
to develop their own style book andreally adhere to the words that that don't
cater to one ideology or the other. And so we we do take very
that very seriously. And I wouldI would be mindful of news organizations that

(01:16:38):
just adhere to the left standard oflanguage as opposed to one that may be
more traditional. But then the otherthing I would, I would say in
terms of things to to certainly evaluateand and look at me, I still
adhere to this as much as Ican. Three, you know, three
sources per story. I mean thatway, you don't just have one person

(01:16:58):
who is trying to push their agi, but you have others who are commenting
on it. And so look atthe people who are quoted in a story
or how many of the reporter maycite in the story, and the more
that are generally quoted, the morecredible I think the story is. I
gave an example, and I've givenit a few times about how the Democrats
leak information to the media and youcan sometimes find pending legislation that's going to

(01:17:21):
be coming based on the media blurb. And I cited and still have printed
a list of headlines spanning a threeto four week period that were virtually identical.
And it's not because they picked upthe same AP story. They picked
up the same release from someone insidethe Democrat party up in Congress, and

(01:17:43):
they ran with it and then sureenough, legislation followed. How often are
pumps being primed by the mainstream medianow to do the bidding of the political
parties? Oh, I would sayit happens on a daily basis. I
mean, what you're talking about iskind of floating a trial balloon to see
how it goes over. So youyou would give the scoop or the exclusive

(01:18:03):
to a particular reporter or maybe youknow several reporters. They would report the
news on that to see what kindof reaction it gets maybe on social media
or or or even among influential audiences. And and you do that so that
when you do introduce a piece oflegislation, you're not embarrassed or you know,
you can maybe anticipate some of thequestions that you may be asked.

(01:18:25):
So it happens quite regularly, andit's probably both happening on moments to the
Democrat and Republicans side. I wouldsay that Democrats tend to be more effective.
Uh, they have you know,a friendlier allies in the news media.
Absolutely, they've got more donors sittingout there. Rob, thanks very
much for the time this morning,and uh and we're going to circle around
and visit sometime again soon. Thankyou, Thank you, Preston appreciate it.

(01:18:50):
Rob Bluey, executive director with theDaily Signal, our guest. And
this is the Morning Show with PrestonScott. It's the Morning Show with Preston
Scott. You know, if youlook at it, there's been media bias

(01:19:18):
largely throughout history in this country.And I mean literally going back to the
beginning. Remember John Adams tried totried to suggest that the media had no
right to criticize the government. Soit's it's it's been more adversarial. And

(01:19:44):
I would argue that an adversarial mediato the federal government is far better for
this country than what we have rightnow, where it's adversarial only to one
party or one set of ideals.But you know, we didn't, you
know, find the the the proverbialstarting point for media bias. But I

(01:20:08):
observed it slipping in the nineteen seventiesas a kid. You know, I
was involved in our school newspaper inhigh school, and you know, I
was just a voracious reader of thenews from when I was young middle school.
It started for me. I wasliterally reading the newspapers and you know,

(01:20:30):
periodical magazines, Time Newsweek at thetime was far more trusted than it
is now. But anyway, Bigstories in the press Box brought to you
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(01:20:54):
thought we had a reflation an inflationReduction Act, remember that, Remember the
cost remember the promises. Yeah,Democrats as a party sadly some Republicans sign
on to it, but as aparty, that's what they accel in.

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They make all kinds of grandiose promises, and the ones you got to be
paying attention to are the ones thatare a little bit more ambiguous, the
transformational kind of promises. Like aBarack Obama said, guess what, he's
keeping his word. He's just doingit through Obiden. They're doing exactly what
they said they would do. They'retransforming and changing this country. They're ruining

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us as a result. Average creditcard debt up to sixty five hundred dollars
per person who has debt, whohas credit card debt, social Security in
trouble. That's a topic I'm goingto hold on to and talk about with
Cat Camick next month, and theother members of Congress that we get on
the program. Need to get TommyTubberville back on. Ask a few questions

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there. The classified documents trial herein Florida of Donald Trump has been put
on hold indefinitely. That's interesting.I wonder if they're pursuing the arguments being
made that Jack Smith is illegal.He's a special counsel, he was not

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approved by Congress, he does nothave the authority that he's wielded. This
entire case should be thrown out onthe technicality. It would be like you
know, me walking into a courtroom. I'm not authorized to do that.
I'm not allowed to unless I'm thedefendant. I choose to defend myself,

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and the person who does that isgenerally a fool. But I can't walk
in to defend somebody else as theirattorney, like my cousin Vinnie. In
the same way Jack Smith, it'snot allowed to do what he's doing.
He never has been. And thenlastly, the Boy Scouts of America changing

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its name. I think this isa really big story. I probably should
talk more about that, and Ithink I will. On the other side
forty minutes after the hour, stillmore to come, do not leave morning
show with Preston Scott. I thinkit's a very important story because of the

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role that the Boy Scouts have playedin our country. If you if you

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go back to its found and whatits whole purpose was, and now you
go to Boy Scouts of America isabout to become Scouting America to foster a
more inclusive organization. They've already goneto an organization that is paying out two

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point four to six billion in claimsagainst its leadership and volunteers related to sexual
abuse of boys. They made seismicchanges allowing gay youth to openly be involved

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girls trans leadership, that's gay transwhatever. They've lost their moral compass,
they've lost the things that made themthe Boy Scouts. So they're changing the
name February the eighth next year toScouting America. And I again, it

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breaks my heart, but this isnot the Boy Scouts of even twenty years
ago. I am c the BoyScouts of America. Dinner here and for
the region of the Boy Scouts whenOliver North came as their keynote speaker before
he got in trouble with the NRA, had a falling out, and it

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was the last time I ever hadanything to do with them. I saw
the changes coming, and I wouldsay to any of you that are still
involved, and I'm sorry this isgoing to really upset some of you,
because when I say this, italways does. You need to get out.

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There are other options. They're notperfect, but there are a heck
of a lot better than what's happenedto the Boy Scouts Scouting America. Meaning
we're not going to We've lost thedefinition of boys. We've lost the inclusiveness
of boys only, we've lost themoral litmus test of finding people that are

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not overtly living in sin. Wetry to hold leadership to a standard,
and you could say, well,look what that standard led to two point
four to six billion. You're right, that indicates how far the Boy Scouts
had fallen a few decades ago.When you compromise your moral anchors, you

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drift. You just drift. Andthat's what's happened to the Boy Scouts.
Another story here that just needs tobe on your radar. This week,
Columbia University canceled its commencement. Otherschools are doing the same. Man,
if I'm a graduate and I've beenthere and I've done my time, and

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I've done my grades, I've workedmy butt off to get my grades,
to get my degree, and Idon't get a chance to have my family
and friends come to witness my commencement, I am. I can't use the
word very unhappy. Yeah, don'tbecome a donor, that's for sure.

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Yeah, forget me out in myassociation. Yeah, get out, and
don't give another dime to that.Those crumbling failing. Speaking of failing institutions,
boy Scouts, Columbia, other universities, you name it, and your
point about getting out is totally rightthat if you can't see that it's crumbling

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all around you and you're still hangingon like I'm sorry, you're just not
gonna make it. It is.We are long past due for parallel institutions.
Columbia is sitting on a thirteen billionbillion dollar endowment and they can't figure
out how to pull off commencement.You're kidding me, right, That's how

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inept this leadership is in much ofour country. An unbelievable kicker to end
the show. Next, if onlyyou, sir, lived in the Hiroshima

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Prefecture in western Japan, would Ihave the competition for your baby? What?
Yes, seven hundred babies took partin the Hiroshima Gokoku Shine. It's

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the event on Children's Day May fifthto pray for the health and well being
of children, and one of theevents is the crying sumo. Not making
this up, buddy, baby sixto eighteen months are dressed in traditional happy

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coats and headbands. They're placed inthe sumo ring across from each other.
The baby who cries first is thewinner in advances. Huh, they just
sit there and the first baby thatcries wins and moves on. One mother

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thought her sixteen month old boy mightnot cry so easily, but he did.
Some babies burst into tears before theirbout even begins. Some bouts end
in a draw because neither baby cried. They just stare at each other happily.
See that's the opposite of what Ithought, or what you would think,
Like the one that doesn't cry,right, but no, no is

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the winner. But no, theone that cries is the winner. I'm
thinking, Man, you put yourchild down, that's it. They're gone.
Yeah, So maybe the trick thereto advance and win is to like
make sure you got a little somethingon the pacifier, on the binkie.

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Yeah, and you drop your childdown on the middle there and and away
from the opponent, and then youjust go or yeah, pop the binkie
out and crying begins. Yeah,you just yeah, take it, take
their toy. That's right, sumo. Crying crying sumo kind of sick.

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Honestly though, I mean to competition, to like get your child to cry,
it's kind of kind of cruel.Yeah, I'm just going to leave
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versus five and six, Big storiesin the press box to reset the program.
Credit card dead passing sixty five hundreddollars on average. Social Security in
trouble, but it has a yearlonger to survive. But the ideas for

(01:32:05):
solving it are just they're not theright ones. One of the presidents of
one of the Fed Reserve outposts,this one in Minneapolis, said, yeah,
there's probably not going to be arate hike increased rate reduction this year.

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What does that tell you when theplan was to reduce the rates to
help Joe Biden's election, chances whereJoe could say, see, look at
that the rates man, they're comingdown. Man, that'd be good.
Can I have some ice cream?Trump's classified document trial indefinitely delayed doesn't have

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anything to do with the fact thatSpecial Counsel Jack Smith is illegal and that's
not some wide eyed He's literally notallowed to do this. Why is he
being allowed even in the courtroom?He shouldn't be allowed. Boy Scouts of
America, changing its name next yearto Scouting America. Teachers fleeing the unions,

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I'll just say it again. Here'syour option penfl dot org. Tomorrow,
we'll do it again and then someI can't wait