Everyone's Getting Fired Because They can't Refrain From Self-Righteousness

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm looking at the story of Matthew Dowd's firing for
comments he made on the air about Charlie Kirk and
how it has begun a flood of people facing consequences
for their comments on Charlie Kirk's death. Which should be
written is the ap which a flood of people facing

(00:23):
consequences for their comments on Charlie Kirk's murder. It's not
his death, it's his murder right there. I would have
been redlined for that back when my journalism career began
in nineteen eighty nine. Interestingly enough, but Stephen King, like
days ago, like the day, the day of the murder,

(00:47):
tweeted he advocated stoning gaze to death, just saying. That
was his tweet. That was the tweet that couldn't wait
one day, a couple of days. My new saying is
this until the body gets in the ground. Let's all

(01:09):
wait until the bodies get in the ground. I'd like
to wait a little bit longer. I can the rush
to not only am I going to say something absolutely
unfeeling and hate filled and whatever, that's my reaction to

(01:30):
this within five ten minutes, Wait, wait a little bit,
you know, after a suitable amount of time passes after
services are held and children are held, and widows are

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held