March 4, 2026: Matt Kittle sits in for Dan

March 4, 2026: Matt Kittle sits in for Dan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Wednesday afternoon, you exceptional Americans.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
How do you do here?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
It is baby hump Day. No, Bill Clinton, that is
not what you think it is. Get out of the
hot tub, Buddy, out of the hot tub, back into
your files. Friend. Hi, I'm Mad Kittle, your radio talk
show host Phil and Daddy, the lesser known, less talented Kittle,

(00:28):
and I'm glad to be back with you on this Wednesday,
March fourth, two thousand and twenty six. Now with a
fraud a Medicaid fraud free guarantee. How about that? Oh,
We've got much to talk about today and we're gonna
get down to it here. I want to tell you
what's coming up a little bit later on in the show.

(00:51):
We are just getting started. The words of Secretary of
War Pete Hegseath at a press conference this morning, laying
out here his vision of the war in Iran. Hegseeth
was joined by General Dan Kin, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to give an update on developments in

(01:11):
the Joint US Israel Operation Epic Fury. The Federalist White
House correspondent Breckin Thieves was there. He's always there, covering
the Pentagon. The White House, a lot of the comings
and goings in DC, and he'll join us. Coming up
in just a few minutes on the DAN. O'donald shown

(01:33):
coming up a little bit later in the hour. Oh yes,
haven't talked to this gentleman in a long time. I
am looking forward to talking to him. It has been
too long. Representative Bob Donovan, a Greenfield Republican and a
longtime former Milwaukee Council member, will join us to talk
about the lunacy of the council that he was a

(01:54):
member of. It's only gotten wars. You know that this
Milwaukee Common Council has a vendetta against ice. They want
to abolish ice, and they moved closer to that, at
least in their own minds yesterday. We'll talk more about
that and what that ultimately means to public safety Council

(02:17):
members yesterday and we'll discuss this more made these bold assertions.
That is to say, the leftist leaders of Milwaukee need
to make sure that everyone is safe in Milwaukee. What
they are doing exposes a lot of Milwaukeeans to more

(02:41):
crime and violence. So there's that the best laid plans
of mice and men.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Or the.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Road to Hell paved with good intentions. A little bit
later on in the show, it's a win for parental rights.
The Supreme Court this week blocked California's law requiring public
schools to secretly transition children without their parents' knowledge. We

(03:12):
know all about this in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This has
been a horrendous policy, horrendous law, and it has to end.
The Supreme Court said as much. Under long established precedent, parents,
not the state, have primary authority with respect to the
upbringing and education of children, the majority said in an

(03:35):
unsigned opinion. JCN President Carrie Severino, who has extensively worked
in this legal field and covered this area, will join
us coming up in the four o'clock hour for a
little perspective on the landmark Mirabelli versus Banta. And then

(03:55):
there was an interesting Oversight Committee hearing today and Washington,
d C. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer absolutely grilled
Tim Walls, who is a fraud presiding over a massive
fraud scandal in the state of Minnesota. We'll get to

(04:17):
some of that audio and a little perspective on that
coming up in just a bit, But.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Are you ready for a little primary action? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I am not. It's gonna be a long year
as a political reporter. I can tell you this already.
We are just two plus months in. It already has
been a long year on the political reporting scene. It
is drinking from a fire hose every day. Last night began.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
The first Foray, the first.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Of many prime to come across the great United States
of America, Texas, Arkansas, and others. Texas, of course we
will focus in on because you have some very interesting
races there, some very contentious races, and I think races
for the soul of America. We get more and more

(05:21):
of those. Of course, in the Senate race, where you
have kind of how do I describe him, I'm a
milk toast, that's it. A milk toast conservative down there,
who's been in that seat for a long time, Cornyn.

(05:43):
And then you got Paxton. He's the attorney general. He
is liked by a lot of the conservative base. He
is hated by the establishment. And so you have that
clashing right there. On the other side, you have crazy

(06:06):
and Batgwana crazy Jasmine Sonny Crockett. Well she's in this
thing no more, but now she's talking about rigged elections instead.
She was defeated by James Gandolfini. No, that's not true
at all. Every time I hear this guy's name, I

(06:28):
want to call him James Gandelfini for some reason, and
I don't know why that is. But in the race
for Senate on the Democrat side, you have, or at
least Texas had the choices, the stark choices, two of them.

(06:50):
Let's take a listen to Choice A. If we could
get a sense of what Texas is going through. How
about some sound.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
There like, oh, political violence. It's the Democrats and it's
the liberals, and it's like, actually, gosh, actually actually, I
mean I'm not gonna say that like a left leaning
person cannot be violent, because that would be like crazy
to say that somebody can't be But babe, babe, y'all
got the white supremacist galore, Okay, like all of them.
You got the proud Boys, you got you got the

(07:25):
neo Nazis. You have people that literally should be classified
as domestic terrorists because a lot of times that is
what they are doing. They're engaging in domestic terrorism. And
guess what they all align with your side? Yeah, including
the KKK solo.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Babe, baby, let me correct the record. They're the KKK
was actually created by your side, the Democrat Party in
the Deep South. The Republicans, of course, had some issues
with the KKK, tried to stop him until a great bargain,

(08:04):
a great presidential bargain back in the latter eighteen hundreds.
All of that said, there is your Jasmine Crockett. She
did not emerge victorious, and not surprisingly, she is insisting
that the election now was rigged by white supremacist including Stephen.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Colbert, who is being we'll talk about this letter now
being accused of helping to rig the election for his
preferred white Christian nationalist that gentleman's name on the ballot

(08:49):
for Texas Senator. Interesting fellow, James tall Rico. This is
a guy who has been shaking his fist at conservative Christians.
They are wrong. He says, they are bad for America.

(09:12):
This is what the new Christianity sounds like on the left.
And keep in mind what's really in play for liberals
in this country. They picked up on something that America
is tired of liberals, particularly godless liberals, and so they said,

(09:35):
you know what we could do. We could fake like
we're Christian and we can make up all kinds of
things that aren't in the Bible, and we'll call it
Christianity and we'll run on that. And that's what James
has done in Tennessee. We have a little audio, little

(09:56):
sample of what James Tallerico has to offer. Yeah, here
we go.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our
trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texas is something.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
We have to do every day.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge here goes
our trans community needs abortion care too.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
The sounds a little low. Let me repeat that if
you missed it. James tell Rico, who is now the
Democrats candidate for US Senate and Texas, said at the
pulpit that transgender Americans need abortion care too. That is

(10:39):
to say that dudes pretending to be ladies need abortion
care too. This is the Left's answer to religion in politics,
and it's going to be an interest race. Perhaps we'll

(11:01):
play more sound from this fella and others as we
move forward. Next though, we want to get the latest
on what is happening in the war in Iran straight ahead.
One of the great reporters in the swamp right now
Breckon thieves will join us. He was at the press

(11:21):
conference where Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth spoke today about
Operation Epic Fury, not Epic Furry, which is I think
a plan that James Tellerico has if he is elected. Anyway,
we'll delve into all of this straight ahead. Keep it
right here with yours truly, Matt Kittle here on the

(11:42):
Dan O'Donnell Show. I'm almost excited to do a little
clog dancing over here. Huh. I am the Lord of
the dance. We're keeping it real, we are keeping it
right on this Wednesday edition of the Dan o'donalds Show
with your old radio amigo, Matt Kittle. We are just
getting started. Yes, we are on the Dani o'donnald Show

(12:05):
this afternoon. But that's what Pete Hegseth said. Secretary of
War Pete hegg Seth at a press conference this morning
at the Pentagon, laying out his vision of the war
in Iran. Heg Seth was joined by General Dan Kin,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to give an
update on developments in the joint US Israel Operation Epic Fury.

(12:29):
The Federalist White House correspondent Brecon These was there and
he joins us now, good afternoon, sir, Thank you so
much for joining us, especially from the swamp. Hello, Brecon,
are you there a little technical difficulty? It sounds like
we'll get to Brecon on the line here. We're working

(12:52):
on it right now. You know, sometimes that swamp, with
all the sewage running in and out of it these days,
it gets a little snarky, gets a little tricky, and
so every once in a while it's a difficult connection
to make from deep inside the cesspool that is our
nation's capital. Again, at the press conference today, Pete Hegseth,

(13:16):
the Secretary of War, provided an update and a very
rosy picture of how things are going. Recon. I believe
you are there now, aren't you, sir.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
H.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yes, that's the press briefing with he today, And I
was also press creeping with kroen Leven.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
At the White House today.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
They both addressed sort of some of the similar topics
regarding the Iran war.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Of course, that's what everyone in DC is talking about
right now.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
It is everybody everywhere is talking about it because you know,
we have a number of questions that have been and
some have been answered, many have not been answered, and
you have reported on that. You can find all of
Brecon's great work, of course at the Federalist dot com.
But did he get to the key questions, number one

(14:04):
being what is the number one priority? What is the goal?
What is the number one objective here?

Speaker 6 (14:14):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
You know, I mean people in the administration hagscepth included,
will say that they have answered that question. I don't
know that it's sufficient to a lot of people. I
think a lot of people are wondering, you know, what
dragged us into this war? You know, I thought that
we destroyed their nuclear capabilities back in Operation Midnight Hammer

(14:36):
over the summer, but apparently they were close to getting
and you grow up in this time, it's not totally
clear what the immediate threat was althout some mole site
that they were, you know, close to attacking Israel.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
And so that's why.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I mean, to be honest, the kind of communications from
senior officials in the administration and also people that are
using as steering it on this issue, like Senator Ted Cruiz,
have kind of had a lot of different stories.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
You know, maybe they all.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Match up somehow, but it's not not quite clear. What
is super clear, though, is that given what Secretary has
that's the saying this morning, is that this this conflict,
this war is far from ever Actually they're they're escalating
the issue this week, and that it doesn't look like
there's really any end in sight for America and involvement

(15:28):
in Iran.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah. I heard the same from Secretary of State Marco
Rubio today, who said things are really going to look
different here in a couple of days, asserting that the
firepower we have seen so far in this joint military
campaign is going to ramp up, and it's going to
ramp up pretty heavily, and Iran won't know that, at

(15:53):
least the evil regime won't know what hit them. Was
that the sense that you were getting from Hegseth today
as well?

Speaker 6 (16:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Absolutely, I mean he made the same point, and actually
he kind of opened this up. There have been a
bizarre comparisons among some in the administration, including Hanks up
today to the Iraq war, which I'm not sure is
a very popular comparison to be making, but they're doing
it anyway. And he said that Operation Epic Fury, the

(16:22):
current one, opened up with twice the air power of
the Shakana campaign of two thousand and three, and then
they said, over the course of this week, America and
Israel will have complete and total control of Iranian airspace,
which Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Keynes,

(16:44):
that will allow.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
Them to.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Strike targets further inland. So if you look at the map,
which they provided a map, it's in my right of
this today a lot of the strikes have been sort
of on the western the southwestern edge of the Rand,
which is basically near the sea and like where you know,
everyone knows about the straight of pore Mews and things
like that, and so their air superiority will now allow

(17:11):
them to to make to strike further inland and and
and hit targets there. So again, uh, you know, again
they're not saying that there are ground shoots coming in
at this point. They're not taking it off the table either,
but it does look like we're moving further and further inland.
And again, everything except was saying today was like, you know,

(17:34):
this isn't over. We're escalating, we're not we're not backing down.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
But but on the end of that, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
When asked, you know, okay, what's what does victory look like?
What does the end.

Speaker 7 (17:46):
Of that look like?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
The story gets a little muddled, and people like, you know,
Press Secretary Caroline Levitton, it was asked the same question
and she's like, well, we've we've laid out these goals
which are a little bit vague too. But but again no, no, like, okay,
what's the what's the ultimate goal? What does what does
Iran look like? After you know, the the Trump administration

(18:11):
Israel are satisfied with the situation there.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's a great question. Breck and Thieves. At the Pentagon
briefing today with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and General
Dan Kine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they
laid out at least somewhat what has happened thus far
and kind of where they're going with this. You know,

(18:36):
we heard a lot about regime change and whatever side
you're on on that, there are plenty of folks who
don't care for regime change using the military using the
government to do that. Others are are very excited about it.
Let's face it, there's no love loss for the Ayatola,
the avuncular Ayahtola as the new York Times refers to

(18:59):
as but all of that said, this leaves a vacuum
they got, apparently, according to the Pentagon, yesterday they knocked
out dozens of leadership, all deciding to meet to quickly
try to replace the dead Eyetola. Who is is Heig's
talking about? Who is filling that vacuum of leadership and

(19:24):
what that looks like in terms of this campaign.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
No one, No one is talking about that, at least
on the American side. Now they're fen reports that Kamanie's
son is sort of in the running for that. They
are also asked about the current president of a Rand
who some people regarded as a reformer. He's only dinners
in twenty twenty four when their previous partident died in
a helicopter crash. I believe so the American the American government,

(19:52):
the Trump administration isn't talking about, you know what the
next regime looks like. The closest we can gain think
it's President Trump saying.

Speaker 7 (20:01):
That he wants or his sort of hope is that.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
The Iranian people will overthrow their government. And and but
you know, again, it's totally unclear, not that it doesn't exist,
but it's very unclear.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
Who among sort of the more.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Secular dissidents in Iran would lead the country after a
successful coup, if that can even happen. That's one of
the main questions that that pretty much everyone has, you know,
and it gets to okay, what's the ends look like here?
And that's why a lot of people are internity like, well,
we don't have an end in site. I mean, it

(20:40):
seems like we're getting into a you know, people have
compared it to Libya. I don't think Iran is as
bad as Libya. I mean, Libya is a failed state.
After the Obama administration took out Kadapi there there was
no successor at all and had just turned into like
warlords planning parts of the country. Iran is a lot
more sophisticated country, has also been a very successful country

(21:02):
up until nineteen seventy nine. Who is very westernized. People
there are very smart academically, there are a lot there
are a lot more set up for success among their populace,
and they would be and people. A's not a totally
great comparison, I will say, But again, you know, that
is a question that everyone has and no one has
an answer to. In the American government as will basically,

(21:25):
you know, we're not there yet, kind of you know,
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wasn't Comad's son, Didn't he have some trouble with the law.
Didn't he get caught with some cocaine in the mosque?
Or is that another leader I'm thinking about here now, Yeah,
that's that's that's probably yeah. No, come to think of
it as that it was a Joe Biden. It was
a different circumstance. Altogether.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
We have heard a lot about who is.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Running this operation. There have been questions about whether this
is fully led by the units. Obviously it's a joint
effort between Israel and the United States military, but there
has been a lot of talk, and it seemed like
Secretary of State Rubio had suggested as much before that

(22:16):
Israel was going to go ahead with this no matter what,
and America, if you want to come along, that's fantastic.
We'd love to have you here, but we're going to
do this either way. And then Trump and the Pentagon said, well,
hold on a second here, they're backing off on any
of that talk. In fact, the people I'm talking to,
they're they're not real happy with that. That sentiment expressed,

(22:40):
what are you hearing on that front?

Speaker 3 (22:43):
I'm pretty much hearing that exact thing. I mean, I
don't know if it's sort of from Rubio and from others,
because others have said another cabinet people and other people
in the administration have basically said out loud that yeah,
this was this is kind of Israel's idea, and even

(23:03):
things down to President Trump saying, you know, when responding
to why didn't the US have a plan to evacuate
you know, a State Department personnel from the region and
things like that.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
You know, President Trump.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Said, well, all everything happened so quickly, and that questions like, okay,
well did we not know when this was going to
happen and we had to get in front of Israel
doing it unilaterally? And then because we didn't want that
to happen, we sort of took the lead on it.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
I mean, I will say, I mean Pete.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Hegsas earlier today as a press conference did say something
that suggests the same and I'll.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
Just quote here really quick. He said, to our steadfast.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Partner, Israel, your mission is being executed with unmapped skill
and iron determination, fighting shoulder to shoulder such a capable
ally as a true force multiplier.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
And the breath of fresh air.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
We salute your courage and your contribution for and we
have only just begun to fight. So, I mean, he
said your mission is being executed.

Speaker 7 (24:05):
And you know, I guess it.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't know if he means that you know, this
whole thing was Israel's idea or but you know Israel
is doing their part for their part of this. It's
harder to tell. But I mean, you know, the way
he was talking is that you.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
Know it's a reel mission.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
That's a That's another great question and one that is
not you know, kind of falling on friendly years of
many of the American people who are are pretty tired
of being pulled into Middle Eastern conflicts by Israel.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, I'll tell you this, in Iran with nuclear weapons
isn't anything that I want to see, and I think
most people don't want to see. I don't want to
see tens of thousands of innocent people murdered in the
street for saying we've had enough of this evil regime.
But all of that said, I hope we have a plan.

(25:01):
I hope we have a real good plan and that
this overwhelming force we keep hearing about is successful and
we get the hell out of there as quickly as possible.
Recon thank you so much for your time and your expertise.
Always appreciate it, and stay well in the swamp, my friend,
thank you, Reckon these excellent reporter white House a correspondent.

(25:24):
He covers everything on that front for the Federalist. We'll
take a quick break. Coming up straight ahead a conversation
with an old friend, Representative State Representative Bob Donovan. We're
going to talk about the crazy times here in the
city of Milwaukee, the abolish defund ice capital of Wisconsin.

(25:45):
Right now, straight ahead in this edition of the Dan
O'donnalds Show with your old Radiomego Matt Kittle, stay with
us doing that voodoo that we do so well. It's
the Dan o'donald Show on this Wednesday. Kittle, here you
are there, Glad you're along with us. We've got much
to accomplish yet. Now let's turn our attention to the

(26:10):
wackiness that is the Milwaukee Common Council. No whacky is
a fun kind of connotation to it. This is nutty,
nutty stuff. But you're used to that. In Milwaukee, the
Common Council continues its war on federal immigration law enforcers.

(26:31):
Leftist in charge of Wisconsin's largest city are prioritizing dangerous
virtue signaling over public safety. Council on Tuesday unanimously not
a voice of objection anywhere in this thing. The Council
on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution calling for the abolition

(26:53):
of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. They want
to abolish, and they're requesting the agency quote avoid conducting
immigration enforcement actions in the city. And that means even
if we have violent illegal immigrants who have committed horrible crimes,

(27:17):
get out. Ice is the line of thinking here from
these liberals. Bob Donovan knows this council very well. He's
served on it for a long time. Greenfield Republican joins
us now in the Dan O'Donnell Show. Good afternoon, sir,
it's been a while. Good to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Well, thanks so much, Matt. Yes, it's been a while,
and I couldn't agree more. The Milwaukee Common Council has
gone off the deep end.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Let me tell you, well, I guess that's the question
I have for you as a state lawmaker. Now, can
the state intervene and save Milwaukee from itself, quite frankly,
or they the citizens of Milwaukee from a virtue signaling
common Council Because you know, we heard yesterday from a

(28:10):
number of council members that the reason they're doing this, Bob,
is they want to make sure that everybody in Milwaukee
is safe, even as they go about freeing violent criminals
through this open door criminal justice policy, criminal illegal immigrants
who have gone on to hurt and to kill milwaukee

(28:33):
ites and others. So they're not really making sure that
everyone is safe, are they? In Milwaukee?

Speaker 6 (28:42):
Not in the least. And let me tell you what's
most frustrating to me is the fact that in my
travels through Milwaukee, sadly, I see the prostitution, the street
drug dealing, the boarded up businesses and homes. I see

(29:04):
the litter and the illegal dumping. I see the potholes,
and how they're spending a fortune on these ridiculous bumpouts
to re engineer the streets of Milwaukee. Let me tell
you this, there is nothing wrong with the engineering of
the streets of Milwaukee as long as you drive appropriately.

(29:27):
But they don't have the police to do the necessary
traffic enforcement. They have cut back and they can't because
they are so crazy to the left. They don't have
the backs of our police officers, and the cops know it.
They can't get the recruit classes in place, they can't

(29:50):
get the individuals to become cops. I think largely because
they have displayed a really an animosity towards police, a
tendency to blame police as the problem. And of course
this translates to our federal partners. So I think it's outrageous.

(30:12):
I wish the Common Council would wake up and get
back to basics and start doing their job. But sadly, Matt,
they have and I've seen it over a period of years.
I've seen the transition from a lot of decent, common
sense aldermen cared about their neighborhoods, wanted to do the

(30:37):
right thing, took care of business, took care of the basics.
That's all gone to the wayside. Now you've got a
lot of ideological far left radicals, lunatics in my estimation
in certain instances, and that's what's supposedly leading the city

(30:58):
of Milwaukee. And have has anyone heard any comment from
the mayor on any of this stuff. Oh my lord,
you know he's made turned timidity into a fine art.
It's just a sad state of affairs for in my estimation,
a once great city.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
It is a sad state of affairs. And it's the
same state of affairs, Bob, because you remember, I remember
talking to you in twenty twenty when all hell broke
loose during COVID and we had the Black Lives Matter
protest and we had just absolute a breakdown of law
and order in this city, in Madison, and obviously across

(31:43):
the country. Look at what happened to Kenosha. But it
was going on then, and it was horrible then, and
it's going on now. It's just this absolute disdain for
anything law and order. I just don't know, because you

(32:04):
know this council, you know, it's the mechanisms. How on
earth do we keep getting these people in these positions
of authority that are just putting together such nihilistic policies.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
Yeah, I don't know. I will say this, and I
was discussing this with a close friend recently. The choices
that our electorate has for many of these local positions
is either bad or pathetic, and that's the choice that

(32:43):
you have to make in voting for an alderman or
older women, and that needs to change. We need to
get back to just folks that are close to the community,
are a part of it, care of Milwaukee and want
to do the right thing and not engage in all

(33:06):
of this nonsense, really and support the brave men and
women of law enforcement at all levels, including our federal partners.
As I say so, it sends the absolute worst message.
And you know, at a time I might add matt

(33:27):
where a crime and the homicide rate has come down
significantly across America. In Milwaukee it's up, and that's a
sad state of affairs. And I think certainly some of
it has to do with the fact that we're not

(33:50):
as active as we need to be on getting some
of these individuals off our streets.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
No doubt about it. Yesterday I read just a handful.
We didn't have time to go through the whole list
of illegal immigrants, criminal violent illegal immigrants who have been
picked up, thankfully by Ice, only five of them though
in Milwaukee, Bob, and you look at other communities where

(34:19):
we have communities and their law enforcement agencies working in
concert to get these very dangerous people off the streets.
Is it any wonder that Milwaukee's violent crime rate continues
to go up when we have a falling off of
the numbers going on nationally. I just have a couple

(34:39):
of minutes left. We're talking with State Representative Bob Donovan,
Republican from Greenfield. Two questions. How much is this just
simply blind Trump derangement syndrome? This is what Alderman Brower
said yesterday. Adopting this resolution that calls for the abolition

(34:59):
of ICE could potentially put us on a list in
Donald Trump's White House of cities that are sanctuary cities.
I am in support of us being declared a sanctuary city.
I want to end up on that list. Brauer said, well,
there's no hiding the sanctuary city status of Milwaukee anymore.
How much of this has to do with TDS? And again,

(35:21):
what can the state do on this front?

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Well, I would say a significant amount of it has
to do with TDS. I have never seen anything quite
like it, The just blind hatred that some people have
towards the President of the United States. It's just mind
boggling to me. Having said that, what can the state do? Well,

(35:48):
you know we put some parameters in place in at
twelve regarding the hiring of police, certainly posting them in schools,
community or school resource officers, hiring numbers that the city

(36:09):
has to meet. I might add I don't believe the
city is meeting those goals. So I can assure you
next go round, if I'm re elected, I will do
my damn just to ensure that the city does comply
or face the significant penalty they need to get. And

(36:30):
they need to get their elected officials, this common Council
working in conjunction with the mayor to get that done.
They need to do their job and not be engaging
in all sorts of other things that are really issues

(36:50):
that are more related to the federal level. If they
want to be members of Congress, then by god, run
for Congress. But if you're an Alderman, start taking care.
We are the basics in your neighborhood. That's what needs
to occur. But believe me, Matt, I have racked my
brain over times as to what we can do at

(37:12):
the state level to ensure a better level of compliance
on things like this in Milwaukee. Stay tuned, I guess
is all I can tell you.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Absolutely I know, I know it frustrates you as much
as anybody, if not more, because you've spent a long
time thinking about this, in dealing with this. But I
certainly appreciate the comments and the concerns because it's not
just Milwaukee's problem. As we know, what they don't do

(37:46):
in providing public safety comes out to the rest of Wisconsin,
and that's something we have to consider. Bob, thank you
so much for joining us this afternoon. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
Thanks so much, Matt, thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Bybye you bet be well God bless Representative Bob Donovan,
common sense? How about a little of that? You're not
getting any of it from this Marxist city council. Here's
the resolution, in part by the way, I find this rich.
Whereas Minneapolis Director of Community Planning and Economic Development reported

(38:23):
that Minneapolis is losing about twenty million dollars per week
in economic activity due to the federal immigration enforcement activities
occurring there. Is it the federal enforcement activities occurring there?
Or is it the radical leftist trying to impede their
operations the enforcing of law? Is it the radical leftists

(38:45):
who are smashing up things in destroying property it's a
good question. I think they should be asking that as well.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
We'll take a break.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
More to come the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours truly,
Matt kittlestay with us, and away we go. Welcome back,
thrill Seekers, our number two of our little get together
on this fourth day of March twoenty twenty six, in
the Year of Our Lord. I am your radio talk

(39:19):
show host Phil and Daddy Matt kittlefilling in on the
Dan O'Donnell Show. How are you glad to have you
along with us? We have lots to do, lots to
do coming up this hour. We hope to have coming
up around the corner a conversation with Carrie Severino. Carrie
has done some very very interesting things, very interesting reporting.

(39:42):
She has been in legal fights for freedom for rights,
parental rights in particular, and most recently she has been
covering the Supreme Court and it's decision in this case
involving a California law that requires public schools to secretly

(40:07):
transition children without their parents' knowledge. Under long established precedent,
parents not the state, have primary authority with respect to
the upbringing and education of children, the majority said, in
an unsigned opinion the right protected by these precedents includes

(40:28):
the right not to be shut out of participation and
decisions regarding their children's mental health. We have seen this
movie over and over again, unfortunately, in our schools and
in social justice networks and you name it. JCN President

(40:51):
Carrie Saravino, as I noted before, will join us with
a little bit more coming up in just a couple
of minutes about that Landmark Mirabelli the Banta case. This
is something a lot of folks have been watching for
a long time. You know what else they've been watching.
They've been watching Minneapolis government officials and they're some Allion

(41:17):
friends steal billions of dollars from American taxpayers. Well, the
guy who is under the spotlight for this massive medicaid
fraud scandal is the governor of the state of Minnesota,
Tim Walls, and the House Oversight Committee today had a

(41:38):
lot of questions for Governor Tim Walls and the state's
attorney general, and they did not look real good in
all of this. We'll have a little audio on that
and some more coming up in a little bit later
on in the hour. And then, as I mentioned last hour,

(42:00):
that classic white supremacist Stephen Colbert is a celebrating victory
for his preferred white Christian nationalist candidate. Of course, you
know that the late night talk show host, comedian with
air quotes around his name got into a spot of
trouble continues to be in a spot of trouble because

(42:21):
basically he has turned that show into a horrorsh promotion
for Democrat Party and the Democrat Party talking points, and
he ran up against the old equal time issue and
we're still waiting for that to be sorted out. But
in essence, he had James Taro Rico, the white candidate

(42:50):
feigning that Christian principal ideas as a leftist. He put
him on the show. Didn't have time for Jasmine Crockett,
the well the lunatic campaign another one in running for
Texas Senate Jasmine Crockett, she lost last night, and she's

(43:14):
talking about a lot of people are talking about maybe
there were enough people watching that Stephen Colbert show and
his preferences that they decided to vote for the Reverend James. Well,
we'll talk more about that coming up in just a bit.
But next, a conversation with Carrie Severino on a huge

(43:38):
landmark Supreme Court ruling stay with us. Kittle here you
are there the Dan o'donald show, keeping it real, keeping
it right, keeping it funky. Matt Kittle in for Dan
O'Donnell this Wednesday afternoon. Thanks for jumping in to the
good ship, Lollipop. We appreciate that we're having a little

(44:01):
difficulty reaching Carrie Severino with the Justice Crisis Network. We
will see if we can catch up with her a
little bit later this hour or during the show at
some point. We certainly will at that point talk about
a huge victory for parental rights again the Supreme Court
this week blocking California's hideous law requiring public schools to

(44:27):
secretly transition children without their parents' knowledge. This has been
a fight that we have certainly experienced here in the
state of Wisconsin. Just ask the good folks, the freedom
fighters over at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.
That has been one of their big fights over the

(44:47):
last few years in this state, and I know elsewhere
as well. So let us move on to what I
noted before, and that is this humble opinion, this fact
Tim Walls is a fraud. I knew that long before,

(45:09):
and I certainly knew that when he was picked as
the vice presidential candidate, the running mate of Kamala Harris.
The Borders are herself and America said, wow, look at
that dream team. A dream team of phonies, both of them,

(45:30):
just absolute phonies, frauds. And it is interesting. At the
time you had this guy wearing his flannel shirts. Oh
he's everyman, Tim Walls, of course, as he's signing legislation
that put tampons in boys' bathrooms. Oh, look at him,
fire that gun. Oh look at mister Brownie over there.

(45:51):
Oh you having a hard time loading it. He's a
deer hunter, you know. Oh yeah, guy's been a fraud
for a long time. It is very interesting that the
governor of Minnesota has presided over one of the biggest
fraud scandals in American history, medicaid fraud in so many
different areas well. He had his day before Congress this afternoon,

(46:19):
and it didn't go very well for Timmy Timmy. Representative
Jim Jordan, Republican Ohio accused Minnesota Governor Tim Walls of
trying to quote hide behind a court order to explain
why the state resumed payments to Feeding Our Children, a

(46:44):
nonprofit at the center of a massive pandemic era child
nutrition fraud program. Let's pause right there for a moment
and recognize the fact that the pandemic was a cover
for so many things. Leftist used it for so many things,
not the least of which was pumping out hundreds of

(47:06):
billions of dollars of your money, of my money, wasting
it to buy votes from constituencies. At the end of
the day, that's what was going on in Minnesota with
entities like feeding our children and the leering center where
the kids were leering all day long, except they weren't there.

(47:32):
Why didn't you tell the truth about why you restarted
the payments, Jordan asked Tim during a House Oversight Committee
hearing on Minnesota fraud this morning. The exchange centered on
Walls's past public statements that a judge ordered the Minnesota
Department of Education to continue reimbursements in April twenty twenty one,

(47:56):
after the agency had halted payments over fraud concerns. It's
a big deal because this guy and his administration and
the people who are in charge of health and human services,
they were told repeatedly, Hey, I think we've got a
problem here. Houston. Looks like lots of money are going.

(48:20):
It's going out to this place, and we don't have
the numbers that match up correspondingly to show that this
money is being used to I don't know, feed the children,
care for the children. But it seems interesting that the
guy running that program or this program, Yeah, he's driving

(48:42):
a new Mercedes ben and it looks sharp. Jordan pointed
to a twenty twenty two court authorized news release from
then Ramsey County District Court Judge John H. Goothman disputed
the governor's characterization of the events. On September twenty second,

(49:05):
twenty twenty two, Governor Tim Walls told the media that
the Minnesota Department of Education attempted to end payments to
the Feed Are Folks to the fof because of possible fraud,
but the Judge Gouthman ordered payments to continue in April
twenty twenty one. That is also false, the release stated

(49:30):
from the judge's office as the public court record in
Judge Gouthman's orders make plane. Judge Gouthman never issued an
order requiring the Minnesota Department of Education to resume food
reimbursement payments to this agency this nonprofit. The Tim Walls

(49:52):
has said that repeatedly, over and over again. Well, I'm
our hands were tied. Was there billions of dollars of
fe fraud? Maybe?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Sure, yeah, but listen, the court told us we had.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
To do it, so we had to do it. These
are the same people, by the way, that have fought
tooth and nail breaking the law to impede federal law
enforcement officials from doing their jobs and enforcing federal immigration law.
So now they're all concerned about a judge's order that

(50:28):
they didn't follow anyway. Amazing. James Comer wasn't having it.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee absolutely grilled this fraud. Today,
we have a little audio thanks to Forbes Breaking News,

(50:49):
and it's a longer clip, but I do want to
play it because I think it's fantastic. It really does
expose this guy for the fraudulent dufis is Tim Walls.
Here's James Comer asking some important questions that Tim Walls
has a difficult time answering.

Speaker 8 (51:07):
Well, recognize myself for five minutes, Governor Watson, Attorney General Elson.
My questions are going to be simple and direct. Governor
waltch you were inaugurated as governor on January seventeenth twenty nineteen,
and had served in that role through two terms ever since.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Correct, that's correct, Miss Truman.

Speaker 8 (51:22):
During the time period twenty nineteen and twenty twenty while
you were serving as governor, isn't it true that state
auditors and officials raise concerns about fraud and vulnerabilities and
programs overseen by your administration.

Speaker 9 (51:35):
I can't confirm that, but I'm assuming we have always
ongoing I'll take that.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
As a yes.

Speaker 8 (51:40):
Those warnings were communicated to senior officials and your administration,
including yourself.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Correct, I can't speak of it was that. I think the.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
Correct answer to that would also be yes. Despite those warnings,
you did not order a broad stop payment or suspension
of payment in any program.

Speaker 10 (51:57):
At that time.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Correct.

Speaker 9 (52:00):
We're not going to stop payments and feed children until
we have the proof that things happened. In twenty nineteen,
we did start taking action. I went to the legislature, Governor.

Speaker 8 (52:08):
Watz, when fraud concerns were raised early in your tenure
in the childcare assistance program? Did your administration stop payments
at that.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Time the childcare assistance program?

Speaker 2 (52:20):
And the answer is no.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
When fraud concerns were like.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Me to answer or not. Well, it's yes or not.
I want you to help.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
You've already answered the question.

Speaker 8 (52:28):
You said you didn't ever stop payments, and that's what
the problem is, and that's what the Democrats are complaining about.
Oh my gosh, Trump stopped payments. Well, my god, you
lost billions to fraud in Minnesota. That's that's it's hearing
just the Chairman that you didn't stop payments because you
didn't want to rock the boat. And when fraud, when

(52:49):
fraud concerns were raised in medicaid, home and community based services,
did your administration stop payments?

Speaker 2 (52:56):
No, you did not.

Speaker 8 (52:57):
When fraud concerns were raised in non emergency medical transportation,
did your administration stop payments?

Speaker 9 (53:04):
Chairman, if I could mention what a stop payment meant,
by what the administration did last week is four hundred
thousand children without healthcare.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
And they stop in payment at one person.

Speaker 8 (53:12):
We believe that your fault and the Attorney General's fault,
because you do nothing about fraud, even though everyone in America.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
See Medicare is lower than your fraud.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
You have been defrauded, You have not been good stewards
of the taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
And the Democrat.

Speaker 8 (53:29):
Position is, well, keep the money flowing. The American taxpayers
have had enough.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
I don't I think Yes, Yes. Truer words were never
said other than when Trump looked out uh in a
State of the Union address to the left side of
the aisle and said, these people are crazy. They are
at He says, listen, Yes, we've been caught with our

(53:56):
hand in the cookie jar over and over again. We
have either been grossly incompetent, I mean criminally incompetent, or
we're in on it. That's the last portion of the
puzzle that we need to find out here, and that's
why these hearings are being held. Yes, we've got billions
of dollars of money stolen from the American taxpayer. So

(54:21):
you need to give us more. You need to give
us more money. The kids don't have it, you know what.
The kids didn't get it to begin with. The kids
didn't get it at the leering center, they didn't get
it at the educational after school support programs. They didn't

(54:42):
get it in these healthcare grants and all of these
sorts of things, these medicaid grants, where all of these
thieves we're stealing from the American taxpayer. They took that
from the kids that this was supposed to be intended for,
and made a lot of people, and certainly a number

(55:06):
of people fresh and new to America, a lot of money.
And Tim Walls wants us all to feel bad that
we've cut them off. You know, this happens a lot

(55:31):
of times in life. It's difficult. Well, the example I'll
give is certainly more difficult than saying to Tim Walls,
go pound sand, get the hell out of here. If
you weren't such a buffoon and you didn't preside over
again one of the biggest welfare scandals in this country's history,

(55:55):
we might have a different story here. But yeah, there
are parents I know plenty of them that have had
some challenging times, and we all have as parents with
the kids, kids making bad decisions, kids worrying them. I
got some I got a significant amount of gray hair

(56:19):
on this old head from worrying about kids. And that's
not even you know, not even kids making bad decisions.
It's kids, your children out there in this insane world,
thanks in no small part to guys like fraud Tim Walls,

(56:41):
and you worry about them, and then when they make
bad decisions and bad decision after bad decision. Eventually, you know,
they come back and they want more money, or they
want another chance and another chance, and you got to say, hey,
you're going to have to do this on your own
now and continue to make those decisions. You're going to

(57:03):
have to face the consequences of those decisions. We all do.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
That's what being an adult is all about. The problem
is there are no adults in the room in liberal land.
They're all children. They're all petulant and spoiled children, and
they become increasingly spoiled with every new giveaway. That's what

(57:31):
the dependency state is. There are always people who do,
indeed need the assistance.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
The help. It is supposed to be for those able body,
those who can work, those who can contribute. It's supposed
to be a temporary thing. It's supposed to be a
transition to help someone get from a difficult spot into
an easier path. But when you have a state government

(58:08):
that was warned over and over again by its auditors
and its investigators, and those auditors and investigators at times
were told to shut the hell up. Some of them
claim that they were threatened, and all of this, of course,
it's coming out was simply a matter of goosing a constituency.

(58:34):
These folks needed to get them elected over and over again. Well,
something has to give. And it's like when a kid,
a grown child, keeps getting in it, or you're going
to have to cut that kid off. It's the same
way with criminals, right, you don't get ninety chances to

(59:02):
commit the same violent crime, at least you shouldn't. Of course,
in Milwaukee, nineteen is just the starting offer. There has
to be an end to it. And the taxpayers of
America have been absolutely fleeced for a long time. And
it's not just Minnesota, it's here in the state of Wisconsin.

(59:25):
We know how bad, how bad it is if we
had a governor who was ever accountable, who is ever transparent,
a guy who talks about open government ad nauseum but
has no concept of what that means, and he doesn't
give a damn what that means, because he's going to
go about doing his secret stuff along with the real

(59:49):
governor of the state, Maggie gow And they're not going
to open the books to the auditors. Why would they.
If they do, we're gonna find out that we have
another Tim Walls, which we already suspected, didn't we here

(01:00:09):
in the state of Wisconsin. Now something has to give,
and Congressman Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee,
is absolutely right. You cannot give us this sad story,
this song and dance about how can you cut off

(01:00:31):
this funding for Minnesota. I'll tell you how we can
do it. You failed the American taxpayer over and over
and over again. You don't get another chance at that
now you figure it out. Be a big boy tampon. Tim.

(01:00:51):
You're the one, along with your leftist pals for purely
political reasons. You're the ones who did that to your selves,
and the American taxpayer is not going to bail your
butt out again. All right, let's take a quick break,
and we've got some other things to do. Yes, we

(01:01:14):
do what else? Hey, let's see, let's check in with
Stephen Colbert how he's doing today after the big Texas
victory last night. More on that straight ahead as we
continue this Wednesday edition with the Dan O'Donnell Show, with
yours truly, Matt Kittle, stay with us here we go.
Let's wade back in, Hi. How are you Kittle?

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Here? You are there?

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
It's Wednesday, and it's gonna get warmer. How about that.
That's all right, Yeah, that's all right. Indeed, of course,
anytime between now and let's say June fifteenth, we could
be hit by fifteen inches of snow and then a
blizzard and cold and then seventy five degrees the next day.

(01:02:01):
You know how this game is played Wisconsin springtime. Speaking
of Wisconsin Big Badger game coming up tonight, our excellent
producer Doug Russell probably has a few things to say
about that. I was a little concerned at the start

(01:02:22):
of the West coast trip last week, and then things
got better, didn't they.

Speaker 10 (01:02:29):
Things did get better.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
They got a lot better.

Speaker 11 (01:02:31):
They shot the ball much better than they did against Oregon.
Against Washington, they put up a thirty seven to three pointers.
Greg Guard this week on his radio show In the Game,
by the way, could be heard in Milwaukee on eleven
thirty WISN and in Madison on thirteen ten WIVA. So
we've got Badgers basketball for you to night against Maryland
at the Cole Center. But they just got hot at

(01:02:53):
the right time. Bradon Carrington hit nine three pointers by himself.
That's a program record for a single game. And he's
known more for his defense. But yeah, it was a
good effort vi Bradon Carrington against Washington, a record setting
performance by him as well as the rest.

Speaker 10 (01:03:10):
Of the team.

Speaker 11 (01:03:11):
They played really well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
And Doug, excuse my ignorance on this, and my ignorance
is vast, but didn't Carrington do that off the bench?

Speaker 11 (01:03:20):
He did do that off the bench, as a matter
of fact, that is correct, and it was John Blackwell
had a rough outing. He only scored seven points. Usually
he scores his average is a little bit over eighteen.
But you know, good teams find different ways to win
basketball games, and that's certainly what Wisconsin against Washington. Now,
the Huskies aren't a very good basketball team. Neither is

(01:03:41):
Maryland tonight. But then you've got one final game against
Purdue on Saturday. Then it's tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Yeah, that's a big, one final question for you because
you've been covering this team all season long. And I
love my Badgers. You know, bad season, good season, no
matter what. But here's the thing. They have done a
number on my heart this year because they beat some
just phenomenal, you know, the top ten teams in this country,

(01:04:08):
and then they lose to an Oregon. Ye, some of
the biggest and USC absolutely, so what Wisconsin is going
to show up to the Big Ten Tournament and then
to March Madness.

Speaker 10 (01:04:21):
I can answer it this way. Depends on how well
they shoot.

Speaker 11 (01:04:23):
This is a team that you know, they live by
the jump shot, they die by the jump shot. And
if they shoot the ball well, they can beat literally
as we've seen, as you pointed out, they can beat
anyone in the country.

Speaker 10 (01:04:34):
If they don't shoot the ball well, well, they lost
to Oregon.

Speaker 11 (01:04:37):
Orgon's a terrible basketball team this year, and you hat
Oregon just smoked them, especially in the second half. Wisconsin
at a three point lead and then got blown out
by the end of the game. Oregon really taking advantage
of Wisconsin's poor shooting, poor defense, poor rotations. But when
tournament time rolls around, not necessarily in the Big Ten Tournament,
but certainly in the NCAA's not breaking any news here.

Speaker 10 (01:04:59):
You have one game and you're done.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, I want to see a deep run
in both I listen, I know it sounds bad. I'd
love to see them take the Big Ten Tournament championship.
They're not going to be able to take the uh
you know, the conference champion. The regular season championship. All
of that said, I want them fully prepared for the

(01:05:26):
Big Dance. And if that means, I know, it's unstrible.
If that means checking out early of the Big Ten tournament,
so be it. If we're in the Elite eight final
for a championship game.

Speaker 10 (01:05:39):
You're not.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
That's a tall order.

Speaker 11 (01:05:40):
No, I mean you're not alone in that because these
conference tournaments now they've got the double by, which is
good news. So they don't have to play five days
in a row, four days in a row. If they
can knock that down to you know, two days in
a row, I think they can sustain that. But if
they get to Sunday, as they've done in the past,
over the last ten years or so, there have been
instances where they've gotten to the championship round of the
Big Ten Tournament and then not got now to the
first weekend of the ncuble a's NC Doublea's whether it's

(01:06:03):
right or wrong, that's how teams are judged in college basketball.
The further you've get, that's how coaches get their bonuses,
and nowadays in the NIL era, that's how players get
theirs too.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
You bet, that's the they call it the big dance
for a reason, and you can hear it all and
I think, really more people. It happens every time. Late February,
early March, everyone starts tuning in a little bit more.
Tune in tonight on News Talk eleven thirty, WISN and
of course on WIBA in Madison. We've got the game

(01:06:37):
for you coming up tonight. A couple more, including a
big one this weekend at Purdue. Oh wouldn't that be
lovely to finish out the season with a big victory there?
In News this hour, you know, the top story everywhere
is the war in Iran, and now here come the Kurds.
Here come the Kurds. Thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched

(01:07:01):
ground offensives into Iran. According to the latest news from
Fox News, thousands of Iraqi Kurdish fighters have launched that
ground offensive, according to US officials. The development comes as
the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran continues

(01:07:23):
to escalate across the region. As we noted earlier in
the show, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the US
military is not arming an insurgency inside Iran, though he
suggested other parts of the US government could potentially be involved.

(01:07:43):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had said earlier today that
the next phase of this effort would be ratcheted up.
There would be a lot more activity going on already
than we've already seen. That apparently, at least at this point,
doesn't involve a US ground game. But stay posted, Stay posted.

(01:08:08):
We will obviously keep you up to date on all
of that. We'll keep you up to date on the
big phonies out there as well. One of the biggest
phonies out there, of course, is late night talk show
host comedian Stephen Colbert. Yes, he has spent his time

(01:08:29):
on CBS, which is rapidly coming to an end now
that that's comedy. He will be done sometime in May
if that schedule still works out. Why because he's not
all that funny to a lot of people, and he's
losing a lot of money for his parent company, and

(01:08:52):
I'm sure they're not real thrilled that he decided to
get into a little trouble with the Equal Time area
where Steve decided he was going to have a Democrat
candidate for US Senate in Texas on and not the

(01:09:13):
other major candidate, and then got all all peepy about
it the word. So basically he gives time to James
tell Rico, who is now the victorious candidate in the

(01:09:35):
Texas Senate primary as of last night. He beat Jasmine Crockett,
who has made all kinds of race related claims, of course,
all kinds of charges. In this case, she has charged,
along with others, that Stephen Colbert preferred the the white

(01:09:55):
dude instead of Jasmine crocket who is black. And one
thing is for certain, there certainly are some questions about
whether Stephen Colbert tip the race in the favor of
his preferred candidate. Whether it was the tipping point will

(01:10:19):
be up for debate, but some media observers are arguing
James Tallerrico's late night interview controversy with liberal CBS host
Stephen Colbert helped him defeat fire brand Texas representative Jasmine
Crockett in Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary. This an opinion piece

(01:10:40):
in Fox News written by Brian Flood and Joseph Wolfson.
Tall Rico, a thirty six year old state representative who
is identifying as a Christian seminarian, had some very interesting
ideas about text about the Gospel in the good book.

(01:11:04):
In general, he will try to become the first Democrat
since nineteen eighty eight to win a Senate election in Texas.
His opponent will either be Senators Stuffy Rump, John Cornyn,
Republican Texas, or a state Attorney General Ken Paxton. They

(01:11:25):
are heading to a May runoff. They didn't get enough
votes to secure it outright. FCC insiders previously told Fox
News Digital they believed Colbert attempted to put his thumb
on the scale with the party establishment, thinking tall Rico
maybe more palatable in a general election than someone that

(01:11:45):
goes around screaming that all white people are guilty of
white supremacy and are the benefactors of a systemically racist system.
Didn't play well with a number of voters in the
lone Star state. Surprisingly enough, Colbert helped stir massive attention

(01:12:09):
for tell Rico by insisting he couldn't air his interview
of the Democratic state lawmaker last month because CBS was
pressured by FCC guidelines. CBS and the FCC countered the
notion that he was actively prevented from acting from airing
the interview, however, was not right, not correct. That stunt,

(01:12:38):
and it was a stunt gave Tallarico more publicity than
all the advertisements he possibly could purchase, Joe Konca told
Fox News Digital, and there is something to that. The
night after this big flap, when the big flap himself,

(01:13:01):
Stephen Colbert was flapping on about how he is a
victim of speech suppression by his company and all of
this sort of nonsense. He gloated, he talked about how
well you know, if they would have just had the
James tell Erico interview air on this show, which they
did not do because it presented an equal time issue,

(01:13:24):
they would have had to under the law, which hasn't
been followed. Once again, surprise, surprise, liberals not following the
laws in place, but effectively, they would have had to
have given equal time in some measure to Jasmine Crockett,
and nobody wanted that. So he had this guy on

(01:13:48):
and then he gloated that because he was restricted, he
was suppressed, as Colbert insisted he was. That he put
it on his YouTube channel and he got millions of
viewers more than he would have had otherwise. Aha, We'll

(01:14:10):
show that FCC will show these big muckety MUCKs at CBS.
By God Haha, we'll take on Trump. All the sort
of nonsense playing out. Well, he kind of set it
in motion, didn't he. If there are concerns and issues
that he gave an advantage to Tall Rico over his opponent,

(01:14:36):
kind of said as much, gloating, Hey, he got a
lot of eyes on this. Yeah, a lot of voters
tuned into this, presumably many of them in Texas well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
That could be a problem for.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
All Stevie Bear. Colbert lashed out at the policy, accusing
the FCC Commissioner and the FCC of trying to silence
him and his fellow liberal late night comedians like Jimmy
Kimmel and Seth Myers. Weeks later, Colbert generated headlines when

(01:15:18):
he told viewers that CBS blocked his interview with Talla
Rico from airing on television. He was supposed to be here,
but we were told in no uncertain terms by our
network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not
have him on the broadcast, Colbert told viewers on February sixteenth.

(01:15:39):
Again that was refuted by the same lawyers he's talking about,
just trying to make sure that the company is protected.
Tell Rico told Colbert Trump was afraid of Texas being
flipped by Democrats, playing up the notion that the government

(01:16:02):
had blocked the interview from television, and he called it
cancel culture. Isn't that something, cancel culture coming from a leftist.
I always love it when the leftists talk about and
point their finger. That's cancel culture coming from the kings

(01:16:23):
of cancel culture. Here. I think maybe James Tallerico will
ultimately cancel himself because Americans only have so much patience
for the ideas of guys like James tall Rico. Kind

(01:16:44):
of like this. Take a listen a little listen to
this comment that he had a while back on this bill.
The worst part for me was the number of Christians
who used scripture to justify her children. We're having some
issues with that audio. What he said in that clip

(01:17:05):
when he was a state representative in Texas and he
was standing up for another child mutilation bill in the
whole gender agenda from the left. He said at that point,
a clip that will be played over and over again

(01:17:26):
in this upcoming twenty twenty six Senate race and I
quote he said, God is non binary. No matter what
he meant by that, it just does not play well
with a lot of voters in Texas say well, us

(01:17:47):
more to come. Kittle, Here, you're there on the Dan
o'donald Show. Welcome back thrill Seekers, our number three of
our little get together on this March fourth, Wednesday edition
of the Dan Donald's Show. Here I am you, lucky people,
Matt Kittle filling in your radio talk show host Phil

(01:18:07):
in Daddy, a lesser known, less talented Kittle. As I've
said on multiple occasions, I am not the Kittle who
goes up against massive linebackers. If I did, that would
be a tremendous miscalculation on my part and whoever put
me in that position. Speaking of football, we have some

(01:18:30):
sad news this hour. Doug Russell, our excellent producer all
Things Sports, I'd like you to chime in on this
because when you talk about iconic legendary football coaches, this
guy is a legendary college football coach. Lou Hols, who
spent thirty three years leading teams including the Notre Dame

(01:18:50):
Fighting Irish, died today. He was eighty nine. He was
as big as football college football ever was made it
that much more so big personality obviously, huh.

Speaker 11 (01:19:03):
Yeah, huge personality and not a little bit, perhaps a
little bit more than just tangentially related to the success
of the Wisconsin Badgers under Barry Alvarez, because if you
will remember, and there are listeners of a certain age
that will, Barry Alvarez was the assistant head coach and
defensive coordinator for Lou Holtz in nineteen eighty nine when

(01:19:24):
Notre Dame won the national championship and then Donna Shalala
plucked Barry Alvarez and Pat Richter, well specifically Barry Alvarez
along with Pat Richter from Lou Holtz's staff, and we
saw the success that Wisconsin had, and if you were
in the state of Wisconsin in nineteen ninety three and
nineteen ninety four, this was before the Packers got really

(01:19:44):
good and raised that bar everything was centered around Wisconsin
Badgers football and a lot of that had to do
with Barry Alvarez, and a lot of his success, again
had to do with Lou Holtz.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
Sure was, and I remember it, I remember it very well,
that first big winning year of the Rose bl year
on was it New Year's Eve or New Year's Day? Now,
I forget nineteen New Year's Day, nineteen four yeah, nineteen
ninety four. It was a late broadcast. Matt Lapey was
on it. Obviously, Matt's been there for a long time.

(01:20:15):
A snot nosed radio production kid by the name of
Matt Kittle was producing football. I'm going to tell you
about pressure man, because you know, listen, obviously the pressure
on the field was a lot bigger for Garry Alvarez
in that great team. Its shirt certainly was for for

(01:20:37):
Matt Lapey and Mike Lucas in the Gang. But to
make sure that that thing was on the air and
that listeners did not miss a single I had. I
lost some sleep before I had to Good you should you?
That's how you know it was big, exactly. And I
remember down the hall there was an old rock and

(01:20:59):
roll disc jockey I think his name was Craig, and
he came down while I was making sure all the
elements were there and we're getting everything on the air
live right in the middle of the football game, and
he came down and he.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Said, hey, Kiddle, how's it going. Rock and roll DJs
are prone to do, and.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
Oh yeah, yeah. He said, hey, is the game going
all right? And I said, yeah, boy, it's a boy
it's something else really exciting. Is good because I'm going
to roll out another seven in a row with some
VH coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
That's what he of course.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
He was, let me let me tell you he was
a guy who was only marginally interested in the Rose
Bowl game while everyone in Wisconsin was absolutely tuned in.
So you're right though, ultimately that's where Barry Alvarez came from.
Schooled in the Lou Holtz uh you know, methods of

(01:22:05):
successful football and the rest is history, right.

Speaker 11 (01:22:07):
Yeah, without a doubt, and Lou Holtz, one of the
great college football coaches of all time, went into broadcasting
for a long time, then went to South Carolina, kind
of had a second resurgence of his career after his
time in broadcasting, then went back to broadcasting there. Some
guys are just more I guess, attuned to the college
game as opposed to the professional game. And right now

(01:22:28):
professional football and college football are blurring a lot of lines.
But he was for a short time the head coach
of the New York Jets. Didn't work out for him,
went back to college and became just an absolute icon.
And you know, the college football world certainly is morning.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
The passing of Lou Holtz today. Yeah. Absolutely. He was
one of the great names and again one of the
great characters. And there have been a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:22:51):
Guess they put on there, they put on there. I
don't care if they're always sixteen. They put on their
past one leg time. We respect our opponents, and you
know we're not gonna say, Heyboddy, for granted, I.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
Was gonna leave the impression up to you. Yeah it wasn't.

Speaker 10 (01:23:11):
I'm not gonna say that, that's one of my best questions.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
But he had a.

Speaker 11 (01:23:15):
Certain way of you know, he never disrespected his opponent.
Then you have to admire about him. But it did
not matter how bad that football team was. You know,
they were in the National Championship Game if you listen
to Holtz the year prior, and they were also a
contender that year.

Speaker 10 (01:23:30):
For not I say, you know, I'm any given Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
You know, I tell you what.

Speaker 11 (01:23:33):
We just can't afford to him not play our best football.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
He has had a little bit of Donald and.

Speaker 10 (01:23:43):
Daffy, and there's no doubt about all.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Right, I'm gonna give you the ultimate challenge now, Doug,
because you've covered you covered this guy for a long time.
Bow Ryan give me your best, Bow, Ryan.

Speaker 10 (01:23:54):
I can't because the FCS won't let me.

Speaker 11 (01:23:58):
Just the thing about I sat behind You know, we've
got college basketball tonight here on WISN and Milwaukee and
WIVA in Madison and Greg Garden Bo Ryan, I mean,
their relationship goes back more than three decades, but they
couldn't be any more different. Bo would if you ever
sat behind the Badger's bench, and at the Big Ten Tournament,

(01:24:19):
they would allow the media to sit behind the bench oftentimes.
And if you were fortunate enough to sit behind Bow,
you learned some new words. Number one, but number two,
I mean the number of times he would just pound
a scores table.

Speaker 10 (01:24:31):
I can't bleep it. He bleep it, he bleep it.

Speaker 11 (01:24:34):
And the other thing about Bo is that he never
turned off the sarcasm. Uh, no matter how badly they
got beaten, no matter how well they won, no matter
how poorly the team was doing, no matter how well
the team was doing it. Most of the time under Bow,
as we all know, they did really really well. But
that that sarcasm, that that little that the quick wit

(01:24:55):
was always there.

Speaker 10 (01:24:56):
I loved covering Bow, Ryan.

Speaker 11 (01:24:58):
I started covering Bow when I was at u W
Oscosh and he was still at u W Platteville. Then
he went to Milwaukee and then obviously over to Madison
and had a Hall of Fame career with the Badgers.
But yeah, Bo was you know what I mean. I
love some of these old characters. Some of the new guys.
With all due respect to the to the Luke Fickles
and the Greg Guards of the world, sometimes you just
miss some of those old characters like a Bow Ryan

(01:25:20):
and like as we've been talking about the late Lou
Holtz and pass away today.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Yeah, but real quick on on Bow Ryan. I knew
bow very well because I grew up in Platteville and
went to the Bow Ryan basketball camp. I believe it
was the first or second edition of that summer basketball
camp that's outstanding. Was going going into seventh grade. I'm
not you wouldn't know it by looking at me now

(01:25:48):
as a fifty something year old guy who's made some
clearly bad decisions in his life. But I was a
Bow Ryan basketball camp All all Star. My friend, that's fantastic.

Speaker 10 (01:26:02):
You still have the T shirt somewhere in your basement somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
You know, I wish I did. Frame that's my mother
and father passed away years ago, and things just kind
of got lost in the shuffle. But yeah, and then
when I was I was at the local radio station
flapping my lips and playing those hits on the oldies station.
Bo would come in. We would have him in once
a week, and he loved to sit back. We would

(01:26:27):
let him DJ for an hour, pick his favorite hits.
He loved the motown, yes he did, and so we
would jam the motown and just he would tell us
story after well, you know, you covered him. He just had.
He was a wealth of stories. But I will always
remember Bo Ryan fondly, not just because he was a
hell of a coach for you know you young man.

(01:26:49):
He was a hell of a coach for young kids.
And I just I really enjoyed him as knowing him
when I did. But yeah, some legendary, very colorful sports figures. Today,
we're talking of course about Lou Holes, passed away at
the age of eighty nine. Legendary football coach and commentator

(01:27:11):
Lou Holes. We'll take a quick break. Coming up in
just a moment, I'm going to have a conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
About how the war in a run.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
Has been covered by the usual suspects in the accomplice media,
and as you might suspect, it has been covered almost
exclusively as a cudgel against the president of the United States.
We'll talk to some experts on that very subject straight ahead.
It's the Dan O'Donnell Show with your old radio amigo,

(01:27:42):
Matt Kittle, stay with us. Hello, gorgeous, how you do
and you're looking good? Glad you're here with us Wednesday
at Wednesday afternoon. That's what it is, yes, Wednesday afternoon
edition of the Dan o'donald Show. Kittle, here you are there,
and I'm grateful for that. The media war continues, however

(01:28:07):
you feel about the.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
War in Iran.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
The usual suspects in corporate media are working overtime to
make Americans hate Donald Trump more than the dead terrorist Dietola.
These are remarkable times. Bill Agostino, senior research analyst at
the Wonderful Media Research Center and its NewsBusters Media Watchers site,

(01:28:34):
joins us now with an update on the early and
slanted coverage per usual of corporate media. How are you, sir?
Thank you for joining us on the Dan o'donald Show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
Doing great, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
Yeah, you guys, you know I brag about you all
the time because you do such fantastic work. But you've
been doing this for a long time. Tracking just how
biased the corporate media as the accomplice media, as I
and some other radio folks I respect like to call them.
How has the coverage been presented so far from the NBCs,

(01:29:12):
the ABC's, the CBS's as it relates to the first
few days of the Iran war.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
I mean, so a lot of what's happening here is
the idea of a war crime, the notion of a
war crime is basically being redefined as any military action
whatsoever that President Trump takes without the explicit authorization of Congress.
That's that's essentially what's going on. And so so you

(01:29:44):
hear on broadcast networks, they don't outright accuse him, right,
That's this is the game that they play. They'll say like, oh,
what many are calling a war crime? Right, or some
lawmakers are criticizing the move, and it's like, well, which lawmakers,
Oh you mean his opposition party really their sizing Trump?
You're kidding, you know, it's all basically part of the

(01:30:06):
talking point, dressed up in the authority of experts or
lawmakers or what have you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Yeah, it's the same kind of thing that we got
with the experts in twenty twenty twenty one into twenty
two when they locked us down and told us that
we'll kill everyone in ourselves if we don't wear paper
thin masks. You know, these are the sorts of experts
we're talking about now. Again, there is certainly something to

(01:30:39):
criticize different areas of the prosecution of this war so far.
And I understand there are certainly conservatives who are concerned
about where all of this is going. But isn't Bill,
isn't this the same the same song? The song remains
the same for this media. It wouldn't matter what you know,

(01:31:00):
action that the Trump administration was in. And you know
that because you have the New York Times referring to
the face of Global terrorism as an uncle like character.

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
Right right, And so you're okay, so you're you're talking
about you mentioned the conservative criticism. But the difference is
that the conservative criticism of the way this war has
been prosecuted or the fighting of this war period. The
difference is that that criticism is interesting, right, because it's
substantive and it's it's principle that it's based on something.

Speaker 11 (01:31:35):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
It's a critique as opposed to what you were just
pointing out, which is basically, if Trump does anything, the
media and the left writ large, including the Democratic Party,
will automatically reflexively oppose it no matter what it is.
And this, I mean, this was actually shocking for me.
This includes even the crazy neo com types like Bill

(01:32:00):
Crystal right who who up until about thirty seconds ago,
basically lived only to see more war in the Middle East,
And now even he is criticizing this despite less than
two months ago insisting that Trump take action in Iran, right,
because now that he's actually done something, Bill Crystal wants
to get invited back on MS now, So he has
to criticize it, right, even if he's privately happy about it,

(01:32:22):
which I assume he is, because I mean, got how
long has has he wanted war with Iran?

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
But it's just basically all of all of the critique
that is coming from the left is is suspect immediately
because it's it's like, well, you were going to oppose
it anyway, which is you know, that's that's kind of unfortunate.
It means that there's there's no real political discussion to
be had. It's all just instinctual and tribal.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Yes, and let us let us remember and hasten to
remember that Bill Crystal has as many principles as a
Minneapolis leering center. So let's keep all that in perspective.
We're talking with Bill Daugostino Sidia, a research analyst at
the Media Research Center, and it's NewsBusters Media Watchers website.

(01:33:13):
You can find all their great work of course online. Well,
you know, on that theme, you and I have talked
about this. You guys have done the reporting on it.
If anybody thought there was going to be any change,
if the corporate media was chastened by the results of
twenty twenty four, they were mistaken, as they have been

(01:33:35):
many times. They hate Trump so much they will they
just can't get beyond their Trump derangement syndrome. But what
are we talking about in terms of the numbers, Because
you guys have really done a great job of breaking
down the amount of negative coverage, and oftentimes you do
that in percentages.

Speaker 5 (01:33:56):
Yeah, we don't have an ull encompassing total on Iran yet. Unfortunately,
just because of the sheer volume of coverage, what we
have been looking at recently was was the h the
attack and often which at Austin, Texas, which authorities believe
might have been inspired by by this this war being

(01:34:20):
waged on Iran, and something kind of peculiar in there.
We looked at CNN and MSNBC for this one. Something
kind of peculiar in there is they've they've discussed the
shooting numerous times, CNN much more so than ms NOW
excuse me not MSNBC, ms NOW, But neither of the networks,

(01:34:41):
neither of those networks have have ever once pointed out
that the shooter was a Muslim, right they it's it's
like they're allergic to the term. They won't say Islam,
they won't say Muslim. The furthest anybody's gone is a
couple of mentions on CNN that he had a sweat
that the said property of a lot which was like
buried in the middle of these of these reports where

(01:35:01):
they're they're kind of just dumping information on the viewer,
presumably so that because they're hoping that that that one
will just kind of like fly past the you know,
the sensors in people's heads. But it's it's remarkable the
amount of cleanup that the media are constantly attempting to
do for Islam, and it kind of begs the question,

(01:35:23):
you know, is this all basically of a piece?

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
I mean the same the same media who do this
are also the media who support Hamas are also the
media who try to paint trend A or Ragua as
as these like miserable, sad victims of ice, right, I mean,
all of it basically gets to this deeply anti Western,
anti American, anti Christian sentiment.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Yeah, and it's you know, it's it's been happening for
a long time, and it's it's increasing. But given the
diffusion of the new whose content marketplace, do they still
have the power that they once had Because there are

(01:36:10):
so many different sources that people can turn to. They're
not the monol if that they were before, clearly, But
obviously they are reaching the audience that loves to hear
all of this stuff true or not about Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
Well, so they don't have the direct reach that they've
enjoyed in decades past. And certainly that is partially because
of the glut of choices now that the consumers have, right,
and so it's much less common that you find somebody
who say tunes into ABC World News Tonight every evening

(01:36:49):
something like that, or NBC Nightly News. But that being said,
the broadcast networks at least do command the three most
watched news shows in the country bind they average somewhere
between like sixteen and nineteen million viewers per night, and
beyond that, it's it's also a kind of indirect influence

(01:37:11):
that they have, which is there may not be as
many eyeballs on the ABC, CPS, NBC as there were, say,
like a decade two decades ago, but many of the
people in media kind of downstream of them are still
taking their cues from them. Right. It's kind of like
the New York Times, the New York Times, as readership

(01:37:32):
is declining, but their influence, written large, it really hasn't
waned because so much of the left wing media take
cues from the New York Times, And it's very much
the same thing with the broadcast networks because they are
so highly respected within the left wing media ecosystem, or
even just the establishment elitist corporate media ecosystem read large,

(01:37:54):
declining viewership doesn't really have the same effect on them
as it would on say, like some smaller independent outlets.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
But it is curious final question for you. We are
at a point in media distribution, in in news content distribution,
where the major news outlets, the corporate media is now

(01:38:22):
writing up oh bit pieces heralding almost praising the again
the global face of terrorism, Ayatola Alikamani. And it's it's
just stunning to see this kind of I don't know,

(01:38:47):
this kind of cover for a guy and a regime
responsible for how many thousands of Americans deaths, you know,
how many tends upon tens of thousands of its own
people and and the other people. It's it's astounding.

Speaker 5 (01:39:07):
It's it's certainly disgusting. But is it that surprising, right?
I mean, how did they how did they right their
obituary of I forget I forget his name now, but
he was basically the top general in Iran who was
taken out during the first Trump administration near the end
of the first Trump administration. They they did a very
similar thing with him. They they also did this routinely

(01:39:29):
with with Chavistas, with with with Cuba separatists, when I
like influential Cuber separatists, whenever they died. I mean, basically,
the the the entire anti Western military complex across across
the country, and certainly that's not sorry across the world,

(01:39:49):
and that's not that's obviously not a a unified thing.
But wherever, wherever these left wing outlets identify that they
have this weird soft spot for them, and and again,
I think it comes back to just in their heart
of heart being sort of anti America minded. Maybe not
explicitly so in all cases, but it certainly bleeds out

(01:40:13):
when you read obituaries like this right of command. But
this is I mean, this is something that The New
York Times have been doing for a while, and it's
nice to see them finally getting hammered for it, right
by so many people who otherwise generally seem to not
be aware that they're writing this garbage. But it's it's

(01:40:35):
not a problem that I see being cured at the
New York Times anytime soon, right, or the Washington Post
for that matter, or really any of the left wing media.
I mean, the issue is, if you want to see reform,
if you want to see some quote unquote lesson learned,
then a lot of these outlets, print, television, whatever are
going to have to have some pretty colossal staff turnover

(01:40:58):
something like eighty ninety percent of the people there are
going to have to know no longer be there if
if you want the tone and behavior of these outlets
to change, and that's that's something that can only really
be done by the business side, right at the very top.
And I mean, you know, we've we've seen how the
Washington Post has their their writing staff have reacted to

(01:41:19):
much smaller, much more reasonable changes than that that Jeff
Bezos has been making it the paper right, So it's
it's it's kind of an uphill battle for anybody that
wants to reform any of these networks or ers or
what have you.

Speaker 1 (01:41:33):
Colemani, the white bearded, pushy bearded uncle like figure, always
had a mischievous look in his eyes, but he was
always ready for a quick smile or a word of
encouragement to the young terrorists who looked up to him.
That's the sort of crap, that's the sort of writing.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
That it's crazy on the.

Speaker 1 (01:42:03):
It's just awful. I mean, it's just it's it's amazing.
But we we're definitely thankful that you guys continue to
cover this and and let the world know if if
they want the knowledge here it is, this is what
corporate media is doing, and you can find it, of course,
all at NewsBusters. What's that website again, my friend?

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
Yeah, come check us out at NewsBusters dot.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
Org, NewsBusters dot org and he Bill the Agostino, senior
research analyst at the Media Research Center, and it's NewsBusters
media Watchers site. Thanks so much for joining us, Bill,
I appreciate it as always, so much pretty talking. Coming

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up in just a moment, we will delve into Oh,
here we go, how about this kind of related to
the topic, this death to America moment brought to you
by the Democratic Party. Stay tuned a little bit more
to come on this edition of the Dan o'donald Show

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with your old radio me ego Matt Kittle. Getting her
done right here, right now, the Wednesday edition of the
Dan o'donald Show with your old buddy Matt Kittle. How
are you. I got a few things when I get
to including, oh, I love this story. You get these.

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I'm a history buff, I'm a history geek, particularly an
American history geek. I admit it, and I'm proud of it.
And you get a lot of these colorful fun stories
about founding fathers, and a number of them involved drinking
and drinking a lot, and one of our Supreme Court

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justices brought this up, I believe recently in hearing a case.
If I'm not mistaken. We'll delve into that coming up
in just a bit. First, though, we need to tell
you that this death to America moment is brought to

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you by the Democrat Party generally is the sponsor of
the death to America movement. And there are some folks
that are saying new new from Fox News. NASA County

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Executive Bruce Blakeman, NASA County, New York. And think about that,
a Republican from New York. I know it's strange, but
here you go. He's the Republican front runner for governor.
He blasted a pro Palestinian Columbia University student group surprise surprise,
after it posted death to America in Farsi following the

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reported killing of Iran's supreme leader. To the Columbia University
students and faculty who posted death to America, I have
one message for you. Get the bleep out. That's the
F dash dash dash word, the mother of all swear words, Ralphie,

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Get the f blank blank blank out, Blakeman said in
a video message obtained by Fox News Digital. The controversy
quickly spilled into the race against Democrat Governor Kathy Hokel,
who has continenced all kinds of death to America nonsense

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in her deep blue state. To Governor Cathy Hokeel, I've
been arguing Blakeman, arguing progressive leaders in New York have
failed to confront what he calls rising anti American extremism
at elite universities. And we saw plenty of that at

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Columbia within the last couple of years. Some of that
crap is settled down, in no small part thanks to
President Trump and some executive orders saying keep playing that game, folks,
and there goes your federal funding. Columbia University Apartheid divest,

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which is not recognized by the university administration, describes itself
as a coalition of student organizations that view a Palestinian
state as quote the vanguard for our collective liberation, and
says it is a continuation of the Vietnam era anti

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war movement. There you go, There you go, folks. Are
taught by the children of the professors who grew up
out of the inside the Vietnam War era. They loved

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their protests and their demonstrations. They loved their anti American.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Esprit de corps.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28):
They loved all of that, and they wanted to pass
that along to the next generations. Really, what they wanted
to pass along is the teaching of the Frankfurt School,
a school of Marxists in the early to mid twentieth

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century that brought our universities, our taxpayer funded universities, the
joys of critical theory. Does that sound familiar, Well, sure,
you've heard of critical race theory. That's a child of
critical theory, which looks at everything through the prism of

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the oppressor and the oppressed. And these folks believe that
they are constantly oppressed and that nobody else outside of
their group, their gang, should have any rights whatsoever because
they are the oppressor. It's a lot of crap, but

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that's what's going on in our university. It's going on
for a long time. The group tweeted marg bar America
or death to America, I guess in Farsi on Saturday
after Kamani was killed. Exis since taken down the post.

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The development infuriated Blakeman, understandably, who is now the top
name in the GOP field. Following the withdrawal of Representative
Elistophonic Republican New York in the gubernatorial race there. Blakeman
called the situation disgusting in a statement and urged immediate
action against the student group. Let's be clear, this isn't activism,

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it's extremism and incites terror. American universities exist because of
the freedoms, protections, and opportunities this country provides. To have
college students and professors constantly screaming death to America is

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not a carte blanche freedom guaranteed, especially when some of
the people screaming death to America are actually trying to
make that happen, to facilitate to turn that slogan, to
turn that chant into action, and we've seen a lot

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of that. Of course, we have time for this, I
hope we do. We were talking about the fraud Tim Walls,
governor of the fraudulent state of Minnesota. He was in
the hot seat before Congress, before the House Committee on
Oversight played some clips before James Coleman, the chairman of

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that committee, grilling Walls. Walls not looking very good throughout.
I got a little something extra for you. This guy
in Congress, I think is really made a name for himself.
His name is Brandon Gill. He's a representative from Texas.
He does this stuff remarkably well. That is to say,

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really take it to the frauds and the phonies who
come before them when it's related to government corruption in particular.
And this exchange from today's hearing before the Oversight Committee
is all about the whistle blowers in Minnesota who kept
trying to warn the governor and his administration. We got

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a problem here with fraud and the retribution that they
faced because of it. Let's get a little listen to this,
because I think this is a fun exchange.

Speaker 13 (01:51:23):
All right, Well, let's go there. Is it racist for
a government official do identify fraud?

Speaker 1 (01:51:30):
That's cool?

Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:51:32):
Is it islamophobic to identify fraud? To identify fraud?

Speaker 1 (01:51:37):
I know, I don't believe it would.

Speaker 13 (01:51:39):
How come multiple whistleblowers have said that your administration told
them not to say anything about widespread fraud across multiple
agencies because doing so would be considered racist or islamophobic.

Speaker 1 (01:51:50):
I can't speak to it because it's not anything I
would say.

Speaker 13 (01:51:53):
Well, that's what your administration has said and has hold whistleblowers,
and as you just testified the bucks stop with you.
That's what you stated in your in your statement whenever
you announced you weren't running again. Are you familiar with
fay Bernstein?

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
I yes, I'm familiar with the name.

Speaker 13 (01:52:10):
She's a Democrat, isn't she.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
I wouldn't know that.

Speaker 13 (01:52:13):
She stated publicly that she's a Democrat. She's only voted
Democrat in her life. She's also stated publicly that she
was retaliated against and called racist and that her work
responsibilities were diminished whenever she was highlighting fraud within your administration.

Speaker 1 (01:52:29):
Are you familiar with that? I couldn't speak. Why do
you think?

Speaker 13 (01:52:32):
Why do you think she would say.

Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
That I can't speak?

Speaker 13 (01:52:36):
You have no idea, I do. You would agree that
the tone in your administration comes from from you ultimately?

Speaker 5 (01:52:43):
Right?

Speaker 13 (01:52:44):
The tone is that the tone of how you might
deal with whistleblowers, right, and we protect them. It doesn't
sound like you're protecting them. We heard from Representative Kristin
Robbins quote, we have dozens of credible whistleblower reports saying
the exact same thing. That people were told not to
say anything because as they'd be called racist or islamophobic
or it would hurt the state. Do you think it's

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racist or islamophobic to highlight and try to stop fraud?

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
It is not, and I certainly.

Speaker 13 (01:53:10):
It's not that that was the message your administration was
sending to multiple whistleblowers.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
I can't speak to that. I can't speak to that.
I can't speak to that because that would get me
into a lot of trouble. I would have to acknowledge
what everybody here knows. And again, even the most mediocre
attorney knows the answer to the question before it is asked,
and Brandon Gill is very, very good at that. I

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really enjoyed that exchange with a sweating Tim Walls in
the hot seat today. Okay, oh yeah, this is fun.
Before we h we check out tonight. Justice Neil Gorsich
spent a portion of the Supreme Court oral argument this
week exploring what a habitual drunkard is as part of

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a case centered on whether a drug user is allowed
to own a gun. Of Coursich question the Department of
Justice lawyer on how gun restrictions for habitual drunkards. You
gotta love that term habitual drunkards in early American history
compared to today's law restricting drug users from owning guns.

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The DOJ was required to point to a string a
strong historical comparison to prove the modern law was constitutional,
and it chose to use the Founding era laws about
habitual drunkards. The American Temperance Society back in the day
said eight shots of whiskey a day only made you

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an occasional drunkard. Gourses the Conservative Justice pointed to the
Founding Father's drinking habits to convey his skepticism about the
DOJ's argument that a habitual drunker was similar to a
modern day drug user and that both were worthy of
being disarmed. John Adams took a tankard of Hardsider a

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tankard my God with his breakfast every day. James Madison
reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson
said he wasn't much of a user of alcohol. He
only had three or four glasses of wine and nites.
You gotta love the Founding Fathers for so many reasons.

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Eight glasses and you're an occasional drunkard. There you go.
Welcome to Wisconsin. The Founding Fathers they you are home. Hey,
make it a great Wednesday night talk to you soon,
Kittles saying goodbye, so long, God bless