2-3-25 - 6am - 'Racist' Marijuana Campaign, DNC Chair Voting Rules and The Cabal on the Crash

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Brownie kraging, don't push this talk back.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
He's really proud of himself, isn't he Really, he's very
proud of himself. Well, today is muddy February third, it's
now two days into Black History Month, and we already
have our big controversy. And well, I shouldn't say we
have our big controversy. We have our big controversy here
in little old Colorado. I discovered this on Westward CEU

(00:40):
regent calls out racist marijuana campaign by School of Public Health.
The subhead is school officials have apologized because that's.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
What you need. You always need an apology.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Right, I have apologized for graphics intended for pregnant mothers
that were criticized for their images of black people and
incomplete science. The incomplete science I'm not so worried about
as I am. Oh my gosh, story.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Goes like this.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
The marijuana public health and Education campaign created by CU
has been called out for racist imagery and suspect science
by one of the university's own regents, leading the CU
School of Public Health and a firm that helped craft
the campaign took both issue apologies.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
This There was a slide show, A slide show.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Posted online by something called the t on THHC. Now
they spelled t t e A. I don't know what
that means. When I when I just read, when I
just when I just found out the t on THHC,
I assume maybe they're talking about the truth on THHC.

(01:57):
I don't know, but this is the this is the
tea on THHC. This says state funded education program. That's
a misnown one because that means it's a taxpayer funded
education program created to warn children about the dangers that
concentrated marijuana. It's been criticized by Wanda James, various cannabis

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business owners, and other local activists. Oh well, since the
activists are upset about it, let's just move on to
the next story, because it must be true the illustrations. Now,
let me just read from a story here. The illustrations
show a black fetus, child, and teenager all dealing with

(02:44):
the impact of having a pregnant mother who consumed a marijuana. Now,
I didn't write the sentence, But does it mean it
shows a black fetus and then it shows a child
and a teenager, or do they mean it shows a
black fetus, a black child and a black teenager, because

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those are two entirely different things, even though I don't
think it makes a beans a bit of difference, all
beating with the impact of having a pregnant mother who
consume marijuana. The graphics mention risks to an unborn child
when the mother smokes, vapes eats marijuana, including issues such
as impaired mental development, lower scores and verbal reasoning and memory, increase,

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substance abuse, altered brain activity, higher psychosis and substance risk,
and challenges with impulse control, reading, and behavior. At one
photo the photos, so now we have a plural the
photos featuring black characters. So I guess they're all black.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Actually I knew that because I looked at it.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
At one point the photos, I just it just does
does anybody? Does anybody actually read what they write? At
one point, the photos featuring black characters were included in
a now deleted photo slide show on the t on
THC's social media pages. Wanda James, the CU regent, says,

(04:15):
that was shocking to me. I've been pushing for years
to include more inclusive images and thought processes in cannabis,
but this was all the most negative connotations and they
just attached a black face to it.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
You wanted more racial diversity, you wanted more inclusive images,
meaning you wanted more minority images, so they put black
images on the slide show, And now that they put
black images on the slide show, you're upset about it.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Now, I really try to think this through. What does
she want?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Does she want a black fetus and then an Asian
child and a white mother and then just to keep going,
which is what the Democrat Party does. But and actually
I have some sound on that for you in just
a minute.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
What does she want?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You see, there's no winning when it comes to dividing
Americans along all of these identity politics verticals. Now Westburg
goes on to write this, who's the editor or who's
the writer? Thomas Mitchell wrote this. Thomas then writes, according
to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, less

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than five percent of Colorado's population is black. Despite the
relatively small population, black people were still twice as likely
to be arrested for marijuana possession as white people in
Colorado between twenty ten and twenty eighteen. Now I found
that interesting because did you selectively pick that eight year period?

(06:05):
Because that eight year period ended seven years ago. All
of that is according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Call me senecal, call me rational, call me dubious, but
it seems to me that if you're going to cherry
pick data and you're going to go look, you gotta
find them. We have to find a time period where
it shows that black people were twice as likely to
be arrested for marijuana position as white people. Then find
me a subset of the data that fits that, and ACLU,

(06:42):
you go look for it and tell me what it is. Now,
Wanda James, who is the black regent from CU, just
happens to be one of the country's first black dispensary owners,
and of course is CU's first black female region in
nearly forty years.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm always curious about, you know, when somebody tells me
I'm the first, I always asmuse assume that means you're
the first ever. But when the sentence reads and c
U's first black female regent in nearly forty years, then
you're not really c u's first black region. You're you're

(07:26):
the first one. You're you're the second one. You're not
the first one. Well, why are you looking at.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Me like that?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Oh, it'd just be nice when we finally get back
to the moon, somebody can be the first person to
walk on the moon since.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Nineteen sixty nine. Yeah, right now, right Yeah. Before winning
her seat in twenty twenty two, she was a regular
presence at stateon local marijuana rulemaking discussions in Denver. And
I you know, I'm looking at the graphic is a

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green background, white lettering. The womb is kind of a
yellowish green, and then kind of a polka dot yellow green,
which shows the THC.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Call that an avocado.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
And it is the shape of that in fact that
the little black baby inside is almost like the pit
of a avocado. I never thought about that dragon, But
it looks like an avocado, doesn't it. Yeah, where the
pit's too big and there's not much avocado. The pits
just too large. Let's see chemical transfer substances passed into

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breast milk THC transfer THHC enters and stays in breast milk.
Cannabis risk and breastfeeding are unclear. Unknown impact effects on
the THC on the infants are unknown. Pumping and dumping
and effecting for the removal and there's a nice little
heart over here where seventy people have hearted. It isn't
that sweet I wanted? James says, I have sixteen years

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invested in this. For sixteen years, I've been fighting the
negative connotations of racism in the war on drugs and
more specifically cannabis. This time it kind of hit differently
because I am a region at this university. This hits
me from every angle from which I'm a human being,
as a business owner, as a black woman, and as
an alumnus of this university. The graphics were also called

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out by Jeff fard, A community activists and the namesake
of Brother Jeff's Cultural Center in the Five Points neighborhood,
as well as gentlemen Quinn's, a black owned marijuana business
in Colorado that sells pre roll blunts. You know, if
you're going to buy a blunt, buy a pre roll blunt.
I mean, why go to all the trouble of you know,
rolling your own blunts when used by a pre road.

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The School of Public Health could not be reached for comment,
but Dean Kathy Bradley issued a public apology for the
images on January twenty eighth. She said, we deeply regret
any distress this has caused and take this matter with
the utmost seriousness. We acknowledge and understand that it is

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our responsibility to ensure our efforts reflect cultural awareness and
sensitivity in every aspect of.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
The school's work.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Cultural School of Public Health will take a more active
role in overseeing and guiding campaign materials, including ongoing evaluation
of community feedback.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I love community feedback.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Our work will continue to be grounded in science, improven
in practice. These are foundational to public health, and we
remain unequivocal in upholding these values and principles, except when
we have, you know, like a black figure. Let's see
who did this. Initium Health, a Denver based firm that

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creates public health and community campaigns, was selected to help
craft the t on THHC materials. The antent of the
graphics containing black characters, he's the owner of the company, says,
was not to emphasize that information at the expense of
other races. See, this is what you have to now explain.

(11:11):
You have a you have a black regent, you have
black cannabis owners, you have black you know whatever. It's
a Black History month, so let's let's use a black graphic.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, can't do that. I wonder what the you know.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I guess it would have been okay to use a
white graphic during Black History Month, and that would have
been okay.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Do you see.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I can't keep up with the stuff. I can't keep
up with it because it's so stupid. I mean, it's
so crazy. Because the Democrats are having a difficult time.
The Democrats are struggling with you know David by the way,
David Hogg Dragon.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Remember David Hogg school shooting kids, school shooting kid.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, yeah, uh, you know, got into Harvard because he
was the school shooting kid. The anti gunner is now
the vice chair of the Democrat National Committee.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Victim not shooter. Just just to clarify, Oh oh.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I excuse me for speaking so
early on a Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
We just want to make sure that we're all clear.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yes, are you ready to go on the offense? Are
you ready to go on the offense.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
We have to win back our young people.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I am the only candidate in this race for any
of these positions that is under thirty. We had a
twenty point shift to the right of our young people.
We must show our young people. We give a damn
about them that we support them and we invest in them.
I have raised over eleven million dollars in the past
year to support the future of our party.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Because I don't just tweet.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I don't just talk the talk.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
I also walk the walk and I knock the knock
indoors across the country.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
But I'm counting on you in this.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Moment right now.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
I need your support.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Please vote for me. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
By the way, don't forget he knocked the knock, knocks
the knock. Yeah, he rings doorbells and knocks the knock. Now,
they have gender rules at the DNC.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Does he tick the talk?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Maybe you know?

Speaker 4 (13:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
You know, it's David Hall.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
He it's Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I'm I mean, I'm not even awake yet. Are you okay?
All right, good, all right? The DNC has certain gender rules.
Are you ready for this?

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Earles specify that when we have a gender non binary
candidate or officer, the non binary individual is counted as
neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must
be gender balanced. With the results of the previous four elections,
our elected officers are currently too male and to female.

(13:51):
In order to be gender balanced, we must we must
elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Now you'll hear the rest of the rules in just
a minute. But if you've elected, you know, like two
males and two females, or you got one male and
one female, you must now elect one male and one
female and one of any gender. Well doesn't any gender
include male and female? So couldn't you then vote and

(14:27):
then end up with the same spread.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (14:32):
So again, this is what we have to do for
this Vice Chair, Grace.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
We have to elect.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
One male, one female, and one person of any gender.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
One person, he doesn't say, of any other gender, one
person of any gender.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
So you've you've elected a male, you've.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Likeded a female. But your rules say you must be
you know, gender diverse, so you must elect anybody of
any gender. Well, okay, so what if they elect another
male female?

Speaker 6 (15:01):
To ensure our process accounts for male, female, and non
binary candidates.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
We can now we get to the heart of the matter.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Conferred with our RBC co chair, our LGBT Caucus co Chair,
and others to ensure that the process is inclusive and
meets the gender balance requirements in our rules.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
To do this.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Our process will be slightly different than the one outline
to you earlier this week, but I hope you will
see that in practice it is simple and transparent. The
order of balloting is designed to ensure equal access to
the ballot regardless of gender identity, as we must elect
a candidate of any gender, as well as one male
and one female vice chair. We will first ask members

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to elect a candidate of any gender on the first ballot.
Any candidate male, female, and non binary can be elected
on that ballot. After a candidate is elected on the
first ballot, we will have one officer of the three
we will now so then we will know which position

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is filled of the one male, one female, and one
vice chair of any gender. Our second ballot would also
be for a candidate of any gender. Then our third
ballot will be the third position that is remaining based
on the two results, either a male candidate if a
candidate that is not male has not been elected, or
a female candidate if a female has not been elected.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Did you get that dragon? One hundred dollars? If you
can just repeat that to me, got a chance two
hundred dollars?

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I fell asleep very quickly, into that. It's like, if
you cannot explain that in a sentence or two, it
ain't it ain't nobody ever going to understand.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
This?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Is this right here is the very epitome of identity politics.
And then they make a motion.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Okay, the next person is Carol Abney, who is a
Tennessee DNC member.

Speaker 9 (16:56):
Go ahead, Carol.

Speaker 10 (16:57):
We all know that red s taste nate extra hell.
So my question is for all of you. For the
past sixteen years, the transgender community has only gotten one
at large seat each time? Will you pledge to appoint
more than one transgender person to an at large seat?

Speaker 8 (17:14):
And will you.

Speaker 10 (17:14):
Commit to making sure those appointments reflect the gender and
ethnic diversity of the transgender community. What since the Carol
wanted to ask us off everybody? And then I want
to give mister Paul an opportunity.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
To get to be fair for everyone to speak more?

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Is there is would everybody here commit to that? Or
is anyone who would raise your hand if you would
commit to what she just asked?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay, okay, okay, So there are the rules we're going
to follow a Black History Month.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, if you do, congratulations, because I don't have a clue.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
I have a wonderful show.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
I mean, listen to WAB seven ninety am all time
back Eastern Area.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
God bless President Trump and may he be safe. And
he's doing a wonderful job. That again, Michael Brown, God
blessed us with President Trump.

Speaker 7 (18:18):
Brownie, just a back chick here. The last time a
human set put on the moon was in December of
nineteen seventy two. Have a great Monday.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, my brain just went to the first time, right,
That's what we were We were arguing about the first time,
first time. So the second first time will come up
here in the next few years or decades.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or decade or two or whatever. Yeah, we can't seem
to put another man back on the moon. The Chinese
are putting. You know, the Chinese are already going to
start mining stuff we can't put. So we were referring
to the first man on the moon. The the helicopter
and plane crash in the Potomac River last week. I

(19:01):
didn't talk about it at the time because I didn't
think it was appropriate, but I do think it's appropriate today.
And that is do you notice how whenever something like
this happens, then it's it suddenly becomes national news and
and that's literally all that anybody can talk about. Now

(19:24):
there's a there's there's a part of me that says, well,
there's not a part of me, all of me, all
of me says that, indeed it's tragic. Indeed, it's horrible. Uh,
And indeed it's a it's a sad situation. Your heart
goes out to the families sitting at the airport and
waiting at the airport. That's got to be an awful

(19:45):
position to be in. But nonetheless, it's the coverage that
the coverage is just bizarre. That's why I put it's
just bizarre when you think about it's it's natural because

(20:12):
you got great visuals. And I don't mean great in
the sense that they're good, but for broadcast media, television,
broadcast media, you have a lot of.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Visuals.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Because the Potomac is so shallow there you have parts
of the wreckage that can be seen above the waterline.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Not to mention video of the crash itself.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Then there's the video of the crash itself, you know,
from all the cameras.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Every multiple angles, I do believe, right, But and.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Then we had the follow on crash in Philadelphia of
the Metavac jet that was also called Unring that had
a huge fireball. So that gets a lot of coverage.
But think about the Metavac jet. I think six people.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
I think maybe six people on board and then one
person on the ground.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And one person on the ground. But think about a
bus crash. If a bus crash happens, that's gonna kill
a lot more people. Even a really bad car crash,
like a multi car crash, you know, in a blizzard
or an ice frozen highway or whatever, You're gonna have
a lot more people killed than that too. But then
you don't have the explosion, the mushroom cloud, you don't

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have all the ring doorbell videos, you don't have all
of that. But now that we've kind of gone through this,
even though the coverage still goes on, do we need
wall to wall news media coverage that goes on for
hours and hours, days and days. And during this period,
if you think back to the coverage of it, reporters
had nothing to say. All they were doing was trying

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to fill airtime with speculation about facts that were slowly,
very slowly leaking out. Well, what have you heard?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
What do you know?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
What can you tell us? Those are all the questions,
and then it becomes, oh, we haven't update. We just
found out X. Well, now what more do we know
based on what we just found out about X? And
then of course the next the next tranch is bring
in the experts, bring out the analysts. Well they at
that point they don't really know what happened either. And

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then the loop of the video that drives me nuts,
just loop the same video over and over and over
and over. And of course doesn't have to be a
plane crash. It could be you know, a school shooting
or you know, there's a mass murder or whatever. And
then you run and you fight. You know, we often
have it on the taxpayer relief shots where then they
run and they find, you know, a family member or

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you know, a victim or something, and you know, try
a shove a camera and a microphone in their face
and hopefully they'll break down on camera. Hopefully they'll have
a nervous breakdown, they'll bawl their eyes out, and you know,
and then the reporter just stands there and then the
editors the producers are trying to determine how long do
we let this go on before we break in, and

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we whisper in the reporter's ear. Hey turn to us
and say something. We've had enough. We have enough Tier footage.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
His sister, Rochelle acknowledged his actions but criticized the employee's response, stating, yes,
he was robbing them, but that clerk shouldn't have shot him.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
They should have called the police. Precisely, precisely.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
In fact, these events have nothing to do with nor
effect anyone but the immediate family, local law enforcement, various
emergency services, and of course the immediate community. The other
ninety nine point nine percent of the country has nothing
to do with it, nor has any direct effect unless
the incident, you know, creates you had another onerous law

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that we then all have to deal with. Now, I'm
not sure that any of that was going to happen here,
but it did have an after effect that I find
utterly fascinating. And that was what happened. Well, here we go,
CBS News, Margaret Brennan JD. Vans loves to says, loves

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to say. You know, Frankly, Margaret, I just don't care.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
We're here for you to wipe away the tears.

Speaker 12 (24:22):
After a few words of comfort, President Donald Trump infused
political heat into tragedy.

Speaker 11 (24:28):
I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put
policy first.

Speaker 12 (24:33):
A very different tone than the one struck forty years
ago by the last Republican president to confront a plane
crash on the Potomac.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
Yesterday, we saw a partnership. Yes, the agencies and departments
of government responsible in times of emergency were there. The
heroism of the fireman in the icy waters is well
known to all of us.

Speaker 12 (24:53):
Mister Trump used the majority of his remarks yesterday to
claim diversity efforts led to lower aviation.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
No, I need to pause on that. I hadn't caught that,
mister Trump. Yeah, you mean President Trump, Margaret.

Speaker 12 (25:08):
And hiring standards put in place by Democrats and former
Transportation Secretary Pete Food.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Judge, he's a disaster now. He's just got a good
line of.

Speaker 11 (25:19):
The Department of Transportation, his government agency charged with regulating
civil aviation. Well, he runs it. Forty five thousand people,
and he's run it right into the ground with his diversity.

Speaker 12 (25:31):
When asked, mister Trump offered no evidence that the air
controllers or pilots were unfit for the jobs they held.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now, did he accuse those pilots. You see, I'm not
quite sure that that's what he meant. I think he
was talking about the broader concept of DEI now infusing FAA,
the towers, pilots, whatever, the airlines, whatever it might be.

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Let's go over to CNN.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
This all coming after the tragic Blackhawk and American Airlines
collision that killed sixty seven people near Reague National Airport
on Wednesday night, A chilling collision above the Potomac of
ended after the Consolar in chief pivoted and began playing
the blame game and speculating while providing no evidence, the
diversity and hiring policies of prior administrations somehow caused this tragedy.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now remember that prior administrations, because in a minute, we're
going to go to the wayback machine and we're going
to go back and listen to what was said. Oh,
I don't know, ten eleven years ago, but just hang on.
Keep that in mind.

Speaker 11 (26:44):
The FAA's website states they include hearing, vision, missing extremities,
partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability,
and dwarfism all qualify for the position of a controller

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of aeroplanes. The FAA website shows that the agency's guidance
and diversity hiring were last updated on March twenty third
of twenty two.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
They wanted to make it even more so.

Speaker 11 (27:18):
And then I came in and I assume, maybe this
is the reason the FAA, which is overseen by Secretary
Pete Buddhach, egg a real winner.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
CNN this is Michael Smerconish, by the way, then decides
that Trump did this for reason that I find just
as incredulous as they find Trump saying that DEI might
be a part of this, as they find that.

Speaker 8 (27:52):
Incredulous despite any evidence supporting his conjecture, the President doubled down,
and with the support of the Vice President, the Secretary
of Defense, the Secretary of Transportation, he produced a shiny
object DEI, which dominated the Thursday news cycle and debate
over DEI now filled airspace that would otherwise have been
focused on the confirmation hearings occurring that day on Capitol

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Hill featuring the most controversial remaining nominees of President Trump.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh, there's Tulci gap.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So this was just a oh, look over here, look
at this shiny object. Don't look at my hearings. Really,
you think that's why. So Trump just saw an opportunity
to divert the news coverage from what was going on
in Capitol Hill. Because, as I recall on this program

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and on the Saturday program, I tried to get through
as many I couldn't quite get to Tulsi. I got
through Bobby Kennedy, and I got through Cash Betel. Today,
maybe I'll get into Tulsi. But it didn't stop me.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Aburt, tapped to be Trump's Director of National Intelligence, who
refused to say whether or not she thinks Edward Snowden
is a trader. FBI director nominee Cash Patel, who fielded
questions about a retribution an enemies list RFK Junior, Trump's
nominee to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services,
seem to struggle a bit when answering a basic question
about Medicare. Three nominees who could potentially be in charge

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of our security and health, they all took the back
seat to a torrent of unproven rhetoric and speculation. That night,
President Trump's unfounded speculation about DEI was now.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Remember unfounded speculation about DEI? Is it unfounded speculation about DEI?
With regard to this specific incident, or is it that
DEI really is still a part of and may have
been a part of for a decade or more.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
Arnin brownie and dragging, just doing my part to prevent
the cackle. Have a great Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
I'm wondering anybody else out there feel a little masochistic
like I am, where a little bit of cackles would
really get to really.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Get to go in this morning.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Because I'm just I'm just not in the mood for it.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I love the contrast. No, no cackle, bring it up.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
They're all passive aggressive, every single one of them. So
here's Michael Murconis over on CNN, really upset that Trump
is blaming DEI and that DEI is just a diversion
from dealing with the hearings.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Many Americans working jobs with limited bandwidth to verify their information.
They went to bed thinking sixty seven people died because
of a government initiative which they think discriminates against whites
and had caused some unfit minority to get hired for
a job, resulting in negligence and costing lives. I'm too
cynical to accept coincidence I think President Trump wanted to

(31:02):
own the news cycle, like he wants to own every
news cycle, and this time he sought the added political
benefit of raising questions over whether a minority was at
fault for the DC catastrophe.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Now, if all you do is listen to Michael Smerconish,
then it might be easy to make the leap of
illogic that he just wanted to own the news cycle.
Trump always owns the news cycle. He farts, and he
owns the news cycle. But in the context of everything

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else that was going on, what was the most recent
thing that he had done in terms of executive orders
or had been talking about, and that was and what
was the major news, all the major news, including the hearings,
was that DEI was being stripped out of all of
these different departments and agencies, d O, d DHS, DOE Commerce,

(32:07):
everywhere they're going through and they're ripping out everything they
can find about DEI. And that was every bit of
part of the news cycle. But what I found hilarious
about Smerconish is he then, after setting up that this
is just Trump trying to own the news cycle, he

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does something that I find, I don't know, just kind
of sleazy.

Speaker 8 (32:34):
It brings me to today's pole question. It's forkondish dot com.
Do you believe President Trump's blaming of DEI for the
Washington crash was a deliberate attempt to shift focus from
the congressional confirmation hearings.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Oh so, if if you agree with me, send a
poll in and tell me what it is that you
find out.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
All right, there's the voting so far. It's reconish dot com. Wow,
round number seventy thirty. Yes, nearly forty thousand have voted.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Agreeing with me forty thousand.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
In other words, one hundred percent of his audience, one
hundred percent of his audience agreed with him.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
Not fascinating that the whole injection into the conversation.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Let me just say this about my If my audience
one hundred percent agreed with me, I know that many
of them would be just lying so that they could
they could hear me say, oh, look, one hundred percent
my audience agreed with me, and then they oh, I misvoted,
I misvoted. If I ever thought all of you agreed
with everything I said, that I would think I'm not
doing my job. I'm and I don't I don't come

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out here and say things just to get you to
disagree with me. But I know that there are things
that I say that you don't agree with me about.
But I'm not done with this because it's time to
go into the wayback machine and see whether or not
this whole thing about DEEI has any basis in fact
or not