October 29, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms Day.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
The brom Studio. C says, or a dimly lit room
where deep with them the fowls of the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
One week from today his election.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Day, and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Not Halloween scares, electoral scars, boo tatism, boo well, and
day two of the Puerto Rico joke. So he pulled
forty eight hours out of the act. Harry. Anyway, We'll
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see see if that matters to anybody I get. I
tell you what. The reviews on the economy are abysmal,
the borders wide open, crime is rampant, there are drug
addicts in the streets. But I just will not have
rude jokes about Puerto Ricans. Well, I'm casting my vote
in favor of Kamala Harris. I don't know. If I'm
from I consider Kansas my home. If they called Kansas
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and garbage dump, I'd be unhappy about it. I would
think that I'd say, I'd think, f you wow. So
Michael canceled that that big bit I'd prepared, all right,
Oh damn it. So it was an hediotic joke, as
stupid as terrible terry. He made a couple of stupid jokes.
He's an insult comic. He's a roast comic. He said,
to have him there. He is a roast comic. And
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if you've ever seen his act, it is very, very edgy.
I saw more of it yesterday, and so that's his thing.
It's just an odd choice to put at a rally
one week out from a president until election when you're ahead.
I don't know why he did that. I'd say odd
is a terrible the charitable description of what kind of
choice that was. The Republican chair of Puerto Rico said, so,
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do you get to vote in Puerto Rico and doesn't count?
Nobody knows. That's the that's the Nate Bargatzi is George
Washington thing. Nobody knows how many leaders in a gallon.
Nobody knows. I'm making that shoke for decades. He stole
it from me anyway, cause somebody googled that, Katie. But
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so the Republican chair from Puerto Rico, he's the chair
of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico said he's not
voting unless he gets a specific apology from Trump himself
about that, saying, no, well, I don't feel that way,
and that wasn't okay, So I don't know if that
means anything or not. I don't know what for Puerto
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Rico votes and it counts. Must know toore Kens do
vote in several fairly important swing states. Well, right, but
in Puerto Rico doesn't matter. Do you know, Katie, somebody
is I think they vote for they've got a non
voting I can't. I don't remember anybody ever saying Puerto
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Rico has got two electoral votes in the must not
count Guam, they've got a non voting representative or something. Okay,
congratulations for that, all right? I don't they get our
tax money?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yes, Katie, So, residents of Puerto Rico are not permitted
to vote in presidential elections. However, they can participate in
the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh so they choose the candidate, but they don't get
to vote in the presidential election. Wow, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sure, I like nobody knows better.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, nobody knows that's fine. I had another point.
I don't remember what it was, Oh day two of this,
Oh if nothing else else, you didn't need this. I
mean it's stepping on a rake. Just you didn't need
this as the completely unforced air the lead on the
evening news for a couple of days. He didn't need it.
I mean, there's no there's no upside. So Kamala's doing
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her big rally on the Ellipse in Washington, d C.
Which is a very area where Trump had his rally
on January sixth, and I assume she's going to make
all sorts of comments about that. That's the whole point.
It's interesting that that's the closing argument. I mean, you
don't throw together an event like that quickly. So they
decided one week from election. What did I hear Jake
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tappercall is they actually thought it was a pretty good
new term. Poll's close on January. On November fifth, I
think he kept saying, okay, because we've been talking about
calling an election day, doesn't make any sense anymore. Yeah,
especially this year given the record early voting in quite
a number of states. Forty five million people have voted already.
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That was the last night. It might be a couple
million more than that already by today. That's astounding that
a lot of people. Yeah, because it'll probably be around
one hundred and fifty million people are going to vote.
So now we're at about a third a week out
have already voted. Huh, better get your October surprises in early. Anyway, Uh,
Kamala is going to make her big January sixth. He's
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a fascist that We're going to get more of these
argument today and so that will be a guaranteed the
lead news story for a twenty four hour cycle also,
so don't We'll see how it plays out. What's interesting
to me is that I've heard a number of experts,
quote unquote from all sorts of different political sides saying
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that the Trump is evil closing argument is far far weaker.
All Right. It polls a weaker and it focused groups
much weaker than an affirmative description of why Kamala would
be a good president. It's a weak argument. So the
most interesting thing I've come across in the last twenty
four hours is Jeff Bezos's op ed in his own
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newspaper today that we'll have to read from where he
basically comes out and says, look, nobody trusts us in
the media anymore, and we got to change the way
we do things or we're going to become completely irrelevant
if we haven't already. I so want to talk about that,
the frantic, squealing, self righteous statements of the various journalist
stows who are frantic at the Washington Post in the
(06:28):
La Times in particular over not endorsing Trump but just
not endorsing anyone, and that how that's just such a
betrayal of everything they believe in. It's just hilarious, And
I really want to hear Bezos' reply, Jeff Well, his
bigger argument he's making is, you know, not over just
this little flaps, just look, we're becoming irrelevant. The it
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was the Washington Post, wasn't it where they hired the
new people and they had the guy come in and say, look,
nobody reads your stuff, and everybody got all upset. He said, look,
you can be as mad as you want, but nobody
reads your stuff. And that's Bezos's argument about how much
everything is shifted to podcasting and everything like that because
they trust those people. Nobody trusts us, and we have
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to be better and get trust or or we're going
to be completely irrelevant. And he's right, and it's and
I mean it's deteriorated a lot already. He's a businessman
and a smart guy. He might just fully understand I can,
you know, be worried about what the woke newsroom thinks
of me. He might even agree with him, but he
as a business guy, he might think, but we're going
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to become a nothing. We're gonna be a restaurant nobody
eats at unless we change the way we do things. Absolutely.
And I'm trying to find my favorite quote from a
Washington poster. Ah, where is it? Because I want to
get the name right. It's one of the folks who
are indignantly posting online said of Jeff Bezos, if you
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don't have the balls to own a major newspaper, sell it.
They lost seventy million plus dollars last year, seventy some
million dollars in a year. And you got some scribbler saying.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
If you don't have the buzz to run a newspaper,
get rid of it. Yeah, oh my lord, you're a
child again, not even a bright child, You're a particularly
dim witted child.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Right again. That's where the growing up, step in and
say nobody reads your stuff, your child all right, So
it doesn't matter if you want to sit in a
corner and shout alone your points of view. Go ahead,
but doesn't really make much sense if you feel like
you're in the art of persuasion or journalism or want
to have an effect on people. Bezos's lead is and
then we'll start the show officially. His lead is not
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the money thing. It's the we're now believe we're now
respected less than Congress. Congress has always had been the
bottom of the barrel, like thirteen percent of Americans have
trust in it. He said, we're now below Congress, and
and the rest of that sentence should have been with
you in charge, with you people in charge spouting the
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opinions you're spouting right now. That's why, that's why we're
not trusted. Oh the blindness of these people because they
all agree with each other, this tiny little subsection of
America that just it. It's like a h did he
freak off? It's they're all oiled up in their own
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unctious lefty morality slash ideology, and they're all having like
intellectual orgy sex with each other, convincing each other that
there are one hundred percent right about everything, and the
rest of us are looking at them and saying you,
but we all are freaks. Well, yeah, Bezos, this is
a good piece. I can't wait to read it if
you haven't seen it already. He says, Reality is an
(09:51):
undefeated champion. I cannot wait. We've got to devote plenty
of time to go back and forth between the quotes
I've got and Bezos's responses, because that's really good, because
it's true and Reality is an undefeated champion, and people
aren't reading our stuff. Let's start to show. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday, October twenty ninth,
(10:13):
yere twenty twenty four, where I'm strong and getting. We
approve of this program. Let's begin the show. Then, officially,
according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark,
thank you. Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, Now I want it to you to show your
own name.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Because it's about all of us. It's about all of
us as a.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Pretty fired up crowd. There, she's got her own fired
up people. Rallies are not an indication of whether you're
gonna win or not. Is the thing if you've been
following the Bernie Sanders is of the world. But often
they are. And I have no idea how things are
going to turn out on Tuesday. How does No, they're not,
but often they are. Okay, take that to the page.
(11:01):
They've been wrong before. You can't. You know me, you can't.
But it's an imperfect measure, but usually it's a sign
of something. I think it's a sign of Trump hatred
is what that is for about half the country. How
does a mailbag look? Oh, it's a terrific little feature
at can't wait to get to it. Yeah, that's on
the way, and here's our text line four one five
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Speaker 1 (11:26):
So.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Apple's new AI stuff came out for their phone. I
haven't downloaded it yet, but it's not getting very good reviews,
which is disappointing if you went out and bought a
new phone like I did. But anyway, more on that later.
What it can and can't do for you? Yeah, it's
maybe it's the point I am in my life. I
heard about it and heard it's kind of they're still
(11:47):
working on it and it's not quiet. I thought, all right,
let me know when it's ready. It's fun. I want
to get into AI and it needs to be very
easy for me to do. That's the thing. Like, really,
here's your freedom loving quota of the day, completing our
series for now. On responding to Kamala Harris's advocating for equity,
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as she said, equitable treatment means we all end up
in the same place, said Bishop Robert Baron quote. A
blanket imposition of equity and outcomes across all societies would
result in a massive violation of justice and would be
made possible only by the most totalitarian sort of political arrangement.
I've watched a lot of Bishop Baron's YouTube videos over
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the years. Stop provoking chap huh mailbag as well. And
that's self evident to a lot of us, but completely
unperceivable to a lot of people. That incredible problem doesn't
even describe it. That mountainous horror that is the equity argument.
(12:51):
Can Will we talk about that again later? I have
much to say about that. Talk about it all damn
day long. If you want, drop us a note mail
bag at Armstrong and Getty dot garbage jump Oh stop,
oh god, now it's jack. Everybody's just kicking poor Puerto
Rico speaking of getting kicked Jess and Wiley, Texas, they're
crapping on her joy. Where the hell is smot Joy?
(13:16):
Where the hell is the smot? She says, I'm trying
to watch Aaron Judge Phil in the World Series, and
the political ads in Texas are crapping on my joy.
So Ted Cruz is planning on killing us all by
not allowing abortions, you know, because US ladies are always
all clogged up with those pesky babies. And his opponent,
Colin ALLRD loves trannies so much he probably wants to
chop off your wang too. Oh no, wow, that's too far, Jess. Person,
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that's sort of tough. Talk may pass in Wiley, Texas,
but I think they were typing with a keyboard, DiPT
and liquor. When Trump wins and uses his dictatorial like
Hitler powers to jail all the centers, I won't have
to hear about this stuff no more. D d W
P HMFP. Democracy doesn't work. Power hungry madman for president.
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That's beautiful. Aaron Judge did fail yesterday. Three three strikeouts
didn't do much. Yankees loss, Dodgers up three to nothing
in the World Series. Not exactly the fall classic we were
hoping for. H oh, John and San Diego agreeing with
us that the Babylon b bit where if you rearrange
Trump's letters in Trump's name you get Hitler was if.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You rearrange the letters in Trump while eliminating the U,
MP and adding H, I, L, and E, it spells Hitler.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So John in San Diego is doing a search for
something to do with Tim Watz the video game pictures
from the other day, and somehow he came across Walmart's
official website and the host third party sellers. But still
I thought this was interesting. It's a T shirt that
has Harris Waltz and then letter lines as your rearing
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change the letters, including using the A twice and eliminating
the Z at all, and it spells out Sharia law
Harris Walls. If you use that letter a couple of
times and drop that one, rearrange spells all right? Can
we just stop? Because even if it did work, even
if Trump's name was Schroll or whatever, and you could
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rearrange it to get Hitler, that means something to you,
then you're a moron? Can we not do this? Moving along?
JT has a comment on the dating statistics about the
large number of Democrats who won't do anything with Republicans
datum and be friends with them, shop at their stores,
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and all the Republicans are like, no, I don't care,
it's fine, he says. Uh. Isn't that explained by the
old saw about how Republicans think Democrats are naives, stupid, misled,
whereas Democrats think Republicans are evil. Yeah, that's that's mostly true. Yeah,
let's see. And then this from a leen anonymous right
leaning people are open to other points of view. Yes,
(16:04):
because we're subjected to them every moment of every day,
but also because we hold our beliefs after a fair
measure of critical thinking. We aren't opposed to taking invaried
information using logic and common sense to noodle through how
to include that new information into our logical, fact based
worldview and opinion. I would say that is more true
among conservatives. Leftist views are entirely based on fuzzy feelings
and pie in the sky ideals, with no room for
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facts or thoughts that don't fit well. I certainly wouldn't
want to claim that there are no morons on the right.
That would be very, very wrong. But I make the
point yesterday that if you are a person who is
of the right, you're faced with the opposite point of
view air, day of year, life, TV, music schools, everywhere
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you go see you have no choice but to like
confront it or noodle it through. Whereas on the left
you can be pretty comfortable in your point of view
your whole life and never run into the opposite. I
think that's absolutely true. I also think that in general,
and I'm confident in this, conservatism is much more logical,
outcome based, and progressivism is much more emotional. There's a
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chance the mainstream news business is going to get better.
It'll take a while, but there's chance it's headed in
the right direction. More on that coming up. If you
miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
President Trum's rally last night, bottles of urine were reportedly
found in the area where supporters were waiting in line.
That's how you know most of those people weren't New Yorkers.
We don't use bottles, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Or San Franciscans? Yeah, no kidding. Mark Alprin writes in
his newsletter today, The brief breakup between Harris and the
dominant media is over. Remember the week or two of
Trump's pulling ahead or Kamala seems to be struggling or whatever.
The crude remarks that the Madison Square Garden event serve
as a POxy, bringing the two sides back in concerts
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their campaign. In the dominant media, how about like that? Um,
the press is all in on, suggesting, as Politico does,
that the remarks about Puerto Rico are spreading like wildfire
in quotes. The Washington Post pushes the same line. But
they are pikers compared to the New York Times, says
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Mark Cowpert, in a class by itself, with not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five stories today
about the Puerto Rican jokes, with one headlighted and saying
Porto Ricans and Philadelphia are angered by bigoted remarks at
Trump rally. Fire pulling my papaia, Please give stories today
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about it. Oh my god, how you try shaving my coconut? Here?
Five great seems like enough. So all we're on the
topic of the Meeta sprint. Much on the topic of
the media. This in the Washington Post today in the
Opinion in the opinion section, an op ed called the
Hard Truth Americans don't trust news media. A note from
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our owner Jeff Bezos is the owner of the Washington
Post that says, and he wrote this. In the annual
public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists in the media
have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.
But in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to
fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted
of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
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Let me give an analogy, Jeff Bezos rights. Voting machines
must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately,
and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The
second requirement is distinct from and just as important as
the first. Likewise, with newspapers, we must be accurate, and
we must be believed to be accurate. It's a bitter
pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.
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Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn't
see this as paying scant attention to reality and those
who fight reality lose reality, is an undefeated champion. It
would be easy to blame others for our long and
continued fall in credibility, but a victim mentality will not help.
Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to
control what we can control to increase our credibility behind
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the scenes, which he doesn't mention specifically in this piece
that he wrote. The New York Times reported that Bezos
is saying they're going to hire more conservatives for the
newsroom and the op ed pages. If I might leap
in briefly, a couple of things. Number One, I'm reminded
that he did not build incredibly successful businesses by accident.
He is a smart guy. Also, it occurs to me
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because the opinions he's expressing here are the very root
of conservatism. But a guy like him who builds something
big and successful and gets very, very wealthy, then and
I'm not saying this a Bezos, but a lot of
people they then court the approval of in the acclaim
from celebrities, the big time entertain in the household names
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of America, and the way you get them is to
swing to the left. So I think that's how a
lot of super rich people end up in that situation.
They think I got to say, have much money, I
might as well court, the movie stars of the world,
and I'll get to go to all the great parties.
The proof will be in the pudding. But I'm optimistic
for the first time in a very long time about
some of our big mainstream media actually getting better because
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we need it. It would be very good for the country,
he writes, because this whole flap about not endorsing Kamala.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election.
No one decided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say,
I'm going with newspaper a's endorsement. None. What presidential endorsements
actually do is create a perception of bias, a perception
of non independents ending them as a principal decision. And
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it's the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington
Post from nineteen thirty three to forty six, thought the same,
and he was right by itself. Declining to endorse presidential
candidates is not enough to move us very far up
the trust scale, but it's a meaningful step in the
right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier
than we did, in a moment further from the election
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and the emotions around it that was inadequate planning and
not some intentional strategy, So he wishes they had started
this earlier. Good first, right again, Yeah, I would also
like to be clear that no quid pro quo of
any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate
was consulted or informed at any level in any way
about the decision. It was made entirely internally. And he
goes on through that whole thing because he's got you know,
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people cancel their subscriptions and people in the newsroom resigning, quitting,
all that sort of stuff. When it comes to the
appearance of conflict, I'm not an ideal owner of the post.
While I do not and will not push my personal interest,
I also will not allow this paper to stay on
autopilot and fade into irrelevance, overtaken by unresearched podcasts and
social media barbs, not without a fight. That's the business
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man in him right there where he's realizing, you know,
I can agree with everything we write, but if everybody's
going to pod casts and Twitter because nobody believes this,
it doesn't make any difference. And to return to a
previous point, the current philosophies which he is decrying here
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have run the paper into the ground. It lost seventy
some million dollars last year and again has a trust
level lower than Congress. So the idea that the squealing
and we have some excellent examples of the squealing, that
the squealing Progressive staff should get their way just because
they work there. Y'all are terrible. You've lost the game.
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You're you're a baseball team that went you know, forty
and one hundred and twenty two. Nobody wants to hear
what you think the team should do. I will not
allow this paper to stay on all autopilot and fade
into irrelevance. It's too important. The stakes are too high
now more than ever, the world needs a credible, trusted,
independent voice. And where better for that voice to originate
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than the capital city of the most important country in
the world. To win this fight, we will have to
exercise new muscles. This is to his newsroom obvious. Obviously,
to win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles.
Some changes will be a return to the past, some
will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel
of anything new. Of course, this is the way of
the world. None of this will be easy, but it
will be worth it. I'm so grateful to be part
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of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you'll find
anywhere work at the Washington Post, and they work painstakingly
every day to get the truth they deserve to be believed,
which is basically saying a lot of the finest journalists
are not being believed by the ones that are not
some of the finest journalists. I think, Yeah, I hope
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that this is a turn that we desperately need. We
need to have media that people believe, like a one
stop place where the bulk of Americans think I believe
what they're saying, or we're I think we're doomed. We
can't all have our own media sources. It won't right
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because of the incredibly insulated bubble that they're all in.
It takes outsiders of a practical point of view, like
a Bezos, like an Elon Musk at Twitter, to say, hey,
this every single person here agrees on everything. Look what
it's grost, Look what it's gotten us. This is a disaster.
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And the fact that Bezos has to come in and
point out that it's a disaster and why it's just
a measure of how incredibly blind those people are to
their own blindness meta blindness. It's taken it's gonna take time.
It's taking time. But when the new business people took over,
remember it was a couple of people from England or whatever,
and there were concerns in the newsroom about their conservative past.
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But anyway, the new owner, the new financial people, came
in that we're gonna be in charge and said, nobody
reads your stuff. I mean that's the bottom line. Yeah,
do me favorite get you to keep those bezos quotes handy,
because I'm gonna hit you with what the Washington Post
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because I want to make it clear that I'm not
okay with us being silent in dangerous times. Honest people
need to stand up. This is how I'm standing up.
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Editorial writer Robert Green. I'm deeply disappointed with the decision
not to endorse Harris. It hurt, particularly because one of
the candidates, Donald Trump, has demonstrated such hostility to principles
that are central to journalism, respect for the truth and
reverence for democracy. Let's see, there are a couple other
good ones. Max Tanny of Semaphore reported that members of
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the Post Opinion staff are furious at the decision, which
is reportedly handed down Jeff Bezos. Several are contemplating what
action to take if you don't have the ballstone a newspaper, don't,
one Post Opinion employee tells me. Another perhaps the same
Post employee told Brian Stelter, who's inexplicably back on CNN,
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that non endorsement was quote an outrageous abdication of responsibility
and a form of tacit consent to a fascist swims. Well,
I'm sure I know how some of those people think,
because I know people on the right. I know people
in the radio business that have no listeners, who feel
the same way. I would rather stick to my hardcore
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principle and have no reader's, viewers or listeners than you know,
try to reach a larger audience. Okay, well, good luck
with that model. But you can't keep working that way
very long. Well, and to Jeff Bezos brilliantly and simply
constructed arguments in favor of not being so friggin biased.
The Washington Post, when it started endorsing presidential can it
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in nineteen seventy six to the current day, has endorsed
the Democrat every single time, except when it didn't endorse anybody,
hw Bush versus Michael Dukakis. But it's always, always, always
the Democrat. And so you get this, Martin Baron, former
executive director of the Post, this is cowardice, a moment
of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty. See,
(29:23):
they would be fine with no viewers and no money
coming because they don't understand business, and they just, you know,
they go out to eat with their friends and they
all agree with each other, and they're the cool people
at the party because they said the right things and
nobody offered a different opinion on the newspaper, which they
consider good yeah, and this might be my favorite quote.
This is once again Martin barn former executive editor of
(29:46):
The Post History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness
at an institution famed for courage. Wow, that is always
on one side of every political question and is dying.
You are dying, Martin, dying is an institution. So the
courageous thing is to produce a monochrome view of the world,
(30:10):
all progressive news and ignore real things if they go
against your narrative. That's the courageous thing to do. That's
hard to imagine how that works. Yes, yes, wow, interesting.
Well I hope this is a turnaround. You know again,
we'll see. Well, you know what, I've got one more,
just because I think this paints a pretty good picture
(30:32):
of progressive America. You have lost us, said to Darcy,
who I quoted earlier. Whoever, that is on one side
is an Adolph Hitler praising autocratic wannabee who is vowed
to seek retribution against his perceived enemies should he find
himself back in the Oval office. On the other side
is a relatively run of the mill democratic politician who
(30:55):
respects the rule of law, an American democratic order. That's
a uh, laying out of the two candidates. Uh. You
don't get to call the balls and strikes anymore, Dear
sign Jeff Bezos, because you suck at it. You're terrible
at it. Our business is dying, and nobody trusts you.
They like Congress better than you. People like gonorrhea better
(31:17):
than Congress. They like paper cuts and migrain headaches better
than they like Congress. And they like Congress more than you.
Get out. That was a good way to open his piece.
We're respected less than Congress. That's a pretty good way
to drive home your point. Oh so again, make the
case again why you should still be in charge. Please,
I'm listening now, Open mind, open heart. Here Katie Green's headlines. Next,
(31:45):
My stomach is making Chris Christy noises today for some reason.
You is right. We played that clip from when he
was on the never mind? What what's the hottest candy
in America? As we head into Halloween, you should know
if you want to hand out popular can candy, otherwise
(32:05):
you'll get egged. Stay tuned for that. The Wall Street
Journal laid it out. All right, all right, all right,
you want to disappoint children or you want to have
a popular candy. Are you handing out TOTSI roles little.
I'll show you what. I'll show you the candy I'm
handing out this. What does that say? The Constitution of
(32:28):
the United States of America? Kids chew on this for
a few minutes. I'll say that though.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Wait, what a fun house you are to go share
getting egged.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I actually like that idea. I would do candy, and
if I have my little pocket constitution too, I would
like to hand out candy and pocket constitutions. That's all, yes, yes,
says you lady. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Katie from the New York Times.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Trump team fears damaged from racist rally remarks.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I want to get to the trend, which is
fully established now, of calling anything the least bit ethnically
insensitive racist, Right, that's racist. I think we've lowered the
bar a bit on that word.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
ABC hundreds of ballots damaged after ballot box set on fire.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
In Washington State.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, that's happened a couple places. That's not good. No,
it's not. And it's centered in the conservative suburbs of
very liberal cities. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to
figure out what's going on there. But man, this happens.
You could have this happen like twice in one of
the swing states and the elections close, and you've got
(33:40):
a big problem on your hands.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
From The Washington.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Post on Elon Musk's Musk's X Republicans go viral as
Democrats start to disappear.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I don't understand that. Well.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The Washington Post is basically saying that now that Elon
is all for Trump, now you're seeing the Republicans posts
end up being the ones that are getting traction.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Were usually it's the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh oh, no, tech giant with its finger on the scales.
This is unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
From The Guardian, Tim Walls an AOC play football game
on Twitch to appeal to young men.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
How'd that go? That's the idea is that people have
for elections. I'd be interesting to know if they feel
like that did anything or not. Oh. Tim Waltz's support
for butt drugs coming up, Stay with us, butt drugs,
Butt drugs, very good.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
NBC McDonald's to resume selling its popular quarter pounder this week,
but without onions.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I always order it without onions, but that's that's good
for America's waistline. Oh I'd rather get eat coli than
skip the onions. I'm an onion man, Like we're Pappy
before me. I've ordered a pizza with double onions. Oh
my god, that's the topic. I would be in a hospital.
Oh my man, up huh with your gurgling stomach over there?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah? Yeah, who's sports?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Dwayne Wade defends his new heat statue and brushes off criticism.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I saw such people with a statue.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I saw the statue. What's what's the criticism? It looks
nothing like him. That happens a lot. It's like the
MLK memorial in DC. Who's let Yeah, they gotta have
a plaque so you know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Your meme of the day. It's a split photo.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
At the very top there's a picture of Biden and
he's talking as his hand up. It says, Inflation's not
that high, and then the image below it is Hunter
Biden in the.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Bath with a crack pipe in his mouth and it
says inflation.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, it's pretty high, pretty high.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
And finally, the Babylon b Tim Walls asks which button
to press in Madden to make players.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Slap each other's butts.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm on no, oh wait a minute. As an implication
there or something that's funny, I'm mention this. The Wall
Street Journal had an article over the weekend. New York
Times has won today America's biggest hit candy Nerds gummy clusters,
which I mentioned to my kids and they said, oh, yeah,
it's the best candy ever. So we bought some. I
tried one, I spit it out of my mouth. I
actually thought it was so horrible. But Nerds gummy clusters
(36:16):
are the hottest thing going. Aren't gummy clusters forbidden by
the Geneva Convention? Is that something else? If you miss
an hour, gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms Day.
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The brom Studio. C says, or a dimly lit room
where deep with them the fowls of the Armstrong and
Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
One week from today his election.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Day, and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Not Halloween scares, electoral scars, boo tatism, boo well, and
day two of the Puerto Rico joke. So he pulled
forty eight hours out of the act. Harry. Anyway, We'll
(01:07):
see see if that matters to anybody I get. I
tell you what. The reviews on the economy are abysmal,
the borders wide open, crime is rampant, there are drug
addicts in the streets. But I just will not have
rude jokes about Puerto Ricans. Well, I'm casting my vote
in favor of Kamala Harris. I don't know. If I'm
from I consider Kansas my home. If they called Kansas
(01:28):
and garbage dump, I'd be unhappy about it. I would
think that I'd say, I'd think, f you wow. So
Michael canceled that that big bit I'd prepared, all right,
Oh damn it. So it was an hediotic joke, as
stupid as terrible terry. He made a couple of stupid jokes.
He's an insult comic. He's a roast comic. He said,
to have him there. He is a roast comic. And
(01:49):
if you've ever seen his act, it is very, very edgy.
I saw more of it yesterday, and so that's his thing.
It's just an odd choice to put at a rally
one week out from a president until election when you're ahead.
I don't know why he did that. I'd say odd
is a terrible the charitable description of what kind of
choice that was. The Republican chair of Puerto Rico said, so,
(02:13):
do you get to vote in Puerto Rico and doesn't count?
Nobody knows. That's the that's the Nate Bargatzi is George
Washington thing. Nobody knows how many leaders in a gallon.
Nobody knows. I'm making that shoke for decades. He stole
it from me anyway, cause somebody googled that, Katie. But
(02:37):
so the Republican chair from Puerto Rico, he's the chair
of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico said he's not
voting unless he gets a specific apology from Trump himself
about that, saying, no, well, I don't feel that way,
and that wasn't okay, So I don't know if that
means anything or not. I don't know what for Puerto
(02:57):
Rico votes and it counts. Must know toore Kens do
vote in several fairly important swing states. Well, right, but
in Puerto Rico doesn't matter. Do you know, Katie, somebody
is I think they vote for they've got a non
voting I can't. I don't remember anybody ever saying Puerto
(03:19):
Rico has got two electoral votes in the must not
count Guam, they've got a non voting representative or something. Okay,
congratulations for that, all right? I don't they get our
tax money?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yes, Katie, So, residents of Puerto Rico are not permitted
to vote in presidential elections. However, they can participate in
the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh so they choose the candidate, but they don't get
to vote in the presidential election. Wow, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sure, I like nobody knows better.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, nobody knows that's fine. I had another point.
I don't remember what it was, Oh day two of this,
Oh if nothing else else, you didn't need this. I
mean it's stepping on a rake. Just you didn't need
this as the completely unforced air the lead on the
evening news for a couple of days. He didn't need it.
I mean, there's no there's no upside. So Kamala's doing
(04:15):
her big rally on the Ellipse in Washington, d C.
Which is a very area where Trump had his rally
on January sixth, and I assume she's going to make
all sorts of comments about that. That's the whole point.
It's interesting that that's the closing argument. I mean, you
don't throw together an event like that quickly. So they
decided one week from election. What did I hear Jake
(04:38):
tappercall is they actually thought it was a pretty good
new term. Poll's close on January. On November fifth, I
think he kept saying, okay, because we've been talking about
calling an election day, doesn't make any sense anymore. Yeah,
especially this year given the record early voting in quite
a number of states. Forty five million people have voted already.
(04:59):
That was the last night. It might be a couple
million more than that already by today. That's astounding that
a lot of people. Yeah, because it'll probably be around
one hundred and fifty million people are going to vote.
So now we're at about a third a week out
have already voted. Huh, better get your October surprises in early. Anyway, Uh,
Kamala is going to make her big January sixth. He's
(05:21):
a fascist that We're going to get more of these
argument today and so that will be a guaranteed the
lead news story for a twenty four hour cycle also,
so don't We'll see how it plays out. What's interesting
to me is that I've heard a number of experts,
quote unquote from all sorts of different political sides saying
(05:43):
that the Trump is evil closing argument is far far weaker.
All Right. It polls a weaker and it focused groups
much weaker than an affirmative description of why Kamala would
be a good president. It's a weak argument. So the
most interesting thing I've come across in the last twenty
four hours is Jeff Bezos's op ed in his own
(06:05):
newspaper today that we'll have to read from where he
basically comes out and says, look, nobody trusts us in
the media anymore, and we got to change the way
we do things or we're going to become completely irrelevant
if we haven't already. I so want to talk about that,
the frantic, squealing, self righteous statements of the various journalist
stows who are frantic at the Washington Post in the
(06:28):
La Times in particular over not endorsing Trump but just
not endorsing anyone, and that how that's just such a
betrayal of everything they believe in. It's just hilarious, And
I really want to hear Bezos' reply, Jeff Well, his
bigger argument he's making is, you know, not over just
this little flaps, just look, we're becoming irrelevant. The it
(06:51):
was the Washington Post, wasn't it where they hired the
new people and they had the guy come in and say, look,
nobody reads your stuff, and everybody got all upset. He said, look,
you can be as mad as you want, but nobody
reads your stuff. And that's Bezos's argument about how much
everything is shifted to podcasting and everything like that because
they trust those people. Nobody trusts us, and we have
(07:15):
to be better and get trust or or we're going
to be completely irrelevant. And he's right, and it's and
I mean it's deteriorated a lot already. He's a businessman
and a smart guy. He might just fully understand I can,
you know, be worried about what the woke newsroom thinks
of me. He might even agree with him, but he
as a business guy, he might think, but we're going
(07:36):
to become a nothing. We're gonna be a restaurant nobody
eats at unless we change the way we do things. Absolutely.
And I'm trying to find my favorite quote from a
Washington poster. Ah, where is it? Because I want to
get the name right. It's one of the folks who
are indignantly posting online said of Jeff Bezos, if you
(07:57):
don't have the balls to own a major newspaper, sell it.
They lost seventy million plus dollars last year, seventy some
million dollars in a year. And you got some scribbler saying.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
If you don't have the buzz to run a newspaper,
get rid of it. Yeah, oh my lord, you're a
child again, not even a bright child, You're a particularly
dim witted child.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Right again. That's where the growing up, step in and
say nobody reads your stuff, your child all right, So
it doesn't matter if you want to sit in a
corner and shout alone your points of view. Go ahead,
but doesn't really make much sense if you feel like
you're in the art of persuasion or journalism or want
to have an effect on people. Bezos's lead is and
then we'll start the show officially. His lead is not
(08:45):
the money thing. It's the we're now believe we're now
respected less than Congress. Congress has always had been the
bottom of the barrel, like thirteen percent of Americans have
trust in it. He said, we're now below Congress, and
and the rest of that sentence should have been with
you in charge, with you people in charge spouting the
(09:07):
opinions you're spouting right now. That's why, that's why we're
not trusted. Oh the blindness of these people because they
all agree with each other, this tiny little subsection of
America that just it. It's like a h did he
freak off? It's they're all oiled up in their own
(09:29):
unctious lefty morality slash ideology, and they're all having like
intellectual orgy sex with each other, convincing each other that
there are one hundred percent right about everything, and the
rest of us are looking at them and saying you,
but we all are freaks. Well, yeah, Bezos, this is
a good piece. I can't wait to read it if
you haven't seen it already. He says, Reality is an
(09:51):
undefeated champion. I cannot wait. We've got to devote plenty
of time to go back and forth between the quotes
I've got and Bezos's responses, because that's really good, because
it's true and Reality is an undefeated champion, and people
aren't reading our stuff. Let's start to show. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this it is Tuesday, October twenty ninth,
(10:13):
yere twenty twenty four, where I'm strong and getting. We
approve of this program. Let's begin the show. Then, officially,
according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go at Mark,
thank you. Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, Now I want it to you to show your
own name.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Do that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Because it's about all of us. It's about all of
us as a.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Pretty fired up crowd. There, she's got her own fired
up people. Rallies are not an indication of whether you're
gonna win or not. Is the thing if you've been
following the Bernie Sanders is of the world. But often
they are. And I have no idea how things are
going to turn out on Tuesday. How does No, they're not,
but often they are. Okay, take that to the page.
(11:01):
They've been wrong before. You can't. You know me, you can't.
But it's an imperfect measure, but usually it's a sign
of something. I think it's a sign of Trump hatred
is what that is for about half the country. How
does a mailbag look? Oh, it's a terrific little feature
at can't wait to get to it. Yeah, that's on
the way, and here's our text line four one five
two nine five k ftcro.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Apple's new AI stuff came out for their phone. I
haven't downloaded it yet, but it's not getting very good reviews,
which is disappointing if you went out and bought a
new phone like I did. But anyway, more on that later.
What it can and can't do for you? Yeah, it's
maybe it's the point I am in my life. I
heard about it and heard it's kind of they're still
(11:47):
working on it and it's not quiet. I thought, all right,
let me know when it's ready. It's fun. I want
to get into AI and it needs to be very
easy for me to do. That's the thing. Like, really,
here's your freedom loving quota of the day, completing our
series for now. On responding to Kamala Harris's advocating for equity,
(12:08):
as she said, equitable treatment means we all end up
in the same place, said Bishop Robert Baron quote. A
blanket imposition of equity and outcomes across all societies would
result in a massive violation of justice and would be
made possible only by the most totalitarian sort of political arrangement.
I've watched a lot of Bishop Baron's YouTube videos over
(12:29):
the years. Stop provoking chap huh mailbag as well. And
that's self evident to a lot of us, but completely
unperceivable to a lot of people. That incredible problem doesn't
even describe it. That mountainous horror that is the equity argument.
(12:51):
Can Will we talk about that again later? I have
much to say about that. Talk about it all damn
day long. If you want, drop us a note mail
bag at Armstrong and Getty dot garbage jump Oh stop,
oh god, now it's jack. Everybody's just kicking poor Puerto
Rico speaking of getting kicked Jess and Wiley, Texas, they're
crapping on her joy. Where the hell is smot Joy?
(13:16):
Where the hell is the smot? She says, I'm trying
to watch Aaron Judge Phil in the World Series, and
the political ads in Texas are crapping on my joy.
So Ted Cruz is planning on killing us all by
not allowing abortions, you know, because US ladies are always
all clogged up with those pesky babies. And his opponent,
Colin ALLRD loves trannies so much he probably wants to
chop off your wang too. Oh no, wow, that's too far, Jess. Person,
(13:39):
that's sort of tough. Talk may pass in Wiley, Texas,
but I think they were typing with a keyboard, DiPT
and liquor. When Trump wins and uses his dictatorial like
Hitler powers to jail all the centers, I won't have
to hear about this stuff no more. D d W
P HMFP. Democracy doesn't work. Power hungry madman for president.
(14:02):
That's beautiful. Aaron Judge did fail yesterday. Three three strikeouts
didn't do much. Yankees loss, Dodgers up three to nothing
in the World Series. Not exactly the fall classic we were
hoping for. H oh, John and San Diego agreeing with
us that the Babylon b bit where if you rearrange
Trump's letters in Trump's name you get Hitler was if.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You rearrange the letters in Trump while eliminating the U,
MP and adding H, I, L, and E, it spells Hitler.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So John in San Diego is doing a search for
something to do with Tim Watz the video game pictures
from the other day, and somehow he came across Walmart's
official website and the host third party sellers. But still
I thought this was interesting. It's a T shirt that
has Harris Waltz and then letter lines as your rearing
(15:00):
change the letters, including using the A twice and eliminating
the Z at all, and it spells out Sharia law
Harris Walls. If you use that letter a couple of
times and drop that one, rearrange spells all right? Can
we just stop? Because even if it did work, even
if Trump's name was Schroll or whatever, and you could
(15:23):
rearrange it to get Hitler, that means something to you,
then you're a moron? Can we not do this? Moving along?
JT has a comment on the dating statistics about the
large number of Democrats who won't do anything with Republicans
datum and be friends with them, shop at their stores,
(15:43):
and all the Republicans are like, no, I don't care,
it's fine, he says. Uh. Isn't that explained by the
old saw about how Republicans think Democrats are naives, stupid, misled,
whereas Democrats think Republicans are evil. Yeah, that's that's mostly true. Yeah,
let's see. And then this from a leen anonymous right
leaning people are open to other points of view. Yes,
(16:04):
because we're subjected to them every moment of every day,
but also because we hold our beliefs after a fair
measure of critical thinking. We aren't opposed to taking invaried
information using logic and common sense to noodle through how
to include that new information into our logical, fact based
worldview and opinion. I would say that is more true
among conservatives. Leftist views are entirely based on fuzzy feelings
and pie in the sky ideals, with no room for
(16:26):
facts or thoughts that don't fit well. I certainly wouldn't
want to claim that there are no morons on the right.
That would be very, very wrong. But I make the
point yesterday that if you are a person who is
of the right, you're faced with the opposite point of
view air, day of year, life, TV, music schools, everywhere
(16:47):
you go see you have no choice but to like
confront it or noodle it through. Whereas on the left
you can be pretty comfortable in your point of view
your whole life and never run into the opposite. I
think that's absolutely true. I also think that in general,
and I'm confident in this, conservatism is much more logical,
outcome based, and progressivism is much more emotional. There's a
(17:11):
chance the mainstream news business is going to get better.
It'll take a while, but there's chance it's headed in
the right direction. More on that coming up. If you
miss an hour, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
President Trum's rally last night, bottles of urine were reportedly
found in the area where supporters were waiting in line.
That's how you know most of those people weren't New Yorkers.
We don't use bottles, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Or San Franciscans? Yeah, no kidding. Mark Alprin writes in
his newsletter today, The brief breakup between Harris and the
dominant media is over. Remember the week or two of
Trump's pulling ahead or Kamala seems to be struggling or whatever.
The crude remarks that the Madison Square Garden event serve
as a POxy, bringing the two sides back in concerts
(18:03):
their campaign. In the dominant media, how about like that? Um,
the press is all in on, suggesting, as Politico does,
that the remarks about Puerto Rico are spreading like wildfire
in quotes. The Washington Post pushes the same line. But
they are pikers compared to the New York Times, says
(18:25):
Mark Cowpert, in a class by itself, with not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five stories today
about the Puerto Rican jokes, with one headlighted and saying
Porto Ricans and Philadelphia are angered by bigoted remarks at
Trump rally. Fire pulling my papaia, Please give stories today
(18:46):
about it. Oh my god, how you try shaving my coconut? Here?
Five great seems like enough. So all we're on the
topic of the Meeta sprint. Much on the topic of
the media. This in the Washington Post today in the
Opinion in the opinion section, an op ed called the
Hard Truth Americans don't trust news media. A note from
(19:09):
our owner Jeff Bezos is the owner of the Washington
Post that says, and he wrote this. In the annual
public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists in the media
have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.
But in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to
fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted
of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
(19:32):
Let me give an analogy, Jeff Bezos rights. Voting machines
must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately,
and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The
second requirement is distinct from and just as important as
the first. Likewise, with newspapers, we must be accurate, and
we must be believed to be accurate. It's a bitter
pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.
(19:55):
Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn't
see this as paying scant attention to reality and those
who fight reality lose reality, is an undefeated champion. It
would be easy to blame others for our long and
continued fall in credibility, but a victim mentality will not help.
Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to
control what we can control to increase our credibility behind
(20:17):
the scenes, which he doesn't mention specifically in this piece
that he wrote. The New York Times reported that Bezos
is saying they're going to hire more conservatives for the
newsroom and the op ed pages. If I might leap
in briefly, a couple of things. Number One, I'm reminded
that he did not build incredibly successful businesses by accident.
He is a smart guy. Also, it occurs to me
(20:39):
because the opinions he's expressing here are the very root
of conservatism. But a guy like him who builds something
big and successful and gets very, very wealthy, then and
I'm not saying this a Bezos, but a lot of
people they then court the approval of in the acclaim
from celebrities, the big time entertain in the household names
(21:01):
of America, and the way you get them is to
swing to the left. So I think that's how a
lot of super rich people end up in that situation.
They think I got to say, have much money, I
might as well court, the movie stars of the world,
and I'll get to go to all the great parties.
The proof will be in the pudding. But I'm optimistic
for the first time in a very long time about
some of our big mainstream media actually getting better because
(21:24):
we need it. It would be very good for the country,
he writes, because this whole flap about not endorsing Kamala.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election.
No one decided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say,
I'm going with newspaper a's endorsement. None. What presidential endorsements
actually do is create a perception of bias, a perception
of non independents ending them as a principal decision. And
(21:46):
it's the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington
Post from nineteen thirty three to forty six, thought the same,
and he was right by itself. Declining to endorse presidential
candidates is not enough to move us very far up
the trust scale, but it's a meaningful step in the
right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier
than we did, in a moment further from the election
(22:06):
and the emotions around it that was inadequate planning and
not some intentional strategy, So he wishes they had started
this earlier. Good first, right again, Yeah, I would also
like to be clear that no quid pro quo of
any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate
was consulted or informed at any level in any way
about the decision. It was made entirely internally. And he
goes on through that whole thing because he's got you know,
(22:30):
people cancel their subscriptions and people in the newsroom resigning, quitting,
all that sort of stuff. When it comes to the
appearance of conflict, I'm not an ideal owner of the post.
While I do not and will not push my personal interest,
I also will not allow this paper to stay on
autopilot and fade into irrelevance, overtaken by unresearched podcasts and
social media barbs, not without a fight. That's the business
(22:52):
man in him right there where he's realizing, you know,
I can agree with everything we write, but if everybody's
going to pod casts and Twitter because nobody believes this,
it doesn't make any difference. And to return to a
previous point, the current philosophies which he is decrying here
(23:13):
have run the paper into the ground. It lost seventy
some million dollars last year and again has a trust
level lower than Congress. So the idea that the squealing
and we have some excellent examples of the squealing, that
the squealing Progressive staff should get their way just because
they work there. Y'all are terrible. You've lost the game.
(23:35):
You're you're a baseball team that went you know, forty
and one hundred and twenty two. Nobody wants to hear
what you think the team should do. I will not
allow this paper to stay on all autopilot and fade
into irrelevance. It's too important. The stakes are too high
now more than ever, the world needs a credible, trusted,
independent voice. And where better for that voice to originate
(23:56):
than the capital city of the most important country in
the world. To win this fight, we will have to
exercise new muscles. This is to his newsroom obvious. Obviously,
to win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles.
Some changes will be a return to the past, some
will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel
of anything new. Of course, this is the way of
the world. None of this will be easy, but it
will be worth it. I'm so grateful to be part
(24:18):
of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you'll find
anywhere work at the Washington Post, and they work painstakingly
every day to get the truth they deserve to be believed,
which is basically saying a lot of the finest journalists
are not being believed by the ones that are not
some of the finest journalists. I think, Yeah, I hope
(24:40):
that this is a turn that we desperately need. We
need to have media that people believe, like a one
stop place where the bulk of Americans think I believe
what they're saying, or we're I think we're doomed. We
can't all have our own media sources. It won't right
(25:01):
because of the incredibly insulated bubble that they're all in.
It takes outsiders of a practical point of view, like
a Bezos, like an Elon Musk at Twitter, to say, hey,
this every single person here agrees on everything. Look what
it's grost, Look what it's gotten us. This is a disaster.
(25:22):
And the fact that Bezos has to come in and
point out that it's a disaster and why it's just
a measure of how incredibly blind those people are to
their own blindness meta blindness. It's taken it's gonna take time.
It's taking time. But when the new business people took over,
remember it was a couple of people from England or whatever,
and there were concerns in the newsroom about their conservative past.
(25:43):
But anyway, the new owner, the new financial people, came
in that we're gonna be in charge and said, nobody
reads your stuff. I mean that's the bottom line. Yeah,
do me favorite get you to keep those bezos quotes handy,
because I'm gonna hit you with what the Washington Post
at acatorial staff and journalists are saying in some of
the La Times people too about the decisions. Merely not
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Garza of the Times editorial writer quit said, I'm resigning
because I want to make it clear that I'm not
okay with us being silent in dangerous times. Honest people
need to stand up. This is how I'm standing up.
(27:31):
Editorial writer Robert Green. I'm deeply disappointed with the decision
not to endorse Harris. It hurt, particularly because one of
the candidates, Donald Trump, has demonstrated such hostility to principles
that are central to journalism, respect for the truth and
reverence for democracy. Let's see, there are a couple other
good ones. Max Tanny of Semaphore reported that members of
(27:55):
the Post Opinion staff are furious at the decision, which
is reportedly handed down Jeff Bezos. Several are contemplating what
action to take if you don't have the ballstone a newspaper, don't,
one Post Opinion employee tells me. Another perhaps the same
Post employee told Brian Stelter, who's inexplicably back on CNN,
(28:16):
that non endorsement was quote an outrageous abdication of responsibility
and a form of tacit consent to a fascist swims. Well,
I'm sure I know how some of those people think,
because I know people on the right. I know people
in the radio business that have no listeners, who feel
the same way. I would rather stick to my hardcore
(28:37):
principle and have no reader's, viewers or listeners than you know,
try to reach a larger audience. Okay, well, good luck
with that model. But you can't keep working that way
very long. Well, and to Jeff Bezos brilliantly and simply
constructed arguments in favor of not being so friggin biased.
The Washington Post, when it started endorsing presidential can it
(29:00):
in nineteen seventy six to the current day, has endorsed
the Democrat every single time, except when it didn't endorse anybody,
hw Bush versus Michael Dukakis. But it's always, always, always
the Democrat. And so you get this, Martin Baron, former
executive director of the Post, this is cowardice, a moment
of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty. See,
(29:23):
they would be fine with no viewers and no money
coming because they don't understand business, and they just, you know,
they go out to eat with their friends and they
all agree with each other, and they're the cool people
at the party because they said the right things and
nobody offered a different opinion on the newspaper, which they
consider good yeah, and this might be my favorite quote.
This is once again Martin barn former executive editor of
(29:46):
The Post History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness
at an institution famed for courage. Wow, that is always
on one side of every political question and is dying.
You are dying, Martin, dying is an institution. So the
courageous thing is to produce a monochrome view of the world,
(30:10):
all progressive news and ignore real things if they go
against your narrative. That's the courageous thing to do. That's
hard to imagine how that works. Yes, yes, wow, interesting.
Well I hope this is a turnaround. You know again,
we'll see. Well, you know what, I've got one more,
just because I think this paints a pretty good picture
(30:32):
of progressive America. You have lost us, said to Darcy,
who I quoted earlier. Whoever, that is on one side
is an Adolph Hitler praising autocratic wannabee who is vowed
to seek retribution against his perceived enemies should he find
himself back in the Oval office. On the other side
is a relatively run of the mill democratic politician who
(30:55):
respects the rule of law, an American democratic order. That's
a uh, laying out of the two candidates. Uh. You
don't get to call the balls and strikes anymore, Dear
sign Jeff Bezos, because you suck at it. You're terrible
at it. Our business is dying, and nobody trusts you.
They like Congress better than you. People like gonorrhea better
(31:17):
than Congress. They like paper cuts and migrain headaches better
than they like Congress. And they like Congress more than you.
Get out. That was a good way to open his piece.
We're respected less than Congress. That's a pretty good way
to drive home your point. Oh so again, make the
case again why you should still be in charge. Please,
I'm listening now, Open mind, open heart. Here Katie Green's headlines. Next,
(31:45):
My stomach is making Chris Christy noises today for some reason.
You is right. We played that clip from when he
was on the never mind? What what's the hottest candy
in America? As we head into Halloween, you should know
if you want to hand out popular can candy, otherwise
(32:05):
you'll get egged. Stay tuned for that. The Wall Street
Journal laid it out. All right, all right, all right,
you want to disappoint children or you want to have
a popular candy. Are you handing out TOTSI roles little.
I'll show you what. I'll show you the candy I'm
handing out this. What does that say? The Constitution of
(32:28):
the United States of America? Kids chew on this for
a few minutes. I'll say that though.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Wait, what a fun house you are to go share
getting egged.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I actually like that idea. I would do candy, and
if I have my little pocket constitution too, I would
like to hand out candy and pocket constitutions. That's all, yes, yes,
says you lady. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Katie from the New York Times.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Trump team fears damaged from racist rally remarks.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I want to get to the trend, which is
fully established now, of calling anything the least bit ethnically
insensitive racist, Right, that's racist. I think we've lowered the
bar a bit on that word.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
ABC hundreds of ballots damaged after ballot box set on fire.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
In Washington State.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, that's happened a couple places. That's not good. No,
it's not. And it's centered in the conservative suburbs of
very liberal cities. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to
figure out what's going on there. But man, this happens.
You could have this happen like twice in one of
the swing states and the elections close, and you've got
(33:40):
a big problem on your hands.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
From The Washington.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Post on Elon Musk's Musk's X Republicans go viral as
Democrats start to disappear.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I don't understand that. Well.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
The Washington Post is basically saying that now that Elon
is all for Trump, now you're seeing the Republicans posts
end up being the ones that are getting traction.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Were usually it's the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Oh oh, no, tech giant with its finger on the scales.
This is unacceptable.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
From The Guardian, Tim Walls an AOC play football game
on Twitch to appeal to young men.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
How'd that go? That's the idea is that people have
for elections. I'd be interesting to know if they feel
like that did anything or not. Oh. Tim Waltz's support
for butt drugs coming up, Stay with us, butt drugs,
Butt drugs, very good.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
NBC McDonald's to resume selling its popular quarter pounder this week,
but without onions.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I always order it without onions, but that's that's good
for America's waistline. Oh I'd rather get eat coli than
skip the onions. I'm an onion man, Like we're Pappy
before me. I've ordered a pizza with double onions. Oh
my god, that's the topic. I would be in a hospital.
Oh my man, up huh with your gurgling stomach over there?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah? Yeah, who's sports?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Dwayne Wade defends his new heat statue and brushes off criticism.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I saw such people with a statue.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I saw the statue. What's what's the criticism? It looks
nothing like him. That happens a lot. It's like the
MLK memorial in DC. Who's let Yeah, they gotta have
a plaque so you know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Your meme of the day. It's a split photo.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
At the very top there's a picture of Biden and
he's talking as his hand up. It says, Inflation's not
that high, and then the image below it is Hunter
Biden in the.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Bath with a crack pipe in his mouth and it
says inflation.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, it's pretty high, pretty high.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
And finally, the Babylon b Tim Walls asks which button
to press in Madden to make players.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Slap each other's butts.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'm on no, oh wait a minute. As an implication
there or something that's funny, I'm mention this. The Wall
Street Journal had an article over the weekend. New York
Times has won today America's biggest hit candy Nerds gummy clusters,
which I mentioned to my kids and they said, oh, yeah,
it's the best candy ever. So we bought some. I
tried one, I spit it out of my mouth. I
actually thought it was so horrible. But Nerds gummy clusters
(36:16):
are the hottest thing going. Aren't gummy clusters forbidden by
the Geneva Convention? Is that something else? If you miss
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