Jake Novak fills in for Roger Stone, criticizing CNN's focus on Iraq while ignoring Maribad Airport's destruction and highlighting Trump's demand for Iran's unconditional surrender following alleged strikes on the Khamenei bunker. He contrasts masked counter-protesters harassing Nino Danino with Zohran Mamdani's defense of his wife's pro-Hamas posts, mocks Katie Couric's "Zoolander" question to Gavin Newsom, and plays soundbites from women praising Iran's wealth and missile program. Novak concludes by ridiculing Joe Biden's comments at Jesse Jackson's funeral, contrasting them with Jackson's 1984 anti-Semitic remarks and Eddie Murphy's satirical rebuttal. [Automatically generated summary]
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And welcome to the Stone Zone again.
I am Jake Novak filling in again for Roger Stone.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Hey, at about 30 minutes or so, a little bit more than that after the hour, I'm going to tell you about the double standards that Zorhan Mamdani gets to enjoy.
Not compared to Republicans.
Oh, heaven forbid.
Of course he gets a double standard compared to them.
But compared to even other Democrats, they give him an easier time.
So I want to get to that.
But first, let me get you some of the latest, real latest news in Operation Epic Fury.
I got to tell you, if you're watching the mainstream news media, you are seeing all doom and gloom, and they're pulling out some of the doom stories out of their you-know-whats.
I just saw in the corner of my eye CNN at the top of the hour leading with the fact that some building in southern Iraq was damaged and it was owned partially by Halliburton.
That's your lead story.
It's not the lead story.
I mean, I know some of the producers of Anderson Cooper's show, okay?
I'm not going to say their names, but come on, guys, you know better than that.
You go with what's the biggest thing going on right now and hopefully the closest thing to actually happening at the moment.
I'm going to give you that right now.
Right now, Maribad Airport in Iran looks like the apocalypse.
It's getting bombed to like nothing.
It is absolutely being hit really hard.
And it's not just because it's an airport.
It's because we have known for a long time, both the United States and Israel, that there are Iranian military facilities underneath that airport.
Also, by the way, they have some prisons underneath there too, so maybe they're trying to break out whoever's left in there.
That's what's happening right at this moment.
I wouldn't say it's the biggest story of the day, but you got to lead with what's happening at the moment, and that's very dramatic.
Some building in South Iraq, somewhat damaged, that's owned by Halliburton.
That's your lead, CNN.
That's your lead, Anderson Cooper.
They're looking so hard to find doom and gloom bad news, which you can always find in a war if that's what you want to do, that they are absolutely underserving their audience.
Are people paying for a cable subscription to CNN or for a stream?
But don't get your money back.
All right, let me get you some of the other big stories of the day.
I think the big, enduring story of the day is President Trump calling for the unconditional surrender of the Iranian regime.
That's a very big deal.
We've had so many wars in the past where we haven't exactly called for that.
Really, the last time I can remember a war that the United States was involved in where we absolutely demanded unconditional surrender was World War II.
We demand an unconditional surrender from Nazi Germany and from Imperial Japan.
In Nazi Germany, by the way, a guy named Admiral Donitz tried to do a modified surrender.
Basically said, I'll get rid of the Hitler folks, and maybe you let me continue to rule this country.
And no dice.
We didn't take no deal on that one.
Admiral Donitz.
Japan asked for unconditional surrender after the second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki.
We've stopped short in a lot of our wars ever since.
And sometimes I think it made sense to do that.
Sometimes it didn't.
But that is a very big news that President Trump's calling for that.
And I don't think it's a coincidence that he called for it after Israel blew up the underground bunker that was used by the now late Ali Khamenei, the Ayatollah there, and all of his top leaders.
And we're hearing reports that maybe the rest of what was left of that top leadership in Iran was taken out in that attack.
So maybe President Trump made that demand for unconditional surrender because he kind of knew all the leaders who might have the ability to continue fighting a war and authorizing it were gone, possibly.
There are reports, by the way, again, and this is the second time he's been reported dead in the last week, so I don't want everybody to get completely convinced of this, but yet another report that the son of Ali Khamenei, Moyabo Khamenei, who was named the new supreme leader earlier in the day, may have been killed in that strike, in that bunker strike that the Israelis carried out.
Maybe, maybe not.
Again, we'll find out.
Wouldn't be surprised if he's dead.
Wouldn't be surprised if he isn't.
But that's a big story today, in addition to the unconditional surrender and that huge bunker getting attacked.
Okay, another big enduring story of the day, according to the Washington Post and some other sources.
Russia is giving Iran intelligence about where the American soldiers are.
Not so much soldiers because they don't really have boots on the ground, but, you know, our jets, where our ships are.
You know, I don't know how much of a big-breaking story this is.
We know that Iran and Russia have been in cahoots militarily for a long time.
Russia likes to cause problems.
They don't really care about solutions.
They just like to cause problems.
And of course, the bottom line on the story is, so what?
It doesn't matter if Iran knows where our ships are and where our jets are.
They can't hit them.
They're not even trying to hit them.
It doesn't take Russia off the hook for what they're doing.
But I mean, come on, folks, let's get a little bit real here.
But Russia does like to cause mayhem in the Middle East.
And that reminds me of a joke that I have to share with you folks here on the Stone Zone.
I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone.
Great joke, and it's still true, about how when the Soviets used to train Egypt and Syrian Air Force pilots when they were fighting wars against Israel in the 60s and 70s, the old joke is they would train them how to fly the MiG jets.
And after a couple of weeks, they would, a couple of weeks, they would leave.
And the Syrians and the Egyptians say, wait a minute, wait a minute, you can't leave.
You taught us how to fly these jets, but you didn't teach us how to land.
And the Soviets said, Don't worry, the Israelis will teach you how to land, which is exactly what happened.
That's kind of what's going on right here.
They'll tell the Iranians where the U.S. ships are, maybe, if they know, and the jets are.
And the Iranians say, wait a minute, give us the weapons to fire at them.
No, I'm not going to give you that.
Not going to happen.
They just kind of want to cause problems.
Now, here on American soil, I think one of the biggest stories is the fact that we actually haven't seen too many scenes like this.
But I'm very excited because this is probably going to be the first U.S. national program that's going to, you know, at least give you some of the sound of what's going on right now or just ended.
Public Event Conflicts00:04:28
Down in Washington Square Park, not far from the studio where I'm doing this program for you right now, there was an actual vigil for the Ayatollah Khameni and a support the Iranian regime event.
I'm happy to say there was a heavy counter-protest there, but I want to give you some sound from some of the people that were there, giving our very intrepid reporter, and this is his real name, Nino Danino, was there to get some sound.
Here's how he was treated when he got there.
Can you leave?
Like, what are you doing here?
You're clearly not here to fuck.
All you're doing is just going.
Don't touch me.
Don't push me.
I'm not touching you.
All you're doing is coming in here and being a problem.
I'm not even talking.
I'm literally just reporting.
I'm getting, it's my job.
This is my full-time.
Like 15 videos on that.
It's my full-time job to record.
You have gotten 15 videos.
I have to stream this whole thing.
That's what I'm doing.
That's a stupid job.
That's a you literally gotten streaming.
You're making footage.
Soon you get more footage.
Trust.
Ask them if I was just streaming.
I'm a digital reporter in the city.
I don't know what to tell you guys.
All you come in here is push people around and try to get your footage.
You've gotten 15 videos.
Why aren't you harassing any other reporter?
That's your because you're the one making a problem.
But I haven't said, this is my first time that I've spoken to anybody at this whole event.
That's untrue.
Who did I speak to?
Yeah, I told you to stop pushing me before.
No, because I literally wasn't pushing you.
Yeah, you walked into me a dozen people.
You came in here.
You came in here.
Leave me alone.
I'm allowed to do it.
I'm not going to argue with you.
Everyone who was here just trying to find the problem.
You know, this is what this is such an interesting trend that we see, not just in live incidents like this, but also online.
You see a lot, I mean, where you see this mostly happening, where people decide to make controversial statements, posts, and things like that, and then they're angry, and they put it on a public social media platform.
And then people like Libs of TikTok, all they do is quote you and they say, hey, this is something you posted.
You put it out there in public.
I'm not stealing it or hacking it from your private files.
And then people get upset.
And that's what was happening here.
These people were at a very public event, by the way.
You can't see the video, but all the people who were interacting with our reporter were all wearing masks.
They, you know, absolute cowards.
They weren't breaking the law.
I don't know why they need to have masks other than maybe they want to get nice jobs.
Washington Square Park, of course, is unofficially part of the NYU New York University campus.
So there probably were some NYU students.
Maybe they're worried about not getting a job after graduation, which does happen to some of these people.
In that case, if you don't feel strongly enough about a war that you're not willing to sacrifice your job prospects, then don't go.
Be a coward.
Don't wear a mask.
But anyway, this reminds me of, if you remember, the protests at the University of Missouri after the whole Michael Ferguson situation, sorry, Michael Brown situation in Ferguson, Missouri, where students were protesting what was happening and they got angry at the news media for covering a public protest on public property.
And a couple of the news media people came in just to film it, and some professor got really angry that they were actually filming the protest.
And she was famously caught on air saying, Can I get some muscle over here?
Muscle, what, to beat up the reporters?
I mean, what are you talking about?
I mean, this is just incredible.
This is just incredible.
These people, they're probably going and telling all their friends how courageous they were that they went to this vigil and support for the Iranian regime in the Washington Square Park and how much they hate America and hate Israel and all that kind of stuff, but they're not willing to show their faces.
And when somebody comes to cover it as a news event, which usually you kind of want, right?
If you're trying to make a protest, don't you want it covered in the news media?
I mean, these people just are absolutely incredible in their cowardice and in their mixed messaging.
And they're trying to harass a reporter who was just there filming it on his phone and using a professional microphone so that you in the national audience can see the story and hear the story and find out what's going on.
What's wrong with that?
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I mean, this is really, it's almost like the latest example of something that I always say, which is that there's no such thing as a non-religious person.
So if you're not a Christian and you're not a Jew, and if you're not, I think, an old school Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, whatever, you'll find something else to be devoted to.
I think a lot of people, it's themselves.
I think narcissism is a big one.
That's number one with the bullet.
But number two is politics.
Some people really treat their political beliefs like it's a religion.
And they're acting like, oh, some news reporter coming into my religious services, which I wouldn't want to happen either.
Because for them, this is a religious type of event.
It really kind of is.
And that's sad.
By the way, politics is a bad, bad substitute for religion.
It doesn't have the good food and it doesn't have the music.
Political songs stink.
So, I mean, I'm half joking.
But honestly, if you're going to joke, I'm a member of the oldest surviving cult in the world.
And I got to tell you, we have good food and we have pretty good music.
What can I say?
It's a lot of rules to follow.
But there you go.
All kidding aside, though, that's what's going on in Washington Square Park.
I don't think this is something that's happening in large numbers nationally.
There were a lot of counter-protesters there.
And by the way, this mirrors, although not as great as it was going on in London this week, there were at least two events like this in central London where they tried to have a pro-Iranian regime mourning for Ali Khamenei event, and they were shouted down and very heavily outnumbered by pro-Israel, pro-American demonstrators who not only shouted them down, but started playing the Donald Trump YMCA song and doing the dance.
Maybe if they try this again in Washington Square Park, they'll get that again.
But I got to say, as outrageous as it is, and there were a lot of people, all joking aside, there were a lot of people who were mentioning the fact that after the 9-11 attacks, Washington Square Park became kind of a standing spot for vigils and mourning events for the victims because Washington Square Park was one of the, it was really like the most iconic park closest to Ground Zero.
It's not really that close to Ground Zero.
It's obviously quite a hike.
And if it were too close to Ground Zero, it wouldn't have been safe to be there.
But so a lot of people are telling me saying this is kind of like sacred ground, Washington Square Park, for victims of Islamist fascism and Islamo-Nazism and terrorism.
But honestly, you can see why people feel this way.
Folks, got a lot more to get to you here on the Stone Zone.
I'm Jake Novak in for Roger Stone.
At about 35 minutes after the hour, I'm going to tell you the results of a very surprising midterm poll.
But when we come back, I'm going to tell you about that double standard for Zorhan Mamdani.
He gets treated better than other Democrats, let alone Republicans.
You're listening to the Stone Zone.
I'll be right back.
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Thanks for that opportunity.
Hey, about 10 minutes from now, I'm making an executive decision.
I had said in about 10 minutes from now, we were going to get to this double standard story about Zorhan Mamdani, but I'm going to do that right now.
Instead, in about 10, 15 minutes from now, I'm going to play even more crazy sound from crazy people who support this regime in Iran.
And Ali Khamenia, you got to hear this.
Disturbing, but also funny.
I guess it's a little bit of morbid sense of humor.
Got to get to Zorhan Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City.
Turns out we found out yesterday, according to a reporter in the Jewish Insider, which is a news source I read quite a bit, actually.
It's pretty good.
Found out that Zorah Mamdani's wife liked on her social media accounts several, several posts celebrating the October 7th attacks in the day or so after those horrific attacks.
And so Zorah Mamdani was asked about it, and here he is defending his wife.
Thank you.
Good morning, Mr. Mayor.
You should have a chance, I think, to respond to this.
It's an off-topic question.
I'd like to know what your reaction was to the article in the Jewish Insider that was posted about your wife's social media activity.
And what I'm wondering is, you know, you're an elected official.
She is not.
Is it anybody's business, and is it fair to question you about it?
You know, my wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.
I, however, was elected to represent all 8.5 million people in the city, and I believe that it's my responsibility because of that role to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions.
Yeah.
First of all, who asked that question?
Was it Zorhan Mamdani's own staff that wrote that leading question?
What a piece of garbage question, her social media activity.
How about saying, no, she liked posts that celebrated the October 7th attack?
I really need to sit down and do a journalism school here.
First, for the producers of the Anderson Cooper show, who decided to lead at the top of this hour with a Halliburton, partially owned building by Halliburton, getting slightly damaged in southern Iraq.
Who gives a darn?
That's their lead on the Anderson Cooper Show.
And then this pathetic excuse for an actual question, not quite.
But I wanted to add something.
Zorhan Mamdani not only getting the kid glove treatment compared to what a Republican would get if he had a wife doing this, but Dan Goldman, a congressman in downtown New York from that area, his wife is a very pro-Israel supporter online, and he had to apologize for her very recently.
So that's a Democrat, a very liberal Democrat, and they didn't give him the same courtesy.
Zorhan Mamdani is getting the Kerry Water treatment from the news media.
You can believe that.
Speaking of getting the Carrie Water treatment, when you come a little bit later in the show, you're going to hear Katie Kirk asking an absolutely nauseating question of Gavin Newsom.
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We'll be right back.
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About a little bit before the end of the hour, I'm going to show you, play for you Joe Biden's little, a part of his little speech at the Jesse Jackson funeral today.
And if you were missing the strange ramblings, the incorrect emphasis on the wrong words, Joe Biden speech patterns, you will not be disappointed.
You will not be disappointed.
You know, Joe Biden went up there against some really, really great speakers.
If I were him, it's like being the worst comedian going after like Robin Williams and George Carlin or something like that.
I don't know why he agreed to go there.
I mean, just showing up, okay, but giving a speech, not the best idea.
And what I speaking of great comedians, I'm also going to play for you before the end of the hour, Eddie Murphy's invitation and actually better handling of a bad PR situation from Jesse Jackson from 42 years ago.
You've probably forgotten it, but it was one of the funnier moments ever on the old SNL.
Hey, let's recap the top, actual top stories right now when it comes to Operation Epic Fury.
And I want to start with something that's going on right now, not only because it's happening now, but because it's certainly a major development.
Iran's Maribat airport, that's their main airport in Tehran, absolutely engulfed in flames right now.
I've seen many videos of this, all confirmed.
A massive attack on the airport.
I would assume it's mostly an Israeli attack, but maybe the U.S. is involved, certainly tactically involved.
And this is a major development because it isn't just about crippling civilian flights out of Iran, which haven't been happening anyway since last weekend.
Anyway, but we know that the Iranian regime has been using that airport for its military facilities for a long time.
There's also apparently a prison there as well that perhaps the Israelis in the United States would like to see destroyed or at least opened up so that the Iranians can't use it anymore to put the protesters there or resistance fighters, that kind of thing.
President Trump earlier today calling for the unconditional surrender of this Iranian regime.
That's a very big deal.
You don't hear that very often.
I don't think that the United States has called for unconditional surrender in anything other than maybe that action we put out in Grenada back in 1983 since World War II.
I mean, hearing an unconditional surrender demand is something new, at least something we haven't heard from in a long time.
Before President Trump made that demand, the Israelis blew up the super top secret, supposedly impenetrable secret bunker of the now late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
His son, who was just named the successor earlier in the day, may have been killed in that attack.
Certainly, another large group of leaders also killed in that attack.
So, that is something that may have set off President Trump's unconditional surrender to man because he really had some juice to stand behind him on that one, saying, Listen, we're going to get you all.
You thought you had that was your best hiding place, and we got you.
Also, learning today, not really a shocker, and I don't really know how much of an effect this has, but according to a number of reports, including the Washington Post, Russia is giving Iran intel about the location of U.S. and Israeli, probably U.S. forces, the naval ships, maybe some of the jets.
So, Iran can't hit them.
Doesn't matter.
I mean, I can know exactly how the defense is going to shift against me.
I'm 55 years old, but if you hand the ball off to me in an NFL game, it doesn't matter if I know where the defense is going to move.
They're still going to clobber me.
It doesn't matter.
I don't have any weapons to use against those forces.
I guess using the quarterback analogy makes more sense.
I might know where the secondary is, but I'm still not going to hit that wide receiver on a slant for 30 yards or more.
All right, you get my point.
Still, obviously, Russia, not our friend.
Russia's been a meddler.
Russia just likes to cause problems around the world.
By the way, they've been doing this since the Tsars were in control.
This is not just a Soviet thing or a Putin thing.
They're big on fake news and they're big on just causing mayhem every single place.
So, those are the leads right now in the Iran, the Operation Epic Fury.
That's where we are right now.
There's a lot of other stories, of course, in the region, including Israel's very, very large attacks now on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which have been going on for a couple of days.
That's a major development, too, in the overall region.
But I want to focus on the Iran news.
And you may have noticed, you didn't hear any cheerleading from me here when I gave you those news stories.
I just gave you the truth about what's going on.
But compare me to the mainstream news media and the mainstream news media is absolutely doom and gloom the whole time.
And it's not just the usual news media bias in favor of scary stories to get you interested and to stop you from turning the channel and all that kind of stuff.
It's absolute rooting against the United States right now because Trump is president.
It's really, really despicable.
It's really, really bad.
It's also really bad for business.
CNN at the top of the hour led with the fact that some building owned by Halliburton in southern Iraq was damaged by it.
Who cares?
That's your lead story.
You have Iran's number one airport totally in flames right now.
You have a president of the United States who's demanded unconditional surrender.
You've had the lead bunker used by the top leaders of Iran blown to smithereens.
That's your lead?
Halliburton.
Who cares?
Unbelievable, Anderson Cooper.
I know some of his producers.
I worked at CNN a long time ago, but I know some people working on that show.
I'm not going to call them out by name, but come on, guys.
That's boring news.
Why would you lead your hour with that in the middle of a shooting war while the main airport of the largest terrorist sponsor in the world is totally in flames?
Why would you what journalism school tells you to go with that?
Mr. Sin, we're at war with Iran, but a cat has been rescued from a tree.
Roger, can you get what are you doing?
I'm sorry.
It just bothers me as someone who's been in TV news journalism and radio journalism for over 30 years to see that kind of bad business being done.
You know, listen, if you have a liberal-leaning story or an anti-Trump story connected to this war that's big, big, big, and you want to lead with that, okay.
But Halliburton-owned building in South Iraq, ain't it?
All right, I'm off my rant on that.
Let's talk about a little bit of domestic news right now.
This is a midterm election year.
We got those midterm primaries, those big midterm primaries, most of them in Texas, but there was one in North Carolina as well.
You know all about that.
But I want to talk about an interesting poll from the polling source that I trust most.
That's my friend Scott Rasmussen, Napolitan Research.
And his poll came out today showing that the Republicans and the Democrats are tied in the generic midterm ballot poll, which surprises a lot of people who really thought that with the war coming and with the polls showing that the war isn't completely supported yet, although you can't trust war polls until a couple of weeks out, by the way.
Just giving you that pollster's expert notice, by the way.
I used to work as a pollster.
Polls on wars are not reliable until two weeks into the war.
So just giving you that point.
But still, a lot of people thought that with that going on and all the controversy with ICE going on, there would be some real erosion in the GOP's poll numbers.
And the guy who's polling, I trust most, Scott Raspusson at Nepalitan Research, says it's completely a toss-up right now.
Doesn't mean great news one way or the other.
It's just it's interesting.
I think the Democrats would have expected to be ahead in that midterm poll.
Now, going out beyond the midterms, Gavin Newsom has really been active this week, looking to bolster his presidential run for 2028, which, by the way, I don't advise at this early stage.
You don't want to be a frontrunner in a presidential election anytime earlier than March of the actual election year.
But Newsom's going for it.
And there's some polls that show that he is ahead.
I've seen some other polls that he's way behind, Kamala Harris, of all people.
Katie Couric's Zoolander Problem00:11:52
But Katie Couric decided to interview Gavin Newsom.
And here's the question, the serious, I'm just kidding, the serious question she had to ask him.
Do you have a Zoolander problem?
No, I do.
Jesus.
Yeah, Zoolander.
Are you just ridiculously good looking?
No, seriously, what do you do about that?
You don't do anything about it because if you're going to do something about it, then you're bullshitting people.
You know what?
I am who I am.
It's fine.
You don't have to like me.
Or maybe you like a slick person.
I don't know.
Whatever.
It's okay.
The reason why I brought it up because you talked about being authentic.
And I think it sometimes works against you.
Yeah.
It's just who I am.
It's just who I am.
Are you too good looking to run for president?
Let me tell you something about beyond the ick factor of that question.
Sorry, by the way, we didn't bleep out a word in there.
Caught us by surprise.
Probably nothing you haven't heard, but just in case there are kids in the room, I apologize.
Anyway, besides the ick factor of that question, that's not a professional question to ask.
I guess that maybe if you're in a political consulting meeting, you can talk about that and discuss where this fits into things.
But that's very much an interesting question for Katie Couric to ask.
Because Katie Couric, of course, comes from the old school world of TV news anchor women back when she used to have those jobs.
And when she broke in on the Today Show, she took over for a very, very attractive woman who was getting a chance after Jane Pauley left the Today Show.
And I remember I once met the president, the outgoing president of NBC News, who told me, I told him not to hire that hot chick.
That was in his words, because women who watch the Today Show are the dominant audience of the Today Show want to see a cute woman, but they don't want to see a supermodel.
Okay.
Made sense to me, actually.
So Katie Couric was trying to think, maybe I should say that to Gavin Newsom.
Maybe if he's too good looking, it'll be bad for him.
I mean, the shallowness of that question, I don't think that he has a Zoolander problem.
I think Katie Couric has a Zoolander problem.
Just not a question to ask.
And by the way, most people in day-to-day politics are not that good looking.
They're kind of good looking.
They're sort of, but not quite.
Nevertheless, Gavin Newset mentioned, and I'll give her some credit.
She did ask him earlier in that podcast interview about some of the disaster stuff going on in California, but she didn't really press him.
And it was still like a coffee clutch, obviously a very friendly atmosphere.
You don't have to be a barracuda, but the interview is really hard to watch.
And I'm embarrassed for her for a lot of reasons.
I got to tell you something, really, honestly.
Here's another thing I'm embarrassed for.
If you've seen all the polls and all the surveys and all the studies lately, we found that over the last, really just the last 15, 20 years, men politically have pretty much stayed the same as far as how they vote or they believe on the main issues.
Women, though, have gone very far to the left.
Very far to the left.
And the answer to me is very, very simple.
The answer to me is social media.
Social media is filled with a lot of, there's obviously conservative talking points on social media, but very heavily left on social media.
And if there's one thing that couples don't do together, they used to watch the news together.
They used to discuss things like that together.
But I have yet to meet a couple that scrolls on social media together, no matter how close that couple is.
Maybe a little bit here and there, but for the most part, they don't.
And so women are getting these very, very targeted towards them, liberal talking point type stuff on social media that the men aren't seeing.
And they're certainly not seeing it together so that the men and the women can talk about it and then maybe they can sort of talk past the brainwashing.
But women have gone much further to the left.
The men have stayed the same on the issues.
They may have voted Democrat in the past, but on the same issues, feeling the same way.
Maybe they became Republicans, but not because they became more conservative ideologically.
They just couldn't find a Democrat who met their old ideology in any way whatsoever.
Well, I want to play a couple of soundbites from women responding to the war right now.
This first is cut five.
This is a woman who's gone viral for her take on the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran.
It's just what's happening now.
The Iranian people right now, they're going to their deaths.
Professor Murami is telling us this.
Come and he, I know people are going to yell at me by saying this, but come and he said, and this is not a lie, this is true.
These people are selfless.
These people are selfless, egoless.
This is something the West doesn't understand when I talk about modesty and humility.
Like, I have a sticker I want to make.
Bring back humility.
Have some humility.
Have some heart.
Have some mercy.
He was told, you're going to die.
You're going to die if you stay here.
He died with his whole family.
Martyred him.
Martyrdom.
Martyred?
Humility?
The guy had a fortune of $200 billion plus.
That was the austere, humble man.
His son, who may have been eliminated today, also worth tens of billions of dollars.
She's talking about humility.
She doesn't have any.
She's a complete ignoramus.
She clearly doesn't know anything about the situation in Iran.
Imagine being a woman in Iran who's been attacked and jailed for not covering her hair and having to listen to this woman telling you you're not humble enough or that you don't have enough of a heart.
Did she cry for the tens of thousands of Iranians who were killed in these protests?
It wasn't even that long ago.
It was literally like a month and a half ago.
Unbelievable.
Here's another woman.
Her name is Kalia Walsh.
She used to be a volunteer for a bunch of Democrats in Massachusetts working on their campaigns.
She's the modern-day Charles Lindbergh.
Here she is in Iran talking about how great it is.
It's incredibly powerful to be standing amongst the missiles, the drones that are resisting U.S. imperialism and Zionism that have launched historic strikes on the heart of the genocidal Zionist entity.
And what's notable about Iran's missile program and drone development is that it is entirely indigenous to the country.
Oh my goodness.
I mean, this is someone who was working with Ed Markey and trying to work with Elizabeth Warren.
All right, when we come back, I'm going to play that soundbite that proves that Joe Biden's addled brain is just still as adult as always was.
And also, you're going to get a real treat from Eddie Murphy.
This is Jake Novak in for Roger Stone on the Stone Zone.
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I'm Jake Novak in for Roger Stone this evening.
A big domestic story for the mainstream news media today was the funeral for Jesse Jackson.
And I think that that's a story worth covering, absolutely.
But a lot of them went with hours of coverage of the funeral.
Former President Barack Obama gave one of the big eulogies, a bunch of other bigger names.
But for some reason, they let Joe Biden talk as well.
And here was something that he really thought was important to say.
By the way, you know, the continent of Africa is going to be the largest continent in the world in terms of population by the year 2050, the largest in the entire world.
Watch, man.
Watch.
Watch what?
Massive overpopulation.
There are some countries in Africa that are becoming wealthier, although they still have incredibly corrupt governments.
So the wealth is not getting spread all that much.
I don't know what the larger population of Africa and what we're supposed to watch.
Are we supposed to be afraid of that?
I mean, the guy is just so used to pandering to black audiences, he doesn't finish his thought.
I guess he's not really capable of doing that.
Look, Jesse Jackson, I had some stuff to say about him when he passed away.
I understand that it's a story to cover.
He was a big newsmaker in this country a very long time ago.
What's interesting about MSNBC and CNN taking huge chunks of that funeral today is the fact that neither MSNBC, or call it MS Now, or CNN has had anything to say about Jesse Jackson for years.
I mean, I don't think that their listeners, their viewers, really, a lot of them knew who he was, but they made it into a big thing.
All right, I mean, look, we're in the middle of a major war.
I think you take some speeches, they were just on it for a very long time.
But as I mentioned, when Jesse Jackson passed away, look, he really, I think, believe it or not, kind of ended his career politically before it started.
When he came out with an anti-Semitic statement about Jews in New York not supporting him and calling them hymies, that was back in 84.
Believe it or not, I think that's when the ceiling was created for him.
And just a few days after that happened, Eddie Murphy on SNL decided to respond to that moment in song.
Check it out.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm Jesse Jackson.
And I was recently quoted in the Washington Post as referring to a certain group of people as Jaime's.
They also said that I called New York Jaime Town.
I realize that kind of talk isn't kosher.
But let me see if I can explain it to you all in song.
As I said, I'm Jesse Jackson.
And I'm running for president of the United States.
I'm a Libra.
a very special message to all you chosen people out there no no don't you know what All kidding aside, if that's how Jesse Jackson had actually responded to that controversy, I think he would have done better.
Eddie Murphy, writing a sketch just on the skin of his teeth, probably a day or so before it actually aired, did a better job of handling that problem.
All kidding aside, Jesse Jackson's career was over there.
He was never going to be more than what he was.
He ran again in 1988, and he kind of came in third in the primaries for the Democratic Party that year, but he never ran again.
He wasn't a serious candidate.
And it was just one of those things where he could have handled it better.
He could have followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., who was a very good friend to the Jews and of Israel, by the way.
Would have helped him.
He didn't follow that advice.
He didn't follow those footsteps.
I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone this evening.
I thank you for the opportunity.
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