Jan. 13, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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| I've said this before. | |
| It's sad for me to say, but I've come to believe it. | |
| I know it to be true. | |
| The idea that we have in the United States of America equal justice under the law. | |
| I don't believe exists any longer. | |
| The idea that we have equal application of laws, I don't believe it exists anymore. | |
| The idea that we now live uh in an in a world where we criminalize political differences, I believe that is very real. | |
| If you are a liberal, you can pretty much get away with anything. | |
| Then we watch this this whole three and a half year disaster lie, which is the biggest, you know, lie, hoax, conspiracy theory ever. | |
| The media mob, and pretty much all of them, with the exception of like my show and a few others. | |
| And they went out there and they peddled a narrative, a false narrative of Donald Trump and Russia colluding, and we now know that the basis of the FISA application that Hillary Clinton, they use Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty disinformation of ironically, of all things Russian dossier. | |
| You know, that they say, you know, uh uh in on the top of a Pfizer application, it says verified. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, none of it was verified, and we now know none of it was verifiable, and we now know uh it was unverifiable because they've the lies in it have been debunked. | |
| Then you have Paul Manafort. | |
| You know, they they go back, dig up something that was long dead, gone and buried and forgotten as a means of trying to squeeze him. | |
| Well, anyway, uh Paul Manafort was pardoned by President Trump, thankfully, rightfully in my view. | |
| And Paul Manafort is now telling his story. | |
| He's got a new book out. | |
| We have it on Ham Hannity.com, Amazon.com. | |
| Be out soon, called Political Prisoner. | |
| Paul now gets to tell his side of the story, uh, which is really good. | |
| It's uh it's subtitled is Persecuted, Prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
| Mr. Manafort, sir, welcome to the program. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
| I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you and your audience today. | |
| Look, um I'm I'm laying this out what I've learned because I spent three years of my life rightfully uncovering what I believe is the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in our history. | |
| And and we dotted every I and we crossed every T and we got everything right. | |
| Affirmed multiple times. | |
| Even the Washington Post can't stand by their their reporting on the steel dossier. | |
| I don't know why the rest of the media didn't follow suit, but they didn't. | |
| You got caught up in the middle of this. | |
| Let's talk about it from your side. | |
| Well, I appreciate that. | |
| Uh yeah, I mean it's it was the situation uh when Russian collusion first broke into the open, I laughed and uh I didn't take it seriously because I knew there was no such thing as Russian collusion. | |
| Uh then as the drum beats started to grow louder and uh stories started to leak out into the media about uh from anonymous government sources about links between the Trump campaign and me and Russia. | |
| You know, I started to see a pattern that caused me concern, but still, because I knew there was no tr no truth to it all, didn't alarm me. | |
| Um it wasn't until a special prosecutor was appointed that I realized this thing has gotten to be serious, regardless of whether it's true or not. | |
| I I I always was of the belief that if you were innocent, you didn't have anything to worry about. | |
| But frankly, from my personal experience, I discovered that unfortunately is not true anymore in the United States, especially if you supported and uh and helped elect Donald Trump. | |
| You know, it's amazing if they would have listened if Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser would have called up the 20,000 troops that that Donald Trump asked for January 6 wouldn't have happened. | |
| I mean it's a it's but they won't even the the chairman of the committee said Nancy is off limits. | |
| They don't want to get to the truth of what happened that day, because if they did, those would be the first people you call. | |
| Let me go into the look let's start the night of your arrest, and and we can work our way backwards and even move forwards whatever way you want. | |
| But what happened, you had just testified the day prior, I believe before it was a Senate committee. | |
| Yeah, that was actually uh I had my lawyers and I fully complied with everything the Senate and the House were do were investigating. | |
| Uh and this was actually before the special prosecutor was uh was appointed, and uh uh or actually right after the special prosecutor was appointed. | |
| And uh even though I was totally cooperating the next day uh the next day after my appearance with the uh the Senate staff, I had 15 FBI agents with guns written drawn, uh, walking down the corridor of my home, unbeknownst to me at 6 a.m. in the morning, uh conducting a no knock in uh uh uh uh uh search of my pro my personal property. | |
| Why they had to do that, there was no reason other than they were trying to intimidate me. | |
| Weiss this was a tactic I'd read about in Sidney Powell's book uh license to lie that Weisman used in his prosecutions is to scare targets of his, not that who he's actually after, but who he wants to get to go go to help him go after the people he targeted. | |
| So it was apparent to me from that day forward that Weissman's uh focus on me was a means to his end, and his ad really was the president. | |
| Uh again, I was concerned for the president because I knew there was nothing there. | |
| There was no Russian collusion. | |
| Uh there were no there was no evidence of even uh uh uh of even hearsay kind of uh coordination. | |
| Uh and in fact, of course, as the your work and the work of others uh exposed, it was the Clinton campaign that was dealing with the Russians through uh through Christopher Steele and uh infusion GPS. | |
| Uh but that morning, you know, literally 15 FBI agents were in my home at 6 a.m., guns drawn, telling me to raise my hands and get out of bed. | |
| I mean, it's pretty unbelievable. | |
| The only thing missing was the CNN cameras, and I I'm I'm sure they would have gotten them there if they could. | |
| Um so then this long nightmare in your life begins, and you know, walk us through the process because and then I know you can't reveal it all until the book comes out, and it and the manuscript I think is now in the editing phase and and then will be printed. | |
| Um and if people want a first edition, it's it's on Amazon.com. | |
| Um I would ask you to explain from that day forward how things went with your life and most specifically with Muller and Muller's team. | |
| You you told me last night something that surprised me, and that is you only saw Robert Mueller once briefly, and you never had words with Robert Mueller. | |
| No, Robert Muller was not a part of my case other than his name was on the uh the doormast. | |
| Uh uh, I when I did see him, he was I was uh over at the special prosecutor's office, and he was walking down the corridor. | |
| He looked at me, and this is like a year into the special prosecutor's uh uh existence, and he looked at me, he didn't know who I was. | |
| I mean, uh so that told me everything I needed to know that that he was not running the show as far as I was concerned. | |
| Uh by the way, he did not do well when he testified. | |
| He had a little bit of Joe Biden ITIS. | |
| He didn't even know a fusion GPS was. | |
| Wasn't even a trick question. | |
| He didn't know. | |
| Uh, you know, I saw that. | |
| And uh, but I mean uh uh even Andrew Weissman, who was leading the investigation against me, he didn't have any facts. | |
| He had a narrative. | |
| It was his narrative. | |
| Uh you would read about it in the press, but there was no there was there were no facts behind his narrative. | |
| It was what he thought and wanted it to be. | |
| It and frankly, uh the reason he came after me at first was to get Trump, and then he when he realized he couldn't get to Trump from me because there was nothing to get, then he uh doubled down and wanted me to spend the rest of my life in prison. | |
| And by the way, even suggesting as long as twenty-four years, which is an obscene amount for what they were charging you with. | |
| Let's talk about the time that you spent talking to I assume the lead lead uh what the New York Times described as uh Mueller's pit bull, Andrew Weissman. | |
| By the way, did you see that Weissman came out uh and and thinks that you might be violating your plea deal even though you've got a full pardon uh by writing a book. | |
| He doesn't want you to write a this book, apparently. | |
| He can't help you know, he certainly doesn't want me writing the book. | |
| Uh yeah, he but he can't help himself. | |
| He knows in fact that there's no restriction anymore me writing this book and publishing it. | |
| Uh but he can't help himself. | |
| Uh and I and is he concerned? | |
| I think he is concerned because some of the things I'll be talking about in the book are gonna make it clear that his objective was not to find justice but to conform to do injustice. | |
| And uh and when he couldn't get his way, you know, when it was with me, he went after Stone. | |
| I mean, and did the same thing to Roger Stone that he did to me. | |
| I mean, it was just I mean, and I guess you know, Roger was second up, but he you know, because I didn't give Weissman anything, Roger had to go through the same uh miserable experience. | |
| Uh and and again they got nothing from Roger either because there was nothing to get. | |
| Quick break more with Paul Manafort. | |
| He is coming out with his new book soon. | |
| He's given us a preview political prisoner, persecuted, prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
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| Political prisoner persecuted, prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
| So let's talk about what would go on. | |
| How would these sessions go down? | |
| I mean, you would be sitting with, I guess, Weissman and probably others, I'm guessing, and you they would be wanting you to say certain things and they'd be offering you certain things in exchange, for example. | |
| Um I look at it like Sammy the Bull Gravano murders nineteen people or twenty people, whatever the number is, and and he gets in the witness protection program, doesn't no jail time as a result of it because he he said what the FBI wanted him to say about uh John Gotti. | |
| Now that if it's one's freedom for a murderer is something of great value. | |
| So h you know, how are you gonna uh uh m move a whole case uh based on the testimony of a a known murderer uh that you're giving freedom to, not exactly the most credible witness in my eyes, but uh but that's how the system works. | |
| When they sat you down, did they offer you a quid pro quo? | |
| The they there were There were inferences and promises that uh that uh if I was cooperating with them, uh they would seek leniency in my behalf. | |
| Uh and uh to them cooperating was agreeing to a narrative that wasn't true. | |
| And would they be telling you the narrative? | |
| Would they say, didn't this really happen? | |
| Didn't Donald Trump really work with Putin or whatever they would be asking you. | |
| Well, I I actually go through it in the book, so they kind of QA that we went through, but there would be there would be scenarios that were positive and uh and uh I would disagree with them and uh timetables that I would disagree with, and uh uh yeah, in conversations that I would disagree with. | |
| And you know, again, I get into all this in the book, um, but it's uh it was very unpleasant because I'm in a situation where I I'd have to lie to give them what they want, and by not lying, uh they came after me even harder. | |
| And uh it it was it very clear to you that if you told them what they wanted to hear about Donald Trump that your freedom was was pretty much going to be assured, or you your your sentence would be very, very low. | |
| They they they they there was you know statements to the fact that uh you know if I cooperated that they would not be coming after me as hard as they ended up coming after me. | |
| Um and uh you know, we never got to define that moment uh because we never got to that moment. | |
| Uh but you knew what they wanted you to say. | |
| What were they looking for you to say? | |
| I mean, they they had a narrative, and again, I'll get through this in the book, that had uh the president involved with me and others, uh in in including with uh with Russians, which was absurd. | |
| And uh i i it I don't know if they're the way, you know. | |
| I will tell you, when you're looking at the rest of your life in prison, and they just want you to say one thing, and then you can get your freedom back, or maybe only get a year instead of 25 years, that's a pretty tempting offer. | |
| Well, i it's just not who I am. | |
| I I mean, I wasn't gonna lie to uh uh to to do that. | |
| I mean, and once you start down that road, yeah, it's a slippery slope. | |
| I mean, who knows where you end up? | |
| And there was no way I was gonna do that. | |
| Uh and I'd made it clear in the beginning to my lawyers who had made it clear to Weissman, but you know, Weissman's got a track pretty good track record of breaking people. | |
| Talk to me about prison. | |
| What was prison life like? | |
| You spent near nearly a year in in solitary confinement. | |
| I think they were trying to break you myself, just as an outside observer. | |
| And what was life generally like in prison? | |
| Yeah, it it was exactly that. | |
| They were trying to break me. | |
| I mean, I was in an eight by twelve tense cell, I mean, no windows. | |
| Uh, did I couldn't tell if it was day or night, uh no clock. | |
| So I can I mean I had to I had to uh tell time by by the uh when the meals were being served uh as to uh what what time of the day it was. | |
| Uh and it it was and it was very disorienting. | |
| Uh and I had to really draw into myself and my family and my faith and uh and my confidence that uh that uh the the right things would happen, hopefully. | |
| Well i if if I but I was not yeah, it was not a how did the prison population treat you? | |
| Because oftentimes that they don't like political people. | |
| Well, the I had no problem with the pr the population of the prison. | |
| They they they admire the fact that I was not a rat, but I had not lied to help myself. | |
| And uh, stay with that thought. | |
| Let me I'm gonna hold you over a little bit if you don't mind for the next break. | |
| Uh Paul Manafort is with us. | |
| His book will be coming out soon. | |
| Uh you can get it on Amazon.com, uh Hannity.com, pretty soon bookstores everywhere. | |
| We'll let you know when it gets released. | |
| Political prisoner, persecuted, prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
| More with Paul Manafort. | |
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| Uh a few more moments, and then we'll get to your calls 800-941 Sean with uh Paul Manafort. | |
| Uh he's given us a little preview. | |
| He's been writing a new book. | |
| It'll be coming out shortly. | |
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| Political prisoner, persecuted, prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
| Uh it's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, and we'll let you know when it's in bookstores everywhere. | |
| We were talking about time in prison. | |
| Uh probably the last place you ever thought you'd be in life. | |
| Um so you you end up in in prison. | |
| They put you in solitary confinement, what was it, nine, ten months straight? | |
| Yeah, ten months, yeah. | |
| And that's twenty-three hours in in your prison cell without a window, you don't know if it's day or night. | |
| And then you get what, an hour out in the yard? | |
| Uh no, an hour out what twice a week, not uh every hour a day. | |
| Twice, so twice a week. | |
| Now at that point, I remember seeing you at a court hearing and you were in a wheelchair, and apparently you I I had read that you were suffering from health problems, gout among them, which I hear is very painful, but what was that like? | |
| Uh it was no fun. | |
| I mean, uh I've always been a healthy person and never had any gout or anything like that, but the diet was so bad in prison that uh I asked for a diabetic diet, even though I wasn't a diabetic, figuring there'd be less of a less salt and richness in the food. | |
| And I was told not to bother because the only difference between the two diets was the less food in the in the diabetic one. | |
| So that didn't solve my problem. | |
| So I was forced really to uh not eat very much because it would the it was causing the inflammation and causing the pain. | |
| And uh when I had to go to court, I I had to use a wheelchair because I literally couldn't walk. | |
| Uh what was the what was the kind of what was the food like? | |
| Was it chicken? | |
| Was it steak? | |
| Was uh uh you know, I'm not expecting you got the the best gourmet food there. | |
| No, a lot of times I didn't know really what it was. | |
| We can laugh now, I'm sure it wasn't fun then. | |
| But you know, you we you the way I approached all of it. | |
| I mean, you sit back now and you think of the horror of it, but I just decided I couldn't let this treatment get to me. | |
| And I wouldn't. | |
| And uh because if I did, capitulate to it, then Weissman was winning, and I wasn't gonna let that happen. | |
| Uh how did you occupy your time then? | |
| Uh I I was able to get books. | |
| I read a lot of books. | |
| Uh yeah, I read the Bible as a history book. | |
| I'd never read it as a history book before. | |
| And uh and I found that very informative. | |
| And uh, and then I was keeping notes. | |
| I mean, I was able to get some paper and keeping notes, and then uh later on, uh uh after about three or four months, I was able to get a transistor radio, the old Sony transistor radios. | |
| It uh frankly, you and Mark Levin and Rush got me through those times because that was my connection to the outside world was that radio, and I would listen to your show and uh listen to uh Levin and would you listen to nine hours of radio most days that once you got the radio? | |
| There were days I did that, yes, just because uh Well, listen, I hope I hope you heard me talking about you a lot, because we talked about you a lot. | |
| No, I did, and I appreciated it, and frankly, that's part of the thing that gave me courage and confidence that in the end the right things would happen. | |
| You know, wise wouldn't we like to say that I had a commitment from the president about to be part three pardon. | |
| I never had a clear, but I had belief that he'd do the right thing. | |
| And I took the book. | |
| We learned later when they released text messages between the two of us, um, that apparent what did they think that I was sending secret telepathic messages like from Donald Trump to you? | |
| I'm like, what's wrong with these people? | |
| Yeah, they they They showed me your some of our emails for the first time. | |
| I said, Well, you don't have to read these emails, just watch them on TV because he says, TV. | |
| So it became a big deal. | |
| Um, and fake news CNN and MSDNC. | |
| You know what their commentary was? | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| It sounds just like his monologues. | |
| He really believes this, which made me think, Yeah, I believe it. | |
| Do you not believe what you say? | |
| Yeah, well, they know better than to believe what they say because it's not true usually. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Um was there a low point? | |
| Was there a moment you said I this this just sucks. | |
| I can't take this. | |
| Well, uh not I can't take this, but the low points were my wife's uh my wedding anniversary, uh my 40s and 41st wedding anniversaries in jail. | |
| Uh you know, my wife's birthday, my kids' birthdays. | |
| Uh I had two grandkids at the time. | |
| I went in there three when I came out, and not being able to be with them in their you know early years. | |
| I mean, that that's what was tough. | |
| Um, but I have a good strong family. | |
| They were there for me. | |
| My wife would d drive uh twelve hours uh every week to see me six hours over six hours back. | |
| It uh it it it got me through it. | |
| I mean, they the family and faith and believing that you know uh things would turn out in the end because it was not this just wasn't right. | |
| But it concerns me because I now see an a Biden administration creating a domestic terrorism unit uh to go after Americans who don't agree with uh with with them on things. | |
| This January 6th farce that uh that plays into you know, from the very same people who never recognized Donald Trump's victory and did everything they could to destroy his presidency because they didn't like the fact that he won. | |
| Uh, you know, so I mean I am concerned about our future. | |
| And uh and I talk about these things in the book because the book is more than just my life in prison. | |
| I mean legally talks about the Trump campaign, it talks about some of the important decisions that were made that I was a part of and talks about the Trump administration and what the president was able to accomplish in comparing it to where we are today and why elections make a difference. | |
| And uh, you know, it's so it uh and these are things that I was able to sort of build on when I was in solitary confinement, listening to you and to live in and to uh rush and uh uh uh it it it got me through. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Well, the book is uh I I can't wait to read it, and I know you you're you're not saying a lot of what's in it for the all the right reasons, um, because you want to tell the story in full when the time is right. | |
| Uh giving us a preview though has been fascinating and and interesting. | |
| It's called Political Prisoner, Persecuted, Prosecuted, but not silenced. | |
| Paul Manafort when that book comes out. | |
| We can't wait to have you. | |
| Thank you for being with us. | |
| Thank you, Sean. | |
| I really appreciate it. | |
| We have a good day. | |
| You too. | |
| 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Uh back to the other breaking news of the day. | |
| This did not surprise me. | |
| Linda, I predicted that this was going to be what the the vote is and the Supreme Court uh ruling uh that came out today. | |
| What did I say the moment Joe Biden gave his vaccine mandate speech? | |
| I said, There was going to be a slew of lawsuits. | |
| I did. | |
| What did I predict? | |
| I said they're gonna split the baby here. | |
| I said it's gonna and what did I say? | |
| I said it was gonna be six three. | |
| Um so I I um but it's hard to predict based on oral arguments, but uh we ended up being right. | |
| It was kind of so obvious in this case. | |
| It was um I don't know what you mean by that. | |
| I don't think it's obvious at all. | |
| I mean, we saw Sotomayor and Breyers literally lie on sitting on the dais of the Supreme Court. | |
| It's an embarrassment. | |
| I don't think they lied. | |
| I think they didn't know what the hell they're talking about. | |
| I think there's a difference. | |
| I think they get fed a like a list, right? | |
| And instead of doing their own research, like how many hours you spend researching in the morning, right? | |
| We start talking like five in the morning, and then we spend the whole day doing research, right? | |
| And you do your own research. | |
| Nobody's sitting there reading it for you. | |
| I don't think these knuckleheads spent more time reading their own research. | |
| I think somebody handed them a sheet, a list, and they said what was on it, and they just read it off because no one could read that and say this makes sense. | |
| It doesn't make any sense. | |
| And quite frankly, I was saying this the other day to the attorney general Bernovich's office in Landry. | |
| I said, Are they gonna correct the record? | |
| I mean, these are bold faced lies that are now on Supreme Court identity. | |
| I just disagree with your term lie. | |
| I honestly, when when Breyer says we just had seven hundred and fifty million people uh get the virus this week, I just think he didn't know. | |
| I mean, we only have a population of three hundred and fifty million, or or was it I think sort of my order that said, I mean, she just doesn't know what she's talking. | |
| They don't know what they're talking about. | |
| But that's even more scary. | |
| So now these two people sit on the Supreme Court of the United States making rules about legislation and and things that are going to affect generations of Americans. | |
| Well, it's unbelievable. | |
| What do you think? | |
| It's pretty scary. | |
| I'll tell you what else is scary. | |
| Paul Manafort's story is scary. | |
| And and this is why I've been so disappointed. | |
| Um when the Inspector General's report finally came out, and that took forever, and it corroborated all of the reporting that that we did on this show and on Hannity, the TV show, and it you know, and our ensemble cast that worked so hard, and the referrals that were in there and the low-hanging fruit, and we still have next to almost nothing from Durham. | |
| I cannot fathom why that is possible. | |
| How do you refer people for the exact same allegations that you know that led to pre-dawn raids for people like Roger Stone and Madam Fort and others? | |
| Uh, they put that that pork he's a kid to me. | |
| He's a great guy. | |
| Uh Papadopoulos, they put him in jail for what, two weeks. | |
| Remember the discussion I had with him in the studio that day? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I remember he's like, I'm gonna challenge this. | |
| I'm like, no, you're not. | |
| Don't do it. | |
| I said, anybody can do two weeks. | |
| I said, you're gonna run the risk that you're gonna do two years. | |
| Don't do it. | |
| And he listened to me. | |
| I didn't want to give him that advice. | |
| Um, and and they got through it, but it's just unbelievable here. | |
| Uh also, by the way. | |
| Yeah, it's heartbreaking to see that our fellow Americans don't have their own constitutional rights and that people don't care because they politicize something that doesn't even really exist. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Um, anyway, 800-941 Sean is our number. | |
| You want to be a part of the program. | |
| All right, let's go to our phones here as we say hi to let's see, Dwayne is in Massachusetts. | |
| Dwayne, how are you? | |
| I'm good. | |
| How are you doing, Sean? | |
| I'm good, sir. | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Um, I just wanted to say thank you from the top uh for what you do. | |
| I um I'm of uh from the class of 84, and my first Christmas last Christmas gift my mother gave me was uh a Russian bar book uh when I was graduating high school, so it kind of set me on a course uh be a fan of yours and Rush and Mark Levin and I actually spoke to Rush once, so I just want to say thank you. | |
| I can do both I can imitate both. | |
| Which one do you like better? | |
| Sean Hannity is filling in later this week. | |
| That's Rush. | |
| Or I can do Levin. | |
| I'll say it. | |
| Nobody else will say it. | |
| There. | |
| Oh, you might call in 200 quid. | |
| I love it. | |
| All right, which one which one do you like better? | |
| Or I can do Bill Clinton. | |
| I want to say to all the hot chicks out there in Hannity Land, if you ever need a tour of of the Hannity studio, I'm I g uh I'll give you a personalized tour. | |
| Oh man, I'll book you for a tour. | |
| Sounds like that'll work. | |
| Uh you which we get. | |
| Well, which one do you like the best? | |
| That's my question. | |
| A B or C. Uh uh Rush. | |
| Really? | |
| By the way, how much do we miss his voice? | |
| Man. | |
| I know, man. | |
| Uh man, I I think he's the last person I cry for when they pass. | |
| But the reason why I called in, sir, um, is because I spent about 40, 45 years in the music industry, and I'm not gonna drop names, but I worked with A-listers uh across the board. | |
| And one thing I noticed about the left is that they deployed the same strategies that we used to use to market some of the biggest records uh that ever uh, you know, on on the planet, and they used it to uh brainwash uh the next generation uh to the point where I'm an African American and I'm actually a minister now. | |
| But um and they use the same uh uh tactics of uh repetition, whether you're lying or not, keep saying it anyway. | |
| Whether you're lying out, if it's not misway, and eventually someone's gonna believe it is just like uh with certain uh recording artists that you know they can't sing, they can't rep, they suck. | |
| But what happens is that when people play it anyway, because money's behind it, then it'll make some folks think, well, this must be hot. | |
| By the way, I know this to be true because I know too many people in the music industry in and on the radio side in particular, I know it's everything you're saying is true. | |
| You you're cracking me up because and you're right in your analysis that it's the exact same tactics. | |
| Look, Democrats have a book. | |
| And I say it it's I used to say every two and four years Republicans are racist, sexist, uh xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic. | |
| Now it's transphobic. | |
| They want dirty air water and to kill grandma and grandpa after after only feeding them dog and cat food. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now they say it every day. | |
| I mean, you know, Joe Biden playing the race card the other day, uh, you know, is it's just standard fare for liberals and the media mob. | |
| And Dick Durbin even acknowledged, yeah, you might have gone too far. | |
| I'm like, yeah, you'd think. | |
| But you know, that that's the world we live in. | |
| All right. | |
| Drop drop some names. | |
| I want to know who who did you work with. | |
| Well, my my family pedigree, Tina Turner, uh cousin, A.D. King, my uncle. | |
| Um, I was music director for a new edition, Ralph's resident for years. | |
| Um I uh work with Maurice Star, we did new kids on the block, and and and my thing is I me being a conservative, I always wondered why I couldn't find money on the right side of the aisle that on the left side, you know, they're willing to put up the money to bat some of these artists and get them spun, because once they do it, they know they can control the narrative. | |
| Because if someone's paying for your masters, then of course they get to influence what you say, even if you're not really on board with that. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| I feel sorry for musicians. | |
| They they sign these deals, they're all excited, they get a record deal, and they don't read the fine print, and they get the financially they get destroyed. | |
| Um I hate that that happens to really talented artists. | |
| Like even what happened with Taylor Swift, this guy, you know, bought out her library. | |
| I'm like, really? | |
| That that was pretty crappy thing to do, in my opinion. | |
| All right, thanks, man. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Call back again, all right, my friend. | |
| I will. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Bye-bye. | |
| All right, Duane, thank you. | |
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