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Journalism Is Dying - June 21st, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, you know, the things that are said on, for example, I'm on Fox News.
I'm up front about who I am.
I'm a member of the press.
That's obvious.
Um I I do straight news and I can produce thousands and thousands of hours of radio and television straight news.
In other words, no opinion whatsoever.
Here's the news of the day.
We do investigative reporting.
We were proven right on everything we reported over a period of three plus years as it relates to the Trump Russia collusion hoax.
Actually, hoax is.
There were two of them, the dirty dossier, and then of course the Alpha Bank one.
Uh so that's investigative reporting.
We do that too.
We do opinion, and I tell you upfront, I am a conservative.
If I like a candidate, support a candidate, I tell you.
It's like the equivalent of the op-ed page or the editorial page of a newspaper.
We do culture, we do sports.
We're like a whole newspaper.
Everybody else in the media claims to be something that they are not.
They claim to be journalists.
They're not journalists, they're not objective, they're not fair, they're not balanced.
Uh, there's gonna be a book coming out in just a couple of weeks about this by our friend Ari Fleischer, and it's called Suppression, uh Deception, Snobbery, and Bias, and why the press gets so much wrong.
He's a former press secretary himself.
You know, I'll give you a quick example.
This isn't a joyless read and Matthew Dowd on MSDNC.
Now remember, MSDNC, that's NBC News.
That's the flagship cable news network for NBC.
You think they'd have some level of ethics and standards, they have none.
They lied for three years, they never retracted a single thing, they never acknowledged they were wrong, they never corrected the record, and and they go out there and claim that they're journalists.
Just a just a crock.
Listen to this.
Complaining that the autocratic GOP are being treated fairly by the media, which is like the biggest lie of all time.
And do you think that I mean the give us the some advice for the media?
Because you know, again, the media did mainstream the Tea Party and wants to, doesn't want to be in a war with the Republican Party.
Let's just be clear.
In general, the media does not want to be at war with the Republicans.
They want to treat both sides the same, but both sides are not the same, right?
At this point, you were a Republican strategist.
I've been a lifelong democrat.
We agree on all of this.
How do we get us all out of this both sides sort of trajectory?
Well, I mean, I think that's the fundamental choice, and that the fundamental choice is if you're a person in the media that covers the news, it can't just be well, the Republicans stand for autocracy and Democrats stand for democracy, and let's see how this game plays out, because as part of democracy is free is media.
Part of democracy is freedom of the press.
And the media has to.
I actually thought one thing I thought that the media should do a better job of, which is how do people in the media conduct themselves in an autocratic country?
The ones that believe in free media.
We need to think more like that in the media and less like this is just A and B and decide, let the voters decide.
That's the point we have to give up.
We it is we have to tell the voters what the threat is, just like we do, Joy.
We tell them about inflation and we tell them about job growth, and we tell them we tell them about a hurricane, and we tell them about tornadoes, and we tell them about wildfire.
We have to treat this assault just like we have to tell them about the assault on democracy.
All right, joining us now, Ari Fleischer.
Ari, how are you, my friend?
I was fine until you made me listen to that.
Yeah, exactly.
So your book is going to go into this.
Maybe just give us a little preview.
I know it's a little bit early, a couple of weeks early, but a preview of what you've discovered and all the research leading up to this.
No, absolutely, and what you just played is part and parcel of the biggest problem.
The overriding conclusion of my book was that the American press corps abandoned their job, gave up their mission all to get Donald Trump, because they made, and you just heard it, a conscious decision to save the Republic from the results of the 2016 election.
They somehow think that they know better, are smarter, and look down upon.
75 million Americans.
The Americans, and when 2016 elected Donald Trump, and the press never accepted it.
So they changed missions.
They thought their mission was to rescue the country from the decision the country made.
And that was an abandonment of their job, and I called them out on it by name, by example, as after example by example in this book.
Well, I mean, that's the thing.
There's so many examples in this book.
You know, there's there's not only the battle that Trump faces from the Democrats and the media mob, we know they hate him.
Um, but his policies were were extraordinarily successful.
And and I took a lot of heat when I supported him back in 2016 and actually 2015, uh, because I've known him for so many years, and I said, no, just because he donated to Democrats has nothing to do with how he really feels on issues.
And yes, he was once pro-choice, but he's gonna tell you the story about how he decided to become pro-life, what changed his heart.
And he'll tell you what he believes about limited government and about energy independence and about securing our border and about national security and don't get involved in prolonged conflicts and so on and so forth.
And I was proven right.
And even Republicans, though, and you know this to be a fact, they are actively undermining him every step of the way as well.
Maybe maybe they like his policies.
I don't know.
A lot of them didn't go along with them.
Um, but certainly maybe they don't like his personality or the maybe don't like the style of Donald Trump.
But conservatism, when applied, Ari Fleischer, I contend, often wor always works.
Not often, it always works.
Well, the proof is in the phone of the Trump years compared to the Biden years, isn't it?
You know, all you have to do is go look back at the tremendous economic success, for policy successes, peace in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords.
He reset relations with China, took China on in a way that no politician prior to him would have done.
He got NATO to increase defense spending, which they always resisted doing.
Across the board, he was a policy success.
And I point out a lot of that in my book.
I also point out how reporters went to great lengths to diminish or dismiss so many of his policy accomplishments.
You know, prior to COVID, as a result of the Trump tax cuts and deregulation, the child poverty rate in the United States was the lowest it's been since 1958.
Unemployment record lows.
Income inequality actually started to shrink.
Middle class and lower middle class and the lowest class made more money, more of an income game under the Trump years than the upper class, upper income people did.
These are remarkable accomplishments.
And the press dismissed them all.
They would not give credit.
In fact, they just blamed.
And I I go through it in my book.
They love Joe Biden's spending increases.
They loved it.
Put it on the front page of how compassion it was, good for people.
They didn't say that Biden's spending increases would blow the deficit.
They didn't say that Biden's spending increases would lead to inflation, both of which it's done.
They praised Biden for it.
For Trump's tax cuts, they derided Trump for it and ignored the successes.
You know what the amazing thing is?
Look at, for example, January 6th.
Now we've already had an post-presidential impeachment on the issue, right?
But let's just bludgeon Trump even some more.
The amazing thing in this is, you know, I've been able to do my own research and investigative reporting, and there was a meeting in the Oval Office, I've confirmed with five people that the meeting took place.
Four of the five people I've spoken to personally, including Donald Trump and Mark Meadows as chief of staff, and Chris Miller, the acting Secretary of Defense, and his chief of staff, Cash Patel.
Those four people have told me in no uncertain terms, Donald Trump authorized calling up up to 20,000 troops, knowing we just came out off a summer of rioting, 574 riots in the summer of 2020, knowing that tensions were high in the country post the November 2020 election and to protect the Capitol, did this.
I was able to get the other person in the room.
He's been traveling quite a bit, but I got people around him to confirm to me, directly to me, that in fact he remembers specific conversations with President Trump about security before January 6th.
So the chairman of the Joint Chiefs talked to the president about securing the Capitol beforehand.
Now, once the president, as required by law, authorizes the calling up of these National Guard troops, then the jurisdiction to make the call is out of his hands.
And it goes to Nancy Pelosi and it goes to Muriel Bowser.
They have the jurisdiction.
Muriel Bowser in writing rejected calling up the National Guard.
Nancy Pelosi was, according to Benny Thompson, the committee chairman, she was off limits in this investigation.
Right.
We know also that the Capitol Police Chief on six separate occasions, including three days before January 6th, when new intelligence had come in, personally repeatedly requested guard assistance and was denied.
And we now know that on January 5th, a very specific threat assessment from our own intel community was handed over to Chuck Schumer's office, and they didn't lift a finger.
Now, if you really cared about getting to the bottom of January 6th, and not just bludgeoning Donald Trump because he had a rally and had beliefs that you disagreed with, um, doesn't sound like the guy is trying to organize a rally if he's authorizing troops to protect the Capitol, or organizing a riot, rather.
None of what you said surprises me, Sean.
And I spent 17 years on Capitol Hill, and the motto on Capitol Hill is we're the people's house.
And the idea of calling up troops to guard the people's house is just anathema to Nancy Pelosi and to the leaders in the Congress.
They would just think that that means the American people are an enemy and we can't do that.
So I can easily see them saying no, no, no, the optics, it would look bad.
We're not going to ring the Capitol with troops.
And I'm sure that is what Pelosi was thinking.
And she rejected the advice of the police, the people who could have protected if they had more resources.
And it doesn't surprise me that Trump would have sent more troops there, knowing his opposition to the violence that took place in the summer of two thousand and twenty.
Now look, I I've long said I wish Trump had called that rally on a different day.
It's one thing to exercise free speech and put peacefully protest, object to the election results, all you want.
That is absolutely fair game.
It just shouldn't have been done the same day as the vote.
I just think caution would have said put it on a different day.
Nevertheless, there still is no excuses to riot, but there was no excuse for the Capitol not to have sufficient guard.
All right, quick break more with Ari Fleischer.
By the way, his new book soon to be released.
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If we really care about protecting elected officials, and I do care, and I said this during the Obama years, I've said it my whole career.
Uh this isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican or a liberal or conservative.
We've got to protect our institutions.
We gotta protect our elected officials.
Not that complicated to me of an issue.
Uh to me, I I think a perimeter should be set up around the Capitol, including, you know, those concrete barricades.
Um I think there should be only certain points of entry or in that perimeter area.
Uh I think when there are known protests coming to town, you've got to have reinforcements for the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department.
And none of that happened, but none of this is even being discussed.
So it sounds to me like they're not looking for a solution, so this never happens again.
But these are also Ari, the same people that ignored 574 riots, either they were complicit in the sense that they were silent about the violence that injured thousands of cops, killed dozens of Americans, caused billions of property damage, or they just outright lied to us by suggesting that they're mostly peaceful protests,
or they were, you know, egging them on in the case of Kamala Harris by tweeting out a bail fund after a police precinct burn to the ground in Minneapolis, and also going on Stephen Colbert and saying that these people protesting shouldn't stop, they won't stop, we're not gonna stop, they shouldn't stop, and you better beware, you better take note, because this is gonna continue.
That sounds like a threat to me, like Chuck Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court.
You won't know what hit you, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
And look what it's extended to.
An attempted assassination on Brett Kavanaugh, protests in violation of federal law, which Mer Attorney General Merrick Garland will not shut down outside Supreme Court Justices' houses.
Only Republican appointed Supreme Court justices' houses in an effort to intimidate them and make them change their rulings.
It doesn't end.
And this is the problem with violence.
Violence of any strike, potential violence, and law breaking.
It needs to be treated equally.
Justice must be blind.
And that's what's so infuriating about the violence from the left.
Like it's winked at and looked the other way at by the powers that be now the Biden administration.
And this is where you sean have always called it out to your credit.
You call it out when it happens on the right, and you call it out when it happens on the left.
But you know, my book is going to have example after example about times when the press goes easy on the left and then brutalizes and beats up the right for virtually the exact same thing.
I have headlines, I have pictures.
There's a chapter dedicated to the New York Times, a chapter dedicated to CNN.
All of which I name the reporters, I let reporters reporting speak for itself, and you can watch reporters hang themselves with their own double standards and hypocrisy of how they treat Republicans and Democrats.
And don't think this is going to go away if when Donald Trump goes away.
This has now become a feature of mainstream journalism.
They have too many Twitter followers, too many people in in Hollywood, crazing them, patting them on the back, encouraging them, and they have too much fun being activists.
They've given up what you talked about at the beginning.
The ability to be a fair-minded neutral reporter.
It no longer is what journalism is about.
It's become activism.
Activism for a cause, and it surely isn't a conservative cause for most of them.
Well, the book is coming out.
If you want to get a first print uh copy edition, first one edition, it's going to be out very shortly.
Uh you can get it on Hannity.com and Amazon.com and bookstores soon everywhere.
We'll let you know when it comes out.
It's called Suppression Deception, Snobbery and Bias.
Why the press gets so much wrong?
Um, I can add because they don't care about the truth.
But uh Ari will lay out the case for you.
Ari Fleischer, we love having you on the program as always.
Thank you for being with us.
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Sean in Oklahoma.
How do you spell your name, Sean in Oklahoma?
I spelled the right way.
S H A U N. What do you mean you spell it the no that?
I thought, you know what?
You suckered me right in.
You really did.
Well, I spelled the old-fashioned Irish way, S-E-A-N.
What's going on, my friend?
Glad you called.
Yeah, man, I was listening to your show yesterday talking about this caravan coming through.
And it's my understanding there's going to be people coming from all over the world, not just south of the border.
And Oklahoma here, we've got two probable cases of monkeypox already.
And my biggest concern about that is that this administration has another excuse to shut this economy down.
And I'd like to see this uh uh Republicans push back on this Title 42 with this new monkey pox going on.
Listen, I'm I'm watching this closely, and the cases are not that large.
Is it gonna be uh as big as COVID?
I'm look, I'm not gonna play medical researcher, I don't play doctor, I don't play financial advisor on radio.
I just give you my thoughts.
Um I will tell you this.
I will never ever, ever trust the NIH, the CDC, uh elected officials ever again after all that they got wrong as it relates to COVID.
And more importantly, how they ignored the this especially once we had Delta and breakthrough variants, and how they ignored informing the American people about therapeutics that were effective and worked like monoclonal antibodies, and now these antivirals that are out there, like uh Paxlavid.
You know, I'm I'm I've had it with them, and I really have no respect for them, and I'm you know, I go back to I guess I was right almost from the beginning in the sense that you gotta ask your own doctor and make your own decisions.
You know, Fauci actually went on record, I have it somewhere in my pile of junk.
Um he says he can intend to continue funding China's virology research.
Can you believe that?
Yeah.
I I mean, this is madness to me.
You know, from what I read about monkeypox, I'm not that worried about it.
I really am not.
As much as as I'm more concerned about them using it as a political tool.
Well, I you know, what bother what's so frustrating to me in all this is i i they they even politicize health.
And uh I will tell you that they did a grave disservice to the American people.
And um it's frustrating.
It really is.
But hang in there, you know, if you only have two cases in Oklahoma, I think you're okay for now.
But check in with your doctor if you're worried.
I'm not playing doctor on T on TV or radio.
I think that's probably the smartest decision I ever made.
We just talk to experts, varying opinions, and let you make up your own mind.
I think people are smart enough to figure out things out for themselves.
Uh Justin is in Nevada.
What's going on, Justin?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for all you do.
I appreciate you speaking the truth.
Uh I just want to.
By the way, you had a great Senate candidate and Adam Laxalt out there.
He can win that race.
Absolutely.
Um I just wanted to to comment on the gas prices.
Out here, you know, I'm a single father of uh six, and uh gas prices are over six dollars a gallon here.
And um, you know, it it's it's just crazy.
Like, I mean, after my after my paycheck, I pay my insurance for my wife and my kids and stuff, and I literally have about a hundred dollars to live on.
I mean, it's it's crazy, and that's not incre including groceries, gas.
I mean, it's we're just struggling, man.
And then these Democrats, they just don't care about us, plain and simple.
You know, I don't care about what happened on January.
So you're a single dad, father of six, and what you're basically saying is this is killing you.
This is crushing your family budget.
Is that a fair way to say it?
Absolutely.
100%.
And and do you do you own your own house or do you rent a house?
I actually do own my house, Sean.
You own your house.
Okay, here's what's gonna happen.
Even in in now, Nevada had a really tough time with COVID and is now only they lag behind in terms of growing back to where they were, and and from what I've heard, things have gotten a lot better, especially in the last six months to a year, but it was a very difficult time for a lot of you in Nevada on the economy front.
So what's gonna happen now is because mortgage rates are up so dramatically, it's gonna people that have homes are gonna hold on to them with their cheap rates, and they're not gonna be making even a lateral move or maybe to a bigger home because they can't get a good interest rate.
So new home construction is gonna dry up out there, then sale of existing homes is gonna dry up out there, then the valuation of your home, they're gonna begin to plummet.
Home values will plummet.
And now you're in a position where, you know, maybe you thought you had X number of of dollars, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity, uh, it's gonna evaporate right before your eyes, just like your 401k is evaporating right before your eyes, and you got six kids to raise.
How old are your kids?
Oh, they're all the way from four months to uh fourteen years old.
And you're a single dad?
Man.
Yeah, sorry, I I said single, I apologize.
I am married, but um I I split custody with my ex-wife and uh so it's so you gotta but you have to raise six kids.
Let's just focus on what's um what we're talking about here.
You have to raise six kids, they're young.
I mean, when you start getting into the the at this age, and then you get to college and you want to help your kids out with college, and then you know, beyond college when the four-month-old is now 20 years old, 20 years from now, uh you you're thinking about can I retire?
Will I ever be able to retire?
I mean, all my so many people I know are struggling with this.
Uh the only relief that we're gonna see is we need new government.
We need to throw these these climate alarmist religious cultists out.
They need to be fired for doing a lousy job.
That's the only answer I have.
In the meantime, you know, the short term, we're all gonna suffer.
You know, it it would it be a gimmick if they were to remove the eighteen point three cents a gallon the federal government makes.
Yeah, it'll be an election year gimmick.
It'll be short lived, then they'll put it back in place and probably get rid of it before the next election, because that's how you know politics works.
But um there are really only two solutions everybody has, and that is to cut back spending.
Most people have done that to the extent that they can.
And the next the next option is you gotta find more ways to bring in income, and when you got six kids, that's not particularly easy to do.
It's not like you have a lot of spare time on your hands.
Not at all.
Zero spare time.
Hang in there, buddy.
And uh listen, we're all we're all on the same train here, and it's uh we're headed for a collision.
It's really hurting people badly.
Uh I wish you the best of luck, my friend.
I mean that sincerely.
Joe in Pennsylvania.
What's up, Joe?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
Thanks for telling me.
By the way, you got a good Senate candidate as well.
Oz will make a great senator for PA, I promise you.
We're hoping he gets in.
Um he needs your help, no doubt about it.
Uh I am I've been in advertising for quite a long time.
And what you had on your TV show last week with the home value and the interest rates going up was illustrated brilliantly.
And I have a homework assignment for your staff.
Okay, I got my pen out.
Go ahead.
No, I'm serious, I'm writing it down.
They should find the average cost of an electric vehicle, and apply that same interest rate increase with a car loan, and see what that final cost of that vehicle is over a three and a five year period.
Also, Sean, you being in construction.
I'm hearing, well, you know, we get three hundred miles and we get four hundred miles on a charge.
You know in construction, Sean, that if you have a crew cab with four guys, a couple bags of cement in there, towing a you know, uh a backhoe, you're not gonna get three or four hundred miles on on a charge.
Not even close.
Where are they where are they coming up with these numbers?
Also, if you have a family of four and you're going up and down hills and you're stuck in traffic, are you still gonna get that three and four hundred mile charge?
No, and look, listen, this is impacting everybody.
Um you know, I'm I'm being told from friends that work in hospitals that they're running out of IVs for crying out loud.
I'm being told, you know, I do have all these farmers calling saying, Sean, we're dying here.
We don't we can't afford the fertilizer.
We can't afford even the seeds to to plant our crops this year.
Uh we can't get spare parts to fix our tractors and other other farming equipment.
And truckers, you they're they're telling their stories about you know the high cost of a gallon of diesel, and right now, I mean, there's an ebb and flow to the supply chain, and right now they're at a low and rates are low, and that means companies are making less money, and and that means you know, some of these companies probably won't survive.
And then what happens then?
Now we're back in a position where you know the shelves are empty in the stores that we go to on top of everything else that we're paying a lot more for.
I I mean it really sucks.
It just is what frustrates me so much is simple, basic common sense.
You know, we now have been told over and over again that that there's we've done everything we can do to help on gas prices.
There's nothing else left to do.
And I'm like I I w I'm gonna burst in I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a stroke if this they keep saying it.
That would probably probably make some liberals happy.
Sean, one last thing.
You know, you talk about common sense.
Uh I I'm a transplant from the uh New Jersey, New York area, and I'm in Central PA now.
Um common sense, people cannot afford to upgrade their three and four G cell phones to 5G, and Biden wants them to buy an electric vehicle.
I mean, every time that idiot transportation secretary with all that wealth of experience, Mayor Pete from South Bend says it, I I just again I want to stroke, I want to stroke out.
I can't take it.
It drives me up a wall.
You know, every time Joe, Joe said it again yesterday, and Buddha judges said it, and Graham home just hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, you know, laughs, and then they all say, We've done everything we can do on you know to help with gas price, nothing else we can do.
And meanwhile, yes, there is, we can become energy independent again.
And then every time they say buy an electric vehicle, you know, I want to hit the wall hard.
I mean, I want to hit something, not somebody.
If you notice I said something, an inanimate object.
But it's um it's just frustrating.
I uh this is now Jimmy Carterism, you know, on steroids and human growth hormone.
I mean, the same mistakes that Carter made are now being made by Joe Biden.
And we if we don't learn from history, we're doomed to repeat it, so here we are repeating it.
Hang in there, my friend.
We love our friends in Pennsylvania.
North Carolina Chris, uh, another great Senate candidate for the Republicans.
Bud is running there.
I think he can win too.
What's up, Chris?
How are you?
I agree.
I hope he gets in there.
Uh Sean, uh I'm glad you hit on the farmer, so it helps play into my point.
Um, I'm very hesitant to believe conspiracy theories.
I'm trained as an Intel analyst, so I always play devil's advocate with anything I start to believe.
Uh, but uh you know, I think there's a bigger plan at work here.
You've mentioned before about how Biden and the Democrats planned to get rid of fossil fuels with no real replacement replacement.
But I think there's intended consequences with all this stuff going on.
I think they're trying to make it to where it's so expensive, people can't use it, people can't afford gas.
Then it's gonna also, not just that, it's gonna pull people back into these to these big cities because people can't afford to commute an hour out to where they want to live in the rural areas anymore.
It's also gonna create a dependency on public transportation.
It's gonna create a dependency on government-assisted programs because people are struggling right now.
It's also the only thing that would negate that though, if I may play a little devil's advocate with you, is the ability for people to work from home.
You know, for example, I'm in my New York studio and in somewhere in the great state of Pennsylvania, Linda is.
And I told her when she first gave birth to a beautiful boy, Liam, who's a great kid, she could.
What did I say to you, Linda?
I said, Don't ever show up to work again.
I'll see you occasionally.
Yeah, that's what you said.
Because I know she she she's never gonna stop working.
She she never stops working.
And you can tell very quickly whether people work from home well or not.
You get the last word, we've got only 20 seconds.
Right.
And and there's a certain number of jobs though that are blue color that you can't work from home, and the farmers being one.
When the farmers are priced out of being able to afford fuel to run their their equipment, then what happens?
Then they don't farm anymore, and then the government, people rely on the government for food.
And then it just uh it seems like a bigger plan at work here.
Mark my words.
Based on the the incredible people in this audience, our farmers calling this show.
I am telling you now, watch for huge food shortages.
Now, I hope they're wrong, but I put a lot of faith in the people that are out there getting their hands dirty and and are the great producers.
They feed us all and they feed the world, and they're telling me what's coming, and I'm believing them.
Anyway, appreciate it, Chris.
Good luck to Bud out in uh North Carolina.
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