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July 8, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Journalism Is Dead - July 7th, Hour 2
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Joe Concha in for Sean.
Liz Cheney.
She's going to be great on CNN in about five months, voted out in her home state in the midterms, because her focus is not on helping the American people.
And this is proven, she said the quiet part out loud on ABC recently.
Let's play this cut and get a load of this go.
The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump.
And I think that that matters to us as Americans more than anything else.
And that's why my work on the committee is so important and why it's so important to not just brush this past.
I think it's very important that people know the truth and that there are consequences.
Can the Republican Party survive in the way you've known it if Donald Trump is again chosen?
It can't survive if he's our nominee.
No.
No.
I think that he can't be the party nominee, and I don't think the party would survive that.
So record gas prices, highest inflation in 40 years, open border, an education system that's gone sideways.
And this is what Liz Cheney says is the biggest threat to our nation right now.
Donald Trump.
Boy, this is going to backfire in ways that, you know, we haven't seen in quite some time for one politician.
Dick Cheney's her father.
It's just kind of hard to get a head around this.
Anyway, we have so many great guests coming up, including Tim Brando of Fox Sports.
And he is tremendous as far as talking about wokeism in sports.
So I look forward to that conversation and the great Carol Roth, entrepreneur, and just one of the better guests that you will ever hear as far as being able to break down exactly where this economy is and what needs to be done to fix it.
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Your calls coming up.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a second to hear the immortal Bob Grant's thoughts about the world today.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's sick and it's getting sicker.
Now, back to the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, wait a minute.
That wasn't Grant.
I used to listen to Bob Grant when I'd be in the car with my dad.
I was kind of forced to.
I'm like, hey, dad, can you put on some Duran Duran?
Shut up.
We're listening to Bob Grant.
You learned something.
I'm like, okay, that's fine.
All I remember Bob Grant saying to almost every caller, get off my phone, you jerk.
Our next caller, he would just completely like more fact to almost friendly Bob, and then would tell the callers to get off.
I'm going to do that with our callers.
I'm just going to start yelling at them.
Maybe I shouldn't do that as a guest host.
It's not like I own this chair or anything.
Anyway, Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity.
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Sean, if you wish to opine, of course, I am the author of, as I will break a record for promoting a book that doesn't come out in two and a half months, my book, Come On Man, The Truth About Joe Biden's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency.
And I think by, I don't know, eight weeks into this book coming out, I'll be able to say the title without actually having to go to Amazon to look it up.
So that's never a good sign.
But anyway, that comes out September 27th.
You get it from HarperCollins, harpercollins.com, Amazon, wherever you buy books, and you can get it for like half price right now.
So jump on that.
You're going to love it.
I can guarantee you.
I would not write this thing if I didn't think it would be good.
Okay.
Anyway, I got to talk about, you know, Sean always talks about how journalism is dead and he's been saying that since 2008, right?
But sometimes as a media columnist and somebody who studies this stuff, I see glimpses of the past of a time when you had certainly not Chris Wallace, but Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes doing a really hard-hitting, solid interview based on the facts and particularly reading back whoever is interviewing that person's statements and saying, okay, defend what you said six months ago, that sort of thing.
Journalism 101 stuff, right?
Or Tim Russert, I thought, was excellent at that Meet the Press as well.
And I saw recently on Bloomberg, right?
Which not a lot of people watch Bloomberg.
It's primarily a financial network, but they do some politics as well.
And, you know, they're not CNN, okay?
Or they're not MSNBC, or they're not the New York Times, which hasn't endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since 1956.
You think about that.
That means you endorsed Carter and 80, Mondale, Kerry, and Gore.
So congratulations.
You got that going for you.
But, oh, and Washington Post, by the way, has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate.
We're told that these are the top two newspapers in the country that aren't biased whatsoever.
Please, come on, stop it.
But here you had, I think, a clinic in what journalism should be.
And that doesn't mean just cheering for Republicans and going after Democrats.
Hold anybody in power accountable without fear or favor to party.
If Americans got that, I think the trust in media would go back to the levels it was after Watergate, for example, 1976, I believe, in a Gallup poll.
72% of Americans said that they trusted the media.
Imagine that.
Three-quarters of the country said, Yeah, I believe the news that I'm getting.
Now, the numbers have plummeted so low because journalism has been replaced by activism and reporting has been replaced with opinions.
No, your feelings, hair standing in the back of your neck, devils and angels on your shoulders telling you what to say.
And no, that's not reporting.
That's telling people it's basically a dear diary episode, right?
That's what we're getting at this point.
That's why the trust has gone down so low.
But listen to this exchange.
And look, for radio, you're supposed to have sound bites that go on 20, 30, maybe 40 seconds.
This goes on for two minutes, but it's worth listening to because here you had Heather Boucher.
She's one of President Biden's top economic advisors.
Again, spinning this complete, can't say it, BS on the air that it's all about Biden and Putin.
And the president is doing everything in his power to lower gas prices.
And without him, they'd be much higher.
And Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the reason why we're seeing gas prices where they are.
And how we're at war.
This quote is incredible, but you'll hear us say we're at war.
No, we're not at war.
Ukraine's at war, but the U.S. is not at war.
So you can't use the whole war excuse, okay?
But anyway, these two interviewers here, Bloomberg, aren't standing for this.
And this is how you should conduct an interview.
Cut whatever it is, go.
On the ground in workplaces all across the country.
We're hearing that word fair.
And you and I have had this conversation before.
It sometimes makes it sound like something nefarious is happening in certain places.
The president over the weekend said this: My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple.
This is a time of war and global peril.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you're paying for the product and do it now.
Jeff Bezos came out and tweeted the following.
I'm sure you read it.
Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this.
It's either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.
I'm not going to accuse you of the latter.
I want to talk about the former.
Where's that messaging coming from?
The president has made clear that his number one goal is delivering for the American people.
We are in a time of crisis.
We are in a time of war where the president and our allies are supporting the Ukrainian people.
Congress is engaged in this effort, both sides of the aisle, to say this is an important priority.
And one of the consequences is this high price of oil because of global trends.
Everyone, Heather, everyone in the nation wants to know the answer to the question Mr. Farrell just asked you, which is who is advising the president on shockingly naive price theory over a gallon of gas?
So the president is not shockingly naive.
And we are in this moment of global crisis in terms of energy.
And he is using the tools at his disposal to make sure that the prices that people pay at the pump are fair.
So what we know in oil prices is that the prices can rise very quickly.
It can take a long time for those prices to recalibrate and to come back down.
And he's saying do that faster.
You have the capacity to do so.
You're making profits.
But the important thing is that he's using the tools at his disposal given this very challenging situation.
Central planning now.
Is that what this has come to?
How is that central planning?
Are you going to sit here and decide what's fair, what's not fair, and then go on Twitter and say this is unfair, bring your prices down.
But it's markets or is it not markets?
Is it capitalism or is it central planning?
Where's this White House going?
One of the things that the President has prioritized is understanding the way the concentration across markets has affected the American people and it's affecting markets.
We know when there are very few players, this is Econ 101.
No, it's not Econ 101.
By the way, let's put it this way.
I do a lot of television and I get to fill in on radio once in a while, which is really fun.
You can tell from a mile away when somebody is scripted, when they've been given talking points, and nothing is going to set them off course from saying those talking points.
She said on three different occasions during that interview, the president is using the tools at his disposal.
And then, just like it's playing on a loop because she doesn't know how to answer the question truly when she was actually challenged, which I'm sure she didn't expect.
You know, I mean, wasn't that great?
The one interviewer there, his name's Tom Keene, and he's he called the president's messaging shockingly naive, right?
And that's great because it's true.
And then the other interview there, his name's John Farrow.
Same thing.
Is this central planning, right?
Is it capitalism when you blame oil companies for making big profits and that's why gas prices are where they are?
Is that just, again, a bunch of BS?
And she's like, well, the president is using the tools at his disposal.
I swear, we were told that the adults were back in the room when this president came into office.
And it's not even the JV, it's the freshman squad at this point.
It's not just Biden, it's the people around him.
And they just ain't good.
Anyway, I promised we'd get to calls, and I keep my promises most of the time.
I had to break one of my kids before, I got to admit.
I mean, it's raining where I am right now, and they wanted to go to an amusement park, and that just ain't happening.
There's nothing more torturous than being on a Ferris wheel in rain.
I'm already petrified of those things as it is, and that just ain't happening.
So, sorry, kids, I'm a victim to circumstances, and I'm going to stick by it.
Let's go to William in Georgia.
Wants to talk about the president.
And yes, 18 months.
I mean, it is quite remarkable, William, how fast things have turned in this country.
Yes, guys, I love the show, by the way.
Thanks.
Appreciate it.
What part of Georgia are you calling from?
I live in Cleveland.
It's in the mountains.
There's a Cleveland in Georgia.
Yes, it's on.
Did you root for the Browns when you live in Cleveland, Georgia, or do you still Falcons and Bulldogs and so on?
Oh, I'm a dog fan all the way, brother.
Great championship game last year.
I was riveted by that.
Finally, you beat evil Alabama.
I didn't mean evil.
Sorry.
I just want to say they won it all the time.
It was good to see someone else win.
Anyway, William, I go off on tangents.
It's a thing with me.
Go ahead.
Talk about the president.
What do you think?
I'm just a small fish in a big pond, but I've never seen, and I'm 55 years old, and I've voted my entire legal life that I've been able to vote.
I've never seen a president and an administration mess a country up this fast.
It's just appalling to me.
It's just appalling to me.
And everybody just, the ones that voted for him and the ones that support him just stand back and scratch their heads, my friend.
Well, you know, the numbers are dwindling as far as his support, right?
I'm seeing numbers where he's getting 30% support from Hispanics in Texas.
That's really hard to do unless you're screwing things up in a hurry.
And look, I think what bothers people most, William, it's not like I talked about being a victim of circumstances before.
It's not like he's a victim of circumstances.
That sometimes economies do turn during administrations, and there's not a lot a president can do about that.
George H.W. Bush is probably a prime example in that regard.
Just sometimes, if you have a long, good run of an economy like we had under Reagan, eventually 10 years later, you're going to see a correction.
That's not what happened here.
You had the president, this is all because of his policies.
It's because of the money he spent as far as COVID relief, which turns out when you look back on it, A, a lot of it didn't go to COVID.
B, some of it still has been spent.
And we're talking trillions of dollars on top of the trillions that we already spent.
So inflation, you point the finger directly at him.
And the worst part is he has no coherent solution for it.
Gas prices, same thing.
You shut down Anwar.
You shut down the Keystone Pipeline Extension.
You shut down oil leases outside of the Gulf Coast, and guess what?
Then gas prices are going to go up because we are dependent on people that are charging us more.
And we talked about the border.
He's kept that wide open.
I could go on and on, but everything you're seeing isn't because Joe Biden, as he likes to portray himself, is because he's a victim of circumstances.
It's because of his policies.
And that is why a red tsunami is coming in November.
And that is why either Joe Biden is not running in 2024, or if he does run, I don't care who runs against him.
It will be like Reagan Carter all over again in 1980.
William, thanks for the call, man.
I appreciate it.
That's awesome.
And I never knew there was a Cleveland in Georgia.
It's interesting.
Wow.
But it's good.
He sticks with his Bulldogs, and they are national champions.
Let's go to Carol in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Oz, a hot topic today.
Go ahead, Carol.
Hi.
Yes.
Hello, Joe.
I just wanted to make a comment concerning your previous caller about Dr. Oz.
Not sure about him coming up for the fall election.
And I will tell you, in the primary, it was an intense primary here in Pennsylvania.
And my husband and I did vote for Dr. Oz.
We were going back and forth.
We went to a meet and greet in Greensburg.
And then we also went to hear him and some panelists on fossil fuel.
And I thought, and then when I had the endorsement with former President Trump, that sort of cemented it in.
And I will tell you that in 2016, when Trump won, we were a little skeptical, but Trump proved himself over and over again.
And this particular primary was so brutal.
We had another person, McCormick, who I think outspent him.
I'm not sure, but it was almost two to one.
And yeah, it was, and the negative commercials were just horrendous here in Pennsylvania.
And the gentleman previously was saying about, you know, having heard much from Oz, well, you know what?
We had the recount and we just really finished.
He just, you know, he had the go-ahead only in June.
So, I mean, and to be frank with you, I don't want to hear any more commercials for a while.
And when my husband and I heard him at a couple of these meet and greets, he is pro-life.
He's Second Amendment.
He understands the issue of the fossil fuels.
He understands Pennsylvanians with inflation and understands the issues of our border crisis.
I just think that we need to, Pennsylvanians need to rally around him.
Fetterman is a socialist.
I live in an area that Fetterman was the former mayor of Braddock.
He tore down some buildings, cleaned up that area, which was good.
He put in a couple of restaurants.
But I mean, and he really didn't do much as a lieutenant government.
And Carol, I'm sorry to cut you off, but they're telling me you got to go break.
Yeah, what's the bumper sticker that John Fetterman's running on in Pennsylvania?
I'm curious, right?
If you want more of what Democrats have been doing for this country, vote for me.
You want high inflation, high gas prices?
You know, an attack on energy independence?
I just don't see what John Fetterman runs on.
So as long as Oz sticks to those issues and hammers it home, people will be paying attention to September.
And believe me, he will be engaged.
Joe Concha, in for Sean Hannity.
Back with more in just a moment.
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
We got you.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
And I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations.
Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So download Verdict with Ted Cruz Now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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