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DNC Panic - September 22nd, Hour 1
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Not a real good week for Joey Biden.
You know, I mean, he's had a horrible week, actually.
I mean, so Joe Biden busy last night trying to pin the blame of illegal immigration, the crisis on Donald Trump.
Well, if you would have kept the policies of Donald Trump, he would not have set a record in 2021 in terms of the numbers of illegal immigrants coming into the country.
And that was followed up by another record year in 2022, followed up by already another record year for 2023.
And you see what's going on now: 10,000 illegal immigrants in a single day for crying out loud.
But don't ask Karine Jean-Pierre.
She didn't like to answer Steve Ducey's question.
We'll get to that in a minute.
And, you know, it wasn't a particularly great week at the United Nations.
You know, he fumbled his way through meetings with the Brazilian president, meeting with President Zelensky of Ukraine.
There wasn't basically one word that wasn't just fed to him on a note card, and he sat there in the Oval Office and just read from the note card.
I mean, it's just pathetic.
Anyway, he's busy last night blaming the illegal immigration crisis on Donald Trump.
He apparently thought he was addressing the Congressional Black Caucus.
It turns out Biden is now so out to lunch, he didn't realize he was speaking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Nobody on a staff brief him, or did he forget?
We also got a report this week that at a private meeting, he tells a story, a few minutes go by, and then he tells the exact same story almost word for word.
Now, I don't know if any of you have ever dealt with anybody that has some type of cognitive decline or dementia or Alzheimer's.
It's not a pretty sight.
Frankly, it's an insidious, ugly, horrible way to live life and your last years.
I mean, to be losing your memory.
But I have seen many people, and I've known many people that have struggled with this.
It's sad to watch.
And, you know, for Joe Biden, one of the common things that'll happen with people that are in this condition to whatever degree they're suffering.
And by the way, all of these conditions are degenerative.
I mean, there's certain medicines that they've created that may slow down the process, but it always gets worse.
It never gets better.
You don't stop it.
Oh, we've got a cure.
There is no cure for this.
But they'll often ask a question, and then you give them an answer.
And then three, four, five minutes, 10 minutes later, they're going to ask you the same question.
And then three, four, five, ten minutes later, they ask the same question again.
Or they tell a story, you know, and then word for word, they'll repeat it in three minutes as though they don't, because they don't remember that they just told it.
I don't know.
That's going to be me in my old age, right, Linda?
Driving.
I mean, monoclonal antibodies might have been the first indication.
That's not true.
That is a complete and total.
Well, you're lying to this audience.
You're a son of a bee.
I mean, you know, they gave him the money.
Okay.
And what am I doing?
So you let's go.
No, I'm not letting this go.
That's not happening here.
Because one day.
That is pretty funny.
No, it's not funny.
I'm not laughing.
That's actually real.
So one day, Linda goes to me, why do you every single day go through your speech about monoclonal antibodies?
I said, because it's the one therapeutic that has worked every single time I've seen it used.
And I wasn't telling people to take them.
It was a therapeutic.
If you've tested positive to COVID, I said, my advice, as always, was check with your doctor and ask that doctor about monoclonal antibodies.
Are you a potential candidate for that?
I don't dispense medical advice on this show.
I'm not a doctor.
I don't know anything about your medical history or your current medical condition.
Why should I tell you what to do?
But I give you information.
And then Linda goes, well, why do you keep mentioning it?
And I said, because if I only say it once, okay, it's out in the ether and nobody's going to remember it.
And I had been saying it for a number of months up to that point.
Not that many, maybe three months, I don't know, something like that.
And I made the decision to say it every day because I really, really believed in it myself.
But I wanted people to at least look into the option because, you know, during various strains of COVID, the alpha strain, the original strain, the Delta strain, there were still enough people that were dying from this that I don't want to see anybody die.
And I don't care what your politics are.
I want everybody to live.
So anyway, we did a test.
What did we do, Linda?
Why don't you take it from there and explain why you learned the method to my madness?
And you actually said, wow, you're really right.
I had no idea.
Well, I mean, I didn't think in that one instance, you were right.
And I will stand by the fact that I said you were right.
But it was interesting that nobody could repeat it.
We did like a blow the lines thing and we went to every single caller and we said, what is it that, you know, Sean always says might be an option as a therapeutic if you find yourself ill with COVID?
And people were like, months a month, mono, e mono.
I'm like, no, monoclonal.
Nobody knew it.
It was, I think one person kind of got it.
Nope.
It definitely.
No, there was.
He did.
He was like minor clonal.
The mana something.
That was it.
Okay.
But listen, at the end of the day, on that particular instance, but I'm just saying I was being more funny and tongue-in-cheek, which is fine.
But, you know, it's kind of like when you go through like, you know, Batarina, the mayor of Moscow, or we talk about the Hunter Biden, whatever it is.
Elena Battarina.
Right.
You know, if I hear that name one more time, I'm going to blow my brains out.
You know, because I'm not going to be able to do it.
Talk about Hunter having no experience.
No experience, Hunter.
Quit, quote, quote, Joe.
All right.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Now we have polls showing that 61% of the American people now believe that Joe was in fact in business with his son.
And, you know, super majority believe that he helped facilitate some of these deals with his son with no experience.
Okay.
Where do you think people got that information from?
Did they get it from fake news, CNN?
Did they get it from, let's see, MSDNC or ABC or CBS or any of these networks or the New York Times or the Washington Post?
Did they get it from them, Linda?
Or they got it from you and John Solomon.
Yeah, because we're the ones that have hammered this the most.
But now what?
That's my problem.
Just like with the Russian conclusion.
I'll tell you what, because, look, Donald Trump is going to face four criminal charges and trials coming up.
I don't know when, but I have to believe that some of them are going to happen in an election year next year, 2024.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in New York or Washington, D.C. or Fulton County, Georgia.
And anytime you're dealing with a jury, it is a crapshoot.
So that means Florida, I can't tell you what the result is going to be.
However, on appeal is where I believe that justice has a far better chance of being served.
And Donald Trump's case can actually be heard by people that don't have their individual biases.
And that would be his greatest chance to win on appeal.
For example, Bob McDonald, former governor of Virginia, was convicted on 11 counts by the time he got to the Supreme Court.
They vacated a unanimous vote, rarely happens in the Supreme Court, a unanimous vote to vacate every one of those convictions.
So we're going to have an election in all likelihood where a convicted felon, that would be Donald Trump if he's the nominee, would be convicted in an election year and his appeal where his chances of being vindicated and any conviction vacated, that won't happen until after the election.
Does that sound fair to you?
You're supposed to answer.
Thank you.
It was not a true question.
I was taking my Biden moment, but I don't think that it's fair.
I don't think there is a way for him to get a fair trial in the United States of America.
I think we are seeing disproportionate numbers of support in every single group of Americans.
I mean, there is no shortage of people.
Look at the Dallas mayor today.
Katie sent me this story from a listener saying that he's switching parties because, you know, cities need Republicans because the kids are not safe.
Their families are not safe.
You know, we've got people in droves switching to Trump, and they know it.
By the way, and they need to really pay attention because the DNC is panicking.
And I was going to get to this later.
I'll bring it up now.
And that is that not one, but five separate polls show minority support for Donald Trump as we were seeing levels that no Republican in 50 years has seen, especially with Hispanics.
He's nearly a 50% of Hispanic American voters that would be voting for Donald Trump.
I don't care if we're talking about the Times Sienna College poll indicating Joe Biden is severely underperforming with minorities, which is a big part of the Democratic Party voting block, which all that means is you're going to hear a lot more accusations.
Republicans are racist.
But anyway, I digress.
Let me go back to where I was.
So Joe Biden's at the U.N.
He gives a mumbling, bumbling, idiotic, climate alarmist, climate alarmist, religious cult speech about the whole world and working with China.
It's so humiliating to see our president in that bad condition show up at the UN.
Then he meets and he has a press conference with the president of Brazil.
On the way in, he bumps into a poll, I'm sorry, of the flag, a flagpole with the Brazilian flag on it.
And on the way out, he won't even shake the president's hand.
He just totally, completely forgets it.
And then he exits the wrong way out of the room, which now has been happening more and more.
So you put this together with the guy that keeps asking the same questions over and over again, telling the same stories over and over again.
And I have an additional update today.
He's now praising the Congressional Black Caucus while addressing the Hispanic caucus.
I'm like, okay, not good, Joe.
Looking bad, but again, the media will do everything they could possibly do to defend him.
The bribery evidence, by the way, Bob Menendez has been charged.
The FBI IRS criminal investigators are attempting to determine if Menendez and his wife had taken up to $400,000 worth of gold bars from a New Jersey developer, former bank chairman.
This is the second time now he's been charged.
Now, the first time, and this is significant, small detail, but a significant one, Abby Lowell was his attorney, just like Abby Lowell was John Edwards' attorney.
And Abby Lowell got both of them off.
Now, right now, Abby Lowell's busy.
His client is Hunter Biden.
Hunter has very good top-of-the-line representation.
Maybe five great, super great lawyers in D.C.
I happen to have one of them.
But Abby Lowell, I'll tip my hat to him.
He's one of them.
This guy's a great attorney, great constitutional scholar.
This guy knows how to argue before a jury.
So we'll see.
That's going to be interesting.
By the way, I want to bring this up too right now.
So Biden says to Republicans, we're eight days away from this dreaded government shutdown.
And it's been a bit of an Adam Schiff show, like it always is when this comes up.
I don't know how it's going to end.
Then Biden sarcastically says, oh, enjoy your weekend.
Mocking House Republicans for going home for the week.
Meanwhile, I know that there are meetings going on in the Appropriations Committee right now as we speak.
Those guys aren't going home.
I know guys like Chip Roy are working on this all weekend because I talked to him.
So they're just kind of lying.
And then to be criticized by the guy that really only visited the border one time and lies that the border is closed and secure.
Is this a joke?
The guy that's now sending chartered airplanes to people that go on the Joe Biden come into the country illegal app that they have and sign up.
And then illegal immigrants get to pick one of 43 locations in the U.S. where they're going to.
215,000 people already have used this app to come here.
Doesn't tell any local officials that these people are coming.
You know, the same guy that promised in March he was going to visit East Palestine in Ohio, the guy that just ignored Maui, ignored it, ignored it, ignored it, and said no comment twice, and then said, well, I can't go because I don't want to be a distraction.
I don't want to get in the way.
There's nothing to get in the way of.
Was at Camp David during the Afghanistan withdrawal, flew back to the White House to give a speech, then ran back to Camp David for more rest and relaxation.
Planned to go to Delaware the weekend after the most recent Florida hurricane and was only shamed into a visit to Florida.
I think it's why DeSantis said, I'm not wasting my time for his photo op.
You know, goes to Camp David and Delaware on Memorial Day weekend with the debt ceiling issue unresolved, but announced the deal Saturday night.
Refuses to negotiate with McCarthy over the debt ceiling for over 100 days.
So we're going to get lectured by him about missing an action.
No, thank you.
I don't want to hear it.
Later, Linda's, you're like worked up over this Howard Stern woke thing.
I'm going to let you talk about it.
Thank you.
Is that okay?
I mean, I love it.
I love talking about people I can't stand.
Makes me feel fulfilled.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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I can't explain, Liberal Joe.
Actually said today there's this undercurrent, sort of undercurrent, like she's black and she's a woman talking about Kamala Harris.
And that's why people don't like her because she's the vice president.
And I just go where were you, you when Dan Quayle was vice president?
Where were you?
What does that have to do with anything?
No, Joe, you know, play.
Maybe I should send, we should send them a copy of Kamala's word salads.
What has she done, Joe?
She's the border czar.
She hasn't even been to the border.
You think there's no case?
Do you believe the borders are secure as Biden and his whole administration claims?
And do you believe they're closed like they claim?
Or are they lying?
They're lying.
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All right, before we move on with some of the other news here, we're about to be hit in the Northeast with a major tropical storm, although I got to tell you something.
I've been getting notes all this week from our friend, Joe Bastardi, the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity show, Weatherbell.com, that we might have a situation very similar to Hurricane Sandy, you might remember.
That was just before Mitt Romney ran against Barack Obama and the infamous Chris Christie embrace and hug of Obama, which I still remember.
Anyway, you're thinking this can be that bad for the Carolinas north to New Jersey?
Do you think it's really going to be that bad?
Yeah, my biggest concern was Sandy went in near Atlantic City, and I don't want anyone north of Atlantic City to think this will be as bad as Sandy, although it is going to be a pretty bad blow tomorrow into Sunday in there.
And that includes all the way up to Long Island.
You know, the peak winds in Sandy were 60 to 70 miles an hour.
In this case, it'll probably be 50 to 60 miles an hour up to the south coast of Long Island and on the New Jersey shore.
But what concerns me is that this may last two to three days, the Jersey shore, so that you pile up a lot of water in there.
I've seen these piling cases.
So Atlantic City to the Del Barbara Peninsula, and that may even include President Biden's house.
Could have some interesting tidal problems here over the next couple of days.
The storm itself is approaching hurricane strength now, and you've got the exact opposite problem you had with Idalia.
Idalia's problem with forecast problem was Idalia collapsed the last 12 hours coming to the coast.
And of course, Lee stayed out at sea enough so that only Cape Cod was brushed.
This one is intensifying and intensifying pretty quick.
It'll make landfall Cape Lookout this evening, be up near Richmond tomorrow evening, and at the mouth of Delaware Bay as a weakened storm by Sunday evening.
But you're going to have a swath of very heavy rains from southern New England through New Jersey, down through eastern Virginia, down through the Carolinas.
And since the wind is coming basically out of the east, the trees can't take an east wind.
They can take the west wind, but the east wind, because you look at the trees, they lean sort of to the southeast because the sun comes up in the east and goes around the south.
So the trees like the sun, right?
So they grow towards that.
And so an easterly wind does not have to be as strong to cause tree damage and power outage and things like that.
So the area, remember, the surge in Atlantic City with Sandy was four feet.
Up further north in Newark Bay, it was close to 13 feet.
So we don't want you folks to the north to think that this is going to be as bad as Sandy.
But this area from, again, the Del Marborough Peninsula, Lewis, Delaware, Atlantic City, some of those places may exceed or get darn close to what happened with Sandy with multiple tides here in this situation.
So for the Carolinas, I mean, this thing's going to knock out power.
Southeast Virginia, Tidewater, the eastern part of North Carolina, because the center is going to come up over Pamlico Sound and just to the west of Norfolk and up over Richmond.
So the time scale is that the weather is worse tonight in North Carolina, Virginia Beach, late tonight and tomorrow morning.
And then tomorrow into tomorrow night is the worst weather from Delaware into New Jersey.
And then, again, Sean, the problem is that it exits east, and the northeast winds will keep blowing 20 to 30, 35 miles an hour for a couple of days all the way down the Jersey shore.
So we're concerned about the piling up effect of the water over a period of multiple days.
And that's why that one area in there I'm talking about could see the water as high as what happened with Sandy, not further north.
So don't worry, New York City.
The battery's not going underwater.
They'd probably get a surge of two feet in the battery.
Back of Long Island Sound, two to three feet.
These things are manageable.
But when you start getting four feet at Lewis, Delaware, that would be a problem there.
Right now, the Hurricane Center's forecast is for the three to five foot surge as far north as Chinkoteak.
So they don't have it as far north, but there's a pretty bad situation, Pamlico Sound, and for the Carolina beaches here over the next several hours.
Remember what the storm surge is, folks.
It is actually the raising of the water.
It's not just the waves.
You know, you've got 15-foot waves.
Are you having expectations that the surge is going to be bigger than Sandy?
No, in a small area, the area from Atlantic City to Lewis, Delaware, I think has a shot at having the surge higher than Sandy in there because their surge was two to four feet in there, and you could get that in this.
Not Newark, not Long Branch, not in the New York metro area.
Still, it's a formidable storm.
I think there are going to be power outages up to Long Island with this tomorrow night because you're going to get gales out east and a lot of rain with that.
So the real concern here is from the Carolinas to South Jersey as far as causing problems.
There was a storm in 2006, Sean, Arnesto, which did a billion dollars damage.
And there were over a billion people without power with that.
Remember, Issa Eas, which came through here a couple years ago, was Con Ed's third worst storm.
So we don't want to underestimate what can happen further north, but I don't think this is a bad storm in New York City.
Put it this way.
The governor called out the National Guard for Lee on Long Island, which I was like, what the heck?
I don't think she should be calling out the National Guard here, but there'll be more weather with this storm up around Long Island than there was with Lee.
Well, I hope everybody, you know, this now goes for the Carolinas north to New Jersey and to Long Island.
This stormless weekend.
What about New England?
Will New England get hit?
No, I don't think it's too bad in New England.
I think you're getting a lot of rain and wind.
And of course, they've had a lot of rain this summer.
We've all had a lot of rain this summer on the coastal plain here, and that compounds the situation.
What we still have to be concerned about is with all the rain that we've had, this hurricane season is not over, and we're predicting an active end game.
And by the way, I just want to drop this to Hannity listeners.
Remember last winter?
We're predicting the opposite this winter.
I think this is going to be a heck of a winter coming up for the eastern and southern part of the United States.
And some of the storminess you're seeing in the Atlantic basin, believe it or not, is hinting at it because it's showing you that there wants to be low pressure over the Atlantic Ocean.
And when that happens in the wintertime, you tend to get a lot of cold air coming into the United States.
So that's the interesting thing about what I do.
A lot of the stuff is linked, and the climate people don't even look at stuff like that.
So when it happens, they go, oh, climate change.
So if President Biden's house gets surrounded by water, let's put it this way.
He should have been calling us to let, you know, a week before to let him know about it.
He probably would have forgot about it.
I don't know.
Anyway.
Well, I hope everybody's listening for more details.
Anyway, just go to weatherbell.com.
Joe Bastardi, the official weather meteorologist on the program.
Thank you, sir.
We appreciate it.
All right.
Enjoy the weather.
It's the only weather you got.
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Linda, did you see our friend Stephen A. Smith threw out the first ball at the Yankee game last night?
I did.
He is larger than life these days.
I asked him to call.
Has he called in?
He is here, sir.
Now, I'm going to tell you right up front, I got your back.
I'm supporting you.
You're my friend.
I don't care about the naysayers.
I see what's happening on your network.
They're trashing my friend, my buddy, Stephen A.
It was not a good throw, but you know what?
You know, big deal.
You know, you bounced it about 10, 12 feet before the plate.
But, you know what?
And you had Derek Jeters' jersey on, which was cool.
Which was not, it wasn't cool of him.
He called me before and called me right after and said, okay, here's how we're going to save you.
Tell him you were playing.
You thought you were playing cricket.
Did he really say that?
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did, man.
That's my guy.
Oh, man.
Man, listen, the bottom line is, man, I sat up there.
I was joking around all night, talking to her all morning, rather, talking about how it was the perfect O2 breaking ball to make somebody swing it a pitch in the dirt and all of this other stuff.
But here's the bottom line at all seriously.
By the way, that's what you're telling people that, oh, it was an O2 breaking ball in the dirt to try and get a strikeout?
I was joking about it.
I was like, yeah, the O2 pitch in the dirt.
The problem is it hit the grass.
It didn't even make it to the dirt.
No, no, no.
It didn't hit the grass.
It didn't hit the grass.
But damn it, it is.
The bottom line is it was a choke job on my part.
No doubt about it.
I'm going to tell you what happened, Sean and Linda.
How you doing, girl?
Here's the deal.
You're out there practicing, okay?
So I'm out there practicing, but they don't let you go to the mound.
What they do is you're practicing on level, on level grass, level dirt, that kind of thing.
60 feet, 6 inches.
So I had that down.
Sean Hannity, I went to the mound.
Now, the mound is 10 inches higher than the level.
I used to be a pitcher.
I know all about it, but keep going.
What I'm saying to you is that I've never, in all my years of covering sports, Sean Hannity, I've never stepped on a mound of a baseball stadium.
So when I was, holy, why am I here?
It looked, by the way, I've done that to myself many times.
Why am I here?
I'm like, why am I here?
And that's when I got nervous.
And then on top of it all, my dumb self, I didn't wear sleeps or anything.
I'm wearing sneakers.
So I'm sitting there pushing the dirt.
I'm sitting there pushing the dirt and I'm like this.
And it feels slippery to me with my sneakers on.
I'm going like this.
I'm about to bust my ass.
Okay.
All of a sudden, all of that came in, and the strikes that I was throwing to warm-up went right out the window.
And said, you know what?
I'm trying to be safe and not bust my butt.
Let me try to get this over the plate.
And I failed.
Plain a simple.
Plain as a.
All right.
So let me tell you why I'm going to stick up for you.
I was a pitcher all throughout high school, varsity pitcher.
I think I was even on varsity pitch some games, even in my freshman year.
And I got to tell you something.
And it was one way or the other for me.
Either I would strike everybody out.
I had a wicked sinking curveball.
I used to take this ball and I'd rip it right at the batter's head.
They'd duck out right into the pocket, call strike three.
That was my pitch.
You know, then I had a pretty good fast.
At that point, I had not banged out my rotator cuff.
So, you know, I used to have a lot of slingshot in that arm.
I don't have it anymore.
And now that I do mixed martial arts and lift, I still can't throw like I used to.
But other days, Stephen A., I couldn't explain it.
On one day, I'm going to strike out every batter.
Or, you know, a lot, I'm going to be on my game.
I'm going to be throwing strikes.
I'm going to be striking people out, getting easy groundouts.
And I'm on my game.
Other days, I throw the ball over the backstop.
I mean, it was one way or the other, and there was no explanation for it.
Obviously, why I never had a shot at the majors, nor did I think I did, but it just is the way it is.
Some days you're on, some days you're off.
But I will tell you this: Go ahead.
You know, being on the mound is a little different.
Being in front of, you know, 60,000 people is a little bit different.
I didn't care about that.
I only cared about the mound.
The people weren't phasing me at all.
I was warming up.
If people were honest and called into your show that were watching me warm up, they saw I was throwing that bad boy 60.
No, I got somebody sent me a video.
I just saw it.
You were throwing great in warm-up.
Well, you actually skipped one, but you were doing pretty well.
Well, it was low, but I got to tell you, when I hit that thing, and I said, oh my God, I was scared to death, and I was going to bust my butt.
And I was like this.
At the end of the day, Trump, when I tell people this, they've been ripping me all day.
I said, let me tell you something.
That show, first date, which is number one, I put people in a hot seat every day.
Bring it.
I got to take it because I can.
Well, all I know is I'm sympathizing with you.
I deserve it.
I've been asked to do this before, not by the Yankees, but by other teams.
And I always say no.
I'm like, I don't need that pressure.
I don't need because I'm going to screw it up like you did.
I'm like, I just don't need the headache.
I don't need the booze.
But, you know, I'll tell you this.
After 9-11, when George W. Bush went to Yankee Stadium, and it was G.
Okay, so it was Derek Jeter that told Bush, you better not skip it, you know, or else they're going to boo you.
Did you get booed?
Right.
No.
Did you get booed?
They were actually very kind and compassionate.
They were like, oh.
Oh, well, it's not as bad as our friend Roseanne singing the national anthem.
I'll put it that way.
Anyway, we love you.
I got your back.
If they're going too hard at you, you call me and I'll stick up for you.
All right?
Let them have it.
All right, Stephen A. All right, 800-941 Sean on a Friday.
And we got Sarah Carter and Giano Caldwell, Mark Simone.
We got Joe Concha.
We just have, well, we're just going to have fun today.
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Sean Hannity.
All right, on this Friday, when we come back, yeah, the border's wide open.
Oh, and in New York City, their openness, their right to shelter.
Yeah, now they want to get rid of it.
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