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We know you like it when the hosts get into it and we know you like it when one of them gets triggered by a certain Chief Executive. So –no spoilers!– we think you’ll enjoy the opening segment of today’s Big Show. But stick around, because we want to introduce you to two members of the media we think you ought to be aware of. First up: Alex Berenson, once a card carrying member of the elite media (the New York Times) and now a novelist who does some independent journalism on the side. His work on COVID over the past six months (available on Twitter and on his website is not to be missed. Then, meet Andrew Beaton, who covers sports for the Wall Street Journal. His no nonsense reporting on COVID and sports and the impact of the social justice movement is not to be missed. But that’s not all: we’ve got a new Lileks Post of The Week, courtesy of @DoctorRobert (it’s about oboes). Finally, we lost a great one this week. Well, those of us who were aware of him did. Guess which one of our podcasters is not really aware of the contributions to the culture Edward Van Halen left us?
Music from this week’s show: Dance The Night Away by Van Halen
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This picture pretty well sums it up. At the 49 second point.
Lovable? No.
Rob is one of our founders.
Doesn’t make him lovable.
But don’t you see? Rob is the Reagan of Ricochet!
Wise Thomas Sowell is indeed “mild-mannered”–and has seen it all. So is he sounds the alarm, he is not crying wolf. It astounds me that my supposedly well-educated friends, both Americans and Europeans, are so caught up in cursing Trump that they cannot see the danger.
Looks like you would be as bad as the Democrats at changing the rules so the elitists get all the say, drowning out the voices of the unwashed benighted.
He is lovable, always a great NR host on their cruises, fun to talk to, great sense of humor. I have even had the pleasure of sitting at his table on one of my speaker nights. There is nothing obnoxious about him.
Until a five-letter name comes up.
So you think that a nominee need win only a plurality of the votes? How about ranked choice voting?
The next Republican will be “worse than Trump” per the Lincoln Project grifters
@garyrobbins — I think the first time I had a positive feeling toward Donald Trump was when he defied the liberal media’s demands that he reveal his tax returns.
Aside from showing the political courage that eventually helped make me a fan, Trump also understood that a Republican revealing his tax returns is a chump’s game.
Trump realized that, where the liberal media would ignore or gloss over anything damaging in a Democrat’s tax returns, they would do their best to weaponize a Republican’s returns to do him harm.
You mean like “$300 (or is it 500) million owed to WHO, for WHAT????”
Leave it up to the candidate. If any candidate for any office can* get elected without releasing their tax returns good for them. This has always bothered me. It’s private information. Leave it at that.
Who are you talking about? Jeff Flake with a fat media contract that requires him to hate Trump? Who in this category are you talking about?
I hope you raise all kinds of hell about how the RNC runs primaries. Keep us apprised.
This move the ball forward for conservatives and libertarians, how? Have you ever brought this stuff up before?
Gary listen to this and then explain to me why I should want Biden to win. It’s not very long.
https://wabcradio.com/episode/550-what-could-be-in-hrcs-purloined-emails-that-may-have-moved-potus-obama-to-vouchsafe-crossfirehurricane-july-2016-leesmithdc-theamgreatness/
I always considered it more like “Battered Wife Syndrome” – they’re so skittish of the media’s displeasure that they’ll fall over themselves attempting to earn good press. But there is nothing they can do – short of retirement or death – to earn the strange new respect of the media. They should just ‘man up’ and stop issuing press credentials to organizations who endorse democrats.
Okay. So none of those issued. Then what?
What do I keep telling you? Stay the hell away from the organized Never Trump.
I kinda agree. Ronald Reagan was easily the greatest president in my lifetime. Reagan and Trump are both are emblematic of their cultures that they grew up in. Reagan would have turned 18 in 1929, and Trump would have turned 18 in 1964. The American cultures that produced the 2 presidents where very different.
While you may not like Trump because of his personal defects, I think he’s easily the most genuine president the United States has ever had. (its unfortunate that he’s genuinely Donald Trump) This is why his opponents who try to challenge him on his terms self destruct – its disingenuous when they try on his personality. It comes off like a Shakespearean actor reading an Andrew Dice Clay monologue.
Maybe the press would start treating republicans (in general) fairly. But most importantly Republicans should not be solicitous to a press that would never approve of them.
Hickory. Dickory. Doc.
Hey Gary, if you like Lincoln Project videos you will love this:
James Woods on Twitter: ““Trump’s supporters must be removed from society…” https://t.co/G3hsKNfdz5” / Twitter
If you believe the polls, then you will believe that this Biden/Harris campaign event Friday in Arizona is packed to the rafters…with good intentions.
Trump. Landslide. Bet on it.
There will be a party with out Trump, whether that is in a few months or 4 years. I don’t know what you mean by Trumpism. Deregaulation, conservative judges, tax cuts, strong economic growth, protecting religious freedoms. These are all things Republicans said they were in favor of for decades. Better trade deals, no new wars and a strong immigration policy are things that the “base” have been wanting for years.
Trumps policies, as pointed out in this podcast, poll better than Trump. Simply getting rid of Trump will not turn the clock back to a time when Rick Wilson and his ilk are important or influential. The NTs will be in the wilderness with or with out Trump in the White House. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The Republican voters have now seen that it is possible to move forward on the things that Republican politicians have been promising for decades.
So no I don’t think the party will rebuild without “Trumpism”. The next guy/gal might be a little less jerky and/or better spoken but the policies will stay the same.
Steve Schmidt is losing it. Just look on twitter. Who is going to trust him?
What sane person ever did?
When he’s on TV it looks like he lives in a nice pad. All of those Lincoln Project guys look like they are flaming out and most of them have massive negative net worth. They are selling out to Pierre Omidyar.
Supposedly, Rick Wilson has never had a TV contract, which is pretty weird. Somebody shovels him money by buying his books.
So he’s different on a cruise than he is on the podcast.