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Biden Won’t Back Down from Rittenhouse Smears

24 Nov 2021

CLAY: The situation in Waukesha with the multi-murders that have taken place there. Awful for so many families in Wisconsin dealing with that abject tragedy. Also, this is evidence, part and parcel, of the lies that have been spread by Joe Biden and the fact that Joe Biden, as an honorable man, has not been willing to acknowledge that when he branded Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist, that was a lie. There’s no evidence to support it. Peter Doocy at Fox News asked Jen Psaki whether Biden would apologize for labeling Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist yesterday in the White House press briefing. This is what the first part of that interview sounded like. Listen.

PSAKI: This is about a campaign video released last year that used President Trump’s own words during a debate as he refused to condemn white supremacists and militia groups. And President Trump — as we know from history and as many of you covered — didn’t just refuse to condemn militia groups on the debate stage. He actively encouraged them throughout his presidency. So, uh, what we’ve seen are the tragic consequences of that, when people think it’s okay to take the law into their own hands instead of allowing law enforcement to do its job.

CLAY: This is inexcusable. It got worse, Buck. Jen Psaki then doubled down on Kyle Rittenhouse’s smears when Peter Doocy pressed her on it.

DOOCY: You’re saying it was just a campaign video’ it wasn’t. The president also gave an interview where he said Rittenhouse was “part of a militia coming out of Illinois.” “Have you ever heard of this president” referring to Trump “say one negative thing about white supremacists”? These are all things… None of this was proven in the trial. And Kyle Rittenhouse is saying that the president had actual malice in defaming his character. Is that what happened here?

PSAKI: The — the president spoke, uh, to the verdict last week. He has obviously condemned, uh, the hatred and division and violence we’ve seen around the country by groups like The Proud Boys, uh, and groups that, uh, that individual has posed in photos with. But beyond that, I’ll leave it to his comments.

BUCK: She’s just talking around the issue. She won’t actually address the fact that Biden smeared an innocent young man because his lunatic left-wing base wanted to hear it at the time. Joe Biden has always done that. This is why I don’t like this, “Oh, he’s Grandpa Joe! You can trust good old Scranton Joe.” No he’s not a good guy, folks. He’s done whatever he’s had to do for as long as he’s been in politics to be on the right side of the polling and winning and that’s it.

And right now, his polling is terrible. And one thing, Clay, I think notice how they’re always pivoting to Trump. The pivot to Trump didn’t save them in Virginia and almost didn’t save them in New Jersey. That’s part of the Democrat panic that’s happening right now. That playbook doesn’t work for them right now.

CLAY: No, I think it’s 100% right. I think that’s why they’re so panicked is because they didn’t have to stand for anything. Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t really stood for anything. They got elected on the premise that they were not Trump and that they would solve covid. Well, they’re not Trump. They certainly have not solved covid, which I think is the underlying reason why everything Joe Biden is touching now is collapsing. The public out there bought into the idea that Joe Biden would solve covid, and it just flat-out hasn’t happened. In fact, more people are going to die in 2021 of covid than died in all of 2020.

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Fauci, the Little Lab Coat Tyrant Smurf, Is Losing His Mojo

24 Nov 2021

BUCK: I think Fauci is starting to lose his grip over the public’s minds. I don’t think he’s able to just say, “Listen to me or else.” So here he is actually calling out by name a member of the news media. I’m a little sad, Clay, it’s not us, but we’re working on it.

CLAY: Fingers crossed.

BUCK: Yeah, fingers crossed. I call him the little tyrant lab coat Smurf. All the names you hear, a lot of them started with the Buckster. But here he is calling out none other than our friend Tucker Carlson. Play six.

FAUCI: I’ve devoted my entire career of 50 years to try and essentially safeguard and preserve the health and lives of American people. And, as an infectious disease doctor who deals with outbreak, that gets really extended to the rest of the world. That’s what I do! The praise or the arrows and slings are really irrelevant. I do what science drives you to do. And that’s what I do. And, y’know, I’m not in it for a popularity contest; I’m trying to save lives. And the people who weaponized lies are killing people. So the only question I have is that when you show Tucker Carlson and Peter Navarro criticizing me, I consider that a badge of honor.

BUCK: I consider it “a badge of honuh” that Fauci is too chicken to come on our show and answer questions. We would ask real questions. I would want real answers, not do the usual. Look at what he starts with. “I devoted my whole life to saving lives all over the world. It’s not about the fame. I just have to be on TV every 30 seconds or else I shrivel up like a prune.”

CLAY: I gotta give credit, Buck, to Tucker Carlson for taking the slings and arrows, as Dr. Fauci just reflected. I’ve not heard Tucker say anything inaccurate about covid. In fact, almost everything, it seems to me — including the Rittenhouse interview this week — Tucker is willing to stand up and say the inconvenient truth in the face of an onslaught from the mainstream media, including Fauci and others.

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Ahmaud Arbery Verdict: A Lot of Jail Time

24 Nov 2021

CLAY: It appears there may be verdicts coming down in the very short-term future here in the Ahmaud Arbery case down in Georgia. We will get you the updated details, may even be able to go live to those verdicts. Neither Buck nor I have followed this case, to be candid with all of you, anywhere near to the same degree as the Kyle Rittenhouse case. But it is a case that has received substantial amounts of national attention, and I know many of you have followed that case. Buck, who should we go to next?

BUCK: I think we should go to the judge in the Ahmaud Arbery trial. Let’s go to it.

JUDGE: Please hand your verdict forms to the sheriff.

CLAY: Handing the verdict forms over to the judge right now. The jury has convened.

BUCK: Three men, Clay, charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death, are about to find out their fate from the jury. The judge is lining up the papers on it trying to get ready for the actual official recitation of the jury finding.

JUDGE: I’ll go ahead and address each one of these verdict forms separately. The first verdict form I have is the State of Georgia versus Travis McMichael. Mr. McMichael, please stand. Verdict is as follows: In the Superior Court of Glynn County, State of Georgia versus Travis McMichael, case No. CR 000433. Jury verdict form. Count I, malice murder. “We the jury find the defendant, Travis McMichael, guilty.”

GALLERY: (hooting)

JUDGE: I’d ask whoever made an outburst in the court be removed from the court, please.

BUCK: One guilty verdict just came down here, for everyone listening, for Travis McMichael for malice murder. Someone had an outburst, being removed from the court. We are live right now with the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial verdict. One guilty verdict just came down for Travis McMichael for malice murder. Clay, looks like they’re still trying to continue.

CLAY: So those are the verdicts coming in here, Buck, and obviously some of these are not-guilty verdicts, going to the particulars to what these guys did and how that applies in terms of their responsibility.

BUCK: But they were all just found guilty of murder, so they’re all murderers, essentially.

CLAY: The big picture here is they’re all going to go to jail for a long time in these cases. You just heard all of those verdicts coming down. And this story, I would imagine, will be greeted with a measure of support for this jury by the Biden White House as opposed to the jury in the Rittenhouse case. But I would say, in general, what the president should be saying is, “Juries deserve the responsibility and obligation to be able to do their job without the leader of the Free World trying to weigh in on what they should or should not do.” As citizens of the United States — and this is me speaking as a lawyer — we have the best justice system in the history of the world. It is imperfect. But in general, juries tend to get far more right than they do wrong. You and I have not watched this trial to the same extent that we did Rittenhouse.

BUCK: To be fair also, it wasn’t really possible. The two trials coincided at one point.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And they were both being live streamed. So you wouldn’t have been able to watch them both or at least some parts of it. Also, I have to say, I thought this was going to be the verdict. I’m not surprised this is the verdict. The video in this case was damaging for the defendants as opposed to the video in the Rittenhouse case, which was entirely vindicating for Kyle Rittenhouse. The video showing Travis McMichael and the two others here was really… The headline here, so to speak, is all three found guilty of a murder charge. Travis McMichael found guilty on all counts, top to bottom. So there will be, I’m sure, a lot of further analysis and media discussion and scrutiny around this case.

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Are You Smarter Than a Biden Cabinet Secretary?

24 Nov 2021

CLAY: Hopefully, you’re all smarter than Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. Buck, I saw this and I just thought to myself, “This is so inexcusably bad.” Everybody out there knows that gas prices have skyrocketed. They’re up some 50% from last year as a part of the overall 6.2% inflation rise, and energy prices have gotten so bad that Joe Biden has decided to release some of the Strategic Oil Reserve. It’s totally a political ploy. It makes no real significant impact here.

But he’s trying to get a little bit of attention in a positive way for trying to combat rising oil prices. His energy secretary trotted out and she was asked a pretty basic question: “How many barrels of oil does the United States actually consume in a day?” This is something that if you were in charge of the energy sector in this country, probably you should know it. It’s not going to surprise you that Granholm had no idea. Listen.

ED O’KEEFE: How many barrels of oil does the U.S. consume per day?

GRANHOLM: I don’t have that right in front of me.

ED O’KEEFE: So some suggest it’s about 18 million, which would suggest you’re releasing less than three days’ worth of supply from the Petroleum Reserve.

BUCK: It’s not just “some suggest.” That’s the number from 2020. She didn’t know because… I told you this, Clay, I sat on a panel with Jennifer Granholm when she was the former governor of Michigan.

CLAY: She’s Canadian. She’s not eligible to be president. She’s not born in the States.

BUCK: Not anything that anyone is going to be losing sleep over. We’re trying to talk about the border, and Bill was having one of his more honest moments. They’re just scanning the border. They’re just running through the asylum process. Granholm looked at me and started screaming, “Kids in cages! Kids in cages!” like a toddler. I was like, “This woman? This is the person you’re making the energy secretary?” She’s on a TV show with millions of viewers and that’s how she acts? It’s kind of amazing to me. But, yes, she’s not well versed. But look at Pete Buttigieg. This is a guy who can’t even get the potholes fixed as the mayor of South Bend, and now he’s the Transportation Secretary? Give me a break.

CLAY: That’s when he actually shows up, Buck. He also spent two months on paternity leave. I’m still fired up. I had a big conversation about this with my wife, too. If you are the dad and your job allows you to take two months off, I don’t care what your job is, you aren’t that significant in the job that you have. Buck, I’ve already had my kids, but my job doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

I did sports talk radio show when I had my kids. I don’t think I missed a day, and I was doing sports talk radio. If you’re the head of the transportation department, and we have once-in-a generation-level collapse in supply chains, and you take multiple months off? If you’re the mom and you have the baby, you deserve all the time off that you can possibly get. Your body is physically recovering. Your obligations, especially if you’re breastfeeding, are massive.

BUCK: If you had open-heart surgery, people would expect that you’re going to have a recovery time. It’s the same same kind of idea. If you’re the first cousin of somebody who just had successful open-heart surgery, the expectation wouldn’t be that you have like a bystander trauma from the surgery and so you need weeks off from work, too.

CLAY: It’s not even his partner who had the baby, Buck. They had a surrogate. Neither one of them actually went through childbirth. So it’s not as if Mayor Pete is having to help his wife who had a baby. In fact, to my knowledge, we don’t even know who had the baby and actually did the work of carrying that child for nine months and delivering it. And this is part and parcel the larger example of what is going on with the Biden administration. You’ve got a lot of cosmetic diversity and an awful lot of incompetence in this administration because they don’t care about talent. They care about checking boxes.

BUCK: The great diversity and inclusion reality check moment for this administration will be, if it’s pretty clear they decide to surpass the first female minority vice president with somebody else. I think we’re probably… Look, it’s a ways off. We’ll talking about this a lot. I think we’re headed towards something like that.

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24 Nov 2021

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Trump Will Run Shadow Government with Rush Limbaugh

24 Nov 2021

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EIB 24/7: Clay & Buck’s Stack of Stuff

24 Nov 2021

  • RushLimbaugh.com: I’ve Had a Year to Think About What’s Important – 12.23.20
  • RushLimbaugh.com: The True Story of Thanksgiving – 11.24.20
  • RushLimbaugh.com: George Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation – 11.24.20

  • Gateway Pundit: He’s So Lost: Joe Biden Reads “End of Quote” Off of TelePrompter During Speech
  • New York Post: More than 75% of US hit by inflation and most blame Biden, poll shows
  • FOXNews: Turkey farmers explain why prices are so high as Thanksgiving favorites’ costs soar
  • Daily Wire: Supply Chain Be Damned: Biden Will Require Canadian Truck Drivers Get Vaccinated To Cross Border
  • Daily Wire: General Mills To Raise Prices On Yogurt, Cereal, Other Foods Due To Inflation
  • New York Post: Biden’s gas-price move doesn’t come close to reversing the damage he’s already done
  • Breitbart: Fact-Check: Biden Says Gas Companies Are Overcharging Americans at the Pump
  • HotAir: Democratic strategist on House passage of BBB bill: ‘Too late. We’re f***ed.”
  • NewsBusters: ABC Praises Biden Tapping Oil Reserves, CBS/NBC Call It a ‘Drop in the Bucket’
  • PJ Media: Oil, Oil Everywhere But Not a Drop of Sense
  • New York Post: Build Back Better’s climate pork will benefit the rich — but not the environment

  • New York Post: Darrell Brooks shared pro-Hitler memes, called for violence against white people
  • FOXNews: Waukesha parade horror made possible by left-wing district attorneys’ attempts at bail reform, critics say
  • FOXNews: Media blasted for referring to Waukesha parade attack as ‘crash’
  • Federalist: Waukesha Mass Killing Suspect The Latest Violent Criminal Unchecked By Soft-On-Crime DA
  • JustTheNews: Democratic cities that enacted bail reform see rise in crime, repeat offenses

  • New York Post: Hundreds of Google employees sign manifesto opposing COVID vaccine mandate
  • Breitbart: W.H.O. Says OK to Offer Up Children, Adolescents for Vaccination
  • JustTheNews: Jan. 6 panel Democrats admit blunder, as false accusation emboldens GOP. Now a privilege fight looms

  • New York Post: ‘Experts’ slammed for saying California crime spree isn’t ‘looting’
  • FOXNews: If Ahmaud Arbery’s family doesn’t have peace, community won’t have peace, BLM protesters say
  • UK Daily Mail: The new normal? Bay Area is hit by THIRD consecutive day of looting as 50-strong hammer gang storms jewelry store after Macy’s and Lululemon stores were hit: Thieves take advantage of woke ‘misdemeanor’ law
  • LA Times: A new breed of brazen takeover robbers hitting California luxury retailers, raising ire
  • CBS: Shaken Holiday Shoppers Changing Plans in Wake Of Retail Smash-and-Grab Crime Spree
  • Crain’s Chicago Business: Retailers sound alarm on organized theft as states warn of rise

  • Daily Wire: Enes Kanter Slams Professional Sports Leagues For Not Speaking Out On China: ‘They’re Scared’
  • HotAir: NY Times: It’s not hard to see why people are moving to Texas
  • PJ Media: Introducing Joe Biden’s Weapons-Grade IRS
  • Federalist: Georgia Governor Releases More Evidence That 2020 Ballots Were Miscounted
  • HotAir: Dem focus groups of Virginia: School closures pushed Biden voters towards Youngkin
  • New York Post: Deadly result of progressive arrogance on bail reform

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    Did the Media Succeed or Fail on Rittenhouse?

    23 Nov 2021

    CLAY: We have to begin the show by commending the interview with Kyle Rittenhouse that Tucker Carlson did last night. If you have not watched the entire interview, I would encourage you to go do so. You can watch it on YouTube. They have posted it all.

    This is, I believe, a signature moment in narrative lies overtaking true facts, and the world that we have created being so divergent where people on the left-wing believe that Kyle Rittenhouse may have killed minorities, had no justification, crossed state lines with a rifle, and got away with murder. And for the most part they believe that because they haven’t paid any attention to the actual evidence in this case at all. But hearing Kyle Rittenhouse speak, both on the witness stand in his trial, and also with Tucker Carlson walking through all of the decisions that he has made.

    It is difficult not only to recognize that Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty of any crime, but also I think it’s difficult to argue that this is not a teenager that you should hold in some measure of esteem. That is, you should be happy to employ him, based on what I have seen. You should be happy to be his teacher, if you were in school. You should be happy that he has gone on to education at Arizona State right now, presuming they don’t kick him out. Although, I’d be afraid that that might happen. And I hope that there are other universities out there that would extend a hand to him in the event that that occurs at Arizona State.

    Buck, I would even go so far as to say, of people who could take your daughter to prom, Kyle Rittenhouse is not in an awful category there. I know there are a lot of dads out there that get really nervous about who might take their daughter to prom. Based on the interviews that I’ve seen with this kid, there are a lot worse prom dates out there than Kyle Rittenhouse.

    He is 100 percent innocent. And what the media has done to him, Buck, is one of, I would put it in context with Richard Jewell on some level. I would put it in context with Duke lacrosse. It is one of the great failures of American media that this kid was ever charged with a crime and that anyone is going to say he belongs in jail. And anyone who is arguing this is arguing it not based on the facts but based entirely on the narrative that they want to believe.

    Did you have the same takeaways having watched this interview and also the trial? It’s not just the interview.

    BUCK: Yes, absolutely. And the more that you learn about you learn about Kyle Rittenhouse, the more you start to see he’s a heroic kid. Self-defense, you might not say necessarily is an issue of heroism; it’s a issue of necessity. And he defended himself against the mob. But his act — remember, what they tried to say for a while was that his very presence — now that I know more about this, now that we all know more about it, my concern about Rittenhouse going there had always just been — you and I discussed it with everyone on the air —

    CLAY: Yes.

    BUCK: — trying to be honest with the audience and say, would I advise my own blood, would I advise my own dear friend, family member, whatever may be go into that maelstrom and deal with these lunatic forces that have been unleashed in the city of Kenosha. And out of maybe prudence, risk aversion, I would say, I’m not sure he should do that, but that’s a different thing than saying his motives for being there weren’t beneficial, weren’t heroic even.

    And I think the more we’ve seen of Kyle Rittenhouse, heard in his own words, why he was there, what he was doing there, what his purpose was, how he conducted himself, even in the midst of all of that just utter madness, malevolence. There was evil in that city that night. And Kyle Rittenhouse showed up anyway.

    And look. I know a lot of people that have been on the front lines of combat situations. I deployed as a CIA analyst to some of the war zones and saw all the real gore kickers and the people who were outside the wire, wearing a uniform, and what they were doing day in and day out. And for me, I might tell my own son, I don’t know if I would want you to deploy — but it’s still heroic when they make that choice to fight against those who would do us harm and would tear down our society.

    So I think Kyle Rittenhouse has had, in some ways, one of the biggest — for anyone who is open to facts, for anyone who is open to what really happened, the narrative transformation here — and I always thought it was self-defense. I always thought he was being railroaded and all that. But the more you learn about this kid, the more likable, decent, honorable and brave, it’s obvious he was.

    That’s why I think the Tucker interview was so powerful. Because we hadn’t heard from him, right, except on the stand when he’s on trial for his life. I think, Clay, when you said the media failed, this is the part of it that we have to come to grips with. The media didn’t fail. The left-wing media didn’t fail. This is their purpose. Their purpose was to malign this kid and try to get him sent to prison forever. They are an organ of left-wing propaganda. They are with the mob. They are the PR team for Antifa. This is who they are.

    I know you’re saying they failed because they pretend that they’re there to give the truth. But you and I and everyone else listening knows that’s not really their purpose. Their purpose is to achieve political ends. And they failed to get Kyle Rittenhouse sent to prison forever. But they convinced half the country that he murdered unarmed Black protesters for a year. So they got pretty darned close to their goal of ruining his life.

    CLAY: Yeah, it’s a good point. And when I say “failed,” this may be, again, me coming from the perspective of I want to believe that there is a great number of persuadable people out there. And increasingly I think that’s true.

    When I say “failed,” I’m really just genuinely disappointed at the laziness, Buck, because I do agree there are certain people who were actually intelligent. And to use your word, have a malevolent idea, they’re malevolent. They’re trying to destroy what is built up.

    I think the true number of evil doers that are smart enough to do that in the media is actually pretty small, right? Because as you know most media are sheep. They follow wherever the herd goes. They don’t do their own research. They don’t actually look at the data or the facts. And what I see consistently is so many falsehoods being spread about this kid, and I think it’s laziness.

    BUCK: Really?

    CLAY: More than it’s evil. The evil intent…

    BUCK: I think they’re the propagandists of the left seeking to undermine core tenets of our civilization, our rule of law. Clay, I think they’re true believers. I think most journalists — when I say most journalists — there are journalists who are covering finance in Orlando. I’m not talking about them.

    CLAY: I think most journalists are dumb and they’re sheep as opposed to evil.

    BUCK: Yeah, there’s a lot of dumb journalists. But the voices, the very loud, prominent national voices who are trying to destroy Kyle Rittenhouse — here’s how we can test my theory about their malevolence. Of course, there’s a lot of lazy, stupid journalists; there’s a lot of lazy, stupid a lot of things. I think journalists in general are more delusional and less useful than most other professions.

    CLAY: I would agree to a large extent with that.

    BUCK: There’s no question.

    CLAY: Here’s an easy test, Buck. If you knocked out half of mechanics or plumbers in this country there would be a massive issue.

    BUCK: We’d have problems.

    CLAY: Yes, if you knocked out half of journalists I don’t think there would be much of an issue.

    BUCK: Also, if a plumber or truck driver or a mechanic or a doctor, you know, a surgeon messes up big time, there are consequences. People are upset. With journalists — that actually draws me to my next point: Remember what Kyle Rittenhouse said in the Tucker interview. He said Joe Biden running as a candidate.

    CLAY: We should play that audio.

    BUCK: We should grab that — defamed his character in a way that was malevolent, in a way that was malevolent, in a way that would rise to the standard — we talked about this. And Kyle sued.

    That’s going to be very interesting. I hope Kyle sues the you-know-what out of all these people. But how many journalists — I use that term loosely — really media people. How many have come up forward and said, you know what, I rushed to judgment on this one, I said things about Kyle Rittenhouse that were not true, I spread facts about…”? Zero.

    CLAY: Zero.

    BUCK: So if it were about laziness and if it was about just we made mistakes in our profession, we want to make this right, wouldn’t they come forward? I mean, you look at somebody, you look at that absolute imbecile, Joe Scarborough, on the mornings over at MSNBC, just going on TV — untrue, untrue, untrue, over and over about Rittenhouse. He’s not embarrassed.

    Like I said, like that guy who wrote the New York Times op-ed — what do we do the next day. Our team said, Buck, you got the guy’s name wrong. Got it corrected right away.

    I’m not going to say I lost sleep over it. I was he annoyed I was hitting the heavy bag a little harder. Point being we at least operate in the fact of reason and some accountability. Think about the brand value here, if you were a true journalist, to come forward say I got Rittenhouse wrong, guys, I’m embarrassed and I will do better. Not one person, I’ve seen.

    CLAY: It’s a great point. By the way, let’s play cut to this, is Rittenhouse last night. And this is legally I think an utterly fascinating question, if he brings lawsuits against all these people, including President of the United States Joe Biden who at the time was running for political office.

    Listen to Rittenhouse last night on Tucker addressing Joe Biden.

    RITTENHOUSE: Mr. President, if I could say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back watch the trial and understand the facts before you make a statement. It’s actual malice, defaming my character for him to say something like that.

    CARLSON: It’s not simply Biden who said that. It’s a lot of people on television have said that a lot. Dozens of people have said that. I’m sorry to tell you, in case you haven’t seen it.

    RITTENHOUSE: It’s actually quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts of the case. He crossed state lines: False. He’s a white supremacist: False. None of that is true. And the lies that they can just get away with spreading, it’s just sickening and it’s a disgrace to this country.

    BUCK: If Joe Biden had any honor, Clay, if he was the good guy, Joe from Scranton with rolled-up sleeves, one of the folks, I’m one of the folks at the dinner table with you, the whole thing that he does, he would apologize, apologize, like a real man for what he said about Kyle Rittenhouse.

    You and I both know what are the chances of that happening.

    CLAY: Zero percent, zero percent.

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    Dems Come to Grips with Crime Wave They Created

    23 Nov 2021

    BUCK: The crime in major cities across America, why is it happening? What’s going on? What do you think if you live in a place like San Francisco, or what do you think if you live in a place that is telling you increasingly just deal with property crime? It’s not that big a deal. They steal your bike. They still your laptop. They steal your wallet, iPhone, whatever it may be. Maybe they need it more than you. Don’t defend yourself and definitely don’t expect law enforcement to come in a hurry do something about it.

    What does that do to society? We often focus on murders. We focus on the highest-profile, most heinous crimes when looking at a crime wave in a place like San Fran. And, yes, in 2020 there was about a 30 percent increase in murders. And it’s still much higher this year, 2021, than it was pre — they always want to say prepandemic — it’s really pre- the rise of BLM 2.0.

    The pandemic was not actually something that caused an increase in crime or violence in other countries around the world. In fact, they saw drops. You had fewer people interacting with each other, fewer people out, more people in their homes. But the rise of BLM, undermining of police, progressive prosecutors deciding, no cash bail allowed. Let people out. Don’t punish them. And we see the consequences.

    The consequences are apparent here in New York City where I am, where I live, there’s no question about it. And even some Democrats are starting to figure this out.

    The property crime in San Francisco, specifically, has become so widespread that people increasingly find themselves just leaving. They don’t want to deal with it anymore. And here’s a woman named Michelle Tandler, her thread on Twitter went viral. Clay, I want to tell folks some of what she says here. To get a sense what it means to be in a big Democrat-controlled blue city.

    She writes, “One of my best friends in SF was burglarized and robbed while sleeping. Two days later she saw three mean peering into her backyard. She called the SFPD sobbing. They did not come. ‘I’ve never lived someplace where the government just doesn’t care about you,’ she said.

    She and her husband are going to turn their home into a security fortress — motion detecters, lights, cameras. “I was told next time I have to say they have a weapon, she told me. Be careful, I warned. That could get you into trouble. I explained to her, San Francisco has laws which could give someone the right to sue her for calling the cops if they aren’t committing a crime. So what should she do if she sees people peering into her yard? I have no idea.”

    Clay, there’s so much here. But, first, this notion of “I’ve never lived someplace where the government just doesn’t care about you.” Welcome to Lib-dystopia, everybody. That’s what is going on.

    CLAY: We keep saying it and I think it’s worth contemplating here. An absence of the law and an absence of punishment and an absence of jail time is a luxury of low-crime rates. People can sit around and they can debate in the faculty lounge and they can debate inside of the prosecutor’s office, oh, you know what, we’re putting people in prison for too long, we’re treating criminals too harshly when crime goes down substantially.

    When it comes back — and it always does, it’s a circle, then immediately people say, you know what, it’s time to lock them up and throw away the key. And, Buck, we’re repeating history all over again.

    In the ’70s and the ’80s, crime skyrocketed in this country. And what happened? Democrats, ironically, including Joe Biden himself, came up with the three-strikes-and-you’re-out law that flooded our prisons with criminals. Put more police on the street. And what happened? Crime plummeted.

    Rudy Giuliani in New York City led the charge. Cities became safer, Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, didn’t matter who you were, you felt comfortable walking through Central Park. You wanted to go to Times Square, instead of the peep shows. It turned into Disneyland. Right?

    And then what happens? All of a sudden people take for granted the low crime rates. All the people start to make arguments, oh, we’re being unfair. Why are we putting these people in prison? And you let ’em out. Thousand dollar bail in Milwaukee, what happens? The guy gets behind a wheel and mows through a crowd of people, time after time.

    We’re seeing people committing the crimes, Buck, they ain’t first-time offenders. They’ve got long rap sheets, including the guys, by the way, that Kyle Rittenhouse shot in Kenosha. And there is suddenly — you can feel it all over the country, even in San Francisco, even in L.A., even in New York City, liberal, blue-city bastions. People are saying it’s time people give police back their ability to do their job and lock people up.

    BUCK: There’s that line that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. And what you’re seeing in major cities across the country, is that a conservative is now just a liberal who was mugged and who actually understands — or at least a moderate maybe is a liberal who has been mugged and says, what the heck is going on? Why is this rising in my neighborhood, in my town, my city? And the authorities are all talking about prison reform.

    The authorities are talking about getting people back on the streets faster. Let’s not forget while we have this huge rise in crime across the country, that is a fact; we have the numbers. This isn’t some perception, the biggest increase in 100 years in murders in one year in America has occurred in the last 12 to 18 months. And here we are now seeing that these results are catastrophic. They’re horrific.

    What were the Democrats focused in that whole time? Racist cops shooting unarmed Black men. BLM, that’s what they wanted to talk about. Oh, really? That was the primary issue of law enforcement during that period? That’s what we’re supposed to be all focused in on. And then you have the idiot politicians out there, and there are so many of them — de Blasio in New York, maybe the worst mayor in the country, I think he’s the worst mayor in the country. But a lot of bad mayors, London Breed in San Francisco, in response to the viral video now of, I believe — and it might have been the Chicago mass retail, organized retail theft that occurred — it’s tough to keep them all straight, Clay, because we all see the video, but I think it was the one in California.

    There were 80 people who ran into a store and just stole $10,000 handbags as fast as they could. London Breed, mayor of San Francisco said, we’re going to handle this. We talked about Union Square yesterday in San Francisco. We’re going to limit vehicle traffic to that area. So now everybody has to walk further and deal with the inconvenience, so that the theft mob thugs don’t drive right up to the store after they smash the window and steal everything and are able to drive away. That’s their plan. That’s part of the plan at least in San Francisco. It’s outrageous.

    CLAY: It’s failed. It’s a failed policy. And it’s happening everywhere, all over the country. I saw the videos from Rodeo Drive where people are walking in and stealing things. It’s getting worse and worse everywhere. And what’s going to happen?

    This is my argument, I turned to my wife during Yellowstone the other night, I was watching it; I know you haven’t watched it, Buck. Yellowstone there are almost vigilante cops or livestock agents, for lack of a better way of describing it, but they take the law into their own hands when justice is not otherwise being meted out.

    I think, remember they were canceling Cops on the television show. They were trying to do away with the, what’s the show — you’re not going to know — Paw Patrol because they had a cop character. Oh, can we have a cop puppy on this show?

    There is going to be, in short order in rapid fashion, a swing back in the direction of, we want bad ass cops out protecting our streets, kicking ass of criminals and putting them in prison for years and years. White, Black, Asian, Hispanic people are all going to be demanding it. And the AOCs of the world, the Ilhan Omars, all these people saying we’ve got to clean out all the federal prisons — that’s their plan; they want the entire federal prison system empty. That’s their plan.

    BUCK: Rashida Tlaib is pushing this aggressively, and when asked about it.

    CLAY: By Axios, to their credit.

    BUCK: When asked about it, it’s going to be a sort of phased in thing, but you want to still empty out the federal prison. There are people in the federal prison who are there because they were crossing state lines with severed heads in the trunk, lady. Give me a break.

    Empty the federal prisons? The people who say these things have never been the victim of a violent crime themselves, the politicians, media, the jerks that push this stuff they’ve never had somebody they know robbed, raped, murdered. They don’t know what it’s like to go through that.

    CLAY: They have private security.

    BUCK: Of course, they’ve got private and armed security. And they simply think that we’re paying the price as a society. It’s all of our fault, you see, Clay, they defuse the responsibility for criminality for all of us. It’s been a left-wing approach to crime for a long time. And it also makes everybody feel unsafe and miserable and therefore more likely to be open to radical plans and radical changes, right? You immiserate the population. This is Marx. This is how they do it. You immiserate the population and they’re much more willing, at least a portion, willing to go along with crazy ideas. This is awful, right?

    CLAY: You also threaten, Buck, every white male politician who raises any issue about this as being racist. That’s the immediate attack. That’s why Joe Biden walked back his comments about the jury in the Rittenhouse case and had to issue a statement talking about how angry he was.

    That’s why Bill de Blasio, who is a fleckless pathetic leader, is terrified of anybody in New York City if he decides to bring back “stop and frisk” or bring back plain-clothed police, they’re terrified they’re going to get called racist, Buck. White male politicians who are Democrats, first of, I don’t know how they call themselves Democrats, they’re terrified of their own party coming after them.

    BUCK: This is the way it is, folks. It’s going to continue to play out with Democrats trying to explain to you that they’re not responsible — they’re going to say it’s the pandemic. They’re going to say it’s failed systems and failed policing.

    No, they are causing failure within the system, and we can all see it. And San Francisco is just one example of it. There are so many cities across the country where this mentality is having terrible effects.

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    23 Nov 2021

    BUCK: We got our man, Will Cain, with us right now. He is the co-host of Fox — co-hosts are obviously the best — Fox & Friends Weekend with our buddy Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy, Mr. Will Cain of Fox News. Buddy, how are you?

    CAIN: What’s up, Buck? What’s up, Clay?

    CLAY: What’s shaking, my man?

    BUCK: We have to get you all in studio sometimes. The three amigos. We can chat about all the things happening in America and around the world. I’ll start with this one. We have so many but we don’t have too much time. The Democratic Party in panic mode from their own research finding out that their brand is in the dumpster. What’s going on?

    CAIN: Well, it turns out calling everybody in the country who disagrees with you a racist is an unpopular message. And after their loss in Virginia, looks like the lesson they took from that: Let’s triple down, let’s triple racism everybody. It’s not a good brand, Buck. It’s not a good brand, Clay.

    And it’s not just in the name calling; it’s in the policies. Clearly critical race theory is an incredibly unpopular ideological concept. People don’t want children being taught to be neoracist and embrace segregation as policies. And beyond that, how about just not destroying our pocketbooks with inflation?

    So I think from top to bottom here’s the easiest way to distill it, Buck. What’s going well for the Democrat Party? If you can answer that question, you can answer what’s wrong with their brand.

    CLAY: Well said, Will. We got to hang out a couple days last week in Fort Lauderdale. It was a lot of fun at the Fox Patriot Awards. We talked a lot, I don’t know that we talked about this, but I like to look for things that are somewhat moving in a positive direction.

    In the world of sports, I was really encouraged, Will, by the WTA coming out, standing up to China, doing the opposite of what the NBA said, saying, look, it may cost us a lot of money, but the way that you’re treating this missing tennis star whose alleged sexual assault against a prominent communist party official, it’s everything that the NBA should have done. I was really encouraged by them standing up to China. Were you?

    CAIN: I’m encouraged. And I’d like to see more American businesses, Clay, show and exhibit some semblance of a moral backbone. I mean, look, you’re a capitalist. I’m a capitalist. Buck is a capitalist. Everybody listening wants to make as much money as they can for their talent to provide for their family. But money, I’m sorry how cliché it may sound, but money is not the end of our story. We’re moral beings. We’re beings that have to go to sleep at night and sleep soundly. And the WTA found their line in the sand, saying disappearing one of our stars isn’t worth the money.

    Here’s a really interesting question, I think, Clay. What do you think if the NBA were in the same position, their choice would be? Let’s say Stephon Marbury, he’s retired now, but you remember Stephon Marbury, after he washed out of the NBA he went to play in China for a lot of years. Remember that? What if Stephon Marbury had disappeared while he was playing in China? What would the NBA’s response have been? By the way, that’s not even a perfect analogy because he wasn’t an active NBA player at the time. We’d have to find an active NBA player who disappears in China and ask ourselves what would the NBA do?

    CLAY: I think they’d pretend it didn’t happen.

    BUCK: Speaking to Will Cain here. He is of Fox News. You check him out on the weekends hosting Fox & Friends in the morning. Will, also you have a podcast, the Will Cain podcast, which folks should be checking out, too.

    Will, we have a few things in common. We hosted together at The Blaze many years ago. And also both of us spent a time at CNN. Earlier in the show, Clay and I were talking about how the media essentially now — when I say “the media” I mean the big, legacy, corporate Democrat media — doesn’t seem ashamed at all about what happened with Kyle Rittenhouse. If anything it pretends they weren’t lying about it or they’re happy that they got away with it as long as they did. How long is that sustainable as a model for them?

    CAIN: Until there’s an accountability mechanism, Buck, that is undeniable. You and I were talking earlier this week about, Buck, the progression of CNN. I was a conservative contributor, analyst at CNN from about 2010 to 2014. It was a different CNN than it is today. It was a biased CNN. They weren’t objective. They were still liberal. But they were simply biased.

    Buck, I think you were there in, what, ’14 to ’16, roughly, maybe in that timeframe?

    BUCK: Yep, I was there when they lost their mind. I was there for the nervous breakdown of CNN.

    CAIN: Yes, I would say they were making the transition from biased to propagandists.

    BUCK: Maybe it was my fault.

    CAIN: And I think what we’re watching now is they’re making the move from propagandists to activists. Playing an active role in the news cycle. And MSNBC best embodies this with the photographer trailing the bus, the jury bus in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

    But this weekend, I said this on Fox & Friends, Buck, I said I’m a little naive, I thought after the trial was over they’d stop lying, but they didn’t stop lying. And it’s shocking to me because I would think, okay, ratings aren’t the accountability mechanism because their ratings are in the tank, and clearly they’re not paying the price for low ratings. But what about shareholders and potential defamation suits? Does not the shareholder of MSNBC or Comcast or Discovery go, this is bad business? This is hurting us?

    By the way, the answer to that might be yes, because John Malone who owns Liberty Media which owns Discovery, which owns CNN, seems to be putting the feelers out there that I don’t like what’s happening here at CNN.

    CLAY: I think that’s a credit to him. He kind of cracked the whip and said this organization is a shell of what it used to be when, Buck, you were there, when Will was there.

    I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but did you guys see the video where they were talking about the WTA and the response in China and they left up their broadcast window in China to show that they were being censored in real time? I thought that was pretty powerful of CNN to point out, hey, we’re speaking truth to power for a change. This is what China’s doing, as we are discussing their disappearing of this Chinese tennis star.

    CAIN: Yeah, and that’s coming face to face with truth in China, Clay, and I would love to see — by the way, Malone is a new majority shareholder of CNN. So it’s not as though he’s been there for some time. He’s new. So he can institute change if he wants to. I’d like to see them face the truth to the United States of America not just in China on race relations.

    Buck, you had a tweet earlier this week and I thought you put it really well — for much of my career — and Clay, you and I talked about this recently, curious where you are on this — I really love the idea of a lofty debate of ideas, like a battle of ideas. I’m right; you’re left. I’m conservative; you’re liberal. I want to see which idea wins the day. And, Buck, you had a tweet, you said, unfortunately that’s not the age we’re in; we’re in an age where we’re battling over basic truths. And I think you put it really well. That’s where the fight is today. It’s over truth and lies, not right and left.

    BUCK: Check out Will Cain’s podcast and also look for him on Fox & Friends where he is co-hosting on weekends. And look for him to pop up on Fox all throughout the week. Will, you’ll be hosting again soon at 7:00 p.m. I know. And people should look for you on Fox & Friends Weekend. Anything else you want to promote for people listening across the country?

    CAIN: I’ll be hosting that 7 p.m. Primetime show the week of December 13th, as you mentioned, Fox & Friends. And later this week on the Will Cain podcast, I’ve got an hour-long conversation with Andy Ngo, the most hated journalist on the left in America.

    BUCK: He’s such a brave, brave little guy, Andy Ngo. Will Cain, check it out. Will, thanks.

    CAIN: Thanks, fellas.

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