BUCK: Over at CNN it seems — in terms of their coverage, but sometimes they even say it out loud — they are very upset at the notion that this audience is gonna just be normal. Just gonna roll about their day, live their lives, not be like, “Oh, my gosh. I need to wear three masks and maybe goggles and gonna wear gloves!”

CLAY: Double mask like Walensky did at her testimony today.

BUCK: She was double masking a few weeks ago. Anyone who doesn’t see this for the stupidity and the ostentatious virtue signaling that it is, I don’t know what to say. At some point —

CLAY: How about Fauci, Buck — you tweeted about this too — taking his mask off to answer questions and then putting it back on otherwise?

BUCK: (impression) “He takes the virus seriously.” He is the absolute worst.

CLAY: It’s ridiculous.

BUCK: But, anyway, they’re very upset at the notion. There’s the old line about a fundamentalist is somebody who lives in the constant fear that someone, somewhere is enjoying their life or something. There are variations of the quote. CNN lives in the constant fear that some of you listening to this right now somewhere across the country are enjoying your lives and living lives of purpose and not abject fear because of Fauciite apparatus. Here is one of their own over at CNN saying (impression), “People are just living their lives!”

OLIVER DARCY: A lot of the media does seem when I look at it and — and then travel the country to be very out of touch with people. I mean, if you travel the country, people are not really living in the same, uh, bubble that it seems that, uh, most of the media is messaging toward, and so —

REPORTER: Right!

OLIVER DARCY: Yeah, and so I — I — I — I think this is an issue because if people are tuning out, uhhh, what’s going on in cable news, if we’re not messaging toward, uh, the general population. Um, you know, they’re just, you know, ignoring everything and — and living their lives, uhh, and — and we’re not really getting to them!

CNN’s @oliverdarcy worries people will be directionless without the major media: “If people are tuning out what’s going on in cable news … they’re just, you know, ignoring everything and living their lives and we’re not really getting the information that they need to them.” pic.twitter.com/h1dgECjS79

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 10, 2022

BUCK: That is perfect. That’s perfect. “They’re ignoring us on cable news and living their lives!” Yes. Do that. Hang out with us and ignore those clowns because we’re telling you, live your lives.

CLAY: Yeah, and I think it’s also reflective — and this is one of the things that concerns me a little bit to the extent that I’m concerned about it, Buck, is the Supreme Court justices all live on the East Coast, and I talk to people constantly, and I know you’ve lived this example. But, Buck, the difference between the way people are living on the east and West Coast and the way that they are living in the middle of part the country.

Oftentimes you think whatever is going on around you is representative of what the larger universe is. You came on the road from New York, for instance, and went to a college football game. No masks anywhere. Everybody is living a completely normal life. You were in Florida. You go back to New York and it’s a totally different universe in which people are living.