s. I'm pretty sure that zero people have ever had that thought in their head. Zero. Zero people on the whole planet, seven billion plus people, not one person has ever had the thought because it's a stupid one that this writer has assigned it to them. Could it be that they don't like diverse voices and rich conversations? Uh no it could not be that. And this is someone who's paid by Bloomberg. Actually preposterous stuff. Amazing. Amazing.

Speaking of writers, Bari Weiss, B-A-R-I, a woman's name in this case, Bari, was until recently, she just quit, a staff writer and editor for the New York Times. And she describes herself as a centrist. And in the world of New York Times a centrist means far right. That's my own framing not anything that anybody else said. And although she does call herself a centrist but that means that she has some, I would say a centrist would be somebody who has a little bit of appreciation or empathy for the opinions on the right, may not share them all but would have a little bit more appreciation for them but also for the left without necessarily agreeing with them all. So that's my understanding of a centrist. Somebody who's a little bit open to both sides but doesn't necessarily agree with either side at all.

Things she quit because she said that it was just an unfriendly place to work and that because she was not as left as the other people, I'm paraphrasing this is not her words, then she was basically it was just such a toxic environment that she just had to get out of there. But here's one of her comments in a lengthy resignation letter which is worth reading. Is that she said that Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times but Twitter has become its ultimate editor. Oy. And she goes on, stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. Then she says I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.

Well Bari, the first thing you got wrong is to assume that history was ever objectively written by anybody. History is not objective. History is written by the winners and you know whoever gets to write about it. So she was wrong on that. But I love this framing of the, in this case the New York Times, the most let's say prestigious of all news organizations. We might say that even they according to this insider who just quit are basically just parroting Twitter.

Now who is the first person who told you that influential people on social media are actually the new government? I did, right? So social media has effectively become the new government because the media has to parrot social media. I don't know if they have to but their business model sort of influences them that direction. And once the social media and the media have formed an opinion the politicians fall in line. So the politicians you know they may suggest a new idea but that is sort of up to social media and the public and then the regular media to support it or not. And then the politicians know what freedom they have to either go with it or not. And of course when I say the public supports it or not I mean their side. So there are only things in our world that are supported by the left and only things supported by the right. And the few things in the middle we don't hear much about because it's not fun.

All right, here's some more cancellations. ViacomCBS decided to can Nick Cannon because they allege he made anti-Semitic comments in his podcast. And here's the funny thing about it. When I read the comments that he made I at least based, I didn't hear the details, maybe it's worse if you hear the full thing but just the surface reporting of the things he said, I don't know it just sounds like an opinion to me. It did not sound like he was intentionally doing anything anti-Semitic. And indeed he considers himself Semitic in other words. And even he said this, how can I be anti-Semitic when the whole thing I was saying was that I'm Semitic so you can't be anti yourself. And I thought well okay you could argue whether he's Semitic or not but you can't argue the point that if he includes himself in the group that h