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ke a mental note. Who was calling this out years ago? And obviously I was as well. And who was telling you it was there's no problem? That's not fixable. You can't fix that. If somebody lied to you about something so obvious for four years you should never believe anything they say again. Never. That's not like being wrong. Being wrong is forgivable. We all do it. But that wasn't being wrong. That…

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o she's going to have to answer the question: When she knew the president wasn't up to the job, what she did about it, and why she repeatedly told us that he was fine. Yes, Peter Hannan, those are exactly the right questions. If she can't answer those questions, could you trust her with the nuclear codes? Those are really, really good questions.

I've often thought that the public should be more involved in coming up with good questions. Often you see the media doing their interviews and you say, "Oh, you didn't ask the right question there." There should be some kind of website or something where people compete for the best question. And then if you're a journalist you check it in the morning, say, "All right, what do people want to know? Oh shoot, they're all asking why didn't Kamala tell us earlier? That's a good question. I'll ask that question." So I think the media actually could use a boost. And you've seen me do it a bunch of times on my livestreams. I'll say here's a question that should be asked. Usually it doesn't get asked. But you can see that if you could help the media ask the right question I feel like that would drive us a little bit closer to the truth.

All right. As Jeff Clark, who's a great follow on X — he was one of the Trump-related attorneys who got in trouble and now he's just gone nuclear with his opinions in a real productive way because he has excellent opinions and insights on stuff. But he says here's how you know we have a controlled media. So he says there's NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, PBS. I could go on. All of these ostensibly competitors — emphasis on the word ostensibly. He says for in a truly competitive market one or more of them would have said Joe Biden has dementia if they were competing and they all knew what the truth was and their business is to tell you the truth. One of them would try to make money by telling you the truth because that's their business model, isn't it? It isn't telling you accurate, truthful things that turn out to check out later. That's what makes you money if you're in the news business. Well clearly they do not operate like a news business. They operate like a cartel. And that's no longer in doubt. It is pure cartel behavior. There's nothing like a competitor environment.

Now that's why Roger Ailes was so brilliant when he said all we need to do is show a show that's not part of the cartel and you're going to have like half of the country watching it because it's so obvious that the cartel is not giving you news. And sure enough that's why Fox News is the number one entity. It's not because most people agree with it. It's because they even get more Democrats watching Fox News than a lot of the left-leaning news because it's the only place you can see an alternative story. True or false? It's the alternative story.

All right. So Mark Levin sums it up on X. He said the same media that told us Biden didn't have dementia now tell us Harris isn't stupid. You couldn't sum it up better than that. By the way I tell you all the time that the difference between humor and an accurate summary is very small. Here's a perfect one. So Levin is giving you an accurate summary. There's nothing to lie about. There's nothing to question. The media did tell us Biden didn't have dementia and they are in fact telling us that Harris isn't stupid. And we can clearly see that neither of those are true. So he's simply summarizing the existing situation with nothing added and it makes you laugh. You see what I mean? An accurate summary is what a joke is. Humor is an accurate summary of reality. And Mark Levin obviously knows that.

So I would like to add one more thing to the obvious. Level people, it's not obvious that she's drunk in public. I'm not the only one noticing that. Are we going to just have a repeat in four years where the press is going to say, "You know we saw her drinking her lunch all the time. We saw her acting like she doesn't act when she's

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not drunk in public. Yeah she was drunk as hell." Am I supposed to not notice that she acts exactly like a drunk person but not all the time? Which is exactly the tell for a drunk person. If she acted like this all the time then I'd say, "Oh that's maybe just how she acts." Because she probably wouldn't be drunk all the time. But you see those laughing things and the weird things she says every no…

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