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Back to episode — Episode 2623 CWSA 10/09/24

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a networks are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that according to Woodward, Trump had made available to Putin during the pandemic some COVID tests because Russia was having trouble getting them. And Trump made them available to Putin personally, not for the country of Russia but just for Putin's own use. Now the news is trying to make that look like a bad thing. When I read that I said, w…

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their campaign, their two best choices were to completely abandon political campaigning, one hide and the other only talk to friendly people who are going to be on your side, the only choices, the only ones, that's as pathetic as you can get.

So what happens when one candidate has a track record of success as president, a number of policies that are far more popular with the public than the other one, and one of them is hiding and/or only talking to people who won't make her look too embarrassed? It's a tie according to the pollsters. It's a tie. How is that even possible? Now keep in mind that the people living in the other movie where Trump is Hitler, if you're living in the other movie, you're saying the same thing but in reverse. How in the world is anybody voting for Trump? I mean I watched The Daily Show, I watched Bill Maher, and then I watched Howard Stern, and I just don't understand how anybody could vote for that guy. So that's the other movie.

But so far she has turned every single outing that wasn't scripted into a disaster. So it's a whole week of total disasters. And the Trump campaign is using her public appearances without editing as their campaign ads. Ouch. Ouch. Now you might say, but that's what they do with Trump. They show things out of context. Except it's not the context in this case with Trump. They actually have to change the context or clip something out so it looks worse than it is. My digital device just weighed in. So with Trump you have to take him out of context and imagine that he's using words in a way that people don't use words to turn it into something bad. With Harris you just have to show the actual interview. In fact, the Trump campaign is doing the opposite of clipping it. The CBS interview allegedly edited Harris's answer so that it didn't look like word salad stupidity. Apparently we have access to at least the real one and then the fake one. Now somebody said that they switched her answer from one question into the other one so it didn't look so stupid. I'm not 100% sure that the claim they edited it is what the Republicans are saying because I don't want to fall for a hoax because this definitely could be a hoax. So since I haven't seen the original, I've only seen the claim that it was edited, I don't buy into it yet. Totally possible. But if some of you have seen any confirmation from CBS that they edited it, let me know. But if CBS doesn't confirm it and they don't give you the full video, I don't know what would convince me it really happened. I'd have to see a little bit more. But people on the right say it did happen.

And let's just go down the list here. In my opinion she's done the worst performance of any public figure doing interviews. Now I saw somebody in the news say some people are saying it's the worst of anybody ever. I think that's important to say. If you just say she didn't do a good job, we're laughing at this answer, yeah, I think you're missing the bigger picture. The bigger picture is nobody ever, ever who ran for president was this bad. I mean that's completely different. This is not like business as usual. We have a, let me just say it, she's clearly an idiot when it comes to at least talking in public. I maybe she can do a standard test pretty well, I don't know, but she's an idiot in public. There's just no other way to say it.

All right, so here's what she's been up to. She went on Howard Stern. I don't know about you, but when I see Howard Stern talking to anybody, I spend the entire time looking at his bad hairpiece. I assume it's a hairpiece that couldn't possibly be his real hair, right, at his current age? Okay, does anybody have a confirmation he's wearing a hairpiece? I hope I'm not making up a rumor, but isn't it obvious? It's obvious, right? So I can't get past it because it's not that he has a hairpiece or I think he does. Again I'm not 100% sure but looks like it to me. It's that why would you have a hairpiece of the worst hair a person could have? It would be like Einstein getting a hairpiece that looked like his regular hair. Why would you do that? So the whole time he's talking I can't even listen to what he's saying because I don't think he has any useful political ideas. I think he is just clearly in the bag for one side, so nothing he says should have any importance. But it was cringy. And it's a weird choice for somebody who's running against Trump to have a friendly interview with a guy who has done way worse when it comes to race and misogyny.

Now I will support Howard Stern in saying that all of those things were in the context of humor. And when Trump says something that's not totally serious or in the context of humor, I give him the same pass. It's like it's a joke, people. He's talking about McCain being, he liked people who don't get caught. Don't take that seriously. That's a joke. So I don't take Howard Stern seriously. But it's really cringey that he would be the most misogynistic person in the publi

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c domain and that Harris, who's got all these women supporters, would go to see him. Now my question is, is that going to get her any votes, being on Howard Stern? How would that get you any votes? Because it's mostly men who watch it, right? Do you think the men who were watching Howard Stern are going to be, oh that was a good performance? I don't know. I think that was probably a mistake. Har…

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