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p-loaded weapon and he can point Richard Grenell at any situation and you feel confident that the right person's taking care of it. So I'm surprised Richard Grenell doesn't have an official job in the administration. And I don't believe he has an official title, but just the fact that he's sort of available to do missions is kind of awesome. Would you like to have just a Richard Grenell on call so…
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Meanwhile the FCC is demanding that CBS turn over the tape from, I guess it was 60 Minutes, when they interviewed Kamala Harris. Now the FCC would get involved, I guess, to make sure that people got equal time and that an interview was not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad. So the accusation is that Kamala Harris was so incoherent with her usual word salad babble that 60 Minutes had to splice in edits just to make her sound like she wasn't an idiot. I don't think it changed any opinions. I don't think it reversed any opinions. They simply used bits from other answers so that things she said made sense for a change. Now that's extreme. I mean that's way over the line. So yes, I'd like to see the FCC look into that.
Meanwhile the Trump administration is taking down a lot of websites in the government, especially if they have DEI references. So they're putting a pause on most federal government websites and the idea is to dig down and get rid of all the DEI references. So we'll see how long it takes. You know the DEI people are going to burrow into other jobs and change their names and hide the projects and hide the budgets and they're going to do everything creepy and illegal to stay, to keep doing what they're doing. But we'll see. It does seem like Trump and the administration are pretty dead set on rooting out all this DEI. It's going to take a while, won't be easy.
But over at MSNBC, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, one of the hosts, Anna Cabrera, she said on Friday, that's yesterday, that there are plenty of data points that prove that diversity, equity, and inclusion enable businesses to have greater success. Are they really? I think the plenty of data points would actually be none, because how could you sort out how much better you did because of diversity? Now even if you accept that diversity improves your bottom line somehow, even if you accept that, how can you measure it? I mean what possible way would you have to know that? Oh it's a good thing we went from 8% black employees, we got up to 14%, and then what, your profits went up that month so you say it must be because of all the diversity? How in the world would you know that? So it's absurd on its face. It's not something you possibly measure. And even if you tried to measure the company that added diversity versus the one that didn't, that's still a nonsense comparison. They're probably different businesses. Everything's different anyway.
So MSNBC is just floundering, trying to hold on to the thing that was always a lie. But they got caught in the lie.
Trump apparently took a question about why he wasn't going to visit the crash site of the airplanes, the helicopter and airplane that went in the Potomac. And when they asked, you know, the normal way that you would answer that question, do you want to visit the crash site, it would be something like, oh yeah, we're waiting until it's the right time or we're looking into it. And Trump goes, it's in the water. What do you want me to do, swim there? Now that is the way to answer a dumb question. You do it with mocking and you do it with humor and you refuse to answer it in any normal way.
Now even Bill Maher on his show last night called that as the right answer. You know, if you can ask him dumb questions he gets to give you funny answers. And more generally it's hilarious to watch Bill Maher become more
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and more pro-Trump but still have to look balanced. So he's got to come up with some anti-Trump stuff to balance the pro-Trump stuff and it's really hard to come up with the anti stuff because the anti stuff is about stuff he hasn't done. Well he might steal your democracy but has he stolen your democracy? No, no, but I think he might. So the things he does you kind of like. Yeah, yeah, I liked it…
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