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opinions all the time, but you say, well, okay, that's a reasonable person who's actually trying to do what's good for the country in their own way. All right. There was a poll, I guess this one was Rasmussen, I believe. And it showed that only Democratic voters believed by majority anyway, only Democratic voters believe by majority that, quote, it's so funny it's hard even to read the sentence.…

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he study, their own study. I'll just read it straight and you tell me that this straight fact is not funny. All right, here it is. Only Democratic voters believe most reporters are simply trying to report the news in an unbiased fashion. Funny that there's somebody in this country, and they can be easily identified with one side of the political divide, believe that the news is actually the news. Well, actually more than half of Democrats think the news is both legitimate and that the news people are trying to do it legitimately. How could you possibly see that no matter what news you're watching? I don't care which outlet you're looking at. How can you possibly think that? Aren't we way beyond that? Aren't we now?

I still think there are, you know, individual news people who are, you know, just trying to report the news straight. That's true. But in genera

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l I think it's fair to say that in general the news is no longer the old-fashioned news. It's really just different interests. They are moving their interests. All right. Question for you, because I don't know if you're seeing it. Everybody on social media is blowing up over the World Health Organization and their statement that masks don't work. When obviously, by the way, my nose isn't running,…

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