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t you thought the news was real? I came to this one sooner than you did because I've said this before but because I'm often the subject in the news I have a front row seat to see how inaccurate it is. Because when they're talking about me I know if it's accurate. I'll be like I didn't do that. I didn't say that. That's all inaccurate. But most of you are just observers. You're just in the audience…

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g the Surgeon General, who's African American, then he used some language to refer to grandpa and grandma. He was using some culturally relevant language and she called him out for it because it sounded racist. And then this poor black guy who's the Surgeon General of the United States has to explain on camera to the designated race war starter in the audience. This poor, you know he's reached maybe the pinnacle of at least in terms of public service being the Surgeon General. Young guy. I mean this is quite a good job, right? And he has to stand there listening to this woman ask him if he's racist. Seriously.

Now here's my opinion. I think she should be kicked out of the room by the administration. That's not too harsh, is it? Because if somebody's coming into the press conference for the emergency crisis situation to ask this dumbass question that has no value except to get people upset about race for no good reason whatsoever when we should be doing the opposite and pulling together. Under normal conditions a lot of the press is asking these gotcha questions but would it be unfair to uninvite her and just yank her credentials? I would be okay with that, wouldn't you? Now if these were normal times I'd say maybe not. Let them ask their questions etc. But I think she should be kicked out of the room because she's operating opposite of the national interest during an emergency and there's nothing, she added nothing.

All right yeah he was talking about the language that he uses for his own family. Come on that poor guy. I mean I've been pretty critical of the Surgeon General because of the face mask thing and he had a comment on that but even I felt bad for him having to go through that.

All right is RT or The Hill anti-Trump press? I don't know what that means. And if you notice that the president is being extra nice to Jim Acosta and he's also being extra nice to the governors even the Democratic governors. And the president is also being extra nice to Joe Biden. At least the campaign answers are pretty vicious but the things that the president himself says, he complimented Joe Biden, he complimented the governors, he's even calling Jim Acosta "Jim." Have you noticed that? And he was actually sort of joking with him a little bit at one point. So it even looks like the president and Jim Acosta have some weird détente that I'm sure is temporary but at least I like it during the... yeah I kind of liked the show honestly. You know I think the world would be worse without Jim Acosta.

For being honest the one thing I'll give him credit for is that he understands the show. So I'm not going to say that Trump is a genius because he knows how to operate showmanship for his advantage even though it's not typical politicking. He knows how to use it well. Acosta does the same thing. I'm not going to compliment the president for doing that well and then watch Acosta do it well and not give him the same compliment. Which is Acosta knows what his job is. I mean the way he's decided to define his role in the world and he knows it's some form of wrestling and he knows it's more about the show and he brings the show. And what does the president do? Does the president back away from the show? Never. Th

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at's what we love about him. He never backs away from the show. So he goes into the show and then you've got the president doing a show and Acosta doing a show and it's news for the day. I kind of like it. Now you also need real reporters and stuff and a lot of things that Acosta says are so ridiculous they make your head explode. But in the context of the show he's a good character. You know what…

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