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ady? Because you would have a little better looking second choice, right? I mean, obviously Warren is super capable. I'm not talking about that. But in terms of her fit and whether she could win and all that, it's just an obvious losing proposition. If that comes in, that will be my finest prediction. But we'll see. The dumbest pundit. Does anybody have a nomination for the dumbest political pun…
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My nomination is Joe Lockhart. Joe Lockhart even looks like the dumbest guy on TV, doesn't he? All right, now I'm gonna be laughing because I'm looking at your choices now. Who would say Rachel Maddow? Now you could disagree with everything Rachel Maddow says, but how in the world do you say she's dumb? She's brilliant. You can hate everything she says, but she's brilliant and there's no question about that.
I'm seeing names like Salena Zito, Brian Stelter. I don't think any of them are dumb, not even a little bit. I don't think Don Lemon's dumb. Now they're the ones, Chris Cuomo, he's not dumb. They're all the ones that I would put in the category of they're just on the side. But you compare the names that you've just said to Joe Lockhart. I think it's a different category.
So here's Joe Lockhart writing today for CNN.com. He's wondering why no newspapers have called for the removal of President Trump. And you say to yourself, what are you even talking about? Yeah, that's right. Joe Lockhart's wondering why no newspapers have called, like the boards of newspapers where they get together and they say this is the opinion of our newspaper. Because he notes that when Nixon was in trouble for Watergate, that there were lots of newspapers that called for Nixon's removal. And he's saying how come there's no newspaper doing that for Trump? Because after all, Trump was guilty of calling those neo-Nazis fine people in Charlottesville.
And I'm just saying, what? Are you kidding me? First of all, that didn't happen. Does he really think that happened? It's the most debunked hoax in all of it. It's literally the most debunked hoax. If you count the number of clicks, Steve Cortes got over 6 million clicks on his debunking video. I've probably gotten, I don't know, if you added up all of the retweets I've gotten debunking that, several million. Breitbart's run several stories. Joel Pollak's run a number of stories debunking it. How many hits did that get? So just tens of millions probably of hits debunking this thing. And he writes for CNN and of course they don't fact check him even on their own. It's an opinion piece so they don't fact check.
And he's wondering now, at the same time that he's wondering why President Trump is not being asked to be removed from office, what's the biggest hashtag in the country at the same time? The same day. The biggest hashtag is Obamagate. Literally accusing Obama of something worse than Watergate. Because Obamagate is way worse than Watergate. It's not even close. Watergate was sort of an ordinary little crime that probably didn't have that big of a difference in the end result of anything. Obamagate was literally a coup attempt. These things are not even close. These are not in the same house. They're not the same zip code. If you were ever going to say somet
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hing was worse than Watergate, Obamagate is a thousand times worse. And while that's happening right now, exactly right now, not even in the same month but the same day, that's happening. Joe Lockhart is saying that President Trump should be removed from office. And that when he's puzzled the newspapers aren't calling for it. Are you kidding me? Today of all days, this would be the day the newspa…
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