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“No Sh*t”
As a proud parent, I’m betting the odds that Forbes the actually watched said South Park episode referenced in the above graphic are 6 7.
Welcome back to the week, friends. I hope your weekend was restful and lacking in phone. I unplugged as best I could and came back feeling like a 7 8.
After a really stunning weekend in which America was overrun by radicalized jihadists millions of Americans took to the streets to reaffirm our founding principle (No King), the president seemed to hammer on it saying the Insurrection Act lets him do whatever he wants (it doesn’t) and then saying he’s only joking. Har har.
In other words, just another Trump news cycle.
So here’s some news that matters: The First Amendment of our Constitution, grants us free speech, free practice of religion and peaceable assembly for redress. And there was quite a bit of peaceable assembly last weekend.
I’m reupping my recent chat with Charlie Sykes in honor of the past weekend, we taped this in the wake of the White House, FCC, Disney, Nexstar and Sinclair media censoring Jimmy Kimmel.
“If you don’t get the politics right, everything else can be destroyed,” said
on an episode of the show we aired about a month ago, channeling Charles Krauthammer and John Adams.A reminder you can catch the show on Spotify
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Here’s why I’m independent:
I’m not going to sugarcoat what’s happening, what we are living through. One of the great joys of reporting is writing the first draft of history, but an often terrifying aspect of it is bearing witness to things which grate the soul.
I use my news judgment to distill what’s important, and what’s not. I’m just not interested in chasing clicks, that’s disrespectful to you and it’s really f***ing boring.
talked about this a bit on his show recently, in response to a caller question, and it really stuck with me: Not everything is terrible, not everything is a five-alarm fire. I’ll add by saying that crying wolf on every nano-story crushes the ability of all of us to register (and respond to) news which truly is important and will deeply affect us.It’s fun. If it’s a joy, it is no work. And that’s why I’ve always loved journalism and reporting.
Programming notes
Ian and I are pulling back from the daily 12p live show for now. We’ll still be posting a handful of new shows at Noon ET every week, but we’re shifting away from quantity, in favor of quality. Better content, deeper chats and more revelations ( ← yes, indeed, a good endtimes Dad joke.)
We’ve got some more wild ones in the works, including a deep dive on the oldest corruption in D.C, a check-in with a dairy farmer and the administration’s efforts to brand “terrorism”. (No sh*t.)
You’d be shocked how much work it takes to build 45 minutes or so of quality programming everyday (unless of course you’re in broadcast. And to my broadcast friends, thanks for all your guidance as we’ve gotten this rolling.)
As always, you can catch up on previous shows, clips, shorts and more at the 24sight News YouTube. LIKE, SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE so we can do this fulltime and bring back even better shows for you!!