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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Media Bias | Allen Jackson Now | March 25, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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New technology gets blamed for a lot of things,
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But one thing it's done is help bring more people the truth.
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It used to be
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That find out what was going
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On, you had to subscribe to a big city newspaper
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Or watch the evening news.
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But in recent years, truth seeking journalists
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And commentators have grown in number across the country.
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And while it may take some time
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For them to surpass traditional media
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Truth, it always has a way of rising to the top.
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Here's an example of the regular misrepresentation
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That the new, truly honest reporters are up against.
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Recently, the secretary of war ended a briefing on iran
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By asking people to honor the fallen
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American servicemen and women
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By taking a moment to pray for them on bended knee
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With your family, in your schools,
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And in the name of jesus christ.
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Well, for much of america,
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That was the absolute right instinct.
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But it seems that pete hegseth
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Idea of praying for those who had fallen,
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It was just too much for the sunday anchor of face
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The nation.
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She posted this on her social media account,
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Mocking his faith.
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Well, many people wrote back to her telling her there
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The comments were inappropriate and way out of line.
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I will add that they were also ill informed because presidents
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And military leaders
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Have spoken throughout history, asking the public to pray
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For our troops.
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Dwight eisenhower called on the nation to pray before d-day.
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George washington, well, he prayed at valley forge.
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I can name a lot more.
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And of course, their prayers have been effective.
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But margaret brennan, well, she apparently cares
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More about saying something edgy
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That she thinks will get her more social media followers
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By making fun of one of the president's cabinet members.
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To her, the battle to wipe out terrorism and iran's
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Nuclear ambitions seems to be just some sort of a game.
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Clearly, the walter cronkite days
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They have long since passed.
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Well, it seems to me there are waves of deception
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That continue to crash over our lives in this season.
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When you see what's taking place in society, it's confusing.
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It can be disorienting.
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The messaging we have been given is agenda driven.
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But i want to suggest that we're going to
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Have to become more astute consumers of information.
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Pay attention to the world we're living in in new ways.
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Don't just embrace every talking point
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I was offered up by the media or by tick tock.
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Don't fall under the easy spell.
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I've used this reference before regarding the theater
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Of the absurd.
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We've watched lots of releases from that theater of the absurd,
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The hits. they just keep coming.
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The new detroit mayor has offered a no strings
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Attached
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Cash aid program tailored to new and expectant mothers.
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The cash assistance program, it's intended to issue
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$1,500 cash to new and expectant mothers in detroit,
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As well as another $500 per month after a child's birth
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For at least six months.
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No strings attached.
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They celebrate that. no strings.
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Well, on the surface, this sounds compassionate.
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$1,500 up front, $500 a month.
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The guaranteed income.
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No strings attached.
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That's the language they use as a badge of honor.
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But let's think about it just a moment. a no strings
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Attached policy removes any requirement for work.
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It removes any encouragement for a stable family unit.
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You're not encouraging marriage.
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You're not encouraging fathers to stay involved,
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But you're actually removing them from the equation.
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It's absurd.
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It seems completely foolish to me
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That some members of congress don't want to have voter i.d..
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I need id to board a plane to rent a car.
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Instead,
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They prefer saying that requiring an id is jim crow 2.0.
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Referring to the practices in the u.s.
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That enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
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Or they say women would not be able to vote.
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The idea that voter id laws somehow
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Prevent women from voting.
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It's not just misleading. it's insulting.
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Decades ago, we used to not have any security at the airport.
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You could go straight to your gate, straight to your plane.
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You could go meet your friends
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And your loved ones as they arrived.
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But the world has changed.
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And because of the threats that were emerging
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All over the world, they had to put security at the airport.
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But once upon a time, voter id
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Might not have been considered a necessary thing.
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But our world has changed.
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We had 20 million people come across our border
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Illegally during the biden administration.
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And in order for us to maintain secure elections today,
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We have to adapt in ways that make sense
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To the world that we're living in.
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Voter i.d. isn't an intrusion.
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It's a necessary tool that will help
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Ensure our liberties and our freedoms,
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Simply by making sure that u.s.
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Citizens are the ones who are actually voting.
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It's logical.
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It's not sexist, racist, or xenophobic.
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Well, as christians, we can't shelter in place
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And hide inside the walls of a church.
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Our faith, it has to be lived out
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Beyond the walls of those places we worship.
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Our faith must go to work with us.
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Our faith must go to school with us.
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Our family of origin goes to work and to school,
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Whether it's intentional or not.
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It's part of who you are as a person.
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Well, in the same way your christian faith
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That's got to go wherever we go.
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We are a new creation in christ.
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We're part of the family of god.
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By that same logic, that's our family of origin,
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The understanding
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Of our relationships, our perspectives, our values
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That travels with us in any environment that we enter.
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When you enter the academic world, the professional world,
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Or with your friends,
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Let's take our christian values, our biblical worldview with us
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And with intentionality and purpose
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In a more determined way than ever before.
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For people
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That resist us for doing that well,
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We need to treat that notion as absurd.
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In this day and age, if you come to work
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With the list of your preferred pronouns,
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It's demanded in the corporate setting that they be respected.
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It's a badge of honor.
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So if i come to work with my christian faith,
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We should have that same imagina
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A muslim socialist, a mayor that was elected in new york,
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Where he's being celebrated while introducing
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All sorts of practices around his belief system.
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There, having muslim prayers in new york city
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And all sorts of government settings.
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No one's objecting or calling it islamic nationalism.
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Well, i have an expectation that my christian faith
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Should be embraced in any setting,
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Whether it's a school board meeting, the mayor's office,
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The governor's mansion, or the halls of congress.
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We're done apologizing.
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It's time for a courageous response.
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Let's lead with our faith
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Into any environment we find ourselves.
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Well, as i said in my opening, the truth.
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It's coming to the surface.
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More honest reporters and analysts
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Are publishing every day.
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Well, tonight we have one of the more successful ones with us.
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Erick erickson is standing by in macon, georgia.
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He'll join us in just a moment.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Well, as i mentioned
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In my open, truthful media is rising.
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While the decision makers of the legacy media
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Are so caught up in trying to make president trump look bad
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That they're often on the losing
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Side of what america as a whole really wants?
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Well, the polls prove that one
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Of the originals of the truth squad was erick erickson,
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The former editor in chief of redstate.
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Well, now he's a national radio host,
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A political commentator, a writer and a columnist.
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Welcome to the show, erick.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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You are a multi-media machine these days
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And one who takes pride in presenting the truth,
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Especially when it's up against the spin
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Meisters who publish from inside the big cities.
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Please begin by sharing your thoughts on this.
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Margaret brennan,
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Anti hegseth anti-trump anti prayer commentary.
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And she apologized for what she put out.
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Or she's just trying to wiggle out of what she said or worse,
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Just counting your clicks with pride.
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Either she's counting or clicks with pride.
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I mean, the people in the media actually
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Thought she got one over on him,
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Which just shows that,
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You know, progressives have no sense of history.
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They're ignorant of fdr and his prayers before d-day
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And at the start of world war two, ignorant of george
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Washington and his faith
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That they simply don't care
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About it in
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Any public profession of faith by a believing christian is
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Is anathema to them.
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They will rush to islamophobia and claims about islamophobia
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And totally ignore the christian heritage in the nation
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And be offended by christians who openly profess their faith.
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You know those sunday morning shows?
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They used to be the place a lot of the people relied on
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For the big interviews and some wisdom.
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But here's another example of what they do
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Now, this one from meet the press.
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The anchor is trying to get the treasury secretary
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To admit that the white house is going to raise taxes
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To pay for the war in iran.
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She went up against the wrong guy.
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Listen to the comments.
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Would the administration ever
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Raise taxes in order to fund this war?
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Again, kristen.
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They're terrible framing.
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I think that it's just a it's a simple question that i think
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A lot of people have the it's a ridiculous question,
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But what what can you answer it?
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Why would we do that?
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Well, she tries and fails with a rather feeble gotcha question.
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I don't remember her ever saying anything about the money.
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The president's saving taxpayers
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Trillions of dollars
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The president has brought into the country
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Through foreign investment deals
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That he's made with some of the same countries
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That are also pushing back on iran.
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Is my analysis correct?
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Yes. i mean, don't forget doge.
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She in particular was, hostile to doge.
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And any cuts that doge could come up with.
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They didn't come up with the amount they wanted,
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But they certainly came up with some.
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And they were roundly attacked, including on meet the press.
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For those, every time government
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Saves the media tax that they want republicans to raise taxes
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Because they want taxes raised in each of these sandy
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Shows now, with the exception of possibly
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The one on fox, is a vehicle for a democratic agenda
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With a worldview that is very secular.
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The presuppositions are godless, they tend to be atheist,
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And they tend to be ridiculously hostile
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To any sort of republican positions.
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Just in the start of the frame of the question,
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You know, as we witness this movement to the truth,
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The growth in the influence among conservatives
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And independents,
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What kind of growth
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Are you seeing and how far do you think this can go,
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You know, around the country now?
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I think conservatives are starting
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To see real growth as social media platforms are growing.
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My radio presence just for example, last year
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Was on 23 stations, were at 85 now and continuing to grow.
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People are just looking for the truth, and they realize that
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The mainstream media, as we defined it, is, hostile
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To conservatives and to christians
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Very focused on the left wing talking points.
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You've got cnn,
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Which claims to be middle of the road
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And is just msnbc or mis now lite.
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Fox news itself is dominant because of, the viewership
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Actually gets a broader perspective,
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And you're far more likely to find people on the left
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And right having conversation on conservative media
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Now than you are on
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Even a network like cnn, where it's five against one.
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Well, a lot of the dishonest media players
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Try to hide behind their microphones and bylines,
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Claiming that they're just asking the questions.
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It's pretty easy to see their agenda.
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Do they really think we're going to believe
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That this is supposedly dispassionate reporting?
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You know,
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I don't know that they care whether we believe them or not.
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I think
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They're trying to drown out
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Everyone else who has an alternative viewpoint.
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Look at the hostility towards cbs news.
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You had scott macfarlane,
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Investigative reporter who left, claiming that,
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He was being pushed in a political direction,
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And he wanted independence.
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And he immediately hopped over to something
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Called the midas touch, which is the most far
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Left media publications in the country,
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Claiming now the somehow independent
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That the media assails any direction
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That bari weiss takes cbs, which is, by the way,
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Still on the left.
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They've got margaret brennan, for example.
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And yet, just by evaluating and honestly showing
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Conservative voices, they're being attacked.
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What the media likes to do is, is so-called nut picking.
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They will present a progressive view
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As the mainstream view
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And then they'll find someone who's identified
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As a conservative that has the wackiest,
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Most insane view and say, well, you're not like those people,
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But then they call it equal time.
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They've given conservatives who they've identified,
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Who are outside the mainstream of conservatism,
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A comparable view to try to be fair and balanced.
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And people
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Are keener onto the act now, which is why media credibility
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These days is in the gutter.
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Well, years ago, the print and tv journalist
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Who got the most traffic did
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So when they had the best truthful stories
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Once, where viewers heard something that was actually new
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And that they could trust without question,
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Now seems to be about clicks, traffic and revenue
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Regardless of the facts.
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It's all such a big business
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Now, do you believe the ones who continue
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To make up stories will eventually lose viewers
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When they see how misled they are?
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I think so, and i hope so, you know.
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So my show is purportedly a conservative talk radio show.
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I spend almost my entire time now just explaining
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What news is happening.
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It's far less commentary and opinion than it is
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Analysis of the actual news.
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And i'm finding when i do my show on a daily basis,
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Three hours a day,
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That i've got to subscribe now
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To the left wing sites and the right wing sites
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And the sites that are supposedly in between,
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Just to be able to synthesize what actually is happening.
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Everybody's got an agenda now, and it really is poisoned.
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I think commentary in news by how driven for clicks
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People are. they don't want to be right.
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They want to be first.
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And when they get it wrong, it takes them forever to correct
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It and misleads a lot of people.
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And i, you know,
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I'm a professing evangelical christian.
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I, i've been working on my
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Degree at reformed theological seminary.
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And, when christ says that he is the way, the truth
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And the life, that if he is the truth,
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The truth is ascertainable.
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And no one in the media seems to care
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To actually know the truth.
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Well, eric, we need to take a short break.
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And as we do,
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I'd like to mention
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That you can hear our guest across the country each weekday
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On the erick erickson show from noon to 3 p.m.
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Eastern.
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The stations are all
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Listed on his newsletter at erick erickson.com.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Well, we're back now
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With the multimedia success story on truthful media.
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Erick erickson
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I've noticed that not so many clever way
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That many of these opinionated types
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Who call themselves
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So-called journalists, they try to hide
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Behind their facts selection.
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In other words, they insist that they're reporting facts,
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But they're not telling people that they've left
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Just as many other facts out
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In order to shape a distorted narrative.
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Let's listen to an example.
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There's a lot of concern and talk in michigan right now
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Ahead of this pivotal midterm election,
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That the federal government might somehow intervene
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In the administration of the election here in this state.
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What do you mean by the federal government
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Intervening in the election?
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That's the first i've ever heard of it.
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But maybe i don't understand the question.
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I believe the president has talked about nationalizing
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Elections in recent months himself.
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You know, it's stated.
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Well,
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If if if what you mean
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By intervening in the election
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Is that we want everybody to have a voter i.d.
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Before voting in this country.
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Yes, we should be doing that.
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To be clear,
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I don't.
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Well, it was donald trump who coined the phrase fake news.
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The now he, j.d.
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Vance and a lot of others are having no trouble
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Pushing back on the reporters
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Who were just posing for their moment in the sun.
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Seems that the only way to get the truth out there
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Is that correct?
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Yes. so what
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Happens now is, is and it's across the board
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Narrative is more important than truth.
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People want to tell a story and they leave out
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The inconvenient truths.
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And, you know,
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I was at cnn for three years and fox news for five years,
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Before being out
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And free of the shackles of a particular contract
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For a network.
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I can tell you at cnn that a lot of great reporters,
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But i was always having to talk about stories
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That were premised on a left wing narrative
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And leaving out the inconvenient facts,
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And it was always my job as a commentator
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To fill in the blanks from the right,
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As opposed to the reporters actually filled in the blanks.
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And you see this constantly in the media today.
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The narrative shaping about illegal immigration,
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For example, is a great one.
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Or how isis funded
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They leave out inconvenient facts to their story,
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Presuming that you won't find out
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Those facts and they can lead you astray.
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Well, eric, for all the new media,
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It still seems like the national echo chamber
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All too often starts with that embedded liberal point of view
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From those legacy newsrooms
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That have been shaped by years of narrow thinking.
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Can you see a day when that will change?
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I believe in the free market.
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And i think when you look at the ratings
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Of conservative outlets growing on progressive outlets,
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At some point it's going to shift.
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We're probably seeing that now happening at cbs, for example,
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And maybe at cnn, a fair amount buys it
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Where there actually are more people
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To the center right and center left and on the extremes.
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And so many people in the media
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Are dominated by the extreme left.
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They cater their news there and think that that's the center
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When it's not.
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So they've left a lot of people on the table.
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And as a cbs news or cnn grows and ratings by catering
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Towards a broader spectrum,
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I think the rest of the news gets a clue.
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So many of them have been subsidized for so long
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By businesses that are now collapsing.
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They're going to have to
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Make the choice of either dying or embracing a free market idea
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That maybe we should go
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Where the audience actually is, which is not on the left.
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Well, i'd like to end by asking you to tell our viewers
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Where they can find you,
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As well as any last thoughts
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About how they can continue to discover where truth is
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And what they can do to support this rising tide.
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Well, they can go to erick erickson.com as eric
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Or just text eric eric to 33777.
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They can get all the links. i'll send them to them.
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Where should they go?
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I think you've got to go across the board.
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Be willing to engage with people you disagree with.
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If we're all made in the image of god,
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We can probably find some level of god's
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Truth reflected everywhere.
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But you got to be broader
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Than we used to be, because so much of the media
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Left, right, and center now tells a narrative
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Instead of the truth.
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So reading a lot more than we ever had to,
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And then exercising some good discernment on
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Who is telling the truth is always necessary.
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Well, eric, i'm not surprised, but you have provided
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A refreshing reminder that truth is making its way
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Into the public square. it's a bold new ways.
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Thanks for joining us today. i hope you'll stay in touch.
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You want to do it again?
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Sure. thanks for having me.
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Well, in a moment, i'll respond to some of the emails
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You've sent in through aj now.com.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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I always look forward to seeing your thoughts
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And your comments and your questions.
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Joanne dee from pennsylvania.
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She said i'm new to watching the now news program.
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I've never been very political,
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But i am enjoying this show because it breaks it down
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Into something that is understandable.
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Well, i hope i'm understandable.
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That would be the target.
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As far as being political, my real objective
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Is to share with you a biblical worldview
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In response to what's unfolding in the world
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Around us, to talk about current events.
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I don't believe conversations about marriage
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Or family or morality are really inherently political.
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Those are biblical worldview conversations that happen
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To have made their way into the political arena.
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And we can't avoid the conversation
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Just because they've found their way onto the talking points
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Of a politician or a political party.
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Our biblical worldview matters.
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And those conversations in the public square are essential
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If we're going to maintain our freedoms and liberties.
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David c from florida emailed.
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I just want to reach out
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And thank you so much for your honesty
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And your obvious desire to teach us not to sit back
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And stay quiet, especially in the public square.
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My son is watching you more than i do.
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He is really enjoying your guidance and viewpoints.
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You just cover every angle in life
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And how much
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We can apply everything in a biblical worldview manner.
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Well thanks david.
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Don't let your son watch more frequently than you do.
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Join in on the fun.
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And i agree, we've got to lead with our faith.
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We got to take our faith
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Outside the walls of church and worship services.
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We've got to take it with us
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Everywhere we go to work and to recreation, to school,
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Wherever our life leads us.
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We go as ambassadors for the kingdom of god.
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Finally, arthur from pennsylvania said
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Iran believes that they are fighting the muslim revelations.
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I believe this is probably true.
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Just like christians believe in christian revelation.
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Well, arthur, i don't disagree with you
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That there are probably sincere muslims in iran
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That have participated in some of these
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Horrible atrocities and murder of innocent people.
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But sometimes we confuse sincerity with right and wrong.
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You can be sincere and be very much wrong.
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I happen to believe that's true about the fanatical behavior
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Of the muslims in iran, and christians have been too timid.
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Jesus said, i'm the way, the truth, and the life.
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If you're a christ follower, you have to decide
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If you believe what jesus said or not.
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If you do, then work.
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Become advocates, ambassadors for that truth across
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The breadth of our lives,
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Not limited to a church building or a church service
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Not limited to groups of people
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That we think will applaud when we share what we believe.
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We share the truth we have accepted wherever we go.
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I believe that's what it means to be salt and light.
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That's the opportunity of our lives.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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God bless you and good night.
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