The Megyn Kelly Show - Censorship as Virtue Signaling, and False Meghan and Harry Claims, with the Fifth Column Hosts | Ep. 448
Episode Date: December 6, 2022Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, the hosts of The Fifth Column podcast, to talk about White House lies about Biden and the border, the uninspiring Georgia runof...f, Trump's next 2024 move, potential vaccine mandate changes for the military and mask mandates for Los Angeles, pathetic communication from the White House press secretary, a former top Twitter exec citing "trauma" for banning Trump, whether banning Trump is actually just about virtue signaling, the layers to the GMA TJ Holmes - Amy Robach story, Keith Olbermann's angry rant about his ex-girlfriend Katie Tur, the official end of the Michael Avenatti media love affair, the decline in trust in the media, all the false claims in the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Netflix trailer, the need to talk with people we disagree with, remembering Kirstie Alley after her death, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Oh, my gosh, Matt Welsh, editor at large for Reason Magazine, and Camille Foster of Freethink Media.
Guys, welcome back to the show. Great to have you.
Thank you for having us.
All right. So I want to I want to begin with the big news.
You may have missed it. If you blinked, you may have missed it.
But apparently our president, unbeknownst to any of us,
actually has gone to the southern border. Yes, indeed, he's gone there. And the reason we know that is because Karine Jean-Pierre tells us it is so. Kevin McCarthy says that he invited President
Biden down to the border. How does the president RSVP? We know the president's never been down to the border.
The possible next speaker says that he wants him to go with him.
So is he going to?
So look, he's been there.
He's been to the border.
And since he took office.
When did he go to the border?
Since he took office, the President Biden has been taking action to fix our immigration system and secure our border.
He's never been to the border. He she lied. It was an out and out lie.
He hasn't been to the border back when he was running for vice president in 2008.
He literally did a drive by. I mean, that's like when you say you've been to France,
even though you just passed through a Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to someplace else.
That's not a visit to the border. He won't go.
We have record immigration numbers now at the southern border, which the media has been sweeping under the rug.
And when confronted directly on why he won't go, she lied and said he's been there.
I wish there was some kind of penalty in American politics for lying. It just doesn't really appear to be now. We've just gotten it. We've gotten it.
Seriously, like this isn't the first time Biden is Biden, like he has said in multiple speeches,
apropos of nothing, that the economy was on the verge of collapse when I took over.
Right. This is a random thing. It doesn't really matter that much. And it's just not true. It had
grown like by leaps and bounds the previous two quarters before he assumed office. But he
could just say that because there's a feeling that of impunity and it's kind of understandable.
It's just rotten that there's a feeling like, oh, we could just sort of say that he's been down to
the border. I mean, let's be honest, Kamala Harris already solved the problem last time I
checked. So I don't really know why he needs to go down to the border. It's the idea that it's
only congressional Republicans. It's true that they and congressional Democrats haven't done
squat about immigration for two decades. And that's a damn crying shame. But the president
has a lot of latitude. In fact, he's been exercising a lot of latitude about his authority involving immigration. The story does not end with
Congress. It does not end with the president. And it certainly does not end or begin with
lying about his whereabouts. It's just so irritating. They know they can get away with
it because nobody in the press is going to fact check them. She can get away with yet more lies
about important matters from the White House lectern.
It drives me insane. All right, let's go from the southern border to just like a tiny bit north. I mean, it's along the southern border, but it doesn't actually. But Mexico and that is the
state of Georgia where big things are happening today. This is it. This is the runoff, guys.
Does it feel like a letdown? I just feel like I don't know. I thought it was going to be more
exciting than it is. The Democrats already control Senate. And I know it matters because like,
who controls the committees? I mean, it matters. It does. But like,
it just sort of feels maybe I'm crazy. Like the wind went out of the Herschel Walker sales.
And like Warnock is probably going to win the polls are overwhelmingly with him.
And I'm having difficulty getting really sort of
excited about today's results. Am I alone? You're not inspired by the candidacy of
Herschel Walker, Megan? I mean, I don't know. Neither of those guys inspires me.
Well, yeah, I mean, the Raphael Warnock one, but he's going to win so that, you know,
it's not as much of an own goal as what the GOP has been doing since the midterms.
No, I mean, the win came out of the sales of it.
Look, it's a very, very simple calculation.
If it was a close match, if this was not South Korea versus Brazil, you would actually be paying attention to it.
But as you mentioned, those are very widening poll numbers in this runoff.
And, you know, Herschel Walker doesn't look like he's going to win. And every time I turn the TV on, and you can say that it's
the bias of the press, but don't put up a candidate who can, you know, produce stories like this. But
every time I turn the television on, there's a new woman on TV talking about how he abused her.
This is not the kind of person that you want to put up
in, you know, and again, it's Georgia that's tripping up Republicans.
Didn't I say that they were going to have a line as long as the Rockettes of women
who would come forward and accuse Herschel Walker if he made it, if they had a runoff?
And indeed, it's happened. You know, he says he's a changed man. Raphael Warnock, meanwhile,
you know, there's tape out there of him praising those barricade and nation of islam speaking of anti-semites in the news right it's
like why can't we get better choices why i mean i don't know i rafael warnock allegedly ran over
his wife's foot with his car herschel walker has the rocket line of women accusing him of bad
behavior and hurting them and threatening them as, maybe this is part of the reasons why I can't get excited.
There's no one left to root for.
I don't want to have you guys run.
The hand to your temple.
Yeah.
Camille run.
It must be some reason why,
why good and honorable people who have other things to do that are just
better and more respectable than politics refuse to run for office.
I don't know.
It really is, should be very clear to anyone who's paying attention at this point that
politics is not about the best of us. The best of us have not for a while now been the sort of
people who end up occupying the White House or necessarily occupying the seats at Congress.
Fortunately, there is much ruin in the nation. And most of
the things that make America remarkable have nothing to do with who gets elected to office.
So I don't know if that makes you feel better or worse, but it always makes me feel a little
bit better when I have to sit through an election day like this. I just feel like we're functioning
despite these people, not because of them, the ones that we're putting in office.
You know, there's like there's craziness coming out.
The White House lies to us regularly.
Just this whole dust up over the past 48 hours of Donald Trump and his tweet about how we need to terminate the Constitution.
And then even all these Republicans are like, that's bullshit.
We're not. What? No.
And then he's like, fake news.
I never said it.
It's like, OK, it's literally in
writing. You did say it. You wrote it. And now, and by the way, it's not the first time you've
written that. You've written things just like that in the past on your true social. I know you're mad.
I get why you're mad about the Twitter files and what Twitter did to the New York Post reporting
on Hunter, but I get it. But he always goes too far. I don't know if it's because he needs attention or just because he's a big fan of the rhetorical
flourish or because he really wants to suspend the Constitution.
I mean, part of it, Megan, is just that is that he has never accepted the results of
the 2016 election.
We forget that now because it seems so bizarre that the guy who won would insist over and
over again that there was massive election fraud in 2016, but he did because he lost the popular
vote. He's mad about it. And it's not just that he complained about that there was three to five
million illegal votes in that election. He started a whole commission about it and appointed Chris
Kobach, who's an absolute clown to head it up. And this led to all kinds of
stuff, changing the rules in the census. It was insane. He can't stand the idea that the public
doesn't love him. And he says crazy stuff. Our friend, Charlie cook over at national review has
a great piece today. That just is a couple of paragraphs and just says, aren't you tired of
this? This little cycle, the one that exactly that you, as you laid it out, Megan, aren't you tired
of it? Yeah, we're tired of it. And also it and also it's not popular um it's he can't win majority elections and people
who talk like that can't win majority elections and that's the only reason why georgia is close
by the way it shouldn't be brian kemp won easily over stacy abrams republican beat the democrat
um it shouldn't be close in georgia but if you're gonna have trump-like candidates
for office you're going to lose so this is what's happening in Georgia. But if you're going to have Trump like candidates for office, you're going to lose.
So this is what's happening in Georgia today. They're they're actually running drones over the state of Georgia right now on behalf of Raphael Warnock, trying to get people out their drones with like Raphael Warnock's image and other like I've never seen that before in politics. And here's what happened. Apparently, the state Republicans in Georgia begged Trump not to come to Georgia to hold an in-person rally.
And according to reports, though, who knows?
Trump was mad.
Like, what do you mean?
Why don't you want me in Georgia?
I'm the key to his success.
Like, if you if I go to Georgia, he'll win.
But they were like, please don't do us any favors.
Stay where you are.
Stay in Mar-a-Lago. And now, and by the way, reportedly, there's a bunch of polling data showing that he would do more harm than good if he went to Georgia to help to try to help Walker.
But now Walker's poll numbers are so low, apparently, that his campaign was begging Trump to at least hold a virtual rally because the Democrats early voting lead was so big.
You know, that's that's how they are
winning in in Georgia now, the Dems with this early voting edge. And so Trump did some virtual
rally ultimately, which is I don't even know what that is. Like, did he call people on the phone and
say vote for what is it? Didn't it's too late. It's like, I don't know. I just don't think it's
going to happen. Maybe I'll be proven wrong. But the latest what is it? Is it the bets? But the Democrats chances of winning the runoff were 89.5 percent to Walker's 10.5 percent, according to the tracker election betting in order for him to win. I just can't see it. And there just does not seem to be a great deal of energy. I think the fact
that Kemp so outperformed him in the last race says a great deal about his prospects.
All right. So the one piece of good news for the Republicans as a result of this election is still
that they did technically win the House, right? They eked out a victory in the
house. And soon to be, well, speaker, we think Kevin McCarthy goes on with Maria Bartiromo and
says, I got a lot planned. I got a lot up my sleeve. And here's the first thing. I've got a
piece of good news. And it actually is a good, a piece of good news he says he's convinced president biden to throw away the
mandate that active duty servicemen be and women be um vaccinated so that's great like that's
actually amazing if he in fact did that and so we're very excited and we're celebrating it and
then back to corinne jean-pierre she comes out and she's like, well, that was before
he spoke to the Pentagon and we really need to keep people safe and pulled the rug out from under
Leader McCarthy's first big victory and basically said, I couldn't really tell if it was a hard no
or if it was just a probably not. But the first big, big victory
of the McCarthy era seems not to exist. So what should they do? Because that actually would be a
very popular thing for the president to do. And his poll numbers are not very good.
Jeez, I mean, what do you do? I mean, first, very briefly on Georgia, I just want to say that it does prove once again that the filthy politics of it all, when Joe Biden said that the Georgia voting laws were creating Jim Eagle, which was Jim Crow times two, it was Jim Condor or something.
It was some large bird preceded by Jim.
That turns out not to have been true. And the thing with Karine Jean-Pierre,
I have no idea what to believe in that when it comes to the back stuff. Because as you hear in
the clips that you showed previously, this is a person who's supposed to be enlightening the
public, not doing battle with the press, her job is to enlighten the public and be that kind of
sort of transportation of Joe Biden's confused ideas to the American people.
And she refuses to answer questions squarely. I mean, the border thing, she's answering five
different questions and saying, well, it's kind of none of your business. And so when you establish
this for so long, every time I watch this woman's press conferences, I start, you know,
banging my head on the table till I have no sense of what is actually happening
when I listen to her speak and her recapitulation of what the White House's ideas are. So I don't
even know if that's true. I mean, the vaccination thing is lunacy. It's an easy victory for
Republicans because there is no science at this point. I mean, keep in mind, I walked by a bar
this morning. Shocker. I wasn't drinking this morning. I walked by a bar this morning. Shocker. I wasn't drinking this morning.
I walked by the bar, Matt.
I tried to go in, but they were closed.
And it said, you have to be vaccinated to come into this horrible, dingy bar.
And it's still up on the wall.
And I was like, do they realize that we had this when we thought the vaccine was preventing
transmission?
We haven't, we've known that that's not true for well over a year now.
And where are we?
We're still fighting these. These are the people that believe the science, right? We're always
talking about believing the science. These are just now boring political battles that you could
grant, not even just McCarthy of victory here. It's just, you know, the ease of, you know,
running a military, of having to have everybody vaccinated when that really doesn't matter
anymore. It seems like an easy victory, but I mean, they're going to make a political battle out of absolutely everything.
This is like such a no brainer. I mean, it's so stupid. And by the way, we will 100% catch way
more diseases from the disgusting faucets on the sinks in such places than we will from anybody
breathing their COVID breath on us. You know, honestly, it's like it's such a quandary what
to do. I now have my hands sanitized and I'm not not a big hand sanitizer person.
I have not one of those people's like spraying myself with it every place.
But the public restrooms, this is the place where we need the hand sanitizer because touching the toilet, flusher, touching the sink faucets, you know, the issue for me.
Yes, I it's I'm really and like then I want to use my foot to flush the flusher.
I don't want to touch the flusher.
But then I'm like, what am I doing for my fellow humans?
I don't want to touch my foot to the flusher.
What if the next gal comes in and she uses her actual hand?
So you've got to have the hand sanitizer.
What they need is the automatic door.
What they need to like hit it with your elbow.
So the door opens and closes without hand to hand.
Megan, where are you hanging out?
These are the places that I hang out where you leave with diseases.
You have money.
What are you doing?
I need new friends.
You need the hand sanitizer
right in and outside of the door.
The automatic kind
where you put your hand under
and you just do this
and you never have to touch anything.
You don't have to touch the faucets.
It's disgusting.
And I'm thinking about it, frankly,
because of the airplanes.
The airplanes are at... Those are the worst. I don't even know what that water is that comes out of there.
Right. Like they give you the little the toothbrush sometimes like an overnight flight.
Do not put your toothbrush under that water for the love of God.
I'm going through this with my kids. I'm like, no, no. Take your bottle of water in there.
Anyway, sorry, I digress. Here's the actual quote.
Here's what here's what that's not a quote, but here's what KJP said on the vaccine mandate for the active duty guys. She says,
well, McCarthy raised it. He raised it with President Biden. So clearly they had a conversation.
But the president told him he would consider it, but also made clear that he wanted to consult
with the Pentagon. And since then, as we've all heard, the secretary of defense has recommended retaining the mandate. And that's
because the covid vaccination requirement was put in place to keep our service members safe
and healthy and prepared for service. She does not explain how this vaccine does any of that
to the point that you guys were just raised. OK, so that's that. Meanwhile, over in L.A.
I don't have any doubt that Biden actually made that promise guys were just raising. Okay. So that's that. Meanwhile, over in LA, I don't have any doubt that she,
that Biden actually made that promise.
No doubt whatsoever.
How many times have they had to walk back to things that Biden says in
public?
Of course,
we're going to assassinate Vladimir Putin.
We have to remove him from office.
Well,
remember he even said on 60 minutes,
the pandemic was over,
you know,
Biden,
I think sees where we really are on this pandemic.
It's his crazy cabal around him of woke leftists who won't let go of any of this stuff. And some of them live not just in D.C., but out in're at medium in terms of the, you know, the spread right now.
And that means they're at 185.
The weekly rate is 185 per 100,000 residents.
And if it goes up to just 200 cases per 100,000 residents, that's high.
And they will reimpose the mask mandate and people will follow it.
They will put the damn masks on and they will mask up their kids and they will comply because
they're good little citizens, good little boys and girls that do what the governor, the whatever
mayor tells them to do. It's stomach turning. Can you imagine putting a mask back on pursuant
to a city mandate? No, it's already happening, by the way, in New York City, in LA.
If you go to where I am right now and go to the Whole Foods, about 50% masked.
It's the virtue signal of people who live in these neighborhoods.
I mean, they don't need to be told.
But not a mandate.
Not a mandate.
But they don't need to be told.
And they would happily accept that mandate, I think, if it happened to California. I mean,
California, you have bigger problems than the spread of something that is seasonal and is going
to tick up around these times every year. I had it about a month ago. You know, in California,
you're more likely to be stabbed by a deranged hobo when you're walking down in Venice Beach
than you are getting, you know, something that, you know, everyone survives provided you're not dropping down in Venice Beach, then you are getting something that everyone survives, provided you're not grossly overweight or elderly. So no, this has nothing to do with science. It has everything to do with politics. It has everything to do with fan service for the people who vote for very progressive politicians, let's just say who they are, in places like New York City and LA. I mean, there's no secret or mystery to it. It should be noted that Los Angeles led the country,
as far as I saw recently, in population loss over the past year. A lot of different factors
that go into that. But I'm sure if there are people who don't like to live that way,
don't like to follow those kind of diktats, then they skedaddle, which they have done from New York City as well.
There's no reason for this.
And they've done this a couple of times already in both Los Angeles and the state of California.
They've gone up.
They've threatened.
They've said it's going to happen.
We're going to reimpose mandates.
And then at the last minute, they kind of blink.
It's almost as if they want to let you know that they still could.
They still want to just get yourself ready for that.
At some point.
It's astonishing.
We had a mask mandate on toddlers here in New York until May,
2022.
I still can't get over it.
California.
They put yellow tape on playgrounds.
They put sand on skate parks.
They pulled people out of the ocean.
Yeah.
The beach science,
the vector of transmission, the beach science the vector of transmission the beach in
california we can't let this go the same people did this stuff we're still pushing these policies
and the vax men are down the military who do you want who do you think fights the wars
are they the people who follow the order in in my neighborhood in brooklyn that you only find
in bookstores that's the only like mask requirement that people still take seriously in bookstore. That's weird in Brooklyn. No, it's the type of people who don't
follow mandates are the ones who are probably going to pick up a gun and maybe defend the
country. It's ridiculous. There's no science behind it. New York state threw this out in court.
The, the vax mandate on state employees and government employees. We should do that for our
military, considering that we have a manpower shortage in this country, labor shortage across
all sectors, but particularly ones involving muscles. Yeah. And also because we're fighting
a proxy war with Russia right now. And we got a president who continues to say provocative
things about Taiwan. Like now's the time we want a strong, robust military that's ready to go, not sitting on the couch at home, 100% healthy, but not vaccinated. I will say this. A lot of
this is happening because of, you know, who are, are, are everyone's favorite bureaucrat,
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who thank God is retiring this month. It's finally happening, happening.
I was worried he's going to back out, but he's actually going forward. I mean,
not that he's going to be replaced by somebody who doesn't share all of his world views but he's just a villain in my
eyes and um he gave an interview it was like his exit interview and was asked the quintessential
exit interview question and listen to how he answered uh this is sadi is there a moment of your career that you wish you could do over?
You know,
Yasmeen, no.
And I know people are going to respond to that,
who say, well, what does he think? He's perfect.
Absolutely.
I'm the first to admit i'm far from perfect but
when you say do over you know i really can't see something that i would do completely over
really not the school closures not like none of that the abuse of children all the learning laws
you have you have no regrets about that now that all the information has come back to you
no he doesn't he really does think he's God.
Yeah. The thing that I worry most about with respect to the pandemic is the degree to which there's just been a lack of official introspection about what went right and what went wrong,
what policies made sense and what policies didn't. I mean, from a public health standpoint,
it was an absolute debacle at the state level, most of the country and certainly at the federal level,
without a doubt. And there just aren't serious conversations happening about what works and
what doesn't, about what is efficacious and what's not. It's the reason why he's still being asked
questions about whether or not it might make sense to shutter schools again. Should we even
entertain this? The answer is absolutely no. We shouldn't have done it to begin with. We now know
that. And going forward, what do we do the next time around? How do we go about assessing our
risks? This is not the last time we'll have to deal with a pandemic sort of situation.
And it seems to me that the only thing that we have at our disposal is the new playbook that
we've developed, which includes lockdowns and masking, whether or not
it's efficacious, and when available, vaccine mandates, which run against a lot of the concerns
that plenty of people have, and a lot of just confusing messaging throughout the pandemic about
what the vaccines can and can't do. There should be some serious conversation about whether or not
it makes sense to overpromise, to be overconfident, or if it's appropriate to hedge some of your
recommendations and to be a little bit more transparent and to just be honest, which is
one of the things that Mr. Fauci has acknowledged.
He hasn't been completely honest at different points during the pandemic.
How about your lies, your many lies that you've admitted that you told us that undermine faith in public health?
How about the attacking the Great Barrington Declaration doctors who had a really smart proposal early on to focus protection on those who most needed it, the most vulnerable?
And instead, you embarked on a campaign to ruin them.
The school closures we mentioned.
How about funding gain of function research in the COVID Wuhan lab with the bat lady? Was that something you'd like to have back? I mean, this guy, this is our problem. No,
no regrets. I did it perfectly. No bat lady do over. That was a strange one. I thought he was
going to say bat lady do over. I think Camille's right. We've been talking about this on the fifth
column, which is America's best podcast, if you were unaware. And we've been going through this quite frequently is that, you know, the things that we knew,
or we thought we knew, and you know, I'm one of those people that has happened to be around other
parents who are wearing these obnoxious t-shirts that said, I believe the science and the science
was different the day that the guy bought the t-shirt and the day that he was wearing the t-shirt.
And the thing about it was, is that we never went back and actually had conversations about what was
true and what wasn't, what worked and what didn't. There was at no point did we ever have a
conversation about, we have to stop washing our groceries. We have to stop doing this to our hands
all the time with hand sanitizer. People were obsessed. You couldn't get hand sanitizer anywhere.
And then all of a sudden that went away. And that was kind of like a campaign of people being both frustrated and kind of you know assuming that that
was true but there was nothing from the government and it goes beyond and i say this because it goes
beyond the school closures which you know no one in the country where i used to live sweden very
very progressive very very um government intervention friendly shall we say country
didn't close their schools for a
second. And maybe you want to go back and look at that. But all of the things that we thought were
true, including things like you have to take, you have to get vaccinated, or you can't come to this
restaurant, you can't come to work, you can't come to a concert. Well, why, pray tell, because you'll
spread the virus. Now, at what point did the government come out and say, and Karine Jean-Pierre has a great little platform there and say, you know what? We thought that was
true. Cut us a little slack. We're all figuring this out at the same time, but it turns out to
no longer be true. Find me an example of people doing that. They do not. You have to figure this
stuff out on your own. So it becomes this kind of melange of misinformation, old information,
outdated information. And, you know,
if Anthony Fauci wants to go backwards and look at anything, I'd say that he could probably do
everything, every single thing that we mentioned. And some of that stuff, by the way, I'm not going
to give him a hard time on because we didn't know. But when the science changed, the messaging
didn't. And that is really, really important. What's crazy about Fauci, though, is he did know. He knew a lot of it. All these old clips that have
surfaced of him saying, like, you really do have to watch it because if you've had something like
the flu and you develop natural immunity, then you might not want to get a vaccination because
those two things could interfere. And like he actually understood a lot of the dynamics that
would wind up playing out in covid. He just decided to deny it all once he was placed in this role.
Go ahead, Matt.
Yeah.
And he also, let's never forget, was part of the cabal early on in the pandemic who
said, oh, yeah, masks actually don't work because we're worried that you're going to
buy them all up.
We're going to have a shortage.
I mean, the CDC's own guidelines stretching back 10, 15 years ago about
what to do in a pandemic, they underscore over and over again, the most important thing is to
level with the public, including about what you don't know. And because they're going to need to
believe that you are credible in order to follow your recommendations when you say, oh crap,
this one's really important. You got to do this.
And they stress this.
I mean, it's as important as anything else in their recommendations and their playbook
and how to do it.
And they botched that from the beginning,
from February, 2020, they botched it again in March, 2020
and they continue to do it now.
It is a shame and we won't learn.
And in the process now,
we've developed an entire set of skepticism about the efficacy of vaccines and all kinds of ways. We're going to see vaccine mandate rollbacks in schools and elsewhere. Maybe some of them are appropriate, maybe not. I would an own goal that they've lost faith in the public health authorities.
Many of whom like Fauci, like Rochelle Walensky changed their tune.
Like they said one thing at this crucial moment,
Walensky said famously that you should keep schools open in July, 2020,
and then change their tune once other people got their fingerprints on it.
And unless until we have that reckoning
that you're not going to rebuild that faith
and that we're kind of in a bad spot
for the next pandemic.
And by the way, you know,
they seem to cater on the left
and Fauci in this administration
to their most fearful constituent.
You know, they think of the person
who I saw on the Upper West Side,
literally in a hazmat suit during COVID.
I tweeted it out.
I mean, there's
evidence, there's picture evidence. And they catered to that guy, not to reason, not to science,
not to developments in facts and science and so on. No, to the most fearful person amongst their
base. And that brings me to the Twitter story. OK, we saw the Matt Taibbi Twitter files.
He added additional color to what we did know, which is Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden
reporting by The New York Post without facts. It claimed it was Russian disinformation obtained
through a hack, potentially none of which was true and none of which they had any good faith
basis to believe. They just decided it. magic wand decided it and then suppressed the story right before a
presidential election we all know the real reason that's not being said they did it to help joe
biden that's what that's what the real reason is they never really believed it was disinfo
they did it to help joe biden and um the guy responsible for those decisions like the head
of the twitter censorship unit his actual title is um he's like the head of the Twitter censorship unit, his
actual title is, he's now former head of Twitter's trust and safety department.
And he did oversee this decision, this particular decision to suppress the New York Post's
reporting.
He sat down with Kara Swisher over on her podcast on November 30th.
His name is Yoel Roth.
And I heard this on Ben Shapiro's show
and went back and listened myself.
And my God, the guy, first of all,
he said, yeah, okay, maybe it was a mistake
to censor that story.
Yeah, but it was very difficult to initially verify it.
That's why.
You made no effort.
You made zero effort, zero effort, zero whatsoever.
And by the way, let's not forget when Twitter censored it it was before those alleged intelligence officials came out and said it
looks like disinformation twitter went before those guys some some this guy yoel roth who
absolutely knows nothing decided it was disinformation before general michael hayden did
um so then she follows up and asks him about was it the right decision to ban Donald Trump from Twitter?
Now, this one, this one, he stands behind.
This was absolutely the right one.
And they get into January 6th.
This is all speaking on the fear factor.
OK, that washes over huge portions of the Democratic base.
Listen to this exchange.
Donald Trump. That one I don't think was a
mistake. January 6th. So it starts on the 6th, but it also starts prior to that. The events of
the 6th happened. And if you talk to content moderators who worked on January 6th, myself
included, the word that nearly everybody uses is trauma. We experience those events,
not some of us as Americans, but not just as Americans or as citizens, but as people working
on sort of how to prevent harm on the internet. My God.
Heaven. Moynihan, thoughts?
Do you have an extra 40 minutes? Trauma.
I love this.
This is a word that has been,
I was actually talking to a friend about this this morning.
We saw this in another context.
It is, there's a certain generational thing
where people abuse this.
And I hope they understand that in other countries,
I mean, you know, let's do the throat clearing.
The January 6th was an abomination and horrifying
and a dark day for America.
I don't like Chuck Schumer,
compare it to Pearl Harbor or anything like that. But trauma, trauma for whom? For you
and Twitter headquarters in San Francisco? If you look out into the great wide world,
there's all sorts of news stories happening in lots of countries, which are far more actually
traumatic than something happening
with a bunch of yahoos that are trying to storm the Capitol and overturn the election,
which was never going to happen. But the other thing about this is I stick by the Donald Trump
banning. Does anyone ever stop and think about how useless it is that it's just virtue signaling?
Because Megan, we started talked about this at the top
of the show. Donald Trump had this little epistle the other day about shredding the Constitution,
and it was in some language that resembled English. It was kind of like a hybrid of English
and some sort of Sasquatch language. And I saw it. I don't have truth social. It was everywhere on Twitter because
people take screenshots of it and put it on Twitter. What are you trying to do? Are you
trying to suppress the bad information? Because we need that information. The man has actually
said he's going to run for president in 2024, and he was previously the president. What is the idea
here? That, well, no, no, no. I just want to signal me, random guy that works at Twitter in
the trust and safety and protection and trauma division that I don't like these ideas in the
trauma ward. We are very, very upset about them. We have to get them off. It's like, well, you're
not going to suppress them, are you? I mean, Alex Jones got banned. And I've interviewed Alex Jones,
as you have, Megan.
I think he's a performance artist.
I think he's a ludicrous person in so many ways.
And he did an interview with Kanye or Yee or whatever his pronouns are.
And Yee.
And sorry, Camille.
And I saw it everywhere, despite the fact that he's been banned from YouTube and banned from Twitter. And it's like, you can't contain this kind of information.
So for the ridiculous Harris Swisher to be up there with this ridiculous guy
saying, how do we sort of contain all this information?
You can't, it's called the fucking internet.
And you are doing this for yourself.
You're doing this so you look good.
You're not doing it like the New York Post story.
And I, this is a, you know, I'll, I'll knock on Republicans a little bit here
when they say, uh, much like, um, Democrats said is a you know i'll knock on republicans a little bit here when they say uh much like um democrats said that you know hillary clinton wouldn't have uh would have won
the race in 2016 i've hadn't been for these facebook ads that russia took out the the sort
of inverse of that is now that had people known about the hunter biden laptop donald trump would
have lost i think that's patently absurd. But
also that information got out there. Number one, this is all sorts of alternative news outlets.
I think that the Twitter stuff is absolutely absurd. It was in the post. It was in the post.
It was on the front cover of the New York Post. It's absurd and Orwellian that they're shutting
down a New York Post news story. By the way, the idea that you can't verify something, how many Russiagate stories could you actually verify by tunneling
into the Kremlin, going through the files into seeing if this stuff was true? Verification
happened when nobody from Hunter Biden's office returned a call to say, that's not my laptop.
That's where you start reporting it. That's exactly right. And by the way,
they weren't worried about verifying Sarah Palin's emails when they reported those after they'd been hacked.
They had absolutely no problem verifying that.
It made her look bad.
Print.
That's it.
So who are they kidding?
They have no moral high ground.
I don't know whether it would have changed the election.
I find it very hard to believe the stuff about Hunter and the big guy being corrupt.
Now we're talking, right? If the media had done its job and really framed the story properly, not Hunter Biden's deep
picks and his prostitutes and his drugs like he's a hot mess loser.
That's not going to change hearts and minds before an election.
But he's a corrupt jerk who brought his dad in on all of his shady business dealings.
And we're about to put that guy back in the White House.
And by the way, Hunter will be there right alongside him. That could have given some people pause who will never
know. That's the bottom line. We'll never know. And and that's because of them and guys like this
who are swimming in their trauma, their trauma, their own politics and their own politics of fear.
This is the people who are running our social media sites, our government. To me, it's so
disheartening. I just I look at them like,
would you would you man up? You know, who hasn't been abused on the Internet?
Who the hell hasn't been through, you know, attacks or harassment? I mean, I'm sure you
guys have felt it. I certainly have been through it. You live to emerge out the other side. You're
fine. Would you grow a pair? Moderation is like completely worthwhile. This is a necessary function on social media platforms. What you want is moderation that is thoughtfully transparent, that is consistent, that is actually practical and useful. It's not only, as Moynihan correctly pointed out, that people are reposting this stuff. They're posting super cuts of the worst elements of the interview. The most incendiary comments are the ones that you get a fire hose of. A fire hose with tens of thousands of retweets. That's engagement.
They want that. They permit it to happen while at the same time, they're sanctioning people for
sharing links, locking their accounts and telling them in order to get it unlocked, you have to
delete this link. None of it made any sense whatsoever and none of it was keeping anyone
safer. And at the same time, from a moderation standpoint, there's so much genuinely dangerous and genuinely
problematic content that they're having a very difficult time wrapping their hands around.
So I think it's vitally important that we're having good content moderation, but it's also
really valuable to have Taipei out there doing some actual reporting on this to get some
transparency with respect to the kind of decision making that's happening at Twitter.
Well, Camille, this is a good point.
Because what's happening at Twitter, it's happening elsewhere as well.
Let me ask you a follow-up.
Users want to know how this stuff works.
Let me ask you a follow-up, Camille.
Do you think these guys are worried about what's going to happen to Matt Taibe with
the shitstorm that's raining down on him by these leftist reporters who think he's some
sort of a turncoat, some sort of a traitor for doing his job for actually reporting news. I mean, Glenn Greenwald
was asking this the other day, like, oh, are they going to hold themselves accountable? God forbid
something should happen to Matt, who's taking it like a level of incoming for just doing reporting
that is truly breathtaking. The standard only applies one way. You can rain down as much of
a shitstorm on a conservative or somebody. Taibbi's a liberal
who's just heterodox. Those people are all totally fair game. He's doing his job. His job is to
report the facts. It doesn't matter where you happen to get these facts from. You don't turn
down a source because you say, oh, I'm sorry, you're the richest person in the world. I can't
take this useful information and provide it to the public. And it was so astonishing to watch people poo-pooing his reporting in real time before
they'd had even an opportunity to look at all of the stuff he'd amassed. And it sounds like there's
going to be additional reporting, that there may be some more details. Is it the most incendiary
thing in the universe? Absolutely not. But is it frustrating to learn that the federal government and various members of various members of government, members of different bureaucracies, people who are running for office are having these back channel conversations with major social media companies is we'll get right on it already taken care of. That's a little strange. I want to know their defense.
Their defense on that has been, oh, well, he wasn't in the government when he when it was
the campaign matter that was working with Twitter. OK, so that doesn't whatever. We have free speech
principles that we'd like to uphold, particularly if you want to be president. And so, no, it may
not be a violation of law, but it's a principle that we happen to hold dear. But secondly, who are we
kidding? You think this stopped once he got into office? I don't know what happened with respect
to suppression of Hunter Biden stories, but I do know that, number one, on Ashley Biden's diary,
he sicked the FBI on James O'Keefe for considering reporting it. OK, that was this president while in office,
sicking the DOJ on somebody who reported on his daughter's diary.
All right.
Didn't even report on it.
Just just got it.
Like had access to it.
He didn't release it.
Right.
And secondly, we watched them from the White House podium talk about the disinformation dozen
and how they'd been working with the social media companies
to silence the people who, unfortunately for them, wound up on the White House list.
There was obvious coordination, state coordination. Let's look at what they did to parents who they
decided to label as domestic terrorists. We know that there was coordination with the White House
to set that whole thing up. Then he sicked the DOJ on those parents. This White House has been crossing lines legally since before it even got into office when it was
when Joe Biden was running to become president. Don't don't gaslight us with the oh, he was only
running for office because this is a pattern with him. Yeah. And the disinformation attempts to have
a disinformation czar to have have the surgeon general, the surgeon general
out there leading a disinformation task force, at least sounding the biggest alarm.
This is what we need to do. The problem right now with COVID, the reason why it's not licked
is all that is Alex Berenson. So we need to breathe heavily on the neck of Twitter to make
sure that Alex Berenson doesn't have an account. He's back on Twitter now, thanks to Elon Musk. That is chilling.
It is literally chilling speech.
It is the government, the federal government, which has Twitter and all big social media companies in its regulatory crosshairs.
It can pull you up on Capitol Hill and give you a little show grilling at any time that it wants to.
And it has a lot of business there. And right now, both parties in different ways are lining up to try to regulate and crack down on social media for different reasons of their own.
So there's all kinds of reasons for these companies to want to be responsive to a federal government or a surgeon general or anybody who breathes on them about how disinformation is deadly.
It's killing people.
Remember, Joe Biden said that Facebook is killing people. And that's like a normal thing to say,
no, it's not. Facebook is not killing people. And nor is it tipping elections or anything like that.
What we have is that people all over America, sadly, too many of us, not on this necessarily
conversation, but too many normal Americans don't have trust in
Americans, by which I mean they seek to try to suppress people to block their ability to spread
messages because they worry that if they are exposed to this one little message, it's going
to produce a political outcome in particular that they don't like. It is a stupid and illiberal idea
when we have billions of ideas right now, just zipping back and forth
all the time in real time. We live in a free country. It's great, right? There's some problems,
yes, but it's great that we can express things to each other freely. And the problem is that
everyone is worried about that. They think that it is the thing that's going to cause the problem.
It's not. And we need to get over that. And it's the free flowing exchange that is helpful.
We cut down, we cut short so much COVID debate, scientific debate in this country through
political pressure and peer pressure. It's shameful. It set us back. It ties the two
segments together. Fear. And by the way, Alex Branson, he actually got back on because he
sued Twitter. That's how he got back on Twitter. He sued them and unearthed the documents of the Biden administration pressuring Twitter to boot him off of it and wound up.
There's more to that story.
We had him on recently.
But your point about we live in a free country.
And I said, let's enjoy it while we can.
Reminds me of a quick story before we go to break.
My daughter, Yardley, was younger.
She was like eight, nine.
And we went to the planetarium in New York and she had a little jumper on.
You know, it's like a skirt.
It's like a one piece.
It's got a skirt at the bottom.
And she put her feet up on the seat in front of us.
And I said, Yardley, you know, that's not very polite.
You should take your feet down.
That's not polite.
And that's not ladylike.
And she said, well, I'm not a lady yet.
Let's enjoy it while we can.
Save for the country.
Oh dear, you're in trouble.
All right, stand by. We've got to take a break. Be right back with the guys from the fifth column who stay with us for the entire show.
Guys, Kirstie Alley died. I was so sad, right, to see it. She was only 71. Her children released a statement saying she was such a fierce fighter.
It was a quick illness. She had cancer. They reported today in the news, it was colon cancer,
apparently came on quickly and took her life. It's hard to believe, so young and just such a
force of nature. I don't know, Camille, you seem too young, but you other guys seem closer to my age that we grew up with.
How do I, how am I supposed to take that? Was that good, Matt? Are we okay with that?
He's like, he's like 40 years older than us. I think white cracks.
Yeah, exactly. Jesus. Now I watched her on, on cheers and everything and, and was a fan. And
the one thing that I will say is that I want to implore
all Americans to do something is just to walk away from politics for a little bit sometimes.
And so you don't have to do that kind of caveat when you're saying something about somebody who
just passed away. I didn't always agree with her. We agreed to disagree. It's like, who cares about
her politics? I don't care if she was a Scientologist. I don't care if she
was a Trump supporter. I'm neither.
But she was a person and
her kids wrote a very lovely thing
about her on Instagram.
Just be respectful. I just want to
give a shout out to the Look Who's Talking
series, which has been
unfairly overlooked.
It was John Travolta's first comeback
before Pulp Fiction that's under
it. It was great. What about North and South?
Do you remember North and South?
I think she might have
met her husband, Parker
Stevenson, while doing this. Oh, God.
This is like this old Civil
War. Yes.
Mini-series, right? Yes, mini-series.
She was so young, totally gorgeous.
And Parker Stevenson, who she later married, is in it. mini series right yes mini series she was so young totally gorgeous and parker stevenson who
she later married is in it i i that's not the same as that one huh war is it yeah you you and
so we're not the same age megan thank you very much for dropping you know the winds of war with
uh from 1975 have you seen the thorn birds because that speaking of the thorn birds
i didn't know he was gay by the way did you know he was gay i didn't know that 1975. Have you seen the Thornbirds? Because speaking of the walk-down memory. Oh, gosh. She's not in that?
Richard Chamberlain.
Chamberlain.
Amazing.
I didn't know he was gay, by the way.
Did you know he was gay?
I didn't know that.
No, I didn't know that.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with that.
All right, no, wait.
We're up against a hard break, so I'm going to save my Kirstie Alley soundbite until after
this quick break, because we have to play just a couple of things with her and a memory
or two.
So continuing with Kirstie Alley, for those who don't know her, who are like Camille, so young.
I've seen Cheers.
Let's take a little walk down memory lane.
Cheers, you got to understand people who weren't around watching it at the time, was like it was the thing to watch when there were only three things on television. I mean, we all watched Cheers. It was like you would set your alarm
so that you were making, like it was, what, it was at eight o'clock or on Thursday nights.
And you would watch Cheers. You had an appointment with Sam Malone and you'd go to the little bar
where everybody knew your name. And Kiersey Alley came in as sort of the new manager of Cheers when
somehow Sam lost ownership of the bar.
And she was sort of she began as this buttoned up figure who always had this sort of weakness.
This she was way more frail than she outwardly projected.
And you fell in love with her really quickly because she tried to be so tough.
But you could see she was kind of a hot mess.
And our producers put together just a little bit of a montage of some of her work.
Here's Kirstie Alley.
I'm the wife of a plumber. We're going to have a whole bunch of little plumbers.
And the horrible part of it is that he's too good for me.
Gee, Miss Al, I mean, Mrs. Santry.
And my name's Mrs. Santry.
I think I'm beginning to see you in a whole new light.
Well, why don't you tell me what you see?
You have a really weird face.
Your eyebrows are growing together like a big, little, ugly caterpillar.
Oh, look. They're cutting the cake.
Look, Sam, just because I put my work before my social life does not mean I don't have boyfriends.
I have boyfriends. I could pick up that phone and have a dozen dates for Friday night.
Yeah, but could you get one as great-looking as I am?
Blindfolded, gagged, and with both hands tied behind my back.
We were just talking about a party Friday night.
Let me see.
My choices are, I'm a boozy slut or a complete idiot.
I'd go with the idiot.
I already did
oh such good stuff she was amazing and she honestly like you mentioned look who's talking
and you know many many other films and television shows that made her a household name
and then to you know yesterday when it was announced that she would she had died,
she would have been just universally celebrated, as you point out. You know, Moynihan, you don't
have to do the thing, but I'm sorry to do it. Here's just a couple of here's some color on
what you were hearing. OK, Kirstie Alley became a Trump supporting covid conspirating nightmare of
a person before she died. I not even sad then again i liked her
in cheers on veronica's closet she seemed ballsy and bold great hair then she seemed odd scientology
odd then she became a trump loving idiot i'm sorry she died i wish cancer on no one no doubt
should be missed by those who loved her oh okay we had to point out she became a trump loving idiot
like why can't people? It reminds me of something
that Roger Ailes once said to me, you know, about how he knew that when he died, nothing but terrible
things would be written about him. He knew. And so any good he did in his life, he just did it
because he genuinely wanted to do good. He didn't do it because he thought it would wind up reflecting
well on him in his obit. And the truth is that if you are right-leaning, right of center,
center with heterodox views, a leftist Hollywood person who voted for Trump,
that's how your obit will sound.
That's how people will talk about you when you're gone.
And it's really, there's something really disgusting about it.
It's unseemly.
Particularly when it's not your business,
right? I mean, I don't mean it's not someone's business to pay attention, but that's not the
business she was in. The thing that happened was Twitter. The thing that happened was the internet.
And now we had a megaphone and we could actually talk about the things that interested us and talk
about the things that we were thinking. Christy Alley didn't run for office. She wasn't running
for local council and she wasn't a national political figure.
But she did talk about politics in the way that everybody talks about politics when you
see that on Facebook or you see that amongst your family and friends.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
The problem is, if we start kind of bifurcating the country, and to those we agree with and
disagree with on that, and everything becomes politicized. I won't go to this pharmacy
because I saw the pharmacist online.
He was talking about some political view
that I disagree with.
It's just a very poor way to live.
And it's, you know, you're poorer
for cutting off people who you disagree with.
I mean, like, look, I think that the documentary
that HBO had about Scientology was fantastic.
I think the whole thing is a very bizarre, bizarre cult.
I didn't begrudge her for being in it.
I'm kind of fascinated by it.
But particularly when she dies,
I'm not going to say,
here are your religious beliefs,
and I'm going to start questioning them now
in wondering if that has any effect on your death.
It's just a very dark way of looking at the world.
And they wouldn't have been doing that if not for the Trump support and some of the COVID
questions she raised. Go ahead, Matt. Correct. I mean, are we going to say that
by John Travolta? Are we going to say about Beck, one of my favorite musicians? Is that
going to lead his thing? Probably not because they didn't support Trump. I recall like 10,
15 years ago, the Tea Party was getting off the ground the drummer of
the velvet underground bo tucker right not the world's most popular band but super influential
people who love the velvet underground famously it was said the 5 000 people bought their first
record and they all started bands um and she was a drummer she was great and just like this uh
strange polite woman from i think nebraska or Kansas, and she was spotted at a Tea Party rally.
And my God, so many people were so like foundationally upset that the drummer on a 1968
record that they revered used their First Amendment rights to go and show up at a rally.
It shows that people who are like standard issue Democratic voters
are used to having the culture on their side.
They have no practice of enjoying art from people with whom they disagree.
Come into our world.
You don't have to agree with me politically.
I mean, God knows I don't.
But come into our world of being outnumbered, and then you could just enjoy the art for
what it is.
And you don't care what their politics are.
Moynihan loves Billy Bragg.
They don't have the same politics.
That's fine.
Under a Billy Bragg regime, I would be in a camp.
Camille loves Kanye.
Or just yay.
Yay now.
What about that?
I know you've been, I've been listening to you guys.
And I know you're very disappointed in Kanye's latest comments, behavior, however we want
to sum up what's happening.
Disappointed and worried about him, both things.
Yeah. So what about that? Because we've had a lot of debates in general on whether you can
separate the man from the music, the man from the art. I think you can. I mean, I guess it's
a case-by-case basis. It depends on just how much it's in your head. But do you think anybody's going to stop listening to Kanye or to Ye music because of all this?
I don't know.
I suspect some people may say so.
He wasn't making much in the way of new music that was particularly stellar.
Some of his more recent efforts have only been okay.
But some of the classic stuff, it's hard to imagine people
abandoning that altogether. The poster over my left shoulder is, I mean, this is his catalog
up until the last two albums. So I'm that big a fan and I don't expect that poster is coming down
anytime soon. But I've had a lot of practice disagreeing with Kanye on a range of important
issues and not always endorsing or being excited about his
private personal conduct, but I can still appreciate his music. I can still draw something
from it. And I think we were talking on the podcast recently and Moynihan said something
that really resonated with me about kind of the crisis of certainty that we have in our politics
and in our polity right now, this sensibility that we can't even break
bread with. We can't imagine talking to people who disagree with us in a serious way because we know
with such confidence that these people are rotten and corrupt down to their very cores.
And that is deeply unhealthy. That's certainly not something that I want any parts of. There
are very few people on the planet who I imagine are so deeply something that I want any parts of. There are very few
people on the planet who I imagine are so deeply corrupt that I simply couldn't even talk to them.
And I don't think people who disagree with me about politics domestically here in the United
States are generally of that ilk, whatever direction our disagreements happen to manifest in.
I have to say, being a lawyer helps practice that skill. You know, even last week I had on
Jose Baez, who's Casey Anthony's lawyer. He's the guy who got her acquitted. I mean, he is the guy
who got her acquitted. And we had some spicy exchanges on a couple of issues. And then we
moved right on. And then we kind of talked about other cases. The temperature came right down and
we forged forward because I think lawyers are in practice of getting heated, you know, fighting over something that matters and
then putting it to the side immediately and moving on with your life and not demonizing opposing
counsel. In fact, usually when I was practicing law, you'd have beers with opposing counsel.
The nine times out of 10, you're taking a deposition in some small town. You go in,
you fight, you know, you call the judge, you tell the other person, this guy's an asshole. And then the deposition ends and you go out for dinner because
you're the only person the other person knows in this entire small town. We need more people to get
practiced at that, where you can hate the argument, you can fight the argument, but you don't have to
hate and fight the other person all the time. Isn't that the lesson we learned from Cheers?
Sam and Diane, and then Sam and Kirstie,
but more Sam and Diane.
They are different people
that come from different worlds.
I presume they vote
for different humans
and that's fine.
It's not a big problem.
Just go for it.
I mean, if we're going to go down
the list of Kirstie's,
you know, hits
that taught us that lesson,
how about North and South?
That was,
it was,
what's his name?
Patrick Swayze.
You love North and South. I always, we saw it like within the past two years. Don't, it was, what's his name? Patrick Swayze. You love North and South.
I always, we saw it like within the past two years.
Don't, don't.
And then there was like a sequel, which I don't recommend.
But Patrick Swayze was the guy from the South who was off the plantation and his dad was a slave owner.
And then the guy, I can't remember his name, the actor.
He's less of a household name who played the guy from the North who was his best friend and they were split by the war okay anyway um so yeah rest in peace kirstie alley i appreciated her outspokenness her
her the laughs she gave me and my family over the years and she did take a political beating online
and i appreciated her temerity in the face of that too she she will be missed um okay let's talk
about some other things happening in media.
As the media pounces on her,
some crazy stuff is going on.
Touched on this yesterday,
ABC News is in the middle of a scandal
with its two anchors who host the third hour of GMA,
Amy Robach and TJ Holmes.
And they originally took,
she was just off the air after the scandal broke
that they'd been having an affair, which is scandalous because they're both married to other people.
And according to the Daily Mail, which has been following these guys for like six weeks, two months, maybe.
I mean, the length of pictures is like, how do they not know they're being followed for this long?
But anyway, they took just her off the air or she just took herself off the air on Thursday after the story broke.
He anchored. Then Friday, they both appeared together didn't acknowledge it then monday they were pulled off
the air by the president of abc saying this is too much of a distraction for our staff for our
viewers and so on uh the reporting is that not only were they having an affair while married
to other people they were going out on double dates with the spouses.
You know, like, yeah, this adds another element for sure that her older children that she had with Andrew Hsu, her husband, star of Melrose Place, would babysit TJ Holmes's
younger children.
You know, his wife is reportedly devastated and so on.
So you can see how this got sticky quickly for the news organization because they two
of these people
are employed as morning news anchors and as the morning news anchor you know it's all about the
female audience in particular and how they view you um then it came out yesterday that he was
reportedly this is according to page six i think the daily mail broke the story but then page six
and the daily mail reported yesterday he was having another affair prior to amy roebuck with a gma producer who fell in love with him
that woman was married she he was still married while he was having this affair then it came out
in page six late yesterday he had a third affair with another abc staffer reportedly so it's starting to feel a little matt lowry
except for the power dynamic which matters legally and ethically it matters if it doesn't
sound like he was in a superior position to any of these women um and now they're stuck with a real
decision to make over at abc which is can anybody come back can she come back she didn't have three
affairs she reportedly just had the one they're leaving the spouses can he come back? Can she come back? She didn't have three affairs. She reportedly just had the one.
They're leaving the spouses.
Can he come back?
Do they both come back?
Do they both get filed?
What happens?
And it's interesting because to me, it's 2022 America.
It's not 1960.
It's 2022.
A lot of people have marital issues and make bad choices.
But there's an extra element here of his repeat behavior, the standards we hold men to, the standards we hold women to on morning television.
What do you guys make of it?
I mean, it's not of anyone's business, to be honest.
I might have a kind of outlier position here in the sense that I don't think that either of them did anything wrong that anyone who watches or
listens to that show, I don't know the show, I don't, to be honest, why they should care
about it.
I mean, their spouses, obviously, they can say they did something wrong or maybe they
had an arrangement.
We don't know that.
There are people that have such arrangements.
I mean, I actually know people who have such arrangements.
Well, the husband has just deleted all of Amy Robach's pictures from his Instagram,
so I'm guessing he's not too thrilled.
I would imagine not.
You know, it's bad press, too.
And, you know, the three affairs is impressive.
But is there a threshold for affairs?
Like you can't come back in the air after four.
But three is fine.
Are you asking for a friend?
I don't know.
I mean, I'm asking for a friend because I've never been on this panel.
No, never have I been in a situation like this. I got to five and they were like, you're good.
Like, don't push your luck. But the thing about it is I think there's an extra layer that's added
onto this. And it's regardless of whether or not these things are okay or they're legal or they
violate some sort of company policy.
It's just the general air that kind of has been hanging heavy after the Me Too stuff. Is it any
interaction between people at work? And if you have ever worked in media and if you've ever
worked in television, you know, as you know, Megan, I know this very well, is that you spend
all your time at work.
You spend all your time on the road.
These things end up happening.
Half the people that I know who have gotten married, they have gotten married because they met at work.
But there has been a kind of chill about this stuff recently.
Now, I know this is obviously a different story, but it has that thing that's always a part of it in the post-MeToo thing.
Because you're looking for power dynamics. You're looking for this, because even if there was a power dynamic, maybe somebody falls in love with somebody that is much their junior. And should we not allow that? Should someone have to sacrifice their job in order to maintain a relationship?
The only thing that is different here is the repeat offense kind of thing and the fact that they were married. i don't know if that's a violation of policy like you have to but there's there's one other element there's one other
element to it which is the morals clause and i raised this with our legal panel yesterday sure
um you know television news anchors tend to have a morals clause in their contract that says the
company can fire you if you do anything that brings the company into disrepute or yourself
into disrepute because the ratings are based on your relationship with the viewers at home, with the audience at home. And that's why they, now that doesn't mean
necessarily, it depends on the actual way it's written. So for sure, GMA can fire them from GMA
for no reason. I mean, like pretty much you can pull any, a company never guarantees you have
this role forever, you know, or even the contract, but they have to pay you. But if you violate the morals clause, they don't have to pay you. And, um, you know, there's
a good argument. At least if we were 19, even 80, we don't have to go back to 60 or 50, you go to
1980, 1990, there'd be, there'd be no question that this would qualify as a violation of the
morals clause, but we're in 2022. And I just don't know. I just don't know if an extramarital affair
would even get there under our sort of present day,
anything goes in the bedroom
and elsewhere society standards.
And if so, if they did violate it,
you got to turn from both, right?
Because even post Me Too,
you can't just fire the guy.
TJ Holmes happens to be black, which also doesn't really help. You can't just fire the black guy and you can't just fire the guy tj holmes happens to be black which also doesn't really
help you can't just fire the black guy and you can't just fire the woman right like both these
people are in protected categories so the gma is in a pickle i just i see how the head of gma and
the head of abc has got a real decision to make i will tell you if it were me if i were running
this company you have to worry about more than just these two.
I would say given he's a serial fish off the pier guy while he knows he's a face of ABC News, which is not OK.
And given that she, you know, she's in morning television, the female audience relationship with the female news anchor.
Very important. I'd say no one's coming back to the third hour of GMA. You guys are not fired. You're going to be correspondents.
She does 2020 too, I think.
But we're going to have to find new hosts of GMA.
And you know what?
We'll be fine because no one's indispensable.
So it's cycling.
You're saying cycling them out of their positions at GMA, but not axing them entirely.
That I can see.
I mean, you know, you say it's 1980 versus 2022.
We do realize today that earlier we were talking about how Herschel Walker is on the ballot today to maybe go to the Senate.
He's not currently having abortions.
Maybe they can tell us what's happening with the new, I don't even know it's on GMA. I mean, I did third hour of the Today Show. It's usually very lighter. It's very much lighter.
It's fun.
But the thing that was always said to me was it's an all-female audience.
And the relationship with the women watching, it reigns supreme.
And I remember Roger saying back in the day, like, he didn't want any of the female.
He wanted the female anchors that he hired to be, he used to say, I want a guy you can have a beer with and a woman who you want to sleep with, that's sort of his short form, but not too much, not too much
because he didn't want women at home thinking that you're going to steal their husband.
And that's like, you can times that by a hundred for morning television anchors who have an all
female audience. Is this guy attractive? There'll be ladies like TJ. Of course he's attractive.
TJ is attractive. Yeah. maybe now they think they have a
chance. He does. This is what I'm saying.
I don't know. I think I put the question
to the two of them and say, look,
can you keep it together? Can you both
be on set together?
Is this going to be okay?
If they say yes, even if they're going to
carry on, okay.
Let it ride. I don't imagine
there is anyone who is not going to write watch this
network anymore because these two are continuing to be the hosts of this show even if they never
talk about it just kind of a gentle kind of brush of the hand on set occasionally i don't know i
mean that's back to the 2022 1950 we don't don't say that don't know. That's back to the 2022 versus 1950.
Don't say that. Joe and Mika are-
Don't say those names here.
I'm sorry.
Wow.
I mean, look, Megan, you, I, and Camille worked in the same building for a while, and Moynihan
is no stranger to television and that building as well.
Imagine, close your eyes, imagine if, since there's morals clauses in the world,
how would you assess the median morals
of the on-air talents
at the people that you've worked with?
Ooh, good point.
News is disgusting, toxic, and sensuous industry.
I can only judge myself, Matt,
and it's really disgusting.
And so I thank you for pointing that out.
That's what I'm talking about.
I hadn't
been thinking about it personally but i'm a hand sanitizer yeah i'm actually i need a hand sanitizer
and i'm going to nullify my own contract in about five minutes well if i may transition the morals
clause not the people i want to make that clear i think it's so it's a weird thing to have it's a
it is 1950s it's strange if they can fire you for an extramarital affair, you need a better morals clause writer.
You know, you need to have your lawyer tighten up your morals clause because that I mean,
really, am I like, OK, fired.
But I understand the position again back to the morning TV thing.
OK, transitioning now to another couple that had an affair and at least one of them was
currently in the TV business and then the other one was trying to break in.
Believe it or not, I'm taking you to a place you did not see coming.
And that is a place involving Keith Olbermann and Katie Turr, who I know you guys told me the last time you like.
Keith Olbermann is doing a podcast, which I have a pal over in Australia, Paul Murray, who sends me Keith Olbermann clips.
I love this guy.
Why?
Because every once in a while he goes on a rant and it's kind
of entertaining. You know, he's a terrible man, not Paul, Keith. And, um, so some of their,
their entertaining at times. Well, this was just a weird one. Those two had a relationship with
Keith when Keith Olbermann was a, like, I think he was pretty much a household name at this point.
And she was just trying to break into the business. And they lived together for three years.
And that was some 15 years ago.
Well, he's, to my knowledge, never spoken about it before.
But he's ready to now because he did a 15-minute diatribe on her on his podcast going off.
What upset him?
What was the trigger?
She was in the news with her current husband she was never
married to keith with her husband who works i think at cbs because the husband got a vasectomy
and they decided to go public with his information and honestly to keith openwood's credit he was
like why the hell do we care like why do you feel the need to go report that to the news stations
you can get your face in the papers or something else in the papers where they're talking about
your vasectomy um and then it just led him down a lane where he just decided to tell about 25 secrets about
Katie Turr.
The segment is called something like Secrets I Said I'd Never Tell, which is like, well,
that's a great name for a segment, but it really makes you a terrible person.
But here's just a little bit of what he said. On January 22nd, 2017, Katie Turr of MSNBC asked me to write her Trump book
for her. She was serious. And there are receipts. So all this time, I have remained silent about the
nearly three years she and I lived together and the eight years after that, during which I remained
her good and loyal friend. And I have remained remained silent even though the day she moved into my place in New York
she expected a New York TV station would hire her with no experience and no audition tape and I have
remained silent about how her father whom she has never stopped trashing sent her ten thousand
dollars worth of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started.
And I have remained silent, even though she sent me nearly all of her scripts for her NBC news stories, including her Trump campaign coverage in 2016.
And I edited nearly every one of them. And several times I had to completely rewrite them for her and i have remained silent even though six days after my emergency appendectomy in
2007 she started punching and slapping me with real intent to do harm because the living room
wasn't clean enough in our place and how exactly do you even try to defend yourself against a woman
125 pounds lighter and a foot shorter than you is it it over? What? Oh my God. Bitter party of one.
What a disgrace. I mean, that man has been a disgrace. And I'll just say this. I've heard
things about Keith Olbermann over the years and I wouldn't say them. It's not my place to say,
but I would imagine he'd want to be careful about stuff like that. But what is the purpose of this?
What is the purpose of denouncing an ex-girlfriend?
By the way, did that not sound like Keith Orman?
Did he?
It sounded like an old person.
That is an old man.
Okay.
If you listen to the list of grievances, he's like,
there was an article about it in the New York Times.
The New York Times reported that they reached out to me for an interview
and I didn't respond or declined to participate. None of that is true. I contacted the New York Times. The New York Times reported that they reached out to me for an interview and I didn't respond or declined to participate. None of that is true. I contacted
the New York Times reporter and said, did you reach me? Did you text me? Did you email me?
No. I said, none of what you reported is true. She said, well, I asked Katie Turr
if she would ask you to participate. And she told me you said no. And he was like,
Katie Turr clearly didn't want Keith Oberman to be consulted for this thing. And I mean, his level of outreach or these minor slight career is fine. His career seems, I don't know. I mean, his podcast is very
entertaining. I'm sure it's doing, I don't know how it's doing. I don't know, but bitter, bitter,
bitter. I mean, yeah, there's something terribly ironic about pushing grievances and while
insisting that, you know, you, you kept these secrets for a very long time and you're chastising her for talking about a
medical procedure in public while you're just airing all of your dirty laundry. She asked me
to help her write a book. Okay. I certainly don't want to dismiss claims that you've been
attacked, that there was some sort of domestic violence in your relationship. The fact that you
carried on a relationship afterwards and
were very friendly until you decided not to be like, this is just really strange. It's like a
bizarre sort of way to snap. He's a mean guy. He really is a mean guy. And there's just, look,
he said some nice things about Stuart Varney. So I should temper my criticism because I don't
really know Keith Olbermann at all. I just know that when he makes headlines on Twitter or on a show, it's nine times out of 10.
It's he's being absolutely caustic about somebody with whom he was once close.
You know, it's like it's one thing to have strong opinions about the news.
God bless. That's what he gets paid to do.
It's quite another to be going after people personally with your with your microphone, people you used to live with, people you used to love.
Anyway, the whole thing is awkward, but that's our business.
I remember that a lot of people in politics and media are constantly guilty of projection.
And for a long time, Keith Olbermann's signature segment was called what?
The worst person in the world. Yes. And it was called what? The Worst Person in the World.
Yes. And it was always him at the end. That was the twist.
The big reveal. All right. Well, I'm going to nominate somebody else for today's Worst
Person in the World. And that, you won't be surprised to hear, is Meghan Markle,
the Duchess of Duplicity. Wait until you hear what she did with her latest trailer.
It's already full of bull.
It's full of lies that she's already gotten caught in.
They haven't even released part one.
It comes out on Thursday.
That's next, guys.
Stand by.
Before we get to Meghan and Harry and the many, many lies that have already been told in their trailer.
It's bad when your trailer is full of duplicity.
Can we spend one minute on Michael Avenatti?
Former darling of the left wing press.
I mean, darling, because he kept going after Trump.
He represented Stormy Daniels.
He was a dog with a bone when it came to Trump.
He was on every single CNN show, MSNBC show, you name it. Well, he has just been sentenced to 14 years in prison, 14 years for embezzling millions from his clients and for obstructing IRS efforts to collect payroll taxes from his coffee side gig. He was also ordered to pay $7 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in June to stealing money from his clients, including one
who's a paraplegic. This sentence will run consecutively with his combined five-year
sentence he got in New York for stealing from Stormy Daniels and for, per extra good measure, extorting Nike.
Now, just in case you don't have it in your head how Brian Stelter talked about him as a presidential candidate
or how he was built up into a hero by the media,
here's a little flashback, SOT 10, to Anna Navarro and how she viewed Michael Avenatti at the time.
Lately
to me, you're like the Holy Spirit. You are
all places
at all times, right?
I do. I see you all over
cable news. I see you. You know, there is
a seat available
if you want to be a co-host at the video.
People here, you can pitch.
Oh my God. The Holy Spirit. Like the Holy Spirit. Why is the woman on television? you want to be a co-host at the video you might there's people here you can pitch oh my god the
holy spirit like the holy spirit there was a woman on television zero skepticism about him the claims
he was making about stormy about this i remember that julie swetnick character he claimed we had
witnessed brett kavanaugh in in at some party where there was a gang rape going on that he
didn't participate in but he was there lies i called I called that out on NBC in great detail and listed Julie Swetnick's long history of questionable behavior. And he accused me of being a turncoat on women because I didn't support them And I just want to take you back. This is how it went. He was trying to say, poor Stormy, poor Stormy. You know, she signed this nondisclosure agreement and she
took the money, but she's been silenced unfairly. She really wants the world to know about her
relationship with Donald Trump, but they're unfairly silencing her. It's like, well, why
did she take the damn money then? Right. So this is how that went at the time when everybody else
is lionizing him, patting myself on the back. But but just fyi here's how it went when he came on my show this is the nonsense that they expect the
american people to believe but that doesn't answer why why does stormy why do you care that's a
political matter for these people to care about well she but like why would you why would stormy
daniels be leading the charge on whether whether that payment violated the election law?
Because, and I mean, this is the honest to God truth.
This is a principled woman at this point.
She wants the truth.
She wants the truth.
Now they're laughing at you.
But you know what?
Come on, they're saying.
Come on.
She's so principled that 11 days before the election, she had information about the possible next president having an extramarital affair with an adult film actress.
And she shut up about it in exchange for just over 100 grand.
Yeah, and I think she's providing the explanation as to why that is.
Because she wanted the money.
She wants the truth to be known to the American people.
Then why did she take the money?
Why didn't she just talk 11 days before the election?
You'd have to ask her that.
I don't have an explanation.
Come on.
She wanted the dough.
And now she wants to keep the dough while violating the agreement.
Which, whether you like Michael Cohen or Donald Trump or not, doesn't seem fair to them.
Megan, she doesn't want to keep the dough.
We've offered to return the dough.
What's stopping you?
It was two weeks ago.
It was two weeks ago.
It's very simple.
You take out the piece of paper and you write $130 and then you mail it that's great he's a bad lawyer
that's amazing oh i didn't see that that's so good lord just fyi it was less than three weeks
uh after that point at which nbc and i suddenly parted ways um but in any event mysterious yeah mysterious so in any event um
the the it's really the end of their love affair with him but it's a what yet and i like the
twitter thing like the suppression of hunter biden it's yet another massive mistake they made in
judgment let's don't even get started on jesse smollett um another massive mistake in judgment
for which there's no accountability right they just brush right past it i bet they won't even even be reporting that he just got sentenced to 14 years in prison and that he's not the Holy Spirit and he's not going to be president. And once again, they were wrong. And why were they wrong? A good faith mistake? No, because their ideology led them to fall in love with a charlatan because he was saying negative things about Donald Trump.
It's an amazing thing that, you know, soon after the election, and I remember this very clearly,
the number of people saying, and I was probably one of them, saying, I cannot believe we elected
a kind of low-rent TV star, you know, camera hog to be be president and then all the people in the media decided that they
wanted that again they hated that so much and then michael avenatti i mean i mean chris saliza go
look up chris saliza recently departed from cnn um you know chris lick's first great decision is
firing him but he he had a column you know know, President Michael Avenatti, you know, never say never.
And it was all this wish casting about maybe he will be our president. So after this man who was
going after the TV star, who is a bit shady and loves women and all the wrong ways, maybe we'll
elect this guy, Michael Avenatti, who is pretty much the mirror version of that. But worse than
the fact that he's stealing from paraplegics.
He's stealing from porn stars.
He's stealing from everybody.
He's trying to shake down Nike.
And this stuff was like,
if you see the,
and go look this up,
people go into Twitter and see some of the exchanges that people have posted
with Michael Avenatti,
who had sent direct messages to people would criticize him.
And they were this gloating, like, you're a loser.
You're never going to make...
And people posting these and it's like, see you in 14 years, buddy.
And there's something kind of hilarious about it.
But we fall in love with charlatans because the guy was like, you know,
reasonably good looking and he was on TV and he was saying the right things about Donald Trump.
That's the point.
Beware anyone who is absolutely perfectly servicing your own need for political fan fiction. They are the one who seems like they can go against your enemies better than anybody else. Most likely they are doing that in such a way to enrich themselves, possibly and even probably at your expense. They just are. You're going to mash that donate button. Go scare yourself by watching the Lincoln Project documentary that was recently on Showtime.
Talk about people who absolutely was wish time for someone who didn't punch anybody in the mouth. We lock people up for too long in this country, even absolute scumbags like Michael Avenatti. Libertarian to the end. I'll say this about Avenatti.
Well, on NBC, people don't, whatever, they may not remember all this, but I was very
defensive of Brett Kavanaugh, and I could see that the claims against him were bullshit
and called up bullshit.
Christine Blasey Ford, she was a tougher case than everyone else who came after her, right?
Because she had no proof, but she had a story that she was willing to tell and she could tell it consistently,
unlike everybody else who came after her. But it was very clear that there were problems in
all those claims and I pointed them out. However, I think Michael Avenatti thought that he was
coming to a yet another sycophantic interviewer because the Friday before he came on, I had
interviewed Michael Cohen's lawyer and Michael Cohen is being accused of interfering with the election by buying her
silence 11 days before Trump got elected. And I gave that guy a very hard time, equally hard.
It didn't go well for that guy. I remember Hannity tweeted out like that guy needs to be fired after
that interview. And so it didn't go well for that guy. And so Avenatti thought he was coming on with
like somebody who probably didn't like Trump because, you know, Trump had come after me and all that stuff and walked right in. And I
wasn't unfair with him. I was fair with him. I asked him tough questions. But think of what could
have happened. Think of what could happen in general if we had a media that was just hard on
both sides, you know, that just that gave him a hard time on his claims, that gave whatever the Twitter guy a hard time in his stupid trauma claims and whether they wound up in a good decision that that pushed back on these feel that way about our media. They just they so disappoint me.
People like Avenatti, like I'm disgusted by my industry. I'm sad about what they've become.
I don't trust them. I feel the way Victor Davis Hanson does in the barn burner of a piece he just posted just talking about the many media sins that have led people to just turn off. They've
just turned up. They don't trust the media anymore. And for good reason, right? It's all related to the stuff I was just listing. And one of the things that I've highlighted in the recent weeks is the delta between the people who trust the media, who generally tend to be left of center, which is somewhere like 60, 70% say, yeah, no, we absolutely trust it.
And everyone else, independents and conservatives alike who are down in the teens or the low 20s and have just been there consistently.
I mean, the numbers have been going down consistently
and they're stuck in the gutter. And I think it has everything to do with the perception of bias,
with the perception of just rank incuriosity on the part of many people, particularly in
elite media circles. It is very hard to do good work in a circumstance like that, where you already know
the answers to the questions that you plan to ask. And you already know the questions that you would
never in a million years ask because you want your guy to do well. It is bad for business.
And ultimately, it's going to be bad for the people that you favor, that you like, and certainly bad
for your industry. It's not just a matter of kind of making mistakes. It's making a bunch of systematic errors in these kind of predictable ways over and over and over again. And never Windsors, the Sussexes? I don't know what we call them.
The losers.
The losers, the attention desperate liars. They, through Netflix, have released yet another trailer. I guess the first one didn't generate enough attention. Yet another trailer for their upcoming netflix special and already the number of people coming forward to say what's in there it's just in the trailer is false is kind
of stunning for a one minute trailer i'm just going to give you an example uh we played it
yesterday you can find it online um one there's a picture of poor harry dealing with the terrible
media who's like overly intrusive in his relationship with megan and harry he's got his hand up to the camera like stop well it turns out that was a picture of poor Harry dealing with the terrible media who's like overly intrusive in his relationship with Meghan and Harry. He's got his hand up to the camera like stop.
Well, it turns out that was a picture of Harry and his old girlfriend, Chelsea Davey.
It was taken years ago.
I didn't even know Meghan Markle.
So misuse.
Here it is.
Misrepresented as evidence of how the press badgered Harry and Meghan.
No, it wasn't.
They have one picture of the media swarming them.
You know, poor Harry and Meghan.
They've gotten it so bad.
There's so much attention against them.
Actually, that was a picture of the press swarming someone named Katie Price, a model
who had been accused of some sort of mild crime.
And she's a big star.
And the press was hounding her, not Meghan, not Harry.
Same thing for another picture in which the press was hounding the people at the Harry
Potter premiere, like J.K. Rowling and the stars not megan not harry
neither of whom was in any version of harry potter right taking all these but this is this is their
evidence that the press has been so intrusive and unfair to them and overwhelming in their lives
last but not least there's a picture of them uh and of the intrusive press according to harry
in this taking a private photo of them with their baby and in his
line is like how bad the press is and how intrusive they are well the guy who took the photo tweets
out this is absolutely ridiculous the guy's name is robert johnson jobson and he says this photograph
used by netflix and harry and megan to suggest intrusion by the press is a complete travesty. It was taken
from an acclaimed photographer at Archbishop Tutu's residence in Cape Town. Only three people
were in the accredited position. Harry and Meghan agreed to the position. I was there. He was one of
them. And then points out there was no intrusion. I was part of a three person UK palace pool.
Nobody else was allowed in.
We shared the words and photos with the UK media with their permission.
All of this now is their evidence about how bad the British press is, how bad they've had it.
And I'm not saying there wouldn't be evidence you could find to show over, you know, an imposition by the British press.
I'm sure it is hard to be the
center of that much attention, but this just gives you a flavor for their, they don't have
an adult relationship with the truth, these people, they don't. The most charitable reading
that one could give that is that editors often pick stock photos and put together trailers without
the knowledge of people, but they'll have sign off on it. So they should see that and presumably know that, well, that's
not that and that's not that. I think the bigger issue here is the absurdity of this idea that the
press is intrusive. Is it intrusive? It absolutely is. But guess what? You chose it. Well, I didn't
choose the hereditary monarchy. No, no, no. You have a deal with Netflix. Your wife has a podcast deal with Spotify with tens of millions of dollars. Look at the house they live in in Montecito. What the fuck have these people ever done? She was on Suits. He's a ginger weirdo that has a family that, you know, was just born into it. And you're like, I can't believe it.
And then this guy, he has the gall all the time to say one thing that drives me absolutely
crazy.
It drives me crazy.
And please, please, please, people make sure to never say the press hounded my mother to
death.
Your mother was killed by a drunk driver.
The driver of her car was heavily intoxicated and crashed were there press
driving behind him yes i'm sure there were that was the life a terrible life when you marry into
that family and i you know feel terrible for her and what she had to deal with but this kind of
recasting of everything as just this oppression narrative of these two people that have things
handed to them like it's not she didn't get this stuff because she was opening those suitcases on that
show where she was being objective.
Deal or no deal.
Yeah.
Deal or no deal.
It's like you have a $40 million house in Montecito.
Cause you opened the thing and like a skimpy dress.
I don't think that happened.
So where's all this money coming from?
So don't,
you can't have it both ways.
Pick one.
And you have picked one.
Stop complaining.
Well,
and now,
and now tonight in new york they are
being honored by the kennedy family this is one of rfk's other children not rfk jr but carrie
kennedy uh is honoring them for their anti-racist commitment for all the anti-racism work that
they've done harry is literally as as far as I know, the only member
of the royal family who's actually worn a swastika on his arm as a fun Halloween costume.
Some were sympathetic back in the 30s.
Well, yeah, there could have been some years ago. For calling somebody a slur, a racist slur,
what has Meghan Markle done? She gave the Oprah interview. That's literally what they're pointing
to. She gave the Oprah interview and said that thing about the unnamed royal member who allegedly was concerned
about that. She said concerned. But Tom Bauer came on the show and reported that there was no
concern whatsoever. It's just a natural discussion between about two people who are of different
races getting married. And what is our baby going to look like? Right. And somebody in the royal
family being like, what do you think the baby's going to look like? In any event, different
accounts. But for this, she's getting an anti-racism award this is her dream again back to tom bauer's book
revenge if you read about her history all she she desperate she got so mad at the un because
they wouldn't make her like an ambassador like uh the other girl from harry potter who's that
girl what's the girl's name from harry potter emily uh watson yeah emily emily yes from like her she wanted to be like her and they were like
you haven't done shit Emma Watson they're like
you haven't done shit you're not getting
the same award as Emma Watson you're not getting the same title
this is what she's been working to all along
she doesn't want to do the work she just wants to bathe
herself in this woke glory
and what has she actually
done to fight racism I mean honestly she said
she wasn't even conscious of the fact that she was
half black until she got done to fight racism i mean honestly she said she wasn't even conscious of the fact that she was half black until she got married to harry nor was i i'm sorry to say i'm being honest
i didn't when when i first saw it i was like oh i thought i just thought she was italian i mean
this is the absurdity of race at a certain point of dilution it's like what what what do you i don't
know i didn't know she was black I didn't know she was fighting it.
She's just a kind of
B-list actress. Sorry.
She's pretty apparent.
Her race is most important
to her. It's indispensable to her.
It's very valuable. It is a
marketable commodity. But for her race,
she wouldn't have this Netflix special
and all the money that goes along with
it and her Spotify deal. Good for her. Make the most of what you've got. Yeah, well, it certainly is.
And she's trying to destroy the royal family who made her all this money, who made her a royal,
who made her a household name in the process. I mean, talk about an ingrate. You guys, I am not
an ingrate. I am very grateful to all three of you, Michael Morgan, Matt Welsh, Camille Foster. Thanks for rolling with the punches. We went to weird places.
Thank you for having me. Thank you for the weirdness, Megan.
We always do. It's always fun. Thank you.
I know. Exactly. All right. See you again soon, I hope.
All right.
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