Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Asra Nomani ｜ 5⧸13⧸22
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Bill O'Shilly joins us to discuss the Johnny depp trial, the Baby formula controversy with the Washington Post, and the new dolls from Mattel. We also discuss the history of the segway and how it changed the world.
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hello stew it's show and tell day it is show and tell day i love show and tell day especially on
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the radio yeah i didn't bring anything you didn't no i didn't buy i was not in the market for buying
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rare historical documents and items this past week all right all right but you are yeah um so
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um i brought in some things that uh we have just been so blessed to be able to require uh to
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acquire to preserve them uh and add them to our mercury museum collection um and some really
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fascinating one-of-a-kind stuff uh that we share on today's podcast if you listen to the extended
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version it's it's all of our three um and we we also have bill o'reilly on uh we talked believe
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it or not a little bit about the johnny depp trial with ezra nomani because there is an actual
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important angle to that crap show literally crap show uh and the new dolls from mattel
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i've made some suggestions of some new dolls that maybe they would be interested in making or
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maybe not i don't know i don't work at mattel thank god um but uh we have that for you and
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the baby formula controversy with the washington post
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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this is the glenn beck program um welcome uh welcome to friday pat gray from pat gray unleashed
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is joining when he walked into the studio he uh his eyes immediately uh ran to my beautiful beautiful
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uh shirt today yeah they did yeah they did and uh began judging you instantly he was in still in
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literally in the door frame didn't stop but i know pat so well and i said you're judging me for
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my shirt aren't you and you said oh is it that obvious and i'm like oh yeah it is it is it is
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um but uh my shirt distracted him from a couple of the other things that happened to be in the studio
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today um the only thing we're going to show you right now it's going to be show and tell
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in uh the third hour today um uh but uh right now i guess you can tweet at us what's in the box
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uh what's in the box is probably it is game changing it changed it changed everything in
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the world would you would you agree with that without that thing the world would be a very
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different place correct very different i would say in a much much more negative oh is it the dean
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came in uh little scooter thing no it's no is it that is that what it is no you just have to unfold
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it when you take it out of the box no okay because that changed the civilization remember that do you
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remember when yeah that that is uh what what is that thing called uh the segway segway yeah yeah
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that when that came out if you don't remember because we were everybody i was going to change
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civilization as we knew oh yeah like bill gates was in dean cayman's office and he saw it and he came
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outside that changes everything it will change cities the way they're built it'll change everything
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and the only thing it changed was the way mall cops get around the mall that's about it it and
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not really even that i don't think not even that i mean it changed that one movie called mall cop
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there was a sequel there was a sequel okay so two movies yeah it inspired two movies and that's it
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that's it it is i will say it's good for uh tourists who normally would take a walking tour
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yeah that's right they can take a segway tour yeah that's much better um there is there's something
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behind me that we're going to show you in hour number three that pat can see this is really beautiful uh
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that is amazing amazing amazing and it was uh i rescued it i like to think i rescued this um everything
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that um you know i i um i started collecting american heroes i mean sorry american items uh because i
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think we're really actually dealing with people who will destroy history they are and i i think we're
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going to start seeing stuff you know there's a i can't tell you what the item is because we're still
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trying to get it um but uh there is an item that is one of a kind and really the only thing that
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testifies to this happened the only thing remaining and uh it uh went up for auction and
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it was pulled at the last minute because the owner found out that two of the bidders were trying to
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destroy it they only wanted to own it to destroy it and that kind of stuff is starting to happen
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and it is terrifying seems like an expensive parlor game uh yeah well this is the only piece that was
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the thing that's sitting behind me now that was one of my concerns truly one of my concerns uh is uh
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when you find out where it came from uh and why it went up for auction i mean would you be surprised if
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that was destroyed at some point no we have seen similar types of things happen yes we have yes we
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have so show and tell today and uh pat gray welcome to the program how are you i'm great
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perfect perfect perfect yeah and you've been uh you've been said well you are the i mean not only
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the cookie king uh with kexy cookies but you are also uh sitting on just a mountain of uh baby formula
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oh yeah you've been hoarding that stuff hoarding it forever well i immediately thought i had babies
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and it's been 20 years since i've had a baby well you had a baby well my wife had the baby actually
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but i but you could have a baby i could if i wanted you know men can of course have a baby yeah uh and
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i immediately thought of you and your hoarding of baby formula when i heard the white house uh blame
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uh parents for hoarding uh baby formula that's unbelievable yeah i thought gee i you know huh i never thought
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of it that way let's blame the parents of babies who are concerned about having baby formula let's
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blame them and they've been trying to prepare and make sure they had enough baby formula yeah by the
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way this is why you don't talk i i don't i don't keep food storage i did i used to as well but i lost
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it you stopped it yeah i lost a i mean almost all of mine fell into the same body of water that my
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guns fell in shut up me too i was planning on fishing for a very long time like a year for my
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whole family and then i loaded that on the boat i knew that that was a great risk people would want
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that so i loaded all my guns on the boat and then i was just fishing and lo and behold you know i i got
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a fish and i started it started to tip the boat and everything went into the drink and it's lost
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forever wow that's a very similar fishing trip to what i experienced that's crazy and they're gone
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all of it well i'm gonna a lot of formula to be in yeah you know all the food all the food storage
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baby formula guns all in the same bottle body of water gone that's sad because the only reason i
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said is because i also shut up yeah i had no i had a couple what are the odds same what are the
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same body of water same body of water yeah and when i get home i'm calling the sheriff to report it
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because i want to make sure they know it was a big remember deep if i remember body of water too i
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don't remember which one but i know it was deep and all i know is it was a lake or an ocean mine was
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in a lock and i will tell you that i have seen the photos of nessie and i don't know what she eats
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well you realize how she's that big because she keeps eating all the food storage at the bottom of
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the bottom of the lake and she can shoot you with her eyes now i'm guessing i'm guessing i don't know
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i don't know yeah i just wouldn't go around or go looking in that lake well nessie just wants her
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privacy be able to occasionally pop up and show her head and and instead no people are always spying on
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her and inviting her private space so she's got weapons now you never want to violate private
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space unless the teacher says they can and let's just keep that between us okay yeah that's then i
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can violate the private space totally comfortable uh let me uh let me tell you i was um i was planning
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uh on taking three days to go over and look for all the stuff in the lake uh but then i realized um
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hate-mongering america does not have this law yet uh the spanish government is now passing a law
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offering three days of menstrual leave uh and you can join wandering menstruals yes okay yes uh i mean
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it's spain you know they have those guys yeah um so it's for anybody who experiences severe period pain
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otherwise known as according to the article uh dysmenorrhea
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dys dysmenorrhea yeah yeah i don't want anything that ends in aria you know what i mean i'm even kind
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of worried about korea you know uh but uh we should probably not call it that i'm just i'm comfortable
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with uncomfortable cramps but uh now anybody who you know has uh painful cramps and men can get
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pregnant so ow ow ow oh my gosh these cramps and it's what's weird is they never happen on the weekend
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really yeah usually only during the weekday that is so i may be out for a few days wow yeah wow you have
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them too don't you oh all the time let me ask you this all the time did you see the um the memo
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from netflix yeah that's it was encouraging this is right this is really good this is really good
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um in a section called artistic expression that states it will not censor specific artists or voices
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even if employees consider the content harmful they said if you find it hard to support our conduct
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our content breadth which is so wide i get those conservative shows oh all there's almost too
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many of them too many there's almost too many goes from all the way from ultra liberal to socialist
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you know all the whole right the whole spectrum yeah and once in a while just a deep deep progressive
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oh it's some communism yeah deep communism yeah all right so some fascism it's good it's good stuff
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uh netflix may not be the best place for you if you don't support our breadth um the memo states that
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employees may uh may be required to work on projects that they perceive to be harmful and if they have a
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hard time accepting their work assignment they might want to consider working somewhere else
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i honestly thought that's how all jobs worked yeah you know that's really what i believed yeah and i i
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kind of thought that's how it worked can you imagine if stew said to you and me pat you got to change
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your show because what you're doing is harmful and i cannot work around it
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not our problem right bye bye yeah yeah i mean but that kind of changed it seemed seemed to change
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because disney's employees kind of forced them and forced their hand but this i really think this they
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say this is because of the dave chappelle thing um and that wasn't i mean that's not exactly that
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wasn't that that was just common sense that wasn't conservative that was just common sense he's not
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a conservative by any means decency um and uh and so i think that this is what they say this came out
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because of that however it's been several months hasn't it since that came out several months uh what's
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happened in between disney uh what's happened in between spotify netflix getting canceled uh their
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their um uh subscriptions are way down their stock prices are way down it's funny when conservatives
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actually play the game that has been played on us for decades um they respond isn't that weird what are
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we learning here yeah what are we learning their stock price goes down they start losing money and all of a
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sudden they're like you know what we're we're we're not as inclusive as we thought we were the spotify
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one is particularly i think and this was not really i don't think conservatives stepping up but the this
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the spotify one was an interesting example because it just showed that you can survive it yeah they
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didn't they didn't come out and say because they didn't even stop talking out about issues they just
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said you know no we're just gonna do what we're doing and now and part of this i think is because
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they're very disconnected to u.s politics this is a this is a european company and they weren't as
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involved in our back and forth over that stuff and they just sort of said yeah no we'll just we'll just
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we don't have half of their employees that you know had worked for the obama administration yeah only a
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third only uh so but it's interesting because they just kind of didn't do anything you know they they
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did criticize they came out they pulled off episodes they mean they weren't perfect by any means but
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they just didn't over there's no there's a change they didn't overreact there is a change that is
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happening i don't know if you saw this black rock who is esg central because uh of ramaswamy's new
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um hedge fund yeah uh that he is introducing which is against esgs um black rock uh voted for fewer
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climate shareholder provisions uh they said you know it might be in our assessment um maybe we
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shouldn't micromanage companies uh quite so tightly really really really wow i don't believe it from
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black rock at all that is hard um but uh they're at least saying these things now they're the tide is
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changing we are winning and when you have a revolutionary with no hope of re-election
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and they're in power i warn you that's when they feel cornered and they become extraordinarily dangerous
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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bill o'reilly congratulations on your uh number one status uh you deserve it killing the killers
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thank you it is on the new york times uh list is number one and that's not easy to do as everybody
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knows um i got the uh i got the word on thursday i was in manhattan uh and i immediately went to
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saint patrick's cathedral where my parents were married and i said a prayer i i mean even though
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this is the 18th time i've been number one with the books um it's still to me almost a magical
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occurrence that that happens we put a lot of hard work in these books there's no doubt we do
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and they're good and they're interesting to read and you learn a lot but i don't take this for
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granted beck i mean it's not like i take uh being on with beck on friday for granted either
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but there's more so the number one thing is you you're you know our relationship on air is uh
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is fun uh but you wrote a very nice letter when you found out you were very humble which i i really
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thought makata had written the email uh because you're very humble and and it was really nice um to
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hear i was so i'm so happy for the success people they don't understand how hard this is to do
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number one uh and when i get a guy like you who's got millions of listeners and he says he likes the
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book and people know that you barely read any books that means a lot yeah and it's no i i know and uh
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thank you for using me anyway uh so bill what is the number one story uh this week in your
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total collapse you know i i want to advance this story now the biden story so it's beyond any
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kind of debate if if you in your life have a person who still thinks that joe biden is doing a good
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job as president then you might want to reevaluate that relationship because it's a delusional
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relationship you're not dealing with a person who's got a grasp on reality so when a wholesale
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price index comes in at 11.3 and nobody knows what that is but it's it's what all of the vendors
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that you use your grocery store your 7-eleven your subway sandwich shop whatever it may be those
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are the wholesale vendors when they're paying 11.3 percent more for their product guess who's gonna
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have to pay that uh down the road right okay guess maybe that's us so it's not explained the media
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doesn't explain this they're embarrassed now the media is just embarrassed because they were all
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behind biden they were in a tank for biden they never warned any about biden beck and i did i remember
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those conversations in in the fall of 2020 with you uh we both said you may not like trump and there are
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many good reasons not to like him but if you put this guy in we're all going to suffer and it's exactly
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what has happened so now we have to advance the story because people if you don't earn a lot of
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money if you are a service worker if you are in a union okay your salary isn't going up in correspondence
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with the prices so therefore your lifestyle is going down we all understand this so bill you know we're
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we're sitting here um today i i just don't think there is any doubt we've gone from america first
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which the left and the media thought was just so horrible we have literally gone to america last
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and i i said the people who are designing the policies for biden it is clear they hate america
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they hate america yeah i know this is circulating around on the internet that that biden in conjunction
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with obama are trying to tank the country i i don't i'm not even including him i don't think he's
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that important in my opinion okay it is the people who are writing whoever it is that are designing
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these policies you cannot be with this wrong this much yes you can oh you can okay so on the right
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wing websites the conservative you know the real hardcore right they basically say this is
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intentional to to tank the economy so that socialism rises up and the progressive left gets what they
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want we whip out all traditions in america we whip out the capitalist system so they're doing it on
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purpose yeah i don't think that's happening what i think is happening is james buchanan is back
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all right so the white house is supposed to be haunted on the second floor that's the residences
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all right and all the past presidents are supposed to be floating around in apparitions all right
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so i write today in my message today on billoreilly.com that joe biden should summon james buchanan
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who was james buchanan nobody knows because that would require history teachers to actually teach and
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that's of course not happening in america 15th president of the united states lancaster pennsylvania
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lifelong bachelor many people feel that he is was gay uh that's probably true all right that's his
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social problem gets elected president after the immortal pierce franklin pierce who was drunk pretty much
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every day he was in a white house franklin pierce and a lot of wine flowing so pierce goes out
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buchanan comes in buchanan then allows the south to loot and steal all the federal armories to take
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all the guns buchanan does nothing seven states secede in his four years basically say blank you
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james buchanan we're leaving because we like slavery and that's what we're doing so then buchanan
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leaves after doing nothing back nothing for four years allowing chaos to reign lincoln comes in civil
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war worst debacle in american history um hundreds of thousands dead and maimed and it's all on james
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buchanan and then he goes back to pennsylvania's oh it wasn't my fault that's biden that's so when you say
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he did nothing that was the the last part of obama's term what what joe biden is or his administration
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is doing is not nothing they are i mean look we are depleting our strategic oil reserves sending the
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oil over to europe putting us into a very dangerous situation they are canceling another oil uh auction
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for for really oil rich property while we have the highest gas prices uh we have baby food shortages
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and they're just blaming it on the kids while there are pallets of baby food down at the border
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which are required by law if you're going to have people you have to make sure you can take care of
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the infants and that's right but why are they selectively doing that law when they have an open
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border policy they're killing us every single way every way possible number one those kids are eating
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too much back we got to cut back on that nutrition to those kids all right they're lucky they got out
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of the womb after biden he wouldn't have any he doesn't want any limitations on they were lucky they
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got here what are they whining about baby formula now is that what we're hearing look biden gets in
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there he doesn't know what he's doing would you and stew agree with that he definitely does not know
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what he's doing i don't think he's not competent he's not competent yes yes he can't do it people come
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to biden they walk into the oval office and they say hey let's cancel the pipeline because it's bad for
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climate change and biden says okay then they come in and they say let's not enforce border law because
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that's mean to the migrants and biden goes okay then they say hey um under trump inflation was just 1.4
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percent and trump had to deal with the covet shutdown completely now under you it's 11 percent but let's
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blame covet and he goes okay this is a man who cannot yeah but what i'm saying the office i agree
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with that but i'm talking about the people who are coming into the office all right but they're not
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all morons personnel decision he's not going to say hey larry you're an idiot and the last seven
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things you've told me to do have been horrible for the country people don't understand what the word
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incapacitated means he can't make decisions on he is whether he knows it or not he is overseeing a
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group of people that are in a death cult what they are doing is causing i mean look just look at the
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border we have now the the cdc's national vital statistics from uh 2021 there were 107 622 americans
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between 18 and 49 that died from fentanyl okay that's the largest number of americans who have died from
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drug overdoses ever and an increase of about 15 percent in increase from 2020 an increase of
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50 percent from 2019 now you've got those numbers now let's look at uh what happened with covid
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same time period 18 to 49 in 2021 so i'm giving it at the height 1849 one year there were only 41 000
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deaths and we shut down everything everything we are killing our 18 to 49 year old adults and they
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don't give a flying crap okay that's all true but do you think joe biden has a sheet of paper with
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those stats in front of him and he's actually thinking about how to solve no but i do think
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no but i do think the people who are making policy for instance the safe smoking kits with the free crack
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pipe somebody put that together then somebody hit it socky somebody made the decision to hide it and now
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we do know that yes five cities got free crack pipes listen you can do this all day long you can you can
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every policy everyone that the federal government has dealt with in the last 16 months has failed
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so you might think that there'd be some firings right maybe some new blood come in no because biden
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doesn't know the difference between success and failure see people when i say this they don't believe me
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they don't believe me no i think i think we have a president you cannot think i know he's incapable of
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thinking but you you might think that you and i disagree we don't on that part we're in stand that
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we're in lockstep is these incompetent people around him doing these crazy things were yes yes but
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nobody's gonna replace them all right because that would have to come from biden yeah and he doesn't
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know what they're doing doesn't care particularly what they're doing wants to go to delaware and have
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some jello that's where he is and also spend some of his chinese money
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i have to tell you um the amber heard johnny depp thing they deserve each other quite honestly i mean
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i i know very little about it except there was poop in a shoe or poop in the bed bed yeah maybe the
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shoe was on the bed i thought it was shoe may have been on the there may have been poop in the
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bed and poop in a shoe i'm not really sure i don't really care um it is fascinating to watch this thing
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play out though uh because most americans you know not the smarter americans um just care so deeply
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about johnny depp or amber heard or blah blah blah well i read the first article that i cared about
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uh from azra nomani she was a frequent guest on this program good friend of the program she wrote
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it in the federalist how the washington post and aclu helped amber heard attack johnny depp
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listen to this because it's amazing um azra is on with us now hi azra how are you oh good how are you
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you can hear me um clinking away while i warm some water so i can i don't cough through this interview
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yes thank you for thank you for being on with me absolutely um what a great article can you lay
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this out because i don't think most people even know any of this yeah important and i'm glad that
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you you know are had a full disclosure that you don't care you know on the celebrity i don't i don't
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yeah that's fine that's absolutely cool and but the thing is this is so important as a window
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into money politics and hollywood okay that's what's so critical here so what we have playing
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out is this is our two celebrities right with a a terrible relationship both of them um you know
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unhealthy yeah deeply broken both deeply broken exactly and so you know our humanity has to extend
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to all people sure well then what we have is um a non-profit a quote-unquote non-profit right
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the aclu 501c3 multi-million dollar organization right that has lost its way according to even an
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atlantic article last week taking advantage of this story and catapulting then amber heard to become
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their poster girl for women's rights okay so now they did this we didn't she um say that she was giving
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i think three million dollars to the aclu from the divorce settlement right yes and she only gave like
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500 grand and then others started to pay for her but yeah so what i did is so to back up a little bit
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right i as you are like we've written op-eds right we know how they are written we know how they are
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placed so we know how they are promoted so what i did is i just analyzed how it is that amber heard's
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op-ed appeared in the washington post and i broke it down into six phases and the first phase was
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establishing her credibility because you know at the end of every op-ed you have two lines that are in
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italics and they establish who the person is and why they are a subject matter expert right so what
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happened is that amber heard her italics says that she is now you know working as this aclu women's
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rights advocate well it was a classic pay-to-play operation where she said that she was going to
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donate her seven million dollars of divorce settlement you know this altruistic act to the aclu and a
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children's hospital in la but indeed just as you just said she only donated a very small portion
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and then the court testimony reveals that in fact johnny depp paid a hundred thousand dollars directly
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to the aclu because he's like why have a middleman you know in this operation and she's going to be so
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altruistic and then who does she end up also having donate she had none other than her next boyfriend
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elon musk and and so that's the first phase she established her credibility and the aclu established
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her credibility but behind the scenes was this classic pay-to-play and explain what happened there
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oh my gosh okay so they've established her as a ambassador for women's rights and now they have
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um this is i'm going to take people back to the fall of 2018 it's a long time ago
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but just think about we have president trump okay in office so think about that he's been in office
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a couple years now we have just had um you know betsy devos name early on in the administration
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and we have this little thing called title nine and that was a very controversial issue it's supposed
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to have given women equal rights in schools right but what happened is that through politics it ended
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up becoming a hit job which is a term that you're going to hear again on men oftentimes on college
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campuses where they were not given due process right and so are you gonna you're gonna hear a theme here
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because what they did is in um november 2018 a communications staffer for the aclu
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sends a pitch to amber heard's pr person and says hey wouldn't it be great if amber heard wrote at
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op-ed and title nine was one of the issues that this um communication staffer said let me let me actually quote that memo
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i'd like your your and amber's thoughts on doing an op-ed in which she discusses the way in which
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survivors of gender-based violence have been made less safe under the trump administration and how
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people can take action if she feels comfortable she can interweave her personal story saying how painful
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it is as a gender-based violence survivor to witness these setbacks yes okay it's
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the the so you and i know as writers and and i'll give folks context that i taught writing the
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reported op-ed at georgetown university to students so i've been writing op-eds myself for 20 years
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and i taught it and one of the first things that i always taught students as you know too glenn
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is give people a personal connection that's exactly what they did and i didn't study my rhetoric but
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later in life i learned pathos ethos logos right so you have to have logic you have to have rationality
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and you have to have the personal story and that's what they then grabbed for amber heard to amplify so
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i've got about three minutes to finish this story but so so the the writer the aclu writes back
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tried to gather your fire and your rage and really interesting analysis and shape that into op-ed form
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um i hope it sounds true to you your lawyers should review this for the way i skirted around talking about
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your marriage so she didn't even she didn't write it it was presented to her yes and then the rest of
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the story it's so important is the aclu communication staff pitched it to michael larraby op-ed editor at
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the washington post he should have known better they should have known better and they are complicit
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in this hit job on johnny depp and this is not just about celebrity but this is about the abuse
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of power by a non-profit organization and a journalism operation a complete breach of ethics
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there's no transparency in who wrote this piece and if any one of my students had presented
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as an assignment written by another student they would have failed right and so they owe um johnny
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depp an apology their readers an apology and they they should just retract the op-ed but it's an
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important critical window into how it is that um these special interest groups place their uh
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quote subject matter experts in there to push their own talking points azra namani thank you so much
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oh my gosh thank you glenn the uh the washington post did publish this in their opinion section
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under the headline amber heard i spoke up against sexual violence and faced our culture's wrath
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